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SALES TAX TO REACH VOTE IN HOUSE TONIGHT Inheritance Levy Comes Up First for Debate, Then ‘Consumers’ Burden.’ LIMITED TO TWO HOURS Opponents of Measure to Continue Battle for Principle. By l nltrrl Press WASHINGTON. March 22. House leaders reached an agreement with Insurgents today to take up the inheritance tax provision of the billion-dollar revenue bill as soon as the house meets. The sales taxes will follow the inheritance lax. In view of this agreement, the rules committee called off its session planning a specal rule which would get the sales tax provision up in the house Wednesday. The leaders’ agreement provided V>r two hours’ debate on the inherence tax section and two hours’ | bate on the sales tax, with a vote on both before adjournment tonight. Fight Is Carried On BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Timr* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 22.—Refusing to be pacified by exemptions which neither reduce the total sales lax drastically, nor affect the principle involved, opponents of this levy on consumers were ready today to push their fight to the limit. Meanwhile, two members of the house are endeavoring to draft amendments changing, or killing, the special leniency provision of the estate tax law proposed by the ways and means committee. This provision permits estates of persons who died within the last three years' to be devaluated, thus escaping effects of the depression—a privilege not granted income or property taxpayers. Among estates said to benefit by this new provision are those of several large contributors to Democratic and Republican campaign funds. Opposed by Catholics Catholic church opposition to the sales tax as a consumers’ levy was indicated today by the National Catholic Welfare conference, in a statement citing the post-war bishops’ program of social reconstruction. This program emphasized the value of income and ex-cess-profits tax to correct “bad distribution” of income and wealth, and the statement today commented: “The sales tax reduces the purchasing power of the masses.” Compromises by the frightened regular leaders appeared at first to have caused a break in the antisales tax forces. But this apparently was mended today. Unless the parliamentary situation is changed today by unanimous consent, it appears that the sales tax showdown vote may be delayed again, maybe until Thursday, Seek to Curb Privilege As the house today resumed regular reading of the bill for amendment. sales tax opponents won support of nlre leading members of the economic department of Columbia university. This support came in a telegram from these professors to Representative La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.), expressing support and sympathy for his “general position.” Representatives Ramseyer ißep., laJ and Swing <Rep., Cal.) are the two representatives endeavoring to curb thp privilege granted the large estates in the new bill. This provides that estates of persons who died between Sept. 1, 1928, and Jan. 1, 1932, be devaluated as of a date eighteen months after death, instead of at the time of death, as now provided. It also provides that refunds may be made to estates of persons who died within this period unless bindiTurn to Page Eleven) WIDOW MUST SERVE 30-DAY BOOZE TERM Plea of Support for Girls 12 and 16 Fails to Win Mother Acquittal. Mrs. Mary Sickley. 1137 Sharon avenue, widowed mother of three children, must spend thirty days in the Indiana state woman's prison for selling liquor. Sentence was imposed today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer who suspended a fine of SIOO and costs. The mother admitted she had been selling liquor since August, 1931, and stated she is the sole support of two daughter. 12 and 16, and a son, 18. Police w r ho raided the Sickley home found whisky, wine and beer, they said. *

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 271

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That old line about “a watched pot never boils” is antiquated at Eastertide around the Indianapolis Day Nursery Association, 538 Lockerbie street. A hard-boiled egg gets its just due at the nursery—“five minutes, no more, no less” —w-hen Joseph

