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Apprehension Grows
 About Results Of
 Storn, In Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. IT, (P)- A radio message picked up by Gif- ford Grange, amateur, said that an undetermined number of per- sons have been injured and great property damage has been done at West Palm Beach and Palm Beach by the hurricane bu tho known loss of life.
 Many homes were wrecked and buildings left intact are filled with refugees. A message signed D. H. Conkling; this is the name of Q publisher at West Palm Beach.
 The Post hospital has been de- stroyed and Miami is isolated ac- cording to wire communications north of West Palm Beach.
 Lack of communications eXtend- ed to Melborne more than 100 miles north while conditions south were unknown owing to wire failure.
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Sir Russians Trek
 lwo Hundred Miles
 After Plane Crashes

MOSCOW, Sept. IF, P)-Six men of the Russian plane Soviet of North" missing since August 22 on a flight from Vladivostok to Len ingrad, were picked up by the steamer Stavropol.
 Their airplane was wrecked dur ing storm near Kolyuchin Bay, Siberia. The crew, apparently un- hurt, walked more than 200 miles over the bleak and frozen plains to the icebound coast, where the steamer took them aboard.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-09-17
Weird Death TraiI Still Battling In
 Seattle Manhunt

SEATTLE, Sept. IT, (R)-Searcn for the body of James Bassett, missing Bremerton visitor has turned from the wooded tract around the deserted house in Sno7 homish county to Tacoma's indus trial district, when Tacoma police reported that D. E. Mayer, suspect ed murderer, had occupied a shack on the Tacoma tideflats less than 8 8 fortnight ago.
 Tacoma police said Mayer and a feminine companion visited the house September 8 in a blue-toned roadster for which it is believed Bassett was murdered three days earlle,
 Mayer and his alleged mother
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Y anRs Lead Cut
 7 To Half Gan,e

ST. LOUIS, Sept, IT, (P)-The lead of the Yankees was reduced to half a game when the Browns shaded New York by the score of six to five. Babe" Ruth hit anoth- CT home-run bringing his total for
 .s> ie>"ts1, =,
 the first inning. One of the runs of the Browns came in when Pipgras hit hard past third: In the third and fourth innings the Yanks got three runs.
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Milt Simpson, village mighty things than his tokens Cardinals c0indent
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Witness z els Of Admissions Made
 Quadruple Murder

LOS ANGELES. Sept. IT, lP) - Cyrus George Northcott, held as a witness to the killing of four boys on a Riverside, Calif.. farm, told ottlclers his son and grandson ad- mltted to him they had committed the murders.
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FLIGHT HALTED

BERLIN, Sept. IT, (P)-The flight of the Zeppelin carrying mail and passengers from Germany to the United States was postponed. Capt. Eckener has failed to comply with formalities which are prerequisit for starting.
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NOTICE

Official inspection of chimneys and flues beginning at g a. m. to- starting on Fourth Avenue. Chief of Fire Department
 ROBERT GUEST.
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URGE PARALLEL PARKING
ON WASHINGTON STREET

