Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1936 — Page 1
OHIO FLOWS OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA; RECEDING IN EAST
Bottomlands of State and Kentucky Inundated: Scores Flee. EXPECT LITTLE DAMAGE Red Cross Issues New Plea as Contributions Here Reach $8671. Ohio River flood waters, subdued somewhat after a week of destruction, spread over southern Indiana and northern Kentucky bottomlands today. With only occasional rains forecast for Indiana and the southern section of the state today and tomorrow it was believed by weather observers that the river crest would pass before excessive precipitation increased flood dangers. As the flood crest neared Madison and New Albany, reports agreed that the danger would be less than from the February ice gorge which forced the river to a new height. Overflow from Blup River w f a~ reported to have flooded State R>ad 62 between Corydon and Leavenw'orth from the Ohio line. Lowland residents near New Albany, Lawrenceburg, Rising Sun, Vpvay and Madison, left their homes as the waters edged into barren bottom-lands. Indianapolis residents answered the call of the Red Cross for flood contributions with a total of $8671.33 collected so far. according to William Fortune, Indianapolis Red Cross chairman. Churches Indorse Campaign Indianapolis pastors urged flood contributions in pulpit appeals, yesterday. Mr. Fortune received a telegram from those directing rehef in Eastern states requesting a speeding up of contributions to rehabilitate areas damaged by the high waters. Arthur V. Brown, chapter treasurer, said: “The public should understand that the tasks of the Red Cross are only just beginning. It will be weeks before the W'ants of the refugees are met.” The Marion County quota for flood sufferers is SIB,OOO and it is hoped the full amount will be raised this week. Levee Protection Ample Lawrenceburg reported the Ohio had reached a 55-foot stage, with lowlands covered and a dozen dwellers forced to move to higher ground. The levee protecting the city Is built to turn back a flood stage of 74.5 feet with forecasts for a stage of only 59 feet. Rising Sun seemed safe with the Ohio at 56 feet. A crest of 60 feet was expected which would give a seven-foot clearance from flood damage. Inundation of a few farm sites was the only effect of the flood waters at Vevay as the Ohio neared a 49-foot crest at that point. Madison expected a 49-foot crest today. The high w'ater would send the flood over a few railroad tracks and flood some basmeents. Lowland dw'ellers In the areas also w r ere forced to flee. The river stage at Evansville was not expected to reach the 45 feet forecast last week. The w'aters neared 38 feet today. Works Progress Administration officials and PWA workers are aiding Red Cross units and town officials to evacuate lowland settlers near Indiana cities on the Ohio.
TRADING QUIETS BUT PRICES HOLD AT BEST Most of List Shows Gains of More Than Point This Afternoon. By T. nited Press NEW YORK. March 23.—Trading quieted in the early afternoon dealings on the Stock Exchange today and prices held around the best levels of the day. Most of the list showed gains of fractions to more than a point. Farm implements, which had been carried up 1 to 7 points, quieted with prices around their best. CANINE NIPS WORTH SSOOO. VICTIM CLAIMS —and Sues City Dog Fancier in Effort to Collect. A Superior Court jury today heard evidence in a suit for SSOOO against Miss Wilhemina Adams, Indianapolis' champion free-style dog fancier, and her mother, Mrs. Pricilla Adams. The trial is on a suit brought by Edgar R Grotto, who says that he went to the Adams home on business and was subjected to SSOOO worth of nipping by dozens of dogs around the place. Times Index Births .. 14 j Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Bridge 9 Music 4 Broun 9 * Pegler 9 Clapper .... 9 Pyle 10 Comics 17 Radio 4 Editorials ... 10 Serial Story . 7 Fashion* Financial . 16 Society ...... fi Hoosier Editor 10 Sports .. ..12 Merry-Go-R'd 9 State Deaths 18 Movies 11 .Want Ads.... 14
The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Occasional showers probable tonijfht and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight above freezing; cooler by tomorrow night.
