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Evening star., 1933-09-03
brushed against a tree and "pancaked
to landing.
Six Injured Seriously.

Six Injured Seriously.
Moss and his five passengers were in
jured seriously, and the plane was bad
ly damaged.
S. ]. whitman, Oshkosh. Wis, flyer
won the first of the international air
race events, 20-mile event, with
speed of 10655 miles per hour. Lyman
Woelpel Of Bloomington. ILL.,. placed
second. with E. F.. Gallagher, Niles,
Mich, third.
Art Chester of Joliet, Ill. won the
30-mile South Bend Trophy race for
planes Of not more than 375-inch piston
displacement. He pushed his speed
creation through rough air at an aver
age of 176.25 miles per hour. Leland
S. Miles and George o. Hague, both
of Los Angeles, Calf, were second and
third.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
QUAKE NEAR JAPAN
California seismograph Registers
Remote Minor Temblor.

BERKELEY, Calf, September 2 Ltp).
An earthquake recorded on the Uni
versity of California seismograph for
half an hour, starting at about $3.50
m, today, was estimated by Prof.
Perry Byerly to be $500 miles distant,
probably near Japan. He said it was
not Of catastrophe intensity.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
HURRICANE DEATHS
REACH THREE SCORE
Rescuers in Areas Previously
Isolated Find Evidence of
Tremendous Loss.
Continued From First Page.)

not cut Cardenas, said they were not
prepared, and this, it was believed. was
responsible for the large number Of dead
and injured.
Crowd Lynches Looter.
Members Of the A B c Revolutionary
Society were patroling the stricken
area to prevent looting. Manuel Buen-
coma was almost lynched when he was
arrested accused of looting.
The A B G formed an emergency
relief committee and was preparing to
feed survivors. who said the full force
of the storm struck the city at 8 O'Clock
Friday morning and continued un-
abated until shortly after noon. After
a brief period of calm, the winds re-
sumed and continued until o'clock In
the afternoon.
Cardenas physicians said there was
danger OF an epidemic unless medical
supplies reached the city soon. Three
of Cardenas' dead were killed at the
Dos Rosas Sugar Mill, owned by Charles
E. Hires, an American. The mill suf-
fered considerable damage.
The San Jose Orphan Asylum was
badly damaged and a nun was injured
slightly.
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Marriage License Record Set.

NEW YORK. September 2 (P.-This
was a record breaking day for the mar
riage license bureau. Two hundred and
eight couples were given licenses. Half
of the number were married in the
municipal chapel.
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Kentucky Costs Barred.

Payments for operation and main
tenance of the general departments OF
Kentucky's State government amounted
to s9.25 per capita in 1882.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
U. S. EMPLOYEES MAP
FIGHT FOR REFORMS
AT MISSOURI SESSION

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1933-09-03
Decimating Police Hit.

Kansas City Local 20 calls for halt
ON the Civil Service Commission "prac-
tice" Of specifying experience IN non
government work as q quanncation IN
some competitive tests.
A number Of resolutions hit at the
policy of decimating, on the one hand,
Old established age1fies In the name Of
Evening star., 1933-07-30
BY CHARLES FITZHUCH TOLMAN.

--HE Summer il bringing the usual re-
ports Of disastrous cloudbursts, SO
called. The scene of the most spec
tacular recorded so far this year in
the United States was a mountain
district southwest of Denver, Colo
where on July many buildings were wrecked
and several lives were lost when a terrific
cloudburst flood swept down Bear Greek Can
yon. Another affair Of this kind occurred on
June 20 in northeastern Missouri, where a
downpour Of rain measuring more than
inches in some places resulted in a cataract Of
water that inundated thousands of acres
washed out the tracks Of three railroads and
isolated the three small towns of Hurdland,
Brashear and Edna. Cattle and sheep were
drowned in the swollen streams: human beings
narrowly escaped the same fate This storm
held up train bearing Chicagoward the Sec
retary Of Agriculture, from whom the Weather
Bureau-but not the weather-takes orders.
Far more tragic in its consequences was the
cloudburst in flood -harried China about June
20. According to still meager information, tor
rental rain fell over the headwaters Of the
Mayen River in Eastern Kweichow Province.
A wall Of water swept down the river valley
without warning in the early morning hours,
devastating the prefectural town Of Tungjen.
Thousands Of persons there and elsewhere along
the valley are said to have been drowned in
their beds
have referred to these events as cloud
bursts" In accordance with well established
usage, scientific as well as popular; but the
term is unfortunate because it tends to per-
petuate the fallacy that clouds sometimes sud-
denly burst and dump all their moisture onto
the ground This naive idea originated at q
period when even the wisest philosophers knew
as little about clouds as did the good English
lady who during the late hostilities in Europe
wrote to the war Office suggesting the use Of
these floating isles in the sky as gun platforms
from which to lombard the enemy. i
cloud cannot burst, because it is not as
the learned authorities Of long ago supposed,
a sort of bag or bladder, distended with wind.
1t is mist of exceedingly minute almost
Evening star., 1933-07-30
What Happens When Raj

