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BORAH PLEADS FOR FIVE-YEAR NAVAL TRUCE Urges World Powers to Call Complete Holiday on Ship Building. DEMANDS BOLD MOVE ‘Now Is Time to Disarm,’ Declares Famous Statesman. BY RAY TUCKER Times fltaff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—An appeal that the world powers—the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan, and Italy—proclaim a five-year holiday on all naval construction to promote world peace and economic recovery was voiced today by Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and author of the historic disarmament call in 1921. Although Borah did not say so definitely, he indicated that he thought the United States should assume the leadership in such a movement. The financial crisis in Great Britain and the United States he declared, revealed the need for lifting the tremendous burdens of armaments, which amounted to $4,168,000,000 in 1930, from the shoulders of the taxpayers. “I should like to see an effort made to obtain a naval holiday covering all construction on the part of these five powers,” said the senator in a message to the ScrippsHoward newspapers, ‘‘for the term of five years, or for as long as can be obtained. Outlines National Crises “England has a crisis over the matter of reducing the allowance to the unemployed. It seems to me it might be possible instead to reduce the budget for armaments. “The United States is passing her deficit, her current expenses, on to posterity—a thing almost unheard of in this country. The people in both countries by the millions are in financial distress, and are unable to pay their taxes. “It seems to me that we might move boldly in the matter of lifting a part of the armament burden. And if we can bring this about, it will be about the only advance we are going to make soon in the matter of easing the burden of armament costs. “The great powers of the world have signed pacts for the renunciation of war. They have agreed to limitation of their fleets. They are looking forward to further efforts to reduct both military and naval establishments. Far Ahead of Leaders “Every statesman proclaims his desire for a reduction of these intolerable expenditures which retard world-wide economic recovery. “The people, in my opinion, are far ahead of their leaders in this respect, for it is they who suffer most from the terrific taxes piling up from maintenance of great armies and navies. Money that should go to provide people with jobs should not be used to make more ships of war. “We all want disarmament. We all talk disarmament. Now * the time to disarm.” Adoption of the Borah program bv the five powers would stop further construction of the ships authorized in the London naval treaty, which are estimated to cast about $3,000,000,000 for the principal participants and $1,000,000,000 for the United States alone.

Would Save Huge Sums It also would permit additional economies in that maintenance expenditures for new ships, which will amqunt to about $50,000,000 additional each year with the completion of our present program, would be avoided. Roughly, Borah's proposal would mean an annual saving to the I United States estimated to range | from $70,000,000 to $200,000,000 ! through the next five years. The discrepancy rests in the fact that there are conflicting proposals as to the speed with which the treaty navy should be built. Borah's program is an elaboration of the plea of Dino Grandi, Italy's foreign minister, that the powers postpone all naval construction for at least one year. Others have urged delay in building up to the London treaty standard pending the outcome of the Geneva gathering, for which high hopes are held by the Hoover administration. To all the proposals. President Hoover is represented as giving a “sympathetic ear,” although various plans for spending large sums on new naval construction are under official consideration by Hoover and the budget bureau. May Strike Right Chord There are indication?, however, that the senator’s appeal may strike a responsive chord in official circles, as he did when he proposed a general disarmament conference back in 1921. President Harding demurred to it, and the late Henry Cabot Lodge, then chairman of the foreign relations committee, poohpoohed it as “Borah's dream.” But in a few weeks, Charles Evans Hughes, than seertary of state, hopped a train for New Haven, and there delivered an address embodying Borax’s whole program. As a result of the changed attitude on the part of the Harding administration resulting from popular support of Borah’s demand, the United States sponsored the Washington arms conference in the fall of 1921 and the Dawes Economic conference at Paris in 1922.

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The water front of the stricken city of Belize, British Honduras, were hundreds of lives are reported lost in a tropical hurricane, is shown above. Much of the city was destroyed and half of the population rendered homeless, according to first reports.

Hoover Scored By United Press APPLETON, Wis., Sept. 12— The “childish chatter” of President Hoover’s administration, highly paid ministers, prohibition enforcement and unemployment—all these the Wisconsin conference of the Methodist Episcopal churches deplored in no uncertain language Friday night. “The childish chatter of the administration that ‘the American way of life must be preserved’ indicates an incompetency and ignorance which borders on the immoral in its evasion of responsibility. Men want food and they must have it. But they want the privilege of earning their own food,” said the report.

