Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1940 — Page 1

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. With the Ohio River frozen from shore to shore for several hundred miles, as shown in air photo above, ‘the Cincinnati watershed was choked off and warnings were issued on potential flood damage in southern Indiana, if warmer weather should start the gorge moving on a rising river,

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forms the heaviest ice jams in years. Photo above shows ice backe above Pittsburgh, giving city its annual anxious moments.

NAZI BOMBERS ATTACK SHIPS

Eighteen. Raid 400 Miles of British Coast, Causing ; ‘Alarms Far Inland.

BULLETIN

WITH THE FINNISH ARMY, KARELIAN ISTHMUS, Jan, 29 (U. P.).—Soviet bombs struck :a Red Cross military hospital today, killing 23 persons, including four women. Most of the casualities were wounded soldiers. Of 30 persons in the hospital when the Red Army bombers

‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. P.). —Washington took on the appearance of a’ Hollywood suburb today as screen and ardio stars ar-

|rived for celebrations of President

Roosevelt’s 58th birthday tomorrow night, designed to .aid the drive against infantile paralysis. Stage and screen-struck Wash-’ ingtonians mobbed the celebrities as they arrived. Dorothy Lamour, the sarong girl, narrowly escaped injury when- neatly 2000 miling fans surrounded. her at Union Station yesterday. Another star, Olivia de Havilland, monopolized the . attention of the

scored a direct hit only seven were saved,

LONDON, Jan. 29 (U, P.).—German planes today attacked British shipping along more than 400 miles of the east coast from the River Tay in the, north to the Kentish . Coast ‘in fhe south, dropped small bombs on the Shetland Islands and caused a series of air raid alarms which spread inland. At least 10 ships were attacked. One raider was reported to have dropped seven hombs near the steamer Llan Wern in the Tyneside area but it failed to score a direct hit. “Another raider attacked the steamer Imperial Monarch off the Seottish Coast but it fled .in the face of an-attack by British pursuit ships.

Anti-Aircraft Guns Fire

German planes which attempted to attack ships off .the Yorkshire coast were driven off by Royal Air Force patrols.” The raids continued from about 9 a. m. until noon, Anti-aircraft guns were in action over a wide area, especially in the Tyneside region. Precautionary airraid warnings were sounded in several districts of the northeast coast. No damage was reported from the bombs dropped in the Shetlands by the Germans. The attacks on ships were made under severe weather conditions. Visibility was poor. Two of the vessels attacked were lightships.

‘Among the attacked” ships were;

the British Officer, the Miriam, the Atholl Monarch, the Dannybryn, Otterpool, Stanburn, Wellpark and Knitsley.

18 Bombers Take Part

Observers said that 18 German bombers participated in the raids. ‘One British fighting plane was reported to have been struck by a single bullet from the machine gun of a Heinkel bomber. : British fighting planes and anti- " aircraft guns drove off another German raiding squadron from the northeast coast. On the Shetlands . an air raid alarm lasted 40 minutes.

Finns Estimate 5000

Russians. Are Slain

By JOE ALEX MORRIS © United ‘Press Foreign News Editor 'A nine-day Red Army offensive was dying out today after vainly spending: 5s strength against Finnish defe lines northeast of Lake Ladoga. : The Finns claimed to have captured Russian positions in the lake area. : The Russians were estimated at Helsinki to have lost about 15,000 men, including perhaps 5000 dead, in. the nine days of assault designed to flank the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus. Over the week-end, they continued to attack but each thrust was weaker, according to the Finnish reports from the front, and it was believed that the offensive in which more than 40,000 men participated had been halted for the time being. A Finnish communique reported that in yesterday’s fighting approximately 1250 Russians were slain and 160 were taken prisoner on the lake front and in the region of Aittojoki, farther north. The unsuccessful Russian drive to encircle the lake has demonstrated to neutral observers the difficulties which the Finns will face in coming months, The Red Army command appeared to have functioned more efficiently than in earlier - thrusts further north of the lake, where the Finns had destroyed whole divisions that fell into traps. ! This. time the Red Army profited by ‘earlier mistakes and aveided traps set for them late last week by: the Finns. The blasting fire of

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| Senate for a time today.

