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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26

down to the Wabash and against
the Brevoort levee.
q
T ALREADY was fairly familiar
L with our own West fork, having
seen it operate in flood periods
around indianapolis to the conster-
nation of every one who had base
ment under his house.
The East fork and the Wabash
we're not foreign relatives of mine.
I have been looking at them since
1914, in flood and out from as close
proximity as pair of waders after
bass to as far as it is possible to go
in height with plane.
talked to old river captains of
the Wabash who recalled the days
when they could run a stern wheeler
to the docks at Lafayette and were
a little puzzled why they could not
do the same thing now.
stood on the limestone bluffs at
Georgetown below Logansport and
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1t is likely each of you who read
the same article has forgotten It..
Floods along the lower Wabash?
What does that have to do with us?
Anyway. we haven't had a food
there since May. 1880, why wor-
ry? Thus the public mind throws
off information that is Of such far
reaching Importance it will affect
the daily lives of the people of this
state for years to come, if not al
ways.
Shortly after reading the article,
I started comforting with men
throughout the state on the ques-
ton of food control. These inves-
LEGATIONS took me from Bluffton TO
Vincennes along the Wabash and
from Decker township where the
White and Wabash rivers meet to
Nineveh township where the East
fork of the White goes over the
hump with the watery freight Of the
Blue, the Flat Rock and the Sugar
to roll its ever increasing weight
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Dorothy swallowed what she told
doctors were several bichloride of
mercury tablets, sow-acting
poison.
The next night, according to
friends. she went to a party and
met Henry Kelch. Life began to
assume a more roseate tinge for
Dorothy. She regretted the black
mood that had driven her to the
attempt on her life.
Kelch's wooing was of the whirl-
wind variety and three days later,
he had won himself a bride. Three
days still later and love at first
sight had become a marriage, but
their honeymoon was short-lived.
They took an apartment at the
Central avenue address. Dorothy re-
Trained from telling her husband
of her poisoning attempt, fearing
his anger.
But she became i'll last Saturday
night. She collapsed and was rushed
to city hospital.
Friends are unable to explain the
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girls attempt to end her life, except
to assign it to her chatting over the
restraint imposed by her foster par
ents. The latter, Dorothys friends
say, demanded that she come home
early at night, and Dorothy felt
that since she had reached Is, she
was entitled to more freedom.
Her foster mother, who has reared
Dorothy from infancy asserts she
never has had any difficulty with
the girl until she came more under
the influence of an older girl.
This other girl" the foster mother
explains stayed out at all hours
and took Dorothy with her. I was
afraid Dorothy's health might be-
come impaired"
In city hospital today Dorothy's
condition is called serious but she
is believed likely to recover. Mean
while a young husband of week
waits hopefully for the day when
they can resume their interrupted
honeymoon.
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At the Indianapolis Day Nursery,
542 Lockerbie street, the cops and
firemen were greeted by seventy
youngsters who are cared for during
the day while their mothers toll in
factories or downtown offices.
The delegation of city guardians
made the inspection in connection
with their work of aiding in the
annual Community Fund campaign
Oct. 20 to 80 inclusive, striving to
collect $842, 462.
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Ring Lardner
Creator of you Know Me,
AL Taken at Home on
Long Island.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y, Sept. &c.
Ring Lardner, 40, humorist,
author, and playwright, died in his
sleep at his home late Monday
night.
A heart ailment from which he
suffered three years, complicated by
other diseases, caused death. Early
in the afternoon he become I'M
conscious and never awoke. Mrs.
Lardner and two of their four sons
were at the bedside.
Lardner, first American sports
writer to "debunk" baseball and
later a bright star in the literary
sky, had been i'll since 1881. In that
year he went to Arizona and re-
turned to New York City much
improved. A recurrence last spring
sent him west again.
He returned several weeks ago,
spending the major portion of his
time in bed. His physician permit
ted him to continue writing be
cause he wasn't happy unless he was
working"
His work" was divided into two
distinct phases. In the early days,
Lardner devoted his talents to the
rather broad humor found in his
Bib Ballads" Symptoms of Being
Thirty and "Gullible's Travels"
Not until 1924. when his collec-
ton, How to Write Short Stories"
was published, was he acclaimed one
of the greatest contemporary short
story writer's.
From his contact with players,
Lardner found inspiration for his
well-known You Know Me Az
stories.
His humorous stories were eagerly
accepted by magazines. Two of his
plays. Elmer the Great" and June
Moon" for which he also composed
the songs, achieved wide popular
itV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
STORM RACES OVER
CITY'S NORTH SIDE
Trees Uprooted, High Ten
sion Wires Torn Down.