REVIVE HOPE OF FINDING FLIERS Steamer Brings Word of Hearing Plane. By t inted Piths SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 12. Word reaching here with the docking of the steamship Alaska brought some hopes to searchers that Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen, who attempted to make a nonstop # flight ■from Japan to Seattle, yet may be found alive. Passengers aboard the steamer reported they heard an airplane motor about 11 Tuesday night. They said they could not see the plane because of low-hanging mist and darkness. Although the report was grasped by searchers for the missing airmen as their only definite hope of finding some trace of Moyle and Allen, enthusiasm was dimmed by the fact that the “City of Tacoma II” was not due in the vicinity of the steamer until after 11 o’clock Tuesday. Searchers intended to renew their quest through southern Alaska, however, in the forlorn 4 hope that the aviators —unreported* since shortly after they left the beach at Sabishiro, Japan, last Monday—might have succeeded in reaching the mainland. WIND DELAYS LINDYS Flying Couple Delay Hop Toward China; May Start Sunday. By United Piths KASUMIGURA NAVAL AIRDROME. Japan, Sept. 12.—A strong wind temporarily delayed the departure of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh today on the first leg of their flight to China. The famous American couple, rested after their twenty-nine-day journey along the borders of the Pacific from America to Japan, had planned to take off for Osaka. It was expected they would start Sunday If the weather cleared. From Asaka the Lindberghs will fly to Nanking, seat of the China national government. DELAY SCHNEIDER RACE Bad Weather Causes Postponement of Sea Plane Speed Event. By United Press CALSHOT, England, Sept. 12. Unfavorable weather today caused the postponement of the Schneider cup sea plane speed races. The races will be held Sunday, beginning at 12:30 p. m., weather permitting. British speed fliers have no competition in the races, Italy and France having withdrawn. The fliers hoped to attain approximately 400 miles an hour in the walkover that gives England permanent possession of the Schneider trophy.

GIRL, 4, KILLED AS SHE DARTS IN PATH OF TRUCK

Running in front of a truck in 1 the 4400 block Rockville road, 4-year-old Josephine Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Robertson, 29 North Ryan street, was injured fatally today. She died a few minutes after being taken to the admitting room of The child sustained a fractured, skull and broken right leg. The driver of the truck, whose name was not learned by police at city hospital by Richard Wishmeyer, 36, of 4418 I Rockville road, a 1 1 J neighbor, who witnessed the trag- • edy. the time of the girl's death, remained at the scene of the accident. Wishmeyer told police the girl

DETECTIVE IS WOUNDED BY HIS JIN GUN Bullet Passes Through His Body; Revolver Falls From Holster. When his revolver dropped from his holster and was discharged early today, Roger J. Kramer, 30, of 1117 West Thirty-first street, was shot through the right shoulder and wounded seriously. Kramer, an operative of the Quigly-Hyland detective agency and special deputy sheriff, was cranking the patrol car he and operative Ed Green of Brookside use in covering their beat in Crow’s Nest, when the accident occurred near the Highland Country Club. Kramer was hurled several feet and he and Green first believed the car had "kicked,” breaikng Kramerers’ right arm. It was several moments before Kramer realized he had been shot. The bullet passed entirely through his body. Treated by Dr. G. F. Hobbs, Kramer was taken to the Methodist hospital, where physicians say he will recover. Kramer and his wife live with Mrs. Kramer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lovett, at the Thirtyseventh §treet address. Lovet is superintendent of the detective agency. Kramer has worked for the agency several times in recent years. Green has been an employe of the agency eighteen months. Martin Hyland of the detective organization said the men were guarding homes and property at Crow’s Nest.

How the Market Opened

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The stock market presented a steady to firm tone at the opening today, but the advance started Friday afternoon Slowed up in the early trading. Business was on a small scale. Leading issues scored fractional gains in all sections. Steel common opened at 82 %, up M; Bethlehem Steel 3714, up !4; Allied Chemical 104 %, up Vs; Loews 48%, up 14; United Gas Improvement 27, up %, and Worthington Pump 40, up 14. International Business Machines which lost 6 points Friday, soared 8 points to 136 at the opening today. Mullins Manufacturing preferred made the widest decline in the early trading, dropping 314 points to 44. Elsewhere price changes were relatively small. Some pressure was noted in American Telephone which declined a point to 16314. Fractional losses were .recorded in Pennsylvania Railroad, Texas Corporation, International Nickel, General Electric, North American, | Lorillard, American Can, Montgom--1 ery Ward and North American. Westinghouse Electric which I opened at 5314, off 14, broke to a new low at 51%, unsettling the list as the session progressed. American Telephone and United States Steel dipped from the opening levels. The general list eased off from the initial prices with the leaders. Trading slowed down on the decline. Small Girl Thrown From Cart Elizabeth Warner, 4, Negro, 630 Roanoke street, suffered a scalp wound and a broken jaw when thrown from a watermelon cart near her home Friday night. The driver started up Unaware that the child was standing on the wheel.

