Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 27,1927

SOUTH IS SEEN as ‘solid; even FOR_AUMITH Opposition to New York’s Governor Strong, but j' # Not Impregnable. HOOVER IN HIGH FAVOR Valley States Will Be for Secretary, If Coolidge Is Not Candidate. following is the second of a series on politico! conditions in various part* of the country as gathered by United Press bureaus and from leaders in Washington. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Delegations uninstructed or pledged to minor favorite sons probably will be sent by the South to the next Demorcratic national convention to oppose the candidacy of Governor A1 Smith of New York, unless some dry Moses rises up to rally these wandering votes, a political survey conducted by United Press bureaus indicates. Democrats of the vast region from Hie Atlantic Ocean to the desert sands of Nevada are centering upon no candidate, but are smoldering with opposition to Smith, reports say. Republicans of this fundamentally Democratic expanse are sticking by President Coolidge for re-election , until they can ascertain which way the presidential winds will blow.

Want to Follow Winner They always like to be with the winning candidate to protect their patronage appointments to postmaster Ships and Federal positions In those sixteen States. If It becomes apparent later that Mr. Coolidge will not be drafted, then Secretary of Commerce Hoover may fall heir to this big block of Southern delegates, the reports indicate. Hoover has won such popularity In Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana by his handling of flood relief that there is considerable talk about what will be done in these nominally Democratic States if Smith and Hoover should be the opposing candidates. Some threats have been made that the States might go to Hoover. It Is generally felt, however* that the South will remain in -the Democratic column in 1928, no matter who is nominated. Senator Fletcher, Democrat (Fla.), for one believes that while his own State and others are opposed sternly to Smith, they would vote for the New York Governof if he were the nominee. (5 Smith Clubs Organized Some few Smith clubs have been organized, one in Milledgeville, Ga., birthplace of Smith’s old political opponent, William G. McAdoo, and another in Charlotte, N. C., but the only southern city of size reporting strong Smith sentiment is New Orleans. It is doubtful, however, if Smith can obtain the Louisiana State delegation, because outside of New Orleans there is much antiSmith sentiment. McAdoo’s stated withdrawal from the race caused no great surprise and made no change in the situation. This region’s leaders long ago gave up hope of McAdoo’s nomination and began talking of favorite sons. North Carolina may be pledged to its Governor McLean or Josephus Daniels; Virginia to Senator Carter Glass; Arkansas to Senator Joseph T. Robinson; Tennessee to Governor Peay; Mississippi to Senator Pat Harrison and Texas to Governor Dan Moody. Two Alabama senators, Heflin and Black, have indicated they might line up their State for Governor Vic Donahey of Ohio. The remainder probably .would be uninstructed. Reed Gets Little Backing Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, recently went through the South and was received by the Georgia Legislature, but he won no great ovations. Reed is wet and the South is fundamentally dry. That Is "its objection to Smith, although widespread has been made publicly on the Aground that Smith ra Catholic. • What the South wants is a' Protestant, dry, progressive Democrat to succeed McAdoo. The next story will deal with the Central West. CONTROL HOME MARKET U. 8. Competitors in Chemical Industry Forced Out of Country. J?// United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 27. -—Foreign competitors have been driven from the home market by the American chemical industry to such an extent that nations abroad are now satisfying themselves with merely combating our competition In other foreign markets, Charles L. Huisking of New York said in a report made at the opening of the fifty-third annual convention of Ihe National Wholesale Druggists Association here today.

Still Has It! Bu United Press TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 27.—John D. Rockefeller Monday celebrated the seventy-sec-and anniversary of the day he earned his first dollar. After walking the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855 looking for work, 16-year-old John Rockefeller obtained employment as clerk in a little warehouse on the docks, at the humble salary of SSO for three months’ effort. “I am grateful for the opportunity that day brought," Rockefeller told friends todav. “It was the most eventful day of my life.”

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Linemen worked today to restore service to numerous telephones in the vicinity of Maywood, cut off Monday night when a fire in the business district snapped a main cable . The picture shows the ruins of a garage, barber shop and three houses,, destroyed with $40,000 loss.

