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HEROIC DEEDS PERFORMED IN SEA TRAGEDY Tales of Bravery Told as Reconstruction Work ' Is Started. REVISED DEATH LIST 28 Damage Along Devastated Newfoundland Coast Is Two Million. BY J. T. MEANEY 1 nitrd PretiS Special Correspondent ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. Nov. 23.—Deeds of heroism and sacrifice were revealed today with the initiation of general relief work along the southeastern shore of Burin peninsula, devastated Monday night by earthquake and tidal wave. With a revised list of twenty-eight dead and some still unaccounted for, outside aid reached the stricken villages today to provide shelter and food for the homeless, to care for the suffering and institute reconstruction. Relief committees after a survey estimated property damage along the shore from Burin south to Lamaline would total at least $2,000,000, .he majority of which was accounted for by buildings and fishing equipment. Dog Is Hero The night of terror which followed the crashing advance of tne tidal wave witnessed not only human heroism but the sacrifice of man’s devoted animal servant. The dog. From Port-Aux-Bras, near where nine persons were swept out to sea, came the story of the sacrifice of a faithful Newfoundland dog. The dog plunged into the receding wave as it carried away the dwelling in which his master and his master’s baby girl were trapped. The dog soon was sighted swimming back to shore, the child held high above the water. Waiting hands helped the dog and his human cargo to shore where the child was revived. But the dog escaped from restraining hands and plunged back into the sea. Nearing the floating dwelling, the dog was caught and crushed in the collapse of another building floating on the surface. His master also perished. Rushes to Windows A dwelling floated by a point near Port-Aux-Bras. Those ashore saw a woman with a baby in her arms rushing from window to window in a lamplighted upstairs room screaming “Save us! Save us!” The house overturned as the men on the shore prepared to go to the rescue. Near the same spot a man w is swept from the roof of a floatirg dwelling just as rescuers were about to reach him after an hour’s vein attempt. To add to the horror of Monday n.glit. the survivors, cut off from all communication with the outside world, sat in dwellings which had eicaped the waves and listened to dance music and songs broadcast from American cities whose inhabitants were entirely ignorant of the tragedy that had occurred. FORK MARKET STEADY AT CITY STOCKYARDS Cattle Light and Unchanged; Peak Stationary at 515.50. Hog prices were mostly steady \uth Friday’s average at the local stockyards. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, were selling at $9.40; top price, $9.50. Butchers scarce and unchanged. Receipts were estimated at 6,000; holdovers 165. Cattle receipts were light, with indications pointing to a steady market, their were little change in slaughter class of steers. Vealers stationary selling at $15.50 down. Sheep and lambs steady witl Friday's best prices, the bulk ol lambs sold at $12.50 down. Chicago hog receipts. 15,000, including 10.000 directs; holdovers 5.000. Few sales and bids steadj with Friday's average. $9.30 to $9.4C paid for 190 to 215-pound weights; cattle receipts. 1.000; sheep, 5.000. CHOOSES PRISON TO RETAIN FRIENDSHIPS Bu Vnitrd Pram DETROIT, Nov. 23.—Verne Hall 26-year-old bandit, sentenced to lift imprisonment for slaying Ulvsset Goble, wants to make sure that h< will not lose any new friendships h< contemplates making in prison. Before he was sentenced. Judg< Donald Van Zile asked Hall if h< preferred being sent to Marquetti prison which being in the northerr part of the state is a rather bleal place during the cold winter or tx Jackson prison which is reputed tx be more lenient toward prisoner Hall chose Marquette. "Most of the men sent to Jackson are short termers,” Hall explaine. “If I make friends then I will lose them as soon as they an released, while at Marquette, when most of the prisoners are in foi long terms, I won’t have to hun new friends every little while.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..... 21 3 a. m..... 23 2 Ik m..... 22 9 a. m..... 26

