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FOR THE KIDDIES
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.
Watch For Thera!
VOL. XXXIV.
White River Flood Situation Is Serious
CRIME GOES ON
DESPITE NEW
POLICE SYSTEM
Plain Clothes Fail to
Prevent Many
Thefts.
BURGLARS ACTIVE
Money, Food, Clothes
and Other Losses
Reported.
In spite of the new system of having
the members of the police department,
with the exception of a few men at head
quarters, assigned to night duty In
civilian clothes, the week end crime wavo
equaled that of previous Saturdays and
Sundays.
One man Is believed to have made a re
turn trip to the home of Jdlss Beuhla
Reed, 1546 Kappes street, last night. At
10 p. m. the prcwler raised a window
Miss Reed saw the man and screamed
and the man Jumped back and closed
the window. Miss Reed, who was alone,
telephoned Paul Miller, 563 Standard ave
nue. and asked him to come to the house
and remain until her parents returned.
Before Miller arrived the prowler opened
another window and entered. The thug
attacked Miss Reed, tearing her clothing,
but her screams evidently frightened him
and he ran from the house by way of
the front door and escaped.
Albert Vlelhaber, 732 South East street,
stopped at the Pierson drug store, 47 Vir
ginia avenue, to make a purchase. He
discovered a burglar had forced the front
door of the store. R. E. Hoover, mana
ger of the store, said the burglar bad
taken fISO.
KOI R BI RCLABIES
EARLY SUNDAY.
Four burglaries were reported early
Sunday morning. Patrolmen Stroh and
Muse were walking on Montcalm street
at 2 o'clock when thew saw a man
walk from the side door of a residence at
1702 Montcalm street. Later they noted
that a window was open. Stroh started
after the man and Muse went to the
house. The man turned as he reached an
alley and fired two shots at the police
man. Stroh returned the fire, but the
man escaped. The police found Otto
Holderman. who lives in the house,
Ssleep. The burglar had rar sacked the
house. He obtained {SO from Holder
man's clothing.
Leon Pollard. 236.3 Cornell avenne. dis
covered a negro on his front porch early
yesterday and pursued him. The prowler
was James Bottoms, 20, negra, 2229 Yan
des street. The police say Bottoms has
served a prison term for turglary.
A second attempt within a week was
made by a burglar to break Into the
F. Reichert's bakery. 2135 North Illinois
street, early yesterday. John F. Rey
nolds. a street car company employe, who
lives above the bakery, discovered the
burglar.
A thief broke a show case with a
stone at Harry Farber's dry goods
store, 302 West Washington street, but
was frightened away.
A negro hold up man Saturday night re
lieved Rufus Loudenwlnk. of Brazil. Ind .
who Is staying at 628 Slwood street, of
a basket of groelrles and SS.
R. W. Underwood, 3502 lorth Illinois
street, proprietor of a carpenter shop at
414 East Bratt street, was robbed of S3OO.
according to F. R. Underwood, his
nephew, who reported the money missing
from the carper *er shop.
A burglar entered 2442 North Illinois
street by a side window Saturday night.
Miss Catherine Lowes said the thief took
$25, and Jlfss Louise Jinsen said he
took $3 from her. ,
A window broken a few days ago fur
nished an easy way for a thief to reach
In and help himself to strawberries and
grapefruit at Abraham Joseph's grocery.
2102 Schnrmann drive. last night. The
thief took four boxes of strawberries and
two dozen grape fruit.
Motor Police Officer Mangus stopped
his automobile on Pleasant run boule
vard east of Emerson avenue late last
night. Suddenly a man hiding in the
shrubbery Sred a shot at the automobile.
Mangus pursued the prowler, who es
caped.
The front door of the tailor shop of
William Lack, 804 Blake street, was
forced by a burglar early today. The
police did not learn 1? anything had been
stolen.
TWO HELP FOR
INVESTIGATION.
Two men were arrested on vagrancy
charges after the glass of the front door
of Samuelson's bakery was broken early
today. John Mysnoskls and John Wylck
of Pittsburg. Fa., were found near the
bakery and arrested to vagrancy charges,
pending investigation.
Alvin IT. Rains. 336 North Illinois
street, was arrested on a vagrancy
charge early yesterday morning, when
the police found him near Goldberg's
clothing store. ?4S West Washington
street. The glass In the front window
of the store has been broken.