was playing near the road and suddenly darted into the path of the truck. said he picked up the girl and brought her to the hospital immediately. The child’s death was the 115th automobile death in Marion county since Jan. 1 and the fourth in two days. LEAGUE ADMITS MEXICO Geneva Assembly Elects Nation as Member by Unanimous Vote. By United Press GENEVA, Sept. 12.—The League of Nations assembly today elected Mexico a league member by unanimous vote and invited her to attend the present session.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931

At the Fair

Today (Aviation Day) 2 to 2:3o—Aerial review—all ships—military and commercial. 2:30 to 2:4s—Demonstration taperwinged Waco. 2:45 to 3—Waco stunting and acrobatics. 3 to 3:3o—Special formation military maneuvers. 3:30 to 3:45—8a1100n bursting. 3:45 to 4—Parachute drops. 4 to 4:ls—Military acrobatics. 4:15 to 4:4s—Artillery barrage and aerial attack. Battery C of 38th division; antiarcraft battle. 4:45 to s—Aerial race: aerial review. Thirty-eight division headouarters band from Lebanon, morning and afternoon. Vaudeville acts in front of grand stand, afternoon. Indianapolis Military band, grand stand, afternoon. UTILITY RATES GUT DEMANDED Civic Club Passes Resolution Without Dissent. Reduction of utility rates in proportion to the earning capacity of the average individual and proportionate to the reduced cost of other necessities is demanded in a resolution adopted by the Arlington and Raymond Civic Club. The motion was passed without dissent at the meeting Friday night, following ah address by Vincent H. Manifold, former deputy prosecuting attorney. “Utility charges today are the same as those assessed when living and production costs were at their peak. Our entire economic structure is going through a period of transition, yet the utilities are maintaining an artificial and prohibitive tariff, which must be abolished,” asserted Manifold. Reductions in the salaries of public officials and employes were favored by Manifold, who declared such action to be equitable because of the employment situation affecting workers in private pursuits. The club also adopted a resolution opposing the action of the Warren township trustee and advisory board in reducing the school. HAWKS JUFTER MARK Plans Try for Record From Columbus, 0. to City. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Captain Frank M. Hawks, America’s speedking of the air, will “race” an air transport liner from Columbus, G., to Los Angeles, Monday and Tuesday. The big plane, after leaving New York Monday morning, will be met by Hawks at Columbus that afterj noon. He wil lescort it from there ! to Kansas City, attempting to set new records for the flight between Columbus and Indianapolis, Indianapolis and St. Louis, St. Louis and Kansas City. On Tuesday, again accompanying j the transport plane, he will seek speed records between its scheduled stops at Wichita, Kan.: Amarillo, Tex.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Winslow, Ariz., and Los Angeles. Mrs. Ida Mae Hawks, the flier’s mother, will fly on the passenger plane.

GANDHI IK ENCUND Shawls Protest Him From Drizzle as He Lands. By United Press FOLKSTONE, England, Sept. 12. —The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi reached England here today at 1:15 p. m., on his way to London. On landing from the Channel steamer, Gandhi walked along the railroad track to a waiting motor car in a drizzling rain, clad in his inevitable loin cloth. He had two white shawls thrown over his thin shoulders and wore sandals, but his shaved head and legs were bare. He carried several shawls under his arms as he entered the front of a closed automobile driven by F, A. M. Vincent, social secretary at the Indian conference and former commissioner of police in Bombay. Before they drove off for London, Gandhi gratefully accepted an automobile rug which he spread over his knees. In the Air I Weather conditions at- 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, two miles an hour; temperature, 82; barometric pressure, 30.15 at sea level; ceiling, high broken clouds, hazy, unlimited; visibility,, six miles; field, good.

