Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1924 — Page 12
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BRANDED PASTOR UNABLE TO TELL ABOUT ABDUCTION Police Hunt Men Believed to Have Drugged and Tortured Him, By United Press BATTLE CHEEK, Mich., July 14. —The Rev. Oren Van Loon, Berkeley (Mich.) minister, who bears branded on his back the letters “K K K ” was drugged in some unknown manner and carried off by the men who burned the three letters into his flesh. That is the theory held by his wife, and, according to Dr. A. L. Kingsley, who is attending the pastor, it is the probable explanation of his loss of memory and failure to recollect the torture that was inflicted’upon him. Police today%re attempting to find some trace of the branding iron, but they are badly handicapped by the victim's inability to remember the attack upon him or the assailants. Disappeared June 30 The Rev. Mr. Van Loon disappeared on June 30. All he can remember on that day is that he was given a ride by a stranger from Berkeley to Royal Oak, and that after getting something to drink in a drug store, he went to a bank, to cash a check. Handwriting on the check showed the pastor was in a state of nervous excitement that might have been due to drugs. But the minister himself cannot clear up even that mystery. In the time that intervened between his disappearance in Royal Oak and his discovery in Battle Creek, 100 miles distant, he lost thirty pounds and his hair turned from gray to white. He now lies in a hospital here in a state of collapse, suffering from exhaustion and froip lack of nourishment. The Rev. Mr. Van Loon declared he knew no enemies who might have been behind the assault. He had criticised the Ku-Klux Klan. he said, but only for burning fiery crosses. "The cross is not a symbol to be used for terrorizing people,” the minister said. Although some members of his congregation criticized his stand, he received no threats because of his attitude, he said. "I can not believe that any religious organization or any member of one was responsible for this thing that has brought me here,” he exclaimed. The minister was mising 11 days. Found in Street On the eleventh day of his disappearance, a man collapsed on the street here and was taken to a hospital. Examination of papers in his pockets revealed that he was the missing Berkeley pastor. The next morning when a nurse was giving him a sponge bath the three K's branded on the back of his right shoulder, were discovered. Police are baffled now, but they hope that the pastor when he regains his strength, may put them on *he trail of the men who branded h:n.. HOT TIME FOR GYROS l Members to Trot Out Remarks on ‘Pertinent Topics.’ Hot weather entertainment is ahead of the Gyro Club program for Tuesday’s luncheon at fne Lincoln as witness the talks by members: Winston T. Rambo on "How to Work Up a Good Lather With My Competitor’s Soap.” J. R. Dunwoody on "How to Hold a Jdb Under Shank.” Noble H. Parker “Reading of Testimonials as to His Efficacy as a Book Agent." A by-law change will be voted upon.
GRAND JURY SWORN Indictments in Julietta Probe May Be Returned. Indictments growing out of investigation of the construction of the county insane hospital at Julietta and activities in the R. L." Dollings & Cos. failure may be returned by the county grand jury which convened today, according to Prosecutor William H. Remy. John O. Sadler, 27 S. Euclid Ave., was the sixth man chosen on the jury after a special venire was ordered Saturday. Judge Charles S. Wlltsie, protem., of Criminal Court swore in the jury and named Robert Dorsey, head of the Tucker-Dor-sey Manufacturing Company, foreman. Deputy Prosecutor Daniel V. White was assigned to lay cases before the jury. OLD PHOTO PLATES USED Make Ideal Mirrors for Women’s Vanity Cases. Have you any old photographic glass plates around the house you don’t know how to get rid of? Here tofore they have been about as use less to the world as a collection of hoopskirts or a least year's straw hat. v But now they are in great de mand. Some wise mirror manufacturer discovered they were suited Ideally to the manufacture of mir rors for women’s vanity cases. Photographic plates are flawless, and glass brokers are busy buying up all they can find. Monument for Hero Sought Bn Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 14. - A campaign has been launched here to raise funds for a monument for the grave of James Bethel Gres ham, the first American soldier to lose his life in the World war. "Local organizations are backing the movement. Only a glass fruit j>r marks
