Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 38—NUMBER 11

Tracy Humor, the Safety Valve John D's Cross Is John Bull Sincere? Putting the Question

By M. E. Tracy An organization of Jewish veterans has wired Mayor Walker of New York demanding that he oust Fire Commissioner Dorman because the latter told a story about one named Cohen which they declare reflects on the entire race. Citizens of Hicksvllle, Long Island, are going to vote on changing the name of their town because, as some of them say, they cannot endure the fun that Is poked at It by quipsters. A relative of the late General Burnsides is suing the Colgate Company because, as she alleges, the company has run a series of advertisements that holds the General's whiskers up to ridicule. Obviously, we are losing our sense of humor, and did you ever stop to think that as we find it harder to be laughed at, we find it easier to make law. Did you ever stop to think that the joker and humorist have done a lot for us besides making amusement; stopped silly tendencies; killed fads, and squelched people who took thmselves too seriously? •!• -I- -I- ' Having gotten about all of his money they could possibly scrape since It Is now being devoted to more liberal causes, the hardshell Baptists are disposed to throw John D. Rockefeller out of tho church, him, his pastor, his assistants, his ass, his ox, his man, maid and servants and all those who agree with him. You can’t even have my sympathy, John, for you are getting no more than you deserve. You don’t belong In that crowd and you never did. It’s financial aid for dogma they .w'ant, not charity for men, and when you undertook to serve humanity by establishing hospitals, fighting disease and donating funds for medical research, It. was equivalent to writing your resignation. But the heart of the world Is with you, John, even if orthodox salvia does turn to bile, and a million kids are willing to give you a recommendation of good cheer for what you have done to make their lot a little easier. Jf St. Peter turns you down on the fundamentalist say so*, which I can’t believe he will, you can get passes from at least a dozen grateful countries and as many grateful creeds. ■I- -I- -ISir Herbert Samuel’s memorandum on which the British strike was settled provided, in effect, that there would be no wage cut for the miners unless the mine owners gave sufficient assurance that the industry would be reorganized in accordance with the coal commission’s report. British labor accepted this memorandum ns official and supposed the Government was bound by it. ft appears now, however, that Sir Herbert did not show the memorandum to Premier Baldwin or any cabinet member until the morning the trades union council had agreed to call the strike. The question naturally arises, has British labor been tricked? Certainly Premier Baldwin’s insistence that the miners take a wage cut as tlie first essential step toward a settlement of their own strike dees not seem in conformity with the memorandum, although the cut is comparatively small. His threat, also to withdraw the subsidy by June 1 doe'' not seem In accord with that provision of tho memorandum which promised that the subsidy would be ‘‘continued for a reasonable time," pending negotiations for a settlement.

Ooolidgp's order for the enlistment of local praco officers as Federal dry agents where State laws permit, Is made the more ridiculous hy his own declarations with regard to State rights. Ts he had any such order in mind, why In the name of common sense, did ho go to Williamsburg only ten days ago and pay such a glowing tribute to that doctrine? Or was it sprung on him hy his subordinate or did he fall to take sufficient time to realize just how inconsistent it would make him appear? -I- •!• -ITon can’t think of that order without thinking of the proposed ! liquor referendum which It has certainly helped. New York has already provided for one. Who's next? Or are we going to shilly-shally along, pleasing the wets by a tolerant attitude toward bootleggers and placating the drys with an act entitled an act every now and then which nobody intends to enforce? Was there ever such a farce in the history of the world? What would the old boys with their sense of common honesty and their belief in plain speaking say, were they to come back and behold the state of cheap hypocrisy into which we have fallen? Think of George Washington taking a drink and then voting for a dry law, or voting for a dry law ind then taking a drink! T;E ROY VICTOR Bu Vnited Prt* MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 25. Although having injured his right hand in the second round when he dropped his opponent for a nine rount, Ttussie Le Roy, Fargo, N. D., decisively outpointed Billy Porterfield In ten rounds here Monday. BUILDINGS BILL SIGNED Bu I nilril I’rtsx WASHINGTON. May 25.—President Coolidge today signed the public buildings bill,

