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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 1

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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET Yrar (Partly cloudv) Avtraf; for 10 same dale Report in Pan FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1923. PACES THREE CENTS. SHCTCtRS TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. Tr-mpeialure today.

12 in (Eaaa- HERE AND NOW Vandals Rip Bronze Sword And Epaulet Tassels From Statue of General Fowler FAMOUS HOT SPRINGS, SWEPT FIRE AND FLOOD; TOLL OF LIVES UNKNOWN 10 BRIBE JUROR IN FULLER CASE Arrest of McManus on Statue of I4th's War Hero Defaced in Vandal's Raid by Nine-Foot in Hot Springs Cloudburst Wrecks City and Carries Off Homes. Guests Flee as Hotel Marquette Is Destroyed by Flames Noted Resort Cut Avenue Wrecked Wall of Water ASK THE ALLIES TO French Seize Limburg and Two Dye Establishments in Ludwigshaven. Central Hot springs. Ark, of Gcil, E. it Fowler.

War DEMANDS CHINESE Commission to Act to Pre vent Repetition of Bandit Outrages. Hid properly. The com The sun is giving less heat, and no nailer what the seletitists say. our mess is dial old Sid is using subsli-ute fuel. Falling off sun's heat may he tin popular, but President.

Harding i't worry. There was no 100 nt sun plank in the Republican platform, The hent uly aim nnywa.v, and when yn the lawnmower in July pouH hardly notice the CONEY BOARDWALK FORMALLY OPENED WITH BIC FEATURES Great Crowd Witnesses Mili tary Review and Thrilling JUSTICE DIKE ILL consents to permit a com as well as ti am sir, by my colleagues in the Heidi's re, i for. ig'n others said, to manner which sulmr.llnat- cm anv further various "elastic" proposals increase 111 nnnib-r ot troops and SINGER VANISHES Lydia Lindgren Missing. Trio of Mysteries in Day Baffle Police. Two washed ashore that (.1 i man ai Rock way today, thai of a young woman at Long Beach Into yesterday and the disappearance of a young woman singer from Flushing pro-vide three mysteries which the pollen late this afternoon had not sol- d.

More than the usual Interest which attach, to drowning eases surrounds that of the woman of nbout 23 found on the strand at Long ISoach. She wore a black and white mat with lace collar, silk p.tlicout. pink corsets, mat black patent lather pumps. Her hair and i yes far the body was a ntatnlng and which a number 78 written In a style of hand characteristically German. Man's Watch Found.

Soring Woman. in years of age, five, fee In height and frown hair and eyes ai at llndlng her gem i) his friends until 61 Brooklyn Game Postponed rtecuuae of the eold weather thi bauehnll game scheduled today a Bbhetl Field between ihe chlrag. v'ubs an. I I'rookhti Sun. abas polled.

The came will be played ItmV.TONE" TONUS, in. Unity Kuttea tt. tf, v. a Adv. aet of vandalism in Fort ark became known today as learned that within tin weeks the sword and Mward inlhatrh" vandal: ru'ken" down wishing about pounds ei from the steps leading to the 1110 said these, too.

probabl (Sken away to sell, Vandals recently ehlppeil wit chisel the fllRht of broad steps L-ading to Hie monum-nt. wave of vandalism wbleli has I directed against New York DRY LEAGUE WINS DELAY IN FIGHT ON PUBLICITY EDICT Albany, on the a Loag'i. ot DEATH ENDS ROMANCE OF L. I. CITY COUPLE HARDING DECIDES TO LEAVE ABOUT JUNE 20 MRS.

TOM WATSON DEAD jerked om of then- sockets I wrench. A careful man. Ha i be screws In his pocket when I A few minutes lati I itartled wife found a man climbing rear window. He raced throw building and out the front doc has not been seen ilm i 1 1 a general Alarm out for him. Two Charges Follows Action by Grand Jury.

rb.velopedwas VffVredS8Mr.bli'ebiel her help in Influencing her employer Mistriet Mr. Indignantly refused in entertain an BURGLARS RANSACK HOME IN FLATBUSH; GET $3,000 IN LOOT Prize Trophies Are Stolen at Setauket Three Other Thefts Reported. Burglars who broke into the sacked and aev. ral diamond i and a gold wa-cli and chain bad appeared. She promptly lie- and di I.

in, of the Take Trophl. Sugar Exporters Named In Bankruptcy Court llartnian. 10. from Internal Injur Beaati Hints, "rr The Ragle ilon.r I HaBMl Jitx rui.il.ri'.i Mass isrt.il At K.iKle nl was Indicted for brio-1 i degree, and embrac-1 barge next Thursday. lings 0,.

