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MELLON ASKS BILLION BOOST IN U. S. TAXES Treasury Secretary Tells! House Committee of Need for Increase. —— - INCOME LEVY RAISED Real Economy in Spending! of Government Money Is * Held Essential. C y Unit erf Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The administration’s program for levying nearly $1,000,000,000 of added taxes, in an emergency effort to balance the national budget, was laid before the house ways and means committee today by Secretary of Treasury Mellon. Mellon was the first witness called by the committee, as it began hear- j ings on its unwelcome task of draft- j ing a bill to impose new and higher j taxes on the natoin. The secretary, following out his earlier recommendations to concress. advocated a return to the income tax rates of 1924 and the imposition of new special taxes on automobiles, theater "tickets, telephone and telegraphic messages, stamps and other items. Figures Additional Yield For the fiscal year beginning next July, Mellon estimated the increased and new taxes he proposed would yield additional revenue as follows : Higher taxes on individual incomes slßS,ooo,ono High tax on corporate incomes fi0,000.000 Super tax on estates 11,000,000 Higher tax on tobacco 58,000,000 Pealfy transfers 15,000 000 Stock transfers 15,000,000 Automobiles and accessories... 121.000,000 Theater tickets 135.000,000 Radios and phonographs 20.000,000 Telephone and telegraph messages 55.000,000 Checks and drafts 05,000,000 Increased postal revenue 150.000,000 Total $020,000,000 The proposed income tax schedule would require payments by all single indivduals earning more than SI,OOO, and by all married persons with an income over $2,500. An additional exemption of S4OO would be allowed for each dependent. On the first $4,000 of taxable Income. the tax would be 2 per cent instead of the present l'i per cent, i On the next $4,000 it would be 4 j per cent instead of the present 3 j per cent. On taxable income above I $3,000 the normal rate would be 6 per cent. Few Pay for Government In addition surtaxes, ranging up I to 37 per cent, would be levied on I incomes from SIO,OOO to $200,000. On j incomes of more than $500,000, the tax would reach a minimum of 40 per cent. "The proposed revisions would I bring back into the taxpaying group j some 1.700,000," Secretary Mellon said. "Even so. our income tax law would still remain a tax paid by relatively few individuals. There ! would be only some 3,600,000 federal taxpayers in a nation of 120.000,000 people, and of this number less than 300.000 would contribute 90 per cent of the tex.” The secretary emphasized the advisability of balancing the budget in | the next fiscal year. He estimated the treasury deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 at $2,123,000,000, and said this would cause an increase of $1,500,000,000 in the public debt. Economy Imperative But co-incident with tax increases, there must be real economy in government expenditures, Mellon warned. "We are only justified in making this call if at the same time we eliminate every unnecessary expenditure, and see to it that just as enforced rigid economy prevails in every home in the land, so must it be observed in every operation of the federal government," the secretary said. In addition to raising the tax on larger incomes, it is imperative to draft anew army of federal taxpayers, he held. Bond Hearings Postponed Absence of Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee today forced postponement of the senate foreign bond hearings until Thursday. Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep.,' Cal.), conductor of the inquiry, declined to go on without Smoot being present. He said he would welcome the recess to study a mass of documents furnished him by the National City bank in connection with the $20,000,000 Colombian credit. Hearings on the Vinson warship construction bill continued today before the house naval affairs committee. with bewildered committee members attempting to discover who, if any one, favors the measure. Farm Bill Introduced Representative Haugen (Rep., la.) today introduced a bill to authorize the federal farm board to employ the equalization fee system in its efforts to handle surplus farm crops. The bill was approved Tuesday by heads of the farm bureau, the National Grange and the Farmers’ Co-operative union. Prohibition was assailed today by Dr. Graham Lusk of the Cornell university medical center, New York City, in senate hearings on the 4 per cent beer bill. Lusk produced before the committee a letter he wrote at the request of the director of prohibition, but suppressed by that office, apparently because of its firm anti-prohibi-tion sentiments. The letter denied that moderate use of 8 to 10 per rent wine "possibly can be harmfiiloan individual.”

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FARRELL RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT OF U: S: STEEL CO.

