Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Today, fair and colder; Tuesday fair, rising temperature.

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KSSING STORE ■ANAGERFOUND lIN LIFT SHAFT B J. W. Profitt Rescued After & Lying Helpless for 19 ■, Hours. B? SERIOUS CONDITION ■ After lying in semi-conscious conBltion at . the bottom of an elevator for nineteen hours, E. J. W. ■9 ofitt, manager of the United Stores f ompany, 342 Massachusetts avenue, Ivas found at 8 o’clock this morning. I He was rushed to St. Vincent’s Biospital, where he is reported to be In serious condition. I “I don’t know how it happened, ’ was 111 he could tell officers who placed him |n an ambulance. His right leg was Iroken at the hip, his night shoulder was Broken and he was suffering from ner-H-oiis shock. lA'-I CCESsVI I. SEARCH F.MADE AT THE STOKE. Policemen and store employes searched the store last night for Profitt. whose jii ."utec had caused his wife to worry. one man is said to have thrown 1 t . ‘-alight into the elevator shaft, but i JUcd to search out the body of the man. IMe fell a distance of about seventeen fre;u the first floor of the stove, it s Uc.tevcd. I e bottom of the elevator shaft is about two feet lower than the floor of the basement, shadows hiding the body from searchers. Profitt, who was named manager of the store a week ago: A. J. Mend ell, former manager, and another employe wore in the store just before 1 p. m. Sunday. SAID HE KOI LP FOLLOW OTHERS. When the others left, Profitt said he would follow. He had not returned to his home at 2335 Ceutral avenue at 7 p. m. and his wife telephoned Mondeli and the police. A bundle of invoices and groceries which Profitt had intended to take home was found just inside the main enhance. . iHwie of the searchers said he saw Ins fl.-i'ii on and off and it was feareu ™lars were in the store. ■Reflection of street lights, however, believed to have caused this illusion. 11l ND BY CISTODIAS ■l THE BUILDING. ■ John Ash. custodian of the building, Humd the injured man. ■ The elevator was at the second floor ■“sterday and Asb expressed belief that ■rofitt stepped into the shaft, believing |> elevator was at the first floor. ■Profitt came to Indianapolis last Octoirb Mr. Mendel! to accept employin the store. the war he held a commission tenant colonel, serving in Washstaff duty. to?Y UNDER iOCTOR’S CARE 1 1 ar > 'i'akcn 111 Aft.RFfrip to New York. March 20 Secretary |SjR-<ite Colby was taken ill upon his from New ) irk and today is under care. was stated that he is “quite ill.” not dangerously so. fAKES BABY AND FLEAVES THREAT [Police Hunt Husband, Who L Threatens Double Death. ■ Detectives today are searching for ■Earl Pattison, 27, 706 North Meridian Bitreet, who disappeared with his 4-month-|ld baby yesterday, after writing a letter Bn which he declared he would kill the B’ i!d. and himself if the police were nottItied of his disappearance. I Mrs. Pattison said her husband left I after a quarrel with her, and that he had la revolver in his pocket. I After he disappeared the letter carryling the threat of murder and suicide was Ifound, according to Mrs. Patterson’s I statement to the police. I Pattison is an ex-soldier and has been I employed by a railroad company. I Pattison was traced this morning to Itbo home of Harry Pruitt, a relative, Ewiiere he stopped for an hour last night laster leaving his home. , I He asked Mrs. Pruitt to take the baby, ibut this she could not do and he went |o a drug store, where he was last seeu studying a time table of trains for Cbi-B-ago, '►here it is believed he now is. I Hazel Pattison, a sister of Earl, disappeared from her home and was later ■round In Columbus, Ind. ' [apperson, auto PIONEER, DEAD Kokomo Motor Car Maker Exf pires Watching Races. LY OS ANGELES, March 29.—Elmer Apone of the founders of the autoBbblle Industry, is dead here today and are being made to ship body back to the Apperson family at Kokomo. Ind. he motor car manufacturer, presiBt of the automobile corporation that his name, died of apoplexy while the automobile races at the Angeles speedway yesterday. |BIOKOMO, Ind., March 29.—Word of death at Los Angeles of Elmer Ap pioneer automobile manufacturer president of the Apperson AutomoCompany of this city, has been reby relatives here. Bin 1883 Mr. Apperson and his brother Edgar ran the Riverside machine shop r here and built the first Haynes automobile. It was to the Apperson brothers that Elwood Haynes, who designed the first successful automobile, brought his idea #nd he superintended its construction at the Apperson shop. Shortly afterward Mr. Haynes and the Appersons joined forces and the first automobilflp were manufactured at the Haynes Apperson shop. Seventeen ■ years ago the Apperson wen, into business for them*Hlves and established the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company. Elmer Apperson has been in poor health for many months and his death wps -jot unexpected, tie It survived by his wife and brother. Funeral arrangements have not been

