Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1938 — Page 1

NEW PAY BIL WOULD ASSURE

AVERAGE WAGE

NATIONAL AFFAIRS NEW WAGE-HOUR bill drafted by House Subcommittee.

REORGANIZATION BILL debate to end today.

ADMIRAL REQUESTS larger air-

craft carriers

NLRB RULES company must sign contract if union agrees to terms

INDIANA firm charged-with union discrimination.

TAX BILL changes lack New Deal opposition.

RAIL COMMITTEE advises quick reorganization of reads.

Annual 5-Cent Wage

Increase Asked WASHINGTON, April 6 (U. PJ). —The House Labor Subcommittee today reported to the full Commit‘tee a wage-hour bill which would establish minimum wages at not less than the weighted average pay now existing for each craft in each in-

dustry. \

The proposed bill would establish a complex formula for wage fixing by an independent five-man board to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Chairman Mary T. Norton of the Labor Committee called a meeting of the full Committee to consider the latest wage-hour plan next Tuesday. Chairman Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga, of the Subcommittee which drafted the new plan |said his Committee reported it | without a record: vote. Rep. Ramspeck said the proposed

minimum wage of not less than the

an hour above the average level. At the end of 12 months, the Board might increase the wage mot more than another 5 cents, or any

could be followed until a maximum wage le achieved. Minimum wages of more than 40 cents an hour could not be established by the Board.

establish maximum work hours of not more than 48 hours a week, nor les sthan 40 hours a week. - - In fixing the weighted averages the Board would total all wages paid for a certain occupation in the

| by the number employed “at that

as possible to obtain the 40 cents and 40 hours standard,” Rep. Ramspeck said. All farm workers are exempted so long, Rep. R

in their natural state.” This would include hauling to market. "As now drafted, the bill would apply only to industries in interstate commerce. The subcommittee ignored de- | mands. of Southern congressmen that differentials be recognized between Northern and Southern industries.

House to End Debate On Reorganization

| WASHINGTON, April 6 U. PJ. | _The House agreed today to end general debate on the Byrnes-

tion Bill when it adjourns tonight. ° Administration leaders obtained | unanimous consent to the 'limita- | tion after attempting unsuccessfully to end debafe in three hours. Under the agreement the House "will start reading the bill for amend- | ments tomorrow. :

Today's motion to end debate was motion which

jdentical to the the House voted down 191 to 149 Friday pight. That setback so demoralized the leaders that the following day, after long-distance tele-

phone conversations with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. they announced two concessions to

meet objections of Democratic insurgents to the new powers pro-

for the President. Later they

added a third. In a radio speech last night Rep. O'Connor warned against acceptance of the concessions.

“The first concession,” he said, “is that they are willing to eliminate

the: Bureau of Education from the monster new Department of Public

Welfare, the most colossal branch of . the Government ever conceived in

power and control. ." . . “The second concession . . . was that Congress might disapprove of a reorganization by the President by | a concurrent resolution instead of a

. law. How flimsy this concession is

. can be evidenced by the fact that ' the President “himself has publicly expressed doubt of the constitutionality of the use of a mere resolution agreed to .by both houses to override his action. : : “futher ‘bait was offered in a suggestion that the proponnents of the bill would not violently oppose leaving the great Veterans’ Administration as an independent rather than stoking it into the huge caldron. But if a bill passes the House, watch that concession in

conference, and more important

than that, especially to the veterans, if the swallowing of this bureau does not happen at the moment, another year is coming. * “Undoubtedly further concessions will be made—‘anything to pass the pill’ is the slogan of the proponents.” : : Reps. Arthur Lamneck (D. O.) and Samuel B. Pettengill (D. Ind.), ‘speaking in New York at a mass by the National Defenders, ries eneunced the bill

“wrong in principle.” gill os return of

board would determine the weighted average pay now existing for a given occupation in a certain industry. It would then be authorized to fix a

average pay nor ‘more than 5 cenis

amount less than that. This process

1 of 40 cents an hour was

The Board would be allowed to

industry and then divide that figure.

| task. Leen. : «The bill directs the board as soon

amspech explained, «as they are dealing with products

Cochran Government Reorganiza-1

agency,

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FORECAST: Rain, possibly turning to snow tonight and tomorrow morning, becoming fair by tomorrow night; colder tomorrow and late

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 22

Named Editor

LEE HILLS TAKES OKLAHOMA POST

Served Past Two Years With Indianapolis Times as Associate Editor.

