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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 61.
EXECUTION FLEES
WITH FOUR
Condemned Murderer and Four
Prisoners Saw Their Way to
Freedom From Douglasville,
Ga., Jail
TRACK DOGS ARE USED
TO TRAIL FUGITIVES
Believed to Have Caught
T rain Near Town and Escaped
While Trail Was Being
Up.
Douglasville, Ga., Nov. 10. (/P)—A
condemned murderer and four other
white prisoners sawed their way out
of the Douglas county jail here last
night and apparently made good their
escape, although officers were in pur
suit almost immediately after the
break.
Track dogs lost their trail of the
men at a railroad track near town and
it was recalled a freight train had
passed soon after the men escaped,
Officers believed the men may have
boarded the train.
A reward of $50 was offered for the
recapture of Carl Almond, 24, who
was to have been taken soon to the
state prison at Milledgeville to be
electrocuted November 18 for the
slaying of his brother-in-law, George
Hicks.
The others who escaped were L. A.
Jackson. SO, convicted of larceny,
Henry Joiner, 24, held on a charge of
burglary; Roosevelt Richards. 22,
charged with bigamy; and Henry
Nix, held on a minor charge.
Two other prisoners confined with
the five in the large room on the first
floor of the jail remained there. Sher¬
iff Baggett said they were “too fat”
to get out through the hole in the
bars.
The men ordinarily would have been
confined in cells on an upper floor,
but it is the custom in winter to allow
prisoners the freedom of the larger
lower room where fires are maintain¬
ed in cold weather.
The sheriff said the noise of tearing
out the bars about 10 o’clock last
night, apparently was covered by the
prisoners’ singing and shouting. He
said he was on his way to investigate
what sounded like a celebration in the
jail when .the men suddenly became
quiet. When he arrived the five were
gone.
Outside help was indicated, the of¬
ficer said, by the fact that, the outer
bars seemed to have been partly saw¬
ed and then removed by prying with
some sort of lever from the outside.
The inner bars were sawed through.
Dogs which were placed on the trail
with in an hour had some trouble
following it, and officers said the men
probably destroyed the scent by us¬
ing turpentine or some other pungent
substance.
The pursuit with the hounds was
called off about 2 a. m., hut parties
of the men were searching toward
the Alabama lino today. I) esc no¬
tions and photographs of the men
were broadcast today.
The killing of which Almond was
convicted aroused considerable feeling
here in May of this year.
Testimony at the trial was to the
effect that Hicks was shot to death
in a quarrel at Almond’s home when
he went there with his sister to ob¬
tain personal belongings of hers after
Almond and his wife had become es¬
tranged.
Witnesses said Almond knocked his
brother-in-law off the wagon and
wounded him, and then started in pur¬
suit of his wife, who had fled from
the house. His shotgun jammed, it
was testified, and he gave up the
chase, returning to the house and
shooting Hicks again as the latter lay
on the ground.
FORMER SHERIFF
IS GRANTED NEW
TRIAL BY COURT
Now Orleans, Nov. 10. (IP) —Marvin
F. Clark, former Liberty county, Geor¬
gia. sheriff, was granted a new trial
yesterday by the fifth federal circuit
court of appeals on his appeal from
a two-year conviction on charges of
cnspiracy to smuggle liquor.
The government charged Clark aid
v /lest od the alleged conspiracy not to mo
smugglers in his county by
warning them of intended raids and
charging a fee based on the number
of cases of liquor landed.
The appeals court held hearsay evi
denee was admited by the trial court
in error.
BARBOl’R RE-ELECTED
Newark, N. J„ Nov. 10. UP)— From
an electoral hat which overflowed
yesterday morning with an apparent
50,000 vote advantage for his Demo¬
cratic opponent. United States Sena¬
tor W. Warren Barbour had pulled to¬
day a plurality that will send him
back to the senate. If the expression
“snatch victory from defeat” were
ever apt, it was particularly so today
■ tv; c ,% ?? n _ Barbour * - ----- Re
publican, and Percy H. o Stewart, J. Dem
l°au Dw-is'r' term of the
Indiana Governor
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jernor-eiect his Republican of Indiana. opponent in Me the defeated Item
j [oeratic landslide Tuesday.