VOLUME 48—NUMBER 10
Health Authorities in 14 States Speed Fight Against Disease. QUARANTINES IN FORCE Sheltering and Feeding of 200,000 Homeless Is Under Way. (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) Health authorities of 14; states mobilized all resources today to halt incipient epi- j demies of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia and measles flaring up in communities from Maine to Kentucky in the wake of floods. With all but a few small rivers receding from the destroying levels of last week, the menace of disease engaged official attention to the exclusion of everything except the immediate problem of sheltering and feeding 200,000 homeless refugees. National Guardsmen enforced quarantines in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania and West Virginia authorities forbade sale o f ra milk. Wheeling, W. Va. r -e forbidden to reopen until -io t . and approved. Portsmouth in Path The flood crest of the Ohio River, which W’ith the tributary Susquehanna and Monongahela Rivers caused most of the damage, approached Portsmouth, 0., today. The force that drove it through Pittsburgh’s business and industrial district last w'eek, and then inundated Marietta, Wheeling, Gallipolis, Ironton and a hundred other Ohio and West Virginia cities and villages, was spent. A concrete dike was expected to keep it out of all but a small unprotected portion of Portsmouth. Advance surges of its flood crept over the low' banks dowm river in Indiana and K .itucky and rose steadily toward flood stage at Cincinnati. But Cincinnati was prepared, with 30,000 relief workers ready for emergency duty, and damage w f as not expected to be extensive. Maine Rivers Rising Rains and melting snow and ice kept the Androscoggin and Saco Rivers rising in Maine, but others of New' England's six great drainage streams receded. Rivers that, flooded last w'eek in New York. New''Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland virtually were normal. Searches for missing persons alternately increased and lowered official estimates of death tolls. Some persons believed lost w'ere found in refugee camps, deaths of others w r ere confirmed by discovery of their bodies in mounds of debris, or on the banks of receded rivers. 200 Reported Dead A consensus of official and unofficial estimates placed the death toll at approximately 200. In 13 states there were 123 known dead, their bodies recovered and between 75 and 100 persons nissing despite a w'eek of searching. The property damage estimate stood at $300,000,000 today. In New England. 37 were dead. 35 missing: in the Pittsburgh area 36 dead. 39 missing; in Johnstown. Pa.. 21 dead; in Wheeling, W. Va.. and the valley surrounding it, 29 dead. Relief authorities said per- ! haps 20 disappearances of persons in the Wheeling area might be attributed to the flood.
BARRETT TO HANG EARLY TOMORROW —* Gallows Is Set Up for G-Man Killer. George W. Barrett who killed Federal Agent Nelson B. Klein at College Corners, Ind., last August, is to be hanged some time after midnight tonight and before dawn tomorrow. Federal authorities refused to divulge the time the former Kentucky feudist is to be led to his death. Not more than 25 persons are to witness the execution in the county jailyard. They include Federal authorities; seven newspaper men; George Phil Hanna, Epworth, 111., stock breeder, who is to direct the hanging: Hanna's two assistants, Sheriff Sam L. Malone *of Hamilton County, Illinois, and Sheriff Chester Pyle of White County, Illinois. A physician and undertaker also are to be inside the tent-in-closed gallows when the trap is sprung. The gallows, brought here yesterday from Illinois, was set up early today. The execution is to be the first hanging here in 50 years. Barrett yesterday received the last sacrament of the Catholic Church from the Rev. John F. McShane. pastor of St. Bridget's Church. Barrett's sister. Mrs. Svlvania Woods. Lock port. 0.. visited him yesterday, and his brother was to sep him today.
