Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1923 — Page 7
MONDAY, AUG. 13, 1923
PROBE AT FATAL 'CROSSING STARTS AS COUPLE DIES Police Investigate Report View of Track Was Obstructed. The police accident prevention division today was investigating conditions at the Nevada St., crossing of the Big Four
Railroad, where Archibald Winings. 73. and his wife, Dela, 49, of 2 7 12 W. Washington St., were killed Sunday morning. A Big Four train from Detroit, Mich., struck the Winings automobile. The crossing is guarded by a bell, which En-
MM Persons 3 J have been ■ 1.1 ‘ n V/U an tomobile accidents in Marlon County this year. i oaols flc aeddents. It is your duty to make the st’.'eeta safe.
gineer Salaphiei Mullen, 3334 Park Ave.. says was ringing. View is obstructed by box cars as a rule, police say they were told. Mullen said he saw the automobile approach the crossing and applied his The automobile stopped, MulPlen said, so he released brakes and applied power. Then the auto was diven onto the track, the engineer said. Son in California Walter Winings, R. R. 0., said the couple had started for Pendleton, Ind. Funeral arrangements await arrival of a son from California. Leonard Smock, 20, R. R. E, box 261/is at the city hospital with a broken shoulder, injuries to the chest and other injuries, received when a car he was driving for the Rushville bus line struck loose gravel on the Rockvillel road, just east of the Marlon County line, and turned over. Smock was pinned under the car, which carried no passengers. Virgil and Raymond Nuding, 626 N. Bancroft St., brought the injured man to the city. Boy Injured Charles Everts, 8. of 702 Harmon St., is at the city hospital suffering cuts and possible internal injuries, j after being struck by a machine driven by O. D. Johnson, 2736 Roose- j velt Ave., at Twenty-First and School Mrs. Paul C. Blackburn, 2010 N. Meridian St„ was injured about the limbs and right arm when struck by a machine in front of 2243 N. Meridian St. i as she was crossing the street. The car was gone when police arrived. . Ben Bailey, 815 E Michigan St., was | arrested for failure to display license plate and assault and battery after his , car struck David Burt. 80. of 1940 | apark Ave., who was crossing the near his home. Burt suffered body injuries and a cut blood vessel lp the left hand. He was sent to the city hospital. Mystery Shrouds Injury Police investigated a supposed acci- I dent which was said to have resulted In cuts to the arm of a colored worn- j an giving her name to city hospital authorities as Belle Carpenter, 23, of i 402 N. California St. No one by that i name lives at the address given. Miss Thresea Claghorn, 121 S. Sherman Dr., received an injured left hip and a badly bruised knee when she > feli from a street car at Sherman Dr. j and E. Washington St. • After two men who were driving a j machine that crashed into a Standard j GO truck, driven by William Pacy, *23 N. Davidson St., at Twenty-First • snd Bellefontaine Sts., jumped out , and run. police found a five-gallon can ! Os mule in the car. Police held the | <jar. A search for the owner failed. Mrs. Jacob Dunn Hurt
’ Mrs. Jacob P. Dunn. 915 N. Dela wara St., suffered a cut over the eye when ail automobile in which she was riding with Mrs. .Samuel M. Deal, li>2s N- Talbott Ave., was struck by an automobile driven by Frank Hartsock, 21 N. Delaware St., at Delaware and Pratt Sts. Both cars were damaged. 'A n automobile driven by V\ illiam Jones, 1730 Holliday St., hit a truck parked in front of 825 N. Hamilton Ave., at 10 p. m. Sunday. The truck, kparked by Lloyd Wills of that address, was owned by M. L. Hendrickson bakery, 2379 N. Adams St. Slight damage was done. A car driven by R. C. Yorger, 977 Hoebrook St., was struck by an automobile driven by Arthur Blass, 3354 Hovey St., at Massachusetts Ave. and Bel'.efontalne St., at 7:40 p m. Sunday. Blass said he was blinded by the light of other automobiles. Three Cars in Collision W. H. Douglass, 401 Penway Bldg., received cuts over the eye and injuries to the head in a collision between his auto and cars driven by O. R. McShanog, 619 E. St. Clair St,, and Frank Kersey, 760 N. Pershing Ave.. at Seventeenth and Delaware Sts. Douglass was taken to the City Hospital. Kersey was arrested on a charge of failure to have a chauffeur's license and assault and battery. * ' , Apartment Is Sold. announcement was made today of the purchase of the Kathelmar Apts., S. Meridian and Morris Sts., by Robert Beilach, owner of the Union Ice and Coal Company, from Charles J. Wacker, who had the building erected in 1919. The consideration was said to be $70,000. Water-cooled Tires BROOKLAXDS. England, Aug. 13. —-Capt. A. G. Miller, racing motorist, was traveling bo fast on the speedway here that his tires had to be flushed with water every time he passed the pit, from which a fire engine pumped the water. Hen Mothers Dogs DALTON, England, Aug. 13.