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| i AT STATE DUTIES
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I Through
! After Going Congrat
j ulation Messages He Begins
to Attend to State Affairs in
Albany Capitol.
By WALTER T. BROWN
Associated Press Staff Writer
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 10. (/P)—Hur¬
riedly glancing through piles of tele¬
grams congratulating him on his elec¬
tion to the presidency, Governor Roo
sevelt , took , up today , , the , tasks , , of the .
chmt executive ot New \ork and with
his budget officer went to work on the
immediate problems of state financ¬
ing.
Mr. Roosevelt motored yesterday
from New York where he received re¬
turns from the national referendum
that designated him the occupant of
the White House after next March 4.
He drove into Albany last night un¬
noticed and reached the executive
mansion without the capital being
aware he had returned.
The governor slept as his motor
car sped up the Hudson river through
a fall rain. He retired as soon as he
reached the mansion.
“Good night,” he called to the cor¬
respondents who accompanied him.
“You’d better go to bed. You deserve
a good, long rest. I'm going to turn
in right away and tomorrow we’ll get
back to being governor.”
En route to Hyde Park where he
had supper with his mother, Mr. Roo¬
sevelt was given a noisy welcome by
his neighbors of Poughkeepsie.
As the Roosevelt motorcade stopped
on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie to
form a parade through rain-swept
streets packed with people, the car in
which Roosevelt, the governor’s aunt, Mrs, Jas.
K. was riding was struck
by another machine. She, who has the
same name as the governor’s mother,
suffered a hand injury. It was the
only accident of the many motor trips
that Roosevelt has made since his
nomination last July.
At Hyde Park, another welcoming
crowd awaited him in front of his
home.
“This is a grand surprise,” he re¬
marked, “a perfectly grand surprise.
You all know this is not going to
make any difference to me. I’ll be at
Albany until January 1, and I will be
at Hyde Park as usual. To ail of
you I’ll just be plain Franklin Roose¬
velt.” •
Mr. Roosevelt will go to Hyde Park
Friday night and remain there until
Monday night, he said, “just resting
and taking things easy.”
There will be no political confer¬
ences over the week-end, he added,
and laughed away a suggestion that
“perhaps you’ll soon begin looking
around for a cabinet.”
HOOVERTO LEAVE
CALIFORNIA FOR
CAPITAL TONIGHT
Palo Alto, Cal., Nov, 10. (/Pi—
Desiring to get back to his offi¬
cial duties in Washington, Presi¬
dent Hoover today arranged to
leave his home here tomorrow
j night rather than Saturday as
i originally planned.
One of the chief executive’s
secretaries said today that Mr.
Hoover had insisted upon reach¬
ing his White House desk not
later than next Wednesday morn¬
ing.
ACCEPTS“HINT”
Detroit, Nov. 10. UPi —Declaring it
would be “ridiculous to jail a violator
after the people have spoken so eon
vineingly,” Recorder Judge W. McKay
Stillman today suspended sentence on
William Munn, charged with
tion ? f the state prohibition act, and
said he would follow the same policy
j on all prohibition cases coming before
BRUNSWICK. GA., THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1932.
GREATEST POWER
EVER ATTAINED
President - Elect Will Have
Strongest Party Rule in Con¬
gress Any Executive Has
Ever Had
REPUBLICANS HOLD
LAME DUCK CONTROL
Last-Minute Rally in New Jersey
Prevents Hoover From Fac¬
ing Unusual National Con¬
gress.
Ry N ATHAN ROBERTSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
Washington, Nov. 10. (/P)—Frank- [
D. Roosevelt will enter the White'
House with the greatest party
strength any president ever had.