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PM VOTE IS FAVORED BY BUSIItESS Indiana Citizens Should Be Given Chance to Express Opinion, Leaders Say. WOULD STOP DISCUSSION Referendum Possible if Authorized by Legislature. Business is anxious for an Indiana referendum on prohibition. All that would be necessary to get it would be an act of tho State Legislature. These are net results of a Times survey on the popularity and feasibility of conducting a referendum under the plan submitted to the Senate Monday by Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey. From’ an economic standpoint, a referendum is a necessity, according to Interviews with representative business men. “Economic Loss” ‘‘l think our greatest economic loss is the time wasted discussing prohibition,” said Ronald S. Foster, of Foster and Messick, brokerage and insurance firm. "This might be a way to stop that loss. Indiana never had a referendum on any question. Though Senator Robinson, Arkansas, leader of the drys in the Senate, has indorsed tho proposed referendum, Superintendent K. S. Shumaker of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League voiced vigorous opposition. “A referendum would he contrary to the Constitution of the United States, which does not provide for an amendment of the Constitution by referendum,” Shumaker said. He admitted, however, that the Constitution does not prohibit such a referendum. Edge’s proposal is in the form of a resolution to be attached as a rider to a measure strengthening the Volstead Act. If directs the States to conduct a referendum on modification in connection with the 1028 national election. Alarmed by the defeats in recent primaries of Senator Pepper, McKinley and Stanfield, all Coolidge supporters, Washington dispatches hint the Administration may get behind the proposal and pass It this session as a political move to bolster its waning popularity. What They Say The opinions: Clarence Kirk, general manager Citizenp Gas Company—lt’s exactly what ought to be done. This is a free country and I think the people ought to have some voice about such a question as this. If the Volstead act Is right, it means a lot to know it, and if It’s wrong, it means a (Turn to Page 2)

SECRETAR Y I)A VIS GETS FORT REPORT

Watson, Robinson, Updike Submit Legion Survey, Citing ‘Distressing Housing Conditions.’

Bj Roscoe 11. Fleming, Timr* Sta't I'orretpondent WASHINGTON, May 25.—A retort showing "distressing and Intolerable housing conditions" at Ft. Benjamin Harrison was filed today with War Secretary Davis hy Senator Watson, Senator Robinson, and Representative Updike. The report was sent to the Indiana legislators hy J. H. Holliday Jr. Post No. 180, American Legion, of Indianapolis. following an investigation at the fort by a committee of five post members, headed by Richard 11. llabhe. The report also has been given to Representative Morin of Pennsylvania. chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, tend Senator Wadsworth, New York, chairman of the Senate committee. . Hope for Belief Updike has a bill pending in the House committee to appropriate $1,446,000 for relief, a similar bill, Introduced in the Senate by Robinson, was unfavorably reported by the Senate committee. However, the War Department has made known its intention to sell Immediately much of its surplus property, anti plans with the money to carry out. emergency construction much more quickly than at first intended, it, is believed Fort Ben may yet be given favorable consideration this year. Senator Watson wrote Habbo that the Senators and Updike are working hard to secure emergency relief at the fort, and will present the question In detail to the House and Senate Military committees. They will confer with Davis soon, they said. Times Pictures Shown The report from Indianapolis was accompanied by photographs, similar to those carried some time ago in The Times, showing the’ conditions under which the men are living. “These conditions are so apparent and so shameful as to strike even the most casual observer,” the legion committee said. “The fort is badly overcrowded, and junior officers and their wives are living in dilapidated war-time temporary buildings. Board ‘rrnlkf* trr at

JOYCE ADMITS IT, BUT: 7 WAS DRUNK ’

19 MOTORISTS SLATED Fourteen of Number Face Charges of Speeding. Nineteen motorists were slated at tho city prison Monday night. Fourteen were charged with speeding. Louis Sheridan, 33, of 440 S. Hast St., was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving and speeding. Five drivers were alleged to have failed to havo proper lights. BUS PETITIONERS HEARD Extension of Two Lines Sought by Companies. Evidence in the petition of the Indiana Motor Transit Company to extend one of its bus lines from Delphi to Monticello was heard today by Public Service Commissioner Clyde H. Jones. Jones also heard tho T. 11., 1. A- E. Traction Company's request to extend one of its Terre Haute bus lines. SCOIILAUNCHES FOURTH FIGHTIO CHEAT HANGMAN Convicted Slayer Appears in Court Without Counsel, Alone. Bu U/yitcd I'refs CHICAGO, May 25.—Untidy, alone and without legal representation, Russell Scott appeared In Criminal Court today to begin his fourth fight for life. Scott, who has been convicted of slaying Joseph Maurer in a drug store hold-up, sentenced to hang and thrice escaped the gallows (tho last two through an Insanity plea), was rather forlorn appearing ns he stood before Judge William V. Brothers awaiting the next turn in his legal battle for life. The court is to decide whether Scott should be granted another sanity trial before a jury or whether the date for his execution should be set. When -Judge Brothers learnM that Scott was not represented by a lawyer, he immediately postponed the hearing until 2 p. m. "William Scott Stewart is familiar with this case and I will 'appoint him as your counsel," Judge Brotherfc told Scott. The convicted man nodded that this would suit him. Stewart was notified. • After appointment of , counsel, Scott was transferred from custody of the southern Illinois Insane Asylum—where he has been confined since before Thanksgiving—to custody of Sheriff Peter Hoffman. Scoit then was led back to the county Jail. Mrs. Catherine Scott, wife of the convicted man, was not In the crowded courtroom.

