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WITCH KILLING STORY TOLD BY AGED SQUAW Beats Artist's Wife to Death With Hammer as Radio Provides Music. GRINS BY YOUNG WOMAN Model Is Undisturbed as Old Indian Testifies in Buffalo Trial. BY HARRY VAN LUNGER I'nllfd Pre*!* Staff Correspond *nt BUFFALO, N. Y.. March 26.—The aged Nancy Bowen told, In her native Seneca tongue today, how she beat Mrs. Clothilde Marchand to death with a hammer while strange noises came out of the radio —the "white witch’s’’ machine which the Indian woman never had seen before. Her story fell on a startled courtroom from the lips of an interpreter, who had been sworn in to help Mrs. Bowen testify in the trial of Lila Jimerson, another Indian, on a charge of being an accomplice in the killing. By her stumbling confession the aged woman added another strange phase to this trial that already is one of the strangest in Buffalo court history. She confessed to a crime before going on trial and chose the witness stand as the place to reveal the details of her act. Killing Is Described Mrs. Bowen is to be tried on a charge of murder after Miss Jlmerson’s case Is concluded. Mrs. Bowen’s account of the killing w r as as follows: She and Lila went to the Marchand home on March 6 with a hammer, a bottle of chloroform and some "magic earth.” Lila, who had posed for Henri Marchand, an artist and husband of the dead woman, led Mrs. Bowen to believe that Mrs. Marchand was a witch who must be killed by March 9, or the entire Bowen family would die. Lila waited outside the home and Mrs. Bowen entered. Mrs. Marchand turned on the radio, and the squaw asked her if she was a witch. Mrs. Marchand laughingly said she was. Pours Chloroform in Mouth The Indian woman leaped on her. brandishing the hammer. She struck her twice, and Mrs. Marchand fell toward the stairway, knocking over the radio. The white woman screamed and tried to grab the hammer, and then sank back unconscious. Mrs. Bowen took out the chloroform bottle, doused some of the contents on a w r ad of paper and thrust the paper down Mrs. Marchand’s 4 throat. Still fearful lest "the witch’’ would live, Mrs. Bowen poured some chloroform out of the bottle into Mrs. Marchanw T ’s mouth. Then she washed the blood from her hands and met Lila outside the house. The started for the Seneca reservation, thirty-five miles from Buffalo. Grins at Death Story Miss Jimerson grinned as the old Indian woman slowly brought the tale up to the actual killing. She scribbled idly on scraps of paper in front of her. lifting her face occasionally to glance at the witness. While the squaw was stumbling through her story. Marchand sat in jail pinching clay to make a statue of the sheriff’s hunting dog so that he might forget the slaying of his wife. The prosecution will seek to show that Miss Jimerson was in love with Marchand and persuaded Mrs. Bowen to commit the murder so that the artist might be free to marry. SPURNED WIFE WILL •WAIT’ FOR HUSBAND Aids Mate, Convicted of Mann Act Violation; Still Loves Him. DETROIT, March 26 —Whether her husband. Paul E. Worley, wishes or not. Lena Worley. 28. expects to be waiting for him when he comes out of Leavenworth penitentiary atfer serving eighteen months for alleged violation of the Mann act. Worley was found guilty of transporting Laville Goetz. 18-vear-old Denver telephone operator. to Michigan. Mrs. Worley came to Detroit from Denver to aid her husband, paid his attorney’s bills and in turn was spurned by Worley. "He is my husband and I love him,” she said. “I’ll be waiting for him when bet gets out.” STAGE BATTLE IN CLUB Revelers Use Bottles, Dishes on Dry Agents Daring Raid. By Unlttd Brest BOSTON, March 26. Several federal prohibition agents and a dozen or more guests suffered bruises in a melee that resulted when the Cotton Club, described by police as Boston's most notorious night club, was raided today. Dishes, food, bottles and cases served as ammunition in a battle between fifty guests and ten dry •gents. Five arrests were made.