As late returns from Tuesday’s bal
loting rolled in today, the Democratic!
majority in the house grew far beyond!
previous records, and in the senate
approached the high of all time. !
Republicans, however, retained con¬
trol of the senate for the remainder
of President Hoover’s term by virtue
of a last-minute rally in New Jersey,
when The Senator Democratic Barbour majority was elected. in the. |
house had grown to more than 200
by this afternoon.
With final senate returns in, they j
held 59 seats to 36 for the Repub-j
iicans and one Farmer-Labor in the]
next congress.
Although nearly a dozen emigres j
sional contests were still unsettled,
the Democrats had won well over 300;
seats, which was the record Repub-j
liean power in 1920.
The most the Democrats ever gain-i
ed before was 290 in the Wilson vie-]
tor' °Only of 1912 1
twice in history has any senate.!
held more than 59 seats in the
The Republcans held that manv elec-l inj
1868 am , a<fain after thu off-year
tions in 1906.
The coming short session of con¬
gress also will have a record of its
own—in the number of “lame duck”
members, those holding offices that
terminate March 4.
Primary defeats, resignations and
tlie elections have produced 144 “lame
ducks” in the house and 14 in the
senate, far more than ever before. I
The Democratic majority in Tne t he |
next house stood nearly three to one,
as the victorious forces swept the 300
mark. The next senate’s strength
was definitely put down at 59 Demo¬
crats, 36 Republicans and one Farmer
Labor. This involved capturing 12
seats now held by the G. O. P.
Control of the senate in the “lame
duck” session, turned on two elections
for unexpired terms, one in Colorado,
the other New Jersey. While Karl C.
Schuyler, the Republican candidate in
the western state, won his race, Sen¬
ator W. Warren Barbour of New Jer¬
sey won from his Democratic rival,
Representative Percy H. Stewart.
Late votes, counted after Barbour had
conceded defeat, turned the trick.
Barbour is the man appointed to the
vacancy by death of Dwight W. Mor¬
row.
This left the standing for the re¬
mainder of the old congress at 48 Re¬
publicans, 47 Democrats and one Far¬
mer-Labor.
While the overturn in the new sen¬
ate robbed Republican ranks of every
regular leader whose seat the"bonsp was at i
stake, the devastation in
toppled over the veteran Gilbert N.
Haugen, of Iowa, who had withstood
every opponent since 1899; eliminated
Will Wood of Indiana, chairman of his
party’s congressional campaign com¬
mittee and former chairman of the
appropriations committee; defeated
Michener of Michigan, and Purnell of
Indiana, both keystones of the Repub¬
lican machine in the house.
Though Pennsylvania remained Re¬
publican in its presidential vote, Dem¬
ocrats had taken nine seats in that
stronghold, they took every seat in
West Virginia, eliminating Carl G.
Beachmann, Republican whip of the
house. Missouri’s new delegation
will be solidly Democratic, so will
Washington’s and Kentucky’s.
In Minnesota, threatening five further Farmer-Labor-; inroads]
ites were
on Republican strength. ]
The long role of defeats will compel
Republicans to overhaul thoroughly
their organization in both branches.
But organization questions will face
the Democrats also, both in division
'of key committee chairmanships in
the senate, which are of vital import¬
ance because of the influence which
may be wielded from them on legisla¬
tion, and in the selection of a speaker
to succeed John N. Garner in the
house when he moves to the vice pres
ident’s chair. In the house, though
aided by the magnitude of their ma
jority, the Democrats will have fresh
difficulties within their own ranks of
the so numerous newcomers,
ienced in legislative methods.
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! Detroit, Nov. 10. (/Pi—K. T.
| tody president that of approximately Dodge Bros. 20,000 Corp., said
j | ployes of the motor manufacturing
(work company are now back on part FOl >. time «<
preceding the introduction of
Hiouej.
