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Show NEWS REVIEW OF v CURRENTEVENTS Santo Domingo Destroyed by Hurricane Great Feat of French Flyers." By EDWARD W. PICKARD CANTO DOMINGO, capital of the Dominican republic and oldest settlement set-tlement of the white race in the New world, was almost entirely destroyed by a tropical hurricane which swept the city for four hours. Nearly every building was razed and the number of dead in the city alone is believed at this writing to be about SOO. The scenes of horror and distress are described de-scribed In brief dispatches that came through after communication with the Island had been partially restored. President Rafael Trujillo himself took charge of the relief work that was started immediately, and the entire en-tire army of the republic was put to work to aid the suffering. Officials and newspapers of Santo Domingo appealed ap-pealed for help to the United States, and the Hed Cross was quick to respond, re-spond, as it always is. American Minister Curtis cabled the State department de-partment at Washington regarding the situation. He said he had not received re-ceived reports from the interior of the island but that the loss of life there probably was small. In the . neighborhood of the capital all bridges were wrecked, roads rendered Impassable Impass-able and telegraph wires bad vanished. It was estimated that the speed of the wind was 150 miles an hour. The terrific storm, moving in from the southeast, was headed for the eastern end of Cuba and the Florida straits. Communications throughout the entire region were disrupted for many hours. The Porto Kico liner Coamo, which was on its way to Santo J- Domingo, had a narrow escape, pass-ing pass-ing through the very center of the hurricane. It turned back und managed man-aged to reach San Juan in a battered and stripped condition. There were Indications in reports received by the weather bureau in San Juan that the storm might turn out into the Atlantic and endanger shipping lanes. The Washington weather bureau y believed the Florida coast was not endangered. Ton the first time the Atlantic ocean has been crossed in a nonstop Might from Paris to New York. The feat was accomplished by Capt. Dieu-donne Dieu-donne Coste and Maurice Eellonte In their famous plane Question Mark in 37 hours, 18 minutes and 30 seconds. During this time, In fair weather and fog, daylight and night, their single motor never missed. Following generally gen-erally the great north circle route, they avernged more than 100 miles an hour ami landed at Curtiss field, Valley Val-ley Stream. Long Island, at dusk, tired but jubilant. Great crowds greeted the aviators at the Held and In New York city, and they and the French government received re-ceived the congratulations of high officials offi-cials from President Hoover down and of our lending airmen. Among those who welcomed thorn as they landed were Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife. Captain Coste, who had been planning the tlight for a long time, said they were forced to dodge through dense mists and around '-- slortns, and their first American land- fall was the coast of Nova Scotia. He-ing He-ing Informed that Col. W. 10. lOaster-wood lOaster-wood of Dallas. Texas, had offered S.",0IK. to them if they would fly their plane to Dallas, they took off for that clly early Thursday morning. This, according to hastily made plans, was to lie the start of a tour of the country, coun-try, toward 1 1 10 close of which the Frenchmen will be entertained at luncheon by President Hoover in the While House. The Question Mark-will Mark-will be llown hack to Paris by Paul Codes and a mechanic, hut Coste and liollonle will return by steamship. Naturally the people of France wore jubilant over the flight made by their countrymen. Some of the Paris newspapers news-papers thought the chief Importance of the Hight was the demonstration to the Germans and the Italians that French aviators were not so helpless as was supposed. It was announced that Coste, who Is an officer of the Legion of Honor, would be made a commander and that Bellonte, who is a chevalier, would be made an officer. At the same time they are to get army promotion. Captain Coste to become a major and Bellonte, wdio is a noncommissioned noncom-missioned officer, to become a second lieutenant. FOLLOWING the successful revolution revolu-tion in Peru, there is threat of a similar movement In Argentina, and also reports tell of decided unrest in parts of Brazil. In Buenos Aires extraordinary ex-traordinary military precautions were taken, apparently for the protection of President Hipolito Trigoyen, and the press demanded the reasons. Ttien the students began demonstrating against the President and they and various leaders of the country demanded that he resign or take a vacation, leaving the executive power in the hands of Vice President Martinez. There was much confusion in the cabinet, from which General Dellepiane, minister of war, resigned, and the government didn't seem to know just what to do. The public was nervous, too, and business busi-ness suffered severely. Yrigoyen, who remained in his residence, was reported report-ed to be seriously ill. With Col. Sanchez Cerro firmly established es-tablished as President of Peru, conditions con-ditions there settled down to approximate approxi-mate normalcy. Leguia, the deposed President, was taken from the warship on which he attempted to escape and put in prison to await trial. A decree by the revolutionary junta created a national tribunal of accounts to investigate inves-tigate all charges of graft made against former government employees, and those with whom they did business. busi-ness. Sweeping economies in the government gov-ernment services were made and all licensed gambling was suppressed. Lieutenant Commander Harold B. Grow, the American who was director general of the Leguia government's air forces, was still held in prison under un-der threat of court-martial proceedings proceed-ings on charges of violating the military mili-tary code. Charles W. Sutton, American Amer-ican engineer, was in the national penitentiary accused of mishandling funds on an irrigation project. The