Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1938 — Page 29

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 24

At Repu blican Press Conference Here

6.0. EDITORS

HEAR PLEA FOR |

NEW LEADERS

Two Meetings Today Launch

Primary Drive; State Group Convenes.

258,000 VOTERS ELIGIBLE

Ray Threatens Jail Yard Stockade for Cheaters At Election.

“America today needs. a few economic realists — not economic royalists,” members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association were told here today by Samuel R. Guard, Spencer, owner of the Breeder's Gazette.” The editors’ session was one of two state-wide Republican meetings today, launching the party's primary campagin. In the other meeting, the Republican State Central Committee

convened with the chairmen and vice ‘chairmen of the 92 Indiana county G. O. P. commit and of the Young Republican groups. ~

Finance Group Planned

State Chairman Archie N. Bobbitt presided at the state commit- * tee conference, at the Columbia Club. Primary campaign plans and steps toward forming.Indiana Republicans, a group to finance the campaign, were discussed. Mr. Guard was one of two. principal speakers at the editors’ luncheon and business meeting this afternoon. The other was J. A. Keefe, editor of the Anderson Herald, who discussed the Republican Policy Committee. Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, who also was to have spoken this afternoon, and Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri, who was to have addressed the annual banquet tonight at the Claypool Hotel, wired President Walter H. Crim, editor of the Salem Republcan-Leader, they would not be able to attend because of an “unexpected bitter fight on the reorganization” measure. Mr. Crim announced later he had | arranged ‘to have Walker, associate editor of Liberty, Speak # at the banquet. 258,000 Voters Eligible

Other political develgpments included: 1. Herman C. Wolff (R.) gave the first address in his mayoralty campaign this afternoon, addressing a group of 23d Ward .ministersand laymen at the Greater St. John’s Baptist Church, 17th St.

and Martindale Ave, on problems of municipal government, Edward R. Kealing (R.), Sheriff candidate, also addressed the group. The Rev. D. B. Dudley had charge of the meeting. 2. Contract for printing the primary ballots was awarded by the County Election Commissioners to the Indianapolis Printing Co. on its bid of $8707.90. Other bidders were the Sentinel Printing Co., $11,444.78, and Burford’s, $11,555. 3. Sheriff Otto Ray (D.), mayoralty candidate, warned at a precinct committeeman. session in Machine Busters headquarters that’ any election ‘board refusing to allow a Machine Busters checker in a polling place on primary day “will wind up in the Marion County Jail.” He also said he would build a barbed-wire stockade in the jail yard to confine primary “cheaters.” 4. Attorney 'T. Ernest Maholm, leader of the opposition to the Windshield Titleholder Law, announced formation of the Indiana Motorists’ Anti-Gadget Society, the insignia of which will be ‘the lemon. Mr. Maholm, a Republican candidate for State Representative, said he would incorporate the society. Its sole purpose, he said, will be to seek repeal of the “gadget” law.

Quiz Form fo Be Studied

5. Ward chairmen and precinct «captains of Labor’s Non-Partisan League of Marion County, prepared to act on the form of questionnaires to be submitted to candidates, at a meeting tomorrow. afternoon. The session will be in the group’s new headquarters at Hotel English.

James Robb, C. I. O. field director, 4

is chairman of the group. 6. The Indiana Socialist Party announced delegates to the Socialist Party national convention April 2123 at Kenosha, Wis. The delegates, elected in a state-wide referendum, ‘are L. R. Halvorson, Evansville; Mario B. Tomsich, Gary, and C. H. Owen, Crown. Point. Alternates are Eugene Cole, Vincennes; Hugo Rasmussen, South Bend, and Ira Eshleman, Elkhart. The state conven“tion will 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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STREETGAR MEN GOBACK TO JOBS

Violence Averted in C. I. 0. A. F. L. Refinery Row On West Coast.

