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EDITORS PLEA FOR * LEADERS

Two Mestings Today Lunch

Group Convenes.

[>= ee ie in

Primary Drive; State | |

258,000 VOTERS ELIGIBLE.

Ray Tipton Jail Yard Stockade for Cheaters At Election.

o | “America | today needs few |

not

a rbalists — economic | rovalists,” members of the Indiana | Republican Editorial Association were told here today by [Samuel R. Guard, Spencer, owner of the Breeder's Gazette.” The edit two state-wide Repubiican meetings launching the party's pricamps gin. the ther ate Central the chairmen and of the 92° Indiana commitiees and of groups.

economic

rs’ session was one of

mary

meeting... the Re-

Commitiee

In publican 8 convened ith vice chairmen county *G. b PB the Young| Republican Finance Group Planned State Chairman Archie N. Bobbitt presiagd at the staje committee .conferpnce. at the Columbia | Chtb. Primary campaign plans and steps toward forming Indiana Republicans, la group to finance the campaign, jwere discussed. Mr, Guard was one of two prin-

“cipal speakers at the eajtors’ lunch-

bluisiness The other editor of the Ander discussed [the Republican Committee] « Rep. ChE

selaer. wh

meeting this aft- | was lJ. A. Keefe. | son Herald, who Policy

eon and ernoon

A. Halleck. Rens- | also ‘was to have spoken this afterfioon, and Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri, whe was to have addressed {the annual banquet tonight at the Claypool Hotel, wired President Walter H. Crim. editor of | the Salem| ‘Republcan-Leader, they woilld not lhe able to attend because of an “unexpected bitter fight on the reorganization” measure # Mr. Crim announced later arranged [to have Delloss| Walker, associate gditor of Liberty, speak at banquet : 258,000 Voters Eliginle Other: developments

iries

he had

yolitical in-! cluded: Herman C

first address

iR. mavoralty

Wolfl his

gave the in afternoon. adcress23d Ward ministers the | Greater St. Church, [17th St. Martindale Ave. [on problems municipal government. Edward Kealing (R.), Sheriff candidate, ssed the group. | The Rev idlev had charge of the

campaign this

ing a aroptp of

and lavmen at John's a ptist and of R. also addr D..B. D meeting. 2. Contract for printing the primary ballots was awarded by the County Election Commissioners to the Indianapolis Printing Co. on its bid of $8 90. Other bidders were | the i Printing Co., $11,444.78. ang Burfiord's. $11.555. ; . Sher 3 Otto Rav! (D.), mavor- | alty candidate, [warned at a precincet committeeman session in Machine Busters [headquarters that] any elecfion bagard refusing to allow a Machine) Busters checker in a polling| place pn primary day “wili wind up in the Marion County Jail.” He also] said he would build a stockade in the jail vard to ronfine primary “cheaters.” 4. Attgrnev T. Ernest Maholm, ieader of the opposition to the Windshipld Titleholder Law. announced| formation of the Indiana Motoristf’ Anti-Gadget Society, the | insignia [of which will be the lemon Mr. Maholm. a Republican candidate foi] State Representative. said | he would incorporafe the society. | Its sole jpurpose, he said. will be to seek repeal of the ‘‘gadget” law.

Quiz Form: to Be Studied

5 Wal captaing of Labor's Non-Partisan | League pf Marion County, prepared to act + the form of questionnaires to be submitted to candidates, at a meeting] tomorrow afternoon. The session [will ‘be in the group's new headqugrters at Hotel English. James Robb, C. I. O. field director. is chairman of the group. 6. The Indiana Socialist Party anBOI delegates to the Socialist Party national convention April 2123 at Klenosha, Wis. The delegates, elected [in a state-wide referendum. aré L.| R. Halvorson, Evansville; | Mario B. Tomsich, Gary. and C. H. Owen, Crown Point. Alternates are Eugene| Cole. Vincennes; Hugo Ras- | mussen| South Bend, and Ira Esh- | leman. Elkhart. The state convention bi be held May 14 and 15 in| Indianapolis. Roy E. Burt national executive secretary. is to speak. 7. William - P. Flanary, deputy County Clerk in charge of registra{Turn to Page Three;

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Mrs. Roosevelt Scherrer = | Serial Story.. | Society ...14, | Sports 22, 3 | State Deaths. 171 Wiggam .....

