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The Washington times., 1931-04-01

thorities are doing all in their
power to aid them.
The uninjured are helping the
soldiers to search for possible sur
vivors in the wreckage and to
bring some semblance of order
out of the chaos that prevails.
They are volunteering for service
of any kind, helping to aid the
injured and depriVing themselves
of scanty allowances Of food so
that the more needy may have
their share.
Homeless to Be Evacuated
With the cooperation Of the
Marines, officials were beginning
to establish some sort of order.
Every possible effort is being
made to halt the spread Of the
flames and to direct the homeless
pOpuIace to districts where they
will not be subjected to further
danger from recurrent earth.
quakes or fire.
Arrival of American warships
bearing food and medical supplies
is eagerly awaited. In the mean
time, the population is being fed
from rolling kitchens in the
streets
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NavytoRescue
Americans
In Quake
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vey with headquarters at Granada
Nicaragua, said:
Damages absolutely localized
in Managua. That city totally
destroyed and large part of it
already burned with fire not
yet under control.
Impossible to estimate num-
ber Of injured and dead but
dead will undoubtedly run into
several hundred.
water supply destroyed with
intakes and pumps burned. All
my available force now in
Managua on relief work since
3 D. m. yesterday when we ar
rived by special train.
"All Army personnel said
damage at Granada negligible.
will continue to engage in
every relief possible"
Two airplanes from the Nav!
aircraft carrier Lexington will
take off this afternoon for Mana
qua, carrying four doctors anC
medical supplies, according to 6
message to Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Jahncke this morn
ing.
Planes Sent Ahead
The planes, according to plans
will reach Managua about E p. m
today. One of the craft carrie;
a radio sending and receiving set
which will be placed in operation
as soon as it lands at the
Nicaraguan capital.
The Lexington is speeding
toward BluefieldS, Nicaragua
from Guantanamo Bay, but il
was deemed advisable 10 senC
the airplaneS ahead in order tC
speed relief.
From the airport at Coco SelC
the Navy Department received
word that two big planes haC
been dispatched to the scene un
der command of Comdr. A. D
Bernhard. Two physicians an5
two hospital corps men were
aboard.
Meanwhile hastily established
communications added hourly tC
reports of the situation there
where two Americans already are
numbered among the hundreds
estimated dead, seven marines
among the nearly a Thousand
injured, and one among the
numerous missing.
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Many Women and Children Perish
As Roof of NJ arket Place Crashes

Several hundred persons, most
Of them women and children,
were buried as the roof of the
great market place in the center
Of the city smashed down. The
popular public market was
crowded with Holy Week buyers
The penitentiary became the
scene of a holocaust when some
300 convicts were crushed and
burned in their cells as the
shocks razed part of the penal
institution, the remainder Shrek,
ing and pounding against the
bars in an effort to escape a
similar fate.
Churches, schools, power houses,
business houses and shops fell
as the ground heaved crafty
burying hundreds of victims
under tons of debris.
The shocks began at 10 a. m
yesterday but within II hours
the United States Marines had
succeeded in restoring some sort
of calm. Most of the survivors
were herded together in safe
places away from dangerous
walls. but hundreds of them per,
sisted in prodding daZedly here
and there among the smoking
ruins, vaguely looking for missing
relatives.
Most of the Americans found
shelter in the Marine barracks,
which escaped harm, but scores
Of them have been unaccOunte6
kOr.. 1t was estimated that al
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ACCUSED
BY LURAY BOY
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from home for more than SO
hours. Defense attorneys sub
jected the lad to gruelling cross
examination, but he was unwaVer-
ing in his statement.
When he left the witness stand,
spectators Showered him with
coins and other tokens.
The courtroom was packed
again today, and crowds milled
about the corridors seeking seats
and standing room. There was
no disorder, but deputy sheriffs
and Luray police continued the
vigil which market the course of
the trial during its initial SeS-
sion yesterday.
Other witnesses who testified
today were Sheriff Edward L. Lu-
cas-, Deputy Sheriffs Reynolds
and Fox and DR.. Virgil Hammer.
Defense attorneys, in their cross
examination of these State wit
nesses, sought to bring out that
at least three other mountaineerS
had threatened Buracker, or had
grievances against him.
Confronted with a ruling by the
court that evidence showing the
activities of bloodhounds is ad
misSible, counsel for SourS was
fighting to discredit it's weight.
David Radford of Staunton,
Va, owner of the dogs, was
scheduled as the principal wit,
ness of the day. 1t is claimed
that Radford'S hounds led search.
erS from the body of Buracker,
where it was found on the noun.
tainside. to the SourS home.
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PtOmGine Poisoning
Kills Hitch-Hikers

