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Evening star., 1927-10-26
COL. FORBES ASKS RIGHT
TO TAKE PAUPER'S OATH
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEA WENTWORTH, Kans.. October
&c Col. Charles X. Forbes, former
director Of the United States Veter
ans Bureau, serving a two-year SEN
tence In the Federal Penitentiary here
for conspiracy to defraud the Govern
ment. today made application to take
the pauper's oath, which must be
signed In lieu of $4,000 fine, due when
his sentence expires tomorrow.
AS II result Forbes will have to
serve 80 days longer in the peniten-
ffa
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Police Dance Tonight.

The Policemen's Association will
give its annual Fall entertainment and
dance at the City Club, 1920 G street,
tonight at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1927-10-26

One seventh OF England's entire
working population Is now employed
In the cl hing trades.
Evening star., 1927-10-26
ALL BUT 81 HELD
RESCUED AS LINER
SINKS OFF BRAZIL

CONTINUED from First Page)
Evening star., 1927-10-26

FUecrease Indicated by minus sign.
4Registrati0n figures for North Carolina
cover full year
Evening star., 1927-10-26
LAUREL ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW.

FIRST RACE-Purse. 81 300: maiden fill
y 2-yearolds: 5 u furlongs
Evening star., 1927-10-26

Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather clear track fast.
Evening star., 1927-10-26

THIRD RACE-purse. ST 300. claiming;
for 3-year-olds and up l Va miles.
Evening star., 1927-10-26

RAt,E-Purse. 1900; claim
ar-olds and up. a miles.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
PARK DECISION NEAR
Board May Rule Today on
Diamond Site Plea.

A conference of city plan COM
mission members was to be held
this afternoon to set a date for de-
Gliding whether to issue the Indian
apolis Baseball Club a permit to
erect $500,O00 park on E. Washing
ton ST., between keystone and Ia
coma Aves, to New York ST., Gustav
G. Schmidt, commission president,
announced.
A number of east side property
owners Thursday entered strenuous
objections to the park. A remon-
STRANGE signed by 406 persons was
fled with the commission. Many of
the demonstrators, however, were in.
eligible to sign because they Are not
abutting property owners.
James A. Perry, club president,
has announced that no legal fight
will be made to put the park on the
east side if the commission rules
against the ball club.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
RUTH STILL IS
FOR HER HUBBY
Girl Filler Will Join Mate in
Panama.
BU United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-Ruth
Elder is going back to her husband
in Panama, she said today on her
arrival here to lunch at the White
House with Charles Lindbergh and
other noted fliers.
But first she must complete the
activities" resulting from her re-
cent transatlantic flight attempt.
She said she was strongly con-
Sidering" 20-week lecture tour, the
contract for which has been offered
her. She will return to New York
tonight to make definite decision,
she stated.
She said she preferred lecturing
to acting in the movies or on the
stage.
She denied the reports of an
eStrangement between herself and
Lyle Womack. Womack did not ac-
company her here, but planned to
return to Panama from New York
today, she said.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

blew up years ago. killing and in
juring many persons.
The bodies of ten men, badly
mangled, were taken to the morgue
at 10 a. m. Trucks were used TO
convey the dead to the morgue, all
ambulances being used to take the
injured to the hospitals.
Ninety-six men employed In the
Pittsburgh Gray Iron foundry, To-
Gated 100 feet from the tank, were
cut and bruised.
Large Area Devastated
The lower north side, across the
Allegheny river from the business
section of Pittsburgh, was devas-
tated area.
Huge chunks Of steel we're thrown
through roofs of houses, caved
through building fronts, and fell on
passing automobiles and street cars.
Mothers who had left their homes
just before the blast to go to stores,
fought with police and flremen who
endeavored to keep them from en-
tering the danger zone. Screaming
for their children left at home, the
mothers fought their way past po-
lice.
Electric wires operating fire alarm
boxes on the north side were thrown
out of order and brought fear that
fires in demolished houses might
I'D IN tho roto ctrOfNha
Crowds Jam Hospitals
Thousands of persons surrounded
the hospitals where the injured were
treated, demanding that they be ad-
mitted to seek relatives and friends.
Police stood guard at the hos
pitals, but they were unable to pre-
serve order.
AS ambulance and patrol wagons
arrived at the hospitals with in
jured, the crowds delayed the re-
moval of victims to the emergency
rooms for treatment.
Due to the necessity OF admins
tering aid as quickly as possible, few
names were taken at hospitals. Hos
pital attaches said that many OF
those treated probably would die.
Open First Aid Stations
First aid stations were estab-
lished in buildings and plants near
the explosion and doctors, nurses
and priests treated the injured and
dying as the police and firemen
brought the victims from the debris.
For hundreds of feet about the
wrecked tank great pieces Of steel
lay half submerged in the water
covered streets. They had been
twisted like paper and hurled by the
force Of the blast.
Many persons within blocks of the
tank were struck and injured by the
flying missiles.
A network of twisted electric and
telephone wires lay tangled in the
debris-filled streets.
The local chapter of the Red
Cross organized workers, who we're
sent into the devastated section to
care for those whose homes were
destroyed.
Glasses In the Daniel Webster
Public school were assembling when
the explosion rent the air. The
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Mine PARLEY OPENS
Pennsylvania Strikers Seek
Jacksonville Wage.
BIZ United Press

