.. - . ., ' - 'T \ ? •'•**** r*?% NET PRESS RUN AVERAGE DAILX ClRCin<ATION THE WEATHER PoTtemt bj 0. 8. Weather Bureau, for the month of August, 19S38 , New Uaeeu 5,125 Bain . late tonight and Wednea* Membev et th« Auillt Buresu of day; cooler tonl^t. Cfrcnistleus VOL. XU I., NO. 299. (Classifl^ Advertising on Page 10) MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1928. (TWELVE PAGES) PRICE THREE CENl'S PALM BEACH V STORM HITS GEORGIA, HOOVER WINS OVER HOW STORMS ARE SPREADING DESTRUCTION ARE HURT; JERSEY WITH TALK •v' N.-l. \ GREAT LOSS Leaders Predict Candidate P. U. BOARD Has Insured November FOR CROSSING FOOD, SHETER, MANCHESTER RESIDENTS Victory by His "Bread SOREYNEEDED i\ ' and Batter” Address. ELMTION IN FLORIDA ARE SAFE iN RICO Newark, N. J. Sept. 18.— The Re­ Selectmen Prefer Gates at publican leadership of New Jersey Weather Bureau Predicts Hurricane Will Blow Itself Out jubilantly predicted today that Her­ Oakland Street and Will Aid From U. S. Eagerly bert Hoover has insured a Novem­ Today— Wires Bemg Put Up to Learn Extent of Darn* ber victory In this battleground Seek Them at Hearing; Awaited; Hundreds Dead; state by bis “ bread and butter”^ age— Fear Death Toll Will Mount as Additional Re­ speech here and his two day tour Town’s Finances. Hundreds of Thonsands of its principal northern cities. ports Are Received-Palm Beaches in Rains— Three The Jersey’s G. O. P. was enthus­ Homeless; All Wires Down iastic in its praise of Hoover’s per­ The Public Utilities Commission Quarters of Homes Destroyed— Over 500 Reported sonal campaigning and In its pre­ last night informed the Board ..f dictions of its effect upon the elec­ torate. Hoover meanwhile launch Selectmen that following the in­ San Juan, Sept. 18— With food Dead in the West Indies. ed his second day of motorine: vestigation and report of its chief and shelter still the crying of thou­ through the state with a visit to engineer, E. Irvine Rudd, It favor­ sands, Porto Rico today began its the Newark Municipal Airport, FORTY MILES GALE ed the closing of the Oakland street enormous task of rehabilitation. A telegram received today preparatory to visiting Hudson, Ber­ by Town Treasurer' George COMING THIS WAY gen and Passaic counties. This af­ railroad crossing, and the institu­ The full extent of the hurricane’s Waddel from his father Thom* ternoon after lunching here, he will tion of a £4 hour gate service at ravages will not be known for some New York, Sept. 18.— A 40- motor through Princeton and the Main street crossing. The com­ days. Communication with the in­ as Waddell who is in St. Pet­ mile gale sweeping out of the Elizabeth to Trenton, where he ersburg, contained the follow­ northeast and down the Atlantic boards his train for the return trip mission, however, agreed to with­ terior of the island is still diflacult. The death list, it is feared, may ing answer to a message sent seaboard is expected to strike to Washington. hold definite action with regard to New York in its fullest intensity In his “ bread and butter” speech. the crossing until a conference with reach several hundred. Property yesterday asking If Manches­ damage is placed in excess of $50,- sometime tonight. Hoover made five pledges to organ­ a committee of the Selectmen could ter persons had suffered from Storm warnings have been be held. Chairman John H. Hyde. 000,000 with the final figure ex­ ized labor: pected to reach about $80,000,000. the hurricane: posted as far north as Maine and 1. To continue Republican pros­ Wells A. Strickland and C’ erk Relief measures -here- are in the ‘‘All Manchester persons in as far south as Cape Hattera^, perity under the protective tariff. George H. Wr.ddell were named a the Weather Bureau said, al­ These two pictures well Illustrate the devastating force with which equinoctial storms hit widely hands of a citizens’ committee of St. Petersburg safe. Storm did 2. To continue restricted immi­ committee to meet with the Public separated localities of the western hemisphere. Above you see what the Rockford, 111., hurricane did to the five. Should civilian measures fail, though that area probably rep­ gration iu order to safeguard the Utilities Coit^mlsslon. plant of the Eleo Tool Company, while below is a pho tograph of the business district of Davis, South military rule will be invoked. not strike thia city.” resents a safe margin over what American wage levels. Want Gates. Dakota, after a twister passed. Davis was flattened as though by a great pile driver. Similar scenes Pictures of sorrow and ruin are the covered district will be. 3. To curtail the use of injunc­ The Selectmen have been con­ undoubtedly have attended the hurricane which hit Porto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida. present everywhere. Without Miami, Fla., Sept. 18.