GEIST CHARGES DUES TO PUBLIC Club Cost, Cigars, Candy Are “Operating Expense.’ Clarence Geist, Philadelphia, owner of the Indianapolis Water Company, charged his Columbia Club dues to city water consumers, it was disclosed at the rate reduction hearing today. Geist has been somewhat of a hero at the club, having donated an organ for the clubhouse. James Deery, city attorney, bared data covering the period from 1925 to 1929, showing that dues were paid twenty organizations by the company at the people’s expense. Then there also were gifts of flowers and candy and a bundle of cigars given a tax assessor named Graham in 1925. The city contends all these'ltems should be charged “below the line” and not as a legitimate operating expense upon which the present high rates are based. Organizations in which the people paid for Geist’s memberships included Harry Miesse’s Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, Associated Employers, Better Business Bureau, United States, Indiana and Indianapolis Chambers of Commerce, Public Utility and Chemical Engineering Societies, Public Health Association, Board of Trade, Municipal League, Real Estate Board, Traffic Club, Cost Accountants’ Association, and American Building Congress. CLOTHING IS NEEDED FOR JOB APPLICANTS Red Cross, Legion Issue Appeal for Shoes, Trousers. Citing that it is necessary to clothe many men who are seeking jobs, in order to make them presentable, the Red Cross and American Legion relief station, 118-138 East New York street, today announced 900 pairs of trousers are needed. Twenty-seven hundred have no shoes. Those who have old trousers and old shoes which they care to donate arp urged to call Lincoln 3112 or Riley 2976 and Boy Scouts or legionnaires will call for the articles. Facilities for repair of shoes and trousers are part of the equipment of the relief station. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 28 10, a. m 31 7a. m 29 11 a. m 31 8 a. m.... 30 12 (noon).. 32 9 a. m 31 1 p. m 33

Clancy’s Liquor Plan Derided by Dry Chief

Postmaster Leslie D. Clancy's plan of liquor reform, revealed in The Times Monday, today drew the fire of Indiana “bone-dry” leaders, who assailed the postmaster's suggestion that the government solve the prohibition problem by dispensing liquor from the nation's 50,000 postoffices. Clancy, a dry, suggested government monopoly of the liquor supply, with the federal departments the only legal purchasers from the breweries. Clancy is opposed to government manufacture and insisted his plan would wipe out saloons and the speakeasies. The plan was a “big laugh” to L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. “If the government is going into the liquor business, you'd have to

‘LIBERTY BOND’ SALE LAUNCHED TO FREE STEPHENSON

By Timet Special "TTALPARAISO. Ind., March 22. * —D. C. Stephenson, one-time klan dragon, serving a life term for murder, is staging a statewide sale of “liberty" bonds to finance his fight for freedom. This was revealed here today, with disclosure that several "bomT books, each containing "tefifil'’ Sforft *2 eac&t are

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Prindle, 4, left in the photo, and Geraldine Schloman, 4, right, gets to work. And Joseph and Geraldine have this egg-decorating to help out the Easter bunny, down to a system of from pot to paint brush. Joseph is the chef and Geraldine the artist, as the photo shows.

SENAIEWEIS RENEW DRIVE Tydings Gets 20 Votes for Resubmission. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 22.—Prohibition suddenly became a live issue in the senate today as wets started a surprise offensive. They are campaigning on two fronts for showdown wet and dry votes. Senator Tydings (Dem., Md.), one of the senate’s handsome bachelors, obtained in an hour Monday approximately twenty signatures to a petition for action on resolutions to resubmit the eighteenth amendment to the states. He will move that the judiciary committee report them to the floor. All who signed wsre not antiprohibitionists. Among the signers was Senator Watson (Rep., Ind.), the majority leader. Tydings is confident of more signatures today. He told the United Press he believed a resubmission resolution would have 30 to 35 votes in the senate. Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.) captains the other anti-dry sortie. He proposes to move in the senate to reduce the justice department prohibition enforcement appropriation by $11,000,000. That would leave Colonel Amos W. W. Woodcock, dry director, just $369,000. Blaine says the law is “foolish and futile,” and money spent on enforcement is wasted. Coincident with the prohibition developments, Republican leaders are making tentative plans to adjourn June 10 by scuttling most of the pending legislation, except tax and appropriation bills. FAG SWINDLER JAILED Eli Keith Admits Using Slugs in Vending Machines. Eli Keith, 49, of 816 North Illinois street, who obtained cigarets from vending machines by using slugs, was sentenced today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer to the state penal farm for thirty days and fined sl. Defendant admitted that he used the slugs, and said he sold cigarets, thus obtained, at 10 cents a. pack. He had seven packs when arrested March 17. SCHOOL HEAD SELECTED Paul Boston Goes From Edinburg to Greencastle. By United rrrss GREENCASTLE, Ind.. March 22. —Paul Boston, superintendent of Edinburg schools for the last ten years, today was elected Superintendent of Greencastle schools. He succeeds Warren J. Yount, who goes to Bedford to accept a similar position.

