Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1931 — Page 1

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JUDGE DEALS BLOW TO CITY GAMING DRIVE Baseball Pools Are Held Not Included Under Gambling Device Statute. DEFENDANTS GO FREE Witnesses, Then Presented to Prove Payoff, Fail at Identification. Formidable dpfense against Police Chief Michael Morrissey’s war against gambling in Indianapolis was constructed in municipal court lour this morning, when Judge William H. Sheaffer discharged Denver and Sea Ferguson, Negroes, proprietors of a printing establishment raided last week. Tn their place at 322 North Senate avenue were confiscated thousands of books of baseball pool tickets, which. Judge Sheaffer held today, are not gambling devices. Before the state could present raiding policemen as witnesses, Ralph Spann, attorney for the Fergusons, moved to suppress evidence obtained during the search, on the grounds that nowhere does the Indiana statute governing search warrants classify possession of baseball pool tickets an offense for which a warrant to search may be issued. Fail on Identification Judge Sheaffer sustained the motion, but the state was not through with its prosecution. Two witnesses were produced to say they cashed tickets at the Ferguson establishment, and a third man said he sold tickets obtained there on a 25 cent commission basis. However, none of the three could identify either of the Fergusons as a party in the cash transactions. Spaan argued against third degree methods, in which he quoted the Wickersham commission report on that phase of law enforcement. He failed to substantiate any charges of third degree methods used to obtain a statement from Chick Price, Negro, 635 Agnes street, one of the witnesses, but prevented introduction of the statement as evidence. As Price left the courtroom, Lieutenant Dan Cummings arrested him and accused him of perjury in the i sworn statement, in which he is j alleged to have admitted having received $420 from Denver Ferguson on a lucky ticket. Another Witness Fizzles In court he could not identify the person who gave him the money, Price said. Jeff Edwards, Negro, 216 Anderson street, said he cashed a sls ticket at the Ferguson printing shop, but, like Price was unable to name the person who handled the money. Rufus Muzzy. 325 Parkway, said ! he sold tickets for the printing com- j pany on a 25 per cent commission, j “Even that does not constitute a , law violation," Spann declared. “He | went to the printing shop, got j tickets, and went out and sold I them. He was guilty, perhaps, but j the Fergusons were not. Motion Is Sustained "The other day a lawyer told me he bought a quart of whisky in one of the corridors outside this courtroom. However, that doesn’t make the judge here responsible for the violation." Spann said. His motion to discharge the defendants was sustained. Edwards, on trial immediately after on a charge of keeping a j gambling device and lottery and gift enterprise, also was discharged. GERMAN REPUBLIC IS 12 YEARS OLD TODAY Bruening Appeals to Reichstag for Political Unity in Crisis. By United Frees BERLIN, Aug ll.—Members of the Reichstag, President von Hindenburg and hundreds of government officials celebrated the twelfth birthday of Germany's republican constitution today. Chancellor Heinrich Bruening spoke before the Reichstag, appealing for political unity during the present German crisis. Hermann Robert Dietrich, finance minister, declared that capitalism and Bolshevism were engaged in mortal combat, with the world anxiously awaiting the outcome President von Hindenburg listened to the speakers. He was pale and silent, obviously worn by the strain of recent financial and political difficulties. IT’S A SNAKY STORY Here's One Fish Story That Sounds A Trifle Fishy. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug 11.—Edward Peterson claimed today he had the best fish story of the season. “It’s a snaky one," he said “I just got back from a vacation at my cottage on Lake Marie near Antioch. While there. I left my fishing rod standing at the side of the house ons. night The hook was baited. “Next morning I heard something thdmping the house, went out and found a three-foot snake struggling on the hook.” Colonel Gorrell Flies Westward Colonel Edgar S, Gorrell. head of the Stutz Motor Car Company, today was en route to the west coast by airplane to hold a series of sales meetings with company representatives.

