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The Last Word in Fashion

THE TIMES has engaged Amos Parrish, nationally recognized fashion authority, to direct daily feature articles on fashion subjects under the heading. “What’s in Fashion?’’ The articles, starting Monday, Feb. 9, will appear in The Times exclusively in Indianapolis. Amos Parrish has been known for years as a pioneer in studying and analyzing changes and fashion trends. His organization in New York and Paris has developed scientific methods of forecasting fashions months in advance. The forecasts made by the Amos Parrish organization are based on methods of fashion analysis introduced into hundreds of department stores, specialty shops and other retail, wholesale and manufacturing concerns by Amos Parrish and his associates. n a 'T'HERE’S nothing high brow or X high hat about the articles. "They’re written simply and clearly. They’re fully illustrated. They tell the facts about the fashions rhat interest you most, the fashions that have the greatest acceptance. They’re not hard to read. You read them and you understand them. And you know what fashion is all about. And how it gets that way. There’s no longer any mystery about fashion after you read and follow the “What’s in Fashion?’’ articles. In his articles, Mr. Parrish not only will interpret the present fashions, but will forecast the new themes and trends and predict what will be the fashions in the future. “Fashion has become an important factor in modern life,' says Mr. Parrish. “No longer is it a matter of interest only to a few. Now every one wants to know about fashion and be in fashion. u n u “TT'ASHION no longer is high.T priced. The most inexpensive things can be correct in fashion details. Things are produced easier, faster—and this means production helps make more fashions and new fashions—and quicker changing fashions.” In the “What’s in Fashion?” articles, Amos Parrish will report the correct fashions not only in women's and men’s apparel and costume accessories, but also in furniture and home furnishings—and in other phases of modern life. “There are fashions in foods, in newspapers, magazines, books, automobiles, kitchen utensils, table linens—in fact, in almost everything sold in stores. The public wants fashions and refuses things tnat are out of fashion. That’s why people now want to know what’s In fashion, as a guide to their buying,” he declares. Watch for the first article by Amos Parrish in The Times next Monday. You'll never miss one thereafter.

BREAK IN SPRINGLIKE WEATHER PREDICTED Drop Mercury Due Wednesday Af taf Unusually Mild Month. Stride' of the thermometer toward springlike temperatures, which it has held almost steadily since the first of the year to make January one of the most pleasant winter months in Indianapolis’ weather history, may falter Wednesday, the United States weather bureau here said today. While lowest temperature tonight is not expected to be below 32 degrees, the mercury may fall somewhat Wednesday, the official forecast stated today. Not only were daily temperatures above the average during January, but snowfall was almost two and one-half inches below normal. There was rain or snow only six days of the month. Highest temperature reached in January was 61 degrees, and the lowest was 9 degrees. Daily average was 5 degrees above normal. 23 Tuxedo Suits Stolen By United Press MADISON. Wis.. Feb. 3.—A clothing store near the University of Wisconsin campus has reported the (heft of twenty-three Tuxedo suits and other formal attire. The owner of the store will attend the junior prom, to be held scon.

The Greatest of Them All "The greatest piece of fighting machinery- for his inches that ever laced on a boxing glove.'* That was Jack Dillon, the Hoosier Bearcat, who celebrated his 40th birthday anniversary Monday, down in Florida. Jack Dillon was the hero of heroes to Indianapolis fight fans and as great a hero to ring followers in all other sections of the land. So it’s appropriate and timely that the new generation of boxing bugs be introduced to Jack the Giant Killer now, in a series on the life and battles of Jack Dillon, to start Wednesday in The Times Pinks, carrying through all editions. They never looked too big or too rough for the Hoosier Hurricane and his entire ring career was one great blaze of color, splashed with glory. Read the first of "Dutch'* Eggert’s graphic stories of Jack Dillon in The Times Pinks Wednesday and on sport pages of earlier editions Thursday

