Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1927 — Page 2

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WARD RESIGNS AS U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY

LACK OF MONEY MAY HALT WORK OF REED PROBE Head of Senate Audit Committee Withholds Funds From Investigators. Du United Press WASHINGTON, March bers of the Reed campaign fund investigating committee were examining Senate precedents today to find a way, if possible, to pay expenses of officials who mthey have ordered to impound ballots in four Pennsylvania counties for the Vare-Wilson senatorial contest. The money has been denied, and letters went forth today to Senator Reed (Dem.), Missouri, chairman, who is in Detroit, asking his advice. The committee was blocked by Senator Keyes (Rep.), New Hampshire, chairman of the audits and control committee, which approves expenses. Iveyes notified Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry of the Senate he would refuse to sign a voucher for SI,OOO needed for Barry’s trip to Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties to seize ballots there. These counties are "Vare strongholds. If the Reed committee is unable to hurdle this obstacle, it is blocked at the outset in the recount. Legal objections were expected later because of failure of the resolution extending the committee's authority, but the financial hindrance may render this unnecessary. Keyes’ stand may prevent any further action by the Reed-" committee until the next session. Beyond the Pennsylvania recount, Senator Reed was contemplating an investigation of expenditures in the Colorado campaign last fall. - FIREMEN HURT IN COKEPLANT FIRE Ladderman Gets Nose Broken—Chief Burned. A gas explosion in the cupola of experimental building of the Char Products Company, sE. Clair St. and Miley Ave., caused a second alarm fire at 7 a. m. today. Loss was estimated at $3,000. Fireman Leo Bodkins, Squad 1, fire headquarters company, received a fractured nose when a chemical tank being carried up a ladder to the cupola, struck him. Bodikns was treated by other firemen and remained on the scene. Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell was painfully burned on the neck when a hot piece of coke lodged in his coat collar. The plant, occupying the former home of the Republic Creosoting Company, is owned by that concern. A. L. Lauth, secretary and treasurer, said reconstruction was to start at once. Hutsell said the blaze probably originated from gas fumes thrown off by coke being ground. The building of brick and wood construction, is covered with sheet tin. The blaze was confined inside the cupola until it collapsed. How much loss was inflicted on the machinery was not known. A long chain of buckets, which carries coke to the top, where it is ground and sent into the furnace, probably was damaged. Firemen say the pulverized product is used for making phonograph records and other such articles.

Buckshot Narrowly Misses Man in Bed A charge accidently fired from a shotgun, police said, went through the floor of an apartment and narrowly missed a man asleep in the apartment below early today, at 134 W. Twenty-First St. H. D. Redman, asleep in apartment 3, suddenly was awakened at 1:40 a. m. and found 1 the ceiling and a rug near his bed pierced with shot. Lieut. Leonard Forsythe and squad found Edward Siersdorfer, in apartment 17, who said he started to unload the shotgun when it exploded. AMERICANS ATTACKED Bu United Press WARSAW, March 10.—Buildings occupied by an American contractor’s firm were destroyed and employes of the company were attacked by rioting strikers in Czenstochowa, Poland, today, dispatches to Warsaw said. Police wounded several strikers and arrested others in dispersing the mob. More than 200,000 textile workers in the Lodz district were striking for a 25 per cent wage increase. Factory owners offered 6 per cent. The name of the American firm, which was doing work for several Polish xnunicipalites, was not learned. SPEEDY TRIAL SOUGHT Bv Times Special GARY, Ind., March 10.—Arrangements were being made today to rush the trial of two Cleveland youths arrested late Wednesday, ten minutes after hold-up of a clothing store here. The youths, Walter Gordon, 19, arid Harry Leonard, 20, held the proprietor of the store at the point of a gun while they selected suits. Police caught them on an interuurban car starting for Chicago. The value of merchandise tfken was placed at SSOO. ....

