THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926 9 G'WAN! Tells Politicians Who Demand That He Forego Illinois Senate Race. Nominee Unfitted By Acceptance of Gifts From Utility Magnates, Opponents Contend. Chicago, August 19 (A. in a Chicago newspaper from Julius Rosenwald and down-state political workers that Frank L. Smith, Republican nominee for the Senate, should resign his candidacy because of revelations that public utility magnates contributed heavily to his campaign funds will be ignored by the candidate, his spokesman said today.
Colonel Smith, who is Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, is at New London, recuperating from an illness incurred shortly after the April primary election. Allen Moore, Republican National Committeeman for Illinols, and the nominee's campaign manager, also is absent from the Mr. Rosenwald was pictured as garding Smith to be unfitted for Senate service through his acceptance of campaign contributions from public utility magnates, including $125,000 from Samuel Insull, of Chicago, 000 from Clement Studebaker and $85,000 from Ira D. Copley. The philanthrophist also is quoted as doubting whether or not the Senate will seat Colonel Smith if he is successful.
Others quoted as favoring an independent candidate included Mayor Andrews, of Kewanee, and William J. Spaulding, Commissioner Public Property, at Springfield. Colonel Smith's expenditure in his campaign for the Senate nomination, and their were brought to light by the sources, Campaign Funds Committee at recent hearings here. The committee also developed contributions by Insull to George Brennan, Democratic Senate nominee, of $15,000 and to an independent fight against the World Court among Chicaga foreign language groups, which cost $33,000 and which Insull testified "undoubtedly helped Smith." Colonel Smith has no public statement nor appearance since the primary except as a witness before the Senate committee. PRIMARY EXPENDITURES HIT By Roosevelt in "Burning He Declares.
New York, August 19 (A. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking tonight before the Young Republican Club, denounced the expenditure of vast sums of money in the Pennsylvania and Illinois Republicans senatorial primaries. Colonel Roosevelt called this expenditure "a burning disgrace," holding that it not only subverts the principles of the primaries but strikes at the roots of Republican institutions. "It is not primarily the illegal use of money for improper purposes that I fear," said the Colonel. "The great danger which confronts us is the legal use of money for improper purposes.
"Whatever the fault with the direct primary, there is no justification for those who abuse it. When money in such quantities is used, the evil is manifest." Colonel Roosevelt estimated that about $40,000,000 are spent in prosidential years and $10,000,000 in off years in the United States. ANTI-SMITH TALK DENIED By Reputed Klan Leader--Ticket Scratching Predicted, 'Tis Said. Birmingham, August 19 (A. -James Esdale, reputed head of the Ku Klux in Alabama, today denied flatly that he made the statement published first in Birmingham newspapers to the effect that 150,000 men in Alabama would scratch Alfred E.
Smith's name if the New York Govheaded the next Democratic naernor tional ticket. Newspaper reporters say Mr. Esdale made the Democratic leaders declared after Mr. Esdale's alleged statement had been published that it did not represent the rank and file of their party. Leaders of the Republican party made capital of the quoted statement, and committees that framed the work for the Alabama State Republican Convention here yesterday are said to have expressed hope of carrying, the state in the November election with the aid of the Klan if Smith is the Democratic nominee.
WOMEN Cannot Be Former Bank Employee Declares After He Admits Theft of $8,000. New York, August 19 (A. Chorus girls and detective stories were blamed for his downfall by George W. Ford today when he admitted in the police lineup that he WAS the man wanted for the $8,000 robbery of the Pentrisula State Bank, Highland Park, Michigan, last July. Ford, 35 years old, said that he had been a trusted employee of the bank, but that he deserted the ways of honto obtain money, with which to esty entertain friends the chorus.