microscopic droplets Cor, in some cas-
tiny ice crystals; and even if it did for SOD
reason discharge all its moisture suddenly, t
result would not, as a rule, be a partculaT
heavy downpour. Clouds contain far less moi
ture than most people imagine. The dense
clouds probably are not more than one pa
water to 10000 parts air, and if huge cloI
several miles in vertical extent were, by mi
acle suddenly precipitated en- masse to
ground at the maximum speed of falling raj
the result would be decidedly less intense ths
often occurs in so-called cloudbursts.
The term "cloudburst" is doubly misleadi
when it is applied indiscriminately as it ofte
is, to any and every shower that causes q speS
tacular short-lved flood in a dry mountaino
district. The word conveys the idea of hea'
shower, but terrific flood may result fro
rainfall Of quite moderate intensity if the wat
hows down bare slopes and is concentrated
ravines and canyons.
food Of this sort wiped out a large pc
Of the town of Heppner, Oreg, in June, 190.
causing the death of 200 persons.
According to scientific definition, cloud
burst is brief shower of exceptional intensiS
occurring over a comparatively small are
How hard are the hardest rains? We knol
that, ON account of the resistance Of the q
the largest raindrops never fall faster ths
about rs feet second while the smallest drol
fall very much more slowly; but we do NJ
know how densely crowded together the ofo
may be in the most intense showers To ey4
witnesses the water of cloudburst often seenI
to come down in a continuous stream, Is
poured out Of bucket rather than in separat
drops, and we cannot say how nearly this I'M
preston may correspond to the truth
THERE is, in short, no theoretical means d
determining the maximum amount Of raij
per unit area that may fall in given timl
and actual measurements of intense showed
throw little Light ON the question. Over tl'
whole surface of the globe upward OF 5000
rain gauges are constantly exposed to catcl
every shower that falls, but only few hum
dred Of these gauges are equipped with an
Evening star., 1933-07-30

Spring in that her whole performance
put down as peevishneSS.
There was the question of Brick Thurst{
by far the greatest halfback the old high h
ever known. On her 10th birthday anniverss|
she'd known she was going to love him
she died. This passion had abated to a genI
acceptance Of Brick as a sort of walking d
ject in her possession. But with the arrij
Of the Townsend's son and air, Brick THU
tons stock had gone up-perceptibly up.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

that it Was . perfect shame. The two families
could III have such nice Sunday outings II
only you two were even On what YOU might
call speaking terms. But II you'd only Just
tell me once and for all what there Il about
that very nice boy that you hate 30 mlch...
His mother tells me that she's had the same
trouble with him and really do think"
Evening star., 1933-07-30