BB United Press
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14.-Striking
coal miners of the Pennsylvania BIZ
luminous fields placed their last
hope of winning their fight for the
Jacksonville wage scale in a con-
ference which opened here today
with 240 officials of the American
Federation of Labor in attendance.
A political atmosphere surround
ed the conference. in view of the
fact that former Governor Pinchot
was expected to take leading part.
Officials Of the United Mine
w. kers said that Pinchot had been
lived to address the executives
representing 100000 organized
wage earnerS.
Governor S. Fisher also was in
vited to address the conference, but
declined because of executive work.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
FAIL TO REACH
AID FUND COAL
Short $4,000 at Official
Close of Drive.

The Indianapolis Community
Fund campaign fell short of its
mark about $4,000 when the time
set for official closing arrived with
the noon luncheon of campaign
workers at the Claypool today.
Today's total donations. were
$59, ,140, bringing the grand total to
$684 ,466.50 as against the quota Of
$722,60O. The Community Fund
never has reached its quota in In
dianapolis in the prescribed time.
Another luncheon will be held
Wednesday when it is expected the
campaign will be closed.
Today's gifts, reported by divi-
sions, we're: Special Gifts A, $40
1876; Special Gifts B, $1,151; Branch
House, $485; Mile Square, $6,3O5;
Women's Army, 1929, and En-
ployes, $22,779.
Larger gifts announced today
were: Hugh NICK. Landon, $2,40O;
Mrs. Hugh NICK. Landon, $2,400;
Lilly Varnish Company and execu-
ClveSs Sl,500, ana MIR, ana Mrs.
Charles M. Malott, $1,000. These
gifts represented increases over sub
scriptions by the same donors last
year.
Today's luncheon was broad
casted by radio station WFBM
of the indianapolis Power and
Light Company, cooperating with
the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany. The Kentucky Jubilee Choir,
appearing this week at the Indiana
Theater, sang number of Negro
spirituals.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

Every available officer and
policeman has been assigned to
the scene.
Scores of automobiles in the low
er north side district at the time
of the explosion were abandoned
where they stood.
Boy Scouts, under the leadership
of ScoutmaSter William S. Hoffman,
were aiding in the relief work.
Red Cross on Job
Headquarters of the Red Cross
were established in a hotel near by
to give relief to the victims.
Bedding and food were being dis
tributed to stricken households. The
city of Pittsburgh and welfare Or
ganizations we're using school
buildings for relief work.
Rescue workers were unable to
reach hundreds of workers reported
trapped in collapsed buildings and
1t was impossible to estimate the
death toll.
Many Reported Trapped
Ten bodies were taken to the
morgue shortly after the explosion
and three hospitals were caring for
manned and burned workers,
brought there in ambulance loads.
One hundred men were reported
trapped in the Pittsburgh Clay Pot
Company works, with fire creeping
on them. One hundred more were
reported buried when the roof of
the Damascus plant of the Ameri-
can Bronze and Metal Company col
lapsed.
The tank which exploded was one
of two giant storage tanks with
capacity of 100000 cubic feet.
Water mains were broken and
flooded the streets, preventing res
cue workers from penetrating the
works, where most of the dead and
injured lay.
Body Found In Street
The body of an unidentified Ne
gro was taken to the morgue by po-
lice, who reported many had been
killed, but rescue workers were hav-
ing diffculty reaching them.
The Negroes body was found lying
in the street in front of the plant.
Houses adjoining the plant were
demolished. 1t was believed many
women and children had been
caught in the wreckage.
A dozen girls working in the plant
of the American Coat and Apron
Company were injured when the
explosion caused part Of the build
ing to cave in.
The explosion, which sent ball
of fire high into the air, was felt
throughout Pittsburgh and many
nearby boroughs.
Felt for Blocks
The repercussion broke windows
and damaged Office buildings with
in several blocks radius.
All hospitals near the scene Of
the disaster were filled with injured
persons within q half hour after
the explosion.
Older citizens hkened the blast
to that OF the old arsenal which
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
ERLocK HOLMES FREES LIFER FROM SCOTCH PRISON

