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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
BANK STOCKS DROP
$50 IN new YORK
Wide-0pen Break in Securities
Follows Announcement of
Reduced Dividends.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 4.-Another
wide-open break In New York City
bank stocks sent active shares 81 to
$50 q share lower today, continuing
the trend which began late yester-
day, when two leading institutions
reduced their quarterly dividends.
Central Hanover Bank & Trust
Co. yielded an additional 81 a share
at SOL: Bankers Trust dropped
$l0.50 to $54; Guaranty lost $40 at
$279 and First National, the blue
chip" bank stock, declined $50 at
$3.50. Others we're 81 to 81 lower.
A combination of low earning ca
pacity for money and added costs
of operations, due principally to gov
ernmental control measures, was be-
lieved In well-informed quarters to
have been the main reason behind the
action of Central Hanover's directors
yesterday when they reduced the quar-
terly dividend from s1.50 to 81. Short
ly afterward Bankers Trust directors
cut the quarterly payment from rs
cents to so cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Boats Are Held
After Being
Swung Out.
9 OTHER SHIPS
AT LINERS AID
Vigil Is
Kept as Waves
Batter Reef.

(Copyrleht. 1898, by the Associated Presso
MIAMI. Fla, September Life
boats were swung over the sides OF
rescue ships today. ready to be dis
patched to the aid Of the stranded
liner Dixie. which pounded on French
Reef with 372 persons aboard her.
but sudden squalls arose, halting the
work. Attempts at a rescue were
momentarily abandoned.
The report that the lifeboats were
prepared for launching came in a
wireless message from w. H. Deeper
man, a passenger on the Platano,
United Fruit liner which lay closest
to the stranded vessel.
"One boat is already swinging over
the side OF the Platano." said Dep
perman. "All the other ships ar,
drawing near. most Of them so close
you can see people aboard.
Sea Breaks Around Liner.
THE Dixie is now directly of our
beam. The sea is still breaking around
her. The Gatun and Limon (other
I6SCuC pOdIoJ dLoo hdNG 2hC1SaIo
hanging over their sides"
The squadron of assorted craft
which stood by was large enough to
choke a good-sizer harbor. Since yes
terday afternoon, the ships have stood
helpleSsly by the Dixie In the heavy
shark-infested waters around French
Reef, about so miles south of Miami.
ThrOugh the stormy night, the pas
sengers on the Dixie. marooned since
the vessel came to grief early Tues
day morning, stood on the bridge and
peered into the blackness at the blink
ing lights of the encircling ships.
The Dixie might have been in another
ocean, so isolated she was by the
averaging seas and incessant rain
squalls.
Some on Dixie Injured.
Some OF the passengers and men,
bers of the Dixie's crew were hurt,
but none seriously, Capt. E. w. Sund-
storm, veteran skipper, reported.
And from an official OF the Morgan
Line, which operates the Dixie, came
the wireless that the passengers were
calm and in good spirits" despite
their agonizing wait.
The prolonged beating and grinding
suffered by the Dixie caused leak in
one of her fuel tanks. She was also
making water in her double bottom.
She was not in immediate danger,
however, according to the messages
of Capt. Sundstrom.
Standing by, ready to launch life
boats, were three fruit boats, Platano,
Gatun and Limon; the Saukee and
the CarrabaSsett, Coast Guard cutters;
tanker, the Reaper; the Warbler,
salvage boat. and two other ships Of
the Morgan Line, FL Occidente and FL
Mundo.
From w. H. Epperman, passenger
on the Platano, wirelessed at 6 am:
Daylight is creeping about the
(See DIXIE, Page -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
TOWN OF 1000 YET in GALES PATH
NEW SQUALLS HALT DIXIE RESCUE
Hurricane Horrors Described
By Doctor Escaping Wreckage
Victims in Hospital Include Man Who
Witnessed Death of Wife, Tuo
DAUGHTERS and Grandchildren.

