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CzrtV COROUETETELEGRAPHICSERVICE, OF THE UNITED PRESS A fair tomfkt and suiuy; uxhr I 1 1 livCl I till I I I 111 Tf TV I VV fcP I I IX to i 1 YEAH WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1S50 DAILY EST. BY THRO. BART. 1883 PITTSTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936 FIFTY CENTS A MONTH SIX DOLLARS A YEAR SIX EAR'S WORST HURRICANE EXPENDS "ITSELF IN THE Ki'S NORFOLK FLOODED BY HURRICANE 35 MEN OF LOST FISHING VESSEL ALONG COAST RUNS PROPERTY LOSS FROM ISFIVEMILLIL MILLIONS RESCUED AT SEA Lewes, Sept. 19.

Thirty five men of the foundered fishing boat Long Island were brought safely ashore today after a battle with mountainous waves in yesterday's hurricane and a miraculous rescue at sea after they had been officially list ed as lost. Seven of the men who had been Timrr nriT mitttULHIJIdl I '5' iff AWitn them aboard the fishing boat, Philadelphia, Sept. 10 The bur. cane which swept up the iMJaatic jr board was the indirect eaOse of th) deaths here as an edge: the jri and rain storm cut tftrough Fliilad phia, a survey revealed todayv Philip Terrill, 24, ws eleciatocat when he touched a live wire' bta down by the high wtadi. co panion, Thomas busned he tried to pull TerriU from Romolo Colozza, 60, lajit fatally when he was strode fn a skidding automobile which, pol said, was driven by Edward H.

Wei 22, Wildwood, N. J. 4 An unidentified waifofla' pocket officers found a pawn' tki bearing the name "Alienballe," i killed by a trolley carHa: was 1 ing an umbrella against 'th storm at apparently, failed to see thV car proaching. 1 A police boat towed 1 John 42, and John Knight, SZ'tow ineir siauea motornoat two hour battle on the ers of the Delaware river The City of Norfolk, Virginia, lantic Coist. Here is a view of the 2,000 HOMELESS, $2,000,000 LOSS UL IILLli BYliSPITA Arrangements are well' under va.

for Pittston's First Annual Hortv Show, to be sponsored by Pittston Hospital, with the assistance of thy Fox Hill Riding and will be conducted on Saturday after noon, Oct. 17, at MlUer4 Riding Stables, in Exeter boroiurbv A suitable INTO LOYALISTS ARE STILL FIRING By MICHAEL McEWEN (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) Gibraltar, Sept. 19. Loyalist artillery hammered away at ths Alcazar of Toledo today, opening the tenth week of the civil war. On a dozen fronts rebels arid loyalists fought on, in skirmish, siege and pitched battle while in the suburbs of many cities, firing squads ended the lives of men regarded by either side as enemies.

In the Talavera Santa Olalla area southwest of Madrid and west of Toledo reports indicated a lull in the tnost Important battle of the war. Loyalist communiques claimed a gain of a couple of miles yesterday and forecast that it marked the defi nitive stopping of the rebel drive cn Toledo and Madrid. Toledo was a frightful fantasia of a ruined fortress, of streets littered with debris and broken bodies, cf semi hysterical militiamen and gig gling, hysterical girls. Nobody knew what had happened under the ruins of the Alcazar, where the loyalists exploded mines yester day to blow up the building's cellars and release the besieging army for the vitally important Talavera front. But where yesterday loyalist officers asserted that more than half the 1,200 to 2,000 men, women and chil dren In the cellars were dead, today they said they believed that a scattered few alone died probably less than were killed on the loyalist 6ide by flying rocks from the explosions and an attempt to storm the buildings, All the explosion had done, it seemed at the moment, was to increase the bitter hatred on both sides and in sure that if the rebels took Toledo or any place around it a slaughter would follow.

