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Paradise Soul of Charlie Boston Aided on Way by Weird Chinese Rites.

BY HARRY FERGUSON L'nitrd Pres* Staff Correspondent XTEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The Fang-Shui magicians in Mott street consulted the sign of the azure dragon today to leam when tha magnetic currents of the earth would be favorable for the return of Charlie Boston's body to his home where Shanghai rises by the sea. Charlie Boston was buried Sunday with such a funeral as Chinatown had not seen in thirteen years, and today his body rests in a temporary grave in Cypress Hills cemetery, awaiting the favorable flow of time and the dies for ita trip to China Now Charlie Boston was a great man in his fashion—as great, perhaps as any man can be who dwells most of his 67 years in an alien hemisphere. His life was one long refutation of Kipling’s edict that “east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet." For east and west met and mingled in Charlie Boston and that 1s why both Oriental and Occid—tal rites were held for him on * gray, wet day when the On Leon„ tot." delegates finally arrived from San Francisco, St. Louis, Newark and every other city where Chinese 1 iddle their homes together. a a a NO one knows much about Charlie Boston except that lie arrived from China an undetermined number of years ago, lived in Boston long enough to acquire the only last name he ever had, and then came to New York to become a potent power in Chinese politics. Here he helped form the On Leong tong and until his death stood high in the secret councils that the tongmen hold behind the door of the Snarling Tiger. More than two w'eeks ago Charlie Boston began his journey toward death. A week ago Saturday he struggled upright in his bed and ordered servants to dress him in his best black suit. They laced his shoes, adjusted his collar, smoothed his black coat and Charlie lay back and died. Funeral preparations began Immediately; the tongmen were summoned. Banners were rigged up and Charlie Boston’s body was taken to the “I Wish You a Long Life Chinese Funeral Parlors,” the only place in the United States where a Chinese can be buried by his countrymen. Chinatown paraded Sunday through a pathway of flowers to the bronze coffin where Charlie lay. With the Chinese came Joe Humphries of the silver voice, Eddie Cass and Kid Hogan, who thrilled Charlie Boston years ago with left crosses that were the best in the Bowery prize rings. ana FOR the occidental part of Charlie Boston, the Rev. K. C. Yeung of the Chinese Presbyterian church said a Christian prayer in Chinese and John Quaranta’s Italian band played “Nearer, My God, to Tliee." A few Christian Chinese, such as Lai Kim Jack, Charlie’s son, wept at the edge of the coffin, but those who were deeply rooted in the faith of Confucius stood dry-eyed and smiling. For was not Charlie Boston's soul on the way to join his honorable ancestors and would not his friends among the living protect him from the thousand minor devils that pursue the spirits of the departed? So the On Leon tongmen carried Charlie Boston’s body thrice around Chinatown to elude the devils. They scattered bits of paper behind the coffin, for every one knows that evil spirits will interrupt their pursuit of the dead to gather bright scraps of paper. ana THE followers of Confucius were leaving nothing undone to save the soul of so illustrious a man as Charlie Boston, so behind the cofflnd two Chinese bands, their woodwinds shrilling, warned off the evil spirits. Charlie’s picture, three feet square and wreathed with flowers, was in the procession, too. so that all the devils might shrink before his fearless face. For the thousands of persons who lined th r curbstones in Mott. Pell. Doyers and Bayard streets there was a white silken banner, soggy with rain, proclaiming in Chinese: “Ki Yen Chung How.” which means “The man of honesty and usefulness.” Today the door of the Snarlin;-. Tiger is tight shut against the world, but behind it On Leon tongmen are performing rites that no occidental ever has seen in an attempt to help the soul of Charlie Boston up the twisting path that ends in paradise.

HALL IS CLUB SPEAKER Ci. O. P. Candidate for Congress Is on Tuesday Program. Archibald Hall. Indianapolis, 1928 primary candidate for the Repuolican nomination for congress, will address the Statehouse Men’s Republican Club Tuesday in the senate chamber. Charles Parker, president of the ckib. will name his committees for the year, and the nominating com mittae will report fifteen names for director*. Elections will be held later.