IA /HILE this conversation was going on Anita
w was proceeding at pace incredibly slow
to a position Of agonized expectancy upon
neat brown mat. The neat brown mat had
already been laid before the front door Of the
Townsends' new house.
Puff said Mrs. Townsend, warmly well
coming the cat. "And was it bad runaway
baby, was it?"
Mother said you'd be worried. She said
was to bring it over. She said you'd want"
Come in, my dear! We're just finishing
supper-have you had your supper?"
"Oh, yes! Thank you-I mean we always
have supper about 6:30."
well, you won't turn down nice glass
Of iced tea Mercy, isn't it warm night! And
having to settle in new house on q day Ike
this!"
Mrs. Townsend moved as she talked and
Anita, listening, found herself drawn as by
vacuum over the threshold, down the hall and
into the dining room.
Mr.. Townsend was there glancing up ami
ably over a well laden fork. Ellen Townsend,
a child Of S, was there, staring with an air
Of detached appraisal upon the intruder. And
Bill Townsend was there. He had risen hastily
at sight Of her, his napkin still dangling Imply
and awkwardly from one hand. Obviously
he didn't know what to do with the other
hand.
"Iu get you glass;" said Mrs. Townsend
pleasantly. "Where'd we decide to put the
glasses? Oh, yes! Now you sit down and make
yourself at home. It's that bad Puff" she
added brightly to her family Miss Winters
had to bring him back again!"
It seemed to the miserable Anita that this
explanation didn't have any sense. + was
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Mother! Haven't you absolutely any re-
gard at all for a persons feelings! I've told
you and told you at least a million times that
1 can't stand him. absolutely. And just be.
cause he's a new man, all the girls make them
selves so easy to get that they'd be funny TO
any man that wasn't already SO conceited that
he thought he was the Prince Of Wales or
something!"
She paused for breath, and her mother held
up both hands.
"Al right" she said. "All right! All right!'
"Never can go out of the house once" NUT
tered Anita, ignoring her. Always have to
be running into him. Always have to be see
ing his father and mother and they have to
talk about him"
She lapsed into a gloomy consideration OF
world entirely peopled by Townsends. Bills
father and mother and her own father and
mother had rushed into one of those beautiful
friendships only possible to sober, middle aged
married people fond of auction at tenth OF
cent point Mr.. Townsend and Mr.. Winters
walked downtown together every morning and
returned together every evening, while their
wives met daily almost hourly, in conferences
over small domestic affairs.
A NITAS moods were becoming as subtle and
varied as the moods Of a day in Spring.
But Anita was less successful than q day in
Evening star., 1933-07-30

new people," she said crisply. III
you're sure you won't want any apple sauce.
II don't want any apple sauce" said Anlta'
aged 16 miserably.
We'll they'll be worried You'd better run
over with it."
Don't you think-don't you think maybe
they'd think it's funny, sort OFF"
what? What on earth are you talking
about, Anita?"
ME always taking their kitten back" re-
sporded her child, looking vaguely and help-
lessly at the wall paper.
Mrs. Winters peered down from the parental
level of intelligence.
II don't understand what you mean" sne
said patiently Didn't you tell me yourself
how much she. thanked you the last time? ana
how relieved she WASP"
"Yes" said Anita stonily.
"Are you too lazy to run over next door!'
mo. Oh my goodness, mother, wish you
wouldn't talk so much about things! I'll Co.
It's only that think it must look sort OF
funny, that's all, and this is the fourth time
that cats come over here and the next thing
you'll be asking me to go over and live with
those perfect strangers. Honestly 1t wouldn't
surprise me very much!"
Mr. Fred Winters emerged above the picture
of beautiful divorce sailing on the Beren-
garia and refusing to make any statements.
"Is this still! going on?" he demanded re-
ferring to the argument Run along ana 90
what you're told child
AZ the door closed, Mr.. Winters put down
his newspaper and looked searchingly at the
joy of his declining years.
DO you understand it, Lillian? Can you
make head or tail Of that kid?"
"Oh, don't know" said Mrs. Winters, shak-
ing little nutmeg on her apple sauce Shes
probably oit embarrassed because there's
boy next door!"
"A boy! Well. why shouldn't there be boy?"
well, she's 16-and when they're 16 they're
sort of foolish about almost everything These
are eating apples and they don't make such
good sauce. If Anita'd had any brothers she
wouldn't get in such a state. I'm glad were
going to have nice neighbors next door!"
Hmm This fellow Townsend used to live
in Detroit, they tell me. Quite an automobile
man. He's going to put up big garage ON
Center street. If anybody says this town isn't
going straight ahead tt eyre crazy"
II wonder" said his wife speculatively, III
the Townsends play bridge. Wouldn't it be
nice" she added on a note Of intense wistful-
ness If they liked auction better'n contract?
But don't suppose they do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
GREASE TRAP QUIZ
DEMANDED IN D. c.
Thompson Asks House for
Inquiry Into McGonegaps
Action on Product.