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Rag Man's Estate Amounts to $6,000 | DANVILLE, 111., March 29 RelaI tires of three continents are striving ! to participate in the “estate” of Robert Pledge, recluse ragpicker, [ who died here. Pledge had no close friends and when he died not long ago there was not a single mourner at his funeral. Now. long depositions and legal documents are collecting in the circuit court here filed by nephews and nieces in England, France, South Africa, India and P.ritish Columbia clamoring to share the “property” of the old man. Pledge left an “estate” of about $6,000. V Z WOOD S MONEY DISPENSERS IN BIG AD DRIVE G. O. P. Papers Offered Whole Page Supplement and More if Needed. — ( Wood’* popularity is not a manufactured sentiment but an arcunuilation of faith.—Harry G. Hogan, Indiana manager of the Wood campaign. k The latest sebenje in the notorious Wood publicity campaign in Indiana is ! the request of the Wood organization that republican newspapers use a Woodft r-president advertisement as a "supplement" to their papers. The Wood organization promises that if the paper will use such a supplement if would supply the sheets "and we would have the name of the paper and anything else desired printed on the sheets here and shipped to you ready for stuffing." Inclosed with the letter asking repub lican editors to use such an advertise* ment is a copy of the “supplement" used by the Bloomington Telephone. LETTER OILERS AD WITHOUT CHARGE. Following is the letter sent to editors in the most recent scheme to aceumlate faith: “As you will note on the enclosure the Bloomington Telephone recently used Leonard Wood’s message to the national committee of farmers' organizations as a supplement to its edition, which goes to its rural subscribers. May we suggest that this same plan might help the Wood candidacy in a great measure if it could be followed out in other parts of the state by the several papers which are favorable to Leonard Wood. “Would it be practical for your pap°r to use this same supplement In one of yonr coming issues if we would have the name of the paper and anything else desired printed on the sheets here and shipped to you ready for stuffing? “It would be the same size and of the same appearance as the enclosed snecimen from the Bloomirgton Telephone "" "If this plan is agreeable to you, will you let us know how many you would like to have us print for yon and when you want them sent?” The letter is signed by Robert Tyler, director of publicity. me •supplement" contains tne letter Tefeixea to and at the bottom It bears the following: “Join the Wood-for-President league. There is a branch in your county. “If not, write to the Wood-for-Presi-dent league, 625 Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, Ind.” CHARGE OF SPENDING MONEY ATTACKED. These supplements are being distrlhuted to newspaDers simultaneously with the making of a statement by Gen. Wood that attacks on expenditure., made his organization "are for the purpose of influencing adversely the primary vote in Michigan.” Gen. Wood’s statement follows. “I am convinced that Senator Borah’s attack at this time is for the purpose i of influencing adversely the primary vote in Michigan next Monday, April 5. “A similar attack was reported in the press a few days before the South Dakota primary and was used throughout that state, I believe, for a similar pur. pose. ' “Those who are In charge of my campaign stand ready to answer all proper ! inquiries concerning expenditures. Sena- ! tor Borah’s attack is entirely unwarranted.” BORAH CHALLENGE SENT TO WOOD WASHINGTON. March 29.—Gen. Leonl ard Wood was challenged today by Sena- ' tor Borah, republican, of Idaho, to meet, in a statement over his own signature, Borah's charges of the lavish use of money by Wood’s campaign managers in South Dakota and other states. In a telegram he sent to Wood, Borah i inquired: “Arc you willing to give the people | of Michigan and other states a list of j your subscribers, the amount you are J expending, the amount which you propose to expend for Instance in Ohio and Illinois?” MEXICO SEIZES GERMAN SHIP Arms for Rebels on Vessel, and Two Others Suspected. GUAYMAS, Mexico, March 29.—ThcGerman steamship Vorwaerts was seized and its cargo confiscated by the Mexican port authorities here today as the result of documentary proofs placed In the hands of the Mexican secret service. The Vorwaerts carries a heavy cargo of arms and munitions consigned to rebels in the state of Sonora. Two other German ships now on the high seas face like seizures for the same - reason on their arrival at Vera Cruz. The contraband war material, ii is declared, was intended for Felix Diaz. An explanation from the owners of the Vorwaerts has been demanded. MAZATLAN, Mexico, March 29.—Jesus Marino, a nephdw of President Carranza and postmaster of the town of Ixtlan, was slain by bandit rebels Sunday after being robbed of $28,000 the payroll of a Teplc mining company, It was reported here today. Deals in Farm Lands Unusually Active Deals in farm lands in (lie region of Indianapolis have been unusually active of late, Earl Bullock, secretary of the Indiana real estate board, said today. T. R. Jones, an Indianapolis real estate dealer, reported the sale of eight tracts in or near Marion county for an aggregate of $150,000. Prices per acre in the eight sales ranged from $225 to $260. One large tract sold for $250.