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WHY HIGHWAY FUHDS MELTED TOLD PROBERS ‘Black Top’ Program Is Cause, Committee Is Informed by Titus. U. S. MONEY IS LOST ‘Betterments’ Campaign Drained Coffers, and Costs Federal Aid. How the “black top’ interests boomed state highway ‘ betterments” during the fiscal year 1930 until the commission was broke and borrowing money before the summer was half over, was revealed today by the senate highway investigation committee. Questioning of Wililam G. Titus, chief engineers of the department, this morning, brought the first ten strike scored by committeemen. Titus confessed that if the commissioners hadn’t met at the cottage of Jess Murden, commissioner, in the woods near Lake Manitou, and shifted funds from construction to “betterments,” which meant more black top pavement, they could have laid more approved mileage and collected considerably more of the $3,500,000 in federal aid which remained idle at Washington while the commission here borrowed money and went into debt. Yearly Increase Shown The witness dug up the data showing how the black top program progressed from year to year. In 1921 when the large mileage first was turned over for state maintenance “betterments,” which is the name used to designate black top construction, cost $1,809,501,832. The record then slumped a bit and finally soared to its high points of 1929-1930 under Director John J. Brown.

Here are the figures as Titus presented them: 1922, $824,247.90; 1923, $863,043.36; 1924, $1,356,729.49;. 1925, $1,647,617.83; 1926, $1,602,012.25; 1927, $2,586,103.88; 1928, $3,499,273.11; 1929, $3,740,409.66. and 1930, $3,050,980.09. Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., i Lake), who has been listed asp,; commission sympathizer on the committee, brought the matter to light I by his questioning regarding op- j eration of the maintenance division ] of the department. Mileage Was Higher He brought the admission from Titus that if less money were spent on “betterments” (black top) more would be available for construction of projects, approved by the federal government upon which federal aid could be collected. This, he admitted, had been j brought to the department’s attention by United States engineers in 1930 when they were lagging behind in collection of federal funds. At his first appearance before the committee Monday night, Titus agreed with the conclusion that although more mileage upon which federal aid could have been collected was laid in 1930, there was less actual collection of federal aid funds than any time since 1923. ■Weather Was Factor Today he said the fact that nearly all federal aid was matched 50-50 in 1929 and that the weather was unusually good for construction also had something to do with the failure to collect the funds and the depletion of finances. These points were emphasized by Brown and the commissioners when they borrowed $1,600,000 from the cities, counties and towns fund last summer. But at that time the increased black top program and the shifting of contribution funds to betterments was not mentioned. Today’s evidence disclosed that this latter point was the main one causing the - commission to become involved in a maze of extraordinary financing. Agreed Not to Collect

How this financing was carried on also was developed at the hearing. Titus told of borrowing the sl,600,000 on Governor Harry G. Leslie’s advice to the stats finance board and also of how some $900,000 of certificates of indebtedness were given contractors who completed projects but could not be paid because the commission was broke. He also disclosed that on four or five projects the contractors had been required to agree not to try to collect before April of this year. "All in all. the commission went about $4,000,000 in the hole without trying to collect the $3,500,0J0 available federal funds,’’ Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep., Kosciusko and Wabash) declared. Titus Asked to Return Strey is chairman of the committee which was created by his resolution asking investigation of failure to collect the federal aid. Titus was asked to return for further questioning later today. Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem.. Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union), is chief inquisitor. Other committeemen - e Senators Glenn R. Slenker p., Carroll, Clinton and White), and William P. Denningan (Dem., Daviess and KnoxL Fractures Hip in Fall Falling from an elevator in the Evans Milling Company, 1730 West Michigan street, late Monday, Charles Brown, 55, of 4002 Rockville avenue, fractured a hip. He was taken to Indiana Christian hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 33 10 a. m 44 7a. m 33 11 a. m 49 Ba. m 35 12 (noon).. 54 9 a. m 37 1 p. m 58

Hunger Aid, Bill Flayed by President U. S. Food Proposal flap at Self-Government. Says Hoover. By United, Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—President Hoover, meeting with newspaper men today, spiritedly attacked the $25,000,000 appropriation for Red Cross relief upon which the house and senate are deadlocked. He said the proposal to use federal funds for food in the drought stricken areas “strikes at the very roots of self-government.” He made the statement after Senator Jim Watson (Rep., Ind.) had discussed with him at breakfast means of breaking the legislative deadlock over the appropriation and after having brought the matter before the cabinet for discussion. He appealed to congress and the nation to give needed relief in what he characterized the “American way.” He urged that local communities and state goverrlhients mobilize to minister to the hungry and cold through voluntary subscriptions. “I do not think I should be charged with lack of human sympathy,” the President said in a shaken voice as he recited some of his own experiences in relief work. “The people have the resources, the ability, the desire ana the kindliness of spirit to meet the situation.” If the Red Cross should find itself unable to cope with the spread of suffering, Mr. Hoover asserted, he would be as eager as any senator or congressman to take every possible step to alleviate the situation. The appropriation of federal funds would break down the sense of responsibility of the citizens and local governments to meet the responsibility of local disasters to the full extent of their resources, the President argued.

