Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1921 — Page 1

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10 PERSONS KILLED, 50 HURT BY CHICAGO BLAST

John Burroughs, Naturalist , Dies on Pullman Near Buffalo, N. Y.

ENROUTE HOME * FROM WINTER IN CALIFORNIA Famous Also as Essayist and j Critic—Feeble for Some Time. S4TH BIRTHDAY APRIL 3 BUFFALO, N. Y., March 29—John Burroughs, world famous naturalist, died on a train near here today while en route from California to 4iis home at West Park, N. Y. Death occurred in a Pullman compartment at 2 a. m„ when the New' York Central train No. IG, known as the New York-New England Express, was passing through Kingsville, Ohio. Burroughs, who had spent the winter In California, had been feeble for some time. Had he lived until April 8 he would have been 84. He was the most famous naturalist ever produced by Amorlea and his nature studies along many lines have been accepted as authoritative. NEW YORK, March 29.—Officials of the New York Central Railroad stated that the body of John Burroughs was taken from the train either at Kingsville or Amboy, Ohio, to await pronouncement of a formal verdict of the cause of death. Following this action the body will be prepared by an undertaker and forwarded to New York State. Henry F. Firestone, Ohio rubber manufacturer and one of the party consisting of Burroughs, himself. Edison, Ilen-y Ford and Hudson Maxim, that took an annnal camping trip together, wired Edison today suggesting that they attend Bnrrongh's funeral In a body. Edison approved. Edison intimated this year's camping trip might be abandoned out of respect to Burroughs.

John Burroughs

The death of John Burroughs removes from American life Its best loved naturalist and one of Its most prominent essayists and critics. It was the unconventional In writing and in nature that applied to him ana gave his efforts a style peculiar to him alone. His literary quality gained its fascination from the acuteness of observation rather than from any elaboration of literary expression. In 1901 he made his famous attack on Ernest Seton Thompson and one or two other naturalists, sharply criticising statements made by them in their works on nature, and referred to them as "nature fakers.” Mr. Burroughs was horn at Roxbury, N. Y„ April 3, 1837. of a stock English on his father’s side, and a strong dash of Irish on his mother’s side. He spent his early youth between study In the country school and in the Held. He said of himself that his originality was fostered by growing np among people who neither read books nor cared for them. BEGAN WRITING AT THE AGE OF 14. At the age of 14. he was writing essays, and at the age of 19 was a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly. At the age of 17 he left home and “looked for a place where the crust was pretty thin, to break through Into the world." as he pat It. He first entered Ashland Seminary and in the year following. Cooperatown Seminary. He then began teaching school, devoting most of his time to that profession for the next eight or nine years. In 1863 Mr. Burroughs was appointed to the Treasury Department, first as keeper of the vault and later as chief of an organization bureau In the division of national banks. He left the department in 1873 and the same year acted as receiver of a broken bank In Middletown. N. Y. It was also during that year that he was appointed a special national bank examiner, a position he held for ten years. In 1874 he purchased a small farm at Esopns. on the west bank of the Hudson River, and has spent most of his

Seems to Bear Out Old Belief NEW YORK, March 29. —The death of John Burroughs today was pointed to by the super,titutions as bearing out the old belief that great men always die in cycles of three. Champ Clark died recently. His demise was followed by that of Cardinal Gibbons. Today Burroughs died.

time In recent years on this farm, cultivating crops in the summer and devoting the winter to literary work. Both Walt Whitman and Matthew Arnold exercised strong influence over Mr. Burroughs. and sufficiently early to make him a flnlahed writer by the time his first book appeared in 1807—‘ Walt Whitman as Poet and Person.” Since that time, in addition to numerous articles In magazines he has written: Wake Robin (1871), Winter Sunshine (1875). Birds and Poet* (1877). Locusts and Wild Honey (1579), Pepacton (1881), Fresh Fields (ISS4). Signs and Seasons (1888). Sharp Eyes (IR9S). Indoor Studies OSS9, Riverby <lS94>. A Study (1.897), The Liftht of Day (lJOO). Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers (Ilk*). Literary Values (1902), Far and Near (1901), Ways of Nature (1905), Bird and Bough (190(5), Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt

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—Co|*yright, Underwood & Underwood. Photograph of Thomas A. Edison, electrical wizard, and John Burroughs, taken at Yama Farms Inn, Napanoch, N. J. Mr. Burroughs shown at right. Mr. Edison and Mr. Burroughs were close friends and it was their custom to visit each other each year.