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COUPLE HELD IN BANKER'SDEATH Woman Termed 'Smart Moll/ as Bloomingdale Probe Is Pushed. A blond woman, termed by deputy sheriffs as a “smart moll,” and her husband w r ere to be questioned today by Indiana State Police In an effort to solve the slaying of J. Wood Carter, Bloomingdale banker, in an attempted holdup last week. The couple, held at the Marion County Jail incommunicado on orders of Capt. Matt Leach, are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hadded, Michigan City. They w'ere brought here yesterday. The woman, Capt.. Leach says, is believed to have been an associate of the bandits wtoo murdered Mr. Carter. Police do not believe her husband is involved. The bandits escaped after one of their number and Mr. Carter were slain. Mrs. Hadded, wtoo is 23. denies that she knew' the trio of killers, but Capt. Leach believes she is the woman who was seen in an automobile near Bloomingdale before the slaying. State police say they have learned that Mrs. Hadded was in St. Louis, Mo., at times when Paul Theodore Mills, slain bandit, was visiting there. The Bloomingdale banker was ambushed in the bank. He killed Mills and the other two bandits escaped in his car. Mills’ body was claimed yesterday by his mother, Mrs. Elnora Mills, and was to be released today from Parke county for burial in St. Louis.
ATTACKS ON JAFSIE STIR OFFICIAL IRE Second Reprieve Indicated, Says PrOvSecution. Bit United Press TRENTON. N. J.. March 23. A bitter indirect attack on Gov. Harold G. Hoffman and counsel of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for recent insinuations against Dr. John F. Condon in the Lindbergh kidnaping was made today by a high member of the prosecution. This official added that the Governor's continued activity in the case seemed inconsistent with his frequently expressed determination to grant r.o lurther reprieve to the condemned slayer of the Lindbergh baby who is ••cheduled to die the night of March 31. “I don’t know what’s in his mind.” the official said, “but all this sound and tury seems to point to another stay.” KEPT PIGS IN HOME ; PARENTSJ-ACE COURT Children Turned Over to Board of Children's Guardians. The presence of five baby pigs in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Goodman. 2458 S. Dakota-st, resulted today in a suspended sentence for Goodman and probation for Mrs. Goodman. In addition their two children were placed temporarily in the Board of Children's Guardians’ Home. Goodman is a WPA worker. Frank L. Martino, substituting in Juvenile Court for Judge John F. Geckler. suspended sentence on Goodman on promise of good behavior and upon the pleading of Mrs. Goodman. Investigation had revealed that the pigs had been taken into the Goodman home during the cold spell and following the death of the mother pig.
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936
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Little Late Leif Eriksson Found America in 1000 A.D., Congress Decides.
By United Press WASHINGTON, March 23. Congress permanently memorialized in the Capitol today the discovery of America in 1000 A. D. by the Norwegian adventurer Leif Eriksson. At a ceremony in Statuary Hall, with Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker Joseph Byms participating. Congress accepted from Norwegian Friends of America a huge painting depicting that discovery to hang just outside the Senate chamber amid other famous episodes of national history. The painting portrayed the rugged, bearded Leif at the helm of a primitive wooden ship, sighting America over the waves of a bleak, turbulent sea. YOUTH IS TILTED IN GAR ACCIDENT HERE County's Traffic Toll Since Jan. 1 Hits 24. Albert Barker, 21, of 214 N. Be-ville-av, injured in an automobile collision at Highland-av and Michi-gan-st, died early today at City Hospital. His death brought the rapidly mounting Marion County traffic death toll to 24 since Jan. 1. Others injured in the same accident early yesterday were reported improved at City Hospital. They are Miss Pauline Jackson, 30, of 314 N. Gray-st, and Walter Abell, 19. R. R. 11, Box 226-J. Both received lacerations of the face and head. A fourth person, Donald Dick. 18. of 2317 Prospect-st, was treated at City Hospital and sent home. The cars involved were driven by Mr. Barker and Mr. Abell. Police held Abell on charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and failure to stop at a preferential street. Funeral services for Eugene Boling, the twenty-third county traffic victim this year, are to be held at 2:30 Wednesday in his home. 3601 Clif-ton-st. The Rev. C. R. Lizenby, St. (Turn to Page Three) ROOF BLAZE DAMAGE Spread of Flames Checked by Rain. A fire broke out today on the roof of a two-story frame dwelling occupied by William T. McClure at 2008 N. Delaware-st, and did S7OO damage The morning rain and the fact that roofs on neighboring houses were soaked with water were credited by firemen with preventing spread of the flames. Firemen said they believe a defective flue was the cause of the fire. Water damage to furniture was estimated by Mr. McClure at SSO. He said the loss was covered by insurance. The home is owned by the Indiana Savings Investment Cos. Bandit Victim Recovering Wade H. Martin. 59. of 3301 N. Capitol-av. grocer of 1709 Howardst, was recovering today from bullet wounds in the left arm received Saturday when two bandits attempted to rot: him in the driveway of his home.