Rebel Headquarters, Burgos, Spain, Sept. 19. The rebel general headquarters today issued a communique announcing that Major Cobian's col umn at Seville had captured 2,000 'loyalists on theLlerena sector on the southeastern flank of the extreme Dura frcnt The rebel communique added that 140 loyalists were killed in ambush and 30 wounded while not a single rebel was hurt in the clash. Arma ments and horses also were said to have been captured. Geneva, Sept.

19. The internation al committee of the Red Cross an' nounced today that it had reached an agreement with Premier Largo Ca bellero of Spain and San Miguel Cabanelas, governor of the Burgos (rebel) provisional government to re epect the International safety conven tions and evacuate women and chil' dren from the danger zones of war, The accord was concluded by the Swiss doctor, M. Junod, who under took a similar mission in Ethiopia, Both sides agreed to accept money or supplies wnich foreign Red Cross or ganizations will send through the in ternatlonal Red Crces. TEXAS RAILHOAD TIED UP TODAY AS S00 STRIKE Greenville, Sept i Five hundred brotherhood employes of the Arkansas Texas rail to owuta. wiuay ana trams cn an iuie "isrcrs, iirrenen.

wUoK8, ana swiicn men waisea accoraancs with we auure oraer. Buaras pauruuea ine ran 1 acwvry was AWJroxunateiy sou oi tne swucers an cmwym uie uraanvjue yaras R. R. Farmer, vice president of too u. a.

ai looay tnai tas company "would restore service on the lines as soon as possible." WORK SCHEDULE OF COLLIERIES THE PITTSTON CO. i Central and Butler collieries will Monday. ON THE ALCAZAR (Copyright, 1936, by United Press. Damage done by the hurricane blowing out to sea off Nantucket to day may total more than $5,000,000, a compilation of estimates from shipping interests and authorities of North Carolina. Delaware, New Jersey and New York indicated today.

It was impossible to itemize the damage, but at least one fishing boat, several barges, and probably 100 small yachts were destroyed, and every city and village of 1,000 miles of coast suffered. Several communities that possibly suffered the worst damage still were cut off from communication today. North Carolina and Virginia cot ton, tobacco and corn crops were dam aged extensively. The North Carolirti corn crop was estimated to have been 20 per cent lost. Reports from principal "points hit by the gale included: Cape Hatteras, N.

First shore point the hurricane struck. The naval radio station and many houses were flooded and roads inundated. Elizabeth City, N. Streets flood ed; trees, telephone lines blown down: stores and houses damaged oy wind and water. Norfolk, Va.

Several houses un roofed; wharf damaged; water filled many streets and basements. Virginia Beach, Va. Roads wash' ed out; summer cot ges flooded telephone lines blown down. Ocean City, Md. Board Walk washed away; beach homes flooded.

Bethany Beach, Del. Several small boats swamped; homes damaged by wind and water. Re hobo th, Del. Trees uprooted; chimneys blown down; boardwalk de stroyed. Lewes, Del.

Part of pier washed awayT" windows fat many buildings broken; trees uprooted. Cape May, N. J. Two houses, in eluding three story dwelling of mayor, collapsed into ocean; others endan gered. Portion of fishing pier wreck ed.

Wildwood, N. J. One building de mollshed by wind. Ocean City, N. J.

Buildings over more than mile or oeacn nooaea trolley service interrupted by flooded streets: eight houses endangered by threatened Imminent collapse of un dermlned breakwater. Atlantic City, N. J. City surround ed by water, the ocean having been blown inland on both sides to join and flood salt marshes five miles from normal shore. Waves may have un dermined famous boardwalk.

Asbury Park, N. J. Sand remov ed from beneath boardwalk by WPA last winter at $100,000 cost to pre vent pier rotting, washed back almost in original quantity. Deal, N. J.

Waves 15 feet high broke over bulkheads against city sewaee plant: streets flooded; sev eral small buildings unroofed. Belmar, N. J. A bridge one fourth completed endangered by surf. Sixty men reinforced pilings with sandbags all night.

Seabright, N. J. Ocean drives closed to traffic with surf beating entirely across them. Jersey Central railroad tracks flooded. New York City Ssveral score plate glass windows broken by wind; streeta littered with debris; trees broken; thousands of basements flooded by all day rain.

