Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1939 — Page 1

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anapolis Times

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; rain probable with possible snow; slightly colder tonight,

with lowest temperature about 35.

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FINAL HOME

Scripps “HowARDY VOLUME 51—NUMBER 32

DUTCH, SWISS

AND DANES GET AID OF BRITAIN

Their Independence Vital, Chamberlain Says in Commons Speech.

FOREIGN SITUATION BERLIN —Fleet sail for Spanish coast: Hitler returns. ROME—Fascist says Duce will ignore Roosevelt plea. LONDON — Commons Roosevelt plea. GIBRALTAR—French warships keep up steam. ATHENS—Joint Greek - Turkish war plans reported. BELGRADE — 30000 troops called to colors. THE HAGUE—Dutch consider longer military term. PARIS—Council of Ministers meets, BRUSSELS — Pierlot forms Catholic-Liberal cabinet. = & = WASHINGTON—U. S. Fleet to check Japanese, expert says. HONGKONG—Japanese reinforce Canton, seize Kuling.

cheers

LONDON, April 18 (U.P). —Prime Minister Chamberlain praised President Roosevelt's peace message todav and indicated maintenance of the independence of the Netherlands. Switzerland and Denmark was of greatest importance to the new European front against aggression. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that the Government is continuing closest consultation with other powers, including the Soviet Union, for formal adherence to the antiaggression bloc. He failed. however, to mention Turkey, the guardian of the strategic Dardanelles. It was understood that negotiations to bring Turkey into the united front might be completed this week.

Nazis Closely Watched

Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare told Commons today that a close watch was being kept on Nazis in Rritain. including a German woman named Johanna Woolf, who he did not identify further. Replying to a Laborite question, Sir Samuel said that the Government was keeping a close watch en an organization with which Miss Woolf was connected. Discussing progress in creation of a barrier to future aggression in line

Appointed

STUCKEY NEW P, S.C. MEMBER

Promoted by Governor to Succeed Bays; Beattey Takes His Place.

William A. Stuckey today was appointed by Governor Townsend to the Public Service Commission vacancy created by the resignation of Fred F. Bays, elected State Democratic chairman last week. Mr. Stuckey is director of the Motor Vehicle Division of the Pub-

{lic Service Commission.

Governor Townsend also appointed James IL. Beattey, former Indiana State Democratic Committee secretary, as director of the Motor Vehicles Division. Mr. Beattey resigned the party post last week. The Governor said both appeointments will be effective “some time between now and May 1,” depending on when Mr. Bays will complete his Public Service Commission duties. Mr. Bays already has taken himself off the Commission payroll and is dividing his time between the State Committee and Commis-

INDIANAG. 0.P.

CONGRESSMEN ASK WPA QUIZ

All 7 Hoosier Republicans Sign Formal Plea for State-Wide Probe.

KOKOMO CASE CITED|]

Large Numbers Dismissed For Voting ‘Wrong,’ Letter Claims.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 18—Citing the Federal indictments growing out of the WPA in Kokomo, all seven Indiana Republican Representatives joined today in a formal request for an investigation of WPA in the state.

A letter setting out reasons for §

such action was addressed by them to Chairman Taylor (D. Colo.) of the Appropriations Committee, which has charge of such investiga tions. Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) is a member of the subcommittee

actually conducting the inquiries, The letter was accompanied by

affidavits, newspaper articles and letters from relief workers. It was signed by Reps. Charles A. Halleck, Robert A. Grant, George W. Gillie,

Forest A. Harness, Noble J. Johnson, |

Gerald Landis and Raymond 8S.

Springer. “This request is made for the

reason that the poor and the unemployed people in our state have suffered greatly, suffer. because of maladministration of the WPA,” the letter, written by Ren. Springer, states.

and they now

Politics From Beginning

“Politics have been played in this] relief agency from its beginning to this very hour and large numbers of needy people have been discharged without cause except that they were affiliated with the Republican Party

sion duties. vision by Governor Townsend

named director. The new commissioner lives

with military defensive pledges already given to Greece, Rumania and Poland. Mr. Chamberlain said that taining “all necessary contact in military and other matters” the governments involved. His statement was in regard to whether actual general staff consultations had been initiated by Britain and France with Poland, Rumania and Greece,

Cheer Reference to F. D. R.

