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NAVAL TREATY 1$ RATIFIED BY SENATE, 58 9 Fight Now Centers on U. b. Building Up to Pact’s Arms Provisions. PRAISED BY PRESIDENT Long Step Toward Lifting Militarism From World, Says Executive. R WASHINGTON, July 22.—The London naval treaty was hailed as a great accomplishment ir. American foreign policy and a boom to overburdened taxpayers in a statement by President Hoover today, announcing he would within a few hours sign the senate resolution of ratification. “It is a matter of satisfaction that this great accomplishment in international relations has at all steps been given the united support of both our political parties,’ 'the President stated. Praise for Treaty “With the ratification by the other governments the treaty will translate an emotion deep in the hearts of millions of men and women into a practical fact of government and international relations. It will renew again the fftce of the world in the moral forces of good will and patient negotiation as against the blind forces of suspicion and competitive armament. “It will secure the full defense of the United States. It will mark a further long step forward lifting the burden of militarism from the backs of mankind and to speed the march forward of world peace. It will lay the foundations upon which further constructive reduction in world arms may be accomplished in the future.” Senators scattered to their homes today with a sterner fight developing over whether the United States shall spend $1,071,000,000 to build up to the naval treaty’s provisions. Fight Over Tonnage Ratification of the treaty becomes effective when the Japanese and American ratifications are deposited in the foreign office archives in London. - The resolution for ratification already has been submitted to the British house of commons. Japan is in the midst of an anti-treaty fight even more bitter than that which ended here Monday with the senate voting 58 to 9 for ratification. However, early Japanese ratification is considered assured. There is no doubt that Great Britain and Japan will maintain tonnage to the limit alloted by the treaty. What the American policy shall be was the question around which centered debate on the first reservation rejected Monday.

Put Senate on Record This reservation, proposed by Walsh, was to put the senate on record whether it desired to build up to treaty levels in submarines, destroyers and eight-inch gun cruisers. Although the reservation was rejected, the dispute has only begun. Senator La Follette (Rep.f Wis.) sounded the pitch for his progressive colleagues when he announced he would oppose the appropriations to begin building a treaty navy when they are submitted to the senate next December. Walsh warned the senate that powerful blocs of public opinion had supported the treaty with the intention of preventing the building for which it calls. He emphasized that President Hoover was not on 1 ecord on the question of suspending the $1,071,000,000 required to build up to treaty levels. He said the senate ras entitled to know how Mr. Hoover stood, but he was not supported in his quest for information. Expect Propaganda Barrage Inquiry at the navy department developed equal uncertainty. The United Press was informed that in view of Mr. Hoover s new economy program, no sum to be asked of the next congress for naval building had been fixed. Informed persons predicted today that the barrage of pro and anti building propaganda soon would begin to circulate in the mails, in the press and on the air. It appears as if the naval building group is in for a hard fight and that the other side will take the admiral's own testimony to preven* appropriations for the 143.500 tons allotted bv the treaty. BURIED ‘AS A BRIDE’ ON HER WEDDING DAY Flower Girls Follow Body and Ushers Are Pallbearers. fix T'nilfi Prrtt BAYONNE. K July 22—Today was Lena Locasclc's wedding day but instead of being marri*d she was to be buried in her bridal gown. Relatives prepared to no’d a funeral that had the aspects of a marriage oerqptcoy. “Let me oe buiied as ;i bride." the girl told her fiance. Thomas Pirozze. before she died. “Bury me in m> white bridal dress, with the flower girlr. in their new dresses, follow ng. And I want the best man and ushers to be my pallbearers. Promise me that it shall be so." Killed by Lightning B it In it ft h'rftt AVON.* 0.. July 22.—Lightning which struck a tree under who.e branches Tony Eradza. 50. and his family were sitting Monday killed Eradza and seriously burned his son Dominic, 17.

