Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1935 — Page 1

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HARD LIQUOR ISSUE TOMORROW IN 400 TOWNS IN INDIANA Party Policies Not Considered Major Problem As Anti-Saloon League Backs Favorable Candidates 13 ARE MARION COUNTY ELECTIONS Local Communities Expected to Re-Elect Most Officials Now Holding Offices in Outlying Sections. BY JAMES DOSS Tlmn Staff Writer Hard liquor, rather than party politics, is regarded as the major issue tomorrow when approximately 400 Indiana towns go to the polls to choose members of town boards and clerk-treasurers, as provided by the 1935 town elo'' law. While the New Deal test may be evident in ns assured or expectant of Works Progress Admin ..ion grants, the issues largely are candidates’ personalities and the drive staged by dry organisations to keep out hard liquors.

County communities holding town charters are scheduled to hold elections. They are Beech Grove, which recently became a fifth-class city; Clermont, Crows Nest, Rocky Ripple, Highwoods, Lawrence, Ravenswood, Shooters Hill, Southport, Speedway, Warren Park, Woodruff Place and Woodstock. No Elections to Be Held Castletor., Lynhurst and Williams Creek will join many other Indiana towns in voiding the law by the simple expedient of not holding an election. The 450 voters at Lawrence, in addition to electing a town board and treasurer, will ballot on putting in a municipal water plant. The town has a $26,000 Federt! grant and $31,000 Federal loan. L. E. York, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, revealed that his organization has urged dry groups in all communities to make an effort to elect drys to the town boards because of the option clause in the Indiana liquor control act permitting towns and cities under 5000 population to go wet by ordinance. Mr. York declared that he believed there has been a distinct change in wet and dry sentiment in Indiana since the state voted for repeal fta 1933. He pointed out that at that time six counties voted repeal by less than 100 and 4 by less than 200 ballots. Score Reversed, York Says If Indiana voted on repeal today, Mr. York said, he believed the 55-37 wet score by counties in 1933 would be reversed. He said tests have been made in several counties that went wet and that careful check has shown reversal in sentiment. This is true particularly of Morgan and Sullivan counties, the dry league leader said. Mr. York said the league has not attempted to name town board slates, but has directed its efforts toward urging the various dry communities to elect board members unsympathetic to the legalization of hard liquors. Encouraged by what he termed an unmistakable increase in dry sentiment. Mr. York said the league’s real drive will come before the next legislative elections when it will make an effort to elect senators and representatives pledged to a county or township option liquor law. Hard Liquor Increases A check of the 464 towns and and cities eligible by the 5000 population option clause in the liquor law reveals a marked increase in those legalizing hard liquor. Only 65 had passed ordinances in July, but 24 tnore have followed their example m the last four months. In Marion County, most of the communities are expected to vote largely oh tickets composed of present town officials. Residents of Woodstock, situated north of White River, will vote on a ticket comprised largely of the present town board. Dr. Frank A. Hamilton, clerk-treasurer, is unopposed. Seventy-nine residents of Crows Nest, White River Bluffs and Sunset Lane north of Indianapolis, will vote for William R. Sinclair, Richard Fairbanks a rd Charles J. Lynn, trustees, and J. A. Goodman, clerk treasurer. Scheduled for Re-Election At Highwoods. north of Indianapolis on Road 29. the present officers are scheduled for re-election. They are Dr. Thomas B. Noble. Gerry M. Sanborn and Rosamund McD* Van Camp, trustees, and Dr. Paul Plakeslee, clerk-treasurer. Lawrence has an unopposed nonpartisan Citizens ticket comprised of Ernest McCoy. John Rector, Carl Plummer and Elmer Hunter, trustees, and Harold Gibson, clerktreasurer. Officials of Lyndhurst, west of the city and one of those that will ’’skip” the election, are reported preparing to dissolve the corporation after paying approximately S3(O in town obligations. CAMPBELL_HURT IN FALL Former Deputy Prosecutor Reported Recovering m Hospital. The condition of James G. (Bud> Campbell, former deputy prosecutor, is reported as not serious today. He was injured Saturday night when fie fell while walking through an alley in the rear of the Columbia Club. He is at Methodist Hospital.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Cloudy and colder, with probably showers tonight and tomorrow.

