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it; FINAL EDITION CIRCULATION SATURDAY 24,903 WEATHER and continued conl: probebij llfht froit la Interior, heavy la cranberry kof toniht. TiMidir. Inereaelng eloudlneaf; moderate northwest, backing Into wert tr eouihweit wind. "THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CI OF THE FIRST STATE." I RTY-FIRST YEAR. NO.

88 20 PACES WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928 PRICE. TWO CENTS 'ENT BALKED: THEATRE BLAZE an -lst 1 1 AEArt 220 DE4D MADRID nrn to i in MANY KILLED POLAR EXPLORER AM) HIS FIANCEE FOOD FOR TIIELIYISG, COFFISSFOR THE DEAD dttniUAiu I nrnirrroiii I 1-' 1 1 1 ,327 NOW II III WW SUFFERERS STAMPEDE IN, UN HUNT 1 11.11 I1R. tv i A I MUM llfLl i I Hill iW (Air Charges Continued and Sub-j poenas Issued for Absent Agents i $250 FINE ON 1 TEA HOUSE MAN I Federal prohibition agents from I Ealtimore, who have been acting as under-cover men in this city during the summer, failed to appear in United States District Court this "morning and forced the postponement ot every case but one listed on the docket for today.

District Attorney Leonard E. Wales 1 i the men are needed by the gov-' eminent as witnesses in at least hall of the cases listed for" trial this week i ind In every case that was listed for I trial today. Wh enMr. Wales stated that subpoenas had been issued and served upon the three men, Judge MonL suggested that bench warrants be I Issued for them, i "We want to get at tho bottom this," he said, "an.1 find out why these men have not appeared. bj JBench warrants were then issued, at i jMr.

Wales' request, for Eugene Jack-, ton, R. L. Livingstoi. and B. Brockus all connected with the office of tha I Federal Prohibition Administration 1 1 at Baltimore.

This is the first Intimation that the system of using under-cover men 1 from other cities, which proved so successful in New York and Phil-'' adelphia raids, had been Inaugurated In the liquor hunt in this city. Th3 activity of these men during the fc.v wee t.iey were here in July and August Is shown by the fact that they are needed as witnesses In half of the cases called for trial. Rumors that a woman was being On the eve of his departure on an Antarctic expedition came news of the engagement of Captain Sir George Wilkins to Miss Suzanne Bennett, Broadway actress. They're shown here a the flyer-explorer explains to his fiancee what he hopes to accomplish in the South Polar area. Kftl Mr.

i Vv for Vf i.A.A.L irffc-dtMl 4 i trfrmHIWfc'f Vr1 Mtm Wlirf mT 1 9,725 NEEDED iriiwii Fi ran IL Delaware (lifts Near Half Amount Asked Tor by Jied Cross CLOTHING ALSO The present total of the West Indies hurricane relief fund raised by the Red Cross In Delaware is $11 327, with the addition of $2100 over Saturday and Sunday. Appeals were nude In the churches on Sunday and organizations are beginning to send in contributions. The Junior Section of the Council of Jewish Women sent $5, the Forty and Eight Club sent $25, Christ Church, Christiana Hundred Sunday School, sent $25 from the children, Hcssler. made a contribution of $10, and the Hercules $10. The present amount contributed brings the De'a-ware total up to almost half of what Delaware has been asked to raise.

Checks may be sent to the Delaware Chapter. A. R. 911 Delaware avenue, or- to Henry P. Scott, or George Winchester, treasurer.

The chapter headquarters also are receiving contributions of clothing suitable for a warm climate. Any donations however small, will be acceptable. Those who have contributed are as follows: Edgar M. Ocheltree, $10; Mrs. S.

Koppcl, $2 Mr. and Mrs. George A Elliott, $200; Friend, Elizabeth i Unofficial Figures Give Him I Ma nr nf in hCV- I i --j i enth District MAL0NEY, GLENN ALSO ARE WINNERS Unofficial returns received at the headquarters of the New Castle County Democratic Committee, 612 French street, today Indicated that Royden C. Caulk, of Blackbird, will again be the party's nominee for Levy Court Commissioner from the Seventh District which Includes Blackbird and Appcqumminfc Hundreds. Caulk, according to the returns, was nominated at Saturday's primary election by a majority of 45 votes over his opponent John lw Francis, of Taylor's Bridge.