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HOPE WANES FOR CRAMER; AVIATOR MISSING IN NORTH

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Parker Cramer DEBT HOLIDAY ACCORD SIGNED Nations Join in Protocol to Make Plan Effective. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 11.—A formal protocol embodying measures to make the Hoover debt holiday plan effective was signed today at the foreign office. Signatures were affixed in the Locarno room after brief speeches by various ambassadors and experts who had worked three weeks in dovetailing the Hoover plan into existing agreements. The signing was completed at 5:15 p. m. It was understood that one of the most important recommendations in the protocol was the agreement to accept bonds of the German National Railways, reimbursable within ten years from 1933, in lieu of the current year’s suspended conditional and unconditional reparations payments. Signing of the experts’ recommendations began at 4:45 p. m. and was followed by signing of the protocol. t, n wife saved Mrs. Roosevelt Rescued From Sinking Airplane. By United Preset NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—A seaplane carrying Porto Rican government officials and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the Porto Rican Governor, sank, in Ponce bay today, but all aboard were rescued, according to an All-America Cables message today. The Ponce office said: "A pan-American seaplane from San Juan, bringing government officials and Mrs. Roosevelt, sank in Ponce bay today. All on board were saved." SAFETY DIRECTOR IN COUNTY IS OUSTED Mrs. Florence Stone Fired by Sumner for ‘‘Good of Department.” Discharge of Mrs. Florence H. Stone as county safety director has been announced by Sheriff Charles L. Sumner. The sheriff said he discharged her “for the good of the department.” Mrs. Stone, who had the rank of deputy sheriff, was the first w r oman to be named deputy sheriff in the county. She received the position two years ago, under George L. Winkler, then sheriff. Sheriff Sumner said he would replace her with someone experienced in safety work. The safety director is in charge of school patfols in rural schools. GARY MAN TAKES I LIFE Gives Granddaughter Bag of Candy Then Fires Bullet Into His Heart. By Times Special GARY. Ind., Aug. 11.—Giving his 5-year-old granddaughter a sack of candy. Anton Rocandich, 56, of this city, drove to his daughter's home in Merrillville Monday afternoon and fired a rifle bullet through his j heart. He had been ill for some time | and during the last week had been ! unable to eat. relatives informed I authorities.

CHARGES CORONER DENIED DYING PLEA

A story of how Coroner Fred W. Vehling, who now faces an impeachment suit in circuit court, ignored a man's death-bed wishes for disposition of his property, was told today. Wallace Padgett, 257 South Summit street, business partner of John Snyder, was at city hospital, July 17, when Snyder died of alcoholic poisoning. Vehling is charged with refusing to turn Snyder's personal property over to James Holland, administrator, who filed the suit demanding the coroner’s impeachment. Snyder came to this city alone, roomed at Holland's home, and became engaged with Padgett in a fruit-selling business “Snyder told me a lot about his private affairs I told Vehling I had some requests my partner wanted carried out, but the coro-

Mail Trail Blazer, Overdue Three Days, Is Object of Intensive Hunt. BY OLE CAVLING United Press Staff Correspondent COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11.—Hope waned today for the safety of Parker D. Cramer, American trans-At-lantic flier, nearly three days overdue on the last lap of his flight over the storm-swept Atlantic. Storms delayed airplane search parties planned under the direction of Captain Riiser-Larsen, Norwegian flier. Riiser-Larson Is ready to lead a relief expedition out from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, when the heavy weather lifts. Cramer, accompanied by Oliver Pacquette, Canadian radio opera- ! tor, had not been heard from since late last Saturday. The two left Sydero, on the Faroe islands, at 1 p. m., Saturday, on an 800-mile flight to Copenhagen. Their flight started at Detroit, July 27, and was designed to map an air route linking America and Europe by way of Greenland, Iceland and Norway. The American flier had long experience to aid him on the flight across the north Atlantic, experts pointed out. There was some hope that Cramer again might have been forced down at sea and was riding out the storm in his sturdy seaplane. The only other hope lay in the possibility they had been picked up by a small vessel without radio equipment. Damage to their own sending set would explain lack of word from them since Saturday. All ships at sea along the route believed taken by Cramer off the Norway coast were asked to watch for the plane and give it every possible assistance. GOLF AGE IS OUT Bedford Star Called Home From State Tourney, BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Correspondent FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 11.— Southern Indiana’s chief hope for medalist honors in the 1931 Hoosier amateur golf championship was lost today after the withdrawal of Miles Standlsh, young Bedford ace# Standish, who finished next to Bill Heinlein on Monday with a 72, was called home by serious illness of his father today. First-day leaders found the going tough today and were battling a high cross wind which swept the course and made sweaters comfortable. Bill Heinlein, who toured the Hills links in 69 Monday to head the parade, appeared well on his way to medal honors when he! rounded the turn in 35 today. ‘EMPIRE STATE’ HIT BY LIGHTNING 3 TIMES A! Smith’s New Building Proves ! Itself Safeguard to Gotham. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The new Empire State building, towering 1.250 feet into the clouds, proved itself the world's largest lightning rod when it was struck three times by lightning during Monday night’s thunderstorm here. A great bolt hit the metal mooring mast at 9:20 p. m., causing a flash of flame seen for many blocks, and a detonation as of thunder, but no damage was done to the building, power and telephone lines. Telephone operators on the eighty-sixth floor said a sheet of flame shot past the window’s down to the ground. “Experts have proved the Empire State building is a giant lightning ■ rod,” Edward Carney, superintend- j ent said. “It protects nearby build- : ings from lightning damage." KILLER IS ACQUITTED Mine Chief Is Exonerated by Coroner's Jury at Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH. Aug. 11.—Patrick T. Fagan, president of district No 5, United Mine Workers of America, who killed Patrick Murphy, alias Phillip J. McClure, last July 27. after Murphy had attempted to shoot him, was exonerated by a coroner's jury today. The jury returned a verdict that Fagan had slain Murphy in “excusable self-defense.”