F. W. Holt. 1239 Kentucky avenne, re
ported two pairs of new shoes missing
from store, the thieves left two pairs
of old ones In place of them.
The residence c-f Louis Gray. GOS North
Delaware street, was entered by a thief
who carried away a pair of trousers n
the pockets of which was $23. At the
same house the thief took a pair of
trousers owned by Lloyd Mulligan, who
said $6 was In his pockets.
A thief robbed Charles Greenwood's
poolroom. SIS North Alabama street.
The money box of the pay telephone waa
broken open. Chewing gum worth $1.30
was missing. The pay telephones was
later found In an alley.
Ethel Smith, 109 North Alabama street,
reported a thief stole $l3O from her room.
WEATHER
Forecast for ladianapolts and rlclnlty
for the twenty four hours ending 7
p m . April IS, 1922:
Thunder showers this afternoon and
probably tonight; cooler tonight; Tues
dav fair and cooler.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
A a. m 59
7 a. ro 00
5 a. m A]
6 a. m... ft.".
10 a. m ?>S
11 a. m 5S
12 moon) 39
1 p. m 61
STILL ON JOB
WASHINGTON, April 17. The
State Department has decided that
Boris Bnkhmeteff Is still the accredited
ambassador of Russia and as such
is protected by a cloak of diplomatic
Immunity which places him outside
the juri diction of any Senatorial in
vestigating committee, it was an
nounced at the State Department to
day.
OREGON NOT SO
FAR ADVANCED
AS NEIGHBORS
Present Problem One
of Adjustment to
Change.
INTERESTS VARY
(Editor's Note—Edward O. Lowry,
distinguished investigator (and re
porter for the Philadelphia Puhlio
Ledger, la touring the agricultural
section west of the Mississippi Hirer,
In behalf of the Public Ledger and
the Dally Time*, and writing a series
or articles upon conditions M he
finds them. This Is the sixteenth
production based upon observations
In Oregon. Others will follow at
regular integrals.)
Special to Indiana Dally Time*
and Philadelphia Public Ledger
By EDWARD G. LOWRY.
PORTLAND. Ore., April 17.—The Ore
gon problem at present, is one of adjust
ment. They have had their trouble out
here. Just as everybody else lu this west
ern country, and now they are coming out
of it. This State is not as far ad
vanced on the road to recover}' as some
others, but It has passed its crisis. It is
better oft than some of its neighbors.
No general statement can be made
about Oregon that does not take into
account its topographical, physical and
climate idiosyncrasies. The State is di
vided Into two parts by the Cascade
range. About two-thirds of the State
Is on the eastern side of the mountains
and Is given over to livestock and wheat
growing.
This is the more arid, the less populous
and the less prosperous section. It was
much harder hit.in the bail times last
year than the western end of the State.
Its people are of a different type and
betray another set of characteristics they
are ranchmen and farmers on a large
scale. The condition East of the moun
tains is similar to conditions In Idaho
and others of the intermouutalu States.
Its problems are the same.
The one-third of the Slate west of the
mountains is a different sort of commun
ity. Hero the greater part of the popu
lation and the greater part of the wealth
sre to be found. The climate Is different.
It is a highly diversified country, pro
ducing lumber, fruit, hops, vegetables
and ail sorts of small agricultural prod
ucts and cereals. Because of this dlversi
(Contlnned on Page Three.)
GOODRICH HAS
MESSAGE FROM
NICOLAI LENIN
Arrival of Former Indiana
Governor Awaited Eagerly
at Washington.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—A message
that is expected to be an Important fac
tor In shaping the Administration's pol
icy toward soviet Russia, Is now en
route from Nicolai Lenin to President
Harding. It is being brought to the
United States, It was learned today on
good authority by Ex-Governor James P.
Goodrich of Indiana, who has been In
Russia for some weeks in connection with
the administration of American relief
distribution.
Ex-Governor Goodrieh left Washington
several months ago, after spending aome
weeks here familiarizing himself with de
tails of the Administration's policy to
ward Russia, and the factors governing
possible recognition.
In Moscow, it is said, ex Governor
Goodrieh saw Lenin several limes and ac
quainted the soviet chieftain fully with
the views of President Harding, with the
result Lenin was glad to take the op
portunity to send a message to Washing
ton.