YOUNG ‘PIONEERS’ GET THRILL FROM THEIR MAPLE SUGAR ‘CAMP’

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EARTH’S WEIGHT FIGURED S' Bureau of Standards Scientist Will Fill Five Books With Data. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—The gjpnt mass of Mother Earth, a crusty old woman with an iron heart, has been weighed by a slightly built scientist at the Bureau of Standards. He lias fallen three years to adjust ana observe delicate instruments. The weighing process is over, and now Dr. Paul R. Heyl is computing figures, day after day. Thera are many figures, three books of them already and two more will be ready when the mathematics is completed within another month, in time for Dr. Heyl to give his results to the American Physics Society meeting here in April. Each book is about the size of an ordinary school atlas. Six and Many Ciphers Heyl may not even apply the figures to find out how much, mother earth weighs, because lie says It is impossible to determine how much she has gained or lost. lie has other scientific purposes. The earth hds been weighed before, the last thirty years ago. She tips the scales at around 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,* 000 tons, according to past calculations, and a few hundred thousand tons one way or the other would not sjiow. She loses weight by rocks thrown from Volcanoes, and gains through the fall of meteors. Dr. Heyl thinks she is growing fatter, but infinitesimally so, and the gain is impossible to determine. “The whole population of the earth, people and animals, might pick up and emigrate to the moon, and there would be no noticeable effect,” he said. Valuable Figure The important calculation for Dr. Heyl is approximating a little closer what is known as the Newtonian constant. This is a valuable figure to scientists. It has not been computed in thirty years. It is used in a practical way now, Heyl explained, in two directions, in navigation and in figuring density of the earth. It may boos untold value practically in the future. Delicate instruments for computing weight of the earth are in two small rooms in the basement of one of the bureau buildings. In one room is the mechanical set up, two tiny platinum balls suspended on a delicate horizontal wire in a cylinder. These balls are attracted in a rotary movement by two solid steel cylinders outside the vacuum, their movement representing gravitation, but it is a horizontal gravitation and is not affected by the vertical pull of the earth. The timed, its reflection being carried through a series of mirrors to the next room. The distance is recorded on a scale. university Dance The University Club of Butler University will entertain with a .dance Friday evening at the Lincoln. Miss Pearl Ette Kerst is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Misses Gertrude Moyer, Louise Eleanor Ross, Alice Thorn, Virginia Fortner, Loraine Thomas, Lucille Summers, Edith Bail and Bernice Tyner. Sorority representatives have been invited, as well as members of the Butler faculty.

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United States Attorney Albert Ward, who has res gned, effective May 1, to take u * private law practiced

Above: Left to right—George Clowes, Florence Gipe and Robert Failey, Orchard School students, “boiling down” maple sirup. Below: Florence Gipe, gathering one night's r un of maple sugar water.

A maple sugar camp right in the city of Indianapolis! With official spring just around the corner, the students of Orchard School, at 610 W. Forty-Second St., are finishing a maple sugar season, with results that sound like a report from a Vermont sugar camp. 500 Quarts Taken Over 500 quarts have been taken from the soft maple trees on the school grounds, and the delighted children who have had part in the “camp” have had a wonderful time boiling the sirup "down'’ in the open. The “camp’’ has been in the charge of Hillis Howie, an instructor. Three of the enthusiastic students who operate the plant are: Florence Gipe, George Clowes and Robert Failey. Robert is the bookkeeper of the enterprise, keeping careful estimate of the sugar water ARBITRATION FOR CAR SIIE CASE Public Service Commission Will Hear Evidence Tuesday. Next Tuesday at 10 a. m., the Indiana Public Service Commission will as a board of arbitration to hear evidence in the case of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and its striking employes, represented by James Green. The case Is the first of Its kind to be heard by the board, which will function in this capacity under terms of a contract between the Street Car Company and Its employes. In petition for hearing, filed several weeks ago, Green demands reinstatement of all employes who went on strike last summer and the wage increase to 60 to 65 cents an hour from the present scale of 37 to 42 cents asked by the strikers. Green asks that seniority rights also be restored.

