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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-21

rescue an aged man perched on tor
of filling station west of Holly
wood. Whepthey got there the ole
man greeted them with, "Whert
have you been; I've been waiting
here eighteen hours"
He tainted from exhaustion wher
lifted into the boat.
Coast Guardsnfen at TT. Lauder
dale, aiding in the relief work
found two mothers each with q
child in arms-alf dead.
20 West Of Fulford, two men were
found dead in a hastily-construct
trench Evidently they had dug the
hole for protection from flying
debris, but the hurricane pushed
the ground in on them.
r. Moore is in a hospital there
with his right lung punctured by a
flying shaft of wood. His wife and
children We're killed at Hollywood.
Parents Lost
Palm Beach police are caring fol-
June Burr, 10, of Miami, who wan
-dered into the city Monday night
She said she did not know where
her parents were and hadn't seer
them since the storm.
AT Dahia, according to reports. q
twelve-f6ot alligator, washed in from
the everglades, >srawled lazily ovei
the wreckage until it was killed by
guards.
VA, c. Smith of Dania, said while
he and four other men were battling
their way through the storm ant
water they sighted two sharks swim
ming a mile from the ocean front
carried inland by the oyerflowine
seas.
When the son Of Mrs. j. II. Graft
of DANA, attempted to recover the
body of his mother floating in tbs
water near the DANA Hotel. he was
struck at five times by n rattle
snake, coiled on. a mass of debris. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-21
BISHOP FRANCIS
BOOSTSWOOLLEN

Although he is n Republican, the
DIR. Joseph NJ. Francis, bishop of the
Indianapolis Episcopal diocese, an
nounced today he would vote for
Evans Woollen, Democratic short
term senatorial nominee.
Though a Republican, born and
,bred-and a Pennsylvania Republic
an at that should do my con-
science a wrong if. in the coming
election, I should cast my vote for
United States Senator for any one
but yourself" Bishop Francis wrote
to WQ9llen.
1T is happy augury for the
future thatmen of the highest stand
ing, socially, intellectually and
morally, are willing to make the
sacrifices required Of those who are
ready to serve in political office.
Whenever such men are / ominated
for Office they will have my vote
without regard to the party to which
they belong. Personality, integrity,
high purpose and large vision SUI
press party affiliations"
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YEGGMEN FAIL IN
SAFE ATTEMPTS
Enter Business Places, but
Can't Open Vaults.

Yeggmen entered the Employees
Business College, 1876 N. Delaware
St. Monday night and made ansf
fort to open the safe. Failing. they
pried open some desks and stole SIS.
The George f. Bryant Transfer
Company. 800 E. st. Joseph ST.. re-
ports merchandise. valued at $175
missing. Rooms of Lowell Cogshell
and Thomas Brodie. at the Y. NJ.
c. A. were entered. Cogshell re-
ported typewriter and shoes. tptaling
$40. and Brodie $40 camerastaken.
Mrs. Grace Russell, 1929 Park
Ave-, screamed seeing a man peer
ing into her bedroom window. The
man spoke to her, she-said. Police
We're unable to find him.
The Rotts Foundry Company. SIG
wv. Washington ST.. was visited by
yeggmen, Monday night. Efforts to
batter open the safe and record vault
failed. .
The Roy Addleman hardware
store. 944, E.\Thirtieth ST.. was en-
tered Monday night and a shotgun
and flashlights taken. Police found
the gun barrel. Blood stains were
found on the side walk in front of
store. Police believe they were from
a hand cut breaking the window.
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ny sang group of songs, accom-
panied by Mrs. Herbert Mitchell,
Miss \ Constance Day, accompanied
by Miss Mary Dalk, played violin
numbers; Harry Celland, tenor &C.
companied by Mrs. Mitchell, sang
a group of solos, and Mrs. Frank
Simms, accompanied on the piano
by Miss Vivian Whitridge, gave
readings and musical monologues.
-. In Song Program
Accompanied by Mrs. Grace Linn
Sandy Mrs. BeIlah Parker Eckert
sang a group of songs, which in
cluded new negro spiritual, re.
Gently composed by Mrs. Sandy.
The Van-Ho-Mo trio, composed of
Mrs. Lucille Hoss, Mrs. Wilma Van
-0sdal and Mrs. Jane More sang
several numbers. The trio was &C.
companied by Miss Susan Jane
Aughipbaugh. Guests included Mes
DANES Elizabeth Cook, Charles E.
Binkley. c. A. Clark, George A.
Sigler, N. M. King. Carrie Ratcliff.
A. j. Clark, ]. N. Lambert, Ralph
Updike, w. l.. Ramsey, H. ]. Glib
son. Charles Glenn, L. S. Foster,
Eva Holloway, C. J./MacIntire. Ada
Bass and Lydia Hummel
The following were out-of-town
guests: Mrs. William Hanger. No
5lesville Mrs. Ella Clark. Button;
7. Mrs. Dean Hobson. Brazil; Mrs.
Lucy Binton. Cincinnati; Mrs. t. E.
We'll, Lafayette; Mrs. w. r. Miller,
Frankfort: Mrs. Otto Catterson.
Noblesyille.
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SYSTEM SATURATED With
DANGEROUS PO|SONS

