Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

MARCH 11, 1933

QUAKE-STRICKEN AREA IS ONE VAST SCENE OF HORROR

WIRES JAMMED WITH CITY QUERIES ON SAFETY OF KIN IN CALIFORNIA QUAKE ZONE No Reports of Death or Injury to Hundreds of Relatives and Friends of Indianapolis Residents on West Coast. (Continued From Page One)

avenue, had received a message from her sister, Mrs. Lillian Adams Slickinger, advising her that she and her daughter, Miss Ursula Slickinger, were unharmed. Mr. and Mrs. Merton A. Johnston, 3180 Kenwood avenue, had received no word this morning from Mr. Johnson’s two brothers, Drs. S. Theron and Earl T. Johnston, who live in Santa Ana.

"We are exacting to hear today, though they probably are unable to take time to wire, since they are doctors, and are taking care of the injured,’’ Mrs. Johnston explained. Johnston returned only ten days ago from a visit to Santa Ana and Los Angeles. No message has been received by Mrs. H. O. McGee, 3150 Guilford avenue, from her mother and three sisters, living in Los Angeles. H. H. Hollister, 3851 North Pennsylvania street, learned by phone Friday night that his mother and other relatives living near Los Angeles were uninjured. Await Word of Sister Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Feaster, 621 North Riley avenue, were awaiting an answer today to a message they sent to Feaster's sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Wells, living at 470 South Burlington court, Los Angeles. Mrs. Luther Shirley, who returned recently with her son Billy from Los Angeles, believe that few Indianapolis people have relatives in the section of Los Angeles affected by the quake. "Most of them live in the Wilshire division, which does not seem to have been damaged," Mrs. Shirley said. Misses Adia and Edna Meyer, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Meyer. 3646 North Capitol avenue, are wintering in Los Angeles with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer left last week to join their daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Marmon, Brendenwood, left recenlty to visit their daughter, Mrs. Phil Boyd, and Mr. Boyd at Deep Well ranch, Palm Springs. Mrs. Caroline Vajen Collins, Spink-Arms, is reported visiting in Pasadena. May Be Relative Mrs. W. E. Broady, 42 South Brookville road, said that her husband’s brother, Jack Broady, has been in Long Beach three or four years. The death lists from the coast town carry the name Jack Bradv, which she believes, might be her brother-in-law. Jack Broady formerly lived w T ith his wife and two children on West Tenth street and w r as a bricklayer. His local relatives said the last letter received from the family stated Broady was working for a film company. Queries also were made concerning Jack Freeman of Long Beach, listed among the dead. Friends said it might be Jack Friedman, who left Indianapolis several years ago. Sistcr-in-Law on Coast Louis Tillson, 429 North Riley avenue, has a sister-in-law, Mrs. Irvin Goldberg, in the quake area ot Los Angeles. He has not heard from her. Her husband operates a furniture factory in Los Angeles. They are former residents of Indianapolis. The mother and father of Ray Churchill. 3817 North Pennsylvania street, live at Huntington Beach, Cal., twenty miles south of Long Beach. No reports of dead or injured had been received from Huntington Beach. Churchill had been unable to receive any word from his parents. Among Indianapolis persons in the quake zone are Ensign J. O. F. Dorsett and his wife Betty, who are in San Pedro, the harbor of Los Angeles. Ensign Dorsett is assigned to the U. S. S. Pennsylvania and has been there several months. No Word Received Mrs. Clara Hammersmith, living in Los Angeles, also is known here by many persons. No word has been received from her or the Dorsetts. Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell, who formerly lived at 940 North Bosart avenue, said they did not know of the quake until after 7 this morning. They said no word had been received from the Campbells, who live in Long Beach. The T. W. it A. plane that arrived in Indianapolis early today from the west coast carried four passengers who were concerned over the major disaster. Plane Passengers Phone Officials of the company said two of the passengers, one a woman, used phones at the municipal airport in an attempt to communicate with relatives and friends. They were unsuccessful. The passengers continued eastward after obtaining all information available at the port. News of the earthquake spread rapidly in Indianapolis after the first shock was felt at 7:54 central standard time. Amateur short-wave radio station operators were among the first to receive actual news of the catastrophe and the homes of several of them were filled with persons seeking news. Indianapolis business firms with branch offices in the damaged cities of the Sunshine state were seeking information of their employes and investments. Serious loss had not been reported today by any local firm. QUIZ YOUTH IN CRASH Coroner’s Jury Summons I)e Pauw Student in C ar Death. BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. March 11. ■ —Ronald Gilbert, De Pauw university student, was summoned before a coroner’s jury today to describe a collision of his automobilewith one driven by Bluford Young. 59, that resultea in the latter’s death. Young died of a fractured skull. The accident occurred last Saturday while Gilbert was visiting his parents, east of here.

