The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • Page 1

Sixteen Men Lo; Canadian Steamer Founders Without Warning THE WEATHER Weather for Montana: Mostly fair Tuesday and Wednesday, somewhat cooler Tuesday east of the divide. VOL. 63--No. 261--FIVE CENTS HELENA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1023 Full Associated Press Reports From East and West Member of the Newspaper Enterprise Association 1.300 Dead: 700,000 Without Homes ill U1H FEW SAVED--NO WORD FROM OTHERS SINCE VESSEL SANK Owen Sound. Sept.

17 --(AP)--Sixteen men were believed to have lost their when the passenger and argo steamer Manasco foundered in a heavy sea off Griffith's island Saturday night. Word of the sinking was brought ftonight by the steamer Manitoba, Tvaich picked up five survivors from a life raft. Several Saved, The Manasco carried a crew o1 37 and was said to have had four passengers. Captain John McKay First Officer Osbom Long, Purser Middlebro, Roy Fox, an. Wler, and B.

Wallace of 01 (Continued on Page Two) HOT HUNT CONDUCTED IN CHICAGO Chicago, Sept. dent that they have in custody threi of the six men who kidnaped 10 3-ear-old Billy Ranieri 12 days ago police tonight were engaged in wha they termed a race with death--ai attempt to find the other three ab ductors before they carry out thei threats to kill the boy and send hi liead to the frantic parents. The abductors, who at first dc manded $60,000 from A. Frank Ran jcri, Italian sewer contractor, forth return of his son, today sent wha they called final demands, in whic they asked for $15,000 and threaten (Continued on Pago Two) f. C.

C. ORDER HITS PORT OF NEW YORK New York, Sept Jjort of New York will lose shipping and the city will be handicapped in handling freight for the unless the recent rate order of the Interstate Commerce commission in the consolidated southwestern cases is rescinded, representatives ot the commission were told today. William Simmons, traffic manager of the Morgan steamship line, was the principal witness today before C. M. Bardwell, examiner for the Interstate Commerce commission, and B.

Hardie, director of, the commission's bureau of traffic. THE HOOVERIAN GUARD Courtesy of Batllmoro Sunday Sun. By The Associated Press Reports of destruction in life and property mount in hurricane's wake along lower Florida east coast. Porto Rico, early victim of the storm, fears a toll of 1,000 dead, with records far from complete; and 700,000 homeless. The loss of life in French West Indies was set at 300 in official dispatches to Paris.

NEED AID IN FLORIDA. West Palm Beach, largest city in affected area, believed to have borne brunt of storm, with business district badly battered and town under military rule. Food problem here described as serious and appeals made for doctors, nurses and supplies. Local newspapermen and Red Cross officials say city harder flit than Miami in 1926. Hundreds of refugees reported huddled in temporary quarters.

Puplic service facilities and power lines disrupted over area extending 100 miles as far south as Fort Lau- dcrdale and as far north as Fort Pierce. Trains in rtorm unreportcd. First reports from Bahamas by radio through Miami and New Orleans said no fatalities at Nassua, the colonial but severe property damage. New Storm Coming. New i a warning ordered by weather bureau in Jacksonville section and northeast storm warning north by Savannah to Georgetown, tion and northeast storm warnings continued west of Apalachicola, (Continued on Page Two) Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, Sspt.

Is felt here respecting the fate of small neighboring Islands which were In the path the tropical hurricane last Wednesday. Communication has not been re-established with all of them and It is feared that they suffered heavily. II MANY HOMELESS, LIGHT AND POWER FAIL, IN WIDE AREA MANY SMALL ISLES NOT HEARD FROM Paris, Sept. hundred and thirty-fire bodies have been recovered in Guadeloupe while estimates in official dispatches received by the minister of colonies place the total liurricane deaths at a minimum of 300. There were 60 dead at Pointe-a- Pitrc.

a town of 30,000. possessing one of the finest harbors in the West In- (Contlnued on Pago Two) Jacksonville, Sept. 17. (AP) First fragmentary reports indicated tonight that Palm Beach and its vicinity had been dealt destruction, assuming the proportions of a disaster by the tropical hurricane that smote the lower Florida east coast late yesterday. Possible loss of life, injury to many persons, scores rendered homeless and tremendous property damage were reported by unconfirmed radio advices which brought the only direct word from tile Btorm swept area.