change the sign from ‘United States postoffice, Leslie D. Clancy, postmaster.’ to ‘United States saloon, Leslie D. Clancy, bartender,’ ” said York. “Mr. Clancy says he is a dry, but his proposal is more drastic than the wettest of wets ever have made. Even the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment has not suggested anything as ridiculous as his plan.” Clancy, in revealing his plan, declared himself as opposed unalterably to the saloon and flayed the Canadian system for depriving persons of “personal liberty.” Postmasters are bonded, he added, and the plan would not necessitate establishment of anew coun-try-wide organization to handle the problem. •

being circulated and sold by the former dragon's friends. It was reported reliably thatsale of the certificates is being made in Indianapolis by more than fifty former associates of Stephenson. Bonds are numbered and names of purchasers are recorded in the "bond” books. The certificates, headed "My Bond," will fee redeemed personadly the

INDIANA STORM TAKES MILLION TOLL; 4 DEAD Evansville Hardest Hit by Wind and Rain; $500,000 Plant Wrecked. HAIL CAUSES DAMAGE Farmhouses Blown Down; Traffic Hampered on Icy Streets. Ripping out of the southwest with terrific fury, a wind and rain storm Monday night whipped over southern Indiana, leaving in its wake four fatalities, ten persons and property damage of more than $1,000,000. Accompanied by lightning and hail, the storm struck its hardest blow at Evansville, after killing two persons and leveling homes at Uniontown, Ky. The force of the storm diminished as it reached Indianapolis. Here a torrential rain and high winds were responsible for injury of four persons in traffic accidents. Wind velocity here reached a peak of thirty-six miles an hour. A total of .6 of an inch of rain fell I and heavy hail was recorded in the j southeastern section of the county. Warmer Weather Forecast J. H, Armington, weather fore- [ caster, said the storm now is centered over Lake Ontario. Skies will clear here today, bringing a lowest temperature tonight of about 27 degrees. Wednesday will be warmer and indications are that normal weather will return, he indicated. The wind storm crossed the Ohio river to Evansville, touched Spurgeon, Ind., and an area south of Petersburg in Pike county, swept to Shoals, then whirled eastward to Lawrence county and struck again ! east of Bedford. Serious damage to property also was reported at Seymour and Richmond, from where the storm moved into Ohio. $500,000 Loss to Company The Monitor Furniture Company at Evansville was damaged more than $500,000 as winds razed the structure. Roofs were blown from homes, and glass in greenhouses was shattered by hail; C. E. Ward, 60, was killed on his farm near Jasonville when struck by lightning. William Penrod, 25, of Bluffton, was electrocuted near here today while he was repairing communication lines broken down by the storm last night. Penrod was an employe of the Indiana Service Corporation. Heavy snowdrift on a railroad crossing at Kendallville was blamed for deaths today of Arthur Stevens, 50, and Forrest Witt, 17, both of that city, who were killed instantly when a truck in which they were riding stalled and was struck by a passenger train. Buildings Wrecked at Shoals Two homes and several smaller buildings were wrecked at Shoals and in Martin county, with damage estimated at SIO,OOO. When their home was twisted from its foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Biegle, living near Bedford, were injured, although not seriously. Everett Spigall and his son Orel, 18, were hurt when the storm struck a barn in which they were working near Bedford. Mary Sowders, 11, was cut on the head when struck (Turn to Page Six) GRAF, BRAZIL-BOUND, PASSES OVER AFRICA Zeppelin Follows New Route to Test Mail Service Expansion. By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, March 22. —The Graf Zeppelin reported by radio at 9:30 a. m. today it had sighted Cape Blanco on its trip to Pernambuco, Brazil. Three hours earlier it had passed Rio De Oro. Cape Bianco is on the west coast of Africa about halfway between the Canary and Cape Verdi islands. It was understood Commander Hugo Eckener was pursuing this route to test possibilities of co-operating with the French air mail service to South America. The Zeppelin continued on schedule down the African coast, passing Port Etienne, Senegal, in favorable weather. WOLTER IS ADAMANT Scholar Continues Hunger Strike, Despite Scores of Pleas. j By United Press WASHINGTON, March 22.—Let- ’ ters from persons in various parts j of the country who have read of : the starvation effort of Dr. Frederj ick F. Wolter poured in upon the German-born scholar today. They urged him to abandon his fast, but Wolter said he still is determined to carry through his protest against unemployment conditions. This was the twenty-third day of Woiter's “hunger strike.” He says he has eaten nothing during that time except one peanut.