HOUSE REVOLTS ON ROOSEVELT’S PLAN Insurgents Balk at Caucus Move of Leaders. (Continued From Page One) nor have any of the vital committee assignments been made by house leaders. Under present plants, the insurgent Democrats will be given a chance to get back in line when the original presidential proposal is placed before the house for a record vote. While the Democratic leadership was encountering difficulties in its caucus, opposition to the veterans’ reductions and federal pay cuts was being expressed by a parade of witnesses before the senate finance committee. The witnesses before the senate committee w'ere permitted only a few' moments each to prsent their arguments. On the Republican side, members freely predicted that they could muster enough votes in favor of the resolution to put it across in spite of the Democratic insurgents.

Quake Death List

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Mrs. B. W. Simpson, Lynwood. Henrietta Gundeman, 17. William C. Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wade and 3-year-old son. Three unidentified, including an 8-year-old girl. Domingues G. Brinkerhcff.

Artesia

Mr. Green. Two unidentified.

Belleflower

Mrs. Frank Ball. Mrs. Irene Campbell, 25.

Wilmington

Mrs. M. J. Corvin, school teacher

Norwalk

Walker De Burton. One unidentified man.

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Mrs. Moore, 60.

Sawtelle

Thomas H. Neale.

Santa Ana

Earl Adams.

Watts

Manuel Rivas. Francisco Navarite. Two unidentified.

San Pedro

Jay W. Murray, fireman from U.

A Voice From Home ‘We’re Fine’ is Welcome Answer from California to Worried Kinfolk Here. BY EDWARD C. FULKE. IT’S a quake.” The words cracked across the continent by wire as sunny southern California, stunned, watched her buildings totter. The sultry heat of mid-summer —there —was deathly silent. A thousand muffled screams as the first shock struck—then silence. “There’s been a quake in California!” The grim message paused—lndianapolis heard—and the news hurtled eastward to the Atlantic. Hurried lifting of telephones. "Long distance, please?”

THE long distance call drove westward. Chicago, then Kansas City, then Denver. "Denver?” asked the operator. "Yes. Denver,” came the answer There was another pause. A silence gripjaed the wire. Suspense was prolonged. Perhaps the wires were dead perhaps the quake had—. There came clicking in the receiver. then more suspense, and in a second a scarcely audible voice, "Los Angeles.” Again silence. The wire was blank. A rattling sound was heard, then silence again. A babel of voice broke the still. In the contusion, voices of a dozen operators were heard. "There must have been an earthquake. Gee. it must be awful.” The wires are crowded with calls. Friends in the east calling friends in the west I—across 1 —across 3,000 miles of space. n b a THE confusion of voices was still. Then: "Something's wrong, the Los Angeles operator doesn't keep the switch open.”