AIR CIRCUS TO CLIMAX STATE FAIRJVENTS Parachute Drops, Balloon Bursting and Races on ' Today’s Slate. ATTENDANCE IS DOWN Highly Pleased With Class of SJock and Other Exhibits. Aces of the air, with parachute drops, balloon bursting, an antiaircraft attack, and races will stage several stunts at the Indiana state fair at 2 this afternoon? But long before the 'aviators of One hundred thirteenth observation squadron of ths Indiana national guard taxied their planed to landings on the infield of the race track, preparatory for the air circus, trucks were taxing cattle, sheep And swine from stalls back to the fsfcm or to another show. Midway hawkers and sideshow managers began dismantling booths and tents as fair board \ officials counted total receipts and attendance. Called Best Fair “All in all, it was Indiana’s best fair. It was best from the standpoint of stock shown by exhibitors and the support given it by Hoosiers,” declared E. J. Barker, secre-tary-treasurer of the fair board. Barker and other fair officials figured that although attendance for the week dropped approximately 35,000 over the 1930 exhibition, the board would break even on expenses. “And that’s better than any other fair in the country has done these more or less tough times,” declared one official. Total fair attendance through Friday was 192,131. The same ’fj’riod in 1930 had an attendance bf 226,686. Labor Day Was “Top” Final fair figures today will determine whether the iair goes more than 35,000 shy of 1930 figures. Saturday, the Closing day of the 1930 fair, 10,308 persons attended. Labor day with its 63,386 paid admissions and Legislator’s' day with 38,595 attendance were high spots in the week. The Labor day attendance was higher than 1930. The collision between two engines scheduled for tonight has been called off by the fair board and the gates of the grounds will close at 6 p. m. Contracts for the crash were cancelled when it was found the promoter would be unable to prepare for the crash in time. porkefTprices drop 20 CENTS AT YARDS Slaughter Steers Sell Unchanged, Vealers Hold Steady. Swine market at the Union Stockyards this morning ended the week’s trade lower, prices ranging mostly 20 cents below Friday’s average. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds were selling at $6.25 to $6.40, while top held at $6.40. Receipts were estimated at 2,000. Holdovers 48. Slaughter steers in the cattle market were quotably steady. Receipts were 150. Vealers continued to hold unchanged selling at $9.50 down. Receipts 100. Sheep and lambs scarce, with the usual Saturday market unevenly lower. Bulk of a better grade of lambs sold at $6 to $7, while extreme top reached SB. Receipts numbered 400.

RE-ENACT BAY TRAGEDY IN BOAT MYSTERY PROBf

BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent SYOSSET, L. 1., Sept. 12. Twenty-four hours of investigation of close questioning, and a reenactment of the tragedy have convinced authorities that Mrs. Benjamin Collins’ fantastic story of how her husband was killed by Long Island sound pirates is the truth. Following reports from a ferryboat captain that he had seen the overall-clad body of a man drifting near the point where, according to Mrs. Collins, two men bound her husband and threw him overboard from his motor boat, the Penguin, search for the missing man was continued today. A search of the Penguin, discovery of an old and evidently unused revolver—but no ammunition —and a thorough digest of the contests of Mrs. Collings’ diary disclosed no new clems for Nassau count authorities. MEXICAN ASSASSINATED Prominent Politician Shot Down by Unknown Assailant. By United Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Sept. 12. —Dr. Manuel Gonzales Rubio, prominent politician, was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant Friday. The shooting took place outside headquarters of a political party as Dr. Rubio said good-by to his wife and daughter and stepped from his automobile. The shooting was connected with bitter political feeling here. Legger Suspect Nabbed Apprehended by Lieutenant Dan Cummings, James Alexander, 48 North West street, was charged with transporting liquor, blind tiger and failure to have a certificate of title. Friday night. Police said they found five gallons of whisky in his car.

HUNDREDS DIE IN BELIZE HURRICANE; TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS WRECKED CITY

Grim Ruin Hurricane Piles Buildings in Belize Into Huge Heap of Jackstraws.