MOTORISTS DISAGREE ON NEW TRAFFIC PLAN

What does Indianapolis’ driving public think of the new traffic control system sans semaphore? And what do traffic officers think of being shorn of this traditional “stop-and-go” device? Opinkui of the driving public is pretty evenly divided judging from opinions gathered by The Times in the down-town district, but officers are unanimous in praise of the new system. The arm and whistle traffic direction' system is being given a thirtyday try out and if it works likely wfll be adopted permanently. Here is what motorists say: LOUISE POWELL, dancing teacher, 4141 College Ave.—l think the new system is terrible. Chicago’s post light system Is much better. I have to wait for someone to yell at me before I know what to do now. JOHN F. LOONEY, student, 2320 N. Alabama St.—The new-system is cor/using. I like the old stop-and-go method better. ,T. J. GRINSTEINER, special delivery letter carrier, 3911 Ruckle St. —I suppose the chief reason for doing away with the semaphores was because they looked “small town.” The new system looks better and it

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taken and the “boiled down” results. The sugar “camp” Is part of the craft school work of Orchard School. It is the idea of Miss Faye Henley, principal, that this experience will give students the spirit of pioneer Indiana, which they have been studying. Fifty-three Maple Trees The grounds ’.contain fifty-three soft maple trees and about thirtyeight of them have been tapped with spiles, upon which srfiall buckets were hung early in February. Buckets wore examined every day by the “pioneers” who were anxious to see who could collect the most sugar water. / ' . There are eighty-four students In the school and about thirty have had part in the camp. All eightyfour are to share in the results for next Friday, the first of the maple sirup is to be served to add "sweetness” to poonday lunches. Mostil Has Fighting Chance to Recover Bu United Press SHREVEPORT, La., March 10. Johnny Mostil, star outfielder of the Chicago White Sox, who attempted suicide ..by slashing his wrists, legs and chest, today hacl a fighting chance for life. Bulletins early this morning said he was showing some improvement and that he possibly would recover. He is able to talk and has indicated a desire to get well and perhaps return to baseball. Doctors, however, are skeptical whether he ever will again be d*ble to play, should he recover. A deep gash in his wrist may prevent his holding a bat naturally and may seriously interfere with his ball playing. Ray Schalk, manager of the White Sox, is almost in constant attendance with the stricken athlete. The White Sox trained yesterday, despite the fact one of their comrades is near death, and indicated a spirit of carrying-on. Miss Margaret Carroll, Hammond, Ind., Mostil's fiancee, has sent him the following telegram: "I love you; you must live.”

may work better. The biggest traffic improvement they could make would be to replace the rauiy boulevard "stop” signs that are missing. The one at Thirty-Eighth St. and College Ave. has b.een gone for a long time, and many people drive right through, endangering traffic. EDWARD CARSICADON, 1102 W. Thirty-Second St.—From the standpoint of efficiency and speeding up of traffice the new system is undoubtedly better. The old system provided a greater latitude of safety for both pedestrians and motorists, however. It’s all up to the officer now; formerly any one with intelligence enough to turn a crank could direct traffic. EH GRAY, chauffeur, 617 S. Fifteenth St., Terre Haute—ln my town they use electric post signals and I think they are the best. Hand semaphores have made Indianapolis look like a jay town town fihr years. J. M. HOPPER, relief bus driver, 35 W. Ohio St. —I like the semaphore system better, but after we get used to being without them it may be all right. JOSEPH REED, bus driver, New