Then he declared that, while Britain had made no definite commitments to the Netherlands, Switzerland or Denmark, the Government was deeply interested in the preservation of their independence against aggression. It had been understood previously that France and Britain were in complete agreement on military action to be taken to oppose any invasion of either Switzerland or the Netherlands as well as Belgium, all of which are of vital defensive importance to the two big powers, The Prime Minister was warmly cheered when he referred to the “great satisfaction” of the Government in connection with Mr. Roosevelt's peace message but did not reply to a question whether he would give Commons &n early opportunity to express its gratification. The Turkish Ambassador visited the Foreign Office shortly afternoon {Continued on Page Three)

STEEL ISSUES LEAD STOCK LIST DECLINE

NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P)— Steel issues led a decline that spread to all sections of the stock list today after a quiet morning session that saw changes small and

dealings the lightest of the year. |

U. S. Steel declined 2's point and Bethlehem fell off 2: points. Du Pont was off 2': points

ROYAL VISIT PLANS SURVIVE WAR CLOUD

LONDON, April 18 (U. P).—Authoritative Court circles said ‘today that King George and Queen Elizabeth were going ahead with their plans for visiting America. The King and Prime Minister Chamberlain discussed the outlook with U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy over the week-end and it was understood that the King and Queen would make their trip if the European situation does not become more serious.

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BOORS .ccovecs @| Mrs. Ferguson 10 Broun 10 | Movies 11 COMICS ...vnnn 16 | Obituaries ... 18 Crossword ... 17{Pyle Q Curious World 16|Questions .... 9 Editorials .... 10/Radio ....... 17 Fashions 7 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Financial .... 17|Scherrer «9 Flynn Serial Story.. 18 Forum Society cae Gallup Sports .... 12, 13 In Indpls. ... |State Deaths. 18 Jane Jordan... 9 Wiggam 10 Johnson ee. 10 Williams ... 10

with

Other

Perry MeCart and Moie Cook.

EMMET RALSTON'S

Dies Here at 49.

Mr. Stuckey was named assistant director of the Motor Vehicles Diin! certained 1936. Later he was made secretary of the commission, and a year ago was

FUNERAL THURSDAY

I. P. & L. Vice President

jlor that they had voted the Republican ticket. “In many instances it has been asthat who were drawing substantial salaries have placed members of their own families and their near rela-

at/tives upon the pay rolls, and such 3055 Ruckle St. He has taken part in Civic Theater activities here, and several vears ago was attorney for|time many others actually needing the State Farm Debt Adjustment Committee under former Governor McNutt, He is a graduate of DePauw University and has a daugh{ter and a son. members of the Public the British Government was main- [Service Commission are Chairman

persons could not qualify in any particular for relief. At the same

relief could not secure any help whatsoever,” the letter charged. “Many cases have been discovered in which men with families and dependents were summarily discharged and unmarried men without dependents were retained upon the relief rolls. It has been discovered that in many instances threats were made by those in authority in the WPA to intimidate the workers and their families from disclosing any informatiton concerning the operation of such agency or the granting of relief thereby.”

Willis Petition Cited In addition to the Kokomo indictments, a case is cited where in it is alleged that a WPA supervisor required the workmen to buy noon lunches from him.

WPA supervisors

Emmet G. Ralston, general manlager and vice president of the Indilanapolis Power & Light Co. died lof a heart attack at his home in Wynnedale last night. Mr. Ralston never had fully recovered from a similar attack during the 1937 spring flood which resulted, his doctor said, from his personal supervision of work at the company’s White River dam north of Oliver Ave. While he continued to go to his office he had frequent consultations with his doctor. During one of these last night, he was stricken, his doctor said. Mr. Ralston was born at Lebanon, Oct. 28, 1830, the son of the former Governor Samuel M. Ralston, who died in 1925 Mr. Ralston attended the Lebanon public schools and was graduated from Purdue University as an electrical engineer. He began his career in 1912 as electrical engineer of the old Indilanapolis Light & Heat Co. and in 11924 he became vice president. He {continued in that capacity when the company was merged in 1924 with Fo Merchants Heat & Light Co. to form the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Mr. Ralston was elected to the board of directors May 21, 1930, and (Continued on Page Three)

THIEF GETS $3808 FLINT, Mich, April 18 (U.P) —A clever bandit who picked up $3808 | from a bank teller's windew while | directing the teller to retrieve a | fountain pen cap from: the floor, | was sought by police today.

