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The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
Ice Gorge Breaks, Carrying
Away Boats and Docks
Along River.
MORE DAMAGE FEARED
Mercury May Drop Tonight
to Freezing, Weather
Man Says.

A one-mile ice jam in White
River this afternoon threat
ened flood damage to Ravens
wood.
Rising swiftly after the ice gorge
had broken. the river overfiowed and
inundated the first floors of build
lngs $50 feet from the beach at Ra-
venswood.
Occupants hastily began moving
furniture from the first to second
hoors of stores, taverns and cottages
IN the path of the rising waters.
Rowboats, docks and trees were
lodged among the large chunks of
ice piled high in the river as the
water rose at a rate of more than
two feet an hour.
Halt Dynamiting Plan
The water first rose into the ground
floor of Arens Wharf House and
then creft up to the Beech View
Casino, Schmelz' Jungle Inn and
Goodpastures Happy Landing.
Deputy Sheriff Charles McAllister
said it would be impossible to blast
the ice, because the tremendous
amount of dynamite necessary for
the charge would endanger the dam.
While an Indianapolis Times re-
porter was telephoning at the Good
pasture store, the water started
entering the store.
The ice was moving slowly until
the water backed up into the low
lands and relieved the pressure.
From Lagoon Park south the ice
is frozen almost solidly for two
miles. The jam is backed up against
the wall of solid ice.
The water rose so swiftly that
within an hour it pushed from Is
feet to more than $50 feet from The
beach, flooding streets ana cottages
in Ravenswood.
Drop in Mercury Forecast
The Weather Bureau forecast
near freezing temperatures for to-
morrow, but it is feared this may
not relieve the situation.
The river, near Keystone-av and
75th-st, was frozen solid for several
weeks, until midnight last night,
when it began cracking.
A huge gorge was formed from
75th-st to Sandy Beach. Huge
chunks of ice massed up against the
stone wall, and residents heard the
grinding of the ice throughout the
night.
Gorge Breaks Suddenly
At 10 this morning, the gorge
broke suddenly. The water began
moving slowly and then increased
rapidly, sweeping away rowboats,
docks, shrubs and trees.
The swirling mass plowed down.
stream for as minutes, according to
two witnesses, Mrs. D. F. Nom and
albert Quack. Fifteen minutes later
the water receded two feet.
The ice jammed again at Ravens
wood a short time later, and White
River rose again at 75th-st and
Keystone-av to within six inches
of the high spot reached during the
breaking of the jam and then
dropped gradually.
Mr.. Quack and Mrs. Monn said
some of the chunks were two feet
thick and six feet square. They said
sharp edges of the ice cut bark from
trees and sliced off parts of docks.
The water spread out over some OF
the lowland.
At Terrace Beach, Mrs. George
Wildman prepared to evacuate her
home, and Abe Greenwald and c. r.
Nankervis moved their furniture to
the second floors.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
Called Home


A child was hurt, the radio
said, at Ais Moreland-av. Pa
trolman Albert Brahaum heard
the call and made his way
there as fast as the squad car
could take him.
A 5-year-old boy had mashed
his finger playing with a wagon.
Patrolman Brahaum rushed
him to City Hospital for treat
ment.
The injured child was Wayne
Brahaum son of the patrol
man. The accident occurred
at the Brahaum home.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
ADAMS WILL PROBATED
Justice Owen Roberts Is One OF
Attesting Signatur

The will of c. Willis Adams, for
merly an official of the Link Belt
Co, was probated today. One of the
attesting signatures on it was that
OF owen j. Roberts, now a Justice
OF the United States Supreme Court
The property was left in trust for
his widow, Mrs. Louise o. Adams.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
SWAY NAVAL TREATY
PROPOSED BY BRITAIN
U. S, England, Germany Would Be
Included in Suggested Agreement.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 25.-Great Britain
has proposed informally. a three
power naval agreement with the
United States and Germany in event
the present Americana British
French-Italian conference collapses,
it was reported today.
Leaders feared that the present
four power conference in search of
limitation treaty might collapse
because Italy wants to make it con-
ditional on cancellation of League
penalties and France to make it op-
erative only if European security is
attained.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
PROPONENTS OF FAST
TIME PRESENT CASE
/. c. c. Hears Arguments in Chi
cago's Move to Turn Up Clocks.

