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REVOLT PLOT IN
ARGENTINA LAID
TO HIGH LEADERS
Two Former Presidents Are Arrested as
Government Plans Martial Law to
Balk Widespread Outbreak.
'STATE OF SIEGE’ TO BE DECLARED
Hipiloto Irigoyen, Nation’s Former ‘Strong
Man,’ and De Alvear, Ex-Chief Execu
tives, Branded Conspirators.
By United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 17.—Hipolito Irigoyen and
Marcelo T. De Alvear, former presidents, and several other
political leaders were under arrest, today as the government
planned virtual martial law to prevent a widespread revolt.
The government planned to
declare . a “state of siege,”
which left control with the
military, out called for trial
of civiilans in civil courts
rather than in military
courts. !
The revolt plans, which included
the kidnaping of President Augustin
Justo, were discovered through the
accidental explosion of a bomb at
a private residence.
Police said the rebels had trans
formed the home into a bomb fac
tory. Approximately 1.300 bombs
were seized.
Irigoyen, 87 years old. is the for
mer “strong man” of Argentina. He
was overtnrown by revolt in 1930
after governing as one of the most
absolute rulers in South America.
Ask State of Siege
Alvear preceded him in office. The
two ex-presidents were among the
half a hundred political, leaders
who, ft was reported, might be ban
ished to Tierra Del Fuego, the bleak,
desolate territory at the southern
most tip of the continent. The
politicians were all members of the
radical party.
The government decided to ask
congress today to authorize a state
of siege.
National Democrats, holding a
parliamentary majority, assured
President Justo of their loyalty,
making it probable that th<* gov
ernment would be able to enact
whatever restrictive measures it de
sired.
Planned Terror
Although the government denied
that army officers were associated
with the politicians artested, a
police communique reproduced doc
uments allegedly found in the pos
session of Lieutenant Colonel Cat
taneo. .
One of the documents outlined
the best way to carry out a reign
terror in Buenos Aires and kidnap
the president. Police charged that
the rebels planned to bomb police
detachments nearest the president’s
home. ' .. .
Another document gave the list
of the leading plotters in the
provinces, and explained how to
keep them informed of progress of
the movement.
A third was sigited “civil chief of
the revolution in the federal cap
ital.’’ \
Death to Opponents
Death was threatened to persons
opposing the revolution, with sup
pression of newspapers not sub
mitting to rebel censorship, the
police charged.
One of the papers found in the
bombed home contained a plan of
the president's residence, worked
out in minute police said.
The rebels reportedly were UK
structed to use hand grenades if
they met opposition in the prov
inces They planned to seize the
most important centers of the coun
try, including power houses, rail*
road junctions, telegraph and tele
phone terminals and utility works.
PORKERS SUP OFF 15
CENTS AT CITY YARDS
Cattle Trade Nominally Steady on
„ Light Receipts.
Porkers slipped off 15 cents this
morning as demand slackened at
the city yards. The bulk of all
weights sold for $3 to $3.30. Early
top held at $3.30. Receipts were
estimated at 5.000. Holdovers were
250.
Cattle were nominally steady on
receipts of 100. Vealers held un
changed at $6.50 down. Calf re
ceipts were 100.
Sheep were steady. Receipts
numbered 1,000. with the top price
registered at $6.25.
CONGRESS TODAY
By United Freaa
SENATE
Continues debate on Philippines
bill.
Mines and mining committee re
sumes hearings on regulation of the
bituminous coal industry.
Southern senators and representa
tives meet on relief for cotton
farmers. /
HOUSE
Considers interior supply bill.
Appropriations committee con
tinues hearing on wah state and
justice appropriations bills.
. Agriculture committee continues
■hearing on farm program.
Naval affairs committee considers
bureau transfers at hearings.
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Uiteettled with possibly snow and continued cold tonight; lowest temperature about 10; Sunday fair and somewhat colder.
VOLUME 44—NUMBER 189
SOCIETY WOMAN
TAKES HER LIFE
Grieved Over Her Husband’s
Death, Say Friends.
