DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929 $300,000 FIRE IN ARVERNE WALL TRAPS FIVE FIREMEN Hotels, Beach Dwellings In Gale- Blaze FIRE which threatened A summer cottages at Averne, cost the lives of five firemen wall of the Colonial Hall hotel. The flames, spreading before a strong northeast gale, caused the collapse of the nearby Bristol hotel, destroyed four three story frame boarding houses, and set fire to eight bungalows on adjacent streets, and also to two fire Damage was $300,000. The trapped firemen, who were rescued by others from the fire departments of five surrounding communities, were taken to Rockaway Beach hospital, where it was said they were suffering from severe burns and lacerations. None is believed fatally hurt, although three had to be chopped from the wreckage. The fire engines were set afire when the wind, shifting suddenly, swept across the front of the blazing Colonial hotel and showered sparks and burning embers on the machines.
Starting in the basem*nt of the hotel, of unknown origin, the flames mushroomed through to the roof and leaped upward, illuminating the beachfront for miles around. Five alarms were sent in to fire departments in Arverne, Hammels, Far Rockaway, Rockaway Beach and Jamaica. But the firemen were powerless before the gusts of wind that swept in from the sea. In 1921 Arverne suffered another disastrous blaze in almost the same locality. Inadequate water, pressure was said contributed to the spread of last night's conflagration.
to wipe out the beachfront Queens, last night nearly who were trapped by a falling where the blaze started. STORM TAKES MILLION TOLL; SINKS 3 SHIPS By CARL WINSTON. Whipped and stung by a frigid storm that howled down on the entire eastern seaboard yesterday, a battered, bedraggled city and its environs co*cked a dubious eye at the word April on the calendar last night before it huddled under the blankets and went to sleep. From early morning to late at night, the coast line squirmed under the lash of the stinging weather which inflicted millions in damage. In New York harbor, traffic was practically at a standstill.
Three small vessels were sunk, many more were driven ashore, and large trans-Atlantic liners crawled at a snail's pace into port. No Lives Lost. A fisherman perished when a comber capsized his launch off Sandy Hook, N. J. Of the five boroughs, Staten Island probably was the worst sufferer, but at the Battery the bay smashed at the sea wall, and it was (Continued on page 14, col.
1) THE WEATHER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929. THE WEDNESDAY, Sunrise, 5:13 a. sunset, 6:38 p. m. a.
m. Morning star, Saturn; evening LOCAL Cloudy DAILY NEWS today with BAROMETER probably rain in with the strong morning CLOUDY northerly winds and gales, diward night; tominishing to- RAIN FAIR morrow fair and so ewhat warmer. SHOWERS NEW YORK STATE- Cloudy today with gales, diminishing toward night; tomorrow fair and warmer. THE TIDES TODAY. Governors Sandy Hook.
Island. Hell Gate. A.SE. P.M. A.M.
P.M. A.M. P.M. Rich water 1:50 2:12 2:20 3:18 4:19 5:35 Low water ...8:38 8:32 9:10 9:29 11:36 (information furnished by United States Coast and Geodetle Survey; eastern standard time.) Moon rises, a. sets, 2:23 star, Jupiter; full moon, 23d.
TEMPERATURES IN NEW YORK. MAXIMUM, 3 p. m. .........43 MINIMUM, 1 a. m.
.35 3 a. m. a. -J p. a.
m. 00 p. a. 1 p. 9 p.
a. 40 2 p. m. p. a.
3 p. Unofficial 00 a. 4 p. p. 9 a.
5 43 10 a. 6 p. 1 2 a. For twenty -four hours ended at 5 p. m.
April 16: Mean temperature, 40; normal, 50: excess since Jan. 1, 380 degrees; excess since April 1, 66 degrees. Precipitation, .36 inch: excess since Jan. 1, .12 inch; excess since April 1, .76 inch. Barometer, 5 a.
29.57; 5 p. 29.12. Highest wind velocity, 30 miles an hour, from the northeast, at 9:35 a. m. 1929 APRIL 1929 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 15 14 IN.
Y. INCOME STATE TAX 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 PESACH 26 27 BEGINS 28 DAYLIGHT 29 30 SAVING BEGINS 1929 MAY 1929 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The NEWS in Tabloid NEW YORK AND VICINITY. Uprooted by Gale Two dry agents' boasts drinking parties with Helen Morgan and their charge she obtained liquor for them at her Summer Home night club brought the entertainer to the verge of tears in federal court. Loss of millions was caused by the storm which lashed the entire eastern seaboard, causing intense discomfort in the metropolitan area. Babe Ruth, baseball hero, and Claire Hodgson, ex-Follies girl, will be married in St.
