Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1928 — Page 3

FEB. 4, 1928.

FALL RIVER VIEWS SCENE OF RUIN VOWS TO ‘COME BACK’

BUSINESS AREA IS VAST TANGLE OF WRECKAGE City Officials and Industry Heads Begin Planning Reconstruction. BANKS WILL PAY ALL Deposits in Institutions Swept by Flames Are Guaranteed. BY WILLARD E. MARTIN United Tress Stall Correspondent FALL RIVER,' Mass., Feb. 4. This New England mill city, its industry - temporarily paralyzed by fire that brought between $7,000,000 and $25,000,000 damage, today started a game comeback. City officials met by the light of flickering oil lamps last night and laid plans for immediate rehabilitation. Bankers promised no one would lose deposits, even though three banking institutions were destroyed. Insurance merf predicted every settlement would be met by Monday. Nearly 100 mill men—comprising the big business of the city—assured aid in clearing away the debris of the Are. Merchants to Get Aid The Merchants’ Association promised aid in assisting owners of burned-out establishments to resume business. And so Fall River today turned toward the ruins of nearly two score buildings, not with a sense of defeat, but with a determination to rebuild what the great fire had tafcen away. Everywhere in the business district there w’as desolation, an icycoated desolation. Walls, standing •unsupported, were coated with great sheets of ice representing the valiant fight put up by firemen to stave off the onrushing flames that swept the city, Thursday night. The 200-foot chimney of the Pocasset mills stood alone as a marker of that great milling company. Around it was the charred debris of the three structures that had housed one of Fall River’s greatest plants. It was here that the fire started. Business Houses in Ruins Theaters, banks, and business blocks were in ruins. There were crazy heaps of stone and charred wood. The city hall stood alone and untouched in the midst of the ruins. And it was from this city hall that anew optimism was born for the industrial future of Fall River. The flames ate their way almost to the residential section —where the fn me houses would have i propived ready timber and prob- • ably w'ould have imperiled the entire city of 125,000 population—only j to be turned back by a sudden ! switch in the w'ind. Today a few embers still burned, but there seemed little likelihood of the fire being renewed. Militiamen patrolled the streets to keep pedestrians away, as many of the walls still standing were in danger of toppling over.

OPPOSE ‘BRUTAL’ RACES Greyhounds Catch Live Hares; Indignation Riser. Hu f'nited Press MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 4.—Greyhound coursing is arousing more discussion in Miami than bull fights, between the exponents of the sport and the opponents who decry its brutality. Live rabbits are used in place of the mechanical bunny that has long out-raced the dogs on Miami tracks. Unfortunately for the rabbit in many of the events, he has appeared to be more confused than the greyhounds, which has resulted in frequent bloody massacres by the hounds. Various organizations in Miami are making every effort to protect the rabbit in the future. RATS ROUT DRY AGENTS Drunken Rodents Chase Officers Out of Basement. By United Press NEWARK, Feb. 4. Prohibition agents who attempted to dismantle an alleged booze plant, in a basement on Walnut St. here, were forced to evacuate before a mass attack of presumably drunken rats. Reinforcements, consisting of men, dogs and weapons of all sorts, finally subdued the rodent booze guard and captured two men and their liquor making equipment. Seeks Sunday Show Ban lin Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 4.—A movement has been started to ban Sunday theatrical performances here, including motion pictures. A “blue” ordinance, backed by the city’s ministerial association, has been submitted to the city council. None of the members of the body have indicated their views on the ordinance or when it will be taken up. Fails Doubly at Suicide Bit Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Feb. 4.—Although lie shot himself in the head with a rifle and slashed his throat with a pocket knife, William Roten, 55, farmer near Lena, is expected to recover. The bullet inflicted only a scalp wound and the knife did no* touch a vital point. Bargains today in used cars. Sec the splendid offerings in today’s want ads.