these buildings have rotted. The committee asks not only for better living conditions but for a permanent program which would enlarge the fort and give it the importance its strategic location should command. Officers have been withdrawn because of present conditions, it was said, and the quota of troops may still further be. lessened if conditions are not improved." * MAY CUT TWINS APART Clinic Held to Discuss “Siamese” Babies. Bu I nitrd J’rrns SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 25. Doctors from over this district gathered at St. Joseph’s Hospital today to determine as to whether Bessie and Lucie Medich—born joined together Saturday night, shall be severed. The modern “Siamese twins” coo and kick vigorously In their hospital bed, but doctors are fearful that they may follow all other such cases of abnormal birth and die suddenly. For this reason the clinic was called today. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 10 a. m 80 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 82 8 a. m 72 12 (noon) .... 84 9 a. m 76 1 p. m...... 86

They Passed Him By

Bu Time * Special NEW YORK, May 25.—With a story of tragedy on his Ups, a story of how his wife lay pinned beneath an auto praying for her life, Robert Bertschey, theater manager, cried vainly for aid early Monday morning and watched motorists who might have saved his wife speed away. Bertscy's auto crashed into a tree after being forced off the road. The wife was caught by the Inverted tonneau and he . could not extricate her. Pe

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 25, ,1926

‘‘Earl Said, ‘Baby All Right,’ and I Got in Tub,” Jury 1$ Told. Bu United Preen NEW YORK. May 25.—Joyce Hawley—the “hath tub girl” of Earl Carroll’s now famous party—today told a jury of how she had bathed in the nude in a bath tub partly filled with "liquid" while the shout of "the line forms on the right” rang through the party hall. The former choruq girl—who said she was only 17—was appearing as tho principal Government witness in a Carroll’s trial for perjury. Joyce created a mild sensation as she half ran into the courtroom today some fifty-three minutes late. The judge had just prepared to Issue a bench warrant for her appearance when she dashed down the aisle. “Baby All Right” Then the details of the famous “wine bath" started reaching a climax when she said that in answer to Carroll’s “Baby all right" summons. she had stepped into the crowded dance room—clad in chemise and shoos—behind a cloak, walked to the tub. removed her scant garments and then started the nude bath. Miss Hawley said she had been hired for the "bath” a week before ttie party, having been promised S2O for her part. She said she arrived at the party at midnight. She explained she saw a bathtub which contained liquor and that she had several drinks. (Turn to Page 2) ‘WHO WILL GIVE ME JOB NO W? ’ This Is Plaint of McCortnick as Police Give Him Liberty Again. "Where am I going lo got a job after this," was the query of Elmer McCormick, 26, of Lawrence, Ind., who has been held since Wednesday in the investigation of the murder of Wilkinson Haag, when Detectives Reynolds and Jordan told him he was free today. “Thank tho T.ord, though," he said. "Now folks will know T am innocent. But who will give me a job now? I’m going to ask Chief Johnson to see if he can't help me.” Although the mustache he wears and the Chrysler roadster he drives led to his arrest. McCormick said he would not shave off the mustache or sell the car. He appeared extremely nervous and somewhat, dazed as deputy sheriffs helped him gather his belon kings. Detectives drove* him to his home in a police car after he had claimed $3 removed from his pockets and held at turnkey’s office

