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3053 ARE DEAD, 5260 INJURED IN FORMOSA QUAKE Damage to Property on Japanese Island Is Estimated at $28,000,000; Desolation and Destruction Is Appalling*. FACE ALARMING DOCTOR SHORTAGE Whole Villages Are Wiped Out by Disastrous Temblors; Roads Leading to Cities Crowded With Sorrowing Homeless. fCoDvrUht. 1935. bv United Press) TAIIIOKU, Formosa, April 22.—A vast area of crumbled villages and desolated countryside in which survivors and relief workers struggled against terrific odds to stave off fire and disease was disclosed today by the first survey of yesterday’s earthquake in the province of Taichu and Shinchiku. The series of temblors—most severe since the 1923 Japanese earthquake—took a huge toll of casualties, estimated officially at 30"3 dead and some 5260 injured. In addition,

the peril of pestilence and fire added to the misery of tens of thousands, although drenching rains after the quake aided in preventing immediate conflagrations in some areas. The rain and quick action by local authorities prevented serious fires, the Governor General of For? mosa announced. He said all advices from the stricken area showed there were only a few fires yesterday and later surveys showed none of importance The demoralized populace of this Japanese island 50 miles off the Chinese coast rallied slowly today from the effect of the worst temblor in the oriental earthquake belt since the Tokio disaster of 1923. For every hundred injured, there was but one doctor. Damage at 528.000.000 Relief expeditions pushing into the western section where loss of life was heaviest, found water purication works even of cities, in ruins. Fearing epidemic, emergency re* pairs were hastily organized to assure adequate supplies of pure water. The average yearly temperature of Formosa is 90 degrees. Property damage was estimated unofficially at $28,000,000. Official estimates placed the number of homes destroyed at 6671. At least 10,035 homes were damaged. Approximately 20.000 were made homeless. , Carrier pigeons from military relief expeditions brought appalling stories of death, suffering, and destruction in isolated mountain villages and towns to this, the capital and largest city. Homeless Crowd Roads In Doura 330 were killed, in Naiho. 581; in Kamioka. 445. The extensive oil wells that produce great volume for Japanese consumption escaped with comparatively little damage, but fires broke out in the towns of Karakento and Byoritzu. A Japanese warship had arrived at Byoritzu. landing a relief party. The temblor shook down brick and concrete buildings and the thatched mud huts of the natives alike. Thousands of homeless camped in bamboo fields, afraid to return even to homes which escaped undamaged, or crowded the roads leading to the municipal centers, carrying wailing orphaned children and injured with them. The territorial government voted a fund of $4,480,000 to care for them and to start rehabilitation work. Spring rains drenched the refugees and washed out roads over which aid might have been sent to the remote areas. The temblor also wrecked many of the highway tunnels leading into mountain valleys in which most of the populace had concentrated Suffering on All Sides On every side there was suffering and sorrow as relief authorities, guided by the experience of the natural disasters periodically affecting Japanese territory, began the task of caring for the injured, housing the homeless, and rehabilitating the rural and municipal areas. The damaged area spread from the center of the 220-mile long island to its northern tip along the western side. The east and the south, where there are extensive rice and tea plantations, apparently escaped with little damage. Taihoku temples and schools were converted into emergency hospitals. Volunteer nurses circulated among the stretchers in the wards applying home remedies to relieve suffering until the sorely pressed doctors, many of them untrained in modern surgery, could reach the injured. An odor of camphor hung heavy over the improvised hospitals. Construct Rude Coffins Carpenters hastily constructed rude wooden coffins to bury the dead, many of whom had to be virtually tom from the hands of thenfamilies. Orphaned children stood around the coffins, wailing piteously for dead parents, other children circulated among the refugees seeking a father or a mother from whom the disaster had separated them. The task of estimating the toll exactly was made more difficult by the flight of frightened rural residents toward the larger towns. In their haste they deserted their homes and their belongings. In many small towns soldiers found injured still buried in the wreckage Turn to Page Four;