The nature of the Russian communica
tion is, of course, not known officially
here, but ex-Governor Goodrich's arrival
In Washington is awaited eagerly.
Some new and concrete developments
in Russian American relations are ex
per*ed In the very near future. It Is
confidently believed in many quarters
that some form of American recongltlon
for the Lenin-Trotski regime Is not far
distant.
AHOY!
The first boat theft since the use of
boats became extnsive in flooded
Indianapolis was reported to the po
lice today. J. F. Plymate, 335S North
Illinois street, reported to the police
someone stole his boat valued at S3O
from Broad Ripple.
Says Mothers Should Be Lady Cops
SHANK HOLDS CHILDLES S WOMEN UNFIT
He Isn’t So Sure
"We are not going to have any police
women who have never been mothers try
ing to regulate morals and tell other
women how to raise their children.” said
Mayor -ijhank over and over In speeches
before he was elected last November. In
fact. Mr. Shank said, there was not going
to be a women's police department. He
doubted if there would be any women
left jn the force after he got In office.
But today the mayor does not know
whether there are any childless women
police.
"I think that most of them that we’ve
Juttaua
HAYS REGRETS
USE OF LETTER
WITHOUT DATE
TJnfortunate Mis
understanding,’ He
Says of Book.
REVERSED VIEWS
When ‘Facts’ Arrived
on ‘What Is Back
of the War.’
Will H. Hays "regrets" the use of a
let tier, written by him in 1915, to Albert
J. Beveridge, now a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Senator. In
he letter Hays is eald to have praised
the book, "What Is Back of the War!”
The letter was read by Judge Arthur
Robinson In a Beveridge speeech recently.
Mr. Hays passed through here on his
to New York City.
The book was regarded by Mr. Hays
an “unfortunate misunderstanding.” His
statement follows:
“In reply to your Inquiry I can only
say that I regret the public use of the
personal letter for campaign purposes at
this time apparently without giving the
date. It seems to me this makes neces
sary my notice of the Incident. Un
der all circumstances, however, this
reference to my apparent approval In 1915
forces the observation that very soon
thereafter, when al! the facts reached
us, the Impression the book made on me,
was quickly changed, and I have always
thought and now think that the book
was a most unfortunate misunderstand
ing."
NEW EXPECTS
TO MAKE TALK.
Senator Harry S. New expects to make
few speeches in Indiana, according to
plans made by him and his campaign
manager- during the week. A meeting <>f
all county managers including men and
women, has been called to be held In the
assembly room at the Severin Hotel
Thursday morning and afternoon.
Senator New, In company with former
Mayor Charles W. Jewett, was a visitor
at the Statehouse. The Senator went to
call on Governor McCray, but found the
Governor was not In the city. He did not
disclose the nature of his business.
“The First Year of the Harding Ad
ministration.'’ will be the subject of Sen
ator Now's talk at the Thursday after
noon meeting. The rest of the day, it Is
expected, will be devoted to organization
plans ar i speeches.
Senator New will speuk Tuesday night
at 7:30 to negroes at a meeting In the
1 benoezor Baptist Church. Blqckferd and
North streets Charles W. Brown will
not ns chairman of the meeting, and Dr.
Joseph II Ward will Introduce Senator
New.
BILL RF.Tt RN TO
SENATE IE < \LLED.
Senator Now Issued the following
statement from headquarters:
"Just how long I shall be here, I do
not know If called on to return to
Washington I shall take the ti"xt train
back, but when I left there ou Saturday
it appeared that the Senate would be
occupied with routine matters for several
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
RAINS DAMAGE
STATE ROADS
Reports Indicate Immense In
jury to Bridges and
Highways.
Reports reaching the State highway
commission indicated that thousands of
dollars worth of damages had been done
to roads and bridges that form part of
the State highway system throughout
the State. Definite information was lack
ing and no basis for an accurate esti
mate of the damage is possible, It was
said. Three bridges In widely separated
parts of the State were reported to have
been washed away. These were at
Chesterfield, Madison County; Harrison,
Dearborn County; ami at Cedar Grove.
While the water Is said to be over a
number of the State roads, authorities
at the highway commission did not be
lieve that tho damage done would bo
anything that could not lie repaired with
in a short time whenthe waters recede.
They were more concerned about damage
to bridges, particularly some of the older
structures.
Damage to roads other than those that
form a part of tree State system Is not
known by the commission. Several other
bridges wero washed out last week.