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James A. Farrell BONES POUND IN DEATH CELLAR Police Seek Clews to Other Cincinnati Murders. By United Pres* CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—Fragments of bones unearthed in the musty cellar "where Charles Bischoff, 45, left the body of Marian McLean, 6, after he attacked and killed her, today were said to resemble those of a child. General hospital physicians, who examined the bones before sending them to a Cleveland expert on matomy, announced belief they were part of a human skeleton. Fragments appeared to have come from a rib, a skull and a vertebra, the doctors said. They emphasized, however, that they were not experts at such identifications. The bones were found shortly after a grand jury returned an indictment charging first degree murder against Bischoff, a whitewasher, who confessed he abducted, attacked and killed the child. Bischoff once had access to another cellar, police said, and this, I too, will be searched. They point- j ed out that within the last dozen j years two children have disappeared ' in Cincinnati and no trace of them ever has been found. JAPANESE IN DRIVE Start Punitive Offensive Against Chinese, By United Press MUKDEN. Jan. 13.—The Japanese army in Manchuria started a gerfcral punitive expedition today against Chinese irregulars over a ! great stretch of territory from the northern bend of the Liao river to | Shanhaikwan, 300 miles south. The campaign centered along the j Tahushan-Tungliao railway and the Mukden-Shanhaikwan railway. Two divisions plus a brigade under General Murai and numerous airplanes participated. Considerable fighting was indicated. TCKIO, Jan. 13.—The Japanese reply to Secretary Stimson’s note j on Manchuria will be forwarded to Washington Thursday, the note being speeded up because of delivery of the Chinese reply to the Stimson note. NEW YORK GANGSTER HANGED IRELAND Introduced Underworld "Ride" to Island and raid Penalty. By United Press BELFAST. Ireland. Jan. 13.—Eddie Cullens. 28-year-old New Yorker, was hanged today for the murder of Achmet Musa, young Turk, who helped Cullens exploit Zaro Agha, "oldest man in the world.” The appeals court previously rejected an appeal by Cullens’ attorneys, who at the time intimated that they might appeal to the house of lords for a stay of execution. The murder aroused great interest in Ireland for the finding of Musa’s body in a field indicated that he had been "‘taken for a ride," Ameri- ! can fashion. MEDICAL BOARD ELECTS All Registration Officers Are Renamed at Session. Officers of the state board of medical examination and registraI tion were re-elected today at a j meeting in the statehouse. They are W. A. Spurgeon, Muncie, president; William R. Davidson, Evansville, secretary, and J. W. Bowers. Ft. Wayne, vice-president.

By United Press SHAMOKIN. Pa., Jan. 13 —Rescue workers dug frantically in an abandoned colliery today in the forlorn hope that Edward Topolski, 22. buried under fifteen tens of rock, slate and coal still is alive. They had dbg all night. Twice they freed Topolski’s face and Rrms only to have the trapped man buried again under anew

Executive Says He Should Step Aside to Make Way for Younger Man. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—James A. Farrell, who rose from a day laborj er to become head of the world’s largest corporation, has announced his resignation as president of the United States Steel Corporation, effective April 18. Farrell, in announcing his retirement from the post he has held since 1911, declared he was stepping aside for younger men. He made known his action in an informal way, calling reporters to his home by telephone shortly before midnight. When the newspaper men arrived, Farrell handed them a statement written in longhand. James A., Jr., having transcribed It as his father’s dictation. While the steel executive’s action at this time was unexpected, it followed action by the stockholders last April, when a revised pension plan was adopted. This provided for automatic retirement of all employes at the age of 70. Makes Way for Younger Man Farrell, 69 now, could have retained his post until Feb. 15. 1933, under this plan, but, as he ex- ! plained in the statement, he be- j lieved the “time has arrived for my successor to be appointed, to estab- j lish the management upon a more : permanent foundation composed of younger men.” Under the revised pension plan Farrell will receive 1 par cent of his average salary for the last ten years, multiplied by the total number of years of service. His salary as president and general executive officer of the corporation had not been made public. Began as Laborer Farrell began his career in steel in New Haven, Conn., at the age of 16. Hie first job was in a wire mill there at a reported wage of $5 weekly. Later he became a laborer in the Pittsburgh Wire Company plant at Pittsburgh. Advancing through a series of lesser jobs, he rose to superintendent, then manager. He became general superintendent of the Oliver Iron and Steel Company, of which he was general manager of exports until 1903. In that year he "was made president of the United States Steel Products Company, remaining there until he was named president of United States Steel in 1911. 2 PARTY CANDIDATES ARE PRIMARY VICTORS Democrat, Republican to Race for Cleveland Mayor's Post. By United Press CLEVELAND. Jan. 13.—Two party candidates, former City Manager Daniel E. Morgan, -Republican and County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller, Democrat, were nominated in Tuesday’s primary to run for mayor in the general election Feb. 16. complete count showed today. They won impressive victories over two independents, Peter Witt and Dr. F. W. Walz, and the Communist candidate, I. O. .Ford, who polled, however, the largest vote ever recorded by the Communist party in Cleveland. Morgan’s vote was 59,348. a plurality of 10.046 over Miller. Ford’s vote was 5,241. The primary, Cleveland’s first since 1921, resulted from the abolition of the city manager plan of government last November. It regi istered the largest turnout of pri- • mary voters in history. DELAYATTACK TRIAL OF NEGRO MOTORISTS One Charged With Slugging White Woman With Pliers. ' Trial of Herman Suggs, 22. and Charles DeGraphenreed, Negroes, both of 2409 Northwestern avenue, charged with assault on a woman motorist last month, was continued until Jan. 26 in municipal court today. Suggs is alloged to have beaten Mrs. Ethel Kitts, 1350 Commerce avenue, on the head with a pair of pliers and knocked her to the street Dec. 18 at Eighteenth street and Roosevelt avenue. At the time of the attack, officers were told Suggs and DeGraphenreed had followed the car in which Mrs. Kitts was riding with another woman and crowded it to the curb. PUT ROOSEVELT IN~RACE Oregon Democrats Enter New York Governor in Primaries. ! By United Press I PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 13—Dis- ! tinction as the first state in which ! a presidential aspirant has made | formal application was claimed by Oregon today. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was entered in the Oregon Democrat primaries when petitions bearing 11,000 signatures were filed with Secretary of State H. E. Ross.