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CONDEMN FLOWER MISSION HOSPITAL AS -FIRE HAZARD State Marshal Orders Building Ge Vacated Within Next 30 Days; Move Comes as Surprise.

The Indianapolis Flower Mission hospital, located in a dilapidated wooden structure in rear of city hospital, was condemned today as a fire hazard by the state fire marshal’s office. Vacation of the hospital within thirty days was ordered by Cash M.

REPORTER GOES BEFORE JURY IN RACKETSPROBE Brundidge Is Reported to Have Bared Corruption of Newspaper Men. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 22.—Claims of alleged corruption and unethical practices among police reporters and sub-editors of several Chicago newspapers engaged the interest of the Cook county grand jury today. Harry T. Brundidge, St. Louis Star reporter, was the voluntary witness who told the jurors what he had learned about alleged racketeering in the Chicago newspaper fraternity. Although Brundidge took the oath of secrecy when he entered the grand jury room and promised not to divulge anything that went on while he was present. It was learned that the jurors expressed a lively interest in the report of Brundidge’s investigation for his paper. Send for Editor More than two hours after the St. Louis reporter had entered'the jury room, the grand jurors sent out for Frank W. Taylor Jr., managing editor of the St. Louis Star and the man w ho assigned Brundidge to the Chicago investigation. Taylor and John F. Green, the Star’s attorney, accompanied Brundidge to Chicago by airplane for today’s hearing. Assigned originally to report the aftermath of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, reporter ofr the Chicago Tribune, Brundidge sent his paper a series of stories charging that Lingle was not the only Chicago reporter involved in racketeering. Brought Editorial War The Tribune reprinted this series, precipitating Chicago's intensely competitive dailies into a spectacular editorial controversy concerning which of the papers were harboring crooks. Names of staff members were bandied about by, the opposing papers in editorials and news stories. With the uproar over Brundidge's charges in full swing, little progress is being made toward solving the Lingle murder. The Tribune’s morning competitor, Hearst’s Herald and Examiner, charged today that the charges against other newspaper men were being raised as a srr ’ e screen to hide the true extent of Lingle's implications with the underworld.

CHARGE AGAINST COOPER LOOMS IN GAS SCANDAL

Possible criminal prosecution loomed today for Bruce E. Cooper (Rep.) Stewartsville, former state jenator and former First district Republican chairman, as a result of disclosures to be given AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden regarding Coopei's part in the Lake county gas scandal. Cooper resigned as field auditor in the gasoline tax division of State Auditor Archie Bobbitt’s office last week when it was learned these disclosures were to be made. Cooper, who is at the Columbia Club, denied any guilt in connection with the bootleg gasoline business in northern Indiana. Meanwhile Clarence Fate, Crown Point se<urities investigator for Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield, appeared belore Ogden to explain his conned ion with the bootleg gasoline settlements, whereby he secured several filling stations for his son and Malcolm Clark, Crown Point. A third department, the gasoline inspection division of the food and drug department of the state board of health, is alleged to be involved through Inspector R. S. Springate. Gary. Poole Harrison, J. T. Conner and George Bowen, all of Chicago, alleged brains of the several companies which are said to have beaten the state out of the 4-cent a gallon tax on as much as 1.000.000 gallons of gasoline, were expected to tell Ogden the story tihs afternoon

Key Witness in Mooney Case to Face Governor Today

BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY l ailed Pres* Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. July 22 Fourteen years ago today ten bystanders. watching a Preparedness day parade.,were killed by a blast of dynamite on the streets of San Francisco. The anniversary of that crime was marked by preliminary plans for a hearing at which the innocence or guilt of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings may' be determined. Mooney and Billings, labor agitators. were arrested shortly after the bombing and have been in jails or prisons since—Mooney in San Quentin and Billings at Folsom. -

