Salamanca Republican-Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1926, Salamanca, New York SALAMANCA REPUBLICAN PRESS Year No 150 Three Centt SALAMANCA N Y FRIDAY OCTOBER 22 1926 Member Associated Press Average for SEPTEMBER TWO VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES ROCK BIG SECTION OF COAST OF CALIFORNIA LOSS SMALL Large Buildings swayed like Trees in San cisco Oakland and San Jose driving People to Streets and Parks for Safety but no serious Damage is Reported San Francisco Oct 22 1 early morning of earthquakes one of which was described as ly visited the San Francisco bay region and territory today causing considerable hysteria but doing only nominal damage The weather bureau reported the shocks were fell from Santa Rosa to Paso Hotel guests debouched into the streets and parks of Oakland and gan Francisco some of them in night attire but quickly decided they had been more scared than hurt Clocks stopped in places and there was an occasional cracked wall but a close survey of the earthquake area disclosed no injured persons nor as much as a toppled chimney Santa Cruz 60 miles to the south reported slight damage to the Casa del Rev hotel a big resort structure and a few cracked walls and stopped sou clocks A freak of the disturbance was that many western union clocks ped at 4.30 a m the time of the first some were started again by later shocks to go to parks if the buildings they were in were not substantial Senator Watson denies He had Deal with Indianapolis Oct 22 ic denial that he had ever had any understanding witli the local or tional officers of the Ku Klux Klan was made today by Senator Watson Republican Indiana before the ate Campaign Funds Committee Senator Watson was questioned in his room at the Methodist hospital where he is slowly recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident about two weeks ago I never had any understanding with local or national officers of the Klu Klux Klan that I was to be ported by them because of any vote or any action of Senator told Senator Rood Democrat Missouri the committee chairman who has been digging into charges of Klan political domination in Indiana GETS 20 YEARS FOR GIVING POISON TO SWEETHEART DEATH CLAIMS Financier and Merchant Genius of great dies at 76 from Operation Chicago Oct 22 John G Shedd financier and merchant died today at St Luke's hospital where an emergency operation was formed for appendicitis He was years old To the business genius of Mr was credited a large measure of the success behind of the growth of Marshall Field Company from Chicago's biggest store in the to the rank of the largest wholesale and retail dry goods house in the world in the present decade To Mr Shedd was generally credited the business creed which developed the store to an enterprise employing close to persons with a ord of having served more than 000 customers in a single day The essence of success is found his formula foi a small framed WHERE HAVANA WORST DAMAGE 650 DEAD Ten Municipalities wiped out by Hurricane Homeless Loss Havana Oct 22 ports reaching Havana indicate that more than 650 persons perished various places in the provinces of Havana Matanzas Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio in the hurricane which struck the island Wednesday i ing It is said that 10 municipalities were completely wiped out and that persons were rendered less It is thought the material age will reach nearly i Havana Oct 22 of more than 559 persons killed in hurricane an unknown number of injured and less were mingled with frantic peals for aid early this morning Ten or more towns and villages are said to have been completely The damage is expected to reach nearly It is reported that three hundred persons were killed at a of some inhabitants on the southern coast of Havana vince by the Caribbean tornado At midway between card which hung in Mr Shedd's of- San Francisco Oct 22 violent earthquakes and a third light nne rocked the central coast counties j of California this morning The first shock was at a m and lasted about 20 seconds The ond was at 5.30 a m and was much sharper but only lasted about 15 No injuries and no serious damage were reported from either The third occurred at a m The center of the shocks appeared to be between San Francisco and Monterey Bay The tremors were felt as far south as San Luis Obispo approximately 250 miles from San Francisco and as far north as Napa 50 miles from here They were also felt at Stockton 90 miles west and south In San Francisco Oakland and San Jose the largest cities affected large buildings swayed like trees driving people into the streets and parks for safety Hotel guests were shaken from their slumbers and those who did not rush to the streets gathered scantily clad in the bies Other cities reporting the tremors Salinas severe shock no injuries or serious damage Santa Cruz shocks swayed ings and broke windows San Tose rocked buildings and broke windows Oakland both shocks violently shook buildings Stocton shock not severe Palo Alto shocks violent but no injuries and no serious damage re- ported Sacramento shocks not felt at newspaper offices and if occurred not serious The quake appeared to move in a north by south direction along the fault which caused the trouble in the Drug Clerk convicted of as Cleveland