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Blaze Threatens Entire’ Business Block

CLINTON, Ind. Feb. 21 (UP). A fife destroyed Jarge

{ness building and an entire block ca estimated today at nearly $200,-

oO rotally destroyed was the white Building, housing a drug store, a beauty shop, an electrical store, a doctor's office and a dentvg office. ’ “Authorities said an wall and a favorable wind probably save the entire business plock from destruction, Firemen said the fire started in the basement of the drug store, Occupants Flee

When it appeared the fire would

spread, occupants of apartments in the - Rosenblatz department store building next door fled and volunteers carried their furniture

Oo olce Chief Harley Yomans said if the wind had been from any direction other than north, firemen would have faced an almost impossible task of stopping the blaze before it spread.

Firemen “from ~"CHnton, “Terre,

Haute and Rockville helped the Clinton department fight flames. ”

Allen, Heater Begin Jail Terms

Judge Denies Plea For Probation

Frank D. Allen, former Saratoga Bar manager, and his exboss, Worlie Heater, both were

numbers today at the U, 8. Pen-,

ftentiary at Terre Haute. Allen, who had threatened to.

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River Swallowed

By Giant Fissures By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer WALDRON, Feb, 21—This little town of some 700 people drowses| contentedly ‘today. There is no| evidence that once the eyes of the, ¥ nation were upon it, ° i | But on Aug. 11, 1890, the 300 {people who lived here found the

"old home town" was famous. i

aldron

| There are at least two today

who vividly remember the violent

take Heater with him on tax vio-|,yh108i0n of nafural gas which] lations, followed Heater to the ;ont ‘the earth with great fissures institution by only a few days. 'and made Flatrock River run dry. Judge Robert C. Baltzell of It might have been yesterday, Federal Court yesterday denied so clear is the excitement to Dr, Allen's request for probation be-/H. A. Washburn and Perry Arm-

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Skating Frolic Planned skating! Breathlessly Mr. Lowe spread frolic will be held from 7 to 11/the news in Perry Armstrong's Monday at Rollerland. harness shop, which was comand Don Fleener bined with the post office. He have charge of arrangements. All{couldn’t explain what he had seen. young thurch members are in-/All he could cry was, “Get out ted.

cause ,of ill health. The 53-year-old Allen began a one-year-and-one-day sentence, while Heater, 57, has a threeyear term ahead of him, Allen's threat against the former bar owner was made more than a year ago, before Heater was charged with failing to pay $15945 in income taxes. Allen was found-guilty of evadng payment of an alcohol floor

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|strong, harness maker. " r * | ABOUT: 9 A. M. a thunderous {blast was heard. Flames shot as ‘high as 200 feet in the air where Conn’s Creek flows into Flatrock. Jonathan H. Lowe, a farmer, witnessed the horrifying spectacle. In fear, he thew himself on aj * {horse and furiously rode bareback ‘the three miles to Waldron to {report the phenomenon. Enroute; he met Dr. Washburn who was (plodding along in a horse and buggy to take a music lesson at 18t. Paul. 2 »

Alle vould Wf} bluff overlooking the river.

The crowds began to gather. WiPed out. ‘Giant trees were jforn People stood at great distance, /from the ground by their roots. afraid to venture near the scene. Végetation was burned or From the bluff of Ogden Ceme- SEorSned and g field of corn was

the havoc . : : a be; Seen fhe: ba . | One giant fissure stre a | For a quarter-mile the bed of [quarter of a mile. At some points Flatrock River was dry. Beyond, (it was a few inches in width, fire blazed atop the water as jt Other places six to eight feet. | tumbled into a giant fissure, only| BY night the flames were sub-| mysteriously to reappear from Siding and individuals became another fissure. {more brave. A piece of iron, at-| Cy’ nw tached to a wire, was let down, : : {the giant fissure. Bottom never| THE FORCE of the explosion|was reached. The. river contin-| had. thrown up huge rocks and a ued to flow underground. f plastic-like stone. Fire flamed A Shelby County history re-| over a 10-acre tract and 50 OF ports that Waldron “men rushed more fountains of fire and smoke, 31ong the streets with whitened mingled with mud and . water, races, while children clung close gushed skyward. At least eightiis their mothers from a supposed

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ever anything but what it is. . Geologists came Trgm over the country to study the phenomenon. There never has been a satisfactory explanation for the sudden {ripping explosion of the natural gas pocket under the streams. The county history closes the Waldron account: “None were injured and soon peace and order of a toiling people were resumed and today but little is thought of the strange and ‘Interesting phenomenon.”