RIPLEY COUNTY PARK ASSURED Versailles Couple Loses Suit to Halt Condemnation of Land. A national park on 5500 acres of Ripley County submarginal land for employes in low'-wage groups was virtually assured today when Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell overruled a demurrer attacking the government's right to condemn land for a park. The demurrer was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Dieckmann, Versailles, w’ho owns a small, abandoned farm in the middle of the proposed park. They claimed that the government had no authority to condemn land for the public welfare and attacked the legality of the Public Works Act. Paul V. Brown, regional director of the National Park Service, said today he hoped the first unit of the park would be open for visitors by July 1. Assigned to Park Service When the Rural Resettlement Division decided two years ago that the Ripley County land should be retired, the project was assigned to the National Park Service. Eventually, the park is to be administered by a committee of Ripley County residents and is to include 10,000 acres. Maintenance of the park has been assured by the gift of Joseph E. Hassmer, Versailles, retired business man, of SIOO,OOO and his palatial farm home in the middle of the tract. Representatives of low-wage groups from industrial centers in Indiana. Kentucky and Ohio, 4-H Clubs and youth organizations are to benefit chiefly from the camps to be built in the park.
NEW POST HINTED FOHJjEN, HACOOD Governor’s Island Command Figures in Rumors. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 23.—A decision on the future military career of Maj. Gen. Johnson Ha good, retired from command of the Eighth Corps Area for criticism of WPA. appeared near today after Maj. Gen. Frank Parker was ordered to command of the third army, including the Eighth Corps Area. Gen. Parker, now commanding the First Infantry Division at Fort Hamilton, N. Y„ was ordered to the new command coincident with a conference between Gen. Hagood and President Roosevelt as the President traveled southward on a vac“f : th. In addition to commanding the First Division, Gsn. Parker has been in temporary command of the Second Corps Area. There were reliable reports in the capital that Gen. Hagood would be given anew post soon as a result of the barrage of congressional criticism which greeted his restiremen. GIRL HIT BY CAB, HURT Dash Into Street Results in Minor Injuries, Running across the street on her way home from church today. Thelma Lutz. 8. of 335 N. Addisonst. was struck by a taxi driven by F. B. Lyons. 34. of 2025 W. Wash-ington-st. and received a broken rib and bruises. The accident occurred at Turner and Holmes-avs,
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TOWNSEND PROBE MAY BE OPENED WITH INDIANA; F. D. R. DEFENDS POLICIES
WAR Will END SOON, IL DIICE NRTSITALK Addresses Crowd in Rome After Abolishing Parliament. By United Press ROME, March 23.—A new tripower agreement between Italy, Austria and Hungary was signed tonight by Premier Benito Mussolini, Chancellor Kurt Schusehnigg of Austria and Premier Julius de Goemboes of Hungary. By United Prests ROME, March 23—Premier Benii to Mussolini, after announcing the I abolition of parliamentary rule in Italy, intimated in an address to! the people today that an early set- i tlement of the Ethiopian w f ar is in j prospect. Speaking to a crowd in front of j his official residence, Mussolini said i the dark clouds now hanging over | Italy w'ould soon disappear. His statement was taken to mean 1 that he expects an end to League sanctions against Italy and the imminent end of the war.
Speaks to Delegates Prior to his Venice Palace speech, Mussoiini addressed the 800 deleI gates of the 22 Fascist corporations ! in the great hall of Julius Caesar. ! He announced to them his dream of i ideal government the Twentieth Century Fascist corporative state, in which parliament will be replaced by the corporations, representing every branch of business, industry, labor and the professions. They will run the government much as the executive heads of a | modern corporation run their business. Mussolini inferred that the territory which Italy is conquering in Ethiopia will be retained by Italy. “Victory is kissing our flags in East Africa,” he said, “and the ter- | ritory which our soldiers are conquering is already territory consecrated to our nation.” Replies to League Covenant Evidently referring to the League ' of Nations covenant, under wtoich j sanctions were applied to Italy in j an effort to stop the war, Mussolini | said: “The vital progress of the Italian people never was and never will be halted by the legalistic wires of a pact which, instead of promoting peace, threatens humanity with a prospect of even more vast wars.” Mussolini's speeches were made on the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of the Fascist Storm Troops.
