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Louise —In Wonderland! Modern ‘Alice’ Uses S2O Given Her to Pay Bills for Just One Night in ‘Swell’ Hotel.

BV ARC II STEINEL LIFE S mediocrity closed in today on Louise Rose. 13. of 566 South Warman avenue, and closing left her with memories of her “biggest thrill”-—her hour—the experience of laying all night in a “swell hotel.'' Forgotten is the S2O given her by her father, George Rose, with which to pay bits an which she spent for clothing, forgotten is everything but -the soft cushions in the Claypoo' hotel, where she spent an afternoon aiesta, clean tile bath of the room she rented at the hotel Wdnesdav night. Louise left her home Wednesday morning with a S2O bill given her by her father and the instructions to pay grocery and htoer store bills. Louise didn't pay the bills. a a a SHE rode uptown on a street car. She window-shopped as she'd done many times in the past—but now all was different—she had S2O in her pocket. A dress in a window flirted with her. a pair of shoes, and chiffon hose winked at her. too. She bought them and discarding her older garments put them on. She was “Miladys” now. “Too lunch then and betimes a she thought in Samuel Pcpys m r.:ier. Eight crowded in on her Cindercllian day. She had always wanted to stay at a “swell hotel” and here was her chance, and anway a “lady” : hould never remain unescorted on the streets. ana “TTAVE you rooms that you rent n for all night?” she asked the doorman at the Claypool as she pored in its lobby hall-scared at the huge lounges that yawned at her. “Yes. Miss,” he replied. Her knees knocked fearfully as she walked through the long lobby to the desk. "Have you a room?” she asked of B. F. Hadley, night clerk. Hadley debated. He could tell her he was crowded but—maybe she was from out-of-town and had no place to stay. He noticed her dirty hands, her unwashed face. 'Yes—with bath. It’ll be $3.50.” She paid him slowly, awkwardly, three one-dollar bills and two quarters. tr tt tt \\J ITH scrawling pen she signed VV the name of her dream world not just plain “Louise”—but ' Billie Lou Rose.” Actresses, “swell people” had names like that. “Front, show Miss Rose her room." M-m-m-h Miss Rose no one had ever called her that before. She reveled in the shiny porcelain bathtub. Slept sound that night while her father frantically appealed *o police to find his missing daughter. Thursday she lounged as nonchalantly as her adolescent years would permit in the hotel lobby. She had a right there. She had a room. Weren't the people lovely to look at? She smiled at every one; : onie smiled back at her. nan THURSDAY afternoon found practicality—a real world—summoning her from the unreal when her purse contained but a few dimes. A sigh or two. a few long looks at the tapestries and pictures on the mezzanine floor, which she had paid $3 50 to see. and “Billie Lou" left the hotel. She walked toward police headquarters -that is. Louise walked, not “Billie Lou." She knew her father, police would want her. At the corner of Alabama and Washington street policemen in a patrol wamon spied her. She told who she was and they scrawled her name on the report sheets as "Louise Rose, missing girl found." for they never, never will find "Billie Lou.” AWAITS DEATH 40 YEARS Italian Cabinetmaker Carved Own Casket Long Ago. n 1 b 'lf/ Pe,-s CREMONA. Italy. May 3. -Forty years ago Giuseppe Cigolani. cabinetmaker. believing his death would come soon, made himself a handsomely carved coffin. Today he was buried in it. having died at the age of 105. JAPANESE FIRED ON Chinese Wound Milsadu’s Soldiers: Disturbances Feared. 7 ' lit. ,! press TOKIO. May 3.—Two Japanese soldiers on duty at Tsinan-Fu. in Shantung, were seriously wounded today when they were fired on by Chinese, a dispatch from Tsinan said. The Japanese school there aas closed for a week as a precaution. PHOTO STUDIO” BURNED Damage of $5,000 Caused by Spontaneous Combustion. A fire caused by spontaneous combustion did damage estimated at $5,000 at the photographic studio of Dudley Lee in the Cole building. 4216 College avenue, early today. Fixtures valued at $2,000 were destroyed and damage to the building was estimated at $3,000.