Representative Thompson, Democrat,
of Illinois, today demanded an imme-
date investigation of the District of Co.
lumbia plumbing inspectors Office by
the House District Committee to deter
mine whether Chief Inspector Alfred
r. McGonegal Is barring the use in the
District of grease traps manufactured
by the Blake Specially Co. of Rock Is
land. H.
Products of the Illinois company.
said Thompson. have been approved by
sanitary commissions throughout the
Nation.
They are used in the National Capt.
tai by the Federal Government in the
construction Of new buildings.
Firms Treasurer Here.
George Quest, treasurer of the
Illinois firm, has been here for two
months and made repeated futile at
tempts to get McGonegal to state spe-
officially his objections to the Illinois
product, but so far McGonegal has not
seen fit to do So"
which he said it appeared that the in
spector refused to issue a permit for a
restaurant until the owner replaced q
grease trap manufactured by the Illinois
concern.
McGonegal today denied that there
had been any favoritism in the matter
Gotwals to Investigate.
At the same time, Maj. John c. Got
walls, Engineer Commissioner, announc-
ed he would start an investigation of
his own to satisfy himself that pro-
cedure followed by the plumbing Office
was proper and reasonable.
McGonegal declared the product of
the Illinois firm had not been placed on
the list of types of grease traps approved
by the District simply because the firm
had not followed the procedure of hav-
ing satisfactory test of its trap made
here. He said the firm some time ago
did install trap for a test. but that
someone at the lunchroom where the
trap was installed for the test had
stolen the trap before the District could
make the inspections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
MACDONALD SAILS;
PLEASED BY VISIT
Prime Minister Pleads for
English Speaking Nations
to Work Together.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 27.-Prime Min
lister j. Ramsay Macdonald Of Great
\itain sailed homeward today, leaving
behind him a solemn plea to the Amer
lean and British peoples to pull together
In the struggle back to prosperity.
Addressing a gathering of the Pill
grinls of the United States, Macdonald
expressed the hope last night that the
two English-speaking nations will "sit
On the same side of the table" at the
International Economic Conference.
He called for a joint effort to defeat
what he termed the influence of dis
ruption" rampant in the world. He
was asking no alliance" he emphasized
An alliance is a bargain he said.
"Of what use is bargain except for
hampering purposes when two hearts
ere beating in harmony?"
Satisfied With Results.
Afterward the Prime Minister, with
bis daughter Ishbel, boarded the liner
8erengaria, thus closing the mission on
Which he came to the United States to
for rehabilitating the world. He ex-
pressed satisfaction with the results Of
the visit
Peering into the future, the premier
expressed fervent hope that the
statesmen of today might so labor that
their grandchildren might experience
golden years" He paid high tribute
to the American President:
When I arrived at the White House"
he said, Il shook hands with a host
that happened to be your President. as
a guest who happened to be the Prime
Minister of Great Britain. When left
I shook hands with a host and Presi-
dent, who in the brief interval Of a long
week end had come to be regarded by
me as an old and firm friend"
On the side of the conference table
with the two English-speaking coun-
tries, the prime minister said he de-
sired to see other enlightened nations.
other nations that do appreciate their
duty to the individual and with cour-
age and yet with reason, face these
problems and produce constructive pro-
posals for overcoming them"
Financial Leaders Present.
One thousand persons filled hotel
ballroom to hear the address Such
notableS of the financial world as j. 2.
Morgan, who rarely appears at such
functions; Andrew Mellon and Thomas
w. Lamont were present. DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler introduced the premier.
Before the Berengaria departed late
at night the prime minister sent
message to President Roosevelt thank
ing him for his hospitality.
Miss Macdonald, fresh and smiling,
as she assembled the gangplank, said
that her busy round of engagements
In America had not tired her at all:
1T was almost perfect rest" she
said.
She. too. accompanied her eau
revoir" to America with plea for
international cooperation as the best
way to cure the worlds ills.
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horse bolted, dragging him along the
ground!''
WAS he hanging on to its tail?" In
nocently queried the inspector, piece
Of chicken poised In midair.
Certainly not . now you're being
horrid-his right foot caught in the
stirrup and he was helpless One Of
the grooms rode alongside and grabbed
the horse by the bride late! I
wish hadn't"
Now, Lou, of course I'm sorry about
the accident" interrupted her husband,
but nevertheless knew he was fake
knew it 10 minutes after talked with
him. You ask Joe, here, if my bunch
wasn't right-maybe you'll take his word
for It'll"
Do you think the inspector was
proved right? Why?
Perhaps you have a story or problem
you would like to submit to Prof. Ford
ney. If so send it to him in care Of this
paper. He will be delighted to receive
it.
For Solution See Page AS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
Vargas Injuries Revealed.