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$63,000 Theft Charge Ends Spending Spree New York Women, Wives of Express Truck Robbers, Arrested for Lavish Expenditures

Bn United Press HOT SPRINGS. Ark., March 26. A trail of "free and easy” spending today had led to the arrest of two New" York women here on charges their money was part of a $63,000 express truck robbery in New York last Oct. 17. The women, whose husbands are

LIQUOR CONTROL CALLED FAILURE Ex-Canadian Official Cites Results in Ontario. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 26.—Government control has failed to reduce drinking, crime or bootlegging in Canada, E. C. Drury, former prime minister of Ontario, a dry, told the house Judiciary committee today in the prohibition hearings. Drury followed John J. Lentz, president of the American Insurance union, who testified prohibition had lowered the nation’s death rate Citing the Canadian drink bill hi 1928 at $192,619,602, Drury concluded; "Effective control is indeed impossible. The Anglo-Saxon temperament will not stand for the inquisition hto private affairs which would be necessary' to establish any effective control.” “All we have is government sale—with consumption in the home or the hotel bedroom. The home is the last pla.ee in the world where liquor should be consumed.” GIRL IS FOUND IN DRIFT Child Lnca. and in Snow Shelter, Crouched Snug and Safe, By United Press CHICAGO, March 26 —Gwendolyn Stevens. 7, fell into a six-foot snow drift near her home. For an hour, while her father searched for her, she crouched in her snow shelter. Her father saw her hat on top the drift, dug down and found Gwendolyn quite snug and safe.

The Society Racket Here's anew racket. You’ve heard of A1 Capone, who made rackets famous and you’ve heard of many other racketeers. But this is anew one—the society racket. Starting Thursday, you’ll get the lowdown, the bottom Info, on how this society racket works, by one who has seen it from the inside. A woman who served some of the country’s wealthiest and most prominent families for ten years as social secretary will tell it all in three highly Instructive articles, written for The Times and NEA service. It will be an authentic portrayal of the life of America’s elite, the little known facts of the society racket, told by a woman who has had an unusual opportunity to study the smart set at closest range. The first story will be told in The Times Thursday. Watch for it.

SIX DEAD iN BLAST No Hope Is Held for Five Others, Trapped. Pn Vnitrst PreHK FAIRMONT, W. Va., March 26. A gas explosion at the Yukon mine of ‘he Crown Coal Company at Arnettsvillc today took A toll of at least six dead, with five other miners trapped in the mine thought to be dead. Six bodies had been located several hours after the blast and no hope a held for those still in the mine. Two miners escaped after the explosion. A crew of a night shift had .eported off duty shortly before the explosion occurred. RUDY '/ALLEE SUED $500,000 Damage, Restraint of Book Sought. tiff Lnit*4 Prtft* NEW YORK. March 26.-When Rudy Vallee whispers he’s "Longing for the Carolines.'’ it’s just a rank imitation, Will Osborn says, and he wants something done about it. For Will alleges in a $500,000 damage suit that he was making this crooning business a paying profession way back in 1924 when Rudy was just a college boy. Osborn has filed an injunction suit seeking to restrain further sale of Rudy's life story. He alleged the book was libelous, scurrilous and held him up to ridicule. Raid Nets Large Still ffv Tim** Fncciol LOSANTVILLE, Ind.. itlarch 26. Sheriff Lee Briner of Randolph county, in a raid on the farm of Emmett Fiddler near here, reports seizure of one of the largest stills ever found in the county. Fiddler was placed under arrest charged with violation of the liquor law. The still has a capacity of thirty gallons. The sheriff a! c o seized a cooling still, a large keg. twenty-five feet of copper coil, twelve gallons of alleged whisky and a small quantity of mash.

held In New York in connection with the money truck robbery, confessed to knowledge of the crime today. Herbert Akers, chief of detectives, announced. The two, Mrs. Raymond Gallagher and ,-rs. Roy Tait, were arrested here on information from New York authorities. More than $20,000 in currency was reported found in a satchel in their exclusive apartment, where they had lived since coming here three weeks ago. Much of their time here had been spent, police said, in visiting road houses and other amusement places where they were known for their spending of large sums of money. Gallagher was the driver of an armored truck carrying the $63,000 for the prink Express Company. He allegedly disappeared at the same time the money did. while making a delivery at the Chemical National bank.