Gene Autry and Bill Boyd, Hollywood cowboy stars, arrived last

Capital Goes Hollywood as Stars Arrive for Parties

week to participate in a benefit horse show at Ft. Myer, Fla., which officially opened the birthday celebration. 3 : Other stars here or scheduled to arive include Elsa Lanchester, wife of Charles Laughton; Mickey Rooney, Brenda. Joyce, Gloria Jean, Edward: G. Robinson, Ona. Munson, "Pat O’Brien, James Cagney, Tyrone Power, Kay Kyser, Ginny Simms, Walter O'Keefe, Red Skelton, Ruth Terry and Edward Everett Horton. Tomorrow, the celebrities, after a White House luncheon, will attend a dinner at which the $7.50 per plate admission will go to the paralysis drive, - j : The stars will participate in birthday balls at various Washington hotels.

19EVENTS TO AID

13 Dances, 3 Basketball And 3 Other Sport Pro- + grams on Schedule.

Thirteen dances, three basketball games and three 6 other sporting events tonight and tomorrow will attract: Indianapolis and Marion County residents in the name of ‘the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. , Other private ‘and ‘semi-public parties will be held in the City and County to swell the local contribution to the fund for, the relief of infantile paralysis sufferers all over the nation. : The drive for funds is sponsored by the National Foundation. It is carried out by local chapters of the country-wide organization. Its chief means of raising funds are the President’s Balls, to be held fomorrow night in celebration of President Roosevelt's birthday. The County's first citizens will attend Governor Townsend's’ President’s Ball at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. “They. will pay $5 for a gold ticket and tickets for the dinner preceding will be $1.50 a plate. All arrangements for events have been: co-ordinated by the Marion County Chapter of the National Foundation. Of the money collected,- 50 per cent will ‘be sent to the National Foundation and 50 per cent ‘will. remain in the County. The ‘local chapter will distribute the Countv’s 50 per cent among the Riley Hospital, the City Hospital, thé. Janies E. Roberts School at Oriental and 10th Sts., and Public School 26 for Colored Crippled Children, at 1301 E. 16th St. A. B. Good, chairman of the local (Continued on Page Three)

CITY TIGHTENS CHECK OF ITS EXPENDITURES

Mayor Orders All Offices to’ File Reports Monthly.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan ‘toddy ordered City department and division bookkeepers ta file monthly reports of expenditures with the office of City Controlier James E., Deery. The order is designed to enable the Controller to keep closer check than is now kept on City department and division financial operations, Mr. Deery said. - All departments and divisions will file the reports on the 15th of each month, so that the Controller can certify expenditures accurately to the County Treasurer, Mr. Deery said. The plan has been approved by the State Board of Accounts, he added. 3 : “Our idea is to see that the record of - City ‘department and division bookkeepers checks with our records,” the Controller said. = . “It will prevent the possibility of discrepancies arising. between the records of departments and our records.” . ; Hl wy : The report plan was given a trial last November ‘and worked satisfactorily, Mr. ‘Deery said. = It now will ‘become a regular: procedure to be followed by all departments and

PARALYSIS. FUND,

Reminds U. S. Peace Losily

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. P.)—This country must make up its mind to face a possible economic pinch. in order to

further a lasting world peace, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today. But she sees no point in calling a peace conference of neutrals now. It’s a question of timing, Mrs. Roosevelt told her press conference, and the time to talk peace is when warring nations are willing to. Neutral nations who want to stay at peace are not the logical peace’ conferees in a warring “world, she held. She doubted they could advance a program that woud be acceptable to anyone. But when the time does come to talk peace, Mrs. Roosevelt continued, - this country should be prepared to pay the price of peace, and participate in a conference in a frame of mind which would accept international responsibility - for economic questions. .

PRIESTS IN POLAND REPORTED SLAIN

Pope Is Told That Nazis Use Barbaric Methods.

