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Ml Brooklyn Residents Flee to Street as Earth Tremors Shake East BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935 I Temblor Felt Drive on Noise Widened to End Din in Daytime In 17 States And in Canada Earthquake Is Sharpest in Area Since 1925-Ilouseg Here Cracked Campaign on 21-Hour Basis, Starting Today, After Test of a Month QP yQ 1 If fill i Jittery New Yorkers should find some relief today from the nerve-shattering bombardment of decibels produced by ti myriad activities of the nation's largest city, for starting this morning Mayor anti-noise campaign itAnt rr full timp hpw The earth shook when this baby was born. It's a girl, daughter of Mrs. Nathanial Dobbin, born in the midst of last night's tremors in Israel Hurled from their beds by earth tremors these residents of 141 Sackett St. grabbed the nearest garments and fled to the street. There they huddled to gether and discussed the quake while workmen made the building safe for reoccupancy.

Zion Hospital. Nurse Nadia Radko holds the baby. Fe Staff Photo Tl44 41.41, OC44U 4444ba W.1U pictures were knocked awry. Boro Buildings Brooklynites should benefit particularly, for records of last month, when unnecessary noise was banned experimentally by the Mayor between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m..

showed that the so-called City of Churches was the noisiest of the five boroughs. 46 Summoned Here The October records show that 8.577 warnings and 46 summonses for nocturnal noise were issued by police in Brooklyn, while only 7.851 warnings and 54 summonses were given out in Manhattan. The total lor the city was 20,334 warnings and 172 summonses. Commenting on the first month. Mayor LaGuardia declared that although no punitive measures had been invoked he believed substantial progress had been made.

"The campaign," he said, "is being carried on with due consideration of the fact that New York City's bristling life and Industry cannot go on without the production of some noise." Motorists thief Offenders Horn blowing motorists comprised the majority of last month's offenders but other noise-makers did and will continue to receive attention. Yesterday the bombs and fireworks used by Italians in celebrating ttie feast days of saints cams under the ban. Police Commissioner Valentine vesterdav issued orders to all com- At first many feared the shocks 12 Quakes in 50 Years Have Jolted Borough were due to a terrific explosion at one of the explosive plants In north Jersey. Are Shored Up Continued from Page 1 Employes in the Public Service Continued from Page 1 earthquake at Helena, where two men were killed in shocks yesterday. There was also an earthquake to the far south, in Honduras, Central America.

But seismologists, or earthquake students, expressed the belief that the three were unrelated. The Rev. Joseph L. Lynch, head Of the Fordham University physics department, agreed with Frank O'Donncll of the Dominion Meteorological Bureau In Toronto and Dr. L.

C. Conant, director of the Cornell University Seismological Station, that the St. Lawrence fault, or imperfection in the rock foundation, was probably to blame for the earth's slippage, directly responsible for the tremors. Two Shocks Recorded In Ithaca, Dr. Conant said: "It was the worst earthquake we have ever had here.

It was much worse than the one in 1925." However, Father Lynch, after reading his Fordham University seismograph, reported that the shock here in the city was only about a fifth as strong as that of ten years ago. It was between one-fifth and one-tenth the intensity of the Helena shock. There were two shocks. Father Lynch found, the first being reported on his instrument at 1:05:49 a.m. and the second at 1:06:46 "They were really one and the same shock," he explained, "but they reached us in two tremors, like lightiiinr and thunder.

They started together but, because of moving through different mediums, one got here ahead of the other, Just as lightning will reach you first, light moving at 186,000 miles a second, and later on will come the slow-moving sound of thunder." The center of the quake, he calculated, was 330 miles away, or just the other side of Lake Ontario. Not Felt In Skyscrapers There was also a possibility that the quake originated in a fault on the bed of the Atlantic, running about 100 miles off the coast of Maine. The quake that shook New York in 1925, with the general effects of the one today, was traced to the Atlantic Ocean fault. In spite of the far-flung area over which the tremor occurred, no deaths were reported. The intensity with which the temblors made Terminal in Newark felt the build Trains Shelter Quake Victims Continued from Page 1 were Ed O'Brien and Vincent Kennedy, both of Salt Lake City.