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URGES RENTAL BOARD AS VITAL NEED OF STATE Wyckoff Outlines Injustice of Present Laws in Letter to Governor. CAPITAL PLAN IS CITED Creation of a rental commission and passage of a rental law giving such a commission authority to determine fair rentals for property was urged in a letter to Gov. Goodrich by Stanley Wyckoff, state fair price commissioner, today. Action on a rental measure should be taken at the proposed special session of the legislature, Mr. Wyckoff said. Administration of property rentals by a state commission should be continued for at least four years, in which business conditions may return to something approaching normal conditions, the letter to Gov. Goodrich said. Mr. Wyckoff would have the legislature model a law after the one now In operation in the District of Columbia, a copy of which was sent by him to Gov. Goodrich. “Seriousness of the housing conditions in this state today can not be overstated,” said Mr. Wyckoff. “Here in my office we are in a position to observe the attitude of the renting public and there is no doubt that condl-’ tions are causing the spread of radical ideas. “Ftider the present law we can hear complaints. but possess no effective weapon with which to aid the renter. “He has no alternative when his rent is raised, but to pay it or get out. “The commission, now operating in the District of Columbia under a iaw framed by congress, is in effect a court of appeal for the renter aud tenant. “That is what we need here. “Hundreds of complainants have asked me if they haven't recourse in law against exorbitant rentals, but they haven’t. “The law is all on the side of the property owner or lessor. “We have observed that many rental agents in Indianapolis are pursuing a (Continued on Page Two.) COUNTY LACKS NO DEMOCRATS FOR FALL RACE Increasing Prospect of Victory Brings Out List of Aspirants. With the possibility of democratic success increasing dally, numerous candidates for Marion county offices are be ing talked of and it is probable before (he end of this week there "will be at. active contest for the nomination for every county office to be filled at the’ next election. While only a few candidates have filed many are feeling out the sentiment of the voters, preparatory to entering the campaign, and, judging from the number being suggested, there will be more democratic candidates for county nominations this year than for many elections. At least seven are being mentioned for sheriff and most of these are active candidates. At least fonr are expected to file their declarations this week. The most recent candidate to enter the campaign is Theodore E. Brown, who announced today. * Mr. Brown, familiarly known to Ws friends as “T. E.” was for twenty-three years in the livery stable business at 219 West Washington street, retiring last July. He has lived in Indianapolis thirtythree years, and his residence is at 20 North Oriental street. Willet Alexander Judson of the First precinct of the Second ward, and William T*. Stuck, tiled declarations as candidates for sheriff today. The other candidates are Harry Sehrocder, manager of the Hogan Transfer company; Charles C. Morgan, a sales man; John D. Shea, former custodian of the statehouse, and Dow Vorhees. Mr. Morgan is also mentioned for county commissioner, and it is said to be (Continued on Page Two.) CITY WELCOMES LEGION TONIGHT Mayor and Other Notables on Tomlinson Hall Program. All is in readiness for the mass meeting of Indianapolis citizens, to be held at Tomlinson hall tonight, when the city extends an official welcome to the American legion, its national officers and its members in Indianapolis. The meeting will start at 7:3Q o’clock with a ban(J concert by the combined bands of Arsenal Technical, Manual Training and Shortrldge High schools of 140 pieces. The concert will continue until 8:15 o'clock and will be followed by community singing, under the direction of Ralph W. TTillis. Miss Mabpl Trask, a vaudeville actress, 1 will sing a solo. Fred Hoke will preside at the meeting, and Mayor Jewett will deliver the official address of welcome. The mayor's address will be followed by several selections by the Indianapolis male chorus. Charles F. Coffin, president of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Indiana war memorial committee, also will deliver a brief address. Franklin O’Olier, national commander of the American legion, will respond. Members of the legion need only to wear their legion buttons to be admitted t the meeting. Every post of the legion in Indianapolis will be represented.