Graham, deputy marshal, who made the inspection July 8. Copies of the order were sent the Flower Mission board, Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent, the health board, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city councilmen. The order for immediate vacation came as a surprise to city health and flower mission leaders, although they have admitted the structure to be “a fire trap,” and planned to relieve the condition. Unfit for Use, Says Report “The place is absolutely unfit for use in any hospitalization program,” Graham declared. “We had taken this matter up with both hospital authorities and the Flower Mission Society and all agreed with us. ‘We expect to see that all patients are removed from there in thirty days from the date of our order, July 21. The place is in a very bad state and would be impossible to repair.” ' Admissions were discontinued several weeks ago when the Flower Mission leaders asked permission of the health board to spend $60,000 toward erection of a unit for advanced tubercular patients on hospital ground. No Other Facilities The mission was denied a definite reply pending results of a survey which is being made by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary. and Eugene C. Foster, Indianapolis Foundation secretary. Foster said T -hat a sociological survey to determine the resources of the twenty patients in the hospital will be made at once to determine what can be done with the chronic tubercular patients. There are no other facilities for handling advanced cases since Sunnyside does not admit incurables. Seek Quarters for 20 “Well, it is better that way than to have something happen that would always be a blot on the city’s name,” was Foster’s comment. “I’m sure that all agencies will aid in this emergency, but It will be most difficult to find quarters for twenty persons. The difficulty which we encounter will demonstrate the .real need for anew hospital of that kind.” Any patients who have homes or relatives will be sent there and an effort made to absorb the remainder at Sunnyside or city hospital.

RACE WAR FEARED Scores of Filipinos on West Coast Flee. Bu United Press t . SANTA ROSA, Cal., July 22. Scores of Filipinos were leaving Santa Rosa today, alarmed by the possibility of a race war between white and Filipino fruit pickers. Sheriff Douglass Bills posted armed deputies in orchards in response to the rumor that Filipino workers had been ordered by the white pickers to leave.

which, it is alleged, involves Cooper. Cooiier was informed that Ogden will near that he (Cooper) received a total of SII,OOO over a ten months’ period from tne oil companies involved, smallest monthly payment being more than S4OO. “I am ready to appear before the attorney-general any time he wants me to do so and explain any of these charges,” Cooper declared. “I never did audit the books of any of these companies.” The former state senator colored highly when faced with the charges by his questioners, but finally smiled and said: “If I was supposed to get SII,OOO I still have some money coming.” Bobbitt admitted there were no audits for any of the companies involved and settlements in ! is office had been made “by guess.” QUITS WIFE, ENDS - 1 LIFE Man Missing Since May 12 Is Dead in Kansas City. James M. Smith, 54, Th: th street and Graceland avenue, missing since May 12. when he is said to have deserted his wife here, committed suicide Monday in Kansas City, Mo., according to word received here today. Smith is believed to have been firing at the home of iiis daughter, Mrs. Marie Hartzell, in 4 Kansas City. The widow. Mrs. Marie Smith, lives in this city.

] And back on the scene once again is John MacDonald, waiter witness, who traveled access the continent in the hope of convincing authorities that his testimony, which led to the conviction of Mooney and Billings, was "a pack of lies.” MacDonald came hereofrom Baltimore to appear before Governor C. C. Young ana the California supreme court tc tell them that he testified falsely when he identified Mooney and Billings £s the men who planted a suitcase filled with dynamite which disrupted the Preparedness day parade, killed ten persons and injured forty more.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930