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KENTUCKY VOTE NEW DEAL TEST Distilling Industry Threat Feared in Furious Campaign. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Tress Staff Corresoondent LOUISVILLE, Nov. 4.—Kentucky votes tomorrow in an election which challenges Roosevelt prestige and jeopardizes the $100,000,000 Bourbon whisky distilling industry. Kentucky may vote dry. Benjamin Albert (Happy) Chandler, Democratic nominee for Governor, opposes Judge King Swope, austere, aristocratic jurist named by the Republicans. Chandler awaits news that Kentucky has written another of those barefoot-boy-to-Governor chapters into the volume of national political biography. There has not been a noisier Kentucky campaign since Tom Howard came down from the moonshine mountains to assassinate Governor William Goebels some 35 years ago. Goebels died' and the Republican procurors of Howard’s marksmanship went either to jail or to Indiana, then a haven for Republican refugees. No election shooting is guaranteed or forecast although two or three citizens were pistoled to death today around the state. But these were strictly barroom or personal quarrels untainted by politics. No doubts here that Chandler has stepped up to the tempo and practices of Kentucky campaigning. He relates that he started this cam(Turn to rage Three)

‘SUPER BOMB’ BILLS YOUTHFUL TERRORIST New Tragedy Ends Milwaukee Explosion Series. By United Press MILWAUKEE, Nov. 4.—An embittered youth, destroyed in the explosion of a “super bomb” of his own making, was held responsible today for the series of bombings which terrified Milwaukee for a week. An 8-year-old girl also was killed in the terrific explosion which rocked the South Side late yesterday. Hugh Frank Rutkowski, 21. was blown to bits with the two-car garage in which the explosion occurred. Police said he was experimenting with an electric fuse arrangement when 40 pounds of dynamite exploded with a roar heard for eight miles. The girl killed was Patricia Mylnarek. Eleven persons were injured. Two houses were wrecked and at least 100 other homes were damaged. Trees were blown down and uprooted. WARREN TAX RATE CUT Reduction of 3 Cents Is Ordered by State P< •ard. Reduction of 3 c°nts has been ordered by the Stale Tax Board in the Warren Township tax rate. Warren’s special school fund was cut from 33 to 32 cents and the tuition levy was slashed from 35 to 33 cents.

The Worker Frazier Hunt, famed correspondent. has made a tour of Ihe industrial sections of the United States, seeking to learn what the American working man is thinking about and talking about. He has written a senes of articles on his observations, and the first of these stories on ’’Listening to Industrial America" is on Page 9 of today’s Times.

1 Win, 1 Loss Approximately 500 Butler University students, bubbling over with college fun and the desire to see a show without paying for it, crashed the Indiana Theater at 10 today and sat down to await the picture which was not scheduled until 1. The management called police and three squads went in to interview the students. As a result the students left. They started for the Circle Theater but police beat them there and wouldn't let them in. The students both sexes—then returned to their cars which were parked in the Circle, snarling traffic, and rode off into the rain. It seems they were celebrating a football game of last Saturday. They won Saturday, lost today.

ROGERS FUND GETS SIOOO FROM HAYS ‘Movie Czar’ Opens Drive With First Check. A SMJf>O check from Will Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., opened the Will Rogers memorial drive in Indiana today. Mr. Hays was a close friend of the late cowboy humorist. Accompanying the check, received by Hugh McK. Landon, chairman of the state committee, was a glowing tribute to the late writer and actor. Fred Hoke, Indianapolis drive chairman, named 155 city men and women to direct the campaign for (Tiirn to Page Three) ALLEGED BAD MONEY PASSER’S TRIAL OPENS Woman Ordered Bogus Bills by Phone, U. S. Charges. Charges that she contracted by phone to buy “20 bad tens for SSO” were made today in trial of the case of the Federal government against Mrs. Martha Chandjie, alleged passer of counterfeit money. District Attorney Val Nolan told a Federal jury that Leo A. Dorn. 517 Massachusetts-av, druggist, and two clerks overheard Mrs. Shandjie make the contract. ‘ Two men were sentenced today by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeil on charges of possessing and using counterfeit liquor strip stamps. Virgil T. Catterlin, Indianapolis, received a year and a day in the Atlanta Federal prison and William H. Meyers, 2174 Eastem-av, 60 days in jail.