DIG FRANTICALLY TO RESCUE MINER, BURIED THREE TIMES BY SLIDES

slide from the crumbling walls of the mine. Little hope that he had survived the third slide was entertained, but the four men manning shovels dug stolidly on. One thousand others awaited their turn to dig. Topolski and his cousin. Alex Macoskie. 21, went to the abandoned mine for fuel for their home fires Tuesday night. Rain loosened rock and coal from the walls and buried them in the

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LABOR MAKES SACRIFICE FOR U.S.RAIL LINES Workers Link Hands With Capital to Avert Ruin; Take Wage Cuts. • INSIDE STORY IS TOLD More Men Will Get Work and Revenue Will Be Increased. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent (Codvright. 1932, by United Pressi CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Thursday’s unprecedented parley here between railroad labor and capital finds both sides agreed upon wage cut to ‘‘save the railroads.” They agree also that there must be greatly increased employment, "to save the railroad men.” The 1,900,000 railroad workers will accept voluntarily a 10 per cent slash in their pay, the United Press has learned from an unimpeachable source, in exchange for the promise on the part of the railroads to put as many of their 500,000 unemployed workers, as they can back on their jobs. For the first-time since the mys-tery-shrouded negotiations between the workers and owners started last year, a man high in the realm of railroading has consented to tell the "lowdown" on the situation, affecting virtually every city and hamlet in the country. Tells Inside Story He spoke frankly in a hotel room high above Lake Michigan, after he had exacted a promise that his name would not be mentioned. He said he believed the story of the dealings between the two groups should be made public. . “It is an honorable story,” he said, "the story of sensible men doing what they think best. I don’t want to be mentioned, simply because some of the delegates on each side still believe in the time-hon-ored custom of keeping private all negotiations between the railroads and their men. "But when David Robertson of the locomotive engineers goes in with twenty other union leaders to meet Daniel Willard of the B. & O. and eight more railroad presidents, it will not be a case of wildeyed labor agitators battling stubborn capitalists. "Instead, the stable, sober heads of the unions will be conferring amicably with the owners of the roads on problems which vitally affect the interests of both sides. Railroads Face Crisis "The crux of the matter is that the railroads are hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges. Many of them are not even doing that. The railroad workers likewise have been hit by the depression so that about half a million of them are out of work. "The remedy which was demanded has been provided. The workers will take a 10 per cent cut in their salaries for one year. That will save the roads approximately $250,000,000. "Recent freight rate increases will give the lines about $100,000,000 more. They will use the total of $350,000,000 to meet fixed charges and to increase employment. "Business will have to pick up so that more trains can be run, before the trainmen will benefit. But the roads will rehire immediately thousands of workers to repair their rundown equipment and trackage. Likened to Snowball “It will be comparable to a snowball increasing in size along with the expected general business improvement. Rehiring of men will help business and better business I will mean the hiring of more men. ! "We all hope and believe that by | the end of the year former wage levels may be re-established. “Rumors of strikes, of arbitrary i wage threats and of possible dis- ! aster to the steam carriers are ! twaddle. It is to the benefit of the ! worker to keep the roads kept out |°f the sheriff’s hands. And it is to the benefit of the roads to see I th at as many of their Ipyal employes as possible are given steady j work." ! DOUMER HURRIIsTo S REFORM GOVERNMENT France Expected to Resist German Reparations Cancellation. i By United Press PARIS. Jan. 13.—President Paul Doumer hurried through traditional conferences with political leaders today discussing anew cabinet to maintain the French stand against Germany’s plea for reparations can- ; cellations. Pierre Ijaval, who resigned as premier last night with his cabinet, was expected to succeed himself as premier. He als may replace the : veteran Aristide Briand as foreign 1 minister, a post he held six years.