LINDY” IS 26 TODAY Three-Minute Summary of the Remarkable Caree Os the Most Famous Youth in^rheOVorld

RB - 4 - 1902—Charles A. Lindbergh bom at fWT Detroit, Mich. I TtL September, 1910—Entered the Force School, Washington, D. C., while his father was a Minnesota Congressman. 1912—Saw an airplane for the first time, near Washington. June, 1918—Graduated from Little Falls, Minn., High School. September, 1920—Matriculated at the University of Wisconsin in mechanical engineering. 1922 February—Left the University to enroll in flying school at Lincoln, Neb. April Q —Took his first airplane ride. May 25 —Ready to “solo” but unable to furnish necessary bond to insure against damaging plane. June—Made his first “double parachute” jump while on a “barnstorming trip” in Nebraska with another aviator. 1923 April—Bought his first plane—a Government “jenny” —at Americus, Ga„ for SSOO. In it he took his first “solo” flight the next day and a week later started a cross-country flight to Minnesota. At Meridian, Miss., he took his first passenger up for $5. 1924 March 19—Enlisted as a Flying Cadet at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas. May 30—Scattered his father’s ashes over the family's Minnesota farm. September—Transferred to Kelly Field, San Antonio.

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REDUCE LIGHT RATE Frankfort Municipal Plant Given Lower Schedule. Sharp reductions in retail and wholesale rates for electric power sold by the municipally owned Frankfort Light Company have been ordered by the public service commission. The new schedule set by Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh, eliminates a maintenance charge which for a year has been assessed rural users, and has fixed a straight energy rate for all users. New rates provide that current now costing 1 cent a killowatt hour for production and an addition cent for distribution is to be sold to Frankfort and Clinton County consumers at 6 cents for the first 100 k. w. h„ 4 cents for the next 200 k. w. h. and 3 cents for all above 300 k. w. h., with a monthly minimum charge of $1.25. A sliding scale of rates to be charged the Insull lines by the municipal plant for sale of wholesale current fixed by the commission, provides for the prices of 4 cents a k. w. h. for the first 500 and 1.7 cents for all current over 50,000 k. w. h. The power has been sold for l. cents per k. w. li.

Back Door Demonstrator Scorned by Modern Wife

College Trained Experts Now Give Advice on How to Run Homes. Bsi United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—The home demonstrator, who in former days traveled from back door to back door, telling housewives how to run their homes, has become as much of a back number as the horse and buggy, in which the demonstrator traveled, according to latest reports from women in business. In times past this woman was leng in her speeches on what was the best stove to cook on, how to care for the baby, and how to make nousework easy. But today the housewife has turned to anew form of advice—the college trained woman, home economics expert. Mary Dahnke, connected with a Chicago merchandising concern, said women are now being educated

1925 November— E n 1 i sted in the 110th Observation Squadron of the 35th Division, Missouri National Guard and commissioned a First Lieutenant. 1926 April 15—Made his first flight as an air mail pilot, from Chicago to St. Louis. Sept embe r Idea of a trans-ocean-ic flight came to him one night w h i le piloting hi s mail plane. Decembe r Went to New York to gather data on a flight to Europe.

U. S. Fliers Will Fight Mosquitoes in Nicaragua

Heflin Is Firm By Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Senator Heflin has refused a $35 check offered him by Fraser Edwards, Washington newspaperman. Objecting to articles written by Edwards about his recent speeches, Heflin said that he once loaned Charles A. Edwards, the newspaperman’s father, $25 and couldn't understand why the son would write such articles about him. The father has been dead eleven years. Edwards figured up the interest at six per cent and made out a check for $35, and wrote on it these words: “To repay my father's debt to Senator Heflin.”, With it was a letter which Edwards asked be published in the Congressional Record as public acknowledgment that the debt was paid. Heflin sent the check and letter back to Edwards, with the message that the debt was personal matter between Edwards’ father and himself.

in scientific buying of food, clothing and household appliances. "Tcday the housewife sees the producer of the materials through the eyes of a trained home economics expert,” Miss Dahflke said. / Women are now turning to standard products, she said. “In previous times the house to house canvasser might talk her into buying some panacea ‘good for all ills,’ but she soon found out it wasn’t exactly the road to paradise. Now she sticks by the things which she knows are good.” Kreisler to “Small Town” WESTFIELD. N. J v Feb. 4.—For seven years Westfield, a town c& 15,000, has tried to persua’de Fritz Kreisler to play here. Kreisler had never played in such a small town. But perseverance won and he will appear next Oct .1. Richmond Man Killed Bii Times Special RICHMOND, Ind.. Feb. 4.—William R. Martin, 24, this city, brother of Mrs. C. E. Almany, Newcastle, was killed Friday in an automobile accident near Oxford, Ohio. *