Sipes Bond Signed
by Father-in-Law
E. A. Frazee, father-in-law of Richard
V. Sipe, former county clerk accused of
embezzling approximately $150,000 of th
trust funds of Marion County, today
signed Sipe's bond Jointly with Ralph
Lemoke, county treasurer, and Lucius O.
Hamilton, president of the Hamilton-
Harris Company. Mr. Lemoke and Mr
Hamilton signed the bond Saturday when
Sipo was Indicted and then released on
bond. The bond is for $35,000.
About Holdovers
put on are mothers,” said the mayor as
he named over the list. "Yes, I think
they're all mothers, but I don't know
about dhose that we left on the force
from the other administration.”
The women's police department, ns or
ganized under the .Tewett administration,
was abolished but there are more women
on the force now. Six of them are in the
detective department. Some of them are
answering emergency calls and walking
beats, but most of them are assigned to
Juvenile court as investigators under
Sergt. Clara Burnside, former captain of
policewomen.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1922.
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Young Spencer brought his father to
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ATTEMPTS TO
BRIBE AGENTS
ARE CHARGED
Local Officers Named
in Prohibition
Scandal.
COVERS LONG TIME
Attempts to bribe Federal prohibition
officers of Indiana on a wholesale scale
were made by George Remus, Cincin
nati lawyer, and others, according to an
Indictment made public by Homer
Elliott, United States District Attorney
today.
Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition
director for Indiana, W. O Holman, chief
of agents and George Winkler, agent,
are named as members of the local office
to whom advances were made by Remus
and his friends.
Implicated wijli Remus are Robert
8 Flora, former Federal group chief of
t ie Cincinnati district; Harry and Flora
Gurdewing, Harry A. Brown, brother
iu-law of Ri tuns; George Conners, presi
dent of the Edgewood Distilling Company
of Cincinnati; George Dater, John Geh
rum, Olen Herhes and Ernest ("Buck”)
Brady. Brady Is a resident of Coving
ton, Ky. All other defendants are resi
dents of Cincinnati and vicinity.
Almost all defendants are named alto
In indictments returned at Cincinnati by
the Federal grand Jury of tliHt district
Saturday.
The indictments were returned by the
Federal grand Jury to Judge Anderson
April S, hut ttie name of Itemus was the
only one given out at that time The
charges are conspiracy to violate the
prohibition laws and conspiracy to bribe
Federal officers.
Remus appeared voluntarily In the of
fice of Mark Storen, United States mar
shnl, and gave bond of SIO,OOO.
The case grew out of the alleged illegal
withdrawals of liquor from the W. I’.
Squibb Company distillery warehouse at
Lawrcnreburg last year, and a raid made
by M rgan and his men on a farm be
longing to Dater near Cincinnati in
which a large quantity of liquor was
seized.
HIDE-AND-SEEK
BEING PLAYED
BY POLITICIANS
Coffin-Dodson and Shank Re
publicans Making Over
tures.
The Coffin-Dodson and Shank Repub
llcnn factions were nlnylng bide and seek
with each other again today. After May
or Shank announce 1 last week that all
negotiations were off and William 11.
Armitage, captain of the mayor's polit
ical forces, said they would not be re
sinned, because County Clerk George V.
Coffin had "double-crossed" him, an
other meeting was arranged for today. If
no agreement Is reached this afternoon
Shank leaders say they are absolutely
through and will go ahead to "put
across” William H. Freeman for'county
c hairman, and William E. Reilly for dis
trict chairman, without anybody's help,
and in spite of the combined opposition
of the Coffin-Dodson and Jewett-Lemcke
factions. .
The Coffin-Dodson crowd does not.
want Freeman to be county chairman, it
is said. It was reported that the two
opposing factions would be willing to
back ArmitHge If he would again become
a candidate for the county chairman
ship. He announced himself a candidate
in December, and then withdrew in favor
of Freeman. This was understood to be
what would be discussed at the confer
ence late today.
The Shank wing has announced a slate
of candidates for Republican nomina
tions for county offices, in opposition to
slates backed by the Coffin-Dodson and
Jewett forces. Some trading upon this
point was expected in case any agree
ment upon the chairmanship is reached.
The Shank forces seemed to be
suspicions that there was some ulterior
motive behind the reported willing
ness of the other factions to support
Ardmitage for county chairman, and they
entered the conference on the alert, it is
said.
