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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-11

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S.. Net weight of containers.
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for pelt.
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Evening star., 1926-11-10
washington QUICK
IN AIDING LAPLATA
Hospitals and Medical Units
Promptly Respond to Call
for Relief.

Washington hospitals and medical
units were quick to respond yester-
day to La Plata's call for medical as
sistance.
From Walter Reed Hospital three
ambulances were sent. These were in
charge Of Maj. T. s. Medane, Maj. A.
w. Kenna and Maj. o. B. Bolibaugh.
The Army nurses sent were Ruth
Anderson, Johanna Peters and Emma
Turner. There were also six Medical
Corps priVates.
From Boiling Field the motor am
bulance was sent in charge of Capt.
Henry M. Van Hook, Capt. Otto g.
Trunk and Sergt. ]. J. jenkins. Lieut..
Kellogg Sloane flew over the scene
Of the wreckage to determine If there
was any need Of sending supplies by
air.
The Army general dispensary sent
its ambulance in charge of Maj. B.
L. Wilson, Capt. F. o. Stone and
Sergts. Max j. Horn and Ezell Barr.
One ambulance was sent from
Emergency Hospital in charge Of DR..
Harold Mcneil and Asst. Supt. Dalton.
From Casualty Hospital an ambu
lance was sent with two graduate
nurses, Margaret Cohill and Mary
Jane Hensley.
The District Red Cross chapter sent
it's ambulance with DR.. Nimetz and
DR.. Wainwright of Children's Hos
pital and four nurses, Myrtle Taylor,
Madelena Havey, Mary Hawthorne
and Mrs. Annie Humphrey.
Evening star., 1926-11-10

Sweeping across the Is miles Of
level country that separates the coun-
try town of La Plata from the Poto-
mac River, the tornado struck half
mile from the town with a roar and
rumble that caused many of the in
habitants to believe an earthquake
had come Windows ratified and
shook. pictures swung from walls and
small houses shook and swayed as the
twister struck the hilltop on which
the schoolhouse stood. carrying death
and destruction in its wake.
Walter Mitchell, La Plata attorney,
and one Of the first to arrive at the
wrecka ge -strewn hilltop. said he was
debating to his stenographer in his
Office a half mile from the path of
the twister. He said the big frame
office building actually shook as the
cyclone hewed it's path across the
countryside only few hundred yards
south.
Ten minutes later little Muriel
Hardesty came in. sobbing and hold
ing her broken arm tightly against
her side" he said.
The schoolhouse has been blown
away and the children all killed" 49,
year-old Muriel blurted out between
sobs and gasps of pain.
"As rushed out Of my Office" Mr.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
CHILDREN HELPLESS AS WIND
STRIKES SCHOOL DURING STUDY
Broken Bodies Are Strewn About by Tor
nado as Wounded Child Flees Wreckage
to Bring Aid to Companions.

garments clinging to their rain
soaked and pain-wracked bodies,
Hardly child escaped unscathed.
None but had been shocked, while
more than half the enrolment of 60
lay dead or unconscious down the hill
side, Mrs. Hughes tells Of a child
frightened by the beating hail that
preceded the advent Of the twister by
a few moments, running behind the
blackboard to hide it's head in terror.
There were few eyewitnesses to the
La Plata tragedy, other than those
in the devastated schoOlhouse. None
were out in the beating rain. But
from the fragmentary descriptions of
Miss Graves and Mrs. Hughes, given
incoherently between memories Of the
horror, one pieces together the story
of resistless wind which twisted the
little wooden house from its supports
and crushed it in and tore 1t apart,
to carry its human occupants on the
wings Of the gale far down the hill.
For the wreckage of the schoolhouse
lies today 20 feet from the concrete
supports on which 1t stood in more
pleasant days.
Lifted From Foundations.
It was literally lifted from its foun-
QdClOHS anu IluuS " tIlS 6IOuIO
Probably not the least of the contri-
buttons to the disaster-man made
was the air space between the floor
and the ground-two feet Of space
which enabled the wind to grasp q
firmer hold on the structure and
overturn 1t.
Few saw the twister approach.
Those who did say it came out of the
southwest-funnel shaped-its apex
failing off to an indefinite height
twisting high in air, to dip down
and destroy the homes of James L.
| Padgett and Charles Jameson and
then pick out the little schoolhouse
on the hill for it's work Of death and
destruction. Here it dipped down
once again, completed it's work
over the rolling country to the north
east Of the town. It came with q
| rush and roar. hit the schoolhouse
| with untold momentum and passed on
| Not the least of the odd phenomena
which accompany such affairs was the
blowing of Mrs. Charles Jameson out
from her wrecked home onto the rail
road tracks, shocked, but unhurt
where she was picked up by Luther
| M. Hicks.
And again must be chronicled the
| story of the men of medical
science who give their all in such
cases as this. gladly and freely, tc
| save life. They rushed to La Plata
from the west and north, convergine
from Casualty Hospital Emergency
Hospital, Walter Reed Hospital and
| Indian Head. Naturally the men from
Indian Head arrived first, for they
had less than 20 miles to go. Aided
by two platoons of marines anG
Evening star., 1926-11-10
LAKE ERIE STORM
CAUSED TORNADO
Weather Expert Declares La
Plata Was at Edge of Big
Disturbance Area.