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LEARN-TO-SWIM WEEK SUCCESSFUL; DESPITE WEATHER Almost 2,500 Youngsters Register to Take Lessons From Instructors, Learn-to-Swim Week got away to a good start today. Almost 2,500 children between the ages of 9 and IS had registered. Os this number, less than 100 said they knew anything about swimming. Last year onl> 4 969 registered. Instructions in swimming will be given daily. On Saturday, beginners’ pins will be awarded to children who have learned to swim fifty feet. There are twenty-five to thirty chil dreri in a class. Besides forty instructors and aids, members of the Red Cross life saving corps, there is ja nurse from the city board of health at each pool, to act as chaperon and .o check the children as they enter and lee the pool. are instructed in the mornings, and girls in the afternoons. Miss Helen Cruse, director of the lifesavirg corps of the Indianapolis Red Cross chapter, said early reports indicated very good attendance. In many cases mothers .accompanied their children to the pools. At Ringgold pool a call for more registration cards was sent out, after the first thirty-five had been used up. Many children who did not register last week went to the pools today. Capt Carroll Lee Bryant. Red Cross field representative from Washington. D. 0.. is giving in structions every morning at the Y. M. C. A. pool. R. Walter Jarvis, city superintendent of parks, has asked parents to have their children at the pools promptly. They must supply their own bathing suits. — | FOUR HELD AS SUSPECTS Arrests Made in Theft and Stripp’ng of Auto. Four men are tinder arrest today |charged with vagrancy in the I ’nvestigation of the theft and strip- ! ping of parts from an auto owned hv Lawrence Elliott, 1270 E. ThirtyFourth St., found by police at Sixteenth St., and Indiana. Ave. Motorcycle officer Tremp, arrested Otto j Austermiller, 23, of 1829 Dexter St., and Delbert Gentry, 18,' of 1811 Dexter St., at the scene. Later he arrested Waiter Rassnrussen, 16. of 1802 Dexter St., and Dean Austermiller, 20, of 1§29 Dexter St., and charged thorn with being implicated in the theft. Three tires and other parts. Trentp said he found in the basement of the Austermiller home.
LEFKOVITS RITES HELD Aged Resident Died at Homo Saturday; Born in Austria. Funeral services for Bernard Lefkovits, 77, a resident of Indianapolis for forty years, who died Saturday at his home, 421 N. Noble St., were held Sunday at 5 p. m. at E. Market Street Temple. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Lefkovits was born in Austria Hungary. He was a member of the Hungarian True Brother Lodge, E. Market Street Synagogue and I. O. O. F. Lodge. The widow, five children, Leo, Anna and Sam Lefkovits, Mrs. Jacob Beckovitz and Mrs. Lena Price, and a sister, Mrs. Rosa Brown, survive. CLUBS MEET JULY 25 Exchange Delegates to Gather ii First State Convention. Delegates from Exchange Clubs will meet in the first annual State convention July £5, at the Lincoln Hotel. Douglas H. White, president of the Indianapolis club, said speakers wall include G. K. Harper, Indianapolis, national president, and H. M. Harter, Toledo, Ohio, national secretary. Special entertainment will be provided for wives of members.
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A Puzzle a Day , If you read around the ribbon, starting with "The” and ending yith "oar,” you will discover that the sentence is broken in two places. By inserting a word, or words, at the blank crossing, you can c/mplete the sentence. The word must be read twice, and will fill the breaks. It may be read as a single word In one place, and as more han one on the other occasion. Answer to previous puzzle: Thepe were 170 sheep and 70 cows in the field —240 In all. One child gave 100 as the answer, by subtracting 70 from 170; while the other child, multiplying 170 by 70, gave 11,900 as the total. THIEVES FIND HIDDEN MONEY Grocery Entered and $17,50 Taken —Other Thefts, Police today believed thieves who entered the McCaslin grocery, 257 X. Arsenal Ave.. were familiar with their surroundings. The found a secret place where the proprietor kept his money and escaped with $17.50. Entrance was made by breaking a glass in the rear door. Mason Williams, colored, 632 W. ' Tenth St., reported $9 taken from his home. Entrance was gained ; through a cellar window. The same burglar entered Mason’s mother-in-law’s rooms across the hall and stole a watch and $1.75. A jeuvenile hold-up took place at Alabama and Pratt Sts., according to a story toldfpolice by Marvin Huff, 515 N. Delaware St., who sa'id he stopped at the above corner to count his receipts from selling papers and a colored boy came along and took SI.BB away from him and ran. * - Mrs. Blance Ewing, colored, 847 N. California St., said she awoke to find a man in her bedroom, who demanded money. She told police she saved three diamond rings by dropping them in the bed. The man fled when she screamed. Patrick Sweeney, 1426 Columbia Ave., reported his grocery entered and $2 in cash and sl6 in merchandise stolen.
