From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, January 13: With the sudden drop in temperature from 45 degrees to zero, many unfortunates have been caught unprepared to combat the cold. Unless coal is provided for, them sickness will follow. Many children are obliged to huddle close around a fire made from scraps of wood picked up in the streets and, from which little heat can be obtained. Dozens of requests have been received by The News Winter Relief Fund today for help. One woman said her children were all sick and there was no fire in the house; another said she and her aged mother had been without fire for two days; a man called to say that he had not a cent to buy coal and that his wife and children were suffering from the cold.