York, where he had sailed shortly
after the murder. Though the clew
on which his arrest was decided
was proved absolutely false, he was
tried and convicted-largely on
circumstantial evidence.
There always was doubt in the
minds of many people that Slater
was guilty. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle became interested in the
case, and investigated it. He used
the methods of his brain child,
Sherlock Holmes, and bit by bit
ripped TO pieces the police case
against Slater. It took years.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
SMooT FAvoRs TAX CUT
Says Flood Outlay May Reduce
Proposed Figure.

DIT UWTEBU T0TGSS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-Senator
Smoot (Rep), Utah, hitherto an
advocate of a large tax reduction,
said today, after comforting with
President Coolidge, that the $685.
100000 tax cut recommendation of
the Treasury may have to be re-
duced further because of expected
outlays for flood control and farm
relief, and because of reduced busi-
ness profits.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Hourly Temperatures =

TO7IR ARTHUR claimed that
IL the police were not con-
III vinced themselves of Sla-
ter's guilt, but that they lacked
the courage to admit their mistake
after they had arrested him; and
that he was "railroaded" to a SEN
tence of life Imprisonment
1t was said now that suspicion
had attached to "a. b." but that
evidence against him-given by
Miss Helen Lambie. the murdered
woman's servant-wss suppressed
because of his proninenSe.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
RUMOR WALSKA
To Be DIVORCED
Opera Star to Resist Action
by Mccormick.

CHICAGO, Nov 14.-The Clh-
cago Herald and Examiner today
said Harold Mccormick is preparing
a divorce bill to be filed against
Gamma Walska, opera singer.
The couple was married in 1922.
Nine. Walska is operating a per-
fumery in Paris. 1t was said her
failure to return to Chicago prompt
ed the divorce preparations.
George L. Shein. attorney for Nc
Cormick here, refused to comment
on the report.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Wife Will Fight Acticn

BU United Press
PARIS, Nov. 14.-Ganna Walska,
opera singer, has indicated she will
contest any suit for divorce which
Harold F. Mccormick, her husband,
may file, according to her attorney.
Her lawyer said that Nine. Walska
has no intention Of giving up her
millionaire husband.
The diva is proving a success as a
business woman. Her perfume shop
is known as one Of the most exclu-
sive on the aristocratic Rue de la
PaiX.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

investigation undertaken by Sher-
lock in the person of the creator,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-came
only day after the disclosure
that police are going fully into
the whole case, and that warrant
has been issued for a man, said to
be prominent, whose identity now
is hidden behind the fictitious
initials "a. B."
n Hiss GILCHRIST was mur-
IMl dered and robbed in 1908.
I Suspicion attached to Sla-
ter. He was extradited from New
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
SIGHT PLANE AT SEA
Liner Reports Filler Very
High, Out 200 Miles.
BU United Press

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. IA radio
message from the liner lie De
France received by the Radio Cor
poration of America today said:
white airplane flying very high
going about west northwest sighted
overhead"
The message was filed at 1880 a.
m, eastern standard time, from lati-
tude 1922 and longitude CLOS, which
is about two hundred miles due east
of Cape Cod.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
GYR0S TO HEAR SLACK
New Club President Will Preside at
Meeting.