VATICAN CITY, Jan, 29 (U.P). —Beating, torture and murder of priests in Poland and a barbaric program of extermination of Poles generally were charged against Ger-

Pope Pius XII released for publication today bv Polish “sources by authorization of - August. Cardinal Hlond, ‘Primate of Poland. The report detailed names, towns, regions in relating a story of persecution of individuals, groups and masses of Poles by the Gestapo, the German secret police, Presented - to the Pope on Jan. 6, the report is divided into sections covering dioceses and arch-dioceses of Catholic’ Poland. Allegations of cruelty, desecration and extermination centered in areas which Germany has annexed formally and intends. to make purely German-populated. = From these areas, it is charged, Poles are being deported, destitute, to other areas—called the “general Government of Poland”’—which have been stripped of foodstuffs, or are being sent into Germany, to concentration camps’ ' ‘forced: labor gangs, or in the case of boys as young as 14 years to Nazi educational centers. The report charged that priests have been ordered to pray for Adolf Hitler, that they had to preach in German, that churches could remain open only for two hours a week, on Sunday mornings, that churches have been desecrated, that church funds have been seized, that priests and Poles generally have been deported, that nuns were not spared. io : : ‘The report said that a group of Gestapo men burst .into a convent of the Franciscan Sisters of th Perpetaul Adoration. ? -The agents grouped the Sistersin a

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LEWIS ASSAILS PERKINS’ VIEWS

Belittles Labor Secretary; Murray (Charges °660,000 In Pennsylvania Starving.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 29 (U. P.). —John L. Lewis told delegates to the United Mine Workers convention today that ‘Secretary of Labor Francés Perkins does not know as much about economic problems as “a Hottentot does about the moral laws.” Mr. Lewis, U. M. of W. president, demanded an answer from President Roosevelt's Administration for its “inaction” on the unemployment problem and declared that if they are not going to do anything about it, “why don’t they quit?” : A few moments before, Vice President . Philip Murray of the U. M. of W. had charged that 660,000_.unemployed. Pennsylvanians are starving to death and had demanded a national economic conference to ‘seek jobs for 10,000,000 idle Americans.

. Went Away Woozy, He Said

Mr. Lewis told of a recent conférence between officials and Miss Perkins in an effort to expedite a solution to this “serious problem.” He said that the Secretary replied that she did not see any particular problem, that the C. I. O. was exaggerating, and said in effect “just give the Democratic Party a little more time and everything will be!

all right.”

“After two and a half hours, our committee went away talking to themselves—woozy in the Read—just like the good woman who is Secretary of Labor,” Mr. Lewis said,

Johnson Backs Lewis

“She’s a nice lady and I like her a lot. I think she’d be a good housekeeper but I don’t think that she knows as much about the economic. problems affecting the country as a Hottentot does about the moral laws.” The political policy of Mr. Lewis, won support of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, here to address the delegates foday, while labor speculated on differences .between Mr. Lewis and C. I. O. Vice President Sidney Hillman on the question’ of drafting] President Roosevelt for a third term. Mr. Johnson, who as NRA administrator held the most powerful Federal post short of the Presidency, said Lewis had been “getting a hell of a runaround at the White House,” and adopted the right policy when he let both parties know that labor’s support could not be taken for granted. — — eee

SUTHERLAND SIGNS AS DODGER COACH

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29 (U.P.).— Dr. John Bain Sutherland, who resigned last March as football coach at the University of Pittsburgh, today signed a contract to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National

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You Can Walk Clear Across

AURORA, Ind. Jan, 29 (U. P.).—The ice-jammed Ohio - River today was frozen solidly enough to permit adventur-. ous persons to walk from shore to shore. It was the first time in 40 years that such a feat was possible at this point. Thousands of curious thronged: southern Indiana's highways over the week-end to view the ice-coated river and hundreds walked across the stream. . Several persons: broke through the ice but were speedily pulled out. :

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LAUNCH MUSIC DRIVE THURSDAY

Leaders From Over State to Aid Appreciation Campaign.