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MORE PUNCH IN DRY LAWS, HOOVER PLEA Call Upon Congress Also Carries Appeal for Public’s Help. SUGGESTS BORDER MOVE Federal Court Congestion Pointed as Hindrance to Enforcement. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—President Hoover called upon congress today for legislation to improve prohibition enforcement. At the same time he made a general appeal to the people of the country to support the law, despite disagreement of some with its principles. The appeal was made in a special message to congress accompanying a report of the law enforcement commission containing recommendations for legislation, which the President amplified with three of his own. The chief executive also sent to congress, opinions of Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Attorney-Gen-eral Mitchell on the prohibition situation. The President laid greatest emphasis upon recommendations for relief of overburdened federal courts by giving court commissioners larger powers in minor criminal cases, thus correcting a situation which he said resulted in the “defeat of both justice and law enforcement.” The greatest increase in federal criminal laws, during the last twenty years, Mr. Hoover declared, has jammed the federal courts. Violations of the prohibition laws, he said, “comprise rather more than half of the total arrests.” Cites Dissatisfaction Going directly to the dissatisfaction expressed by some with the prohibition laws, the President said; “While some sections of the American people may disagree upon the merits of some of the questions involved. every responsible citizen supports the fundamental principle that the law’ of the land must be enforced.” The major recommendation by the President outside of those suggested by the law enforcement commission was for consolidation of all agencies engaged in preventing smuggling along the borders. This matter now is being dicussed by the treasury with Canadian government officials. It is understood some members of the commission believe the proposal should be studied carefully before any action is taken. The President also recommended an increase in federal prisons, reorganization of parole practices, and a strong prohibition law for the District of Columbia, which were beyond those made by the commission. His other recommendations followed those of the commission as regards transfer of prohibition enforcement agencies from the treasury to the just: e department and measures to relieve congestion of federal courts.

Offers Suggestions In his statement to congress, Secretary Mellon explained the treasury's proposal for checking the smuggling of liquor across the borders. He suggested: 1. Prohibiting entry of all persons across the border except at ports of entry designated by the President. 2. Increase of the number of ports of entry to permit “uninterrupted and unhampered intercourse with our neighboring countries over established and customary routes.” 3. Creation of a unified border patrol under the coast guard. Mellon explained that this proposal will increase the present cost of the customs and immigration border patrol. He did not estimate this cost, but said the treasury now is making a survey to determine what the amount will be. “It is believed the proposed plan will promote materially the convenience of the traveling public,” Mellon said, “as well as relieve those traveling on inland highways from inspection.'’ GIVES LIFE FOR BABY Caesarian Operation Is Fatal to Mother; Daughter Lives. 7v T'liitrd Prc** NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—That her child might live, Mrs. Minnie Zuckerbrod submitted to a Caesarian operation—the second such she had experienced—and died. The baby, an eleven and one-half-pound daughter, was brought safely into the world, but the mother, weakened by the operation, died about twenty-four hours later.

SALE OF PARROTS IS CHECKED AS STEP IN DRIVE TO COMBAT DEADLY FEVER

BY WILLIAM W. CHANCE JR. Vnitrd Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming "onferred today with aids in the United States Public Health Service to map the government’s campaign to prevent further spread of the deadly parrot fever which already has caused three deaths and a core of illnesses. Cumming is believed to have

FOUR POINTS CITED IN DRY QUIZ REPORT

Congress Is Given No Hint of Modification Need in Program of Presidential Commission for Arid U. S. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. —President Hoover’s law enforcement commission, after surveying the status of prohibition enforcement for seven months, told Congress today it had found a “staggering number” of “local points of infection” and recommended four measures to make America drier. The commission did not pass on the success or failure of the eighteenth amendment. It told Congress, however, prohibition observance must be viewed in the light of traditional American attitudes toward governmental regulation of conduct. “We must not forget the many historical examples of large-scale public disregard for laws in our past,” the report declared as a preface to outlining the difficulties of prohibition enforcement.

SUGGEST BOOST FOR DRY FUND House Body Recommends Two Million Raise. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Expenditure of $34,428,777 for prohibition enforcement during the next fiscal year was recommended by the house appropriations commitee today in its report on the annual postoffice and treasury department supply bill. This is approximately $2,500,000 more than the government is spending on prohibition this year. In drafting the prohibition sections of the apprpriation bill the committee followed closely the recommendations of President Hoover in his budget message to congress. The sum allotted to the prohibition bureau is exactly the same as the bureau is spending this year. The coast guard allotment for antismuggling activities is increased about $2,000,000, however. Senator Harris (Dem., Ga.), considered the spokesman for extreme congressional drys, already has announced he will seek to increase the prohibition übureau’s enforcement, regardless of opposition from the adminisration, when the bill reaches the senate. The house is expected to accept the committee’s recommendation wtihout serious objection, however.