Rules Indiana Women Can Vote for Presidential Candidates Indiana women will be permitted to vote for presidential candidates in the primary election. The Marion county board of election commissioners, after they had obtained an opinion to this effect from E!e Stansbury, attorney general, ordered ballots, poll books and other supplies to be used by women voterß.

The commissioners also asked the county commissioners to provide booths and to make other arrangements for women voters in the primaries. Anticipating the ratification of the national suffrage amendment before the May primary tlie commissioner! also hare,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1920.

COAL MEN CITE WILSON’S STAND AND RAP JURY Show President in Favor of Both ‘Check-Off’ System and Wage Conference. PAY UP AT HIS REQUEST The report of the federal coal commission and a letter of comment on the report by President Wilson will probably figure as a strong point in the defense of 125 coal operators and miners included in the federal indictment made public by Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, it was said today. Local operators did not care to discuss the Indictment for publication, but it was pointed Wit by some that a considerable disagreement between the charges included in it and the report of the government's commission was apparent. This, they say. Is especially true in regard to the views on the “check-off” systern or witliholdnig miners’ dues from their pay at the mines. “CHECK-OFF" SYSTEM INDORSED BY WILSON. The report of the coal commission, ao eompanied by a letter of recommend.! tion by the president, recognizes the “check-off” system and holds nothing illegal in its use, according to operators, whereas, in the indictment returned, the system is held to be a part of a conspiracy between operators and miners to limit production and to fix the price of coal. Coal men and their attorneys have made a thorough study of the indictment and as one expressed it, they ar, of the opinion that the coal grand jury and officials conducting 11, exercised their imagination to some extent in the prep araton of the Indictment. Members of the Induna wage scale committees are today in New York, when* a joint conference between operators and miners i* being held for the purpose of consummating a working contract to be effective April 1, when the present contract expires. PRESIDENT AIAO FOR WAGE CONFERENCE. A similar ioint conference, held in Buffalo, N. Y., on Sept. 25, is said to figure as one of the major points in the evidence on which the coal indictment was baaed. The present conference was recommended by President Wilson, who urged operators and miners to hasten negotiations for bringing about an April agreement. Indiana operators who are members ot the wage acale committee are W. J. Free man. M. L. Gould, J. C. Kolsem, E. D. Logsdon, P. H. Penna, Hugh Shirkle sind A. M Ogle. Members of the miners’ scale committee are Ed Stewart, William Mitch. William Raney, Harry Lentz, John Hesaler, Harry Sutcb, Charles Fettinger and U. C. Hall. All members of the two wage scale committees are named as defendants in the coal Indictment. The indictment, returned by the federal grand jury on March 11, includes eighteen counts, in addition to ten charges of overt act*. The first four counts contain a general charge of conspiracy against all the men named. The fifth, .sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth counts charge a similar conspiracy, (Continued on Fags Three.) SAY PRISONER LURED 2 GIRLS Sam Miller Held to Grand Jury on Assault Charge. Two young girls were hired from their home* by Sam Miller. 24. 42 North West streeM who represented himself as an officer, police charged today. Miller was bound to the grand Jury. lie was identified as a man who called at a rooming house at 323 East Ohio street and told Ruby Miller, a 21-year-old girl, who had recently come to the city, that she was under arrest for child desertion. She answered that she had never been married, but he coerced the girl into accompanying him to his home, saying she was going to njuticc of the pence court, and there assaulted her. police say. Roomers declared he coerced another girl at the same rooming house to leave two weeks ago on a similar threat and after she returned she and her mother immediately moved away. ALLIES FIRM ON SHIP DELIVERY Insist Germany Turn Over War Craft at Once. PARIS, March 29.