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'Man Who Lived in Hu Left $81,000, Will Shows | ELKHORN, Wis, Feb. 21 (UP) \ing, the lunch tents closed up and —Albert® Wareham and his wife * souvenir salesmen went out of had a fortune of $81,000 when Mr. Wareham died in a squalid

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+" RIVER RUNS DRY—Curious spectators swarmed to Waldron, Ind., in Aug., 1890 to vw the phenomenon which caused Flatrock River to run dry after a natural gas explosion ripped giant fissures in the earth. This 1890 photograph of the event is the property of Perry Armstrong, Waldron harness maker, who was one. of the first

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POINTS TO SCENE—Dr. H. A. Washburn, Waldron, vividly remembers how he |a ———— walked across the dry bed of Flatrock River. Here he indicates the site from the De ned against county’ Actress Denies Charge

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FROM THE DEPTHS—Perry Armstrong holds a piece of rock from the explosion. Some geologists say it was tossed into’ the air

from 900 feet below the earth's surface. {them “Bibles.” He did a thriv-|--

but that Flatrock River, at the worth County Judge Roscoe Luce. Walworth, ' Wis., Freeport, ) | Mr. Wareham and his wife were A

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Degnan Case Arrest | Brings Couple $20,000

CHICAGO, Feb, 21 (UP) —A| 67-year-old former janitor and his wife were making plans today to| retire on the $20,000 which they: will receive from 17 policemen in| settlement of a damage suit. Suzanne, had sought $125,000! damages for alleged illegal arrest and mistreatment by police during the investigation of the|

two years ago. ; out-of-court settlement of $20,000. It will be paid by the 17 police- | men. The City of Chicago will] not. contribute to. the. settlement.

Charged Torture {

apartment building in the neigh-| borhood where the Degnan girl was slain and dismembered. In his suit he charged the police {with torturing him to obtain a confession. { | William Heirens, the 18-year-(old University of Chicago. stuident, later confessed to the crime. He was given a life sentence. | Many prominent police officials; {including Police Commissioner John Prendergast, Chief of Detectives ‘Walter Storms and Ray Crane, chief ‘of the uniformed

{police,. were. named in .the-suit. mine. He. asked:.me.to.dinner-the $200,000 for playing -in-one- ples x Ee

Verburgh is now farming a

Suzanne. Degnan kidnap-slayingi.... o¢ introduction to the hear-

WASHINGTON, Feb, 21--The subject and as bare as the censors will allow. Two of these beautiful objects are interesting, a producer of quickie movies on Hollywood's poverty row once told me, - “But you put 1000 legs, all dancing in unison, up on the screen, he added, “and what have you got? Confusion.” .80 he never hired 500 dancing ave been stinkeroas (his Words), girls for his epics of the silver| And the reason for that. he con sheet. He settled for one. The tinued, is that the manufacturers

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customers indicated their inter-| pave tried. to substitute money. 0 ey got for

ests Th" Wer tWo 168 By thelr pir" ror brains. All th chase of tickets, and my producer cash is extra Jegs, and these— now is garnering his second mil-! 35 pointed out in the opening lion dollars, | paragraphs—result in chaos. This tale with a moral is by| So the boys are seeking, for {the first time in their emerald-

The aged couple agreed to an 108" the House Labor Committee| trimmed careers, to economize.

is holding on the strikes that now They're trying to make pictures are plaguing Hollywood. Those|cheaper, to substitute ideas: for movie-makers are In a mess. moh scenes, and to fire some of T troubles with the warring|the executives who don't exec. factions of the American Feder- dw ation” of Labor are so compli-

top assistants into letting him

Verburgh was a janitor in ancated that sometimes they don't|chop their wages in half. Some

know which union is picketing of his competitors even are think‘em, or why. | Ing of turning out into the cold .. nn » {their $3500-per-week brothers-in-I'VE SPENT the last couple jaw, of days listening to ‘the studio] «Just thinking about that, of chiefs, the labor moguls. and course,” my man reported. *1 their lawyers (who are inclined haven't heard of any relatives to shout). And most of the time I actually being fired yet. But it haven't been able to figure out has got to be. There'll be some what they were talking about. new faces on the screen. too, un So, fine. I won't pester you with less these stars come to their that. ! |senses.” One of the witnesses, .chief of] . 0» perhaps the busiest studio in] HE MEANT that last week one Hollywood, is an. old friend of hot-shot he-man asked him for

other night and, after the guinea ture. So another fellow, at about

small vegetable garden on the hen under glass (I am not kidding $50,000, will get the gal in the

