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vr Average Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 18, 1926..,. 37,860 mtM. Cloudy Today; Rain, Cooler Tomorrow (Weather Report on Page 17.) Established 1764. VOL LXXXIX.

HARTFORD, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1926. -20 PAGES Member ot Ihe ASSOCIATED MEM PRICE 8 CENTS. urncan 1 1 1,000 Hilled In Mondial it. eo 9 $125,000,006: Loss; Many Homeless; edicine Water And eded a Section, In Which Practically Every Building Has Been Damaged By Death-Dealing Hurricane National Guard Called Out to Help Keep Order; Area Hardest Hit Storm Is State's Worst; Red Cross Rushes Relief Blackmail Is Charged By MaineGov. Brewster, Re-elected, Asserts That He Was Object of Attempt During Republican Campaign Miami Isolated Since Friday Night Pru.tically Every Place of Business Damaged Tempest Then Mauls West Coast and Threatens Louisiana; Alabama and Mississippi Help Sent by Truck and Special Train Hundreds of Physicians Volunteer West Talm Beach, Sept.

10. (Associated Press.) A death list of -more than 1,000 people and property damage estimated at between $25,000,000 and $125,000,000 was the toli attributed tonight to the West Indian hurricane which raged along the lower Florida east coast Friday and yesterday and passed into the Gulf of Mexico headed toward southern Alabama and Louisiana. 33,000 Homeless. Reports from the Btorm area indicated more than 38,000 people were made homeless and that many of these were in urgent need of food and medical supplies. The hurricane was called the most disastrous in the history of Florida.

Miami and vicinity and Fort Lauderdale appear to have borne the brunt of the storm. Water was flowing in the streets of Miami, practically every place of business was said to have been damaged, no drinking water wa3 immediately available and phones and electric lights were out of commission. Reports from Miami said stores were closed and restaurants were not serving food on account of lack of water, electricity and gas. In response to urgent appeals physicians, nurses, supplies and water were hurried into Miami from sister cities of Florida. Miami's Business Elect O'Ryan As President Of Air Lines Choice Announced by Governor Trumbull, Chairman of Board of Colonial Transport (Special to The Courant.) New York.

Sept. IB. Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, chairman ol the board of Colonial Air Transport, announced today the election of Major General John F. O'Ryan of New York as president, to succeed W.

Irving Bullard, Boston banker, who has resigned to become chairman of the executive committee. With the advent of General O'Byan, the financial structure the company will te materially expanded by the of banking and industrial Interests here. The Colonial Air Transport, at present holds the government contract for the transportation of mail between New York, Hartford and Boston, and Its planes are flying daily between the three cities. This was the first government air mail contract awarded to a private tontractor. General O'Byan, who commanded the Twenty-seventh Division during the World War, is a practicing lawyer with offices at No.

270 Madison avenue. He has been for the past five years a member of the New York state transit commission. Experienced Organizer. Governor Trumbull, In announcing General O'Byan's election, said: "General O'Ryan organized, trained and led in battle the Twenty-seventh Division. He has had unprecedented experience at an organizer.

After his return from abroad he served as counsel to the select committee of the United States Senate which Investigated the veterans .1 (Concluded on rase 2.) I SEE BY TODAY'S COURANT CLASSIFIED ADS That a 1925 Chevrolet coach Is for sale by a Chevrolet sub-dealer on Windsor avenue. The advertisement in Classification 11 sets forth many reasons why this car is a good value. That there Is yet time to enroll In a class In halrdresstng and beauty culture. There Is a good future In this profession. That a five room apartment on the first floor of a house on Sig-ourney street is for rent for $40.

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a 'taavaiMra Estimates of Dead, Injured, Homeless (Associated Press.) Estimates of dead, Injured and homeless, compiled at 11 o'clock, central standard time, tonight, from latest reports from all sources: Miami 500 dead: 700-800 Injured, 28,000 homeless. Hollywood 250 dead; 1,000 to homeless. Moorehaven and Clewlston 140 dead; 35 to 45 women and children drowned. Miami Beach 150 dead. Fort Louderdalc 100 dead, Hlalcah 54 dead.

