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WEDNESDAY EVENING DafclanD SEPTEMBER 22, 1926 LOOTERS, TROOPS 2 IN VJILD AUTO Sing-Song Girls Making Up RUTH WOHLFROM, left; EDITH ANDERSON, right, and CLAIRE BOCK, seated. Sing-Song girls fin The Sho-Gun, shown as they are making up their Appearance inThe Oakland Elks' comic opera, "The Sho-Gun." The first performance will be given tomorrow evening at the. Audi-' torium theater. Friday and Saturday nights the show will be repeated at the same theater. EIGHT SHOWS TOO MUCH FOR DAY, CHARGE DICERS FAMILIES FLEE 50,01 BLAZE; FIJEIN HU BT OiiTTLt -T- HOME OF TIEJ our West Point Cadet Hazers Are Suspended Future Army Officers Lose Year in Seniority for -ijLJChth, Pranks, V.

WEST POINT. N. Sept. IS. OP) Four cadets of -'the Ulnted States Military academy have been suspended In their senior year for hazing, the first disciplinary action for this offense in 10 The suspended cadets are: John B.

Allen, of St. Charles, David Peter Laubach, Baston, William E. Potter, Toledo, Ohio, and Thomas J. Cody of. West Point.

They are charged with ordering seven "plebes," or first year stu, dents, to run-up and downythree flights-of barrack stairs. The suspension resulted from'an investigation that followed the resignation on August 25 of James Leroy Nash of St. Louia. NashTBubmitted an' affidavit saying he had not been hazed when he resigned, but withdrew the affidavit when shown the regulations defining hazing. The suspended men will be allowed to return to the academy next year, but having fallen one year behind the classmates, will remain behind a year throughout their army careers, since promotion is by seniority.

Liquor, Jewels Are' Stolen by S.F, Thieves SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 2J. Burglars using fine discrimination looted the home of Walter E. Hol-comb, 492 Forty-fifth avenue, during the absence of the family on JK 5r-) -rrfj rw I i vacation, obtaining booty valued -at approximately $15,000.

When Holcomb, a local business man, and his wife returned home last night, they told the police today, they found that the upper floors had been ransacked. A quantity jewelry had been taken. Going to the basement Holcomb found that his stare -of liquor, Including wines, brandy, whisky and beer, between 75 and 100 cases, had been hauled away. i Governor frood Has Operation Performed MANILA, Sept. 22.

OP) Governor General Leonard Wood today underwent an operation for hernia. Surgeons at Sternbery Army hos pital, pronounced his condition as favorable. HinniriiTTir nrriM.nMiiiiBnnninrmiiiiMM-rTnTnnMf TrtintTii.MW.iiiiiiiiiiii'-rirrfinifrvnfltiiiiiiMiiiMiiiiMMirir I i 11 James Whitcomh Riley Oak Uprooted by Storm at Miami Beach. IT AMOOIATID AbU WIRE 10 1E1BU1TE The palatial Miami Beach home of Hrrvey S. Firestone, tire manu- iaciurer, was tne scene of a pitched battle yesterday, when looters attempted to carry off a larg; amount of furnishings.

Bluejackets on ffuara near tne residence drove the men off. Th famous James TThitoomti Riley oak tree, set out by the Hoosler poet several years ago at the intersection of Collins avenue and Lincoln road, two main thoroughfares of Miami Beach, was uprooted by the storm. Am doctors nurses gave medi-eal attention to the injured, and relief workers meted eu scanty supplies to the homeless at Hollywood yesterday, Caesar La Monica's band paraded the streets playing lively airs? A. woman relief worker at Sabring appealed to newspapermen last Bight for belts. "We have a quantity of trousers for men," she said, "but bo belts to hold them up.

Please Issue an appeal for belts at once." oasualtles were reported among the Seminole Indians, at Miami. Tho wily subjects Chief Tony Tommie, taking not of a bit of Indian lore, retired to the fastnesses of the everglades several days before the storm, when they noticed the blooming of the saw-grass. "Mean much rain, maybe, big storm," said one brave. Associated Press oorreepond- ni anving into 'ort Lauderdale yesterday was hailed by a farmer, who had an iron spike driven through his left cheek. He was taken to Fort Lauderdale, where a doctor sewed up the wound.