avalanche. Macoskie was buried up to his hips. Topolski was completely covered. HU* TkyCACOSKIE struggled for several hours, and at last freed himself. He ran several miles to the mining town of Brady to bring rescuers. Within an hour more than 1,000 volunteers had gathered. For three hours the men dug. last the?

HIGH WINDS FOUGHT BY OXYGEN PLANE RACING WITH DEATH

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Racing death across the continent, from New York to Tucson, Ariz., Stuart A. Reiss (left) and C. H. Pickup, co-pilots, arrived at municipal airport this morning, refueled their plane, and sped westward. They are carrying a collapsible oxygen room to be used in the treatment of Miss Alice Hilliard, member of a prominent Louisville family, who is near death of pneumonia. In the picture, the pilots are holding part of the oxygen apparatus.

BUSH CHOICE OF JACKSON JURY Attorney Predicts Box Will Be Filled Today. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 13.—Swearing of a jury to try Charles Vernon Witt on the charge of murder of L. A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store head, on May 27, 1931, was expected momentarily this afternoon. Defense attorneys had accepted the jury shortly before Judge John W. Hornaday adjourned court at noon. State's attorneys told the court they accepted the jurors tentatively, but wanted to confer on selection during noon adjournment. It was reported one of the prospective jurors might be removed by the state, which has exercised nine peremptory challenges. Talesmen in the jury box at noon included two business men and ten farmers. They are Claude Crooks, Lebanon merchant; Charles Gaddis of Thorntown, business man; and Joseph Duff, Charles Schenck, C. M. Crawford, Bert Culley, Lawrence H. Anderson, Clint Cassidy, George S. Nichols, Ora J. Adams, Bert Swails and J. L. Imbler, farmers. The jury’s tentative acceptance came after attorneys had questioned ten of the third venire of fifty residents of the county, called for service since the trial started Monday. Hornaday has not acted on the state’s petition that Witt, former Bainbridge (Ind.) youth, be manacled throughout the court proceedings. It is said he murdered a Kansas sheriff four years ago when the latter released him for a short time during a hearing. MRS. CARAWAY WINS 57 Counties Give Her Big Lead in Senate Race. By United Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 13— i Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway today held the honor of being the first woman ever chosen a United States senator by popular vote. The widow of the late Democratic Senator Caraway, in incomplete returns from fifty-seven of the state’s seventy-five counties in Tuesday’s special election, had a lead of approximately fifteen to one over her nearest opponent, Rex Floyd, independent Democrat, and son of the late Congressman John Floyd. Trailing far behind was Sam D. Carson, Saline county farmer. With two-thirds of all precincts reporting, the vote was: Mrs. Caraway, 14,943; Floyd, independent Democrat, 987; Carton, independent Democrat, 452.

came upon Topolski. He was alive and conscious. He had held his hands over his face, thus forming an air pocket that allowed him to breathe. Another hour and the men had cleared his head, shoulders and torso. Topolski suddenly screamed a warning. ’Look out. boys. Here comes some more.’ he screamed.