He said he studied detective stories to find clever ways in which to dupe the police. Ford came under police notice here when he reported the theft of $5,000 and two revolvers from him by two young women. The former bank employee forgot all the strategy he had learned from detective fiction in his anger at the two "gold diggers" he said had robbed him. He wrote to Police Commiesioner McLaughlin about the theft, and suggested that if the money were recovered it be returned to the Highland Park Bank, "as they are the rightful owners. "And as long as I live, whether I go jail for life or sit in the electric chair" he wrote, "I'M be off the women.
hate them. You can't trust them." OUSTER MAYOR RETURNS. Nobody But Fool Would He Ran Away, Patton Says Steubenville, Ohio, August 19 (A. -John Patton, Steubenville's suspended Mayor, who had been missing mysteriously from the city since shortly before his suspension Was ordered by Common Pleas Court, suddenly returned home today and issued a public statement. Without announcing where he had been, Patton said, "'nobody but a fool would think I was fool enough to run away." "I am back and I am going to fight for my rights.
I have been wrongfully accused and I intend seeing this whole thing through. I ask the people of Steubenville to reserve judement. in same my case opportunity until I that am the lowest and vilest are accorded -a fair trial." Patton appeared at his office at noon for his personal effects, greeted his successor, Dr. E. J.
Sander, and left the Municipal Building. It was understood this afternoon that a "confidence" petition is being circulated about the city to be submitted to Common Pleas Court with the answers of the accused officials. PRIZE STORY Plagiarized, Is Charge, As Los Angeles Woman Sues Fannie Hurst Voices Her "Sympathy." Los Angeles, August 19 (A. -The prize- -winning story from which the motion picture "Mannequin" was filmed, and for which Fannie Hurst, author, received $25,000 from the magazine, Liberty Weekly, was alleged to have been plagiarized in a suit filed in Superior Court today by Olivia W. Seymour.
Miss Seymour, who Miss Hurst, Famous premed Film Corporation and Liberty Weekly, as defendants, charged the play was taken from her story, "Resemblapee," and asked that "an Injunction restraining its further, projection be issued," and be awarded damages in the sum of $600,000. She also petitioned the Court for an accounting on all profits accruing from the play's theater showing. The complaint plaintiff that in alleged May, in 1925, her she bill sub- of mitted to the defendants a story under the title of "Resemblance" for consideration. She declares the story Was rejected and returned to her the following October. Shortly afterward the picturized play called "Mannequin" was released throughout the world.
The suit charges that "Mannequin" is identical in plot, subject, structure, dialogue and material with the story written by Miss Seymour and mitted under the name of "Resemblance." New York, August 19 (A. Olivia Seymour, of Los Angeles, who filed a $600,000 plagiarism suit there today involving Fannie Hurst's "Mannequin," $50,000 prize winning novel and scenario, is only one of many suffering from the "hallucination" that the story is their own, Miss Hurst said tonight. "The good lady in Los Angeles who is suing me for $600,000 for plagiarizing idea of 'Mannequin' from her," Miss Hurst said, "is only one of hundreds who feel likewise aggrieved. "My daily mail brings me dozens of similar letters. "My only reaction, of course, is one of sympathy for them." OMEN ANDE MATTERS Allusion to the succees of the staff at Longview Hospital for the Insane in treating victims of paresis with malaria germs was made yesterday Dr.
E. A. Baber, Superintendent of by Longview, in a ten -minute address before the Rotary Club at the Hotel Gibson. Dr. Baber said that 30 patients afflicted with paresis had been given treatment by this malarial germ method, and a number of them had recovered, and all had shown marked improvement.
W. A. Johnston, Cincinnati humorist and author of two Joy Books, made a humorous talk, and Julius C. Benckenstein, the oldest member of the club, played a number of selections on the French harp. The program was the first of a series planned by President William Licht, in which all the entertainment is furnished by members of the club.
