Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 181

PAVEMENTS ICY, POLICE ARREST 26 Officers Say Speeders Brave Death as Well as Fines. NONE KILLED IN CITY Out Three Fatalities Are Reported Over State. Twenty-six automobile drivers who, according to police, braved not only tines but death >n icy Indianapolis streets, were arrested on speeding charges :luring the week-end. Police said it was remarkable that no one was killed in Indianapolis. There were dozens of minor accidents in which cars bumped together or crashed into curbs and poles, crashing fenders and breaking off wheels. Broken windshield glass at many corners ruined tires., Three Dead in State Three persons were killed in accidents elsewhere in Indiana during the week-end. The snow, 'which started about 6 a. m. Sunday and continued in flurries and heavier falls off and on luring the day and night, totalled ..1 inches this morning. The United States Weather Bureau >redict6d rain or snow tonight, folowed by clear weather Tuesday. L’emperuture should be about the tame as Sunday night, with lowest lear freezing, the observers said. Low temperature during the night .vas 30 at 8:15 p. m., while the mark it 7 a. m. was 33, just about normal. The snow fell throughout the State, jut was not very heavy anywhere. Among the twenty-six alleged speeders was Howard Curry, 15, of 130 Pleasant St., arrested by Motoreycleman Hudgins. He was also charged with being under age. Motorpolicemen Chitwood and Maas, investigating a crash, arrested Blaine Wilier, Jr., 16, of 3433 Washington 31vd., on a charge of driving under :ge. Others facing speeding charges: Virgil Bear, 20, of 1434 W Thirty-Fourth St.; Wesley Bulloch. 20, of 25 N. East St.; Dan Kepner. 43, of 3313 E. Washington, St.: (ieorge W. Dickey, 41, of Kokonui Ind.. Buckle Smeljberger, 27, 3324 Northwestern Ave.; Richard Hig gins, 18, of 2403 N. Talbott Ave.; Merle Bennett, 23, of 1728 Broad way; Harvey Hudson, 30, of 653 Congress Ave.; Arthur Basey, 24, of 534 E. North St.; Henry W 7 ebb, 35, of 850 N. Meridian St.; Harry Langdon, 23, of 725 N. Delaware St; Bussell Bosart, 28, of 5728 Vowel I Ave.. Mrs. Gordon A. Grant, 32, of 3008 W. Michigan St.; M. F. Courtney, 23, of 1141 River Ave-.; Edward Wirck, 24, of 402 N. Limvood Ave.; .Joe Morris, 22, of 2026 N. Olney St.; B. Batty, 46, of R. R. M.; R. L. Husson, 29, of 5507 College Ave.; Roscoe Willis, 22, of 742 Drexel Ave.; Lon Kellains, 39, of 3011 W T . Washington St. George Bennett, 17, of 3002 English Ave.. M. B. McDonald, 30, Plainfield, Ind.; J. H. Whitlock, 26, of 1338 Ashland Ave.; Charles Chevrolet, 18, of 23 W. Thirty Sixth St. and Purcell Jones, 25. Bedford, Ind. Ray McCarty, 34, of. 1229 Prospect St., was held on charges of driving while intoxicated and vehicle taking. Elmer Yates, 25, of 930 E. Georgia St., was held ,on charges of assault and battery and driving without proper brakes. Baby Injured Paul Frederick, one-year-old son of Oden Frederick, 1518 Shelby St., was injured about the head when his father’s auto collided with one driven by Theodore Rebennack, 1112 S. Belmont Ave.. at Troy Ave. and Carson St. The baby was taken to the city hospital for treatment. E. E. Ballard, 242V4 Massachusetts Ave., Apt. 19, slipped while boarding a street car and broke his'left arm at the wrist. Daniel McGummery, living at the College of Missions, Irvington, was taken home injured about the head when an auto driven by Charles Mount, 1012 Lexington Ave.. struck (Turn to Page 13) FLAPPER FANNY s&ys 1 * i c IMS BY HtA StBVICC. INC. If ignoranco is bliss, plenty of flappers should never be unhappy.