Lee Hills, Associate Editor of The Indianapolis Times, today was appointed Editor of The Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, another Scripps-Howard newspaper. Mr. Hills came to The Indianapolis Times two years ago from The Cleveland Press. He formerly was chief political writer and. City Editor of The Oklahoma News, to which he now returns as Editor. He succeeds Robert. T. Fredericks there. : Mr. Hills is a member of the bar in Oklahoma. . His earlier experience included service on The Daily Oklahothan and Times in Oklahoma. City, and

Utah. He attended the University of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Hills and their son, Ronald, left Indianapolis last Saturday for Oklahoma City.

TELEPHONE C0. ASKS STATE-WIDE RATES

Local = Basis Inequitable, Firm Tells Board.

Declaring it was operating on a 12-year-old rate schedule, the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today asked the Public Service Commission to fix new rates on a statewide basis. ; Pending before the Commission are petitions ‘filed by 10 Indiana cities, including Indianapolis, which ask that rates be lowered in those localities. Public hearings already have started in the South BendMishawaka telephone rate case. Company representatives said they opposed fixing rates on a local basis because of inaccuracies which they said would resuit in such a rate study. They also said that they were charged with thé duty of serving adequately all persons living within the vicinity of their lines. “The company has no right to pick and choose its exchanges or patrons,” W. H. Thompson, utiity attorney said. . “We can’ not .cut off telephone service in a small community because its rates do not yield a fair return on the property valuation for its particular exchange.

McCart Quizzes Attorneys “Any other theory of rate making which does not consider the statewide services of the company eventually will destroy, I think, telephone service in small com munities and rural areas.” Commission Chairman Perry McCart declared that if a statewide investigation was made, patrons from all the exchanges, whether they had filed protests or not; would be called in. 1 He questioned telephone company attorneys in an attempt to determine whether the company wanted general rate increases and added that such increases would be granted if it was found that the utility was not earning a fair return on its property. .

2 MEN QUESTIONED IN PAMPHLET CASE

. -Two men were held in jail here today in connection with an investigation of the publishing of what Prosecutor Herbert Spencer termed a political pamphlet. They were arrested at their homes early today in raids led by the Prosecutor and Chief Morrissey.

act. Chief Morrissey said charges® of vagrancy would be placed against the men after they are held 24 hours. The Prosecutor said “others may be involved.” A habeas corpus petition was filed in Superior Court, seeking release of the two men. Judge Joseph Williams disqualified ‘himself, declaring “I don’t intend to

named Erve Hanford as judge pro tem. Hearing on the petition was set for later today. =o Attorneys representing the ‘men charged that they were arrested without - warrants : were filed against £3

on other newspapers in Missouri and’

Mr. Spencer said the pamphlet’ violated the 1911 corrupt practices

play politics from the bench.” He,

and that no

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GREATER REICH GIVEN BY U.S

“THE FOREIGN SITUATION WASHINGTON — U. S. asks Reich to pay Austria’s debt. PARIS—Blum Cabinet wins. HENDAYE — Spanish Rebels halted. 1 VATICAN—Cardinal explains. SHANGHAI—Japanese advance. TOKYO—Panay bill asked.

U.S. to Make Vienna

WASHINGTON, April 6 (U. P.).—

The American Government today formally ‘recognized Germany’s absorption of Austria and notified the

German Government that it would be held responsible for debts. American recognition was contained in two diplomatic notes de-

livered by the American Ambassador to Berlin, Hugh R. Wilson, to the German Foreign Office. At the same time the United States announced that it was closing its Vienna Legation and converting it into a Consulate General. It was said the recognition of Austrian union with Germany was given for the “practical purposes” of making ' necessary diplomatic and consular adjustments. However the State Department said such recognition in no way constituted a departure from this Government's principle of non-recognition of territory gained by force in contravention of existing treaties. Austrian debts to this country and on bonds outstanding in this country total $64,293,480.

