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Evening star., 1933-08-24
VIRGINIA DAMAGE
SET AT S2,0D0,0())
Eight Die in Storm-Sea
RoutS Residents on
Beaches.

NORFOLK, Va, August 24.-Check
of the total Of the raging north
easter that raked this section Of
the coast with an 80-mile blast, leav-
ing eight dead and $4,000, 900 property
damage in its wake, reveals Willoughby
laid waste, Ocean View Park in ruins,
Virginia Beach already laying plans
for rebuilding of its damaged water
front and Cape Henry still practically
cut of from all communication with
the rest Of the area.
Willoughby Spit, covered with water
yesterday. is buried in sand today. Ma
rines and police sentries stand guard to
prevent looting To the end of the spit
desolation and waste. Some few cot
tages appear to have withstood the
force of the raging storm and beating
tide, but in the main practically every
cottage on the spit shows severe
damage.
Those cottages along the big bay
water front appear to have suffered
most. Dozens Of these have been swept
from their foundation Street car
tracks and highways are covered will,
sand that in places reaches a depth
Of four feet.
Return to See Ruins.
Residents of the area, forced to
evacuate their homes yesterday on ac-
count of the storm or at the order o4
Marines, are hocking back into debris
strewn section today.
Residents of the spit fled as the
waves coursed through their homes.
Two white men and six colored men
died
The dead included Oscar Dockery of
Norfolk drowned trying to tow skiff
ashore and Capt c. F. Laird. occupant
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15O STRICKEN ILL
BY FOOD POISONING
Dun & Bradstreet Employees In
New York Slump Forward
at Work.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 24.-One hun
dred and fifty Office workers. stricken
violently Ill by food poisoning, were re-
covering today.
They became i'll after eating luncheon
Yesterday in a cooperative restaurant
run by employees of Dun & Bradstreet,
Inc. All those stricken were employees
of the firm. 1t is believed egg SALAD
sandwiches caused the illness.
Two or three hours after lunch time
the illness began to take erect.
Stenographers, ashen under their rouge.
staggered from their desks to collapse
Clerks slumped at their desks: Some
went home unassisted, others staggered
out on the arms of co-workers.
Internes and police emergency squads
treated many of the victims, while ~
were taken to hospital.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
PENINSULA ISOLATED.
Word of Damage Seeps Through
Relatives Anxious for Families.

By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
DOVER, Del. August 24.-The entire
southern portion of the Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia peninsula was shut
off from the rest of the world today
following the worst storm in the men,
ory of the Oldest residents OF this Sec
ton.
Both telegraphic and telephone COM
munications were paralyzed, but reports
brought out from the isolated areas Dy
a few motorists who succeeded in max.
ing their way over the water-covsred
roads were that Salisbury and ocean
City. Md. had been@ all but washed
away by the heaviest surf in history OF
Southern Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
Lesser foundations also were reported
In other peninsular towns.
So far as could be ascertained by
preliminary check-up this morning,
there were no deaths in Salisbury or
Ocean City, but one drowning was re-
ported in a washout several miles pc
low Harrington, Del, on the road 10
the Wicomico County seat.
The victim, according to reports from
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Casualty List