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26ARE SLATED AS SPEEDERS IN WEEK-END DRIVE Police Records' Show Three Held oh Improper Driving Charges, Police slates today show only three persons were arrested op improper driving charges. Speeding, on which a drive has been under way for four weeks, continued to maintain its pace and twenty-six persons were slated as follows: Edwin W. Marshall. 24. of 322 Graham St.: J. E. La Rue, 44. of Beech Grove. lud.; James Proctor, 19. of 729 N. Trerdont Ave.: Paul G-riffin. 20. of 4577 Carrollton Ave.: Theodore Cable. 33. colored. 4119 Cornelius Ave.; Claude Newmier. 33, of 2758 Roosevelt Ave.; Robert Ford 27, of 1858 Holloway Ave.; S. E. Everett. 44. of 2751 Stewart St.: Charles Anderson, colored. 35, of 1775 Morgan St.; C. C. Reedsr, 27. of the Hotel Edward; Harold Erbich, 21. of 3423 E. Tenth St. Golden Bier, 41 of 1128 New- Jersey St.; William Bills 32. of 404 W. Vermont St.: Kenneth Wright. 18. of 325 E. Norwood St.: Leon Erp. 22. of 3308 Washington Blvd.; Irra Brooks. 32, colored, of 3145 N. Meridian St., and Frank Shirley. 40. colored, of 825 Darnell St-., also charged with assault and battery: Willard Edwards. 20. of UIS 1 2 Indiana Ave.; Jesse Stowers, 59. of Clinton, Ind.; Norman Sewell, 19, colored. 507 M, Indiana Ave : James W. Moore. 33. of Til’s N Senate Ave.: Oscar Alexander. 31, colored. 035 St : James Madley, 20. colored. 925 N. Senate Ave J H. Barr, colored. 1015 Roache St Noel Ka’der, 20 colored. Carmel. Ind.; Virgil Bedenhaugh. 24. of 2433 Northwestern Ave Sam Walters, 21, of 128 W. Walnut St., and Donald Collins, 36 of 1060 W. McCarty St., are charged with improper driving. Joe Churnkain, 33, of 1422 Union St., is charged with failure to stop after an accident. Ben Scott, 49, Danville, Ind., is charged, with failure to have license of certificate of title. Harry Montgomery, 34, of 747 Roache St., is charged with driving while intoxicated. ELOPERS ARE SOUGHT Two Escape ac Pendleton, According to Police Here. Two elopers are wanted in Columbus. Ohio., a wire states. Fern Klinbell, 14. is said to be with I Casper Milton, 30, In a Liberty auto. Assistant Superintendent Vtles of the State Reformatroy at Pendleton. Ind., reports that Jefferson i Hessinger, 24. and Jefferson (Pinky) i Mills, 18. escaped Sunday. PRUITT’S TRIAL IS SET L. Ert Slack Engaged as Counsel by Edinburg Defendant. By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind.. July 14.—Trial of Elmer Pruitt, under Indictment in the murder of Oscar Catsinger as the culmination of a milk feud at Edinburg, Ind., was set today for October 6. Attorneys Henry White, of Franklin. and L. Ert Slack, of Indianapolis, probably will enter a plea of Insanity for Pruitt. Auto Accident Fatal By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July 14 - Word has been received here of the death of Fleck Fleckstein, straw dealer here, who was killed in an auto accident at Tuscola, 111.
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Today’s Best Radio Features Copyright, 1924, by United Presu WOC, Davenport (454 M), 8 P. M. CST Program by Rock Island Kiwanis Club. ’ KDKA. Pittsburgh (326 M), 8 P. M. —EST KDKA orchestra and Davis Male Quartet. v WLW, Cincinnati (423 M) 8 P. M. EST —Cincinnati Municipal Opera. WJZ, New York (455 M), 7:15 P. M., EST —French piogram. WDAF, Kansas City (411 M), 8 P. M. CST —WDAF minlstrels. AD CONVENTION OPENS Prince of Wales Makes Speech; 3,500 in Attendance. By United Press LONDON, July 14. —In presence of 3,500 advertising men from all "parts of the world, the Prince of Wales formally opened the world advertising convention at Wembley Stadium today. In a brief speech the Prince declared that the presence of delegates from North and South America. .Asia and the British Empire, demonstrated that participants realize "the value of the principle of each for all and all for each." Veterans Chose Elkhart By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July 14. — Delegates to the State convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, were en foute home They chose Elkhart as the 1925 convention city. Officers elected: C. Ray Bradburn, ’Connersville, commander; Fred E Billman, Indianapolis, senior vice commander; Iv. E. Stone, Bedford, .mnlor vice commander; F. J Byers, Indianapolis quartermaster.
CHORUS _GIRL INJURED Receives Broken Leg in Auto Accident Near Muncie. By United Press MUNCIE. Ind., July 14.—Miss Dorothy Switzer, a chorus girl, suffered a fractured leg and Miss Gladys Bragg sustained severe cuts about the body when the automobile in which they were riding turned over near here early today. The accident resulted from speeding, Investigators said.
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AMMUNITION IS STOLEN Burglars Enter Sporting Goods Store—Escape With Guns. Revolvers and ammunition, valued at S2OO, were stolen from the Em-
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