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OPTIMISM HAIL SESSION ECHO Officials Cheered by Huge Improvement Budgets. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Locomotive whistles tooted a fanfare of prosperity today as railroad presidents sped homeward over the clicking rails from the annual meeting of the Association of Railway Executives at the Blackstone hotel here Friday. Full speed ahead, with the prospect of $1,000,000,000 or more as the aggregate budget for improvements in 1930, had been pledged by the nation’s foremost railroad executives in answer to a suggestion made to them early this week by President Coolidge in a White House conference. Assurance that the railroads of the country are in excellent condition was contained in a study by the bureau of railway economics made public at the meeting. An aggregate of $800,000,000 will have been spent by the end of this year for new equipment, additions and improvements, an increase of approximately $123,000,000 over 1928 and about $28,450,000 over 1927 expenditures, the report stated. Capital expenditures of $573,820.000 for the first nine months of 1929 were reported, as compared with $500,167,000 in 1928. That increase, $73,653,000, is nearly 15 per cent, the more than 200 rail executives w r ere told.

Toe Is Missing So Is Crippled Turkey and Chicken Bought for Thanksgiving Day.

CLYDE WHITAKER, 1154 North Concord street, planned his Thanksgiving day dinner when market prices were reasonable. He bought a chicken and a turkey. He figured if anything should happen to the turkey he’d have the chicken for his feast and. if anything happened to the chicken he'd have the turkey. But he didn’t count on thieves. Thursday night they stole his Thanksgiving meal’s substitute—the chicken—and Friday night they stole the meal, the turkey. Whitaker’s only hope he told police today to get the turkey back back is if someone should see a gobbler “with his right toe off.” “Why worry about the toe when the turkey’s gone,” police retorted. Veteran Doctor Dies Rv Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 23.—The death of Dr. J. F. Hardesty, 80, physician here for fifty years, occurred at his home yesterday. He was president of the city board of health.

TRIAL OF STRIKERS GAINS FULL STRIDE

Bu United Press MARION. N. C., Nov. 23,—The second trial of Alfred Hoffman, union organizer, and three strikers on charges growing out of labor disorders here last summer, moved more swiftly today than the first, which ended in a nonsuit. The second trial began only Friday, but today a jury already was in the box and the court was ready to hear evidence. The evidence in this trial for rioting and resisting officers will be mostly the same as that presented in the nonsuit trial, on charges of insurrection and rebellion, prosecuting attorney said. The jury that will hear this case against Hoffman, Del Lewis. W. L. Hogan and Wes

Two strong lines will clash in the annual Purdue-Indiana classic at Bloomington today. Purdue’s forward wall (upper left), regarded as one of the best in the conference, is (left to right): Bill Mackle, Red Sleight, Horace Buttner, Lewis Miller, George Stears, George Van Bibber and Bill Woerner. Caroll Ringwalt (lower left), former Tech star, and Doc Unger (center) are the mainstays of Pat Page’s line, playing at guard and tackle respectively. Ben Mankowski is holding down the pivot job.

llu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 23. All the flavor which thirty-eight years of intense rivalry on the gridiron can lend to a game, was present as Indiana and Purdue prepared for their game here this afternon. Led by one of the greatest back fields in the middlewest—Harmeson, Welch, Yunevich and White—the Boilermakers are favored to win the one game which stands between them and an unmarred record. Dope counts little in these annual battles, however, and Indiana fans, encouraged by the Crimson’s surprise win over Northwestern last Saturday, were hoping for the biggest upset of the Big Ten season. Notre Dame entered its game against Northwestern at Evanston today, with everything to lose, nothing much except the game to win, and without its coach, Knute Rockne, on the sidelines. The Irish were favorites, although the Wildcats were conceded an outside chance. Wabash and DePauw renewed relations for the thirty-third time in the Scarlet homecoming feature. Big Ten tilts included the annual lowa-Michigan classic, Illinois vs. Ohio State for second place in the conference, Wisconsin vs. Mnnesota, and Chicago vs. U. of Washington. In the east, Yale and Harvard top the card, while in the far west, Stanford will attempt to stop the victory march of California’s Golden Bears.

