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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
Quakes Thrill Americans
Shaking Earth in Early Morning, Followed BY Flash
ing Lightning and Cries of People, Among Scenes
in Italy Described by Georgetown Student
Among u. S. Party in Sorrento.

had been on the outskirts Of town when
the quake occurred were beginning to
struggle into the lighted areas. Some
clutched their Scanty possessions in
their arms, but most of them were So
licitous only for their family and them
selves. One could read in their horror
lit eyes that they sought companion
ship and mutual support in their
tragedy.
Down one street directly off the
square a crowd had gathered before the
village church. AS the doors swung open
priest in cassock and surplice was
seen at the altar lighting the high
candles used only for the most solemn
occasions. The bells In the tower began
to ring, answering the echoes from
nearby villages likewise stricken
Throughout the throng which filled
the church there in the early morning
hours one could feel the uneasy stu
of expectancy. They, too, felt that the
before the final calamity. But no one
moved. No one sought the square OF
the open countryside. They had i'm
plicite, childlike confidence in their
prayers.
Drift Back to Rooms.
And as the hour passed and another
was almost gone Win no IuTLner re-
currence OF the earthquake, the Amer
leans gradually drifted back to the
hotel and their rooms. Some few were
loath to 60, but as fatigue overpowerec
them they became resigned to. the sit
uation and sought rest in those few
remaining hours before dawn. In the
square the people kept their vigil until
morning, watching and waiting.
1t was not until two days later, wher
the first English printed newspapers ar.
rived, that Americans were fully aware
of the enormity of the disaster. Sicily
was devastated. Many small towns ir
utter ruin. In some areas over hall
the population had met death in Q
holocaust of falling stone. Numerous
individual tragedies had blighted the
land. Even Rome, 200 miles to the
north, had been shaken.
But somehow the Americans ir
Naples and vicinity had come through
the catastrophe unscathed; and witt
the sympathetic understanding of the
stricken people of Lower Italy they left
the wounded region filled with the
thrilling story Of their experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
MILITIA PATROLS
MARION STREETS.
Officials Anticipate Crisis in
Tenseness Following Dou-
BILE Lynching.
~ the Associsted Press.

~ the Associated Press.
MARION, Ind, August e.-Anticipat-
ing q crisis in the tenseness that has
gripped Marion since Thursday night,
when q frenzied mob avenged the MUIR
der of q white youth and criminal
assault upon his f1ancee by lynching
two Negroes on the lawn of the Grant
County Court House, State Militiamen
patroled the streets tonight with loaded
rifles and fixed bayonets.
Meanwhile q board of inquiry, COM
posed of State and county officials, had
taken steps to prosecute and convict
those responsible for the dual hanging
The officials met this morning and pre-
pared to bring prosecutions under In
diana's law, which provides the death
penalty for any one convicted Of having
taken an active part in lynching.
Board Of Inquiry Formed.
!, The board of inquiry, which was
Termed today following several confer
ences yesterday. is composed of Earl
Stroup and Merl M. Wall, deputy at
torneys general; Prosecutor Harley F.
Hardin of Grant County, Sheriff Jacob
Campbell and Police Chief Lewis Lin
Germuth.
Four witnesses were heard by the
board today and the officials inspected
the county Jail where The mob demol-
ished heavily barred doors and tore
locks from the walls in order to gain
entrance.
Reports that the bodies of Thomas
Shipp and Abe Smith, 19-year-old
Negro youths, who were the victims of
the lynchinR would be brought back
from Muncie tonight, contributed to
some tenseness as the usual Saturday
night crowds gathered. The bodies
were taken to Muncie the morning
after the hanging and were the cause
Of some demonstrations in that city
hast night and officials feared an out
break might occur there.
Express Doubt of Convictions.
Stroup and Wall departed today, but
will return next week. A lull in the
Investigation is expected for a few days
since Hardin will be out of the city
Monday.
: Hardin expressed doubt today over
the possibility of obtaining convictions
IN Grant County of perpetrators of the
lynchtng. Il feel sure that indictments
may be obtained, but convictions look
doubtful to me-" he said.
The National Guardsmen, $50 in
number, arrived this morning from
Camp Knox, KY. where they were in
camp for annual maneuvers, and began
patrol duty in four sections Of Marion
ct noon.
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was completely identified by his brother,
Herbert Martin. The brother said he
did not know where Nathan Martin
had obtained the nitroglycerin. An
other relative said the bomb thrower
several days ago had a quantity of
dynamite, intended to be used to blast
6sh from stream near his home.
: When Martin entered the bank he
advanced to the desk of w. L. Pier,
the president. and said:
II need $4,000. am desperate. I
want the money quick. There is a
price on my head and I do not care
what happens TO me. There is nitro
elycerin in this satchel."
He warned Pier not to call the police
Engaged In Conversation.
!, Pelton had engaged the stranger in
conversation, while Pier went into a
money cage and told teller to count
out $4,000 in currency. While the pres
tdent was telephoning the police the
explosion occurred. Pier had planned
TO give the $4,000 to the man and have
the police attempt TO capture him out
side the building.
Emergency Police Officers Benson and
Iehay answered Piers summons They
walked into the bank and Benson said
when he loosened the pistol in his hol-
ster he saw the man take from his
sAtchel a two-ounce bottle and throw it
to the floor
While Pier was having the money
counted few minutes before the ex-
plosion the stranger wrote a note on a
deposit slip. It said: IT have a sister
In Phoenix, AriZ." The note was found
some time later.
AL the fixtures of the bank were
scattered by the blast. More than a
score of customers and employees es-
capped injury, however. Money and
checks were strewn everywhere.
The Mayors boy, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifton Mayors, was standing inside
the bank. Flying glass cut him on the
head and body Marshall received q
badly cut leg and other injuries. Pei
TONS body was badly mutilated. The
bank Is located on Exchange avenue in
the packing house district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
LABOR GIVES FUNDS
TO WAR MEMORIAL
Several Unions Contribute in
Campaign for $4,000,
Committee Reports.

