Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1928 — Page 9

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AL SMITH AND HOOVER BOOST THEjRLEADS Tuesday Primary Results Put Two Favorites far Ahead of Fields. 427 DELEGATES FOR AL Secretary Has 252 Total in G. 0. P. Race; Lowden Is Second. By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 26.—Herbert Hoover’s leadership in the Republican presidential race was materially bolstered, and Governor A1 Smith was pushed further ahead in the Democratic contest by Tuesday’s primary and convention results, as tabulated today in six States. The results indicate the following line-up of delegates already selected for the Republican National Convention: Herbert Hoover 252 Frank O. Lowden 191 Charles E. Curtis 43 President Coolidge 17 George W. Norris 27 William E. Borah 11 Charles G. Dawes 1 Charles E. Hughes • 1 Uninstructed and Doubtful 276 Necessary for Choice 545 ■ Smith Is Far Ahead The,Democratic resluts show: Alfred E. Smith 427 Atlee Pomcrene 48 j James Reed 36 I Walter George 28 W. W. Ayres • 20 Frank Hitchcock 16 Uninstructed 49 Necessary for Choice 734 United Press dispatches indicate the following gains by the candidates in the Republican primaries and conventions Tuesday: Hoover—Ohio 31 and Massachusetts 30 to 35. Lowden or Curtis—Oklahoma 20. Uninstructed— Ohio 20, Pennsylvania 79, Nevada 11 and Massachusetts 4 to 9. The totals are based upon a minimum number of 30 Hoover delegates in Massachusetts with 9 uninstructed. Ohio Is in Doubt The 20 Ohio uninstructed are pledged to the late Senator Willis, but are expected to be voted in convention for Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Lowden, Curtis and Watson. The latest Democratic results indicate the following gains: Smith—Pennsylvania 66 and Massachusetts 36. Pomerene —Ohio 20. Ayres—Kansas 20. Uninstructed—Pennsylvania 11. The results can be changed only slightly by final tabulation. The Hoover victory in Ohio measured just what his campaign managers claimed, but in Massachusetts he had expected only 28 delegates instead of the 30 to 35 he received. The Oklahoma result was something of a set-back, as Hoover had expected at least to split the 20 delegates there and receive 10 for himself. Chief Subject in Capital The possibility that Hoover and Smith may meet as their parties’ nominees in the November election was the chief subject of discussion in Washington political circles today. Elaborate claims on the nominations were being made by supporters of both, and the contentions were accepted for serious discussion among all factions of both parties. Hoover’s friends now say he has an excellent chance to carry Indiana in the primary May 8, against Senator James E. Watson. Smith’s friends assert that the California primary next Tuesday will put an end to any doubts that may exist concerning their candidate. “If Smith carries California it’s all over but the shouting,” they say. The fight there is between Smith and Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, backed by Smith’s old opponent, William G. McAdoo’s home State. The Smith people reason that if Smith is able to beat Walsh there, doubtful Democrats will be so impressed by is votegetting powers that they will make no effort to oppose him seriously.

BOYS, AGED 11 AND 14, SENTENCED FOR MURDER Brothers Given Ten Years in Reformatory for Slaying Companion. Bij United Press VAN BUEEN, Mo., April 26.—Leslie, 11, and Lee Secrease, 14, were under sentence of ten years in the Missouri State Reformatory today for the murder of their boy companion, Orville Haldebrand, 10. * The two brothers were found guilty of second degree murder here Wednesday. The jury recommendation of ten-year prison sentences was altered by the court to reformatory sentences. Haldebrand was killed o na squirrel hunting trip with the Secrease brothers. Witnesses testified the brothers previously had told young Haldebrand not to accompany them on their hunts, that they did not like his company. Attacked by Former Wife By Timex Special VINCENNES, Ind., April 26. Deputy sheriffs came to the rescue of Cliff Eaton while he was being beaten and kicked by his former wife, Mrs. Irene Reddington, at the Knox County courthouse here. She was angered because a court awarded Eaton custody of the couple’s 9- . year-old daughter, defeating a suit by the mother.