ALGER TRIAL STARTS Gail and Pal Face Court on Car Theft. Gail Alger, 17, brother of Gene Alger, alleged bank robber, will be tried today in criminal court with a companion on a charge of auto stealing. Gail and Lowell Edwards will be tried by Judge James A. Collins for the theft of a car belonging to Lester M. Rhoads, 2020 Brookside avenue, June 2. Both have pleaded not guilty. Gene Alger and his wife, Josephine, are held at Vernon, Ind., awaiting trial the latter part of December on a charge of robbing the Paris Crossing State bank Aug. 15. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9:30 a. m.: Southwest wind, eight miles an hour; barometric prer re 30.29 at sea level; temperatur., 28; ceiling and visibility unlimited; field good.

Fowler Is composed of Burke county citizens r.nd was selected before adjournment yesterday. Immediately after the jury was completed, defense attorneys asked a bill of particulars, which Solicitor J. Will Pless Jr. promised, if the defense would put their request in writing stating exactly what wa-? wanted. D. F. Giles of defense counsel moved that the defendants be allowed to face their accusers, and since the jury had returned when the motion was made, Giles said he would repeat it today. The action was taken to place before the jury the fact that some of the prosecuting attorneys were employed by cotton mills.

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A caravan of private automobiles, special busses and a special Illinr<* Cenaral train tffirried several thousand Indianapolis football enthusiasts to the Indiana-Purdue game at Bloomington today. State highways leading to Bloomington were lined with heavy traffic during the morning. The Illinois Central, leaving at 12:05 p. m., carried three parlor cars and three accommodation coaches. Special busses were loaded as fast as a bus load arrived at the station, Governor Harry G. Leslie, with a party of friends, including presidents of both universities, and George Ade, humorist, will have the box of honor at the game. The Governor, despite a severe cold, went to Bloomington Friday in readiness to cheer his alma mater, Purdue, to its Big Ten championship with an unblemished record. Other guests in the Leslie box at the game will include: Henry Marshall, president emeritus of Purdue; L. A. Downs, president of the Illinois Central railroad; Harry Kurrie, president of the Monon railroad; O. P. Reese, superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad; E. F. Branch, Martinsville, former Governor of Indiana, and James W. Fesler, president of the Indiana university board of trustees.

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Although defeated for the city title by Shortridge, Tech high school gridders provided the crowd of 8,000 fans in Butler bowl with some real thrills in the early periods, when they held a decided edge, but lacked the power to put over touchdowns. The above picture shows Smith, Tech full back, being cornered by three Shortridge tacklers after a short jaunt.

PRESIDENT OF CHINA DECLARES WAR ENDED Military Operations Cease and Rebels Are Withdrawing. Bv United Preen HANKON, China, Nov. 23.—President Chiang Kai-Shek announced today upon his return from the frontier in Honan province that the civil war in China was ended, and that military operations had ceased on all fronts. The Feng Yu Siang supporters were withdrawing to Shini, it was reported. No definite knowledge of peace terms was available, but it was rumored persistently that government payments of approximately $2,500,000 are involved in the negotiations. CO-OPERATION IS ASKED Co-operation of each citizen is necessary to abate smoke in Indianapolis, Roy Johnson, Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League manager, declared Friday at the Chamber of Commerce open forum. A meeting of firemen, engineers and custodians will be held Tues--1 day night at the Denison hotel.