ner never listened to me,” Padgett declared. “Later I went to Vehling's office and he told me not to worry about the estate—that he was holding insurance policies, S3BO in postal savings and deeds to Florida and Ohio real estate.” The property has been turned over to Snyder s widow in Cincinnati, according to Fred Barrett. Vehling's attorney. A demurrer to Holland s suit was filed today for Vehling by Barrett. It asks that the impeachment suit be dismissed, on the ground that only the county prosecutor has the right to bring impeachment charges against a public official, and that, therefore, the court is without jurisdiction. Barrett’s demurrer also alleges that the facts are not sufficient to prosecute Vehling is ill on vacation at Georgian bay, Canada.

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COAT OF PAINT TO END ‘PROBE’ AT POOR FARM County Commission Finds It’ll Help Whitewash of Infirmary Officials. GLOSS OVER CHARGES Board Members Agreed on ‘Solution’ of Accusations by Inmates. BY SHELDON KEY Probe by which county commissioners had announced “we will go to the bottom” of charges that a 75-year-old blind pauper was imprisoned in a "filthy and foul-smell-ing” cell at the Marion county poor farm has ended ab/uptly. Instead, County Commissioner George Snider today ordered John C. Carter, farm superintendent, to paint and clean the cell. ..This, it is understood, will be the only reprimand commissioners w’ill give Carter for numerous criticisms of mismanagement at the poor farm. Charges that they had found Insanitary conditions at the farm w’ere made last week by two doctors, w’ho frustrated an attempt of poor farm attendants to railroad George Robinson, blind pauper, to a hospital for the insane. It's Ended, Says Snider After calling Doctor Orvall Smiley Monday, Snider passively announced the probe was ended. “Smiley says he is too busy to appear before the board, so, I guess, that we will not go ahead w’ith the investigation.” Snider declared. Smiley's report to Superior Judge John W. Kern, who refused to declare the aged inmate insane, however, is available whenever the commissioners care to make a study of it, they were told. Commissioner Dow’ Vorhies. Democrat, is inclined to agree with Snider in most matters, especially those affecting the poor farm. Snider did not take the trouble to ask Dr. Emil G. Winters, who also investigated the insanity case, to appear before the board. Winters told The Times that he was willing to bare all facts he had found regarding "filthy and insanitary” conditions. More Whitewash Sprayed Among other charges against Carter which were whitewashed by commissioners were those made by the grand jury that “there is Evidence of mistreatment of inmates at the poor farm.” When this report was issued, Snider laughed it off by remarking: “Well, it's just another one of those grand jury reports.” Neither Carter nor his son, who manages the farm, will have to appear before commissioners to answer these charges. Lips of an aged tubercular Inmate, who talked before the grand jury, have been sealed. He is seiwing a prison sentence, received after Howard Wiseman, poor farm attendant, filed affidavit for his arrest. Annex Plans Submitted Wiseman also will be relieved from appearing before commissioners. He signed the papers demanding transfer of Robinson to the asylum. Plans for erection of a temporary I frame structure to relieve overcrow’ded conditions at the farm were submitted to commissioners today by Architect Donald Graham. The structure, expected to cost approximately $15,000, will be used as a men's dormitory. It will be modernly heated and ventilated, contain seven exits, and; a recreation room for inmates, com-! missioners declared. Room for 150 i beds will be provided. YOUNG CITY WOMAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. Harry R. Stout, 33, Dies After Short Illness. Mrs. Harry R Stout. 23. 736 North Dequincy street, died Monday at Chestnut Hills, Mass., following an illnes of three months. She formerly was connected with the classified ad department of The and was director of the women's hour of WFBM. She was a graduate of Arsenal Technical high school. Survivors are the husband, and her mother, Mrs. Arthur R Brough. The body arrived in Indianapolis today and was taken to the home of J. Stout, 2411 North New Jersey street. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. ASSESSMENTS HIKED Blanket Order Is Handed to Eight Counties by Board. j Eight Indiana counties were given blanket assessment increases by the {state tax board today because they ; had refused to put into effect a former state board order increasing | certain townships. Today's ruling on the eight counj ties follows: On household goods, Floyd counity, increased 10 per cent, Sullivan I 25’per cent. Harrison 25 per cent, i Monroe 20 per cent, Daviess 10 per cent. Scott 20 per cent. Greene 20 per cent and Bartholomew 10 per cent. A 20 per cent increase on automobiles was orde.ed in Daviess county. Hourly Temperatures 6 a m .... 61 10 a m 69 7 a m 63 11 a m .... 73 Ba. m .... 67 12 <noon>.. 70 9 a m 68 1 p. m 68