I. c. c. Hears Arguments in Chi
cago's Move to Turn Up Clocks.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Proponents
of an ordnance establishing East
ern time in Chicago, starting March
l, continued efforts today to con-
vince the Interstate Commerce
Commission that railroads should
operate on the new schedule.
Barnet Hodes, Chicago corpora
ton counsel, was to recommend to
Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchison
the territory Chicago believes should
be served by railroads operating on
Eastern time.
After other witnesses for the city
are heard, opponents of the time
change are to present their argu-
ments. They include farm and
labor representatives of Wisconsin.
Illinois and Indiana and civic
groups.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
BLAST FROM POLICE
GUN FELLS CITY MAN
Clifford MalIott Badly Wounded;
One Arrested, Two Escape.


Clifford Mallott, 30, of 1872 s.
Capitol-av, is in serious condition
today with a charge of buckshot in
his legs, put there by police last
night when he and three others in
an alleged stolen auto tried to es-
cape.
Police sighted the car and gave
chase. At 10th and Alvord-sts the
car stopped and police arrested the
driver. The other three left the car
and tried to escape on foot. They
shot Mallott, but the other two es-
capped.
The driver of the car was Lee
Coins, %, of Lorraine. Mallott is in
City Hospital.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
WORKER HURT IN BLAST
Air Driven Punch Press Explodes at
Plant Here.

Albert Fry. S5, of 1880 N Illinois
st, was injured seriously today when
an air driven punch press exploded
at the Chevrolet Body Co., HOO w.
Henry-st. His upper left arm and
shoulder were mangled when he
was struck with a section of the
shattered press. He is in st. Vim
cents Hospital.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
Sidewalk Blown Out
BIZ Lnited Prexs

HUNTINGTON, Ind, Feb. 25.-
Dynamite charges set of simul-
taneously to dislodge ice gorged in
the Little Wabash River here blew
out a section of the sidewalk on
the Jefferson-st bridge. shattered
windows of nearby apartments and
disabled 500 telephones.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
SCHWEITZER RELEASED
ON $4,000 CASH BOND
Stern Still in Jail Awaiting SEN
tence for Mail Fraud.

Sam Schweitzer, convicted last
Wednesday by a Federal jury on
mail fraud charges, obtained his
liberty today under a $4,000 cash
bond. Schweitzer was charged With
being the financial wizard" of
Louis Stern & Co.. former Indian
apolls investment firm. Stern still
is IN Jail. Sentence is to be passed
on the two and H. N. Collins by
Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
DEALI LINGS ON MARKET
LIGHTER: PRICES EASE
Smallest Volume Since Jan. Fl Re-
corded on Exchange.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb 25. - Prices
gradually eased on the Stock Ex-
change early this afternoon and
dealings lightened to the smallest
volume since Jan. 81.
Losses of fractions to a point were
noted in United States Steel Wool
worth, Kennecott, Pure Oil, Bethle-
hem Steel. Standard Brands, Union
Carbide. Lima Locomotive, Chesa-
peake g. Ohio. Pennsylvania Rail-
road, Atlantic Coast Line and
American Tobacco.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
SO PERMITS ARE ISSUED
Report for Week Ending Feb. %
Given by Building Commissioner.

Building permits for the week
ending Feb. % totaled 90 for a value
Of S29.51S, Building Commissioner
William F. Hurd said today. This
is lower than the corresponding
week. but the years total is aheac
of last years.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
Rural Lighting Bill Debated

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The
billion dollar rural electriflcation
bill sponsored by Senator George
w. Norris (R., Neb). was brought
up for consideration in the Senate
today with leaders expecting to
enact it during the present session
of Congress.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
By United Press

By United Press
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 25.-Leo
P. Brzezinski was back at home
today although his wife be-
lieved he should be in Jail.
Judge George E. Page SEN
fenced him to 80 days on a
charge of being common
drunkard.
That's not enough" Leo's
wife interjected.
Who's running this court,
anyway" the judge asked.
For that I'm going to give
your husband another chance.
Case dismissed"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
TREASURY TO BORROW
MORE THAN BILLION
Cash to Pay Bills, Notes Maturing
in March and April.

bV tNtttu PTtSS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. - The
treasury laid plans today to borrow
more than billion dollars to re-
hnance obligations coming due dur
ing March and April
Secretary of Treasury Henry Nor
genthau announced that on March
10 the Treasury would obtain suf-
flclent cash to cover bills and notes
totaling $r50,0O0,0oO, maturing on
March Is. and $3.50, 200, 900 maturing
April Is.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25
CLAIM TWO VICTORIES
Ethiopians Report 651 Italians Dead.
After Raids on Enemy.