THREE JUDGES RECESS COURT, SNUBBING PAIR Willoughby, Myers, Travis Again Decree ‘Vacation’; Ignore Colleagues. DOCKET STAYS JAMMED Rumor of Rift Is Given Added Weight; Steve Case Left in Air. Three judges of the Indiana supreme court this morning declared a recess in the absence of two of their colleagues, withholding from them either the courtesy, right, or privilege of presenting any decisions which they may have written. When Judge Clarence Martin arrived at the courtroom at about three minutes after 9 o’clock, he met Judges Willoughby, Myers and Travis leaving the chamber. When Judge Willard B. Gemmill arrived about three minutes later, the courtroom was deserted. On July 1, when the court was about to recess until October to give vacation to judges, a hurried decision was made to return on July 21 to dispose of important matters. When the court met Monday the only matter of scores pending that was handled was a routine and minor matter relating to paving of a street in Crown Point. Note Declares Recess Judge Willoughby sent a formal note to the clerk of the court declaring the session recessed until a call of the supreme justice. Willoughby is chief justice. One of the cases "pending before the court about W'hich many rumors have been circulated is the appeal of D. C. Stephenson, convicted in 1925. The action this morning is the first overt act in what long has been suspected as a cleavage in that body, in which three judges who declared a vacation are pitted against Martin and Gemmill. The court had been due to meet at 9 o’clock. The three-minute delay permitted of no discussion by Martin or Gemmill s to the propriety at this time of a prolonged vacation, in view of the clogged condition of the calendar. Why did they recess? Willoughby is reported to have told a colleague that “it’s too hot to work.” Myers Reported 111 Myers offered no particular explanation, but he is suffering from a severe injury to his back, received in an automobile crash a week ago. On Monday he suffered from chills and was ill enough to be in bed. it was reported. Martin and Gemmill, not having voted for the adjournment, had no explanation, to offer. Both were reported ready to proceed with their decisions. Travis had the most to say regarding the adjournment. “This isn’t really an adjournment, but a recess,” he explained. “The supreme court never adjourns. We can be called together at any time the chief justice is convinced that something of importance needing immediate action is pending. It might be an original action filed with the court or anything eise.” “Just Another Case” “What about the< Stephenson case?” he was asked. “The Stephenson case is just like any of the number of other cases that are pending,” Judge Travis declared. “Its importance looms largely in the minds of some individuals. Os course that is true of any case for the persons interested.” D. C. Stephenson wall stay at the Indiana state prison throughout the summer, it was indicated. Meanwhile appeals of thirty-nine other persons who have been convicted and are now on bond are waiting the high court's action on transfers from the appellate court. The list includes former Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis. The law giving the appellate court jurisdiction in misdemeanors became ineffective Jan. 1. and. because of the supreme court's failure to pass on its constitutionality, it has proved practically useless thus far. ACTRESS SUES HUSBAND Divorce Action of Jean Harlow in October Just Received. Bu United Pres* LOS ANGELES, July 22. Jean Harlow,, actress, began divorce proceedings here last October against Charles F. McGrew 11, charging cruelty, it was revealed today. McGrew, member of a wealthy Chicago family, repeatedly embarrassed her by becoming intoxicated ir public, the actress charged.

Governor Young and MacDonald arranged to meet today to discuss preliminary plans for a rehearing* at which MacDonald, ill and prematurely aged, will tell his repudiation story. The way for such a story was paved Monday when the California supreme court voted unanimously to hold a second hearing in the pardon application of Billings which means that Governor Young will reconsider the Mooney pardon request also. It was only a few weeks ago that the supreme court, stressing the importance of MacDonald's testimony, declined to Tecommend that the Governor pardon Billings.

BABIES CAN’T ‘GO WRONG’

Footprints and Beads Ward Off Mixup

' fl. \ , Between footprints and beads. ":|j there wasn’t a chance for Baby T King to get the wrong mama and / J ■ • . papa at the William H. Coleman ■ hospital for women today. Jill;, v Upper Left—Footprint of Baby i King taken at her birth at 7:59 \ • a. m. today and the right thumb- * print of her mother, Mrs. Kathryn ‘ i King, 921 Mills street. ■ | Upper Right—The hospital’s | second precaution against mixing i * ' families is shown in the photo of • ) Baby King with her new blue 'v “name” beads around her neck. Ti|, yr . J Oval Inset—Making the footi. j . x Below—Dr. Paul Swedenburg J and a nurse inking Baby King's

KOLB’S FATE WITH JURY LATE TODAY Defense Counsel in Pleas for Acquittal of Alleged Wife Poisoner; State Demands Death Penalty.