Whopper Mem Sea Bass Weighing 133 Pounds Dragged From Florida Waters by City Fisherman.

How’s this for a bass, you Hoosier fishermen? It weighs 133 pounds and he’s tha-a-a-t long! The giant sea bass (pictured above! was caught by Charles Dady, 1073 Oliver avenue, and Walter Pickerd. local boxer at Collier, Fla. It was shipped to Smith-Hassler-Sturm, 219 Massachusetts avenue where it will be on display in ice in the show window.

OGDEN RULES PAY FOR STATE HOUSE CLEANING IS LEGAL

Contracts Like $64,000

Award on Capitol Illegal, but Way Out Is Found.

Although holding that contracts made like the $64,000 statehouse cleaning contract are illegal, At-torney-General James M, Ogden ruled today that payments may be made from the Governor’s emergency fund. Ruling was made on four questions asked by Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. Upon receiving the opinion, Williamson first announced that he now will honor Governor Harry G. Leslie's checks, paying for the progress made by the Cincinnati Cleaning Company. No Appropriation Made Later, how’ever, he went into conference with Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and L. O. Chasey, secretary to Governor Les-’ lie. By noon he was undecided and said he might demand a court order before making the payments. “Neither Mayr nor myself ever was consulted in this building cleaning matter and no blame should attach to us if the Governor tried to be the whole buildings and grounds committee.” Williamson asserted. The opinion held that contracts made by the buildings and grounds committee are illegal unless there is an appropriation available for the purpose. Not Absolute Decision No such appropriation nad been made when the cleaning contract was signed. Such contracts are not binding on the signers. Ogden answered to the second Williamson question. But to a third question he pointed out that the Governor can pay almost anything from his emergency fund, since there are no legislative

COPS FACE BOARD IN SLUGGING CASE

Charges that he was knocked down and beaten by a police officer after a minor motor law violation were pressed today by Ralph Surber, 21, of 725 Livingston avenue, in a hearing before the safety board. Surber accuses Harry Graham, motor patrolman. w r ith having attacked him as he got out of his car in the 2500 block West Washington street, the night of Aug. 2, after being forced to the curb by Graham and officer Otto Burk. Safety board members took the case under advisement after a lengthy hearing, and scored the officers for halting on an emergency run to question a motorist on a trivial law violation. Neither of the officers gave the board an explanation for halting on the emergency run. Burk also was cross-examined during his testimony when he said that Graham had struck Surber .only once and that a backhand blow." “How does it happen that this