40 patients in this building, about
half women and children. Out of this
number there were only seven men and
three or four of the women and chill
dren saved.
when the building toppled over, I
was able to walk out through hole
in the wall into about three or four
feet Of water filled with floating
timbers and debris. The wind was
about so or 60 miles an hour and
carried flying timbers that caused most
OF the casualties.
With the aid Of fiashlight, ]
made my way in the direction Of the
railroad grade, which was the highest
point. I reached a high bank COW
cred with grass after walking about
$50 yards and being knocked down in
Vulnerable times by flying timbers. ]
finally reached a rock wall about 4
(See HORRORS, Page 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
HURRICANE TURNS
TOWARD GEORGIA
High Winds Forecast on
South Atlantic Coast as
Gale Veers East.
BY the Associat ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September
4.-Gordon E. Dunn. Government
meteOrOlOgiSt here, said today th9
tropical hurricane now in the Gulf
of Mexico probably will hit Cedar Key
soon and may be followed by "a fairly
high tide"
The storm, he said. still is of full
hurricane intensity (more than IS
miles an hour Winds, but probably
will start diminishing as soon as 1t
crosses the coastline into the Florida
mainland.
He said the storm likely will be az
tended by shifting gales far up into
Georgia"
The storm, he added, apparently is
making a mild" recurve to the
northeast.
A New Orleans Weather Bureau
bulletin reported, Southeast storm
warnings ordered north of Jackson
vile to New Berne, N. c." and pre-
dicted. Increasing southeast winds
on South Atlantic Coast, probably
reaching gale force"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
HANSON, CONSUL,
DIES OF WOUND
Veteran of Diplomatic Serv-
ice Was En- Route to u. S.
After Breakdown.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Dollar Steamship Co. informed
the State Department today that
George C. Hanson, consul general at
Salonika, Greece, had died on board
the steamship President Polk on Sep
tember from self-infiicted gunshot
wound.
Hanson, a veteran in the American
foreign service, was assigned consul
general at Salonika on July ~. After
his arrival at that post he suffered a
nervous breakdown and was return
ing to the United States for treat
ment in care of the ships doctor.
Hanson, after serving as consul gen.
eral at Hardin, Manchuria, for many
years, was named consul general and
first secretary of the American En-
bassy in Moscow shortly after the
United States recognized the Soviet
government.
Later he was assigned as consul
general and charge d'affaires at Ad-
dis Ababe, Ethiopia, but his orders
were countermanded while he was en-
route from Washington to take over
the post and he was instructed to 60
to Salonika instead.
Well Known in District.
He was well known In Washington,
having served one assignment here
as assistant chief of the Division Of
Current information.
The State Department, in announc-
ing Hanson's death, said that "he SUI
fered q nervous collapse which was
diagnosed as primarily due to excess
sugar in his blood"
Because Of Hanson's numerous ad-
ventures while serving in Chinese
posts, he became known as the State
DEPARTMENTS ace "trouble-shooter."
Graduate Of Cornell.
Hanson was born in Bridgeport,
Conn, In 1883 and graduated from
Cornell University in 1908.
He entered the diplomatic service in
June, 1909, as q student interpreter
In China and served successfully for
nearly q quarter of century In
Shanghai, Chefoo, Newchwang, TENT
sin, Swallow and Chungking.
He was not married.
picture on Page AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Mexican Gunboat Safe.

MEXICO CITY, September 4 R.-
The War Department announced to-
day that the gunboat, Progreso, re-
ported in press messages to have been
overturned at Manzanillo during q
windstorm, had arrived at Isla Mar
garita, lower California. Department
officials said they believed the dis
patches referred to a launch formerly
used as q gunboat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
BY the Associated Press.

MIAMI. Fla, September 4.-Dr,
LASER Alexander. medical officer at
Camp No. /, Snake Creek, who was
brought here suffering from numerous
cuts, bruises and abrasions. told tale
of horror from the hurricane which
Monday lashed the Florida Keys.
The storm started in fury at 8
pm.," DR.. Alexander said. "A lot OF
people were washed away and others
left dead after the storm passed. One
man I talked with counted 80 dead
persons at this camp, and the total
probably will be from 125 to $50.
Every building was RACED and at one
time the tide rose entirely over the
island.
II was at Snake Greek Hotel. which
was used as hospital. This collapsed
about 10 pm. with many persons
under the ruins. There were about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Bic PLANE LANDS
SUPPLIES AT KEY
Rescue Party Begins Re-
movaI of W0unded--150
Held Dead.