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“It all depends upon what you seek,” declares Grace Davis Burroughs of San Francisco, dancer and Leland Stanford graduate, in taking exception to Katherine Mayo’s description of the evils of child-marriages in his book, “Mother India.” Mrs. Burroughs, just returned from India, declares she saw only beauty and poetry there, with Hindu dancing like the Grecian in poise and beauty of line.

REMY REFUSES TO DROP BUSER CASE

Prosecutor Declines to Tell His Plans for Plot Trial. Dismissal of charges against William C. Buser, fdrmer city controller, who was named in an affivit with ex-Mayor John L. Duvall charging conspiracy to commit a felony, is not contemplated for the immediate future, Prosecutor William H. Remy said today. Remy’s announcement followed a day of misunderstandings Wednesday at which it was announced at one time that the case had been nolled, it later developing that no motion to nolle had been filed. As the situation rests today an entry in Criminal Court records to the effect that the prosecutor will file motion to nolle the case, remains, but no motion has been filed. Delay Action in Case Criminal Judge James A. Collins, on the belief that such a motion had been filed, caused an entry to be made Wednesday sustaining such a motion, but it was rectified when it developed Remy has not yet filed the motion. Jurisdiction of the case is back in Judge Collins’ hands, after being taken from those of Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley, who is too ill to handle the matter, as a result of a recent automobile accident. Remy declined to say what his plans are regarding the case., Other trials in the political corruption cleanup are set for next month, and it is understood no action on the Buser case will be taken until these are ended. Conspiracy Charged Buser and Duvall are charged jointly with conspiracy to commit a felony, in connection with a false statement regarding Duvall’s campaign fund. It is charged that a $14,000 contribution from William H. Armitage was not listed. Trials of ex-Councilman Claude E. Negley and Martin Frankfort, realty dealer, for bribery, have been set for May 24 and 28 respectively, in a revised jury calendar of Collins’ court.

SANDINO CAPTURES U. S. MINE OPERATOR

By United Press PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, April 26.—N0 Americans were killed when the armed forces of General Augustino Sandino captured the La Lus Mine, according to two American lumber company employes who were the last to leave the district. George B. Marshall, assistant manager of the mine, however, has been captured by the Sandino forces. This was confirmed by Harry P. Amphlett, the resident manager, who was not present when the force

NATION’S SCIENTISTS FAIL TO ACCOUNT FOR WHALES STANDING ON TAILS

BY ALFRED P. RECK United Press Staff Correspondent 117 ASHJNGTON, April 26. VV This is a whale of a story. More than fifty of the nation’s leading mammalogists gathered at the National Museum for their annual convention displayed their knowledge of the great mammals of the sea from A to Z, but all were stumped by a simple question: “Why does a whale stand on its tail?” ‘ The scientists had just discussed parasites, the giant fish's

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TURN BRICKS—PRESTO! STREET PAVING IS NEW Novel Resurfacing Will Be Tried at Portland. By Times Special • PORTLAND, Ind.. April 26.—A section of Meridian St., paved with brick, is to get anew surface by the simple process of taking up the brick and relaying them with the worn side down. Before relaying the street bed will be covered with a layer of sand. Asphalt will be used to fill spaces between the bricks. The city council consented to novel resurfacing method when advised it had been used successfully at Anderson. Repairing of the street had been a subject of discussion two years. The work will require only a day’s time. KOKOMO MAN MAKES DISTINCTION IN DRINK Admits Home Brew, Denies “HaiTl Likker” or Bootlegging. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., April 26.—1n the wet lexicon of this dry era, there is j such a thing as distinction. Everett Perkins, before Special I Judge C. H. Willis in city court on ! a charge of violating the prohibition law, discussed distinctions in this manner: “Your honor, I’ll plead guilty to home brew, but not guilty to hard likker or bootlegging.” The court assessed a fine of SSO and imposed a thirty-day penal farm term, suspending the latter out of sympathy for Perkins’ wife and three children. Divorced After Two Weeks By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 26. Judge Charles J. Ryan concluded married life in Superior Court here for Mr. and Mrs. George Morrison. The couple was married Feb. 2 and separated Feb. 16. Morrison, who sued for the divorce alleged his wife wouldn’t with him.