— Florida’s First hints of the impending tions in labor disputes. ducting an Informal Investigation proper tools or materials, residents hurricand toll mounted, today with gale came early today when a 4. A reassertibn of labor’s right Into the use to which the Oakland are making pitiful a\empts to re­ unconfirmed, reports increasing it 16-mlle wind blew over the city to dbllective bargaining.>- street crossing is put-and believe build their’ homes. Aid from the beyond 150. The known death toll from the northeast. This wind, 5. A $1,000,000,000 government that a serious traffic congestion was-37. • the Weather Bureau here ex­ Sevent^m Lives Lost A L T O MAKE BID United States is eagerly awaited. construction program to eliminate would result at Main street it all Many Bodies Buried Damage in South Florida alone plained, gradually will increase seasonable unemployment. automobiles were diverted to the Many bodies have been buried was esimated at $25,000,COO. until it reaches Its greatest se­ Wins Over Jersey. latter 'point. They still believe without the formality of identifica­ The Red Cross listed 38 injured, verity tonight. Senator Walter E. Edge declared that 24 hour gate service should be As Steamer Goes Down FOR FARMER VOTf tion. but this is believed to be far short this speech had won New Jersey to ordered at both the Main street and A relief committee has been of the number a-waiting medical at­ the Repulican ticket. Morgan F. Oakland street crossings and will formed by the citizens of San Juan tention in the wide path of debris tinue its destructive drive up the Larson, Republican nominee for approach the Public Utilities oom- with Chief Justice Emell Del Toro cut by the hurricane. Carolina coast and expend its fury governor, and Hamilton F. Keane, mision with that In view. • Toronto, Obt., Sept. 18.— At least ^the history of the Great Lakes, oc-« To Speak Tonight in Heart as chairman. This commission is The heaviest casualties were off Cape Hatteras. Shifting from its Republican nominee for Senator, Chief Engineer Rudd, in his find­ seventeen lives, probably many curred about three a. m., Saturday. providing food, clothing and shelter where the 120-mile-an-hour .wind northwesterly course through Flo­ But, due to the suddenness of the echoed bis words. ing directed to the Public Utilities more, were lost when the S. S. for the hqmeless and is working to whipped the vast expanse of water rida late yesterday afternoon, the “ Herbert Hoover has won organ­ Commission, said that the accident disaster and the lack of wireless of Grain Belt— Confers storm with hurricane force veered Manasoo— formerly the Macassa re-establish communication with into a roaring flood that swirled ized labor all over the country and was due to the Incautiousness of aboard the vessel, no one ashor,e districts that were cut off by the to a northeasterly direction near which plied as a passenger and heard of it until the Manitoba wire­ through several towns. assured a Republican victory in the driver of the automobile which tornado. See Floating Bodies Tampa and struck Jacksonville New Jersey by his great analysis of figured *n the tragedy at the cross­ freight vessel between Toronto and lessed the rescue. How many per­ With Leaders. The commission is filled with j shortly- after six o’clock last night. Hamilton— went down like a rock sons were aboard the vessel will Several persons emerged from As the storm raged through the labor’s problems and his common ing on last September 4, when two praise for the heroism of telephone the isolated lake region reported sense pledge to continue Republi­ local children were killed and an­ in Georgian Bay, about 15 mlla.= not be known until records are operators who remained at their northern part of the state it wreck­ out of Owen Sound. Five members checked. numerous bodies floating in the ed communication lines, completely can prosperity,” said Edge. “ The other badly hurl. The engineer Aboard Governor Smith's Special posts warning the people of danger inundated areas. Red Cross officials added, however, that he believed of the crew escaped on a life raft, Built in England, the Macassa cutting off the Florida peninsula wonderful enthusiasm shown Train, in Iowa, Sept. 18.— Governor in the face of the utmost peril. said 20 were known dead at Belle throughout his visit demonstrates the point was a dangerous one and and have been rescued by the S. S. and her sister ship, the Moheska, North End Hard Hit from any wire communication ex­ plied for many years on their Lake A1 Smith was out where the tall Glade, a settlement on the south­ clearly that New Jersey will cast favored abandonment of- the cross­ Manitoba, after drifting helplessly The northern end of the Island cept a single telegraph circuit into ing.