Windstorm, accompanied by rain
fall at noon today, struck the north
side, uprooting trees, blowing off
limbs and tearing down high ten
sion wires.
The storm was believed the result
of low pressure trough moving
eastward which, according to wealth
err forecasts, probably will be fol-
lowed by more showers and cooler
weather tonight and Wednesday
night.
A large number of tree limbs were
blown in the street in vicinity of the
Indiana state Playground. Seven
blocks of high tension wires were
reported down in Roache street,
between Harding street and North
western avenue.
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Floods Threaten Disastrous State Situation Expert Asserts

witnessed mad striving to curb an
ever increasing flood menace
brought into being by myriad acts
along the head waters of our rivers,
each one by itself undertaken with
out the slightest regard for the in
terests of the next neighbor south
until finally the cumulative effect Of
it all calls out Mrs. Jenckes to
battle the federal government for
food control that the state does not
seem able to supply itself.
In fact, so far as food control Is
concerned, every act of the state up
to the present moment apparently
is designed to aggravate the menace
and not diminish it and it is the
purpose of these articles to show you
where we stand on the question,
what was and what will be and to
furnish out Of the minds Of men
who have lived this thing a solution
for the problem.
NEXT-Reasons for floods.
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Panuco $3.50 tons) of New York,
owned by the New York and Cuban
Mail Company, were driven seward
or ashore by the wind and high
waves, which wrecked the wharves
and moorings.
The German steamship Adria
(6,358 tons, of Bremen, owned by the
Hamburg American line) and the
British steamship Mirlo (believed to
be the British-built Norwegian
steamship Mirlo of Tonsberg, owned
by the Tankfart company were
damaged seriously.
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Twelve Known Dead as
Earthquake Rocks Italy

Panic prevailed all through the
night in great section of central
Italy bounded by Rome, Apcona and
Pescara, in which almost the en-
tire population camped outdoors to
avoid danger from crumbling build
ings.
Chieti province was reported hard
est hit, while the provinces Of
Auuila, Teramo and Sulmona suf-
fered to less degree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
M'NUTT SIGNS PAPERS
TO RETURN DILLINGER
Officers Hold Local Bank Bandit
Suspect in Dayton, o.

Governor Paul V. McNutt has
signed extradition papers for John
Dillinger. indicted by the Marion
county grand jury. as a member of
the bandit gang which robbed the
Massachusetts Avenue bank. Sept. 6.
Part Of the loot is alleged to have
been found on Dillinger when he
was captured at Dayton, o.. last
week. The papers are intended to
bring him back from the Ohio city
for trial here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26

ClClng Cne fdcC GnaC JEe Governor
asked that the state committee be
called to vote for or against the
Hoosier Democratic Club as test
in the party leadership battle,
Greenlee declared:
"You don't suppose we would have
asked to have the meeting Saturday
if we didn't know we had the votes.
The most Mr.. Peters could muster
would be six, and with Senator
Frederick Van Nuys joining with
us, he will not have that many"
Mr.. Peters at first agreed to the
Saturday meeting but postponed it
to Oct. late Monday. He explained
that he would be in Washington
again and that some of the COM
mittee members might want to at
tend the Chicago fair.
Challenge Openly Accepted
He also suggested that this was
not test vote of confidence in
party leadership, but today he ap-
peared to be a minority in this be-
lief. The challenge for leadership
openly is accepted at the Statehouse
and every one is taking sides.
Certain prominent state officials
strongly are backing Mr.. Peters,
but the majority stand with Cover
nor McNutt. Most of the depart
ment heads owe their position to
executive appointment.
That Senator Van Mugs might
join with the state administration
in the fight was agreed by some Of
his supporters. They charge that
the state chairman has been unkind
both to the governor and senator
in his numerous conversations with
Postmaster General James E. Far
ley, the federal patronage dispen-
ser.
Fight Is Over 2 Per Cent
Possibility of state committee
members having a renewed share
either in state or federal appoint
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BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS
Times Special Writer