Airmen Stop Here to Refuel and Continue West on Rescue Mission. By United Press CURTISS STEINBERG AIRPORT, EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Jan. 13.—The cabin monoplane carrying an “oxygen room” that may save the life of Alice Hilliard, young pneumonia victim, landed here at 11:55 a. m. today on its cross-country dash to Tucson, Ariz. The two-man crew of the "Mercy Shop" snatched a cup of coffee and a ham sandwich apiece, supervised refueling of the plane and left at 12:23 p. m. for Springfield, Mo. Bucking high winds, Pilot Stuart Reiss and a flying companion sped westward after leaving here early today in their race from New York with an oxygen room to save the life of Alice Hilliard, 25, near death at Tucson, Ariz, Leaving Columbus this morning, the plane "hedge hopped" most of the way to Indianapolis to escape headwinds at high altitudes of gale proportions. Reiss, accompanied by C. H. Pickup of Pittsburgh, co-pilot, who boarded the plane Tuesday, arrived here at 8:50 a. m., and, after reflueling, flew on to St. Louis. Pass Over Terre Haute Although the pilot had expected to step at Terre Haute to renew his gas supply, dispatches from there said that the plane passed low over that city, fighting a high wind. The weather was clear and visibility was good. On reaching municipal airport here, Reiss immediately asked for information about the condition of the Tucson patient, daughter of a prominent Louisville family, critically ill. Physicians attending Miss Hilliard, Tucson dispatches said, were hopeful that necessity for the portable oxygen room, carried by the plane, would not arise before the plane’s arrival. The girl contracted pneumonia after three years’ of treatment for a pulmonary ailment. Pilot Reiss displayed concern over the delay encountered Tuesday and Tuesday night because of inclement weather. However, he stated that he expects to reach Tucson within twen-ty-one hours after leaving the airport here. He hopes to continue his flight west throughout the night, reaching Tucson early Thursday. Deep fog grounded the plane Tuesday night at Columbus. Weather reports to the west are not encouraging. Storms of blizzard intensity raged over the Rocky mountain area. CONFERENCE IGNORED U. S. Will Not Attend Lousanne Meeting, Says Stimson. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Secretary of State Stimson, in reply to questions, today said that the United States would not be represented at the proposed Lausanne conference on reparations.

The rescuers ran for cover. Topolski was bured again under tons of debris as the rain loosened a new slide from the sides of the shaft. Hours more of digging. Topolski’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Topolski. arrived. The father joined the diggers. The mother sobbed. Again his head was uncovered and again he was alive. -j

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TORNADOES KILL THIRTEEN; GALE RAKES CITY, LEAVING HEAVY LOSS IN ITS WAKE

Ten Negroes Reported Dead in Alabama; Mississippi Area Ravaged. PROPERTY TOLL IS HIGH Snow Blankets West; Winds Swamp Boats; Fishermen Are Missing. B* United Press Thirteen persons were reported dead today in tornadoes, as midwinter storms swept eastward today across the nation, with a blizzard, high winds and bitter cold in its wake. Areas from the Wabash valley to the Pacific coast felt the fury of what threatened to be the major storm thus far in the season. Meanwhile, the Atlantic seaboard and the east generally basked under springlike sunshine. Three deaths were known to have occurred in the tornadoes and upwards of 100 were injured Property damage, was incalculable, because of wrecked communication services. Ten Reported Killed A woman was killed by a tornado that dipped to cut a swath across northeastern Mississippi. A Mexican woman and her child were killed when wind razed their home near Eagle Lake, Tex. Ten Negroes were reported killed by a tornado that struck near Moundville, Ala. It was believed the same gale that had caused the death of the woman, injuries to 100 persons, and heavy property damage in Mississippi. Houses were crumpled and power and communication lines torn down. Rescue parties sought other possible victims. Gales whipped snow into drifts in the Rockies and damaged homes and communication lines in the plains states surrounding them. Montana, Colorado, Texas, and Nevada reported damage from wind. Buildings toppled before an eighty-mile gale at Boulder City, near Boulder dam. Tents housing workers on the big project were whipped from their stakes. Boats Are Swamped Giant waves swamped water craft in southern California. Fishermen were missing in their boats. Snow mantled the Sierras and fell for the first time in ten years in the San Francisco bay region. The San Juan river, blocked by ice, menaced the northern Navajo Indian a%ency at Shiprock, N. M. High wfnds injured several persons and caused property damage in southern Illinois and Indiana. The Chicago area, as was the case ■with numerous other midwest districts, remained warm and sunny. In New York, the temperature was 60 degrees aboxe zero.