Black Damp Kills
Two Men in Mine
RTRE.4TOR, 111., April 17.—William
Cabot, manager, and Louis Brown, an
employe of the Acme Coal Company's
mine here, were smothered to death by
black damp when they entered the pit
here today.
The two men were pumping water from
the mine, closed since April 1, when
mine work was suspended.
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Under the special offer of the Daily
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hibition.
BOARD TELLS
WHY STATE IS
SHORTOFCASH
Deficit of Million in
General Fund
Shown.
LOANS RECORDED
Blame for tho present condition of the
State's finances, particularly with refer
ence to the million dollar deficit of the
general fuud, is placed on the last Legis
lature—the General Assembly—by Gov
ernor McCray and other members of the
State board of finance, which has au
thorized the borrowing of $1,450,000 since
Dec. 8, 1921. Governor McCray lias ex
pressed the intention of asking the
legislature when It convenes next year
to give wider latitude lu the use of
money In different funds for purposes
for which money is now paid out of the
general fund.
No effort has been made to conceal
the record of transactions of the State
board of finance, consisting of Ora M.
Davies, State treasurer; Governor Mo
('raw ami William G. Oliver, auditor of
State, which has within the last four
months borrowed fI.OW.UOO for the State
general fund, according to Mr. Davies.
William G. Oliver, State Auditor, by
law, is secretary of the board, and In that
capacity keeps records of the meetings of
the board or lias it done by one of his
deputies, Edward Retay. The minute
book of the board of finance, in the
custody of ttie auditor, is open to inspec
tion and Is supposed to contain records
of all the meetings of the board. On
March 9 and March 29 the board of finance
met and authorized loans of $400,000 and
$500,000 respectively. Minutes of these
two meetings have not been entered on
the minutes hook but are to he found
on loose sheets not yet transcribed to tho
permanent record. Mr. Reniy. who has
charge of this work for the auditor, says
the pressure of other duties has delayed
making up this record.
Authority for the $500,000 loan was
used to tho extent only of $300,000 the
records indicate, bringing the total bor
rowed to make up the deficit in the
general fund, $1,000,000,
A carbon copy of the regular form of
tho authorization was used by Mr. Remy,
in making a record of the March 29
meeting. The record used at a previous
meeting, the date and the amount of
money involved were the only changes
(Continued on I’nge Thirteen.)
ACCUSED BANK
CLERK GIVES UP
Reid P. Whisler, Indicted With
Others, Gives Bond for
His Release.
Reid P. Whisler, 2104 Schurmnnn ave
nue. indicted with James Knight and
Naomi Cochran, former employes of the
Indiana National bank for alleged viola
tion of the national banking laws, ap
peared at the office of Mark Storen,
United States marshal, today and gave
bond of $2,000 signed by a surety com
pany.
Tho name of a fourth defendant will
not be given out until th enrrest has
been made. Neither Knight nor Miss
Cochran lias been arrested, but they are
under arrest In tho State courts on
charges of embezzlement, so Homer
Elliott, United States district attorney,
made their names public.
Knight Is charged with embezzling
$625 of the funds of the Indiana Na
tional banw and Miss Cochran with cm
bezzllng $337. Whisler is said to have
"kited" checks which were covered for
him b ythe other defendants.
CONFESSES HE
TOOK $500,000
ON FAKE DEEDS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 17.—Rey O.
Douglas, secretary and manager of the
Jackson County Savings ami Loan Asso
ciation, of this city, was arrested today
on charges of forgery, following his eon
session that he had taken nearly $500,009
of the association's funds. The money,
according to his admissions, was taken
through fictitious deeds of trust. Douglas
invested the bulk of it, he asserted in two
motor car accessory companies.
Picture House
Owners Indicted
WABASH, Ind., April 17—William and
P. H. Dickson, managers of a local
moving picture show, were arrested on
grand Jury Indictments for doing busi
ness on Sunday. Tho indictments fol
lowed a long continued effort on the
part of civic organizations to prevent
Sunday shows.
7 DIE; 35 HURT
BY CYCLONE IN
FLOODED AREA
Devastated Village Is
Scene of Relief
Effort.
FIRE BREAKS OUT
Many Others Missing
May Be Under
Debris.