Ohio Oct 21 mil Balanescu young drug clerk sat county jail here tonight under sentence of one to twenty years in Slansfield tory for administering potions which caused the fatal poisoning of his sweetheart Dorothy Elizabeth Kirk trinl on a ter charge which lasted nearly two weeks came to an abrupt end this afternoon when a jury of six men and six women found him guilty ter deliberating three hours and a half Within 15 minutes sentence had been pronounced and the youth was back in jail to await his trip to in a hospital Frenchy met was suffering from a stomach disorder The state that her youthful suitor posing as a doctor gave her various medicines while her health gradually failed After her death police found in Dorothy's rooms some pills which Balanescu admitted buying at a drug store The autopsy showed that the girl had been taking these pills and that they contained a on which produced her death The defense of Balanescu was that he never knowingly gave the girl any poison and that he lied to her about being a doctor only because he ed her and wanted her to think he was somebody quake of At the Palace Hotel of the largest hostelries in the city plate glass windows were broken plaster fell from ceilings and small cracks appeared in the lobby floors New Bulletin building ice It was a concise and defu le statement of what he wished his might aspire to their business life It mentioned courtesy diligence punctuality cerity and concluded with the mary to be satisfied with nothing short of Such was the aim of the New Hampshire farm boy who had ed the biggest place his chosen field bad to offer is the greatest merchant in the United the late Marshall Field once declared the business world upon Mr himself but he disclaimed his right to it in behalf of his former stock the reformatory Dorothy Kirk died August When her last spring sh URGES WOMEN TO VOTE FOR DRY CANDIDATES Mr Boole says Referendum not show Opinion Niagara Falls Oct 21 Ella A Boole national and state head of the Women's Christian ance Union addressing the state con which opened here today dc clared that the referendum to be voted on this fall would not be a true referendum of liquor question Associated Press offices situation if the states are per are located clocks were Bitted to fix the alcoholic content of molten metal was shaken from the beverages pots in the stereotyping room and Boole urged support of f At midway M H Photos shin of Havana waterfront where hurricane did worst damage and vana and 30 persons are Maine memoria monument blown over in the storm Reports have 50 dead 500 injured said to have perished and many to ill I property damage in Cuba as the disturbances have been has That title had been conferred by MILLS CLOSES Expresses Confidence as He starts for New York for Windup Watertown Oct 21 I Mills Republican candidate for Field lernor in bringing his upstate boy We have no Mr Shedd told an interviewer who made an in- as to the secret of the success to a close tonight declared there is a new awakening of spirit in the Republican party the state and the entire ticket is sured of victory on November 2d Representative Mills devoted 3 10 UL business We have certain address to a resume of what he said in government the of his fixed principles When your p ciples are right you never need ry about your policies Born on a farm near Alstead Hampshire July 20 1850 Mr Shedd's first employment was in the detail during the day fields of his father's At 10 through St Lawrence years of age he left the farm for a clerkship in a grocery store at lows Falls Vt at a week and board At 21 he moved to a Rutland Vt store for a month Within a year he sought new worlds to conquer and departed from land for Chicago determined he told friends to work for the biggest store in town He approached Marshall Field and of the gubernatorial and milk efficiency situation water power and Tammany Hall All these subjects he in in lour county in which he made addresses in Messina Potsdam Ogdcnsburg and was offered a place in the stock and i appropriation for shipping room at a week ing bis unflinching declaration that he could sell any kind of goods in the store every day The air of con- and determination about the diminutive Yankee won Mr Field and moved him to give the applicant a trial That decision on August 7 1872 netted the man Mr Field's place upon the latter's death in 1900 From stock boy to salesman de- head merchandise er vice president president and In he disputed statements on educational legislation made by Governor Smith last night in Utica Governor Smith's address last night Air Mills said was an obvious attempt to explain why he insisted on postponing a nine million dollar education from to said Mr Mills His only explanation is that he that the legislature wanted to make this appropriation solely to pre- vent tax reduction What nonsense They wanted to make it because the rural schools needed it a fact which is sufficiently proved by the or's action agreeing to do it for 1920 Why did the Governor insist OM a year's Because Smith inquires in What Respects He would make Changes Troy Oct Smith tonight 2t Governor demanded from his Republican opponent Ogden U Mills an explanation of what steps would be taken under a Republican state administration to carry out the assertion of Mr Mills that he