Trans Atlantic liners held in port. Long Island, N. and Connecti cut shore of Long Island Sound Many small yachts blown ashore or swamped; low spots on virtually all island roads flooded; transcontinental air traffic halted. THREE ARE RESCUED FROM LOST SCHOONER New Haven, Sopt. 19.

A police harbor patrol early today res cued three men from a small schooner which foundered a half mile off shore during the height of last night's gale. They were Nicholas Freedman and his brother, Robert, both of Newton, and Joseph Chapman, Rye, N. Y. Now Playing at Your Local Theaters (With starting time of Feature Picture) AMERICAN "Counterfeit" with Chester Morris and Marion Marsh 1:40. 3:40.

5:40, 7:40, 9:30 ROMAN THEATRE "Song of the Saddle" Dick Foran, Alma Lloyd 9:00, 4:00, 6:00. 8:00, 10:00 ring will be prepared In; Afield near the stables, bleachers win Be erected, and every possible convenience pro vided for the large crowd of people that is expected to attend. Officers for the show 'have teen chopen as follows: General chairman. Charles Berry; vice chairman, Capt. William A.

Clark; treasurer, John A. Allan; secretary, G. Edward Mffier General commlttee Jc.Ji"TIaL By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent. New York, Sept.

19. The year's worst hurricane swirled out to sea today after spending its fury against the eastern seaboard and leaving in its wake at least eleven dead, erty damage running into millions of dollars and disrupted shipping and communications. A high pressure area rolling down from the Great Lakes region forced the hurricane, which had lashed the coasts of the CaroMhas, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey uid New York, io swing noixneastwara, sparing most of New England. At ,10:45 a. the local weather bureau estimated that the storm was centered east of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast.

South of the storm the skies had cleared, the sun was shining over ravaged areas. Because cf advance warnings from the government weather service, there was comparatively little loss of life. Property damage, however, may total more than $5,000,000 according to a compilation of estimates from shipping interests and authorities of the various, states affected Seven cf the known fatalities were members of the crew of the fishing boat Long Island, which foundered in Delaware Bay yesterday. The coast guard originally had listed as most of the Long Island's crew of 42. But early today, 32 of the crew were found alive on a barge inside Dela ware breakwater.

Three had made shore yesterday. The seven others, including the skippsr, perished. Three perscns were killed in the Philadelphia area as result of the storm and one drowned off Atlantic City. Shipping suffered hardest from the blow, but it was impossible to itemize the damage. Scores of small craft were destroyed along the 1,000 miles of coast hit by the storm Many persons aboard small vessels that usually hug shores had been re ported missing, but today all these had turned up alive.

Two youths in a rowboat, feared bst in Jamaica Bay, near New York, were found by police today, marooned in an anchored cab in cruiser. Their rowboat had sunk, Harbor police at New Haven, Conn, rescued four men from a small schooner which foundered a half mile off shore during the night. The tail end of the hurricane pass ed over Montauk Point, at the top of Long island early today Montauk Point had been cut off from telephone communication with New York soon after midnight, but before daybreak the lines were restored, Prom Montauk Point, the hurricane appeared to veer farther east. New England felt only the fringes of the storm Probably the last feel effects of the mountainous seas and the heavy gale was the Nantuckst lightship which last January snapped its anchor cable in a storm T. COYNE IN SI.

JOHN'S NUPTIAL Mies Sara Coyne, daugh'er of Jo seph Coyne, of 1,191 Main street, Port Griffith, and Michael T. Jordan son of Mrs. Mary Jcraan. of 353 MCLiean str.se:, WHkes Barre. were united in marriage this morning at 9 o'clock in St.

John the Evangelist Church by Rev. H. T. Kennedy, who also celebrated a nuptial mass. Miss Martina Coyne, gis'er of the bride and James Jordan, of Wllkes Baw brother of ths bridegroom, were ths a tendants.