Flat-to-curb parking on Washing
ton street will be provided in the
new traffic ordinance which prob
ably will be introduced in city coun~
Gil Monday night.
Angle parking was in effect from
White River to Noble street. Elm
ination of angle parking was recon-
mended to council by Traffi1 Cap
tain Lester E. Jones. 1t will allow
another line of automobiles at
downtown intersections, aiding of
ficers to clear corners faster.
For the present. the council prob
ably will not change the pedestrian
regulations, which gave the person
who walks, ty-f1ve-Sec
period, with motor traffic halted
from all directions. Some objec-
tions to the "go period for
pedestrians have been presented to
council and the plan may be abol-
ished if a satisfactory method OF
rerouting street cars can be devised.
Robert E. Springsteen, council
safety chairman. said he had re-
ceived numerous letters requesting
the council to reroute street cars
to eliminate congestion and right
turns on Washington street, en-
larging the business loop.
Springsteen proposed that north
side lines loop on Ohio to Illinois
streets and back to Massachusetts
avenue on New York street, as g
means of eliminating the heavy
downtown car traffic. Traffic ex-
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"Spudding in," the first bit of
drilling in an attempted oil well, will
continue throughout today.
BY Friday the ninety-two big
rotary drills will begin boring
through the earth in an effort t.
prove the contention that the mis- :
sion area constitutes one of the
largest oil pools in the greater SEM
mole district.
1t was months ago that drilling
limitations in this region were i'm
posed as a result OF astounding pro-
duction of the greater Seminole pool
which went wild and gushed forth
$4,000 barrels of oil a day.
Interest was intense, although the
frenzied activity of other pools i'll
this state, when the oil industry was
young, was not so pronounced.
For n e than a month major oil
companies had prepared for the
lifting of the lid on the Mission pool.
Heavy pipe and tools were hauled
over dirt roads and fields and set up
on Staked locations. Rigs were
built, boilers set up; everything was
ready for the race that started the
minute the restriction ceased. 1t
was a timely and orderly "take-off. -
The ninety-two wells started this
morning entail a cost of approx
mately $4,OOO,OO0. Each well, it is
estimated, will force the expendi-
ture of more than $4,000
One concern, the Gypsy Oil Com
pany, started thirty-one of the
ninety-tWo wells.
The first drill to reach oil will
have an advantage in draining the
great pool of oil that is believed to
lie beneath the SOIL
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The Community Fund campaign
total was raised to $555,610 by to-
days pledges reported at the work.
ers' luncheon at the Claypool. The
days total was $47,589. The work
ers hope to reach the goal of
$781 800 by Monday. when the cam
paign officially ends.
Local health agencies affiliated
with the Community Fund Spon-
sored the report luncheon today.
Prayer was offered by Rabbi Morris
Feuerlicht. Fred Hoke, an active
leader in the campaign. spoke. En-
tertainment by Miss Dennis Gray
and Miss Alice Glendenning of the
Burton Theatrical agency COM
pleted the program.
Employees of the William H. Block
Company held a meeting this morn
ing in interest of the fund. Draw
ing for the L. S. Ayres e. Co. Graf
Zeppelin prize and theater passes
for 1.-The Silent House" will con-
tinue at the luncheons throughout
the drive.
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Hourly Temperatures
$555,61O TOTAL REACHED
in COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE

The fund workers were faced
with the task of raising 35 per cent
of the total quota in the closing five
days of the drive when reports at
the Wednesday luncheon were tab
ulated.
Special gifts division A and B
and branch house division we're
ahead of the totals reported at the
fourth meeting during last years
campaign, while the mile square
women's army and employees divi-
sions were behind the 1927 record.
Mrs. George j. Yoke, chairman of
district No. % in the south divi-
sion of the women's army, was the
only person to report going lover
the top" of her quota Wednesday.
Tonight's Community Fund radio
program will go on the air from
WFBM at $50. Mrs. Frank B.
Hunter, soprano, will sing two
groups of songs with Mrs. Luther
Shirley as accompanist. The final
radio offering is set for Nov. % at
$50 D. m.
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Taps, Taps!
In Gaseous Room as Sea
CreepS in Liners Radio
Man Says 'Good-by.'

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The
IN high courage of Michael j.
OLoughlin, chief radio operator
of the S. S. Vestris, stood out in
relief today against the tragic
background of the disater.
He followed the tradition of the
sea and it's wireless men. He died
at his post in line of duty.
The slender thread of safety,
to the hundreds on board the
Vestris, was held in his hand and
the key he tapped. His part was
not in the scramble for lifeboats
or even in heroic aloofness while
others filled the boats. His job
was the staccato stutter of the
SOS followed by long hours of
patient directions to speeding
rescue ships, which must know the
VestriS' position.
DOVER gone in the engine
room. Batteries weakened by
loss of acid and inroads of the sea
water. Waning signal strength as
the emergency set, a sputtering
spark coil spit out the last few
words that ships could hear.
"They are taking to life boats"
Good by, WSC." CWSC is the
shore station at Tuckerton, N. j.
with whom O'Loughlin had COM
municated.)
But there was still weak, halting
power left in the batteries and
with the Vestris on the verge of
rolling over for her final plunge,
OLoughlin braced himself des-
perately and continued to send
signals.
What they were no one heard
they we're too weak and none of
the approaching ships could read
them.
Then the Vestris rolled over.
Several who left the ship as she
was about to take the final plunge
said they heard the faint buzzing
of the radio as O'Loughlin con-
tinued to ask for help.
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FOR
YULET|DE JOY
21,000 Christmas Club
Members to Receive
Checks.

