Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 223

AUTOS BRING DEATH TO 2 PEDESTRIANS Battered Car and Driver Who Was Responsible for Killing of One of Elderly Accident Victims Sought —Flees After Crash. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE IS PLACED AGAINST ONE Woman Injured When Struck by Machine Motorist Fails to Stop Thirty Week-end Traffic Arrests Made by Police Force. With two elderly pedestrians dead, police today sought a battered ear whose driver fled after a fatal crash. A woman was Injured by a motorist who failed to stop, and a number of others injured in collisions over the week-end. Thirty drivers Were arrested, eighteen charged with speeding. The two killed by autos were: WILLIAM STRATTON, 76, 511 Kentucky Ave. HENRY NICHOLS, 71, Madison Rd., near Stop 9. v Headlight Broken Pieces of broken headlight were the only clews to the driver who ran down Stratton as he was crossing Kentucky Ave., new 1 West St., late Sunday. * -\ Witnesses said the motorist stopped for a second and then drove rapidly away. The machine passed over Stratton's bpdy. Three persons who saw the acci dent failed to obtain the license num. her, but reported the headlights an<V radt-aftjr of. the muchtae Wc tercd. St.raiton is survived by two sisters, tlrs. Bertha "Nunn and Miss Maude trfctton, and a son, Stephen, 14, living at the Kentucky A ve - addrets. According to his sisters, Stratton’s! wifo left him some time ago and is believed to have remarried. Walking on Koad Nichols was walking on the Madison Rd., near his home when he was struck by an auto driven by C. M. Durham of Whitelard, Ind. He died at city hospital today. Nichols lived in poverty in a shack on the farm of W. B. Richardson. He slept on straw with an old quilt for covering, and there were scarcely a trace of food in the house. Ho had been in the neighborhood for ten years. Neighbors said he sometimes spoke of brother in Tennessee, but no one knew the names on any of his relatives . Durhaiy told Deputy Sheriff Bell that he did not see Nichols until after he struck him. Durham (Turn to Page 11) RIVER DRAGGED IN BODY HUNT Street Car Plunges Into Stream at Pittsburgh. Bu United Prew PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18.—Search was continued today for additional victims of a street car's plunge Into the Ohio River, near McKees Rocks, Sunday night. Pour bodies have been recovered. Nineteen of the thirty passengers were able to reach the shore. The car. coming down an incline, leaped the tracks at a curve, crashed through a telephone pole and a guard rail and plunged Into the water. The motorman blamed slippery tracks. Additional bodies are under the car, it is feared. BURNED CORK BANDITS Hold-Up Victim Says Men’s Faces Were Black, Hands White. Two blackface hold-up men are being sought today by police, following a report by Walter Showers, 232 S. LaSalle St. . Showers said the two, with blackened faces and white hands, held him up at LaSalle St. and Moore Ave., at 2:30 a. m. Sunday. After taking a small amount of money, they threw a white cloth over his face and fled.