CENTRALIA, 111 , April 17—Five per
sons are known to have been killed and
thirty-five injured In a cyclone which
swept over Irvington, a village south of
hf*e, early today.
With the coming of dawn survivors be
gan searching the wreckage of the de
vastated village for the missing.
The known dead are:
MRS. CHARLES LITTRKL, 50, Cen
tralla.
VAL SCHOSBLER, Oniontown.
E. U. BALDRIDGE, Irvington.
Tho month old baby of Charles An
derson, Centralia.
MISS SCHOSBLER, daughter of Val
Schossler, Oniontown.
An orphans' home had a mlraenlous
escape. The .storm blew down all the In
stitution's outbuildings, but left the main
building untouched. None of the chil
dren was hurt.
Relief workers ere searching the debris
' for additional bodies, and it is feared
that the death toll may be Increased.
Injured in the cyclone were brought
! to hospitals here or taken to surround
ing towns
The bodies of two children were dug
; out of the wreckage of their home, early
today. The body of an unidentified man
was found in a field, three miles north
east of Irvington.
Many persons are missing and it prob
ably will be hours before the exact
number of killed and injured is known.
In some sections of the village fire
broke ou* In the ruins of the homes, add
ing to the horror.
Almost every house in Irvington was
reported blown over and many farm
houses in the vicinity destroyed. Phy
sicians and nurses have been sent from
here to cars for the injured.
Telephone and telegraph communica
tion with Irvington was cut off when the
> cyclone swept down all wires.
The "twister" was the culmination of a
day of storms in flood-swept Illinois.
SCORES OF FARM
HOUSES WRECKED.
Scores of farm houses and outbuildings
in the contiguous territory were wrenched
from their foundations and scattered by
the gale. Heavy stock losses were re
ported.
Relief in every type of conveyance that
can get lgh the almost Impassable
roads were pressed into service to offer
assistance.
The two daughters of Valentine Schus
ter, Martha 8, and J.avina 13, were swept
away by the gale and carried nearly a
mi’e from their home. The crushed body
of one is said to hive been found, but no
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
MAYOR SHANK
ASKING $30,000
FROM COUNCIL
Less Than One Week After He
Promised Never to Do
It A pain.
It took Mayor Shank less than a week
to forget he had said he positively, under
no circumstances, without a trace of res
ervation, on the level, honest to good
ness, was not going to send another ordl
-1 nance to the city council this year. He
1 said today that the condition of sewers is
such that he is going to ask the council
I to authorize a bond issue of $30,000 with
which to clean them and another issue
for $20,000 with which to construct three
j or four more stretches of street under
■ the “connecting link’’ law.
“Something has got to be done about
; the sewers," the mayor said. Property
, owners in the neighborhood of Twenty-
Third and Pennsylvania streets com
-1 plain that their streets were full of
water which will not flow away. Street
! Commissioner Martin J. Hyland Investi
gated. A negro employe volunteered to
.•rawl into the sewer, Mr. Shank said,
and discovered that In building It tha
; contractor had laid thirty or forty feet
: of eighteen-inch pipe between two sec
tions of thirty-six Inch pipe. The water
' simply would not flow through an elgh
: teen inch pipe as fast as through a
l thirty six inch pipe, Mr. Shank said.
“I'm going to find out who was the
I contractor who did that and if we can
I'm going to compel him to fix it," the
i mayor said.
Meet Rayyedy Ann and Brother
GRUELLES DOLLS TO APPEAR IN TIMES
Please Children and Grown-Ups
Johnny GrueUe’s famous dolls,
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy,
are coming to Indianapolis and start
ing next Monday, April 24. they wilt
appear dally in The Indiana Daily
Times. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
Andy are tne friend? of thousands of
children and even the grownups find
it 9 pleasure to follow the adventures
of the two dolls, as depicted by
GrueUe’s pet*.
John B. Gruelle —or "Johnny,” as
he is known to a host of friends* In
Indianapolis—began his career as an
artist in Indianapolis, digging pic
tures out of chalk-plates for six dol
lars a week. He displayed suck
marked ability as a comic artist, how
ever. that within a few years he re
ceived a welcome to Cleveland, fol
lowed closely by an alluring bid from
New York. Each of these he ac
cepted.