Rebels Stopped At Strategic Point

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, April 6 (U. P) ~—Spanish Loyalists, strengthening their resistance after four weeks of catastrophic defeats, held the Rebels at Tortosa today ‘and formed a “last stand” defense line between Lerida and . Barcelona. : They made their stand as a hew Cabinet, embracing the -leadership of the two powerful Spanish labor unions and marking a definite turn toward the left, took office at Bar‘celona pledged to fight the civil war to the bitter end. = ‘Dispatches from both sides of the Catalonian front showed that thc Loyalists were, for the moment, standing fast. ; At Burgos, the Rebel Government repealed all laws for Catalan autonomy. .

Cardinal and Pope

Agree on Nazis

VATICAN CITY, April 6 (U. P). —The breach between the Vatican and the Austrian episcopate over the question of co-operation ' with the Nazis was healed today after a meeting between His Holiness Pope Pius XI and His Eminence Theodore Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna. In a statement published by Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Innitzer said that the Austrian church declaration of March 18 was not intended to imply approval of anything incompatible with the “laws of God and the liberties and rights of the Catholic Church.”

Blum Fiscal Bill -

Passed by Deputies

PARIS, April 6 (U. P.).—The drastic “financial program of Premier Leon Blum’s Popular Front. Cabinet was approved in the Chamber of

Deputies by & majority of 311 to 250

today after application of a gag rule limiting debate. Debate was interrupted after speeches hy Paul ‘Reynaud and Pierre Etienne-Flandin in which they bitterly criticized the measure. The radical Socialist Party permitted members to vote individually instead of as a bloc. M. Blum’s majority was insufficient to raise the hope that the Cabinet could survive debate in the Senate Fridey. The Cabinet geuerally was expected to fall. M. Flandin said earlier that the results of American credit inflation should demonstrate the danger in the Government's emergency finance program.

Japanese Army

Reports Advance

SHANGHAI, April 6 (U. P)—|y

Japanese forces claimed today they were within 40 miles of Hsuchow, a railroad junction and one of the main defenses of Hankow, Chinese provincial capital. : Japanese dispatches asserted that advance units had crossed the Shantung border into Kiangsu province and ‘had laid siege to Hushan, about 38 miles northeast of Hsuchow, and a few miles south of Taierhchwang, where a two-week’s battle took the lives of thousands on both sides. Japan Requests Specific Panay Bill TOKYO, April 6 (U. P.).—A Foreign Office spokesman said today that Japan had asked the United States to itemize the $2,214,007.36 in demnifications asked for the sinking of the U. 8. Gunboat Panay by Japanese airplanes. of

CONVICTS TO BE LASHED NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 6 (U. P) —Lonnie Taylor and Rufus

| Guy, long-term convicts, will re-

ceive .10- lashes with a leather strap as ment for escaping : the State Prison here, Institu Commissioner George Cate reported today. The lashes will be in addition to an indefinite sentence at

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‘Death Trap’ Claims 2 More Lives |

MEN DIE AS CAR HITS UNDERPASS

County Toll Reaches 33; Other Crashes Hurt Nine; Court Fines 13 Drivers.

The “death trap” underpass on W. Washingten St. at the city limits claimed two more lives today. | ~ Scott R. Hardin, 40, of 1402 N. Alabama St. Apt. 110, and Charles A. Stevens; 41, of 71 N. Brookville Ave, were injured fatally in a

" Scott R. Hardin crash there at 3a. m.

War Foes Reaffirm Stand As U.S. Marks Army Day

Preparedness Keynote on,

Anniversary of Nation’s Step Into Conflict.

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WASHINGTON. April 6 (U. PSY.

—Theé : United States Army celebrated Army Day today on the 21st anniversary of this country’s. entrance into the World war. ° On April 6, 1917, the House of Representatives voted to declare war against Germany and her Central European allies, and give t0’ President Wilson unprecedented war-time power to draft hundreds of thousands of men for service! abroad. Parades, demonstrations and open houses at Army posts throughout the country featured today’s celebration. The major event will be a; huge parade of 12,000 here this afternoon Which will be reviewed by President Roosevelt. The keynote of commemorative exercises was the advance of national preparedness. , _All corps area, department and post commanders were instructed by the Secretary of War to co-operate “in ‘every appropriate way with civilian committees and patriotic organizations in order to insure that the various local celebrations will be successful.” ;

COURT GRANTS PLEA T0 ABANDON LINE

Indiana Railroads Plan Bus Service to.Ft. Wayne.