—A litter of young spaniels on a farm near here are getting motherly attention from a buff Orphington hen. They creep under their foster-mother’s
All Pleasant Features of Vacation Provided at Camp Ida Wineman
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Shrill childish voices raised In a chanting song of "Farmer In the dell, farmer In the dell” vie with a high-pitched call to “Com'mon, kids, les go switnmin’ ’> in the shady camp that lies just north of Broad Ripple, between the river and the Range line Rd. Camp Ida Wineman, as it is called, is supported by the Indianapolis Community Chest and the Jewish Federation, and provides a summer vacation spot for forty children and ten mothers, who would otherwise have to spend the hot days in stuffy city tenements. Miss Rose Bogen, in charge of the camp, sees that the children are provided with nourishing meals, supervises their swimming and their play and makes their stay, which lasts from two to six weeks, as pleasant as a vacation can be made. METHODIST CONFERENCE Eighty-fourth Annual Session at Kendallville, Ind., Opens. Meetings of the eighty-fourth annual session of the Indiana conference of the Methodist Protestant Church opened today at KendallviUe, Ind., with the Rev. E. T. Howe of Indianapolis in charge. The conference will continue all the week. The Rev. Howe said the conference was planning to buy land for camp ground site near Marlon. Sev-
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COUNCIL TO GET CITY BUDGET AND TAX LEVY TONIGHT Pruning Process Leaves Rate, Excepting Park Figure, at $1.02, With the 1924 budget surviving administration pruning, city council will consider a tax levy of $1.02 tonight w-hich will bring In an estimated total of $6,324,000 for expenses of city government next year. The council will meet in a special meeting, sitting as &, conujsittee of the whole. Every item will be considered by the council in reviewing the cuts of Mayor Shank, in which he reduced the proposed levy from $1.3048. A Chamber of Commerce committee and representative citizens have reviewed the budget. It represents an increase of $0,073 over this year. Tn addition to the $1.02, an additional levey of $0,225 for the park sinking fund will be Included, making a grand total of $1.0425. The park department levy, however, will be submitted separately. It is now in the hands of the county auditor, and will go to the State tax board for approval. Following council action tonight, the State tax board must approve the city levy. It is estimated the levy as it now stands will bring In approximately $700,000 more than this year, due to increased property valuation. DOG REMOVES SEAT OF BURGLAR’S TROUSERS Faithful Canine Breaks Hold When Screen Door Is Slammed. Roscoe McClain, 1327 S. Belmont Ave., today has the seat of a pair of trousers as a souvenir collected by his dog from the clothing of a man who tried to rob his house Sunday night, according to police. A screen door slammed behind him and prevented the burglar from taking the dog with him In his flight, McClain told police. Look Bartered From Safe. , When Charles Delong, proprietor of a laundry at 340 Indiana Ave., returned after four hours’ absence Sunday. he found a pile of rags burning on the safe Delong put out the fire and discovered the combination had been battered off of the safe. The police found all doors and windows of the place locked and said the per son w-ho battered the safe must have had a key. Farmer Commits Suicide Rv Timet Special GOSHEN. *lnd„ Aug. 13 —Eugene Haberstich. 65, Elkhart County farmer committed suicide In his home late Saturday night by shooting him self in the head. He owned 300 acres of land and was the father of ten children.
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