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Mercury Falls After Rain

HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 46 10 a. m 41 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 40 8 a. m 45 12 (noon) .... 38 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 39 After a pre-April Sunday of rains and relatively high temperature, Indianapolis today had a falling mercury, with a further drop predicted for tonight by the United States Weather Bureau. The thermometer stood at 46, or 19 degrees above normal at 7 a. m., but had dropped to 39 by 17 p. m. and was expected to toboggan down to between 20 and 25, or about normal, by Tuesday morning. Rain Sunday night was heavy, a total of .97 inch being recorded between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. This, combined with the .11 inch which fell from about 10 Sunday morning to Sunday evening, gave a total week-end fall of 1.08 inches. Cloudy weather is due to continue today, but with little rainfall. There is a possibility of a cold wave being headed this way. FEVER AND CHILLS! Freakish weather was reported from various parts of the world by the United Press. Roses are blooming in Alaska, which is having the warmest winter in years. . Twenty inches of snow blankets western Nebraska. Harrisburg, Kan. is snow bound and in danger of famine. London experienced its coldest day in eight years. Sunday, with a threeinch snow on the streets. Blistering summer heat is plaguing Petoria. Transvaal, South, Africa. France is buried under snow in the worst winter storm since the war. Balmy weather is reported at New York. Primroses are blooming at Irvine, Scotland. Turkey is in the grip of floods. FARM ~BILL CHANGED Cooperatives Limited to Producers by Committee. Su United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Administration cooperative marketing bill was changed in the House Agricultural Committee today to limit cooperatives under the act to farm producers. The committee voted to report the bill in this form. TWO ’GIVEN SIOO -FtNES Special Judge Holtxiran Sentences Liquor Law Violators. Nathan Cohen, a Junk dealers, 634 W. Washington Bt., and Harry Ckrdman, anemploye, pleaded guilty to violating the liquor law in Criminal Court today. Special Judge John W. Holtzman fined both 3100 and sentenced Cohen to sixty days on the Indiana State Farm and Cardman to thirty days. TRIAL IS POSTPONED Consolidated Company Case Goes Over to Thursday. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 18. —Due to the absence of Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, opening of the trial of the officers of the Consolidated Realty and Theaters Corporation, charged with defrauding several thousands of Illinois and Indiana investors, was postponed today to Thursday. ‘Y’ TO ELECT TUESDAY Edgar Evans Said to Be Favored for Presidency of Association. Young Men’s Christian Association directors will elect officers Tuesday night. Edgar Evans, Acme-Evans Company president, is said to be favored for president. J. K. Lilly is Chairman of the nominating committee. James M. Ogden, president for five years and recording secretary for fifteen years previous, declined to accept re-elec-tion. COMBINATION BATTERED But Burglars Fail to Open. Safe at Trucking Company. Burglars battered the combination and handles off the safe at the Quilt, Vossler & Dennis Trucking Company office, 104 S. Noble St., sometime between Saturday night and late Sunday, but failed to open the safe, according to company officials, who reported to police. Auto accessories valued at |7, were taken. Detectives arrested an ex-convict today on suspicion. NOSTRILS AREN’T MATES So Says “Horrid Press Agent'* of "Miss America.’’ Bu United Prees SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 18.—Now that he no longer is employed ns her press agent. .Louis Jacobs, has discovered that the dainty nostrils of Fay Lanphler, the “Miss America” of 1925, aren't mates. Also, her shoulders sag, and she has other visible Imperfections that, had it not been for his prolific pen, would have kept her at her typewriter as a stenographer, Jacobs charges in his suit to recover $5,906, to which he alleged he is entitled under an agreement that Miss Lanphier was to “split’’ her profits with him. “Why, I think that’s perfectly horrid of him,’’ exclaimed Miss Lanphler, denying the agreement