SAFETY HABITS NEED STRESSED Teach Children Early, Speaker at Parley Urges. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Need for instillilng safety habits in chidren was stressed at the annual Safety Congress being held herev today. Habits taught in “Childhood's Plastic Age” are difficult to eradicate, it was pointed out by Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor Club, addressing the public safety session of the convention. The child who is taught safety from the first year of school l\fe will hardly develop into a careless pedestrian or motorist, Hayes said. Hayes praised progress in safety made through assistance of school boy traffic patrols. * M. T. Hanrahan, superintendent of vehicle service of the American Railway Express Company, emphasized the importance of proper selection of motor vehicle operators. Hanrahan said taxicab and truck chauffeurs can be taught how to keep out of accidents. He pointed out that no chauffeur of his company ever has been arrested for speeding. LEAGUE PLANS PARLEY FOR CODIFYING LAWS Assembly Adjourns After Deciding to Convoke 1929 Session. Bu United Press GENEVA, Sept. 27.—The assembly of the League of Nations adjourned today after deciding to convoke in 1929 the first of a series of international conferences for the codification of international law. The plan is to codify law on nationality, territorial waters and responsibility of States for damage done in their territory to persons or properties of foreigners. The decision to undertake the work of codification of international law follows two years of preparations by a commission of international jurists. George W. Wickersham, New York attorney, and former attorney general of the United States, represented the United States on the commission. TEACHER SHOOTS PUPIL Gun Fired by Football Game Timekeeper; Wound Fatal. Bu United Press RICHMOND, Ky., Sept. 27.—8. F. Gabby, high school teacher, was held under bond for investigation following death of Charles Minter, a student, from a bullet wound received when Gabby discharged a pistol at the end of a period in a football game Friday. Gabby was official timekeeper of the game and had borrowed the pistol for the purpose. ARMY MAN MISSING Sergeant Fails to Return to Post After Trip to Bank. Ft. Benjamin Harrison authorities asked police to search for Sergt. Edward J. Schrenk, 26, who came to Indianapolis Monday to draw money from a bank. He failed to return and violence is feared. v Elmer Sechman, 40, of 65 S. Mount St. .employed in Crawfordsville, failed to return home over the week-end as had been his custom. Sechman was driving an Essex coach, license number, 590-571. SMOCKS TO HIDE LEGS Michigan Town’s Teachers Must Cover Short Skirts. Bu United Press - HAZE LPARK, Mich., Sept. 27. Women teachers in Hazel Park schools must wear smocks of one color which reach at least ten inches from the ground. The order was made by the board of education, a male member of which believed tlje classroom was no place for short skirts. Still Married at 103 Bp United Press LONDON, Sept. 27.—John E. Taylor and his wife, Sophia, are believed to be the oldest married couple in England if not in the world. ' Taylor was 103 in April and his wife has just celebrated her 103rd birthday. They have two sons living aged 63 and 65, and a daughter who is 69 yean old.

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Funeral services for Justin O. Foss, 93, a Civil War veteran and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, will be held Wednesday at 10 a. m. from the home of his daughter, Mrs. John P. Ryker, 3402 Guilford Ave. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Foss served in the 149th Illinois Volunteers during the war, and at one time he donned the uniform of a southern officer and served in the Confederate ranks for three months as a Yankee spy. Many times, Mr. Foss told friends, he went hunting with Lincoln in the vicinity of Springfield, 111., before the Great Emancipator aspired to the presidency.

Relatives Mayor Duvall Has Seven of Them on City’s Pay Roll.

r iHE number of relatives of T Mayor Duvall on the oity pay roll mounts to seven, with appointment of Mrs. Duvall, the mayor’s wife, as city controller. She replaces William C: Buser, brother-in-law, who recently was ousted to make way for former Police >Chlef CJaude F. Johnson. Appointment of Buser to another city post is expected. Thurman Washburn, a brother-in-law of Duvall, is employed In the purchasing agent’s office. Claude Wilson, safety board clerk and former deputy controller, is a nephew of the mayor. Wilson has three brothers employed by the city, Wilbur and Leßoy, city engineering department employes, and Elmer, employe at the asphalt plant. ' Roy Spillman, a cousin of Duvall, is assistant inspector of weights and measures. CITY _ MARINE IS KILLED i Woolum Electrocuted Accidentally at Paris Island, S. C. Lucas M. Woolum, 21, of Whiteland, Ind., and former Indiana Bell Telephone Company linesman employed here, was electrocuted accidentally at Paris Island, S. C., late Monday, according to a telegram received today by the United States marine recruiting headquarters here. Woolum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Woolum of Whiteland, enlisted here four months ago. He probably was working at his old work of linesman when electrocuted, marine officers said. The body will be taken to Charlestown, Ind., for burial.