City Doctor Paints Vivid Picture of Frisco Quake

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Felt Like Giant Hand Was Shaking Him, Says Local Survivor. A city asleep . . . Five o'clock in the morning . . • Milkmen's w'agons rumble down cobbled streets . . . A trolley car whines on an ow'l run . . . Sleepy night clerks in hotels ruo weary eyes and glance at the clocks ... An alarm clock sputters here and there . . . Then it came. "It felt like a whistling wind whipping the window panes like rubber in the first shock. I aw’oke. The second shock made me want to leave San Francisco. I started to get out of bed. The third quake and the door blew open, plaster fell, the building weaved, and I felt like a giant had hold of me and was shaking me.” In Frisco Quake It was in this fashion today that Dr. H. Blaine Holloway of 5837 North Pennsylvania street, victim of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, described the sensation of a California temblor. "High winds had occurred for several days in the city,” Dr. Hollowray said. “I’d only been there a short time in the employ of the Southern & Pacific railroad, and w'hen the first quake came early that morning of April 18, 1906. My first thought was to leave. The second quake fixed that determination. It seemed as if my feet were straight up in the air. “The third shock threw me out of bed. I tried to put my trousers over my pajamas. I got one trouser leg on.* but didn’t wait any longer. I started toward the stairs of my rooming house. Tripped by Trousers "That was where I made my mistake, putting on only one trouser leg. wouldn’t have been injured if I’d put them on completely. Instead, as I started down the twisted

Thousands of Lives Wiped Out in Major Disasters

List of major earthquakes in world history, with loss of life and property damage, follows:

September. 1693—Earthquake and eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy, 60.000 killed. Feb. 2. 1703—200.000 killed by earthquake in Japan. Nov. 1. 1755—50.000 killed in earthquake in Portugal.

The statement is echoed over the wires by confused voices. Then there is still again. The connection has been made. The bell is heard ringing. There is the recollection of a home—of the sound of the bell through the corridors. "Hello —” the voice is loud and clear. "Hello, who is it? Bill?” The answer is strong, confident. "Are you hurt?” "No, we’re just waiting.” B B B THEN follows a tragic, hasty description of the quake. "We ran into the street. The noise frightened us. We didn’t know what to do. Chimneys were falling and the ground was rocking. We’re afraid to turn on the radio. We don’t want to know what’s happened.” "Then you’re all right?” "W'e re fine.” came the answer. "Well, that’s a relief, Bill. Write us. will you?” Then silence and doubt gripped again as the connection is broken. Time would tell the rest of the story.

Dr. H. Blaine Holloway

stairs of the rooming house among the falling plaster, I tripped and fell, suffering a back injury,” he said. Dr. Holloway said he gained the street and his first sight was nude men and women and some partly robed running out of houses with bird cages, grips, valises, clothing, and carrying children in their arms. "Every one was hurrying to get out of somewhere and going toward knob or other hills in San Francisco,” he said. “Fire swept dwellings and business buildings. I struggled into my other pant leg and went to Knob hill. Refugees were parked over the entire hill. Trunks and baggage were piled ten and fifteen feet high. The next day they were burned by the conflagration before their owners could rescue them from the flames,” Dr. Holloway said. Guard Against Looting The doctor said rumors of other temblors at Las Angeles were current and that police and soldiers were forced to keep the refugees from their own dwellings to prevent possible looting. "Many could have saved their belongings from the fire if they’d been permitted to go back, but the police and militia were taking no chances. Broken water mains made it almost an impossibility for the city's department to halt the gigantic blaze that ensued. We stood on Knob hill and other hills and watched our all go up in smoke. I lost considerable amount of money in addition to clothing. "I know how' those folk today feel in Los Angeles and Long Beach. I wouldn't go through with it again. It’s a frightful feeling. I kept my resolution. I didn’t go back to San Francisco to live. 1 got out of there and although it’s a fine city, I've no intention of going back except to visit,” he said. The doctor’s wife has a sister, Mrs. Charles Schubert, and several aunts living in Los Angeles. No report of their being injured in the present series of temblors has been received.

