NCE again the “storm of San
Euseplo™ came out of the south
ern Atlantic ocean on the feast day
of that saint and swept across Porto
lico as it did in 1928,
leaving a terrible
trail of death and de
struction. For hours
the hurricane raged,
tearing down bulld
ings, ruining the cof
fee and fruit crops
and killing and maim-
ing the people of the
unhappy island. Gov,
James R. Beverley
thought the dead
would number well
over two hundred
and the injured more than a thousand
The property damage bas not been
estimated but it certainly will run
into many millions of dollars. Broken
communication lines and roads
blocked by debris made the gathering
of accurate information slow. Before
reaching Porto Rico the storm struck
the Virgin islands, killing 15 persons,
sinking many vessels and wrecking
buildings. Later it hit Haiti and
Santo Domingo.
Most of the fatalities In Porto Rico
were in the country districts, for the
authorities of San Juan, forewarned,
placed many hundreds of the resi
dents in the solidly built schools and
churches, The properly
however, were
on the ocean front,
Governor
Gov. Beverley
losses In the
city, heavy, especially
Jeverley was promg
starting He forme
An emergency placed
ample insular funds In its hands. By
his order the into
gervice prisoners in all the jails, let
ting them work without guards at
clearing the roads and streets and
reopening communication facilities
The governor of course reported the
conditions Immediately to Washing
ton and the Red Cross ordered Its
chief supply officer to the island and
sent a destroyer with medical sup-
plies.
relief Inery
macl
com? and
police fmpressed
AHATMA GANDHI'S “fast unto
death” won a striking vic
for the little old Hindu holy man, for
the caste Hindus and the untouch
ables, hurrying to save his life, agreed
upon a compromise electoral plan
that was fairly satisfactory to Gand
hi. It was hastily accepted by Prime
Minister MacDonald and the British
cabinet, and thereupon the mahatma
broke his fast with a few sips of a
lime concoction. For more than six
days he had partaken of nothing but
water with salt or soda in it, and the
physicians at Yeravda jail said he
could not have survived much longer
The compromise plan provides that
148 seats In provincial legislatures be
held by the der and
that a percentage of seats in the cen
tral them
It also provides a system of primary
These special features
years.
tory
sressed classes
legislature be reserved for
elections. are
to end after ten
this plan, the British
that son
In accepting
government poit
tails still remained
tion. The official st
did not imply opposition by
ernment.
Gandhi,
has been
pressed
that his
ited out 10 de
under considera-
atement said this
the gov.
though born a caste Hindu,
making his fight for the de
and It is
victory may lead to revolu-
tionary changes in their treatment.
However, some authorities declare
that the gulf between the four castes
and the untouchables is of too many
generations’ standing to be
out in a day or two, even by
ukase of religious leaders,
classes, possible
wiped
the
V HEN the League of Nations as
sembly opened its thirteenth an.
nual session in Geneva, Eamon de
Valera, President of the Irish Free
State, was In the
chair as president of
the league council,
and he took the op
portunity to tell what
he thought of the
league and its fail
ures. He spoke with
out restraint, telling
his gloomy hearers
that the league had
lo=t the world's con
fidence because it had
not boldly tackled the
major problems that
came before It, nota-
bly the situation in the Far East and
the question of disarmament.
“People are complaining that the
league is devoting its activity to mat-
ters of secondly interest while vital
international problems of the day are
being shelved or ignored,” he con.
tinued. “People are saying that equal.
ity of states does not apply here in
things that matter.
“People are becoming impatient at
the apparently meager face-saving re
sults of successive league conferences
and meetings, They are inquiring
whether these conferences justify the
burden of contributions to the league's
budget. Finally there is the suspicion
that little more than lip service is
paid to the fundamental principles on
which the league was founded.
Eamon de
Valera
“There is a suspicion that action
by the league in the econowlic sphere
is paralyzed by pressure of powerful
national interests and that If a hand
is raised against the covenant suffi
ciently strong it can smite with im-
punity.”