Music lovers, educators and civic leaders from all parts of Indiana are to attend the dinner at the Claypool Hotel Thursday when a state-wide music appreciation campaign will be launched. The purpose of the campaign is the promotion of music appreciation and understanding through the distribution, at small cost, of 10 complete symphonic recordings. The records are to be distributed at small cost through a downiown office to be ‘established later. The Indiana Symphony Society will receive the 10-cent royalty which will be charged for each set of recordings. The banquet program will be opened by William H. Ball, Muncie, chairman of the Indiana gwoup of the National Committee for Music Appreciation which is sponsoring the campaign. The speakers will include Dr. Howard Hansen, noted composer, director of the Eastman School of Musie, Rochester, N. Y., and chairman of the national committee; Felix A. Grisette, Washington, executive secretary of the national (Continued on Page Six)

REVERSES. RULING ON UTLITY TAXES

The Indiana Supreme Court today reversed its own decision in connection with the case of the Crawfordsville Electric Light Co. seeking to enjoin the Montgomery County

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the utility. = ’ Last Des. 22 the Court ruled that the 1939 law excusing municipal utilities from payment of taxes was retroactive ‘back through 1938. The opinion stated that the utility should not have to pay any taxes pending on the books. Today, after a rehearing, the Court reversed itself and ruled that all municipal utilities must pay accrued taxes for 1938, but

Professional Football League.

By HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

DEL MAR, Cal, Jan. 20.—I was the low amateur at Bing Crosby's $3000 golf tournament. Many of the spectators who followed the play over the colorful Rancho Santa Fe course said that my performance qualified me as the lowest amateur of. all time. Two of the golf experts who agreed with this observation were Jimmy Thomson and Horton Smith, both of whom played in my foursome, and were in the line of fire throughout. Horton pretty well summed up my game when, after the first 18 holes he said that th» only compliment that he had been able to pay me all day was “Nice out, Henry.” I was in more traps than a Russian, faced more hazards than a human fly with a hangover, and picked up so many times'that my caddy followed me with a deécom-

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asked me to sign my card, I just added another “x” to the previous 18. That made me 18 over even

“x” gnd enabled me to collect my two-dollar Nassau be’ ‘with Grantland Rice all three ways, as his scorer had neglected to mark one of his “x’s.” They are now calling my wife “Madame X” around the hotel. At the end of the first 18 holes, the halfway mark for the tournament, Thomson and Smith wired the president of the P. G. A. in Chicago to find out, if it were possible to change amateurs in the middle of a stream, which is exactly where Rice and I were at the time, lying eight, The answer, in 10 words, was no, and Smith and Thomson then asked us if we in our sport-writing careers had ever known of a case in which amateurs quit pros. We took the hint on the 30th ‘hole, d quit. ay a he gallery, ‘which consisted of Mrs. Thomson and Mrs. Smith, gave

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CURB SOUGHT ON U.S. TRUST WAR

Powerful Interests Seek to Hamstring Inquiry by Blocking Funds.

Editor's Note: This is the first of a .series of dispatches about the Federal Government’s drive to stimulate the building industry by attacking combinations that have restrained .it.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—What is regarded by many as the most important single activity of the Federal Government now in progress,

the Justice Department's attempt through anti-trust statutes to break up the rings and combinaions in the building trades which keep home building beyond the reach of the average citizen, is.in danger of being throttled by influences now at work here. ~~ Powerful interests, both business and labor, have ‘béen hit: by the vigorous campaign of Assistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold which already has resulted in 25 indictments, involving 519 individuals, 124 corporations, five {rade associations and 34 labor unions in nine cities. Grand juries are still busy.

New Funds Opposed

The opposition, both open and covert, impinges just now upon Mr. Arnold’s. current problem, which is to get .sufficient funds from Congress to continue the campaign on the scale necessary to get real results. He asked the Budget Bureau to recommend an appropriation of $2,208,900 for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. The bureau reduced this to $1,209,000, which is $100,000 less than he had for the current fiscal year. Thus he suffered first at the hands of the Administration. Now the decision rests with Congress,” with the obvious dangers involved in the economy cry now ringing through the corridors. ‘Economy” has often been used effectively as a camouflage to stop activities which stepped on powerful toes. This is merely an excuse. Mr. Arnold has presented his case in executive session to the House Appropriations Committee, now en-

partment ' Appropriation Bill. He asked that the appropriation be enlarged to the sum originally requested.