Engineer A. H. Bryde. PIT E street
southeast.
Fireman J. H. Faye. Perryville. Md.
Injured.
Benjamin johnson. As. 24l7 Frank
lin street northeast assistant road fore
man of engines Brush burns on body
lacerated shin and injured leg muscle
Emergency Hospital.
Myer Blackman 40. 5so3 North FIJI
teenth street, Philadelphia Possible
fractured spine and cuts on the back
Emergency Hospital.
J. c. Cunningham, 90. 156 Cotton
street, Philadelphia. Abrasion of the
right shoulder. Treated at Emergency
Hospital and discharged.
Russell L. Mohler, SO, Trenton. N j
Bruised thigh and shock. Emergency
Hospital
Samuel Hamilton. 81, Montclair, N. J.
Badly bruised leg and cuts. Emergency
Hospital.
Maxwell Galland. 4s, 1888 Hulsey
street. Brooklyn, N. Y. Bruised back
Treated at Emergency Hospital and dis
charged
Paul Hanna, 80. Of Columbia Uni
versity. Discharged from Emergency
after treatment for cut hand anG
sprained back.
A. P. Tugwell, A, Baton Rouge, La
First aid at Emergency for cuts anc
bruises on right arm.
Ally Henry Myers. 35, Thurmont, Md
Arm and leg injuries and shock. Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Charles E. Kenny. "a, Route 4, West.
minister, Md. Shoulder and leg in.
juries and shock. Casualty Hospital.
William H. Brown, 80. 1927 Quintor
avenue. Baltimore. Scalp injuries
Casualty Hospital
Claude Smith, Al, Wading River
Long Island. Scalp injuries. Casualty
Hospital
Anthony Swano. 26, IT'S Juanits
street, Philadelphia. Shock Casualty
Hospital.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNT TREMPER, N. Y. August
24.-Father James Healey Of New YORK
City. 4 Catholic priest, was believed to
have been drowned today while trying
to rescue three woman tourists and two
children marooned in the rising flood
waters Of Esopus Greek.
When a breeches buoy failed to
reach the women, Father Healey and
another man jumped in boat, 1t over
turned and the priest disappeared. The
other man was saved.
Father Healey Joined f1remen and
police at the scene, along the Kings
ton -Fleischmanns Highway. when word
was brought to him of the tourists
plight. He was councillor at q Catho-
lie boys camp nearby and was assist
ant pastor Of the Holy Trinity Parish
West Eighty-second street.
The tourists. whose names were not
known, were seen early today stranded
in a group of overnight cabins on
low nat, with Esopus Greek swollen
until 1t raced past on both sides.
When the cabins were washed away
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Reports Probed
Of Counterfeiting
At LeavenwOrth
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Secret Service and the
Bureau of Prisons are investl-
eating reports Of counterfeiting
activities by inmates Of the Fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth.
Kans.
The inquiry was begun by the
Secret Service. based upon re-
ports that a plant for the manu-
facture of bogus money was being
operated at the prison.
The service informed the
Bureau of Prisons Of what 1t was
doing and the latter Joined in
the investigation. What results,
If any. the inquiry has brought
were not disclosed.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
SEES DICTATORSHIPS
BESTING DEMOCRACY
Prof. W. F. 0gburn Predicts
"Speediest Government" Will
Survive.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, August 24.-The belief
that democracy is waning before the
advance of dictatorship was expressed
in an address by Prof William F. Og-
burn. who recently resigned as a mem
Der of the Washington administration s
Consumers Advisory Board.
Speaking at the University of Chi
cago, where he is professor of sociology,
yesterday, he said: II look forward
to the decline of democracy and the
rise of a system of government that Will
utilize some Of its principles but will
nevertheless be an entirely different
system.
THE movement toward dictatorship
Is going ahead.
THE government that Is speediest is
the one that will survive" he added.
AN executive with the power to act,
such as that given President Roosevelt,
will meet requirements of speedy action
and will be able to cope with rapid
changes"
He predicted a closer relation be-
tween business and government than
we have ever known before"
Evening star., 1933-08-24
PRIEST LOST TRYING TO SAVE
GROUP OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