Feb. 4, 1783—60,000 dead in earthquake in Calabria, Italy. Feb. 4, 1797—41,000 killed in earthquake on west coast of South America Aug. 13, 1868—25,000 Killed in Ecuador and Peru. Aug. 25, 1883—Thousands killed in earthquake and volcanic eruption 1 on the Island of Java. Aug. 31, 1865—Fifty-one killed and $5,000,000 property loss at Charleston. S. C. May 8, 1902—St. Pierre, Martinique. 30.000 killed. $400,000,000 Is Loss April 18. -906 —500 lives lost and property loss of $400,000,000 in San Francisco earthquake and conflagration. Aug. 16, 1906 —Thousands killed in earthquake at Formosa. Aug. 16, 1906 —1,500 killed in city of Valparaiso, Chile, destroyed by earthquake. Jan. 14, 1907—1.400 killed by earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica. Dec. 28. 1908—76.000 Killed in earthquakes in Sicily and Calabria. 1910—Earthquake killed 1,500 at Cratago. Costa Rico. Jan. 13, 1915—30.000 Killed by earthquake in central Italy. 100,000 Lose Lives Dec. 16. 1920—100.000 killed as earthquake fire and tidal wave destroyed part of Tokio and Yokohama. Japan. May 23. 1925—381 Killed and property damage of $50,000,000 caused by earthquake in Japan. Nov. 18, 1920 -Forty killed or drowned by r iquake and tidal wave on At' i coast from New York to Nev nunuland. July 22, 1930—1.500 killed, thousands injured and 5.000 homes destroyed by earthquake in southern Italy. March 31. 1931—1.000 killed and many buildings destroyed by earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. Cuba Cuts Speed of Trains Pa United Press HAVANA. Cuba, March 11—Orders were Issued today limiting thd speed of all railroad trains to nine and one-half miles an hour because of the recent derailment and dynamiting of trains attributed to antiadministration forces.