Ed. C. Rhodes, a Fort Lauderdale millionaire, withdrew $20,000 from a bank yesterday and passed bills of large denomination to destitute persons on the streets. Seeing his dog floating down the street in a deluge of water, a Sebring man plunged Into the flood in an attempted rescue. Man and dog died together.

A Mlamla Beach druggist, clad only in bathing suit, for three days has dispensed drugs and soft drinks from the soda fountain of his store, unroofed and demolished by the hurricane. When flood waters of Lake Milk and Food ForlnfanU, Invalids, TheAgtd f'ourishing Digestible No Cooking, Ih Horn Food-Drink fat All Ager "A Stylish Dress for 15 ds!" It belpi a lot when woman is wise te home dyeing. Old, faded dresses made the new colors oi the hour. Jilt as perfect as any professional dyer could do it if only youH use real dye. It' easy to Diamond dye dozens of filings, and do wonderful tinting of underwear and all daiaiy pieces Using true dye is the Mciet.

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XI. lice operatives today are combing the city for two men who escaped a pollcve dragnet in a spectacular city-wide chase, after wrecking two, autos and probably fatally injury-in To, Tuiiii. snecial officer in a local ptol hall. Julius is In a critical condition at the county hospital. The pair, together with another unidentified man, attacked Juliua and fled to a waiting automobile after the office had sought to prevent them throwing billiard balls.

Police operatives searching a neighboring building, were summoned, and chased the pair for 20 blocks, finally, losing sight of thejn in traffic. Council to Furnish Legion Clubrooms STOCKTON, Sept. 22. The city will furnish the American Legion clubrooms in the new Civic Memorial auditorium at a cost of $3500. City Manager Charles E.

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To have a strong, healthy stomach capable, of easily and norrnaliv dleestlhs three hearty meals a day you simply must keep these stomach acids neutralized and the stomach contents sweet. No artificial dlgestenta are necessary. Just get a few -ounces of Bisurated Magnesia from any good drug store and txUe a teaapoonful of tbe powder or two tablet in a bait gla of witer right after eating or whenever tbe UKbteit pain I felt. Tbe result i amaalna and yon will be delighted wllb the almost inatint relief it briug. Thr famou atomacb weet-.

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lasts about an hour, beginning at o'clock In the afternoon and continue until after midnight, with time out for dinner. On ordinary days only four shows are given, 'The largest motion picture theater in South America will soon be opened here. It will be of American' design throughout with a seating of 2500 and equipped with a $32,000 organ of American manufacture. Renorta from Msu-Twlr rViof It cost $25 to hear SenoHta Raquel Mener caused native newspapers to recall she sang several years ago in Buenos Aires picture houses at 75 ceqts per ticket The Colon Oner Hniias rthe show places of Buenos Aires, inis season is in total darkness during the performances for the first time in sixteen years. In 1D10 a maniac threw a bomb from the pit into the orchestra, killing lour persons, ana since men every other of the rose lights over the boxes were kept' burning the performance.

Davis Says Worker Nearly 'Capitalise PHILADELPHIA. 22. OP) -The American worker is fast becoming a miniature capitalist, James J. Davis, secretary of labor, asserted today In a paper read before the Congress of American Industry. Davis was prevented, by the death of his mother from de livering his message personally.

If the American worker continues to ride to work in his automobile, the secretary's address said, he would continue to support the capitalistic system in America and would, in time, become a capitalist himself. Alao, Nitrokote Enamel, to give the tame lasting finish to your OAKLAND ao. tC Altfcea. AthrnfaOe Banr T. at.

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N. Smith- Lowell Hardw) i The new to self; the be ish; oils, 77 YEARS These EW'lWHivW y-vss-jii Hiiiiixyywiy Okeechobeoewept over Moore-haven, F. Bowman clutched at a tree to which he clung until res cued more than twelve-hours later. His wife and two daughters were drowned. I Joseph Alton, Fort Lauderdale bargeman, carried Chuck Lewis on his back from Hollywood to Miami, a distance of 18 miles, for medical treatment.