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WIFE-AIDED BIGAMIST IS GIVEN TERM Judge Asserts Organist Who Weds Pupil Should ‘Get Life.’ LENIENCY IS REFUSED ‘Music Teacher Should Have Protected Girl Despite Wife’s Stand.’ Bn I nit id Press RIVERHEAD, L. 1., May 3.—Herbert Leigh-Manuel, church organist and music teacher, who pleaded guilty to bigamy recently when he married Miss Martha Van Weyen. former pupil, with his own wife as I a witness, was sentenced today to | from two years five months to four I years and ten months in Sing Sing. County Judge George H. Furman ' imposed the sentence. Leigh-Manuel is 36 and father of four children. the ( youngest 3 months old, born two months after the bigamous marriage to Miss Van Wven. Judge Furman rejected LeighManuel’s counsel's plea for leniency, asserting that he would "give the defendant life, if it were possible.” The judge asserted that a girl in her teens —Miss Van Wyen is now 19—" knows nothing of love’’; that the relation of teacher and pupil was one of trust and confidence; and that Leigh-Manual should have protected the girl. Alfred E. Frieman, attorney for the organist, asserted that Miss Van Wyen became infatuated with Leigh-Manuel three years ago; married him knowing that he was married; that she was a graduate of Sayville high school and had gone to college in Michigan and was intelligent enough to be as much to blame as was Leigh-Manuel. Both Mrs. Leigh-Manuel and the parents of Miss Van Wyen, Frieman argued, were aware of the growing attachment between the girl and/ the organist and as early as 1927 Mrs. Leigh-Manuel and her husband has discussed the possibility of divorce to permit him to marry the girl. t

MELLON CASE SNAGS Senate Committee Unable to Agree. WASHINGTON, May 3.—A deadlock on the Mellon case was reached in the senate judiciary committee today when it held its sixth day session and found it was unable to agree on anything, 'including the manner in which the committee should proceed. Friends of Andrew J. Mellon, secretary of treasury, presented evidence to show nearly every secretary of treasury since Alexander Hamilton held corporate stocks, arguing that, therefore, the committee had no cause to proceed against Mellon under the old statute requiring that treasury secretaries have no direct or indirect interest in trade or commerce. INSPECT BATHING SUITS Chicago Council Holds Hearing on New Ordinance. />// United Press CHICAGO. May 3.—Two committees of the city council were deemed necessary' by that body to hold public hearings and inspect of modern bathing suits worn by girls preparatory to drafting new regulations. The last bathing suit ordinance was enacted in 1917 and is “antiquated and impossible to enforce," the council was told.

QUARTER MILLION IN PUBLIC FUNDS FOR JOY CHARGED

j Si/ L nitcd Press CHICAGO, May 3.—lllegal ex- ! pendrture of a quarter million dol- | lars of public funds for liquor parties. like the one in the WaldorfAstoria hotel in New York in 1927. which cost $9,600 for broken furni- | turc, was reported to have been charged against fifteen former officials and employes of the Chicago ! sanitary district in a series of true j bills voted today by the county | grand jury. j The indictments are expected to be returned later in the day before ; Chief Justice John J. Sullivan of the criminal court. For nearly a month the grand ! jurors have been hearing evidence in the sanitary district scandals presented by Frank J. Loesch. as--1 sistent state's attorney. Loesch showed the jurors records j of automobile companies and hotels i intended to prove the district officials and employes entertained their po- ; litical followers lavishly on public | funds, rented entire hotel floors for ■ drinking parties. kept expensive

Black Whirlwind Swoops Upon School, Takes Toll of 15 Lives, 100 Injured; Vanishes as by Magic, Says Eye-Witness