II have used Black Draught as a
medicine for constipation for fifteen
years, and because / realiz9 what a
great help it has been in maintain
ing good health, l recommend it
to Others" says Mr.. Miles Hopkins,
OF 1918 Center Street, Catlettsburg,
Ky.
There was time when my health
was not so coed. l suffered great
deal from gas pains. My system
was saturated with poison which
was not properly eliminated. From
time to time l had severe head
aches, and 1 felt sluggish and dun.
II knew of Black-Draught as a
medicine for, constipation, so
thought would try it. For while
took small dose every night un-
til my system was rid of the accu-
mulated poison.
II gained in weight and my gen.
eral health was good. That expert
ence made me realize the merits of
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arriving and one was forced to go
back.
Trains from Orlando and Sanford
came within six miles of the town
and the cargoes were transferred to
boats and brought here.
Seven hundred refugees from here
have gone TO Sebring.
1t seems that almost every house
in the town was destroyed or dam
aged. Monday bodies still were in
the wreckage. Instances of dogs
standing guard over the bodies of
their masters, and snarling at re-
lief workers who came to recover
the dead. were related.
The nearby town of Lakeport
still was flooded Monday night and
outside relief. In effective strength.
has not yet reached there. The
situation as to loss of life and prop
erty Is unknown.
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TRAIN PASSENGERS
TELL ABOUT RUINS
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folly to attempt to minimize the loss
of life and property. The figures OF
the losses. would probably mount.
instead of decrease. he said. as the
debris is cleared away and order re-
stored. Altman estimated the total
loss in the hurricane area at half
4 billion dollars.
Bernard NJ. Degheri, lawyer Of
Jersey City and his sister. Mrs. Ed
ward O'Toole, both Of whom were
in Miami during the storm, succeeded
in leavinG>>the city Sunday by
special train to West Palm Beach,
where they transferred to the
Havana Special.
They thought every moment they
were i'm the hotel at Miami. they
said, that the structure would be
bowled over by the shrieking gale.
Degheri. an overseas veteran, said
the World War offered no inferno
that approached the tempest THAI
tore through Miami Friday night and
Saturday morning.
WrecIage Indescribable
Degheri said the Awreckase was
Undesirable. AThe streets were can
yons of splintered timbers. broken
bricks. He said in the Royal Palm
Gardens yachts, motorboats and
smaller craft were high and dry
where the wind and water had
tossei them. The larger buildings
were still standing, he related. but
were so twisted and distorted that
many OF them will have to be torn
down. Frame houses collapsed like
houses Of cards. he narrated.
1.-THE chaos is so widespread"
stated Mr.. Degher;. 'the difficulties
of rescue are so enormous, that l
think 1t will be many days before
the number of dead can be>accurate-
ly checked. My impression is, that
the life and property toll will be
much larger than the first esti-
mates"
Mrs. O'Toole told Of a Lauderdale
man who. when he heard the storm
was coming, rushed to an insurance
office ana took out a policy on his
home. He next hurried his family TO
the towns strongest hotel where they
passed the night in safety while their
little<home was reduced to ruins.
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Black-Draught. l keep it in my
home and when l begin to feel life
less and dull. take a dose, after
which feel O, K. again.
People generally do not realize
the risk they take in ALLOWING con.
stipation to run on. | try to keep
my system cleansed, and l find
Black Draught great aid in de-
ing this,
Constipation dams up poisons in
the bowels, Where they areNabsorbed
into the general system, causing
many serious symptoms.
Black-Draught relieves the consti-
potion, Pushes the system out in a
natural way. carrying with it the
poisons. and relieves the troubles
which they cause.
If you suffer from constipation.
be sure to try Black Draught.
Sold by all druggists. Price >25
cents s $1.00 ia 40
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WILL HAVE HEARING