The campaign for $4,000 by organ
lied labor here to complete financing
of the District of Columbia World War
Memorial is continuing to bring results
from many union organizations, &C
cording to r.. A. Dickson, secretary OF
the committee in charge.
Sheet Metal Workers Union, No. 102,
at its last regular meeting appropriated
500 from its treasury toward the me-
mortal. The meeting was presided over
by Wexford P. Ladd, president.
Levies Assessment.
The Bakers and Confectioners' Union,
No. 11S, decided to levy an assessment
of 81 on each member to contribute TO
the memorial in the name of the union.
This action was reported to the Cen
trail Labor Union Executive Committee
on the memorial by John Geiger, bust
ness agent of No. 118.
It has also been reported to the Ex-
ecutive Committee that all officers and
clerks of the National Federation Of
Federal Employees, of which Luther c..
Steward is president, have personally
contributed to the memorial.
The building trades unions have been
contributing very generously, according
to Mr.. Dickson. who has been receiving
reports regularly from several of these
organizations.
Surpasses Expectations.
Fred Walker. treasurer Of the Me-
mortal Executive Committee, reported
to the Central Labor Union at its re-
cent meeting that already thousands
of dollars" have been realized and that
results of the campaign so far have
surpassed expectations"
Frank Lee, chairman of the Memo
rial Executive Committee, is expecting
to return Monday from his vacation
and plans to call a meeting of MS
committee to lay plans for further &C.
tivity in the near future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
CHATTANOOGA POLICE
SEARCH FOR CLUBBER
Three White Women Hit on
Head When Robber Is
Surprised.
By the Associated Press.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August 9.
Every available member of the Chat
tanooga police force was engaged In
an intensive search here this afternoon
for an unidentified colored man who
dubbed three white women in their
homes here today, striking widespread
fear to the entire West Side of the
city.
The man slugged each of his victims
with a short length of pipe after at
tempting to rob them.
One Of them, Mrs. J. M. Owen of
Pine street, is in a hospital suffering
from fractured skull.
The attack on her occurred as she
lay in bed. Apparently he was un-
aware of her presence as he entered,
for when she screamed he ran to her
and struck her a blow in the face
with the iron club.
Mrs. Adelia Grove, residing in an
apartment house, told officers she was
In her bed room asleep and was
awakened by some one attempting to
remove her wrist watch. She aWoke
and saw colored man standing above
her. She screamed and he struck her
a blow on the head and ran.
Mrs. j. G. Fryar, another victim,
told police she met a colored man COM
ing down the stairs of her home about
1890 am. She also was struck on the
head when she screamed.
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July %. as registered in labor exchanges
throughout the country British un-
employment, 1t then was disclosed in
official reports, had increased $4,000
in single year. Plagued as it has
been by the grave situation, the Labor
government has not hit upon a panacea
and the prospect is 1t will become a
national rather than a party matter.
In Britain the worst hit industries
are textiles, with nearly 100000 idle;
transport. with 433, 1000; building trades,
10000; coal mining, 255,000, and en-
cheering In its various branches, 413, 900.
Germany has experienced an increase
Of 100000 in unemployment in the
last year, of whom 81 900 lost their
jobs in the last fortnight.
The latest jump in the nationwide
totals gave Germany a chilly surprise.
Mines, factories and merchants in all
sections, 1t was shown, have been lay
ing of help during June and July and
only recently the Socialist government
became so concerned with the plans of
manufacturers to reduce. pay rolls that
it warned them not to expect govern
ment contracts If they employed "un-
social methods of cutting their STATS.
Italy's outlook took turn for the
better today when the government
made known that extensive plans had
been made for employment in state
work of many thousands of persons.
In France unemployment is virtually
nonresident. Government offlcials
have asserted that most of the idle
could obtain work at their habitual &C.
equations II they would.
Farm, T.hor n;h6cuIt,oz
One reason for Frances position was
said to be that industrial activity had
so absorbed farm labor the importation
of other nationals for agriculture had
been imperative.
Belgium's diamond trade has been
hit, but strikes in the textile mills have
been the chief cause of idleness.
Portugal has taken steps to bar citi-
zens of other countries from taking
employment in order to compel the
employment of her own nationals dur
ing the unemployment crisis.
Austria had about 100000 families
dependent on a dole Of 1925 per week
at the end of February, and that num-
Der has been unofficially reported in
creased.
Dispatches from Australia have in
dicateG determined efforts there to eff
feet economies helpful to the state in
which the jobless have been estimated
at 10000, with government doles
amounting to $75,000,0 900 yearly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
hawks Is PLANNING
: NEW RECORD FLIGHT
Despite Former wife's Court Order,
: Aviator Hopes to Hop Of
Next Week.
D. the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
. LOS ANGELES, August 9.-Frank
Hawks, who last Wednesday set q New
Eork-to-Los Angeles flight record Of II
hours, so minutes and Is seconds. may
leave here Monday on a west-east
tight record attempt However, he
said today indications were he would
wait until later IN the week for better
weather, particularly over Arizona.
Fhich has been swept by heavy rain
storms the last two days.
Hawks said newspaper men had adj
USED him his former wife, Mrs. Newell
vaughn, obtained an order for him to
appear in court Monday. He added he
had not been officially notified and
would pay no attention to the matter.
Mrs. Vaughn claims her former hus-
band owes her more than $4,000 on
notes for money she said she loaned
him in 1921 for his aviation ventures.
The flyer denies the alleged obli-
cations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
THOMAS F. RYAN, II, FILES
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
Wyoming Court Receives Case
Against Margaret Ryan, Who
Became His Bride Last Year.