This last obvious allusion to Japa-
controlled Manchuria was fol
lowed by a warning that the only way
to silence criticism of the league Is
“to show unmistakably that the cove
nant is a solemn pact of obligations
which no state will find it possible to
ignore.”
Disarmament,
a flop and a
conference
ted,
it clear it was
league.
Nicholas Politis of
elected as the president of the
bly. What that
do was uncertain. The
discussion
league's
on Manchuria
had
for at
weeks at the
uese
he also declared,
bluff. The Lausanne
on reparations, he
was a mild success, but he made
not the fault of the
was
admit.
Greece was
assem
find to
reception and
of the
ission
body would
comm
already
been postponed
least two
behest
the
not
the
and
were
of Japan,
statesmen
agreed even upon
establis
armament,
and economic
missions
Nicholas To
Politis Worse
part In the se
lisarmament conference
to take ssions
up that
ww the time being
mittee in a quarrel
august
ng considered the der
"Hen
vocation of
and
until
ENOCcRATS now are In control
of the Unit
ted States senate,
numbering the Republicans by
This comes about the
pointment of Walter Walker bLy
William H. Adams of Colorado to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Charles WW. Waterman, So
the now has 48
crats, 47 Republicans and one
er-Laborite. There was
as to whether the new nu
serve In the lame duck
congress or only until a su
Waterman is elected Nover
derson for Immed
the
then announced it
October 10,
gener
through
upper house Demo-
Farm
uncertainty
in would
session of
coessor to
nber 8
Bois the Republicans and the
Democrats professed to have high
Prosi.
are
the
( but their claims
unsettled by the un
nouncement of Sena.
tor Smith W. Brook
hart that he will be
in the race for the
senate as the nomi
the “progres
party, expecting
to draw support from
both the major par
His decision
came three months
after his defeat In
the Republican pri.
mary by Henry Field
He admittedly bas a
large following among the Iowa Re
publicans, especially in the rural dis
tricts. The Democrats had expected
that Brookhart would follow the ex.
ample of his brother progressive Re
publican, Senator George W. Norris
of Nebraska, and come out flatly for
Franklin D. Roosevelt for President
hopes of carrying lowa in
lential election,
nee of
sive”
ties
Sen. 8S. W,
Brookhart
—————
Jou=nt SHOUSE, former execu-
tive chairman of the Democratic
national committee, gave the Califor.
nia Democrats a shock by the an.
nouncement that Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, of which
he is president, would support Tallant
Tubbs, Republican nominee for sena
tor from that state, rather than Wil
liam GG. McAdoo, the Democratic
choice. Shouse said that McAdoo had
not made his position clear on the
prohibition question. He stated also
that the association feared the cause
of prohibition repeal might be re
tarded or embarrassed by the elec
tion of McAdoo. It therefore urged,
he sald, that California advocates of
prohibition repeal vote for Tubbs,
OES of President Machado of Cuba
reopened their campaign of assas
sination, their victim being Dr.
Clemente Bello, president of the sen.
ate, leader of the Liberal party and
the man slated to succeed Machado at
the head of the government. Seven
men in an automobile fired five vol
leys from a machine gun at Bello
ns he was leaving his home, and he
was struck and killed by eleven bul.
lets. His chauffeur also was mortally
wounded, Within a few hours alleged
government agents had retaliated by
slaying three prominent oppositionists,
Dr. Ricardo Arango, and Representa
tive Gonzalo de Andrade and his two
brothers, A fourth leader of the Con.
servatives, Dr, Miguel Aguilar, was
fatally wounded.
HY to arrange the fnneing hy
the Reconstruction Flounce cor
poration of the sale of 15,000,000 or
more bushels of northwestern wheat
to China has been taking the atten.
tion of President Hoover and the in.
terested federal agencies, Negotin-
tions have been opened with China
and though the final
had not been made, it was sald in
Shanghal that the deal was practical
ly assured. It Involves about $0,000.
000 in gold.
