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Show CITIZENS URGED 10 lap m em Governor of Indiana Issues Appeal Ap-peal in Case of Missing- Elsie ; Paroubek. .-. ; :-J'-: , KIDNAPED FROM CHICAGO Mayor Carter Harrison Assumes Charge of Search in the. Windy City. ' By Leased Wirri. to The Tribune. .; CHICAGO, April .22. Thomas R.Iar?-sliall, R.Iar?-sliall, governor of Indiana, this afternoon after-noon issued an appeal' to the citizens of tba-t state to Join in the search for" Elslo Paroubek, who disappeared two 'weeks ago. ; . - t "I urge all citizens to help bunt for the little gli l." be wrote, " "and be on .the alert for information which might .bring about her recovery." -Muyor Carter II. Harrison today practically prac-tically assumed charge of tho searchi Determined measures were adopted in the wide search for little Elsie. New impetus im-petus was given- the hunt by the promise of n larger reward and high officials of state and. city enlisted tlio aid of cltl-ens cltl-ens and police. The developments Indicated that the most extensive hunt ever attempted In this section of tho country would bo Organized Or-ganized iind pushed until the girl Was restored to her grieving parents.' who i(re. now In a. state Of nervous and physical collapse aOer two weeks of fujile search. It wasi believed the girl might have been enticed away and then hidden i the home, of the organ grinder In some thickly settled tenement quarter. Tills search, however, will nol lessen I be' close scrutiny of gypsy camps throughout the state In hopes of finding trace of tlio missing girl. In 6ther child disappearance cases there has been some, clew to bring results to the detectives. But the Utile Ut-ile golden-biilred. glrl for whom the hunt is to bo exi ended over three statOs loft behind not a trac.e which would aid those trying to find her. So far as the detectives have beeii able to learn she was -walking- along the -street neur her homo when she vanished. There tho search began and there It hns .so far stbpped. Tor twq -weeks since little Elsie, disappeared from the street near her home, 2320 Albany avenue, the mystery of the girl's disappearance has resisted every effoft at solution. , |