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i ment | street

{ meeting

i ett

| lence { uled parade of 15.000 A. F. L. work-

| Sugar

| Jurisdictional | finery.

| apparently | men in Crockett,

50). (of L. pickets.

| order.

jing.

TWO FREED ON BOND

charged libel of Mrs

FORECAST: Cloudy with

rain and possibly some

SNOW

tomorrow ;

tonight and

continued cold.

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FINAL

50—N (UMBER 24

FRIDAY, APRIL

At Republican Press Conf erence Here :

Leaders in the Indiana Association during an interlude annual one-dayv meeting today (upper photo) Walter H. Crim lican-Leader editor and retiring association. chatting with Past McDermond Jr.,

in at

STREETCAR MEN 60 BACK T0 JOBS

Violence Averted in C. I. O.A. F. L. Refinery Row On West Coast.

(Photo, Page Three)

DETROIT. April 8 The first to run 33 hours rumbled south on Woodward | Ave, 35 minutes after trolley men to end their strike and restore service for Detroit's Streetcar riders. The strikers accepted reached at railway directors and officials early this morning. The strisers poured from and hurried toward city's six car barns. + The strike settlement

(J. Py .-

streetcar here in today. voted

an agree-

| provided:

1. Sole bargaining rights for the union if it can prove that it has a majority of all department of Street Railway emploves. This action would wipe out a rival union of bus drivers. 2. Establishment week rathep than hour week. 3. Arbitration in agreement over the union's to a majority of DS. R. employees. The agreement in effect circumvent action pending by

of the present 48-

case of- a -dis-

of a seniority motor coach and streetcar Delay in applying this system. proved by the voters in tions. was the the strike

two elec-

Rival Unions Dispute

Control of Refinery

CROCKETT. Cal..-April 8 (U. --C. I. today they were was avoided

P.).

with the announcement “going fishing.” | Thus the possibility of vioin connection with a sched-

ers in protest against the C. I. O.s closing of the California-Hawaiian sar Refinery. Opposing unions control

are disputing of the ure-

The A. FP. 1. to materialize at

parade had failed 1:30 p. m.

| dianapnlis Time).

Excepting a few scattered pickets.

there were no C..1. O.

Lolling in the spring sunshine in front of the closed plant. the C. I. pickets chatted with 25 A F.

Authorities of Crockett. small in-

i dustrial ‘community in Contra Costa

County, across Francisco. said day in wecks.” Sheriff John Miller of Cesta County. leader. of peace officers concentrated here to preserve said he anticipated no

the bay it was

from San “the quietest

trouble. AP labor

leaders declared in Contra Costa and

of 1. holiday

| adjoining Alameda County in order | that workers

might participate in

the parade.

Louis Goldblatt, C. I. O.

l announced:

“Entering into the spirit of the labor of L., the pickets of housemen’'s Union (C. I. O.) decided to do likewise and go fish-

IN PAMPHLET CASE

Morris Moss under $1000 bond each. following their indictment yesterday by the Marion County ‘Grand Jury on two counts of: criminal rupt Practices Act.

Ralph Hitch and

were free today

The Grand Jury counts specifical- |

ly charge the two men with editing and publishing a “Eve and Ear." The Bess Robbins Kaufman. local attorney. Judge Frank P. Baker set bond at $500 on each count. The men pro-

vided bond late in the day.

Republican

Hotel left),

President J. Attica Ledger-Tribune,

800.000 | a conference of | inion

their | the

agreement |

the 44-hour |

claims!

would | the | Supreme Court to decide the validity | system covering both | men. | ap- |

immediate cause of

O. strikers evacuated Crock- |

¢In-}

Contra | ad

leader, |

Haunts Historical Society, Smith Library

water- | the calf did not.

people saw a | to |

holiday declared by the A. PF. the Ware- | have |

libel and violation of the Cor- |

pamphlet called | indictments |

| ranged for the stream to flow

President Paul Herald. Below. (left Herald: James une Columbia elected

Editorial the association's Severin are Salem Repubof the Frank and Past

president ! City ye esident

.- - Bee-Warce

if You See It May

Little Queen.