JURY IS COMPLETED Mrs. Parks Goes on Trial for Murders. By United Press CAMDEN, N. J„ Jan. 13.—The jury which will hear the evidence in the murder trial of Mrs. Gladys May Parks, former cabaret entertainers, was completed at 1:40 p. m. today. There was no calmer person, apparently, than the defendant when Mrs. Parks went on trial on murder charges in the deaths of Dorothy Rogers, 4, and the child’s 20-months-old brother Timothy. Mrs. Parks entered the courtroom with Samuel P. Orlando, chief defense counsel, and took her seat as nonchalantly as if seating herself in a theater.

WRECKER SENTENCED City Man Given Term for Train Derailment. Tried teday by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on a charge of derailing a fast mail train the night of Oct. 16, near Cumberland, Villiam Breece, 46, Cumberland, was sentenced to serve tw’o to fourteen years at the Indiana state prison. He was disfranchised for fourteen years. Breece had pleaded not guilty to xtnioving bolts and spikes from the track of the Pennsylvania railroad, causing* train to be wrecked. He formerly was an employe of the railroad, according to testimony at his trial, and held a “grudge’’ against the railroad since an accident several years ago in which he broke his wrist while working as a section hand. $7,000 IS BANK LOOT Three Bandits Stage Holdup Near Cincinnati; Abandon Auto. Ru T'nitrd /’res* CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—Three bandits held up the First National bank at Mason. 0., near here, today and escaped with $7,000. Their automobile later was found in Middletown, abandoned.

received reports from Dr. W. S. Wynne, New York City health commissioner, concerning distribution of South American parrots, infected with psittacosis. These reports are expected to show how many infected birds have been sold to retailers, and into what cities they have been distributed. Information concerning extent of sale of the parrots was requested by the public health serv-

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1 While the commission did not make the slightest mention or even hint at any modification of the law, its discussion of the American attitude toward laws regulating personal conduct, containing historical background, was rergarded as significant in connection with its admission of the magnitude 6f the problem and the present condition of enforcement. The commission advised congress, “If on no other grounds than to give the law a fair trial,” to mend four weak spots in prohibition enforcement by adopting the following measures, one of them requiring radical changes in legal procedure: Points Outlined 1. Transfer the investigation of prohibition violations and the preparation of cases against offenders from the treasury to the justice department. 2. Codify all federal prohibition legislation. 3. Make padlock injunctions more effective. 4. Relieve congestion in the federal courts by one of three expedients; preferably by prosecuting “casual or slight” violations without indictment with penalty for such violations limited to SSOO fine or six months in jail, which would require authorizing legislation by congress.

The commission did not report, as expected upon the proposal to unify border patrol agencies under the plan being discussed by the treasury with Canadian officials. Some members of the commission, it is understood, are a little hesitant about the wisdom of this move and want to give it further study. The commission, including ■ many nationally known jurists, was headed by George W. Wickersham, former attorney-general. Both houses of congress received copies of the report at noon today from President Hoover. Legislation Pledged The recommendations for tightening dry enforcement are expected to go to the proper house committees for prompt action. House leaders are understood to have pledged Mr. Hoover their support in putting the commission’s recommendations on the statute books. The senate, preponderantly dry, likewise is expected to pass the requested laws and amendments. Delving deep into the social and political background of prohibition observance by Amercan citizens, the commission said: “To reach conclusions of any value, we must go into deep questions of public opinion and the criminal law. We must look into the several factors in the attitude of the people, both generally and in particular localities, toward laws in general and toward specific regulations.” The commission said it was unable to find any “reliable figures” to show the size of the prohibition enforcement problem. The “reported arrests” of 80,000 persons in the United States during the last fiscal year, however, “indicates a staggering number of might be called local points of infecton,” the report said. NAMES CITY HALL AID Mrs. McAfee Is Named File Clerk in Purchasing Agent’s Office. Mrs. Alma V. McAtee, mother of five children, 1205 Oliver street, today was appointed file clerk in the office of City Purchasing Aggent Albert H. Losche, succeeding Mrs. Katherine* Clements. Mrs. McAtee is a member of the Tenth Ward Democratic Club. TAFT NEEDS LONG REST Chief Justice to Go to Asheville, N. C., to Recuperate. By Tnitetl Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Chief Justice William Howard Taft is expected to leave here tomorrow for a complete rest at Asheville. N. C. At the hospital here where Taft has been resting for a week recurrence of an old intestinal trouble, it was said the chief justice passed “only a fair night.”

