Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1938 — Page 4

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 24

At Repu blican Press Conference Here

6.0.P. 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’ sesslon 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: committees and of the Young Republican groups. Finance Group Planned State Chairman Archie N. Bobbitt presided at the state committee conference, at the Columbia Club. Primary campaign plans and steps foward 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 the reorganization” measure. Mr. Crim announced later he had arranged to have Deloss Walker, associate editor of Liberty, speak at the banquet. 258,000 Voters Eligible

Other political developments included: 1. Herman C. Wolff (R.) gave the first address in :his mayoralty | campaign this afternoon, address- | ing a group of 23d Ward ministers and 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 neeting. 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 precincet committeeman session in Machine Busters headquarters that any election board refusing to alJow a Machine Busters checker in a polling place on primary day “wili 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 to 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, is chairman of the group. 6. The Indiana Socialist,Party announced delegates to ns 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 convention 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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STREETCAR MEN

Violence Averted in C. I. O.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 Ave, today, 35 minutes after trolley men voted to end their strike and

restore service for Detroit's 800,000 streetcar riders. | The strikers accepted an agreement reached at a conference of street railway directors and union officials early 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.

Rival Unions Dispute

Control of Refinery

CROCKETT. Cal., April 8 (U. P.). —C. I. 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, Opposing unions jurisdictional finery. ! The A. F. L. parade had failed to materialize ‘at 1:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). Excepting a few scattered pickets. apparently there were no C. 1. 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 Cpunty, across the bay from San Francisco, said it was “the quietest day in weeks.” ; Sheriff John Miller of Contra Cesta County, Meader of peace officers concentrated here to preserve order, said ‘he anticipated -mo’ trouble. A. FP. of L., leaders declared a labor holiday in Contra Costa and adjoining Alameda County in order that workers might participate in the parade. Louis Goldblatt, C. I. O. leader, 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 decided to do likewise and go fishing.”

are disputing control of the re-

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 Frank P. Baker set bond’ at $500 on each count. The men provided bond late in the day.

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annual one-day meeting today at Hotel Severin are (upper photo) Walter H. Crim’ (left),

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

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Bee-Ware

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

IGHT now Indiana bees 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 owners have neglected them can be expected, the Indiana State Beekeepers’ Association warned in a stern bulletin today, to swarm and scram.

The association, howeverS inverts the warning. It pleads with

extra hives ready so they can house any 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.

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OR 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 somehcw.

should hasten to supply 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 tme,

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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.

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NEW YORK. Apr 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 is dead and buried. And best information 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 Hanover, on a tiny stream also unnamed, 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 unique in the state. Because the stream was so small, Charles and. Gorden Morton, who built it, arranged for the stream to flow into buckets on a chain. The weight of.

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It warned also that beekeepers

STOCKS SHOW GAINS

Cloudy with rain and possibly some snow

tonight and ' tomorrow; continued cold.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938

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Bausman (right), Washington

(left to right) are J. A. Keefe, Anderson

New Albany Triband Foster W. Riddick. who was to be

FRENCH CABINET S OVERTHROWN

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

PARIS—Senate overthrows Blum Cabinet, 223 to 49. HENDAYE — Spanish Loyalists execute deserters as power is cut off.

SHANGHAI — Japanese {entral ~ China drive definitely halted.

WASHINGTON—Austrian” trade privileges revoked.

BUDAPEST — Bill prepared to curb Jews.

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 demand for extraordinary power to bring about financial recovery. Ih The resignation came at a bitter session of the Senate, during which 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 minisiry. 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 Blum 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 to

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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. 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. Farmers 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

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 troller General change: feated. WAGE-HOUR bill stronger after President hints new spending. GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER says Navy expansion won't be finished.

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Roosevelt to Propose

New Works Program WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P).— President Roosevelt made plain today that he is preparing a new public 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 tentatively allotted in the January

budget for relief purposes. He indicated that the program might be outlined to Congress in'two special messages, one dealing in general with the relief problem and the other submitting the detailed public works proposal. Specific features of the new relief program outlined by the President included: A request for repeal of the: present restriction on relief spending which requires 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 had. as yet, been “no meeting of minds” on the exact amount 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 ppropriation 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 Fiorelio 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: nf benefits under the dependent children’s clause of the Social Security Act to provide aid to all children in the country who are in need. “We- should reach a concept in 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 $1,500,000,006 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 (Turn to Page Three)

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 that her body washed away in the Ohio River. But one day someone furned up a huge flat rock and found a 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, is there today. But it seems that the ghost’s relatives placed ‘the skeleton, all right, but couldn't remember the name. That's why the Indiana Historical Society and Smith Library are checking up on details,

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the petitioner's property,

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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, Ménroe 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 parties to the co-operative wanted to unload their holdings. This they did, the Commission learned, by selling the whole works to Mr. Hoke for a 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 service deteriorated. and it took several minutes of good steady cranking even to get “‘operator,” they said, and then you 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 letter asking how come?