Caught In deluge when Lake Okeechobee burst its dikes, at Moorehaven, a mother lashed her three children to her with inflated automobile tubes. Struggling desperately, she reached the roof of a floating house, and as she crawled, onto the wet boards, all three were swept from her. She was rescued alone. During the height of the Moorehaven flood, a young negro boy stood on a bridge over a drainage canal and rescued eight white and twelve negro children as they were swept along in the flood, beneath' him. Damage to buildings and other property in Coral Gables as a result the hurricane Saturday was placed at $1,500,000 in an official statement issued today by city officials.

A Moorehaven woman clung with a child to a telephone pole for hours until her1 huBband arrived to rescue her. The child dead. California Needs Not Fear Hurricane BERKELEY, Sept. 22. Calif need never fear a visitation from a hurricane such as that which devastated portion of Florida during the past week-end.

This reassuring announcement was made today by John B. Leigh-ly, associate In geography at the University of Gales such as destroyed Miami are peculiar to tropical latitudes, and in the past SO years of observation no storm of such a nature has appeared on the Pacific coast as far north as San Diego, the geographer declares. U. S. Film Actors Are Stranded in Bahamas NAPSATJ, Bahamas, Sept.

22. OP) The hurricane which swept the Bahamas Friday night was of equal severity but less duration than the July storm. Less damage Benetit by Mrs. Furtado's experience. Let tin marvelous tonic, made from roots.

Imrk and herha i nm-'i'i i 'v. Wt I i 1 7 Residents Routed From Beds Move Valuables and Furniture in Street. Starting probably from "a forgot' ten match In a shirt pocket In the soiled clothes bin," a "five-alarm" fire at 4 a. m. today destroyed the Union Pacific laundry.

Twenty eighth street and Sah Pablo avenue, and partially destroyed a half dozen neighborhood shops and resi dences with a loss of $50,000, Two persons, both firemen, are known to have been injured. They aret K. H. Patterson, hoseman. En gine No.

8, 1008 Filbert street; burned hands and face, suffered while fighting flames. Lieutenant V. P. O'Connor, En gine No. 7, 1010.

Arlington street; nail In his foot. The two victims were given medr leal treatment at Oakland Emerg ency hospital. Burning with flames that climbed to a great height in the still morning air and with a heat that was perceptible blocks away, the fire assumed such menacing proportions that the fire fighters saved the entire district only after the most stubborn fighting. Finally when it appeared certain that the district was doomed, Sergeant Fred Barbeau, Central station, and a squad of fifteen policemen, made a house to house can vass of the neighborhood, rousing the sound sleepers and warning them to flee. Scores of residents placed val uables in bundles and moved their furniture to the sidewalks preparatory to deserting their homes.

The Masumby Mattress company factory, 820 Twenty-eighth street adjoining the laundry, was one of the most serious sufferers from the fire. The flames leaped from, the laundry to the rear of the mattress factory, destroying sheds, fences and the rear area of the factory. Flying sparks carried to the North Oakland Church of Christ, 841 Twenty-ninth street, doing nominal damage. The fire was discovered by Wil liam Edmond, nightwatchman, in the soiled clothes bin. He rushed away to turn in the alarm and be fore he returned a few minutes later the 'entire laundry was doomed.

The flames, he said, spread quickly to the mangle room and then raced to all parts of the structure. Battle against the flames was directed by Assistant Fire Chief W. H. McGrath and Battalion Chief Monte Carroll. Many Feared Dead as BIStst Razes Store BY UNITEdVrESS LEASED WIESTo TRIBUNE YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept.

12. A mysterious explosion today wrecked the Toungstown Grocery company, leveled three houses ad-Joining it and may have killed several persons. The blast threw people In the neighborhood from their beds. Windows in stores and residences rfor a radius of five blocks were blown out. Fire, which broke out immediately following the explosion, made it Impossible to gain entrance to wrecked homes learn the Suzanne Lenglen Sails for America PARIS, Sept.

