Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1924 — Page 12

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SPEEDING TRAIN HITS CAR, KILLING ' FAMILYJF SIX Investigation Started of Grade Crossing Tragedy at Emison, Ind, By United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 14.—The Knox County coroner and officials of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad today started a dual investigation of the grade crossing accident which cost the lives of six persons. Claude Wittenmeyer, 34, a farmer, and his family, when their auto was ground to pieces by a passenger train at Emisor., north of here, yesterday. Wittenmeyer and his wife, Lula, 32; three daughter, Helen, 16; Lorene, 4; Mary, 8, and a son, Charles, three months old, were killed. Every member of the family perished. Wittenmeyer stopped to let a freight train pass the crossing and then drove in the path of the passenger train speeding to make up lost time, on another track. Auto Hurled Against Station The auto was smashed and the fragments hurled against the Emison station. The six occupants were strewn on the tracks. The bodies were terribly mangled. Wittenmeyer and his family were driving to the home of a relative for Sunday dinner. Two men standing in front of the Emison station narrowly escaped being crushed by heavy' parts of the auto which were thrown against the station. All the passengers were thrown from the automobile. The dismembered body of the older girl, Helen, was found nearly 100 yards away. The baby was caught on the cowcatcher of the locomotive. The child outlived other members of the family, dying an hour after the accident. It received a severely fractured skull. Parts of the automobile were strewn along the right of way for hundreds of feet.

Operators Escape F-. H. Cunningham, station telegraph operator, who was stated at the window of the depot, narrowly escaped death from flying fragments, when the auto was thrown against the station window, crashing through the supporting frame William Wolfe, standing at the spot where the auto was struck, was saved from death when he dodged into an open doorway and slammed the door shut as the car came crashing against the building. A tragic after-note of the terrible accident is the fact that Junior Walker, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Wittenmeyer, is again an orphan. The boy was attending Sunday school at Emison and so escaped death. The.. Wittenmeyers adopted the boy, then an orphan, several years ago. 1,1 BOYS NAMED NO-ACCIDENT COPS IN CITY SCHOOLS Report Shows 200,000 Persons Received Police Safety Message, Establishment of accident prevention councils in public and appointment of 1,105 boys as acident prevention officers was considered the most important work of the Ac cident Prevention Bureau, since it3 establishment July 16, 1923, Miss Rachel Bray, secretary, said in a report today. The bureau created by a city ordinance appropriating S7OO is subsidiary of the police traffic department. Similar work had been carried on in a smaller way since February'. 1923, under Capt. Michael Glenn. More than 200,000 persons have received ‘ the safety message” from the, bureau through speeches. A film showing how accidents happen, has been shown in all schools and at public meetings. No Accident Week, Nov. 4-10, was conducted by the department. About 105 coni plaints have been investigated. The bureau was instrumental in securing arrest of sixty-one persons, thirty-seven of whom were found guilty. Escaped Convicts Still Free Police are on the lookout today for Rex Stacey, 23, and Herbert Wallace, 24, who escaped from the State Reformatory at Pendleton on Saturday while working with a road gang.

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Victor Murdock, Kansas, chairman of the Federal trade commission, has sent his resignation to President Coolidge, to be effective Feb. 1. Dr. Albert Abrams, San Francisco physician, who claimed he could determine parentage of a child by electrical vibration of a drop of blood in a machine of his own invention, died Sunday night of broncho-pneumonia. Representative Martin Davy', Ohio, today asked Secretary Mellon what will become of tax exempt securities after they are sold, under the Mellon plan. “Do you think it fair to reduce taxes for a man with a million dollar income, a quarter of a million per year, and at same time cut only $25 in taxes of the man with $5,000 income?” Davy asked. Frank B. Kellogg, United States ambassador to court of St. James, today presented his credentials to King George at Buckingham Palace, London. The ambassador and staff drove to the palace and returned in the gorgeous royal coaches. Senator Copeland today announced sufficient evidence of nation-wide issuance of fraudulent medical diplomas had been given the Senate Investiga ting Committee to warrant a complete inquiry. Out of 600 members of United States House and Senate all except fiftyeight are church members. There are 119 Methodists, forty-five Roman Catholics, three Mormons and one Christian Scientist. Every Protestant denomination is represented. During past ten years gross debt of the United States. Federal. State, county and civic, has increased 331 per cent. Department of Commerce announces. Perfection Butte,- Makee Kiddle* Grow.—Adr. COUGHING, WEAK AND THIN AFTER FLU Regained flesh and strength quickly, ami teiLs how. ‘ I nearly died from ‘flu’ last Octol>er and it left me with a terrible cough. I took one bottle of medicine aftei another, but i; did-me no good. Went to Charlotte. X. C., for my health without any permanent benefit. "I saw Milks Emulsion advertised and started using it. It helped me right from the start. T had no appetite and my stomach was in bad shape. But 12 bottles have straightened me : out entirely. I eat anything without distress, my cough is gone and I have gained back my strength and flesh.” —Emma Withers, Box 50, Belmont, N. C. Don’t trifle with a weak, run-down I condition. It leaves you open to seriI ous diseases. Get your strength back. Milks Emulsion costs nothing to try. Milks Emulsion restores healthy. , natural bowel action; it is a truly cori rective medicine, doing away with all need of pills and physics. It promotes appetite and quickly puts the digestive organs in shape to assimilate food, and thus build flesh and strength. Milks Emulsion is strongly recommended to | those whom sickness has weakened; lit is a powerful aid In resisting and repairing the effects of wasting die eases. Chronic stomach trouble and constipation are propmtly relieved. This is the only solid emulsion made, and so palatable that it is eaten with a spoon like Ice cream. No matter how severe your case, you are urged to try Milks Emulsion under this guarantee—Take six bottles home with you, use it according to directions and if not satisfied with the results, your money will be promptly refunded. Price 60c and $1.20 per bottle. The Milks Emulsion Cos., Terre Haute, Ind. Sold by druggists everywhere.—Advertisement.

PUBLIC TO HAVE CHANCE- TO SEE GREAT ACTRESS Mrs, Talbot Will Bring Italian Tragedienne Here if Support Is Assured, Eleanor Duse the famous Italian tragedienne will visit Indianapolis early in April if the proper support is assured for such a great undertaking, Ona B. Talbot announced today. Mrs. Talbot, after a conference with Fortune Gallo, opera producer, stated that Indianapolis and Indiana will have an opportunity to see Duse at the Murat if public support is guaranteed. * t Duse has been appearing under the management of Morris Guest, but the Selwyns and Gallo have now placed

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her under contract for twenty engagements. “I will be able to bring the world’s greatest tragedienne if we are assured that the tremendous expense of bringing her will be met,” Mrs. Ta'bot said. ‘So far she has grossed as h.gh as $30,000 in one performance. “It will be necessary to charge $5 ana $6 for the best seats. This is being charged in all other cities where the seating capacity is twice as large as the Murat. “We must feel sure that Indianapolis and the State of Indiana will support Duse as other cities are clamoring for her. One city guaranteed her $30,000 for two performances. "We are not begging for support for Duse, but are trying to find out if this city and State want to see this great artist,” Mrs. Talbot said. Those who desire to pledge their support for the Duse engagement are asked to get in touch with the office of Mrs. Talbot and put their reservations In writing at once. “There’ll Be No More Charity” Charles Shepherd, employe of a livery barn at 319 S. has less faith In mankind today than on Sunday. He gave a derelict money with which to buy food. The man returned to the barn later for a free bed, found Shepherd asleep, and removed a watch valued at sls, police say.

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