30-Minute Dance Fails to Discourage Liquor Police; Nab 15 When Music Stops

It was 11 Saturday night, Nov. 2. post-prohibition. Nevertheless, a party of five men and five women sat in the Westlake Beach and looked sort of over-the-topish. At 11:15 the orchestra struck up a number and couples swung into dances on the floor—all but the five men and five women. Two minutes later the place was invaded by 31 men who appeared to have authority. Dancers whispered among themselves that they were Federal men. The five men—and the 31—went hurriedly to tables and snatched all available liquor. The dancers danced. The orchestra played and played and played. For more than 20 minutes the 36 men, who were excise

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1935

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36-HOUR RAIN MAYJ/ISIT CITY Warm Weather to Remain, Is Prediction; Zero in West. Thirty-six hours of rainy weather for Indianapolis was forecast today by the Weather Bureau. Temperatures are expected to remain constant, lowest to-morrow being about 40. At noon the temperature here was 62. Fears that the section would be visited by a cold wave sweeping down from Canada were allayed. Temperatures have moderated considerably in the north, weather forecasters said. Other sections of the Midwest are less fortunate. The mercury stood at 14 above at Goodland, Kas., Cheyenne, Wyo., and North Platte, Neb. The unprecedented cold wave continues in the Pacific Northwest where snow, sleev and frost are prevalent. At Baker, Ore., the mercury dropped to 6 above. Coldest spot was Yellowstone Park which reported 2 below. Zero readings were recorded in Rapid City, S. D., Lander, Wyo., and BLsmarck, S. D.

NEAR ‘ZERO’ HOUR FOR COUNTY TAXES Penalty After Today Is 8 Per Cent for 1934. The “zero” hour for paying the second installment of county taxes without penalty was to be 4 this afternoon, Fay Wrightj deputy treasurer, said today. After 4 this afternoon, taxes will be delinquent. The penalty is 8 per cent on 1934 taxes payable in 1935. On taxes for 1931, 1932 and 1933, there will be an additional penalty of 7 per cent. Taxes for 1930 and prior years will be subject to an added penalty of 5 per cent. Taxpayers are asked to bring their last tax receipt. Hearing Due Wednesday Hearing on the Indianapolis civil tax rate is to be held Wednesday at 9:30 by the State Tax Board. The county rate is to be considered at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Hearing on the city rate was postponed last week due to the illness of City Controller Walter C. Boetcher. Tax Board, city officials and Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers' Association secretary, are to attempt to reach an agreement on the levy figure. Mr. Miesse seeks to slash approximately 23 cents from the city rate and 1 cent from the county rate.

police, waited for the dancers to return to their tables to identify their whisky. They waited nearly half an hour. Then one of the officers announced into the loud speaker microphone that dancers were to return to their tables. It is rumored that some didn't. But some did. Police arrested 15 and sent them to the police station. They seized about a case of whisky, they say. The five men and five women, were, of course, excise police and their wives. They said they had bought setups and liquor from waiters. Os the 15 arrested, 14 were charged with violating the 1935 beverage act, and one. Walter Lawrence. 23, of 1214 Villa-av, was charged with interfering with Ernest

Nix, St. Nick Hold your hats, here comes Santa Claus. Today in Circuit Court, Santa Claus, Inc., of Santa Claus, Ind., a toy firm, filed suit for a mandate against August Mueller, Secretary of State, and Santa Claus of Santa Claus, Ind., another toy firm at Santa Claus, Ind. It seems, according to the suit, that Santa Claus, Inc., was incorporated in 1932. Then, along came Santa Claus of Santa Claus, Ind., in 1934 and also obtained papers, the suit charges. Santa Claus company No. 1 asks that No. 2 be prevented from using the name and that Mueller remove name No. 2 from the records.