It made a great hit with the members. Frank Costa was elected President of the Standard Improvement Association, an organization of market stand owners and merchants formed at the salesrooms of the fruit auction yesterday. The association was formed to promote a better understanding the public city officials. between the stand men and market, Other officials elected were William Roberts, Vice President; William Beck, Secretary; John Canciola, Treasurer, and Leo Re and William Sanzone, Director Cincinnati Local' No. 164, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks, will hold its third annual basket picnic at Steffen's Grove, Silverton, next Sunday.
There will be free bus service from the end of Kennedy Heights car line. Automobile route, Montgomery road to Kennedy avenue to Zinsle avenue to Grove. Ball game at 10:30. Athletic contests at 1:30. Prize waltz, prize Charleston and quoit contests will be features.
The Milnor Electric Company, which has been holding a two-day sales conference at the Hotel Sinton for the benefit of authorized radio dealers in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee, closed its conference yesterday. The conference was held in conjunction with the Radio Corporation of America, and approximately 75 authorized dealers attended the meeting. The conference was presided over by L. T. Milnor, President of the company.
The Syrian Temple Shrine will hold its annual outing at the Zoo tomorrow. A feature of the outing will be more than 20 athletic eventa, for which valuable prizes have been obtained. Joseph D. Engelbert is Chairman of the Entertainment Committee. Another feature is a Charleston contest at 9 o'clock in the evening at "Dance In Russland." CAMP SITES INUNDATED, WITH LITTLE MIAMI ON RAMPAGE Campers Seek Safety; Miami Leaves Banks; Highest Since 1913 CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE feet deep at numerous places along the river bank, crops will not be damaged much, it was said, unless there are further rains.
What that has been cut may be hurt by the excessive rainfall, but the Little Miami is noted for the swiftness of its rise and the swiftness with which it runs out. If there are no further rains of consequence it will fall rapidly, it was said. Heavy rains earlier in the week caused the river to reach a dangerous stage and resulted in many campers moving their belongings from their camps. The river had dropped about two feet from this stage when yesterday's rain, which was unusually heavy in that section of the county, forced a quick rise, which sent the river, at least three feet higher than it was earlier in the week. The Y.
M. C. A. camp at Tower Hill was cut off completely by water six feet deep in places and running swift. Water on the river front stood several inches deep underneath the camp, which is on somewhat higher ground than most of the camps in that immediate vicinity, Cut Off By Water.
The Y. M. C. A. was blocked at its junction Hudepohl road, camp, and all camps served from this junction were cut off entirely by water several feet deep.
The canteen store of Pie Settle, near the junction, was completely surrounded by water, the roadway in front of his store being covered with water three feet deep, in which canoeists, afraid to venture into the river proper, made merry yesterday afternoon. Campers in Shady Lane started moving out early yesterday afternoon when water began to back up under their cottages. It was necessary for several of them to use canoes to transfer their belongings to higher land. The rise, however, stopped later just underneath the floors of some of these cottages, which stand several feet off the ground. off the front "Willows" Water stood nearly, two feet deep on the north bank of the river, and was over the floors of several cottages in that immediate vicinity.
At several points it lapped the roadway, only a few inches of rise being needed to cover the road serving those cottages. Numerous camps, built on stilts, escaped damage, but occupants were unable to reach them. At Remington, camps th the vicinity of Idle Hour and Don See Jay bore the brunt of the rise. A large green camp between these two was surrounded completely by water, and a rowboat was used for its occupants to reach the highway. Both the Idle Hour Don See Jay camps were almost off by the river.
and. Most of the camps on the upper stretches of the river, where the ground is low, are built on stilts, to keep them above the water. Water stood under many of these camps all along the river. Boats Carried Away. Scores of canoes, as well as numerous docks, were carried out by the swift current.
Heavy driftwood, floating downstream, caught these and tore them loose from their moorings, before, they could, be secured. At the the occupants drew up their docks as the water rose and moored them their front porches, in an attempt to save them from the current. Since July 1 the rainfall in Cincinnati has exceeded the combined rainfall for the months of July and August for any previous years, Weather Forecaster W. C. Devereaux announced yesterday.