Early rescue parties advised Federal
relief officials here today of at least
$50 storm fatalities among the World
War veterans who we're sent 10 tht
Southern Florida Keys from Washing
ton to construct a causeway between
Miami and Key West.
A giant Pan-American Always.
plane, laden with doctors, food and
medical supplies, radioed this morning
that it had landed near Plantation
Key, the site of two Of the constrlc-
ton camps believed demolished by
wind and wave, and would begin re-
moval Of the wounded.
Morton Milford, assistant to Admin
istrator Harry Hopkins Of the r. E.
r. A., was advised by telephone from
jacksonville headquarters that the
relief plane had gotten through and
landed safely.
Winds Delay Rescue.
Earlier rescue efforts were baked
by high winds, broken railway trestles,
causeways and telegraph lines. Mil
ford was advised that the biggest loss
of life was at the camp at Tavernier
on Plantation Key.
Milford expressed the belief that no
Washington men were among the $50
veterans who have been building an
automobile road across the coral
islands, although Associated Press re-
ports carried the names Of two Wash
ingtonians in the injured ist-Harry
U. Baker and r. Letreaux
Local officials could not identify
either man. The veterans at work
in Florida and South Carolina were
sent there after they came to WASH
ington to demonstrate for the bonus
or to seek enlistment in Civilian Con-
servation Corps camps
c. C. C. Aided Bureau.
The C. C. C. co-operated with the
local Transients Bureau and the F.
E. r. A., in furnishing transportation
for the men and establishing them in
camps. Several thousand of the vet
Grams were sent to camps in South
Carolina.
The men on the Florida Keys were
selected for the construction work
because they were able bodied and
most of them over the c. C. C. age
limit of 26 years. Their work in con-
struction causeways between the low
lying keys, and roadways across them,
was largely demolished by the storm,
which hurled great waves all the
way across the land.
Milford dispatched an assistant,
Charles B. Forbes, to Florida today
(See PLANE, Page s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
OHIO STREAMS FLOODED
SECOND TIME IN MONTH
Hooking River overfows at Ath-
ems and Smaller Tributaries
Jump Banks.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, September A.
Flood waters went on new rampage
today in Ohio, which last month suf-
fered millions of dollars damage from
cloudbursts and raging streams.
The Hooking River reached food
stage at Athens for the first time in
a year. Dozens of small streams in
Athens County poured from their
banks.
The waters inundated the town Of
Mineral, Athens County, and drove
% families from their homes during
the night.
The Scioto River crept to 1914 feet
at Chillicothe. Flood stage is Is feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
ROOSEVELT
QUITS TEXAS POST
Resigns Young Democrats Office
Which Foes Said Belonged
to Native Son.
ssociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, September 4.-El-
lott Roosevelt, son of the President,
said today he had resigned as first
vice president of the Young Demo-
Gratis of Texas, q post his political
foes had commended in bitter word
battles that only a native Texan
should hold.
The Junior Roosevelt said he had
relinquished the post on August 6.
Two attempts had been made to
have him forcibly removed from Office.
leaders Of the movement maintaining
he had been illegally elected by the
executive committee and that he was
not well versed in political and gov
ernmental affairs Of Texas because
of his short residence In the State.
Young Roosevelt said he submitted
recommendation with the uncondi-
tional resignation that some native
son" be selected for his position. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Time Recl,eck Ciues Campbell
Credit for 3OI M. p. HI. Pace

ward across the cleaning salt plain at
304.311 miles an hour and brought
his huge racer to a safe stop despite
blown front tire.
The timers first computed his south
bound mile at. 295 556 miles an hour,
for an average Of 299.875 miles. A
later check of the electrically marked
tape showed the return mile was run
in 1908 seconds, instead of the 1918
seconds-or 298.0l3 miles per hour
originally announced, which accounted
for the increase average finally
credited.
Campbell indicated in an interview
last night he intends to let his new
mark stand at least until some one
else beats it. Then he may try again.
Some one can build a better ma
chine and 60 faster" he said. what
ever you can do, I can do, and what
ever can do, some one else can do
better"
His first concern, after q brief rest
here, is to get back to England so
Donald, his 15-year-old son, may get
back to school.
LONDON, September R.-Lady
Campbell, informed that her husband,
Sir Malcolm Campbell had driven his
racing car 301 miles an hour in Utah,
said today:
That's great news and I'm de-
lighted. It Is also . great relief to
know that soon he will be home
again."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Pages A and AS.
The Hurricane Toll.