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131 ARE KNOWN DEAD IN WEST COASTJUAKE Long Beach Is Hardest Hit by Disaster: Property Damage Heavy. (Continued From Page One) in, and it was felt there was danger of the walls collapsing. Three were killed in Bellflower. Two were crushed beneath a falling wall in a downtown business house. The third was struck down by bricks from a chimney. Police said the three had not been identified. Fire and a heavy fog that rolled in from the Pacific complicated relief work. * More Shocks Expected The Carnegie seismological institute at Pasadena reported that the nature of the shocks indicated more would be felt "probably for days.” The time of the first shock was set at 5:54:20 p. m., Pacific time. Buildings in Long Beach, • Los Angeles, Artesia, Compton, Lynwood, Huntington Park, Bell, and Hynes went tumbling. People w'ere crushed to death beneath flying bricks and concrete. Screams of the injured could be heard above the sirens of police ambulances. The building which houses the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Long Beach Sun was wrecked. The Long Beach telephone office suffered terrific damage and it W'as ordered evacuated, stopping one of the most important lines of communication. Plane Falls; Three Die Police Chief Clarence Webb of Santa Monica chartered an airplane and sent an officer to survey the damaged area. In the smoke and fog the plane crashed near Baldwin Hills. The officer, the pilot and a passenger w'ere burned to death. Those killed in the plane crash W'ere: Sergeant J. Morten. George Tow'ne, manager of the Culver City airport. Fred Porter, pilot, wealthy sportsman. Indicating that the tremors were not over, Los Angeles w r as rocked again by quakes at 12:53 and 1:08 a. m. Soldiers, sailors and marines, aiding peace authorities to patrol the Long Beach district, w'ere fully armed. They had orders to shoot in event of any attempt at looting, though none had been reported. More than 150 Los Angeles physicians and a like number of nurses w'ere rushed to Long Beach by bus, police cars, and special train. Governor Rolph invoked emergency powers to aid Long Beach, hardest hit of all communities in the quake belt. Artesia Main Street in Ruins At midnight, commanders of the United States battle fleet, ordered marines to every point on the southern California coast between Huntington Beach and Venice, a distance of forty miles. Two men w'ere crushed to death in Artesia, when the Scott & Frampton hall, a large brick structure, w'as almost destroyed. Fifty other men and women w'ere taken to the Artesia community hospital, each a victim of bruises, lacerations and shock. The Excelsior Union high school, which has an enrollment of 1,100 pupils from the Artesia-Norwalk district, w'as shaken to pieces and blackened by a disastrous fire that followed the earthquake. Pioneer boulevard, the main street of Artesia, was a mass of ruins, its frame buildings w'ith stucco fronts toppled in the street. Swinging south from Los Angeles toward Long Beach, the first severe evidence of the quake was seen in the Graham district, along Manchester street, east of Central avenue. There the fronts of brick buildings had crashed to the street, and in every direction side streets were roped off and under guard of citizens and members of the American Legion. Citizens feared that other buildings W'ould collapse at any moment. In Graham, also, the front of the Security-First National bank branch bulged out, ’ sw’ayed, and smashed clear to the center of the street. Autos Turned Aside State highway police, Los Angeles police, constables, deputy sheriffs, and deputized citizens blocked every highway and turned aside automobiles attempting to go to Long Beach. Breaking through the guarded line far to the east, United Press representatives swung into East Long Beach. En route, they found all of Signal Hill dark. No lights marked the thousands of oil derrick crown blocks. At Cherry and Anaheim streets in Long Beach, uniformed marines with service guns, men from the U. S. S. Arkansas, were on patrol, directing traffic, and keeping the curious away. "Our orders are," one of them said, “to handle traffic, relieve all citizens of guard duty, prevent rioting, and order all uniformed men on shore leave back to their ships.” Seven Dead in 3 Blocks Seven men and women were killed within a radius of three blocks of where the two marines stood, they said, although it had not been part of their duty to ascertain names. All of that section of Eas; Long Beach was in ruins. For block upon block along Anaheim street, store fronts, brick hotels and rooming houses were wrecked. Bricks, plaster, stucco, boards, rock, concrete and glass were piled three and four feet deep on either side of the street. Two and three stories up. whole fronts were shorn away, leaving rooms exposed. Through these one could see clothing hanging on chairs, toilet articles resting on dressers, and other odd sights. Doctors were reported to have performed operations on the streets in Long Beach in front of the glare of lights of their automobiles. Others administered first aid with improvised implements and materials. All hospitals were filled. The State theater near the

QUAKE FORCE BREAKS OLD IRONSIDES* MASTS

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SAN PEDP.O, Cal., March 11. San Pedro police said today that two masts on the famous “Old Ironsides”

Temblor Brings Sudden End to Hollywood Work

Here’s Reason Quakes Caused by Rocks Shifting Below Surface to Gain Eguiiibrium.

“TJ' ARTHQUAKES are caused by M-j shifting of lighter and heavier rocks below the earth’s surface, in an attempt to secure equilibrium,” Paul Simpson, assistant state geologist, asserted today in expaining the disaster in California. "In the ordinary processes of the earth the land masses are raised and the sea is lowered,” he said. “When the tension on the rocks below the earth surface becomes too great the rocks shift. The earth covering them acts as a sort of jelly-like covering. "When rocks below' the surface shift only a few inches, the earth surface moves more than a foot.” Rocks below' the earth surface, Simpson explains, are like the leaves of a book—one upon the top o fthe other. In some places these rocks are "faulty,” as if they have been cut through. Where these faults are, the layers of rock move. Some are lowered below the others, and finally shift to balance the earth, causing "earthquakes,” he said. 808 FAULTY places in the rocks are charted by geologists. A few are recorded in this section of the country, but have been inactive for millions of years, s othat there is little posisbility of an earthquake in Indiana, according to Simpson. "The last great earthquake in this section of the country was in 1865, I believe, when Reel Foot lake, in western Tennessee, w r as formed. According to an Indiana history w'hich I read recently, tremors from this quake was felt in Indiana.” The movement of the bedrock in California probably was so slight, Simpson believes, that had the buildings in Las Angeles been built on the rock, no damage W'ould have been done. "Such buildings there are practically impossible, how’ever, as they are in this part of the country,” Simpson said, "because of the depth of earth covering this rock.”

