Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1928 — Page 2

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RIVER OF LAVA SHIFTS COURSE; SPEEITGAINS Damage in Sicily Already More Than 10 Million Dollars. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent CATANIA. Sicily, Nov. 10.— Rolling along at a rate of fifteen miles an hour, the lava stream from Mount Etna continued to cause widespread damage in the valleys below the hillside today. Already the eruptions from this great mountain of fire have caused damage estimated at upward of ten million dollars and .this damage will be increased if the wide stream of lava continues to pour down on the fertile valleys. Tire advancing lava stream reached the railroad bridge near Mascali today, increasing speed and volume as fresh lava was added to thS destructive torrent. The advanced stream now is made up of two of the currents which have joined in a single unit, carrying destruction into anew territory. Friday afternoon the stream overflowed abundantly at a point known as Poggio Vicario, because of obstacles it encountered while pouring through the destroyed city of Mascali. It was hoped the lava gradually would drag part of the debris of Mascali away, thus providing an outlet for the torrents rolling down from the mountain. , Only two persons have been killed because the great crater gave warn • ing before it unloosed its caried streams of lava. Twelve thousand, however, were forced to evacuate their homes in the mountainside. All of the villages are deserted Some have been damaged. Mascali has been destroyed, only a few buildings remaining standing as gaunt symbols of the great disaster that visited the city, destroying it as it was destroyed some 300 years ago. The United Press correspondent approached the great crater from, the Carrita valley, which is on the. southeast slope of Mt. Etna. Three streams could be seen rolling from the mouth of the crater, all in the neighborhood of Monte Frument. Like Steel Mill Shoots Center of the crater was hurling volleys of stones into the air. These stones, were tossed as high as 100 feet- in the air. Occasionally dull explosions could be heard from the interior of the volcano. The explosions were terrifying. As the red hot lava swept down the mountain side there was a great stream of smoke rising above. The path of this great lava bed, which destroyed everything in its course, resembled the chutes of a steei mil! with the molten metal streaming along to its course.

JAY COUNTY HIGHWAY CHIEF MAY BE ACCUSED Commissioners Hint Official Misconduct Will Be Charged. Bey Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Nov. 10.— Charges of misconduct in office may be filed by the Jay county commissioners as a result of refusal of Charles S. Loucks, county highway superintendent, to heed their request that he resign. Loucks announces he is not worried over the situation, declaring he owes the county some money, and it owes him. He asserts he desires an accounting, and on payment of his claims, will settle with the county. The commissioners would have their accusations on alleged purchase by Loucks of some tile with county funds, but which was used by him .personally, and using county trucks and employes in his own work. Man Held After Explosion Bsu Times Special CLINTON, Ind., Nov. 10.—Henry Osborne is being questioned by police following explosion of a stove in the home of Charles Crane, a business man, which resulted in severe injury of his wife. Osborne is a former employe of Crane and the men are said to have had trouble. ~ REPOSSESSED FURNITURE Some Slightly Used and In Good Condition SOLD FOR BALANCE DUE Living Room Suites 965 Original cost, $200.00 8- Piece Bed Room Suites ....965 Original cost, $150.00 8-Piece Dining Room Suites..96s Original cost, $150.00 Bxl2 Rugs ...919 Original cost, $89.50 Oil Stoves 910 Original cost, $49.50 Floor and Bridge Lamps 95 Original cost, $27.50 Ideal Furniture *Co. 141 W. Washington St.

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STATE HIGHWAY OFFICER BEATEN Attack Believed Sequel of Littles Mine Clash. By Times Special PRINCETON, Ind.. Nov, 10.— Walker France, state highway police officer, is suffering from severe wounds which he says were inflicted when several men armed with clubs attacked him, near Littles, Pike county. France belives the attack is a sequel to efforts to start operations at a coal mine at Littles, which brought attacks upon William Johnson, Vincennes and Joseph Hampson, Indianapolis, owner and manager respectively. Later the tipple of the mine was burned. The shaft had been idle as a result of the miners strike, but the management sought to resume operations on a scale of pay lower than that of the Jacksonville agreement. Following the fire, the state fire marshal’s office made an investigation in which France took part, and his action is said to have been resented by some residents of Littles.