Stores suffered minor injuries in yesterday's two devastating shocks, which were followed by a series of lesser tremors. ing sway and vibrate, while revelers in a number of taprooms hastened of persons were calling to learn to the street in amazement as glassware and bottles clinked against each other. what had happened. The first call came from Charles Wolf. 32 Prospect Park West, who Great Iiurentian Fault, Running From Massachusetts to Carolina, ami Crossing State Many Miles From City, Blamed for Temblors said he had been awakened by the Two Births Here During Tremors At the moment early this morning when Brooklyn was jarred by earthquake tremors, a baby girl and a baby boy were born in hospitals here.

The little girl made her bow to the world in Israel-Zion Hospital a few minutes after 1 o'clock. She is the daughter nf Mr. and Nathaniel Dobbin of 1113 Avenue O. The baby seven pounds, two ounces. Mother and daughter are doing well.

The little boy was born in Riverdale Hospital, 501 New Lots to Mrs. Sally Tassin. 24. of 653 Euclid Ave. He weighs nine pounds and let out his first cry at 1:05 a.m.

Dr. David Soloway, attending physician, said he felt a slight tremor during the delivery. Mother and son are doing well. The baby is Mrs. Tassin's first.

St. Peter's Hospital, the onlv one Though Brooklyn and the rest of New York is sitting on in Ule city still operating, was which the scientists say is solid through countless years crowded with patients seeking geologic adjustment and hence is not earthquake terrl- mf'nt 'or injuries or shock. oQ Kon i At 5:18 a today the earth again violent barking of his dog and snapped on the light to see the electric l.xtures swinging in an arc. He said he thought burglars were In the house. Leave Homes in Nightclothes Police headquarters, not yet aware that the disturbance was actually iuijt, ai.ivau.8i am.ii w' shook, tossing sleepers from their manding officers in which he listed experienced a dozen times in'' "beds, knocking down plaster and 'some of the noises they were ex- the last half century.

The worst tremors experienced locally came in the years 1886, 1914 and 1925, but there have been many other tremors of lesser intensity, averaging every four years. One of the most recent was in 1929, when a quake in the vicinity of Lake Erie watching a senior class play rushed toppling a few weakened walls. Thpected to control. They included downstairs in momentary panic. rudely awakened slumberers ran for needless blowing of automobile The 1925 earthquake lasted locally doorways to escape the falling horns to blast through congested from 9:21 to 9:25 in its most severe debris.

1 traffic, to hasten other cars by traf- stage. though slight tremors were Scores of persons left the city he lights and to call persons from recorded for a full- hour on the last night and today (heir homes. Fordham seismograph. nihr nii.s SIllkn Jay-Walkers a Cause Seismologists have repeated time Pedestrians whose jay-walkin? and aeain that New York Citv Is Thp Reconstruction Commis- produces horn blowing also were was slightly reflected here. Roosevelt Orders Helena Aid President Roosevelt, from his home In Hyde Park, N.

called on the Red Cross, the Army and the FERA to speed relief to families left homeless in subzero weather at Helena, Mont. Families in many communities swamped police station and newspaper telephones with pleas for information and reassurance. A telephone operator at Escanaba, Mich, was Jolted from her chair. Telephone service was broken in Central Ottawa and Hamilton, and between Rome and other cities in New York. An occasional cracked wall, a few bricks toppled from chimneys and some broken china apparently completed the damage.

Buffalo reported the disturbance lasted about four minutes there. Many citizens feared to go back into their homes. Householders in Portland, said buildings swayed so strongly they were sickened. The temblor was accompanied by a rumbling, they said. Blames Tilting Inside Earth The Government's ranking earthquake expert exonerated the sun and moon of blame for the shocks, adding that possibly they could be attributed to a normal aftermath of the great Ice Age.

N. H. Heck, chief of the terrestrial magnetism and seismology division Charleston Ruined in '86 safe for all time from a severe sion was summoned into session by loudness of radios, both in cars and an earthquake, dispatched a radio car to the Wolf home. The two patrolmen in the car found no burglars but they found the streets jammed with hysterical people in nightclothes, bewildered and frightened by the shocks which had driven them from their homes. By the time the radio patrolmen had reported, police headquarters knew Brooklyn had been shaken by an earthquake.