(1907), Leaf and Tendril (19081, Time and Change (1912), The Summit of the Years (1913). CLOSE FRIEND OF LATE COLONEL ROOSEVELT. Mr. Burroughs was a close personal friend of the late Colonel Roosevelt, and the two often enjoyed tramps through the woods and dales bent on study of bird and animal life as well fauna. During the past few years, he hgs spent most of his summers camping with Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford, the party usually seeking some wild spot safely removed from centers of population. By turns Burroughs was an artist, naturalist, poet and sportsman, but always without the least pretense of passion. The reader of his works could hardly resist the Impulse to get out of doors and enjoy the frill significance of surroundings which had previously been meaningless. Burroughs was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

‘MAY BECOME CHRISTIAN BY PAYING PRICE’ Man Can Become Good by ‘Putting Foot Down,' Says Gipsy. ! Gipsy Smith, in his noonday meeting at Keith's theater today devoted his es | forts to proving that any man may be a Christian and travel .the paths of right--1 eotisness if he will but exert a little effort and pay the price, j “Our troubles are not to be compared with those of Jesus." he said. "Jesus traveled the samp paths we do. Only Ills ! patlf was rougher. We hsve only our i cross to bear. He bore His and ours. ! We tread our own paths. He trod another's. We do it for our own sake. He i did it for the sake of another. He felt ! our burden before it was laid on you. “Ton may think it’s difficult to be a | Christian. Think of what He faced. He I bore it all for you and me. He wasn't : defeated, and at the end of it all He said, | 'Be of good cheer, I shall overcome the ! world.’ MUST OVERCOME TEMPTATION. j “There is not a man here but what, if he would put his foot down and play the game, could be a Christian. You sa. 'l'm tempted.’ But He promises to make a way to overcome this temptation. The reason some of our churches are empty : is because there are not conversions. Get some Lazarus' in your church and you’ll | an it up. “You can be a good man if you want | to. If the stream is against you. get out |of the stream. If the crowd Is against : you, leave the crowd. Put down your foot. When you want God more than j the pleasures of the world, you’ve put your foot down and you’re coming. "Don't let criticism stop you. The higher criticism generally means lower religion. If you want to be a Christian you can be, for God is for you, and His being for you is worth more than every one else who is against you. All things are possible to him who believeth." All manner of persons, rich and poor, young and old. came down the long sawdust aisles in the tabernacle last night at the close of Gipsy Smith's famous sermon, “The Lost Christ." First came a neatly dressed man, walking slowly, with his head bowed. Then came a girl, weeping, and as she reached the front of the bulldiDg she fell and tad to be helped to a seat. A stooped old man, wearing overalls and carrying an old leather cap in his hand, came from somewhere around at the Side and put his band in that of the evangelist. Then came a sunny-haired little boy, leading each of his parents by a hand and whispered in the ear of the evan(Continued on Page Two.) NAVAL BALLOON FOUND, REPORT PENSACOLA. Fla , March 29.—Naval officers advise balloonists found in 1 Apalachicola.

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REDISTRICTING OF PRECINCTS IS SET FORTH Ordinance to Be Submitted Tonight Proposes Radical Boundary Changes. Radial changes In the precinct boundaries are proposed, affecting the voting , places of thousands of citizens In at least I six and possibly more of the fifteen I Indianapolis wards by the redictricting I ordinance to be submitted to the city council at a special meeting tonight. The ' ordinance, which will not be fully prepared until lute today, will provide for the changing of outlines of practically every voting district In the Flrsf, Second, j Fourth. Eighth. Ninth and Fifteenth wards and perhaps others. By "changej*" It is meant that the j boundaries will be different from those in effect at the election last fall. The county commissioners have twice changed the boundaries for county elections siuee 1917. So, in the redistricting ordinances the city precinct boundaries are made to conform In many instances to the present connty boundaries. In the description of the. proposed new boundaries VHch follows precincts which have been merely made to conform to the connty lilies are described as being “unchanged," for tie reason that so far as the voters are concerned they are in the same precincts they were in last fall. For purposes of clarity the county precinct lines are made the basis of the notations of “changes" in the descriptions which follow. NINETEEN NEW rRECINCTS PLANNED. Nineteen new precincts will be added to the number of county precincts now .situated inside the city limits. There were 141 city precincts at the 1917 city j primary election and 134 county pre- ! cincts last fall. The nlnteen new pre- ! cincts added to the i.M county give* a total of 173, the number of precincts which the ordinance would outline. Precincts would be increased us folj lows: 1 Throe in the First ward, four in the , Second w-ard, one in the Third ward, two in the Eighth ward, two in the Tenth ward and two in the Fifteenth ward. There afe prospects that the ordinance will not go through the council tonight. It wilPbe necessary to suspend the rules ! to get passage on the night of its being introduced. One dissenting vote kills a motion to suspend and the four antli administration councilinen, (J. G. Schmidt. Louis W. Cnrneflx. Lee J. Klrsch and William R. Peake, were understood to be against fast action. In general, the city administration and the backers of Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College and Newß-Jewett candidate for mayor, who are responsible for the changes, claim that they were made so as to have not (Continued on Page Eight.)