Activities Face Restrictions .

Unless he gets the necessary funds, his activities will be restricted and he will be unable to accomplish the results which the public already is’ demanding, judging from the flood of letters which are pouring into his office pleading for" relief from combinations, rings, and rackets. - «The letters come from prospective owners of houses, from members of the rank and file of labor unions, officials of labor organizations, contractors, subcontractors, real estate dedlers, architects, manufacturers

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glory gone. If any of you really lov golf you would have been shocke at the way we spoke of the game on our way back to the locker room. I was particularly bitter against unplayable lies which take the joie devivre out of the game, as a French pro told me when he quit me on the third hole in a’ proamateur event. : : I was particularly bitter against the golf rule which penalizes a player a stroke even when he does not touch the ball on his swing. In the set I usually play with we always ‘call a whiff. a practice stroke. ‘The official scorer who accompanies players in tournaments annoys, too. A man’s trap is his castle, I feel, and what he does in there is nobody’s business. It certainly never added to a man’s peace of mind to have a churlish' official standing on the trap’s rim and counting like a referee over a stricken fighter. It's a slur.on a

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West Side Chiropractor Seriously Hurt in Blinding Snowstorm,

Dr. Everett A. Green, a West Side chiropractor of 1437 Saulcy St., was injured critically when struck by an automobile during a blinding snowstorm today as Indiana counted six week-end traffic deaths, one of them in Indianapolis. Dr. Green was in City Hospital with a possible skull fracture and other injuries after being struck by a*car in 1300 block West Washington St. Dr. Green was standing in the street ready to board an east bound street car when a car driven west by George Parker, 5657 E. Washington St., skidded in the car tracks, careened into the front of the street car, then struck him. |

Knocked to Street

He was knocked backward and his head struck the street. The second traffic victim of the year here was William Downin, about 70, night watchman at the Industrial School for the Blind. William A. Price 27, of Crossville, Ill, was killed when struck by a car yesterday while walking across a highway near Evansville. His wife and Pete Blackwell, also of Crossville, were injured seriously by the same auto. Four persons died late Saturday when their car and a State Prison coal truck collided near La Porte. They were Jake Tamburello, 16; his sister, Josephine, 11; Mrs. Anna Toereppel, 57, and Glen Graves, 35, driver of the car. Fo Mr. Downin was injured when he stepped from the curb into the side of a truck at Paris Ave. and 30th St. yesterday while en route from work to his room’ at the home of Mrs. Ruth M. Ford, 3109 Kenwood. Ave. He died shortly before midnight at City Hospital.

Watchman 15 Years

Police said the truck was driven by Stanton Faust, 2131 N. Drexel ve. \ Mr. Downin had been a watchman at the school for the blind for 15 years. He had roomed at the Ford home for the last four years. James Oliver Beckman, 38, of 1237 S. Meridian St. was taken to City Hospital after he was struck by an auto at Meridian and Morris Sts. Oral E. Henderson, 530 Rochester Ave., was charged with vagrancy and leaving the scene of an accident. Police said that after the accident (Continued on Page Three)

DEMANDS REFUND OF TAIL-LIGHT FINE

Woman Is Turned Down but City Sees More Woe.

Demand of a woman motorist for: return of the tail-light sticker fine she paid today started what may turn into a bad headache for City officials. After informing the woman they couldn’t return the money, officials went into .huddle to talk over the situation. They foresaw similar demands from several hundred other motorists who paid sticker fines before police temporarily halted their drive to enforce the tail-light law. The enforcement was halted when Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell ruled that in order to obtain a conviction under the State law, police must witness or have witnesses to the parking of a car at night without. a lighted tail-light. Furthermore, he said, police erred in issuing stickers charging a City offense, whereas the arrests were made under. a State law. There is a City ordinance on the books requiring lighted tail-lights on parked cars, but City attorneys believe it was superseded by the 1939 Motor Vehicles Act. : City Controller James E. Deery planned to confer with members of the State Accounts Board, Safety Board and Legal Department: If (Continued on Page Three)