Calls were coming in from all parts of the borough reporting that the shock had been felt, and details of the damage and terror it had caused. Emergency Squads Stand By The five emergency squads in the borough were directed to stand by for further orders. The shock was felt only shghtly in The 1886 quake, named after I earthquake, despite the fact that a its chairman. Justice S. V.

Stewart Charleston, ruined that peaceful great "fault." known as the Lauren- nf the State Supreme Court, to dis- South Carolina city. It occurred tian, underlies a coaslderable por- cuss remedial measures, on Aug. 31. going so far as to rattle tion of the States of the Atlantic Offers of aid came from a num- within premises, racing of automobile engines, cut-outs or poor mufflers on automobiles and motorcycles, truck deliveries made with undue noise, hammering and other disnes in cupboards along tne banks seaboard, beginning with Massachu-. ber of Montana points, most of of the Potomac and shiver buildings setts and ending in South Carolina.

which were shaken themselves idur- noise at and gas statlonS( in Brooklyn, me quane was leu The Laurentian fault cuts across 1 tng the severe tremors, which ex- anri nermittintr ln.irt miKir Tm along the entire Atlantic seaboard New York State several hundred tended into Washington and Can- ZSe hours Tat themselves felt varied from place in the house. Among the other tenants are the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cad-man, Charles M.

Higgins, Freemont Peck. William M. Calder Jr. and the family of the late George C. Til-you.

Club, Theater Shaken The temblor was felt in the Columbus Club, I Prospect Park West, and in the Paramount Theater Building. Mrs. John McMahon, 2038 E. 34th in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, was awakened by the howling of nearly all the dogs in the neighborhood. She felt the house shaking and ran down the cellar, thinking the steam pressure in the i.n, inura iiwii uic iiicuuijviia.

aua. euue sneuerea many reiugees, ns in a previous quase, oi Aug Tnere nave been no severe siiocks to place. In downtown Manhattan, where tall skyscrapers might have been expected to show earthquake 10, 1884. many persons were so ter i in the United States eastern Association offered aid and a taurants and dance halls in residential districts. Vocal offenders also were listed by the Commissioner.

These included night workers conereKatine and rified that they rushed In panic i board area except the 1886 Charles- check for $1 000 was sent tn the effects most readily, almost none to the streets and stayed there for ton one. which caused 27 deaths and ned Cross Miles Citv notified was reported. In midtown Manhat tan patrons of night clubs and res a long while in excited discussion great property damage. Along the and fear. i St.

Lawrence River in Canada, how- On the afternoon of Feb. 10. 1914, ever, in 1663 a terrific quake oc-the tremblinE of the Brooklvn earth curred. reported to have been ac- Helena it was sending $500. talking in loud tones in front of Congressman Joseph P.

Mon-, their establishments and groups of aghan of Butte called upon Aubrey persons returning home talking or Williams, deputy national relief singing loudly or boisterously. taurants carried on their scheduled gaycty without being aware that furnace boiler might have been too began at 1:34 and lasted until 1 :37. 1 companied by flattening of falls in the earth's foundations were trembling under them. administrator, and officers at Fort it iU 1 1 rt at Washington, held the quake was na. L- vr 'si'- Missoula, to aid the stricken city 4 UK Lltru.ui.', iUUUWt'U Lilt lillc Ul juuuuiaiu.

or tne mysterious type probably caused by tilting far underneath the earth's surface. "We know that in some areas the Occur Along Fixed Line As to the minor tremors which Old Buildings Wrecked Armed guards, including 50 hel-mcted National Guardsmen, State Farther north, In Harlem, as In Brooklyn and throughout Long Island, the shaking was definite and severe. It was severely felt in Bay Ridge and South Brooklyn. Out in Nassau County radio police rushed Montague St. and pictures fell off the walls in places, dishes rattled in homes and type moved in the galleys in printing offices.