PHONE CO. FILES NEW RATE PLEA

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

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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 kept at the 1937 level. Filed to replace an earlier petition withdrawn following a Commission 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 pa-

trons 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 4 |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 it has 81 exchanges and about 215.000 subscriber stations, the company. said net earnings during 1937 were less than 5! per cent on the cost of the property and the 1938 percentage is expected to be less. “In determining the fair value of revenue, expenses, net earnings and permissible rate of return, consideration 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 Hommel, 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 engineer, announced today. The nine-block stretch is to be’ paved by WPA labor, he said. Last year WPA labor also was used to pave Roosevelt Ave. from 10th St. and Massachusetts Ave. to Rural St. The Works Board today authorized purchase of tools to be used by WPA in paving the Shelby St. bridge ‘over Pleasant Run.

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Cold Will Continue In City, Bureau Predicts.

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

ture have protected Indianapolis and Central: Indiana from snow.

last night was 34.

TEMPERATURES

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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 manager of the Indlana 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 puise was in the river near the car, was single.

(Phone Lines Down

The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. reported new trouvle 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; 55; Lafayetie. .84; Terre Haute, .55; Cambridge City, .72; Columbus, .65; Paoli, .61, and Evans-

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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-acre tract at|the edge of Nashville. The tract donated to the art association is about the size of a city block. He plans to survey the remainder for building lots. For several years the Nashville colony of 28 artists have contemplated establishment of a modein gallery for display of their work but had made no definite construction

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KNOWN DEAD STORM BELT: ERE

Red Cross Speeding Aid to 20,000 in South.

RIVERS RAMPAGE

4 Die, 9 Are Feared Lost in Georgia Cloudburst.

By United Press 1 Wintry blasts that slanted through the heart of the nation and tornadic winds, heavy rains and raging floods lin other arezs east of the Rocky Mountains left at least 23 known dead and 9 missing today as a midspring storm wheeled diag=

onally northeastward. The American Red Cross and the Coast Guard rushed aid to 20.000 persons caught in Alabama, Missis= sippi 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, I11., and moved rapidly toward the Atlantic Coast, where snow and sleet became rain. A great belt extended from northwestern Texas to southern 'lower Michigan. Freezing temperatures were forecast 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 throughou today and tonight, according to S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chive 11 Killed in Alabama A tornado that roared through a section near Aliceville in western Alabama Filied an aged couple and nine Negroes and injured 50 persons. It damaged homes in eight communities. Six died in Tndiana from falls and in traffic accivents. A man was killed in Iowa 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 ot Topeka, Kas, and St. Joseph, Mo: Rain: Falls in South “Heavy to excessive” . rains drenched tke South and "moderate to heavy” rains pelted the Ohio, middle Mississippi and lower Mis= souri Valleys.

and western Pennsyl- ~ York, New England and Pennsylvania had cloudy nd forecasters predicted ssibly snow would sweep fa tonight or tomorrow. The weather was clearing in the Rocky 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 said it would be some time. before it swung across the nation. Cloudy weather was reported in the far West,

Fear 13 Drowned

In Georgia Creek

JASPER, Ga.. April 8 (U. P.).—I% was feared today that 13 persons drowned 1n a mountain creek which

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The deluge caught a combination

residence-store at Whitestone and dashed the store with its 13 oeccupants inte the turbulent waters. Four were know dead and nine oth issing. The dead; Carter Connor and two of his children, Flora Sue and Claude; and an unidentified child. Missing: [Connor's wife and six children, Thelma and Bonnie Pon= der and Carl Lindsay, 22. The unidentified child whose body was found two miles from the spot where the store was swallowed up

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of the missing Connor children. The store tumbled into Talona Creek and [crashed into the valley (Turn to Page Three)