Inadequate Compensation Given as His Only Reason for Quitting. TO TAKE EFFECT MAY 1 Plans to Practice Law in Indianapolis. United States District Attorney Albert K. Ward today announced that he has resigned bis Federal post. Ward sent his resignation to Attorney General Sargent at Washington late Wednesday, requesting it become effective May 1. v He plans to practice law in Indianapolis. Ward was praeUcing law in Peru, Ind., when appointed district attorney by President Coolldge March 1, 7925. From 1920 to 1924 he was judge of the Miami Circuit Court there. The inadequate compensation of the district attorney was his only reason for rejugning. Ward said. The disAict afllrney receives $5,500 a year. RELIEF WORKERS IN JAPAN REACH QUAKE VICTIMS Nri/al Craft Land Food, Blankets and Medical Supplies. BULLETIN But ailed Press TOKIO, March 10.—Deaths in the earthquake wliich struck the Kyoto district of Japan Monday, are eX|erted to approach 3,000, it was said late tqda.v, on the basis of what were ebclieved to be nearly f complete reports. These new estimates included depths from exposure after the quake. Bu T'nited Press TOKIO. March 10. —Storms in the earthquake-torn 'Kyoto prefecture of southern Japan abated sufficiently today to permit destroyers to land food, blankets and medical supplies to succor survivors of the temblors. For more than twenty-four hours the stricken district, in which it was estimated 70,000 persons were homeless, had been swept by cold rains and snow. Suffering was reported acute. Sixty-nine distinct earth shocks occurred Monday in the Kyoto district, it was revealed. The latest official casualty list, as reported by tUo United Press yesterfiay, gave: Dead, 2,275; injured, 4.100. No additional casualties were recorded overnight. Earthquake, fire, storm and flood visited the district within forty-eight hours. It was feared serious outbreaks of disease would follow exposure of the refugees to cold and rain. Emperor Hirohito granted $30,000 to aid the refugees. Even the dead have not been buried in many places, and a battalion of engineers was dispatched from Kyoto to aid in removing bodies which added to the danger of pestilence. The Kirishima Maru, Japanese nautical training ship, was believed today to have -been lost with all hands, including forty-three students, in Wednesday's storm. The steamship Empress of Canada arrived at Yokohama today and reported it had been unable to find the Kirishima, which sent out an SOS call at 2 p. m. Wednesday and failed to answer radio calls after that. ‘SMEIFoF JRON’ CITED Italian Newspaper Predicts Shift in European Balance of Power. Bu United Press ’ ROME, March 10.—A “disquieting smell of iron” is abroad in Europe and the balance of power will crumble, “whilo perhaps not today, certainly by tomorrow,” the semiofficial newspaper II Tevere said in discussing the international situation facing the League of Nations council at Geneva. "France organizes in a military way a3 if it is not sufficient for her to have the largest post-war army,” continued the newspaper. "A curious understanding exists between Germany und Russia, and meanwhile Germany and England sit together at the League of Nations.”

York St.— t like the new system. It lias proven itself in Chicago and other large cities. The semaphores are out of date. WILLIAM BUCKLEY, bus driver, 1418 E. Raymond St.—The new way is faster and I like it better. I came here from New York and this is what they use there. ROBERT ALEXANDER, Bloomington—The new system speeds up traffic and I like it better. We use electric lights in Bloomington. HARRY RANDALL, Bloomington —I believe the hand system is better but it all depends on what the people get used to. THOMAS GRIFFIN, taxi driver, 431 N. Noble St.—l find that the new system is pushing traffic through faster, but what was the idea of, making a surprise of it? Why didn't they tell us what they were/ going to do and we could have been prepared for it and it would have worked still better. CARL COCHRAN, taxi driver, 814 Greer St.—They’re going back to prehistoric days. Why don’t they .put in ejectric post lights throughout the downtown district

BOY CAUGHT IN HOOKY RUSE FLEES FROM HOME

For more than a month, Voyer Su 11 i v an, 2015 Ruckle St., played hooky from school, fooling his parents and school teachers. Wednesday the hoax was brought to light and he ran away from home. He is still away and no word has been received concerning his whereabouts. " Voyer told his school teacher that his homo had been quarant in e and for “chickcnpox and measles,” (luring which time he played hooky. Bubble Bursts According to the boy's mother, he left home In time for school each morning and returned at the same time after school hours each day. A neighbor woman unwittingly was responsible for the youth

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being caught, when she questioned Mrs. Sullivan about his absence. Mrs. Sullivan investigated and the deception was brought to light. His bubble burst, the boy seized the opportunity Wednesday to run away when his mother sent him to the comer store. Whether It was fear of returning to school that pipmpted him to run away is as deep a mystery as hts whereabouts. His mother said he was wearing a green sweater, brown corduroy trousers, brown shoes and stockings. .Southern police were notified by local police to apprehend (wo local youths who ran away front hdrne Wednesday night and left word behind that they were "going south.” S. E. Pierson. 1224 W. Nineteenth St., told police his son Fred, 17, and John Jones, 16, of 1214 W. Nineteenth St., were together. Jones wore a sheep-lined coat and blue suit when last seen,\whilo Pic-son was dressed in a blu esuit, grap cap and dark overcoat.