Danla 11 dead. Homestead 3 dead, 1,000 homeless. Coral Gables 3 dead. Hallendale 2 dead. Larklns 1 dead.

OJus 1 dead, Ho wze, Noted Army Dead At 62 Winner of Renown in Indian, Philippine, Mexican and World Wars End Comes in Ohio Columbus, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) Major General Robert Lee Howze, commanding officer of the Fifth Corps Area, United States Army, died here today following an operation yesterday for gall bladder trouble. He was 62. General Howze had an outstanding record In the army, which began soon after his graduation from the United States Military Academy In 1888.

His war record Included service in the Indian warfare In the Northwest, for which he won the Congressional Med al ot Honor, the Philippine revolt, the Mexican raids and the World War. Winner of trolx de Guerre. He also was awarded the Distinguished Service the Croix de Uuerre, with palm, and as an officer of the Legion of Honor of France. During the World War General Howze commanded the Thirty -eighth Division and served In the Meuse-Ar-gonne battle. He commanded the Third Division In its march to the Rhine and led that division In the Army ot Occupation In Germany until August 14, 1919.

On his return to the States ho was assigned to Mexican border duty with the Third Division iami Dead and Injured The Dead. West Palm Beach, Bopt. 19. Associated Press, i The luliowlng Is a partial list of the dead: I Rhoda Louise Prlcss, 55, Hollywood. Loreuu Helena Prtcts.

Hollywood. Lcou Pries. Hollywood. Vltk Druler, Hollywood. L.

P. Pool, Hollywood. Mrs. L. P.

Pool, Hollywood. Annie Carley, Danla Mrs. Yearger, Hollywood. Mrs. R.

Danla. Child of Mrs. Moore, Danla, Andrew Havclock, Danla. Mis. Cohy.

Danla. i'cte McAllister, Danla. Netoy Klcknan, Danla. Mrs. J.

H. Crott, Dania. Jenny Ferral, Daula, Peter Viglics, Dania, Gordon Urown, Dania. Unidentified negro, OJus. Mrs.

Sarah Head, 88, Hollywood. G. Rogers, 88, electrician, Hollywood. Gordon Brown, 35, laborer, Hollywood. Murlen Brown, 4, Hollywood.

H. Luther, 45, Hollywood. Unidentified negro, 60. J. J.

Eagan, 65, Miami, J. T. Phillips. 34, Miami. Five unidentified dead, Hlaleh.

Three unidentified dead, Homestead. Two unidentified dead, Miami Bescu. Two unidentified dead, Miami Beach, In Roof Cave Hotel Woford. Mrs. H.

T. Kimball and baby, Hal-landel. Mrs. 3. W.

McGinn'ls. Coral Gables. McGtnnls. youth. 10 Coral Gables.

Alton Bush Little, Miami Beach newspaper man. Mrs. Josephine Cochraft, 52, Coral Gables. Dorothy Wallsy 19, Larklns. Jacques Richards, St.

Louis, In Miami. Lyd a Brookshlre, Johnson City, In Miami. Frank Hosklns. Miami realtor. Benjamin Watts, construction engineer.

Hialeah. Fred Shutts, 35. Miami. George Mallette. 34.

Hialeah. Baby Venetian Carter. Hialeah. Mrs. Ed th Baker 21.

Miami. Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Tellmer and children, Fort Lauderdale. Mr. and Mrs. R. D.

Crowley, Fort Lauderdale. Baby Ivan Austin. Fort Lauderdale. Mrs. Anna Thompson, Fort Lauderdale.

Ralph McCIure. Fort Lauderdale. P. E. Gamble, Fort Lauderdale.

Six unidentified dead at Blscayne Park. Ten unidentified deafl at Miami funeral home. Five unldentlf ed dead In Hialeah Jail. Thirty dead at Miami police station. The Injured.