TAX BOARD UNABLE TO setievy Have No Power to Rehear City Sanitary Commissioners’ Plea for Cent Higher Rate, Officials Say Following Ruling. JUDGE NOT LIKELY TO ACT ON BOOST REQUEST Lower Figure Was First Set by Council Over Opposition pf Mayor §hank — Long Fight of Body to Obtain More Believed at End. State tax board officials today declared that they have no further jurisdiction over the Indianapolis city sanitary district tax levy on which Superior Judge J. T. Moll ruled Saturday the tax board should have a rehearing. With this statement by tax board officials it seemed likely that the rate of 6.5 cents, to which former Mayor Shank reduced the sanitary levy, would stand. Sanitary board members, repulsed by Shank, have sought in all pospisble legal maneuvers to raise the levy to 6.5 cents. Although Judge Moll gave sides until Jan. 25 tc file answers when he sustained derr.urrrer of County Auditor Harry Dunn to a suit to mandate him to collect the 6.5 cent levy, it is not believed he will order a 8.6 levy at that time because he has already sustained Dunn's demurrer. An increased levy of 1 cent would give the city sanitary commission an adddltlonal $650,000. EX-WIZARD TO STADT ORDER City Included in Fundamentalist Group Plans. Only ape Infested Jungles will be safe for evolutionists if plans of Edward Young Clarke, formerly imperial Wizard of the Ku-Klux Klan are carried out. Clarke Is heading anew movement of fundamentalists,according to Atlanta (Ga.) dispatches, which seeks to obtain dismissal of school teachers who teach evolution and profess atheism in schools and colleges. Indianapolis is to be one of the strategic points of the new organization. It is said that twelve motion pictures portraying the life of Christ will be made here and distributed throughout the country, and in other nations. The organization meeting was called to order by Roecoe Carpenter, according to dispatches. Carpenter, is acting president of the Twentieth Century Motion Picture and Dramatic Clubs, for which Judge Clinton H. Givan, Superior Court Four, recently appointed O. H. Hendren, receiver. BIDS”TO BE CONSIDERED School Board Meeting Set for 4 p. m.; Recommendations Scheduled. Indianapolis school board was to meet at 4 p. m. today to consider bids on School 78, submitted to the board at the regular meeting last week. Recommendations were to be made by Jacob Hilkene, superintendent of buildings and grounds. Board Prerident Theodore Vonnegut said that the base construction bid on the bupilding might be let. The heating and ventilating plans will be redrawn. ASKS $10,000; GETS $lO Fanner Given Small Award in Aleniation Suit. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 18.—Frank Patton, a farmer living near Scipio, today was awarded a verdict of $lO in his SIO,OOO suit against Harry Beedy, wealthy farmer, for alienation of his wife's affections. Patten charges that Beedy called at the farmhouse and mode violent love to his wife while he was at work in a distant field. KLAN SUIT TUESDAY Atlanta Organization .Asks $500,000 From Independent Body. Suit of the Ku-Klux Klan of Aalanta, Ga., against the Independent Ku-Klux Klan of Muncie, Ind., will be tried in Federal Court before Judge Thomas W. Slick, Tuesday. The original Klan asks $500,000 judgment against the Indiana oi-ganl-zation and an injunction restraining use of the word “Klan.” In the original bill of complaint It Is pointed out that “the name Klan Is reasonably worth $1,000,000.”

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JAN. 18,1926

HOUSEWIFE DIES IN

Mammoth Dirigible to Carry Across Atlantic in Two Days to Be Built

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World’s Largest Airship to Be CQnstructed by * ' Goodyear Company. Bu NBA Service AKRON. Jan. 18.—A superdiriglble, a giant air liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in two days, is in the making. " It is to be the world’s largest lighter-than-air craft, with nearly three times the gas capacity of the Los Angeles and Shenandoah and 200 feet longer. Business men can walk into a cabi-i of this mammoth “bird” on Saturday, shoot swiftly to London, ■pend four days in England's capital and be back home on the following Monday. Eight days for a trip to Europe and back home! The plans are nearly complete for the great ship and instruction is ■JwMr't* *hl Akron> 1926 gift to the world of speedy transportation. The craft will be known as tbs Goodyear Zeppdtp-1 and will be built in the Goodyear factories. It will have a carrying capacity for 100 passengers, baggage, food, fuel supply, supplies for the crew for flying 8,000 miles at seventy-five miles an hour. It will have eight Liberty motors. The ship is designated with added weather knowledge and will be safe In all storms. It will be inflated with helium. Sleeping quarters will be Pullman style, seats by day.' GLENN JOB DUE TO RECEIVE AX Council Expected to Pass Ordinance Tonight. Hundreds of spectators are expected at city council meeting tonight when passage of the ordinance abolishing the position of Inspector of detectives, held by Michael J. Glenn, is deemed certain by council leaders. The council plans to reduce In salary a number of other positions, Boynton J. Moore, president, sajd today. Favorable action on the $150,900 temporary loan requested by the board of health Vs likely. MEN PLEAD Trials In "Trust Cases” Are Set for Next April. Bu United Press < LTHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Pleas of not guilty were entered by representatives of ninety-nine furniture firms and seventy individuals when arraigned before Federal Judge Adam C. Cllffe today in connection ''with the furniture “trust” prosecution started last summer by the Government. Trial for those arraigned was set for April 5. Indiana firms which pleaded not guilty were: Brookville Furniture Comoany, Brookville. and Western Furniture Company, Bates ville, Ind. BOYSCONFESS SHOOTING Stole Gun and Shot at Man Who Pursued Them, Police Say. Three boys, 12, 14 and 16, today confessed to police they stole a gun in a robbery Saturday night at 1422 E. New York St., and admitted shooting at a man later in the night when he advanced toward them on the Belt Railroad tracks. They had been bring for a week, police said, at the Liberty Hotel, 350£ E. Washington St. The father of one, who came to the hotel Saturday night and took away other loot, is hunted. Patrolman Dailey arrested two of the boys in the rear of 505 N. Noble St. They implicaiod the younger. INDIANAPOLIS CHOSEN Bu Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 18.—Indianapolis was chosen for the National Council Meeting of Phi Delta Kappa next July at the close of the mid-year meeting In Newsastle, Sunday.