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restrictions regarding it in either the 1929 or 1931 appropration act. The auditor can honor the Leslie checks for the building cleaning payments without liability, the opinion held on the fourth and last question asked by Williamson. This somewhat “yes and no” reply leaves the matter without any absolute decision on the validity of the particular contract in question, which is the one entered into by the buildings and grounds committee and the cleansing company. Asked regarding the contract itself, Ogden pointed out that such a question was not asked by Williamson, but all were hypothetical. PROBERS END JOB Wickersham Committee to Issue Three Reports, WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Within ten days the complete findings of the Wickersham commission on the state of law enforcement and observance in the United States will be laid before the public. Eleven paper-bound volumes of studies and recommendattons on subjects ranging from prohibition to police brutality have been published. Three more are to be isued shortly. They deal with “Crime and the Foreign Bom,” “The Cost of Crime” and “The Causes of Crime.” JINX HAUNTS NAUTILUS Arctic Submarine Haults Six Miles Out of Norwegian Port. TROMSOE, Norway,’ Aug. 11.— After an auspicious start for Spitzbergen today, Sir Hubert Wilkins’ polar submarine Nautilus apparently ran Into new difficulties. Seven miles north of Tromsoe the Nautilus halted. It then continued about a mile and again halted. Following the second stop, there were no answers to radio calls from shore to the Nautilus.

man (Surber) had a black eye, swollen face and a shattered cheek bone if it were just a ‘backhand blow?’ ” Burk was unable to answer the question and Graham later admitted hitting Surber three times, once he said in defense and twice because he believed Surber intended to flee. The statements of Surber and witnesses in his behalf were the first official steps in the board probe into the affair. After the alleged beating without cause, Surber told The Times that he had been attacked and displayed a horrible black eye and swollen face. As the first witness, Surber, partly recovered from the effects of the alleged beating, said he was driving west on Washington street and the police car. coming from the opposite direction, cut in front of him He testified he yelled, without i Turn to Page 1, Second Section)

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Emergency Landing Made Within an Hour’s Time of Nome, Goal on Hop From Point Barrow. RADIO MESSAGE SAYS ALL’S WELL Alaska Gold Town Prepares Lavish Welcome for Sky Tourists, Who Will Take -Off Later Today. By United Press NOME. Alaska, Aug. 11. —Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife today were forced to land on the north side of the Seward peninsula, in Good Hope bay, because of the fog. The Lockheed Sirius plane in which the Lindberghs are en route to Tokio made a safe landing in Kotzebue sound on the Seward peninsula side, within an hour of Nome, a radio message sent to the Nome coast guard station by Mrs. Lindbergh said. The message said weather conditions on the flight were good until a heavy fog was encountered crossing Kotzebue sound. The inland trip over rugged country from Point Barrow to Kotzebue sound was clear, but a slight headwind was encountered, Mrs. Lindbergh said in the message.

