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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Managua Ruin Described
Tour of Quake Torn City Marked by Roar of Falling
Walls, With Gaping Roofs Evidencing
Devastation.

locating over the heart of the city. As
we walked there were the dull roars of
falling walls. collapsing before us as we
CROPPED our way forward. As they fell
geysers of dust and debris stood out
lividly in the glare. Every street bore,
in riven walls and gaping roofs. EVIL
dence OF the devastating CONFUSION"
Housewives Trapped.
The temblers heaviest blow was
struck at the market place, in the heart
of the city. Here were hundreds OF
housewives and the usual throng OF
buyers and sellers, haggling excitedly
over the jumbled merchandise, when
the shock, in the passage of few briei
seconds. threw them all into the blazing
ruin. Doors were narrow, and when
the first shock came the crowds made a
desperate struggle to escape. The sec
ond and flereeSt shock caught them in
the CONSTRUCTED corridors.
have just seen this appalling ruin
and the harvest Of death and agony.
Barely a stone remains set on stone.
The mud blocks in falling quite pull
verified one another In the tangled,
blackened residue lie great many
bodieS-at least 200 One of the Army
engineers concluded there might be
four times that number in this small
area alone. I counted Is bodies in one
doorway and nearby were 3 more.
Blackened hands protruding in fixed,
desperate entreatyl Mangled forms,
with tendrils of flame still creeping
ravenously through the wooden debris !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
j. S. INVESTORS TOP
LIST IN NICARAGUA
Holdings Put at $4,000, 600
of Foreign Total of
$4,000, 900.
special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Of the total
foreign investments of $2o,0oo,o0o in
quake-stricken Nicaragua, about $13,-
900 600 is American capital. These
holdings include securities in railroads,
conmunica tons, fruit growing, mining,
lumber, oil, engineering and sanitation
projects, sugar cane plantations, power,
light, water and ice companies.
While details of these investments
were withheld by representatives of the
Department of Commerce, here and in
Washington, data was obtained today in
the New York financial district.
U. S. Holdings Listed.
Among the American holdings are the
following:
Standard Fruit Co., a subsidiary of
Vaccara Bros. of New Orleans, 100000
acres of fruit plantations with an in
vestment of SO, 000.0 eco.
CUyamel Fruit Co., banana planta-
lions, 81 100000.
Constancia Consolidated Mining Co.,
100000, gold mines.
Tohopah Mining Co. Of Nevada, ST.
100000 in Santa Rita copper mines of
Nicaragua.
Central American Exploration Co.
100000 acres on the Coco River and
tributaries. Two thousand shares of
500 par value stock, of which 1850
shares are outstanding
Butters-Salvador Mines, Ltd, owning
mining properties in the department of
Chontales.
Exploration Contract.
An unnamed American company, hold
ing contract with the Nicaraguan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
JUSTICE AND TREASURY
SPLIT LIQUOR CONTROL

Control of the vast legal traffic in
industrial alcohol yin be divided be-
tween the Justice and Treasury De-
partments under the new regulations,
effective today, Of the Bureau of In
dustrial Alcohol.
Under the new rules dentists, for
the first time, win be placed on a par
with physicians on the amount Of
liquor made available for Office use
six quarts each year Provision also
was made for both to receive guam
titles Of alcohol for professional work.
Continued use was ordered Of the
new non-poisonous denaturant In ccm-
mercial alcohol, described as smelling
Of bad eggs and garlic" and as being
impossible Of extraction for bootleg
purposes.
The Alcohol Bureau said "the appli-
cations OF doctors and druggists for
small quantities OF permitted liquors
and q few other classes Of applications
OF minor Importance, are generally not
subject to joint action OF the two de-
partments."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
LEAKS AND WEATHER
CAUSED R. 1O1 CRASH
Court of Inquiry Reports Haste of
Thomson on India Trip Was
Incidental Fact.
BY The Asfociated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. April Licking gas bags
and bad weather were held by court
Of inquiry to have caused the crash of
the giant dirigible R-101 on a hillside
near Beauvais, France, on the early
morning Of october 5 with the loss Of
48 lives
The conclusions in the bulky report,
published yesterday, closely agree with
the opinion Of Dr. hugo Eckener, COM
nander Of the Graf Zeppelin, who tesh-
fed at the inquiry.
The board discounteranced sugges-
lions that the start Of the trip was un-
duly accelerated because of the wish Of
Lord Thomson, secretary of state for
air, who died in the accident, to make
the trip to India and back during the
Imperial Conference ir London. AL
though the report said the flight other
wise unquestionably would not have
been started so soon, it added that all
concerned believed the ship would be
able to meet ANY emergency.
The report which was unanimous,
was written after testimony had been
taken from aeronautic experts and sur
vivors from the E-101. Members of the
board we're SIR John Simon, president;
Col w. T. G. Moore Brabazon and
Prof. c. E. Ingles. They made no rec
concentration for avoiding similar trag-
edies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
MARINE WITHDRAWAL
ORDERS UNCHANGED
U. s. Forces to Be Removed From
Nicaragua as Planned, but
Will Aid in Relief Work.