of Sandinistas swept down last week. Amphlett scouted the report that Marshall had been killed or would be killed. He said he believed the Sandino forces would use Marshall to operate other mines the rebel group expected to take-over. The two lumber company employes were at the La Lus mine at the time of the Sandino raid and were the last to leave the mine. They said no American were killed and that Marshall was the only man captured.

muscular structure and odd features of .the specie when a lone man arose in the auditorium. “Gentlemen,” he said, “you have told us a lot about whales but can anyone tell me why a whale stands on its tail and sticks its head out of water?” U U tt THE scientists looked one at the other. “What kind of a whale do you mean?” one of the learned ones countered, sparring for time, “a sperm, a bluenose, a ziuhioid, a bowhead, or what kind?”

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL, 26,1928

OUTLOOKFOR BUMPER FRUIT CROPJS GOOD Yield Little Damaged by Recent Cold Weather, Agent Asserts. WINTER WHEAT FAILURE State Farmers Plant Big Acreage to Beans, Oats and Corn. Marion County’s prospect for a bumper fruit crop this year is excellent thus far, County Agricultural Agent C. Henry said today. Another freeze might do extensive carnage, he said, but thus far everything has been favorable The cold spells of recent weeks have not done appreciable harm, he said. Although the good fruit prospect leads the list, the entire agricultural outlook is good, in the opinion of Henry. The failure of the winter wheat crop—it being estimated that less than 20 per cent will be harvested—has caused an enormous increase in soy bean planting, some increase in oats and clover and corn. Marion Fares Better Marion County fared even better in the wheat failure this year than many counties to the south of Indianapolis. When it failed to mature, it was turned under early this spring and summer crops placed in its stead. "Oats is up to a good stand, considering the season, it having been planted in March. Oats and thousands of acres of soy beans are replacing the acreage given over last fall to wheat.” Farmers have been fortunate this spring in having good weather for spring plowing, which gradually is drawing to a close, Henry said. Pests to Be Few Another favorable indication is that regarding insects. Winter tests have shown it quite unlikely that there will be army worms in damaging numbers, to prey on all green things, and few grasshoppers Although there will be little wheat on which to prey, the Hessian fly is expected to be noticeably absent this summer, Henry said. Experts at Purdue University are able to determine, with much more accuracy than a twenty-four hour weather report, whether there will be many insects of certain types. This is done by a study of other insects. It is known that the army worm is killed by a small fly, which punctures its back and there deposits eggs. Check Can Be Made By checking the population of this “enemy” insect, it can be forecast whether there will be grasshoppers, army worms, and Hessian fly. In the south, forecasts of this kind are made regarding the boll weevil, so devastating to the cotton crop, by keeping a few weevils in an enclosure, with decayed cotton stalks for food through the winter. If these are killed by the cold, it is forecast there will be few weevil in the cotton fields in midsummer. ASSESSED 75-CENT FINE IN DRUNK DRIVING CASE But East Chicago Court Collects $70.75 From Defendant. By Times Special EAST CHICAGO. Ind., April 26. —Diminich Alain, 32, was fined 75 cents on a charge of drunken driving in East Chicago City court. Arrested on that charge and also one of being drunk, Alain was tried on the latter first, and fined $lO and costs, a total of S4O, and a like sum on the, other charge. “I have only $70.75,” the defendant told Special Judge W. B. Van Horn. The court then reduced the drunken driving fine from $lO to 75 cents, but let the S3O costs stand, taking all of Alain’s $70.75 to square him with the law. SIX-DAY BRIDE SUES Muncie Lawyer’s Former Stenographer Asks Divorce. By Times Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 26. —Thelma M. Miller, who only last Friday became the bride of Thomas V. Miller, Muncie lawyer, Wednesday filed suit for divorce in Blackford Circuit Court here, charging cruelty and failure to provide. A few weeks ago Miller was divorced from another woman for whom he served as attorney in her divorce suit against a prior husband. Miller’s latest bride was formerly his stenographer. January Divorce; April Wedding By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., April 26. Chester L. Hanks and Edna Hanks, both 30, have been remarried here after being divorced Jan. 23, this year.