Famous Pearls of History

In the past twenty centuries pearls, and pearl collections have gained fame through their intrinsic value and because of their magic lure to those who owned them or coveted their possession. CLEOPATRA PEARLS— Next to that "pearl of great price,” mentioned by Christ, were the two pearls which Pliny says were worn in the ears of Cleopatra. The writer does not tell their size, but states their value as 60,000,000 sesterii. History relates how one of these pearls was dissolved by Cleopatra and swallowed in a wager with Anthony. After the death of the queen the other pearl wrs cut In half and hung in the ears of Venus of Rome. It is estimated that the remaining pearl is valued at abort $225,000. PEROZ PEARL—This pearl was owned in the sixth century by Peroz. one of the kings of Persia. In a battle against the White Iluns in which he and his sons perished, he threw away the gem to keep it out of the hands of the enemy. A rumor said that It was recovered later, but no reliable historian supplants this story with definite trace of it. BOMB SEEN IN ~ 1300,000 FIRE Business District of Whiting Menaced. Bu United Press WHITING, Ind., March 10.—Fire early today destroyed nearly a block of buildings in the business district of Whiting, causing loss estimated at more than $300,000. Fire Chief Lampner and Whiting police were investigating the possibility that a bomb started the blaze. For a time the blaze, which burned for a'early six hours before it was brought under control, threatened the entire business district of the city. Fire apparatus was called from Hanunond, South Chicago, Gary and East Chicago when the tlames threatened to spread to the refining plant of the Standard Oil Company. Guests in the Kirpo Hotel, one of the buildings destroyed, abandoned all their belongings in their flight to escape the flames.

and solve the traffic problem once for all. Here is what traffic officers say: RAYMOND GISH, Illinois and Market Sts. —People pay more attention now than they did when we had semaphores. I had only one run against my signal today and that was a woman. JOHN WILLIS, Washington and Illinois Sts. —The new way Is inueh better. I don’t feei like I’m tied to a hitching post any more. It gives a fellow a chance to move around a bit. PATRICK FOX. Washington and Meridian Sts.—This is the only way to run traffic—after the public gets onto the new signals everything will be all right. You ought to tell people what the new olgnals are, though, most of them were caught by surprise. ERNEST WHITSETT, Washington and Pennsylvania Sts.—There isn’t much difference that I can see, but the big test wfll come Saturday night. The light above me has been broken for some time and they will have to fix that before the heavy night traffic comes.

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SERVILIA PEARL Another famous pearl was presented by Caesar to Scrvila. the mother of Brutus. It was estimated to be worth about SIOO,OOO. What became of it is not definitely known. Girl Teacher Who ‘Cussed’ Defended Bu United Press DOVER. Del., March 10.—Sixtynine residents of Bower's Beach, including the town's three school commissioners, touny 'sought, reinstatement of Miss Bessie Phillips, teachert dismissed by the State hoard of education l>ecauso she admitted telling one of the con missioned he eould take his "school and go to bell with it.” Charges that Miss Phillips had carried wine and eider in her automobile were denied by the girl, who admitted, however, she had carried sweet eider on one occasion. ROBINSON TO PRESIDK The ceremonies attending the six-ty-second anniversary of the charAerlng of the loeal Scottish Rite bodies, March 29 to April 1, will be presided over by United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, thrico potent master, Fred I. Willis, acting master of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, announced at a meeting of tbc body Wednesday night.