A partial list of the Injured In the Miami zone Included: Floyd Delaney, L. J. Delaney, Bert Stegall, Mrs. T. W.

Davis, W. G. Moore, J. B. Llngerfeld, Mrs.

Minnie Shaw, Mrs. T. E. Smith, T. William Davis, A.

Bland. Mrs. W. L. Sellers, Mrs.

T. O. Harless, A. D. Armond.

Fred H. Grove, Elizabeth Stuart. J. E. Russell, Max Slkeh, Tlielma Harris, Louis Roneh, C.

N. Henry. Robert Pepper, Robert Campbell. 8. Metzer, Mrs.

Marie Connor. William Tomme, Fred Delaney. 3. D. Henonsvllle.

Alvln McNally. Isadore Lutzki, Mrs. Don Lawrence. Earl Hudson, H. G.

Booske. Mrs. Louis Mar-cotte, Fred Fould, Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Manning, Floyd Hazelbater, Bryan Piatt and Gwendelyn Coffee.

Mr. and Mrs. John Neylan, B. Ober, K. Kenney, D.

C. Murphy, Kent Watson, H. M. Dick, Thomas A. Montgomery.

John Engstron, Mrs. Martha Kruse, 3. q. Plckthorn, D. Carter, Margaret (Concluded on rage 2.) Young Woman Shares Cell With Friend Who Couldn't Obtain Bail (Special to.

The Courant.) Bristol, Sept. 19. Because her efforts all day were fruitless In obtaining 1500 ball for her friend. Miss Mildred Ablar of No. 2 Downs street, applied at the police station tonight for permission to share the cell of her companion.

Miss Laura Palmier! also of Downs street, who wss arrested with her last night on a charge of violating the liquor law. Her request was granted and the two young women were reunited. The young women are being held for authorities In the town of Wolcott following a raid by police of a cottage on the Wolcott road after a fight Saturday night. It is alleged that the women rented the cottage as a place to sell liquor. The Ablar woman obtained ball of 100 Saturday night but her companion was unable to raise the larger amount of 1300, i-i "3 Conn.

People In Florida Storm Belt Relatives, Unable to Communicate With Them, Entertain Fears For Their Well-Being Losses here in the hurricane which swept the east coast of Florida Saturday will be confined largely to owners of winter homes there. It was Indicated last night. Hartford Insurance companies have not considered the east coast a good risk and have made their rates for this territory so high that they did little business. Few- of the investment projects in which many people here are Involved have been developed to the extent of having buildings which might be wrecked by the storm. Inquiry lust night showed few Connecticut people in Florida In this, the "off" season, for the southern resorts.

Among those known to be In Miami are John J. Ahem, Hartford undertaker, who is heavily Interested In real estate syndicates Just north ot Miami, and Raymond N. Yeomans, brother of Superior Court Judge Edward Yeomans of Andover, who Is city attorney In West Palm City Attorney Yeomans and his family have lived there twelve years, Hartford Aid to Be Asked. An appeal will be made to Hartford citizens to contribute, their share towards the relief of the hurricane sufferers, William H. St.

John, chalr- (Concluded on Tag 2.) President Coolidge At His Desk Today In White House Appointments Include One With Mellon, Just Back From Europe Washington, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) President Coolidge resumed life at the White House today as before his vacation and tomorrow plans to be at his desk early in the executive offices prepared to carry on the business of the government. Mr. and Mrs.

Coolidge returned late last night rrom the Adlrondacks to the White House, which was completely renovated during their more than two months of absence. The first day home was spent quietly at the executive mansion. The President tomorrow will receive a number of members oi his cabinet, among them Secretary Mellon, who has Just returned from a several weeks' trip to Europe, while among other engagements Is one with Senator Willis, repubhesn, Ohio, who is campaigning lor re-election, but Is In Washington for a brief time. During his vacation Mr. Coolidge attended regularly to government business and consequently Is aald to have returned with ail current question disposed of.

the more serious m.iMtrs, however, that he is expected to take up Is the Mexican situation wits Secretary Kellogg. AilO Noted Military Man Heads Air Concern GENERAL JOHN P. O'RYAN. Middle West Strengthens Flood Bars Reinforces Barriers Against Waters During Respite After Two Weeks of Battling Chicago, Sept. 19.