After Raids on Enemy.
By United Press
Adds ABABA, Feb. Ethiopia
claimed two important victories
today in raids against Italians on
the northern front, reporting 651
Italians killed.
-Four hundred Italians were killed
in a secret night raid by Ras Imru
on an Italian camp north of Aksum.
on the main route to Asmara, cap
ital OF Italian Eritrea, a COM
munique said.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-25

BIZ United Press
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Feb. Is
The Fort Wayne Federation of
Labor today was on record in op-
position to proposed adoption of
Eastern time in Indiana.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
DEATH OF KING GEORGE

King George V of England has died.
His son, Edward, Prince of Wales, sue
ceeds to the throne. Word of the event
spreads to all the world and even in
Republican America where usually the
thought of royalty conjures up images
of medieval prosecution of the masses,
the death of the King is headlined Why?
What can this have to do with us or
Englishmen? Knowing that the Kingship
is but puppet on the British govern
mental stage, why is the change from
one man to another imprisoned in such
a job, so important? The answers are
deep rooted in the English mental at
titude. The Kingship is not an individual
but a symbol. In the United States we
venerate and worship the Stars and
Stripes. 1t connotes all that is contained
in the history of this country, its rise
to power, and its steadfast purpose Of
continuing to be the best place in the
world in which to live. But the Stars and
Stripes is imperSonal. That's where Eng
land goes us one better-their symbol
is human insignia. 1t or he is clothed
with humaneness, with personal attrl-
butes, personifying the love of country
for its peoples, the power of that govern
ment throughout century after century,
the greatness of British ability to reach
out from a small bleak island on the
other side of the Atlantic ocean and
circle the globe with her possessions;
the brilliant and astounding distinction
among nations of staying at the top in
stead of declining as was the history
of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Spain,
Germany and all the rest. The Kingship
is the alpha and omega of brilliant Eng
lish history. When the Englishman says
"The King is Dead. Long Live the King
he bids farewell to one incumbent, greets
the next, cheers the thought that the
power of England will continue on. Most
of us can visualize the job of filling
such Kingship as most unpleasant and
demanding. Perpetually before the eyes
of the people, living in glass house. as
it were, the human being who fills that
job consecrates his life to maintaining
the great personification of Britain.
King George V did that job well. With
out actual power, his voice had weight
at the conference table. The likeable,
popularly loveable Edward, Prince of
Wales, doubtless will perform his as
signed duty capably, meekly. We wish
him well.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
:, Auction Philosophy .
BY d. L. ZINN

Folks today bid old friend Ed Forester good
bye Well remember Ed he used to be of best
buyers the early day when he run the ranch Then he
always experimenting trying to different things
and great pride in doing that Brought me in
first peaches here the biggest beet
other things, then when he quit ranchng and
went mining how when he came back from the mine he
would show a sample of ore, then would tell me all
about the mine and how those old would sparkle
Well do | remember the box supper for the Red Cross
during days when Uncle Ed said one could eat
cheap when the money went to the Red Cross. Boxes
averaged around eleven dollars each remember and
when the sale there sat Uncle Ed eating with
five six women Uncle Ed was the first Public Admin
istrator remember after elected how he came in
and told he done in the early days and offered
his help They claim in the early days wheE he used to
call his hogs of morning the blamed hogs for four and
five miles around would to running and squealng,
that's where he got the of Whispering Ed Imperial
Valley has lost of her Oldest and best boosters
wonder if Roosevelts going to be like the Supreme
with the 3As and turn the soldier bonus down
though four out of five congressman and senators
think it is OK. | will be seein' you.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
Wall Street and Politics
DANCER Feared =. The Constitution Defended

stitution? Are they not making II
a class document? In brief, II
manufacturers are permitted 10
hoist their prices through a tariff,
which is tax on the whole people,
why are farmers prohibited from
raising their prices to permit them
at least to meet their costs, through
a processing and regulatory tax?
Is it not possible-the Democratic
plea may be-that supreme court
interpreted not the constitution
but its own views, derived from its
own pre- -judgeship background?
The Republican party once made
campaign on such an issue-and
won. The candidate was Abraham
Lincoln. He was gravely perturbed
at the beginning of his campaign as
to how to approach the Dred Scott
decision, which was adverse to his
candidacy. He approached it on the
ground that the supreme court, be-
ing human and being influenced by
its individual prejudices, had sway
ed from the intent of the Found
ing Fathers and the constitution.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
FOUR STATES HIGHWAY
PAVES WAY FOR NEW GROWTH