The Democrats of the Seventh Levy Court district elected Caulk to the Levy Court in 1924 and 1926. Each time he was ruled out of office by the. courts. The district is normally Democratic. The unofficial returns gave Caulk a majority of only 5 votes in Blackbird hundred.

The number of voles cast at the primary election show that Democrats as a whole took little interes' in the primary. The heaviest vote "41 cast in the Fifth Representative district where Joseph N. Brogan, Edward I. Glenn and Frank H. Phillips sought the nomination for Represen- Contlnufd on Page Pour.

LMbUUIll NOMINATION i Here are two scenes from Florida, after the hurricane swept Its path of death and across tho State. At the top a coflln containing the bo of a victim of the storm Is being loaded on a truck at Pahokee, In the liike district, where the loss of life was heaviest. Below another truck is uiijoidiiig foodstuffs rushed by the Rod Cross for the relief of survivors in the tame district. 1 B.S.HEALGEIS OFF G. OJVTICKET Brandywine Hd.

Man Retires in Interest of Party Harmony WENNINGER SAYS HE WILL STICK Burton S. Heal, of Brandywine hundred, today withdrew as a candidate for Representative on the Republican county ticket, In the sixth Representative district. In a letter to Adjutant General J. Austin E.Ilson, chairman of the New Castle County Executive Committee Mr. Heal stated that he withdrew in Uie Interest of purty harmony.

The contest for Uie nomination in the Sixth district was four-cornered Mr. Heal withdrew. Three can didate.i are left. They are Clrorge W. FrarifLs, Frank Miller and John T.

Tallry. The Republican county primaries vrtil be held next Saturday. Harry W. Wenninger, county comptroller, who is a candidate for renom-ination, declared today that he would not withdraw as a candidate. He Is oijosed by Frank It.

Pool of Mac-donotigh. was reported early this afternoon that later in the day several candidates in districts where there are con-tes'-s will withdraw. In the letter of withdrawal he sent to General Elhscn, Mr. Heal said that, although he was confident he could be nominated and elected, there was nevcrthicss a contest. He expressed the fear that a contest would prove detrimental to the party.

He added that he will support the man nominated in his district. CIVIC BODY TO DISCUSS PARKING The Wilmington Civic Association will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening in the Hotel duPont Biltmore. The meetings hereafter will be held on the third of each month Reports of the executive and commituex will be read and the need of mod present no-parking on Market street 8 to 10 a. will be dlscussc. Arthur O.

Wilkinson, business ad-; inlstrator of the University of Delaware, will speak on "Wilmington, the City in Which to Buy." Number of Injured in Disaster Estimated to be More Than 350 SAY 85 BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND MADRID, Sept. 24 (AP). Approximately 120 persons were officially estimated today to have been trapped and perished In the Novedadw Theatre, when It caught fire during a crowded Sunday evening performance. The Injured were estimated at more than 350. Exact figures hare not been established, because den.se smoke coming from the smouldering ruins prevented the authorities from learning how many bodies were yet to be extricated.

Most of the victims were not burned, but were either suffocated or crushed during Uie stampede for the exits. Bodies were being taken from some sections of the ruins this morning and soldiers with fixed bayonet kept back a large crowd of anguished persons who clamored for new of relatives and friend. A family In Cham-bery, a suburb, reported 18 members missing, but It was believed that they might have passed the night with irlends. Doctors who had been working all night In the hospitals and dressing stations were relieved this morning. The blare started during a storm scene on the stage.

The theatre. Continued on Pi Wf. THEFT, AIM AS DEMENTED "She Must be Crazy," Suspect Cries; Police Seize Hotel Keeper's Wife SAY LINENS WERE TAKEN FROM ROOM Mrs. Andromack. Frank, wife Of Constantlne Frank, proprietor of the Athena Hotel, Fifth and Shipley streets, In her endeavor to recover property atolen from the hotel this morning, was mistaken for a demented woman and arrested in the French street depot while tussellng with the alleged thief.

