Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 306

WIND, FLOOD KILL 14 IN SOUTHWEST Drowning and Lightning Take Toll of Eleven Lives in Texas. TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA Three Known Dead as Cyclone Strikes Towns. By United Press DALLAS, Texas, April 24. —Wind and floods in Texas and Oklahoma today had claimed at least fourteen lives, caused injuries to a score of persons and resulted in thousands of dollars property damage. In Texas eleven were dead from a drowning and lightning during the past week. Torrential rains have flooded lowlands and resulted in inundation of highways and railroads in parts of the State. Tornado Kills Three Three persons were killed in a tornado near Durant, Okla., Friday night. Three others are reported to have died from their injuries and a score were injured in the storm. The tornado struck Fillmore, a small country village, about sundown. It then swept on through the towns of Coleman, Kenefic, Caney and Voca. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Jackson were killed at Voca. Mrs. Tom Gallon was killed at Fillmore. Rescue Difficult Folowing the tornado a severe hail, rain and wind storm swept the southeastern section of Oklahoma, for more than an hour, making rescue work difficult. Communication throughout the southeastern section of the State was still disrupted today and only meager information could be obtained. It was said here the death toll may rise when all reports are in. MIDDLE WEST SUFFERS lowa, Wisconsin, Illinois Report Storms. By United Press CHICAGO, April 24.—Electrical and wind storms, accompanied in many regions by heavy rain, struck several Middle Western States today. Wire communications were seriously impaired between some of the larger cities and smaller towns were almost completely isolated. lowa, Wisconsin and northern Illinois were the worst affected. FLOOD SWEEPS MOSCOW 1,500 Inliabitants .Marooned in Homes —Boats Bring: Food, V. v United Press MOSCOW, April 24.—A foaming, ice-laden torrent is sweeping through Moscow today and the city is threatened with the most serious flood in recent years. Approximately 1,500 inhabitants nre living in the upper stories of their houses. Eleven factories have been Inundated. Boats are supplying food and other aid to refugees in schools, clubs and railway stations. JURY DISMISSED IN SNEPP CASE No Verdict Reached After " Twenty Hours. Walter Snepp, 1522 W. Morris St., charged with being a habitual criminal, today was granted anew trial May 6 when a jury failed to agree after twenty hours’ deliberation. Throughout twenty ballots, ten jurymen stood for conviction and two for acquittal. The case went to the jury at 3 p. m. Friday. Snepp was granted a change of venue to Criminal Court from Shelby County. He was also charged with operation of a still. Prosecutor William H. Remy pictured Snepp as a man who depended on violation of the law for his livelihood, In closing argument for the State. Grovet Snepp, a brother, Shelby- . ville, now serving time for the offense, testified he and his brother operated a still in partnership.

Baby’s Tears Balk Hold-Up Attempt Henry Allandt, 1214 Spann Ave., respected the tears of his baby daughter more than he did the commands of a pair of holdup men and an intended robbery late Friday night was thwarted. Allandt had returned home with his family. His wife had gone into the house and his daughter was waiting for him to lock the garage doors. As he locked the last one, two men peered over the fence and ordered him to put his hands up and come out Into the alley. Just then the child started to cry, and Allandt picked her up and ran into the house. Police failed to find the bandits.