2 HURT WHEN AUTOS CRASH Lloyd and Walker Injured in Collision on Fall Creek Boulevard. Two men were hurt, one seriously, in an automobile collision at Illinois street and Fall Creek boulevard shortly after i noon today. The injured are Martin S. ■ Lloyd, 1015 Union street, and Theodore Walker, former motorcycle p>olieemun, 350 South Gray street. Lloyd was seriously injured about the back and legs and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, Walker was less seriously injured and was taken home. The two men were riding west on the boulevard in a small car, Lloyd driving. As they reached Illinois street the car was struck by a heavy automobile driven by Fred Prince, negro, 359 West TwentyFifth street. Prince was arrested on charges of assault and battery and speeding. The car in which Walker and Lloyd were riding waa demolished.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29,1921.

CAR CO. COSTS FOR THIS YEAR PUT ABOVE 1920 McGowan Denies Reductions Will Cut Operating Expenses. ESTIMATES QUESTIONED Operation costs of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will be more this year than last year despite general reductions in prices, Joseph A. McGov an, secretary and treasurer of the company, told the public service commission today in the hearing of the company’s petition for increased fares Power costs averaged 1.81 cents per kilowatt hour In 1920, while they will average 1.87 cents this year; the cost of operating cars In 1921 will be $1,669,627, as compared with $1,364,301 iu 1920, a difference of $105,120, Mr. McGowan said. When the hearing opened Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel for the city, continued his cross-examination of Mr. McGowan, closing it Just before the noon adjournment. Mr. Ashby questioned the statements of the company, that current purchase* will be higher this year than last. He also questioned the showing of the company that current cost more iu February than in January, despite previous testimony that high price* were caused by calculating the cost of highpriced coal purchased last year. Mr. Ashby also questioned figures of the company estimating powerhouse equipment maintenance costs *nt $23,000 more this year than last. MANY COSTS HIGHER. M'GOWAN SAYS. “Maintenance of equipment co*t more in January and February of tile year than for the corresponding months last year," Mr. McGowan replied to tills question. “Are net repairs cheaper than they were a year ago?" Mr. Ashby asked. "No, sir. Many things needed in power plants are higher than a year ago," Mr. McGowan replied. “Wages are as high or higher ” “Do you pay common labor more or less than last year," Mr Ashby asked. Mr. McGowan hesitated, explaining that the company employed very little common labor in its power plants, but he finally replied that the coat of common labor Is probably more. FJgurea presented to the commission showed that power plant wages in 1920 were $71,913 and that the estimated cost of similar wages in 1921 would be $83,417. Mr. McGowan explained that the cstiipa’-cd lucre.go is b.istid on figures for January and February. The cost of fuel for power In 1920 was $345,471, as compared with an estimate tf $312,734 for 1921. Mr. McGowan explained also that It costs the company 20 cents a ton to handle Its coal at the West Washington stieet plant. At tills point B. I. Lewis, chairman of the commission, asked that an analysis be made of the cost of the coal the company baa on hand. ASHBY QUESTIONS ANOTHER ESTIMATE. Mr. Ashby questioned an estimated increase in coal costa over the latter months of last year. Mr. McGowan explained the estimate was based on the company's experiences in February. "Do you mean that your concern is so set that you what you do in January and February you must do the remainder of the year?” Mr. Ashby naked. "Not at all,” Mr. McGowan replied, “but that is all we have to base our estimates on. Further testimony showed that the company Is paying an average of 1 33 cents a kilowatt hour for current purchased from the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company arid that the current manufactured by the com(('ontlnucd on I'uge Nine.)