Indianapolis banks will pay about
$500, 900 in checks Nov. 80 to Christ
mas Saving Club members for 1928
More than $1,000 city residents
availed themselves of the syste-
matte savings plan sponsored by a
majority of downtown and neighbor-
hood banks.
Total savings reported by the
clubs is considerably below the
81 100000 which was deposited in
the same institutions last year
About $4,000 persons deposited
weekly savings in 1927. when banks
paid interest on the Christmas Club
deposits.
Drop in the total this year was
attributed to the decision of most
banks not to pay interest to Christ
mas club members.
Operated at Loss
Majority of banks last year agreed
to discontinue payment of interest,
declaring they had operated the
savings plan at a loss. Some banks
said they made no effort to increase
the club lists, but took what came"
from customers.
Several bankers estimated that
more than half the club savings
we're redeposited In the bank in reg
ular saving accounts. The Christ
mas plan provides for periodic de-
posits ranging from IS cents upward.
Record Christmas distribution of
about $55O,O0O,O00 will be made by
5000 financial institutions of the
country, according to announcement
of the Christmas club, IS West
Forty-fifth street. New York city.
Eight Million to Benefit
More than 100000 members will
participate in the distribution. The
sum is reported to be 10 per cent
larger than last years distribution
The amount is five times the total
in 1920.
Herbert F. Rawll, Christmas Club
president and founder, estimated
the nations merchants will receive
about $213,000,000, the remainde.
flowing into permanent investments,
year-end commitments, installment
payments, insurance premiums
mortgages, education, taxes, educa-
ton and charity.
1t was estimated that Indiana will
have a total of $13,100,000 an in
crease of 81 per cent.
Clubs and Amounts
List of clubs and amounts saved:
Fletcher Savings and Trust Com
pany and associated neighborhood
banks, $3.50 members, $280,000.
Fletcher American National Bank,
1887 members, $85, 400; Union Trust
Company. 500 members, $177,0O0;
Peoples State Bank, 700 members,
$4,000; Fidelity Trust Company, 300
members, $4,000; Farmers Trust
Company, $50 members, $5,000; In
lamb Bank and Trust Company,
1000 members, 100000.
Marion County State Bank, 800
members, $31 ,282; State Savings and
Trust Company. 500 members, $2O,-
900; Continental National Bank,
1000 members, $4,000; Washington
Bank and Trust Company, ITO
members, $22,750; Meyer r-Kiser
Bank. 1900 members, $4,000; Bank
ers Trust Company, 1000 members,
$35, 900 and United Land Bank and
Trust Company, 100 members, $4,000.
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Creeping Death
Scientist Dies of Radium
Poisoning; Five Women
Victims Despair.

DW L HtLCU HfCSS
NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 15.-The
IN hope of life of the five New
Jersey women, slowly dying from
the effects of radium paint, was
shaken when DR.. Sabin A. Won
Sochocky. inventor of the paint,
died Wednesday,.
The five women had found
courage in DR.. Won Sochocky's
emphatic statement of only a few
weeks ago that he had cured him
self of the radium poison induced
by his own invention.
The women we're employed
painting luminous watch dials
with the radium paint. Using
small brushes, which they licked
often with their tongues, they
gradually became poisoned.
Thirteen blood transfusions
were made by physicians in their
efforts to save DR.. Sochocky, be-
fore he left the Newark city hos
pital to die in his home, in East
Orange, N. j.
DR.. Won Sochocky was former
president and technical director
of the United States Radium Cor
poration in whose East Orange
watch dial painting plant the five
poisoned women and thirteen 9TH
ers who already have died we're
employed.
Jokingly, DR.. Won Sochocky sub
mitted to the test used on the
women only to learn that he had
absorbed as much of the death
dealing poison as they had licked
from their tiny paint brushes.
Dr. Harrison .. MARYLAND, chief
medical examiner of Essex county,
who first correctly diagnosed the
poison in the five women, discov-
cred the ailment in DR.. Sochosky's
system.
He described DR.. Sochosky'S
death as due to apalaStic anemia,
produced by the radium rays,
which destroyed blood resistance
and marrow tissue.
The condition of the five women
was found unchanged Wednesday.
The poison slowly but surely was
eating their tissues.
Each has been awarded $4,000
in cash and 5000 annuity in re-
turn for approaching death.
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SHOOTS PHOTOS AS SHIP SINKS; SEAMAN ENRICHED