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He-Mannequins Appear till Timm Special OONDON, Nov. 30.—“ He -; mannequins’’ appeared today at the London male fashion show, latest inspiration of tailors, while young “men-about-town” sipped cocktails and talked critical about the “creations.” Trousers remain wide. Coats are a trifle less close. Overcoats are military. Double-breasted waistcoats disappeared, though double-breaded jackets maintained their popularity.

ARMY AND NAVY BUNGLES CITED BY COMMITTEE House Investigators Find Mitchell Is Right in His Charges. By William .1. McEvoy Conuriaht. 193 J. bu United Pres* WASHINGTON. Nov. 30. A charge that the high commands of the Army and Navy have retarded aviation development, concurrence in many of the criticisms voiced by Col. Wiliam Mitchell and recommendation for a single department of national defense are the salient features of the report of the House aircraft committee, as drafted, it was learned today. Besides obtaining approval of his proposal for a merger of the national defense organizations, Mitchell will receive the committee's wholehearted support for his charge that the nation is without an adequate defense system. The committee will disagree with testimony by high ranking officers that the United States is on a parity with other nations in air strength and that lack 9f funds has caused inadequacies that may exist, in relative air standing the United States will be ranked not higher than third nor lower than fifth. Official figures will be cited to show that only 10 per cent of expenditures during the last five yefirs have gone toward new and remodeled planes. The report will bristle with criticisms of the high commands for their lack of recognition of air power and charge that the Army and Navy have been backward in realizing the possibilities . of aviation as a combatant arm. FATHER KILLiiwtSON Lad Dies After Being Accidentally Shot on Hunting Trip. till United. press WINCHESTER, Ind., Nov. 30. Sadness enshrouds the home of Chester Calcs here today. Chester, 12, died from gunshot wounds re ived when his father, aiming at a rabbit, slipped, and the charge tore a hole in the boy’s side.

PRATER GIVES REMY POOL ROOM PICTURE

Youthful Bandit Gets Short ' Sentence in Return for Information. Bu Times Special rryi OBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30. —Edward Prater, 16, of 1637 { Deloss St., Indianapolis, escaped the electric chair today by telling Prosecutor William H. Remy about conditions In twe Indianapolis poo) rooms. The youth was sentenced to two to twenty-one years at the Indiana State Reformatory on a plea of guilty to manslaughter. 110 was charged with the murder of Forest Van De Vere, Indianapolis street car conductor, in a hold-up last January. Prater admitted he had loafed around poolrooms in his neighborhood. Three Murders “Three murders have been committed by boys during the last few months and they all hung around poolrooms,” Remy said. Prater, after being sentenced, made a long statement under oath, which Remy will use in a probable investigation. Mrs. Van Devere, widow of .he slain man, was not in court. She had interceded for the youth, asking that he not bo sentenced to death. The case was venned from Marion County. The lad had been in jail here since last spring. Prater appeared in court with a new necktie, his shoes shined and his clothes freshly pressed. Attorney Frank Baker entered his plea of guilty for him. Mother Happy Mrs. William Prater, the youth’s mother, a sister and a brother were in court. The mother appeared happy that her son faced probable release in two years. Judge Fred E. Hines passed sentence. Lawrence Cottle, 36. of 1537 Deloss St., Indianapolis, Prater's alleged accomplice in the hold-up, is in Marion County jail, awaiting trial Dec. 15, on charges of being an ac* cessory. GARY NOW TIRST’ CITY Bigger Than Indiannpolis fn Area, AfteA Annexation. Bii United Press GARY, Ind., Nov. 30.--Ga-v'/ an nexation of thirteen square r.iiles, by action of city council in a seciet meeting, brings t 1 „ total area up* to sixty-four r re miles. This mak Gary the largest oily in Indiar-, .outranking Indianapolis, in tcrr’.ory.