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DETROIT, April 8 (U. P.).—The first streetcar to run here in 33 hours rumbled south on Woodward

men voted to end their strike and

restore service for Detroit's 800,000 streetcar riders. The strikers accepted an agree‘ment reached ata conference of ‘street railway directors and union officials edrly this morning. . The strikers poured’ from their

“meeting and hurried toward the

city’s six car barns. The strike settlement agreement provided: 1. Sole bargaining rights for the union if it can prove that it has a majority of all department of Street Railway: employes. .- This action would wipe out a rival union of bus drivers. 2. Establishment of the 44-hour week rather than the present; 48hour week. 3. Arbitration in case of a disagreement over the union’s claims to a majority of D. S. R. employees. The agreement in effect @ would circumvent action pending by the Supreme Court to decide the validity of a seniority system covering both motor coach and streetcar men. Delay in applying this system, approved by the voters .in two elec-

the strike.

minal,

Rival Unions Pits

Control of Refinery:

CROCKETT, Cal. April 8 (U.P). —C. IL O. strikers evacuated Crockett today with the announcement they were “going fishing.” Thus. was avoided the possibility of violence in -connection with a scheduled parade of 15,000 A. F. L. workers in protest against the C. I. O.’s closing of the California-Hawaiian Sugar: Refinery. pposing unions are disputing jurisdictional control of the refinery. 1 The A. F. L, parade had tailed to materialize at 1:30 p. m. dianapolis Time). Exeepting a few scattered pickets, apparently there were no C. I. O. men in Crockett. . - Lolling in the spring sunshine in front of the closed plant, the C. I. O. pickets chatted with 25 A. F. of .L. pickets. Authorities of Crockett, small industrial community in Contra Costa County, across the bay from San Francisco, said it was “the quietest day in weeks.” Sheriff John Miller of Contra Costa County, leader of peace officers concentrated here to preserve order, said he anticipated. no trouble. A. F. of L. leaders declared a labor holiday in Contra. Costa and | adjoining Alameda County in_ order that workers might participate in the parade.

announced: “Entering into the spirit of the labor holiday declared by the A. PF. of L., the ‘pickets of 'the Warehousemen’s: Union (C. I. O.) have Slot) ded to do likewise and go fishg.

TWO FREED ON BOND

IN PAMPHLET CASE

Ralph Hitch and Morris Moss were free today under $1000 bond each, following their indictment yesterday by the Marion County Grand Jury on two counts of criminal libel and violation of the Corrupt Practices Act. The Grand Jury counts specifically charge the two men with editing and publishing a pamphlet called “Eye and Ear.” The indictments charged libel of Mrs. Bess Robbins Kaufman, local attorney. Judge Prank P. Baker set bond: at

$500 on each count. The men provided bond late In. the day. it

Leaders in the Indiana = Republican Editorial Association during an interlude in the association’s annual one-day meeting today at Hotel Severin are (upper photo) Walter H. Crim' (left), Salem Repub-

association, chatting with Past President J. Frank Attica Ledger-Tribune, and Past

Ave. today, 35 minutes after trolley

tions, was the immediate, cause of

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Louis Goldblatt, C. I. O. Jénder.]

FORECAST: Cloudy with rain and potsibly some snow tonight ‘and tomorrow; contirmied cold.

Herald.

president of the

Bee-Ware

If You See Spots, It. May Be Someone's Little Queen.

IGHT now Indiana bees are réstless 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 owners have neglected them can be expected, the Indiana State Beekeepers’ Association warned in a stern bulletin today, to swarm and scram. The . association, however, inverts the warning. It pleads with people who are kind to bees to get extra hives ready so: they can house any house-hunting swarms that may come their way. Ri The association points. out , that, . where colonies are strong and have plenty of stores, an early epidemic of swarming can be expected. : ” o 2

F°2 one thing, there are a lot of old queens on hand, and for another there was a failure to’ requeen las’ year, or maybe 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 be done before that. But the most singular recommendation the association made 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 you see.a spot before your eyes this summer, it may be someone’s queen bee all dolled up and Seeing the country on her own ime.

JEAN BROWN WEDS DR. JOHN HENDRICKS

The marriage of Jean Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond 'D. Brown, 3025 N. Meridian St, to Dr. John W. Hendricks was announced today by the bride's parents. Dr. Hendricks is the son of Mrs. Will Hendricks, Columbus, Ind.