Supported Hoover
iM is. tweity-third president,’
01 ' 11,0
as she "as interviewed recently in
New York. She supported President
Hoover.
IN NEXT SENATE
Tangle of Precedence and Pref¬
erence Confronts Democrats
in Reorganizing After March
Fourth.
Washington, Nov. l< ). (/Pi—A tan
le f P^^nce preference con.
hea j 10,1 7 ' s cmociats, with '™'’K»ni*in then K top- the
senate after March l -
If seniority continues to rule in
designating committee cbtiirmen. there
will have to be much adjustment of
personal ambitions of ranking mem¬
bers.
SoulKeyi senators, by virtue of their
solidly Democratic backing, and a few
westerners who „„„ consistently turned
back'.Republican opponents, gene, ally
hold t\l)e edge in snip. continuous • service,
ranking meniiV,
So much , of margin . this .. is . lliai .. . 18 .
a
senators between them hold first,
ond and third • i places i „„ 77 times .. the
1 on
33 standing committees, some of them
holding this higli ranking on as many
as three major committees.
Besides (his, there is the party lead¬
ership held by Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas, whose guidance as min¬
ority chieftain was challenged in the
last session by Huey P. Long, of Louis¬
iana, one of the aggressive newcom¬
ers.
Another knotty angle—and one on
which Republicans commented in the
campaign—was what is to be done
about the independent Republicans
who, supported President-elect Roose¬
velt. They are now in possession of
prize chairmanships, under Repub¬
lican rule.
The possibility that Ihe coveted
posts may be distributed somewhat
on geographical linOH to promote har¬
mony has been talked off. As an in¬
dication of the complexity of the sit¬
uation, Ellison D. Smith, of South
Florida, and Duncan U. Fletcher, of
are the ranking Democrats
on three of the major committees,
Smith on agriculture, interstate com¬
merce and manufactures; Fletcher on
hanking, commerce and military af¬
fairs.
GIVEN NOBEL PRIZE
Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 10. UP )—
The 1932 Nobel prize for literature
was bestowed today upon -John Gals¬
worthy, the British novelist! The
author of “The Forsyte Saga” had
been mentioned in newspaper predic¬
tions as the probable recipient of the
award. Last Karifeldt, year’s prize ■ was won
by Erik A. of Sweden. Sin¬
clair Lewis, who received the prize in
1930, was the first American to be so
honored.
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ARMY OFFICER DIES
Oklahoma City, Nov. 10. UP) .....- Col.
R. R. Haskell, chief of staff of the
95th Division, Army Reserve Corps,
died at his home here last night of
pneumonia. A graduate of West Point
and a veteran of overseas service in
the World War, Colonel Haskell
the reserve post here iri 1928,
ing from Atlanta.
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FARMER SUICIDES
Miami, Fla., Nov. 10. (A 3 )—Police
reported today that I,eland Anderson,
44, a farmer, took his life by shoot
ing last night, a few minutes aftei
had told his wife he,was tired of
life. Anderson came here eight years
ago from White Oak, Ga. Among
survivors are two brothers, K. F. An¬
derson of Hattiesburg, Miss., and E.
F. Anderson, of Wayeross, Ga.
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TREASURY RECEIPTS
Washington, Nov. 10. UP)
ury receipts for November 8 were $4
, 521,023.37; expenditures '
1868.50; balance $702,264,923.01; cus
toms duties for the first eight
of November were $7,963,028.07.
OF RIOT
i ECHOES THROUGH
! GENEVA STREETS
Twelve Persons Killed and 70
Wounded When Young Re¬
cruits Turn Guns on Hissing
Crowd
SOCIALISTS CALLED
AGGRESSOR IN FIGHT
As Soon as Youthful Soldiers
are Called to Service They
Shoot When Called ‘Children’s
Troops.’