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1927 Feb. 28—Went to San Diego, Cal., to order “The Spirit of St. Louis.” May 10—Took off from San Diego for St. Louis at 3:55 p. m. on the first leg of “the greatest flight in history.” May 11—Arrived at Lambert Field, St. Louis, at 8:20 a. m.—l 4 hours and 25 minutes after leaving San Diego. May 12—Left at 8:13 a. m. for New York. Arrived Curtiss Field, L. 1., at 5:33 p. m. MAY 20—TOOK OFF FOR PARIS FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD AT 7:52 A. M. MAY 21—AT 10 P. M. (5 P. M. NEW YORK TIME) CAUGHT HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE LIGHTS OF PARIS. LANDED LE BOURGET FIELD 10:24 P. M. May 27—Visited Brussels, Belgium. May 31—Received by King George and Queen Mary of England. June 11—Arrived in .Washington amid wild welcome. June 12—Made a Colonel and given Distinguished Flying Cross by President Coolidge. June 13 —New York welcomed him in unparalleled fashion. June 16—Received the $25,000 Raymond Orteig prize for his flight. June 17—Hopped off for St. Louis to bring its “Spirit” home. June 18— Lindbergh air mail stamps issued. July 20—Left Mitchel Field, L. 1., to begin the Guggenheim tour of seventy-five United States cities in the interests of aviation. Nov. 13—Had the honorary degree of Master in Science of Aeronautics bestowed upon him by St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia—his first honorary degree. Nov. 14—Presented by President Coolidge with the Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society—the eighth to receive the award in more than 40 years. Dec 10—The National House of Representatives passed by acclamation a resolution to award him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Dec. 13—Left Bolling Field, Washington, for Mexico City. Dec. 14—Arrived at Valbuena Airdrome, Mexico City, at 2.39 p. m. | Dec. 22—His mother arrives to spend Christmas with him after an airplane trip from Detroit. Dec. 28—“ The Ambassador of Good Will” leaves Mexico City to visit Guatemala. British Honduras. Honduras, Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama. Columbia, Venezuela, Virgin Islands! Santo Domingo, Haiti, Porto Rico and Cuba.

Use of Planes Expected to • Eliminate Malaria in Tropics. BY MAX STERN Staff Correspondent, Scripps-Howard Newspapers. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 4. Airplanes of Uncle Sam's Army which chiefly were responsible for the dispersal of the /jbel Sandino’s forces soon are to be put to work against another and more insidious enemy of this republic, namely, mosquitos. Dr. D. M. Molloy, head of the Rockefeller Foundation, at work here, has just announced that as soon as the Sandino expedition is over, the Government has promised the loan of the Marine fliers’ planes for- the' conquest. Bred in the swamps, mosquitos are causing yearly tremendous loss in lives and dollars. Molloy plans to follow the recent poison dusting experiments conducted by the United State Bureau of Entomology in the Louisiana swamps. Paris green is loaded into a hopper below a tart built into the plane’s fuselage and dust is spread by the air blast from the propeller as the plane flies low over the swamps. Thus, the larvae in the water are killed. Molloy believes the use of planes may eliminate malaria entirely in tropical countries. FIND MEDALS COSTLY Diplomats Bring Crosses; Taxes Paid by City of Paris. By United Press PARIS, Feb. 4.—The Municipal Council of Paris is beginning to realize that decorations from foreign sovereigns cost more than they are worth. Every time a potentate from the Orient or the Ivory Coast is received officially in Paris he hands out crosses, cravats and grand cordons to everybody concerned. Every year thereafter the recipients have to pay a tax to the chancellory and as the municipality of Paris is generous it pays the taxes. For the year 1927 it cost 21,240 francs, or $856. Local Man Injured Bu Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 4 —J. R. Malone, 30, Indianapolis, is in a hospital suffering from fractures of both ankles, suffered when he fell while working as a carpenter at the Big Four Railroad shops here.