By United Pres*
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Mrs.
Reeves Brace, 30, Washington so
ciety woman, was found hanging
from a noose made out of a silk
stocking in a hotel room early today.
She had been dead twelve hours.
A note was on the table addressed
to Inspector Albert Moore, New
York state police. It read: “Dear
Al, this is a happy landing. . . .
Reeves.’’
A card on the table gave the ad
dress of Mrs. Brace’s mother, Mrs.
A. L. Parsons, as Washington, D. C.
She was the step-daughter of
Rear Admiral Archibald L. Parsons.
Mrs. Brace’s husband died recent
ly and her friends ascribed her
suicide to grief.
fIND WOMAN GUILTY
OF PUrTTING HOLDUP
Jury Returns Verdict After
3 Hours Deliberation.
By United Press
NEWCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 17. A
jury in Henry circuit court Fri
day found Mrs. Irene Gentry, Mun
cie, guilty on charges of consuiracy
to rob the Mt. Summit bank a year
ago.
The-jury deliberated three hours.
Judge John H. Morris announced
that he would pronounce sentence
within a few days.
Three men under long term sen
tences on charges of executing the
hpldup testified for the state dur
ing Mrs. Gentry’s trial.
In the Air
Weather condition at 9 a. m.:
Northwest wind, 4 miles an hour;
temperature, 13; barometric pres
sure, 30.34 at sea level; general con
dition. overcast, smoky; ceiling, esti
mated 9.000 feet; visibility, 3 miles;
field, good.
Wife of, ‘Jim Ham ’ Loses
Gems Worth Thousands
By United Press
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—Mrs.
James Hamilton Lewis, wife of the
Illinois senator, Friday night lost a
handbag containing a diamond neck
lace two and one-half feet long, and
other jewelry worth many thousands
of dollars.
Mrs. Lewis believed she left the
bag in a taxicab in which she drove
from Union station to her hotel. She
last saw the beg when she opened
it to get money to pay the driver.
Two Hundred Mark Passed; 300 Next Goal in ‘Clothe a Child’
T is for time it took to clpthe them.
W for warmth the garments gave,
O means out goes ostracism.
H is for the holes the donors pave.
U for underwear on child-men.
N is for the nasty colds they save.
D dresses where old ones have been,
R for the rags they threw in the bin.
E for everything they put upon 'em,
D means donors, messengers of Him.
Put them all together and they
spell:
TWO HUNDRED children
clothed up to 8 a. m. today in the
Clothe-a-Child campaign of The
Indianapolis Times.
TWO HUNDRED children from
homesofthe unemployed outfitted
completely for the ensuing months
of school.
TWO THOUSAND dollars, ap
proximately, spent in clothing to
help Community Fund agencies of
relief suffering among children of
school age and at the same time
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY,. DECEMBER 17, 1932
WHERE LIBBY HOLMAN SEEKS SECLUSION TO AWAIT STORK
Libby Holman Reynolds (inset), widow of the slain tobacco heir, has sought seclusion to await birlh
of her child and is reported to have leased this quiet retreat near Wilmington, Del. It is the estate of
Albert Ives, an architect, on Owl's Neck road.
Aged. Father, Beaten by
Son, Dies of Injuries
51-Year-Old Killer, Said to Be Mentally Deranged, Will
Face Charge of Murder, Police Assert.
William A. Miller, 81. died Friday night in city hospital as a result
of injuries incurred Dec. 6, when he was beaten on the head with a cane
by his 51-year-old son, Harry A. Miller. The attack occurred in a room
of a small hotel where father and son lived.
The son, said by police to be
mentally deranged, will face a
charge of murder, it was indicated
today. At the time of his arrest
shortly after the attack, he was
charged with assault and battery
with intent to kill. Since his ar
rest, he has been confined in the
psychopathic ward of city hospital.
Detectives said today the son was
paroled in April from the Central
hospital and was discharged in
Octdber.