WOMEN ASSAIL 'VULGAR SHOWS' Burlesque Arrests Bring Protest to City Chiefs. Week-end raid of a burlesque house in which three dancers and two managers were arrested, today drew an attack on offensive vaudeville, in a resolution adopted at a special session of the executive board of the Indianapolis Council of Women, at the Lincoln. Presentations of that type were condemned by the board as vulgar and obscene. The arrests were made however, not because of the exhibition, but because minors allegedly were allowed to witness it. Copies of the resolution were addressed to the safety board and city council, and a copy was to reach Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Two thousand signatures from members of various clubs in the city have protested indecency on stages of theaters "of a certain class” in the city, the paper declared. It cited the Indiana statute on public indecency and called upon the council and safety board to enforce the law. It was signed by Mrs. C. W. Foltz, chairman of the civic committee; Mrs. A. B. Glick, president of the council; Mrs. F. A. Symmes and Mrs. H. L. Kettler. Cases of the persons arrested on Saturday night are pending in juvenile court.

MOTORIST IS SHOT AT BY UNKNOWN GUNMAN Assailant Fires Four Times Into Back of Roadster. Victim of a gun attack he could not explain, Dorance Rodenberg, 2539 North Talbot street, today asked police to seek the gunman who drove behind him on Spring Mill road at Eighty-sixth street Monday night and fired four bullets into the rear of his roadster. Two of the slugs went through the windshield and two were imbedded in frame woodwork. Aneighbor told police he had seen two men loitering about on roads of that vicinity in an auto.

COLLECTOR WITH $3,000 ESCAPES BANDIT PAIR

With $3,000 in his car, Clarence Jackson, 44, of 334 North Colorado street, Standard Grocery Company collector, escaped three bandits who attempted to block his auto on Forty-sixth street, between Boulevard place and Graceland avenue, today. They fired one shot as he dodged past them. The bullet crashed through the windshield so close to

‘SEEING IS L

By United Prees OALTIMORE, Md„ Feb. 3. Booth Tarkington sat in Wilmer clinic at the Johns Hopkins hospital and told how- it feels to know he will be able to see again after he was certain he had lost his sight. “The most important thing I can tell you," Tarkington said to reporters who clustered around his chair, “is that I will be . able to see again. , * -

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1931

CASH BONUS OPPOSED BY LEGION POST Mcllvaine-Kothe Unit Slaps Policy of National Organization. BANK FAILURES FEARED Veterans’ Stand Supported by Board of Trade Resolution. Open opposition to the American Legion’s policy favoring immediate cash payment of the bonus to World war veterans was voiced today by members of Mcllvain-Kothe post. Direct slap at the legion organization’s policy was evidenced at a meeting of the post Monday night, when a communication from state legion headquarters urging co-ope-ration in the cash bonus movement was read. Vote Was Unanimous The entire post’s membership went on record as opposed to the policy, unanimously voting to table the communication indefinitely. The communication urging the post to co-operate in asking United States Senators James E. Watson and Arthur E. Robinson to support the cash bonus proposal, now in legislative hearings before senate committees at Washington, was read by Verne Sholte. A motion to write the senators, informing them the post is opposed to the measure, was lost for want o' a second. In formal discussions among members of the post it was reealed they believed it not advisble to pay the bonus now when bankers decried flotation of billions of dollars worth of bonds that would be necessary for cash payment. “Boom” Likely to Result Stringent financial conditions of the country should not be made worse by such a move at this time, members pointed out. Reports from Washington Indicate bankers forecast a “boom,” accompanying the floating of $3,000,000,000, would cause many small bank failures. Opposition to the, cash retirement movement also was announced today by the Indianapolis Board of Trade, which adopted a resolution Monday night stating “the action would be a devastating setback s o the financial structure of the country.” Turns Down Proposals By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—-General Frank T. Hines, head of the United States veterans’ bureau, testifying before the senate finance committee today, refused to indorse any of the four plans for readjusting veterans’ compensation which have been suggested to congress. “My best advice is,” he said, “that congress should give consideration to further extension of benefits to the disabled, to widows and orphans of service men, and to the building of additional hospitals and soldiers homes to care for the sick and leave able bodied ex-service men to take their places along with other citizens of the country in working out their own salvation in these distressing times.” Hines enumerated the four plans as: Payment of face value of adjusted service certificates. Payment of the present value of adjusted service certificates. Payment of adjusted service credit:;, plus 25 per cent, and plus 4 per cent interest to the present time. Increased loans. “Undoubtedly from a financial standpoint the least costly and therefore from that standpoint the best, would be the fourth plan,” he said, “namely, that to increase the loan values on the certificates. However, it would not be sound to increase to any great extent the present loan value, and, in my opinion, a slight increase would be of little benefit.” “The first three plans mentioned, while providing a real measure of cash relief, are, according to the secretary of the treasury and other financial experts, unsound from a financial and economic standpoint.”