3 DIE AS POLICE PLANE CRACKS UP Disaster Survey Ship Falls In Flames. By United rrcs* LOS ANGELES, March 11. A plane en route to Long Beach to survey earthquake damage crashed in flames in the Baldwin Hills, near Inglewood, late last night, killing the pilot and two passengers. The victims were Sergeant J. Morton and Officer George Towne of the Santa Monica police and Fred Porter, pilot. Police Chief Webb of Santa Monica, father-in-law of Rudy Vallee, had chartered the plane. Breakers hotel collapsed, causing deaths and injuries, police reported. The earthquake was perhaps the most severe since the one which destroyed San Francisco in 1906. In many cities, windows were broken, chimneys cams toppling down, dishes and bric-a-brac on shelves in homes and stores were broken. Long Beach was filled with visitors, it being a noted ocean resort city as well as a center of oil production. Three railroads enter Long Beach and the city maintains a wellequipped airport. The city proper is 356 acres in size. In front of the city lies Catalina island, and to the north and west rise the Palos Verdes hills. The city’s beach is about seven miles long and is considered the best on the Pacific coast for all-year bathing. The city’s manufacturing establishments include a large steel works, a Ford assembling plant, and extensive canning factories. The city, which began as a fishing village and seaside resort in 1890, was incorporated in 1897.

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were broken by the force of the earthquakes late last night. It was lashed to a dock at the time.

Arc Lights Flicker Out, Movie Stars Rush Into Open. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. March 11.—Hollywood movie studios felt the full force of a series of earthquakes that struck southern California last night. Cameras still were grinding and many famous stars were in greasepaint under blazing arc lights w'hen the shocks started. The huge stages in Hollywood proper, Burbank and Culver City, shook heavily. A moment before the initial temblor came, cameras stopped grinding and the lights flickered out, as the electric energy w'as interrupted before the shock w r as felt. Stars, directors, extra girls, and technical men rushed into the open, and stood W'atching surrounding buildings. At Warner Brothers studios in Burbank, the high water tow'er swayed so much that w'ater spilled over the sides and onto actors below. A meeting of important studio executives, in session on the top floor of the Roosevelt hotel, was interrupted, and they rushed into the halls, being unable to reach the ground until some moments later.

Santa Barbara Tragedy Is Recalled by Disaster

Radio Experts of City Hear Disaster News BY JOHN T. HAWKINS Times Radio Editor A lone vigil was kept in many dimly lighted rooms of Indianapolis homes all through the night and the early hours of the morning today as the radio amateurs of the city sat fixed before desks and radio transmitters waiting for the faintest sound from quake-stricken California, Headphones were glued to ears sharpened by years of listening to the musical tinkle of the radio telegraphic code. But news from amateurs of the Golden State was slow in coming. Drastic army orders at the outset of the earthquake had silenced hundreds of transmitters that otherwise would have been broadcasting the news to the nation. From all parts of the nation, the ether carried the query for communication with Sixth district stations, California being in that district. At one station, that of Irvin Chapel, 1024 Colorado avenue, W9CTV, countless messages were intercepted as anxious relatives from Texas to Maine sought news of their families and friends back home in California. At an early hour today, army and navy networks, composed of selected amateurs of the various districts, were beginning to get organized. The backbone of the nation’s emergency communication system was ready for service. SCOUTS PLAN_ GARDEN Girls to Take Active Part in Annual Home Show' Exposition. Girl Scouts will raise a vegetable garden of all varieties of tubers and plants in the pit of the Fairground Manufacturers’ building for the twelfth annual Home Complete Exposition April 22 to 29. Mrs. C. K. Calvert will be in charge of the Girl Scouts in the work. The garden will flank the bay window of the 1933 model house. It will be one of the main features of the show and a part of the 20,000 square feet of gardens at the show.