By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The tropical hurricane which struck Belize, British Honduras, Thursday afternoon, took a death toll estimated at 400, with 600 injured, blew houses around like toys, and scattered debris everywhere, according to eye-witness accounts received by Pan-Amer-ican Airways here. Circling over the ruined city in his mail plane, Pilot E. S. Rodenbaugh radioed to New York a description of the devastation, which had reduced a thriving city of 13,000 to the appearance of a gigantic pile of jackstraws. He was unable to land, he reported. Reports from Diddier Masson, Pan-American field manager in Belize, placed the dead at 400, and the injured at 600. Masson also told how the wind struck, its velocity at times as high as 110 miles an hour. “The hurricane has wrought untold havoc in the city of Belize,” Rodenbaugh spelled out in dots and dashes, giving the world its first description of the ruins. “Not a building is undamaged and the entire town is washed out. n tt “npHE houses are piled up like J- so many toys. One area, in the heart of the city, about six blocks square, appears to be wiped out. “Ships and barges* scattered and hammered by the hurricane, are swept high on dry land. Houses have been washed out to sea and can be seen bobbing about in the water, nearly submerged. “The Belize river has overflown its banks and its yellow waters are drowning part of the region. The river itself is so full of debris that the natives have difficulty in navigating it in their dugouts. “Our hangar for planes of the Pan-American Airways is a place of refuge for about 40 or 50 persons. None other of the buildings remains standing.” a u u T'HE pilot said he had picked up medicine in Cozumel, in accordance with instructions from New York, and dropped it at Belize. The first warning of the storm’s approach came from Masson Thursday at 1:35 p. m. The message said a storm was approaching the city an dthat the wind velocity at the time was forty-five miles an hour. After that the Belize radio station was silent. The hurricane struck in full force at p. m., Thursday, Masson said, and blew for fifteen minutes steatidy. Then there was a lull of about half an hour and another fifteen-minute blow of great intensity. The storm center appeared to have passed through the middle of the city, he reported. Auto Cushion Bursts Into Flames By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 12. Patrolman C. H. Kissinger and C. W. Gipner knew there was a fire, but they didn’t know where. They found it when their „ automobile cushion burst into flames, ignited by smoldering oil rags.

The diary, it was said, was merely a desultory account of minor events occurring over some years. Admitting the truth of Mrs. Collins’ strange story, detectives turned their attention to another absorbing theory—that Collings may not be, as his wife supposes, a murder victim. This theory is based in part on several peculiar incidents as related by his wife. First, she says, she heard one of the two “pirates” say, “Don’t tie his hands too tight,” admittedly a strange command if the men’s intention was to drown their victim. Again, according to Mrs. Codings, she heard her husband call out, “They’re tying my hands,” and, later, “They are throwing me overboard,” as thoug he were himself reporting the pirates’ progress; Mrs. Collings is said to have informed police that her husband has recently made several trips ashore from the Penguin, on errands about which she knew nothing. He has also devoted much time and practice to swimming, which he had never undertaken until this year.

MERCURY TO STAY IN 90’S OVER THE WEEK-END

Indianapolis will swelter over the week-end, according to the weather bureau’s forecast. No letup in the next forty-eight hours is seen in the torrid wave that struck the central west early this week. Temperatures are scheduled to stay in the early nineties today and Sunday, although some cloudiness may bring minor relief in early hours.

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Hundreds of Houses Destroyed in Capital of British Honduras; Relief Rushed From United States. STORM DIMINISHING IN VIOLENCE Terrific Winds Also Rake San Juan, Porto Rico, Killing Two and Causing Heavy Property Loss. By United Press The city of Belize, capital of British Honduras,- is in ruins and from 150 to 400 residents are dead in the hurricane that crashed through the city Thursday, accompanied by a tidal wave, destroying hundreds of houses and disrupting communications. A second intense storm, sweeping over San Juan, Porto Rico, at a 110-mile rate, unroofed houses, destroyed plantations and resulted in the known deaths of two persons. Both storms, according to meteorological experts, were beating themselves out today, the first on the Mexican mainland and the second against a mountain range in Haiti. Relief forces, organized in Washington, were hurrying medicine, food and other supplies to British Honduras. United States naval vessels were ordered to Belize, British Honduras, and planes carrying serum were ready to fly over the distressed territory. An aviator who reached Belize, but was unable to land because of terrible weather conditions, reported a greater part of the city razed by the storm and a heavy flood which swept in on the heels of the terrific wind. The two hurricanes were regarded 'as separate storms. No accurate estimate of loss could be obtained early today, for lack of communications.

400 Reported Dead in Belize; Deluge Comes in Storm’s Wake

By Times Special MIAMI, Sept. 12.—Two tropical hurricanes sweeping over the Caribbean, one leaving the city of Belize, British Honduras, in ruins, with 400 reported dead and 600 injured, the other striking with less force at San Juan, Porto Rico, appeared to be losing their destructive power today.