ANSWER FILED TO RESTRAINING WRIT Dispute Involves Indiana Railroad Receivership. Answer was filed today in Supreme Court in behalf of Charles E. Smith, Madison Circuit Court Judge, in the jurisdictional dispute with Marion County Superior Court 5 over the Indiana Railroad receivership. Judge Smith had been given until today to show cause why a writ issued by Supreme Court restraining his court from interfering with the receivership should not be made permanent. Briefs are to be filed later. Involved in the dispute on jurisdiction are claims against the old Union Traction Cos. which were assumed by the Indiana Railroad when it bought the Union Traction. Writ had been issued at request of Bowman Elder, receiver of the traction firm. ‘TRUTH SERUM’ LEADS TO ARREST OF LOVER Kansas City Man Implicates §elf in Death of Paramour. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 4—A confession elicited indirectly by a “truth serum” was the basis on which prosecutors today prepared a murder charge against Lester Frisch. 32. He gave officers a signed statement implicating himself in the death of Mrs. Florence Harlass, his paramour. While the statement differed in many respects from the story he told while under the influence of a drug, the similarity of the versions was marked, police said. The woman’s nude body, bruised and teeth-marked. was found in the apartment she and FVisch occupied.

Voight, 35, R. R. 2. Indianapolis, was arrested on the High School-rd. He is charged with operating the place. The other 13 arrested are: Patrick J. Long, 34, of 459 Goodlet-av; Melvin Wright, 31, of 1120 N. Cap-itol-av; Anthony Hossman, 27, of 804 Dearborn Hotel; O. E. Beeb, 42, Danville, Ind.; J. N. Ely, 23, New Augusta, Ind.; Thomas Clark, 22, of 1709 Carrollton-av; P. H. Dreisbach, 30. Brownsburg, Ind.; Vincent Concannon. 23, of 508 N. Bosart-av; T. B. Hawkins. 40, Avon, Ind.; R. M. Wasson, 30. Gary, Ind.; D. C. Cooley. 43. Clarks Hill. Ind.; Wilbert Schuck. 21. of 2146 Olive-st, and Carl Johnson. 31, of 5044 W. 16th-st. Raids on other alleged blind tigers brought the week-end arrest total to 61.

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Italian Troops Resume Drive Toward Makale; New Penalties Are Voted THE WAR TODAY ITALIAN NORTHERN FRONT—ltalian army pushes steadily toward Makale, without resistance so far. ROME—ltalian aviators report 10,000 Ethiopians marching toward Makale, presaging stiff battle. Anti-English demonstrations renewed in Rome. Italy is going ahead to victory as in World War, Mussolini proclaims on Italian Armistice Day. ADDIS ABABA—ltalian advance deep into Ethiopia affords chance for mass Ethiopian attack, Emperor's military advisers feel. GENEVA —League Committee approves project to cut off exports of oil, coal, steel, iron and pig iron to Italy.

League Committee Drafts Plan to Make Italy Suffer. By United Press GENEVA, Nov. 4.—An economic sub-committee of the League of Nations penalties committee today approved in principle a proposal to deprive Italy of oil, coal and steel. Thus opened the second phase of the League’s task of penalizing Italy for warring on Ethiopia. The proposal was approved in principle, rather than in fact, because its success depends largely on co-operation of non-member nations and chiefly the United States and Germany, both of whom may be approached if the proposal is approved at a meeting of the “general staff” of the penalties committee Wednesday. Pig iron and copper my be added to the list, which would supplement and make far stronger the present list of key products which is to be denied Italy starting Nov. 18, when a boycott of all Italian products will be effected also. The subcommittee's considering a plan to ration export of key products to non-League nations in such manner as to make their export to Italy impossible. Other subcommittees were ready to handle any problems of application of th% economic penalties which are to go into effect Nov. 18— a boycott of Italian products and the stoppage to Italy of a selected list of key products. The general staff of the penalties committee, on which 18 nations are represented, will meet Wednesday to review subcommittee work. They will call another meeting of the League penalties committee, comprising 52 nations, when they have made decisions as to the next steps.