BUSSES VIE WITH GARS m CIVILITY N Courtesy by Drivers and Street Railway Employe's Marked. RESULT OF HOT FIGHT Children, Old Persons Get Especial Attention. Competition in courtesy! Business of bus drivers stopping in the middle of a block to let elderly persons off in front of their homes because it is raining! Sight of street car conductors actually helping mothers with babes in arms off and on! This is one of the results of the battle of rubber tired and iron wheeled conveyances for supremacy on Indianapolis streets. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company started it several years ago when the late Dr. Henry Jameson became head of the street railway directors, with the express idea of bettering the public feeling toward the utility. Started at First A. Smith Bowman, president of the People’s Motor Coach Company, wrote courtesy into his policy from the minute he invaded the transportation field Dec. 18. 1923. Every two weeks Bowman has a meeting of his drivers and stresses his policy of loyalty to the company and courtesy to the public. One-3eventh of Bowman's passengers are school children. Drivers are instructed to take special care in handling them. Bowman points to the practice of many mothers who send very young children for n couple of round trips in the bus of an afternoon when they need a rest. • Efforts by .Railway The Street Railway Company continues to make special efforts to drill the idea of courtesy into employes. Signs are posted in conspicuous places in cars asking that any discourteous treatment be reported at once to company officials. Os recent times it is no uTThsunl sight to see a street car halted while the conductor assists a blind man, aged person or some child to safety, Both street car and bus employes are drilled in safety first ideas and traffic laws and regulations.

Edward Prater DEFENSE RESTS IN KITS SUIT Rhinelander Again Takes Stand to Refute Story. llu I lilted Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 30. —Surprising the large crowd which had pressed into hear more details of the sensational Rhinelander romance and marriage, counsel for Mrs. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, defending the suit for annulment brought by her aristocratic young husband, rested their case shortly after the trial was resumed today. Mrs Rhinelander, the former Alice Jones, daughter of a negro cab man, did not take the witness stand to tell her side of the mesalliance as had been anticipated. In rebuttal. Rhinelander, still wearing spats, took the stand to refute the testimony of Ross Chidester, defense witness, that he said. “I don’t give a damn,” when informed two years before the marriage that his prospective bride’s father was a negro. cr .3ES CHICKEN; HURT Ma:i C-Hides With Fence Post Injuries May Be Fatal. P.n United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., Nov 30 Henry Bandow. 50. is lying at the point of death in a hospital here today the result of colliding with a fence post vjfiiie chasing a chicken.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOV. 30,1925

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Sara Hurtle, 5, of 3818 X. Illinois St., and Norman Thompson, 4, of 3844 X. Illinois St., were among Indianapolis children who took advantage of the snowy streets early today.

BUT THOMPSON SAYS COUNCIL IS NOT SANTA City Officials Hope to Deplete Municipal Coffers. Ben H. Thompson, city council president, today believes the old proverb “if you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile,” holds good in municipal affairs. Thompson with holiday giod feb lewship, Satu/day announced the end of the councilmanic rebellion and said the special meeting tonight would clean up ordinances hanging fire, particularly an appropriation of $4,200 to the street cleaning department. The result was that administration officials have swamped the city controller's office with proposed city laws designed to extract money from the coffers. Here are some of the "gimme” requests: . Bond issue of $900,000 for ( flood prevention: $30,000 for the city's half of the Meridian St. bridge across the canal; $13,000 for canal bridge at Blackford St.: $61,000 for connecting link paving of Bloyd Ave.; SII,OOO for fire engine house site at Illinois and Forty-Sixth Sts.; SIO,OOO for Judgment received by the Columbia Construction Uompany; $4,200 to street cleaning department, and $2,000 to the city engineer’s department. “But they’ll find city council is not Santa Claus.” Thompson predicted. MINERS AWAIT ‘PEACE’ REPLY Pinchot’s Proposals Accepted by Workers. Bu Times Special HARRISBURG, Ta... Nov. 30. The scale committee of union anthracite miners was to convene at 4 p. m. today to receive any reply anthracite mine operators may make to their acceptance of Governor Pinchot’s strike “peace plan.” Miners Sunday accepted the proposals for ending the strike and it is iy> to the operators to decide whether there shall be an immediate resumption of production. It was announced that the miners stood ready to meet the operators in Joint conference at r.r.y time to reach an agreement. Resumption of mining would follow as soon as possible after such an agreement and would be speeded, but the fact that one of the Governor's proposals provides for settlement of the wage dispute by a board of arbitration. CHAPMAN WRIT BATTLESTARTS ‘U. S. Does Not Want Bandit/ Court Is Told. 0 Bu United Pm • HARTFORD. Conn., Nov. 30. Gerald Chapman is not a Federal prisoner and Federal authorities have no interest in him. Assistant United States District Attorney Cohen Aeciared in Federal Court today when the hearing of the “prince of bandit’s” petition for a writ of habeas corpus started. If granted, the petition would return Chapman to Atlanta Federal penitentiary to serve out his long Federal sentence fer a New York mail robbery before Connecticut could hang him for the 1 rrurdei of Policeman SUelly in New Britain.