West Palm Beach TTorst Hit West Palm Beach, across Worth from the exclusive winter resort, was believed to hare teen the "hardest hit on tha basis ot (Continued on Page Two) Newark, N. Sept. Herbert Hoover tonight pictured the tariff and immigration policies of the democratic party as serious threats to the ideal of labor--a full time job for every man. The republican presidential candidate, making his first speech in the east, depicted the nation's industrial works as a gigantic economic machine the maladjustment of any part of which would seriously affect the whole, and said a revision downward of impost duties and a relaxation of the curb upon immigration would constitute the monkey wrench which would throw the whole machinery out of tune. He said efforts of his party in the last seven and a half years had been toward harmonizing this machine into a smooth running unit, and that while labor by collective bargaining might improve working conditions and wages, governmental aid was necessary if every working man was to be kept employed on a full time basis.

He promised aid to gain "full (Continued on Page Two) Grand Old Army in Annual Encampment Denver, Sept. army is gathering here tonight, an army which has seen three great wars in the history of the nation, an army ot men whose claim to fame is written in histories on the War of Secession. The Grand Army of the Republic --shriveled, it is true, by the inroads of the 62 years since the founding of the organization--is here for its annual encampment. And no sooner rwcre registrations started than the W'SPAJPEfl fi H1V business of electing a new coni- mander-in-chief paled other matters into insignificance. Encampment headquarters of the army in blue which, 67 years ago, was thrown into the field to preserve the unity of the nation, today was a scene of political cross-currents incident to the selection of a com- mandcr-in-chicf to succed Elbridgc L.

Hawk, Sacramento, Cal. To date on Page Two) Paris. Sept. H. Storck, Seattle aviator, engaged in a solo flight around the world, has been unreported for two days.

There has been no word of him since be took off in flis small seaplane from the Seine at Sartrouville near Paris yesterday. He had not arrived at Berre inlet near Marseilles, his objective, up to 9:30 o'clock tonight. SUGAR CUT 20 CENTS BY GREAT WESTERN Governor Smith's Train, Toledo, Ohio, Sept. Smith hopes to convince the voters of the agricul tural west that the democratic platform on which he stands is sound and constructive and that the declarations of his republican opponent on public questions of the day are weak and evasive. The presidential nominee outlined Bartow, Sept.

B. Price who arrived here this afternoon bringing a message from the mayor of Okeechobee City seeking Red Cross aid. said that at least 15 persona had been killed there. Jacksonville, Sept. ---Jacksonville and vicinity were fContlmied on Page Two) Troops Sent to Aid of Stricken Folk in Storm-Swept Zone Tampa, Sept.

of reports that 24 persons were killed in the hurricane which swept the Lake Okeechobee region last night was announced tonight by Colonel S. L. Lowry, commanding the llth Field artillery here, who ordered two National guard units to the area for emergency duty. Col. Lowry said the advices were conveyed to him over long distance telephone by Captain Rupert Smith, whom he had dispatched to the Lake Okeechobee district to investigate the extent of storm damage.

Many Bodies Seen, Most of those killed lived along This is the contention nc intends to pound home in the scries of campaign speeches which he will begin tomorrow night in Omaha, where he discuss the This is the general objective toward which he will strive there and in addresses he will make during the next two weeks in Oklahoma City. Denver, Helena, St. Paul and Milwaukee. plans to farm relief question. this line of campaign to the 40 newspapermen accompanying him on his first stumping tour and his 11- car special skirted Lake Erie through northern Ohio today on its way to the political battle ground of the West and Northwest.