“The old man had a spell over
me,” was the only explanation of
the attack made by the son, ac
cording to police.
William A. Miller, lifelong resi
dent of Indianapolis, was born Feb.
5, 1831, at what then was Tennessee
and Garden streets, the former now
Capitol avenue.
He had a wide acquaintance on
“commission row,” in the vicinity
of Maryland and Delaware streets,
through employment with Sam
Gold and James Keach, both com
mission merchants. Later he was
employed by the Indianapolis Power
and Light Company.
Besides the son, he leaves a sis
ter, Mrs. Louise Wright, and a
niece, Miss Clara Wright, both of
have not yet been completed.
NO TAX MONEY NEEDED
\
Railroad Gets Welcome Surprise
When Check Is Returned.
By United Press
PIKEVILLE, N. C. Dec. 17.—A
very pleasant surprise recently was
given the Atlantic coast line rail
road when its check in payment of
tuxes to Pikeville came back. It
didn’t bounce back the city re
turned it and said it would not need
any taxes this year.
The town owes no money and has
some in the bank. It is th& second
in the county to call off payments,
Eureka being the other.
POOR; LEAVES $2,615
Search of Widow’s Home Bares
Gold and Bills.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17.—Not only in
books does the supposedly poor and
aged widow die and leave a hidden
fortune, but also in actual life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weil, an 82-year
old widow, was found dead recently.
Her belongings were searched by
police and gold and bills amounting
to $2,615 were found.
Police early today had been un
able to locate the driver. They also
are investigating the possibility that
the bag might have been stolen from
Mrs. Lewis as she entered the hotel.
Mrs. Lewis said she was unable to
estimate the loss. The missing
jewelry, in addition to the diamond
necklace, included a pehrl necklaci,
three diamond rings, a diamond
bracelet, and diamond and sapphire
brooch and a large square diamond.
Thf bag also cofttained SIBO in cash
and some traveler’s checks.
spread their own budgets over a
wider area in 1933.
* * *
TWO THOUSAND donors, ap
proximate estimate, have given
themselves and 200 children
Christmas presents up to today.
And now the last week of the
Clothe a Child drive starts. Just
seven more days to thaw chilled
bodies, put Christmas —a practical
Christmas, for you clothe your
own child when you get the name
from The Times—into homes
where no holly will hang on
Christmas eve.
You are the only one who can
give a special Christmas gift to
the city's impoverished. The re
lief agencies and the school board
can not hope to make Christmas a
star day in the life of a child.
THREE HUNDRED children
clothed is the next bridge to cross.
And lined on the highway to
that bridge are HUNDREDS of
children waiting for mittens to
warm hands, shoes to keep feet
dry, coats to stamp out chills.
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YOU’VE seen that highway as
you’ve watched them stamp
feet, blow hands and shiver in
doorways or run from school.
Kills Her Rival
Wife Declares She Is
Proud of Slaying
‘Love Pirate.’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 17.
“She got my man and she got
hers,” Mrs. C. R. Frazier told jail
offices today in explaining why
she killed Miss Winona Murrell,
27, her husband’s secretary.
Mrs. Frazier, charged with
murder, received visits from her
ts ree children and from Frazier.
Siie was calmly self-assured.
She waited Friday outside the
federal building where Frazier,
chief of the Jacksonville narcotic
bureau, has his office. Miss Mur
rel came out. Without a word,
Mrs. Frazier emptied her revolver,
each bullet taking effect. Miss
Murrell was killed instantly.
The streets were crowded. Po
liceman R. F. Beach stepped for
ward and she handed him the
pistol. ** ***' 'r~
“I am proud of it,” she ex
claimed, “she got my husband and
my children, and now she can
have this.”
HONOR CHINESE VET
Soldier in A. E. F. Cited for Bravery
On Western Front.
By United Press
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. 17.
Leo Hung, only Chinese veteran of
the World war living in Rock
Springs and manager of a restaur
ant here, has been awarded the
Purple Heart for bravery on the
Western front. Hung was awarded
American citizenship for his services
for which he volunteered. He was
wounded in action.