A large company of friends of the vouni? ccuDle Wfre present to witness the ceremony, At the conclusion of the church ceremcny the bridal party had break fast at the erllng, Wllkcs BairTe, after which Mr. and Mrs. Jordan were honored at a recep.ion at the horn of the bride's father. Late this afemocn Mr. and Mrs.

Jordan will leave on a honeymoon trip through New" York State and New England and upon their will reside In wilkes Barre. Mrs. Jordan is a member of one of Port Griffith's most rrepected familka and has a host cf friends She was graduated from Jenkins High School and Bloomsburg State Teach ers' College and had served as princi pal cf th grade school in Port Grif fi ll. Mr. Jordan has a position with the state engineers in his homs city.

SUICIDE AT BEACH HAVEN Reia Ives found George E. NaAtress, aged 66 years, of Beach Hawn, Luzerne county, dead In his bedroom from a shotgun wound throueh the heart. They said "he had been in iCl health. Na' tress was a native of Tamaqua and a former resident of CKrardVille, prop Sc were lost. They were the fishing captain, Romie George, of Maxwell, whose body was recovered tsday by Coast Guards; L.

J. Conklin, 2nd engineer, of Milmarnock, and five negroes Vernon Pautleroy, NettsvSle, Cyril Leeman, of Vilmington, N. James Smith, Robert Jones and Robert Williams, all no address. Operating Captain William Bert rand, former naval officer, told the story of their fight against the seas as he and 31 others drifted helplessly in a lifeboat until rescued by a barge in Delaware Bay. Three others were washed safely ashore on bits of wreckage yesterday.

The Long Island, an auxiliary schooner, with 42 persons, aboard, was beating into the bay yesterday morn' ing when the gale began. The vessel was tossed about like a stick of kindling wood on the waves and a few minutes before seven a. m. began to list and break up. All hands were or dered don life preservers and then the order was given to abandon ship, A lifeboat was put off with 32 men aboard.

Ten men remained on board, three of these were washed ashore unharmed and the other seven were lost. "We were in our lifeboat for about two hours," Bertrand said, "after our boat sank. The lifeboat was badly overloaded with 38 men in it and about all we could do was to steer so the seas wouldn't break over her, and drift wherever the waves took us, "After a time that seemed quite long, we passed near one barge and they tried to throw us a line. But they weren't able to reach us and we drift ed some more. Finally we came to a second barge, the Hallowell "The captain of the Hallowell man aged to put a line aboard our life' boat and ell 32 of us went aboard immediately.

The barge itself had three men aboard and they took care or us in wonderful fashion, giving us bean soup, hot and piping. It tasted wonderful "I didn't see George when the ship sank," Bertrand concluded, The operating captain of the lost schooner is 49 and has been at sea for 30 years. He took over the Long IS' land in August. This experience waz not his first wreck at sea, for fce was in a similar disaster on the Bay of Biscay about 10 years ago when hU ship sank and he was picked up, HALF WAY STAIN Garden City, N. Sept.

19. Winning the last two holes, 25 year old Jack McLean of Scotland, was two up over Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati today at the end of the morning round of their 36 hole battle for the U. 6. amateur title, IN ATLANTIC CITY AFTER IE STORM Atlantic City, Sept. 19.

Bright sunshine glittered today on shattered glass as crcwds of curiosity seekers gathered on the boardwalks here and in Asbury Park to observe the effects of the storm. Ocean avenue which parallels the ocean front on the northern shore was blocked at several points between Spring Lake and Sea Bright by quan tities of sand and driftwood. Plate glass windows had been shattered In store fronts for some distance back from the ocean. At Spring Lake, an automobile was blown off the main highway. Another car was blown Into the meadows off Fort Lee road 'in Leonla.

Occupants of neither car were harmed. Many of the main routes throughout the state were dotted with automobiles disabled during the storm and temporarily abandoned at the roadside. Washington, Sept. 19. President Roosevelt returned to Washington at 8:40 a.

m. today, after a visit to Cambridge, in. connection with Harvard University's Tercenten ary celebration. He cancelled plans to go to Hyde Park, because of the Illness of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is confined to bed with grippe.