On Mon tirooKiyn teets every lew years CANDIDATE STRICKEN Assemblyman James A. Burfke of the 4th District. Queens, today became suddenly ill, on his way to his campaign headquarters in the Stewart Building, Jamaica, and was rushed to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where an emergency operation was performed for a stomach Government surveys show that they "iRhway patrol members and police. roe Place plants on the floor were I out in pursuit of chicken thieves The Eagle Building at Washington and Johnson but across the street in the Brooklyn Postoffice some of the lights were put out by the tremor. As the postoffice lights blinked on lights on The Eagle switchboard began to flash on with calls from residents of the borough inquiring if there had been an explosion or an earthquake.

A group of doctors on duty on an upper floor of the Holy Family Hospital felt the shock and diagnosed it as a distant explosion. They ordered the ambulances to stand by and be ready for an emergency call. Tenants Scream in Fright The greatest intensity of the quake was felt along Sackett St. where the walls of a row of three three-story and basement brick buildings. Nos.

141, 143 and 145, began cracking and splitting. Screaming with fright, the tenants streamed Into the street. A call was summoned by farmers who heard strange and untimely cacklings, only to learn that it was the earthquake occur usually along an imaginary line passing through Washington. Lasl Chance Gulch, where half-Baltimore. Philadelphia.

New York century-old buildings were wrecked. City, Hartford and Boston. Thc greatest loss was at the new In addition to the tectonic kind of llalf million dollar high school, earthquake caused by the slipping here the north wing collapsed as of great areas of the earths crust workmen fled, along fractures in the rock underbed I The East Helena School will have called "faults" there are volcanic I to be rebuilt, trustees said. that had unloosed the cackles. New Jersey Jolted New Jersey was sharply Jolted and branch bank building, where a wall cracked in two places.

Government buildings escaped with little loss. Plaster was jarred loose at the hundreds of citizens were tumbled land gradually rises over periods of thousands of years after the ice load is lost." he said. He said that such gradual tilting has been measured with extremely sensitive instruments in and around Buffalo and in Scandinavia. He described the disturbance as entirely distinct from those which have struck the West Coast. Along the Eeastern seaboard and in parts of Canada and the Mid-West, he said an earthquake's force is spread over a wide area, while those in the Far West are concentrated and consequently do more damage if the point of greatest disturbance is in or near a city.

Explains Varying Effect Dr. Hotchkiss gave a reason which out of beds. The tremors there earthquakes, These do not plague Carroll and Intermountain Col came between 1:05 and 1:10, shook great. Out on Long Island Nassau County police headquarters was flooded with telephone calls reporting chicken thieves. Residents heard their hens setting up a nervous cackling during the night and Jumped to a wrong conclusion.

Guests Trowd Lobby Throughout the early morning hours reports came into the office from large hotels and apartment houses that guests and tenants refused to return to their beds. At the Turner Towers, a large apartment house at 135 Eastern Parkway, about 100 persons, some attired in their nightclothes, remained in the lobby for several hours. Nearby on Eastern Parkway about 400 persons rushed to the street and stayed there for hours, many clothed only in pajamas and bathrobes. Prospect Park Hit Those phoning The Eagle announced that they had felt the shock for from 30 seconds to four minutes. The callers reported that their homes shook, pictures were tilted, telephones and other objects jolted from their positions on tables and chairs overturned.

One of those who phoned in was our eastern seaboard. Also, some lege buildings were damaged and Capitol. seen to vibrate and it was noted that the vibrations took a general northeast to southwest trend. Some of the things that happened in 1925: 1. A woman standing on the B.

M. T. platform at Broadway and Myrtle Ave. was shaken to the tracks and run over by a train. Wires Torn Down 2.

Telephone wires were shaken down over a wide area, with Brooklyn somehow being more affected than the rest of the city, according to telephone company officials. 3. Clocks were stopped in Jamaica. 4. In Red Hook police reserves were necessary to quiet gatherings of poor people who thought the world was coming to an end.