STOCKS SHOW GAINS

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NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P).— Stocks advanced one to three points today. Sales:in the first hour totaled 330,000 shares, the same as for the full five hours yesterday.

By JOE COLLIER The Indiana Historical Society and Smith Library, working hand

in hand, today were seeking the identity of a ghost aged 88. Unlike ‘most ghosts, this one fs

mation is that the grave of this ghost, who is reported to have been very winsome indeed, is marked with a double stone. She was buried with her lover after many years of separation. This much information already is in the. files of the organizations. One and one-half miles south of

i Hanover, on a tiny stream also un-

named, is a hole in the ground, all

the famous old chain Chain mill was one o

“in 1850. - "the most |

stream was so small, Charles Gorden Morton, who built it, a ranged for th lov 1) buckets

e stream to flow

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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938

Times Photos. .

President Paul R. Bausman (right), Washington

Below, (left to right) are J. A. Keefe, Anderson | Herald: James E. Montgomery, New Albany Tribune, association® treasurer, and Foster W. Riddick, Columbia City Commercial Mail, who was to be elected president this afternoon.

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 prepared to curb Jews. pL me—— Communists Bitter

At Blum Overthrow PARIS, April 8 (U. P.).—Premier Leon Blum's Popular Front Government resigned today, balked by the

| Senate In its dpmand for extraordinary power to hiring about financial.

recovery. The resignation came at a pitter session of the Senate, during whith the acrimony- of the debate indicated 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 in the streets.

Daladier Asked to Be Ready

President Albert Lebrun asked War Minister Edouard Daladier, Radical Socialist, to be ready for a call to the Palace before midnight to be asked to form a new ministry. The Senate overwhelmingly defeated the Blum Government on its financial program. The vote was 223 to 49 against even discussing the bill. Before the vote Premier Elum bitterly = denounced the Senate. Joseph Caillaux, Senate Finance Commission president, retaliated equally bitter. The Premier spoke for an hour and a half. The Senate listened in cold silence. M. Blum challenged the Senate's right to force a new majority instead of'a Popular Front. “Only a Chamber elected by universal suffrage has a right to change 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 the necessary consequences.”

50,000 on Strike

Communists were so certain that M. Blum’s Cabinet would fall: that they called a mass meeting for this evening. That there should be a certain amount of disappointment among Leftist leaders is only natural. Some of them are bitter and resentful.. There is talk of strong measures, if needed, to hold on fo

dead and buried. And best infor-

that remains of the ghost’s haunt, | took

unique in the state, Because ‘the

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‘the water pulled the chain around and the chain turned the millstones. However, due to the fact that the cost of wooden buckets would have been prohibitive and they couldn’t get them, anyway, the brothers had to find some substitute for them.

Thére were many tanneriés there,

so they got cow horns. It is reported that cow horns-in those days

cow horns, No mention is made of how this came about, However, . the mill worked, and the Mortons became wealthy. Farmers used to drive to the mill with their grain, sleep in the mill basement overnight when the | too long, and drive: ‘back with { flour next day. - One night,

to| head

{Roosevelt to Propose {New Works Program

HOPKINS ASKS JOBS FOR ALL, NEW SPENDING

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROOSEVELT admits plans for public works program. -

TAX BILL speeded as recovery measure.

RFC BILL sent to White House, REORGANIZATION bill Controller General change defeated. WAGE-HOUR bill stronger. after President hints new spending. GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER says Navy expansion won't be" finished.

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WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.).—

| President Roosevelt made plain tos | day that he is preparing a new pub- | lic works program said by his associates to provide a total of $1,500,-|

000,000 in noninterest bearing loans to local communities. The President declined to discuss the new proposal in detail at his [regular Friday press conference. As the White House conference was in progress, however, Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins outlined before a Senate committee a new expansion of public 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 not estimate what the cost of his additional proposed outlay would be. He merely said that he would request funds in addition to the billion-dollar total

budget for relief purposes. He indicated that the program might be outlined tq Congress in two special messages, one dealing in gen-

- feral with the relief problem and

the other submitting the detailed public works proposal. Specific features of the new relief

included:

restriction ‘on relief ‘spending which 1 es that not more than onetwelfth of total relief funds available be spent each month. A program, under consideration, for Federal loans to municipalities without any interest requirement.