WILL CUTS OFF LOEB
Thrill Slayer Only One of Twenty-
Five Relatives Ignored by Aunt.
By L nited Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—Richard
Loeb, sentenced with Nathan
Leopold' to life imprisonment for
the “thrill murder” of Bobby Franks
in Chicago, was the only one of the
twenty-five relatives of Mrs. Flora
Stansky not receiving a bequest in
her will filed for probate here.
She wag Loeb's grand-aunt. Be
quests to other relatives ranged
from SI,OOO to $12,000 each and dis
posed of ah estate estimated at
$150,000.
New York Stocks Opening
(By Abbott. Hoopla & Cos.)
—Dec. 17—
Am Can 54*2tint Nickle 7%
Air Red 59%Mont’v Ward... 14>4
Atchison 40% N Y Central 21*a
Anaconda ...... 8 3 *N American ... 29
Am Tel St Tel.. 108 Natl Cash Rea.. 8%
Auburn 48%!Penn R R 15
Cons Gas 59%!Packard 2*4
Bvers A M 13%iRadio 5%
Case J I 42t-a'Cons Oil 5%
Ches & 0hi0... 33-4iStd of Ind 22
Fox Film_A... l’aiStd Oil of N J.. 29%
Gen Foods 24<>Texas Corn ... 13%
Gillette 19 !U S Steel 30%
Gen Mot 13%!United Corn 9%
Gen Elec 15%i0n Carbide .... 26
Goodyear 15"4!Westinahouse El. 28%
Gold Dust 15>!WooIworth 35%
Call Riley 5551—0 r write —and ask for the Clothe
a Child editor of The Indianapolis Times.
He will give you the name of a needy school child be
tween 6 and 12 years old.
Each child has been checked for need by the Christ
mas Clearing House and the social service department of
the public schools. Community Fund relief agencies are
providing the names of worthy children. /
The Times gives you the name of the child. You
clothe the youngster—that's your K Christmas, that’s the
childls Christmas, and that is our Christmas.
You’ve until Christmas eve to
put the heart of you into a boy
or girl who has lost all heart.
Call Riley 5551! If you wait
I until the last minute, a child of
; the exact age you want may be
! difficult to find. There're curly
heads, redheads and all ages now.
Employes of the White Star Oil
Corporation led today’s Clothe a
I Child list by taking four children.
The Indiana National bank’s
transit department took three
more and they’re battling with
the bank's lower flo|r workers for
high score.
BLAST BRIDGE
IN MINE ZONE
New Outbreak Feared in
Illinois War; Picketing
to Start Again.
By United Press
TAYLORVILLE, 111., Dec. 17.
Dynamiters today wrecked a rail
road bridge near Sicily, ten miles
west of here, in what Christian
county authorities feared was anew
outbreak of warfare in the bitter
coal mines labor strife.
Blasting of the bridge on the
Chicago & Illinois Midland railroad
is expected to halt coal shipments
from four mines operating here.
A controversy between the United
Mine Workers of America and a
newly organized rival, the Progres
sive Miners of America over
and working conditions has kept the
district in a .state of turmoil for
weeks.
Tjie explosion tore up about thir
ty-five feet of track, railroad of
ficials said. They estimated the
damage at $2,000. Repairs were ex
pected to require several days.
Announcement was made at
Springfield by leaders of the Pro
gressive union that picketing would
resume at four mines in Sangamon
county Monday.
MOTORIST DIES AT
WHEEL OF MACHINE
Car Careens Over Curb and
• Stops in Square.
While driving at North and Penn
sylvania streets eiriy today, Ray
McNanny, 40, of 420 North Glad
stone avenue, a collector, died of
heart disease at the wheel of the
car.
Out of control, the car careened
over a curb and came to a halt in
the World war memorial square
surrounding the obelisk. The car
was not damaged.