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Two Stories Murmured by Burned Woman Will Be Retold ' _ : ;./ By United Press ' WAUKEGAN, 111., Nov. 10.— Whether Miss Elfrieda Knaak, pretty Deerfield, 111., Sunday school teacher, burned herself to “purify a spiritual love” or whether she was a victim of a fire fiend, was the question that confronted a coroner’s jury today as the inquest into her death opened here. Miss Knaak died three days after she was found in the basement of the Lake Bluff, 111., police station, her legs, arms and head burned to the bone. In alternating periods of calm and delerium, she murmured two stories of the ordeal in the furnace room. “I did it myself to prove my love for Hitchy,” was her first coherent statement. “Hitchy” was identified as Charles Hitchcock, village policeman and her teacher in sales psychology and elocution. Denies Love Affair He denied any love affair with the girl and said’ a fractured leg had kept him at home the night of the crime. “A lucky break,” he called the injured leg. Bit by bit a fantastic story of “purification” came from the seared lips of the girl in the hospital. She

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told brokenly of having thrust her arms, legs and head into the small furnace door after having stripped herself of clothing. Doctors who stood at the bedside were skeptical of the explanation, but psychiatrists contended it would be impossible for her to be so influenced by a “spiritual love” that she would be insensible to the pain as her flesh charred. Met at Police Station But just before she died she mumbled another version to Hitchcock. who had hobbled to the hospital in a final effort to clear up the mystery. “I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it,” she murmured, and died. It was at that point the coroner, James Taylor, was to start unraveleling the tangled mystery of her death. Hitchcock will be one of the chief witnesses. He has been questioned several times by investigators, but not able to advance any explanation of her death. She and Hitchcock had been meeting in the police station at night, but he said they merely talked over her work as a book agent. Relatives to Testify Another witness will be Barney Rosenhagen, Lake Bluff chief of police, who said he was in the station tfie night of Miss Knaak was

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SMITH LACKED ONLY 500,000 VOTES TO WIN Slight Shifts in Several States Would Have Beaten Hoover. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING, Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Had the oratory of Gov. Alfred E. Smith and the efforts of the Democratic national committee influenced less than half a million more voters to vote for Smith instead of Herbert Hoov’r—in the proper states—he would be the next President and not Hoover. Mathematicians here pointed this out today, not in depreciation of Hoover’s smashing victory, but as an illustration of the workings of the American electoral system, in .which the states as a whole are voted in the electoral college. Hoover would have retained a smashing popular majority of 5,000,000 votes or more, but Smith would have gone into office as a minority President. Slight Difference Found The shift in popular vote necessary to elect Smith as a minority President might have been achieved in the following manner: Arizona went for Hoover, according to the United Press totals late yesterday by about 7,000. Had 4.000 more Arizona voters favored Smith instead of Hoover, the result would have been reversed and Smith would have won the state's three electoral votes. A comparatively slight change in popular sentiment would have achieved the same result in the following states, with the indicated number of votes, following the name of the state, necessary to throw it to Smith from Hoover: Connecticut, 21.000: Florida. 18,000; Maryland, 38.000; Missouri, 78,000; Montana, 12.O00: Nevada, 2.000; New’ Hampshire, 18,000: New Mexico. 3,000; New York, 50.000; North Caroling 6.000: Tennessee. 28.000; Texas, 10.000; Utah. 7,000; Virginia, 12.000; Wisconsin, 50,000, and Nebraska, 32.000. 500,000 Margin These states, added to those which Smith actually got, with eighty-seven electoral votes, would have given him 269 electoral votes and the election. The total necessary change in popular vote, as indicated by present totals, is 429,000. As more complete counts are made, this total necessary change probably will mount slightly, but it is safe to say that 500.000 popular votes—properly distributed —would have given Smith the election. Circus in Winter Quarters By Times Special PERU, Ind., Nov. 10.—The SellsFloto Circus has gone into winter quarters here after closing the season at Monroe, La., Monday. It is the last of three shows of the American Circus Corporation to close, the John Robinson and Ha-genbeck-Wallace organization having quit for the winter last week.