BY the Associated Press.
SHERIDAN, wyo., August g.
Thomas Fortune Ryan, I'd, filed suit for
divorce from Margaret Ryan In District
Court here today.
The plaintiff, grandson of the late
Thomas Fortune Ryan, wealthy and
socially prominent in New York, al
legged in his petition the defendant
has been guilty of habitual intem-
perance," and "the intemperance OF the
defendant reasonably infltcts a course
of great mental anguish upon said
plaintiff .
The petition also alleged Mrs. Ryan's
intemperance was the reason for his
leaving her In August, 1929. They were
married in New York January II, 1929,
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saw some one attempt futilely to lear
in a parachute.
The gas tank, of 100000 cubic-foot
capacity, contained about 1901 cubic
feet of Illuminating gas. According Il
w. G. Redd. vice president of thu
Peoples Gas Light g. Coke Co., there
was no danger of an explosion, ever
If the plane had been in flames. Ir
event of the latter situation, the gas
might have ignited and burned, but
would not have exploded, he stated
because the gas itself is not explosive
and was rushing out too fast to permit
air or other explosive material from
entering.
Make Test for Explosives.
Police. however, decided to make tests
to determine If there was any explo-
sive material in the tank. If it was
found that there was such material
it would be necessary to pump out all
the water before the plane could be
raised. Mr.. Redd said. This would
take from 10 to 16 hours. If, how
ever, no explosive material was found
it was planned to rip off the top Of
the tank and 60 after the wreckage
and bodies with graphing hooks.
The tank is constructed Of thin sheet
steel and is so built that the open
bottom floats on a large well of water,
preventing escape of the gas. AS more
gas Is admitted, the tank rises In its
frame, and when gas is let out 1t sinks.
The huge puncture made by the crash
ing plane caused the gas to rush out
in q few moments and dropped the
emptying tank into its well.
Mr.. Redd said damage to the tank
would not exceed $4,000.
1t was officially reported that the two
passengers were women.
Michael Caffarello, brother of the
owner, identified the ship from piece
of wood, sheared off by the gas tank.
Version of Accident Varies.
VARYING versions Of the accident were
told by witnesses. Ira Smalling, pilot
of a Chicago Tribune amphibian, told
of fying toward the downtown landing
ramp when he saw what looked like a
twister. and then saw a ship get caught
in the wind, waver and tailSpin. He be-
lieved the wind responsible.
One witness said 1t appeared the ship
had been struck by lightning. 1t was
generally agreed that the wings had
fallen away before the ship plunged
into the gas tank.
Suchy, who was 81 years old, had OBJ
tanned his pilots license only six weeks
ago. He had flown ship here from
Los Angeles yesterday. Caffarello said
he had flown the death ship, known as
the Magic Carpet, to Louisville, KY,
and back yesterday and that it was in
good condition.
scores of workmen from the gas COM
pany kept busy late into the night
stringing lights, preparing to take OF
the top of the tank and otherwise
speeding efforts to get the bodies
Thousands of curious milled about the
premises, keeping a half hundred po-
iicemen busy controlling them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
ELEVATED CARS CRASH
INTO TRAIN, KILLING ONE

