Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1926 — Page 9

NOV. 10, 1926

TOLL OF STORM THAT WRECKED SCHOOL MOUNTS TO FIFTEEN

DRASTIC CLAUSES TO BE INCLUDED IN TRAFFIC CODE Reduced Parking Limit, Auto Pound, Other Proposals Decided On. Hat to curb parking except on the Circle. Parking limit reduced to thirty minutes in congested district, bounded by Capitol Ave. and Delaware, Maryland and New York Sts., and to one and one-half hours in /one bounded by Michigan and New Jersey Sts., the track elevation and Senate Ave. Impounding of cars of habitual overtime parkers, policemen to determine "hardened violators.” No parking on, bridges and parking on one side only on streeis thirty feet wide or less. Three-foot interval between parked cars. The city council special committee had decided upon the above-men-tioned clauses to be included in the new traffic ordinance, considered one of the most drastic in the city’s history, at the end of a meeting Tuesday night at the Spink-Arms, where committee members were guests of the IToosier Motor Club. The ordinances will be submitted to the council. The measure is advocated by the board of safety, which hopes to discourage travel of downtown workers to and from work in the business district by automobile. Angle Parking Now Present parking limit in the immediate congested district is one hour and one-half, while angle parking now is the rule. At the suggestion of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, the clause ere-' ating an automobile pound was inserted. Owners of cars impounded would be required to pay $lO to recover their machines. “I believe we should give traffic officers discretion in this matter; they will know old offenders,’’ said O. D. Haskett, board of safety president. Police to Decide Policemen also would be flowed to decide whether automobiles shall pass on both sides of a safety zone. There is nothing in the law to prevent use of street car tracks, it was agreed. The conferees agreed that the hotels and clubs had no right to continue their custom of selling ex-

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Min REPLIES TO PACIFIST DEFY (Continued From Page 1) a challenge to thieves and murderers to do their worst. Opposed to the Legion program and favoring disarmament are two groups, said McNutt. Honesty Respected “One of these groups is made up of well meaning, intelligent people. I might call them honest, con scientious objectors, and I mean to cast none of the stigma which attached to the term during the war. These are the pacifists. They honestly believe that peace can be furthered by disarmament. “We can respect them, for they act upon honest belief, and that is their American privilege. “But we most emphatically disagree with them. We disagree with disarmament and the taking of a slacker oath by the youth of America.” The State commander argued that Were America to cast aside her defense she would court the fate of Constantinople, "once the richest and weakest city in the world.” “Preparedness Saves Lives” “We have come to the time when, with all of the peace plans not accepted, the only common sense thing for us to do is to be prepared for any eventuality. I desire to point out to our pacifist friends that we as a nation should not again be chargeable with the truth which has marked almost every American war, that 50 per cent of the casualties have been the result of sending improperly trained men into combat. These lives are too precious— America cannot place a value upon therrP—to sacrifice them for the sake of sentimentalists.” In the other group opposed to the Legion ideals, McNutt placed the <‘reds,” including communists “wopplies” and anarchists. Deportation His Answer / “These persons favor disarmament, the same as the pacifists, but for a widely different purpose. They want America disarmed so they can overthrow this Government. "To these persons who enjoy freedom and prosperity under this Gov ernment and yet seek to wreck it the American Legion has but one answer. They ought to get out if they don’t like this country. Deportation is the answer.” Sees Danger “The danger to American institutions lies in the fact that in many of these organizations favoring disarmament there is an interlocking directorate. There are people of both groups in the same bodies and there is no insurance that the people' honestly seeking international peace may not be overwhelmed by those who secretly seek the exadt opposite.” McNutt said his administration will drive hard to aid all Indiana posts to bring membership up to numbers commensurate with Indiana's position as the home of National Legion headquarters. He stressed the necessity for carrying out the mandate of the national convention at Philadelphia, that every post shall render some signal service to its corrynunity this year. TALKS WITHOUT POLICE Pacifist Speaker Unmolested, Now That Election Is Over. Election day has come and gone and so police were not present when Frederick J. Libby, pacifist speaker, returned to Indianapolis Tuesday [ and delivered an address. Libby

BABYHOOD CHUMS DIE HAND IN HAND Boy Had Just Confided in Teacher, Admitting He Had Kicked Little Girl in Front of Him and Was Sorry.