ice when it was learned from Baltimore authorities that many birds, imported through New York from Argentina on Dec. 14 and 17, had been sold in that city. One of these birds infected three menders of an Annapolis (Md.) family, the first cases to be reported in this country in twen-ty-five years. When any other similar cases were reported in various cities throughout the east and in Ohio,

NAVAL PARITY WITH FRANCE ITALIAN GOAL Fascist Party Adamant in Refusal to Renounce Any Rights. IMPASSE IS INDICATED U. S., Britain Appear to Be in Agreement on Basis for Reductions. Bu United Press ROME, Jan. 13.—Italy finds it “absolutely impossible” to renounce her claim for naval parity with France and asserts, as an ideal, her right to a navy equal to that of Great Britain, thd' Fogli Dordini, official bulletin of the Fascist party said today. “Only modest economic possibilities prevent Italy from claiming parity with the strongest sea powers,” the newspaper said in an article entitled “ships and the sea.” “It is our sincere wish for agreement at, the conference in London, but we do not disguise the grave difficulties to be overcome,” the article said. “One of these, and an essential one, is the question of naval parity between France and Italy. It is impossible to renounce it, absolutely impossible. “Whether parity be reached higher or lower than the present level is not important. Essential is the right to parity to be maintained in the new protocol concluding the work of the London conference. “Not only does Italy maintain integrally the right to naval parity with France, but asserts, as an ideal, such a right even as against the strongest naval power of the world. “It is only on account of Her modest economic and financial possibilities that Italy renounces from sustaining its right to naval parity with England. While England is an island, open to all seas, Italy is a peninsula prisoner in a closed sea, in possession of foreign states.”

BY ARCH RODGERS, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 13. Great Britain’s reply to the French memorandum on naval armament, outlining the British position on important issues to come before the five-power conference here, is considered the final action needed to clear the atmosphere before the delegates meet at St. James palace. With the British statement, each of the powers now has presented its viewpoint on the problems to be I discussed, and each knows where ! the others stand on the main quesi tions. | Through these pre-conference negotiations and memoranda, it is known now that France has rejected Italy’s plea for naval parity, and that she wants guarantees as to Mediterranean security. Great Britain and th© United States appear to have reached a working basis on which to build an agreement for naval reduction. Japan has shown a willingness to put her cards on the table frankly in an effort to arrive at the same end. Avoid Stand It is noteworthy that Great Britain’s reply to France stresses the advantage to be obtained if the powers avoid taking pre-conference positions from which they will be unable to withdraw later. The note also places great emphasis upon the moral value of previous agreements, such as the Kellogg pact. Great Britain sets forth six main pinciples to which, the government believes, the others should adhere. In issuing the invitations to the conference, the memorandum says, “It was considered that it could not be conducive to the success of the conference if the various governments were to intrench themselves before the conference opens in positions based perhaps on misundertsandings, from which they could not recede.” No Plan Devised “Nor does his majesty’s government refer to obligations contracted under the covenant of the League of Nations,” the statement continues, “or to questions of national security. Such considerations clearly are inherent to all disarmament negotiations, and they must be in the mind of every nation taking part in this conference.” No complete machinery to enforce the various existing peace agreements has yet been devised, the government points out. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 a. m 38 7a. m 37 11 a. m 39 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 42 9a. m 37 Ip. m 37

Cumming requested Dr. W. S. Wynne, New York City health commissioner, to determine to whom the New York importing concern sold these birds. The entire campaign of battle against the malady depends upon Dr. Wynne's report, it was said here, as all of the parrots imported in either of the two shipments may be carrying the psittacosis germs. Immediately upon receipt o£ Dr.

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Old Soak Safe

Psittacosis, the rare malady contracted from handling parrots, which has caused two deaths in the United States, holds no fears for Senorita Rosalmaria Colomo, employed at the Pan-American Union building at Washington. She is shown here with Old Soak,” Secretary of State Stimson’s pet parrot, which has been placed in the Pan-American building while Stimson is attending the London naval conference.