SATURDAY SPECIAL CHICKEN. SPAGHETTI SALAD IIFEK LEAEIS in at of Capt WJfflwLarVIS. 'iorx. Uo fcap, Frank J. Flannery, James WT Allan, A.

M. Dersblmfr. W. Evans, W. C.

SutherUii 1, p. Schwartz, William J. Peck, Berry, Louis Schiffman, Roy 6u G. Edward Miller, H. B.

Schooley, i BY Ballinger, Texas, Sept. 19. More than 2,000 persons were homeless today and property damage was estimated at more than $2,000,000 as the rising flood waters of the Colorado river and its tributaries mcved downstream toward Austin, the state capital. Another 600 persons fled their homes here las; night when the muddy Colorado, overflowing its banks nearly a mile, swirled close to 'the business district. Although the crest was believed reached here fear was felt for river towns downstream.

About 20 miles southeast cf Ballinger the Colorado and Concho rivers meet. The Concho left 1,500 homeless and $2,000,000 property damage yesterday at San Angelo. Small com munities botween here and Austin were threatened after the crests of the two rivers meet. Towns on the tributaries of the Colorado in this region also were seriously affected; San Saba on the San Saba river was virtually sur rounded by water. At Gonzales the Guadalupe river was eight feet above flood level.

Brownwccd. 10 miles north of the Colorado on Pecan Bayou was nearly completely inundated as more than four feet cf water poured over the dam at Lake Brown wood. In northern McCulloch county, due to get the crest of the flood waters of both the Colorado and Concho rivers today, residents prepared for the greatest flood in the section's history. Already the Colorado was 100 feet beyond its bank. Bridges spanning the river at Tracy and at Waldrip were washed away.

More than nine feet of water covered the new $80,000 bridge on Highway 16. There was no immediate threat to Austin, more than 200 miles down the Colorado, but it was feared that unless the heavy rains, reported from all sections in this area subsided that the state capital would receive the raging waters. SPECIAL CAT CANARY CHICKEN, HARD SHELL CRABS, CLAMS. TEXAS is sweeping northward along the At VOTE BY MAIL AT Legionnaires who will be unable to attend Monday night's meeting of Stark Post for a good reason, will be permitted to cast their ballots by mail, Commander William P. Bonser an nounced today.

Mr. Bonser said that he had obtained an opinion from I. Gordon Forster, department judge ad' vocate, interpreting the Legion regu lations on that point and advising that it is altogether legal to accept ballots mailed in by Legionnaires who are unable to attend Monday's meet ing for any good reason. The ruling was sought, according to Mr. Bonser, when it became known that the day appointed for election of officers of Stark Post is the same date on which the annual national con' vention of the Legion is to get underway at Cleveland, O.

Several mem' bers of Stark Post had planned weeks in advance to attend the national convention and two James M. Evans and Charles S. Cook are delegates. The opinion of the judge advocate was sought to determine if those attending the national convention of the or ganization would bs deprived of their voice in local post elections when dates conflicted. Mr.

Bonser qualified his statement by explaining that a predecessor to the present judge advocate interpret ed the Legion law otherwise on this absentee voting clause back in 1934 but that the opinion of the present Judge advocate shall prevail in Monday's balloting here. Every indication points to a heated contest on Monday when Legionnaires assemble to elect officers fcr the ensuing year. The battle for post commander, between Adjutant Frank Houser and William J. Groark is expected to be one of the most interesting in the post's history and the fact that the judge advocate's opinion was sought in order to establish the legality of votes of a small number of absent Legionnaires is prrxj? sufficient that the contest is expected to be extremely close. CAMPBELL BLACK, BRITISH FLIER, FATALLY HURT Sspt.

19. Campbell Black, noted' British filer, was fatally injured today when his plane collided with another airplane In taking off from the airport here. The famous flier died in a hospital shortly after he was rushed from the Speke airdrome He was winner of the England Australia air race in October, 1934, in ABSENTEES MAY LEGION ELECTION C. Deal, Rulison Evans, R. N.