As a result the Ohio and its are at an unusually high this time tributaries. of the year, and a stage of 30 feet is predicted at Cincinnati within the next few days. The Ohio River rose 3.7 feet yesterday to a stage of 21.4 feet. A rise of four feet more is expected within the next 24 hours, as the swollen Miami, discharges its current into midstream. While the stage is unusual there is no danger of a flood or much property loss, it was said.
The rapid raise of the last few days has placed nine feet of water over the dam at Fernbank, and has relleved an obstruction that had existed there since the frat of the week. Boats SURRENDERS TO WOMAN. Alleged Slayer of Six "Tired of Being Hunted," He Says. Texarkana, August 19 (A. -Carl "Kinnie" Wagner, 23 years old, alleged slayer of six men, is in custody today after quietly surrendering himself yesterday to Sheriff Lillie Barber, woman executive of Miller County.
"I'm tired of being hunted," Wagner said. "I don't want to dodge people any more." Posses had been searching for the notorious gunman since Tuesday 88 8 result of his latest shooting escapade. On that day he is alleged to have shot fatally Samuel and WAlliam Carper and wounded Robert Carper when on a farm near Texarkana. Wagner, formerly an expert rifle and pistol performer with a circus, declarediould have gotten Bob but it was so dark I couldn't see to shoot straight." The prisoner is wanted at Kingsport, for slaying two officers and wounding a third in April, 1925. He had been sentenced to die in the electric' chair for this act and Wag in jail pending an appeal from the sentence when he led other prisoners In a Jail delivery and escaped.
In Mississippi, Wagner 18 wanted in connection with the deaths of two officers who attempted to prevent him from breaking out of a jail. "I have never been arrested for stealing or been in jail on any other charge except killing," Wagner is alleged to have told Sheriff Barber. BOY BANDITS Escape From Canyon. Half Dozen Posses, Airplanes Equipped With Gas Bombs and Volunteer Sentries Eluded. Pueblo, August 19 (A.
Two boy bandits, Lester and Forest Gonce, 18 'and 14 years old, are reenacting exploits the Jesse James gang in a series of robberies in this section, eluding with ease A half dozen posses, airplanes equipped with tear-gas bombs and scores of volunteer sentries. Discouraged, Sheriff Samuel Thom88, of Pueblo, today called in the posse. The search, however, spread over the whole state, as peace offcers in every community are on the lookout for the pair. The pair recently shot their way to freedom in Garden City, after being arrested in connection with the holdup of a filling station, and fled Colorado. Since reaching this state they have held up and robbed a Deputy Sheriff of his automobile and weapons, "stuck up" A Y.
M. C. A. camp at Rye, a small resort town, and so terrorized residents that many of them are closing up their cabins and shortening their summer vacations. Just when Sheriff's forces believed they had cornered the pair canyon near here last night, a large automobile sped through the streets of Rye and from its open windows the boy desperadoes waved an urchinlike, sped greeting west.
to the inhabitants as Where the pair commandeered the machine is a mystery. Ranchers near Rye said It apparently had been placed In a field by friends of the boys to enable them to make their get-away. It bore no license tag. QUARTERMASTER RENAMED By New Commander of United Spanish War Veterans. Dee Moines, Iowa, August 19 (A.
of James J. Murphy, Washington, D. Quarterof the SpanishAmerican War Veterans, was announced today by Senator Rice W. Means, Colorado, new commander-in chief. Senator Means said the Quartermaster Generals'a headquarters would be maintained in Washington.
Final' sessions of the soldiers of the blue and their auxiliary associations were called to order this morning. The major problems of the campment were disposed of yesterday with the elevation of the Spanish War nurses to be an auxiliary of the veterans and the adoption of resoluindorsing reasonable military preparedness, proposals intended to aid veterans, a request for a soldiers' hospital in the South and for Federal aid toward a monument to Theodore Roosevelt in Oregon. The veterans voted to meet in Detroit next year. OHIO CHARTERS. OHIO CHARTERS.