NNE of the recurring delights in
~ having conservation for a hob
by lies in its universally. Nothing
goes on in the outdoors that is not
griSt for the conservatonist's mill.
Be it the planting of forests, or fish,
the control of game or floods-in
each of these the true conservation
ist is interested and usually well in
formed.
My attention was called to news
item in last June's Times concern
ing the activity of Mrs. Virginia
JenckeS. Indiana Sixth district rep
resentative. in sponsoring certain
flood control methods along the
lower Wabash and White rivers.
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81 Lhlted PfeSS
ROME, Sept. 26.-Reports seeping
in from mountain towns showed
twelve known dead and sixty in
iured in an earthquake that struck
Italy and portions or Yugoslavia
today.
1t was feared the casualties would
prove more numerous, because small
towns where communication is most
difficult were the worst sufferers.
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The visiting f1remen and police
men we're told that the American
Settlement, located in the heart Of
the foreign district, maintains a
day nursery and provides relief to
needy families teaching health
habits.
The delegation next visited Elan
ner House for Negroes at 8O2 North
West street, where they saw forty
Negro children left during the day
while their mothers work to provide
for them.
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1t is impossible to ascertain the
number of dead and injured or the
real extent of the damage at this
time. Mony hours will be required
before any comprehensive state
ment can be made of the death toll
or damages.
Ambulances and volunteers still
are gathering bodies Every public
building which has been left stand
ing is filled with injured and home
less, as are the churches, the hotels,
and the remaining private homes.
Five vessels tied at the wharves,
including the American steamship
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
REALTY VALUE
SLASH SCORED
BY ASSESSOR
MCCloskey BIames Boards
for Large Property
Valuation Cuts.
PRESS TO BE EXCLUDED
Official Attacks Council for
Budget Slice; Claims
Broken Pledge.

Acts Of the state tax board and
the county board of review in or
. dering reductions in property valua-
tons. and upholding exemptions,
which have taken s4O,OOOOOO from
tax duplicates, we're scored today by
John McCloskey, Center township
assessor.
McCloskey appeared before the
county tax adjustment board Mon
day afternoon in its secret session
which followed announcement that
newspaper men would be barred
from all but public hearings for the
remainder of the boards delibera-
tiOns.
The Center township assessor was
recalled this morning in a hearing
on his own budget, which was held
openly. McClOskey criticised a S10,-
600 slash in his 1884 budget request,
charging it handicapped his work
in revising Center township valua-
tions.
Passage Promised
He revealed to The Times that
prior to preparing his estimate for
submission to the county council,
Walter BOettcher, former council
president and now president of the
city board of works, promised to
have the appropriation passed in
tact.
McCloskey said his estimate of
-
from this years appropriation Of
S84. 256.98 with Boettcher's help,
with the understanding that no fur
Their cuts would be made.
L wanted to leave a slight mar
gin, but Boettcher insisted on cut
ting to the BONE McCloSkey told
Times reporter. Then the council
chops off five deputy assessors from
the twenty-one requested
Charges FavOritism
Facts and figures poured from
McCloskey's lips in torrent as he
told how favored interests in the
city received reductions in valu-
ations and how fraternal, charitable
and educational institutions held
their properties tax-free.
He cited the Odd Fellow building
at Pennsylvania and Washington
strets, which was taken from tax
duplicates at a valuation loss to the
county of 100000, despite the fact
that most of the building is rented
for offices and storerooms at a
profit.
Russell Wilson. school board
member of the tax adjustment,
substantiated McCloskey charge of
exemptions with the declaration:
The school board. constantly is
being importuned to accept prop
erty at q 81 a year lease, in order
that the owners viii not have to pay
taxes"
Apartment Not Taxed
McCloskey told of two high-grade
North Meridian street apartments,
side by side. with one entirely off
the tax duplicates because it is
owned in trust by Butler univer-
sity.
The board of review then cut the
second piece of property in order
to even things up. although I
pointed out that the property across
the street remained at a fair valua-
ton" McCloskey said.
Joseph Schmidt. real estate man.
appeared before the board and in
terrupted McCloSkey's remarks to
relate how he had fought vainly
against CHASING of the Indianapolis
Athletic Club as an educational"
institution to obtain tax exemption.
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Love Stirs Bride of Is TO
Desperate Battle for Life