When a New York paper announced
a contest for the purpose of obtain
ing anew series for its Sunday comic
aection, Mr. Gruelle accepted the chal
WHITE RIVER RISING;
RESIDENTS IN PANIC;
RESCUERS ARE READY
Lowland Districts of Indianapolis Are Fear
ful of Repetition 1913 Disaster Many
Indiana Streams Are Swollen.
Storms and floods, unsqualed in the last half century swept Indiana
and Illinois today, causing huge property loss and devastating villages
and farms.
The Illinois River reached the highest stage in fifty years, floodin*
nearly 200,000 acres of fertile farm lands and causing intense suffering
among families driven from their homes.
Indiana Rivers, running bank-full, were further swollen by a cloud
burst over the central part of the State today.
With continued heavy rains White
River this afternoon was again rising at
a rapid rate. The river was about a foot
below the peak, but climbing higher.
Fears were expressed that serious dam
age would result If the rain does not
stop soon.
The police were taking every precau
tion and were ready to warn persons in
the danger area should a flood seem cer
tain.
Policemen have been stationed along
much of the river keeping a close watch
on conditions. Early In the afternoon
Police Captain Ed Shubert started a
tour of Inspection with a view of deter
mining Just what the conditions are.
According to tho police who have made
Inspections, the new flood walls will hold,
but they said there Is danger that some
of the old levees may give way.
Persons living in the districts swept
bv the flood In 1913 were panic-stricken.
There were constant rumors that the
levee had broken in various places and
that dams upstream hud broken, hut
none of These could be verified.
borne of the most serious damage near
Indianapolis was reported from Ravens
wood, a summer resort town north of the
city. The entire town was reported to be
flooded when the river spread over an
area of two miles wide. It was feared
some of the cottages would be carried
down the river. For the most part they
are unoccupied, being used only in the
summer.
At the Millersvlile road and Fall
Creek pumping station of the Indianapo
lis Water Company it was reported Fall
Creek had dropped two feet during the
uight.
The Washington street pumping sta
tion of the Indianapolis Water Company
has been forced to suspend operations
there was thirty-five Inches of water In
the boiler room.
Low lands In Riverside park are
flooded. There is a heavy strain on the
bridge in the river because of the rush
ing flood of water. ‘Happy Hollow"
near Belmont and Kentucky avenues has
been under water for a number of days
from the overflow of Big Eagle Creek.
The board of public health held a spe
cial meeting !o lay plans for handling tho
situation should the river Inundate resi
dence districts. Dr. E. E. Hodgln said
that the board woes not expect serious
trouble, but thought It wise to be pre
par'd. A force of doctors, who can be
called upon in any emergency and sani
tary inspectors whose duty it would bo
to prevent fifty conditions in case many
people are crowded into limited areas
and sewer systems rendered useless.
Mayor Shank and employes of the city
civil engineering department made a tour
along the east bank of White River dur
ing the morning. The mayor reported It
will take a rise of six or sexen feet to
do much damage along the new flood
walls. The engineering department will
keep its eyes on the river.
Flood damages to bridges and culverts
in Marion County is fixed at approxi
mately $20,000 at the present time, ac
cording to County Auditor Leo K. Fes
ler.
Mr. Kessler said reports show that
Keystone avenue road to Ravenswood Is
In a flooded condition and that only a
few automobile drivers are attempting
to go through. He said the Thirty-
Eighth street road east of Fall Creek
Is also flooded.
The roads are reported In a bad con
dition south of the city limits, especially
near Glenn Valley. The Spring Mill pike
is practically impassible, he reported.
The commissioners have ordered emer
gency steps taken to repair damages, but
the heavy rains again made repairs In
certain districts impossible to attempt.
TRUCKS HAUL FOOD
TO FLOOD REFUGEES
SEYMOUR, Ind., April 17.—Trucks
loaded with food were sent Into com
munities near here today to relieve per
sons Isolated by tho flood of White
Itlver. Farmers depending upon Sey
mour markets for their food nud cloth
ing supplies have been unable to come
here for several days because roads are
under water.
In tho western part of Jackson
County farmers are removing their live
stock to higher ground and preparing
to leave homo as the river rises.
A slight fill) in the stage was reported
at Madera nort hos here, but heavy rains
in this county and north of here are ex-
lenge. More than three hundred
drawings were submitted by comic
artists—anonymously, of course —and
when the Judges had boiled the num
ber down to about a dozen, three of
them proved to be the work of Mr.