—The council of ambassadors today refused Germany's request that she be allowed to retain her gunboats and auxiliary cruisers. The council insisted upon Immediate delivery of these vessels to the allies. Really Kicks at Car; Judge Has Sympathy Joe Engesser, 50, of 1044 Bellevue place, got “sore” when the conductor of a street car wouldn't open the door for him and kicked in the glass. "Fve felt mad, too, when they wouldn't open the doors of these pay-as-you-enter cars,” said Judge Pritchard in city court. "I will let you off with $1 and costs.” Noon Meetings Open at Theater Rev. E. L. Powell, pastor of the First Christian church of Louisville, conducted the first of a series of noonday meetings at B. F. Keith's theater today under the auspices of the Indianapolis Church Federation which has arranged for similar meetings each day in honor of holy week, which started with impressive services in all churches on Palm Sunday.

ordered additional paper for ballots and supplies. Only republican women will have an opportunity in the presidential primaries in Indiana, as none of the democratic candidates have entered the primary in this stats.

TORNADO KILLS 34 IN INDIANA; MANY DEAD IN OTHER STATES

HOOSIER HOMES RIPPED UP AS WIND SWIRLS Farm Houses Crumble Here and There While ‘Twister’ Bounds Around State. SKIMS ALONG. OHIO LINE Thirty-four are dead in Indiana today in the wake of the tornado which wrecked several cities along the Ohio border in the northwest portion of the state late Sunday. The number of dead and injured mouuts hourly as belated reports come in from the isolated districts. The storm spent its fury on West Liberty, in Jay county ; Monroeville, in Allen county; Geneva, in Adama county, and Union City, in Randolph county. Five are reported dead In Geneva and right in West Liberty. Monroeville reported seven dead in the district. LEAVES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. At Union City, a portion of which ta on the Ohio side, .the wind left death ami ruin. It was reported that clearing away of the debris In Geneva would reveal more bodies. Scores were injured as buildings In the Indiana towns were leveled. The storm struck West Liberty about 6 o clock. It came from the northwest, spreading destruction with a great roar. A short time before the bud had been shining. As It struck around Ft. Wayne it seemed to veer, hopping Into Ohio and then back Into Indiana. C LOUDS “EXPLODE” AT INTERVALS. It seemed to explode its force only at intervals, lifting itself back Into the atmosphere after striking a district, only to rebound a few mile* beyond. Farmhouses crumbled under the force of the wind and buildings in the villages and towns in the path of the "twister' were as of paper. The district surrounding South Bend was the first to feel the force >f the storm in tlie state, but no casualties were reported there Four were reported killed at Townley. One person la reported dead at Orland aud another at Hoasland. Telegraph and telephone wires were down and It tnay be morning before the exact number of dead is known. First aid was mluistered the injured and dying. Temporary hospitals were established In burnt and farm homes. The injured were carried to theae place* on barn doors and on aUbt of wood from the wreckage. RELIEF RUSHED TO STORM % ILK Aft. Doctor* and nurses were rushed from surrounding town* and cities and every one gave a helping hand. At Union City and West Liberty, Ind., the dawn found the small towns long astir, some persons rather scantily clad, but working feverishly to search the debris for others who could not be found. Miss Jennie Dennlston, about 50, well known school teacher of Dayton, 0., on ft vacation, was killed at the Union City home of her mother. Russell Fields, 40, well known farmer, was near death this afternoo®. Mrs. Alfred Cox was hurt when her home was destroyed near Roasbltrg and her small baby was killed. Nine miles south of Union City, th.v storm divided, one section of it killing William Mote, Elmer Cole and Mrs. Olivine, ANOTHER IRISH LEADER SLAIN Murder of Sinn Feiner Second Since Friday. DUBLIN, March 29.