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WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P). —President Roosevelt called in his top fiscal experts today to discuss protection of the American financial land economic structure against the j threat of war in Europe. | The White House discussion was {called for noon. Those conferring with the President were Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Agriculture Secretary Walllace, Treasury Undersecretary John Hanes, Federal Reserve Chairman {Marriner S. Eccles and Acting Chairman Jerome Frank of the Se|curities and Exchange Commission. | Senator Borah, speaking during |Senate Foreign Relations Commit|tee considerations of Neutrality Act |changes, characterized proposals to |apply economic sanctions against |aggressor nations as an act of war. In an exchange with Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, of Bryn Mawr College, RL

Attention also is directed to the

WPA charges contained in the Willis petition which was dismissed by the Senate.

Four of the Indiana Republicans

voted against giving WPA the 100 million dollars They were Reps. Harness and Sringer. voting for the $100,000,000 were Reps. Landis, Grant and Johnson.

ONLY SUN ECLIPSE OF

additional funds. Halleck, Gillie, Republicans

‘39 DUE TOMORROW

If it should be clear tomorrow— the forecast says cloudy—Indianapolis will be able to witness the only eclipse of the sun visible in this area during 1939, according to J. H. Armington, U. S. Meteorologist. The World Aimanac says the eclipse is scheduled to begin about 9:25 a. m. here and continue until approximately 11:35 a. m. The magnitude, the Almanac says, will be 30 which means that approximately a third of Old Sol's countenance will be cut off from view.

‘1000-HOME ROBBER’ GETS 5 TO 30 YEARS

CELINA, O, April 18 (U. P).—

| Stanley Galbreath, 39, of St. Marys,

said by authorities to have admitted burglarizing more than 1000 homes in 10 years, was given a 5-to-30-year sentence in Common Pleas Court

here today.

Roosevelt Calls Aids for ‘If War Comes’ Parley

Senator Borah asserted that economic sanctions were “a large part of the war system in modern times.” Dr. Fenwick had supported amendments to the Neutrality Act offered by Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah) which would designate violators of treaties with the United States and permit the President, with the approval of Congress, to apply sanctions.

“I am one of those who refuse to believed that we can apply economic sanctions without becoming involved in war. In fact, such action is war,” Senator Borah said. The Government fiscal advisers have already conferred several times on protective measures which may be invoked in case general war breaks out, The White House said that these measures are still in the

study stage. : }

TUESDAY, APRIL

Police Oxygen Saves Boy's Life

so much as 18-months-old Robert terday.

Robert H. Burton rejoiced today.

18, 1939

Times Photo.

| A policeman i$ a boy's best friend in many situations, but in none

H. Burton Jr, found himself yes

In the office of Dr. John F, Parker, 1704 B. Washington St, Robert gasped for breath and was slowly choking with a cold congestion. Dr. Parker called the police emergency squad which administered oxygen and Robert's breathing became normal again. Burton home, 333¢ E. Michigan St, Robert and his mother, Mrs

At the

State Jumps Right Out of Frog Derby

If the Conservation Department never hears about jumping frogs again, it will be too soon. This is because of a new frog law passed by the last Legislature which everyone had forgotten, until today. This law makes it illegal to capture, train, imprison or jump a frog during May. The jumping contest, for which Governor Townsend asked the Conservation Department to provide a {frog takes place May 20-21 in Angels Camp, Cel. Only by violating the new frog law could the State enter a contestant. So all policy-forming officials of the State were devoting a good deal of attention to this problem today.

POLE AREA HAS OIL, ELLSWORTH CLAIMS

Willing to Join U. S. Attempt To Take Over Area.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P). —Lincoln Ellsworth, noted Polar explorer, today conferred with State Department officials concerning a proposed U. S. Government expedition to the Antarctic to reinforce American claims to large areas. Lieut. Comm. Ellsworth has just returned from an expedition to the Indian Ocean side of the Antarctic He flew over a large area and lodged claims for the United States to 81,000 square miles of territory, He expressed great interest in the proposed expedition. He declined to say whether he had been invited to participate, but said he would be delighted to do so. He said he hoped that if a U. S. Government expedition went down there, it would explore particularly the Pacific side of the region. He exhibited shells and fossil remains which he said indicated they were oil bearing, giving indication of possible oil deposits beneath the great ice cap. He said that islands on the Indian Ocean side appeared to have rich mineral deposits. ‘He said these islands were ice free during the Antarctic summer.