CHEST WORKERS TAKEDAY OFF Football Ends Solicitation Until Monday. Two thousand volunteer workers in the tenth annual Community Fund drive today were allowed a brief vacation for football games. As total pledges stood at $565,311.79, within $225,000 of the drive’s goal. The campaign was extended this week by Hugh McK. Landon, fund president, to Nov. 27 because attendance at football games on two Saturdays has taken many from the ranks of the workers and drawn thousands of prospective contributors from the city. Next report meeting of the 2,000 volunteer workers is scheduled for the Claypool Monday noon, when it is hoped additional subscriptions will boost the total to $650,000 or higher. The goal is $786,853. COURTS CONVENE Gemmill to Head Supreme, Remy Appellate Courts. November term of the supreme and appellate courts commences Monday and Judge Julius C. Travis, La Porte, will succeed Judge Willard B. Gemmill, Marion, as chief justice on the supreme bench. Judge Charles F. Remy, Indianapolis, becomes chief judge of the appellate court, succeeding Judge Willis C. McMahan, Crown Point. Judge Noel C. Neal, Noblesville, becomes presiding judge in the court’s division, the position having been held during the May term by Remy. Among the important cases still pending in the supreme court are the Stephenson murder appeal and the jail sentence of former Mayor John L. Duvall.

CARRY HIGH INSURANCE John Barrymore Leads Movie Stars With $2,000,000. Bu Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 23. John Barrymore is the most valuable of motion picture players, if life insurance is used as a gauge. According to Photoplay magazine, Barrymore is insured for $2,000,000. Other players on whom a high value is set, either by themselves or their companies, are Norma Talmadge, $1,250,000; Constance Talmadge, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Eric von Stroheim and Will Rogers, $1,000,000 each. IMPERSONATOR ON BILL “Zellner” Will Entertain Men at Y. M. C. A. Meeting. “Zellner,” the character impersonator, will present a program at the season’s third Y. M. C. A. “Big Meeting,” Sunday afternoon in English’s Opera house. Characters of romance, history and the Scripture will appear with unusual lighting effects. The orchestra will play at 3 p. m. when the doors will be opened.

GUN EXPERTS ARE CALLED BYHUS Defense in Rothstein Case Hopes to Refute State Evidence. ADJOURNMENT ORDERED One Juror III: Defendant Pictured as ‘Honest Gambler/ BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Nov. 23—The trial of George McManus, accused of the murder of Arnold Rothstein, took a week-end recess today while firearms experts prepared for testimony to be introduced during the coming week. Albert H. Hamilton, expert on guns, who has testified in many important cases, and other experts from the police department, examined a pistol now in possession of the prosecution, which probably will be introduced in evidence as the pistol with which Rothstein was shot. The bullet taken from Rothstein’s body had a peculiar groove in it. The experts will give evidence as to whether a bullet fired from the gun the state plans to introduce would carry such a mark. Making Tests Police experts already have decided that it would. Hamilton is an expert for the defense and he is making tests over the week-end on which to base his testimony. The recess also is giving a juror who complained of having been ill a chance to recuperate. If he is not recovered by Monday, the case may be delayed or it may be necessary to dismiss him, fill his place and begin the evidence all over again. The name of the sick juror has not been revealed. When court adjourned Friday night the state had laid only a foundation for its case. It had in evidence a detailed description of a card game in which Rothstein gave out I. O. U’s. for more than $200,000 after twenty-two hours at the table. Alvin C. (Titanic) Thomas, Mayer and Sam Boston, James Meehan and Martin Bowe, a picturesque group of sporting men, had told how as much as SIO,OOO had been bet on the turn of a single card. Lose With Smile One and all had told how George McManus was an honest gambler; so honest that they didn’t even de-’ mand an I. O. U. when he owed them money; and how he could lose as much as SIOO,OOO and still smile. Next week the state expects to build upon this foundation, detail by detail, a story of how Rothstein was killed for alleged “welshing'’ on the $200,000 worth of I. O. U’s he had given. McManus left court at the end of of the first week of his trial, laughing and in high spirits.

180 ORPHANS SAVED Blaze Sweeps Through Catholic Asylum. Bu United Pres* TROY, N. Y„ Nov. 23.—One hundred eighty orphan children were led to safety when fire, which still was raging at 10 o’clock, swept the hillside Catholic asylum today. The five-story building is doomed, firemen believe. An explosion in the boiler room is thought to have caused the fire. PALACE IS SELECTED Committee Decides to Hold Naval Parley at St. James. Bu United Press LONDON, Nov. 23.—The Daily Mail said today that it understood the committee appointed to select a suitable meeting place for the five-power naval conference in January had decided definitely upon St. James’ palace. Royal permission, however, must be obtained for meeting in the palace before the selection can be approved by the cabinet.