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SENATE TO TURN OFF PROHIBITION SPOTLIGHT TODAY Andrews Called as Last Dry Witness—Wets Summon Yale Editor. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 24.—The Senate's big prohibition show will close today after a spectacular three weeks’ run. Final arguments were ordered by Chairman Harreld of the inquiring Judiciary Subcommittee with a view to concluding the first major investigation of prohibition since its enactment six years ago. The Evidence Here is how the evidence is viewed by wets and drys: . .ygtwlttCwJiOtte. -Republican..„#*■Jersey, leader of the Senate wet bloc believes that a prima facia case has been established that prohibition has incited corruption; 'defeated aspirations for real temperance; promoted disregard for law, especially among young people, and that beer and light wines would be beneficial to temperance and law enforcement. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, thinks the hearings have disclosed a necessity for legislation tightening the Volstead act proved prohibition has been beneficial morally and financially and that the majority of the people want the present law retained. Andrews Recalled Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews was recalled this morning to explain new measures for stepping alcohol leakage and smuggling. He is the last dry witness scheduled. The wets expect to put on an editor of a Yale periodical to show conditions at the university. The drys have little more than two hours remaining, and the wets less than one. Wheeler will then make the concluding argument for the drys. The wets want to put him under oath and make him submit to cross-ex-amination when he makes his final argument, but it is doubtful If they can have their way. Julien Codman, who has acted as prosecuting attorney for the wets, will conclude the hearings with a final summing up for the wets. Then the case will go to the committee jury; hut nobody is doubtful about the verdict. Wet measures will be killed and dry enforcement measures sanctioned. REFUGEES FILL PEKING Tell Stories of Atrocities Committed by Troops. By United Press PEKING, April 24.—Fifty thousand excited refuges poured into Peking today with stories of alleged outrages committeed by the Manchurian troops quartered In the suburbs. The food situation in the capital is acute. BEAUTY PARLOR WAR ON Machine Gun Used—Two Women Escape Death. By United Press CHICAGO, April 24. —Two women escaped death from a machine gun Friday night falling flat on the floor of a beauty parlor while bullets sprayed all around them. The guns were mounted on an automobile which drew up to the curb and halted only long enough to discharge one round of shot. Warfare between organized and independent beauty parlors is blamed. DOG Rims BOY A dog owned by J. P. Van Camp, R. R. K, box 48, was ordered penned today after it bit Travis Pollie, 15, of 3525 Rural St., on the hand. MACHINE LOOTED B. M. Bugbee, Oxford, Ind., today reported theft of a suit case containing articles valued at SIOO from his auto parked at Washington and Capitol Ave.

GILLIOM FILES DRY MAGAZINE IN LEAGUE CASE Supreme Court Gets Additional Information in Shumaker Action. Attorney General Arthur L. GilHorn tiled further Information before the Supreme Court today In the contempt case against Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, and his aids. Ethan A. Miles and Jesse E. Martin, league attorneys. Shumaker, Miles and Martin have been ordered to appear before the court May 11 and show cause why they should not be punished for contempt for alleged contemptuous remarks in Shumaker's annual report. The further evidence consisted Os the- Indiana, edition of the.American Issue of Feb. 6. 1926, in which Shumaker’s report was printed and an Oct. 18, 1924, Issue of the same publication. The Oct. 18, 1924, issue contained criticism of liquor decisions of the Supreme Court and an article urging the defeat of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin M. Willoughby, Vincennes, at that time a candidate for re-election. The article on Willoughby, Gilliom charged, was “for the purpose of destroying the integrity of such Justice and to cause his defeat. In said election and for the purpose of defaming the court and to influence its decisions.” GYM EXHIBIT TONIGHT Turners’ Association to Give Dance After Performance. Indianapolis Turners’ Association will give an exhibition tonight at the Athenaeum. Students of Normal College of American Gymnastic Union will assist. Dancing will follow the exhibition. CHILI HALTS PARLEY Tacna-Arica Sessions at Washington Postponed. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 24.—Pending receipt of instructions by the Chilean ambassador from his government on the proposals of Secretary of State Kellogg for settlement of the Tacna-Arica dispute, further plenary sessions here have been postponed. THROUGH LINE BEGAN Cross town Bus Service Offered on North Side. For the first time in the history of local motor bus transportation cross-town service was begun today on Thirtieth St., between Sherman Dr. and Riverside Park, by the People’s Motor Coach Company. Fifteen-minute service is offered between 6 a. m. and midnight. NO ACTION ON DEBT American Commission, Considering New French Offer Adjourns. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 24—The American debt funding commission, considering France's new offer of a debt settlement, sat today for one hour and forty-five minutes without coming to conclusions, and then adjourned to 9:30 a. m., Monday. OOMMENOEM ENT SPEAKER By Ignited Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 24Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of thp University of Michigan, has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Indiana University June 8. HELD BY DETECTIVES Fred Thebold, 29, city, was held on a vagrancy charge today. Detectives Rugenstein and White said Thebold is alleged to have evaded the immigration law when be camo to this country from Canada.