JURY TO PROBE BANK Tuxedo Failure Evidence Will Be Heard. Testimony concerning the failure of the Tuxedo State Bank will be given before the county grand jury next week, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark announced today. Stark said this will be preceded by further questioning of bank officials and State bank examiners. The bank was closed Wednesday by State banking officials. Stark interviewed Earl R. Gillum, vice president, and Albert Schmollinger, a director, Friday afternoon. They were summoned to the prosecutor’s office. Hearing on an application for a receiver for the bank filed by Luther F. Symons, State bank commissioner, will be held before Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash Tuesday morning. CRASHES INTO TWO CARS Faces Drunk Driving Charge After Accident; Girl Injured. Michael Doody, Graylynn HotsC faces a charge of drunken driving following an accident Friday in the 1900 block on Pennsylvania St. His automobile crashed into a car, belonging to Dr. John M. Cunningham, 2327 N. Meridian St., careened across the street and struck a parked truck owned by the Daugherty Cake Company, 215 Dickson St. Miss Marjorie Sherman of 1333 Roach Ave., riding with Doody, was injured. MASS MEETING PLANNED South Side Civic Leaders Called to Conference Sunday. South side civic club leaders have been invited to attend a conference Sunday afternoon at the South Side Citizen office, 1102% Prospect St., to discuss a mass meeting to consider the political situation at city hall. Noble T. Crane, Citizen editor, said plans for a mass meeting Wednesday, when the city council attack on Mayor L. Ert Slack will be aired, will be considered. John F. White, Federation of Civic Clubs president, will preside at the mass meeting, Craneannounced. Laments Court Appeals NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—American courts are menaced by sentiment and the Nation has gone appeal mad. Justice Prosgauer of the Supreme Court claims. He urged more confidence in juries if the law is to be strengthened.

FRENCH FLIERS BEGIN U. S. DASH FROMjeiCO Trans-Atlantic Airmen on Way to New Orleans, Across Texas. By Vnited Prcs MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4.—Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Le Brix, French trans-Atlantic aviators, took off from Valbuena flying field at 7:08 a. m. today on a non-stop flight to New Orleans. The French fliers planned to go direct to Tampico, thence up the coast line and across the United States frontier near Brownsville, Tex., where they were to be met by a squadron of United States fliers. The Frenchmen planned to continue across Texas and land at New Orleans. They hoped to make tha flight in about eleven hours. Costes and Le Brix, in their airplane Nungesser-Coli, circled the aviation field once before they headed Northward. They were accompanied on the first stage of their flight by four Mexican Army planes —one piloted by General Jose Alvarez, chief of staff to President Calles. A crowd of several hundred persons who watched their departure included all members of the French legation staff, with Minister Jean Perier at their head. General Alvarez. before the fliers entered theit machine, conveyed to them greetings from President Calles. The fy was slightly overcast as the fliers left. Some officials feared a “norther” might be blowing in from Tampico to impede the airmen. MaJ. Harold Thompson represented the American embassy among the officials who bade the French fliers farewell. Cosnes and Le Brix expected to average about 110 miles an hour. A message to the American embassy this morning said Army airplanes would meet the Frenchmen at Galveston.