SUSPECT BOUND OVER William Johnson, 1724 Boulevard Place, accused by police of stealing copper from an electric refrigerator at the Hoosier Milk Products Co, 918 N. Senate Ave, was ordered by Municipal Judge Charles Karabell to be held for the Grand Jury today

TRAFFIC TOLL 13 AS 2 MORE DIE

Deputies Probe Reported Crash of Car With Cargo of Guns.

The Indianapolis traffic death toll jumped to 13 today as two persons died at City Hospital. Miss Bunice Wooden, a Blooming ton nurse, died last night from injuries received last Wednesday, and

Evans Main died today, the result of a traffic accident on Friday. The City death toll now stands at 12. The license of Clarence Deardorf, 20, of 1302 Lawton St,, was suspended for 45 days in Municipal Court today and he was fined a total of $31 when he pleaded guilty to charges of drunken driving and being drunk.

Passenger Fined $20

Police testified he had sideswiped a car in the 700 block of Virginia Ave. and then struck a tree. Vic Falls, 966 Elm St, a passenger in the car, was fined $20 by Judge Charles J. Karabell on a drunkenness charge. Deputy sheriffs meanwhile investigated a report of an automobile, containing several guns, being overturned in a ditch near the County line on Meridian St. The report was made to the sheriff's office and police by a woman who did not identify herself. Deputy Sheriffs Charles McAllister and Tony Maio searched the vicinity but found no trace of it. Miss Wooden, 22, was struck by a car driven ,by Harry Hiott, 40, of 3554 Kenwood Ave. at Meridian and 30th Sts. She was honored as the outstanding senior of the graduating class of the Bloomington Hospital Nurses’ Training School last September.

Boy Still Unconscious

Mr. Mains, 34, of 1533 Sauley St, was struck by a truck in the 400 block on BE. Washington St. He was a maintenance man for the Century Biscuit Co. He is survived by his wife, Lottie; a son, James, and a daughter, Evelyn. Five persons were injured slightly in an automobile collision at Capitol Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd. last night. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith and daughters, Joan and Shirley, and Mrs. Jeanette Southerland, 19, all of 2314 Kenwood Ave. were bruised slightly when their car driven by Lige Southerland, 25, same address, collided with one driven by Curtis Jones, 31, of 538 Blake St. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Richard Mellett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mellett, 2241 Park Ave, remained unconscious at St. Vincent's Hos pital where he was taken last Thursday after he rode his bicycle from an alley into the path of a

on burglary and grand larceny charges.

car on 20th St, between Pennsylvania and Talbott Sts.

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

FLOOD WATERN STILL CLIMBING IN OHIO VALLEY

River Stage at Cincinnati Passes 56.39 Feet With Crest of 58 or 60 Now Expected; Death Toll Set at Five.

at Postoffice,

BAD WEATHER CANGELS FOUR OF 8 OPENERS

Two American and Two National Games Called Off Because of Rain.

YANK ‘REPEAT’ FORECAST

National League, However, May Become 7-Club Free-for-All.

BULLETIN

Two American League opening games and two games in the National League were rained out today. The Philadelphia Athletics game a Washington and the New York Yankees-Boston Red

Sox game at New York were called off in the American loop. In the National circuit, the Philadelphia Phillies-Bos-ton Bees game at Boston and the Cincinnati-Chicago Cubs game at Chicago were canceled. It was cloudy in the other cities,

NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P.) = Wars and rumors of wars were only whispers in the distance and European troubles seemed farther away than in months, for today the

major league baseball season begins in a sort of haliway fashion.