! Geneva, Nov. 10. (/Pi—The tragedy
|of “city a of fatal peace” riot today echoed after through (his
j of recruits had turned a company
young
iguns on a hissing crowd, killing 12
men and wounding 70 persons. T| h ,
V "" >1> k ,1U ' , ‘
The disturbance . came last night as
the climax of weeks of bitter political
agitation between socialists and the
local Geneva government.
It began in front of community hall
where an anti-socialist political meet¬
ing was being held. When the hall be¬
came lull, the gendarmes closed the
doors, but the crowd broke through.
Sensing trouble, authorities order¬
ed the young troops which perviously
had been called from Lausanne, to
march to tile scene. As soon as they
appeaivd the crowd began hissing and
calling them “children’s troops,”
Suddenly there came a burst of ma¬
chine gun fire. Part of the crowd
thought blanks were being discharg¬
ed, hut others slumped to tile pave¬
ment, dead and wounded. Among
them was a child whose jaw was shot
away.
One of the young machine gunnels
was so horrified at the sight of blood¬
shed that lie quit his weapon, and ran
away in hysterics.
Eight of Ihe crowd were killed in¬
stantly, most of them riddled with
bullets. The others and the soldier
died today, bringing the death,list to
twelve this morning.
Two morning newspapers said the
tragedy should be blamed on two so¬
rialist. leaders, Leon , Nicole ... , editor ... oi
a " atterno on t'uwspaper and member
0 1 ‘I"**® R ‘ k( J Z’, 11 *} aWyer * ovornmonl all< nall > an "' |* a l |z, ' ,
• rhc denounced
newspaper
the two . . of Moscow.
as emissaries
Nicole was one of the lenders ol' the
manilestants , , , last night, . but ,
was un
■ injured. • , Dicker absent Irom the
was
city.
Several hours after quiet had been
restored around community hall last,
night, the area was doited by groups
of working men and students discuss¬
ing the battle.
Some were denouncing the “capital¬
istic regime,” but most of them were
talking quietly of the deadly demon¬
stration of arms in the capital of the
League of Nations and seat of the
world disarmament conference.
Nicole was arrested today arid ac¬
cused of tormenting revolution.
The newspaper Le Journal said
street .speechmaking preceded the riot
and Nicole had been haranguing the
crowd.
“•To the government which has
mobilized against us Ihe police and
army,” Nicole was ([noted as saying,
“we must respond by revolution.”
Then, according to the journal, a
communist named Lcbet, hoisted on
the shoulders of comrades, shouted,
“today there is no longer separation
between socialists and communists.”
He went on. the paper said:
“We must unite for revolution. The
soviets are celebrating their 15th an¬
niversary. We all are with them.
Long live the soviets.”
GOVERNOR-ELECT
PREDICTS BETTER
TIMES IN NATION
Atlanta, Nov. 10. (A*) Governor
elect Eugene Talmadgc predicted last,
night the “new deal” promised by
President-elect Roosevelt “would
bring back the real farm wealth of
this country in the next four years.”
He addressed a meeting of county
agents and home demonstrators of
Georgia at which he and Governor
Richard B. Russell, Jr., were honor
guests. Other speakers included
Lawrence S. Gamp, attorney general
and J. Charlie Murphy, inayoi pro
Item of Atlanta.
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GRID OFFICIAL DIES
j ]K. New Hall, York, for Nov. two 10. decade (A’)- Edward ehaii
over •
i man of the football rules committee
] of the National Collegiate Athletic
I Association and a former executive of
i the American Telephone and 1 ’
graph Company, died today of ■ cart
i attack, at his home in Hanover, N. IL,
: according to word received by friends
j here.
HECKMAN NAMED
Atlanta, Nov, 10. UP
j jment Russell of today H. M. announced Heckman, the dean of
School of Commerce at the
»ity of Georgia, as chairman of
board of certified public
counts. He succeeds Clifford
Atlanta, whose term expires
iuary 1.