NEGRO BOY, SAVED FROM CHAIR, HAPPY IN PRISON

Bu Timet Special iICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 27.—Wallace McCutcheon, 4 17-year-old Negro boy saved from the electric chair, where he was doomed to die shortly after midnight, today faced a life job in *one of the factories of Michigan City penitentiary with a grin from ear to ear. “I sure appreciate what Governor Jackson has done for me," the youth declared. The Governor, acting on his own initiative and against the

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$40,000 Loss in Night Fire at Maywood

JAPAN MAY ASK NAMPARLEY Baron Saito Reported as Favoring New Conference. i>* United Press LONDON. Sept. 27.—A Daily Express dispatch today from Tokio said Baron Saito in an interv tw with newspapermen upon his arrival at Kobe from Geneva, said he would recommend that the Japanese government call ar other three-pbwer naval armaments conference. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—President Coolidge has received no suggestions except newspaper reports concerning proposed calling of another international disarmament conference, the White House announced today. The anouncement was made In answer to questions concerning reports that Baron Saito of Japan, has expressed hope that another meeting would be summoned. The President was represented as feeling Japan had done all she could to cooperate with the United States at the recent Geneva parley. URGES SPECIAL TAX TO ENFORCE DRY LAW jCool Billion Needed to Employ Sleuths,. Says Edge. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 27.—A special prohibition tax to finance enforcement of the Volstead act was suggested last night by Senator Edge, New Jersey wet Republican. He said a billion dollars could be raised easily to police the Nation and give prohibition a genuine trial. At the same time Prohibition Commissioner Doran announced that enforcement is improving and forcing up bootleg prices all over the country. “Enforcement is admittedly more unsatisfactory than ever,” Edge said. “In order to give the law a real test, a cool billioh could easily be used to employ the army of sleuths necessary to really police the Nation.” PUSH STATE DAIRYING C. of C. Adopts Plans to Help in Supplying High Grade Cattle. Plans for assisting in supplying high grade dairy cows and legumes with which to feed them were approved at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee recently. The committee discussed plansTo bring dairy cows from Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky and other parts of Indiana. The general plan Is to have farmers desiring cows or young stock sign advance orders. J. Edward Morris, Milton C. Kelley >and Clarence Henry were named to work but details. Tentative plans for organization of an alfalfa club were discussed. KILLER IN FOOD STRIKE Enters Fourth Day of Fast Protesting Life Prison Tenp. Bu United Press THOMASTON, Maine. Sept. 27. Protesting' against a life sentence imposed for murder, Benjamin H. Turner today entered the fourth day of his hunger strike, still refusing all food brought to his cell at the State Prison here. He drank water, however. Turner began his fast after the Maine law court had rejected his appeal and ruled that he must serve the life term for the slaying of James Hallen.

recommendation of the prison trustees, commuted McCutcheon’s sentence Monday from death to life imprisonment. The boy had been found guilty of the murder of John Ward, whom he held up and robbed of 35 cents, while Ward was walking under the Belt Line railroad via-: duct, Prospect St., Indianapolis. " Death sentence was pronounced April 20, 1926, when the Negro boy was 16. Several stays of execution were granted, until all court efforts to save him had been exhausted. Ap-