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August "a three-car
elevated train carrying nearly 100 per-
sons home from the Loop crashed INTO
work train today killing one man. in
juring several passengers and creating
q near panic.
Peter Oderangelo, an employe of the
elevated lines, was killed. Two Of those
injured are Miss Ann McCaffery, 25,
and Samuel Van Schoicm.
Failure to throw a switch clearing
the main line is blamed for the acct
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
WILL HOP FOR TOXIC

, TACOMA, Wash, August (P.-
Rob Wark and Eddie Brown announced
tonight they will hop of at dawn to-
morrow on a three-stop flight to Toxic
The first stop will be az White House,
Yukon, the next at Nome, Alaska, and
q third at Petropaylosk. They will
~ Fokker biplane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
Pronounced Out of Danger.

CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone. August Q
P).--Lieut. Col. r. P. Palmer of Wash
ington, who last night was removed
from the Army transport u. S. Grant
suffering from serious internal hem
orrhage, today was pronounced out of
danger. He was enroute from Manila
to New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
School Named for American.

SALMUENSTER, Germany, August 9
P.-A new school building named for
Heinrich Harnischfeger, Milwaukee
industrialist, Is under construction here
Mr.. Harnischfeger, q native of this
town, donated $4,000 for the school,
the corner stone of which has just been
laid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
Faces Patricide Charge.

wAUKEGAN, Ill, August o R).-
death because the latter refused him
$40, William Butler, jr %, was held
today on mAder charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
July Circulation
Daily. ..1O5,395
Sunday, 11O,474

District of Columbia. SIS:
LEROY w: HERON, Advertising Manager
of THE EVENING, AND SUNDAY STAR, does
copies of the paper named sold and distrib-
uted during the month of July, AID. 1880,
as follows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
U. S. PRESENTS PAVILION
Building, Erected for Spanish Elk
position, Given to Seville.