BY CHARLES E. CARLL Times Staff Correspondent GREENFIFLD, Ind., July 22.—A Hancock circuit court jury of ten farmers and two school teachers late today will retire for deliberation that will determine the fate of George Kolb, Rushville farmer, charged with murder. Defense attorneys were to end their arguments at 2:30 p. m., and Paul Benson, chief of prosecution, was to renew the state’s final fight to send Kolb to the electric chair. Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn will instruct the jury at 4:30 p. m. Raymond Springer, defense attorney, this morning emphasized many points he declared the state failed to prove, recalled the jury’s attention to testimony that Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb, the defendant's third wife, whom he is accused of having

Which Way? Hunger in a garret, buoyed up by her pride and family traditions, or a feast in a mansion, with her pride left in mothballs—that is the question facing Patricia Chesebrough, / who traces her family back to the Mayflower. What will be her decision? Poverty or plenty? Shall she wave pride behind her and help the Palmers, with their patent medicine millions crash the exclusive society of Deerbridge, or eke out meager existence in her malodorous boarding house? Read the thrilling story of her experiences in “Birthright,” Kathleen Norris’ intriguing serial, now appearing in The Times. The second big instalment today on Page 11. Call The Times circulation department, Riley 5551, today, so you won’t miss a chapter of this enthralling tale.

WATER WAL TO 20 Drought Turns People to Cisterns and Death. Bu United Press JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., July 22. —Health authorities received reports today that twenty persons have died after drinking stagnant water from cisterns in Pike county, Kentucky. Frank Beverly, a resident of that section, said the long drought had made fresh water scarce

Previous to the court's action, the Governor had announced that he considered the cases of Mooney and Billings as parallels and because the court to favor the pardon application of Billings, the Governor denied the application of Mooney. A court recommendation in the Billings case is necessary because he served a prison term prior to the Preparedness day bombing conviction, while Mooney, with but one conviction may be pardoned by the Governor without action by the supreme court. It Is probable that the hearing of

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murdered, grieved over death of her on, an auto race driver, a few veeks before her demise last fall. He concluded with citation of nany cases wherein men have been lent to the electric chair, or to prison for life, on circumstantial evidence that later was revealed ."alse. John H. Kiplinger, chief of the defense counsel, began his arguments when Springer ended, and warned the jury against committing “legal murder” by sending Kolb to the chair. Charles Tindall, defense attorney, started th3 arguments for Kolb to the jury Monday afternoon, upholding the contention that the defendant’s third wife, Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb, committed suicide and was not the victim of strychnine administered by her husband, as charged. The defense is stressing “reasonable doubt” in closing arguments, pointing to the state’s case as a chain of circumstantial evidence. If Kolb is acquitted, it is not considered likely that the state will try the murder case now . pending against him for the alleged inurder of his second wife, Mrs. Mattie Larramore Kolb, in Rushville in 1926. The state selected its strongest case for trial. If Kolb is convicted and sentenced either to death in the electric chair,, as demanded by the stile; to life imprisonment; or given a term for manslaughter, it is expected the defense will take immediate appeal steps.