‘Victory,’ Roars Duce By United Press ROME, Nov. 4.—ltaly is going ahead to victory in Ethiopia as it did in 1918 in the World War, Premier Benito Mussolini shouted to a throng massed in the Piazza Venelia today on the occasion of Italy's Armistice Day anniversary. “Seventeen years ago this very day,” said Mussolini, “Italy won the most brilliant of victories not only for itself, but for the Allies. Today we are all engaged in anew battle. The Italian people, because they are unbreakably united and unshakeably determined, will once more obtain full victory.” As Mussolini spoke bells were tolling in towers all over the country and wives, mothers and sweethearts awaited news from the front where an Italian army is pushing into Ethiopia. II Duce had just returned from a commemoratory mass at the Church of St. Mary of the Angels and from the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by members of the cabinet, high officials of the armed forces and the Fascist party and diplomats who joined with him in honoring the 667,00 ' Italians who fell in action. He appeared on the flag-draped balcony of his palace overlooking the great square and made a brief speech. He wore the uniform of a commander in the Fascist militia. Before he spoke he surveyed the thousands of Fascist Black Shirts and ordinary citizens squeezed into the square, standing immobile while the great crowd cheered thunderously. He spoke with his usual dramatic gestures and then abruptly disappeared into his office. Three times the crowd w r ith its shouts recalled him, roaring ’ Duce, Duce, Duce!” TWO SAFES OPENED; MARKET LOSES $975 Alamo Theater Loss Undetermined as Police Hold Suspect. Yeggs continued their assault on the city's safes over the week-end, blowing one in the Community Market, 65 W. 34th-st, and robbing it of $975. At the Alamo Theater, 152 N. Illi-nois-st, the safe combination was battered and the hir.ges sawed off. Burglar tools were found on the theater roof. The loss is undetermined. Police are holding Fred Miller. 19. of Clermont, for questioning in connection with the robbery. Miller’s hotel room opens on the Alamo Theater roof, they say. Pearls were taken from the Pen Gift Shop, 41 W. Ohio-st. The burglars entered the place from the basement through a neighboring store.

Planes Bombard Regions Ahead of Advancing Fascist Armies. By United Press ROME, Nov. 4—ltalian airplanes bombarded the regions ahead of the advancing Italian troops today from the Danakil desert regions on the east to the Sudan border on the west, press dispatches from the front said. The planes flew over the region of Lake Ashangi, well to the south of Makale, and reported a column of Ethiopians, estimated at perhaps 10,000, moving northward toward Makale. Small groups also were spotted along the Setit River, toward the Sudanese frontier. The advancing Italian units met no resistance from the Ethiopians and occupied a large number of villages. The natives were reported to be receiving the Italians with enthusiasm. The Danakil column under Gen. Mariotti was said to have moved southward from Lelegheddi, about 60 miles due east of Adigrat, toward the village of Dera, northeast of Makale. Many Villages Fall The hamlet of Dato alteady has fallen to Mariottl's column. The wing commanded by Gen. Ruggiero Santini was reported at noon near the large .village of Dongollo, to the southwest of Dera. Native troops commanded by Gen. Dalmazzo, which last night occupied the village of Adi Ughenam, crossed the River Ueri and captured Mount Magab, which dominates the highland of Gheralta, due north of Makale. Blackshirt units occupied zones southward of Mt. Salah last night and pushed as far as Mender, on the fringe of the Danakil Desert. Advance patrols passed the torrent of Selce and entered the villages of Dudasca and Schemai. When the column of the first army corps, which is the center of the advancing line, resumed its penetration at dawn today, the troops quickly passed the village of Dighide, passing over a series of peaks. Tanks Lead Advance By United Press WITH THE ITALIAN ADVANCE, Ethiopia, Nov. 4.—The first wave of the Italian army, on its way to Makale, is advancing beyond the point where roads had been prepared in advance. It is going into a region where only camel and mule caravan trails exist, where never before has there been any wheeled vehicle. The column is utilizing the largest number of flea tanks yet gathered in war time. The “desperate” bombing squadron of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Premier Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law, is making reconnaissances ahead of the army and there is also a screen of scout planes. The region is mountainous and the average altitude in the valleys is 5000 feet, on the peaks 7500 feet. The population is welcoming the soldiers and emitting curious characteristic shrill yells. No resistance has yet been reported. The army attained all objectives without difficulty on the first day of its second thrust into Ethiopia and it moved at dawn Monday farther toward Makale, its objective 30 miles south of the positions in which the troops bivouacked last night. It is my guess that the entire operation will take four or five days and that then there will be a long pause for consolidation of positions. The operation will leave the Italians in possession of a great territory bounded on tha south by the Takkaze River valley some 60 miles south of the Eritrean frontier. Clash Is Possible By United Press ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia. Nov. 4. —Military advisers of Emperor Haile Selassie asserted today that the mass advance of Italy’s northern army offers Ethiopia the chance it has been awaiting to meet the invaders in large scale battle. Word that Gen. Emilio de Bono had launched 125.000 men on a drive toward Makale and Dessye reached the capital today, exactly one month after the war was initiated by the bombing of Aduwa. Both actions and words in Addis Ababa official quarters indicated that Ethiopian strategists believe the Italian army has walked into a position where resistance may be effectively begun.