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 36

SEIZE 72,000 POOL TICKETS 38 Are Arrested Here by Vice Squads on Variety of Charges. Seventy-two thousand baseball ! pool tickets were confiscated today | by Patrolmen William Purcell and George J. Connell in front of a print shop in the 400 block, E. Ohio-st. The tickets, according to the police report, were taken from Walter Henninger, 2228 N. Bosart-av; Roland Browning, 2202 Hawthornej ;nne. and Mrs. Lorraine Debehnke, 2912 Caroline-av. as, police said, they were leaving the shop carryi ing 600 books of tickets In carton boxes. No arrest were made. Warm weather brought renewed activity for police vice squads during the week-end with a total of 38 persons arrested on charges rangI ing from violation of the Indiana , beverage act to possession of base- ; ball pool tickets. The tally of arrests is: Violation of liquor laws, 8; vagrancy in connection wifih the raids. 9: keeping a gaming house, 2: gaming and visit* ing a gaming house, 13; statutory charges, 4: operating a lottery and i gift enterprise, 1, and possession of j pool tickets, 1. A squad under Lieut. Leo Troutman arrested eight Negroes and confiscated eight pints of unstamped whisky, a gallon of corn whisky and gambling paraphefnalia late yesterday at 406 Indiana-av, according to the police report. WARM SPELL HERE AFTER LIGHT FROST Today and Tomorrow to Be Fair, Is Promise. Although light frost was reported from various weather stations in Indiana this morning, forecasters believe that today and tomorrow will be ideal for golfers and other I outdoor sport enthusiasts. J. H. Armington. Federal meteorologist here, predicted cloudy and warmer conditions for tonight and tomorrow with no cold waves or dust in view. The skies will be cloudy at intervals, but there is little prospect for rain, Mr. Armington said. The frost was not damaging, Mr. Armington added, because the only places where it was reported heavy were in the northern portion of the state where spring planting is not far advanced. Temperatures here yesterday were kept slightly below normal due to chilly northern breezes. The wind is expected to switch from north and northeast to south and southwest late todav.

Bank Teller Goes Mad , Slays Son and Daughter Wounds Another of His Boys, Then Attacks Police: Placed in Cell, Raving Threats. By United Press CHICAGO. April 22.—William Gardner, bank teller with a record of happy domestic life, shot to death a sleeping son and a daughter today, wounded another son and attacked three policemen unarmed after walking to a station to surrender.

He was subdued and locked up. raving threats from a cell against every one who approached. The slam children were Rita Jane, 20. and Donald. 14. Physicians said the second son, Kenneth, 17, may die. Mr. Gardner's wife, who was left undisturbed in a bedroom below her children, was placed under a physician's care in hysteria. The shooting occurred in the family's large, beautifully gardened home in La Grange Park, a suburb. Mrs. Gardner, a woman of high social standing in her community, said there was no warning of her husband's aberration.

Utility Rate Slashes Total $5,016,809, State Commission Reports 92 Per Cent of Reductions Come in Electric Services, Board, Reorganized When McNutt Assumed Office, Reveals in Formal Statement. Indiana's public utility customers have reaped the benefit of $5,016,809 in rate reductions since the Public Service Commission was reorganized when Gov. Paul V. assumed office, the Commission reported this afternoon. Almost 92 per cent of the rate reductions which have been ordered in the last two years has been in electric services, it is pointed out. The total reductions in this field are placed at $4,610,582. Slashes in gas rates amounted to $228,140, or 4.57 I