5. When the balcony of Packer Institute's auditorium began to vibrate from the shock, an audience up most of the North Jersey communities and extended southward along the coastline. scientists refused to class disturb- classes suspended. St. Vincent's 1 The minaret at the Shrine Tem-ances caused by volranic action as Academy was nearly wrecked.

pie remained upright, atop cracked among the "real earthquakes." Except for the Federal Reserve walls. Besides New York and New Jersey the States affected were: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia. Indiana, Michi gan, Illinois and Wisconsin. The UiyJuvl YOIH asks VOTE FOR ed that several calls were received from persons asking whether there flashed to headquarters and an emergency squad car with siren open leached the scene a few moments later. The walls of 141 Sackett St.

had a dangerous bulge. The Building Department was notified, the street roped off and police entered the three buildings to clear them of any tenant who had not fled at the first shock. The B. M. T.

was directed to reroute the Sackett St. trolleys while a squad of workmen under Inspector William Byrne of the Bureau of Public Safety, Building Department, began shoring up the endangered walls. It was nearly 5 a.m. before it was considered safe for the tenants to return to their apartments. Several Buildings Crack Meanwhile reports of damage to buildings were coming in from other sections of Brooklyn.

Byrne made an inspection tour of the borough in response to those calls. Seventy-five tenants of a four-story frame building at 889 Grand ne said probably explained why some persons felt this morning's earthquake and others did not. Houses built on sand or clay would be affected by the waves more than houses built on solid rock, he said. "The sand and clay can shake like jelly ona plate, while the solid rocks behaves like a lump of ice on a plate," he said. "The earthquake waves travel at very high speed through the solid rock, and the amplitude of the vibration is he said.

"When the waves reach unconsolidated material, such as sand, clay and gravel beds, they are materially slowed up and the amplitude increased very greatly. "udging from the kind of shocks previously felt in this region, it is District of Columbia, including Washington, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec also were in the earthquake area. This is an area over which an occasional light earthquake tremor has occurred, long Intervals apart, but the residents of it have not become earthquake-conscious. Newark House tllapses The earthquake picked on the family of Joseph Pallitto at 64 Johnson Newark, to inflict the most serious damage of any in the metropolitan area. The Pallitto family, conslfting of Joseph, his wife, and their three chil COUNTY Frederick W.

Hiltonsnnth or 21 had been an explosion there. Build-Catherine Lynbrook, who re- ings at. the yard shook for some ported he had felt the shock for seconds. fully a minute. I Shortly after the shock emergency Morton Pannaman of 2165 78th trucks were ordered to 10th St.

and said he was sitting in the 8th Flatbusli Ave. and Plaza kitchen with his wife when they felt Willoughby and Throop trembling and the dishes rattled be- and to an 11-story building at 90 8th fore them. i Avenue. Thrown Off Balance At Floyd Bennett Field it was re- Mrs. Agnes Burner of 426 E.

5th ported that the tremor was felt said she had just returned from there. a motion picture show and was re- Inspection' of the big downtown moving her coat when she was slid- office buildings disclosed that they denly thrown off her balance. She had not been in the least affected Mil dren, Joseph Rosemary. 7. and Jack 3.

were asleep In their 1 mot likely that there would be no two-family frame home when they continuation of tne disturbance." called her sister, Miss Gertrude by the succession of shocks. Guests Fail to Complain at, were airam to return 10 meir wnlsh. of 226 Lincoln Place, who apartments until Byrne told them tnW hrr shc fclt tho pnlirc n0llse mere was no aanger oi me duuq- tremble Ing's collapse. IWA1ILESSAXU John DeBruyn. superintendent of the National Title Guaranty Company Building at 185 Montague said no one In the building had noticed the shock, but that he had felt it at his home, 103 Jorale-mon St.

Managers of the Hotels St. George, Bossert, Towers. Pierrepont John E. Lanthear of 374 Clinton reported that his home had actually rocked. The Brooklyn Edison Company at 380 Pearl announced that three distinct tremors were fe't between 1:08 and 1:10.

Fall of Makale Is Reported Continued from rage 1 Haile Selassie predicted painful surprises were in store for the invading Italians. The King of Kings' army of men was said to be still intact, not having had a single major encounter with the Italians and having suffered only a few hundred casualties. wis. f. uernaj-rit oi tne i inner and Montague said none of the Towers on Eastern Parkway report-; had complained of discom- ed "terrific She said fort as a result of the quake, At 582 Bedford a six-story brick building, a crack was discovered in an outside wall, but It was not necessary to disturb the occupants to shore up the building.