QUAKE IS RECORDED IN MASSACHUSETTS

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CROPS

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New Snow Blankets City; Mercury to Dip Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES . 6am ..22 10 a. m. .. 24 7a m ..22 11 a. m ...28 8 a.m, ...22 12 (noon) ...26 9a m ...23 1p m .. 2

Indiana growers today were estimating with mounting pessimism their share of the nation’s losses in crops and fruits which in some areas, already has totaled millions as a result of the. long cold

wave.

A new snow blanketed the city and the Weather Bureau predicted colder weather tonight. AE The severe cold took its crop and fruit toll not only in Indiana, bit throughout the Midwest and ii: the deep south. There is a possibility that the State’s peaches may prove a 100 per cent loss, according to A. A, Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent. : “All the peach buds we have examined have been dead,” Mr. Ire win said. ‘Some blossoms may pull through, but it’s doubtful. The cold spell has been long and severe. We will have to wait for the thaw before we can determine the full exe tent of the killing.” : He said that the trees themselves have not been damaged because there has been no warm sun during the frigid pegiod. Na The apple crop: will not be dame aged, Mr. Irwin predicted. : Damage Heavy in South A United Press survey said that the blighted area extended from the Texas Panhandle to the coast of Florida and from the Gulf of Mexico to Southern Indiana and Illinois. Southern farmers and growers estimated their damage in millions, But in the grain belt, farmers wel

a protective blanket over spring crops and brought the first ture to parched prairies since autumn. - Acres of Texas citrus fruit and vegetables were ruined. Cabbage and beets were injured seriously, carrots less severely. Louisiana and Mississippi truck farmers estimated that 35 per cent of the cabbage crop was destroyed and 30 per cent of the onion crop damaged. Louisiana sugar growers appealed to Government officials to increase the 1940 cane acreage by 40,000 acres to compensate for losses from cold. Florida farmers estimated losses in winter bean, pea and cabe bage crops ‘at $2,000,000. Loss of Florida citrus crops was considered negligible. Eastern North Carolina reported some damage to truck an fruit crops. ’ Parasites Killed Southern agriculture experts, however, reported that the frosts had brought a small benefit to farmers without crops ripening. They said the cold had killed parasites and aided materially in control of plant diseases. Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas—the “nation’s breade basket”’—and cotton growing states predicted that the heavy snow would benefit the wheat and small grains. « Wisconsin’s dairy farmers expected the snow to improve fodder crops, hay, clover and alfalfa. Mich« igan crop experts said that state was “sitting pretty” because . its fruit crops had weathered the storms. California escaped the severe cold and fruit and vegetable growers ex= pected to profit from higher prices on their products because of the severe damage in other areas.

Florida’s®Loss in Tens of Millions Sh MIAMI, Fla., Jan, 29 (U. P.), —= Damage to Florida's fruit and vege table crops was counted in the tens

of millions today as a cold wave of nearly two weeks relaxed its grip.

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degrees above zero in central Flore ida’s citrus-raising belt. Some oranges were frozen so solid they cracked open when they fell to the ground. : Truck crops, agricultural bxperts agreed, were virtually wiped out, The vegetable and small fruit growers, it appeared, lost crops poten tially worth at least $20,000,000. - The citrus loss was more difficult to estimate. There appeared to be no great damage to trees—a ‘loss which would have been more per manent than damage to the fruit itself. But there was a large loss of unpicked orange and grapefruit, with perhaps ‘75 or 85 per cent of hanging fruit ruined or damaged.

TIMES FEATURES

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~ FALMOUTH, Mass, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—An earthquake which rattled dishes and cracked windows in a 200-square-mile area in southeastern Massachusetts last night was caused by a slip in the earth’s crust somewhere in Buzzard’s Bay, scientists believed today. Hundreds of residents telephoned police and newspapers. Many ran from homes or raced to cellars to see if boilers had exploded: There was no damage. ¥

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