A successful organization meeting OF
the Four States Highway association at
Las Vegas gives point to the fact that
the west has not stopped groWlng-that
it is, in fact, just now entering upon a
new era of growth As long as highways
are developed and new territories opened
to travel, there will be no cessation of
development in the west. Transportation
has, from the beginning of time, been in
the van of progress. The more people
that travel through given territory, the
greater is the growth and prosperity of
that territory.
To Imperial Valley, completion of
the Four States highway from the Can
adian to the Mexican border would be a
seven-league step forward. Completion
of the route, by the same token, would
benefit every community along its direct
route. 1t would do more than that,
though. BY giving the west another
transcontinental highway, it would pro-
mote the greater development of the
entire region west of the Mississippi.
1t is true, and it always has been
true, that every part of the country is
affected by the prosperity of another
part Communities pickering among
themselves because of petty jealousies,
or the thought of momentary losses, oft
en- lose sight of the greater benefits
derived from a long-range program.
Many plans are opposed because OF
such short-sightedness.
The Four States Highway association
has a commendable goal. Now that it is
it. must not be allowed to lag.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-This is
the oldster's day in the metropolis.
The white Taired Era. The young
sters haven't the money for the
tonier cafes and night clubs. Or
for down front pews at first
nights. The sWank club member
ships have been shucked to the
snowy mustached.
A large percentage of the men
in silk toppers and the ladies in
ernline are on the thither side OF
SO. There were at least six couples
at No. 81 a recent evening, past
so, travelling the gastronomic
route right down to the big bog
leted bouquet of brandy.
Elsie De Wolfe is a conspicuous
example of the elderly type. With
snow-white hair, touched up in
a green tint at the moment, she
is considered one of the smart
dressers of the period. Col. Creigh-
ton Webb, shouldering the 80s,
can make Clifton Webb look to
his laurels in full evening attire.
Then, of course, there's the ell
derly Brummel, Whitney Warren,
whose morning afternoon and eve
ming costumes pivot the passersby
along Park avenue. The fashion,
able tailoring shops and dress
making ateliers report a silver
haired trade they never knew ex-
listed.
Not many newspaper publishers
have more fun out of their job
than Ted woodward. He is the
son of a former West Virginia
Congressman and after gradua-
tion from college bought a country
weekly at Spencer in his native
State. He liked the role of country
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

editor so we'll he bought more
Weeklies. Today he has string
cf twenty. Each is run separately
with local resident editor. Wood
yard has made all pay except
during the depression. He lives in
New York most of the time now
and has acquired a weekly on
Long Island, the nucleus of a
chain he hopes to- link both shores.
Theatrical folk had a chance re-
Gently to see Florenz ziegfeld's
daughter, Patricia, grown up. When
she left for the west coast she
was the gangly, all-knuckles and
teeth age. Intervening years have
nodded a slim, gazelle-like Great
ure with a fluff of bronze tinted
hair suggesting her mother in her
hop -the-arm- -the-chair days.
A. first nights and teas, Miss zieg-
field made quite a stir She is a
head taller than her mother and,
while not expressing the stars
winsome beauty, is personable, dis
tinguished. Her stage flair is on
the technical side.
Incidentally Harry Evans slides
out from under the avalanche of
Christmas cards to insert this in
the public notices of the news
papers: Wanted, dead or alive, the
guy who started this greeting card
racket. And if you addicts who
sent me pictures of reindeers, an
gels and Scottie dogs think I'm
going to waste good dough break
ing out in such sentimental rash
you're crazy. Here's thanks for
your beautiful thoughts in the
cheapest way possible"
They wangled me into a derby
today. I've tried to avoid the de-
gradation but they wore me down.
At its jauntiest angle, I resemble
combination of the 4th vice
president Of a Brass Corporation
and a reformed house detective.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
Other Editors Say
QUOTING HOLY WRIT
Sacramento Bee