NEIGHBORS A WATT PREDICTED BLAZE Second Fire, Foretold for Vicinity by Woman, Causes $25,000 Damage at Home of Truck Farmer.

Residents ir the neighborhood of Bluff Rd. and Troy Ave. today awaited with anxiety fulfilment of the prediction of Mrs. David Atkins, who lives in Johnson County, near BargersvUle, that a third incendiary fire will occur In the vicinity. The second fire was at the home of Christ Thane, truck farmer, living on Troy Ave., west of the Bluff Rd.. about 10 p. m. Saturday, and did about $25,000 damage. The house, WSSTOPM FROM JUMPING Suicide Attempt Frustrated by Arrival of Police Squad. Tired of life. Bennie Roland, Negro, 42, of 1415 Alvord St., attempted to take his own life today, but Lieut. Ralph Dean and emergency squad arrived too soon. Railroad employes reported & man wearing a mask was standing on the railroad, elevation at Massachusetts and E. Tenth St. "lA>ok out. here I come,” he said as he started to jump on police under the elevation who thought he was a bandit. Other officers seized him before h® could jump and Roland explained he was despondent and seeking to end his life. SORORITY GIRLS TAKEN TO JAIL But Police Were Only Aiding in Initiation. Four girl pledges of Omega Nu Tau, a high school sorority, today have an added respect for the law, after an experience with the police during an initiation Saturday. In “get-ups” including straw hats, parasols and a bin! cage, the pledges, Gladys Christie. 2015 Mansfield St.; Esther Gebauer, 2630 College Ave.; Frances Smtlh, 120 S. Emerson Ave., and Cleo Smith of 4250 Park Ave., climbed into an automobile belonging to Frank Buddlestone, 288 N. Walcott St., on orders of eight sorority members and attempted to start it. Someone sent in a pobce call, and Sergeant Shine and Lieut. Lester Jones answered. Sight of the girls revealed the situation and the police entered into the jcke. The pledges and crest-fallen Omega Nu Tau members, with drooping parasols and dragging the bird cage along, accompanied the bluecoats to the station. Thb*e Matron Lillian Jascha took the pledges into the regllar prisoner’s cell, while the perturbed sorority members tried to console them through a window. A scene of Joyous hilarity came when the joke was explained. Several of the girls did the “Charleston.” boys confess~Thefts Youths Admit Taking Dozen Pairs of Galoshes. James Green, 17, Negro, 707 N. California St., and Gentry Young. 18, of 143 S. WOst St., confessed today that they nad taken twelve pairs of galoshes, valued at $25 from the Star Store Jan. 6. Detectives Reilly and Gaughan, in a line-up of prisoners charges with vagrancy, recognized the boys. Flautus Jacobs, 703 W. New York St, who bought the galoshes from the boys was charged with receiving stolen goods.