The Hurricane OIL.
MIAMI.-The Government joined with
the Red Cross in rushing aid to
the devastated Florida area, where
estimates of the dead were between
400 and 500; heaviest loss OF life
on Upper and Lower Matecumbe
Keys, with two of three Govern
ment camps demolished; rescue
train wrecked.
FRENCH REEF-MaSters Of five
ships prepare to begin hazardous
transfer Of 372 persons from liner
Dixie, aground on reef and leaking
from sustained battering by noun
famous waves; passengers reported
calm and in good spirits.
ST. PETERSBURG.-Path OF hurrl-
cane now northerly in Gulf Cedar
Key, with 1 200 residents, squarely
in path; gales expected by west
coast towns: tide rising rapidly,
seas heavy; property damage con-
siderable; no loss of life on west
coast reported, but there was no
knowledge of conditions at Gear
water and Tarpon Springs.
TALLAHASSEE Dave Shotz
orders National Guard units mcbil-
lied in all affected areas.
HYDE PARK, N. Y.-President Roose-
welt directed that all possible Fed
eral assistance be offered He
telephoned Admiral Cary T. Gray
ton. chairman of the Red Cross, at
Washington, asking that he be
kept advised of developments.
tcopyrisht, 1895, by the Associated Press,
MIAMI, Fla. September with
rescuers estimating the death toll at
between 400 and 500, part of the ex-
tent of devastation on the hurricane
swept Florida Keys was learned to-
day from survivors and from expedi-
tons of mercy and aid.
All the forces of the Government
were Joined with the Red Cross in
rushing supplies to the areas of death
and wreckage and in evacuating the
debris-littered keys.
The heaviest loss of life, rescuers
reported, was on Upper and Lower
Matecumbe Keys and in the fishing
villages along Plantation Key and Key
Largo. Many drowned as walls of
water IS feet high swept over them.
Two Of the three Government camps
on the Matecumbe Keys, where war
veterans are engaged in building
highway down the keys to Key West,
were reported demolished.
400 to 500 Dead in Area.
A rescue party out of Miami, led by
Jack Combs, an undertaken assigned
to organize Identification of the dead,
reported between 400 and 500 persons
were killed in this area
Many of those who died on Mate
cumbe Key were crushed in the COL
lapse of the Snake Greek Hotel, which
was being used as a hospital at the
camp.
Among these was DR.. E. C. Main,
medical director. The word of his
death was brought to the mainland
by DR.. LASER Alexander, a medical
examiner at the camp who escaped
death.
An Associated Press correspondent
In Miami, who flew over the devastated
keys area, reported:
Below Tavernier to the Vaca Keys,
IN the region that bore the brunt of
the tropical hurricane, almost nothing
man-made remains. Nothing is whole,
unchanged.
Houses are twisted piles of match
wood. Boats are piled high on dry
land, shattered and twisted"
The hurricane, after raging across
the keys. swerved to the north in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
COAST GUARDS AID
SCHOONER AGROUND
Edith T. of Boston, With IL on
Board, Reported in No Sc
rious Danger.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Conn, September
1.-THE 65-foot auxiliary fishing
schooner Edith r. Of Boston, with IL
men on board, was reported today by
base 4 OF the New London Coast
Guard to have gone aground Of Lynde
Point, near the Saybrook Harbor.
Coast Guard officials said the
schooner was believed in no serious
danger and that another patrol boat
would be sent to the scene shortly to
attempt to float the Edith T. at high
Ade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
TrainPiles Into
Florida Ditch.
AidRushed.
MANY DROWN
In BOILING SEA
Veterans Worst Hit
by Wall of Water
Is Feet High.
First Photos of
Stricken Area

The Star today presents,
through Associated Press Wire
photos, the first pictures of the
damage wrought by the Florida
hurricane.
Pages A and As.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Confederates Vote
To Meet G.. A. r. at
Gettysburg in SO
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMARILLO. Tex, September
4.-Confederate veterans agreed
today to forget any differences
that might have remained and
meet with the Grand Army Of
the Republic In q joint reunion
Of Civil War veterans at Gettys-
burg, Pa, in 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
MONEY DIPLOMACY.
HIT BY PRESIDENT.
Says Ethiopian Oil Deal
Cancellation Proves
System 0utIaWed.
BY the Associated Press.