“Any kind. I used to be a whaler. They all stand on their tails.” “Most peculiar, although I have observed it,” one of the scientists ventured. “Perhaps it is to remove the parasites by a sudden flop back into the water.” “Impossible,” another scientist differed. “We have no reason to believe that the parasites cause the whale the slightest feeling of discomfort. “I have understood the whale does this to push his head out of

BUICK, RICHES GONE, TOILS ON

Genius Who Founded Giant Industry Near Poverty

By BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer DETROIT, April 26.—David Buick, the man who founded the Buick Motor Company, is living in Detroit in obscurity and comparative poverty. His signature appears on the highways of every country on earth, gleaming on the radiators of more than 2,000,000 automobiles—but he cannot afford to own an auto himself. Nearly 74 years old, he is earning a meager living as an instructor in the Detroit Schools of Trades. He teaches men the mysteries of internal combustion engines; some of the men he has trained are, perhaps, working as mechanics in the mighty Buick factories. He gets down to the shop early and stays late; and he says, “I’ve got to keep on working—or starve.” a tt a TN all the collection of strange tales that are told in Detroit, the automobile capital, there is no tale so strange as the tale of David Buick. Finding him is a hard job He can’t afford a telephone, so his name isn’t in the directory. Yet this man, whose name is world famous, but. whose purse is thin, is neither discouraged noi unhappy. His hair is gray, his body is slight, his face is deeply lined; but his eyes, that have seen the company he founded go on to greatness without him, are bright and cheerful. He does not seem defeated. Defeated? Sitting in the dingy anteroom of the trade school talking to this man, listening to him tell the story of his rise and his fall, hearing his own admission that the stock he once held would, if he owned it today, make him worth “many, many, many millions of dollars”—l soon lost the feeling of pity with which I entered. The giants of the automobile world are true giants, that cannot be crushed; and David Buick, if you please, is one of them. nun TJORN in Scotland and brought to this country when a baby, David Buick grew up in Detroit, learned his trade, and as he entered middle life became a moderately prosperous maker of bathroom and plumbers supplies and fittings. He had a small factory outside the town, and it was in 1895 that he first turned his mind to the automobile. Buick applied himself, and presently developed a valve-in-head motor. There followed several years of experimentation. By 1900, Buick was convinced that there would be more money in making automobiles than in keeping on with his old business. So he sold out, drove his car to Flint and aroused the interest of W. C. Durant. Between them, the two organized the Buick Motor Company, in 1903. “Those were busy days that followed,” said Buick. “For seven years I didn’t have a Sunday or a holiday off—not even Christmases or Fourth of July.” ana SO FAR his story is like the other stories Detroit tells. But in 1910 came disaster. David Buick’s health gave way and he was compelled to give up work and go to California. “I had a good block of stock,” he said. “The directors held a meeting the day I left. I was told that they’d voted to pay me my salary the rest of my life. But they only paid it for three years. After that I never got a cent.” Then, faced by hard times, David Buick sold his stock. He never did find out the exact truth about his salary. Durant was forced out by financial troubles shortly after Buick quit. He doesn't feel that he has been cheated or dealt with unjustly “Just the breaks of the game,” he said calmly. “But that stock 1 had —well, today it’s worth many, many, many millions of dollars. “It's all right, though,”' said David Buick softly. “It's all right. Get that. I’m not feeling sorry for myself. Why should I? I’ve got to keep working, of course. I haven’t got a thing but this job; but I’m not worrying. I can take care of myself.”

LINK EX-GOVERNORS AND POWER TRUST

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 26.—Names of two former western Governors were linked today with the alleged “power trust lobby” in evidence presented in Federal Trade Commission utilities investigation. Account books of the joint committee of National Utilities Associations, Washington representative of the utilities industry, revealed payments to former Governor M. C. Mechem of New Mexico and to former Governor James G. Scrugham of Nevada.

the water to look around,’ ’one of the learned ones remarked. “Impossible,” repeated the scientist who had disproved the venture of the first. “We have definite knowledge that the whale’s eyesight is not of sufficient range for this to afford him the slightest advantage.” u an A few more suggestions were offered and as quickly discarded. No one knew what causes a whale to perform tricks. But the scientists did agree that whaling is still a profitable busi-

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Above is Dave Buick as he looks today, and below is one of his early model Buick cars.