She wirelessed that the plane would rest on the sound until the fog lifts, when it will take off and come on to Nome. When the plane arrives here it is believed it will land on Bering sea at Nome roadstead, directly ... front of the Nome coast guard station. The sea there was rough during the night, but was smooth early todiy. While the Lindberghs spent the chill early morning in their plane on fog-filled Kotzebue sound, within about 100 miles, virtually all resident-. of Nome were on downtown streets, holding a. celebration in anticipation of the arrival later today of the famous couple. The picturesque Indian “King of Diomede” was in town with his Eskimo followers. Dozens of other Eskimos, who had come to Nome to see the Lindberghs, forgot their usual stolidness and mingled with the whites, around bonfires on the principal street, shouting and cheering. Good Hope bay is north of Seward peninsula, Northwest Alaska, a short distance to the northeast of the point where North America approaches closest to Siberia at Bering strait. Nome lies to the southwest, on the opposite side of Seward peninsula, less than 200 miles away on an air line, though considerably farther by sea around through Bering strait. Speed Toward Nome By United Press POINT BARROW, Alaska. Aug. 11—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh speeded in their black and yellow monoplane down the jagged coast line of Alaska today on the last flight they will make over American soil before crossing the Bering sea on the 7,000-mile vacation trip from Washington to the Orient. Heavily laden with strange souvenirs from their newly acquired friends inside the Arctic circle, the Lindberghs left here at 10:53 C. S. TANARUS., Monday night and headed almost due south on the 523-mile flight to Nome, the city made famous by gold. Has Enough Fuel Off the barren Arctic coast near Icy Capes, 150 miles away, the United States coast guard cutter Northland waited for the Lindberghs with a supply of gasoline, but Lindbergh said before leaving he had sufficient fuel for the flight and probably would not need to stop near the boat. As the pontoon-equipped monoplane rose slowly out of a lagoon in which it had rested since the Lindberghs flew here Saturday from Aklavik, a crowd of 400 Eskimos and a handful of white people waved good-by from the shore. Packed in the plane with the emergency supplies were many trinkets given as souvenirs by the natives. Only a part of the gifts showered upon them could be taken away, but Mrs. Lindbergh personally saw to it that not a present was left behind unless absolutely necessary. Visit With Children The famous American flier and his wife on Monday spent many happy minutes with the Eskimo children at Point Barrow; visited a river bank “stockyards,” where Eskimo fathers were slaughtering reindeer and storing away the meat for the winter, and conversed freely wherever they went with the northlanders, whose manner of living they found so different from their own. Several times during the day, Lindbergh gave informal lectures to little groups of traders, Eskimos and trappers, urging them to work hard to make Point Barrow an air mail | station and thus establish a definite i connection with the outside world. During the day, rumors spread | that perhaps the Lindbergh trip was not entirely a “vacation” after all. Hints were given that Lindbergh, as technical adviser for PanAmerican Airways, really was making a “pathfinding” flight to map out the best possible air mail route to the Orient.

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4 BODIES FOUND IN CHARRED CAR Two Girls and Companions Torch Murder Victims. By United Press YPSILANTI, Mich., Aug. 11.—The badly burned bodies of two young Cleveland girls and two Ypsilanti youths were found in a charred automobile on the outskirts of the city today. The four apparently had been robbed and attacked and the car set afire by their roadside assailants, police said. The dead: Vivfkn Gold, 15, and Anna Harris, 17, Cleveland, and Harry Lore, 18 and Thomas Wheatley 16, Ypsilanti. One of the girl's slippers was found in the ditch near the car. Evidence of a furious struggle was found about the machine, together with blood-soaked earth. The four victims had not been heard from since they left together to attend a movie at 8:30 Monday night. The girls were visiting at the home of Lore’s parents, who are relatives of one of them. Interior of the car and the bodies apparently had been soaked in gasoline before a. match was applied. A heavy wrench was lying across the neck of one of the victims. The crime was discovered by Harvey Santure, a farmer, who saw a blaze rising and a moment later heard the roar of a departing auto. Tracks indicated that two cars had driven up together at the roadside. RAINS BENEFIT CROPS Northwest Drought Situation Is Reported Relieved. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Recent rains in the northwest have relieved a serious drought situation which had begun to make severe inroads in the agricultural production of that section. Joseph B. Kincer, chief of the bureau of agricultural meteorology at the weather bureau, said today that crops and pastures have been greatly benefited in North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, lowa and the lower Missouri valley. Two Quakes Are Recorded By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Two severe earthquake shocks, approximately 5,700 miles distant, were recorded late Monday on the seismograph at Fordham university.

Rat Fever! By United Press BEAVER DAM, 0., Aug 11. A mouse bite suffered by Russell Lutterbein. 17, today was reported to have developed into "rat fever" —ofie of the rare maladies of medical history. The youth was bitten by the small rodent, which he seized by the tail on his father’s farm here. He developed violent pains about the stomach, at first daily and then recurring several times a day. At first mystified by the disease, doctors finally diagnosed it as “rat fever,” which they believe to be one of the first cases on record in the state. They said the victim will survive, but it will take six months before the malady runs its course. The violent attacks recur only during the day, when his fever runs 104. At night the patient rests comfortably, his physicians reported.

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