Mayor L. Ert Slack will address
the Gyro Club luncheon at the
Spink-ArmS Tuesday noon.
This will be the first meeting fol-
lowing election of DR.. Clarence
Blakeslee, president
Other officers elected are: Ken
Mosiman, secretary; Larry Hart
man, toreasurer; Bill Thurgood, SER
geant-at-armS, and Fred Grumme,
Charles Pahud and Wilbur Shook.
directors.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Mccormick Won't Talk

BU United Press
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Nov. IA.
II consider my marital affairs my
personal business" Harold McCor-
mick said here in refusing to COM
ment on report that he contem-
plates filing suit for divorce from
Gamma Walska, opera star.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Some Paint!
BIZ Times Special

bU IWItS SDtcIuE
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Nov.
. IA witness testifying in the
divorce case here of Mrs. Ruth
Omey against Willis Omey.
said he saw two women riding
with Omey in an automobile
and that one of them had
enough paint on her face Ito
plaster Indiana"
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Shin Capsizes; Nine Men Drown

BOMBAY, India, Nov. 14.-Nine
seamen were drowned when an
Indian coastal vessel capsized in a
heavy storm. Storms have been de-
laying shipping and ravaging crops
in western Indian, particularly cot
ton.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Bandit Kisses Women
BIZ United Press

BU Unlted Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-Police con-
tinued without clews today in their
search for south side bandit who
politely escapes after robbing and
kissing women. A dozen women
have reported activities of the man
to police within a week.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
POSTAL EMPLOYEES TO
WORK CHRISTMAS DAY
Handling OF Yule Mail Will Cost
United States S9,OO0,OOO.

UnlJeo states SJ,OUO,UUU.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA. The
poStofilce department will spend
100000 for handling the 1927
Christmas mails, Postmaster Gen
eral New announced today.
All preparations have been COM
pleted for handling the greatest
volume Of holiday mail in history,
and postal employees will work
Christmas day to get out mail posted
late.
General New has authorized the
appointment of extra clerks and
carriers at most of the $4,000 post
offices and rented temporary ter
minal railway postof1ce spaces.
While every effort will be maG1
to deliver all mail by Christmas
day, New urged early mailings to
avoid congestion.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
JACKSON CLUB MEETING
Annual Banquet To Be Held
Tuesday at I. II.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. IA
The annual Jackson Club of In
diana University banquet will be
held in the Student building at the
university here Tuesday evening.
Speakers will include Frank G.
Daily and Walter Myers, Indian
apolis; Jap Jones, Martinsville, and
Marshall Williams, secretary of the
Indiana State Democratic COM
mittee.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
CAR CRASH is PROBED
Worley Seeks to Determine Cause
of Collision.

An investigation of the College
Ave. street car crash at Twelfth ST.,
which slightly injured twelve per-
sons Saturday, was begun today py
Police Chief Claude M. Worley.
In the crash an inbound ca
jumped the track, struck an out
bound, knocking it off the track.
One hundred persons were on the
two cars.
A split rail was blamed.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Left Behind
Blu Times Special

Blu Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. IA
gallon jug of wine was found
by George Owens in the base
ment of a house into which he
moved recently. owens called
police and they removed the
jug.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

+ - 1LASGow, Scotland, Nov.
IA. = Oscar Slater, in
L. whose aid Sherlock Holmes
emerged quietly but effectively
from retirement, was freed today
from Peterhead jail, where he had
served nearly twenty years of a
life sentence for the murder of
aged Miss Marian Gilchrist.
Slater walked out of the jail at
2:30 p. M, after announcing that
he would devoteNhis life to proving
his absolute innocence of the mur-
der.
His release-effected by years Of
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
Huge Tank DetonatOn DevastateS Many Blocks in
Pittsburgh Industrial Area; Thousands
Are Imperiled in Disaster.
Houses Shattered, Streets Flooded Scores Struck
by Flying Missiles; Hunt for Many
More Bodies in Ruins.
By United Press

PITTSBURGH Nov 14-Fouren known dead and
buried the terrific
which wrecked the 100000 ubO tank the Equitable Gas Com
said had learned fifteen twenty working
the the with welding machines when the explosion
rocked the city
Police the basis of hurried chkp the of the disaster
ded that the death toll would reach forty They estimated that 5000 persons
homeless
Rescue hospital attaches would place estimate the
probably
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
SHOWERS ARE FORECAST

