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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
ANDERSON WEALTH
IN FL. LAUDERDALE
Horace and Thomas StilIWeI Conceived City = More
Than 100000 Indiana Capital Reported There.

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. 20.-Ft
Iauderdale, Fla, destroyed by a
hurricane, had it's inception in the
minds of Anderson men.
Horace and Thomas Stillwell, local
financiers, are responsible for the
development of FIT. Lauderdale, just
as ]. w. Young is credited with be-
ing the creator of Hollywood-by-
the-Sea.
Selling most of their local inter
ests, the Stillwells Jmoved to FIT.
Lauderdale and began the building
operations which turned 1t into one
Of the important cities of the east
coast.
A short time ago the Stillwell
family is reported to have refused
an offer of $2,50O,0OO for their hold
ings.
Within the last year Blanchard
j. Horne resigned his Office as mayor
Of Anderson and became city man
ager of FIT. Lauderdale. Public i'm
provements amounting to approx
mately 100000 were contracted for
and have been progressing rapidly
despite the slump in many other
Florida communities. 4
Horne is reported being at Colorado
Springs, Colo, where he has been
attending a convention of city man
ayers.
In addition to the holdings of
Thomas and Horace Stillwell, it Is
reported locally that Anderson and
Madison County holdings in the
southern city amount to approx
mately s4,O00,000.
Rex Kaufman has been associated
with the Stillwell interests in the de-
velopment work there.
No report has been received here
on the sdamage done to the break
water under construction at FIT.
Lauderdale.
VIM. N. Durbin moved his family
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
FEW SHIPS SEND
DISTRESS CALLS
But Storm Does Great Dam
age in HarborS.
BIZ United Preas

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O.-Al-
though great damage was done to
shipping in Florida harbors by the
hurricane which devastated the pc
ninsula Saturday, few ships at sea
have sent out distress calls.
A United Fruit Company ship, the
Anderson. is aground off San Saliva
dor Island, one of the eastern a.
hamas, and destroyers from VA
United States Atlantic fleet are en-
route to it's aid, according to a brief
dispatch from the commander of the
destroyer squadron.
The United States steamship ST.
honey reported an unidentified
freighter driven high and dry in
Royal Palm Park and a barge with
twenty-five aboard sunk in Miami
harbor.
The coast guard this forenoon was
advised that the steamer st. Pierre
Miquelon was sinking slowly and
burning off the Florida shore. Her
crew had been rescued by the steam
err Wester Waldi.
The schooner Lydia Baxter, eight
cen miles north of Jupiter inlet, was
leaking and her canvas was stripped
by the hurricane. She asked imme-
date assistance.
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1923-6OO dead when dam breaks
in Gleno. Italy, Dec. 2.
1924-March IL, S0mile gale swept
Atlantic coast, killing and injuring
scores and doing great property
damage.
1924-March 2S, tornadoes kill IL
in oklahoma and Texas, IL In middle
west.
1924-April 90. III died in storms
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
3 j. S. SAILORS
ARE WOUNDED

Bu United Press
PEKING, Sept. 20.-Three United
States sailors have been wounded in
fighting on the Yangtze River, ac-
cording to dispatch received today.
The United States gUnboat Pidgeon
,waseattacked with rife and machine
gun fire. from Hanyang and WI
chang at the junction of the Han
and Yangtze rivers.
About 100 bullets struck the
Pidgeon, whose crew replied with
machine gun fire. The sailors,
wounds were slight. According to
the dispatch, the attack occurred
Sunday. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
SAYS NO ATTEMPT MADE
Police Chief Denies Jail Delivery
Was Intended.

Report that prisoners at city Jail
had attempted Jail delivery Satur-
day was made before they had time
to investigate closely, Police Chief
Chief Claude Johnson said today.
The present theory is that workmen
left a crowbar lodged between the
bars and the window sill and NOR
tar was loosened.
The damaged window was found
by the turnkey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
700 Messages Are
Relayed to Florida