Miss Anne Morgan and Some of Proteges

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Goodrich Regime Boosts Taxes of State 46 Per Cent Taxes to be paid this year are 46 per cent higher than taxes paid last year in Indiana, figures compiled by William G. Oliver, Auditor of State, show. The total amount of taxes to be collected this year Is $111,459,000 as compared with $75,615,000 last year. The increase was brought about by higher valuations and higher tax rates under the Goodrich administration. Sixty-five per cent of the funds collected will go for the maintenance of schools and roads.

STOLEN PETS SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL KNIFE Torture Endured by Dumb Animals in Experiments at School of Medicine. NO RECORD ON DOGS While the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine, 1041 West Michigan street, is considering how best to meet a storm of criticism concerning its treatment of dumb animals, a score or more of dogs of every breed are awaiting their time to be subjected to surgical operations at the school. Among these dogs are animals that have been pets in homes ii> Indianapolis and elsewhere in the State.. The manner In which they reached the medical school and the manner In which they are treated there has been the subject of a police investigation and of a wide difference of opinion on the part of leading physicians of Indianapolis, as well as a source of great concern to those who have Interested themselves in the humane treatment of animals. It is the contention if the medical college attaches and faculty that no cruel treatment is practiced on the dogs, that K’qntlnucd on rage Nine.)

FARMER HIT BY ‘WILD’ ENGINE R. Floyd Hobbs, Struck While Driving Near Speedway, Seriously Hurt. R. Floyd Hobbs, assistant superintendent of a farm owned by Henry Trotter, was probably fatally Injured this morning when a farm wagon he was driving was demolished by a Big Four “wild" engine at the Speedway road crossing near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Both of the horses Mr. Hobbs was driving were killed, one of them being hurled 150 feet. Hobbs was thrown forty feet and suffered a fractured skull. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital and died there a few hours later. The injured man had a wife and six children. The engine, which was being tested out, was in charge of George Kern, 3703 East New York -street, engine* r, and \V. J. Gargin, 1624 Hoyt avenue, fireman.

Interest of the American committee for devastated France. The other pictures show the little French tots In the day

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SHANK SAYS HE WOULD LESSEN BURDEN OF TAX Promises More Efficient Operation of City Plants and Departments. ECONOMY CHIEF ISSUE Lessening of the tax burden and more efficient operation of city plants and departments are given conspicuous place in Lew Shank’s platform as outlined in speeches last night and today. The candidate addressed meetings last night at 2619 North Illinois street and Thirty-Fourth and Clifton streets. Rank incompetence and arrogant disregard for the rights of the people in the interest of privileged persons was charged against the Jewett administration. which is seeking to place Mr. Thomas C. Howe as Mayor Jewett's successor. “Professor Howe’s platform is to be ready for him to read tonight, so I thought I might as well offer my own jilans, in order that comparison may be made,” Bald Mr. Shank today. MORE FLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN. Next in importance to his promise of rigid economy in Mr. Shank's platform is bis plan to niter the policy of the city park board. More playgrounds for children and less money for large park extensions sums up the candidate’s attitude on that point, he said.

Under the head of street Improvements, Mr. Shank promised to place In operation the idle city asphalt plant for the purpose of mending the streets. "We have Aad four weeks of good weather, but no streets have been repaired,” he said. “There are few streets in the entire city over which a motorist can drive with any comfort. The object apparently is to neglect repair work until the streets are irreparably damaged so that some favored contractor may have a resurfacing contract. That Is sinful waste.’’ Mr. Shank said he did not believe any street jpr alley improvement Rbould be ordered unless a majority of the property owners concerned were willing to stand the burden. In that connection he promised tliut any citizen would always have the privilege of being heard at the city hall on matters affecting him ot* his interests. PROMISES RELIEF FOR SITUATIONS. “When 40.000 or more men are idle in the city as they are now and the ikcrtr 4)e<ff of ’cleaning and repair we'll find a way to relieve both situations. " he said. Unreasonable rate Increases for utilities should always tie honestly and energetically opposed, Mr. Shank continued. Better street car service is imperative and cross town lines a necessity, he said. A number of unwise and Inconvenient traffic policies of the present administration should be corrected, the candidate declared, and cited the vehicle parking ordinance and the present routing of street cars through the business dls trlct. “One important matter which has received but little conslderut!' n,” Mr. Shank said, "is ambulance and dispensary service. Formerly they were obtainable at the police station. Now the ambulances are kept at the city hospital. In case of an accident the call goes first to the police station and then Is relayed to the hospital. The ambulance seldom reached the scene In loss than half an hour. In the case of the Broad Ripple street car wreck it was three-quarters of an hour before 1 any ambulance arrived.” Other promises made by the candidate included recognition of woman’s right to participate in civic affairs; removal of the board of health from politics; clean(Continued on I'age Nine.)