Another motorist, Arthur Trout,
2743 West Sixteenth street, seeing
McNanny’s automobile swerving
across the sidewalk, halted his car
and ran to the driver’s aid. Mc-
Nanny’s body was slumped across
the front seat.
STUDY IN CONTRASTS
Sets in Jail Wondering How to Get
$140; 16-Cylinder Car Rests Outside.
By United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Dec. IT.—
George Merritt, 54, a faith healer,
sat in the county jail today won
dering where he could get $l4O to
comply with a court order for the
support of his 15-year-old son in
Tama, la.
Outside jail officers were trying
to find room in the county garage
for Merritt’s sixteen-cylinder motor
car in which he drove to the court
house earlier in tfae day.
Bright Spots
By United Pres.
Alabama Great Southern rail
way reports October net income of
$29,876, against $27,363 in October
last year.
Dome Mines, Ltd., declares extra
dividend of 10 cents a share, in
addition to regular quarterly 25-
cent payment.
Canton Car Company receives
order for fifty gondola cars from
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad.
Remember that tonight’s roller
polo match between Indianapolis
and Muncie at Tomlinson hall
will donate 10 per cent of its re
ceipts to Clothe a Child.
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THEN on Tuesday night a $1.50
show and dance for 25 cents
a person will be given at the In
diana Roof ballroom. All pro
ceeds over actual expenses will go
to clothing children in The Times
campaign.
You’ll get a forty-minute
cabaret floor show if you don't
dance, and if you do dance you
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WINTER TO TIGHTEN
ITS GRIP ON NATION
FURTHER CUTS
IN CITY WATER
RATE POSSIBLE
! Indication Is That Reduction
Will Be Upheld, With
New Slash Likely.
Fate of Indianapolis Water Com
pany consumers, in regard to per
manent rate reductions, rests today
with members of the public service
commission.
Final testimony in the case was
completed before the commission
Friday afternoon.
Company attorneys were given
until Monday to file a brief support
ing their effort to restore and retain
high rates, and opposition attorneys
must file their final reply by Thurs
day.
The briefs were ordered by Com
missioner Howell Ellis, presiding,
and' who will write the permanent
rate order.
Further Cuts Possible
It appeared that all reductions
made by the emergency rate order
of the commission last spring will
be retained and further reductions
also may follow.
Telling blows were dealt the com
pany evidence by witnesses appear
ing at the call of the city admin
istration.
Attorneys for the city, civic clubs,
and apartment house owners fought
the legal battle to reduce water
rates.
Evidence offered by the city stood,
without rebuttal, when the case
closed.
Members of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board had testified that land
valuations set by the company were
double the proper appraisals, while
other testimony showed values on
buildings were excessive in all in
stances by 25 per cent and in some
cases rftore. /
6 Per Cent Held Ample
Dick Miller, former bank presi
dent, testifying as an investment
broker, said that a 6 per cent re
turn would be ample to attract all
capital needed by the water com
pany.
Company experts had argued for
an 8 per cent return as being neces
sary to attract capital at this time.
Miller was put on the stand by
A. B. Cronk, attorney for apartment
house owners.
Cronk's colleague, Attorney Harry
K. Cuthbertson, former member of
the public service commission, and
author of the emergency rate reduc
tion order, returned Harry Wenger,
chief commission engineer, to the
stand as his witness.
Wenger then offered the figure of
$31,250 as sufficient for “organiza
tion expense” which had been in
cluded by the company at $300,000.
The commission engineer stated
that this item had been included in
his appraisal with the 15 per cent ;
levied for “undistributed construc
tion costs.” Such procedure is cus
tomary, he said, and expressed the
opinion that the $2,000,000 set out •
for “undistributed construction j
costs” by the company was ample J
to includi the $300,000 item.
William L. Ransom, New York at
torney for the company, sought to
tear down this contention by cross
examination and Ellis questioned
Wenger to show that Cuthbertson,
and not himself, had returned the
commission engineer to the stand.
Flames Sweep InsulVs
Stable; 21 Race Horses Die
By United Press
LIBERTYVILLE, 111., Dec. 17.