Hearing on remonstrance against
a S;@ 900, bond issue for asphalting
the Frank Stuck Rd. for &c miles
along the Center-Perry Township
line, in this-eounty. WILDE heard by
the State tax board the morning of
Sept. IS. IT was announced today.
The road connects between Harding
st. on the west and Shelby st. on
lie east LII
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DATEFOR TRIAL
OF GIRLS SUIT
ON SHERIFF SET
Judge Rules Out Part Of
Charge Sheriff Shot
Up Auto. 81

The $4,000 damage suit brought
against Sheriff Omer Hawkins by
Miss Clara Isabel Brown, 10, of Pa
E. Tenth St., will be tried before a
jury in Superior Court -Four some
time In December, it was announced
today by Judge Citation H. Givan.
Judge Givan, after hearing Mon
day, overruled motion Of the girls
attorney seeking to reinstate vital
parts of the suit which he had
stricken out on a motion of Robin
son, Symmes & Nelson, Of which
Senator Arthur r. Robinson is senior
member, attorneys for Hawkins.
The girl in the original complaint
charged that the sheriff and depu
ties shot up the car in which she
was riding with Maxwell Hosea,
Butler student, on the Michigan Rd.,
near Old Augusta, on the night Of
May 10. After searching her the
sheriff left her without means of
home, although it was rain
ing, she charged.
Overrules Girls Motion
Judge Givan oterruled the mo"
ton that deleted parts of the
original complaint be reinstated on
the groupd that John w. Becker,
then local attorney for girl, was
notified a hearing was to be- held.
The girls counsel had charged the
suit was deleted without hearing,
Miss Adele Storck and M. Eliza
beth Mason, of the firm of Storck &
Mason, are now local co-counsel for
Miss Brown.
Judge Givan also struck out four
parts of an added paragraph to the
suit which reinstated the charges
made in the original complaint At
torneys for Hawkins had asked seven
portions of the added paragraph be
stricken out.
Part Retained.
Otto Gresham, Chicago attorney.
who argued for the plaintiff, sue
ceeded in retaining in the complaint
the allegation that Hawkins acted in
violation Of the Indiana and United
States Constitution; that he refused.
" doSlol MISS IpiOWIi III "
Indianapolis after shooting up and
gripping her automobile, and that
ii was 1 a. m. before she was able
t. reach home.
The~portion stricken out charged
that without any notice or warning
/ the said car in which the plaintiff
was riding was shot up as it came
to stop by reason Of another car
J filled with deputy sheriffs in part
blocking the way
No Search Warrant
~ The charge that the sheriff did
not, have or claim to have "a search
warrant for the car in which Miss
Brown was riding was also deleted.
The part charging that it was APP
parent the girls auto was not ia
shape to transport her home and
that the sheriff said it was no con-
Germ Of his how she reached home
was stricken out, as was the charge
that the sheriff In so acting, did not
do his duty as an officer of the
county.
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ELEVEN REPORTED DROWNED
Government Relief Boats Sent to
Island of Bahamas Group.\

eBV Unitcd Press
NASSAU, Bahamas. Sept ~
Government relief boats have been
dispatched to Long Island. of the
Bahamas group. where eleven per-
sons are reported to have been
dfowped during the hurricane which
swept this area. Many houses were
reported wrecked on Long Island,
but the relief boats so far had not
rendered a report of conditions.
Nassau ~was undamaged by the
storm and conditions were normal
today. All the other islands except
Long Island seemed to have escaped
damage.
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Revised Casualty
Total, 375