Spot 8,

Be Someone's

IGHT now Indiana hees are restless and about to take it on the lam. They had a bad summer. a worse winter and this spring is no bargain, Those colonies whose have neglected them can pected. the Indiana: State keepers’ Association warned stern bulletin today, to swarm scram. The association, however, inverts the warning. It pleads with people who are kind to hees to get extra hives ready so thev can house anv house-hunting swarms that may come their way. The association points out that, where colonies are strong and have plenty of stores. an early epidemic of swarming can be expected.

owners he -exBee - In a and

o ” n

OR one = of old

thing, there are lot queens on hand. and for another there was a failure to requeen las’ year, or mavbe those two are connected somehow. It warned also that beekeepers should hasten ‘to supply more room for the queens and “for parking the youngsters.” It urged beekeepers to unite queenless hives. with hives with queens—if you can see what they are getting at. Dandelions and clover, it said, will be here before the beekeepers know it, but not before the bees do. and there's lots of work to he done before that. But the most singular mendation the association was concerning the queens. It urged keepers who wanted to police or otherwise keep tabs on their queens to get some bright colored enamel and to paint a part of the queen like a. beauty spot. If vou see a spot before vour eves this summer, may be someone’s queen bee all dolled. up and seeing the country on her own time.

JEAN BROWN WEDS DR. JOHN HENDRICKS

recommade

Brown. and Mrs. Ravimond N. Meridian St. | Hendricks was anby the bride's par-

ma rriag ge of Jean

daughter of Mr. D. Brown. 3(25 to Dr. John W. nounced today ents. Dr. Wiil

The

the son of Mrs. | Ind.

Hendricks is Hendricks. Columbus.

SHOW

Details,

GAINS

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STOCKS

(Other NEW YORK. April 8 (YU. PI: | Stocks advanced one to three! | points today. Sales in the first bour totaled 330.000 shares, che same as for the fall five hours vesterday.

R. Bausman

to right) E. association® treasurer, Commercial

| ment

i session of the Senate.

‘in the

Radical

{ the bill.

| Joseph I Cominission {equally bitter.

| and

in cold silence

| change

| necessary

| amount

Times'Photos. (right), ‘Washington are J. A. Keefe, Anderson Montgomery. -New Albany Triband Foster W. Riddick. Mail, who was to be

this afternoon.

~ Iwas

"FRENCH CABINET IS OVERTHROWN

THE FOREIGN SITUATION PARIS—Senate overthrows Blum Cabinet, 223 to 49. HENDAYE — Spanish: Loyalists execute deserters as power is cut off. SHANGHAI — Japanese Central China drive definitely halted.

WASHINGTON —Austrian trade privileges revoked,

BUDAPEST — Bill

curb Jews

prepared

Comiists Ritter

At Blum Overthrow.

PARIS, April 8 [(U. Pol-—Premier

Leon Blnm's Popular Front Govern- |

resigned today. balked by the Senate in its demand for extraordi-

nary power to bring about. financial

recovery.

The bitter

came at a during

resignation

the acrimony of. the debate Indi-

cated that the' complicated political |

situation might get even Worse, with fading chances for a Cabinet of National Union to save the country. As the Senate deliberated. 1500 police and mobile guards surrounded the building against demonstrators who threatened turbulence streets.

Daladier Asked to Be Ready

Albert Lebrun War Minister Edouard Daladier, Socialist, to be ready for a to the Palace before midnight ministry. de-

Presiaent

call to be asked to form-a new The Senate overwhelmingly

| feated the Blum Government -on its | financial

The vote was even discussing

program. 223 to 49 against Blum Senate. Finance retaliated

the vote Premier denounced the Caillaux. Senate president,

Before bitterly

The Premier spoke for an hour,

a half. The Senate

the Senate's ma jority in-

M. Blum: challenged right to force a new

| stead of a Popular Front.

“Only a Chamber versal suffrage has. a ‘right to | the majority,” he declared. Jules Jeanneney, Senate speaker, countered with the rebuke: “According to the Constitution. the Senate has the right to express itself freely. It is up to you to interpret the vote and decide consequences.”

50,000 on Strike

elected by uni-

Communists were so certain that | M. Blum's Cabinet would fall that

they called a mass meeting for this |

evening. That of disappointment among | leaders is only natural. them are bitter and re- | sentful. There is talk of strong measures, if needed. to hold on to (Turn to Page Four)

Leftist Some of

| regular |

which |

asked |

1 portant

listened |

the |

there should be a certain!

193

HOPKINS ASKS JOBS FOR ALL,

NATIONAL AFFAIRS. ROOSEVELT admits plans for public works program. TAX BILL speeded as recovery measure. RFC BILL sent to White House, REORGANIZATION bill troller General change feated. : WAGE-HOUR bill stronger after President hints new spending. ! GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER says Navy expansion won't be’ finished.