No Agreement Yet: Mr. Hopkins’ declared that there

minds” on the exact gmount of funds needed for relief during the fiscal year starting July 1.

He said, however, that the recommendation to be made by President Roosevelt next week covers only the first seven months of the next fiscal year. Mayors of six major cities, headed by Fiorella H. La Guardia of New York, today asked the President to support a three billion dollar appropriation to provide work for 3,500,000 unemployed during the next fiscal year. The President met at the White House ‘with a U. S. Conference of Mayors group headed by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York and summoned Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes for an important conference at 1 p. m.

Condemns Relief

Mr. Hopkins called for an absolute end of direct relief throughout the country. In its place he suggested: - Expansion of the works program. Enlargement of pensions and insurance systems under the Social Security Act. Far-reaching extension of benefits under the dependent children’s clause of the Social Security Act to provide aid to all children in’ the country who are in nee. - e. should reach a concept in Amgrica,” 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 revelation of

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An 88- Year-Old Ghost, Name Unknown, Haunts Historical Society, Smith Library

beautiful singing over the waterfalls, and still later people saw a strange light, beckoning them to the falls. The Mortons lost business and finally sold the mill. . It had been supposed until a few years later that a beautiful ‘young woman, whose lover had died, drowned herself “in the falls and

Ohlo o River. t one day. someone turned up a huge flat rock and found a skeleton. A ring given her by her lover was found there and relatives identified it.

her lover in a cemetery near Graysville and, so far as is known, is

'| there today. owever, two; nen were :

But it seems that the ghost’s

relatives placed the right, but couldn’t remember the

name. That's why the Indiana torical Society and Smi

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‘Second-Class Matter

Entered as 4 Indianapolis, Ind.

Fostoffice.

tentatively allotted in the January |

program outlined by the President A request for repeal of the present :

had, as yet, been “no meeting of |

that her body washed away in the} were much. larger than present day|

The: skeleton was buried beside |

skeleton, all’

He Hung Up

And Phone Customers’

Kicks Stirred PSC Investigation.

‘ENNIS HOKE, of Monroe 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 George

' 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-

i ties to the co-operative wanted to unload their holdings.

This they did, the Commission

| learned, by selling the whole

works to Mr. Hoke for & cool $1. That was seven years ago, they told the Commission, and Mr. Hoke fixed things up, raised the rates to $10 a year per customer, and the company prospered.

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HEN the servicé deteriorated, and it took several minutes of steady cranking even to get “operator,” they said, and then you could hardly hear. Lately, however, the delegation told the Comrhission, 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 letter asking how come?

PHONE CO. FILES NEW RATE PLEA

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

The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today filed a new petition with the Public Service Commission asking that a rate investigation be made on a state-wide basis and that net earnings be képt at the 1937 level. Filed to replace an earlier peti-

‘I tion withdrawn following a Com-

mission hearing Wednesday, the new request does’ not ask for a general rate increase, Utility representatives told the Commission that they wish to have new rates made on a state-wide instead of a local basis. Sixteen petitions asking for rate reductions have been filed by patrons of various municipalities and are pending before the Commission. Public hearings already have been started on the South Bend-Misha-waka case but no order has been issued. The company’s new request does not ask specifically for,a combination of these 16 cases but only that a state-wide investigation be made. Under the law the Commission has discretionary power to determine whether rates which are fixed on property valuations shall be made on a state or local basis.