Bu United Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept.20.-
First direct communication between
Birmingham and storm-stricken
Miami Fla, was established at 1880
a. m. today.
\ The Western Union Telegraph
Company this morning finally man.
aged to get one wire through to
the Florida City. Seven hundred
messages were waiting here to be
Arelayed to Miami-most of them mes
sages from persons seeking to find
condition of relatives in the Florida
Metropolis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
INDIANA BANKERS
CONVENE TONIGHT
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LAFAYETTE. Ind, Sept. 20
Bankers Of Indiana are arriving here
today for the thirtieth annual con-
vention of the Indiana Bankers AS
sociation which opens with a smoker
for the men tonight.
Purdue University will be host to
the bankers and their wives during
the two-day session here. A pro-
gram Of entertainment for the Vop-
men will start with a reception
the Home Economics Bldg. tonigtH.
Melvin A. Traylor. Chicago, first
vice-president of the American Bank
ers' Association, slated to lead the
national organization next year, will
address the Indiana men Tuesday
afternoon on the Growing Respon,
s'bilities of American Bankers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
SCORNS TRIBUTE

BIZ Times Specie.
PARIS, Sept. France does not
desire German homage to Frances
unknown soldier. Recently a spray
of red flowers was placed on the
tomb. A card read From the youth
of Germany to the unknown soldier"
The police commissioner ordered de-
struction of the flowers and request
ed a court order forbidding unknown
persons to place flow css on the tomb.
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to Florida a short time ago. Durbin
has been interested in the sale Of
securities and mortgages.
Local bankers, familiar with the
financial affairs of the southern city,
estimate that Indianapolis people
have invested close to 100000 in
enterprises there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
BIZ Tnftef Press

BU Untted Press
AT THE FIELD HOSPITAL AND
MORGUE BASE, SEBRING, Fla,
Sept. 20.-Tales Of horror that fol-
lowed the complete ruin of the town
of Moorehaven. leveled by the trop-
ical hurricane, were brought back
here today by Wade II. NARROW. one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
FIVE IN PLANE HURT
BM United Press

BN Untted PfeSS
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 90
Five persons here. today are re-
covering from injuries received
when a passenger airplane struck
electric wires and crashed twenty
feet to the ground. The plane,
owned by students, Of Texas Uni
versity, was demolished, hit none
v.a helivnd ~r~ior~iv II ,r~cI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
sAPPINGTON REUNION

bU IfHttS SDecIdI
Upton, Mo-, Sept. 20.-One hun
dred years ago Sebastian and Mile
Sappington crossed the Mississippi
River at ST. Louis. The other day
some 200 descendants of Missouri's
oldest and proudest family gathered
at Clarksburg, near here, to pay
tribute to the mernery pr their an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
Newspaper Man, Who Was
in Miami, Tells of Hur-
riCane.

=. Editors NOte-Cutting his way
through an almost impossible road,
Al Reck of Miami, well known
southern newspaperman, brought
the first eye witness story of the
destruction i'm Miami, the Magic
City," to West Palm Beach. Reick
lost all his possessions in the hur-
ricane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
SHEIKS ARE RADIO FANS
Handsome Horsemen Now Sit in
Tents and "Ljsten-In."

BU United Press
CAIRO, Sept. 20,-The Arab
sheiks have succumbed to the radio
craze. Instead of riding theAdeserts
as they ought to be doing to be true
to what is expected to sheiks, the
dashing handsome horsemen are
often now found sitting in their
tents with receivers clamped to their
ears.
They listen-in to broadcast con.
certs from Spain, France-and Italy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
COMBAT SMOKE EVIL
Inspector James Knox to Start Ed
ucational Campaign.

Proper firing will be emphasized
in an educational campaign the
city smoke department will conduct
next month to combat the smoke
evil, James Knox, smoke inspector,
announced today.
Knox will speak at clubs, schools
and factories and hopes to reduce
pollution of the atmosphere so per
cent.
Use of coke instead OF coal in hot
water heaters will be one OF the
re recommendations of Knox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
BANK BUILDING
OF MEYER-K|SER
BADLY DAMAGED
May Be Raced, Report Says
Was Miami Owned,
Meyer States.

Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg. at Miami,
Fla, was reported badly damaged by
the storm. The building was re-
Gently completed and is eighteen
stories high.
According to Sol Meyer, president
of the Meyer-Kiser Bank here, the
Miami building was owned by L.
Highleyman and J. M. Gelatis
Miami, and the Meyer-Kiser Bank OF
Florida had a twenty-f1ve-year lease
on the ground floor. 1t was located
in the heart Of the Miami business
section and substantially built OF
steel and concrete, resting on solid
stone.
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Bank Protected

Meyer issued the following state
ment.
Mortgage loans by Meyer-Kiser
banks were protected by first mort
cages and tornado insurance was
part Of the contracts. Wherever we
handled loans tornado insurance to
at least so per cent of the property
value was required. I'M most cases
percentages were between rs and 100.
"Of course the Meyer-Kiser Bank
of Florida is a distinct institution
from the one here. 1t had the most
modern vault construction and Sc
curities should be found safe.
Expects Nominal Loss
THE Fletcher American Company
and the Meyer Kiser Bank here fl
nanced a 100000 mortgage loan on
the 100000 building, which was
protected up to rs per cent Of its
value by tornado insurance. 1t does
not appear that there could be more
than a nominal loss to investors"
News dispatches stated that the
building was badly twisted by the
hiS'T1cane. It was not IN danger of
topping over, however, according to
reports.
Word was received this morning
by Meyer that the banking quarters
are unchanged and that banking
business will be resumed as quickly
as the mass Of debris, is removed
from the streets surrounding. He
was informed that practically all of
the brick facing on the lower nine
floors was wrenched from the super
structure during the furious gale.
Apartments Damaged
Two other Meyer-Kiser holdings in
Miami also were damaged to the
extent of about 100000, it was
learned. The Fernando Apt. Bldg,
q 100000 structure at the corner of
W. Fifth St. and Ninth Ave, was
damaged to the extent of about
$4,000, and the Ricardo Apt. Bldg,
S. W. Fifteenth st. and Fifteenth
Ave, a $150,O0O building, suffere
about $4,000 damage. Both were
fully covered by storm insurance,
Meyer said.
Meyer received a wire today from
the managing editor Of the Miami
Herald estimating the closes to that
city between $7,500,600 and
$10,O00,000,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
One Child Saved

"Only one child of the Dequilla
family of seven was saved. OF
another family named Bowman, the
father was the Only one of six, who
is alive today"
Three rescue trains had arrived
here at a. m. today, one was
manned by legionnaires from Tampa
under command of Major William
son and the other two came from
Haines City and Sanford.
Pitiful scenes are being enacted at
the morgue here as refugees walk
slowly through the somber aisles
seeking to identify missing relatives.
A little girl who gave her name as
Juanita Morrison was brought here
all smiles and asking for her par
ents. She has not been told she is
the sole survivor of her family Of
cfvf1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
TALES OF HORROR
ARE BROUGHT BACK
Man in Rescue Party Describes Finding Persons CIngng
to WreCkage in Flooded Moorehaven.