per cent. Charges for water were dropped $67,445. or 1.35 per cent. All other rate reductions aggregated SI 10.640, or 2.21 per cent. Os the total reduction. 97.29 per cent was accounted for by privately owned utilities and 2.71 per cent by municipally owned systems Consumers living in 980 cities, towns and communities and in but three of the less populous of the 92 counties benefited from the two-year campaign of the commission for more reasonable public utility rates. Work Being Completed The report declares that the engineering and accounting departments and all facilities of the commission for making complete appraisals and audits have been employed constantly on formal rate investigations, through to March, 1035, the second anniversary of the new commission. At present, work is being completed on the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. case. Other cases on which engineers and accountants have worked are the larger Northern Indiana Public Service Cos. properties; the Gary Heat, Light and Water Cos., the Public Service Cos. of Indiana and the Indianapolis Water Cos. *Tf, as contended by some,” the report declares,” the commission can do nothing toward adjusting, reducing or determining the rates for utility service until after the property of the utility is inventoried., priced and appraised, and the books and accounts audited, then no relief could be given to patrons even in cases where the utilities admit and the commission is convinced that the rates are excessive, discriminatory and unlawful. Construe Law Differently “The commission does not so construe the law, but is of the opinion that it is the duty of the commission to resort to every method and, means helpful in determining rates to be charged for utility service and it is believed that the law is so written and should be so construed and applied.” In the Public Service Cos. of Indiana case, instituted early in 7933, the commission established the method of citing utilities to show cause why their alleged high rates should not be reduced. Attention was called to a section of the statutes, which declares unjust and unreasonable rates to be prohibited and unlawful. After the order had been written carrying SBOO,OOO of electric rate reduction to consumers in central and southern Indiana, the commisison served notice upon all other utility companies that unless they promptly submitted offers to make all reasonable reductions in their rates, the commission would issue ‘‘show cause” orders against each, individually. The result was that nearly $4,000,000 of reductions were obtained by this method with no greater expense to the commission than 8 cents for each $lO of savings, whereas formal rate proceedings with complete inventories and appraisals cost $300,000 and produced little more than $1,000,000 of savings at a cost of $3 for each $lO of rate reduction. The present Public Service Commission is comprised of Perry McCart, Paoli, chairman; Samuel L. Trabue. Rushville, and Moie Cook, Logansport. CREDITORS OF DEFUNCT STOCK FIRM TO MEET Date for Sale of Pfaff & Hughel Assets to Be Fixed. Creditors of Pfaff & Hughel. local investment securities firm, which recently filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, will hold their first meeting tomorrow afternoon in the Federal bldg. Claims will be heard, a date for the sale of the assets fixed and a trustee for the creditors elected. Inquiries into the affairs of the firm are in progress by both the State Securities Commission and the Marion county prosecutor.

She was awakened by the shots, heard her husband clatter out of the house and raced upstairs to find her children in blood-soaked beds. Both she and her husband, police said, were afflicted with tuberculosis. Mr. Gardner brooded over the fact, offering a theoretical cause for his act. Both Mr. Gardner and his daughter were employed by the First National Bank of Chicago. His daughter was a former student of the University of Georgia.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1935

HUEY BLASTS AT NEW DEAL Calls Ickes ‘Chinch Bug of Chicago’ in Tirade Before Senate. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 22.—Huey Long today delivered a blast of epithets against the New Deal, declaring that its officials had been ‘‘anointed and appointed” instead of being truly 1 epresentative of the people. Speaking before the largest crowd of the session, Long was limited to 40 minutes under a ruling by Vice President John N. Garner. He wore bright summer clothes that brought a gasp of surprise from the packed galleries, when he breezily entered the chamber a few minutes after noon. Quickly gaining the floor for his promised speech, the Kingfish went down the line of New Deal officials with a derogatory epithet for each. This is what Long called them: Secretary Harold L. ifckes, with whom Long has been quarreling over public works funds: “Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the chinch bug of Chicago.” Secretary Henry Wallace, “The lord destroyer; the ignoramus of lowa.” Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA’s first administrator, “Hugh ‘Sitting Bull’ Johnson, the expired and lamented.” During his tirade, Long struck directly at President Roosevelt. ;;Rop6vpii_d.e.sires that there shell oe re-inflictecT'upon Louisiabi the rottenest, most corruptive form of political debaucl ,ry ever known and I don’t mean maybe.” EGG ROLL ATTRACTS MORE THAN 90,000 Mrs. Roosevelt Fears Children May Be Injured. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 22.—50 many thousands of children milled about the White House grounds in the annual Easter egg rolling this afternoon that Mrs. D. Roosevelt expressed fear that some would be injured in the crush. By official count, 18,500 flocked Into the grounds in the first three hours. Thousands more, bearing baskets of colored eggs and lured by prospect of a promised greet irg from the President, streamed through the gates hourly. It appeared total attendance would equal or exceed last year's 50,000. Six husky policemen had to protect Mrs. Roosevelt from hundreds of small hands which sought to touch her as she went through the crowd to lead it in singing. Up to 1 p. m., however, there had been no serious casualties.