Mrs. Frank, unable to speak English, was unable In her excitement to make the railroad officers understand what she was trying to do and she was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct and locked up at the police station, while the alleged thief. a woman supposed to live in Phl.a-! delplila, escaped. Sliortly after Mrs. Frank was locked Ooiilinutd on Page four.

at Havana At the thirtieth annua! encamp-! ment of the United SpanUh-Ameri-! can War Veterans, which will be held In Havana, Cuba, from October 7 to i 12, the Georgt. Puul Farrell Camp, 1. of this city, will be The encampment will be attended by about 8,000 veterans from all parts of the country. Maybe Em Wrong By JOHN P. MEDBl'R The ball player who was caught napping at second, was probably dreaming of home.

Necessary Evils If it weren't for marriages, the divorce lawyers wouldn't have anything to do. American Tragedies The man who was laid up for ten days with hang nails. Matrimonial Martyrs A circus skeleton has Just asked for a separation. He says he's tired of being picked on. Social Accomplishments Putting your socks on wrong sid; out so that the holes won't show.

Big Outdoor Men The fellow who used to cut notches in his revolver, now keeps track of Continued on ntefn. rwvlld ertbi, fmrt every tar MrtH Cafeteria. WOMAN ALLEGING Rehabilitation Needs Receive Attention in Sections of Florida ESTIMATE DEAI) AT 1200 TO 1500 WEST TALM BEACH, Fla Sept. 24 (AP). Rehabilitation needs, in addition to emergency relief measure, held the.

attention of officials today In, the hurricane-stricken area of Florida. While caring for the Immediate needs of the thousands of homeless, officials looked forward to measures for re-establish n3 the refugees and furnishing them new start until they can pick up their own burdens. Count of the dead went on, but relief workers said there was no assurance the actual death toll ever would be known. Unable to get bodies outside of the flooded area for burial, they are cremating many of them. Official estimates variously placed tho death list at 1 200 to Additional bodies constantly arc being found.

Howard W. Selby, chairman of the PjI-i Beach County Red Cross com-mltU-e, said his chapter was ready to quest formally that the National Rod CroJS take over all relief work r.c said his workers would continue on rge Four, "FLU" CASES Number of Homeless After HTK kit frit 4i liA iiuuiiuiik Over Half Million SITUATION IS CAUSING ALARM SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Sept. 2'i (AP). With 15,000 ca-srs reported by health authorities and the Red Cr.s.

an epidemic of influenza causal grave concern in Porto Rico today. F.ve thousand cases of malaria, measles and other dlsca.se,-) have also followed the tropical hurricane. Physicians said they were frankly alarmed at the situation. Red Cros officials announced that no town was without an Increailng number of influenza cases and that pneumonia was gaining. It was possible if the influenza cases continued to develop into pneumonia that there would be an outside call for nurses.

The Cro-s was ready to a.ssist the health commissioner if he decided he needed additional forces. Hospital units arriving from New York will be broken into small groups and scattered where the danger is greatest because travel conditions make the concentration of the sick difficult. Health conditions were aggravated yesterday by numerous rainstorms. With only temporary shelter, It appeared that many of the peuplc faced added misery. Plans were rushed to Continued on PR" Pour.

from infirmities of age, so the park officers sentenced him to death, and turned him over to Special Officer Walls, of the S. P. C. for the "gas route." The Simian Is thought to be about 18 or 20 years old, and has been in the zoo for most of that time. He suffered considerably last winter from rheumatism, nd with the approach of cooler weather there was a return of his o'd trouble.

So it was decided to put him out of his misery Several years ago someone handed Iszy a rubber baby doll, which at once appealed to him. He would not permit other occupants of the monkey cage to handle it and carried his baby" with him throughout the day. At night he would place it near where he slept. When the doll was finally taken from the cage "Izzy." grieved over his loss for a time, bV, like human beings, he finally became reconciled to his loss and again played with the visitors who passed him nuts, or scratched hU head. mm OF D.