KLAN ANSWERS GILLUMS SUIT Ouster Attempt Is Resisted in Demurrer. Assertions that Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom is seeking to oust the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan because it is “a secret organization, limiting its membership to native born, white, gentile Protestants” were contained in a demurrer to the ouster suit, filed by Klan attorneys Friday. Today is the return date on the complaint and Klan counsel probable will be ruled to answer interrogatories of Gilliom. The Circuit Court suit asks the Klan charter be withdrawn becaus* it was obtained through fraud. “It is not the law anywhere that because an organization is limited in its membership to a particular class of people therefore such an organization could not be conducted along patriotic lines,” the demurrer said. Klan attorneys set out that the attorney general has no right to file the suit,; but the action should be brought by the county prosecutor, because he has authority to file action to revoke a license that has been granted a foreign corporation. The demurrer was filed by Charles J„ and Telford B. Ordison, local Klan attorneys, and J. H. Connaughton and W. F. Sunbrunn of Washington, D. C. NO DRIVER; CAR WRECKS • ■- Auto Thiefs Abandon Machine; Allowing it to Hit Another. A driverless flivver crashed into the automobile of Paul Huls, 1501 E. Nineteenth St., parked at the curb at Nineteen and Sheldon Sts., Friday afternoon. Both cars were wrecked. The driverless car belonged to Theodore Ehgott, R. R. G, Box 348 Y, and had been stolen from in front of 1840 Roosevelt Ave. Ehgott went searching for the missing machine with Sterling Ogle, of the Roosevelt Ave. address. They found it at Nineteenth St. and Arsenal Ave. It was being driven by two Negroes, who, seeing their pursuers, leaped out and let the machine go on. RULING HITS TAX BOARD Superior Judge Upholds Old Salary For Surveyor. A ruling seriously affecting the power of the State tax board to cut down salary requests for assistants of elective officials was made today by Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. Judge Hay held that the county council and State tax board had no power to cut the 1928 salary budget of Henry Campbell, Marion County surveyor, from $17,700 to $8,640, and ruled that the auditor must honor warrants for necessary hejp in Campbell’s office. Jail Two for Carrying Weapons John Faulk ,55, and his nephew, Charles Faulk, 32, both of 182 Bright St., were fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to six months op the Indiana State Farm each Friday by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on carrying concealed weapons charges. They were arrested Sunday night. The agricultural yield of the United States is 159 per cent greater per person than the European yield. Extraction of helium from natural gas does not affect the properties of the gas for domestic use.

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John Barry Ryan, Jr., is a newspaperman—and the grandson of Thomas Fortune Ryan. And what a scoop he and Dan Cupid scored when he announced his engagement to Margaret D. Kahn, daughter of Otto H. Kahn! Here they are. *

CITY MAN AIDS HUNTFOR GIRL Water Light Used in Search for College Student. By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 4. —The search for Miss Frances St. John Smith today was continuing along the line that the young Smith Colieeg student had committ&i suicide. Last night a powerful submersible light, the invention of Hubert C. Weis of Indianapolis, was played on the bottom of Paradise pond in the belief the girl’s body might be discovered. There was no trace. Weis announced that if the search of Paradise pond was without success he would use his submersible light on the Connecticut River in an attempt to establish definitely whether the girl had committed suicide by leaping in that body of water. By United Press STEUBENVILLE. Ohio, Feb. 4. Sheriff William T. Allison today believed Miss dances St. John Smith had passed through Steubenville aboard a Pittsburgh—St. Louis train on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was standing with a prisoner at the station when he saw a girl’s face at one of the train windows. He said the girl appeared exactly like the missing Smith college student. He was unable to check further owing to the prisoner he had with him. EX-DRA6ON JOINS 8A W. Lee Smith Admitted by Circuit Judge. w. Lee Smith, former Indiana grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan today was admitted to the Marion county bar by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. Smith, who says he has no official connection with 'the Klan. was sponsored by Attorney Charles J. Orbison, known as a national Klan official. Smith passed the examination given by a bar association committee and it was incumbent upon the judge to admit him upon this recommendation. Smith said that before gaining his high position in the Klan he practiced law for eight years in Kentucky, Illinois and last at Evansville, Ind. COOLIDGE HOST TO 13 Six Democratic, Seven Republican Senators Are Breakfast Guests. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Thirteen Senators breakfasted at the White House today with Presided Coolidge. The guests were: Democrats—Hawes of Missouri, Hayden of Arizona, Kendrick of Wyoming, King of Utah, McKellar of Tennessee, Mayfield of Texas. Republicans—Fess of Ohio, Howell of Nebraska, Jones of Washington, Keyes of New Hampshire, McMaster of South Dakota, McNary of Oregon, Metcalf of Rhode Island. Senator Johnson of California was invited but was forced to decline because of a fire that partly destroyed his home. Double Thieves Sentenced By United Press LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., Feb. 4. From Indiana to New Mexico on stolen gasoline in a stolen automobile was the escapade admitted by Charles Cummins, 19; William Jones, 19, and David C. Root, 24, who pleaded guilty to automobile theft here Friday and were sentenced to one to ten years each in the State Reformatory.