—Thomas O’Pwyer, a prominent Sinn Fein leader, was assasssinated In nls home at Thtirles early today. lie was shot to death by a masked man who broke into the house and forced bis way into O'Dwyer’s bedroom. This was tiie second assassination of prominent Sinn Fein leaders at Thurles since last Friday. Business at Thurles has been suspended because of the Intense feeling. LONDON, March 29.—Gen. Sir Cecil Frederick N. Mneready, commissioner of metropolitan police, has been appointed to command British troops in Ireland. It was reported today. Allies Get Wilson’s New Note on Turkey FARTS, March 29.—Hugh Wallace, the American ambassador todny handed to the French foreign office President Wilson's new note on the Turkish situation. Second Trial Opens for Local Negro Special to The Times. SHEIaBYvILIaE, Ind., March 29.—The second trial of Upshaw “Big Boy" Northin,gton, Indianapolis negro, charged 'With shooting Sergt. Wade Hull of the Indianapolis police force, opened here today. The case was venued here from Marion county. In the first trial, held here more than a montii ago, the jury failed to agree. lln 11 was killed by a bullet while he was directing u. raid on a gambling den. PRICES CHEER NEWS. Florida oranges selling 50 cents box lower. Now down to S7@7JSO. Tomatoes quoted 50 cents lower for crate of six baskets. Selling at s4(®s. Shallot green onions 25 cents dozen bunches lower. Priced at $1.25. White onion sets down 25 cents 100 pounds to $4. Texas spinach 75 cents bushel lower, down to $2.75. GLOOM NEWS. Flour up 30 cents barrel, to $13.30. Seed potatoes 50 cents 100 pounds higher. Selling at so.f>o<&7. Spanish onions 40 cents higher for basket of forty pounds. Now quoted at $7. Cabbage half cent pound higher at 6® 6VU cents. Florida celery 25 cents crate higher. Priced <}t $n®5.26.

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In Indianapolis - . LJ m m Iff Early Monday mornlr.g shoppers battling wind at Meridian and Washington streets.

“The windiert corner in town.” This is the reputation of the ir.teiseetton of Meridian and Washington streets. Few nho battled winds there early today and on previous occasions wiil dispute it. J. H. Armington, weather observer, thinks Market and Pennsylvania streets, and perhaps Washington and Pennsylvania, will run close seconds. “It is windy at corner for Just THE DEAD INDIANA Monroeville—7 Mra. Will Simons. Harvey Grodian. 3. Two other Grodian children. Virginia Grant, 3. • Two names not available. Union City—B Mrs. Jennie Dennison, 55. Cox and child, near Lightville. Mrs. Heistand. Elmer Cole. Mrs. Olwine. Infant of Mrs. Alfred Cox. William Mote. Geneva—4 Katherine Field*, 5. Mattel Fields, 11. Mrs. Catherine Crose. 79. One name not available. Townley—l August Stutterow, grocer. Mrs. James McCoy, SR. Janies McCoy, Jr., 13. One name not available. West Liberlj'—B Frank Smith. Mrs. Frank Smith. Three children of Frank Smith. Keith Baggett, 6. Mrs. Frank Haggett. David Kessler. Orland—l William Doudt. Hoagland—l v Mrs. Aulle Merrimnn. Fountain City—l Mrs. Fred Buckrub. ILLINOIS—29 Chicago—Seven. Elgin—Seven. Melrose Park- Eleven. Plainfield—Three. May word—One. OTHER STATES OHlO—Twenty. WI9CONCIN—One. MICHIGAN—Eight. MISSOURI—One. GEORGIA—Fifty. TOTAL—I 43. LOCAL DRAWING CHOICEJ)F ELKS Adolph Seherrer Awarded First Place in Contest. Plans and specifications for the new $600,000 Elks’ cliibhouse. submitted by Adolph Seherrer, Indianapolis architect, today were awarded first place by the program committee of the Indianapolis Elks No. 13, B-. P. O. E. Herbert G. Spellman, Hubert S. Riley and Arthur C. Renick, members of the committee, selected by the Elks to judge the competitive plans, and guided by B. .T. T. .Teup, engineer and architect, professslonul adviser, awarded Mr. Scherrer's plans first place in the contest. J. Henri Desmond of Boston, Mass., won second place and Wiggarn Blackledge was awarded third place. The new clubhouse will have seven floors, a full basement and a roof gardent; 200 guest rooms, modern club facilities, gymnasium and other clubhouse features. Suffrage Fight in Delaware Resumed DOVER, Del., March 29.—The fight over the woman suffrage amendment was resumed in the legislature today, but the vote will pot be taken until Wednesday. A conference of republican leaders with the anti-suffrage members was summoned this morning and it was expected that a “deal” would be arranged by which the "antis” would support the amendment In exchange for the passage of local legislation which they desire.