! Cold Wave Intensifies Suffering After Storms Over South. DEATH LIST UP TO 35 More Than 150 Injured in Wrath of Elements; Rusn Relief. Bv lni'.<d Pres* A cold wave intensified human suffering in storm-stricken areas of the south today as the death toll from a series of tornadoes in Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Alabama. Arkansas i and Tennessee mounted to 35. Temperatures were falling rapidly in the southeastern states bringing a threat of frost damage to crops, and in all the territory east of the Mississippi and below the MasonDixon line the mercury was from 15 to 30 degrees below normal May readings. Although the severest storms occurred Thursday the death toll of thirty-five included the loss of ning lives Wednesday in Arkansas. At Gate City, Va. fifteen school children and a teacher died in the wreck of a school house. Three were killed in Tennessee and once each in Florida. Georgia and Alabama. Weaverville, Va,, reported four dead. Treatment for more than 150 injured and assistance for the many homeless became the paramount task of relief workers today. Georgia, Alabama and Florida fruit suffered heavily. Gales Lash Mid-West Bn United Pres? CHICAGO, May 3.—Frigid gales which lashed destructive lake waters over the shores of the Great Lakes and snow storms w’hich damaged crops in several states held the central states in the grip of unseasonable weather today. Gi’cat Lakes states were blanketed with snow carried on the driving winds from the north and east. A wind storm struck Columbus, | 0.. killing two prisoners and injuring three others at the city jail. In Missouri. Illinois and Indiana, rail traffi* and communications were crippled. Lake traffic was demoralized by the tossing waves of Lake Michigan, which were believed to have engulfed two men in an airplane which was seen to fall into the lake during the storm. Central Illinois reported the heaviest snowfall ever recorded in the month of May. Four to six i inches of snow fell. Thousands of fruit trees were in bloom and it was believed that much of the crop would be lost. Hail, snow and rain prevailed in Indiana. At Valparaiso rescue workers were clearing wreckage caused by cyclonic winds which demolished houses and up-rooted trees. Cherry, peach and apple crops in the Missouri valley were virtually a j total loss, farmers reported. Southern Missouri and northern j Kansas reported the greatest \ orchard damage. COURT OPENS MONDAY Seventy-one Cases Face May Criminal Term. Seventy-one persons will be arraigned in criminal court Monday at the opening of the May term. Included in the list are defendants charged with the following offenses: Vehicle taking. 21; embezzlement, 6; burglary. 13: statutory charges, 10. and grand and petit larceny, 12.

limousines at their disposal and charged the district fancy prices for ginger ale, whisky and women. The Waldorf-Astoria party, said to be the most flagrant misuse of public money, was put on after sanitary district officials had chartered a railroad club car for a trip to Washington to testify in a lake water hearing. Champagne corks were said to have popped aboard the train all the way from Chicago to Washington and New York.

CIRCUS IS LAST ‘BIG THR

THE discordant rumble and clang of the Cornell avenue "dinky” as it shuttled back and forth over its six-block course carried pathos for the neighborhood today. For Joe Gonterman. 64. "cap'n,” "skipper." motorman. of the avenue's "Toonerville trolley" for the last eighteen years, was not at the helm. The bell clanged under another's foot.

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Tornado and Death Free Prisoners

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A tornado swept the roof and w'alls from the cell block of the city jail at Columbus, 0., Thursday, killing two and injuring several prisoners. The picture shows the toppled walls with the exposed cells.

BORDER GUARDS GET SENTENCES Eight Admit Guilt in Aiding $50,000,000 Smuggling. Bv L nited Prcsa DETROIT, Mich., May 3.—Eight former border customs patrolmen were sentenced today in federal courts for their parts in the alleged liquor conspiracy which is estimated to have been responsible for smuggling $50,000,000 worth of liquor across the Detroit river from Ontario to the Detroit section. The men, all of whom had pleaded guilty, were given sentences ranging from six months’ imprisonment and SI,OOO fine to one year and a day imprisonment. Two were placed on probation. GAS BANDITS SOUGHT Two Men in Stolen Auto Rob Filling Stations, Police are searching for two bandits who held up two filling stations Thursday night in a stolen car, obtaining $23. A bandit robbed Earl Thayer, attendant at a Standard Oil gasoline station at the Brookville road and Emerson avenue, of SB, and escaped with another man who was driving the automobile. An hour later the same men held up Edward Jones, attendant at a Western Oil and Refining station at Pleasant Run boulevard and Madison avenue, escaping with sls and a money changer.