former klan head on his release from prison, the bonds state. Harry E. Hodsden is in charge of the sale here, it was disclosed. a m m Tj'ACE of the “bonds' reads: "Being compelled to interview those hostile to my interests, and having been denied the right to communicate with responsible irieodfc thus fceifig to raise

193 Killed by Tornadoes in Five Southern States; Heaviest Toll in Alabama

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SUDDEN DEAFENING ROAR, BLACKNESS, HORROR AND DEATH

By United Press CLANTON, Ala., March 22.—A sudden deafening roar, utter blackness, then the crash of falling houses and screams of injured and the (tying—thus victims of the tornado which took an appalling toll here Monday describe their moments of horror when the storm struck. Caught in their falling homes or swept from their feet and hurled into masses of twisted wreckage, many miraculously escaped with their lives, though seriously injured. Suffering from nervous shock lying in hospital beds, several of them today told their stories. “My wife and I were in the house when the storm struck,” said Obie Willis, farmer living near Collins Chapel. It came up suddenly, darkening the house like a big black cloud shutting out the sun.

“There w r as no time to be afraid, I heard a crash. I must have been knocked senseless. I came to lying flat on my back, outside in the yard. “Part of the front door was lying on my chest. The house was wrecked. I moved the planks and door that were on me, and crawled over to my wife. “She was lying in a ditch across the yard. I knew she would drown in the water in that ditch, if*l didn’t get to her quickly. “The clouds were all about, and it seemed that balls of fire were shooting all around us. “Finally, I got my wife out of

tt tt tt n tt a GRADY WHEATLEY, truck driver, lay on a cot in a tourist cottage at Northport with a broken leg when the storm struck. The twister lifted the four walls of the structure without even disturbing the sheets of the bed. Another tragic case was that of Miss Virginia Shirley, 20, pretty Northport girl, who was shot in the leg by an allegedly jealous suitor last Saturday night. The girl’s mother, Mrs. E. L. Shirley, a widow, one of the first victims brought out of the storm-stricken area, died on the way to the hospital. The girl's sister is missing. One strange story was that of the nine children left at home by the Latham family at Plantersville, eighteen miles from here. Six of them'were killed outright in the storm which leveled their home. The smallest baby was blown away. It had not been found at daylight today. Two others were in critical condition.

At Columbiana, north of Clanton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Walton, an elderly couple, were killed. Walton’s body was found in the wreckage of the house. Mrs. Walton had been borne by the wind out in to the front yard. Their daughter, Ella, 38, died in an ambulance en route to a Birmingham hospital. Miss Ethel Walton, the only survivor, is in a critical condition in Birmingham. The family’s assets, including livestock, crops, farm buildings and even trees, all except the land itself, have been wiped out. The tragic experiences of Farmer Willis were repeated by the scores in each stricken community. ts a st Miraculous escapes were numerous. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hammett reported they drove their automobile into the cyclone near Sylacuaga, Ala. Their car was hurled into the air and landed upright eight feet from the road. Windows of the machine were shattered and the switch key was broken off in the lock, but the Hammetts escaped injury. The storm was the second in fifteen years to make Luther Kel-

funds from my normal sources, it is necessary to appeal to the good citizens of Indiana. “Upon release I personally will redeem ’his certificate at its face value, Si!, plus 6 per cent interest from July 1, 1932. “I will redeem only certificates signed by Hodsden.” The certificates bear a signature purported to be a facsimilie of t&ft of Stqghengoa,