BANDIT SUSPECT CALLSJOMAN Prisoner’s Sweetheart May Give Informafton. Bit Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 13. Arrival here of Miss Juanita Kilbujrn, South Bend, was awaited today by two persons, who sought conflicting testimony from her concerning the robbery of the Fairland National bank last Tuesday. Loren McMinds, 29, Elwood, alias Harry Moore, held here in lieu of $20,000 bond on a charge of robbing the bank, expects her to provide an alibi for him, stating they were together in Elwood when the robbery was committed. Sheriff George A. Nigh of Shelby county says he hopes to gain from her information that may lead to arrest of two other men, who participated in the robbery, and possibly may obtain additional evidence against McMinds. McMinds telegraphed Miss Kilburn, whom he says is his sweetheart, Sunday night, asking her to come to Shelbyville. His sister, Mrs. Myrtle Overton, Detroit, he says, also was with him in Elwood at the time of the robbery. ,D. G. Gordon, bank cashier; Charles Hughes, bookkeeper, and Luther Abel, Fairland postmaster, all of whom were in the bank when the robbery occurred, Saturday identified McMinds as one of the gunmen. FIVE EATEN BY SHARKS One Escapes After Fishing Boat Upsets in Tamoring Bay. By United Press PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Jan. 13. —Five persons were eaten by sharks today when a squall overturned their motor boat two miles off shore in Tamoring bay, where they were fishing for sharks. The six in the boat attempted to swim ashore, but only one made it.

RENEW HUNT FOR BANK BANDIT PAIR

Search for Richard McNeese and Ben Orville, both of Indianapolis, wanted for banditry and murder in Kentucky, was renewed in Indianapolis today after Barney Thompson, Louisville cab driver, was held up by two men answering descriptions of the wanted pair. Thompson, engaged by the two men at 1:30 this morning at Louisville to drive to the Log Cabin inn near Jeffersonville, was menaced with guns after crossing the bridge at Louisville and was forced into the back seat of the cab. One bandit held the gun on Thompvon while the other drove to Indianapolis. On Meridian street, half a mile south of Troy avenue, the two forced him from the cab

Wynne’s report, Cumming will communicate its information to his field men and to local health officers wherever the patrons are reported to have been sold. These officers will be requested to trace every bird sold by the local retailer. All the parrots of the infected shipment may be killed upon discovery because of the mysterious nature of the disease which officials fear they may be carrying.

SOUTHERN INDIANA PERILED BY RISING FLOOD WATERS; 1913 HIGH MARK EQUALED Knox County Faces Menace of Inundation as Wabash River Mounts Rapidly; Fifty Homes in Vincennes Are Abandoned. FARM FAMILIES WARNED OF DANGER Squad Patrols Banks in Warfleigh District Here as White River Threatens; Rain and Snow Forecast by Armington. Bw ? VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 13.—Flood levels of 1913, when Indiana suffered its greatest devastation in history from high waters, were reached at Vincennes today, and most of Knox county and surrounding territory was threatened with inundation. No serious levee break has occurred, but hundreds of families were menaced. The Wabash river gauge stood at

EPIDEMIC ORDER GIVEN SCHOOLS Board Takes Precautions as Institutions Open. With public, parochial and private schools reopening today, additional precautions were taken by health authorities against the spread of spinal meningitis. The school board ordered principals of schools to give special attention to ventilation and heating of school rooms, to insure pure air as a protection to children. School nurses and doctors will keep a careful check on the various schools for an outbreak of the disease. Hazel Silcox, 4, of 1407 English avenue, today was reported as the seventy-third person here to become ill with meningitis. She is in city hospital. Thomas Falvey, 32, of 1868 Milburn street; Rudell Belt, 3, Negro, 422 Douglass street, and Frank Sullivan, 4. Negro, 1418 East Maryland street, were the first persons with the malady to be dismissed from the hospital in the last month. They have been freed of the meningitis germ. Anna Hocker, 48, of 515 East new York street, died Saturday from meningitis, increasing the total deaths to fifty-one. Alice Reams, 4 months old, 319 North Arlington avenue, died from streptococcic meningitis, a noncontagious form, different from that causing the epidemic. Death of John Lochmondy, 6, the first victim of the disease at South Bend, and death of Charles Pinkston, 3, at Evansville, were reported to the state health board. VIEW BANDIT SUSPECT Gas Station Victims of Scar-Faced Negro Try Identification. Filling station attendants, recent victims of a Negro scar-faced bandit, were called to detective headquarters this afternoon to try to identify a Negro, arrested hiding in a closet at 212 West Walnut street today. I'e is held under $3,000 bonds, charged with shooting with intent to kill. Police say he was impli. cated in a Negro gun battle recently. According to the detectives, he answers the description of a Negro who has held up a number of filling stations in the past few weeks.