Ry Ruth Ayers Special United Press Correspondent. LA PLATA. Md., Nov. 10.—Storm tossed, wind-wrecked La Plata is in mourning today for its fifteen little children, dead in the wake of the tornado. . Os those who mourn them, none is more grief-stricken than their teacher, Mrs. Helen Hughes. She is principal of the school which was hurled nearly 100 feet by force of the tornado. If the building had been a piece of paper before a broom, it could not have been swept away more swiftly and pletelyOnem inute Mrs". Hughes’ pupils were sitting before her, peacefully bending over their reading books. The next minute the room was in chaos. Out of the twenty-five pupils there, six had been blown into eternity and the others were begging their teacher to save them. Their Voices > “I will never forget their voices as they called for help,” said Mrs. Hughes, who had been a teacher in southern Maryland for more than forty years. She told me the vivid story Tuesday night in her room at Martin’s Hotel. “As the storm struck the school, I was hurled with the wreckage and pinned under it. “At first I did not think I could move. Then I heard the cries of those little children and I seemed to have superhuman strength. I got up and went to them. “The first two children I rescued were little girls who had been crushed under the iron jacket of the stove. One was Ethel Martin and the other Charlotte Turner. I knew I could not go on rescuing children single handed, but before I had time

made a plea for world peace at the Claypool a few weeks ago and brought out the police, under orders of Mayor Duvall and Police Chief Claude Johnson, to protect the local citizenry. Libby is secretary for the National Council for Prevention of War. His address Tuesday afternoon was delivered before the Indianapolis section of the Council of Jewish Women and the Indianapolis. Temple Sisterhood at the Kirschbaum Community Center. He termed the formation of the Indiana council on International relations as a big forward step in the peace movement. Mrs. W. S. Lockhart, who was Instrumental in bringing Libby here tvhen the police were called out, is secretary of the Indiana organization. The 1926-27 budget is $8,400, Libby declared. ’ The Indiaan organization program will include A State-wide school children’s declamation contest on the subject of “How to Prevent Another World War.” The State winner will be sent to Washington, D. C., to participate in a national contest and college scholarships will be prize awards. Libby again urged United States participation in the League of Nations. ATTENDS PEACE SESSION Secretary of Indiana Council at Session in Pittsburgh. / Mrs. W. S. Lockhart, secretary of the Indiana Council on International

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to think, John Marshell Burr and Charles Farrell, two of my pupils, scrambled up from the ruins and ran as fast as they could for help in the town.” Chums Die Together Mrs. Hughes says one of the most pitiful sights in her class room wasthat of two small boys. Jack Clark and Levaga Martin, who had been chums since babyhood. “At the instant when the storm came lashing I saw the boys reach out their hands across the aisle. They died like that—together.” Only a few minutes prior to the tornado, Jack Clark had been talking with Mrs. Hughes. “He was such a dear youngster I loved to have him visit at my desk,” said Mrs. Hughes. “At this time lie had come up to tell me how lie was getting his temper under control. Then in a burst of confidence he admitted he had just kicked little Bertha Gamble, the girl in front of him, because she had pinched linn. I suggested hereafter lie let me do the punishing if any one pinched him. He was very grave as lie assured me he would, and promised he would never kick any one again. It isn't believable to think of him as dead when he was all life and laughter this time yesterday.” Miss Ethel Graves, 22, teacher in the primary grades at the school, had finished reading “Uncle Wiggily” when hailstones at the window gave first warning of danger. “Three of my smallest children grew frightened and started to cry at the sound of thunder,” said Miss Graves. *‘l was on my way to their desks to pet them a little.when I was hurled down the hill with the school building. All I remember is the sight of those little children, tossing like leaves in the storm.”