OPENS, 700 STUDENTS 0 Freshman Classes in Twc Colleges Will Number About 230 RECEPTION GIVEN BY DR. HULL1HEN Special to The Evening Journal NEWARK, Sept. 24. With a joint freshman class numbering about 230 and a total enrollment of over 700 the University of Delaware opened today for the new college year. Freshmen registered last week and the upper-classmen are registering today.

The class work will be started tomorrow. The freshman class in Delawaro College numbers about 120 and that of the Women's College 110. Freshman week ended yesterday. In the morning most of the freshmen attended services in the various churches of Newark. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon there was a meeting for the freshmen in Wolf Hall when Dr.

Walter Huilihen. president of the university, made an address on "Aims and Purposes of a College Education." This was followed by a reception given by Dr. and Mrs. Huilihen at their home, "The Knoll." Both the meeting and reception were attended by a large number of the parents of the freshmen. The usual convocation exercises will be held Wednesday afternoon when degrees wi 1 be conferred on two students of Delaware Colleie and four of the Women's College.

The two Delaware College students who are to receive the degree of bachelor of arts are, Theodore Roosevelt Fleetwood, ot Seaford, and Robert Henry Richards, of Wilmington. The former completed some required work during the summer and Richards spend his senior year with the University of Delaware Foreign Study Group In France, returning home too late for commencement In June. The four Women's College students who are to receive degrees and who also finished some required work during the summer will be as follows: Bachelor of arts, Margaret Burke of Newark, Nellie Pauline Lawton of Wilmington, and Marlon Louise Ken-ney of Newark; bache'or of science, Continued on Page Four. CALL II. A.

EATON TO NORTH BAPTIST At a congregational meeting of North Baptist Church yesterday morning a pastoral call was extended to the Rev. Harold A. Eaton of Hillside. N. J.

Mr. Eaton is now pastor of the Hillside Baptist Church. He has supplied the pulpit of North Church several time during the past few months. The call to him wm unanimous and enthusiastic, and was participated In by a large and representative number of North Church members. It is bellevt Mr.

Eaton will accept and take up his new work soon. Por WIVTERTHUR M1U, call CLOVTR Diry, 15. ARE ENROLLE PLAY PROGRAM Community Service Points Out Popularity Activities of 3000 CHILDREN ARE BENEFITED The Wilmington Community Service campaign to raise $19,723 with which to conduct the activities of the organization during the new year was launched today. The effort is entirely by mail of a very informal character, such as has been the custom for several years. All contributions or pledges should be made to D.

C. Aspril, treasurer, duPont Building. The letter soliciting contributions, which Is being forwarded by Alice Bclin duPont, chairman of the finance committee, follows: "Our program Instills in the minds of boys and girls the value of fair play, honesty, integrity and the other qualities that make for good citizenship. "Over 3000 children participated in the activities conducted by Community Service in the past fiscal year. These activities centered In club, playgrounds, boys' camp, communty centers, musical programs, dramatics, holiday celebrations, athletics, etc.

The boys' camp at the State Rifle Range Is an important new feature of the work. This year 135 boys attended camp and next year we hope to treble the number. "The under-privileged children Wilmington, unreached by existing organizations, number over 7000. ultimate aim of Community Service is to influence as many of their lives as possible by the activities shown in the enclosed folder." The officers of the Community Service are: Mrs. Coleman duPont, honorary president; John P.

Continued on Page Four. EDITOR OF CHURCH PAPER SERIOUSLY ILL BALTIMORE, Md -The Rev. Dr. Car. ton D.

Harris, editor of the Baltimore Southern Methodist and one of the out.stand.ng ministers of the Baltimore Conference, of the Methodist Epl; copal Church, is critically ill at the Maryland General Hospital. He was stricken with paralysis Saturday. Last mgiit a specialist who was consulted said that the editor had a flphting chance to recover. He had rallied somewhat after a bad day, but had not returned to consciousness BLACK HANDBAG FOUND A black leather handbag, thought to have been left by a Boy Scout, was found at Sixth and King streets, yesterday morning and taken to the police station, where the owner may recover same by identifying his Continued on Page Four. CITY FAIR TODAY; Show Open Evenings With Band Concerts and Fireworks GOVERNOR TO BE THURSDAY VISITOR The Wilmington Fair opened at the Elsmcre grounds this morning with every available place occupied by a show tent, -carnival booth and industrial and farm displays of both live stock and farm Just inside the grounds visitors found a "Vote For Hoover Booth," with women distributing literature, buttons, thimbles and sewing needles bearing the likeness of Hcover and Curtis and others bearing the likeness of C.