"nil nec'n tin. r( Off From World. Memphis. May KS -A elegram received from the West ern Union manager at Hot Springs at 10:30 o'clock this morning said so far as known no lives had heen lost, hut that he Marquette Hotel and a num- her of nearby buildings had been destroyed. No accurate estimate of the property damage was available at that hour.

Tcxarkana, May 15 Un official advices received here by Two States Telephone Com pany from Hot Springs state that the known dead in the storm and fire last night would be at least 17. Water is running II feet on Central ave. in places, it was said. (Ru the AtstxHateS Prrs.il Memphis. May Hot Springs.

Ark. famous resort and city many disasters, was stricken las ht as never before, when flood and flumes united in a general devasta tion that left death and disaster in its wake. How many dead Is un- Kcpnrts generally place the loss of life at IT, although one report relayed over railroad telegraph lines to fl.awnee, estimated tho number killed as 50. Water In torrents, raging like mnd, split the city into three sections. Flame followed In the path of the flood and nt nightfall from 4 to 9 feet of water covered nil sections before a summary could be made.

There was not a body reported at the morgue early today, but there were (scuers whose heroism deserved great praise. The flood originated In the upper basin of the mountains north of Hot Springs from a rentable cloudburst. About 4:30 o'clock, after terrific rains for about 18 hours, there came a slight flow of water down through Central ave. from Its Junction with Whtttington Park nt the north end of the valley. When the first water appeared there was little alarm, but In a few minutes the waters hegnu to rage down the valley.

Motorcars began to find difficulty in the high water and soon found travel impossible. A few minutes was from these that the most ef. -etH- res. for the ig unable to leave them. Wall of Water Sweeps City.

water coursing through fen-ie. wns from 4 to 9 feet tn but it was not the depth so as the speed with which the came that wrought the most People Flee to Mountains. Hundreds of Inhabitants of th iperllled and submerged areas the mountain slop- s. From ere they sought to observe the ex- thelr disaster tnrougn me i. rendered more sombre by using downpour of rain and Separated from friends and fam-T scores spent the night on the llsides.

the reports said. Kverywhere was confusion and mingled with herculean exertion i many were dragged from the mad rs in inch noareu me con; homes and business houses, stores and homes were crushed the rushing torrent. Motorcars. "Immediate Possession" Was Right! Only Mrs. Distler didn't expect that it would be quite as immediate as it turned out to be.

She advertised a six-room apartment at 4o9 18th for rent, with "immediate possession," in The K.igle's Real Estate columns the other day and before she knew the paper was out the place was being Hooded with applicants. "Ton many people to keep count of called to lonk over the apartment, which was rented immediately," she said afterward, "I am greatlv pleased with the results of uiv Kacle ad and I will never blither with other papers or agents again When advertisers feel this way about The Kagle and wc are finding out that more and more of them do we feel that we arc giv-ing them genuine classified service. If this sort of service appeals to YOU-Just call Main 6200! No ii, (ifT. r. a il wi polo or inodltlcations in ioTd.M.',gT,'ad.r'''who waVs" a'" may be rTc- ally usse.l exchange of 7-1 i'h.

"said Com mission In the past days to Hi- to to h- desirable." that tb rtimn offer could I redded WMh 7 beTnd SSS Krciuli Occupy Town ot l.ioihoig. that the BROOKLYN PAINTERS DEMAND $12 A DAY; 2,800 OUT ON STRIKE Those in Manhattan and Bronx to Guit Work on Monday, Asking $10 a Day. on strike fot "That Wonderful I-aglc Magazine." said President Harry Dc Mott of the Mechanics Bank, gpetking at a dinner of the Four-Minute Men in Brooklyn last night, when he called the attention of these war workers tn Brooklyn's Newest Literary Creation. (let it with Ncx't Sunday's Eagle and understand why he said it. .1 REAL MAGAZINE Broth' rhood, be said." Town ot I.

allien Westphalia, I Ibe! tan, burg has hitherto been h-ld aptive "will ail 'ml Dye Works Scic.l by Inn, M-x I i-'d' a broth. 0' Uadcti Aniline and Sod, Works at In sViMtsat I r'- 'l r. en j. EARTHQUAKE IN ROME l' 'Vh-1 18 the Associated 'doan' room, hadng a table earthquake shocks. folir benches, was given the -'cotiip-n let by felt place of honor.

Sun Met-. Ian, the has been reported. Continued on Page 2. Husky Prisoner Rips Out Barred Window of Cell And Makes Easy Escape Rain Is Due, Chill the Air; Poet Pleach: Don't You Care less heal by as through I nto ii, ir.lih. through Hall was DM Of tha biggest and huskies! defendants thai ever paid the court a visit.

Originally Irom Tennessee, be bud be, traveling 111 lTelta Hall el Monroe who has an 1 1-iiionlh-old child. Rita, charted some time ago that ho.

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