GETTYSBURG, Pa, April l
G.N.SO-Police today began a
probe of the death Of a couple
believed to have been Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles F. Anderson, of Ro-
chester, N. Y, who fell dead
while hitch-hiking from Florida
to Erie, Pa.
The couple stopped at the home
of Edward Hartman, at Cash
town, near here. Both complained
of feeling i'll. Anderson collapsed
soon after leaving the Hartman
hcme. The woman Succumbed
III the Adams county poor home,
where she was taken after being
picked up at CaShtown. Death
was due to ptomaine poisoning.
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"The business district is a
mass of tangled stone, steel and
black ruins. The American
Legation Building looks like .
city dump"
Not so Beds in City
Palmer, his companion, added:
Colonel Brad man, COM
mander of the second brigade,
has taken full charge of the
civil guards and, by swinging
them along with his Marines,
hopes to prevent every bit of
possible violence and lOOting.
Some of his detachments have
been assigned to the water sta
tiOnS and food depOtS. They've
got a bunch of soup kitchens
ladling away as fast as the
kettles will produce, but con-
tinuatiOn of the good work de-
pendS on how long the supplies
last. We're all hoping that the
outside world will pitch in and
give a helping hand.
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Grand Jury to Hear
Charge of HOId-Up

David Weiss was today he.-. in
$1,000 bond for the Grand Jury
on a charge Of attempting to rob
John Khosrofian in the latter'S
store, 1907 Twelfth st. N. w.,
Sunday night.
The complainant told police he
was held up by Weiss at pistol
point when he started to give
him food. He then grappled with
his aSsailant and, after taking
the pistol from him, fired it in
the air for help. Weiss was later
arrested by police.
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FL|ERS PICTURE
EARTHQUAKE
HORRORS
Airmen See Houses Go Crazy
and Hear Anguished Cries
of Stricken inhabitants
BY ELLWOOD SMITH
Radio Operator Aboard Steamer
City of Panama
(CopYriRht 1871 by Anternational


News ServidW
ARD S. S. CITY OF
PANAMA. CORINTO, Nicaragua,
April 1.-The catastrophe earth
quake that turned Managua, the
Nicaraguan capital, into an arena
Of dead and dying was viVidly
described today by two aviators
who flew here from the stricken
city few hours after the up
heaval.
City Rocked, Swayed
Paul Schrider and HOke Pal.
mer. Marine Corps fliers, brought
their plane to COrintO to obtain
medical supplies from the s. S.
City of Panama, and while these
were being loaded into the ma
chine, they described appalling
sights witnessed in the destroyed
capital.
The earthquake, they declared,
was of such force that it rocked
and swayed the city as if lifted
and tossed from below by play
full giant.
Said Schrider:
"It seemed as If the houses
and streets had gone crazy in a
few short moments. Everything
swayed, everything fell apart,
and everybody appeared to be
running somewhere. Walls fell
with a thunderOus noise, but
the cries Of anguish and terror
were far more startling and
awful than all of the rest of
that din put together. shall
never forget it.
Fire Adds to Horror
'"The shocks came in rapid
succession, lasted only a few
minutes at most, but to every
body in that holocaust, they
seemed to continue for a cen
tury. At first the city seemed
to be choking under the cloud
of dust from crumpling build
ingS, but after awhile we real
lied that flames were shooting
terrificalIy dense clouds of
smoke into the air.
"It is difficult to describe
the aWfulness of q city falling
in ruins before your eyes, with
fire adding to the terror"
Neither Of us know how
many were killed or injured,
except that there must be in
the vicinity of 1000 fatalities
and three times that many in
jured.
MANY Of the victims are
American Marine officers, and
we know of at least two deaths.
These include Lieut.. COmdH.
Hugo Baske, U. S. NJ, who was
instantly killed at the national
penitentiary, and Mrs. ]. ID.
Murray, wife of q Marine
major.
Americans Injured
Gas far as we could learn in
the short time we had before
coming here, the following
Americans were injured:
"Gunnery Sergt. Louis ROs-
Sich, severe scalp wound and
internal injuries; Sergt. Rob-
ert C. Crawford, internal in
jurieS to both hips; Major
Robert L. Denig, fractured
right leg below the knee; First
Lieut.. James Durham, scalp
wounds; Sergt. Hugo Mekus,
body hurts; First Lieut.. Charles
Davis, cOntusiOns of feet and
body; Mrs. Robert G.. Craw-
ford, slightly injured, and
Sergt. HOdSkin, minor cOncuS-
sion.
Chief Quartermaster Clerk
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$4,000 QUAKE SURVIVORS HOUSED in TENTS ALONG LAKl
MANY i. s, CITIZENS AMONG
VICTIMS Of DISASTER