HOPE OF NAVAL PACT REMOTE Stimson Refuses to Pledge Military Aid. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 26.—Possibility of obtaining a five-power naval agreement at London still was left remote today despite Secretary of State Stimson’s offering to consider a consultative pact provided it involved no implied obligation to render military assistance. Press dispatches from Paris indicated little importance was attached to the Stimson suggestion by the French government. Acting Secretary of State Cotton, after a conference with President Hoover, expressed the view it was hardly likely that a consultative pact would bring about any reduction of tonnage proposed by the French. Cotton took the view that Stimson’s remarks, which were cabled here for President Hoover’s information, did not register any new or important point in conference developments.

DURANT’S DAUGHTER SUES THIRD HUSBAND FUes Perjury Charge Against Mate for Concealing Divorce. Bu United pres* NEWARK. N. J., March 26.—Mrs. Margery D. Cooper, daughter of W. C. Durant, automobile manufacturer, has obtained a warrant here charging her third husband, John Hampton Cooper, New York, with perjury. Mrs. Cooper aUeged before Joseph H. E. Scotland, justice of the peace, at the Essex county hall of records that at the time of her marriage in April, 1929. her husband gave information that he was single. She claims subsequent information gathered by her indicated he had been divorced.

REPUBLICANS VICTORS IN TRUSTEE BATTLE Supreme Court Hands Down Derision Favoring G. O. F. Ranks. Republicans in Jay county today received an official O. K. from the supreme court on the appointment of Jacob Stoltz (Rep.), as trustee to succeed to the vacancy left by death of the Democratic encumbent. The Republican had been appointed by the county auditor and his appointment was contested by Zoe Watt, Jay county prosecutor. Oral arguments before the court resulted in the decision favoring the Republicans.

What! A Red-Nosed Silver Bullet? No! Paint Job Nearly Bans Don s Speed Dash

BY MORRIS DEHAVEN TRACY rnllrd Prus Staff Correspondent DAYTONA BEACH. Fla., March 26.—The international speed trials, in which Kaye Dor. of England is attempting to set a world’s automobile speec. record, stumbled over bucket of paint Tuesday night and for an hour seemed perilously near a comedy ending The pain* had applied to the nos? of tho Silver Bullet, Don's 4.000-horse power super-car, to make it more visible against the background of white sand.

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SLAIN BEAUTY IS BELIEVED CITY WOMAN Body Found in Desert Is Mrs. Violet Thompson, Father Thinks. RADIO YIELDS IDENTITY Wasteland Murder Victim Worked in Office Here Before Going West. The woman, victim of a desert murder, whose fashionably-clad body was found near Eureka, Cal., Tuesday, is believed by her relatives here t-o be Mrs. Violet Pullen Thompson, 24, daughter of Elzie Pullen, 1419 Oliver avenue, Indianapolis. Mrs. Thompson has been missing since November, 1929, when she last wrote to her parents, while en route to Indianapolis from California presumably with her husband, F. D. Thompson, 33, automobile salesman, formerly of Pittsburgh. She answers in every detail descriptions given in radio broadcasts Tuesday night of the desert, murder victim, her father asserted. First word of the finding of the young woman’s body came to the father here Tuesday night when he received a telephone call from his brother, Harvey Pullen, living near Brazil, Ind. The latter said he had been listening to an unidentified station on his radio when announcement of the finding was made. Harvey Pullen told the girl’s father that the announcer named the woman as Mrs. Violet Pullen. Letters Are Returned Since receiving a letter written in November, 1929, and mailed at Grand Canyon, Ariz., the parents have not heard from their daugther, who previously had written weekly, they said. Letters sent to former Los Angeles addresses have been returned. The body of the woman, with red hair, was found near Eureka, Cal., Tuesday. A bullet wound in the right temple testified to the manner of her death. She died more than two months ago, authorities believe. PTess dispatches from Eurekd declared all marks of identification had been removed from the woman’s clothing, and that authorities were mystified. The woman wore expensive clothes and a fur coat, A nearby filling station proprietor informed California officers that a man drove into the filling station several months ago and inquired if he had “seen a beautiful red-haired woman around here anywhere.” Drove Hurriedly Away Getting no trace of her, he drove away hurriedly, the attendant related Descriptions of the victim tally in every way, the girl’s father said here today, with those of his daughter. Pullen said he knows little of his daughter’s husband, except that he was an automobile salesman. Mrs Thompson prior to her marriage was an employe of Bradstreet. & Dun, financial statistical firm, and had charge of the office of the firm at Orlando, Fla. It was there she met Thompson and the two were married at Tampa, Fla., three years ago, the father related. Coming here in 1928 the couple remained here a short time, after which Thompson left for California and his wife was employed as a stenographer and dictaphone operator by a firm in the Fletcher Bank building. She left here in July, 1928, to join her husband in California, her father said. In Los Angeles the couple resided at 1361 Sunset boulevard. Palace apartments. * Worth Pullen, a younger brother of Mrs. Thompson, is 1930 captain of the Washington high school football team. TALLEY SELLS HERIUGS Marion’s Expensive Furnishings Just Don’t Fit Kansas Farmhouse, NEW YORK. March 26.—Because Persian rugs and Venetian mirrors won’t fit into the decorative scheme of her Kansas farmhouse, Marion Talley, young retired opera singer, placed them on sale at auction today, along with other furnishings of her New York apartment.