ITALIAN PLANS FOR POLE HOP Nobile May Meet Wilkins and Eielsen in North. By United Press STOLP, Germany, April 26Three Arctic adventurers —Capt. George Wilkins, Carl Eielson and Umberto Nobile—may meet at the far northlands outpost of Spitzbergen next week, it was learned today. It was said here that Nobile, who shortly is to attempt a flight over ihe North Pole in the dirigible Italia, may start from Stolp Sunday for Spitzbergen. That will be the base for Nobile’s Polar exploration trip. Eielson and Wilkins, who recently flew over the Polar regions from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitzbergen, at present are at Green Harbor, Spitzbergen. They have not decided when they will leave Green Harbor, although there were early reports they would fly out in the airplane in which they made their voyage over the top of the world. It was considered improbable that they would leave before Nobile’s arrival. Nobile will leave Sunday, provided the weather is satisfactory, it was learned. Recently he flew here from Milan. Train Kills Aged Man By Times Special PERU, Ind., April 26.—Horace Wilshire, 80, retired farmer, was instantly killed when struck by a Nickel Plate train near the West Peru city limits.

The commission was told by Josiah T. Newcombe, general counsel, that joint committtee’s function was to represent the untilities industry before Congress. Asked why committee employed former Senator Lenroot as an associate counsel, Newcombe said Lenroot was engaged to appear before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in opposition to the Walsh resolution for investigation of the utilities industry. Lenroot received $20,000 for his services.

ness, with companies reaping annual profits running into the millions of dollars. Every sixtyfooter harpooned brings about SB,OOO in the treasury of the whaling company and the pockets of the whalers. Waldo L. Schmidt, of the National Museum staff, told of whaling conditions in the South Shetlands where one boat made a catch of 415 whales for the season, netting each of the crew about $5,000 and the captain of the ship $40,000.

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Futile Flight One of Most Fatal Types of Pneumonia Ended Bennett’s Life.

BY WATSON DAVIS Bii Science Sen icc TIT ASHINGTON, April 26. TT one of the most fatal types of pneumonia caused the death of Floyd Bennett and made futile Lindbergh’s flying trip of mercy, carrying serum and mice from New York to Quebec. Type three pneumonia infected the veteran North Pole flier and curative serums for this type have not yet been developed to the point where they prevent death. Pneumonia is not a single, simple disease. Up-to-date doctors talk about the “pneumonias” A whole family of germs, called pneumococci, cause various sorts of this disease. At least four types of pneumonia are recognized. Type one, the common sort. Is c imparatively mild, with a death rate of about twenty to twenty-five out of a hundred. Type two claims 40 to 50 per cent, of its victims. The third type, to which Bennett succumbed, is about equally fatal. Each of these types is caused by single definite pneumococcis, but the term four includes illness caused by a whole “waste-basket” group of the globular penumococci germs not yet sufficiently differentiated. The death rate from this mixed group is below types two and three. Serums Lindbergh carried to Bennett undoubtedly were for type one and two pneumonias, which have proved effective in saving many patients. Fortunately, 70 per cent of pneumonia cases are of these two more amenable types.

Names Court Attaches By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., April 26. The following have been appointed attaches for the Federal Court, northern Indiana district, by Judge Thomas W. Slick: George L. Rulison, South Bend, district attorney; L. C. Sheets, Rochester, marshal; William D. Hemmel, Ft. Wayne, clerk; Mrs. Margaret Cowgill, South Bend, and Mrs. Maude S. Shank, Hammond, assistant clerks. They will serve, pending permanent appointments by President Coolidge, on recommendation of Indiana’s two United States Senators.