BY the Associated Press
Marine Corps headquarters said to-
day no change was contemplated in
the plan for early withdrawal of Amer
lean forces from Nicaragua, although
the Marines could be fully occupied
With relief and rescue work and the
maintenance of order In Managua for
some time
The withdrawal plan, based on an
agreement between the American and
Nicaraguan Governments, called for
the evacuation of about 500 Marines
before the end of June and the COM
plete withdrawal OF the Marine force
Immediately after the Inauguration of
new Nicaraguan government, jan
uary l, 1898.
1t was stressed that the only con-
sideratlons that could change this
plan were those Of strategy and avail
able transportation.
The 500 Marines to be withdrawn
this year make up two reserve forces
stationed in the northern area around
Ocotal and Madagalpa, where the In
Surgents are strong.
They are to be replaced by units of
the new Nicaraguan National Guard.
After their withdrawal, about 1000
Marines. including an aviation squad
ron, will remain in Nicaragua.
At the time of yesterdays earth
quake there we're more than / 400 Ma
rines in Nicaragua, nearly 1000 Of
them in the Managua area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
BY CHARLES J. v. MURPHY.
BY Radio to The Star.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua. April l.
Severe earthquake shocks again rocked
the stricken city of Managua today,
following Tuesdays destructive tremblor,
striking terror into the populace and
making extremely hazardous the work
of the relief parties.
At Sis O'Clock, only few hours
after the raging fires in the leveled city
had been brought under control, a
heavy tremblor shook the ground, put
out all the emergency lights and sent
everybody rushing in panic from the
proximity Of the shaking walls. am
writing this by hashlght. Another
slight shock was felt at SIT.
Fire Sweeps Center Of City.
The number of deaths, from both
earthquake and fire, was placed at 500
today by Gen. Calvin Mathews Jefe,
director of the Guardia Nacional. Some
Army and Marine officials estimate the
total as low as 200.
Il have Just returned from a trip
through the town in company with
Army Engineers 1t was a shocking ex-
perience. Overwhelmed by the appall-
ing devastation and misery, confessed
1 could go no further. The fire was
whipped up by breeze from the north.
A towering column of flame, edged with
the gray pail of smoke, lay hot and SUI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
700 Tariff Bill Items Vetoed.

BOGOTA, Colombia. April 1 Up
President Olaya vetoed 700 items IN the
newly passed tariff bill today and sent
it back to the Legislature He said the
bill offered unequal protection to va
rious Colombian industries and would
result in a burdensome rise in living
costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
AMERICAN TEACHERS
RETURN FROM RUSSIA
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April Sixteen per-
sons, including a woman, who went to
Russia to teach workers how to make
watches, returned last night on the
Olympic.
Mrs Sue Killen, one of the group.
expressed the opinion the Russians are
slow to learn and lack respect for pre-
cision and consequently would not be
dangerous competitors of American
craftsmen in that field Seven Of the
party remained in Moscow.
THE Russians" Mrs Killen said,
scarcely have the necessities of life,
yet they seem contented and happy"
The watchmakers formerly were en-
ployed in Canton, Ohio.
Jack Stevens, mining engineer of
Denver, Colo, hired to supervise an OIL
drilling enterprise in the Ural Noun
tains, also returned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
$500 IN JEWELRY
TAKEN FROM WOMAN
Marlboro Shopper Tells Police Wal
let Was Stolen in Capital
Office Building.