they fed to a little higher ground,
where they were believed safe for several
hours. The fire department at Pough-
keepsie. 40 miles away, brought the
breeches buoy and apparatus. but trees
stopped the life line each time they at
tempted to shoot it across the 300 feet
of flooded land.
Father Healey obtained a "pontoon
boat" from Kingston, and swung 1t out
into the swift water. together with an
employe of the Central Hudson Gas &
Electric Co. A moment later the boat
was swamped and the priest disap-
peared. The other man, whose name
was not learned, caught rope and
was dragged ashore.
Firemen from Kingston then at
tempted to set long extension ladders
up in high arc above the water. Soon
afterward the flood appeared to be re-
ceding slightly.
The tourists, drenched by rain, hud-
died together on the fiat, silently
watching the rescue efforts.
The big eastern storm moved into
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THOUSANDS FLEE RESORTS
SWEPT BY RAGING SEAS:
CITY DIGS OUT OF DEBRIS
Storm HighHghts
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Atlantic Seaboard's raging
storm swept inland today. leaving
In its trail many dead and injured
and millions in damage.
Additional deaths were added to
the swelling list of those who per-
ished at sea, in train and automobile
accidents and freak mishaps, as the
count went forward in affected areas
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
wanna. Delaware. Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
The New Jersey toll reached eight
In the five days of storm.
Pennsylvania counted at least
three.
Maryland recorded seven with
reports from some sections still
meager, because Of faulty commune
cation. Two of these-an engineer
and a fireman-were killed in tn:
derailment this morning near Tux
edo of the crack Southern Railway
train Crescent Limited
Virginia had ten dead, two Of
them victims of the storm as 1t
beat upon the costal liner Madison,
attempting to reach Norfolk.
New York had at least one.
The injured included 13 In the
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HousesToppled,
Streets Piled
With Sand.
MARYLAND TOLL
OF DEAD SEVEN
Three-Mile Board
walk at Ocean City
Destroyed.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August PA
short-wave wireless message from
Salisbury, Md, first dispatch from
that city since the storm struck
the area yesterday, said thou
sands of Summer residents had
evacuated Ocean City, Md.
Virtually all of the 3-mile board
walk has been destroyed and the
ocean is sweeping through every
building on the island, said the
dispatch, which was signed by
Charles ]. Truitt of the Salisbury
Times, a member of the Assocl-
ated Press. Many flShermen'S
residences and concessions have
been wrecked.
The resort of Public Landing, south
OF Ocean City. was left without build
ing standing, he wirelesSed.
Charles Foell of Philadelphia. anna
teur wireless operator. received the
message on his station W3MC and said
1t was sent by Salisbury amateur.
Discover No Fatality.
Telling of the complete lack of COM
munication, Truitt said the best possible
check-up failed to reveal any fatality.
Hours were required for the vaca-
tionists to negotiate the 80 miles be-
tween Ocean City and Salisbury, where
they rapidly filled the hotels. No trains
were available on any Of the three rail-
roads to take them out.
Dated last night, the message said
the waves were continuing to wreck
havoc "Severel feet of water" swept
through Ocean City.
S. Franklyn Woodcock, Salisbury real
estate dealer who brought his family
from Oceon City, said:
II saw a wave pick up an automobile
caught on the street and hurl it against
another auto so feet away"
He feared the steel and concrete
bridge from the island to the mainland
would be undermined.
Highways Washed Out.
Traffic on the highways was COM
pleteIy paralyzed by washouts. Tele-
phone and telegraph company omclals
said there were so many washouts and
SO many trees and poles down that It
was impossible to tell when communlca-
tions would be restored.
The United States weather observer
recorded a rainfall of SOB inches up to
last night.
Chincoteague Island also suffered Sc
verely, but the extent OF the damage
could not be learned.
Coast Guards and veteran mariners
said it was the worst storm Whlch nao
hit the Maryland and Delaware PENN
sula within historic times.
PENINSULA ISOLATED.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Inc oooy VI the ureman. j. H. Faye,
OF Pe!ryville. Md. was found, horribly
mangied. half buried in soft earth be-
tween the second mail car and the
baggage coach. Faye probably was
thrown clear Of the engine as it
reached the opposite bank, only to be
crushed by the topping coaches.
30 Aboard Train.
There were about 30 persons, includ-
ing passengers and train crew. on the
train and authorities considered their
escape from more serious injury as al
most miraculous
It was 3:45 am. and most Of the
passengers were asleep at the time of
the wreck Few could give coherent
accounts of the accident.
They were thrown out Of their berths
as the Pullmans swayed, left the tracks
ana pumped to stop in precarious
positions across the stream.
Fortunately the whole structure of
the steel and wood trestle did not at
once drop into the raging torrent. As
one OF the main concrete supports in
the center Of the bridge crumbled the
tracks at the north end settled slowly
downward, giving passengers in the
last three Pulimans time to climb out
and reach the shore Later the bridge
sank into the stream, leaving three
Pulimans leaning dangerously over the
water, while the last car was tilted
down the north abutment.
Break Windows and Climb Ont.
The first Pullman car dived headlousl
INTO the stream, turned over on its
SIDE and was partially inundated.
Eight passengers. one of them a woman.
smashed windows and climbed out on
the side of the car, which was lust
| above water
Despite the crash and ensuing con-
fusion in the darkness witnesses said
there was little hysteria on the part
OF the passengers. many of whom
joined in the rescue work Some of
the passengers even took time to slip
on outer clothing and to salvage grips
and other belongings.
Ambulances rescue squad cars. police
cars and other emergency crews soon
were speeding to the scene, which vas
0lmcult to reach. Stretcher-bearers
and other rescue workers were forced
to walk nearly a mile from the near
est parking place for automobiles
the railroad viaduct on Kenilworth
avenue
A relief train with physicians and
nurses put out from Union Station, and
most OF the injured were placed aboard
this train and taken to the station,
where ambulances carried them to Cas-
ualty and Emergency Hospitals.
Railroad salvage crews were rushed tn
the wreck and were working with acety-
lene torches and derricks in an effort
to clear from the tracks the tangled
mass Of steel and splintered wood of the
smashed cars. No effort could be made
to lift the huge engine until the piled
up coaches were cut up with torches
and removed.
The body Of the engineer was found
buried under the front truck Of the
fifth car by four men in a rovboat
The body was jammed in the mud
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SLEEPING SICKNESS
TOLL REACHES 4
skssss-
Disease Now Reported in An
other Bordering State,
Illinois.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 24.-As the toll
from the epidemic Of sleeping sickness
reached 81 in this city and its suburban
communities, the puzzling disease was
! reported in another bordering State
Illinois.
Previously cases in Oklahoma and
Kansas, as well as other Missouri towns
had been diagnosed as encephalitis as
the disease Is known in medical circles,
but the ones reported during the last
"a hours at Pekin and Pleasant Hill, H.,
are the first known in that State dur
ing the current outbreak.
Four Die Yesterday.
The deaths Of four persons here yes
terday was the greatest number to
succumb to the disease in one day
during the epidemic which took its first
victim July so. It also surpassed The
number of fatalities from the disease
in the Spokane, Wash. outbreak OF
1919-2l when 10 lost their lives.
Nine new cases have been reported In
| ST. Louis County and four in the cit!
Of st. Louis. bringing the total numbei
since the epidemic started to 1877.
Meanwhile Federal, State and city
medical experts are concentrating their
investigation in an attempt to find a
cause and cure on the possibility tina,
insects are suspected as being possible
| carriers of the infection.
Insect Authority Called.
An authority on insects as dissemina-
tors Of disease, Dr. L. L. Williams. jr.
medical entomologist of the United
States Public Health Service, has been
ordered here from Washington.
| Science has never been able to learn
much about the spread Of encephalitis
Although there has been an unusual
number Of mosquitoes here this Sum-
mer. it has been pointed out. however
that other epidemics Of the disease have
occurred In Midwinter when flies and
mosquitoes could hardly have been the
carrying agents.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
"ARTHUR'' is WRECKS REAL HERO
BY PASSENGERS UNANIMOUS VOTE