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Storm Smashes on Toward Southeastern Florida: Visitors Worried. WIDE AREA MENACED Inland Area, Keys Ordered Cleared; Flood Gates Are Closed. By United Pr< ss MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 4 A hurricane smashed toward southeastern Florida this afternoon, causing great apprehension and frenzy. Bv noon most of the lower east coast—the nation's winter playground—was feeling gusty winds and rain squalls, forerunners of the impending, freakish storm. Heavy seas rolled along the coast, dark clouds gathered, and “boarding up'* took on an increased pace. The storm was placed only 31 miles off the southeast Florida coast at 11:20 a. m. by the Federal hurricane warning system. This indicated a rapid advance toward the peninsula, speedier than had been anticipated, and led residents and visitors to hastily defend themselves against the hurricane. Due This Afternoon G. E. Dunn, U. S. weather forecaster at Jacksonville, estimated the storm center will hit the Florida southeast this afternoon. The Miami area will have winds of 100 miles an hour, Mr. Dunn predicted as a northwest wind there already had reached a velocity of 72 miles an hour with a barometer reading of 28.84. The Ft. Lauderdale Coast Guard base reported winds above 90 miles an hour with a barometer reading of 28.96 at 12:30 p. m. The Weather Bureau ordered the black and red hurricane flags hoisted on the south Florida coast from Miami to Key West, through the Florida keys and up the west coast as far as Naples. The coast guard station at Ft. Lauderdale reported a 56-mile wind at 11 a. m. The Lake Okeechobee region, inland from West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale was ordered evacuated at 11:30 a. m. The Red Cross committee ordered a Florida east coast special train with enough freight cars to carry out 2000 persons. Flood Gates Closed Flood gates, built by the government to protect against recurrence of the devastating 1928 hurricane in the low-lying Okeechobee region, were being closed. The Florida keys were ordered evacuated by the Works Progress Administration. The keys, located south of Miami, were struck bv a hurricane in September and more than 400 were killed. Miami, with hundreds of winter visitors in the city, was on the alert. Visitors who had never before experienced the hurricane threat, feverishly asked advice. Traffic jams clogged the streets as people attempted to get to points of safety or tried to put their cars in storage. Boats, large and small, were being moved from Biscayne Bay to more secure moorings in the Miami River. Yachts Jammed in River More than half a dozen large yachts were jammed together in the Miami River as power lines to a drawbridge were disrupted. The bridge, partly open, could not be passed under nor could automobiles cross it. The yachts were grating together as the tide rose with the wind. A safety gate, waving with the wind in front of the draw, was smashed as gusts grew stronger. Palm fronds whipped down streets before the gusts. High tides pushed up along the entire south Florida coast. Danger the high waves bring was more feared in coastal communities in the Okeechobee region than the winds. Fear High Waves Power lines went out in many sections. In Miami Beach, lights failed at noon, some firms using lamps to continue tneir work. The Dade County disaster relief committee, quartered in a downtown building, went into action to unify relief efforts if the hurricane should strike. Every relief station throughout the threatened area was organized with medical squads. The hurricane, when most Florida residents went to bed last night, was sweeping southward through the British-owned Bahama Islands, situated to the east of the Florida peninsula. They awoke this morning to find the storm suddenly bearing down directly on the coast. Times Index Amusements 2 Births, Deaths. 13 Books 9 Bridge 7 Broun 9 Business News 4 Comics 15 Editorial 10 Financial n Junior Aviation 5 Pegler 9 Radio 2 Serial Story 4 Sports 12-13 Woman's Pages 8-7