to overflowing. Hundreds Of pitt
fully injured victims are besieg-
ing the hospital for aid. All
available beds and cots were
filled within an hour or two
after the quake. Hampered by a
lack of sufficient doctors and
nurses, the authorities are doing
their best to give some measure
of aid to the casualties for whom
no accommodations are available
Naval Planes on Way
At dawn today a ray Of hope
was promised in the form Of two
United States Navy amphibIan
planes loaded with vaccine ana
anti-tetanuS serum, which hoped
off from the Coco Solo naval air
station. Physicians here are hope
full that the supply will prove
adequate to fOreStall an epidemic.
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8 BANDITS TAKE
S6,514 ROLL
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OneGnue0 from rage
sage and by the time police had
located the spot of the hOld-up
the three bandits in their fast car
had disappeared.
1t was declared by officials at
the warehouse that the trio had
been lettering in the alley for
more than three weeks. No par
ticular attention was paid to
them by employees, who thought
they were working on a sewer
construction job in the alley be-
hind the warehouse.
Only sketchy descriptions were
given police by the drug company
officials, who were still nervous
after their experience.
Bandits Are Short
One of the men was described
as being S feet tall, weighing
about 115 pounds and was dressed
in q light OVercOat, brown hat
and tan shoes. The second bandit
wore a dark OvercOat and light
hat, weighed about 125 pounds
and was 5 feet 4 inches tall.
The third Is feet 6 inches tall,
weighs about 13O pounds and was
dressed in a brown OvercOat, light
hat and black shoes.
Robert F. Koenig, 634 Eighth
st. N. E., and James M. Fling,
of Silver Spring, Md, employed
at the warehouse, managed to get
the tag numbers Of the machine
They turned out to be the prop,
erty of Frank Lutz. 1888 Six
teenth st. N. W., which were re-
ported stolen last night.
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YOUTH, z, SEES
FIRST COLORS

light and darkness, and the
cOlOrS.
"Of course, I shall have to
wear glasses always"
Difficult Task
The operation which restored
vision to the youth is believed to
be the first of it's kind ever per
formed successfully. The normal
pupils Of the eyes were missing
at birth and it was decided to cut
deep into the false pupils.
Thin film covered the eyes and
it was necessary to Scrape it away,
with success of the operation
hanging in the balance.
BandageS were applied and re-
manned in place for six weeks.
Finally came the momentous oc-
casion when the bandages were
removed. This was done in a
darkened room. Success was as
Sured; Earl could see.
Saw Own Reflection
One of the first objects he
distinguished was his reflection
in a mirror. He laughed heartily.
He was asked:
Were you expecting to see
a better looking mani"
"NOt exactly" he replied
"But 1 had no idea that /
looked like 1 do"
A touching scene was enacted
in Allentown, when he first saw
the mother and father who had
been his close companions tor
more than a score of years.
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had counted three known Amer
ican dead and an indeterminate
number injured.
The full extent of the casualties
will not be known for hours, pos
siby for days. From one end of
the city to the other crushed and
mangled bodies are buried
beneath the ruins Of homes and
buildings.
Check-up Is Impossible
A check-up of the missing Is
impossible. The only authentic
estimate of dead can be made
from tallying the bodies as they
are dragged from under wreck
age and debris, and no one can
hazard a guess as to how many
remain buried beneath their shat
tered homes.
The railroad hOSDital Is iammed
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least $500 Americans resided in
Managua.
Water stations were established
throughout the city and thirsty
survivors were Sparingly served.
The electric light company ad-
vised that part of the street
lighting system will be in opera
tion tonight, but that repairs in
the house lighting system will
not be attempted because the
city must be rebuilt in it's Tn
tiretY.
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More Destructive Shocks Feared:
Dynamiting Fails to Halt Flames

halt the conflagration proved of
little avail.
The three buildings left stand
ing in the Managua business
center were a brewery, a power
plant and an American automo-
bile headquarters structure, all
of which were constructed of
concrete and corrugated iron.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Alexandria Offered
% Acres For Park