Freezing Temperatures Expected by
Tuesday Night.
Showers are probable here tonight
and Tuesday and temperatures will
drop to 80 degrees Tuesday night, J.
H. Arlington, United States
Weather Bureau head, predicted to-
day. ..,,r.+,.,7.r,
The lowest temperature over the
weekend was 81 degrees at 6 a. m.
Sunday. Temperatures today will
average about 20 degrees above nor
NAL, Arnlington said.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

The basement of the Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company adj
acent the gas works. believed to have many bodies inn
prisoned the Workmen clearing the debris
in an effort to reach them.
Seventywo Of the eighty employed the city asphalt
plant in the of the gas works missing Up until
clock efforts had been made and begin search
for victims.
and danger because shaken condition Of least 100
homes and factories in the destroyed area.
Buildings falling all around hours after the explo-
sion and several injured Thousands of persons
milling around the scene and police had difficulty in holding,
them back.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14
NEGRO SLAIN BY COPS
Shooting by Three Officers Probed
by Worley.

Police Chief Claude M. Worley
began an investigation today into
the killing of Luther Shirley, 35,
Negro, 1852 Alvord ST., early Sun
day morning as he broke from
Sergeant Barge and Patrolmen
Dagger and Hensley at Columbia
Ave. and Sixteenth ST., when they
stopped him for questioning.
The three officers fired as Shirley
darted up an alley. One bullet
struck him.
He died in an ambulance.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-11-14

WE OFFER THE BEST OF
foods at low prices. Try it for din
ner tonight. Fletcher Cafeteria, 10
e. Market St.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
Enain This Eening First Suing Of Season Through the West
WITH THE BOWLERS

alleys in order. Each entry will roll
once at each place.
Each entry will roll IS games. total
pinfall determining the winners in
the three classes. Entry fees are
s15. $40 and IS for the respective
classes.
Entries should he mailed to Con-
vention Hall, Fifth and l. streets.
InterchurCh League champions for
the closing season will be determined
in the series which will be opened by
four teams at the Coliseum tonight.
Columbia Heights Christian, repre-.
senting North Washington; Ingram
Memorial of East Washington circuit.
West Washington Baptist, of George.
town church group and Georgetown
Lutheran of Lutheran League will
compete. Each is 1926-27 champion
of its respective league.
Each team will meet each other in
three games. Total pinfall i'm all
games will determine the team win
ner, which will receive a trophy. In
dividual prizes are also offered.
Columbia Heights will meet Ingram
Memorial and West Washington Bap.
tist is pitted against Georgetown
Lutheran tonight.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
WOMEN ROLL GOOD
SCORES IN TOURNEY

With such teams as Kumbacks, Con-
vention Hall, Temple and Petworth
listed for action tonight, Washington
Ladies' Duckpin Association tourna-
ment promises interesting develop
ments tonight at Convention Hall.
Individual events indicate more ri
valry than the team numbers. Levy
and Gull will dispose of their doubles
tonight, the latter also completing her
allevents score, having previously col
lected 621 in six games. Several in
teresting singles matches are booked.
Beeques, champions of Washington
Ladies' League, lived up to their repu-
tation last night, which was featured
by good team scores. A 1902 set was
registered, putting it in first place in
class A.
Quigley led the Beeques with 327 for
the set, just two pins better than the
mark set by GULL in singles the night
previous. Greeley had 302. Quigley's
ia game was also high in the team
rolling.
Seeley turned in a 125 game in A
singles, Limerick and Ragan tied for
high class A game honors, with 104
each. E. Thompson established high
class c singles game at 106.
Last nights scores:
Evening star., 1927-05-05
HEINDRlCH WINS SCRAP
WITH HUNTER ON POINTS

George Watson, Western High stu
dent, lost the decision to Leon Helm
drich of Gallaudet College last night
in the headline bout of the Jewish
Community Center monthly smoker
program.
Bobby Goldstein gained three
round decision over Joe Lesser.
Benny Denilberg defeated Bob Book
in three rounds.
Charley Marcellino, unattached,
scored O. technical knockout in the
second over Kid Edwards.
Referees were Ben Bortnick and
Abe Davidson. Judges were Joe Per-
rome and Eddie Gibson.