nurseries maintained by the committee at Vic Sur Aisue, France.

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PROPERTY DAMAGE PUT NEAR MILLION IN first ESTIMATES Explosion Believed to Have Been in Paper Warehouse in Heart of ‘Little Italy’ Tenement District. 3 THEORIES ADVANCED AS TO CAUSE CHICAGO, March 29. —Ten persons were torn to death and fifty injured today when an explosion rocked “Little Italy" in the heart of Chicago’s tenement district. Investigation leads authorities to believe the blast started in the paper warehouse of Joseph Well and Company. Damage will run close to a million dollars, police estimated. This includes the loss of several buildings and homes in the vicinity that were splintered. One hundred families were made homeless. Harry Weil, son of the owner of the paper house, and N. Schaffer, part owner of the Finger. Schaefer Company, near the scene, were taken to police headquarters for questioning. The cause of the blast is undetermined, but these three theories have been advanced: Labor feud. Political feud. Leaky gas main. Only a few of the mangled bodies pulled from the ruins have been identified.

FRANCE WILL TRIUMPH, SAYS ANNE MORGAN Predicts Return to Pre-War Prosperity in Talk Here. "France will rise again." delcared Miss Anm* Morgan, who. In the interests of the American Committee for Devastated France, addressed a luncheon in the Chateau room of the Claypool hotel today. “Americans who predict France will never regain Its pre-war prosperity,” said Miss Morgan, "do not know the nature of the French, the passion for tbeir own soli, the Intense love for making the Inheritance of centuries of tradition better all the time instead of doing as Americans, seeking new lands and acquiring great quantities of country. The French who have had their homes devastated, whose land is absolutely worthless and who could accumulate new land of far greater value if they desired, return to their forlorn property because they care for it. “And that is why our work in France is not over with the war. Our duty is still binding, for while the French peasant is struggling with the devastated ground the family must be cared for, the children must be fed, for there is no income. That is the work the committee is doing, the big task that they have to face.” Miss Morgan told of the extensive relief work that the American committee for devastated France is doing in the department of the Aisne. There are two hundred villages and hamlets in the department that are being helped to face life anew. Since the armistice one-half of the former population has returned to live In huta. dugouts and flimsy barracks. Seven thousand of these unfortunates are children debilitated by hunger and suffering, she said. 5,00*1 LUNCHEONS SERVE!) DAILY. "Five thousand luncheons, consisting of hot chocolate and biscuits, are being served daily by the committee, clinics have been established for the systematic care of babies and their mothers; Boy Scout troops to the number of 150 have been organized to give patriotic moral and physical training to the citizens and soldiers of the future; libraries and kindergartens, day nurseries and schools and classes In domestic science and various subjects have been started. Houses, churches and schools have been repaired in the workshop of the committee; farmers’ syndicates have been organized, tools, live stock and household goods have beer, transported by the committee to the region. The French government is doing its utmost and the people of France are doing their utmost to help themselves," said Miss Morgan. "They ask us to stand by them a little while until they can carry on alone and unaided." she said. Motion pictures of the various classes of the committee and devastated region were shown illustrating her remarks. SIMPLE DECORATIONS ON SPEAKER’S TABLE. The speaker’s table was simply decorated. Covers were laid at the table for Miss Morgan, Mrs. Booth Tarkington, Mr.s Phiteman Watson, Mrs. Russell For(Continued on Page Two.) MAYOR OF CORK TO SPEAK HERE