garage, barn and heating plant were destroyed. Thane was burned severely about the face and hands In an ineffectual effort to rescue his horse and cow. The blaze is believed to have been of incendiary origin. State fire marshal's office has been asked to investigate. Six months ago the home of Fred Weghopt, near the Thane home, war destroyed after Mrs. Atkins, who is not a professional fortune teller, predicted a “great change” was about to come to the family. Later ahe predicted thf--re jrouULAw anotherw\|if In thV neighborhood, and ' Btintseft she predicted a third fire, neighbors said. STOCK SPURT IS SUSTAINED Street Railway Sells at ssl on Exchange. The spurt upward of Indianapolis Street Railway preferred stock, said to have been caused by a report that Samuel lnsull, utilities “baron,” is seeking control of the city’s street car system, was sustained on the local stock exchange today when twenty-five shares were sold at ssl a share. Several months ago the stock was quoted at S3O. Another sale at 50 % was made and the stock dropped back at the close with 60 bid and asked. Stock exchange members will elect directors Wednesday. SEPARATION IS DENIED Mrs. McCormick Explains Why Hus. band Skipped Ship. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jah. IS.—A 'private important” reason was behind the sudden departure of the millionaire, Harold F. McCormick, from the steamer Parts Saturday just before it sailed with his wife, according to a wireless to the United Press from her aboard the ship. He will sail next week for Europe, ! according to Mrs. McCormick, who [ has gone to make anew trial at persuading the world she can really sing opera. Ganna Walska made it clear in her brief radiogram that there was no truth to reports that the couple had separated.' MRS. VANDERBILT ILL Condition Serious—Son Called to Bedside. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Mrs. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, whose marriage to General Cornelius Vanderbilt In the late nineteenth century provided a social sensation, is ill at her Fifth Ave. home. The nature of her malady was not disclosed, but it was said her con* dltion was suflfielnetly serious to bring her son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., to the bedside. GREEKS ASK $33,000,000 Debt Commission. Withdraws on U. S. Refusal. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Greek debt commission today informed the American debt funding commission that it has no authority to make a funding agreement unless the United States advances Greece $33 090.000 more on its original credit of $48,000,000. The American commission refused to consider loan of the sum and the Greeks withdrew to communicate with their government.

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Mrs. H. D. Fogg, 3839 Winthrop Ave., Burned to Death in Kitchen —Police Think Fatal Injuries Were Caused by Ignited Grease. SON-IN-LAW BREAKS IN; DISCOVERS BLAZE Thought to Have Started Breakfast for Daughter and Her Husband —Found Sitting in Chair in Front of Stove. Mrs. H. D. Fogg, 58, of 3839 Winthrop Ave., was burned to death today in the kitchen of her home. Police believe burns were caused by grease which caught fire. Noble G. Morgan, 3843 N. New Jersey St., son-in-law of Mrs. Fogg, discovered the fire about 10 a. m. when he and Mrs. Morgan went to the Fogg home for breakfast. Breaks In Window Morgan entered the house through the basement window, but was unable to reach the kitchen. He went outside again and broke a bedroom window. Fire Captain Albert Judd, Engine House 28, broke down the rear door and found Mrs. Fogg sitting in a chair, leaning over the stove. She was badly burned about the face and shoulders. Her clothing was not scorched. Started Breakfast Morgan said he believed Mrs. Fogg had started breakfast for them and grease in the skillet caught fire. The burners were lighted and a rag and fork found in the skillet. Death was believed to be partly due to inhaling flamea. Sergt. Edward Schubert and squad took Mrs. Fogg to the home of C. C. Reynolds, 3843 Winthrop Ave., where artificial respiration was administered. Dr. William A. Doeppcrs, deputy coroner, investigated. Besides tho husband, six daughters, Miss Evelyn Fogg, and Mrs. Morgan, Indianapolis; Mrs. Vara Fitch, Kokomo; Mrs. Paul Thompson, Claude Shelton, and Mrs. Floyd Campbell. Des Moines lowa, and a son. Jesse Fogg, Indianapolis survive. CLOTURE MOVE IS CALLED OFF World Court Adherents Give Up Plan. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 18.—World Court adherents decided today not to use their cloture club for the present and the ( irreconcillables again undertook to prevent an immediate vote. Senator Lenroot, acting Republican floor leader, talked with his followers soon after the Senate met and they agreed to hold up any attempt to invoke the rule restricting debate. ARRAIGNMENT DELAYED Harry B. Smith to Answer to Second Indictment Feb. 1. , Arraignment of Harry B. Smith, 3438 Birchwood Ave., former adjutant general of Indiana, on charge of filling false claims against the State was deferred today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Postponement was granted on motion of Prosecutor William H. Remy, who asked time to study a motion to quash. It was said Bmith may not be arraigned until Feb. I, when he will also answer a second Indictment charging him with embezzlement of $17,225.71 in State funds. STREET CARS STALLED Short Circuit Halts Owl (.tor Service Two Hours. A feeder-line short circuit outside the West Washington and Brush St. street ear company power plant early today tied up street car service two hours and ten minutes. Power to owl cars was cut off at 3:27 a. m. and was not restored until 5:37 a. m.. It was announced at the office of James P. Tretton. superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Many cars were stalled In the downtown district, and some workers were delayed getting to work. WOMAN PASTOR DIES Bu United Press MARION, Jnd., Jan. 18.—Apoplexy was given today ns the cause of the death of Rev. Maria Sears, 83, minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. ROBBED IN HIS BARN Search is being made today for two Negroes who attacked Ernest Moeller, 4135 Fletcher Ave., late Saturday, In his barn at 3950 Fletcher Ave., and. after knocking him down and choking him, took ,S3O.