Jackson that splinters of glass cut his face. Jackson told police the men were in a Dodge coupe, and said they veered to the right side of the street, directly in front of him as ’.he two cars approached headon. He slipped to the left, and one of the men shot as he drove past. "They did not attempt to follow him i to a nearby Standard grocery, from ! where he called police.

VING,’ SAYS BOOTH TARKINGTON, HIS SIGHT REGAINED

"Beginning last August my sight started to fail and it kept getting worse until my recent operation. For several weeks I could not see at all, but now it is a certainty I will see. “I don’t believe any one knows what a thrill it is to be able to see color and form, even though It is a smudgy picture yet. It flakes all the difference in the world. Seeing is really living.’’

Fascism at Peak in Its Ninth Year Mussolini’s Hold Stronger Than Ever; Entrenched in Life of Nation. This is the first of a series of arteUes by Webb Miller, United Press European news mana-er, on Fascism and Italy. It deals with the Faasclst movement and its strength today. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Feb. 3—As Fascism enters its ninth year it is physically stronger, more deeply entrenched and more thoroughly impregnated in the life of the nation than at any time in its existence. At the same time, paradoxically, there is a more discernible undercurrent of discontent among the people than at any time for several years. This stirring of dissatisfaction tacity is admitted in some Fascist quarters. Mussolini recently decided upon a thorough “weeding out” of the party, which is now' in progress. This does not mean there is at present any organized or really effective opposition to the regime. Any manifestation of concerted opposition is dealt with immediately. The instigators are hauled before the special tribunal and sentenced to long imprisonment if found guilty. Much Dissatisfaction In the last few weeks it transpired that there is a special secret organization for the specific purpose of searching out and repressing anti-Fascist activities, the mysterious “O. V. R. A.” One of the leaders of the Fascist party said that the organization was a creation of Mussolini and directly responsible to Mussolini as minister of interior. The writer was told, in other quarters, that $1,500,000 annually is spent on secret police. The undercurrent of dissatisfaction is due to a combination of factors. Inasmuch as the government controls nearly every phase of national activity, it is blamed for everything that displeases. Taxation Very High Taxation is very high. Mussolini estimated it at eight and one-half times higher than pre-war, and stated it can not be made heavier. Unemployment is increasing. The world economic crisis is striking Itqly, and Fascism gets much of the blame. Furthermore, there is the normal movement of public opinion against any government that endures eight years. Fascism is placing its reliance for the present and future upon yo>- h. The rising generations are bei-ig imbued with the Fascist doctrine from childhood, either directly through the Fascist Balilla organizations which, according to available figures, total 2,083,241 boys and girls, or indirectly in the ordinary schools where text-books prepared by the state are obligatory in the first five elementary grades. Mussolini and Fascism is exalted in the text-books. The chapter devoted to Fascism in the book for fifth graders commences, “Italy was saved by Benito Mussolini. . . . After the advent of Fascism Italy began anew life of disciplined work and concord. . . . The miraculous work accomplished by Fascism has made Italy respected by the other nations. . . .” Black Shirts Are Strong The third grade book for children instructs them to strive for a healthy body and spirit and so be ready “if the nation calls to spring to arms, and fall serenely if the country’s welfare demands the supreme sacrifice.” In the last few weeks another development opened the way to inculcation with Fascist conceptions of the young meh who do not join the Balilla organizations. This is the decision that ali youths from the age of 18 until the conscription age is reached must undergo premilitary training on Sundays. The training is done by Fascist militia officers. The Fascist black shirt militia is better organized and equipped than ever and numbers 398,000 —nearly twice the regular arnfy. Next: Miller tells of the industrial and labor situation in Italy. FIREMAN BACK ON JOB AFTER TWO-STORY DROP Harry B. Duncan Saved From Injury by Auto Top. A tumble backwards from the second story at Engine House 19 failed to send Harry B. Duncan, 34, of 615 Holly avenue, city fireman. off duty. Washing a window, Duncan’s grasp slipped and, as he felt himself falling, jumped backwards. He dropped on an auto owned by another fireman, breaking his fall and the windshield. Complaining only of a sore shoulder, Duncan returned : to work, but said he would visit a physician this afternoon.