APPOINTMENT IS MADE New Membership Secretary at Chamber of Commerce. Appointment of Charles N. Barr of Des Moines, lowa, as membership secretary of the Indlanapoys Chamber of Commerce to succeed Morris E. Floyd, whose resignation became effective today, was announced by John B. Reynolds, Chamber secretary. Floyd has gone to a New York concern. Barr, formerly membership secretary of the senior Cnamber and executive secretary of the junior Chamber of Commerce at Des Moines. For thirteen yeara he was a teacher. STEPHENSON TO FILE REQUEST First Retrial Plea to Be Made to Judge. Request for a retrial of D. C. Stephenson, serving a life term in Indiana State Prison for murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis, will be filed with Judge Will M. Sparks soon, though no definite date has been fixed. It was announced today by Eph Inman, chief defense attorney. Charges that Judg i Sparks, who presided at the trial, erred in admitting certain evidence for the State and in refusing to adnJt defense testimony, that he made reversible error in refusing to read to the jury some of the 161 instructions the defense offered, and that-the verdict is against the law of murder, probably will be cited to Judge Sparks as reasons why he should order anew trial. In case the judge refuses, the transcript will be taken to the Supreme Court for review. If the higher tribunal decidea there was reversible, error the lower court will be ordered to hold another trial. The transcript of objections alone covers ninety-six pages. DMA’ DEMANDS FOE QUIT JOB Publisher Charged With Serving Drinks to Guests. Bu United Pri ss AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. ,30.—Governor “Ma” Ferguson today requested by letter the resignation of Amon G. Carter, Ft. Worth RecordTelegram publisher as a director of West Texas Technical College. Carter is said to sympathize with the movement to impeach her. In her letter Governor Ferguson said she understood Carter “fitted up a building in the old-fashioned bar room way. providing a bar with a foot rail and the saw dust on the floor.’’ and that behind the bar, you had a man dressed in the oldfashioned bartender white apron style.” “I am informed you invited some two or three hundred guests and to those who cpme, you dispensed drinks, that were, to say the least, stimulating.” The letter also charged Carter with giving away souvenier canes “in which there was a hidden vial, some thirty inches long that contained approximately one pint of beverage.” SHOPLIFTING CHARGED Veldah Lam'oertson, 30, of 21 W. Sixteenth St., an alleged shop lifter, was arrested today by QuigleyHyland Detective Agency operatives in a downtown store, and charged with petit larceny. STOVE BREAKS LEG William Strenge, 26, of 725 N. Capital Ave., is suffering wjth a broken leg today received Saturday at 1228 N. Alabama St., when a stove which he and Orville Horton, 1273 W. Twei\ty-Sixth St., were carrying, fell. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 32 19 a. m 35 7 a. m 33 11 a. m 37 8 a. m 33 12 (noon) .... 41 9 a. ci 34 1 p. nij 42

NONPARTISAN SURVEY BOARD TO BE NAMED 4 ’ Duvall Says Business Men Will Suggest Changes in * Government. Mayor-Elect John L. Duvall today Indicated his committee of five men to survey and suggest improvements in the present municipal government will be non-partisan. At his home. 6242 College Ave., Duvall received several Republican leaders in the morning. He was to be at the county treasurer’s office in the afternoon. “For Instance, I have in mind a manufacturer, a Democrat, who was a $75 a month bookkeeper when I came to Indianapolis,” Duvall said. “I wish the business men I appoint te survey with a view of improving efficiency.” Duvall said he had entrusted investigation of suitable committee members to L. V. Schneider, his secretary, and indicated Schneider would occupy a position of greater responsibility than have mayor’s secretaries in the past. Conferences and consideration of appointments will occupy Duvall's .time this week.