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BEVERIDGE HITS FEAR OF BLOCS Scores Judges and Legislators Who Are Afraid to Do Duty. SEES NATIONAL DANGER Plain Citizen Must Vote for Men With Backbone. By United Press TEXARKANA, Ark.. April 24 Legislators and judges, who so fear the cry of organized minorities that they flout the Constitution in laws and decisions were denounced here today by Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis. Beveridge spoke at the trl-State convention of the Bar Associations of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Pleading for courageous lawmakers and Judges Beveridge said: “Some persons intoxicated by the egotism of good intentions are acutely impatient of the American conception of liberty and strive to make everybody else do as these economic and social martinets want them to do. “To the extent that such absolutists force their will on others, wo have autocracy instead of democracy. “Courts must strike down legislative acts which violate the Constitution—their power and duty to do so is America’s last bulwark of freedom and safety.” Citing the courage of John Marshall as chief Justice and the fact that he actually was in danger of his life because he did his duty as he saw It, Beveridge said: “Yet all are now glad that the great chief Justice was as honorable (Turn to Page 2) SHIP LINE SALE SEEN .1. B, Morgan and Charles Steel Resign White Star Line. By United Press NEW YORK, April 24—Resignations of J. P. Morgan and Charles Steele today as directors of the International Marine Corporation operators of the White Star line, presaged the report that the corporation had been sold to British Interests including the Ounard line. CITY PARKS OPENED Superintendent Urges Public to Uae Resorts. With all city parks opening today R. Walter Jarvis. p:trks superintendent, called attention to the fact that the parks are intended to be used. “You w>n't find a “keep off the grass” sign In any of our parks except Garfield and there the sunken garden necessitates It. Every one in the family is lnvii“d to rest on the grass and enjoy themselves,” he said. All buildings have been renovated and many of them painted. Trees have been planted and shrubbery cultivated. Tennis courts will be opened next Saturday. MRS. M’CARDLE CRITICAL Commissioner Called to Bedside of Wife in East. John W. McCardle. Indiana public service commission chairman, was called to Harrisburg, Pa., today to the bedside of hta wife, who is at the point of death there. Mrs. McCardle, stricken several months ago, was taken to Harrisburg to receive care of a specialist. BRINGS OP ORDER AGAINST STRIKE Judge Acts on Street Railway Injunction. Federal Judge Robert C, Baltzell today brought up-to-date the title of a permanent injunction of the I*dionapolis Street Railway Company, against the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, and various members of the association and former Indianapolis' officials, which prevents the association fron% staging a strike here. The name of the petitioner was changed from “The Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company” to “The Indianapolis Street Railway Company.” Copies of the injunction as it now stands will be sent to R. B. Armstrong and J. M. Parker, association vice presidents. Railway company attorneys asserted that these men have been holding meetings recently among employes In which they are reported to have said the injunction was not valid. Judge Albert B. Anderson issued the injunction in 1924 after a temporary restraining order was issued in Federal Court in 1918. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 54 10 a. m 59 7 a. m 54 11 a. ni 60 8 a. 55 12 (noon) 62 9 a- m...... 68 1 p. U Lum 611

Want a Headache? Read This Bu Times Svrcial WASHINGTON, April 24 Here’s an idea of the real size of France's $4,300,000,000 debt to the United States. There have been slightly over a billion minutes since the birth of Christ. The debt, divided on a minute basis, would mean $4 every minute from that time to the present.