The La Plata tornado was result
Of a storm that was then centered
somewhere over Lake Erie, Forecast
er Mitchell Of the Weather Bureau
said today. Tornadoes invariably
form in the southeast quadrant Of a
markedly defined disturbance of high
intensity, and several hundred miles
from the center of the storm, he said.
A series of unusual circumstances put
La Plata in the proper position for the
manufacture of twister.
It was in the southeast extremity Of
the storm over Lake Erie. In, addi-
tion to this, the town was experience
ing abnormally warm temperatures
for November, another ingredient nec-
essary to tornado making. The tenn
perature several thousand feet up,
however, was very cool. Everything
was ripe" for a tornado, and instant
ly the clouds began boiling" finally
forming the atmospheric funnel COM
mon to such storms and whose
strength is imnfeasurable.
AS that cloud travelled along 1t dip
ped down now and then as a cork
UPS up dIlu uOWU OH inc water.
Wherever it dipped to a point close
to the earth nothing could withstand
its force. Yet it may have bobbed up
again in time to miss other COM
munities by no more than two or
three feet, offering them nothing
more startling than moderately
hard wind. The demolition of the La
Plata school Is explained, the weather
experts said, by the fact that the
tornado undoubtedly dipped down
sQuarely over the school. A much
stronger structure would have suffer
ed the same fate.
Mr.. Mitchell illustrated this process
by describing similar tornado that
hit Elgin, ILL.,, in 1920. He said the tor
nado raced down one street which
was lined with trees. The funnel, how
ever, remained few feet from the
surface of the earth. AS a result, in
stead Of uprooting the trees, the twist
ing wind snapped them off at the ex.
act height from the ground that the
end of the funnel passed.
AS to the future, Mr.. Mitchell pre-.
dicted cold weather Thursday and
Friday. He expects the thermometers
to drop to about 80 degrees tonight.
1t will be fair, however, with a pos.
sibility of rain Saturday. The temper.
ature will begin to rise late Friday
and Saturday will probably be warmer
again.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
PASTOR SEES WIND
HIT SCHOOL BUILDING
First to Reach Scene, He Tells of
Panic Among Children
After Tornado.

Rev. w. K. Heigham, pastor of the
First Episcopal Church Of La Plata,
was standing at the window of his
study just 200 yards out of the path
of the cyclone as 1t swept through
the lover portion Of La Plata yester-
day.
DR.. Heigham saw the wind twist
and break the old oak trees surround
ing tho school and a second later de-
molish the building itself.
He was the first person to arrive
at the school following the disaster
and he said the scenes were horri-
flying. 1.-The little ones, who were
fortunate enough not to be pinned
beneath the debris" he declared,
were running around, terrified and
screaming. Most of them had been
completely stripped Of their clothing" "
After assisting in removing the
dead and injured from the wreckage,
DR.. Heigham remained at the scene
until late last night, searching
through the debris for bodies thought
to be buried under the splintered tim
berS,
Evening star., 1926-11-10