The management notified Don’s managers that no red-nosed car could slide down Daytona’s nice white beach to a speed record. A half-hour after the ultimatum was delivered, however, the crisis passed. Louis Coatelen. designer of the car. and Don sent a joint communication to the management saying that if red noses were offensive, the Silver Bullet would be returned Immediately to its original, modest, mousey gray. Spectators complained and offl-

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JAIL PLANTER FOR PEONAGE Modern Feudal Baron Kept Negroes as 'Slaves.’ Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS, La.. March 26. James E. Pigott, wealthy, middleaged cotton planter, was awaiting transfer to the Atlanta penitentiary today after pleading guilty to charges of peonage. Pigott admitted to Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah that he often chained Negroes to trees when they tried to escape from his plantation. He said he advanced food and lodging to Negroes during off months, but when crop time came would deduct these advances from their pay so that they almost always were in debt to him. The modern feudal baron could not see why he was sent to jail for eighteen months. He claimed that all planters handled their Negroes as he did. He denied beating Negroes although one of them exhibited deep scars on his back, which he said were made by Pigott’s snake whip.

EAST DRINKS MORE College Official Comments on Schools’ Dry Status. Bu United Press ST. LOUIS. March 26.—Drinking is more prevalent in eastern colleges and universities than in those of any other part of the country, Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, Chicago, said today. Dr. Shepardson. an organizer and a past president of the Inter-Fra-ternity council, editor of Baird’s American College Fraternities, and dean of senior colleges at the University of Chicago for twenty-five years, is recognized as the leading authority on fraternities and fraternity conditions. He is national president of Beta Theta Pi. BANDIT GIVEN TERM Gas Station Robber Gets 10-Year Sentence. Lawrence Isenbarger, 28, of Lynn, Ind., said by police to have robbed thirteen filling stations in Indiana and Ohio since January, today was found guilty of robbery by Criminal Judge James A. Collins and sentenced to serve a ten-year determinate term at the Indiana state prison. The defendant was convicted of robbing Fred Born, 17 North Oxford street, filling station attendant, of $13.50, Feb. 18. He pleaded not guilty. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 23 10 a. m 24 7a. m 23 11 a. m 25 8 a. m 24 12 (noon).. 26 9 a. m 24 1 p. m 26

rials of the meet agreed with them that the Silver Bullet merged so closely into the color of the sand that It was not visible a mile away. So it had been painted red. Then someone suggested that a few miles of talkie films had been made of the car for use when and if it break a record, and many other pictures of it taken, showing the Silver Bufiet as modest as a maiden lady in its gray grab. There was a council of war and plans were made to take all the pictures over again today. Don agreed to make anew speech Into

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REVOKE KANSAS UNION CHARTER Lewis Replaces Officers in Mine Rebel District. Revoking charter of Kansas District 14, United Mine Workers of America, John L. Lewis, international president, today appointed Henry Allie of Arma. Kan., as provisional president, and Joseph E. Hromek, also of Arma, Kan., as provisional secretary-treasurer. The officers were installed immediately and were instructed to return to Kansas and take full charge of district affairs. The revocation of charter automatically declares vacant all district offices and abolishes the district executive board. Allie has been district member of the international executive board while Hromek has been a member of the district executive board. Alexander Howat, recently elected president of the dual mine union formed at Springfield, 111., was president of the Kansas district.