LEGION CHIEFS WELCOMED BY KINGJMTALY Past Commander Savage Replies to Monarch in RoVal Palace. By United Press PISA, Italy, Sept. 27.—Members of the American Legion commander’s tour arrived today from Genoa and were received by King Victor, who had motored from San Rossore to welcome the Legionnaires. The pr feet and podesta were at the railway station to welcome the visitors, accompanied by several hundreds of local war veterans, fascist militiamen and military authorities. King Victor received the Legionnaires in the royal palace. At noon they were luncheon guests at the town hall. Skvage -Replies Howard P. Savage, retiring national commander of the Legion, replied to King Victor’s greeting during the royal audience. He said, in part: “Your majesty, we of the American Legion, are here today by the gracious invitation of your government; and, as national commander of our organization from overseas. I wish to thank: you for the many privileges that have been extended to our comrades and to us. Your majesty made possible this wonderful opportunity of renewing many friendships and making many more. “How different Is Italy In peace. Then your frontiers bristled with the guns of war. Now there are open arms of welcome. Then a pall shadowed your lovely cities. Now the hum of Industry, the sunshine of progress, brighten the days and nights. A Friendly People “To those of us who served in the great war along the battlefronts in other countries and who have never before enjoyed the hospitality of your people, we still feel that we know them. “We are here, your majesty, to get better acquainted with your people. We love them and respect them. We want them to know us and love us. “Our people at home have admired Italy from afar. They will admire and love Italy more when we shall have returned to tell them of your magnificent country; of your priceless art; of your glorious places of historic grandeur: of the Inspiring patriotism of your people, and. best of all, of the friendship your people have shown in their welcome to us.” LESSON IN&A RACE U. S. Sees Withdrawal From . 'Sport’ -Justified. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—England’s brilliant victory in the Schneider cup seaplane race, according to Assistant Secretary Warner, Navy aviation chief, provides new proofs that: 1. Racing becomes increasingly remote from service use of planes, and hence justifies the Navy's withdrawal from racing. 2. The proposal to hold the Schneider race once every two years instead of annually is strengthened hy tea showing of England, which spent two years developing new plant'} and failed to participate last year. Warner holds that super-charged, super-heated engines, apparently using “doped” fuel, will wear out rapidly In regular use. He pointed to reports that only two entrants finished at Venice yesterday, and to the necessarily short life of presentday plane engines overworked as the racing motors were. STUDY MISSION WORK Two-Day Institute Will Close Here Tonight A young people’s banquet tonight at the Y. W. C .A. will close the twoday session of the fifth annual missionary institute sponsored by the Missionary Social Institute of Indianapolis. Stimulation of interdenominational missionary study is the purpose of the organization according to Mrs. C. H. Winders, presiding officer. About 150 women attended the Opening session Monday. AWAIf oBREGON REPLY Political for Claims General Ordered Carranza Death. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Sept. 27.—Mexico today awaited anxiously Gen. Alvaro Obregon’s reply to the charge that he ordered the execution of the late President Carranza in 1920. The accusation was made by Candido Aguilar, secretary of foreign relations during the presidency of Carranza, and was printed as a letter in the newspaper Excelsior. I<ead Cable Is Stolen Pennsylvania Railroad officials reported to police today theft of 350 feet of new lead cable from the right-of-way near Eagle Creek. The cable is valued at $437.

peal then was made to the Governor by McCutcheon’s Negro attorney, E. Louis Moore. Because of his youth, great sympathy was enlisted and at one time a petition for clemency containing 30,000 names of Negroes throughout the United States was presented to the chief executive. Prison trustees appointed three alienist*: to conduct examination and the youth was pronounced sane. Shortly after noon Monday, a group of twenty Negroes and white

You re All Things to All Men on Penny Scales The Cute Little Cards You Draw Have Their Signals Crossed—No Teamwork. BY HELEN ASHCRAFT r=-ri ANTED: A soul-satisfying affinity, a kindred spirit, with shocks VU of blond hair and a disposition like the south wind. At least, that was my idea of a real fortune as T set forth with a. pocketful of pennies to seek my "golden” future on c|l the pennyweight scales I could find. I’ll admit I was feeling somewhat like Dick Whittington’s cat—eaaer but hopeless. At least a blond or a griilion dollars was what I expected as I climbed gingerly upon one of those impersonal machines on N. Pennsylvania St. I got everything else but

After feeding the thing about two dozen hard-earned pennies, all the satisfaction I got from the printed slip that goes with every weigh was a hint of someone dark and exotic in my “future.” Besides that, I weighed everywhere from 114 to 130 on scales on Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. downtown. But the innocent looking little card that doomed me forever to cub reporting, frdsted “private” doors, secretaries and busy signals read: “A true, loving companionship seems to be vital to your happiness, but you are not going to find it.” I'm through with pennyweight scales! • * * Ar— ANOTHER of those innocents said: “Your personality enabhps you to make and keep a wide circle of friends.” The truth is, that I spent a whole year at college, came out with one friend, and lost her the other day in a petty quarrel. My “circle” has closed in. Oh, yes, I found that "unseen influences play strongly on me—” as my picture indicates. Asa flapper, I rather like a good country girl. I’ve decided it must be an unseen rural stigma. ' J “—and you are inclined towards spiritualism and may become mediumistic!” According to the scales at the S. S. Kresge Cos., I accomplish much good and am at times actually “Quixotic.” • • • | a T3 far as I know that wa3 the I AJ only correct representation L. - J of my character. I once was guilty of staying away from a movie to buy a ticket for a shivering newsboy. I’ve considered myself the portrait of a lady ever since. Then, for another penny, I was warned to “make the opportunity—don’t lo>k for it,” and have taken to crystal gazing and penny hoarding.