Columbus, Ohio, August 19 (A. filed August 18: Cincinnati--The Maysville Bridge Company; 1,500 shares no par value; J. M. Wilson, 0. W.
Bennett, C. L. Taylor, L. E. Wilson, C.
M. Schwebel, Cincinnati--The Queen City Insurance Agency, E. H. A. 8.
Kinnes, I. Lipp. R. W. Clark, C.
Cowie, Cowle, St. James Realty Com800 shares no par value, 800 shares I preferred, $100 each; F. M. Erwin, L. G.
pany; Dittoe, J. E. Moloney, E. F. Peters, F.
E. 0'Gallagher. Mansfield--The Mansfield Jewelry Company; 100 shares no Eisenberger, par value; I. Eisenberger, R. E.
E. A. Asher, B. E. Asher, G.
Kusworn. Old Stone Realty Company: R. Pethick, J. R. J.
Selzer. Ackerman, N. R. W. I.
Krewson, Cleveland- The Winslow Realty W. Company; 100 shares no par value; A. Torrance. M. T.
Zaler, H. Torrance, T. M. Kennedy, Mildred Lehy. Limar -The Art Floral Company: B.
K. Grubb. F. L. Kelly, R.
'Mikesel, Craig. P. Mackenzie. -J. Felberg J.
Schweid, J. A. Israel. Klein, M. A.
Miller, D. E. Frye, M. The Northwest Corner Company: 500 shares no par value; H. L.
Hall, R. S. Linger, K. Wing, T. M.
Dye. I. MoDonough. shares no par value; J. A.
Christman, WilDayton--Arcade Pickerel. I. L. Restaurant, V. C.
Fish- 1,000 11am G. Schelbe, bach, K. H. Farrel. Cleveland--The Stillman Real Estate H.
F. Stillman, E. A. Stillman, J. H.
T. Miller, L. Kraker, May O'Donnell, Cleveland The Schuman-Heller B. Company: L. I.
G. N. Davis, Carrie Hartstein, Max Reiviz, Adler. Cleveland--The Gables, 500 shares no par value: S. N.
Galvin, M. J. Martin, A. E. Gordon, F.
D. Lawrence, Max E. Felsman. Dayton Virgil R. Bailey V.
R. Bailey, H. S. Bach, F. Bush, L.
M. Kraus, H. A. Waddell. Distributors, J.
000; B. Marx. Fridel, L. Freedman, M. A.
Picciano, Edward Weinberger. Cleveland--The $16.50 Dress Shops, 8. Davis, L. Kater, L. Sharpe, Ida Davis.
Cleveland--The State Sheet Metal and Furnace Company: E. I. Biegel, O. Siegel, I. I.
Adelman, E. A. Pisdorf, B. W. Desberg.
Cleveland--The Lakewood Center Company: 750 shares no par value, 205 shares preferred, $100 each; A. H. Weinstein, M. Weinstein, F. J.
Ellenberger, E. E. Loeb, C. Guenther. Cleveland--The George R.
McKay Company; 500 shares no par value; G. R. Kay, E. H. Krueger, R.
Davis, P. L. Graham, G. Carter. Columbus The National Auto Supply Company; 1,000 shares no par value, 250 shares preferred.
$100 each: T. H. Moore, W. 8. Evatt.
A. Echoellkopf, F. C. Fravel, W. J.
Earl. ISSUE RAISED In Motor License War By Circuit Court Ruling Upholding Tax Payment Injunction-Appellate Hearing Looms. Frankfort, August 19 (A. The issue was raised today in Court In the motor truck license war involving Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee. Operators and owners of trucks in states bordering Kentucky have been objecting to enforcement by the Kentucky Tax Commission field men of the new Kentucky law requiring commercial truck licensed in another state, but doing business in Kentucky, to pay a license tax to this state.