What a Chance By United Press / BUFFALO, N. Y.. March 26. —Alex Freeman, charged with intoxication, stood before Judge Patrick J. Keeler and reported he had been cook in Keeler’s company during the war. "Well, I ought to give you life for the food you used to serve,” the judge remarked, but suspended sentence.

PLAN ATLANTIC HOP Huge German Plane May Be Flown to U. S. NEW YORK, March 26.—The Dornier DO-X, world’s largest seaplane, which carried 169 persons on an hour’s flight over Lake Constance Oct. 21, 1929, is prepared for trans-Atlantic flight to New York from Germany, it was learned today. The flight is scheduled to take place in June or July. TRIAL DATE SET IN ~ POLICE JOB ‘SALE’ John Howard Is Alleged to Have Obtained $225 for Pledge. Trial of John Howard, 922 North Delaware street, charged with "selling” a job on the police force tc George Iskra, Puritan hotel, and failing to deliver, will be heard in municipal court, April 2. Joseph Markev, municipal judge pro tem., continued the casee on Tuesday. Howard said the $225 check he received was “money which he borrowed and had offered to repay on installments.” Howard said he had endeavored to get Iskra on the police force, but did not receive the money

the talkie-microphone to harmonize with a red-nosed car, and his sister Mrs. Rita Llvesay, was understood to be willing to break anew bottle of domestic champagne on the repainted snout. It was just at that juncture that Val Haresnape. director of the trials, became Incensed and sent his ultimatum. Don and Goateler. averted catastrophe by dispatching an answer. If red was a color irritating to Daytona, they’d surely wipe the Silver Bullet’s nose before it appears In public again, they assured.

TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED AS TERRIFIC MARCH BLIZZARD WHIPS THROUGH MIDWEST Northern Indiana Bears Brunt of Winter’s Belated Onslaught With Steam, Electric, Air and Auto Travel Disrupted. EXPECT BREAK IN STORM TODAY Average Snowfall of 14 Inches in Lake County; Crops Little Affected by Gales; Toy Streets Peril City Motorists. An amazed midwest, blanketed with snow, today maintained a shivering' vigil as one of the worst March blizzards in history continued to rage through Indiana and other midwestern states. Break in the storm was expected this afternoon, but government forecasters anticipated little rise in temperature for at least twenty-four hours. Northern Indiana bore the brunt of the blizzard s onslaught, steam, electric, air and automobile traffic paralyzed by huge drifts, piled eight feet or more by Tuesday’s howling gales. Three hundred autos and ten busses were stalled in deep drifts at the junction of U. S. 20 and 2 highways, west of South Bend, today.

The snowed-in cars, all of them abandoned by owners, made it difficult for state snowplows to open the drifts. One hundred and fifty, motorists were stranded Tuesday night on United States Road 30, west of Hamlet. A Pennsylvania passenger train picked them up today and carried them to Chicago, after they had spent the night in farmhouses. Fifteen Boone county and many other rural schools were dismissed and closed today. In Indianapolis and central Indiana, snow' did not exceed two inches in level depth, but was preceded by heavy rains and sleet that left streets and highways icy, endangering vehicular travel. No serious accidents were reported in the city or state, although four persons were injured here by falling on slippery pavement, and in Chicago four lives were claimed by the storm, thirty persons were injured in two elevated railway wrecks and scores of mishaps occurred on streets and sidewalks. Air travel yas Impossible from Indianapolis today, and all regular