Succeeds Smoot
! Dr. Elbert I). Thomas, the Demo
jerat, who defeated Reed Smoot for
the senate in Utah Tuesday. Smoot
I has been senator from his state for
I man) years.
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I PLAN TO SETTEE
HIGHWAY AFFAIR
Will Be Discussed By Both At¬
torneys For Board and Whit¬
ley at Lincolnton Tomor¬
row.
Atlanta, Nov. 10. l/P) An agree¬
ment for the settlement of J. W.
Whitley’s suit against the State High¬
way Board probably will be discussed
with Superior Court Judge C. J. Perry¬
man at Lincolnton tomorrow by at¬
torneys for both tlje highway board
and Whitley.
Judge Perryman last week granted
at Whitley's request a temporary in¬
junction restraining the highway
board from awarding any new con¬
tracts to be carried out. with state
funds before January 10, and set No
] vonl ber 12 as tile date for hearing on
,, Iwl . malM>nl injunction,
The agreement reached ycxtei day
i between attorneys for the board mi l
whillp w . t forth that the board “has
agreed this day in writing not to ad¬
vertise or let any additional state aid
projects, nor any allotments, nor ex¬
additional tensions, nor in any way incur any
indebtedness to the slate
of Georgia or the State Highway
Board until January 10, 1933, which
is the substantial question made by
the plaintiff iri the above stated case.”
The agreement also said that “pro¬
jects now under construction and fed¬
eral aid projects are not to be affected
hereby.”
The matter has not yet been brought,
formally before Judge Berryman, hut
he said today he expected to confer
tomorrow with Hugh Howell, attorney
for Whitley, and Spencer Powell, rep¬
resenting the Slate Highway Board,
in regard to possible dismissal of the
injunction proceedings.
REDUCED TROLLEY
RATES ARE URGED
BY ATLANTA MAYOR
Atlanta, Nov. 10. (/)’) Mayor James
L. Key today vetoed a resolution in
which city council had asked the pub
die service commission to establish
lower street, car fares here.
He said in the veto message that
to request a reduction of fares in the
face of present decreases in street car
revenues would be “to invite failure.”
He mhlcd that "this is no time for
nagging any business” and protested
what, he called “making a political
football” of the Georgia Power Gom
pany.
The resolution asked for no speci¬
fic amount of reduction, ft was a sub¬
stitute for one proposed to council in
which a return to 5-eent fares was
requested.
HIGHEST TIDE
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 10. (/Pj—
The highest tide in 16 years, accom¬
panying a high wind cottagers' and heavy rain,
forced hundreds of along
| early Long Island today Sound to flee their homes
and washed out shore
roads and trolley lines. Harbor traf¬
fic here was tied up as the water, ris¬
ing seven feet above normal, flooded
tlie docks. The sea did not begin to
recede until 10 a. m., after lashing
the shore since yesterday afternoon.
BUSH IS MANAGER
, Minneapolis, Nov. 10. (/Pj—-Donie
Bush has signed a one year contract
I to manage the Cincinnati club of the
j 1 National president League of the Minneapolis in 1933, Mike baseball Kelley,
j club said today which after Bush managed telephone this year,
a conversa¬
tion with Bush and Sidney Weil, Cin¬
cinnati president.
GAMBLE NOMINATED
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10. UP)—A del¬
egation of Savannahians called at tn.:
office of Thomas Gamble, editor of the
Naval Stores Review and tendered
him a nomination for mayor of Savan¬
nah today. He accepted with thanks.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EASTERN COAST
Tropical Hurricanfc Which
Struck Bahamas and Cuba
Leaving at Least Ten Dead
Hit Seaboard
FERRY SERVICE IS
BROUGHT TO HALL
(ireatest Tide in Sixteen Years
Floods Cellars and Winds
Unroof Homes on Coast¬
line.
By I he Associated Press
A tropical hurriciane which bore
down mi the Buhaiiu»s and Cuba, leav¬
ing at least ten deni! and several score
injured, swept up t,he Atlantic sea¬
board today until line fury of its wind
bad sent itself on Now York, New Jer¬
sey and New England.