Twenty-one prized race horses,
valued at more than SIOO,OOO, were
destroyed early today when fire
swept a stable on Samuel Insull’s
famous Hawthorne Farms estate.
The animals were owned by Ralph
Gallet, Chicago night club proprie
tor.
Among the horses which met
death in the flames were Lieutenant
Russell, valued at $7,000; Siberia,
Price Tag, Dewey Fly and Black
can spin to Morrey Brennan's or
chestra from 8:30 p. m. until 1
p. m.
Tickets are on sale at Haag's
drug stores, Standard groceries.
Room 2 Courthouse, Real Silk
Hosiery mills, H. P. Wasson &
Cos., L. S. Ayres & Cos., W. H.
Block Company, Eli Lily & Cos.,
Indiana Bell Telephone Company,
Kingan & Cos., Y. M. C. A. and
Y. W. C. A.
Make up a Clothe-a-Child par
ty for Tuesday and dance and
give at the same time if you just
can t form a group and take one>
child to clothe. And to the don
ors of clothing for the first TWO
HUNDRED here’s a good chance
to get together and tell what a
“kick’’ you got out of clothing
your child.
Today’s donors, who brought
the drive up to the TWO HUN
DRED mark and started it on its
way up and up, follow:
Emrltm •( White Star Oil Corporation.
Mobileil and gas distributor* (four chil
dren).
i. f. Rolls* Printing Comoan*, 440 Cen
tura building (two giria).
Koval Order of Jesters. court No. IS
(two bora). *■*.
Tranait Dept. IflUet National book
Fresh Arctic Blasts Are Forecast After Brief
and Slight Respite From Severe
Cold; Unemployed Suffer.
RIVER ICE GORGES THREATEN FLOODS
Four Scantily-Clad Men Die of Exposure in
Chicago; Sub-Zero Wave Perils
Food Supplies of Indians.
, By United Press
The chill of sub-zero temperatures congealed the na
tion today, as fresh Arctic blasts were forecast after a brief
respite from the severe cold.
The constant cold weather which Jias been unabated in
many areas for nearly ten days increased distress already
acute, due to unemployment.
MERCURY WILL
HIT SKIDS AGAIN
Respite From Intense Cold
to Be Short-Lived,
Is Forecast.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Midnight . .v 10 5 a. m II
1 a. m 1(1 H a. m 11
2 a. m 11 7 a. m.. 12
3 a. m 11 8 a. m 12
4 a. m 10 9 a. m 13
10 a. m. 15
Short-lived relief from the intense
cold of the past twenty-four hours
was forecast for today and Sunday
by the weather bureau.
Sunday night temperatures again
are scheduled to drop below the ten
degree mark, where the mercury
hovered Friday night. This was 15
degrees above the thermometer
reading Friday night when 6 below
zero, lowest temperature in two
years, was recorded.
Letup in the cold was felt Friday
night and today from the Rockies to
the Alleghanies, according to the
weather bureau.
Today’s rise in temperature may
be followed by light snow tonight.
Light snowfall was recorded early
today in Indianapolis.
Sunday may be slightly colder
than today, the weather bureau'
said.
7 OHIO RIVER BOATS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Loss in Evansville Blaze
Estimated at $145,000.
By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17.—A
fleet of seven Ohio river boats were
destroyed oy fire late Friday in the
Green river at Spottsville, Ky.,
where they had been achored for
the winter.
Loss was estimated at approxi
mately $145,000 by Captain Jeff Wil
liams, one of the principal owners,
at his offices here.
Vessels destroyed in the blaze
included the Southland, a packet
valued at 850,000; four large tow
boats anti two covered barges.
Lightning. Several colts recently
purchased by Gallet from the Wid
ened stables also burned to death.
Gallet had leased the stables on
the famous estate which was one of
the show places of the Chicago
suburbs.
The origin of the fire was not
known. American Legion members
aided in combatting the flames.
They managed to save several ani
mals and prevented the fire from
spreading to other buildings of the
estate. *
(eared for two children and took three
more).