When ]. P. Morgan. testifying before the
senate munitions committee, quotes the passage
in the Bible which says the love of money is
the root OF all evil" that is news.
But while Morgan and others were quoting
they might have thought of the certain rich
who told about the camel and the
needles eye. And there is another passage about
widower's houses which does not entirely lack
applicability.
Meanwhile, the American people no doubt
will be edited to learn from MorganS own lips
how indignant he when Germany invaded
Belgium, and how proud when the United States
declared war on Germany.
But is there not also something in Holy
Writ regarding the heart being where the treas
ure is?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
News
behind the neavs
x GOING FURTHER
4 AHEAD OF AAA
i WALLACE BEAMS
y REPLACE CROPS
Bv RODNEY butcher
heSA%E
By RODNEY BUTCHER

Observation-Disclosures OF the
AAA, aided by the U. S. supreme
Court decision, have pushed the
Farm Administration into a pro-
gram which seems to smack more
of brain-trusting RECOMMENDATION,
and national planning than any
thing else the New Deal has tried
thus far.
The proposed combination OF the
domestic allotment idea with pay
ments to farmers for scientific
farming is also considered by many
LAWYERS to conflict as violently With
the courts majority opinion as the
processing tax-benefit payment
system did, since production con-
troll is one of the plans essential
features.
PREPONDERANCE of opinion
among agricultural scientists, how
ever seems 10 be that planned ag-
riculture On the basis of what AAA
has in mind will be the greatest
contribution to farmers and to the
general welfare which has ever
been seriously proposed.
Secretary Wallace has been BEAM
ing and humming merrily ever since
the farm organization leaders he as
sembled here declared their support
of a program which neither he nor
Administrator Chester Davis had
supposed could replace the old AAA
system for two or three years to
come.
THE gist of the idea is to pay
farmers for replacing certain crops
or portions of crops with hay ard
other soil-improving crops. A large
surplus not only ruins prices, but
also damages the land, if the crop
is cultivated intensively and there
is no alteration.
Scientific farming on a national
scale would eliminate surpluses and
preserve the soil for future genera
tions.
Flat acreage cuts of equal per-
centage for all growers are over
Planning would be regional as well
as national.
AAA would say to a farmer that,
according to principles of good
farm management and soil censor
vation, he should have his soil or
a stipulated part of it next year
not in a cash crop-such as to-
bacco, corn, or Wheat-but in clover,
grass, soya beans, or perhaps in
pasture. If his land were badly
quilted, perhaps even in trees.
But inasmuch as the farmer
couldn't afford to forego his cash
crop otherwise, he would be COM
penSated at SO much an acre for his
shift.
Each farmer might be asked to
draw up production schedule, with
payment conditional on that, and
eventually such schedules would all
be added up to fit into proposed ma
tional production schedules.
X +
AGRICULTURAL experts, not
ably Wilson, have been working to-
ward such a scheme for long time.
AAA officials have been studying
the idea intensively for more than
a year.
The main factual background for
the study is regional adjust
ment survey" made last year by ag-
ricultural experiment stations in
48 states in cooperation with AAA
and the Bureau Of Agricultural Ec-
onomics. Hundreds of men worked
on this for six months and last
fall so or go of the top men of AAA
had a secret three-day session at
Mount Weather, Va, to null over
the results.
Although problems of adminis-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
BY LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press staff Writer

NEW YORK. - Conservative in
terests are beginning to wonder
whether they won victory on the
supreme courts AAA decision. The
doubt arises over something far
more disturbing than processing
taxes or government regulation
initiation and higher taxes.
The ease with which two-bil-
lion dollar bonus bill is passed in
dicates inflationary sentiment, these
conservatives hold.
Furthermore, the farmer, seeing
all roads to crop regulations and
price guarantees blocked, turns to
the easy road of initiation.
An anomaly exists in that a
government may hand out money
head over heels if it gets no value
returned, but the moment it OBJ
tains, through crop regulation, a
value in exchange. courts declare
that an invasion of states rights.
4 *
DEFENDER?
President Roosevelt'S appeal in
the farm states may be on the
basis that he is a defender of the
federal constitution.
1t may run along the lines that
he interprets the document in the
manner that the Founding Faith
ers desired it to be construed-an
instrument for the benefit of the
whole people.
If, therefore, judges declare crop
regulation, for the relief of farmers,
unconstitutional, are they not vio-
lating the principles of the con-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-21
TEN YEARS AGO
January 2I 1925

Members of the Ell Centro city
council who were present at today's
meeting refused to accept the res
ignation of Mayor George w. An
derson and instructed the clerk to
ask the mayor to continue as a mem
Der of the city council until his term
expires in April