at city prison. "I’m going to get some real sleep now,” he declared. His wife, who aided him In his fight to establish an alibi, was not present when he was freed, as she had not been notified by police. TO EXCUSE U. S. JURY May Itc Called l,aler to Continue Squibb Probe. Federal grand jury was to return six true bills before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell this afternoon and be temporally excused. Jurors may be called later this term to continue investigation of tlie theft of 330 cases of W. I*. Squibb & Cos. whisky from the Federal Bldg. Among persons expected to be Indicted is Daniel llesley, 25, who held up and kidnaned a Pennsylvania Railroad pay roll messenger April 14. at Indiana Harbor, Ind. Ho srv cured $37,000. but was captured in six days, after be had killed a deputy sheriff near Joliet. 111. Nine Vigo County* residents were indicted on counterfeiting charges Monday. EMERSON SCHOOL WINS Presented Cup for Re-st Accident Prevention Work. School 58. the Ralph Waldo Emerson School, 403 N. Linwood Ave., today was awarded the cup for tho best accident prevention work this year by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson on recommendation of Sergt. Frank Owen and Oscar Queisser of the accident prevention bureau and Traffic Inspector Lester Jones. The school also won last year. St. John’s Catholic School was presented a cup for having the best parochial school record.

could not even reach the dash board to shut off the motor. Frantic he rushed up a steep embankment to the road, a battered, hysterical man. Ho shouted for help. Motorists ignored him. They thought he was a bandit. Back to his wife, who was praying. More frantic efforts to release her. Then hack to the road. This for hours. Finally the climb up the embankment was beyond his powers. He fell unconscious. When morning came a driver found him. But Mrs. Bertschy was dead.

HAAG CASE SUSPECT IS SET LOOSE Release McCormick When Girl Says Bandit Slayer Was Taller. GRAND JURY AT WORK Police Credit Blackmail Theory of Crime. After being held in jail for more than five days. In the investigation of the Wilkinson Haag murder case. Elmer McCormick, 26, Lawrence, ind., today was released on his own recognizance by police. Police set McCormick at liberty after Miss Jessie Murphy, companion of Haag at the time of the killing at the Green Mill dance hall, said she was "not positive” he was the bandit-slayer. Haag, a drug company official was murdered in a hold-up staged by two men. ■ “I believe tho real bandit was a little taller than McCormick," Miss Murphy told Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, Capt. Jerry Kinney and Detectives Reynolds and Rugenstein. McCormick had protested his Innooense from tho time he was arrested last Wednesday night, following the murder on Monday. He said he spent Monday wilh his wife and mother. “Pays lo Tell Truth" "It pays to tell the truth, doesn’t it?" ho said when let out of Jail. But while the release left police without any suspects held in the ease. Prosecutor William It. Remy was starting anew line of investigation. Remy said he has heard that there was a bottle of liquor In Haag's auto Just before he was killed. Some new evidence he has been given will be presented to the county grand jury, he said. Lieutenant Forsythe, in charge of the police emergency, which arrived at the scene soon after the murder, said he found no liquor in Haag's auto. _ „ Meanwhile officers were working on two new theories in the case. The first is that the txindits did not make their escape in a tan colored Chrysler auto, as had boon thought heretofore. The second is that blackmail was the motive in the hold-up killing. Check Story Wayne Burdsall. 344 Grand Ave., milk truck driver, told detectives he was driving east on Thirty-Eighth St. when he met a Chrysler auto bearing two men as it turned south (Turn to Page 2)

DICTATORSHIP IN POLAND LOOMS Pilsudski to Force Dissolution of Sejm. Bu I nitrl Pie WARSAW. May 25.—The new Polish government has openly threatened to establish a dictatorship whereby parliament will survive nominally but actually will be superceded. It was learned that after the convening of Parliament next Monday, Marshal Josef Piludski. victorious in his coup de'etat, intends to force the dissolution of the sejm and proclaim a dictatorship on the basis of constitutional prerogatives. Loft wing groups demand the forcible ousting of Iteneski. president of the province of Posen, whore counter-revolutionists are strong. It Is even rumored that Pilsudski contemplates a punitive expedition against Posen. SCHOOL LIST MAY BE UP But Final Choice of Teachers Not to Conic Till later. Following a meeting of the school board instruction committee today, hoard members said they believed the recommendations of Superintendent E. IT. Graff for appointment of high and grade school teachers for the coming year, might be taken up in part, at the board meeting tonight. Graff said recommendations tho board members had were more than a month old. President Theodore F. Vonnegut said he did not believe the list will be complete until the last ol June. CHILDREN SEE TRAGEDY Farmer Wiools and Kills Wife— Commits Suicide. Bu Vnited Pm* WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, Ohio, May 25.—While his live children stood by, horrified, Elmer Warmer, 43, a farjner, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide today. TO DEMONSTRATE FIRING A demonstration of proper furnace firing to show that a relatively smokeless city is possible will be conducted by Joseph U. Buchanan, city Rnioke Inspector, at the Knights of Pythias Bldg., Pennsylvania St. and Massachusetts Ave., u einesday