GARY SCHOOL STRIKE GROUP WINS RECRUITS More Thun 800 Protest Agai isl Admission of Negro Students. By P.i ted Press GARY, lad., Sept. 27.—Striking students at Emerson High School drew recruits from those who answered the school bell today and shortly before noon more than 800 white s tucents were “on strike” protesting the transfer of twenty-four Negroes to their school. Thi -strikers assembled in the school yard this morning and directed jeers and jibes at those who started for the building. Warned away by teachers, they assembled in East Side Park, a few blocks away, and held a meeting. Officers were elected, and an organization formed. Mayor Floyd E. Williams has called a conference of civic and educational leaders and speakers for the striking student body may be asked to attend. Names of the strike officers are being kept secret for fear of reprisal by school authorities. School authorities are strong in their statements that none of the 200 Negro students, believed by the strikers to be ready for transfer to Emerson High School,, will be changed from their present school locations. m 1 KILLED, 1 HURT INDETROIT RUM BATTLE Woodward Avenue Traffic Signal Starts Gang Shooting. DETROIT, Sept. 27.—A bootleggers’ feud blazed out under the red light of a Woodward Avenue traffic signal last night and left man man dead and one wounded. The dead man is “Tommy” Shea, alias Edward Casey, 24. He had a criminal record here and in Cleveland, Dayton and Indianapolis. “Ted” Baldwin, 29, Chicago, an admitted Detroit-Chicago rum runner, was wounded in the shoulder. His brother, Leo, 37, fled unhurt. Local police records list a Thomas Shea of St. Louis, Mo., having been helcf'here a day on a vagrancy charge ( n 1924. There is no record of Shea having engaged in criminal activities here, however. PLANS AUSTRALIAN HOP Aviator Prepares for Flight by Way of Honolulu. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash.* Sept. 27.—Capt. Kingsford Smith, is planning a flight to Honolulu and from there to Australia in his trimotored Fokker plane, it is announced. The plane is to be taken to San Francisco for the start of the venture soon.

persons, led by the Rev. C. H. Winders, former head of the Indianapolis Church Federation, called on the Governor with a last-min-ute plea and he informed them of his decision. When the message was read to McCutcheon in the death cell, he wept profusely, promising Warden Walter H. Daly that he “would be a good prisoner.” He remained in the death cell throughout the night, but was transferred today. Jack wn based his commutation on ice grounds of youth, bad environment and subnormality.

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PLAN FIGHT ON TYPHOID PERIL ——————— Indiana Death Rate- Highest of Any Northern State. Indiana has the highest death rate from typhoid fever of any State in the northern part of the United States. Methods of prevention and control of the disease were paramount issues before the opening session of the thirty-third annual conference of the Indiana health officers today in the feeverin. “The State has 8.9 death per 1,000 from typhoid,” said Lewis S. Finch, B. S., director of the water and sewage department of the State board of health. “Typhoid is directly traceable to water and milk supplies of the State,” said Finch. “Prevention of Communicable Diseases by Immunization” was the topic of an address by Dr. Thurman B. Rice, Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. C. F. Adams, director of bacteriological laboratory of the State board of health, and Frank C. Wilson, director of the milk laboratory of the Starte Board of Health, also spoke. Dr. J. E. Monger, Ohio State health commissioner, was a speaker this afternoon. Infantile paralysis was discussed. Spread of the disease in Ohio was pointed out and methods of combating the epidemic were forwarded. Control of the milk Industry through proper legislation and supervision, and demonstration of the pasteur treatment of rabies occupied the attention of the delegates during afternoon. INSPECT FAIR BUILDINGS Finance Committee of Agriculture Board Meets Here. Inspection of the new buildings at State fairgrounds was made by the executive and finance committees of the State agriculture board this afternoon. The board met In morning session to take care of unpaid bills’ and discuss insurance contracts. The new buildings include administration, Red Cross, Baby Show and poultry. Although in use during the recent fair, they are not quite complete and have not yet been accepted, Secretary E. J. Barker reported. STOLEN CAR ABANDONED —7 Auto Recovered by Owner on Way to Report Loss to Police. Floras W. Shaddy, 3112 E. New York St., parked his car/Monday night near New Jersey and Washington Sts., and returned to find it vanished. On his way to headquarters to report the. theft he spied it safely nestled in a parking space near the courthouse. A bystander said it had been abandoned there by a man who had difficulty in operating it. Police were unable to locate the thief JAP CRUISERS TO ARRIVE Squadron of Two Ships to Reach New York Tomorrow. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Two Japanese cruisers With 1,500 officers and men are expected to arrive tomorrow from Boston. The squadron left Japan June 30, in command of Rear Admiral Osami Nagano and visited Honolulu. San Francisco, San Pedo, New Orleans, Havana and Boston.