PENNELL, ETCHER, DEAD Noted Artist Succumbs to Pneumonia in East. Bn 1 nitrd Pr'ss BROOKLYN. N. TANARUS., April 24. Joseph Pennell. 65. noted etcher and lithographer, is dead from pneumonia. HOME BURNS; FOUR DIE Mother and Three Sons Lose Lives in Fire. By t sited Press NORTH ADAMS, Mass., April 24. —Mrs. Hermidao Major and her three sons perished today when fire destroyed their home ’here. CLEW IN SHOOTING CASE Boys on North Side Reported to Police. Report that two boys in the 4,000 block on Park Ave. have been shooting at birds with a rifle was the only clew police had today that might lead to the solution of shootings thought to .have been done by a sniper. Two persons reported to police they had been a target. WABASH ORATOR WINS Myron Phillips Takes F'irst Prize at Purdue. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 24—Myron Phillips, Wabash College orator, won first honors In the State peace oratorical contest at Purdue University Friday night. R. E. Brown of Purdue, was second and John Love of Butler, third. Representative from seven colleges participated. MILLENNIUM NEARING Oil Company Calls Attention to Assessment Mistake. State tax commissioners felt sure the mlllenium had arrived today. The Standard Oil Company, In a formal petition, called the board’s attention to a mistake in the assessment of a service station lot at Muncie. The lot was assessed SI,OOO too low and the company suggested that it he corrected. 27 KOREANS EXECUTED .Japan May Send Protest to Russians —lnvestigation Ordered. By United Press TOKIO, April 24.—Advices that the Russians have executed twentyseven Koreans charged with being smugglers In the town of Harbin ,n Manchurian Russia were received hero today by the Jajanese foreign office. An investigation has been ordered and It is probable that a protest will be registered. YOO HOO, KING, LOOKY! Indianapolis Times Carries This Story on Front Page Anyhow. Bu Times Bo^cial LONDON, April 24.—The three day-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York was off the front page of British newspapers today. A secretary at Buckingham Palace telephoned London editors, laconically stating; “King George would appreciate less 'sob stuff" in print regarding the royal baby.” VALUATIONS INCR EASED Assessment on Interstate Raised by State Tax Board. Valuation of the Interstate Public Service Company has been Increased from the 1925 assessment of $7,922,939 to $13,351,677, by the State tax board. The increase was due to property additions. Valuation of the Interstate Power Company was fixed at $73,750. The hoard Increased valuation of the City Trust Company of Indianapolis from $276,809 to $324,800. SENTENCES SUSPENDED Three Mi'll Lined on Grand I larceny Charges. Elmer Yates, 25; Jeral Diford, 16, and Arthur Holden, 17, were each fined $1 and given suspended sentences of one to fourteen years at Indiana Reformatory today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. They were charged with grand larceny, after it was alleged they participated in robbery of the warehouse of the Standard Grocery Company. It was charged they took goods valued at S2OO. HEAVY WIND VUSITS CITY Reaches Velocity of 50 Miles Hour; Expect F'air Sunday. A heavy wind from the southwest, which started about noon today, reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour, tying the wind record for this year, the United States Weather Bureau annnounced. Velocity of 50 miles an hour was recorded The wind dislodged a sign at Tfargrove’s, 32 N. Pennsylvania St., endangering pedestrians. Fireman removed the sign. Rain also started shortly after noon, hut fair weather should prevail Sunday, it was said. Wind from the north and northwest Is expected this evening, but should subside by morning. Temperature should drop 8 or 10 degrees this evenin, bureau Officials said.