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More Children Die From Injuries in Collapse of Building. Hv United Prrxx LA PLATA, Md.. Nov. 10.—A tornado which ripped through this village Tuesday, burying fifty-six children and their teachers in the wreckage of the two-room school, took seventeen lives, a complete check showed today. F'fteen children were killed in the school or died of their injuries. A Negro and his wife died in one of the four houses wrecked by the storm. Twenty-one injured children were under treatment in Washington hospitals or at their homes here. Os those in the hospitals, some may die. The children were in class when the twister struck the school find demolished It, burying all within under rafters, walls, desks and stoves. Community Funeral Probable A community funeral probably will be held, but La Plata early today was still to bowed down by the horror of the hurricane to know what it would do in Its hour of calamity. The listed as dead today were; Edward Bean, Mary Ellen Bowie, 7; Burr, a girl of about 9; Henry Claggett, 11; Gamble, boy; Lester Lundair; Andrew Jackson Clark Jr.; Mary Allcve Cooksey; Lavega Martin, Estelle Miles, Louis Swan, 11; Teresa Estelle Bean, 9; Lucille Edwards, 10; Thomas Miles; Tearer; two adult Negroes. The tornado, shaking the town as though by an earthquake, cut a path across a narrow strip and toppled the schoolhouse like toothpicks. Timber was blown hundreds of feet; many children were caught beneath debris; Lavega Martin was crushed to death with a huge rafter; Lavega’s sister, Ethel, was rescued from beneath a stove by Mrs. Helen Hughes, principal. Rushed to Washington Suffering children, who begged to be taken to the hamlet, were rushed into Washington hospitals. The village was nearly deserted when Navy men and Marines, doctors from the countryside, ambulances from the Red Cross, and Army in Washington came to give succor. Automobiles had been commandeered as emergency ambulances and a stream of them hurried over rainwashed roads to the capitol city. In the town, little could be gleaned, as mothers frantically searched for children already rushed off to the city. Dr. Owen, village physician, turned his house into a first aid station and Dr., Heath, State health officer, opened his office to victims. Owens shuddered at the work he had been through. “Like Earthquake” “It seemed as though an earthquake struck the town.” he said. “I came to my office and In a few minutes there were youngsters brought in in droves for treatment." John Marshall Burr, 11, son of the Rev. H. Q. Burr, was the school hero. He was stunned by a flying timber, or by a fall, for he was literally blown out of the building. “The teacher was picking a girl out from under the stove,” he said, “and there was Page Clayton—he helped dig ’em out, too. I helped a little, but Mrs. Hughes (the principal), told me to alarm the village. I went out and told everybody I could find. Then I called up the tele-

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Wind Cheats Self by Own Force 8 1/ United Prrxx CEDARVILLE. Md., Nov. 10. —The tornado which toppled the La Plata grade school was cheated of tho lives of a mother and her three children here by Its own force. Mrs. Owen P. Grimes and her three heildren were pinned under the wreckage of their farm home and the shattered timbers caught fire. A quarter mile away the train on which her husband was a brakeman was stopped by a tree across the track, and he walked home, arriving to rescue his family when the blaze was only a foot away from one child. Mrs. Grimes was severely injured and two children were hurt. The storm vanished after striking here, twelve miles northeast of La Plata.

phone girl and told her to get doctors and ambulances. The next thing T knew the town was full of them.” He recalled vividly what happened. \Ve Boys Laughed "It got black nil of a sudden.” he said. "The wind blew something terrible. Some of the girls started to cry—we boys laughed at them. “Then it seemed to_, blow in from both sides. There was a crash and the whole building fell down. I was blown right out, and got hurt a little, but it didn’t amount to much.” Men came running from the hotel and the village stores near by. Hysterical women soon gathered, as men dragged unconscious forms from beneath the wreckage. The village inn opened its doors for the wounded. Mrs. Hughes, collapsing after aiding in getting out her charges, was given a room. Across the hallway lay the Martin child's body, while the elder Martin, proprietor, sought to aid those who still had a chance to live. There was no panic in the school beyond the fright of the girls at the coming storm. Simms Gwynn, son of the superintendent of schools, was one of the injured. “The storm came up all of a sudden,” he said. “The teachers called us to them. The next thing I know there wasn’t any schoolhouse, and we were out on the hill and went down the hill.” The children of Mr. and Mrs. James Padgett were among the injured. Doctors ordered them taken home. When they got there, there was no home, for the house was blown down and their parents were injured. FUND RADIO PROGRAM The "next-to-the-last” of the Community Fund radio programs, being given from 9:30 to 10 p. m. every Wednesday over WFBM, will take place tonight. NJrs. William Herbert Gibbs, radio chairman for the Community Fund, annouhees that there is yet one more to be given neit week. Mrs. H. L. Barr, accompanied by Mrs. Bertha Miller Ruick, will open the program with a group of songs. The quartet of the Volunteers of America will sing a sacred selection. Col. E. H. Hites and Capt. W. E. Dowell of the volunteers will give their “camp fire” program. Fred Hoke, Community Fund president, will give a three-minute speech.

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LAD IN HOSPITAL CRIES FOR MOTHER Kicks and Screams as Nurses Try to Put Him to Bed — Tells How Schoolhouse Crashed.