{outskirts of Chicago. He has in{dicated that he might like to return to Belgium to retire.

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TOKYO, Feb. 21 (UP)-—Hito-{shi Ashida, veteran conservative diplomat and president of the Democratic Party, today was elected Japan's fifth premier since the war at a plenary ses-

‘Ision of the Diet. :

Premier Ashida Immediately announced he would attempt to form a middle-of-the-road coalition ‘cabinet next Monday. The 60-year-old former foreign

expected to be fully acceptable

. {to_Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su-

preme allied commander. Premier Ashida received 216 votes out of a total of 421 cast in the House of Representatives. The eleventh-hiour backing of the powerful Social Democratic Party assured his election. i Social Democrats threw their support to Premier Ashida after the outgoing premier, Tetsu Katayama, announced he would not be a candidate for re-election.

Judges, Lawyers Score Duties

Taking two hours for lunch

day at a luncheon-meeting at

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{place by the judges, who said the barristers forget to let the judges in on what is happening in a case outside the courtroom. .-

PROMISES GOOD RECEPTION By Selence Servies | WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Quiet

{in the ionosphere promises good McKay. has sued for $200,000 on

reception of shortwave radio broadcasts, the National Bureau of Standards reports.

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| It was held to permit con- academy award for her acting: {structive criticism of the county in “Possessed.” denied today that|-

Attorneys were put in their & patient in a mental hospital.

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about the menu), he loosened his final reel. hand-painted necktie and told me| “And the whole picture will be

something about the leg situation better for it.” said my Holly-

jas it affects the movie fan. woodian,

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a the line. Working {expensive legs dancing on golden!

[platforms in the movies lately action where we used to have {and a serious shortage of custom- talk, and in’ géneral giving the {ers. ‘Theaters are half empty in customers a better break.” ! {many an American city, Holly-" I asked him about legs. He wood can't export films to Eng- agreed with the man from povland anymore, costs of producing erty row. Two limbs (bare bepictures are up higher than ever/cause leopards cost money) are before, and my host claims bank- better than 200 on. any sound ruptcy ix around the corner for stage, he said. It's a peculiar many a mevie-maker, (situation, all right. The worse » . » { THE MAIN trouble, he said, is ture, 1 may even start going to that too many of the picturesithe movies again, myself. , oP Ain ———————_—— Aa

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napolis. to-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP) nited States ——A former Japanese soldier has ito buy for the Neteherlands gov- surrendered to the Navy after ernment. quietly farming on the largest They were J. B. Schuddeboom of the Palau Islands for the past of Amsterdam, representing the four years,

P. C. VisEn Co. and K. Heslen- The Navy announced the sur Kazuo told the

feld of the Balsing and Heslen- render 4 hates ifeld Co. . - ng: (feld Co. ° Mrs Heslenfel accom Navy on Koror Island he wo ua) have given up soangh but as

panied her husband. | They visited the plant of the , {Acme-Evans Co, with which they didn * snow the : war veh Ihave been doing business for . years. After a plant inspection they visited the Industrial Exposition at the Ugpion Station. today for |. wil), continue spection and buying |

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| 1606 N.INlinols St - HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21 (UP)— SHOP Joan Crawford, nominated for an MORRISONS he learned hi le b tehi ! she loa er role by walching! woman's Specialty Shop Miss Crawford admitted she 3M W. Washington visited a Pasadena sanitarium in . ‘May, 19046, to watch: an electric ta IHR Wi | w shock treatment but was “so up- Hae LEAL BN) set” by the patient's hysterics she] . : : [left before it began, Walch Repairing | The patient's husband, Charles 10-DAY SERVICE grounds he and his wife were hu- ‘

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