An 18yearold bride winning against
before she
Things looked pretty blue Dorothy Kech
only short
with her foster She became
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Due to the interest in food control
The Times has asked William F. Collins,
conservation expert, to interpret the
situation in his own words in four
stories. This is the first of the series.
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Forty Blue Coated Policemen and Firemen Pratte Baby
Talk at City Settlement.
when Lou meets Lou!"

gad forty bucoated police and remen
official Monday the American Settlement GIT
While the emn praed baby-ak to the infants
Indianapolis Community agencies explained the
Of ocottln
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
McNutt Has IL of State
Committees Fl Votes In
the Bag,' Claims Greenlee
Governor Sure of Victory in Showdown Battle With
R. Earl Peters, Says Patronage Secretary,
Foe of Chairman.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY,
Times Staff Writer

of
claimed lin the bag for Governor Paul
fight with Peters, chairman
This was the prediction made today by Pleas
patronage
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5000 JOIN IN STRIKE
Employees of Twenty Mines Unite in
Pennsylvania WaIkout.

hu Hittn Eft>s
VANDERGRIFT. Pa, Sept. 20
All coal mines in the KiSmininetaS
valley, numbering about twenty and
employing approximately 5000 men,
Joined in the western Pennsylvania
coal strike today.
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Injured and Homeless Fill
All Buildings Left Standing
BY F. DE LA CANADA,
Captain of the Port of TampicO
copyright. 1888. by United Press

TAMPICO Mexico Sept radio S. Kel via Mexico
Sunday 1t reached
its greatest intensity and and continued until after
a m. Monday.
The wind blew high q06A niles hour 1t
damaged buildings destroyed practically
all tremendous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26

prlSlng CALAMITY.
AS explained by J. H. Arlington,
local meteorologist, September and
october annually produce a large
of similar cyclones through
out the tropical areas Of the world.
A great majority OF these storms
arise and disSipate themselves at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
Caribbean Area 'Unlucky,'
Says City Weather Man
THE worst disastt

be worst disaster history of Mexico as the hurricane which
by the Mexican interior department.
weather bureau here was lar from sur
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
FORD EMPLOYEES STRIKE
Workers Refuse TO Accept Terms at
Chester pa Plant.

CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 26.-Five
thousand employees of the Ford
Motor Company plant here refused
to accept minimum wage of so
cents an hour for thirty-two hour
week, and went on strike today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-26
CHAMBERLIN REPORTED
IN FAIR CONDITION.
Part of Lens of Former Judges Eye
Removed Following Injury.

Removed Following INJURY.
Harry o. Chamberlin, former cir
cult judge, today was reported in
fairly satisfactory condition" fol-
lowing second operation Monday
on his eye, injured a week ago when
it was struck by golf ball on the
South Grove course.
Surgeons removed part of the lens
of the eye in an effort to prevent
loss of sight.
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NExT-ReasOns for floods.
Evening star., 1933-06-03
COPPER JOINS RISE
IN BASIC MATERIALS
Metal at s Cents a Pound After
Touching Low Point
of Cents.