Conde-

‘Roosevelt to Propose

‘New Works Program | WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. Roosevelt

P.).

| President

NEW SPENDING

made pi lain to- |

| day that he is preparing a new pub- |

| lic works program said by

his as-|

| sociates to provide a total of $1.500,- |

| 000,000 in noninterest | to local communities. The President declined the -new proposal in detail at Friday press eonference. the White House in progress, however, Progress Administrator Harry L. ! Hopkins outlined before a Senate; | committee a new expansion of pub- | | lic works expenditures and extension of social security aims designed to give a job to all able-bodied workers in the country. Total outlay of the new recovery and relief program is estimated at | approximately four billion dollars. No Cost Estimated Mr. Roosevelt did estimate | [what the cost of his addifional pro- | | {| posed outlay would be. He merely | said that he would request funds I i addition to the billion-dollar tota | tentatively allotted in the January i budget for: relief purposes. He indicated that the | mig | special messages, one dealing in geng jeral with the relief problem ne [the other submitting the detailed | | public. works proposal. | Specific featyres of the new { program ouclinyd by the President i included : ] A request for

not

program |

repeal of the present | restriction on rgliel spending which | { requires that. no¥=more than one(twelfth of total welief funds avail | able be spent each month : A program, under consideration, for Federal loans to municipalities without any interest requirement, No Agreement Yet Mr. there had, minds” funds

Hopkins declared that vet,” been meeting on the exact amount needed for relief during fiscal vear starting July 1.

| He said, however, that | mendation to be made by

of of

as “no

President

bearitig loans |

to discuss his |

conference ! Works |

| | | { i |

ht be outlined to Congress in two |

relief |

| |

- | Public

Entered as Second-Class at. Postoffice. Indianapolis,

He Hung Up

And Phone Customers’ Kicks Stirred PSC

Investigation.

HOKE, of D County. president, board chairman and sole owner of the Farmers Exchange Telephone Co. was summoned today before the Indiana Public Service Commission to show cause why he should not give his 20 customers some number. even a wrong one. A delegation headed by C. Miller. Perry Township. Monroe County trustee. told the Commission the company originally was a co- operative, but the rates were too low. Therefore the equipment was neglected and as the wires sagged nearer the ground. all par-

ENNIS Monroe

Por: g : © ties to the co-operative wanted to

holdings. did. the Commission selling the whole works to Mr. Hoke for a cool $1. That was seven ‘vears ago. they told the Commission, and Mr. Hoke fixed things up. raised the rates to $10 a vear per customer, and the company prospered.

unload their This they learned.. by

4 n =

HEN the service deteriorated. and it took several minutes of good steady cranking even to get “operator.” they said, and then vou could hardly hear. Lately, however. the delegation told the Commission, you turn your crank and nothing happens. That went on for a long time. Eventually one of the customers discovered that Mr. Hoke had given the whole thing up and taken a WPA job. The Commission found that Mr. Hoke never has made the regular reports of earnings. capital investments. property valuation, amortization and the other corporative confessions. So it wrote him a Tow gome? ’

PHONE CO. FILES

letter

NEW RATE PLEA

mee mc ee

Asks State-Wide Investigation and Revenue Kept At 1937 Level.

Telephone. Co with the asking

The Indiana Bell today filed a new petition Service Commission

that a rate investigation be made on

| a

i tion

| Commission that

the | rates made on a state-wide in- |

state-wide basis and. that net earnings be kept at the 1937 level. Filed to replace an earlier withdrawn following a Commission hearing Wednesday. request does not ask for a rate increase, Utility representatives told the they wish to have

general

new

| stead of a local basis.

the recom- |

| Roosevelt next’ week covers only the |

first seven months of the next fiscal year,

| by | York, today asked the President to | support a three billion dollar | propriation to provide work for

3.-

fiscal year. ! The President | House with a U. S. Conference of | Mayors group - headed by Fiorelio La ‘Guardia of New York land summoned Secretary | terior Harold L. Ickes for conference at 1 p.

an m.