‘CHUCK’ QUITS CELL SMILING AT JAILER

Charles F. (Chuck) Wiggins, heavyweight pugilist, who last summer mistook two policemen and a fireman for additional opponents in the squared circle, today left Marion county jail for a hunting trip in the north, probably in Michigan. He stepped from behind barred doors that had locked him away from the world and his profession for sixty days, into an automobile, paused to bid Sheriff George Winkler farewell, and drove away, ostensibly to rid himself of several pounds excess weight in order to get in fighting trim again. “■I never felt better in my life,” he told the sheri S. who acted his

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Fire Terror Again Strikes West Coast Blaze Leaves Destruction in Wake, Menacing Towns in Path; Hundreds Join in Fight to Stem Flames. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, No<> 23.—A flaming band of t reds of miles long, * me forests of Oregon ano today, leaving a smoldering sw’ath of destruction across what had been town, hamlet, isolated cabin and towering redwoods. Montara, on the peninsula south of here, lay in ashes today. Stores, office buildings and twenty-five homes were licked up when the flames roared into the town Friday. Residents seized a few belongings and fled barely in time to escape the fiery avalanche. The towns of Belmont and San Carlos,* directly in the path of the rim of fire, were threatened with destruction today and a shifting wind menaced palatial country homes in the hills benind San Mateo, twenty miles to the south of San Francisco and Burlingame. Two hundred soldiers, from the Presido, were rushed early today Into the ranks of the hundreds of men battling the ever-spreading conflagration on the peninsula. In Contra Costa county, a few miles from Oakland, fire was sweeping down the Redwood canyon toward San Leandro and the Lake Chabot section. Ten companies of the Oakland fire department wrere fighting, shoulder to shoulder, with employes of the East Bay utilities district. Sparks from the flaming furnace were dropping on roofs of houses. It was feared’ the dwellings w r ere doomed.

CEMENT BUYING MUDDLE GROWS Labor Rights and Loyalty to State Involved. Economics, unemployment, the right of collective bargaining, sanctity of the home, Hoosier loyalty and even a bit of politics may enter into the awarding of the 2,000,000barrel cement contract for 1930 by the state highway commission, it was indicated today. “It’s a big problem,” Director John J. Brown admitted, but refused to disclose plans made for solution. Plans include awarding of the contracts to Indiana cement manufacturers, despite the fact that, when bids were opened last Tuesday, the Marquette Cement Company of Illinois was from 5 to 10 cents a barrel lower on 500.000 barrels for delivery to thirty-two points in the state. Now that the bids are in, the Hoosier manufacturers are to “meet the low price,” it was reported. Five of the fifteen firms bidding were from Indiana and it is intimated that the 2,000,000 barrels will be split among the Hoosiers. Brown asserts this can be done without a lawsuit, but didn’t disclose how 7 the low bidder was to be satisfied with the awarding of contracts to high bidders. “Many things enter into this matter,” he said. “We have to study it from all angles.” MERCURY GOES UP Conditions for Football Are Reported Ideal. Football wooed and won the weather in Indiana today as the United States weather bureau here reported ideal conditions, a moderately cool and quite clear afternoon throughout the state. Breaking an unseasonable cold spell that endured since Wednesday, temperatures this morning rose steadily, until the freezing point was passed, and the mercury hovered near the 40 degrees mark. Sunday will bring unsettled conditions, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, predicted, with a drop in temperature. Continued cold may be in store for Indianapolis next week, he said.

added pounds. “But they fed me too well in jail. Thanks, sheriff, for the treatment you gave me.” “That’s okay, Chuck. I’ll come and see you fight some time,” Winkler rejoined. “Front row seats when you do,” the gladiator replied. Wiggins was fined $250 and costs and assessed the two months’ jail sentence by Special Criminal Judge Homer Elliott, Sept. 25, after he pleaded guilty to nine charges, ranging from assault and battery to profanity. “I may fight in California or Michigan, or make a tour of Europe,” said, regarding bis iutura.