(Associated Press.) A Middle West worn out by two weeks of battle with the elements 6elzed on a brief respite tonight to strengthen barriers against tides creeping up from flooded lowlands. Northwestern Iowa, with clearing skies, was threatened by new torrents Just reaching swollen outlets. At Odanah in north Wisconsin the townsfolk dropped their struggle with White River to combat danger from new source, the Bad River's belated rise. Beardstown in Illinois faced the fifth day of a vigil on the banks of the Illinois with the hope that levees heaped wtih bags would hold during the few hours Interval bore the passing of the peak stage, as forecast In the weather bureau. Six known dead and millions in property damage were counted in the wake of the latest deluge In northwestern Iowa.

The floods reached Sioux City, sweeping through residential streets and flooding industrial plants. Railroad and civic agencies estimated the damage undergone in the one section of the state alone would total General Obregon Is Not In Field Against Yaquis Mexico' City, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) General Obregon has arrived safely at his home In Cajema and Is not in the field fighting the Yaqui Indians, as had been reported here, according to General Plna, under-secre-tary of war. 1 General Plna assured tli? Associated Press today that the government has no confirmation of tni report of a serious engagement oe-tween the Yaqui Indians and the federal forces.

There Is no official report of any such fighting at all, he says. Augusta, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) In a statement tonight Governor Ralph O. Brewster, who was reelected last week, charged that during the republican campaign he was the object of "an attempt at political blackmail." The governor said the attempt was made by close friends of United States Senator Frederick Hale and that Senator Hale later admitted knowledge of the plan.

Governor Brewster said that at the beginning of the campa gn he was called into a conference with the chairman of the republican state committee and the treasurer of that organization. At this conference, he said, he was shown a letter written by a fr end of Senator Hale's saying that the senator's friends would the governor only If the latter would not be a candidate against 8enator Hale for the republican senatorial nomination In 1928. In his statement Governor Brewster said that later Senator Hale, In admitting that he knew of the letter, had defended the action of his friends. The governor added that "very similar threats of refusal to support the ticket were also made by another 'gentleman who has enjoyed the highest honors from the republican party in this state." Government to Face Crisis During Week In Daugherty Trial New York, Sept. 19.

(Associated Press.) The government is expected to face the crucial test 'this week in the Daugherty trial, which resumes tomorrow. Already it, has established the fact that the late John T. King, once republican national committeeman from Connecticut, received $441,000 as "commission" for his part In obtaining the return to allegedly German owners of 7.000,000 realized from the sale of American Metals Co. stock seized as enemy property during the war. Its next important task will be to convince the Jury trying case in the federal court that the two defendants, Harry M.

Daughtery, attorney general under the Harding administration, and Thomas W. alien property custodian at the same time, shared in this money for allowing the (7,000,000 claim. Numerous documents have been pre sented as evidence by United States Attorney Buckner bearing on the part Daugherty and Miller played in the transaction, but so far the federal prosecutor has not reached the point in his case of actually attempting to trace the money which he cnarges wa accepted by Daugherty and Miller. Los Angeles Starts For Newport Today Lakehurst, N. Sept.

19. (Associated Press.) Officers at the naval air station tonight announced that the Dirigible Los Angeles would start tomorrow on a three-day practice flight to Newport, R. I. If weather conditions remain fav orable the airship will be taken from the hanger tomorrow morning and will start on Its flight at 10 o'clock. The mast ship Patoka awaits the Dirigible Originating in the Bahamas, the hurricane struck Miami in all its fury Friday night.