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the same reason that water increases in velocity when it runs turough a narrow tube.” said Mr. Armington. “Wherever there are tall office buildings around a corner, higher than surroundings roofs, the corner will be windy. "The buildings make a narrow avenue through which the air must pass, j "It either must condense or increase | its vcioi ity to get through, and it inI creases in velocity.” BLOWN FROM WINDOW HERE Y'outh Falls 25 Feet, Breaking ' His Leg. The first wind storm casualty in Ini dianapoll* was reported to the police shortly before noon today. Porter Roach, 18. who give* hi* ad- ; dress as IClnora, Ind.. wa* blown from the second story of the Capitol hotel, Missouri and Washington streets, while he was washing windows. Roach fell about twenty-five feet, suffering a broken leg and various other Injuries. At times today the wind reached a velocity of forty-eight miles an hour. Sun day at 1 p. m. It was blowing fifty-six miles an hour. The extreme Telocity recorded in Indiana was seventy-one miles an hour, on Feb. 25. 1918. FAMINE TRAILS GERMAN REDS Four Million People of Ruhr District Shut Off. COPENHAGEN, March 29.—Four mll- ! lions of people in the Ruhr district of Germany are threatened with famine as a result of thd fighting which has stopped the transportation of food, ac- ; cording to a report from Cologne to the ; Berliuske Tldende today. LONDON. March 29.—The German red forces in the Ruhr district continue their onward march and have captured six more villages from the government troops, said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Munster, capital of Westpha- ; lia, today. The government troops are expected to begin an offensive tomorrow. Violent fighting is reported from Wesel. Herr Ludwig, one of the chief leaders of the Ruhr reds. Is quoted by the Munster correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph aa saying: “The spartacist army is only in the process of formation.” Further disorders have broken out at Berlin, according to a report telegraphed here by the Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph. Names 24 to Care for State Highways Twenty-four road superintendents of the maintenance of way department of the state highway commission have been appointed by A. H. Hinkle, chief engineer for maintenance, and work on the 3,200 miles of state highway system will be started soon. * % The state has been divided into districts for road work supervision and the districts divided into subdivisions. Each superintendent will have charge of a subdivision. Kills Stenographer and Self at Bank NEW ORLEANS, March 29.—A. W. Favalaro shot and Instantly killed Miss Caroline Hlrschler, a stenographer in the Marine bank as she entered the door of the bank thi* morning and turning the weapon on himself blew out his own brains. Jealousy was said to have been the cause of the shooting. 360 Safely Landed From Sinking Ship LONDON, March 29.—The 360 passengers on the disabled Pacific steamship navigation liner Ortega are safe. The ship was assisted to port after springing a leak at sea, and was docked at Fishguard, Wales, late Sunday. , The passengers presented ■with a puna of SSOO. <

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BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH IN HEAVY TOLL Hundreds Left Homeless, While Property Losses Reach Millions. WIND IN QUEER PRANKS CHICAGO, March 29. —Tornadoes which swept portions of eight states yesterday claimed approximately 143 lives, destroyed millions of dollars worth of property and left hundreds homeless. Reports showed there were two distinct storms —one of which hit Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana. Michigan. Missouri and Ohio, and another which left a death toll in Georgia and Alabama. Estimates place the dead at twentynine in Chicago and suburbs, while thirty-four were reported tilled in Indiana. Other states reported fatalities as follows ; Ohio. 20; Wisconsin. 