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April l.,
The city has been offered %
acres of land lying between the
street car tracks and railroads
near Rosemont station, for park
purposes, at a cost of $4,000,
For more than 10 years, there
has been agitation for a park,
and one of the stumbling blocks
has been the selection of a site.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April l
'UNSO. - Further destructive
earthshocks were feared by Mana
qua today after another jolt AZ >
o. clock last night again stirred
the blazing ruins of the Mica
raguan capital.
The efforts Of dynamiterS to
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Bad Weather HGlts
NeU Air Line Start

WARK, N. j., April
GN.SO-Because of wet and
foggy weather, the start Of the
new 31-hour transcontinental air
line between Newark and San
Francisco, scheduled for o'clock
this morning, was postponed until
9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The weather was unsatisfactory
over large portion of the East.
CONDITION OF TREASURY
Treasury balance as Of March
30: $559,542,185.23; expenditures,
$11 ,599, ,927.95; customs receipts,
$31, ,10s,775.23.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
SOLDIERS HELD
IN STORE THEFT
Charge Trio With Burglary,
Vehicle Taking.

Three soldiers from Ft. Benajmin
Harrison were held today, one on
charges of burglary and vehicle
taking, the others on vagrancy
charges.
Two were captured, police say, in
the act of stealing gasoline at the
Koehler Brothers general store at
Thirty-fourth street and Arlington
avenue Monday night, and the third
was arrested at the fort after the
others implicated him in theft of
a car from a sales agency.
Their arrest may clear up other
robberies in northeast Indianapolis,
detectives say.
Fred Koehler, one of the owners
of the store, and Clarence Vande-
Gift, a neighbor, surprised Andrew
Kobach, 10, Battery A, Third field
artillery, Ft. Harrison, and Alton
Fields, %, same address, after they
had broken open a gas pump and
put six gallons of gasoline into a
new, stolen Ford.
Kobach, charged with burglary
and vehicle taking, is said to have
confessed breaking into the Litzel-
man G. Rawlings Ford agency, 1851
Massachusetts avenue, Sunday
night, and driving the car off the
demonstration floor. Fields and
Milton Weldon, 26, same address,
we're slated for vagrancy.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08

tional road when their car over
turned at Holt road.
Those injured were Mrs. Mildred
Poland, "a, of s33 South Missouri
street: Mrs. Alta Hickson, II, and
James Hickson, 80, Of the Missouri
street address. Mrs. Poland and
Hickson were charged with drunk
enness.
Edward Riley, 1906 East Market
street. driver Of the car, left the
scene before deputy sheriffs arrived.
Deputies were told that Riley lost
control Of the auto. He is sought
today.
Two women were injured seriously
when the car in which they were
riding collided with another and
overturned at Fifty-seventh and
Delaware streets.
Miss Catherine Maloney, 40, of
% North Lansing street, was bruised
and cut, and Mrs. Minnie Garland,
so, of 1918 West Washington
street, Apartment 4, sustained
fractured collar bone.
They were riding in an auto
driven by John F. Maloney, As, of
the Lansing street address. The
other car involved in the crash was
driven by Art Rose, %, of 5778
Broadway.
Others injured in accidents:
Leonard Roell, le. of 253l RansdelI
street; head injuries: Lewis Ludlow, IS. of
712 East Fiftieth street. left leg and ankle
injuries: John Melton. IS. Mrs: George
Melton. 25. and Miss Hazel Keith. all Of
Sparks GIT Ketchum street. leg hurts, and
c. w. Reeves. Ellettsville. bruises.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08

car stopped, the yeggs made their
escape over the roof of the building.
The thieves abandoned a crowbar
and hammers in their fight.
After driving several miles in his
cab, five bandits Monday night
forced John Gray. 24S1a Virginia
avenue, driver, to surrender the
auto to them at the point of re-
volvers.
Later the bandits crashed the cab
at Virginia and Woodlawn avenues
and fed on foot.
Clothing and luggage, valued at
5000, were stolen Monday night
from the residence of o. F. Ryan
and j. r. Foster, 1908 North Penn
Sylvania street, they told police.
Other robberies reported:
Mrs. Cora jackson, 3134 North
Illinois street, $13.75 from her home;
George Marott, 1927 Broadway, keys
and SIS; Mrs. H. E. Stout, 2525 Park
avenue, So; Mrs. Burt Hoffman, 2301
Broadway, $14.50: william Phillips,
of a Standard grocery at
1904 Ashland avenue, merchandise,
$40; William Titus, %, of 1881 West
Market street, filling station at
tendant, and Miss Margaret Pender-
CAST, 1854 North Alamaba street, SIS.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
HIGH HOLIDAYS
OF CITY JEWRY
START FRIDAY
Sermon Topics Announced
for Period Preceding
Yom Kippur.