Myers, Eugene W. Mulligan, Albert Minl chello, Richard B. Miller, Margie and James Moffatt. Executive committee Ch' Berry, chairman; G. Edward I' secretary; James W.

ATan. Dershlmer, Eugene W. Mu B. Schooley, A'bert J. Richard B.

Mille MIf bore the brunt cf the hurricane which inundated streets. New York, Sept. 19. The sfceck market today scored its third successive gain in increased volume. Advances ranged to more than a point.

Greatest activity centered on Commonwealth Southern which rcse point to 3 on blocks ranging to 15,000 shares. It reported the company has entered an cgreement with TVA which will result in profitable operaticn in the coming year. North American was another active favorite. Fractional fjains were noted in Consolidated Edison, Columbia Gas, Public Service, American Water Works, and Electric Power Light. Western Union was a strong rpot, rising a point; American Telephone firmed fractionally.

Steels, oils, farm equipments, mercantile issues and rail equipments were in demand. Some rails made new highs. Motors firmed and motor equipments made (rains ranging to more than a point. ARER BIS ELECTION Pmsacola, Seipt 19 The Pensacola City Council tn a surprise cession ousted Democratic Mayor H. Clay Armstrong because of his support, of 1h9 Republican national ticket and named a successor who dropped dead less than an hour after the action.

The new mayor was O. L. Mover, who succumbed, to a heart attack within a short while after he had told the council "I assure you gentlemen you have elected a. good strong Dmccrat." TRAIL CASE death of five mine workers. Members of the jury have not been selected yet.

Considerable importance is to the inquest, as it will be the first public inquiry into the explosion. Mine inspectors have made investigations and their findings have been reported to the State Department of Mines in Harrisburg, and during the past wek "conferences of inspectors have been held with the head of the State Department of Mines Jn Harrisburg to determine whether or not there are grounds for prosecution. FLOOD STOCKS Mill GAINS AY ACTIVE MARKET The Miller Stables are among the N. largest'in this section and are well 'V equipped to provide all entrants with good quarters. There will be r4 room for parking near Uw ring in which the how will bs staged.

1 i After seve al meetings of officers of the Fox Hill Riding and Hunt Club with members of the general committee, it was agreed that, due to the central location of the Miller Stables and the fine facilities afforded a horse show under PltUon auspices wou'd prove very successful and would attract entrants from of 1 i INQUEST WEDNESDAYS Northeastern Pennsylvania. Entry blanki will be mailed to horse owner? on Monday. ''Swj v' The official registration upperclassmen of St. Thomas College was conducted yesterday and; classes will begin on Monday for the tntlr student body. Hundreds of students front all sec tions 0 the Valley indicated their' Intentions of returning to tin college.

Fran J. CHara, registrar, tald that he thought a new attendance record would be HAVE FUN ec ENJOY YOURSELF THE ylliLA IiOVA (Formerly Herman's on Sulll'n Trn; Special chicken dinner RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS EliULU ST. THOMAS till 1 SULLIVAN Official announcement was made today by Deputy Coroner Edgar Maury, of West Pittston, that the cor oner's Inquest into the explosion that occurred in the Sullivan Trail Coal Coal mine in West Pittston, formerly the Clear Spring, on Aug. 24, has been aet for Wednesday eventafr next week, Sept. 23, at eight o'clock, in the West Pittston Town Hall.

At this time will be called to give testimony in regard to the accident in an effort to leam the causes of the explosion that resulted la the which Clyde Fanghorn and Capt. Roscoe Turner also competed. Captain Black is a veteran of the Royal Air Force and has done dangerous work flying in. Africa. He made a spectacular rescue of Ernest Udet, former German flying see, in 1931, when Udet was lost' the treacherous desert wastes of the rivtr Kile country.

V. i KEHOE BEBGE COAI? CO. Broadwell Colliery and Kehoe realtor 'will work Monday. 35c; MEAT BALLS. SPAGHETTI SALAD, 25c.

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