sailors they aided the townfolk in car
ing for the wounded, In removing the
dead and cleaning up the debris. A
score Of them were in the human
chain which worked its way foot by
foot down the hillside and into the
woods, searching for dead and
wounded.
The townsfolk of La Plata, stunned
by the suddenness of the tragedy,
gave their all. Many of the wounded
were rushed over the rolling, rain
swept road in private automobiles to
Washington. Private homes were
thrown open to care for the casualties
Of the tragedy that shocked the
peaceful Maryland town.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
BUNDLE-DAY HOURS
RUN THROUGH NIGHT
Gifts for Armenian Relief to Be
Received Until Dawn, It is
Announced.
Today is bundle day-and it's not

Today is bundle day-and it's not
over until tomorrow dawnS.
That is the last-minute announce
ment Of Harold F. Pellegrin, Potomac
division director of the Near East Re
lief, who this morning declared that
any persons who had not vet sent in
their bundles of clothing for the Ar
menians impoverished in that coun-
try's most recent earthquake should
do so any time today.
Every tirehouse in the District
and those schools bearing the bundle
day banner will receive all the bundles
brought to them. Mr.. Pellegrin said
In addition to the regular stations
throughout the city, the Near East
Relief headquarters. 321 Bond Build
ing, is also ready for more packages
of clothing.
Rev. Francis Torndorf, head Of
the department of seismology of
Georgetown University, told the re-
lief that once the earth reaches a
condition Of quiet following a heavy
movement such as that experienced
by Armenia recently. the region af-
fected is more than likely" to remain
immune from further disturbances for
some time. This statement was made
to the workers by Father Torndorf in
response to their query as to the
likelihood of another disaster which
would render relief work in the i'm
mediate vicinity impossible. Thus
the Washington authorities of the
Near East Relief are confident that
each bundle that Washington people
give will be delivered directly to the
stricken area.
The persons to receive the benefits
of Washingtons generosity will in
clude $4,000 orphaned children who
nra bnd0lpH fOEPth her in
buildings without proper clothing
The weather in Armenia at present is
more severe than Washington is ex.
periencing. as that area is already
buried under early Winter blankets
Of snow.
Evening star., 1926-11-10

turned stove. her dress af1re and two
of the three children injured.
DR.. Harry Bowen of Brandywine.
who was passing, brought the injured
to his office here. He found that Mrs.
Grimes hips were crushed and her
condition serious. Lester, II years
old, was burned and bruised and
Emily, years old, suffered a broken
knee. Sela, Is months old, apparently
was unhurt.
The Grimes house was burned.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
Townspeople Thought Earthquake Hit
La Plata as Tornado Shook BUILDINGS

Mitchell said, "every man and woman n
in the town was running toward the
site of the schoolhouse The sight
when we arrived at the school was un.
believable. Mrs. Hughes lay beneath
the wreckage, with a big timber hold.
Ing her down. Children lay strewn
about down the hillside east Of the
school. some dead. some unconscious
all bleeding and cut from wounds as
the school building was lifted off its
foundations and crushed in by the
wind. picked up so many dead and
wounded children my arms ached from
the strain and the horror"
Evening star., 1926-11-10
GEN. HARTS ARRIVES.
officer on Duty Here for Period Be-
fore Going to Paris.

Brig. Gen. William w. Harris, who
has just completed a tour of duty
with troops at Fort Amador. Panama
Canal Zone, has reported at the War
Department for temporary duty in the
office of the chief Of staff, prelimi
nary to assuming his newly assigned
duties as military attache at the
United States Embassy at Paris. He
will sail from New York for his new
post about the first Of December.
Gen. Harts was chief military aide
to President Wilson and in charge of
the Office of Public Buildings and
Grounds during his administration.
He was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for services with the
American EXpeditionary forces during
the World War. He was provost mar
shall general of American forces at
Paris and vicinity during the final
stages of the war.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
Brakeman on Train Halted by Storm
Saves His Family From Burning Home

Owen P. Grimes, a brakeman on
the Washington, Brandywine and
Point Lookout Railway, heard screams
coming from his own house at Cedar
Vile just after the tornado yesterday
afternoon when his train was stop
ped by a fallen tree.
The house was only SO yards away.
Grimes and two other members of the
train crew investigated. They found
Mrs. Grimes pinned under an over
Evening star., 1926-11-10
DISASTER SM|TES
SCHOOL IN STORM
La Plata Teacher Gives
Graphic Description of Event.
One Child Afraid.