‘PADDY’ HARMON, CHIpAGO SPORTSMAN, DIES IN CRASH

Bu United Press . _ , . , _ CHICAGO, July 22.—Patrick T. (Paddy) Harmon, Chicago promoter and sportsman, died today of injuries received when his automobile turned over near Desplaines. The promoter was injured when his automobile was brushed from a highway northwest of Chicago while passing another machine. Harmon and Dr. E. Thomas Brand of the staff of the Chicago Stadium, Harmon’s “dream palace,” also were injured. The happiest day in the “rags-to-riches” career of Paddy Harmon was in March, 1929, when his “dream palace,” the $7,000,000 Chicago Stadium, opened its doors as the boxing center of the mid-west. Paddy’s birthplace wtis Chicago’s west side, and his rise to success

AlacDonald's story by the Governor and court will be conducted jointly and that tne court will abide by Governor Young's wishes. The story told by MacDonald during the trial of Billings in 1916 is that he saw Billings place the suitcase containing the bomb at the comer of Market and Steuart s:reetr, the scene of the explosion. Mooney was near the comer also and walked away with Billings, MacDonald testified during the Mooney trial in 1917. Now MacDonald, as he did in 1921, claim- he didn't see either man and tiiat both were identified for him by San Francisco police.

Between footprints and beads, there wasn't a chance for Baby King to get the wrong mama and papa at the William H. Coleman hospital for women today. Upper Left—Footprint of Baby King taken at her birth at 7:59 a. m. today and the right thumbprint of her mother, Mrs. Kathryn King, 921 Mills street. Upper Right—The hospital’s second precaution against mixing families is shown in the photo of Baby King with her new blue “name” beads around her neck. Oval Inset—Making the footprint. Below—Dr. Paul Swedenburg and a nurse inking Baby King’s foot for the tell-tale identification a few moments after she was born. BY ARCH STEINEL CHICAGO may have trouble keeping its babies in the right families, but there’s no danger of mixing genealogy in Indianapolis. City hospitals use footprints and “name” beads to prevent the iceman’s youngster from being raided on the silver spoon of the millionaire’s nursery. Take today’s birth of Baby King at 7:59 a. m. in ths William H. Coleman hospital. Her first squawk was not so much at seeing the light of day as it was at having her foot inked on a pad similar to those used for finger-printing in Bertillon rooms of police departments. Beads Carry Name The inked foot then was placed on her mother’s hospital admitance and record card. Then the mother’s right thumbprint was imprinted alongside Baby King’s foot mark. With the completion of this operation by doctors and nurses, Baby King was given her second surety that she wouldn’t be in the wrong baby bflggy when her name was strung with beads on a fish line and the line clamped tight with a piece of shot as it was placed around her neck. “Just try and take it off,” Baby King cooed in her best “babyese” as her first necklace was made. When she and her mother are discharged from the hospital her footprint and the thumbprint of her mother are taken again and compared with the prints made at her birth. Sure to Get Right Parents If they check under a microscope and they always do, Baby King is assured that she’s going to be fondled by the right parents. The Methodist, St. Vincent’s and Indiana Christian hospitals use similar methods for identifying babes in their nurseries. Adhesive tape bracelets and strips on the back of babes with their names_ in indelible ink are used as identification adjuncts to the footprint and “bead” methods.

created landmarks in that populous section of the city. He made his start hawking newspapers along West Madison street. He launched into a series of successful promotions back in 1902 and 1903, when the roller skating craze was sweeping the midwest. Dance halls became his next ventures. He presented the west side with the Dreamland, on West Madison street, then the largest ballroom in the city. Always he had his eye on his dream—a big palace for boxing, dancing, dramatics—all forms of large-scale amusement. He sold his idea to a group of millionaires. The Chicago Stadium began to arise near the “Dreamland.” Paddy’s pride in his dream-come-true was short-lived. He remained in control of the stadium long enough to send it off to a flying start. Then his management was attacked from within. The opposing group of the stadium’s board of directors won out with its millions and its prestige, and Harmon was stripped of all authority. HONESTY IS ORDERED jimmy Walker Exhorts New York Department Heads. Bu United Pre** NEW YORK, July 22.—Mayor James Walker has exhorted his department heads to be ‘more strictly honest than you have ever been.” His appeal, broadcast by radio while department chiefs listened, followed strong pressure for an investigation of the metropolis’ administration _