sure" said a passenger in a muddy
coat. pajamas and carpet slippers. -
those magazines that woman was
screaming for!
Magazines! Tie that! Standing on
your head in a dark Pullman, with no
air much, and water seeping In. What
time to yell for magazines!
Magazines. hell!'" shouted back,
g. I've lost my pants!"
In that darkness, filled with turmoil
and grotesque uncertainty, such as a
railway car that has rolled over can
produce, 1t was Arthur. many pas
senger recalled, who brought the first
ray Of light, the first word Of reassur-
ance.
There's q guy-I don't know his
name-that used his nut!" cut In q
travelling salesman.
II know his name,' said the man
in the bed room slippers, producing .
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It was Arthur this. and Arthur that.
Curious how his name kept cropping

It was Arthur this. and Arthur that.
Curious how his name kept cropping
up. The passengers mentioned him
often, smoking, laughing, chatting
under the crowded sheds at Union
Station this morning. where they were
taken from the wreck of the Crescent
Limited.
They were talking 1t over, those black
moments OF uncertainty and terror. In
the excited fashion Of people whose
nerves can't quite relax, can't quite re-
lease them from the tension.
Cigarettes glowed half through at q
puff, sentences were hurried and broken,
exclamations rose above hiss of steam
in the locomotive which was about to
bear the passengers southward on their
violently interrupted journey.
Arthur could have found them.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
ASSASSINATION PLOT
ON SCHACHT SEEN
President of Reichsbank Narrowly
Escapes Death by Storm
Troopers.
BY Radio to The Star.