Of the first Of a rescue party to
reach the stricken town.
II arrived in Moorehaven not long
after the levee holding Lake Okee-
chobee had broken in three places.
loosing it's gigantic wall of water
upon the town." NARROW told the
United Press.
THE water poured through the
streets and countryside at depth Of
twelve feet. There were no warn
ings and the people had no chance
to escape.
Those who live today to tell of
the disaster saved themselves by
swimming and clinging to the wreck
age of fiimsy homes that collapsed
under the first impact.
Find Few
"a few made their way to two.
story buildings which had remained
standing, and there we found them.
'They were too frightened and too
near physical collapse to venture
forth from their temporary shelter,
and it was only after considerable
persuasion that we got them away.
"Fifty-one bodies had been recov-
cred Sunday night, and were being
embalmed at Venus. They will be
brought here later. a
1--WE saw bloated bodies Of men,
women and children floating about
on the high waters, but made no at
tempt to recover them, first seeking
possible wounded who were still
alive.
THE States railroad was com
pletely wrecked for more than two
miles. saw three bodies, those Of
an old man, woman and a child
caught under the rails.
Perched on Shelves
"Effie Sutton and Mrs. Louis Fal
low were found perched on shelves
in their house. which was floating
away from it's site.
Searching further in our boat
we came upon another house that
was floating and there we rescued
w. H. Edwards, and Z. Green.
they. too. were riding the shelves.
wild animals and snakes fell
victim to the onrushing waters.
I'VE would pass floating bodies
near which were dead animals and
snakes. The cries of the frightened
women and children were madden
ing.
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learned something : that
l knew IL Loren Echard
She stopped suddenly with a
gasp, for almost as she pro-
nOunced the name of Loren Ech-
ard, the door Of the room was
slowly opened = !" even as 1t
had been by herself that night
and q figure entered. DR..
Cressy gripped her wrist and
drew her silently against the wall.
The figure came forward with
slow, but even steps. They could
see it moving like a shadow
through the darkened half Of the
room nearest the door. There
suddenly seemed to the doctor
something unnatural In that slow,
even, mechanical progress. Hazel,
too. must have felt this, for he
could feel her cover, trembling,
against him. He gripped her
wrist tighter in silent reassur-
ance.
The figure came into the moon
light. DR.. Cressy then saw that
1t was a man, roughly dressed In
overalls and a wooden khaki
colored shirt, open at the neck.
A battered cap with a broken
visor was pulled down over the
face.
"A theft" he thought, rob
bling the rooms
The figure drew nearer with its
slow, unnaturally. even steps. IL
seemed the man must see them
at any moment, for they were
merely pressed against the wall,
NOT hidden. DR.. Cressy uncon-
scfously reached for his empty
hin pocket. He stared in amaze
ment at the intruder. For, at
the open throat, under the mans
rough Khaki shirt. he saw the
neck edges of expensive blue SILK
pajamas.
The stranger advanced opposite
the pair. never VARYING his even,
mechanical step. He went past
them like an automaton. so close
that his sleeve brushed HazeFs
shoulder. She gasped aloud. DIR.
Cressy dropped her hand and
tensed himself to spring-but the
man evidently had not heard that
gasp. He continued with his me-
chanical steps almost to the bay
window, whore the body of Kent
Glendenning had lain. DR.. Cressy
saw then that he had something
under his arm-yes, 1t was u
newspaper.
Then, something so weird, so
unexpected. so startling, happened
that the blood ran cold in the
veins of the two against the wall.
The man took the newspaper
from beneath his arm and called
in thin, high whisper, like the
ghost CT q shout:
"All about the break between
England and Egypt over the Su.
dan over Sudan over
Sudan Su--dan!"
For a moment he raised his
face as il he were looking up,
and in that moment when the
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with that awful look in his eyes
and know when he
speaks he doesn't know what he's
saying.
He's no good for anything
1t doesn't seem as II there's q
man in the family at all. Dads
been cabling and cabling tell
ing us to get the best lawyers and
everything. He's somewhere in
China ana can't be back for three
weeks at the best. o, / shouldn't
talk 30 about Loren. God knows
he has enough to make him that
way, with Kathleen gone and Marie
the way che is, and all this terrible
thing that has come upon US. I'm
terrified every time the phone
rings, because know it's either
a reporter, or the police to Ques-
ton me again, or some friend OF
other rays sympathetic or
Just curious Q"
Hazeis bright bobbed head bent
as if beneath the burden OF her
fanily's sorrows; tears which she
bravely struggled TO keep back
slipped between the lashes and
rolled down her cheeks.
BE brave. Hazel girl. This is
the darkest hour. We must go
through with 1t. It will pass"
But where will the three Of US
be when it passes? Where are
the flowers after the hurricane?"
whispered the girl. 20, it seems
as il we were all doomed: all
punished for some terrible crime
in the past. like those families
the old Greek dramatists used to
write about the plays that
used to make me shudder so In
my high school English course l
didn't know then ia have to live
through one. o, I'm so wretched
that If It wasn't for my sisters,
I'd willingly die"
Haze" cried DR.. Cressy sud
denly. Looking at her. again there
came before him the vision of her
coming into the room where the
murdered man lay and kneeling
beside him.
''What?" Her question came
when he did not go on.
will you do something for
me?"
yes"
Meet me downstairs in the
gray room in 10 minutes. want
You TO go somewhere with me.
Shall I get my hat and coat?''
mo. You won't need them"
When Hazel left. DIR. Cressy
| quickly dressed. AS he hastily
donned his clothes the little clock
/ on the mantel struck !. He had
completely recovered from his
! initial vertigo. His 10 hours OF
uninterrupted sleep had thor
! oughly refreshed his naturally
healthy body. The back OF his
head, under the dressing ant
bandaRes that DR.. Macy had put
on it, gave little dull twinseI
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You Will Want to Know Beautiful Peggy Starr Heroine OF
the Most Interesting Story of Young Love Ever
Penned By Beatrice Burton.