The Belize storm, accompanied by a tidal wave that sent a flood of water eight feet deep through the Honduran capital at its height, was reported spending itself in the area northeast of Vera Cruz, Mexico, the United States weather bureau announced. Fear in Florida that the San Juan storm, which tore through the city at 100 miles an hour, unroofing houses and destroying communications, power lines and plantation equipment, might reach the southern coast of the United States with the intensity of 1926 and 1929, was set at rest by government assurances. Halted By Mountains R. W. Grey, Miami meteorologist, announced the San Juan hurricane had passed over Santo Domingo, 1,000 miles south of here, late Friday, and undoubtedly was spent against a mountain range of from 2,000 to 10,000 feet altitude near Port Au Prince, Haiti, fifty miles west of Santo Domingo. Officials of St. Louis university received a message from Bishop Joseph A. Murphy of the Jesuit mission at Belize, saying that eleven members of St. John’s college and twenty students had been killed in the disaster. The college was destroyed, the message said. Four ships believed to have been in the Caribbean somewhere in the vicinity of the path of the hurricane were unreported. They were: The Point Braba, Gulf Pacific line, which left New Orleans last Tuesday for San Francisco; The Point Chico of the same line, which left Colon on the same day for New Orleans; The Elizabeth Kellog of the Kelleg Steamship Corporation, New York, which left Colon Tuesday for New York, the Australind of the American Australind steamship lines, which left Galveston Wednesday for Australia via the Panama canal. Vessels May Be Lost Authorities indicated any or all of the vessels might # have suffered mishap in the storm. So great was the intensity of the storm at Bleize that San Juan’s condition was minimized, though at leas ttwo persons were killed and

Although skies were cloudy early today and lightning was seen there was no rain in any part of the state. The sky continued hazy and the sun had pushed the mercury to 84 at 9 from a low of 75 at 6 a. m. Highest Indiana temperature Friday as 92 at Madison, with Wheatfleld, generally claming high records, having the low of 65. Indianapolis mercury readings recored 92 Friday afternoon.

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approximately 100 homes and buildings were wrecked. In Belize the wind whipped through at a 110-mile velocity, which, without the destructive tidal wave, would have leveled the city. The waters which deluged the town from the ocean were blamed largely of tre Heavy loss of life. The storm struck in midafternoon Thursday with such suddenness that the world was not informed of the city’s condition for eighteen hours. The U. S. S. cruiser Rochester left Balboa, Carnal Zone, early today for Belize to assist in relief work in the center of the stricken area. Marine corps planes from Managua, Nicaragua, were expected to greet the Rochester when it reaches the scene. Planes Are Ready The planes awaited only assembling of supplies Friday night before taking off for Belize. The U. S. S. Swan was ordered from Trujillo, Honduras ,as was the gunboat Sacramento, also in neighboring waters. A British ship, the Dane, stationed at Earbadoes, was reported en route to Belize. Pan-American Airways radio Friday night broadcast an urgent request for medical supplies and antitoxins to prevent the spread of epidemics which often take as many lives as the storms which start them. Immediate dispatch of 500 antitetanus serum units, 200 antityphoid serum units, all kinds of clothing and bedding, 1,000 dressings for injuries, gauze, lint and other medical supplies was asked in the message, the first request for medical aid received. nautilus"south-bound Arctic Submarine in Snow Storm Out of Advent Bay. By United Press ADVENT BAY, Spitzbergen, Sept. 12.—The polar submarine Nautilus was bound south today in a heavy snow storm. The submarine, aboard which Sir Hubert Wilkins and his crew reached within approximately 550 miles of the north pole, returned here after a longer stay in the Arctic sea became impossible. Former Hoosier Slays By Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., Sept. 12. John Markham, 20, held in Denver, Col., as the confessed slayer of Stanley M. Moore, 21, at Holyoke. Col., spent the greater part of his life here. He was arraigned here seven years ago as a delinquent, but paroled to his father. Nurses Meet Today By Timet Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. If. Nurses of the First district, including this city, Peru. Wabash, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne and Huntington, are guests here today of the Cass County Association of Nurses. Those on the program include Mayor W. O Fiedler. Dr. O. R. Lynch of the Longcliff state hospital; Misses Mary Clesson, Gloria Temple and Mildred Warfelt. Hourly Temperatures 8 a. m 75 8 a. m...,; 82 7 a. m 76 9 a. m..... 84

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