GUNMAN'S PAL DIES Officer’s Bullet Fatal to Newcastle (Ind.) Man. Bu United press MIDDLETOWN, Ind., March 26. —Wilson Griffith, 49, Newcastle, Ind., died here today from gunshot wounds received in a battle last Wednesday night in which patrolman Dan Sandlin was killed. Griffith was shot and wounded by patrolman Roy Crout who came to Sandlin’s aid when the latter was shot by Richard Brewer. Brewer is under arrest, charged with murder. Griffith's brother. Roland, and William Meeks, both of Newcastle, are under arrest, but no charges have been filed against them. FUND BILL IS SIGNED $169,500,000 Apportioned by Deficiency Measure. B't United:Press WASHINGTON, March 26—President, Hoover today signed the first deficiency bill carrying $169,500,000 for the government establishments. The largest, item In the bill Is $100,000,030 for the federal farm board. The money is to be made available for immediate use. FORMER RESIDENT OF CITY DIES AT MUNCIE Services to Be Held Thursday at Residence for Mrs. Hale. The body of Mrs. Louise Stephens Hale, former local resident who died Tuesday at Muncie, will be brought here for funeral services Thursday at 9:30 a. m. at the family home, 2225 North Delaware street. Burial will be at Perrysville. Mrs. Hale was the widow of William P. Hale, contractor and former mayor of East Chicago, Three sisters survive. COLD KILLS ANIMALS Valued Members of Menagerie Succumb to Effects of Blizzard. Bn United press CHICAGO. March 26.—The menagerie of the Sells-Floto circus suffered heavily from the blizzard today. A springbok, born on the South African veldt; two monkeys from tne tropical jungles and two cockatoos died from effects of the cold and dampness. Keepers watched elephants.

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passenger and mail lines suspended service. The blizzard forced the "ceiling” to the ground, and there was no visibility. 14 Inches of Snow in Gary Hammond and Gary reported the worst blizzard in forty years, with average snowfall of fourteen inches. Lake county schoolrooms were bare today because pupils could not push their way through blocked roads. East and west highways were closed from Hammond, and hotels were crowded with travelers unable to proceed cn their journeys. Temperature dr* 'ped to 23 degrees. * At South end temperature slid to 20 degrei and heavy sr fell on sleet-covj l streets ma’ uto driving hazi his. , In Evansvuil, snowfall was. companied by fall in temperature . 29 degrees. , Horticulturists today concurred in statements, that T iiapa's crops will be little affec' v the blizzard. The peach crop killed by & January storm, atx ag to Professor L. Greene, PurQu Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist declared: “It is much better to have this storm now than later. The season was too advanced anyway.” Four Die in Chicago Only once before since weather bureau reports have been kept at Chicago has there been a. March storm to compare with the one that lashed the Windy City Tuesday. March 31, 1926, a blizzard swept 12.® inches of snow into Chicago in forty-eight hours. J The four fatalities in the Illlnoia j metropolis were typical of a Decern- j ber storm. Abra ham Fa His, 65, was literally blown from a curb beneath the wheels of a. motor coach. Martin Bierne, 45, his skull fractured supposedly by an auto, was found dying in a snowdrift. Edgar Tomp/tins, Negro, slipped on a sidewalk and broke his neck, dying a few hours later in a hospital. Joseph Thompson collapsed and died as he reported for work at a factory. Weather Experts Surprised Weather bureau experts were m surprised as city and countryside residents at the blizzard. The disturbance was explained as a "freak" due to low pressure area hovering over the Great Lakes region. The storm center today had blown northeast above Lake Ontario. Lake Michigan, churned into a monster if destruction, hurled giant waves against the shores of four states Tuesday, doing damage estimated at hundreds of thousand* of dollars. The waves raced shoreward more than fifteen feet in height, and sailings of almost all craft were cancelled. The city of Saginaw and a ferry arrived in Chicago three hours behind schedule after a perilous crossing from Michigan ports. Locally, interurban traffic was reported going through on schedule. Trains from Chicago were a few hours late due to difficulty in penetrating the worst storm area in northwestern Indiana. Telephone and telegraph communication and electric power transmission was not affected here. Hurt on Slippery Walks Slippery sidewalks caused four Injuries Tuesday night, according to police and hospital records. The victims were: The Rev. G. I. Hoover, 5324 Julian avenue, general secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society, scalp wound; Mrs. E T. Smith, 50, of 1311 West Twen-ty-seventh street; Mrs. Joseph Scheff, 30. of 1252 Roache street, struck by a taxicab as she slipped and tried to rise, and Mrs. Cora Ennis. 217 South Oriental street. Israel Phillips, 73, farm hand, today lay unconscious in a Logansport hospital as a result of exposure suffered Tuesday in the blizzard. He was found Tuesday night by a searching party of farmers after he failed to appear at home. His condition Is critical. I