EASTER RITES DRAW THOUSANDSJN CITY Churches Report Capacity Attendance for Day. Easter services, marked by a large and assorted program of special music, were generously attended yesterday in Indianapolis as a sparkling sky contributed to the beauty of the occasion. All churches reported capacity attendance. and nearly 35,000 gathered on the circle for the annual sunrise carol singing. Streets were filled with worshipers on their way to and from services, and several traffic jams developed after services. In the afternoon all highways were filled with cars, and the many golf courses were well attended. Sartorially, Easter was a grand succes. Although most of the gentlemen of the Easter parade did not get theatrical enough for top hats, they were colorful enough to contribute a geserous sprinkling of light suits and brilliant neckties, and the women spared nothing in the way of smartly tailored, gay suits, and dazzling millinery. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 58 7a. m 44 11 a. m 59 Ba. m 50 12 (Noon).. 61 9 a. m 55 1 p. m 62 Tomorrow's sunrise, 4:55 a. m.; sunset. 6:31 p. m.

EASTER PARADE Photos of Indianapolis persons participating in the city's Easter parade will be found on Page 6.

BOY KILLED, THREE BADLY HURT IN TRAIN-AUTO CRASH

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A life was taken and a life was spared miraculously in two train accidents, one today and one last night. Charles Crose, 15-year-oM Washington High School freshman, was killed, and three others injured seriously today when the auto (upper) in which they were riding was struck by a Big Four freight train at the Tibbs-av crossing. Although his car was left a wreckage of twisted metal (lower), Thomas Reeves, 28, of 2030 Brookside-av, escaped uninjured when the car was struck by a speeding train at the west end of Lawrence. The car stalled and Mr. Reeves had one foot on the running board at the moment of impact.

Two U. S. Women Brave, Death by Chinese Rebels Remain at Mission Posts With Three Canadian Doctors, Unmindful of Possible Consequences. (Copyrieht. 1935. by United Press) SHANGHAI. April 22. — I Two plucky American women and three male Canadian colleagues braved torture and death at the hands of Chinese rebels today by sticking to their mission and hospital posts in war-torn Szechuan province in the western part of China.

Disregarding the advice of authorities and the pleas of other foreigners to flee from the rebels, members of the same armies which last year murdered two Americans, the five remained on duty in the city of Chengtu, capital of Szechuan. Almost the only foreigners left in the threatened city, Miss Beulah Bassett of Los Angeles, Miss Esther Nelson of Minneapolis, and Drs. A. E. Best of Ottawa, Ontario; E. C. Wilford of Toronto, and E. N. Meuser risked a fate which has overtaken many mission workers in the heart of China in recent years. Even after the Chengtu Women’s Hospital had been closed and all but one of the Chinese attached to the institution had fled. Miss Nelson stood by to render what medical aid she could to the people of the city. The Canadian physicians remained with her. Miss Bassett, leader of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society forces in the province, directed the evacuation of her associates, but at last reports she herself was still in the danger zone. Reports from the interior said that the rebels were swarming over the province, pillaging as they drove toward Chengtu. They captured twelve busloads of Chinese refugees in the Longchueni hills and robbed them of all their possessions. For the first time airplanes were used to carry foreigners to the safety of the river and seaport cities where gun boats and marines are available for their protection. A plane of the Chinese National Airways, subsidiary of Pan-American Airways, made three trips between Chengtu and Chunking to bring out women and children. Among those already evacuated were the following Canadians: Mrs. H. B. Collier and two children, one

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of them 11 days old, Toronto; Mrs. Geraldine Bell. Toronto, Mrs.*T. H. Williams, Winnipeg; Mrs. A. J. Brace, Toronto, and Mrs. R. G. Agnew, Ottawa. Other refugees made their way by boat and automobile to Kiaping and Jenshow. it was estimated at least 40 had fled. No word came from the province of the progress of the government army sent to crush the rebels, believed part of the army scattered a week ago in a neighboring province by Gen. Cha.ang Kai-shek, military dictator of the national government.

Stocks Continue Active; Market Tone Is Strong Utilities Prove Heaviest Issue on Big Board; 950,000 Shares Are Exchanged. By United Press NEW YORK. April 22.—Trading which gave promise of the heaviest full day's volume since Feb. 18 found prices advancing on the stock market this afternoon. An opening upward surge was followed by profit-taking, but this did not completely erase earlier gams.

In the first three hours 950,000 shares were exchanged. Utilities proved the strongest point on the board, headed by American Telephone, which, at 1124, was at anew high for the year, and 2 \ points above Saturday’s close. Consolidated Gas, North American and others established new highs on fractional gains.