GARAGE MAN ARRESTED Frank Rosner Held for Alleged Part in Liquor Conspiracy'. Frank Rosner, 750 1 & Virginia avenue. arrested today by a deputy United States marshal on a federal liquor conspiracy charge, was to be given a hearing before John W. Kern, United States commissioner, at 4 p. m. today. Rosner is charged with conspiracy with Don White. 1609 East Minnesota street, who was fined SSOO Wednesday on a liquor charge, and others to violate the prohibition law. He operates a garage at 749 Virginia avenue. JUDGE GETS BAD CHECK Big-Hearted Husband Not So Kind. Jurist Finds. Bv United Prcax OWOSSO. Mich.. May 3. Paul Morley of Flint sent a check to Circuit Judge J. H. Collins to pay his divorced wife's hospital bill. Morley is in the county jail today because the check was worthless.

Joe was found dead in bed at his home, 1137 East Pratt street, when his wife went to awaken him at 9 Wednesday morning. Given Tuesday “off,” Joe had taken Mrs. Gcnterman, their daughter, Mrs. Beulah Brenton. and her two children, Loveen. 12, and Wayne. 8, to the circus. He hadn't seen a circus in years. Thrilled by the trapeze perform-

Box, Bonfire; Then Death for Girl, 5 Neighbor’s Warning Comes Tgo Late as Child’s Clothing Ignites. An old box, some paper, some matches—a bonfire. Childish shouts of glee, a misstep, consternation, screams, pain, doctors, hospital—death. • This was the story of the tragedy

which overtook Jo Ellen Fields, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fields, 430 North Division street, in city hospital today. The child was playing with Mary Blanche Anderson, Richard Buddy Parker and Frank Wallace, neighbor children, in the rear of 422 Division street, April 22.

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They started a bonfire. Mrs. Samuel Homer, 430 Division street, noticed them and started to warn them against playing with fire. As she approached, little Jo Ellen switched her coat into the fire. Before Mrs. Horner could reach her the flames had swept up her body, badly burning her chest and arms, but the child was so seriously injured that death resulted today. Surviving besides the parents are a sister, Virginia, 6, and an uncle, J. B. Thompson, a policeman. Funeral services will be held at the home Monday at 10 a. m. with burial in Floral Park cemetery. . SIO,OOO LOSS BY FIRE Two Business Houses Destroyed at Kendalhille. Bn United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., May 3. Originating from defective wiring, fire destroyed the G. M. Patterson Radio Shop and E. M. Goodwin News Agency here, entailing SIO,OOO damages. The blaze, fanned by a strong wind, for a time threatened the entire business district of the city. Goodwin was in the building when the fire suddenly broke out and was forced to flee, several falling timbers barely missing him. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 40 10 a. m.... 43 7 a. m.... 40 11 a. m.... 45 8 a. m.... 41 12 (noon).. 46 9 a. m.... 41

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ers, Wayne lost his balance and slipped between the seats. With, a chuckle, Joe reached down and pulled him up. When John Smead. a neighbor, came home after midnight, he saw Joe leaning out of the window. “I had more excitement than ever before in my life," he told Smead. But the excitement had been