Brazilian trouble centers In the state of Rio Grande do Sul and Dr. Osvaldo Aranha was said to be leader lead-er of a discontented faction that threatened a revolutionary outbreak. PRESIDENT HOOVER has accepted Invitations to deliver four addresses ad-dresses in six days early In October, and the political observers in Washington Wash-ington consider that the opening of bis campaign in behalf of the Republican Republi-can party's efforts to retain its command com-mand of congress at the November elections. The President will make his speeches in three widely separated states and in his journeying will pass through other states with opportunities opportuni-ties to meet some of their people. First of the scheduled addresses is that before the American Bankers' association in Cleveland on October 2, and presumably it will be on finance fin-ance and business. The American Legion Le-gion will hear Mr. Hoover In Boston the morning of October G; and that afternoon lie will speak before the American Federation of Labor in the same city, probably dealing with unemployment. un-employment. Next day, October 7, the President will deliver the address at the Kings Mountain battle anniversary anni-versary celebration. lie will detrain at Kings Mountain, which is in North Carolina, and will speak a few miles over t lie border in South Carolina. A great part of his audience will be drawn from North Carolina and Tennessee, Ten-nessee, both of which states gave him their electoral votes in 102S. INVESTIGATION of campaign ex-penditurcs ex-penditurcs in Illinois by Senator Nye's committee has developed a curious cu-rious situation. Ruth llanna McCor-mick, McCor-mick, Republican candidate for the senate, felt the inquiry into her disbursements dis-bursements in the primary campaign had become persecution, and charged that her office had been broken into and her papers ransacked by agents of the committee. So she employed a detective agency to investigate the North Dakota senator and his employees; em-ployees; and then her sleuths in turn were shadowed by other detectives. Mrs. MeConuick openly admitted her action and asked : "What is Senator Nye going to do about it?" In his reply Mr. Nye called the method and practice of Ruth's agents "slmddy, scabby, unprincipled, unconscionable uncon-scionable and contemptible," and he called a special session of his committee commit-tee in Chicago for the purpose of questioning those same agents. The information they gave only served to make the situation more confused, with charges and countercharges of shadowing, proposed treachery and threats. Nye then announced an adjournment ad-journment to September 15, declaring that the committee would not be "diverted "di-verted from its clearly defined duty by any smoke screen laid down through a will to threaten, intimidate and influence." PROBABLY J. Reuben Clark of Utah, now counsellor of the American Amer-ican embassy in Mexico City, will be selected to succeed Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow. He is said to be the only man at the embassy besides Mr. Morrow who is thoroughly conversant con-versant with conditions in Mexico, and is in a position to continue the good relations between the two governments. govern-ments. It is believed that his appointment ap-pointment would meet the warm approval ap-proval of President Ortiz Rubio. CHAIRMAN LEGGE of the federal farm board made a speech before the New York state grange at Syracuse Syra-cuse that aroused the protests of organized or-ganized labor. He said the farmers' increased tax rates are due "largely to the advance in labor rates," and added that "on many manufactured articles 80 per cent of the wholesale price can be directly traced to somebody's some-body's pay envelope." President William Green of the American Federation of Labor immediately imme-diately telegraphed Mr. Legge asking him to correct the statement because it was "neither justifiable nor correct." cor-rect." Mr. Green said: "Since 1014 the cost of wages to employers has changed five-tenths of 1 per cent only. In 1913 employers in the United States paid 16.8 per cent of the wholesale price of their products to workers in wages. In 1927 they paid 17.3 per ceut. Tl'ARD T. VAN ORMAN, Amerl-' Amerl-' ' ca's leading balloonist, won the international balloon race for the Gordon Bennett . trophy with the Goodyear VIII. The contest started near Cleveland, Ohio, and Van Or-man Or-man landed his bag near Canton, Mass., having traveled approximately 550 miles. Capt. Ernest Demuyter, pilot pi-lot of the Belgian entry, the Belgica, was second with 435 miles, but It was said he might be disqualified because an assistant left the balloon via the drag rope to give it a longer flight. C ECRETARY of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde fears the drought in the Middle West is to continue and to spread northward. He called a meeting meet-ing of the state chairmen of relief for September 10 in Washington. "The drought is not over yet," said Mr. Hyde. "It seems that a new drought may be starting In the area north of the belt so hard hit In July and the first part of August. Fortunately, Fortu-nately, a large part of the production of wheat and small grains is harvested." har-vested." The rising prices of corn, live stock, and other commodities due to the drought partly has compensated fanners in the central states for their losses, Mr. Hyde said. MA.T. GEN". HENRY T. ALLEN, retired, re-tired, who commanded the American Amer-ican army of occupation in Germany after the armistice, died suddenly of heart disease at P-uena Vista Springs, Pa. The general was born nt Sharps-burg, Sharps-burg, Ky., in 1S50 and graduated from the military academy at West Toint in 1SSJ. Soon after this he made an excursion into Alaska as an explorer, and then, in rapid succession, his army assignments carried him to Russia, Rus-sia, Germany, Cuba and the Philippines, Philip-pines, and into Mexico with Pershing's Persh-ing's punitive expedition. He went to France as a division commander, and later was a corps chieftain in the A. 10. F. Distinguished service won for him the coveted honor of beading the American forces on the Rhine. (.3. 1?30. Western Newspaper Union.) |