NEW YORK. June Cooper, left
ct the barrier when commodities
started their race to higher-price lev
els. finally Is showing signs Of action.
The price advanced sluggishly dur
ing the April and MAY upr.sh in other
non-ferrous metals, cotton. wool, rub
Der and raw and finished materials,
but has moved recently at a more
sprightly pace At cents pound
the red metal is a good 3 cents above
the price at the end of 1882.
To what degree producers have bene-
fited only time will tell A partial an
swer may be found in the next quar-
terlv reports of the few companies
which supply interim statements.
Copper company analysts are baffied
In attempts to calculate Immediately
the gains to the producing concerns,
first by the impossibility Of obtaining
accurate estimates of the amount OF
metal being sold, and secondly, by lack
of information on operating costs.
The cost of producing copper Is
variable. Large producers are now op-
Grating on restricted basis, so costs in
normal years would be useless as
guide
There are some indications that the
industry is at last feeling the effects OF
the upturn in business. Recent buying
Is thought to have included fair
amounts for actual consumption, al
though speculative operations prompted
by imitation considerations are still
apparently large.
Evening star., 1933-06-03

tractive boat Just now while her Spring
paint Is fresh. She has spent the VIM
ter in Fred Dion's shipyard at South
Salem, and was one of the early ones
to get into the water. She was put
overheard April IS.
Fred Dion and his crew turned her
out handsome thing She is painted
white, and her skin is like polished
enamel. If you compliment Fred on
this, however. he viii laugh and assure
you that she is to come out of the
water for cleaning, scraping and re-
painting her bottom before she goes out
in company.
Lying In Marblehead.
Just now she is lying in Marblehead
Harbor, or getting short spins. She
wears no sail covers, but her stout can
vas looks as though it had Just come
from the sail loft.
Her bow is cut away at the FORE
foot, but 1t Is by no means weak nor
fat. In fact, it has considerable grace
ful sheer-and when you get aboard
you find that it is double planked and
extremely strong for ocean sailing.
Her sticks are in proportion, so that
she does not look like a counterbal-
anced racing machine, but sensible
ship with sporty cruising rig, but a
cruising rig after all
Her cabin trunk extends from Just
abaft the foremast to well aft of the
mainmast. It has a generous skylight
over the main cabin, a ventilating
hatch over the galley. and two whirling
ventilators set in the wake Of the mast,
on the port side.
Beloy, she is ideally arranged and
fitted. The engine hatch is on the port
Evening star., 1933-06-03
SHERWOOD CALLED
BEFORE u. S. JURY
Accountant Once Sought in Walker
Probe Subpoenaed to Ap-
pear Monday.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 3.-Russen T.
Sherwood, who returned recently after
vanishing 81 months ago when investi-
gators were inquiring into former Mayor
James ]. Walkers administration, Is
under subpoena to appear before a
Federal grand jury here Monday.
Sherwood, interviewed last night in
an apartment he has been occupying in
East Orange, N. j., said he did not
know why he was Slbpoenaed. His
counsel intimated he would deny own
ership of funds on which the Govern
ment has laid claims for about S57 900
In back income taxes and interest.
Investigator Samuel Seabury insists
that Sherwood. formerly obscure ac-
countant, handled nearly s1.000,000 in
various brokerage accounts and that he
was Walkers fiscal agent
Sheriff Joseph T. Higgins announced
that when Sherwood returns to New
York he will be arrested and confined
pending payment of the balance of a
$4,000 fine, levied by State courts.
Evening star., 1933-06-03

side Of the after end Of the cabin.
with hatch cover Of its own. The
connpanionway opens at the starboard
side, with fishermenis hashboards for
heavy weather.
At the foot of the companion, to port,
is a navigator's desk, and q somewhat
CONSTRUCTED and curved berth. To star
board is another berth.
Main Cabin Roomy.
Forward of the bulkhead is the main
cabin, roomy, beautiful in white paint
and with lockers in every corner. The
skipper's and the mates hunks are
broad and deep and long. Beneath
each Of them a tray for the third and
fourth bunk slide out.
If you can count. you will find that
this takes care of six Of crew, at any
given time. OF course, there is such a
thing as the watch coming off getting
into the hunks of the watch coming on
deck
But the present crew, as listed by
James Roosevelt, contains President
Roosevelt. as the Old Man; James, as
mate: and Franklin D., jr.: John A,
Bobby Delano-a cousin-and George
K. Briggs. Marblehead yachtsman, crew.
Just where the breeding secret
service men who haunt the footsteps
and follow the wake of the President
will be put Is nobody's business. But
it will be one of the humorous annoy
ances of the cruise-for the secret
service men.
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