Rain fell bard and steady over most
of the east during the night and tiie
winds left behind, a mountain of
wreckage.
In New York cilfy and New Jersey
railroad and ferry service was badly
crippled, cellars were flooded by tides
of immense proportions and houses
near the coast line wore unrooted.
in New England, Connecticut and
Massachusetts wore especially hard
bit. High winds kicked up the great¬
est tide in 16 yeiirs and forced hun¬
dreds of collagens along Long Island
sound to flee thci,Y homes.
In B< .dim and (vicinity schools were
suspended for title day and an unruly
sea stopped shipping. The east Boston
airport was under water and all fly¬
ing activities censed.
Reaching into southern New Hamp¬
shire and Vermomt, the rain and winds
tore down telephone and electric light
wires and flooded highways.
Having been warned of the ap¬
proaching stone, few boats along the
Atlantic seaboard experienced diffi¬
culty in reaching; port, but many cruft
in tropical waters Iasi night found
themselves pawing through the very
center of the disturbance.
The steamer Sunoil, of the Sun
steamship line; the steamer Velma
l.ykcs, long overdue at Cristobal, and
the Quaker line San Simeon all re¬
ported having been damaged.
The ten dead were left in the city
of Camajuaniu, Santa Clara, where
houses collapsed and wide areas were
swept. Most of the scores of injured
were trapped in the debris und au¬
thorities were unable to say definitely
to just what proportions the casual¬
ties might obtain.
The British Funnel line freighter
Phemius, struck off Nicaragua by the
storm, made repairs yesterday, and a
salvage lug was nearby.
The British tramp lngola out of
Montreal for Montevideo, reported
she was drifting in the hurricane
without steerage way, but did not ask
assistance.
The hurricane began to appear in
the Virgin Islands November 2. It.
dipped southward, wrecking banana
plantations in Colombia, before start¬
ing out on the normal northward hur¬
ricane path. Sunday it was off Nica¬
ragua. It destroyed half the banana
cultivations on the island of Jamaica
yesterday, and headed through the
Bahamas today.
The path of the disturbance was
northeastward, ami was central dur¬
ing the night 150 miles south of Nas¬
sau. The United States mainland was
riot, believed in any danger.
New York, Nov. 10. UP) A whist¬
ling nor’easter that churned the de¬
cade’s highest tide to fury left the
metropolis and much of the eastern
seaboard ruefully picking up the
pieces today.
Driving cold rain before it, the wind
buffeted ships at sea last night and
early today, knotted harbor traffic,
•swept, the air free of planes, disrupt¬
ed travel, blew down trees, poles and
signs, smashed windows and flooded
homes.
The tide, seven feet above normal in
places, partly flooded Staten Island
and the rockaways in New York, as
well as New Jersey towns. Whipping
past the Empire State building at 93
miles an hour, the wind blew pedes¬
trians from their feet, smashed small
boats, and caused several injuries.
Down in Baltimore, streets were
flooded and out-bound ships fled back
to safety in Chesapeake bay. On Hie
New Jersey coast, the Egg harbor
coast guardsmen abandoned their sta¬
tion when waves threatened to wash
it away. Trains from New Jersey to
New York through the Hudson tubes
were halted two arid one-half houis,
and ferry boat service was curtailed.
At Sea Bright, N. J„ the waves
smashed the sea wall, flooding a resi¬
dential section and cutting rail con¬
nections. Parts of Atlantic City’s
board walks was wrecked.
Havana, Nov. 10. (/P)—The corres¬
pondent at Jatihonico for the news¬
paper Informacion telephoned today
that 300 persons had been killed at
Camaguey city in yesterday’s hurri¬
cane.
This number was many times
greater than other estimates of the
casualties, and the information could
not be confirmed because the wivas
to Camaguey were (lead. ______