DROP IMPEACHMENT Johnson County Not to Act on Coroner’s Case. Impeachment proceedings against Coroner Fred W. Vehling in the Johnson county court at Franklin were dismissed today by Judge Charles B. Staff. The suit was filed by James Holland of Indianapolis, who charged Vehling with improper activities in a death case of a friend. The court held the proceedings were invalid because Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson of Marion county had not approved them. Vehling, under charges in criminal court of alleged solicitation of a bribe, also is the target of impeachment charges in the Marion circuit court. These charges were filed ten days ago by Wilson. NEWTON ~B A K ErTaU DEO Liberalism, International Outlook Praised by Frazier Hunt. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 13—Newton D, Baker, former secretary of war, was praised as an outstanding liberal and man of International outlook by Frazier Hunt in a radio “personality sketch" Tuesday night. He attributed Baker's liberal views and intellectual and civic achievements to his training under three men—his father; the late Tom Johnson of Cleveland, and President Woodrow Wilson, in whose cabinet he served. DURANT HOP IS HELD UP Detroit Girl Flier Kept at Paris by Bad Weather. By United Press PARIS, Jan. 13.—Unfavorable ing weather today prevented Miss Marjorie Durant of Detroit, from beginning a projected flight to South America. She plans the flight by easy stages.

HIS shoulders were clear when the rain loosened anew slide. The rescue workers barely escaped. Topolski was buried under fifteen tons. "There's no chance now." said one of the diggers, but the digging continued. It will be hours before the diggers can reach Topolski, it was estimated. The place where he ia buried is so narrow that only four men can dig at a time.

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Power and Light Lines Are Down; Trees Topple in Night Storm. 72-MILE VELOCITY HITj Display Windows Crash;} Mother Is Periled in Childbirth. A wind and rain storm that! ripped out of the southwest at x velocity of thirty-eight miles an hour, Tuesday night and early today, downed light lines, trees, and shattered display windows in downtown stores. Damage in the city was estimated at several thousand dollars, the In-4 dianapolis Power and Light Com-* pany bearing the brunt of the storm, due to disabled lines. Repairmen swung into action early today, fixing utility lines in. all sections of Indianapolis, wherer some persons were without lights after the storm struck about 10 p. m. Childbirth Is Periled An intensely human note was sounded during the height of the storm, when a man called police and said he must have lights at his home on Twenty-ninth street, because a child wac being born to hi* wife. Doctors attending the worn-* an were helpless for several minutes, he told officers at headquarters. Lights at the United States veterans’ bureau hospital went out and frantic calls were received from the Riverside institution during the storm. Pedestrians narrowly escaped injury when scaffolding atop the new? Indiana Bell Telephone building was blown off the structure during the height of the storm. Wood sections crashed to the pavement! several stories below. Display Windows Break Police were kept busy posting} warning lights on streets and. alleys where trees and utility wired blocked traffic. Glass spread overdowntown streets when display windos crashed at H. P. Wasson & Cos., Sander and Recker Furniture Company, Capitol Furniture Company and the Betsy Ross Candy Company, Circle Tower building. Windows in several north side groceries were shattered by the wind and flying sections of trees. At times during the storm the wind roared to 72 miles an hour ad the municipal airport, according to weather bureau attaches. At one time the wind held a speed of 60 miles an hour for a minute. The weather bureau in Indianapolis recorded the wind at 38 miles an hour for five minutes. All official wind reports are based on velocity during a five-minute period. Planes Stay in Hangars Planes which arrived at the airport late Tuesday afternoon remained in hangars overnight, unable to fly against the heavy winds. Mail plane of the T. W. A., which arrived at the airport at 12:45 a. m., circled the field several times before the pilot could bring it to earth. Although today was clear and the mercury hit a record mark of 60 at 1, weather bureau forecast predicted more rain tonight and early Thursday, possibly changing to snow. The temperature is scheduled to drop tonight and be below freezing by Thursday morning. Rain total recorded here Tuesday was .92 inch. The wind storm, was reported from Cairo, 111., to Michigan. Highest wind velocity in Indiana was fifty-six miles an hour for a five-minute period near Evansville: Hourly Temperatures fi a. m 50 10 a. m 55 7a. m 49 11 a. m 57 Ba. m 51 12 (noon).. 58 9a. m 52 Ip. m 60 BANDITS SEIZE TOWN Gag, Bind Marshal, but Bungle Attempt to Rob Bank. By United Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan.. Jan. 13— Three bandits seized this village today, oound and gagged the night marshal, cut all outgoing telephone wires but one, and made a vain attempt to ’ break into the Valley State bank. Their effort to disable the bank’s automatic alarm was bungled, however, and the men fled when the aroused citizenry began *to congregate.

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