The governor, who is going into long stretches oi territory he 1926 Miami Disaster Reported Surpassed the banks of the lake, the colonel said Smith reported with the statement that he personally had seen many bodies removed from -wrecked dwellings. State troops from Arcadia and Bartow were called out for duty in the area and Col. Lowry said he and his staff planned to leave for that section. Washington, Sept. (Continued on Pago Two) 50 Boys Mistreated by Degenerate Lad The hurricane destruction at Palm Beach and West Palm Beach was described tonight In a mesfage to the Red Cross from the organiza- 1 lion's leading officials In those cities aa likely "to surpass the Miami disaster" of 1826.

The message, which came from I Howard Shelby, chairman of i Palm Beach Red Cross chapter, and George W. Parr, chairman of; disaster and relief wot in cities, said preliminary reports i dicated the -srind velocity and barometer records appeared to exceeded by ten per cent those of the Miami storm. Most of Homes Gone "Fully three-fourths of the homes have been damaged, a larce portion being a. total wreck." the communi- Dcnver, Sept. reduction in the price of sugar of 20 cents per 100 pounds, or to for beet and $6.32 for cane sugar, was announced today by the Great Western Sugar company.

This is a new low price for the past two years. Los Angeles. Sept. corroboration of a story of boy murders at the i chicken ranch of Stuart Xorthcottj was made today by J. Clark identification expert and criminolo- glst, who declared that "bits of evidence bearing out" the story of asserted crimes had been found by him.

Sellers said that, after making a preliminary examination eight jars of bones found scattered or buried about the chicken ranch, he believed some cf the bones were those of human beings. Young Xorthcott who fled to Canada 10 days ago, was accused by Sanford Clark, 15-year-old boy who lived on the ranch two yean of torturinp, mistreating, killing and burying four young boys at various times. Old Offender Continued grilling of the 21-year- old asserted degenerate's father Cyrus G. Northcott, disclosed that (Continued on Page cation read. "Practcally every business house has been sutted or totally demolished.

Los? of Ufa undetermined. Two-thirds of the cities' hospital capacity out of i i Doctors, nurses, medical supplies and serum needed to cope with situation." Storm Veers to Jforth The storm was reported to be hcadm- northward tonight by the (Continued on Tags Two) Governor Smith's Tram En Route to Omaha, Elkhart, Sept. --From his presidential campaign train as it crossed Indiana into Illinois this evening 'Alfred E. Smith, as gove-nor of New York, appealed to the people of his state to render aid for the hurricane-stricken residents of Porto Rico and Florida. He made hii appeal in a formal statement and at the same time dispatched telegrams of sympathy to the governors of Porto Rico and Florida and inquired what specific assistance was reeded.

A. P. Man Sends Out First Authentic News KIDNAPERS HOLDING Tampa Fla Sep t. CANADIAN BREWERlmesszse picked up here today by wireless station from 4AFC, Detroit, Srpt. (API an arr wireless station at J.

Low, president oi the Carlingj a toU ot by amateur lamago done hurricane wind? there and of Brewing company of London, Ontario, one of the largest exporting l.auderdale concerns in the Dominion, was kid- naped here and held for ransom, it became known today coincident i an unsuccessful attempt by local police to d'jp extortion- ers. and Palm Beach. The message, signed "Chablin," was believed to have come from Walter Chamblin. a staff writer for The- Associated Press, who has been Miami with Senator Joe son, democratic vice presidential nominee. "Two out of every three buildings ia the business district in West Palm Beach are wrecked, or wore dama.ged." the message said.

"Tho big hotels at Palm Beach apparently esapod without injury. A part of the Royal Point was under four feet of water, swept up from the ocean nlRht. "Tho first train to reach West (Continued en NEWSPAPER!.