waves. Once 1 thought my cam
era was gone. but I got up and
started shooting again. Every
one was screaming and yelling. I
kept taking pictures until all the
boats on the starboard side were
launched except No. /. AS that
was being lowered I jumped into
it after taking my last picture
on deck"
This last picture showed a man
in the water, life belt around him,
padding to keep himself clear of
the sinking vessel.
Hanson's camera was a pygmy in
comparison with the big news
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LAST VICTIMS
HEAD TOPORT
Stories of HerOiSm Are
Continued by Sunken
Ship Survivors.
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE

InlteQ freSS StaH COrreSpen0enB
NEW YORK, Nov. Histories of
heroism, Of suffering and of tragedy
were continued today as the final
chapters in the sinking of the
steamship Vestris were written.
Into New York, the port from
which the VeStriS sailed on its
happy voyage to South America last
Saturday, today had been brought
205 persons who were miraculously
saved from death when the Vestris
listed and foundered.
The latest survivors to arrive were
f1fty-seven-eight passengers and
forty-nine members of the crew
who came in on the French oil
tanker Myriam this morning.
1t is believed only one group of
survivors remain to reach port. 1t
was composed Of those saved by the
battleship Wyoming, which is
Steaming toward Hampton Roads.
Reports say that eight survivors
are aboard the Wyoming and advices
to Washington said many of them
needed hospital care.
Last Survivors to Port
That will bring the total of res
cued to 213. The rest of that pas
senger and crew personnel Of 339
persons are missing and there are
few who are optimistic enough to
believe any will be found alive.
The Wyoming should reach
Hampton Roads by p. M, the navy
department announced and tnat will
mean all the known survivors of
this narrowing epic of the seas are
safe.
The first person to walk off the
Myriam was Mrs. Cline Slaughter
of Chicago, whose husband, rescued
by the American Shipper, awaited
her at the East river pier in Brook
lyn. She had reached safety on her
twenty-firSt birthday.
Captain Chose Death
1t became apparent when T. r.
Edwards, a steward, talked that
Captain Carey voluntarily had
chosen to go to his death with his
ship rather than attempt rescue.
"Just before leaving I saw the
captain and Second Mate Watson
standing on the bridge. They were
gripping hands as if saying good-by.
Then they walked to the rail. The
captain looked out over the water.
He and Watson again gripped hands
and just as the VestriS started to
sink, Watson leaped into the water
never saw the captain again."
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cameras, it is just an ordinary
little pocket kodak of no great
monetary value.
Hanson who has been to sea
since he was Ia years old, was
asked what he thought was the
worst incident of the whole ship
wreck.
THE boat turned over and there
were all kinds of people being
drowned and everything" Hanson
replied. Il raised my camera to
get picture and 1 remembered
that I had no more film. I could
have kicked myself all over. That
was a terrible thing"
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NEW YORK, Nov 15.-All the
~ twenty children and all but
eleven of the women who sailed
on the Vestris have been lost, it
appeared certain today.
Fate played cruel trick when
it caused the old sea law of "wom-
en- and children first" to operate
indirectly to cause the deaths of
those it was designed to protect.
The lifeboats that did not sur
vive were those that were put off
the Vestris first, and they held the
women and children.
y n Il
TINE first two boats, loaded
l. with women and children,
never we're launched. The list of
the doomed steamer swung them
against her side and the ropes
jammed. One broke loose and
the passengers went into the
boiling sea. The other was
crushed and sunk by falling
davit as it reached the water.
Through the stories told by
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By United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-A 90
L ' year-old seaman, who al
ways has enjoyed using a camera,
was several thousand dollars
wealthier today because he. had
camera along when his vessel. the
Vestris, went down off Virginia,
Monday.
The seaman, Fred Hanson,
brought pictures of the sinking of
the craft to New York and gave
them to the New York Daily News.
That newspaper this morning had
six pages of pictures showing the
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last hours aboard the vessel.

last hours aboard the vessel.
The front page picture shows
the crew and passengers, all wear
ing life belts, rushing toward the
life boats. The list of the vessel
plainly can be seen.
One picture shows the Vestris
just before it went down. Han
son was one of the last to leave
the boat and snapped this picture
just before he 'leaped into life
boat.
"On deck started taking pic
lures" Hanson said. Several
times 1 was knocked down by
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First Break in Solid Wall of Resistance Up
Against Federal Charges Comes
When Engraver Pleads Guilty.
FOR DISMISSAL IS LOST
Prosecution Uses 1876 on Stand to Build Up
It's Evidence Since Fifteen Went
Before u. S. Court Tuesday.