A fellow can get out in the open air, test his lungs and forget all about his and the world’s problems. That's why baseball is embarking on its second century today. And approximately 250,000 fans, unless the weather interferes, are expected to pile into eight major league parks. ' It was raining in five of the eight cities—Brooklyn, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. Clouds hung low over the other two— Pittsburgh. and Chicago. It was partly cloudy in Detroit. The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds jumped the gun yesterday at Cincinnati despite threats of flood waters from the nearby Ohio River. A crowd of of 30,644 saw the Pirates come from behind to win, 7-5.

F. D. R. Misses First Game

For the first time in several years President Roosevelt won't see an opener. Wet grounds prevented the Yankees and Senators from putting on the usual preview at Washington, and previous engagements prevent the President from attending today's game. Cincinnati's preopening game was one of the features of baseball's centennial year. The first professional team in America was formed at Cincinnati in 1869. After winning three straight American League pennants and three world championships—a feat never before accomplished by any team—the New York Yanks appear (Continued on Page 12)

U.S. TAKES HAND IN MINE PAY DEADLOCK

Federal Official Confers With Workers, Operators.

NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P.)~— James F. Dewey, Federal labor con= ciliator, announced today he was “taking the initiative” in wage-hour negotiations of the Appalachian soft coal industry in an effort to end a contract deadlock which has kept 340,000 miners and 4000 mines idle since April 1. Mr. Dewey conferred jointly and separately with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America and of 2000 bituminous operators in the eight-state area. At the conclusion of the morning conference session he said that both sides had voluntarily accepted him as a “mediator” of their dispute. The negotiators have been deadlocked over conflicting union recognition proposals to be incorporated in a two-year renewal of the 1937-39 contract which expired March 31.

Parishioners

Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

the 1937 flood.

MANY ROADS IN STATE CLOSED

Farmers Will Suffer Most Damage; More Rain Forecast Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 46 10a m... 39 Ta. m.. 4 11am... 39 8am... 39 12 (noon). 38 9a. m... 38 1pm... 40

Continued rains tonight and tomorrow over the Wabash and White River basins were predicted by the Weather Bureau today. While southern Indiana streams and the Ohio River remained out of their banks, the Bureau said only state lowlands were likely to be flooded and that property damage would be small, An estimated 2000 persons already have been forced from their homes by water in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, Red Cross officials said, the rain here may turn to snow tonight, the Bureau said. A mininum temperature of about 35 was predicted. Many Roads Closed

Nearly two score southern Indiana highways were closed to traffic by high water, 16 more than yesterday. The continuous rains and farmland flooding will delay seeding, in some instances seriously, although \yday water was receding from bottom lands except along the Ohio River. Residents of Ravenswood reported the crest of White River was reached there at about 3 a. m. and that since then the water has fallen about a half inch an hour. Water entered none of the homes, they said, and no one was forced out. Some Drexel Gardens homes were partly flooded. Many householders were inconvenienced with water in basements.

Two Die in State

Only two Indiana casualties were attributed to the flood, and both were caused when two men were washed off water-covered highways. Relief officials said that in all localities where the flood hit arrangements were made to shelter and feed the flood refugees. The Wabash, White and Miami rivers were over their banks along nearly their entire course, and were above flood stage at most towns. However, Weather Bureau observers said that the waters reached only (Continued on Page Three)

———————————— MRS. ANNA BRUCE DEAD Mrs. Anna Bruce died today after a three years’ illness, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ardis L. Yaw, 5020 Haverford Ave. Services are to be held at 10 a. m. Friday at the Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary.

Burial will be at Crown Hill

Free Priest

‘Imprisoned’ 247 Days

VULCAN, Mich., April 18 (U. P.). —Simon Borkowski, beloved priest of St. Barbara's Catholic Church, was freed today by picketing parishjoners who had imprisoned him in the rectory for 247 days. The priest was freed on the date of a court hearing on an injunction that would have forced him to vacate the property and the pickets to withdraw. A crowd of more than 300 miners, farmers, and their wives and children from the northern Michigan copper country gathered at dawn outside the rectory to say goodby to Father Simon, whom they made a virtual prisoner eight months ago to prevent him from accepting a transfer to another church. When Father Simon stepped from the building today the crowd surged forward in an effort to shake his hand. The crush was so great that several women became hysterical and had to be carried from the

scene. #

After shaking the hands of all that could reach him, the priest stepped in an automobile at the head of a cavalcade of 80 cars which started for Pulaski, Wis, where Father Simon will become pastor of the Catholic church.