HYDE PARK, N. Y, September A.
President Roosevelt expressed the hope
today the cancellation Of the Ethiopian
land lease would aid peace negotia-
tions abroad and declared the can
collation. another proof that since
March 4, 1888, dollar diplomacy is
not recognized by the American Gov
eminent"
Talking with newspaper men at the
regular semi-weekly press conference,
the President observed that BY no
stretch of the imagination had he or
the Secretary of State been the least
concerned over the possibility Of the
oil lease to private interests in this
country involving the United States in
the Ethiopian OF Italian problem.
Saw Negotiation Danger.
He said that no one who knows the
administration would think that it
could be involved. The only danger.
he said, would be the effect Of the
lease on the negotiations Of the Eu-
ropean powers and Ethiopia now get
ting under way at Geneva.
The withdrawal of the lease he
hoped would clear the air of those
conferences.
Vexing Question Settled.
Cancellation of the STANDARDIZED
uum Oil Co. lease in Ethiopia was an
nounced here last night by Secretary
Hull and plainly solved vexing ques-
ton.
Another problem remains. 1t was
raised by Leo Y. Chertok. New York
broker, who announced few days ago
that he was holding an oil and min
eral concession from the Ethiopian
government as security for $1,000
900 loan to be advanced by october IT.
This agreement next will receive at
tention of the State Department.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
Chertok already has been sounding
out the strength Of his position by
communication with officials closely
concerned in the international contro-
versy. 1t was learned that he has
been in touch with Italian repre-
sentatives here but that they have
been non-commital about their at
titude toward his connection with
commercial interests in Ethiopia.
Hull Warns Firm.
Announcement Of the Standard Co.
lease cancellation followed q personal
conference between Hull and officials
Of the company. in which he had
told them bluntly that the agreed
concession had been the cause of
great embarrassment, not only to this
country but to other governments who
are making strenuous and sincere eff
forts for the preservation of peace"
The Standard officials who visited
the State Department were George S.
Walden, chairman, and H. Dundas,
vice president. They conferred first
with Wallace Murray, chief Of the
Near Eastern division, explaining that
Francis Rickett, British promoter, had
meen authorized to act for them in
negotiating for such concessions as
that just announced.
Upon being informed Of the State
Departments views on the matter,
Walden and Dundas communicated
(see DIPLOMACY, Page g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

Picture on Page AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
WEATHER.

U Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Rain tonight and tomorrow; cooler to-
morrow and tomorrow night; gentle to
moderate southeast and east winds, prob
ably becoming northeast. Temperatures
Highest. 70. at noon today; lowest, So,
at 10 pm yesterday. Full report, page 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
c. c. c. Aided Bureau.

(See PLANE, Page s.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-17
TWO ESCAPED CONNECTS ARE
CAPTURED; ONE NOW AT LARGE

Coroner ]. F. Brooks said todai
that an inquest into the death OF
John Brown, 35, who was killed
in attempting to escape at the
same time, would be held next
week but that no date had been
set. Browns body is at Tom Shep.
herds funeral home.
The search for Kennedy in
Green River township has been
given up, officials at the camp
said today, but all efforts will still
be made to apprehend him.
The three men escaped and
Brown was killed on Thursday
morning in a break from a work
ing party. The first to attempt to
escape, Brown, used party OF
girls from a summer camp as a
shield, but was shot and killed by
B. H. Brown, guard of the party.
Two of the others broke as
Brown was fleeing and the THRU
got away as the guard reloaded
his shotgun after firing two shots,
one of which killed Brown.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-17

BRlVCSBODlES
HOME BY AIR
Post Laughed AT Warning
OF Crosson Before His
Take-0ff
STATESMEN JOIN IN
REGRET OF TRAGEDY

POINT BARROW. Alaska, Aug.
17.-(UP).-In a powerful flying
! hearse, Joe Crosson, noted Alas
kan "mercy flier" was winging his
way toward Fairbanks and the
United States today with the
bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley
Post.
Crosson. hero of many daring
far north rescue flights, left the
murky, foggy darkness here at 7
a. m. (EST), on a nonstop flight
to Fairbanks, which is 500 miles
across swampy tundras and over
treacherous mountains.
Thursday, Crosson had warned
Post Of the dangers of flying into
the Arctic, but he only laughed.
Early the same evening Post and
Rogers crashed.
Acting on wirelessed instruc-
|tions from Col. Lindbergh, Gross
on flew here yesterday. e..
Posts body will be taken to the
farm home of his parents near
Maysville, where it will be buried
in a country cemetery in front of
the home. Rogers body will be
taken to his home in Beverly Hills.
His funeral arrangements are still
pending. ,,'l.r'