Rates Set in 1926

The company now is operating under rates fixed by a 1926 order which was made on a state-wide basis. Pointing out that ft has 81 exchanges and about 215,000 subscriber stations, the company said

net earnings during 1937 were less

than 51% per cent on the cost of the property and the 1938 percentage is expected to be less. “In determining the fair value of the petitioner’s property, revenue, expenses, net earnings and permissible rate of return, considerftion should be given to the petitioner’s entire property devoted to the public use for intrastate service and no

single exchange case be determined

. . . alone,” the petition said. The company also requested that “rates be fixed on the total intrastate service so that net earnings for the year 1937 shall not - ‘be decreased.”

LOST: ONE $125 CALF, “TAIL GATE OF TRUCK

Anyone finding a Jersey calf will

| please return same to Ralph Hom-

mel, Franklin. . Mr. Hommel told police he loaded the calf into his truck at Franklin today and, subsequently arrived at his Indianapolis destination, but the calf did not. It may have been that when the tail gate fell off the truck on W. Raymond St. near Harding St., the calf did too, Mr. Hommel reported. It was an especially fine calf, valued at $125 by its owner.

PUSH PAVING PLANS FOR ROOSEVELT AVE.

- Plans for paving Roosevelt Ave.

‘from Rural to Gale Sts. are nearly

completed, Henry B. Steeg, City en-,

| gineer, announced today.

The nine-block stretch is to be paved by WPA labor, he said. Last is | year WPA labor also was used to pave Roosevelt Ave. from 10th St. and Massachusetts Ave. to Rural

St. ‘The Works Board today author-

th Library by WPA in paving the Shelby St.

purchase of tools to be used.

Cold Will Continue In City, Bureau Predicts.

13. ROADS CLQSED

Loss Is Estimated at

$190,000 in Fire at Decatur.

Indianapolis ‘and other central Indiana cities today again prepared for freezing temperatures and snow as the center of the three-day storm moved east from Cairo, IIL Meanwhile, steady rains - have raised stream levels in the state, but are not expected to reach damaging flood levels, the Weather Bureau said. Forecasting continued low tem-

peratures and rain, the Bureau said that only a, few degrees of tempera-

{ture have protected Indianapolis

and Central Indiana from snow. The minimum temperature here last night was 34.

TEMPERATURES

35 10a. m 36 11 a. m.... 36°’ 12 (Noon). 36 1p m...

31 31 36 31

6a m... 7a Mm... 8 a.m... 9 a. mi...

South Bend, with 31 degrees, was the only city in Indiana reporting below freezing temperatures. Four others reported 32. The Indiana Highway Commiksion said three roads were ordered closed due to high water. They are: Road 59, north of Clay City; Road

246, west of Clay City, and Road 42,

at Poland and east of Road 43. Six Dead in State

Three roads, open today, probably will be closed tomorrow, the Commission said. They are Road 63, at Clinton, and Roads 234 and 63, at Cayuga. Restored communication facilities. brought news from Decatur, Ind., of a $190,000 fire at the Krick & Tyndall Tile Mill late Wednesday night and early yesterday. The main buildings of the company were destroyed. ' George W. Krick, president, said that damage to the buildings would reach at least $150,000, and to stores, $40,000. . The origin of the fire was unknown. Six persons were dead in state 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, was killed when a friend, Harold Huberts, 23, tried to demonstrate that his car would ‘do 100 miles an

| hour.” The machine careened off

Road 52 near Lafayette and tumbled down an embankment. Rolli I. Hobbick,, 43, credit mana-

‘ger of the Indiana and Michigan

Electric Co. drowned today when his automobile plunged through the railing of an avenue bridge into the St. Joseph River at South Bend. Police suspected a woman also might have drowned as a woman's purse was in the river near the car, was single.

Phone Lines Down

The. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. reported new . trouble with lines around Ft. Wayne and Marion. The Indiana Service Corp: was reported using the services of amateur short wave radio operators in locating broken trolley wires. Because of conditions at Chicago, and at ports east and west of here, no transport planes were expected at Municipal Airport today unless Eastern Airlines should fly ‘a ship from Louisville, ~ Ice was reported on roads in Fulton and Wells Counties and around Lafayette. Otherwise, the State Highway Commission reported the storm traffic hazard had diminished. Angola received .15 inch of rain, Rochester, - 26; Ft. Wayne, . 37; Marion, .55; Lafayette, 34; Terre Haute, 5 Cambridge City, 12; Columbus, .65; Paoli, .61, and Evansville, .22.