Citr hall employes fund (eared for two
children and took two more).
Ladle*’ Social Bowling' League, Antlers’
alleys.
Danner Brothers, S eents to SI store, 35
South Meridian.
Indianapolis JJte Insurance Company
employes (eared ler two children and
taking a third).
From Teddy to Another Bay.
First and second floor switch rooms, In
dian*. Beit Telephone Company, Lincoln
office.
Mr. G. S. Santa (cared far fonr children
and took another child).
R. T. H
Girls sf the Aetna Casualty and Surety
Company,
Operators of Lincoln offiee. Indiana Bell
Telephone company (eared for seren
children and took another).
A. M. F. (eared for one child, took
another).
Omega Phi Tan.
Mrs. Walter Queisaer.
Ruckle Street Santas.
Lets Hufferd.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Washington Bowling Leagne, Beam's nti
noia alleys.
" A North Pennsylvania Friend.
Indianapolis Times employes (tared for
ten and took two more).
I B. V. r. \
(Other Donors on Pag* I)
Capital
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion Coanty. 3 Cents
Four scantily clad men
dropped unconscious in Chi
cago streets and died by ex
posure. Firemen who an
swered 185 alarms in a little
more than twenty-four hours
worked with extreme diffi
culty. Their booted feet froze
to the pavement as they plied
hose lines.
Sub-zero weather in the south
west endangered food supplies of
Indians on Oklahoma reservations.
Senator Elmer Thomas sought fed
eral permission to allow the Indians
to revert to their native food supply
by killing surplus buffalo and elk
in the Wichita game preserve.
Degrees Below Zero
In Quebec, Canada, where the
temperature dropped to a low of 41
below zero, Premier Taschereau de
nied statements that 10,000 persons
in the Gaspe region faced starva
tion.
He said suffering existed in
Gaspe as in other districts, but de
clared the province was acting to
relief distress.
Ice gorges in several rivers threat
ented possible floods. At St. Louis
the Mississippi river reached the
lowest stage m seventy-two years.
A stage of three feet three inches
was reported due to gorges which
dammed water upstream in the Il
linois and Mississippi rivers. At
some points dynamite was used to
blast gorges and make a channel.
Influenza Is Spreading
Definite indications that a mild
influenza epidemic was spreading
with the bitter cold were shown in
reports from scattered cities that
cases Tvere increasing. The United
States public health service report
ed large increases of cases. Schools
were ordered shut in seven Indiana
towns due to the prevalence <rf the
disease.
In the east sub-zero temperatures
were reported in several localities at
Owls Head, N. Y„ and on the sum
mit of Mount Washington, New
Hampshire, the thermometer read
26 below zero.
In New York, the intense cold
sent thousands of homeless to
municipal lodging houses and food
stations. The city’s relief facilities
were taxed.
Only Florida Still Warm
An explanation of the cold wave,
the most severe since 1929, was of- ,
sered by United States Metorologist
Charles D. Reed of Des Moines, la.
He suggested that volcanic dust from
an eruption in the south American
Andes last April had floated over
North America, partially screening
off the sun's rays. He said it would
take possibly a year to determine
the accuracy of the theory.
Virtually all parts of the country
with the exception of Florida were
affected by the cold.
Phoenix, Ariz., had the first snow
in twenty-five years. Frost was re
ported in Los Angeles suburbs.
The central great plains area had
temperatures ranging to 20 below
zero. Gulf ports recorded tempera
tures below freezing as did Texas
points. Raleigh, N. C., had snow
and marks not far from zero were
common along the Atlantic coast.
Foreign Exchange
(By Abbott, Hoppin Ac Cos.)
—Dec. IT—L
Open.
Sterling England $3.31
Franc. France 0390%
Lira, Italy 0511%
Franc. Belgium 1334
Mark. Germany 2379
Guilder. Holland 4013
Peseta, Spain 0816
Krone, Norway 1705
Krone. Denmark 1715
Yen. Japan 2125
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