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HELD IN DEATH OF AGED LOVER Young Mother Must Face Trial in Killing. Bn United Press SOUTH PARIS, Me., May 3.—Accompanied by her two young children, one of them an infant in arms, Mrs. Anna Merrill Welch, 26, appeared in court today and pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in connection with the death of her lover, Elihu H. Turner, 75-year-old Hartford farmer. Albert D. Park, trial justice, found probable cause and ordered her held without bail for the county grand jury. Turner’s body, charred and headless. was found in the ruins of his barn following a fire last week. Mrs. Welch was an unwelcome guest at his home at the time the fire started. The state contends the young woman, in a jealous rage because of Turner's friendship for a former housekeeper, hacked him to death with an ax, dragged his body to the barn and set the fire to hide the crime. During today’s court session Mrs. Welch lost completely the attitude of indifference which she previously had displayed. She broke down and became hysterical as she heard the judge’s decision. REPORTS SHOOTING MAN Coal Yard Manager Fires on Thief, Finds Blood. W. E. Jackson, manager of the J. ancl I. coal yards, 2042 Massachusetts avenue, reported to police today he believed he had shot a man Thursday night. According to Jackson, the man was stealing when he discovered him. Aiming a shotgun at the thief, Jackson fired, but thought he had missed whdn the man ran. Early today Jackson visited the spot where the man had stood and found blood on the ground.

RIOTS AGAIN BREAK OUT IN BERLIN; TWO WOMEN KILLED

Bv United Press BERLIN, May 3.—Fatal rioting broke out again in southeast Berlin this afternoon, despite the proclamation of a state of siege and the presence of a powerful force of police. More than a. dozen have been slain since May day. Two women were shot and were believed to have been killed. Three | workers employed on subway coni struction were wounded. | Fellow workers went on strike in

too much. Cerebral apoplexy caused Joe’s death, the doctor said. Joe, whose full name was Josephus B. Gonterman and who shared the joys and sorrows of his passengers, watched their courtships. went to their weddings and mourned their deaths, will be buried Saturday afternoon in Crown Hill cemetery after simple services at the home at 2 p. m.

Babble of Many Screaming Children Drowned by Crash of Timbers. PRINCIPAL TELLS STORY Carried 75 Feet to Pond When Twister Strikes Structure. Bn United Press RYE COVE, Va., May 3. A vivid eyewitness story of the tornado which demolished a consolidated school here Thursday, killing fourteen pupils, a teacher, and injuring more than JOO others, was related to the United Press today by A. S. Noblin, principal of the school, who suffered minor injuries. "It was 12:55 o'clock,” Noblin said, "and classes were stille recessed for noon. A light rain was falling and about twenty-five children were inside the building. The remainder were on the playgrounds despite the rain. “I was walking down the hall,” Noblin continued, "when I saw what looked like a whirlwind coming up the hollow. Trees were swaying. As the whirlwind neared the school building it became a black cloud, appearing as though a tremendous amount of dirt had been gathered. "It struck the building, and I believe I yelled. The next thing I re- | member I was standing knee-deep in a pond seventy-five feet from ".'here the school building had stood ! a moment before. I was badly j shaken up and frightened and surprised that I was able to wade out of the water.” Neighbor Tells Story Noblin said bodies of the dead children were scattered over a wide radius. Many of them were killed outright. Others, badly maimed, were deposited at random. J. M. Johnson, a nearby resident, said he was standing on a hillside near the school when the storm struck, felling everything in its path. "When the cloud struck the school it seemed to exert some supreme effort and the tornado and schoolhouse vanished as if by magic,” Johnson said. Johnson said the school building disappeared before his eyes and there followed a veritable rainfall of timber and debris. The babble of screaming children was drowned out in the crash of timbers, he said. Pupil Saves Life Henry Mitchell, 12. a pupil, was credited with saving the life of Mabel McDavid, 9. As the storm struck young Mitchell gathered the child, who was nearest him. in his arms and dashed toward the door. Both were cut and bruised, but otherwise were unhurt. Johnson said two hours elapsed after the storm before outside help was received. The eight-room school was attended by children from a radius of ten miles around in the picturesque ; mountain valley. The students ranged from kindergarten age to high school seniors. The building, struck with sudden and shattering force, collapsed in a twinkling as the roof was torn away. The children were trapped in the wreckage, some being killed outright. Others were pinned helplessly under heavy timbers, unable to move, their groans and screams rising above the storm. , Alva Carter, high school teacher, and fourteen children were killed. Probably six others will die.

protest against the shooting of the three subway laborers. Police were using airplanes to find the position of snipers who were firing on the officers from rooftops. The rioters were making a desperate stand against the squads of raiding police, who went from house to house searching for arms and making arrests. The police rigorously enforced the order: ‘‘Strassen frei; fensterzu”—“Clear the streets: close the windows.” The two women who were shot had appeared on their own balcony despite the prohibition. Snipers exchanged continuous fire with policemen, who were using rifles and hand grenades. Tear Gas Checks Robbers Bu Times Special CAMDEN, Ind.. May 3.—Burglars who blew the safe of the State Bank here left with less than SIOO loot, having been driven away by tear gas released when the safe was cjjened.