BIZ United Press
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 21.-The
casualty list of the Florida hur-
ricane, as checked by Alfred
p. Reck, chief of the United
Press staff on the scene OF the
tragedy, with police heads Of
the devastated area, follows:
Miami. 1913.
Hollywood, so.
Miami Beach, 50.
Moorehaven, 40.
Hialeah region, so.
Scattered dead, so. >
Total, 375:~
These totals will be changing
constantly until a final check
up of the entire storm area
has been made, and may reach
400 as a conservative estimate.
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of those in the hospitals were ex-
pected to die. 1t was estimated that
100 of the injured had lost limbs.
The humber In hospitals in Miami
was placed at 1000. The next hard
est hit was Hollywood, where it is
believed the death toll will reach
seventysfive, or eighty.
h Authorities have rationed two
gallons of water to each family and
issue milk and ice only to families
where there are infants to be cared
for.
Hundreds of Negro laborers have
been modified to search the ruins
land clear up debris
The South Beach Casinos were
ruined by the storm. ~
Causeway Impossible.
The County Causeway is impass
able. Car tracks were torn up. Five
barges were counted stranded across
the Causeway Hardly<a telephone
or power pole was left standing in
all of the Miami Beach vicinity.
The Fleetwood hotel was badly
damaged; the Floridian suffered; the
police station was Quilted.
So great was the demand for help
Immediately after the storm hit
jured' could not be cared for for
hours. One story is told of pc
liceman saving the life of an in
jured man by amputing his partially
severed leg with pocket knife.
Many Drowned
Many of the dead were drowned
when barges were> capsized.
In Hollywood, women and children
were sent to other cities as rapidly
as possible. while all bodied men
were enlisted to clear, away wreck
age and engage in relief work.
z There the bodies of all members
of a family of seven were founl
huddled together. and crushed tc
death beneath collapsed WALL
- At Hallandale, Mrs. j. H. Kimbal
died with her 2-weeks-old baby in her
arms.
Miami city docks were practically
wrecked.
Fifty pen cent of the homes In
Hia eah were reported destroyed.
Scantily cad refugees wandered
about the streets of Miami, Holly
wood and TT. Lauderdale today
many Of them clad in bathing suits
Trains Of motor trucks carried
collins and food to Miami and Holly
wood.
crew started ont in boat e.
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BOYS FLEfFROM
DETENTION HOME
Trio Escapes From Second
Floor.

Three boys escaped from the Ju-
venile Detention Home Monday
night. Two had been 'recaptured
after break Saturday night. Mrs.
Susanna Pray, superintendent, said
the trio escaped through, an open
second-story window, without the aid
Of rope or ladder.
The two youths who escaped for
the second time were Raymond KEEL
ley, Is, of 1918 Cottage Ave, and
Robert Burga, IA, of Kentucky. who
has been held while police attempted
to communicate with his relatives.
The third boy was Alvin Gush. Is,
of TAB N. Warman Ave. John Ed
gell. is, McCarty and Union SITS,
who escaped Saturday for the third
time, is still at large.
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Burglar Flees After
TuSS[e With Man

When Grover Branham, 1925
Deloss ST.. came home late Mon
: day afternoon he found a Negro
creeping alongside his house as
though making for an open
window.
What are you doing there?"
Branham shouted.
I'm sneaking up on a Shet-
land pony, the Negro replied.
rising from his crouching posi-
ton.
Branham grabbed him, but
he escaped.
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SEPT. 21." 1926
ferfed the ordinance TO the1aws end
judiciary committee.
Clear Up Files

ferred the ordinance 70 the laws eno
judiciary committee.
Clear Up Files
Councilmen slaughtered many or
dinances which have cluttered up the
files for some time. The list included;
Resolution to investigate the own
ership- of the canal, which Moore ad-
mitted was introduced ito pave the
way for the movement to acquire the
Indianapolis Water Company"
Adjustment of the offices OF mar
ket master and assistant.
Adjustment Of sidewalk market
stands.
Increasing license fees for dance
halls.
Councilmen adopted resolution
expressing sympathy to victims of
the storm disaster in Florida.
With a meager allotment Of $500
-for repair Of N Meridian ST.. plan
to use part of the city's share of
the State gasoline tax for eliminat-
ing wooden block paving fizzled.
Council appropriated $4,000 for re-
pair of nearly one hundred streets
and $4,000 for bridges.
Approval Of bond issue Of SILL
900 for a new bridge across Bean
Creek at Shelby st. was voted.
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CATHOLICS RELEASED
Only Fifty, Arrested in Connection
With Service, Held.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MEXICO. CITY, Sept. 21.-All but
fifty of the Catholics arrested sun.
day during a religious service near
the National Palace have been freed
by he<authorities, and only the lead
ers are held today, charged with
sedition.
About $50 persons were arrested in
connection with the service, but
most of those who were not released
outright were permitted to go after
paying a fine.
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Not even knowing the whereabouts
Of his own son. who is somewhere in
Miami, L. II. Rowell, p. o. Box Coz,
soap salesman, wrote out check
for the Red Cross Florida sufferers
fund today. Anxiety for his own
son prompted him to donate an offer
ing to others who are worrying for
their loved ones.
II don't want to be known as a
tightwad," he said. THAT is why
always volunteer before being begged
to give"
- His son is a dentist in Miami.
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FLORIDA STARTS
TO GIVE RELIEF
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liquor have been dispatched to Holly
wood and Miami from West Palm
Beach.
A relief caravan carrying milk and
supplies also carried the liquor. The
contraband liquid was to be given to
the more seriously injured in hospi.
tails by physicians, it was learned.
The task Of rehabilitation was be.
ing taken up, as relief was adj
ministered.
Miami Death List
The death list for Miami and i'm
mediate vicinity wars placed at 100
known dead today, while thirteen
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CORONER ORDERS ARREST