and the Governor differ radically in our conception of the functions of in the administrative ods wo will pursue and in the policies we will follow If Congressman Mills is just ins the purpose of having thing to sny that is one snid the Governor speaking to a packed house at Music Hall here tonight If Ex-Convict and ed Poacher under Ar- rest in Michigan Mich Oct 22 harbor off here today yielded the bodies of Arvid Erickson and Emil state game whom Roy Nunn ex-convict and suspected poacher last night confessed ing when the men attempted to ar- rest him on September Nunn was taken to the harbor on the fringe of the Michigan woods and pointed out the spot where he confessed throwing the bodies after placing them down with stones tacks weighted population of The village of Gabriel reports eleven dead and eight injured and the town of three dead 150 injured and families less Reports from other places told of 25 dead many injured and heavy property damage The village of is reported to have been completely razed as also was the village of Jamaica j Much damage was done in the of Santa Maria del Ro- carlo where most of the houses blown down All the buildings Santa Fe and beaches were wrecked At Camp Columbia which was almost completely eighteen army airplanes were I Some authorities put the damage at although there is no way of making a definite estimate of the damage wrought outside of Havana on account of lack of com- ilt null i on the other hand he means what he I when the warden attempted to arrest him at Sands Plain near here for unlawful possession of a gun a charge on which it is believed The slaying according to Nunn's hundred ships of various classes confession police said resulted sunk or badly damaged It he will have a radically ent policy on many matters than that I have pursued The people of the state know my policies they are entitled to an ex- planation from him as to wherein his policies will differ from mine on im- portant questions Rack in Albany after a week and a half swing around the Southern Tier counties of the state and through Western and Central New York the Governor came here night for one of the two side trips he will make while in this vicinity The other will be to morrow night while on Saturday night he will bring his upstate to a close with a rally in bany After watching the Republican feared that many seamen have been drowned A checkup revealed that approximately fifty were missing The center of the hurricane was they intended to hold him while cast of Havana passing directly over reports that he had been deer in the district The officers had received numerous reports that deer were being killed by this method which consists of throwing a strong spotlight into the woods at night The deer attracted to the light fall easy prey to the city of Guines it reached its height at 10.30 in the morning Sol terrific was the wind that the rain MUL was carried almost horizontally j method which consists of i A section of the city along the mous driveway on the seal front was inundated The water rose six or eight feet In the lower of the city the tidal wave reached to the second story of houses Virtually all the dead and injured HORNELL SCHOOL STRIKE TEMPORARILY CALLED OFF are of the poorer in the collapse of their or struck down when seeking safety A ough canvass of the American At the where the n of public opinion on the practical ability stion She sees an imagination jiggled around Barbara which suffered in the 1925 quake did not feel today's tremors Many wild rumors were in tion over the state about today's shocks One of them was that the Pacific Gas and Electric Building here had been turned around So far as could be ed no damage was done to that ing which is of modern quake and fireproof construction Golden Gate park was the refuge of hundreds within a few minutes ter the first shock The Pacific Telephone Tele- graph company reported that the quakes were felt in virtually every lin W Cristman independent dry candidate for Senator and the elec- tion of a dry Congressman During her address Mrs Boole announced that she would not be a candidate for re-election as state president Promising support for her successor Mrs Boole said that it may be that New York is less loyal to national than some but with its nearly local unons the state will con- a mighty a mighty educator and a stronghold in fight for a dry state and dry tion back from Africa New York Oct 22 town up and down the coast for 300 Eastman Rochester camera miles in California and for 100 miles Inland Gas light water services were not interrupted anywhere available reports showed Police and fire tions and newspaper offices were be- by telephone inquiries from who told facturer returning today on the Aquitania from a successful hunting expedition in British East Africa Wis taken oft the liner at the antine station on board the yacht Black Watch II He went hij hotel and arranged to meet per men later in the day year's Because campaign now more than two weeks ball was temporarily called off reducing the rates on the income tax duration Governor Smith felt upon j night following of er vice president president and he hoped to make the believe his return home that Mr Mills had j alumni and a representative of chairman of the that he was giving them not satisfactorily explained