The rested the defense lost to dismiss
the charges against all defendants and defense testimony was
started today federal court a Of the fifteen persons
charged with being conspratos in the interstate automobile
theft ring.
Jacob Wohfeld and his son. Mortimer local urrier and
Rrtra Lbowz 80 North Jefferson avenue given first
opportunity to present their denial that they involved or
had knowledge of the shot carr traffic.
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perts sa ythe pedestrian system can
be safely abolished, letting pedes-
trians move with traffic on the
green light" if turns are prohibited
City Engineer A. H. Moore is pre-
pairing recommendations to council
on the plan of rerouting and likely
will suggest cross town lines elimin-
ating cars looping in the congested
area.
There is no reason why a north
side line can not cross the business
district and the same cars be used
on the south side. This would
eliminate the numerous turns, I"
Moore said.
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IL REACHES GEORGIA

Stays in Savannah Tonight; Bound
for Mississippi on Vacation.
BIZ United Press
SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 15.-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith, Mississippi
bound for vacation, arrived here
today for an overnight stay as
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Espy,
close friends of the New York chief
executive.
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TzUenty Children on Li11eY--Apd N

survivors, a thread of painful
memory ran constantly of the
deaths of the helpless children.
II had a child in my arms, but
it was dead"
1.-THE body of a woman with
child in her arms swept by our
boat"
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WOMAN SAVED By DOG

VALPARAISO, Ind, Nov. 15.-
Mrs. Charles Smith owes her life
to her pet dog. With wet hands
she attempted to turn on an elec-
trio light and the contact of water
and electricity held her fast. She
swooned to the floor. The dog
pulled the wire from her.
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GET $3.50 IN LOOT
Clothing Firm Robbed by
Band of Burglars.

Clothing valued at $3.50 was
carted away from the Hoyle &
Rarick Clothing Company store at
20 East Ohio street, Wednesday
night by band OF burglars who
entered the store through a rear
window and ransacked the interior
Garments Of every type were
taken, clothing dummies we're
stripped and window displays were
wrecked.
The burglars apparently used q
large truck, which they drove to
the stores rear entrance, police said.
Al Goodman, manager, made the
loss estimate.
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a spar. Then 1 found the child
was dead"
Such stories we're many. In most
of them, the helpless terror of the
children and the bravery of the
women were emphasized.
1.-The women we're calmeSt," one
passenger said. "They showed no
panic and set an example to us
ALL"
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HOOVER AIDED BUSINESS

Mellon Says His Election Caused
Expansion of Activities.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The
election of Herbert Hoover has had
a good effect on business in gen.
eral, Secretary of Treasury Mellon
said today in a press conference.
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-. GLADIANOS, a member Of

=. GLAOlANOO, d uleIIlpeI VI
~ the crew, who was in one Of
the first two lifeboats, told how his
boat was smashed by a falling
boom.
II saw a child in the water and
made for her." he said, "but I
found my arm was broken. Il
grabbed her anyway and straddled
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81 could hear a woman calling,
but we could not reach her."

n &
ONE survivor told how a stew
~ ardesS, holding a child in
her arms, was thrown from a
capsizing lifeboat and carried
away by a wave.
Miss Helen Cubbin, of New York
a survivor, told how boy and girl
had clung to her for protection
They we're torn from her when the
lifeboat capsized, she said, and she
never saw them again.
Mrs. Earl Devore, who was saved
while her husband was lost.
described the swamping of the
lifeboat in which she and several
other women we're seeking safety.
II heard women around me
wailing," she said, and one, who
1 knew was Mrs. Raphael, cried,
oh, my God, the lifeboat's leav-
ing u.s. She went down and that
was the last saw of her."