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VAST AREA IS FLOOD SWEPT; MANY DROWN Fifty Known Dead, Villages Inundated by Torrents in Europe. By ROBERT H. BEST United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA, Sept. 26.—More than fifty persons have been drowned, and more casualties are feared, In disastrous floods over a large area around the Tyrol, embracing portions of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Tremendous cloudbursts, and a warm spell that caused snow to melt in the mountain.!, are responsible. The floods are the worst since 1866. Two of central Europe's most Important communication lines have been cut—the Paris-Vienna Railway, by destruction of a trestle near Buchs, and the Munich-Italy milway, by collapse of a bridge oi|r the river Eisack in the Trentino district of Italy. Three Months for Repair Austrian authorities announced that it would require at least three months to effect even temporary repairs, and that trains would detour meantime by day of Lake Constance. In response to the request of the ruling Prince of Lichtenstein, the Austrian government has sent troops to the Rhine valley to rescue inhabitants from housetops. Twenty-five workers were drowned when the River Eisack bridge collapsed under a train. Ocolice-Sondrio railway is interrupted. and grave damage has been done in the upper Trentino, where the river Isarco destroyed the railway between Fortezza and Mezzaselva. Traffic between Fortezza and the Brenner Pass in the Alps is interrupted, and traffic between the Trentino and Austria and Germany is being diverted. Villages Under Water. The River Adda flood has caused nine deaths. The City of Chiavenna is threatened by the rising of the River Mera, which has broken its banks snd destroyed several houses. The village of Campodolcino is inundated. Torrents have broken their banks near Sondrio. The provincial palace in the vicinity has collapsed, the foundations of the prefect’s palace have been weakened, and the entire city may be inundated. Two railwaymen, several other workers and one woman were drowned at the village of Schann, where water had reached the second stories of houses. Six persons were drowned at Ghehmnitz. The town of F amsberg in the Ziller valley is submerged. Inhabitants are living in upper stories and on roofs of houses. Two bridges hh,ve been destroyed near Innsbruck, involving the drowning of two workmen, and 1,000 feet of neighboring railway tracks were torn up. Damage in the Italian tyrol district has been made worse by the melting of snow, causing the river Adda to overflow between Mordegno and Sondrio, flooding several towns. EXAMINE NEW CITIZENS Friday to Be Naturalization Day in United States Court Here. Friday will be naturalization day in Federal Court. Federal examiners were in the city this afternoon to examine applicants for final papers preparatory to their appearance in court Friday. About seventy-five cases will be heard by Judge Baltzell, it was estimated. ADVISED TO BUY TAGS Thirty-Four One-Plate Drivers Arrested by State Police. Thirty-four one-plate drivers were brought in ifllbnday by the State police and the drive continued today. Chief Robert T. Humes advises all motorists to prevent trouble by purchasing anew license plate for 50 cents, if one is lost. Three youths were also brought in for driving under age. The age limit is 16, with special permits for school driving from 14 to 16. 258 LOWDEN DELEGATES By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Two hundred and fifty-eight delegates for former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois will attend the Republican national convention next year, according to William H. Crawford, in charge of Lowden’s eastern publicity headquaretrs. He said that the support will come principally from the middle western States and from the South. * Settles Suit for S9O Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27. The only damage suit arising so far from the wreck of an Evansville and Ohio Valley Traction Company car recently, causing the death of four persons and injury of fifty-six, has been settled without contest. Miss Mary Watson, suing for $l5O damages for Injuries, accepted S9O in settlement.

Flog Hoosiers Bu Times Special LINTON, Ind:, Sept. 27. Tflree local young men today are carrying sore spots, due to a flogging administered Monday in lieu of paying fines and serving penal farm terms on charges of disturbing a theater performance. The whipping was administered by Mayor E. V. Bull, Patrolman Arthur Pinkston and the father of one of the men.