SEVILLE, Spain, August Q R.-The
United States pavilion at the Seville
Exposition, which closed some time ago,
was presented to the city of Seville
today.
The building contains q motion pic
tlre theater and commercial APP
paratus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
AGED MESSENGER
Is HELD IN MANS
MYSTERIOUS DEATH

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
3 DIE AS PLANE
FALLS IN GAS TANK
OF CHICAGO FIRM

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
$4,000 REFUSED,
+: THUG BOMBS SELF
AND BANK OFFICIAL

CONTINUED Prom First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
5,949,287 JOBLESS
NEW HIGH MARK IN
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10

Paul =. Moore, GeorgetoUn Uni
persity student, wds one OF party OF
inst across the BAY from Naples, tDhen
the earthquake struck NTH such depGs-
tdtion on July %. He has sent the
Star the toilowin0 account OF his er-
peYiences.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25
DECLARES DRYS
BEAT HIM UP

Alleging that he was unmerci'
fully beaten when arrested by
three Federal prohibition agents
late yesterday and charged with
possession of one gill Of liquor,
Bernard Clark, 81. Of the 1900
block Twenty-second st. N. w.,
will carry a fight for redress to
the office of Prohibition Commits
Sioner James M. Doran.
Clark, with George Allen, 80, OF
the 17O0 block Eleventh St N. W.,
was arrested in an apartment
in the 1900 block M st. N. w.
by Agents Harry Doyle, M. E.
Thompson and j. T. Weigle. After
being booked at the Third precinct
he was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where six stitches were
taken in a cut over his right eye
and one over the left eye.
The agents reported that Clark
resisted arrest and they had to
use force. Clark told officers the
agents met him in the hallway,
snapped handouts on him and
beat him without announcing
that they were officers or show.
ing a warrant.
Several witnesses were taken
for appearance in Police Court
today. Doran would not COM
ment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25
KilUn1ois ERtertni1ls
d. C.. Commissioners

The District Commissioners
DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, Maj.
Gen. Herbert L. Crosby and VIII
liam B. Ladue, and DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president Of Georgs
Washington University, were
guests Of the KiwaniS Club ak
the washington Hotel yesterday.
DR.. Reichelderfer commended the
club highly for its aid to crippled
children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25
High Winds Hamper Kite
Contest; go Get in Air

Although more than 800 would
be contestants hopefully carried
their kites to Chevy Chase field
to enter them in the kite flying
contest yesterday afternoon, only
so finally got them into the air,
due to the strong wind.
Kites Of every size, color and
design were included among the
entriesI and fathers Wed with
sons in trying to get them into
the air. Box kites, tailleSS kites,
even one kite of tetrahedral
planes were among the so which
scared over the field.
The contest was held under the
auspices Of the District of Column
bia Model Aircraft League and
associated aeronautical organiza-
tons.
Although some Of the kites
were torn to tatters by the winds,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25

enough remained intact for win
ners to be picked. They were:
James Carpenter. 100 block
East Capital ST., workmanship;
John Sullivan. 400 block Twenty
ninth st. N. w. design, and Nor
ris Servator, 400 block Four
teenth st. N. W.. performance.
Others winners In the various
classes included Billy Starkey,
Black Bennett, Ohio williams,
Leon Litsis and his son, A. LitSiS;
John Sumner, Parker Cook. G.
Harrington, Bart Swindler, Comdr.
C. c. Davis and his son, Charles
Davis; Agamemnon Perros, John
Sullivan, James Carpenter, Jack
Neal, Samuel j. BacasSe, Arthur
Davis, James Coutts, Brooks Fry,
David Rotbart and Monty Erela,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25
STAGES
BIC CIRCUS

The country circus and car
nival of the mems club Of the
Church Of st. Stephen and the
Incarnation, Sixteenth and New
ton Streets Northwest, win end
tomorrow night.
Among the many features on
the program are the mems club
band, directed by Henry C. Bod
dis: the grand march headed by
RingmaSter G. q. Stonebraker;
Everard, Wannan and Patterson,
acrobats: Roy H. Jennier in an
aerial novelty; the Humpty
Dumpty girls; Ernest Bailey, rope
and whip expert: the tumbling
sepette; De Molay boys. the con-
tortion marvels, and the German
police dog act.
Dancing follows the big show.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-25
Officers Reelected
BIZ Acacia Mutual

Reelection Of all officers for
another year featured a meet
ing recently Of the board Of direc-
tors Of the Acacia Mutual Life
Association.
William Montgomery again was
elected to the presidency of the
life insurance association. j.
Harry Cunningham was reelected
vice president; j. P. Yort, secre-
tary and actuary; j. Claude KEEPER,
treasurer; Charles E.. Baldwin,
assistant treasurer, and DR.. j.
B. Nichols, medical director.
Directors at the meeting yes
terday were informed that April
business Of the association is set
ting new records.