Superior Judge Herbert E. Wilson today granted a petition of the Indiana Railroads to abandon rail service on the Indianapolis-Peru-Ft. Wayne branch and substitute bus and truck service. No objection was

raised at the hearing. : The company now will petition the Indiana Public Service Commission for. permission to ‘change: Company officials told Judge Wilson that the change would save -the company approximately, $175,000 a

ear. .. : : . Louis Rappaport, company official, told the ‘court that the branch, lost $106,000 in 1937. He said $51,000 of this was on the Peru to Fi. Wayne section and $55,000 on the Peru to Indianapolis section. On the present amount of business the branch could realize a profit of $86,000 a year if the change is authorized, he estimated. The proposed plan contemplates faster service than at present, he said, and the proposed bus routes would serve the same with minor exceptions.

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Five persons were hurt in two accidents this afternoon. William T. Milliron, 59, of 3124 Orchard Ave, was taken to Methodist Hospital in a serious condition after his car coilided with another driven by Miss Betty Myles, 19, of 1634 N. Temple Ave. She was not hurt seriously. George Elkins, 63, of 4546 Allisonville Road, was taken to City Hospital after his car collided with another driven by Charles J. Kaiser, 30, - Lafayette, near Mr. EIKins’ home. : Mrs. Gertrude Bauchert, 30; Noblesville, and Mr. Kaiser, also were | hurt. o | Nine persons were injured in “1 seven other accidents last night 6—"I'd. do-

4d Do It Again, Say Three In Congress Who Voted ‘No’ in 1917.

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|'dppeared in Municipal Court today, 13 were fined $43. Judge John L. McNelis suspended $125 in fines. The fatal crash brought Marion County's traffic death toll to 33 for the year Forty-nine were Killed in the same period last year. Police said there were no Wwitnesses to the accident. Mr. Hardin was found dead and Mr. Stevens unconscious in a sedan wrecked against the south abutment of the Big Four Railtoad underpass. Mr. Stevens died six hours later at City Hospital. “Car Believed Speeding Police believe Mr. Stevens was driving the car eastward at approximately 60 miles an hour when it crashed into the ‘abutment. The door had to be pried off fo release Mr. Stevens, who was lying across the steering wheel. The car belonged to Mr, Hardin. Mrs. Hazel Hardin told police her husband had been to Greencastle on business. Both men were engaged in the motor freight busi-

~ So said the three men still in Congress who were among the six -Senators and 50 Representatives who 21 years ago today voted against our entry into the World War—Senator Norris (Ind. Rep. Neb.), Senator Lundeen (F. L. Minn.) and Rep. Harold Knutson {R. Minn).

“And so would 1” added Miss Jeanette Rankin, -then. the only woman in the House, who tearfully said “no” in the fateful roll call. “It would be a very different story today, “said Senator Norris, as Army Day celebraticns were being held throughout the U. 8S. “This country is overwhelmingly antiwar, and I do not believe the people can be deceived again about our mission to make the world safe for democracy. © ‘Blunder,’ Says Lundeen “There are outlaw nations now worse than Germany was in 1917 —TItaly and Japan and Nazi Germany. In spite of that, this country and its Congress have no interest in “collective security.” Our business is in America.” Eh “Don’t ask me what I'd do,” said Senator Lundeen. ‘Ask the members of Congress who did vote for our entry into that war whether they would do it today. You won't ‘find one who is proud of his vote. The whole country today is convinced that our participation. in the European war 21 years ago was. the most colossal blunder this country ever committed.” “Of course I'd do it again and more frequently if that were possible,” said Rep. Knutson. “That war is responsible for our staggering debts, our. unemployed, our dispossessed. A war to end all wars! A war to make the world safe for democracy! Why, right now two major wars‘ dre being fought ‘with unprecedented: barbarity. Our one big task today is to see that we don’t repeat the mistake.” ; © Miss Rankin, a Montana social worker and -suffragist, had been sent to Washingtpn in 1916 as the nation’s first Congresswoman. She remembers that when the late House ‘Majority - Leader Kitchen spoke for the war resolution in the three-day. debate he was not proud of hisrole, : 5 «Tt, tsikes neither moral or physical courage fo vote to declare a war for others to fight,” he declared. «When he said that,” Miss Rankin recalls, “he wiped tears from his eyes, and I don’t believe there was a dry eye in the House chamber.