1; Michigan, 8; Missouri, 1. Georgia, -t4; Alabama, 5. TOTAL OF VICTIMS MOUNTS HOURLY. The number of dead mounts each hour as reports come in. Elcin, forty miles from this city, and Melrose Park, a suburb, were the hardest bit. Lagrange. Ga., appeared to be the worst sufferer from the storm in the south. Between forty and sixty were reported killed there, with 300 homeless. West Fointj Ga., reported four dead. t and Agricola, Ala., five dead. The number of injured in the eight states was estimated at more than 500. The northern storm appeared first near St. Lonis, where one person was killed It suept northward, branching out over Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The storm traveled down the IndianaOhlo line. It reached the Chicago district near noon, just as the crowds were leaving church. Seven were killed in Elgin, seven in Chicago and fourteen in the suburbs of Melrose Park, Maywood. Plainfield and Evanston. National guard troops, former service men and armed citizens patrolled the streets in the stricken cities all night guarding property from looters. FIND RKFTGE IN ASYLUM. The tornado, cutting a ragged 200 foot path, bored through the modest residences of Melrose Park, cut past an insane asylum at Dunning, and leaped in full ferocity on Wilmette, one of the rich suburbs of Chicago. At Dunning the insane patients scurried about the corridors in terror. The asylum was not touched by the wind and it offered a refuge for the first hundred wounded and for hundreds more of refugees. Most of the dead were crushed by falliug buildings. In Norwood Park a convent was damaged and a number of nuns were removed to hospitals. The Infant daughter of Mrs. Peter Rossoczsk! was found in the street, three blocks from home, when the wind passed. In Melrose Park Mr. and Mrs. Steiliebel regained consciousness to find themselves in their own basement with the adjoining house above them, resting npon the foundations. OHIO'S TOLL MAY BE 25 CLEVELAND, March 29.—Latest reports from the storm swept area in Ohio placed the number of dead at twenty. The dead will reach twenty-five. Resumption of communication with the devastated territory will show a higher toll. It was indicated. Fully 175 persons were injured. 4 Property damage was estimated at $3,000,000. The list of dead and injured were reported as follows: Raabs Corners—Three dead, forty injured. ( Genoa—Two dead, forty injnred. Nashvilie—Three dead, thirty Injured. Greenville—Three dead, twenty injnred. Vanwert—Two dead, fifteen Injured. Moulton—Three dead, twenty-one injured. Sidney—Two dead. Cleveland—Two dead. Lima—One dead. Richfield—Teu Injured. The three dead at Moulton were children. They were found in the street a short distance from their hornets. EIGHT KILLED IN MICHIGAN DETROIT, Mich., March 29—Eight dead is the toll of the "twister” which swept over the southern portion of Mich igan late yesterday, according to meager reports coming in here. Seven are reported dead in Fenton and one in Hart.. FIFTY DEAD IN GEORGIA ATLANTA, Ga., March 29.—Between fifty and seventy persons were killed, hundreds injured, thousands made humelesE and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed by a series of tornadoes which swept over portions of Georgia and Alabama yesterday and last night, according to reports received here early today. At Lagrange, Ga., more than forty persons were killed, reports stated. M’eat Point, Ga., reported twelve dead and scores injured. Berger and 4 Others Argue Appeal Case CHICAGO, March 29.—A two years' struggle against charges of violating the espionage law was renewed In the United States court of appeals here today when Victor Berger, socialist ex-congressman, and four associates presented arguments in support of an appeal for anew trial. Wm. C. Bobbs Home Damaged by Fire The roof was burned off the house of IVilliam C. Bobbs of Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1610 North Delaware street today. Loss was $3,000. '' Sparks from the chimney falling on the roof caused the fire. Mr. and Mrs. Bobbs have been at Winter Park, and wm expected home this week, 4