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the ditch. Then I leaned over her to protect her from the rain and lightning. She was unconscious. I stayed there nearly two hours, until neighbors came to help us. “The doctor told me she w r as dying after they operated on her early this morning. My mother, who was killed, and my father, badly hurt, lived in a house near us. ”My wife and I were brought here in a neighbor's car and she was taken to the drug store where emergency cots were put up for the badly hurt.”

ley, of Sylacuaga, wifeless. He escaped in a 1917 cyclone when his first wife was killed. The second Mrs. Kelley was killed when the storm wrecked their home last night. Many of the deaths of Northport, Ala., were attributed to flying lumber, picked up by the wind from a lumber yard and catapulted through the town. Glass Bank Bill Hearing Set By United Press WASHINGTON, March 2.—Chairman Norbeck of the senate banking and currency committee today ordered hearings on the Glass banking bill to begin at 10:30 a. ra. Wednesday.

Burglar Tracked Four Miles in Snow, Nabbed TRACKED through the snow for four miles by police, an ex-convict was arrested early today as a suspect in a series of recent east side burglaries. He is Earl Cogswell, 47, of 2019 Hillside avenue, father of three children. Peculiar shape of the suspect's shoes was the clew by which a squad in charge of Lieutenant Ed Shubert nabbed Cogswell after tracking him for two hours and forty minutes, they said. Detectives say Cogswell admits breaking into a grocery at 3215 East Twentieth street, loot of which was found in Cogswell's possession, they said. The police squad was summoned to the store by a bread delivery man, who saw a burglar flee through a rear window. A light snow had fallen, and the police followed the intruder's tracks across a railroad at Massachusetts avenue and Samoa street, where the fugitive cut through yards and alleys, “backtracking" often, Shubert said. Cogswell had been home only a few minutes when his pursuers captured him. “I don’t know why I did it." Cogswell is said to have told his captors. "I guess it’s right back to the penitentiary for me.” Cogswell receafly was released from prison where he served term 4or burglAiTj police said,

VAST SCENE OF DESOLATION FOUND BY RELIEF WORKERS; 700 ARE REPORTED HURT University at Tuscaloosa Made Headquarters for Aiding* Survivors; Casualty List Expected to Grow. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., March 22.—A picture of desolation was presented today in central Alabama and parts of four other states as cyclonic winds died down, leaving- a long list of dead and injured. The estimated dead, on the basis of reports from physicians and officials in the stricken areas, was 193 shortly before noon. More than 700 injured were counted. Eighteen widely separated southern communities counted their dead and injured from storms which ripped through the area late Monday and early today. The main storm struck in central Alabama, where the dead totaled more than 100. It then dipped into Georgia, causing at least twentyeight fatalities. An offshoot, of the disturbance killed thirteen in Tennessee, two in Kentucky. Fury of the winds and rains was general over the affected area, hampering relief workers and delaying reports of damage from the most critically stricken down.