BY Radio to The Star.
VIENNA. Austria, August 24.-Dr.
Hjalmar Schacht. president of the
Reichsbank in Berlin, narrowly es-
capped assassination by disaffected
storm troopers, it is said today in the
Prague. Czechoslovakia, newspaper,
Social Democraten, of which copies
were received here
According to reports, DR.. Schacht
noted some days ago that he was being
followed by mysterious individuals, and
appealed to the secret police for pro-
lection
Yesterday three storm troopers were
arrested and five others fed, it is said,
when DR.. Schacht was followed by po-
lice officers to trap the alleged assail-
ant.
A search Of the persons arrested Is
said to have revealed plan of as
sassination.
Dr. Schacht was thought to be too
conservative The hotheads wanted to
make the NaN revolution more social
istic
This report of the attempted assas-
sination Is not confirmed and nothing
whatever Of It is known in Berlin,
according to telephone inquiries made
by this correspondent.
(oopyright 1oSeS
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Crescent Limited Goes Through
Flood-Weakened Bridge Near
Kenilworth, Injuring l3.
LOCOMOTIVES l5-FOOT PLUNGE
KILLS ENGINEER AND FIREMAN
Pullman Partly Submerged in Swollen
Stream, While Others bangle Over
Water in PerilOus Position.
Pictures of the creck-Pages Al and B-1.

Two trainmen killed instantly injured
early today when the
crashed through tree on the
Pennsylvania Railroad into the Anacoa River
The engineer and fireman giant locomotive
reported by several witnesses travelling
OF speed southwark
buried itself ebankment
at the south end Of the
Cars Pile Up Embankment
The 10car train behind the
path of the snortng steel broke its
couplings plunged into the silt train then bumped
and smashed to screeching bridge
leaving mail baggage coach day coach and club car
piled the side coupling linked
in the swollen 1870 F'
The engineer Bryde veteran Pennsylvania
who lived 2 street apparently had warning
the heavy His body found this afternoon
beneath the wheel
Evening star., 1933-08-24
UNREPORTED LINER \
IS FOUND AGROUND
City of Norfolk Discovered Strand.
ed OFF Watts
Island.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, August 24.-The
Chesapeake Steamship liner. City OF
Norfolk. is aground in Pocomoke Sound
one mile East of the North end OF
Watts Island. Her passengers are safe.
News of the discovery Of the steamer
missing and unheard from since she
left Baltimore early Tuesday night, was
received by radio at 1:30 pm. today
from one of the two Navy planes that
had been searching for the missing ves-
sci since early today.
Steamer City of Norfolk" read the
message received at the Norfolk Naval
base. aground one mile east of north
end Of Watts Island. Passengers on
deck and apparently not in distress.
Plane returning to base"
Evening star., 1933-08-24
WOODIN, JR., GRAvELY ILL
Placed in Oxygen Room in Critical
Heart Condition.

TUCSON. Ariz. August "a (P.-Af-
fiicted with heart trouble. William H.
Woodin, jr son of the Secretary OF the
Treasury, is in the oxygen room OF
Tucson sanitorium in critical condi-
ton.
1.-Two heart attacks in the last few
months have been complicated by a
blood clot In one lung and two IN the
intestinal system. Attending doctors
,are trying to dissolve the clots and
prevent their movement to the heart.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Actress Has Breakdown.

NEW YORK, August "a R.-Grace
George, the actress, is under treatment
for a nervous breakdown at the LIE Roy
Sanitarium, it was learned today from
her husband, William A. Brady Broad
way producer Brady described her con-
dition as mot dangerous"
Evening star., 1933-08-24
HITLER'S FRIEND HELD
Community Councillor Mayrhofe
Arrested at Linz.

VIENNA, August "a R.-Community
Councillor Mayrhofer, who used to be
q playmate Of Adolf Hitler. now chan
cellor Of Germany, was arrested today
at Linz
Mayrhofer Is q son Of Hitler's former
guardian. He Is an intimate friend Of
the chancellor.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
ASLEEP 673 DAYS.
Nine Year-Old Boy Unmindful Of st.
Louis Troubles.

MEMPHIS Tenn, August "a tP.-
Nine-year-old Sleeping Joe" Huggins,
unmindful Of the investigation at ST.
Louis into an outbreak of sleeping
sickness" slept on here today.
Joe, his foster mother, Mrs. S. r.
Rider said. has been in coma for 673
days, If he sleeps" until October 81,
she said. he will have been asleep for
two years.
Some physicians have diagnosed
little Joe's case as sleeping sickness. -
but others admit he has them puzzled
He drinks five pints Of goats milk
daily. Is growing normally and has lost
little weight.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

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Rise Is Due Tonight.

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20. q. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change
in temperature: gentle to moderate west winds.
Temperatures-Highest. SO, at noon today;
lowest 10, at am. today.
Full report on page O.
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