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy tonight and Tuesday; much colder with lowest temperature to* night 20 to 25.

TWO CENTS

FIRE

3 FIREMEN KILLED AT VINCENNES Chief Expected to Die and Fifth Man in Hospital as Result of Crash Between Truck and Passenger AUtO. ; | VICTIMS ARE THROWN FROM RUNNING BOARD 350 Men Thrown Out ol Work as Huge Factory a1 Brazil, Ind., Is Razed in Early Morning BlazeState Quiz Asked. B "vINCeTnNES, Ind., Jan. 18 —Three men are dead, one if dying and a fifth is in a hospital seriously injured following a collision of a fire truck and an automobile here today. The dead are Chief City Electrican, George Lane, 40; city firemen, Claude Woodall, 60, ani Free Compton, 37. Chief Injured Fire Chief Dan Decker was so seriously injured that little hope i held of his recovery and Thomas Russell of Bruceville. driver of the car which hit the fire truck, also was seriously Injured. The accident occurred when the heavy ladder truck of the local com pany, responding to an alprtfi struck Russell's car at a street Intersection. Tree Snapped Off Both machines plunged across the street, striking a third car parked at the curb, rebounded and hit a tree on the opposites ide of the thoroughfare. The tree was snapped off at the base and the three men riding on the running board of the truck were crushed to death almost Instantly. The fire chief, who also was riding on the running board, was badly crushed and attaches at a local hospital say there is no hope of his recovery. $300,000 Fire at Brazil Bu United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 18.—Fire early today destroyed the plant of the American Vitrified Products Company with an estimated loss of $300,000. Three hundred and fifty men were thrown out of work. Starting on the first floor of the three story frame structure, the flames shot up an elevator shaft and were out of control by the time the Brazil fire department had made the mile and a half run to the plant. The fire was discovered shortly after 1:30 this morning. Three hours later the fire had burned itself out. The entire Brazil fire department made an unavailing attempt to save a part of the building. v The plant was built in 1890 and was the second largest sewer pips plant in the world. The weekly pay roll was one of the largest of any industry in Clay County. Headquarters of the company are located in Akron. Ohio, and local officials do not know how much of a loss is covered by Insurance Origin of the blaze is undetermined and the State fire marshal's office was asked to investigate. OPERATIVE IS SENT State Fire Marshal Sends Agent To Brazil. State Fire Marshal Alfred Hogston today dispatched an operutlve to Brazil to investigate the fire which destroyed the American Sewer Pipe factory early this morning with a loss estimated at $300,000.

Hurls Acid on Girls’ Sox Bu Times Special CHICAOO, Jan. T 8 —A phantom acid thrower is blazing a trail of burned hosiery and blistered feminine legs on the north side here. Victims say the acid has been thrown at them from alleys and driveways and Is always directed at the silk hose. Latest victim in Ruth lawless. She felt a sting on her right leg as she passed an alley. Arriving home, she found large holes burned lit her hose.