Coroner Paul f. Robinson today
ordered Ebert Johnson, 1927 S.
Euclid Ave, held on charges of in
voluntary manslaughter. Johnson's
car struck James Daugherty, SO, 1885,
Bozart ST., at Delaware and Wash
ington SITS, Aug. |. The accident
proved fatal. -
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MARINES GUARD ESTATES =,
Cope With Bandits, Who Have
Preyed On Wrecked Homes.

BU United Press
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Sept Ell
Marines from key west have landed
here to cope with bandits who. TAX
ing advantage. of the chaotic condi-
tons following the hurricane. looted
estates of wealthy winter residents.
The Marines have the sitfiation
well in hand" according to an an
nouncement to the United Press to-
day.
Small boats were used by the
bandits to remove the costly tapes
tries and works. Of art to hiding
places.
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GIVE AID AT MOOREHAyEN

rive nuHFeu heiiei WOrkerS Care
for Injured. Homeless.
Blu United Press ~
MOOREHAVEN, Fla, Sept. 21.--
Five hundred relief workers strug-
gled today to restore normal copdi-
tions in Moorehaven.
Hundreds of injured and home
less were being cared for, while
squads went out to search for bodies
which have been reported still
strewn in numbers along the roads
and on the shores Of the nearby
lake,
Relief trains have been DELAYED In
Evening star., 1926-12-15
FATE NOW RESTS
IN HANDS OF OIL TRIAL JURY

before 10 o'clock tonight, Justice
Hoehling has indicated it will not
be held to it's deliberations through.
out the night A fresh start would be
taken then tomorrow morning.
The maximum penalty for convic-
ton is two years Imprisonment or
$4,000 fine, or both.
Separate verdicts for the defendants
are not possible, in the nature of the
case. Fall and Doheny either must
be acquitted or found guilty of crimi.
nal conspiracy together. although 1t
was said that conviction in such a
case would not require that each be
penaliZed equally.
If the outcome should be a verdict
of mot guilty" 1t would write 'finis'
to this case at least, although both
Fall and Doheny and Edward L. Do.
heny, jr., are under indictment on a
bribery charge in connection with the
alleged conspiracy. The Government
may or may not press this charge
in event of an acquittal.
Should the verdict be guilty" the
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servations, as he called them, in
which he violently assaulted the de-
Tense for it's references to President
Harding's approval of the oil leas
ing policy. He shouted there was no
evidence to prove that Harding knew
of the 100000 loan from Doheny to
Fall or that Doheny would boast
later of making a profit of $780,
a00, ,0O0.'
Warren G.. Harding was my per-
sonal friend" said Mr.. Pomerene
land I deply regret that they have
desecrated his tomb by bringing
eorth his shroud to cover up the
infamy of this transaction. II War
ren G.. Harding could be, called from
panied expression upon his face
when he learned what had been
done"
At another point he declared that
If Warren G. Harding appeared here
In his spirit, the defendants would
fall dead with fright after making
such a suggestion as that"
Mr. Hogan, after a scathing de-
nunciation of Government counsel
during which he turned frequently
in their direction and shouted with
flushed face about their criticism OF
defense witnesses, asked the jury to
return the defendants to their homes
before the sun sets
Following Justice Hoehling's in.
structions, the jury will have the case.
and no one would venture to predict at
this time whether the jury would be
out long or short time.
In event the jury fails to reach a
decision on the mass OF evidence