Parishioners of St. Barbara's Church, who said they loved Father

Simon too much to let him leave, freed the priest only after his superior, Bishop Joseph Plagents of Marquette, sought a court injunction ordering the church members to cease the picketing.

It was Bishop Plagens’ order that started the controversy. He sought to transfer the priest last summer, but the parishioners protested. They guarded the rectory through rain and snow and bitter cold and on one occasion repulsed with their fists a band of raiding churchmen from another community who sought to free Father Simon by

force,

2000 ARE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES

Streams Are Fed by More Rains in Northeast U. S.; Deep Snowdrifts Are Reported in West; Planting of Crops Delayed.

By United Press The Ohio River and its tributaries surged higher over their banks today fed by fresh rains in the northeastern quarter of the United States, but forecasters predicted that conditions would not reach the devastating proportions of

Temperatures dropped in the affected area, but U. S, Forecaster C. A. Donnel in Chicago said they would not fall low enough to check the rising streams. More rain was expected in the East and upper Ohio Valley.

At Louisville, the river rose three feet over night to a 30« foot level, two feet above flood stage. Rain fell intermittent= y. The river passed 56.39 feet at Cincinnati where flood stage is 52 feet. It continued to rise at a rate of .09 feet an

our.

The freak spring storm area exe tended from the Middle Missouri River Valley eastward north of the Ohio River and from Wilmington, Del., to Portland, Me., on the East Coast. Elsewhere, the U. S. Weather Bureau reported, generally fair weather prevailed. Crest of the Ohio flood was exe pected to be reached in the East in two or three days if the rain continues light. Cineinnati expected to see the crest at 58 or 60 feet.

Five Deaths Laid to Floods

Red Cross and State police said only lowland homes had been affected by the rising waters, but an estimated 2000 persons have been forced to leave their homes in Kene tucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Five deaths were attributed to the floods. Two were in Indiana, two in Ohio and one in West Virginia. The drownings together with 40 deaths in tornadoes in southern and central states over the week= end brought the total for the nae tion near 50. Deep snowdrifts were reported in Colorado and Wyoming and driven snow covered portions of western Nebraska. northern Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. One death was reported in the Colorado blizzard. Ice and hail were reported with the snow in some northern areas.

Crop Damage Expected

Crop damage was expected in the eastern portion of the Midwest which last week was nipped by a frost -wave. The U. S. Weather Bureau said that reports from this area indicated that the soil already was saturated with moisture and that additional rain would cause losses to farmers. Crosley Field, the Cincinnati Reds’ baseball park, was flooded today by Mill Creek waters which backed up from sewers and covered the infield, Rain in Chicago caused postponement of a baseball game between the Cubs and the Reds. Portsmouth, O., was nearly isoe lated. Highways were blocked, seve eral stores were flooded and homes in‘ outlying districts were inundated, Five homes were wrecked by land= slides.

CONVICT BALL TEAM

BEATEN, 7 ESCAPE

REIDSVILLE, Ga., April 18 (U. P.).—The convict baseball team of the Georgia State Penitentiary was taken to Brunswick for a game. The convicts lost, 21-0, and seven of the team escaped on the way back to prison. Penitentiary officials today announced that the team would play all its games inside the prison in the future.

RIVER STAGES

Readings of Indiana rivers today

were: Ohio

Current Flood Predicted Point Reading Stage Crest

Cincinnati ..... 56.39 58-60 Louisville ...... 30 ee Marietta 32.2 35 Ashland, Ky. .. 52 60 Wabash vssie: 10 vee 16.9 184 13.5 3 15 21.1 23 23.4 26

Bluffton ... Wabash Logansport ..... Lafayette .ec.oe Covington ..... Terre Haule.... 18.3 22-23 Vincennes .... 15.1 20 Mt. Carmel .... 19.1 22-23 New Harmony .. 14.2 18 White (West Noblesville ..... 14.2 4 17 Indianapolis ... 13.7 14-15 Elliston ........ 268 27-28 Edwardsport ... 19.4 cos White (East Fork) Seymour ....... 174 14 us Shoals ......... 32 25. b

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White (Main Stream) Petersburg ..... 209 16 38 Hazleton ,.sseee 198 a

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