Circuit Judge Forester, at Harlan, today continued in force an injunction preventing the commission from exacting a license tax from A. J. Duncan, Claiborn County, Tennessee. Hearing before Chief Justice Gus Thomas, of the Court of Appeals, will be conducted probably Saturday and the law probably tested. Meanwhile the State Tax Commission's position of enforcing the law remains unchanged.
The commission' is enjoined in only the case of Mr. Duncan. A. P. Plummer, State Tax Commissioner, reiterating the commission's position, noted, however, that the issue was raised at last in the judicial procedure, which followed numerous exchange of notes, reprisals and statements of unyielding posttions from out of state groups, with the Kentucky Commission resting quietly on one brief statement of law enforcement.
her life because of domestic differences that had existed for several years, Her body was found a mile from the house. last 24 "hours. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Middletown, Ohio, August is one of the few cities in the Miami Valley not suffering from high waters. The Big Miami at this point is on its good behavior, despite recent rains, the waters still within its banks.
The city gauge at the waterworks plant is not affected in any degree, due to the fact that the waters have not overrun the banks. Engineers expect a probable rise of two or three feet within the next 12 hours, but this would result in nothing more serious than the flooding of the uninhabited lowlands. City sewers and drainage systems are functioning in good shape and virtually no property damage was reported the Portsmouth, Ohio, August 19 (A. -The Scioto River, rising rapidly as the result of heavy rains today, has inundated several thousand acres of corn land. Damage, it is believed, will run into thousands of dollars.
The Ohio River also is rising three inches an hour here, and a stage of 25 feet is expected. Reports heavy logs to farmers in the Scioto Valley have been received. At Piketon, Pike County, the Scioto has reached a stage of 18.7 feet and is rising an inch an hour. The road between Piketon and Waverly has been submerged and upstate traffic has been routed by way of Jasper and the towpath. Sunfish Creek has overflowed its banks and submerged many farms.
Chenoweth Fork, a tributary, is at the highest stage ever known. Jackson County Suffer. Jackson, Ohio, August 19 (A. Heavy rains have increased the danger of serious damage from high waters in Jackson County. Several roads were flooded today for the second time this week.
The Hocking Valley Railroad, which was forced to suspend service most of, yesterday because of washouts, was operating trains over its lines here today. Families which vacated their homes in the lowlands returned to their homes, but the latest downpour may again force them to seek higher ground. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Athens, Ohio, August remaining stationary for 12 hours at the flood stage of 17 feet, the Hocking River, after new rainfall, began to rise again late today and tonight was two feet above the danger mark. Motor traffic and bus lines are stopped completely in sections, both washed out bridges and flooded roads.
There has been little damage 80 far to homes, but by tomorrow morning many families in the lowland of the entire valley are expected to move out. Hundreds of farm homes have received no mail for several days, as rural carriers cannot make their rounds. Thousanda of acres of corn and market gardens are under water, but little further rise expected, and the summer flood of 1926 will not prove As serious as scores of others, river men said tonight. Frank Moore, 50 years old, owner of a hotel at Amesville, shot the top of his head off last night when the flood waters of Federal Creek entered business place. His sight had been falling and when the flood a entered his hotel, he decided his troubles were too many, 1 it 18 believed.
Columbus, Ohio, August 19 (A. -The toll of deaths attributable to heavy rains and flood conditions in Ohio in the last three days was increased to four today. Property and crop damage continued to climb, the figure on crops threatening to run into many thousands of dollars. Hundreds of acres of corn which it was expected the rain would benefit were under water and part loss of the crop was imminent. The latest death in flood water was that of Glenn Bragg, 7 years old, who was swept away by the' swollen current of Little Darby Creek near West Jefferson this afternoon.