Suzanne Lenglen, former amateur women's lawn tennis champion of the woijld, left today for the United States to engage in a series of professional matches. scientists lectrieetodal calling Ptulmea portera Sring blaMa lighting tenn and outbuilding running toy 7 ill ii if HI "KJUI D1hUVU3- 1 JS 1. ISSJ ELKS WILL GIVE SHOP The first performance of the comic opera "The Sho-Gun" will be given tomorrow evening at the Auditorium theater by the Oakland Elks. Demalid for seats has been so heavy that an ex'tra show was arranged for tomorrow night, Fred director of the George Ade-Gustave Luders musical comedy, announced today. Members of the Alameda Elks and their friends will be special guests at the performance tomorrow: Trixie Frlganza, popular commediene, who has been assisting Carlyle In the rhearsals, will also be present at the first performance.

-More than 100 trained voices will appear In the chorus, Carlyle, said today. Among the leaders in the cast are Barbara Blanchard, Dorothy Buechner, Gibson Paul, Madeline Elrod, Floyd Collar, Letha Lloyd, Earle Clement, Arnold Lloyd, "John Warfel and William St. Sure. those who will appear as "Sing Song" girls are Ruth Wohlfrom, Edith Anderson and Claire Bock. Chosen by 11 ell 2: pr, -m Ell I si Renew your floors MTR0KOIE (the new lacquer finish.) radiance of a bright new floor brings cheeriness to the room and it's so easy dean! Apply Nitrokote for Floors your it's real fun to create this lustrous new surface with your own hands.

Walk on floor half an hour afterward! And you'll amazed at the endurance of this new fin it yields neither to tramping feet, sliding furniture, nor kiddiesV heels! Proof against greases, gasoline and other liquids. Plea for Liquor As Medicine to Go Unanswered WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. OP) Prohibition officials indicated today that the Florida relief workers would have to do without the whisky they asked for yesterday in an appeal to the country. James Jones, Prohibition commissioner, pointed out that interstate shipment of non-medicinal liquor was strictly forbidden by Federal law' and gave it as his opinion that the Florida state laws prohibited distribution of even med'Vinal lienor.

was done here, but the Andros and Bimini Islands suffered severely. The most serious reports came from Long (Yuma) Island, where there were some fatalities. It is feared that sponging vessels have gone down at sea with fifteen men. Several buildings were unroofed here; the roads and wharves were damaged, and on vessel was wrecked in the harbor. A Metro-floldwyn party, engaged in filming an undersea picture, was stranded on a small island when its tents were blown away.

The party found shelter from the storm for fourteen hours in a cave. All are safe. Three Vessels Arrive Safely at Miami MIAMI. Sept. 22.

OP) The Clyde liner Cherokee and the Merchants and Miners liner Berkshire have arrived here safely, as has the freighter Louisiana. Some apprehension for their safety has been entertained. Insurer Sets Miami L6ss at $60,000,000 MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 22. OP) C.

Stembler, general agent for fifteen insurance companies, said to day that property loss in Greater Miami amounts to more man The companies he represents are expected to pay $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 to cover losses due to the storm. Three Deaths Laid to Storm in Alabama NEW ORLEANS; Sept. 22. OP) Residents of northwest Florida and the southern portions of Alabama and Mississippi today renewed their efforts to improve communication facilities and make other repairs necessitated by the West Indian hurricane which roared inland Monday from the Gulf of Mexico. Three deaths and several million dollars' worth of damage were attributed to the storm in that territory after it had spent its.

force many miles from the coast. Pensacola, and Mobile, suffered greater losses to property than other cities in the gulf section. Crops were lal dbare over a wide area. Three children drowned in Baldwin county, Alabama. More than $2,000,000 will be required to replace property destroyed in Pensacola by the winds which at times attained a velocity of 120 miles an hour.

Several bridges there were washed away, roofs were lifted from buildings and some of the ships anchored in the harbor were sunk. The naval station, situated fir Per.Facola. was hard hit. y. ry vrft Tlaee1! cf W.

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