The
would come from producers
Northwest on whom shipping
have borne heavily, The relief act
authorized the Reconstruction Fi-
nance corporation to make loans for
financing foreign sales of surplus ag
ricultural products where they “can
not be financed in the normal course
of commerce” and where they will
not “affect adversely the world mar
kets for such products.”
of the
EORGE
trowel
WASHINGTON'S famous
Is being put to use quite
often these days. The latest
wus the laying of the cornerst
the new $10,000,000 post office build
Pennsylvania avenue. With
Mrs. Hoover an interested spectator
and bundreds of others gathered
about, Mr. Hoover wielded the tool
that the Father of his Country used
in laying the cornerstone of the Cap-
itol In 1733. He slapped on the mor
tar and the swung Into
place, a real mason tested the block
with his level and pronounced it truly
Brown told
occasion
one of
ing on
stone wus
aster General
that the day was the one
hundred and forty-third anniversary
of the founding of the postal service,
Senator Smoot and the
President address
dwelling
lnld. Postm
the crowd
spoke briefly,
then delivered an
on the function of the postal
service in the making of the nation.
agreed
will
have
wn which
IVE en
to act
“survey the t
ntry”
this com
iinent citizens
HE 8B COMILINE(
the AESOCIA-
Calvin tion. Calvin Coolid
Coolidge former
chairman
and the other
Bernard M.
way director;
governor of x2 nC
ublisher of the Atlanta
Alexander Legge, president of
International Harvester compe
former chairman of the farm board.
Presi
members are
h, financier and rail-
fred E. Smith, former
( Clark Howell
Constitutio
mission ;
of mo-
in-
jaslion Is the result
surance
pgasncintion
corted
the
ate legisiation to protect the
the railroad
Tran 11 ¢
inciuGge nil toe
perative necessity
0
ac jes of the nation,
gses. trucks, pipe lines and
, as well as the raliways
EPRESENTATIVES of the
Executives’ ass
ident Hoover,
: fei # pros 3 fe
ion interveniion il
bor
nronosed pliway
ons which they opposed
¥
when the re
that the
its course
with railway
Secretary of Labor Doak, and the
ter then issued a statement that the
President felt it was desirable that
the question should be deferred until
the end of the year, since thé present
wage agreement does not expire until
February L
are some hopeful
depression may have
" Mr. Hoove
presidents
REAT BRITAIN'S
ernment, formed
meet the financial crisis, experienced
its first break when three of the most
important Liberal and Labor members
of MacDonald's cabinet resigned.
Thelr action followed a disagreement
over the tariff proposals approved at
the recent empire conference in Of-
tawan. The ministers who quit, staf.
ing these proposals were incompatible
with their free trade principles, were
Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, lord
privy seal, former leader of the Labor
party, and Sir Herbert Samuel. home
secretary, and Sir Archibald Sinclair,
secretary for Scotland.
8ir John Gilmour was moved from
minister of agriculture to home sec
retary and his former portfolio was
given to Maj). Walter Elliot. Sir God
frey Collins took Sinclair's place. The
Simon Liberals in the house still sup
port MacDonald,
national gov.
last October to
woek was that of John Sharp Wilk
had been (11 for months
RESIDENT HOOVER
Representative Charles R. Crisp of
by the death of Lincoln Dixon of In.
diana,
genatorship nomination in the Demo
cratic primary and so is classed an a
lame duck. However, his appointment
will not be eriticized because of his
fong and able services in the house,
HALL. PA.
THERE WERE OTHERS
Jackson stamped angrily into the
office and gripped his partner by the
shoulder,
“Look
you that
cal?
“Me!” exclaimed
course not!”
a bit,
“Who could it have been,
18k ed.
“Really, old
not the only
London
here,” he snapped, "was It
sald I was an infernal ras-
the other. *“Of
Jackson simmered down
then?” he
man,” he replied, “I'm
man who knows you, "-—
Answers,
SOMETIMES HAPPENS
Frosh—S8a who Is that
over there with
broad sl
beefy fel
low remarkably
tha
Lt
player of
the red |
Sop!
ur football
Information Needed
“Scared” the Fire
Safety First
4 screwed
his conte
Guilty Conscience
What was the commotion
today?
friend of the
the
policeman
in, and
Weekly
cashier
(Sydney).