Rites Monday for Local Priest

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—Photo by Charles F. Brotzman. Rev. George J. Smith Funeral services will ho held at 9:30 a. m. .Monday at St. Philip Nerl Church, 550 N. Rural St., for Its pastor and founder, the Rev. George J. Smith. A heart attack following an operation caused his death Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Smith celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as a priest last year and was 51 years old., H® founded St. Philip Nerl Churgflpi 1909 and ha<been pastor there k£* that time. He was assistant at S3. Peter and Paul Cathedral for some years. r He Is survived- by six slat-r*,. the Misses Lena, Anna unt Tljeresa Smith, of Indianapolis jmcl three members of the Sisters of Providence, St. Alary-of-tlre-Woods. Terro Haute, (and a brother, Bishop Alphonse Smith of Nashville. Bishop Smith will officiate at the funeral mass, assisted by priests of St. Philip Neri. \

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MOIORCLUB MAY ACT 10 RECOVER SPEED IRAP FEES U. S. Supreme Court Ruling Has Wide Application —Drys Not Worried. Roadside "kangaroo courts” and the fee system of arrests which has nabbed many unwary motorists along Indiana highways, were struck a blow by a United States Supreme Court clpoision this week, in the opln lon of the lloosier Motor Club and American Automobile Association officials. Todd Stoops, lloosier club manager, announced he would call a directors’ meeting next week to consider the advisability of instituting suits for the recovery of fines and fees assessed against Indiana motorists by small town justices of the peucc and mayors. "Probably five thousand such arrests have been perpetrated In Indiana within tlio last year,” Stoops declared. “Fines probably averaged $lO. and in the light of the Supreme Court decision. $50,000, or possibly twice that nmount, has been Illegally mulcted from motorists in IMlanu. ’ A decision of Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court held that trial In the outcome of which a judicial or sendjudicial officer shares in the line Ujiposed violates the constitutional guarantee of an Impartial trial. Derision Far Reaching "The principles are entirely applicable to the arrests of motorists in which the fines are split between officers making the arrests and the Justice of the peace or the mayors presiding over the trial, ’ Stoops declared. "The frequency of such cases in recent years has made the system one of the worst evils on the highways and has seriously impeded motoring progress and unhampered transportation. "Investigations by the lloosier Motor Club have clearly pointed out that the financial interest of the officer and the trial magistrate rendered the system little more than u graft and a hold-up.” Walter Pritchard, lloosier Motor Club attorney, is considering tinlegal aspects of the mutter in preparation of opinions to bo submitted to the directors who muy decide to take action for recovery of fines and fees alleged illegally assessed. Ohio Gets BusySuch itigation, he explained, might take the form of suits on bonds of the officials involved, or against the officials on • charge of exceeding their authority In hearing eases not coming under their Jurisdiction. Hoosler A,otor Club officials were Informed toeny that the Ohio State Automobile Association has announced it will start action (o recover hundreds of thousands of dol lars paid out in fines for speeding. DROPS OFF CAR WHO S2O 1001 Holds Up Conductor After Friendly Chat. . "My stop conductor,— yoi/r money, please!” With these parting ifcords, cm phasized by a nasty looking revolver, a young man dropped oft a Meridian Heights street car at Forty-Ninth St., at midnight Wednesday taking with him S2O from the change lelt of Conductor Wesley Bird, 215S N. Illinois St. Bird, said the young man had chatted amicably with him on the rear platform until they canto to Forty-Ninth St. The hold-up man ran to Berkley Road and disappeared Into thoAlarlness before Bird’s yell attracted the attention of Alotorman Harry Whitney, 1907 Central Ave, Gray, Orihben & Gray, Jewelers, 151 N. Illinois Bt., reported to police that a man who came to the stoic late Wednesday and posed as a railroader presented a forged check In payment for a S6O watch. MORE SNOW FOR BLOCKADED TOWN Silverton, Col., Faces Continued Isolation. Bu United Press SILVERTON, Col.. March 10.— Silverton. just beginning to dig itself out from a four weeks snowblockade, today was faced w’lth the prospect of complete isolation sor ul least unother month. A new storm which began early yesterday In tinmountains continued throughout the night rugO left three feet additional snow on the great drifts surrounding the town. Sltverton, a small mining town, is surrounded by high mountain) some 200 miles from Denver. It is snow-bound several weeks at a time yearly and citizens are prepared for prolonged isolation. The present sit uation, however. Is regarded aa the worst ever encountered In the district. Health condition* are good, It was said. Enough staple food is on hand to last until mid-April, although a shortage of fresh meats, ergs, and vegetable* already baa been reported.