Irish Citizens Announce Meeting Following Refusal of Tomlinson Hall. Following refusal of Mayor Charles W. Jewett to reverse thevorder of the board of public works prohibiting the American Society for the Recognition of the Irish Republic to use Tomlinson hall next Friday for a meeting to be addressed by Donal O'Callahan, lord mayor of Cork, a delegation of Irish citizens today declared that O'Callahan will speai somewhere in the city next Friday i nevertheless. They said that the mayor j "practically gave us permission to have j Mr. O’Callahan speak In any hall not owned by the public.” The delegation waa composed of J. B. Nellegar and T. J. Vind, national representative of the Irish freedom organisation; John J. Gorman, president of the Central laibor Union; Mrs. E. N. Jesse, Mrs Mary McGrady and Mrs. I. H. I<aportc. representing the ladles’ auxiliaries to the Ancient Order of Hibernians; E. j J. Sexton, who said he came Just as a , citizen, and John E. Smith, also of ihe 1 Central Labor Union. The mayor said he told the delegation be could not let them Lave Tomlin* on Hall because he did not believe “we ought in this country to engage In controversies over European problems wh ch .suae animosities among our own cltl*en.“ /

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SHATTERS WINDOWS’ FOR MANY BLOCKS. Windows within a radius of many blocks were shattered by the terrific concussion and men and women employes rushed from nearby stores and houses in panic. Identification of the bodies taken from the debris has been impossible because of their mutilated condition. The body of a small girl about 3, was the last body taken from the ruins. The other dead included three unidentified men, all about 30, two with their heads Mown off and the other badly mangled. TEAMSTER TELLS FIRST CONNECTED STORY. The first connected story of the blast was told by Thomas Ha'ole, a teamster employed in the neighborhood. He was in the building when the explosion came. “There was another teamster, four helpers, a male bookkeeper and two girls in the building," liable said. "Joseph and Jack Well, the owners, also were there. The explosion came with terrific suddenness. I ran from the building as fast os I could get to my feet. I don’t know what happened after that or what became of the others.” GERMAN POLICE ROUT REDS AT LUENA WORKS Kill 300 and Capture 1,500 Prisoners, Says Report to Berlin.

BULLETIN. COBLENZ, March 29.—American troops clean German reds out of Wirges. BERLIN. March 29. —After a short bnt violent struggle the security police under command of Col. Count Goninski, captured the Leuna works In a storm attack today, taking 1,500 communist prisoners. , Three hundred red soldiers were reported to have been killed. The security police lost three killed and eight wounded. The battle opened with a bombardment from 4-ineh field pieces. Reports said fourteen persons were killed and forty-six wounded In a violent collision between the security police and communists at Essen, in the Ruhr district, today. Three of the dead were security policemen. Essen Is the seat of the great Krupp Works and other iron aud steel industries. An officer of the security police at Essen had ordered a communist mob to disperse. While the officer was engaged in conversation with the ringleaders of the reds some unidentified person threw a huge bouquet of flowers from a window into the. midst of a crowd of policemen. The flowers covered a hand grenade which exploded underneath an automobile. The policemen fired three volleys into the air to frighten the reds. The communists, who were heavily armed, opened fire with revolvers and hand grenades. The policemen returned the fire. CABINET HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING. Large numbers of communists from middle Germany, where the trouble began, are flocking into Berlin with the announced intention of assisting the reds in the revolution. Herr ti’eismann, director of public safety, admitted that the situation has become more serious and that this may pro\e a critical day. Ringleaders of the reds have made plans for an uprising with a strike and sabotage of the electric plants in the Berlin district. Following this the reds plan to paralyze industry and tie up railway traffic. The police officials are confident they can cope with the situation, but declared if the reds are even successful to a small extent it will open the way to plundering by the lawless element of the city's population. Armed communists at Leipzig disarmed the security police guarding the Leipzig (Continued on Page Eight.)

VIVIANI WILL CALL ON HUGHES French Envoy Will Be Received Later by President at White House. WASHINGTON, March 29 —Rene Vlviani, the French extraordinary envoy, who has coir.e to this country on a special mission, will be received by Secretary of State Hughes at the State Department at noon tomorrow, It was announced here today. After presenting his credentials from his government, M. Viviani will be received by President Harding at the White House at 4:30 p. m. A telegram to this effect was dispatched Jules Jusserand, the French ambassador, who is in New York welcoming M. Viviani.