Theft Of jewelry valued at -$2,500
was reported to police yesterday after
noon by Mrs. Juliet Danenhower of
Marlboro, Md. who told detectives she
was robbed while in an Office building
at Fourteenth and F streets.
Mrs. Danenhower said that leather
wallet containing two rings, one valued
at $4,000 and the other at $500, dis
appeared while she was visiting in the
building. In addition the wallet con-
tanned 50 in cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
u. S. RUSHES FOOD
AND MEDICAL AID
Planes Flying to. Managua
Carrying Antitoxin and
Surgeons.
Continued From First pagel

NOOIAJilluSQ FTDIu FlESV GdBCJ
not yet under control. He said the dead
undoubtedly would total several hun
bred
Water supply destroyed, with intakes
and pumps burned" he added
Surg. Gen. Cumming called Nicara-
guam officials, offering the services of
the Pan-Americsn Sanitary Bureau If
they were needed to prevent an out
break of disease.
Officials of the Sanitary Bureau and
the Public Health Service said there
was a possibility of an outbreak of
typhoid and other epidemic diseases, due
to the destruction of Managua's water
system. Marine and Navy physicians
will cooperate with the Nicaraguan
hsalth authorities, but additional as
sistance might be needed.
Chairman John Barton Payne Of the
Red Cross reporte dto President Hoo
yer that If more funds were nseded i'm
mediately the Red Cross would make
them available.
Payne said he hoped that the $4,000
already supplied would be sufficient
could get to Managua and coordinate
relief activities.
President Hoover and Secretary Slim
son extended the sympathy Of the
American Government in messages to
President Noncado and Julian Irias,
Nicsraguan minister Of foreign affairs.
Serum Sent to Managua.
A meeting to mobilize medical sup
plies for Managua was held at Red Cross
headquarters.
At it's close Vice Chairman McClin-
took said serums near the earthquake
area were either already in Managua
or on the way. There consisted chief
ly of anti-typhoid and anti-tetanus
serum, he said.
If more medicines are required, Nc
Clintock said. they will be purchased in
the United States by the Red Cross and
sent to Nicaragua by Navy planes.
PLANES REACH MANAGUA.
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PLANES REACH MANAaUA.
Red Cross Representative to Boar
Plane at Miami Tomorrow.

Red Cross Representative TO Board
Plane at Miami Tomorrow.
MIAMI. Fla, April l (P).-Airplanes
bent on missions of mercy few into
Managua today as Pan-American Air
ways, Inc, turned all Of its available
equipment 10 bringing relief to the
stricken populace of the Nicaraguan
capital.
TWO of the companys planes, enc
from Panama City and one from San
Lorenzo, Honduras, landed at Managua
today ard reported their arrival by
radio to r. l. Duntcn, operations man
ager of the company here.
Plane Leaves With Antitoxin.
Another is due late today to aid In
work OF removing injured persons to
hospitals or carrying food and medical
supplies as may be necessary.
Still another plane left here today
carrying shipment Of antitoxins and
medical supplies dispatched by the Red
Cross. 1t was TO pick up other sup
plies in Havana before proceeding over
the Gulf of Mexico to the stricken
regions.
Dunton said President Juan T. Trippe
ordered that all of the companY's equip
nient here, in the Canal Zone and
in Mexico be made available for relief
expeditions.
Swift En- Route to Miami.
Ernest ]. Swift of the Red Gross, due
here early tomorrow by train from
washington. will leave on a regular
passenger plane of the company shortly
after his arrival. The plane was sched-
uled to leave in the afternoon, but time
of departure was moved up in order to
hasten the shipment of supplies to
Managua.
Trfppe offered the company's equip
ment for use by the Cuban, Mexican,
British Honduras and Honduran gov
ernmentS, Dunton said.
Such planes as are sent into the
stricken area will shuttle back and
forth from Panama City, San Lorenzo
and Havana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
CAPITAL MAN NAMED
IN So, 900, 900 LEGACY
E. S. Perot, Jr., to Get $1,271, 487
by Fathers Will at Death
of Mother.
Special Dispatch to The star.

NEW YORK, N. Y, April l.
Edward S. Perot, jr.. Of 1881 Woodland
drive, will eventually receive half the
two-and-a-half million dollar estate
left by his father, the late Edward S.
Perot, of Yonkers, N. Y, according 10
report of New York State Transfer
Tax Department fil.d here yesterday.
He will get 81 ,271 ,437, which represents
half of the residue. Mr.. Perot died
February 6, 1929, leaving an estate
which was appraised today by Deputy
State Tax Commissioner Maurice A..
Stephenson at s2.599, eco.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lee Perot Of Yonkers
receives S2,542,9 75 residue and personal
property worth $9228. After her death
the residue is to be divided between two
children, Mr.. Perot and Mrs. Sara l..
Perot Oakley.
Mr. Perot, president of Perot, Adair
& Co, investment bankers. with Offices
in the Shoreham Building, declined TO
discuss the inheritance yesterday.
Through a member of his Office staff,
however, he denied that he expected to
receive any large legacy. Mr.. Perot for
mrly was president Of the Southern
Diaries Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01