Oh Percy, Don’t Put on That Rouge Too Heavily

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Forest Madden Kidvvell being "fixed-lip” by Miss Ortha Cassell,

HIGHWAY BODY MAY HE G. 0. P. BATTLE CENTER Editors Plan Attack on Walb —World Court Fight at Convention Feared. Whether opponents of Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, and organization leaders will proceed to carry on an attack at the State convention Thursday through a resolution indorsing the State highway commission, was under di?;C;3Sion today as chieftains from over the State gathered at the Severin. The assault upon Walb, Lawrence Cartwright, executive committee chairman, arid others apparently Is centered about a group of Republican editors who are sympathetic to the State highway commission. Walb and Cartwright have attempted, (Turn to Page 2) TAXI DRIVER IS RELEASED Prisoner in Highway Robbery’ Freed by Governor. Governor Jackson today ordered the release of Harrison Culver, Negro of Terre Haute, from the Indiana State Prison, .after State pardon board members had Investigated Culver’s case and decided he had no active part in a. highway robbery for w Idch he received a ten-year sentence. Culver, a taxicab driver, was hired by two men who staged a hold-up. Ho was convicted May 20, 1024, and has been in prison since. He disclaimed any knowledge of the inten tion of his passengers to commit robbery.

CITY PREPARES 10 WIPE BROW Bureau Predicts Warm Weather Will Continue. With tlie mercury registering 69 (or seven degrees above normal) at 7 a. m. and S6 at l p. ni. Indianapolis today prepared for a heat wave. Monday afternoon the United States weather bureau thermometer stood at 86 at 2 and 3 p. m., within one degree of the season's record set on May 7. The first heat victim of the season was James Gray, 49, Negro. 3138 Gale St., overcome while working for the Rybolt Construction Company at 1098 S. Meridian St. Tho weather Is due to remain warm tonight and Wednesday, though showers and thunder storms may bring some drop In the temperature, bureau officials said. A year ago this morning killing frost descended upon Indiana as far south as Orange County, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, said.

Garbage Man Will Let You Snooze The warble of -the garbage collector and the clattering of the can .lids have been pronounced unfair to Indianapolis sleepers. Truly Nolen, superintendent, nnrounced today. On the summer schedule, the collectors start their rounds at 5 a. ni. War statistics show that it was about, this hour that front*, reached their lowest morale. Nolen believes the morale of citizen sleepers is a bit low at that hour too. Hence an order to collect silently.

Entered ns Second-class Matter at Poitoftice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

Shieks Take Up Gentle Art of Tinting Their Cheeks. Indianapolis sheiks have turned to the gentle art of tinting their cheeks in their effort to keep pace with their sisters, the shebas. The practice of using rouge is increasingly popular among the modern Romeos, especially those of high school age. Drug clerks declare tho “Charleston-type young man” buys ahd carries a compact the same as girls. Eyebrows Penciled Miss Ortha Cassell, beauty expert at the Dynes barber shop, Roosevelt Bldg, basement, plied her art on Forest Madden Kidwell, giving him a "rouge” and penciling his eyebrows. "Men as veil as ladies want to keep young these days and have the same right to use rouge,” said Lee Dynes, proprietor of the shop. Rouge I sod "Many of the younger set, especially tlie Charleston type with black halt- and mustache. use rouge. A number of men get. their hair marceled. “People take more pride in their personal appearance than they did a few- years ago. When a. follow is ■fixed up’ a little It makes hint look better. We try to give them any fittishing touches they want,” Dynes said.