Condemns Relief

Mr. Hopkins called for an abso{lute end of direct the country. gested: { Expansion of {he works program. { Enlargement of pensions and in|Surance systems under the Social | Security Act. {~ Far-reaching extension of bene- | fits under the dependent

Mayors of six major cities, headed | Fiorella H. La Guardia of New |

p- | | not ask specifically

{ 500.000 unemployed during the next | | a state-wide investigation be

met at the White | Mayor |

of In-| im-

| net i than 5! p

Sixteen petitions asking for

reductions have been filed by pa-

trons of various municipalities and | are pending before the Commission. | ! Public started on the South Bend-Misha- | waka case but no order has been |

hearings alreadv have been

issued. The company’s new for tion of these 16 cases but

request does only that made, Under the law discretionary whether rates which property valuations shall, on a state or local basis.

in 1926

to determine are fixed be made

power

Rates Set is a a

operating 1926. order state-wide

The company now rates fixed by was made on basis. Pointing out and about seriber stations, the earnings during r cent on

has 81 215.000 company 1937

that it eX-

| property and the 1938 percentage is | expected to be less.

children’s |

clause of the Social Security Act to |

I provide aid to all children in the | country who are in need. “We. should reach a concept | America. ” declared Mr. Hopkins, “where the able-bodied unemployed are entitled to a job as a matter of | right.” PWA. RFC and other Government spending machies are ready for a splurge of disbursements. A detailed $1.500.000.000 public works program has been prepared. | Final decision whether to give business such an election year shot-in- | the- -arm may depend upon popular reaction to unofficial (Turn to Page Three)

An 88 Year -0ld Ghost, Name Unknown,

JOE COLLIER Indiana Historical Society | and - Smith Library, working hand | lin hand, today were seeking the! | identity of a ghost aged 88. Unlike most ghosts. this one is dead and buried. And best infor-| mation is that the grave of this | chost, who is reported to have been very winsome indeed, is marked with a dcuble stone. She was buried with her lover after many vears of separation. - This much information already is in the files of the organizations. One and one-half miles south of | Hanover, on a tiny stream also un- | named. is a (hole in the ground. all} {that remains of the ghost’s haunt, | the famous old chain mill in 1850. | Chain mill was one of the most | Because the | Charles and | who built it, ar- | into | buckets on a chain, The weight ofl

» 3

The

unique in the state. | stream was so small, Gorden Morton,

| the water pulled the chain around beautiful the mill- |

and the chain turned stones.

However, due to the fact that the |

cost. of wooden buckets would have | | been prohibitive and | get them, anyway,

they the brothers had | to find some substitute for them. There were many tanneries there, so they got cow horns.” It is reported that cow horns in those days were much larger than present day cow horns. No mention is made of how this came about. ‘However, the mill

worked. and

| the Mortons became wealthy. Farm- | ers used to drive to the mill with |

their grain. sleep in the mill basement. overnight when the grinding

took too long, and drive back with |

flour next day. One night, however, two men were repeatedly awakened by some invisible person pulling the sacks they used as pillows from under their heads. The ghost had moved in. Later, people heard wierd and

couldn't!

singing over the later

beckoning

and still light,

falls, strange the falls. : The Mortons lost finally sold the mill. It had been supposed until a few | | vears later that a beautiful young | | woman. whose lover had died, | drowned: herself in the falls and | that her body washed away Ohio River. But one day a huge flat rock and human skeleton. A ring given her! by her lover was found there and | relatives identified it. |" The skeleton was buried beside her lover in a cemetery near Graysville and, so far as/ is known | there today. {| But it seems that | relatives placed the | right, but, couldn't name.

them

the ghosts | skeleton, all remember

| lic use for

revelation of |

value of revenue,

“In determining the fair the petitioner's property. consideration

rate of return.

alone.” the petition said. The company also requested that “rates be fixed on the total intra-

state service so that net earnings |

for the year 1937 shall not: be de- | cr

eased.’

LOST: ONE $125 CALF. TAIL GATE OF TRUCK

Anvone finding a Jersey calf will

| please return same to Ralph Hom- | mel, Franklin.

in the |

someone turned up | found a |

the | That's why the Indiana His- ized purchase of tools to be used |gallery for display of their work but

Business and | ©} did too, Mr.

| valued at $125 by

Mr.

today and his Indianapolis

subsequently arrived at destination,

It may have been that

Raymond St. near Harding St. Hommel reported. especially fine calf, its owner.

‘PUSH PAVING PLANS

It was an

FOR ROOSEVELT AVE.