to the j board of education were the steps in the advancement of leal spite of the I people of the state the administrative The board of education will have Mr Shedd Associates ascribed his fact that the cost of the government policies in 21 strike of the pupils of the Hornell high school in opposition to the action of the revealed that only eighteen board of education in abolishing J cans were injured most of slightly progress to extraordinary cial foresight exhaustless initiative rural it wait steadily mounting and as for i elected It was upon that conviction ic would follow a special session tomorrow to and But let us pass over Following his election to the in find to He attempted to explain why that the Governor's speech was cd It seems to he said that the people of the state of Now York dency of Marshall Field and Co in 1906 he also was named to the torate of several banks and railroads In addition Mr Shedd served on en- civic bodies and charity boards He was a patron of art and the opera and was a principal porter of both in Chicago The Y M C A work won him and drew many benefactions from him during his life A contribution of toward the now famous Chicago Y M C A hotel of rooms was one of his principal donations of er years A check for for the Smith college development fund and a like amount Art In- of Chicago were other late contributions Mr was an enthusiastic er and did much to advance the game in Chicago I regard golf as one of the greatest blessings of modern he used to tell his friends It draws men from their business as nothing else do and refreshes them for new endeavors with a spirit which only golf develops Mr the first Chicago he vetoed the bills increasing i before they vote for any radical ers salaries in New York City his excuse is that the legislature failed to act on the so-called sam educational report To hear the Governors ment you would believe that change as suggested by the man should know definitely what his policies arc and what is his tion of the functions of government For instance I think he owes it to the people of the state from whom he is seeking support to the had Friedsam report and the bills been introduced early in the session make known his attitude to the and that the bills providing for Oie j men's compensation law I have by increase in teachers salaries were an afterthought introduced quent to the Friedsam bills and solely as a means of embarrassing the on Page Nine Now what are the The salary increase was introduced early in the session by a member of his own party Nathan Straus in the Senate and by Joseph Ricca in the Assembly It was the Unit had passed the year before and which proper appropriation and by selection of officials given the state an administration of the workmen's compensation law that to work justice to the men and en injured in industrial accidents The only indication there is on the record of Congressman Mills at- on this subject was his ty as a State Senator in the session of when he was the great ing force behind an amendment t the problem In the meantime the will return to their classes in the game between Hornell and Bolivar high schools will be played as scheduled Saturday the morning Man found in Road dies Bradford Oct Tropical Hurricane may have hit West Palm Beach Fla Oct 22 that the tropical storm visited the Bahama Islands were contained in wireless picked up today by the Palm Radio Corporation from the ship of the Munson lines The reported it was in Gustafson aged of Griffith was found lying in an unconscious i Nassau harbor when the hurricane IK i veered from the lower east Florida tion middle of the road Kane last night by driver of the j bus The injured man was put into The steamship immediately nef i put out to sea to ride out the gale Messages today said the vessel had j not been able to reenter the port be- bus The injured man put into of weather the bus and taken to the Kane mil hospital where he died early this j g morning Gustafson was riding on a bv a team of horses P CONSOLIDATION IS ATTACKED BY N Y C when he suffered his fatal injuries j Washington Oct u n LI i ut v J u mj i Y uti Those who picked him up and the Buffalo Rochester him to the hospital do not know burgh the Delaware 4 Hudson was attacked in a brief filed with the Interstate Commerce com- mission today by the New York he fell from his wagon or Hudson had been struck by a car Oil Burns kill Workman tral The New York Central charged greatest blessings of modern had vetoed the year before The Hie compensation act permitting the Governor knows that it wa proved not only by own party in the Legislature by cans There never was any but that it would pass from the very insurance to settle start IV mink Iv with injured men and to r i n my uf thinking n wise policy from the standpoint of the state and nn exceedingly Bradford Oct the Delaware Hudson sought to ed last when he threw oil in- take over the other road because to a while starting a fire on own interstate coal traffic was Oil The commission should deny Rimer K merger applications on roads which who died in th the state and an exceedingly dange one from the standpoint of the no traffic brief said The Delaware A Hudson filed St Continued on Page survived by one brother B F on Nine of Oil City brief asserting the suit in important economic