Gift to Provide Art Gallery on Nashville Site

NASHVILLE Ind, April 8 (U.P). —Donation of a tract of land to the Brown County Art Galleries Association as a location for construction of a modern art gallery was announced today by Adolph Shulz, Nashville artist. Mr. Shulz recently purchased a 23-gcre tract at the edge of Nashville. The tract donated to the art association is about the size of a

city block. He plans to B Survey the

remainder for b For several years es Nashville colony of 28 artists have contemplated establishment of a modern gallery for display of their work but

had made Ao definite construction ‘plans,

lof his children,

Red Cross Speeding Aid to 20, 000 in South. rede RIVERS RAMPAGE 4 Die, 9 Are Feared Lost in Georgia Cloudburst. Lan TE

through the heart of the nation and tornadic winds, heavy rains and raging floods in other arews east of the Rocky Mountains left at least 23 known dead and 9 missing today as a midspring storm wheeled diagonally northeastward. The American Red Cross and the Coast Guard rushed aid to 20,000 persons caught in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia flood areas in what was described as the worst flood in the history of the Alabama River. The storm centered east of Cairo, Il, and moved rapidly toward the Atlantic Coast, | where snow and sleet became rain. A great belt extended from northwestern Texas southern lower Michigan. | Freezing temperatures were fore= cast for the next 36 hours in the North Central States. A slight rise was expected tomorrow in the Plains states and in most other regions Sunday. Wind-whipped snow or freezing rain that swept over northwestern Missouri, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana and southern lower Michigan was to continue throughoul*today and tonight, according to

- U.S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chi-

cago. 11 Killed in Alabama A tornado that roared through a section near iceville in western Alabama kilied an aged couple and nine Negroes and injured 50 persons, It damaged homes in eight communities. | - Six died in Indiana from falls and in traffic accidents. A man was killed in Towa when his car crashed a truck on glassy pavement. A Chicagoan dropped: dead while shoveling snow. At Jasper, Ga., four persons were known dead and nine persons were missing and 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 creek on whose banks the store was located. It was feared that dwellings in the path of the stream were swept away. Traffic was virtually at a standstill and communications were crippled in the Midwest by a blizzard that howled in from the frigid

| wastes of Manitoba Wednesday and

cut through half the United States. Kansas, western and. Central Oklahoma and northwestern Texas had the heaviest snow 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 were four inches at Oklahoma City, five at Wichita, Kas.,»and six at Topeka, Kas, and St. Joseph, Mo. .

Rain Falls in South “Heavy to excessive” rains drenched the South and “moderate to heavy” rains pelted the Ohio, middle Mississippi and lower Mis= souri Valleys. The heaviest precipitation was at Meridian, Miss. Rain also fell in the Carolinas, Maryland and western Pennsylvania. | ~ New York, New England and eastern Pennsylvania had cloudy weather and forecasters predicted rain or possibly snow would swéep that area tonight or tomorrow. The weather was clearing in the Rocky Mountain region that bore the brunt of the storm atts start. Little precipitation was reperted in Nebraska; Iowa and the Dakotas. It was clear over Minnesota, north= west Wisconsin and western upper Michigan. | Another | ‘storm was coming down the north Pacific, but forecasters * said it would be some time before it swung across the nation. Cloudy Weather was reported in the far es |

Fear 13 Dfguned a In Georgia Creek ‘ JASPER, Ga., April 8 (U. P.) It

was feared today that 13 persons drowned in a mountain creek which.

heavy ras turned into a raging

torrent. The deluge caught a combination residence-store at Whitestone and dashed the store with its 13 occu pants inte the turbulent waters. | Four: were know dead and nine other missing. dead: Carter Connor and two Flora Sue and Claude; and an unidentified child. Missing: Connors wife and six

children, Thelma and Bonnie. Pon-.

iii the ir vas wl y the fl was to be ¢ r children.

of the missing Conn! r