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ALL RESDURCES DF (J. S, AIDING STRICKEN AREA Roosevelt Orders Public Health Service to Stand By. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 11.— President Franklin D. Roosevelt today instructed the treasury department to have the public health service in readiness to give every possible assistance to the earthquakestricken area of California. Reconstruction Finance Corporation officials pledged immediate relief to California in every way permitted by law. The American Red Cross telegraphed to Governor Rolph an offer to take charge of relief work in the earthquake area. Holiday No Bar Treasury officials said restrictions of the banking holiday would not interfere with payment of money from the banks to relieve suffering among the earthquake victims. President Roosevelt previously instructed npval and military forces in Southern California to co-operate in relief work. He was keeping in touch with all developments. Admiral Richard Leigh, com-mander-in-chief of the United States fleet, advised the navy department there was a "w'onderful spirit of co-operation” in the stricken area. Leigh said the navy had organized a short patrol of 1,200 men to aid in relief work and prevent looting. Medical supplies were sent ashore from the ship of the fleet, based at San Pedro. Organize Relief Units Treasury officails said that regulations issued in connection w'ith the banking holiday would care for the emergency need of cash in California. Under an existing regulation issued by Treasury Secretary Woodin national or state banks may pay out money to meet the needs of their communities for food, medicine, other necessities of life and the relief of distress. It was believed this wood cover the California situation amply. A. L. Schafer, manager of the Pacific coast area of the Red Cross, and J. Richardson, a disaster relief field director, flew to Los Angeles from San Francisco. Schafer took personal charge of the relief work. An executive unit was organized, Schafer telephoned headquarters here. FERGUSON RITES TODAY North Side Woman, Who Died Friday, Invalid for Several Years. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Nesbit Ferguson, 50, 3702 East Fall Creek parkway, were to be held at 3:30 this afternoon in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Ferguson, a native of Ireland, died Friday following a long illness. She had been an invalid seceral years and hand lived in Indianapolis ten years.

Killing of Twenty Led to Adoption of Rigid Building Code. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 11.—The earthquake w'hich w'rought extensive damage in Long Beach and adjacent territory last night recalled a shock which killed a score of persons in Santa Barbara almost eight years ago. The popular fallacy that hot. sultry days bring “earthquake w'eather” w’as exploded for the night was cool and foggy when the quake began. It w'as estimated that the Santa Barbara earthquake caused damage reaching past $29,000,000. A few were killed in the collapse of downtow’n buildings. Immediately thereafter, cities throughout the state adopted a rigid code of building restrictions, which no doubt aided somewhat in keeping down damage in Long Beach, a large part of which has been erected w’ithin the last eight years. Feeder Bus To Displace Trolley on West Michigan Line. Acting on authority already granted to Indianapolis Street Railways Inc., by the works board, the public service commission has granted permission to discontinue car service on the West Michigan street line, west of Holmes avenue, A feeder bus will be placed in operation on the line w'hich will extend the present service from Holmes to Exeter avenue. ALWAYS DEAD TIRED? How sad! Sallow complexion, coated tongue, poor appetite, bad breath, pimply skin and always tired. What’s wrong? Chances are you’re poisoned by clogged bowels and inactive liver. Take this famous prescription used constantly in place of calomel by men and women for 20 years—Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. They are harmless yet very effective. A compound of vegetable ingredients. They act easily upon the bowels, help free the system of poison caused by faulty elimination ana tone up liver. Rosy cheeks, clear eye* and youthful energy make a succist; of life. Taka I*r. Edwards Olive Tablets, nightly. Know them by their olive color. 15c, :v>c and 60c. All druggists Advertisement.