BRONX BANDITS SEIZE $34,000 Bank Messenger Held Up at New York. Ru Vnitr.t l J’rrss NEW YORK, May 13.—Two bandits robbed a messenger of the Hamilton National Rank of $34,000 In currency in front of the bank in the Bronx today. As David F. Swititon, Negro messenger, left tho bank with a satchel of money for the main office, two men attacked him. He was knocked unconscious. JEWELRY PLANT ROBBED Ten Bandits Open Four Safes, Escape With -ST,OOO. Bu I'nitrd Prr*s NEWARK. N. ,T.. May 25.—Overpowering a watchman and leaving him bound and gagged, ten bandits today cut open four large safes in the jewelry refining plant of Emil Snider, Inc., here. They escaped with $7,000 in cash, a large amount of nonnegotlablo securities, precious metals and 10,000 grains of pure silver nitrate. FARM OFFICIAL’ RESIGNS Ij. 1,. Needier Succeeds (Vane as Secretary of Federation. L. L. Needier, prominent Grant County farmer, has been selected successor to Perry H. Crane, who resigned as Indiana Farm Bureau Federation secretary, effective June 1. Crane resigned to accept a position with the Automatic Fir© Extinguisher Company, Dayton, Ohio. Needier, president of the Grant County bureau, has been active in organization work. Directors paid tribute to Crane's five years of service. ORDERS YARDS CLEANED Fire Prevention Chief Asks Beautification Along Tracks. Unsightly hack yards along the railroad tracks of Indianapolis are due for cleaning, Horace T. Carey, fire prevention chief, said today, Carey will begin a campaign Wednesday to induce all householders along the tracks to improve their properties so that the impression gained by traveler; will be favorable. Carey was to confer with P. J. Landers, lndiaiia polls Union Railway superintendent, today to obtain

Forecast partly cloudy find warm-to* inpht and JVetlnesday; probably showers and thundery storms.

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VOLCANOES ROOD JAPAN WITH DEATH 1.000 Missing as Eruptions Occur on Northern Part of Nippon Isle. THOUSANDS HOMELESS Known Casualties Put at _ 150 Killed, 300 Injured. By .Miles IV. Vaughn United Pres Stilt Corrmoondent TOKIO, May 25. —Long dormant volcanoes of northern Japan have burst into activity, spreading havoc. Tho mountains are Tokachl and Ivvo, in Hokkndio. Rivers of lava poured from the (teaks, soaring an area of eight square miles, first reports said, iind destroying 300 homes. A thousand persons are missing from a nearby farm and destruction of a section of railway by lava floods Is proventing relief trains from reaching the stricken area. Dispatches from Sapparo said river beds were hurled up thirty feet by the upheaval, and that a stream has flooded surrounding districts. The health resort of Hokkiado was reported destroyed, as well as a sulphur plant there. Hoklriado is tho northern-most Island of Japan. Ono hundred and fifty persons are known to have been killed, dispatches said, and firemen searching the ruins have recovered fifty bodies. More than 300 were Injured and almost 4,000 persons are homeless in the area. The district was crowded with holiday tourists and relief workers are being sent to the scene. It was reported that the eruptions were continuing.

DESPERATE, TALK DAM DYNAMITING Farmers Say Crops Dying for Lack of Water. Bu lnit r d Pirn SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb, May 25. Threats that they will dynamite the flood gates of Federal water reservoirs unless the Government furnishes water for irrigation were circulated by irrigation farmers of this section today. Business men Monday night plead ed with Harry Bashore, Government manager of the North I’latte irrigation project, to open the flood gates to save the crops, which farmers sav are dying for lack of moisture. Jast Whitehead, representative of the irrigation farmers, arrived In Washington, D. C., today to plead with Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. 30 KILLED IN WRECK German Trains Crash; 1(10 Are Repaired Injured. Bu United Pres* MUNICH, May 25. —An express, train coining Into the station at Berg-A-Leln, between Munich and Salseburg, today crashed Into a standing train, (he locomotive of the express crumpling and the remainder of the train being wrecked. Reports placed the death list at high as thirty, with as many as 100 injured. Failure to observe signals was believed to have been the cause. EX-PREMIER IS SLAIN Editor of \nti-Scmitlc Paper Awtasslnaled at Paris. Bu United Press PARIS. May 25.—Former Premier Petloura of tho Ukraine was assassinated today. Schwartzbar Samuel, a. lew, confessed to the killing. Petloura had been running an atni-seniitio paper bore. FLAPPER FANNY says“T~l by mia scnvKx, me

Not nearly enough people Hee comedjr-in-jnirrors.