New model T-tube g screen
grid Baby Grand in walnut cab
met complete with built-in cleo
tro-dynamic speaker and illumi-
mated dial. Philco table to match.
included.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
FRENCH BUDGET GIVEN
APPROVAL OF DEPUTIES
Few Minor Alterations Made Be
lieved Acceptable to Senate.
Laval Sustained a Times.
BY the Associated Press.

ET5s
PARIS, April 1.-The Chamber of
Deputies, by vote 458 to 100, approved
the budget today with few miner alter
ations and sent 1t back to the Senate
for final approval.
The Senate. it was reported, was pre-
pared TO accept the budget just as the
Chamber returned 1t, thus ending long
struggle and avoiding a vote on pro-
visional credits. AS soon as the Senate S
approval was given, it was said, the
Chamber would adjourn until May S.
Premier Laval was sustained four
times on questions of confidence during
the vote on items in the budget.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
DE MAR RFAVORED
IN MARATHON

HOPKINTON, Mass, April 90.
Out of the dusty files of Father
Time, crowded with athletic has
beens, today stepped Clarence H.
De Mar, 43-year-old printer-mara-
thoner, of Keene, N. H., to be-
come the favorite over 221 other
entries in the thirty-fourth an
nual Patriots Day Boston Ath-
letic Association marathon.
Already seven times winner Of
the Hopkinton-to-Boston grind,
his first triumph dating back to
1911, De Mar, who refuses to
answer the call of the reaper
and become just another "old-
timer" took his place in the
strating line here today, a ruling
favorite with Karl Koski, of the
F'innish-American A. c., New
York, over such other former
winners as Johnny Miles, Nova
Scotia youth; Bill Kennedy, the
bricklayer-runner, of Portchester,
N. Y, and Carl Linder, of
Quincy.
The winner of the 26-mile grind
will be presented with an olive
crown, imported from Athens, and
presented by the Greek-American
Progressive Association, through
its grand governor, George De-
meter. A medal goes with the
crown, bearing the inscription
"Nenkhamen," meaning I'VE are
victorious" which was uttered by
Pheidippides, the original Greek
marathoner. before he dropped
dead after carrying news of battle
from the plain of Marathon to
Athens in the year 400 B. C.
Noon is the zero hour for the
start from the rock high up in
the Hopkinton hillside.
1t was estimated that half a
million persons would witness the
classic grind
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
WHISTLES D IN
UNDER BAN

NEW YORK, April 20.-Owners
of buildings that create nuisanceS
by reason of smoke and the
shrilling of whistles have been
reproved, it became known yester-
day.
After several days of sleuthing,
all by ear, Edward Fisher Brown,
director of the noise abatement
commission, tracked down a con-
tractor whose whistle has been
disturbing residents from Seventy
second to 10th ST., on Riverside
Drive. Through Samuel Levy,
borough president, he had the
whistle choked.
And the owners of more than
1000 buildings, creating dense
smoke, have been put under
pledge by the smoke trial board
of the health department.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
ARMY ORDERS

Carter, First Lieut.. John A. Hall,
First Lieut.. Joseph H. Harper.
Second Lieut.. Albert j. Thack-
Ston, jr., Infantry, to the Panama
Canal Department.
Each Of the following officers
Of Infantry to the Panama Canal
Department: First Lieut.. Chris
tian Hildebrand, First Lieut..
Thomas H. Young.
First Lieut.. Andrew P. Foster,
jr., Infantry, to the Hawaiian De-
partment.
Major Pearl L. Thomas, Cav
airy, to the First Cavalry Divi-
sion, Fort Bliss, Texas.
Major Robert C. Macon, Infan-
try, to the Panama Canal Depart
ment.
Leave of absence is granted
Col. George w. Helms, infantry,
three months; Lieut.. Col. Ralph
H. Whitney, General Staff Corps,
eight days; Lieut.. Col. w. Lee
Hart, Medical Corps, 25 days;
NAoJOA GAAACOO II. DUH OuNSC AS
Vocate Generals Department, two
months and II days; Capt. Frank
H. Hollingsworth, Field Artillery,
one month; First Lieutenant
Tyree R. Horn, Signal Corps, 1a
days; Lieut.. Col. Frederick H.
Foucar, Medical Corps, 10 days.
Major John M. Welch, Medical
Corps to the University of Chi
cago.
First Lieut.. Leonard M. John,
son, Field Artillery, to Purdue Uni,
verSity.
First Lieut.. James H. Workman,
Field Artillery, to Purdue Uni
versity.
Capt. Fletcher E. Ammons, Med.
ical Corps, to Fitzsimons General
Hospital, Denver.
Major Harry A Clark, Medical
Corps, to Beaumont General Hos.
pital, Ell Paso.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
Paddock Notes