Roosevelt Ave. Sts. are nearly

Plans for paving from Rural to Gale

completed, Henry B. Steeg, City en- |

gineer, announced today. The nine-block stretch is to be paved by WPA labor, he said. Last |

| pave Roosevelt Ave. from 10th St. and Massachusetts Ave. to Rural | | St. The Works Board today~author-

torical Society and Smith Library |by WPA in paving the Shelby St.

are checking up on details,

€

'bridz e Over Pleasant Run,

Matter Ind.

23 KN

George |

asking |

.peti- |

the new |

rate |

a combina- |

the Commission has |

on.

sub- | said | were less | the cosf of the |

Hommel told police he loaded | | the calf into his truck at Franklin |

but | when the |

tail gate fell off the truck on W. | the |

. announced

PRICE

THREE CENTS

N DEAD

IN STORM BELT;

Cold - Will In City, Bureau Predicts. 3 ROADS

Loss Is Estimated at 4 Die, 9

$190,000 in Fire at

Decatur.

i Indianapolis and: other 1

| i | |

central

{Indiana cities today again prepared |

as the center | storm moved east Meanwhile, steady raised stream levels in the state, but are not expected to reach damaging flood the Weather Bureau | said. Forecasting continued low {emi peratures and rain, the Bureau said that only a few degrees of tempera[ture have protected Indianapolis land. Central Indiana from snow. | The minimum temperature here | last night was 34.

levels,

10 a. m.

y » tia. m..;. 3 y } x »

a, m.... FE 1 | PI «Ma,

12 (Noon) lip. m....

TO 2 LI WS = <

| |

South Bend, with 31 dearees, the only city in Indiana reporting below [freezing temperatures. Four others reported 32. The Indiana Highway

| tornadic

the Rocky 23 known deaf and 9 missing today | as a midspring storm wheeled diag- | onally

| Coast

, |

| 1

| western

| cast was

Sunday Commik- |

sion said three roads were ordered |

closed due to high water. They are: Road 39, north of Clay City; Road 1246. west, of Clay City, at Poland and east of Road 43.

Six Dead in State

Three roads, open today. probably {will be closed tomorrow, the mission said. They are Road 63, at Clinton. and Roads 234 and 63, Cayuga. Restored communication brought news from Decatur, Ind. of | a $190.000 fire at the Krick & Ty n- | dall Tile Mill late Wednesday night | i and early vesterday. The main build- |

and Road 42, | vichigan was té continue through-

| Missouri.

Com- |

| section at] s

Continue Rod

CLOSED RIVERS

| sleet

facilities |

ings of the company were destroyed.

George W. Krick, president, said

that reach at least $150.000, and to stores. $40.000. The origin of the fire was unknown. Six persons were dead, in accidents attributed to the storm. Charles Egold Jr, 23, Columbia City, and Leonard Goodman, 22, died in a La Porte hospital after their automobile plunged off slippery Road 30 and into a ditch. Carl J. Zipp. 24. Lafayette, killed when a friend, Harold Hu- | berts, 23, tried to demonstrate tirat { his car would “do 100 miles ian hour.” The machine careened off | Road 52 near Lafayette and tumbled | down an embankment. Rolli 1. Hobbick., 43. credit mana‘ger of the Indiana and Michigan i Electric Co.. drowned today (when his automobile plunged through the railing of an avenue bridge nto the St. Joseph ‘River at South Beng. Police suspected a woman also might! have drowned as a woman: [price | wag in the river near the cat, | single. | |

Fhone Lines Down

The Indiana Bell Telepho new - trouble J Wayne and Marion.

lines The

reported with (around Ft. | Indiana Service Corp. { using the services of amateur wave radio operators in | broken trolley wires. Because of conditions at Chicago. and at ports east and west of here, no transport planes were expected tat Municipal Airport today Eastern Airlines should fly i from Louisville.

| | | 1 | i

a ship

Ice was reported on roads in Fulton and Wells Counties and around Lafayette. Otherwise. the State Highway Commission reported the | storm traffie hazard had diminished. t ngola received .15 inch of rain, Rochester. 26; Ft. Wayne. . 37; ‘Marion, 55: Lafavetie. 34: Terre | Haute. .53; Cambridge City, .72; Columbus, .65; Paoli, .61, and Evans- | ville, 22.