course I’ll be forced to wear glasses,’’ he continued. “They’ll appear dark, but the strong convex lens will make them appear that way. I’ll wear three lenses. One will permit me to see quite a distance, the second will give me a normal sight and the third will permit reading. “Wonderful, isn’t it? I think all of the success of the operation is due Dr. William H. Wilmer." Asked if he intended to resume

NEW ZEALAND QUAKE KILLS HUNDREDS, 1,000 INJURED, SAYS REPORT

They Will Try Butler

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The most striking group of high ranking officers ever gathered together for a court martial in this country will compose the navy board before which Major General Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps will be tried for alleged remarks derogatory to Premier Mussolini of Italy. Rear Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer, upper left, commandant of the New York naval district, will be president of the court. Among the other members are Rear Admiral John R. Y. Blakely,

YOUNG BANDIT IS SLAIN BY GROCER

Wounded Accomplice Near Death After Attempt to Rob Store. In city hospital this morning a bandit is near death, while his youthful companion lies in . city morgue, having paid the price of crime in a short, bloody battle in a grocery they attempted to rob Monday night. Identity of the dead boy, about 19, still is incomplete. The wounded man, who says he is Paul Keifer, 35, New York, told police the youth lived in Detroit, and said his last name was Nichols. Keifer has two bullet wounds and a stab wound in the abdomen, and physicians say he probably will die. Nichols was killed and Keifer wounded by Joseph Glosson, proprietor of the grocery and meat market at 809 Ft. Wayne avenue, whose wife saw r them binding her son, Richard Estride, 17, with adhesive tape in a rear room. The family lives above the store. Voices of her son and the strangers in the rear room attracted her, and peering through a trap door she witnessed the robbery attempt. Glosson seized a gun and ran down the front stairs into the store. Nichols jammed a water pistol into the grocer’s stomach, but Glosson fired, hitting Nichols in the forehead. He shot twice again as Keifer lunged at him, and Estridge, slashing the tape from his ankles with a butcher knife, joined the melee. Meanwhile, Mrs. Glosson called Harry Miller, a merchant policeman, who entered the store. As Keifer wrested the pistol from Glosson, Miller struck the bandit with a blackjack. Glosson’s fingers were torn as the gun was jerked from his hand. “I knew something was wrong when I heard Dick and the stran-

writing at once, the Indianapolis author said: “Through dictation I -will be able to continue to write. "Miss Elizabeth Trotter, my assistant, takes most of my things in shorthand and later types them into manuscript form. "Mrs. Tarkington herself acts as my secretary. “I sometimes dictate six to eight hours a day without a pause, but usually I confine my work to about five houn^,”

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upper left, of the general board of the navy; Major General Joseph H. Pendleton, retired, center left, the only representative of the Marine Corps; Rear Admiral George G. Day, center right, of the general board, and Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, lower left, director of fleet training. The special prosecutor or judge advocate of the court-martial will be Captain William C. Watts, lower right, chief of staff of the Fourth Naval District in Philadelphia. (Story On Page 6)

Free Golf Glenna Collett, Diana Fishwick, Maureen Orcutt and the other queens of the links can’t reign forever, so why not start grooming a girl golf champion right here in Indianapolis, and right now? That's the hope of The Times, so forty Indianapolis girls will get their chance, without charge, to start on the road to golfing fame. Free golfing lessons for forty city girls—three lessons a week for two weeks to ten girls, the same for another ten, and so on, for an eight-week stretch. That’s the plan. Read all the details on Page 14 of this edition, then get in the race.

gers talking in the back room When I looked down I saw Dick sitting up, his head tipped back, and the men were putting sticker tape over his mouth,” Mrs. Glosson told police. “I didn’t want any one killed, but I guess it’s better this way. Dick’s all we’ve got,” she said. Police commended Glosson’s bravery in attacking the bandits. TWO YOUTHS AREf~HELD Charge Pair With Vagrancy; Cars Stolen, Say Police. Lying in wait near a stolen automobile in which they found several boxes of cartridges, a police squad early today captured Paul Gordon, 19, of 1128 South Senate avenue, and a 17-year-old companion, who drove up in another machine police say is stolen. In the second car were several pocket knives, a rifle and a jimmybar, police declared. Both youths are charged with vagrancy.