The high holidays of their faith
will be observed by Indianapolis
Jewry for a ten-day period Begin
ming at sundown Friday and cul-
minating with Yom Kippur, the
Day Of Atonement.
Elaborate services will be con-
Quoted in the synagogues and tenn
pies here.
Sermon topics for the Saturday
and Sunday morning services by
Rabbi Milton Steinberg at the Tenn
pie Beth El-zedek, Thirty-fourth
and Ruckle streets, will be Days
of Fear" and THE Mirror of Life"
Morning services will begin at $50
a. m. The Temple choir will sing
the traditional chants.
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, IN
dianapons Hebrew Congregation,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
II ARE INJURED
IN LABOR DAY
AUTO CRASHES
Drunk Charges Are Placed
Against Couple in
Road Smashup.

Involved in holiday automobile
accidents in Indianapolis and vicin-
ity, twelve persons were injured
Monday.
Flying sections of a gasoline
pump, wrecked when two automo-
biles collided, injured Herbert Fer
rell, 13, Of 1765 North Tibbs ave-
nue., and Herbert Gillespie, 10, of
1903 Easy street.
The cars were driven by Henry
L. Davis, 60, Marott hotel and
Charles Besche, so, Of Chicago.
They crashed at Sixteenth street
and Tibbs avenue and Davis lost
control of his car, smashing into
the gas pump. The boys were
treated at the city hospital.
Three persons were cut and
bruised Monday night on the Ma
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
YEGCS ESCAPE
POLICE TRAP IN
OFFICE ROBBERY
Flee by Way of Roof as
Cops Guard Exits to
Downtown Theater.

Staging a miniature crime wave
in the city Monday night and early
today, thieves gathered loot valued
at several hundred dollars.
Surprised as they attempted to
crack safe in the Office of the
Alamo theater, 152 North Illinois
street, yeggs fed this morning as
police entered the building.
Heard by Arthur Dixon, Negro,
gil Fayette street, janitor, they con-
tinued to work. Dixon ran outside
the building and called for motor
policemen Fred Hague and Harry
Smith.
They watched the building en-
frances. AS the police emergency
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
U. S. POLICY STUDIED
BY FARM ECONOMISTS
Chicago u. COnferees Look Toward
StabiIizing Agriculture.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-Discussions
looking toward the formation of a
universal economic policy for Amer
ican agriculture were underway at
the University of Chicago today at
tended by government farm experts
and the nations leading agricul-
tural economists.
The meetings were held behind
closed doors, but Edward A. buddy
of the university school of COM
merce and administration. an
nounced the conferees expected to
issue an economic policy for Amer
ican agriculture, or as near to a
single policy as can be evolved from
the widely divergent opinions of
those taking part. Sixty persons
were invited to participate.
Seven experts from the federal
department of agriculture partici-
pated in an effort to get a line on
the workings of the governments
cooperative marketing and stabili-
cation efforts.
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SEPT. 6. 1881

Tenth and Delaware streets, an
nounced as his topics for the Fri
day night and Saturday morning
services: The Challenge of Opti-
mism" and "A Local Lesson of
Seventy-f1ve Years" Services viii
be at 7:30 p. m. and $50 a. m.
Similar services will be held at
the congregations Kneseth Israel.
1899 South Meridian street: Shaara
Tefillah. 603 South Meridian street.
and the United Hebrew, COL Union
street.
Rcsh Hashanah, which opens the
high holidays, ushers in a period
of repentance lasting ten days. This
period includes the Sabbath of Re-
pentance and reaches its climax
with Xom Kippur.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
Breaks Arm In Fall

Falling over a railroad switch,
Irving Boycourt, IS, of State ave-
nue. and De Loss street, sustained a
broken left arm Monday afternoon.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-08
HAY FEVER And
ASTHMA TREATMENT
ON FREE TRIAL

D. j. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane
Building, st. Mary's, Kan, manu-
factures a treatment for Asthma
and Hay Fever in which he has so
much confidence that he sends a
SIPS bottle by mail to anyone who
will write him for it. His offer is
that he is to be paid for this bottle
after you are completely satisfied
and the one taking the treatment to
be the judge. Send your name and
address today, stating which trouble
you Observation-Disclosures.