CLIMB WAS THERE
Hg i t LF .
VEC
2 ( Dh
the benefits of
here”
climbing. Why, there
feet high within twen-
“Yes, we get all
mountain climbing
“Mountain
isn't a hill ten
ty miles”
“i know, but we sleep on the fifth
floor and there Is no elevator™
No Bargain
“You are accused of stealing a
quantity of foodstuffs, Have you any:
thing to say?”
“Yes, the sentence is too great. The
price of food is down 10 per cent."
Der Lustibe Sachse,
Wordy
Friend—What do you
your car?
Married Man (afMlicted with back
seat driveritis—Oh, about 10,000 words
to the gallon.—The Car,
get out of
Double Advantage
Sales Manager--Always see a man
after he's had a good lunch, That is
the best time to get an order from him,
Thrifty Salesman--Yes, and besides
-oston Transcript,
Maybe Not
Political SBpeaker—1 am exceeding.
ly pleased to see such a dense crowd
gathered here tonight,
Volce—Don't be too pleased. We
ain't all dense ~Tit-Bits (London).
ay
cans
Would Help Out
Bultor ~— Er I—er—nm
your daughter's hand-—er
any siry
Father—None at
one that's always
London Humorist,
objection,
Not Much Difference
ght a
It has vered by
thousands of rheumatic ifferers
that the
disorder can be
afew
in alm
to te
Doctors
Bayer Aspiriz
of water. ']
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eased qu
unbelievably.
{el Viet er
the pecu
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tablets you t
STANTL Y in your sto:
thus vot ; get practica
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¥
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Bottles of 100
FOR POCKET
OR PURSE
Tin Boxes of 12
At Last]
Miss Thirty-Od Oh
this is so sudden,
Mr. Blunt
you oot
then Tit-Bits
suspense. London
This Way
TAKE
2 BAYER
ASPIRIN
TABLETS
{ A 3
\BA EER
DRINK
ONE FULL
GLASS
OF WATER
Remember it is Genuine Bay
Aspirin which claims this
dissolving, quick-acting
So be careful that you get
article when you buy. See that any
box or bottle you purchase is clearly
marked “Genuine Bayer Aspirin.”
And that any tablet you t
the name a
the form of
get quick rel jf.
Remember that wh
And r
Bore Aspirin Does Not Harm the
Heart.
emember, too,
Usual Beginning
“How'd the ‘
“Same
swered Cactus
shanoht
LOougng
He doesn’t look a day over fifty.
And feels like forty.
At the age of 62.
That's the happy state of health
and pep a man enjoys when he gives
his vital organs a little stimulant!
When your system is stagnant
and you feel sluggish, headachy,
haif-alive—don't waste money on
“tonics” or “regulators” or similar
atent medicines. Stimulate the
Ber and bowels. hl a Sangous
ssician’s prescription ev: rug
phys keeps. Put ask them for Dr.
Caldwell's syrup pepsin. ua
hi tizing syrup is m
Bo Te herbs, active
senna, and pure pepsin. One dose
will clear a J ott any case
dach e, b
if you want to keep
shape, foe] ft the Sean ‘round, take
a spoonful of >. Caldwell's &
every few days. You'll ea
Peter sleep better and feel belies
in every way. You will never need to
take another laxative.
Give the children a little of this
delicious syru} two or three times a
week. A gentle, Natural stimulant
that makes them eat and keeps the
bowels from clogging. And saves
them from so many sick spells and
colds.
Have a sound stomach, active
live o and strong howe! muscles that
every bit of waste and poison
ry day! Just keep a bottle of
Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin on
hand; take a stimulating spoonful
aver Sow and then. See if you
t feel new vigor in every Wag.
Syrup pepsin isn't expensive.