For nine hours it raged over Miami and Miami Reach, lpavinir de- in jt3 uon aiso was wrougni in nojiy- wood, thirty miles north of Miami. 120-Mile Wind In Miami. Miami Beach was swept by a 120-mile wind and high waves swept over it. During a lull hundreds of people ventured forth in an attempt to salvage their household effects, but another storm hurled itself against the city. This latter wind raged unabated for two hours and was more intense than the first.

Accounts placed Miami Beach with the greatest number of the estimate there being 150, and eighty more bodies were said to be in Miami, undertakers being unable to care for them. The property damage in these twe places was estimated at $25, 000,000 to $100,000,000. Women and Children Drowned. The etorm swept on across Fori Lauderdale, north of Miami, wrecking property which so far has not been estimated and leaving a casualty list placed at 100. Reports said Moorehaven, seventy miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale, suffered heavily.

The dead at Moorehaven and Clewlston was estimated at 140. and one report said bodies were strewn along the road. Another report said that thirty-five to forty white women and children were drowned In the lake region near Moorehaven. None Killed' In Palm Heath. Property damage at Palm Beach and West Palm Beach was estimated at with no loss of life.

While the dsmage at Hollywood wa unestlmated. those familiar with that city said in the past two years approximately 40.000,000 worth of bulldlnn and development had been done and that property loss mutt have been great. Fuel, water and medical euppliet were urgently needed In the Strieker cities. i Nntniini! (iuard Keeps Order. Governor John W.

Martin ordcret several companies and hospital unit Property Damage Exceeds That Of Galveston Flood Florida Cyclone 22d of Its Kind Since Great Storm of 1884 New York, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) The hurricane which swept southeastern Florida yesterday was the twenty-second disaster of the kind since the great storm which swept the southern states in 1881. Whire the death toll may not be as great as that of theGalveston hurricane In 1900, tne property damage Is believed to be greater. This Is the fourth disastrous storm to visit Florida In less than a year.

Ou April 6, 1925, five were killed In Miami, and on December 1, 1926, five were killed in Tampa and Miami underwent much property damage. July 29, 1926, seventy were killed and great damage (Concluded on Paje 2.) State Will Continue Quiz of Hall-Mills Witnesses Today Somervllle, N. Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) Despite reports following the indictment and entering of pleas ot the four defendants Involved In the Hall-Mills murder mystery that the state had "practically completed" Us case, investigators today announced that the questioning of witnesses would continue tomorrow.

Two of those to be quizzed are Ralph V. M. Oorsllne, against whom the state has threatened to bring perjury proceedings, and Mrs. Minna Clark, who was said by a witness to have spied with Oorsllne upon Rev. Edward W.

Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, his choir singer. Mrs. Clark was also charged wtih having had in her possession love letters which had passed between the slain couple. Oorsllne recently retracted a denial of four years' standing and admitted he was near the scene of the murder with Miss Catherine Rastall September 13, 1922.

Taft Summons Circuit Judges. Washington, Sept. 19. (Associated Press.) Chief Justice Taft has summoned the senior federal circuit Judges to a conference here September 27 to discuss the condition of litigation In federal courts throughout the country. (Concluded on Page 2.) 1 i This Morning's News GENERAL.

1,000 dead, $125,000,000 property los3 in Florida storm 1. Elect O'Ryan head of Air lines 1. Gov. Brewster alleges blackmail plot 1. Yale establishes naval unit 7.

Oood wine on training diet 18. Financial 14-15-18. -Sporting news 8-9-10. 8teamship movements 2. CITY.

Conn, people In riorlda storm belt 1. Buys Whlttler Inkwell In Junk shop 1. Public to Inspect Conn. General noma 6. Exhibit Hale camp diary 5.

Orphan asylum head fostering Individual 16. Feminine Topics 3. Woman's page 6. Society news 13. Open shop news 20.

Radio news and programs 17. Obituaries 13. at Newport..