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SLAY FARMER WITH VOLLEY THROUGH DOOR | Killing Believed to Have Been Revenge Deed, for ‘Squealing.’ FUGITIVE IS SUSPECTED One of Shots Cuts Pipe Victim Is Smoking Into Two Pieces. Bn United Press KOKOMO. Ind.. May 3.—Authorities today searched for an unidentified assailant who killed Alonzo Whalen, 50, retired farmer, by firing a volley of shots through a door in his home. Some time ago Whalen told Kokomo police that Willard Garson, wanted at Liberty on a charge of slaying his father, was living across the street from him. The authorities made an investigation, but Carson escaped after a gun battle. Police announced today that they would search for Carson in connection with the slaying of Whalen. One of the shots which crashed through the door cut a pipe Whalen was smoking in two pieces, the widow said. As he smoked, the victim fondled a dog in his lap. When police arrived at the home, they found the body in a chair, untouched after the fatal bullet had struck. The stem of the pipe was clenched in his teeth. "The first shot broke the glass in the door and the flash from the gun blinded me. I thought one of the light bulbs had broken. I looked at him and saw him sitting there with blood streaming down his face,” said the widow. Carson’s father was slain Aug. 2. 1920. Since then the son has been seen at various times in this section of Indiana, but even the most strenuous attempts to capture him have failed. At one time airplanes w'ere used in the search. There is a price of $4,000 on Carson’s head. The fugitive was suspected a year ago in the murder of Carl Schoen, policeman, at Indianapolis, a car answering the description of one he owned tallying with that used by the slayers in escaping. STATE COPS GET RAISE Salaries of Chief, Captains and Lieutenants Boosted. Salary increases for State Police Chief Robert T. Humes, two captains and ten lieutenants in the state police department were approved today by the state budget committee. Increases in maximum annual salaries which may be paid them are: Chief, form $3,600 to $4,000; captains, from $1,920 to $2,400, and lieutenants from SI,BOO to $2,100. FRUIT FLY BILL SIGNED Hoover Approves Measure Providing $4,250,000 to Fight Pest, Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 3.—President Herbert Hoover has signed the emergency till diverting $4,250,000 to fight the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen iDem., Fla,/ called at the White House today to witness the signing, but learned that the President already had affixed his signature. TUG IS BLOWN ASHORE High Winds Force Vessel Aground; in No Danger. Bn United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y„ May 3.—The U. S. navy tug luka. towing a scow laden with refuse from the navy yard here to the ocean dumping grounds, was blown aground by a high wind on the mud flats ofl Ft. Lafayette, an ammunition depot a short distance from Ft. Hamilton. There were thirty men aboard. The tug is in no danger. LIQUOR QUALITY BETTER Peoria Alcohol Deaths Improve Booze, Says Chicago Coroner. Bn Lnited Press CHICAGO, May 3. —An improved quality of liquor and fear as a result of the Peoria poison alcohol deaths were credited by Coroner Herman N. Bundesen today with the decrease in acute alcoholic deaths from 119 in the first quarter of 1928 to fifty-six this year. TUG, 60 ABOARD, STUCK Navy Boat Goes on Rocks in Narnarrows, Near Brooklyn. /?// United Pre#* NEW YORK, May 3.—The United States navy tug Ruha No. 37, with sixty men aboard, went on the rocks near Ft. Lafayette today, police reported. A police launch was standing by. Ft. Lafayette is in the narrows near the Ft, Hamilton section of Brooklyn.