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The industrial list held fairly steady, slightly above the previous close. U. S. Steel. General Motors and Chrysler held close to the Saturday levels. Rails were a little behind the remainder of the market, but Atchison. New York Central and Union Pacific managed to show small 1 gains.

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Flackville Lad. Washington H. S. Pupil, Is Victim in Tragedy. OTHER CHILDREN HURT Inmate of County Infirmary Is Struck by Flying Wreckage. Charles Crose, of Flackville, 15-year-old Washington High! School pupil, was killed and three other persons were injured seriously today when a Big Four freight train struck | an auto at the Tibbs-av cross- [ ing. Charles died as he was being lifted into an ambulance to be sent to City Hospital. He was the 45th person to die in Marion County traffic accidents this year. Critically injured and rushed to City Hospital for emergency treatment were: Mrs. Ella Mellingcr, 42. Flackville, driver of the car, and her*two children. also Washington pupils; Mary E. Mellinger, 16. whose condition was said to be extremely critical, and Robert. 15. less seriously injured. Struck by Flying Wreckage Also injured, though not a passenger in the car, was Victor Malady, 74, of the Marion County Infirmary, who was struck and bruised by flying bits of the wreckage. The car was demolished when it was hurled by the force of the collision across the street into a group of utility poles. The passengers were thrown on the ground. Warning Signs Working School-bound, the auto was driven, three witnesses said, on to the track in spite of a ringing bell, a flashing light and the efforts of Robert Townsley, 14, of 3559 W. Michiganst, traffic watcher for School 64, who said he apparently was unable to catch Mrs. Mellinger’s eye with his signals. The train, inbound from Sheldon, 111., was in charge of E. O. Hartley, 53, of 1162 Reid-pl, conductor, and Charles Baird, 5120 Maple-lane, engineer. The father of the two injured children, and husband of the car driver, is Arthur Mellinger, a car-penter-contractor, who was at work when the accident occurred. At the Flackville school were other children in the family, George, 14; Russell, 11; Walter, 8, and Alice, 7. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crose, neighbors to the Mellingers. are the parents of the dead youth. Mr. Crose work with the Weber Milk Cos. Mr3. Crose. who was taken to City Hospital by a neighbor when she was notified of the accident, has been ill for two years since the death of another son. Mary Mellinger is a high scholarship student in the junior class, a member of the Latin Club and member of the Civic Quest Club, a cititzenship organization. Several Escape Injury The week-end was marked by remarkable escapes of several motorists, by slight injuries to 10 others and by five more or less violent crashes in which no one was injured. Last night a speeding passenger train flicked a car right out from under Thomas Reeves, 28, grocer, of 2030 Brookside-av, at the west end of Lawrence. His car stalled on the tracks, Mr. Reeves said, and seeing the train approaching he started to get out of the car. He misjudged the speed of the train, however, and had just stepped to the running board when the crash came. The impact took the car out from under him and left him at the side of the track, uninjured. His car wa- ground to bits and strewn along 200 feet of the right-of-way. The locomotive pilot was damaged, but the train went on to Cleveland. Sidney Brown, 42. R. R. 1, Martinsville, suffered no injury at all, but his artificial leg was damaged when a train struck his truck at Kentucky-av and the Belt railroad tracks last night and dragged the wreckage 120 feet. Driver Is Arrested Orville Savage, 37, also of Martinsville, a companion, received minor scratches. Mr. Brown was slated for disobeying a railroad traffic signal. Into the nearly dry bed of Pogue’s Run, at E. 30th-st, plunged a car driven by Balis Kelly, 23, Hazard, Ky., last night, but Mr. Kelly emerged with no injuries. He said bright lights of an approaching car blinded him and caused him to drive off the pavement. Over the week-end, 86 drivers were arrested on traffic violation charges. Forty were convicted in Municipal Court today. DOCK FIRE CONTROLLED New York Waterfront Crippled by Stubborn Blaze. By United Press NEW YORK. April 22—Under control, but still smouldering today, the Brooklyn waterfront blaze continued to give oT dense smoke. The five-story brick warehouse of the New York Dock Cos., caught fire Saturday. Dense smoke from burning stores of coffee and rubber crippled subway service and overcame scores of persons.