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RAIN BRINGS RELIEF FROM LONGDROUGHT Crops Believed Saved in v Worst Crisis in State Since 1901. FOUR DEATHS IN INDIANA Lower Mercury Promised, With More Showers Due Today. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 72 10 a. m 79 7a. m 72 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 83 9a. m 76 Ip. m—*. 84 Showers over most of the state early today broke the worst drought since 1901, and provided relief from excessive temperatures that have blistered Indiana several weeks. Temperatures in Indianapolis this morning were from 8 to 12 degrees lower than for the last four days. At 1 p. m. the mercury stood at 84 degrees. Still lower temperatures, and fair weather are forecast for tonight and Wednesday by the United States weather bureau. Additional rains may fall here during the day, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Crops Are Saved Although much more rain is needed to restore the normal balance of soil moisture, the rains, varying from a few drops to an inch, are believed to have saved millions of dollars worth of crops in the state. Heaviest rainfall was reported in the*iorth central portions of the state, w’hile the extreme north, and extreme south sections were not visited by the storms. At Berne, in Decatur county, one inch of rain was recorded. At Royal Center there was .77 inch; Lafayette, .71 inch; Ft. Wayne, .66 inch; Farmland, .64 inch., and in Indianapolis,,.l6 inch of rainfall. Just before the heat wave was broken, four heat deaths were reported in the state. John David Snyder, 54, farmer, near Huntington, dropped dead after walking to his mailbox. Mrs. Maria Bell, 84, was found dead on the porch of her home at Kokomo, a heat victim. While eating with his family at Plymouth, George Tekulve, 37, toppled over, dead. Mrs. Moses Wright, 34, died of heat prostration at Valparaiso,

. Damage Caused by Wind Several cases of prostration and illness caused by heat were reported. William Shibaugh, 19, became crazed by heat and ran wild near his home at Huntington. At county jail he attempted suicide. Some damage was caused in various sections of the state by high winds accompanyirig the rain. In Howard, Cass, Miami and Tippecanoe counties damage wc~ heaviest, with high tension lines down, trees uprooted and fires started by lightning. Wells and cisterns in the southern section have gone dry. RuraJ residents are drinking water hauled distances up to two and one-half miles from wells, ponds and streams. What water is used for human consumption is boiled. Pactures Tinder Dry Pastures are tinder dry and woods have taken on an autumn-like appearance. The drought’s worse ravages extend across the whole southern end of the state—a strip thirty to fortyfive miles wide reaching as far north as Princeton on the west and nearly to Greensburg on the other side. All vegetables, early tobacco and early corn In the southern section is burned beyond reviving, but immediate rainfall would save the bulk of the late corn and tobacco, although it is curled badly and in some cases the tassels are burned.

Death Toll in Hundreds Bu United Preen Clouded skies and threats of rain brought some abatement to the terrific heat wave today, but there still is acute suffering in the crowded cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Monday's terrific heat —in which many new records in the east were established brought the largest single day's toll of deaths in the present heat wave. Heat deaths as shown by a United Press survey stood at 254 today, an increase of more than 100 over Monday’s figures. While the states east of the Alleghenies looked anxiously toward clouding skies in the hope of relief, and watched the mercury expand the middle west experienced cooling breezes and rain. The heat wave definitely was broken from the Rockies to the Ohio valley. TRAMS CRASH*2O HURT Street Cars Collide at Businesa Corner Intersection. Bu United Prrre PITTSBURGH. July 22.—Twenty persons were injured, two seriously, when two inbound street cars col* lied at an intersection in the Lawrenceville district today. All wera taken to hospitals. YACHT SAILS FOR U. S, Sir Thomas L : pton’s Cup Challenger Accompanied by Steamer. Bu I'nitrd Prrte ABOARD STEAM YACHT ERIN, July 22. —The Erin and Sir Thomas Lipton’s dip challenger. Shamrock V, were well out to sea today en route to tlie United States. •