own that Peggy was thinking
when she and Ranny sat down
to eat lunch with Mother Phelps
and Lolly, today.
Not such a houRe a. this one
Of Ranny's parents, but "A cute
little house. just hig enough for
two-a little house with fire
place for wood, with white mus
lin curtains, and big, coy chairs
and sofas covered with bright
colored cretonne.
There would be q nice little
blue-and.white kitchen where she
would cook the kind OF meals
that Ranny liked, and where the
old crowd would gather to help
get Sunday night euppers, some
times, when they Selt like having
company.
Peggy blinked a. Ranny with
both Of her lovely fIirtatious eyes
as if the future was as dazzling
as sudden sunlight. And he
looked back at her across his
mothers table with the crooked
smile that she loved better than
anything else about him.
That night she talked to him
about the little house.
They were sitting out on the
front steps, after dinner, watch
ing the dusk deepen into starry
darkness. Ranny's arm was
around Peggy's waist and her
head was on his shoulder.
No House for Him.
Dearest" she said to him,
I'm sure you must have seen
some darling little houses thar
could be picked up for nothing
while you've been around town
selling real estate for your IA
Their"
Ranny knocked the ashes out
OF the bowl Of his pipe before he
answered, "Oh, dad doesn't deal
in that sort OF real estate" he
said carelessiy; downtown prop
erty Is more our line, you know"
well, then, I'll get busy and
hunt up q place." Peggy MUIR
INJURED lazily and happily. as she
stroked his arm. "Sweet old
arm. Sweet old sleeve! My old
Rannyr' In the darkness she
pressed her cheek close to his
arm and kissed 1t through the
madras shirt he wore.
This was a woman who sat
near them, slowly slipping q cup
of tea.
She was a pretty woman, with
hair as red as Fay Shirley's
hair, and long gray eyes that she
knew how to use.
Peggy noticed, after q few
minutes, that she was using
them on Ranny. She was look
ing at him In the mirror that
hung beside them on the wall.
"Iiow bold she is" Peggy
thought to herself, Ito flirt with
a man she's never laid eyes on
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now and then, but these did not
bother him.
When dressed, he went up first
on an errand to the eighth floor.
After that he came down to the
gray room, which was just Off
one corner Of the lobby. Several
women in evening dress were
sitting there. Heel had screened
herself in the shadows of a Tar
corner. She held her head down
50 that her face was hardly vist-
bic and her whole attitude was
one of shrinking. timidity, and
embarrassment. DIR. Greasy felt
a uualm of conscience at the
sight of her. Why hadn't he let
her wait In her room instead OF
In this semipublicity which she
covered from?
Come, Hazel"
RECOGNIZED
She arose with alacrity. Walk.
ing through the lobby to the eie'
vator, she still walked with her
head bent down, but even so
woman with returning theater
party recognized her as the sister
of Kathleen Crittenden whose
name was in the headlines OF
every paper in the United States,
and pointed her out to her party,
who stared without letup until
DR.. Cressy piloted her into an
elevator. In the elevator 1t was
worse still, for in it were a party
of hotel guests returning from a
late supper in the grill below.
Some of the women recognized
Hazel. and afraid that the men
would miss the sight, whispered
to them audibly behind raised
ostrich plue fans that this was
the sister of Kathleen Cr1ttenden.
the beautiful girl who had killed
her fiance in a taxicab.
Hazel was pale and shaking
when she got out OF the elevator
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were rising in her throat and In
her eyes.
From his own side OF the little
restaurant table Fanny grinned
at her as II she had just sprung
the best joke Of the year on him.
Jealous little cat" he teased
her, you are jealous, aren't you?
But it's a sure sign that you still
love me-even after ten long
days Of married nfe-so should
worry
He reached for one of her
hands under the cover Of the
table-cloth and pressed 1t between
his palms.
SILLY Peggy he said; bu. he
did not deny thatNhe had been
flirting with the pretty red-haired
woman. And Peggy's heart was
heavy as she went on eating her
veal outlet and fruit salad.
She could see through the
whole thing as plainly as IL 1t
were written out before her on a
sheer of white paper. she told
herself miserably. Ranny was