Gregory's Catholic church at 6:30 a. m. today. Samuel E. Bell, oil promoter, was held in $10,000 bail for the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter resulting from the Park ave.
death of Arthur M. Smith. UNITED STATES. (NEWS photo) Plunk! Here's what the storm did at 1364 71st Brooklyn. That big tree uprooted by gale narrowly missed a child on way to school.
CORN BELTERS RAP HOOVER FARM IDEA By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. I Washington, D. April INDICT I INDICT YOUTH IN GIRL PAL'S POISON DEATH (Special to the DAILY NEWS) Salem, N. April Bloemer, 19-year-old high school student, accused of giving Alice Whitesell, 18, a poison which caused her death a month ago, was indicted today on a charge of performing an illegal operation. County Judge Harry Burt Ware said the grand jury would return the true bill tomorrow.
Supreme Court Justice Luther A. Campbell, who instructed the jury, told them to return a murder indictment if the facts so warranted. Bloemer, who claims he purchased the bottle of poison at the girl's request but did not administer it, has been in jail since March 4. Excerpts From Hoover Message Telling Nation's Needs "The difficulties of the agricultural industry arise out of a multitude of causes. A heavy indebtedness was inherited by the industry from the deflation processes of 1920.
Disorderly and wasteful methods of marketing have developed. There has been a growth of competition in the world markets from countries that enjoy cheaper labor or more nearly virgin soils. Work animals have been steadily replaced by mechanical appliances, thereby decreasing the consumption of farm products." "There is no single plan or principle that can be generally applied to farm relief." The honeymoon ministration ended mission of the President's message today to the seventy-first congress. The views and recommend tions the President put forward on farm relief split his Republican supporters in the corn belt and elicited the first note of criticism from of the Hoover adwith the sub- President Hoover President Hoover Republican leaders who were active in rallying the farmers to the Hoover standard. Senator Arthur Capper an ardent Hooverite, was visibly disappointed.
"The message is all right as far as it goes," said Capper, with evident reluctance to give full vent to (Continued on page 12, col. 1) "The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation. Every effort of this character is an experiment." Washington, D. C. (P)-Orestes Ferrara, Cuban ambassador, charged a campaign of defamation, promoted by three groups of persons, was being carried on in the United States against the island republic.
Cleveland (U.P).-Organization of a $30,000,000 syndicate to buy steel stocks was believed the initial step in forming of a third huge steel corporation. Washington, D. C. (U.P).--The appeal of Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of Boston for reinstatement to membership in the D.
A. R. was denied. Elizabethton, Tenn. -President Hoover was asked to defend the recognized right of labor, in a telegram sent him by 5,000 striking union textile workers of the Bemberg Glanzstoff artificial silk and yarn mills here.
FOREIGN. Paris Hjalmar Schacht, chief of the German reparations delegation, told his colleagues on the experts' committee that the schedule of annuities demanded by the allies exceeded Germany's capacity to pay. He will present figures of his own. Managua (U.P). -The Honduran government has granted Gen.
Agustin Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader, safe conduct through Honduras to Mexico, President Jose Maria Moncada has been advised by the Nicaraguan minister at Tegucigalpa. London (U.P). Mrs. Lilia Smith, wife of a former army officer, who masqueraded as Col. Barker, an army officer, and married a young girl, was indicted by a grand jury in Old Bailey court today on a charge of perjury.
Rio de Janiero Bergamini Sa added to her title of Miss Rio de Janiero, that of Miss Brazil, and won the right to represent Brazilian women at the world beauty contest to be held in Galveston, Tex. Lima, Peru (AP). Peruvians hailed completion of the first commercial flight over the longest regular airway in the Americas, when mail and other matter reached Mollendo within six and a half days after it left Miami, Fla. "In a large sense we have learned that the cheapening of the toiler decreases rather than promotes permanent prosperity because it reduces the consuming power of the people." "In determining changes in our tariff we must not fail to take into account the broad interests of the country as a whole, and such interests include our trade relations with other countries." "Considerable weaknesses on the administrative side of the tariff have developed, especially in the valuations for assessments of duty. There are cases of undevaluations that are difficult to discover without access to the books of foreign manufacturers, which they are reluctant to offer.
This has become also a great source of friction abroad." SPORTS. All scheduled major league baseball openings in the east were postponed because of rain. Chicago withstood a Cub rally in ninth and defeated Cubs, 4 to 3, before 50,000 fans. Cincinnati Louis Cardinals started season successfully by defeating Reds, 5 to 2, in light hitting game. Havre de Grace Race Track, Md.
-Earl Sande came back to the races as owner-trainer-jockey by riding Hermitage to easy victory in third race..