and drove away. They took S2B from him. The two tally with descriptions of McNeese and Orville, accused as companions of Elmer Grayson, 21, of Indianapolis, who was captured in the robbery of the Oakland (Ky.) bank of SBOO. The two also are accused of engaging In a gun battle with a posse at Hayes, Ky., in which J. Robert Kirby, Smith's Grove 'Ky.) bank president, was shot fatally. Grayson, in court at Bowling Green, Ky., Saturday, pleaded not guilty to charges of banditry and murder and asked a change of venue. The venue motion was taken under advisement and G-ayson was returned to jail at Louisville for safekeeping.

Parrot fever and ordinary typhoid, pneumonia and influenza are very similar in so far as symptoms are concerned. Treatment of the disease, however, has baffled even the most noted physicians, Dr. Cumming said. Psittacosis has been diagnosed as the disease in all cases reported so far in which a person suffering from pneumonia or influenza has failed to respond to the usual treatment.

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twenty-four feet, ten feet above flood stage and even with the 1913 high-water mark. It was rising rapidly* Because of preparations made since the 1913 flood, by construction of high and • strong dikes, there was hope of preventing such devastation as occurred at that time, although the populace was warned to be prepared for the worst. The Wabash river levee near Oaktown, fifteen miles north of Vincennes, was expected to be carried away today, with inevitable inundation of additional thousands of acres i of land. Farm families were adj vised of the danger. Adjutant-General Manford G. : Henley today informed Governor I Harry G. Leslie he could have na- | tional guard troops available immei diately for rescue or police work, In : case of emergency. Boats could be procured and manned within twelve hours, he told the state's chief executive. Fifty homes in northern Vincennes were abandoned today with water to the first floors, and others were in the path of peril. Main street near the Wabash river bridge was under six inches of water, but no damage had occurred up to mid-forenoon. Rains Add to Peril Rains Sunday and today and prospects of continued precipitation for twenty-four hours, added anew menace to flooded central and ■ southern Indiana this morning. ' White river, which Saturday began to recede from a high tide of 16.4 feet, was rising again today in Indianapolis. A squad of men under Harry Newby, city park commissioner, patrolled its banks in the Warfleigh district, watchful for danger from the swollen stream. Rain or snow, with slightly colder temperatures, was forecast for this vicinity by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau,' meteorologist. Danger Is Increasing Southern Indiana, where rivers have inundated thousands of acres of lowlands, reported constantly increasing danger. Streams have not| ceased to rise, and rapidly are ap | proaching the high marks of 1913 when the last great flood came P | the state. A section of levee gave way nea Elnora, in the Washington distric | Sunday, and White river spreai ;■ over a vast area of flat, low fields! The Clifford school, in Bartholo-| mew county, was closed today asters floods filled the basement of thef school building, putting the heating! plant out of commission. Bedford reported danger to its* water pumps, without which thtfl city’s supply would last not morel than a week, if carefully rationed. | Moderate and heavy rains affected the Wabash river as fail north as Bluffton, near its source' Terre Haute reported tide of twenty-! one feet today: Vincennes, twenty-!; three feet, and Mt. Carmel, twentyJgj flee feet, with indications of confl tinned rise of two or three feet a? ’ all these points. Both Forks Rise Both forks of the White river tofegj gan a new' rise early today. At lif|| dianapolis the river stood at fouflH teen feet at mid-forenoon. The Ohio river was rising rapi<§|| today, reports from Evansville Madison stated. Fearful of its washing away, the Vincennes Bridge Company today anchored the new Lincoln memorial bridge, near Petersburg. While most gravel and stone roads in the state wete barred to heavy traffic today, nine highways were closed by floods. Road 36 was closed between Bloomington and Nashville, with no detour Other roads closed: Road 50, between Loogootee and Road 150, and between Washington and Wheatland. Road 37, between Bloomington and Bedford. Road 56, west of Princeton. Road 61. between Vincennes and P' :rsburg. Road 67, between Martinsville and Freedom. Road 62. west of Mt. Vernon. Road 150, Project detour dosed.

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