Gruelle. To hasten the climax,
"Johnny” won the prize, amounting
to $2,000, and with it a contract to
draw a page each week at a big
league salary.
Several years ago he began to write
children's stories as a sort of hobby,
and so great was their success a Chi
cago publisher induced him to put
them into book form. He agreed and
today he is the author and illustrator
of a dozen or more books for chil
dren. He possesses the faculty of
getting the kid viewpoint and his
stories are almost as entertaining to
grown-ups as to children.
Mr. Gruelle has made his home in
Norwalk, Conn., for several years
where he maintains a studio witk
Worth Brehm. well-known magazine
Illustrator, who also Is a former In
dianapolis boy.
HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COP?
LOCAL FLOOD
SITUATION AT
QUICK GLANCE
A police tour of Inspection revealed
the following flood conditions today:
The levee this afternoon broke
through north of Raymond street
and tlie water is rushing across the
street at a width of half a mile. The
Illinois Central tracks are In danger
In this neighborhood.
At Morris street, where the levee
broke In 1913, all appeared to be safe.
At the Indianapolis Abattoir Com
pany pumps were used to remove wa
ter from the building.
At least one school In West Indl
dlanapolis was dismissed.
A large crack lias appeared In the
Oliver avenue bridge, but the bridge
Is still open.
The Raymond street bridge Is
closed.
Parry avenne Is flooded south of
Washington street.
The water is np to the top of the
arches at the Washington street
bridge.
A large section of the Fall Creek
bank has caved In near the city hos
pital.
A large portion of Riverside Park
is flooded.
pectcd to make It reach a higher point
than has been recorded yet this year. •
Flood conditions rival those of 1916
In magnitude and In amount of property
damage.
FLOOD WALL
THREATENED
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 17.—Heavy
rains accompanied by high winds In cen
tral Illinois last night and today added
to the flood damage In Illinois River
towns, several of which have been prac
tically covered with water for several
days.
At Meredosla, it was feared the high
winds and Increased water will tear out
tho levee, which protects thousands of
acres of farm lands. Breaking of this
levee will stop all Wabash trains run
ning west out of SpriDgfield, trainmen
say.
The gas plant at Beardstown, which
has been accomplishing the almost im
possible task of furnishing gas for heat
ing and cooking purposes to the In
habitants of that water soaked town, is
seriously threatened. Failure of thia
plant will add to the suffering.
MISSISSIPPI
RISING STEADILY
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 17.—The flooded
Mississippi River continued to mount
slowly today. Torrential rains last
night and eontluatlon of the downpour
today indicated the rise would continue.
Thousands of acres of farming land Al
ready are under water.
STORM DESTROYS
POWER HOUSE
NASHVILLE. 111., Ap*ril 17.—This
town Is without Its electrical supply to
day as a result of the cyclone which
struck here last night, demolishing the
power house and one residence. No one
was hurt.
MANY RESCUED
BY POLICE
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April IT.—Forty-seven
persons were rescued from their homes
in the southern part of the city by po
licemen early today when the river De
speres overflowed Its banks. A hundred
families were forced to move to higher
ground.
The water stood ten feet deep In some
streets.
GREENCASTLE
STORM SWEPT
GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 17.
Heavy storms early today swept Putnam
County, wrecking two or three barns, un
rooting a house and uprooting orchards
and forest trees. Many wliidows were
broken in Greencastle. More than Inch
of rain fell during the night and nearly
an Inch today, making nearly six Inches
rainfall in one week. All streams In
the county are again on a rampage.
CYCLONE STRIKES
SPRINGFIELD
BEDFORD, Ind., April 17.—A cyclone
struck Springville northwest of here
early today and cut a swath 100 yards
wide through the center of the town,
causing property loss of thousands of
dollars.
The Methodist Church was laid flat, tlxa
town barbershop was torn from Its
foundation npd the heme and outbuild
ings on John Grey's farm were damaged.
The storm started at 3:45 a. m. and
lifted one mile northeast of town.
No one was hurt and no livestock was
killed.
SAFE SO FAR
Hundreds ofs telephone crfll
were received at police headquarters
from persons living in West Indian
apolis today. Citizens of that dis
trict were worried about what might
happen if White River got high
enough to break the flood wall. These
people remembered the flood in West
Indianapolis in 1913. They were as
sured that unless heavy rains con
tinue they are tn no danger.
NO. 291.