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FRENCH ‘TIGER’ IN BITTER PAIN ASENDNEARS Physicians Lose Hope for Clemenceau; Immediate Burial Arranged. OPIATES INDUCE COMA Former Premier Completed His Book Just Before Being Stricken. Bu United Press PARIS, Nov. 23—The breathing of Georges Clemenceau was becoming increasingly feeble at noon today and members of his family believed that death was imminent. Dr. Lucien Degennes visited the sick room at 12 o’clock and found the Tiger sleeping. “His condition is unchanged,” Dr. Degennes said. “The kidneys have not yet functioned and the maximum time he can live is not more than twenty-lour hours.” Members of the family madß plans to comply with Clemenceau’s request for an immediate burial. Chauffeur Francois Brabant was instructed to be ready at the Tiger s death to drive to Vendee to prepare the open grave there for an immediate burial. The Tiger tossed in pain as he slept fitfully through the night. A final injection of champhor oil brought groans or agony as it was administered. At 7:30 a. m. after an all-night vigil at his bedside, the Tiger’s son, Michel, and Deputy Francois Pietri, left the house, entered Michel’s automobile and drove away. They refused to make any statement. Faces Tired, Drawn Their faces were tired and drawn and betrayed no hope that the former premier again might ward off death, as he did a few weeks ago. At midnight Clemenceau lapsed into what his physicians feared might be his last sleep. Dr. Degennes had departed shortly before, prepared to return at 8 with Dr. Gosset, the abdominal specialist, called into consultation Friday afternoon. Quiet throngs which had gathered outside the home broke up at midnight. Many were drenched by a pouring rain. The numbers included men from all ranks of life, from bakers to bnn’:ers. None sought to come closer he house, w’here only members c‘. ■ family and a few close friends ..luintained a sleepless vigil. All night long Sister Theoneste continued her prayer at the “tigers” bedside. Interrupting the silence of her supplications only when she rose to quiet the Tiger’s groans or to tiptoe to another room to tell the family of his condition. Conscious at Intervals Only at long Intervals did the Tiger open his eyes to recognize any one at his bedside. The last time was before midnight when he found hts faithful valet, Albert, beside the bed. Weakly, the sick man took the valet’s hand and lifted it to his lips while tears streamed down the cheeks of the servant. The Tiger had insisted that no women be allowed in his room during the night except Sister Theoneste. His daughter, Mme. Jacquemaire, remained outside. Others on the watch outside the sick room were his grandson, Dr. Andre Jacquemaire, and Deputy Pietri, who accepted Clemenceau’s request to serve as executor of his estate and to whom he handed a copy of his last testament. It was learned that Clemenceau’s physicians had considered Friday performing an emergency operation to relieve the acute condition, but decided against it because they felt the “Tiger’s” age and weakened state would not allow it. • Book Started Strain There seemed little doubt among the family and physicians that Clemenceau’s illness, dating back to the colic seizures with which he was stricken this week, really was caused by the strain under which he worked to complete his book. The book was completed Thursday only a few hours before he began to complain of severe abdominal pains. It was learned that plans have been made, in event of his death, to publish the book exactly as written, with the author’s final corrections. Clemenceau’s suffering increased hourly as the poisoning spreaxi through his system. Specialists were unable more than to relieve the pain by occasoinal injections of morphine . He lay in a Japanese dragon bed, his hands still encased in gloves, as has been his custom through all hours of day and night. FUND FRAUD CHARGED Attempt to Collect Money From Housewife Is Reported. First report since the tenth annual Community Fund drive began a week ago of attempted fraudulent collection of pledges was in hands of police today. Two men in an automobile went to the home of Mrs. E. J. Fitzgerald, 260 Parkview avenue, Friday, and represented themselves as collectors of last year’s pledge. “See my husband,” she told them. Ths# disappeared.