19 REPORTED KILLED IN JIJIGA BOMBING 83 Wounded in Italian Air Raid, Is Claim. By United Pre'iS ADDIS ABABA, March 23.—Jijiga, important city in eastern Ethiopia, was bcmbed in devastating manner today for the second time, it was announced. The United Press correspondent at Harar estimated that 19 persons were killed and 83 wounded by 15 Italian planes. The city, he said, was almost destroyed. By United Press LONDON, March 23.—The League council today instructed Salvador de Madariaga of Spain and Joseph A. Avenol, the League's secretary general, to approach Italy and Ethiopia with a view of arranging a final peace settlement.
A New Writer ANEW writer, whose fame has girdled the globe, joins the staff of The Times
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Experiment Necessary to Progress, Says President at Winter Haven. FEARS ‘STANDING STILL’ Speech Is Interpreted as Crack-Down on Critics of New Deal. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press White House Correspondent. ROLLINS C 0 LLE <E, Winter Park, Fla., Ma ch 23.—President Roosevelt today called for extension of the policy of the good neighbor as he defended his policy of experimentation and assured the nation that old ideals were not being scrapped. “In education, as in politics and economic and social relationships, w'e hold fast to the old ideas,” he said, in addressing an audience in the lofty chapel of Rollins College, “and all we change is our method of approach to the attainment of the ideals. Stagnation follows standing still. Continued grow'th is the only evidence of life.”
Mr. Roosevelt stopped here en route south on a delayed vacation to receive from an old friend, Dr. Hamilton Holt, the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Rollins j College, seat of an experiment in higher education. Dr, Holt is the head of Rollins. Predicts Spread of Policy As for the good neighbor policy, Mr. Roosevelt envisioned its spread to the far corners of the earth as a bulwark of peace and justice. He saw its development growing out of national understanding and the right of government to adjust conflicting group interests affecting the lives of America’s citizens. With Mrs. Roosevelt, the President arrived here shortly after 9 from Washington. He is en route to Fort Lauderdale w'here later today he will board the yacht Potomac for a Southern fishing cruise. President Roosevelt departed from the text of a prepared speech to observe "it is the first time I have had the privilege of seeing my better half in cap and gown.” He referred smilingly to Mrs. Roosevelt who sat beside him. She had earlier received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan medallion for her public work.
Tigert Praises Roosevelt The President, receiving his degree of doctor of literature, jokingly remarked: ‘At last, too, my literary efforts have been recognized.” Dr. John J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida, praised President Roosevelt’s leadership as he delivered the citation for conferring the honorary degree. Dr. Tigert said that Mr. Roosevelt assumed the presidency ‘‘in one of the blackest hours in the history of the republic.” He said the President exhibited leadership, courage and sublime faith. Dr. Holt declared one problem before the American people was to work out an ’ equitable system of production and distribution which will lead our people to a planned and disciplined plenty.” Another problem, he s;\id, was the rumors of war. “If under your leadership our people can play the good neighbor to all mankind, as you have so often pledged we would do, will no* that spirit lead them into union on a world scale as the spirit of Washington led our sovereign states into union on a national scale?” Dr. Holt asked as he addressed the President. President Roosevelt continued his Southern trip by train immediately after receiving the degree. To many, his remarks were interpreted as an inferential crackdown (Turn to Page Three) APPROVE WINDFALL TAX Congressional Experts to Advise Levy on Processing Funds. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 23.—Congressional experts framing a tax bill decided today to recommend a so-called ‘ windfall” levy on uncollected or refunded processing taxes imposed under the invalidated AAA. The windfall tax. proposed by President Roosevelt in his recent message to Congress asking $1,137,000.000 in additional revenue, is expected to yield approximately SIOO,000,000.