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HORTICULTURAL SHOW OPENS AT PURDUE U. Students’ Display Includes 75 Kinds of Chrysanthemums. Rjf Tinn * special LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Nov. 10.— Seventy-five varieties of chrysanthemums are among displays in the annual student horticultural show which opened at Purdue university Friday to continue through Sunday. The show is being held in an elaborate setting, including a trickling stream and a rock garden covering an entire side of the exhibition room. Prizes have been awarded as follows ; Applev-High school, vocational and orchard class. First price tor the best plate of Delicious. Donald Woodward. Linton; Grimes Golden. Ralph Hinds, Salem: .Jonathan, Mark Bennett. West Lafayette; Rome. Lester Musgrave, Martinsville; Stas - - men. Ralph Dean. Linton; Wincsap, Mary Virtue. Frankfort; York. Joseph Lake, Connersvllle; Baldwin, Ronald Kern. Springfield: varieties not listed, E. L. Krantng, Peru; Mary Virtue, silver loving cup for sweepstakes plate. First prize winners, horticultural student class: R. C. Simpson, Vincennes, three firsts and sweepstakes silver loving cup: D. W. Simpson. Vincennes; Robert Wean. Newcastle; K. L. Virtue, Frankfort; J. C. Baker, Brazil. First prize winners In various sections of student class: John Bundy, Vincennes, three first places; Walter Ahrens. George 1,. Wilson. N. H. PI ass. and H. F. Irwin, Frankfort, who also won sweepstakes prize; D. L. Phillips, South Bend, silver loving cup for the sweepstakes p ate shown by underclassmen. Vegetable display won by Clarence Bowers. Salem, two: Max Austin. La Porte: A. A. Irwin. Frankfort, four firsts; Lester Musgrave. Martinsville, two firsts; Dale Sutherlln, Warsaw, two firsts. High school class: Mary Virtue, Frankfort, three firsts; Willard Scott, Lafayette, two firsts; Lester Musgrave, Martinsville, one first. Student class first prizes were awarded: Max S. Austin, La Porte; A. A. Irwin, Frankfort, two firsts; Dale Sutherlin. Warsaw. three firsts. Student class floral arrangement: First prizes, Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Mildred Sites. J. M. Davis, Frankfort; A. M. Hokanson. Porter. SEEK RICHMOND GIRLS Police Searching for Two Believed Kidnaped in Auto. Vnitcd Press RICHMOND. Ind.. Nov. 10.— Police today searched for tWo girls, Nedra Huber. 17. and Rayner Lamb, who disappeared from their home here. Both girls attended a church organization meeting and told their families that they would return home early. The girls were last seen leaving the church. Police said they were investigating on a theory that the girls were enticed into an automobile and kidnaped.

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‘CREAM CITY’ BARED FRAUD Californians Invest Money in Fantastic Pictures. By Times Special SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 10.—Investment of thousands of dollars in a "dream metropolis’’ in the desert near the California-Nevada border line today caused Stephen Barneson, state real estate commissioner, to announce his department will undertake at least one criminal prosecution. Land near the proposed site of the Boulder Canyon dam and Las Vegas, Nev., has been subdivided and hundreds of Californians have invested thousands of dollars “in nothing more than fantastic pictures," Barneson claimed. Investigation of land sold to two elderly women in a tract known as Vis a Del Mar—“ Ocean View," revealed it was filled with rocks and covered w’ith brush, the real estate department said. SIOO,OOO PLANT BURNS Destruction of Brazil Today Throws 150 Out of Work. Hit i nih il Press , BRAZIL. Ind.. Nov. 10.—Authorities today investigated a SIOO,OOO fire here which destroyed the plant of the Brazil Wood Products Company. The blaze was discovered by a night watchman. Before firemen coul darrive the entire building was a mass of flames. It was estimated that 150 persons would be jobless as a result.

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