SCHOOL BOARD ASKS CITIZENS TO ATTEND

Want Shortridge Backers to Go Before Tax Session Saturday. Representatives of organizations and citizens interested in the fight on the remonstrance against the new Shortridge High School weer urged by Indianapolis school board members today to appear .in a body before State tax board Saturday at 9:30 a. m. The remonstrance, filed by the Indiana Taxpayers' Association, will be heard at that time. School officials believe hundreds will be present. Ask Inspection Charles R. Yoke, school board president, and William H. Book, business director, asked John J. Brown, tax board chairman, to have the board's engineer examine the plans and specifications for the new Shortridge. Book said the purpose was to prevent delay on the remonstrance. Brown tpld Book that Walter T. Horne, tax board engineer, already was at work on the plans and specifications. The Sclentecb Club at a meeting at noon adopted a resolution declaring that the taxpayers’ association has done "serious injury to Indianapolis schools” and urging that the remonstrance be withdrawn. E. L. Goldsmith was named chairman of a committee to investigate the State tax board. A delegation will attend the hearing, it was decided. Preliminary plans to bring the question before Shortridge High School students were to be worked out by teachers. The faculty plans to havs the questoin of school development presented to each English and public speaking class. Parents to Meet Looking toward definite support of the school board, it was learned that meetings of various committees of the Shortridge Parent-Teachers’ Association will be held this week. Members cf the school board. Taxpayers Association directors and remonstrance signers will meet Jn conference at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday to discuss the remonstrance. • THREE ARE KILLED Bu Times special * ' FEZ, Morroeco, Nov. 30.—Three persons were killed, twenty injured. ,le nplahss damaged and part of French nvlntton headquarters destroyed by a cyclone Sunday.

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ONE DIES; SCORE ESCAPE Engineer Killed; Twenty School Children Escape Death. Bu United Press lOWA CITY, lowa, Nov. 30.—Tom Murphy, 53, engineer of the third of four locomotives, was killed and a score of school children in a passenger coach attached to a Rock Island freight train narrowly escaped death today, when the train was de railed on a sharp curve near here. MINISTERS ARE WARNED Georgia Methodists Required to Abstain From Tobacco. Bn Times Special MACON, Ga., Nov. 30.—A warning to ministers who on the sly,” was issued Sunday to delegates attending the north Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south. Ministers are required to take a pledge that they will abstain from tobacco. SEVEN NATIONS TO~!SIGN Locarno Treaties Get Signatures Tuesday. Bu Times Special LONDON, Nev., 30.—Statesmen representing Germany,* Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland will sogn the Locarno treaties at the foreign office Tuesday while movie cameras record the incident. The treaties amount to a charter of peace for western Europe. new boarcTsecretary Real F-state Organization Names Successor to Hoi tel. Robert MacGregor, a realtor, has been named executive secretary of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board to succeed Henley T. Hottel, who becomes real estate manager of Washington Bank and Trust Company Dee. 10. For several years MacGregor has been active in real estate circles, Frank E. Gates, president, said. WIFE DEAdTmATE SHOT Authorities Probe Tragedy in Clinton Home. Bu United Press CLINTON. Ind., Nov. 30.—Authorities were trying today to place responsibility for the tragedy in which Mrs. Millard Clinton, 45, died from bullet wounds and her husband is suffering of a bullet wound in the brain. It is believed that Mrs. Clinton, suffering from a mental aberration, shot her husband and then fatally wounded herself. ‘DAMN ROT’ EXPUNGED Mitchell Juror's Remark Is Strlchen From Record. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. —On motion of Representative Frank R. Reid, counsel for Col. William Mitchell, the jury of generals trying Mitchell for “misconduct” today expunged from its records the “damn rot” incident of last Friday. Brig. Gen. Edwir L. King, a Juror, applied the epithet to Reid's tactics during cross-examination of a prosecution witness

He Doesn’t Mind Being Mayor S'— — OMETIMES I ay I wouldn't like to be >- here four more years, but really I would,” said Mayor Shank today. Department heads had briefly reviewed Shank administration accomplishments of four years in cabinet meeting. Superintendent Celon Nafe praised Shank for “keeping city hospital out of politicts." President Charles E. Coffin of the board of works said 660 miles of streets have been Improved. President Ernest L. Kingston of the board of safety said: "I know a lot of folks who would support you for another term, mayor.”