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ness. Mr. Hardin had been employed only a short time by the InterState Motor Freight System and formerly was associated with the Silver Fleet- Motor Express, Inc. Before entering the trucking business, he had been employed by the Public Service Co. at Seymour for 20 years. Mr. Hardin, a’ native of Columbus, had lived here three years. He was a member of Elks Lodge and Knights of Pythias at mour. Fueral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Saturtiay at Seymour, with burial there. | Survivors besides the wife are a daughter, Mary Ann Hardin, '8; mother, Mrs. Andrew J. Hardin, Indianapolis; three brothers, Charles and Alvin Hardin, both of Franklin, and Frank Hardin, Columbus, and two sisters, Mrs. Eunice Henwerk, Franklin, and Mrs. Mary Dye, Columbus. :

Father of Five . Mr. Stevens was the father of five children, George, 21; Mrs. Jean Stoits, 19; Wayne, 16; Peggy, 15, and ‘Rosemary, 14. ‘His wife is Mrs, Bernice Stevens. fe © Mr. Stevens was born at Acton and had lived in Indianapolis 22 years. Funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Friday at Dorsey funeral home. Burial will be at Washing‘ton Park. : : ; Two. persons were injured in a three-car crash on Highway 52 east ‘of Franklin Road near New Bethel. The injured were Mrs. Blanche | Law, 32, of 3707 English Ave. who - | received an injured neck and was | treated by a private physician, and | Ben Cherry, Shelbyville, dislocat = (Turn to Page Three) pi

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North Central U. S. Lashed by Strong Winds, Rains.

AIRLINERS DOWN

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Horse Is Killed By Lightning; Home ~ Damaged.

SEWERS CLOGGED Peach Growers Put

Hit; Damage to Crops Seen.

CHICAGO, April 6 (U. P) —Winter gave an unwelcome encore in the north central United States today with a furious gust of snow and rain. .

Strong winds whipped snow across Wyoming, South Dakota, northern Nebraska, northern Iowa, extreme southern Minnesota, extreme southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and extreme northern Indiana. U. S. Weather Forecaster J. R. Lloyd here said the snow here was the heaviest ever recorded in April —17 inches at 10 a. m. The storm had its origin in the frigid wastes of Manitoba. It swept down in a great semicircle and will continue into southern Michigan and extreme. northern Ohio, Mr. Lloyd said.

Planes Grounded

Airplanes were ‘grounded and highway transportation slowed. Most railroad schedules were several minutes slow. Bus lines continued operation out of Chicago, but were running late. Thousands of automobiles were reported ' stranded, many within metropolitan Chicago. Heaviest snowfall in the country was reported at Lander, Wyo. in the mountain region, which had 14 inches. Huron, S. D., reported 12 inches; Charles City, Iowa, 10; Rapids City, Iowa, 10, and Rockford, Ill, 6. High winds drifted the snow in many places. A strip of rain. extended through southern Iowa and central Illinois and Indiana. Kankakee, Ill, 75

inches of rain. The snow belt was just north of the rain strip. Rain, snow, slee} and hail fell in Nebraska with showers ranging up to 1.65 inches at Omaha where a quarter inch of snow fell,

Rains Reported

Heavy rains also were reported in Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa, and Peoria, Ill. Generally, the snow and rain were considered beneficial to farmlands solely in need of moisture. Nebraska and Federal Agricultural Statistician A. E. Anderson said the precipitation was ideal for winter wheat, but would retard growth of other vegetation which made too rapid advancement in March. Rain and snow brought much needed moisture to Iowa’s fertile fields. U. S. Meteorologist Charles D. Reed said the cold wave there has caused no serious damage to field crops or fruit trees.