National guardsmen patrolled the splintered ruins at Northport and Clanton, Ala., the two towns which suffered most. The dead at Northport numbered 35, and at Clanton, 20. Looting had occurred in a few’ isolated instances. University of Alabama students crossed the Black Warrior river from Tuscaloosa to Northport to aid survivors. The university’s gymnasium became an emergency hospital. Fraternity and sorority houses sheltered babies and young children, separated during the storm from parents whose fate was undetermined. Dormitories were turned over to the homeless. Tuscaloosa City of Grief Tuscaloosa also was a city of grief, crowded with adults without homes and children without parents. Many older children wandered the streets unable to comprehend the disaster, unchecked because all authority was concentrated on tending the injured. Occasionally there were glad cries as a reunion between separated members of a family occurred. More often, however, there were only evidences of unrestrained grief. Many tragic scenes occurred at an improvised nursery at the Pi Kappa Psi fraternity house, where lost children were harbored. Many mothers called hoping to find their young. Most turned away in tears, and stumbled out to join other searchers elsewhere. The Druid city hospital, in Tuscaloosa, center of the relief activities, was crowded beyond its capacity, despite the transfer of scores of slightly injured to temporary first aid centers. Red Cross Is in Action Doctors and nurses, many of the latter volunteers, carried on without sleep. They were aided by the medical staff of the Alabama state hospital for the insane. Similar scenes of activity in restoring order were reported from a score of other towns in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. The Red Cross sent its emergency organization into action, speeding medical supplies, tents, cots and other necessities into the stricken area. Chilton county, southeast of Tuscaloosa, some 100 miles and about fifty miles northeast of Montgomery. the state capital, reported a total of twenty-six known dead today. The one hospital at Clanton, the county seat, had forty-five injured. Scores of others were being treated at doctors* offices hastily turned into emergency hospitals. Rescue parties crawling over the

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200 Dead Bv United Tress More than 200 persons have been killed in terrific storms raging over a great portion of the United States in the last thirty-six hours. Cyclonic winds in the south dealt death and destruction over five states. Elsewhere throughout the nation blizzards, sleet and snow storms have accounted for deaths. The United Press survey shows the following storm casualties: Alabama, 149; Georgia, 28; Tennessee, 13: Chicago, 5; Indiana, 3; Michigan, 3; Ohio, 3; Kentucky, 2; South Carolina, 1; Buffalo, N. Y., 1.

debris-strewn countryside feared more dead and injured would be found in rural communities. Clanton escaped the full force of the storm, but nearby communities, including Thorsby, Plantersville and Union Grove, were wiped out. The storm first struck in the southwestern part of the state, near the Mississippi state line, sweeping over Demopolis, Faunsdale and Marion, moving north eastward through Northport and Clanton, and striking farther north over Columbiana. Talladega county, still farther northeastward, suffered severe damage with a score killed. Ask National Guard's Aid Across the state line, in Georgia nine were killed at Cartersville, twelve near Athens, one at Merriwether and one at Decatur. Eleven persons were reported killed in middle and eastern Tennessee, five near Pulaski, four near Conasauga, one at Charleston and one near Franklin. Uniontown, Ky., reported two dead. Chilton county officials at Clanton, Ala., asked Governor B. M. Miller to call out the national guard to aid in controlling the situation there. Medical supplies, cots and bedding were also asked. Red Cross officials at Montgomery organized for relief work. Fire Follows Tornado The night was one of terror for the storm stricken and survivors alike. In many places, particularly in Alabama towns, telephone and light wires were down. Trees and lengths of lumber that had been houses blocked highways. Rain along by the high winds made the going more difficult for travel. Fire followed the wind through Northport. Eight city blocks were reported razed there and the flames spread rapidly before they finally w ? ere checked. The fire trucks served also as ambulances. Survivors described the violence of the wind in Northport. “The wind picked up a lumber pile and drove it like a catapult right into the residential district,” one said. “Some of the vctims were impaled by the flying timbers. Others were hurled against ruined buildings. Bodies were tossed into the air.” Buried by Flying Bricks At Funsdale, Floyd Collins, a store a store clerk, stepped out to watch the whirling winds. He was buried by flying bricks as the walls of the building crumbled. The Episcopal church was destroyed there, so w’ere the rectory, five several garages and small buildings. And box cars in the railroad yards were piled on the tracks in jumbled confusion. More than 100 shacks were reported splintered at Marion, striking terror into the hearts of Negro residents of the district. At Columbiana the storm cut a path 350 yards wide, leveling ascore of homes.