Cracks opened the walls of a four-story eight-family building at 688 Flushing Ave. and caused the tenants to flee to the street, but most of them returned to their apartments when they saw thc damage was not serious. Around the corner from the Sackett St. buildings affected there was a crack In the front wall of a three-story brick building at 143 Van Brunt St, which ran half way to the roof. Uther Tenant Reassured Tenants of the big apartment house at 35 Presiect Park West, awakened by the shock began frantically calling the night operator to find out what were awakened.

The house a' "dancing," Joseph Jr. explained later. It was slowly collapsing. Father and mother seized their children and rushed outdoors with them. As they got outside, the house sagged and fell against the porch of their neighbor's house at 64' a Johnson St.

The adjoining house was owned by Patrick Connelly. The Connelly family came running out at the sound of the groaning and straining, and a 15-year-old daughter, Josephine Connelly, fainted. The girl was revived and, after half an hour or so, the Connellys returned to their home, convinced that It would not also collapse. Other neighbors took care of the Palllttos. Revelers Hasten to Street City Fireman Charles Winters of Jersey City, describing the effect of the tremors at fire headquarters, a three-story brick structure, said the "floor was going up and down." He said, "We didn't know what was happening and Pat Dlnan, switchboard operator, was nearly knocked off his seat." A Plainfleld, N.

resident said his home felt like a ship "lifting gently on the swell of the ocean." Undersheriff John H. Dosche of Bergen County. N. in a Hacken- "There was a slow roll in the room a few minutes after I went to bed about 1 o'clock," said John McMahon. a guest at the Montague.

Mrs. Marion Grant, manager of the Grant Studios at 114 Rcmscn had planned to hang 60 glassed and framed pictures yesterday but postponed thc Job. Today she was congratulating herself. she rushed, to the window and "could artually see buildings across the street shiver." Houses Shook Charles Bodenhclmer of 804 Jefferson said that his home shook from cellar to attic for some seconds. Mrs.

P. B. Lucas of 84 Lafayette reported two definite shocks. Mrs. Ruth Mcintosh of 44 Butler St.

said she was in bed at the time and that the house shook for at Member o( the Judiciary Committee, Brooklyn Bar Association. Director, Lawyers' Club, Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities. Knights of Pythias, Independent Order B'rirh Abraham, treasurer, Unity Club. Active in the Boy Scout Movement. President of Hi Men's Group, Brooklyn Hebrew Homo and Hospital for the Aged.

Active formerly in the campaign for St. John's Hospital. A IHtlll IIISTOHY: One of 1ft rliililmi who, a ncwxlioy, r.inwil his nay through Hclmol until finally admitted to tlie lmr at tin no of 21. He lias vide lcpil rxprrirnre oflen rrluinetl rnutiHel liy oilier lawyer mill i ixlmittril lo lrnctirp. in tin lalr ami I'rdrral (ioiirlK, n.

well it the I nitnl Malr Mipmin Court. The officials said the Italians had advanced only through easy, undefended territory, not even approaching the forbidding mountain strongholds. "The most highly mechanized army in the world would only smash its head against these mighty natural fortresses, whirl, are like the great canyons of Colorado and Cali Quintuplets Sleep Mrs Philip Schneider of f9 S. Ei.iThrouffh Earthquake wrong. He knew no more tnnn ttiey nott Place reported that the tremor cauanaer, Ontario, Nov.

4 A did, but he got the ncus of the awakened every one In the house mere earthquake does not bother fornia, said one, The Emneror was obllccd todav to earthquake from police head- and that It rocked for about two the Dionne quii.tuplets. reiect several thousand volunteers quarters, was assured that it was all minutes. 1 While the tremor shook the hos over, and notified each nf William Gould of 108 Mldwood St. pltal home of the famous five sufTl- VOTE 4B FOR MILTON HERTZ said that his home shook for fully ciently to frighten the aroused on the grounds that all fronts were already overmanned, making the feeding, sheltering and arming of troops difficult Former Police Commissioner two minutes. nurses last night, the children slept soundly.

V. McLaughlin Is a tenant 1 The Brooklyn Navy Yard report- iftck. restaurant when the shocks r..