RIO DE JANEIRO, April ~ R.-X-
ray examination yesterday revealed that
President Getulio Vargas suffered frac-
lures of the right hip and left foot and
Sonora Vargas compound fracture of
the left hip when their automobile was
struck by a large rock Tuesday night
while they were en- route to Petropolis.
Capt. Celso Pestana, presidential aide,
was killed by the rock, weighing 800
pounds, which was loosened by storm.
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fou r duSher! !
don't know how he
gets away with it.
If that bird is an
officer then I'm q
!"
Jim! He was
perfectly charming
:" Turning to
Fordney, she con-
tinued: 1T W a S
dreadful-he wasn't
killed outright. but
he died on the way
to the hospital. No
one seems to know
exactly how it hap
pened. Just as
Butterworth start
A. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
New York Pair Wed at Reno.

RENO, New, April ~ R).-Morris A.
Weingarten, head of the London Shoe
Co. of New York, was married here yes
terday to Florence Hollander following
her divorce from Jefferson Earle Leroy,
also of New York Weingarten was di-
vorced here in 1881 from Gertrude Ben
jamin Weingarten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
REDRAFT STUDIED
FOR RET|REMENTS
House Committee Holds Of
Decision About 30-Year
Employees.

The House Deficiency Appropriations
Committee had before it today redraft
from the Budget Bureau Of the legisla-
tive provisions of the Independent Office
bill, including the retirement Of Gov
eminent employees after 80 years serv-
ice, but no definite decision was reached
at this mornings session. The COM
mittee renewed its discussions In execu-
tive session this afternoon.
The committee is pretty well agreed
on the Buchanan substitute for the
Douglas provision regarding retirement.
The Buchanan provision would delegate
broad discretionary. powers to the
President for selective retirement after
80 years Of service.
Annuity Discussed.
The committee spent the entire
morning session discussing whether an
employe once retired might be re-em-
ployed in the service, regarding the
amount Of annuity and whether a de-
duction OF 3l2 per cent from the an
nuity should be charged as Is now de-
Quoted from Government employees to-
ward the retirement fund.
1t is probable that the committee
will recommend an annuity of between
81, 100 and $1,000, with the 31a per
cent deduction, and will make it pos
sible for man once retired to be later
called back into the service. The line
of thought is that after the present
emergency has passed or when the
civil service force Is enlarged 1t would
be real economy for the Government
to hire back, say on $500 job. man
who is receiving as annuity $1,000. and
thus getting an experienced worker for
approximately half the cost Of en-
ploying a new inexperienced worker.
Other Issues Faced.
The committee does not expect to be
able to report the independent offices
appropriation bill carrying these legis-
lative riders before next Tuesday. After
the retirement provision has been set
tied, there are several other important
legislative questions to be solved, in
GLIDING the proposed power to the
President to abrogate contracts made
by the Government
One of the most perplexing pobs for
the committee has resulted from flood
of kilograms fro mAmerican Legion posts
all over the country opposing the aboli-
ton Of regional officers. More than
800 Of these kilograms have reached the
Appropriations Committee direct and
an even larger number have been re-
ceived by individual members of Con-
QreSS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-27
DOLLAR AND FRANC IMPROVE.
Both Show Gains in Exchange Dealings
On London Market.

Both Show Gains in Exchange Dealings
On London Market.
LONDON, April 81 (P.-The dollar,
which was left to look after ITSELF
when America went of the gold stand
ara, appears to be coming back in favor
now that the Macdonald Roosevelt
conversations have been closed in fav-
orable circumstances.
Spectators who sold the dollar short
some time ago are hurriedly covering
as result of the proposed increase In
Britain's exchange equalization fund.
They, along with other purchasers, were
in the market today and the quotation
appreciated five cents, closing at
s3.74la to the pound.
The franc also improved. 1t was be-
lieved this resulted from operations Of
the exchange equalization fund, al
though no official news was available
regarding those operations.
Exchange dealers, however, say there
is little Goubt that authoritative opera