Bu United Prexx WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Richard Clark, who will be 9 years old in two weeks, told from a hospital bed today how it feels to be caught with fifty-six other children in a little schoolhouse that is crushed in on them by a tornado. “All of a sudden the floor slid out from under me and something hit me in the hack of the head and I ran,” Richard said. He was one of approximately twenty injured children brought to hospitals here. Wind Howled “We were just going to let out for the day when it got awfullv dark ADTO THEFT RING DRIVE EXPECTED 10 NET ELEVEN Detectives Seek Two More Suspects—Nine Already Taken. Detectives today expected to make two more arrests, and bring the total members of two alleged auto theft rings in custody to eleven. Detectives Golder and Gillispie arrested ten youths said to be the principals in two theft rings Monday night. To the nine youths held police credit eighteen admitted car thefts. Nine of the autos the youths admitted taking have been recovered. Inspector Claude M. Worley, of the detective department and' Claude F. Johnson, chief, agreed that in the future vehicle takers will be held under SIO,OOO vagrancy bond until taken into court, when they will be reslated on vehicle taking charges. Purpose of this move is to prevent release of the youths on bond and hold them for questioning. “Fences,” persons who buy stolen cars, are responsible for the .present wave of auto thefts, Johnson and Worley said. The “fences” lead youths to become auto bandits by promising that if they are arrested bond and attorneys will be supplied to keep them from being convicted. Johnson and Wcrley cited the records of the detective department that reveal 3,056 automobiles stolen this year uf> to Nov. 1. Only 2”,150 cars were stolen in the same period last year. Os the number stolen this year, 2.464 have been recovered. Youths under arrest now are Angelo Rajo, 18, of 509 Harmon St.; Kenneth Harris, 19, of 1128 Harrison St.; Ralph Kowe, 20, of 401 Hamilton Ave.; Orville MagiU, 17, of 301 S. New Jersey St.; Bennia Raia, 22, of 952 S. New Jersey St.; Jack Liggera, 21, of 619 S. East St.; Webb Franklin, 36. of 220 Good AveT Charles Timbrook, 21, of 550 Vinton St., and Otto Clark, 21, of 522 Wilkins St. John Zener, 19, of 5204 Brookville Rd., was released when it was found he was not implicated in any of the car thefts.

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ank the wind howled." Richard said "Then all of a sudden It happened. “I didn’t stop running until I got to my uncle’s wtore, two blocks away. T didn’t know T was hurt until T looked in the mirror and saw blood on my face.” Dick did not want to spend last night at the hospital and screamed and kicked as the nurses carried him upstairs.. They said It was hours he fore he went to sleep from exhaustion and that he sobbed continuous ly: “T want to go home to my mother —she told me T could go home tonight.” Roth Legs Rrokern One little fellow brought here by George Smith, a La. Plata citizen, who hauled five Injured over a thirty-five mile turnpifyp in his car, had both legs broken. “Hurt much?" Smith asked him. "No." the lad replied, swinging his little hand out to touch Smith “Break your leg?" Smith asked again. “Both of them,” the lad said , The nurse explained the pain had been deadened by physicians. The children were brought to Washington in automobiles by citizens who speeded through the rain to reach medical assistance in time. Henry Claggett, 11 -year-old son of Allen Clagget, died in tho car of Harry Guy of La Plata, while en route. “He didn’t say anything,” said Guy. “He was unconscious but. his heart was beating when we left. When we got to the hospital tho doctors told us the boy was dead.” TWO BOYS, 14, MISSING Son of Policeman Runs Away From Home for Third Time. / Two 14-year-old hoys, one a policeman’s son, were reported missing to polipe today. Harold Rader, son of Traffic Officer John Rader, ran away for the third time Sunday, taking $lO. His father has asked that he be sent to the Detention Home when found. Richard Crady, 840 S. Noble St., has been rpisslng since Ttfesday. He is believed to have ran away to the home of relatives in Frankfort, Ky. TO CHURCH CONVENTION 500 Disciples of Christ Lear* for Gathering in Memphis. A delegation of 600 pastors and layman of the Disciples of Christ left today to attend the annual convention of tho denomination at Memphis, Tenn. Tho session will continue until Nov. 17, Dr. H. O. Pritchard, Indianapolis, general secretary of the education board, is program chairman. Work of Butler University will he the theme at a convention banquet Thursday. V EX-MAYOR LOSER Former Mayor John W. Holtzman was the victim of burglars Tuesday night. Holtzman reported to police silverware and furnishings valued at $63 taken from his apartment at 1321 N. Meridian St.