Springfeld, August 19 (A. frost in the town of Warren, east of this city, featured reports today of temperature recession all Western Massachusetts. The frost was not heavy enough to damage crops. Indianapolis, August 19 (A. E.
Schortemeler, Secretary of State, today announced he would call on the state legal department for an opinion as to whether or not the Kentucky law under which arrests have been made in that state of Indiana bus and operators vio: lates the Federal constitution. Schortemeler also will ask what take to the rights of Indiana citizens protect, event the legal department rules that the Kentucky law 18 unconstitutional. Schortemeler 1s proceeding on the theory that the Kentucky law infringes the constitutional guaranty of freedom of travel between states. CRIMINAL PLOT Costs Score of Lives. Berlin-Cologne Express Is Wrecked -Fishplates Are Removed From Rails.
When the Little Miami River went on a rampage yesterday its waters invaded numerous camp settlements. No. 1 shows the water surrounding large unnamed green cottage between the Idle Hour and Don Sea Jay camps at Remington. Water covered the floor of this camp and forced its occupants to vacate. In No.
2 is shown the junction roadway in Settle's canteen, near the M. C. A. camp at Tower HIll. The view, taken from the Hudepohl camp, shows a canoe in two feet of water, directly over the roadway, preventing ingress or egress to this section of camps.
The "lake" 18 the front yard of several camps. which could not be taken through the locks because of the raise, and the fact that wickets could not be put down, now can clear the dam, and as a result river traffic between Cincinnati and Louisville is uninterrupted. Many boats, including tows of coal, cleared the dam yesterday. Figures compiled by Mr. Devereaux show that rainfall in Cincinnati since July 1 has amounted to 14.66 inches.
Rain has fallen on 22 of the last 47 days. Precipitation yesterday was .26 of an inch from 7 o'clock to noon, but was reported to be much heavier in some sections of the county. Mercury in Seesaw. While the rain was falling the mer. cury see-sawed up and down the scale.
Records at the Clifton Observatory show that the temperature was 76 degrees at 8 o'clock. One hour later a heavy downpour drove the mercury back to 69 degrees and established the minimum for the day. By noon the mercury had climbed again to 76. It hovered around this figure throughout the afternoon. The Big Miami and Whitewater Rivers were dangerously near overflowing their banks last night and it was predicted by observers that if these two rivers continued to rise at the rate of yesterday they would be of their banks before morning.
out, Whitewater River which empties into the Big Miami below Cleves was rising rapidly last night as the result In No. 3 is shown the blocked highway near Symmes, on the CincinnatiLoveland pike. No. 4, taken from across the river, shows how the water crawled up under the Y. M.
C. A. camp at Tower Hill. In the rear the camp was completely Isolated by Nix feet of water. The swiftness of the current there prevented pictures being made.
No. 5 shows a vlew across the front yards of several cottages in the vicinity Iuen's dansant, Tower Hill. of The view was taken from the front porch of the "Willows," looking toward the east. Water covered the floors of several cottages In this vicinity. of heavy rains up the Whitewater valley.
Both streams were flowing rapidly and the current was taking everything down the rivers was not secured. Observers said that logs, trees and other debris were choking the rivers at several points causing them to spread over contiguous lands. of summer tourists were beIng endangered by the rapid rise in the rivers. Dry Fork, a small but turbu.lent river at high water, had overrun its banks and forced a tourist to abandon his automobile together with a tent and other camp equipment. There appeared to be no chance to get to the automobile because of the raging current in the low plain where the tourist had set his machine and equipment.
The bathing beach at Valley Junetion was half under water and it was expected that it would be inundated by this morning. Numerous small bathing beaches and bath houses along the Whitewater River and Big Miami were surrounded by water. Dukes Airport on the Big Miami below Cleves was half covered by water. It said that no airplanes were in danger of being carried away by the current. Residents of summer homes on the Whitewater and Big Miami rivers, while not exactly endangered by the present stage of high water, were making arrangements to leave their cottages on a moment's notice.