A brilliant bolt of lightning, a Low
rumbling thunderclap, followed by &
sudden deafening roar, al looming ir
rapid sequence, was the prelude te
The cyclonic storm that tore a narrow
little southern Maryland town Of La
rata yesterday afternoon and LETT
disaster in it's wake.
The 60 pupils in the towns only
public school, which was twisted into
splintered mass Of debris, continued
At their studies oblivious of the i'm
pending tragedy. Only one little girl
Bertha Gamble, became frightened by
the deafening roar of the wind and
buried her eyes in her hands behind
q portable slate blackboard.
Hail Enters Room.
AS the storm broke, Mrs. Helen c.
Hughes, the principal Of the school
and her assistant. Miss Ethel Graves
the only teachers, paid little heed to
1t until enormous hailstones beat a
tattoo on the window panes. A mum.
ber of the panes broke, and the wind
drove hail into the classrooms.
Even them" said Mrs. Hughes, II
had no fear. The children, too, ap.
peared to he unafraid, with the ex.
ception ofS.ertha. Miss Graves and
j regarded the storm as just another
electrical disturbance of which we
had so many during the past Sum
mer.
when the hailstones began to
shatter the panes, I looked out Of the
window momentarily. A vivid streak
of lightning shot across the sky.
Then came a deafening peal Of thun.
der, and l heard terrific roar. 1t
was all so sudden. In another Sec
ond l saw a portion of a pine board
renee from an adjoining farm hurting
through the air. Two Of the old
oak trees surrounding the school
bent low toward the ground and
snapped. One crashed against the
roof.
Collapsed Like Tent.
THE school building seemed to
rock and then collapsed like a tent
Two tlmbers fell across my body and
stunned me. l could not move. I
was pinned face down, but the horri-
fed screams of the children and their
pitiful cries told me that something
terrible had happened.
Il suppose l must have been in this
position for fully half an hour unit,
some men came and removed the tim
bers from my body. All this while
the means Of the children became
weaker and weaker. This terrified
me. l knew that some Of them were
dying"
Still nervously excited from her ex.
perfence and suffering painful injuries
about her limbs and body. Mrs.
Hughes unfolded this story Of the dis
aster in her room in the La Plata
Hotel several hours after the wind
had wrecked her school and taken
the lives of some Of her pupils. She
regards her escape from death or Sc
rious injury as a miracle.
School Almost Full.
Mrs. Hughes said that there were
63 pupils enrolled in the school, rang
ing in age from to 13. There were
60 in attendance when the storm
leveled the building, however. Two
had been excused earlier in the after
noon and the third was recorded as
an absentee.
structure of the bungalow type, with
IL Storeroom and belfrey above the
two classroomS on the ground floor.
1t was regarded as a model county
school and. Mrs. Hughes said, had
been reconditioned and put into first
class condition during the Summer
vacation period.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
Gov. Richie Orders
Immediate Relief
Work at La Plata
By tho Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, November
10.-"I can hardly imagine any
thing more tragic" Gov. Albert G.
Ritchie said when told of the loss
of life that resulted from the storm
at La Plata.
II am simply shocked beyond
measure and profoundly affected
by the loss and suffering l am
assured that everything possible is
being done for the immediate care
and relief of the injured and of the
afflicted families"
Immediately after learning Of the
calamity the governor dispatched
q detail Of State police to aid in re-
6aG WORK.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
Aching Teeth Save
Two From Death
In Doomed School