Douglass Buck, Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware. While all the cattle had not arrived this morning the fair managers are expecting a big display of high bred cattle. The exhibits will be in place this afternoon. Ths Madison Square Garden Band headed a procession of cowboys, elephants, donkeys and automobiles through the center of the city this morning advertising the fair. The fair program will include races both trotting and running each afternoon.

There will be only one race this afternoon but on all the other days there will two or more. Therp will be an kutomobile race Sat urday. The fair will be open at night. The carnival company and the herd Continued on Pge Nineteen. FATHER WALDR0N, OF ST.

PAE'S, ILL The Rev. Thomas F. Waldron, popular pastor of St. Paul's R. Church, became seriously ill at the rectory on Saturday night and continued in that condition throughout yesterday and last night.

He was reported somewhat improved and resting more easily today. Father Waldron la suffering with stomach trouble and complications. Father Waldron has a host of friends throughout the state. TFMPEBAItRE ..54 12 00 P. 5' IMP.

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M. GATES OPEN ON MANY EXHIBIT Gambling Debt Supposed to Have Led to Pistol Duel in Philadelphia SHOOTING TOOK PLACE IN HOTEL PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24 men "shot it out" In a pistol duel to the death early today in a icom in a small hotel during an over a gambling debt. Frank Pegano, alfo known as "Lefty 31, was shot four times and died In a hospital. Harry W.

Stein, 35, sometimes known as Brooks," who livid In the room where the shooting occurred, wa1. dead when found with two bullet wounds In the abdomen. Both were known to the police w'ho characUr- fosed them as "small time racketeers." Police have arre.stl Simon Barn-bell, 32, as a material witness and believe that he wa.s in tho room during tne affray. He brought Pcgano to a hospital. Bambeii said that he met Pegano on the street and accepted tho lat-ter's request to accompany hirn on a vl.lt to Stein at the hotel.

He de- dared that he waited outside the room and heard voices raised in a altercation soon followed by eleven Cotitlnurd on Pat: 8-v'n. i FROST IN SIGHT AS TEMPERATURE DROPS W.th the temperature close to the frost-line early this morning, farmers are predicting early frost this reason. The close of tiie season for many vegetables resulted In the sup ply being short, owing to the late and wet season of this year. Lima beans and tomatoes have been far below the average, owing to the driving rains that washed the blossoms from plants. The thermometer dropped to 48 degrees last night, and Indications are for flight frosts in the hilly sections tonight.

While the early approach of cool weather has been against the farmers, coal and heater dealers report unusual activity in their line. Their employes are finding it difficult to fill the orders as rapidly as Is desired by the householders, who have neglected to prepare for cold weather 1 In the summer time. SHOOT in 1 1 11111)11 UUI "IZZY" PROTESTS RIDE TO DOOM WITH DOGS, CA TS With twenty years of faithful service, clowning for Wilmington children behind the bare of his cage at the Zoo In Brandywine Park, behind him, "Izzy," the oldest Simian of the city's collection, scampered about, chattered In lively protest, and shook the cag ng of the animal wagon vigorously as if to prove that the 8. P. C.

A. officers, who were taking him to his doom, were all wrong about his infirmities. It was "Izzy'g" last morning in the cage where he had done his best to entertain the kiddies, and probably his last morning on earth, for the gas route awaits him. Undoubtedly he was Indignant over being carted away with a wagon full of cats, and ordinary alley "muts," sometimes called dogs. And not being expected to appreciate the humanitarian motives that were behind his being hustled off with such a conglomeration of animalisms, he no doubt thought the ways of his Darwinian cousins were a'l wrong.

"Izzy," is one of the oldest monkeys In Wilmington. He has ben suSericg.