DURING the interview, Tarkington smoked cigarets incessantly. He appeared very thin and worn and his hands trembled as he waved them to illustrate his remarks. "Cigarets,” Tarkington answered, when the cause of his ' nervousness was asked, “I smoke ’em by the million. Mrs. Tarkington regulates the supply of them and I never know how many I smoke, but it’s too many, I know.” yt

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Stricken Region Shaken b$ New Shocks, Hampering Relief Work. TOWNS ARE IN RUIN Tidal Waves, Landslides and Fire Add Horror to Tremors. By United Press AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Feb. 4 (Wednesday). A devastating earthquake, accompanied by landslides, tidal waves and fire, caused immense property damage, and an undetermined loss of life along the east coast o$ North island. New Zealand. Tuesday. North island was shaken again at midnight by new tremors which were less violent. The new tremors, which occurred at intervals, hampered the feverish work of rescue in the stricken district around Napier, where semiofficial advices reported 100 dead, and Hastings, where 21 were known killed and 100 others unofficially estimated dead. Thousands were reported injured. The earthquake, which caused a twisting or shifting of certain undersea regions along the coast and was reported to have raised the harbor floor at Napier eighteen feet, wrecked most of the business buildings at Napier and Hastings. Heavy Loss of Lives First reports received here came from ships along the coast and by radio-telephone. The damage was summarized as follows: NAPIER—East coast town with a population of over 11,000, reported practically razed: fire followed earthquake which ruined ordinary water supply; flames fought by water pumped from sea; loss of life estimated at 100; dwellings on cliff 300 feet high tumbled into sea; general hospital reported buried in landslide; harbor bottom believed raised permanently; ships fled to open sea to escape biing stranded in suddenly decreasing water. Landslide Blocks River HASTINGS—A few miles inland, southwest of Napier, officially stated twenty-one persons dead, but unofficial estimates high as 100; town extensively damaged; six fires followed earthquake in business district. GISBORNE—On the east coast, about one hundred miles north of Napier, almost every building damaged; fatalities undetermined. MANGEWAKA— Extensive property damagfe; landslide blocked the river Rangitaiki. WAIPUKURAU Hospitals, schools, postoffice, all larger buildings damaged or destroyed; bridges and roads throughout wide area disrupted, delaying efforts at rescue and threatening survivors with food shortage; loss of life not yet reported. Refugees Panic Stricken TAUPO—Extensive property damage; no fatalities reported. ROTORUA—About 120 miles inland from Napier, apparently entire district between these towns was in quake zone: many buildings shaken and damaged; first report* mentioned no loss of life. Refugees from Napier fled panicstricken toward the south. Disrupted roads and debris from landslides made their progress difficult. Others were taken aboard warships and other vessels in Napier harbor. Merchant vessels were ordered to stand by and assist the survivors, but their efforts were hampered by the astounding change in the formation of Napier bay. Apparently the harbor bottom had risen permanently. Naval Sloop Stranded in Bay The Veronica, a naval sloop, was caught when water rushed from the bay and left stranded on the ocean bottom. She was refloated by a subsequent tidal wave. Reports from along the coast said that the phenomenon recorded at Napier was observed elsewhere. It was said that the ocean bottom, usually covered to a depth of fifty feet, was visible as the water receded during the most intense part of the earthquake. The greatest losses of life at Napier were believed due to the collapse of the town’s largest hotel, a three-story brick building, and the tumbling of numerous residences on a cliff into the sea. The center of the town was reported almost wiped out by the earthquake and subsequent fire. Apparently the disturbance centered at Napier and extended abouß 100 miles north and west and about fifty miles south. There was a possibility that ships at sea might have been affected. The first relief forces were en route to Napier on British cruisers which were making twenty-four knots and due to arrive at daybreak.

DON’T venture out unless properly protected against the weather. And read Dr. Morris Fishbein’s articles on preventing serious odds and flu, starting Friday in The Times. 1

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