Gitt to Provide

| : . | « o 7 2 ‘Nashville Site { & | NASHVILLE, Ind. April 8 (U, P) | —Donation of a tract of land to the {| Brown County Art Galleries Assn{ciation as a location Tor consipyies tion of a modern art gallery. was today. by Adolph Shulz, Nashville artist. I ; Mr. Shulz recently purchased a | 23-acre tract at the edge of Nash- | ville. The tract donated to the art association

| remainder for building lots. For several years the Nashville | ootoay of 28 artists have contemplated establishment of a modern |

jad made no definite construction’] Creek

plans. 2

was

damage to the buildings would |

Pent

| St.

he Co. |

' midcile Mississippi was reported | short |

locating: | Meridian.

| Maryland

| weather unless |

| Rockv

| |

state |

{

was |

| said

Cross Speeding Aid to 20,000 in

South.

2()

2 \/ y

Lost in Georgia Cloudburst.

By United Press

Wintry blasts that

winds, heavy rains and

raging floods in other Mountains

arezs

left at

northeastward, The American Red Cross and fhe Guard | rushed aid to 20.000 persons caught in Alabama, Missis= sippi and Georgia flood «areas In| what was dascrihed as fhe worst flood in the history of the Alabama River, { The storm centered east and moved rapidly toward Atlantic Coast, where show became | rain. A great belt extended from north Texas to southern lower

of Cairn, the

and |

Michigan. Freezing. temperatures were for the! next 36 hours in the North Central States. A slight rise was expected tomorrow. in the Plaing states and In most other regions

forest

Wind -w hipped or freezing rain that swept over northwestern northern Illinois, northi-

western Indiana and southern lower

Snow

out today and tonight, according to U. S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago. 11 Killed in Alabama A tornado that roared throuzh [a near Aliceville in westemn \labama Fkilied an aged couple and nine Negroes and injured 50 persons. It damaged homes in eight | communities. Six died mm Tndiana from falls and In traffic aceioents A man was Killed in Iowa his. car crashed a truck on pavement. A Chicagoan dropped dead while shoveling show. At Jaspen., Ga. iour persons were known dead and nine persons were missing ang feared drowned when a store they occupied was swept away by raging Talona Creek. A cloudburst {lashed that. area last night and made a roaring torrent of the cre¢k: on whose banks fhe store was flocated:~ It was that dwellings in the path of the stream were swept away. Traffic was virtually at a still and || communications were crippled in| the Midwest by a blizzard May howled in from the frigid wastes of Manitoba Wednesday and through half the United States. Kansas, | western and Cential Oklahoma and northwestern Texas had the hgaviest =now in the past 24 hours. [Dodge City. Kas. had a 14-inch fall. Heaviest snow in Texas was at Amarillo, where three to four Inches fell] There ware four Oklahoma City. five at Wichita, Kas.. and kix at Topeka. Kas, and Joseph) Mo. Rain Falls in South “Heavy tn. excessive’ rains drenched the South and "moderate to heavy’ rains. pelted the Ohio, and lower Mis-

when glassy

stand-

sourt Va llevs. g The heapiest precipitation was at Miss. also fell and

Carolinas, Pennsyl-

‘in the western

Ran

vania New York. New England and eastern Pennsylvania had cloudy ana forecasters predicted possibly snow would sweep that area tonight .or tomorrow, The weather was clearing in the Mountain region that bore the brunt of the storm at its start. Little precipitation was reported in Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas. It was clear over Minnesota, northwest” Wisconsin and western upper Michigan. Another storm was coming down the north Pacific, but forecasters it would be some time before

rain or

{It swung across the nation. Cloudy

| weather

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tof | Claude:

is about the size of a is | vear WPA labor also was used to city block. He plans to survey. the

was reported in the far

| West,

Fear 13 Drowned

In Georgia Creek

JASPER. Ga. April 8 (UP) —It was feared today that 13 persons drowned 1n a mountain creek which heavy rains turned into a raging torrent, The deluge caught residefice-store at dashed the store

a_ combination Wnaitestone and with 1s 13 occuwaters Four were know and nine others missing The dead: Carter his -children,. Flora Sue and and an unidentified child. Missing: Connors wife and six children. Thelma and Bonnie Ponder and Carl Lindsay, 22. The unidentified child whose body

dead

Connor and two

{was found two miles from the spot

| where

the store was swallowed up

| by the flood was believed to be one

missing Connor children, store tumbled into Talona and crashed into the valley (Turn to Page Three)

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