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md, April
2O.-Jockey j. Passero, who was
Jammed into the fence during the
running of Saturdays opening
event, is confined to the South
Baltimore General Hospital with a
broken foot.
Jockey C. Pegg, who is under
contract to DR.. j. Fred Adams, of
Catonsville, was in an automobile
smash-up yesterday. He suffered
bruises that caused him to cancel
his mounts for today at least.
The Nevada Stock Farms Alba
zano, 3-year-old chestnut son of
Ladkin-Mine Field, broke down
while working yesterday and will
be on the shelf for some time.
Jockey Louis Schaefer, contract
rider for w. J. Salmon, left this
morning for New York. He will
return tomorrow to ride some of
Trainer Jack Pryce's charges.
Thomas j. Healy, head trainer
for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
left for New York.
Ben Jones, who claimed Labor
in New York on Saturday
brought the four-year-old bay
son of Lucullite-Persephone here
yesterday. Charles McLennan is
distributing condition books fol
the Aurora meeting, which, opens
May 2. McLennon leaves the
western track at the conclusion
of Saturdays racing.
General Manager Edwar
Burke states that Saturdays at
tendance was the largest in the
history of this course. Given
good weather on "wednesday
when the $4,000 Aberdeen is of
fered as well on Saturday wher
the $4,000 Chesapeake is run
the Hartford Agricultural and
Breeders Association should enjoy
it's greatest meeting in history.
Grace Cole is proving a grand
mare for she has thrown such
good ones as Mynheer and Will
liam T., who raced here TODAY
and who have been stake winners
in the past.
Jockey r. Watson lost his ap
prentice allowance on Saturday
He left that night for his home
in Buffalo.
There are % horses on the
schooling list with the adding OF
Hot Toddy.
D. P. Venziano claimed Punish
ment out of Saturdays seventh
race for $4,000. 1t was the sixth
claim of the meeting.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
JUNIORS FORM
RIFLE CLUB

The Girls Junior Rifle Club
and the Boys Junior Rifle Club,
both of Hyattsville, Md, have
been issued charters by the Ma
tional Rifle Association, accord
ing to announcement made today.
Safe handling of firearms will
be stressed at the beginning Of
the activities of the clubs. The
members will first undergo a
course of instruction in "dry
shooting" before being permitted
to handle loaded rifles.
When they become thoroughly
accustomed to the weapons,
they will compete for the vari-
GUS medals awarded by the
junior division of the National
Rifle Association.
The two clubs were organized
by Miss Clemencia Cause, 5O47
Massachusetts, Ave-, Washington,
D. c., who will serve as instruc.
tress in rifle practice. Member
ship pins have been sent the
members now enrolled and in
scribed charters have been for
Warded to the clubs.
Of the more than $500 shoot
ing clubs affiliated with the Ma
tional Rifle Association, more
than TOO are junior clubs organ
lied in high schools. Y. W. c. AS
and Y. M. C. AS, churches, sum
mer camps, etc.
The Washington times., 1931-04-20
BIRTHS
SP|NSTER HOME
IS ENDOWED

YORK, Pa, April 20.-A $780,
900 home for spinsters, a retreat
for elderly unmarried women Of
culture and refinement, will be
erected here during 1881.
The home, to be known as the
Hahn Home, is in accordance with
the will of Miss Anne L. Gardner,
who endowed the project as a me-
mortal to her mother, Mrs. Anna
Hahn Gardner.
Experiencing during her life the
discomforts of a gentlewoman sud-
denly deprived of the income to
which she was accustomed, Miss
Gardner planned the home so that
similarly unfortunate spinsters
might spend the declining years in
comfort.
The home will be available to
spinster women of Pennsylvania,
so or more years old. An admis-
sion fee of $1,000 will be required
for a home for life.