THREE GIRLS DISCHARGED State Industrial Board Complies With Budget Group's Ruling. In compliance with a request of the State's budget committtee, three girls employed temporarily by the State industrial board, were dropped from the pay roll today. LAD HAS TO WALK NOW First His Bicycle Is Stolen; Now N His Sled. The small son of E. L. Tatlock, 1750 E. Thirtieth St., is having a hard time keeping a means of transportation, police say. Tatlock today reported his son’s sled was stolen. Last week his bicycle was taken.

Sunny Florida

Bu United Press fSrjjp.IAMI, Fla., Nov. 30. llWi Many Mlaml streets were L J under one foot of water today as the result of a nine-inch rainfall last night. Led by the mayor, hundreds waded to work, their trousers rolled above the knees. Automobiles were unable to move through the water. About fourteen inches of water covers the streets in the down-

Forecast CLOUDY tonight with probably rain or snow, followed by fair Tuesday* not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

ARCHITECTS AROUSE IRE OF CHURCH Second Presbyterians Appear Before County Commissioners. vtfWS IN SITE OF MEMORIAL' Speakers Urge Main Building Elsewhere. The architects who designed the World War Memorial Plaza wer(* blamed by representatives of the Second Presbyterian Church for agitation for the purchase and removal of the two churches located in the plaza at a hearing before the county commissioners today. Caleb S. Denny, Second Presbyterian trustee, severely scored the architects for “thir selfish reasons” in wanting the main plaza building erected in the block occupied by the churches. State Senator Speaks State Senator Robert Moorhead, a member of the cnurch and a member of the American Legion, said that the Legion has not asked that the churches be removed. He also flayed the designers. The two churches, the Second Presbyterian and the First Baptist, are located in the block to be purchased by the county In original plaza plans. The last Legislature provided the churches should be allowed to remain for twenty-five years If they make Improvements and tho buildings are not purchased by Jan. 1. Both churches are planning Improvements. Moorehcad said that If the commissioners should authorizo a bond issue for purchase of the church properties the Indiana taxpayers would file a remonstrance. It was urged that if the main plaza building is built in the block in which the Indiana School for the Blind is sltuntred, the churches would not mar the approach. Denny said it was originally agreed by the plaza commission that tho building would be erected In that block, but the architects changed the plans. Other Speakers Others who spoke for the church were Arthur C. Moore, an elder; Bert Mcßride, trustee, and Kenneth Reid. Denpy also cited an agreement which the county commissioners entered into with a committee from the church not to condemn or buy tho property at any time. John McCloskey, president of the commissioners, said he had been approached by persons he thought members of the Second Presbyterian Church, with figures on the cost of the property. Denny denied the congregation had authorized any such move. COUNTY SUED IN BRIDGE WAR City Seeks to Mandate for Share of Costs. A suit to mandate county commissioners and county council to appropriate $194,856.74’ at once as the county’s share for erection of two bridges over White River as part of the city’s flood prevention program was filed today in Circuit Court by William Bosson, city attorney. The county has refused to pay on the grounds it has paid its share for the bridges and the city used the money to purchase land for the flood wall. The law says, the city and county each pay 45 per cent and the property owners 10 per cent of costs. Property Involved lies on both sides of White River from W. Raymond St. to W. Morris St. Commissioner Charles O. Sutton Bald that no meeting will be called unless ordered by court. Civic representatives of the south side have informed Dunn and commissioners that if the flood work is halted the Belt Railroad track elevation program will also be stoppod. UTILITY SEEKS CASH Interstate Company Expects to File Plea for Stock Sale. Harry Reid, president of the Interstate Public Service Company, and Carl 11. Mote, the company’s attorney, conferred with the public service commission today regarding the Interstate’s plan to sell approximately $1,500,000 In stock to increase working capital. A formal petition is expected later.

town secrion, overflowing into business places and hotel lobbies. Storekeepers on Miami’s main thoroughfare were wading in a foot and a half of water, moving their stocks to higher shelves. The Courthouse was closed. Miami's electric light nnd power system went out of order. Newspapers were unable to publish. $ Rain still was falling and the water hail risen to a height of two feet in many places.