Many families already have moved to safer ground. Mother of 10 Is Flood Casualty; Hamilton and Miami Valley Hit SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Hamilton, Onlo, August damage was caused in Hamilton and the. Miami Valley this morning by probably the severest rainstorm in the history of this section. Between the hours of 5 o'clock and 8 this morning 2.6 inches of rain fell, and this was increased 0.3 of an inch before noon.
Sewers could not carry off the water. Streets were flooded in every section of the city and water Alled cellars. In the county damage to crops by excessive rains was estimated conservatively at $500,000, and when streams left their banks county roads were damaged to the extent of 000. Traffic in the city was crippled early today, and the Dixie Highway between Middletown and Hamilton was not passable when water covered the road and the bridge at Gregory Creek. A barbecue stand there was covered.
A bridge on the Deerfield pike, near East 'View Park, was washed away, Lehrte, Germany, August 19 (A. -The Berlin-Cologne express WAS derailed near this place today and 21 persons were killed and many were injured. Dr. Dorpmueller, Director General of the German Federal Railway Company, after an investigation, declared the wreck was the result of a criminal plot, since it occurred along straight stretch of the Berlin-Hanover route and on a good roadbed. The Ashplates of the rails had been removed, and these, with the nut bolts, were found in the woods near by.
At the time of its derailment the express was speeding at 50 miles an hour. The coaches piled up and the passengers were buried in the debris. Rescuing parties found great dimculty in extricating the bodies and it is probable that more dead will be found as the rescue work continues. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Woodward, August on the crack Chicago-Los Angeles passenger train No.
22, of the Santa Fe Railroad, were shaken today when the train crashed into freight section near here. Neither train was defalled nor damaged. Both proceeded on their way without delay. "No one was injured, the train crews reported. BELIEVE IT? Donahey Appoints Republican To Be Judge Yep, But There Is No Eligible Democrat! a3 was one on the Maud Hughes road near Maud's Station.
The Miami River rose rapidly to a twelve-foot stage, but after, reaching a peak at noon the waters began to recede rapidly as they had risen. Camps along Four Mile Creek were flooded, as were a few on lowlands on the Miami River. The Miami and Erie Canal rose above its banks at several places and caused families to move from homes temporarily. In addition to the property damage reported, Coroner Hugh Gadd believes that high, water in the Sullivan Run, southeast of McGonigle Station, caused the death of Mra. Cecilia Elchler, 60 years old, mother of children.
Mrs. Eichler and her husband were awakened this morning when the creek in front of their home. began to rise rapidly. Mrs. Elchler left her bed, clothed only in a nightgown and slippers, and went into the yard.
Two theories for her death in the creek are advanced, one that she was attempting to save live stock or a chicken and another that she ended Columbus, Ohio, August 19 (A. -Governor A. V. Donahey today sppointed his frat Republican Judge since he has been in office. The apri pointee is James C.
Oglevee, of Carrollton, to the Common Pleas bench to succeed Judge William Maffett, who died recently. It explained at the executive office that a Republican was named because there is no attorney in the county by six Democratic, years of practice to be appointed to the position. Oglevee is the Republican nominee for the office. There is no Democratic nominee. The Governor also announced the appointment of Harry E.
Sparnon, of Logan, to be Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Hocking County, to succeed E. O. Pettitt, Sparnon, a Democrat. MRS. ELLEN E.
WYMAN DIES. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Sidnes, Ohio, August Ellen E. Wyman, 74 years old, for more than 50 years a constant reador of The Cincinnati Enquirer, is dead at her home here. She was the widow of W.
C. Wyman, former Probate Judge of Shelby County. DEATHS. COOPER-Herman Charles Cooper. beloved husband of Ida May Cooper (nee Hetherington), at 2117 Sinton av.
August 19, 1926. Burial at! Nashville, Tenn..