SEVEN MEN DIE IN CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE

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Trapped in Beds at LowRate Establishment.

CHICAGO, April 8 (U. P).— Trapped as they slept, seven men perished early today when a fire swept through the upper floors of a low rate men’s hotel in an impoverished section 10 blocks west of the “Loop” district. Attendants at the County Morgue said the men suffocated. Two other hotel occupants suffered serious burns. One was not expected to live. The fire started on the third floor of the Center Hotel, located between two other small hotels, the West End and Venus, in a four-story frame building. wr The fire was confined to the third and fourth fidors of the Center, but heavy smoke dreve 150 residents of the hotel to the street. A snowstorm added to their hardship. Ten men who were overcome by smoke were carried down ladders and ‘13 others assisted down a fire

escape. Fire Marsha! Michael Corrigan said he had not determined the catise of the fire. He theorized that one of the hotel residents fell asleep with a lighted cigaret.

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Loss By Freeze at $200,000.

As lightning ignited two struce tures in the Indianapolis area dure ing a drenching thunderstorm, snow and ice blanketed northern Indiana today. In some places snow was res ported as deep as 12 inches. The Weather Bureau predicted snow may fall here tonight or toe moryow with near freézing tempere atures. Below freezing temperatures were reported today in many upe state sections.

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A barn was destroyed, a horse killed and a dwelling set afire here. More than 1.33 inches of rain fell on the city, clogging sewers and

basements. The rainfall was heavier here than any other place in the State. se Eight inches of snow was on the ground at Angola; it was snowing in South Bend; there was rain, snow

glaze at Rochester; ice at Marion and rain and freezing temperatures at Lafayette. A city power failure left Muncie without electric service for approXie mately three hours this morning. 12-inch Snow at Goshen At Goshen 12 inches of snow- was reported. The State Highway Come mission said some northern Indiana roads were dangerous and nearly impassable although ' none were closed. Snow plows. were sent into several areas. At Plymouth, 5 inches of snow and sleet fell during the night. Ware saw reported 4 inches. ~ Northeastern Indiana bus and ine terruban traffic was delayed. Traction service between Ft. Wayne and Bluffton was canceled. ‘Some ine terurbans and busses were running hours behind schedule. There was not enough rise to make any noticeable difference in the condition of State streams, the bureau reported. A barn owned by John Bader, R. R. 10, ‘Box 273, southeast of Irvington on Rawls Road, burned to the ground when struck by lightning shortly after 6 a. m. 4 horse died and most of the contents were ruined.

by firemen at $350. Mr. Bader did not estimate the loss to contents. While Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fisher were away, lightning struck their home at 2925 Shriver Ave. and burned a bed and some clothing. Firemen estimated the damage at $150. Southern Indiana peach growers estimated their crop loss as a re sult of the week-end freeze at $200,000. The crop last year, a poor one, brought an estimated $280.000, Further damage to peach and cther

Wires Blown Down

Northern Indiana fruit crops, which escaped damage during the last freeze, may be damaged NOW, growers said. - Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, said that fruit in the central section was damaged, put that it is too early to tell to what extent. He said rains are keeping farmers out of their fields and have washed out a large amount of clover seed with considerable financial loss. Lightning also struck and ignited

pole at Naomi St. and State Ave, carly today. - Fire companies extinguished the blaze. Police received several reports of utility wires being blown down The Street Department said that there had been 60 reports of flooded storm sewers and water backing into North Side basements. They had no reports of flooded or ime passable underpasses, they said, but said that four sewer intakes had been clogged. \ During the rainstorm, a large hole appeared in the pavement at 21st and Gale Sts., and three cars

| were damaged. Police said water

had undermined the pavement. STATE LEGION PLANS - AUGUST PARLEY HERE

annual convention in In in August, it was announced today, the executive committee having seThe Twelfth District

tion here after Michigan City

sending backwater into North Side

and glaze at Wheatfield; rain and

The building loss was estimated.

crops was feared if temperatures : | drop below freezing tonight.

an Indianapolis Power & Light Co, :

lected Indianapolis over Ft. Wayne _ | by a vote of 16 to 13. po | started a drive to bring the co Yee the

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