Two pupils of the Inflated La
Plata public school owe their lives
to aching teeth.
Rita Cooksey. sister of Mary
Alice Cooksey. who was killed in
the disaster. and Irene Bowie
were excused from the school by
Mrs. Helen c. Hughes, the prin-
cipal, at 2:l6 O'Clock Yesterday
afternoon to go to the dentist
Just 20 minutes before the cyclonic
storm leveled the buildings
Both children were in the room
at the school where the most cas-
ualtieS occurred and would have
met almost instant death or Sc
rtous injury had not aching teeth
forced them 10 seek relief in a
dentist s chair.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
PREMIER BRUCE DENIES
BRITISH-U. S. PARLEY AIM
Australian Made No Such Sug-
gestion, He Declares, in Lon
don Interview.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 10.-Premier
Stanley Bruce Of Australia, who Is at
tending the imperial conference here,
denied today having suggested meet
ing between the American Senate's
foreign relations committee and a
council of British premiers. The de-
nial followed receipt of Washington
dispatches saying President Coolidge
did not look on the suggestion with
particular favor.
Mr.. Bruce declared he had never
uttered anything capable of the in
depreciation given in the Washington
dispatches.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
PLANS ARE MADE
TO BURY VICTIMS
Pastors and Parents Confer
on SorroWful Task In
Storms Aftermath.

Arrangements went forward today
for the interment of La Plata's tor
nado dead. Little Mary Ellen Bowie,
Edward Bean and Henry Clagstt
will be inferred tomorrow morning
at II o'clock. following funeral serv-
ices at the Episcopal Church. con-
Quoted by Rev. DIR. William II.
Heigham.
Rev. H. @. Burr. pastor of the
Southern Methodist Church, was
comforting with the parents Of Lucille
Edwards and Lucilla Miles. both of
whom were members of his church.
Lillian Della, reported unidentified,
also was a member of that church
Jack Clark and La VaGa Martin.
who sat in the same seat at school,
played together and attended mass TO-
gether, probably will be buried at a
joint funeral service from the Cath
olic Church. Mary and Lester Cooksey,
close relatives, also will be buried
in the Catholic Cemetery.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
Mai. H. H. Landon Dead.

NEW YORK, November 10 R.-
Maj. Henry Hutton Landon, military
governor of Bayamo, Cuba. during the
readjustment period following the
war with Spain. died at his home here
last night following long illness. He
also saw service in the campaigns
against the Indians in Texas and
against Mexican bandit forces.
Evening star., 1926-11-10

About half of the feeble-minded owe
their mental defect to accidental in
turies and to childhood diseases. such
an soaylst fever and sleeping sickness.
Evening star., 1926-11-10

The Reval Industrial Fair this year
had one of the smallest attendances
Evening star., 1926-11-10

Credit for originating the idea Of
one-way traffic is claimed by an Eng
lishman, who wrote to officials about
80 years ago suggesting one-way
traffic past Buckingham Palace.
Evening star., 1926-11-10

Electric headlights are to be placed
on all government railway locomotives
In India.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-13
N. Y. BANKS CLOSE
PROSPEROUS YEAR;
URGE MODERATION
An Dlspatch A. ?. WireN

NEW YORK, Jan. 1z-having clos-
ed one of the most prosperous years
in their history many of New York's
leading banks today laid before their
shareholders records of unprecedent-
ed earnings while their officers pre-
dicted continued financial and busi-
ness progress. Some of the state
ments regarding the 1926 outlook,
however, warned against the appear
ance of dangerous economic tenden-
cies. Charles f. Mitchell, president
of the countrys largest bank the
National City Bank of New York, told
stockholders at their annual meet
ing that commercial credits were not
excessive; reserve credits were being.
used only moderately and that there
was yet no initiation in the CONNER
cial or banking structure that would
seem to endanger the trend of a
healthy development.
note Of caution however was
sounded by Albert FL. Wiggin, head
Of the Chase National Bank, who de
clared that with the favorable ten
dencies of the year there had been
also q growth of Less satisfactory
tendencies.
The record for 1926 bank earnings
was captured by the First National
Bank, whose profits of $12,242, 500
were equivalent to 1924 per cent of
it's capital The Kings County Trust
company of Brooklyn was second
with 1O6 per cent earned in it's stock
and the United Trust company was
third with 6.S per cent.
The National City Bank led all
others in the volume of net profit
which totaled $1S,9O7,16S. Its total
resources of more than $1,2QO,Ooo,O 900
and it's capital, surplus undivided
profits and deposits also established
new high water marks