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BYRD IS READY FOR HIS LIFE’S BIG ADVENTURE Famed Flier Confident of Success in Air Trip to Antarctic. Today Is presented the last of a series of exclusive articles through The Times and NEA Service, describinf? the plans for Commander Richard E Bvrd * flight across the south pole. In the following article. Byrd himself discusses the expedition. NEW YORK, Feb 4.—There is but one great adventure left to scientific exploration, an adventure dared by only a few men— and accomplished by none. It is to cross the vast Anarctic continent that lies in the region of the south pole. In the latter part of 1928, when the southland is having its summer. Commander Richard E. Byrd and his expedition will plunge into the frigid desolation far south of New Zealand, bent on conquering the upknown polar regions with airplanes. It is the most perilous task an aviator ever has set for himself. The south polar country is the coldest! place on earth. It is absolutely devoid of animal life. It is furrowed with mountain ranges and swept with gales which no airplane could weather. Certain of Scientific Discoveries To the dangers, Byrd pays no heed other than to take every possible precaution. He discusses the expedition as nonchalantly as though he were reminiscing of the transAtlantic or north polar flight, both safely entered in his list of accomplishments. He Is eager for the new adventure and enthusiastic over the certainty of valuable discoveries. “The Antarctic,” said the flier, “is a vacuum so far as science is concerned; a frozen continent, a great blank space on the maps of the world. The unexplored area is estimated at 4,600,000 square miles—• about one and one-half times the size of the United States. “A dozen or more scientists, men who are specialists in their lines, will be taken along. They will study mineral deposits, earth formations, wind currents and animal life as far south as life exists. “There is meteorological data there which alone will justify the risks an explorer must take.” Will Take Three Planes The actual start, according to present plans, will be made from New York City, Sept. 10, 1928, on a ship built for polar travel. Three planes will be carried; a Fokker similar to the one used on Byrd’s trans-Atlantic flight, and two smaller machines. To facilitate observations, the airplanes will have open cockpits and plate glass instead of floorboards. “We’ll cut across the Panama Canal into the Pacific,” said Byrd, “and touch at New Zeyland. Thence 'e head toward the great adventure.” He expects to establish his main base at Discovery Harbor, off Ross Sea. There the planes and supplies will be put on the great flat ice barrier that extends 400 miles toward the pole. Huts will be built, and storags rooms cut into solid ice. Smaller supply depots are to be scattered across the barrier to the foot of Beardmore Glacier, where the actual flight across the continent will begin. At Wonalancet, N. H„ Arthur T. Walden, veteran of Arctic expeditions, already is training a team of huskies for the use of Byrd's party. The dogs will be used in laying the chain of supply depots across the ice barrier. “An important point in our favor.” Byrd declared, “is the fact that we can put down these permanent bases. This we were unable to do when I flew across the north pole. Landing to Be Easy "The ice barrier is flat and we will be able to land with difficulty —barring, of course, the violent storms that occur there frequently. Our planes will have interchangeable landing gear—pontoons for water and skiis for snow. “We expect to reach the Ross barrier in January, 1929. If all goes well, we’ll be back in civilization by 1930. “Os course we will have powered radio equipment that will keep us in touch with the world. Enough food will be taken to last a year and a half.”

BLAZE LOSS IS SIO,OOO Murray Body Fire Caused by Sparks From Electric Welder. Sparks from an electric welder caused a fire which destroyed three j wooden storage bins of cotton pads on the first floor of the Murary, Corporation of America, automobile body manufacturers, 1301 W .Morris St., late Friday. Loss was estimated at SIO,OOO, entirely covered by insurance. W. C. Schroeder, auditor, said that the fire did not damage the building, a two-story steel and concrete structure, and work continued at the plant this morning. Four fire companies fought tha blaze for more than two hours. DROP GAMING CHARGES City Judge Dismisses Cases Against Twelve Men. Twelve men, arrested by Lieut. Patrick O'Connor in a poolroom operated by Walter Cummings, 38, at 903 N. Illinois St., on Jan. 25, were discharged on charges of gambling and visiting a gambling house, Friday afternoon by Municipal Judge Pro Tem. Paul Rochford. Charges of keeping a gambling house against Cummings were dismissed. A “dime” was originally a tenth of a man's earnings paid as church dues. •