THE average whaling captain makes about $20,000 for the season and the average sailor comes ashore with nearly $2,000 to his credit, Schmidt said. There is only one part of a whale that has no use since the banishment of the corset and that is whalebone. At one time one of the most valuable parts of the giant mammal, the bones are now hauled out on the beach to rot, the scientist related. Experiments are being conducted to see if the finer bones can be used in making brushes,” he said. *

OPPONENTS OF ‘FAST TIME' IN POLL GAINING More Votes Received in Last 24 Hours Are Against Plan. ISSUE IS UP MONDAY; Employes of Many Firms Send in Mass Ballots to Times. For Daylight Saving—l,o4B Against Daylight Saving—7l2 Opponents of daylight saving gained heavily in today’s count of votes in The Times daylight saving poll. Os the 1,158 ballots received in the last twenty-four hours 639 were for daylight savings and 519 were against. This boosted the total votes to 1,048 for to 712 against, a ratio of 10 to 7 for daylight saving. Yesterday’s total was 409 for and 193 against, wheih gave the proponents of the “fast time” plan a 2-to-l lead. The “antis” were slowly gaining. Council will meet in a special session Monday night to act on an ordinance providing daylight saving for Indianapolis this sumer. Councilmen have indicated they will be gudied by The Times poll and other expressions of public sentiment when they vote on the measure. Lively Interest in Poll Interest in the poll, taken on the suggestion of city councilmen, is shown by the large number of employes of various firms who forwarded mass ballots and petitions to the Daylight Saving Editor. Thirteen employes of Tarr, Downs & Cos., stockyards, voted unanimously against the “fast time” plan. Gregory & Appel, Inc., employes polled their own offices and other offices in the Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg, and forwarded sixtyfive “yes" votes and seven “no.” Twenty-eight Feltman-Curme shoe store employes voted “yes” and thirty-four courthouse employes signed a petition favoring the daylight saving plan. Hobble on Business A. M. Glossbrenner, Levey Printing Company president, sent io a vote against the time change and enclosed his comment on daylight saving in The Shield, printing company magazine. "Most business men .will readily agree that the present period is a bad time to hobble business with any more hampering and annoying regulations,” the article declared. “Workers in factories, stockyards and wholesale houses, employes in grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants and filling stations, milk men and street car men, together with their families, would suffer imposition through compulsory rising before sunrise under ‘daylight saving.’ ” Glossbrenner also pointed out that farmers in the Indianapolis district oppose daylight saving because it would affect the hours of arrival here of their livestock, poultry, dairy, produce and grain shipments. The majority of letters sent in with ballots bitterly opposed the “fast time” plan. Those favoring the change seemed content to vote. Let’s Act Our Age “The people have shown time and time again that they do not want it. The war is over. Let us nf.vij act our age,” wrote Will Cummings, 818 Dorman St. “I get up at 5 o’clock and have no desire to get up at 4,” said H. H. Seicrest, 415 Bosart St. “Let’s give it a whirl—other cities repeat,” wrote Ray A. Holcomb of the J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Company. Holcomb wrote that he opposed the plan when it was inaugurated at Cleveland, Ohio, where he formerly lived. He found, however, “that changing the clock did not change the hours of sleep,” he said. FLAMES HAUTPRAYER MEETING AT CHURCH Methodist Building at Riley Destroyed Wednesday Night By Times Special RILEY, Ind., April 26.—A bucket brigade of persons attending prayer meeting at the Methodist church here Wednesday night failed to check a fire of undetermined origin and the building was destroyed. Only the foundation and brick chimney of the church remain today. This was the second fire at the church in two months, the last having started in the southwest corner of the building as did the first. INMATES DAMAGE JAIL) Windows, Light Bulbs and Waten Pipe Broken at Newcastle. Bn United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind.. April 2G Part of the interior of the Henry County jail here is a wreck, as the result oi violent actions by two prisoners, Leonard R. Ray and Brown De Vaughn, both of Connersville. The men were arrested after an auto in which they were riding collided with that of Mrs. Maude Car* ter in business Mis trie, here They are charged with drunken driving, intoxication and reckless driving. The prisoners smashed windows, and electric light bulbs, and then broke a three-quarter-inch water pipe, resulting in their cells boii.3 flooded.