DUST STORM IS RAQING 42-Mile Wind Swirls Silt Over Entire Southwest. By United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., March 23. Rain and snow fell elsewhere, but dust still blew in the dust bowl today. The Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas reported continued drought and increasingly heavy dust. A 42-mile wind picked up the loose silt of the Panhandle and drove it northeastward over Oklahoma and Kantas.
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Borah Candidacy Indorsed by Doctor on Eve of Investigation. SET THURSDAY HEARING Ouster of Hoosier Manager Interests Chairman of House Committee. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 23. Indiana may lie the first state selected for study of the inner workings of OARP, Inc., the official Townsend old-age pension movement, it was learned today. For the bipartisan House committee. which was voted $50,000 to conduct the investigation, already has some data regarding alleged irregularities in the Townsend organization in the Hoosier State. This information was presented to Chairman Jasper C. Bell (D.. Mo.) of the committee by one of the Indiana congressmen. It is said to involve the ouster of W. S. MoClintic as state manager of OARP. Reported as Interested Chairman Bell expressed great interest in the information, and said that his committee will investigate such things as that is the purixjse for which it was created. I First hearings of the committee are scheduled here Thursday, when OARP leaders. Dr. F. E. Towmsend. Robert E. Clements and Gomer Smith, are to be heard. Hearings will open under a House resolution ordering an investigation of the Townsend lobbying and j financial methods. Dr. Townsend was Washingtonbound today from the West after indorsing Senator Borah for President. *
Performance Has Been Erratic Dr. Townsend's pledge to Borah was revealed last night in Long Beach, Cal. If the doctor doesn’t change his mind, if he can deliver his organization and, if Borah accepts Townsend's aid in good spirit, the Long Beach statement may prove to have great political importance. But Townsend's past performance has been politically erratic. By this time next week he may decide to oppose Borah and support some other. Townsend's Borah announcement explained that there would be no third party or separate slate of congressional candidates supported by OARP. Inc., this year. In the congressional districts the Townsendites will follow the proved strategy. of the late Wayne B. Wheeler of "the Anti-Saloon League. They will support for Congress candidates who indorse the pension plans, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. That is what worries congressional statesmen. Many of them remember the biting lash of Wheeler's whip. ‘‘We are ready for anything tho committee asks." Mr. Clements said here today. "We only hope we get a chance to explain our plan. We’ve never been allowed by the House to do that so far.” Bell Also Ready Rep. Bell, who sponsored the investigation and who heads a bipartisan inquisitorial committee of eight House members, was also ready. The committee's counsel, youthful James R. Sullivan of Kansas City, and two investigators have been busy preparing their case. An auditing firm retained by the committee has had experts busy at. Townsend national headquarters for a fortnight, fine-combing the books. For the "defense,” the Townsendites have their own lawyer. Thomas W. Hardwick. He is one of Washington’s best-known attorneys, former Georgia Governor. ' congressman and United States Senator. Rep. Bell said today he did not know how long the investigation would take. Many believed it would require several weeks. "It will be an investigation, not, a trial,'’ Rep Bell said. “We are out for the facts. I think I can promise that some interesting things will be turned up.” Meantime, the McGroarty bill embracing the modified Townsend plan is marking time. Its author Rep. McGroarty D.. Cal.), is busy conducting his campaign for President by remote control. He heart a Townsend slate in California’s Democratic primaries, due May 5, and is urging all Townsend Republicans to register Democratic in order to “vote Townsend.’* He says he will win the state delegation “by 200,000 votes.” 1200 SOLDIERS UNDER DISEASE QUARANTINE Newly Arrived Troops Isolated at Canal Zone; Meningitis Cause. By T ailed Press PANAMA. March 23—Twelve hundred soldiers who arrived on the United States Army Transport Republic were isolated today in quarantine at Fort Clayton. Canal Zone, because of development of a case of meninigtis on the voyage from the Atlantic coast.