TAXPAYERS’ GROUP FOR 1,800 SIS. Association Which Fought Bond Issue Favors Smaller School. TO START SOON —KERN Board Member Hopes to Get Action at Once. Indiana Taxpayers Association will support the school board’s tentative proposal for construction of anew Short ridge High School at ThirtyI Fourth and Meridian Sts., with a i maximum capacity of 1,800 pupils, l Harry Miesse, association secretary, announced today. Miesse said the association “wanted to see the school built at once.” He said this always had been the association’s attitude “provided It was done In a business-like manner.” The association last year objected to the $1,200,000 bond issue for the building and brought it before the State tax board, charging plans and specifications were incomplete. The tax board took a stand favorable to the hoard, but because of the change of the school board's personnel and later attempts to change the site, the bond issue never was approved finally by the tax body. Kern Willing If Shortridge patrons are willing to have the new school erected at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts. with the maximum capacity of 1,800 Charles W. Korn, head of the school board buildings and grounds committ, will “go down the line with them," he snid. It is through Kern and Board President Theodore F. Vonnegut that the unofficial proposal for erecting this type of structure, to cost about $900,000, and supporting it with a junior high school system has been made. Official action is to be taken on the proposal at the board meeting Tuesday night. Start in September Kern said if It was agreed to erect a building of a capacity smaller than the 2,500 originally proposed, construction probably will be started In September. The building would be completed by January, 1928, at the latest, he stated. He said, though, that if the education department asked that the original size of 2,500 be retained, the building could not be erected at "’hirty-Fourth St. "Whether the building Is built at Thirty-Fourth St. or not, I am positive anew Shortridge will be completed by September, 1928.” he said. Must Have Junior liighj Kern asserted the smaller school will have to bo supported by the Junior high system. Large majority of members of the Indianapolis Public School Welfare Association favor the proposal as outlined by Kern and Vonnegut. The association took court action to prevent the board from selling the Thir-ty-Fourth St. location and buying another on Forty-Sixth St. between Central Ave. and Washington Blvd. George Buck, Shortridge principal, Friday declared the building should have a capacity of 2,600 and that with the smaller building the conwould soon be Identical with those now existing at the school, Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts. Buck said he did not believe the erection of the Crispus Attucks and Washington High Schools on the west side would relieve Shortridge conditions. Kern said the two west side Bchools will relieve conditions. BUTLER CAMPUS UNIT AUTHORIZED Directors Authorize Erection of Three Buildings. Butler University directors this morning adopted the general plans for the new Butler campus at Fairview Park, prepared by Robert Frost Daggett, architect, and authorized contracts for the first three buildings, to cost $1,000,000. The buildings authorized were the Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall, the School of Commerce and a general recitation building. The buildings will be collegiate Gothic style finished in Indiana limestone, facing north and will provide recitation and laboratory facilities for 2,500 students. They will adjoin the site of the administration building, with a frontage of about 500 feet on the main Irwin quadrangle. The administration building, to be built later, will be at the west of the quadrangle which will be in effect a sunken garden, and will be on ground twenty f£et higfher. WRITER - WILL SPEAK Roosevelt to Be Topic of Richmond Man at Rotary Luncheon. “Recollections of Roosevelt,” wjll he the topic of William Dudley Foulke. writer, of Richmond. Tnd., Tuesday before the Rotary Club at luncheon at the Claypool,

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Ralph lie* A career of crime does not pay. This was tho lesson Prosecutor William H. Remy pointed out today from the career of Ralp Lee. For although Lee has a record of jail escapes and unserved sentences, he now faces the penalty of his latest alleged crime, the murder of Abner Peek, Speedway (Ave.) grocer, Remy said. Remy declared every effort Will be made to secure a conviction, I‘repares Record He prepared a record of Lee’s career for Governor Jackson today. With three aliases, Ralph Emerson, R. Edison and Howard Barr, Lee’s record is: 1911 —Convicted of burglary at Edinburg, Ind., and sentenced to Indiana Boy’s School Plainfield. Served nine months and escaped. Returned. Served one year. Paroled. 1914—Charged with buggy theft, arrested at Bluffton, Ind. Attacked jailer and escaped. Case never tried. 1916 Sentenced at Colville, Wash., to Washington State Reformatory, Sept. 9. Escaped Sept. 23 and is wanted there. 1917 — Convicted of robbery in Tombstone, Ariz. Served three years and seven months of a five to twen-ty-year sentence in State prison at Florence, Ariz., and paroled. Parole violated. 1928—Arrested at Martinsville, Ind., for stealing chickens. Sent to Indiana State farm for one year and fined S2OO and costs. Served sixty days and escaped. Oct. 14, 1923 —Received at Indiana State reformatory from Marlon County for one to fourteen years for gi-and larceny. April 24, -1924—Escaped. April 26 —Returned. May 19—Escaped. Peek Murder Oct. 11 —Charged with Peek murder, July 3, 1925, returned from Seattle, Wash., to Marion County. Jan. 21, 1925—Escaped from Johnson County Jail, Franklin, Jan. 23—Returned. March 16—Escaped. May 9 —Arrested at Knoxville, Tenn., charged with seven robberies. July 21—Sentenced to fifteen years in Tennessee State Prison. Aug. 2—While waiting in Knoxville jail for transfer to prison he beat a jail guard senseless and escaped, hut was recaptured two hours later. April 9 —With fifteen others escaped Tennessee State Prison. April 19—Recaptured at Buffalo, N. Y. April 23.—Returned to Indianapolis. COLLEGE BOYS INDICTED Three Charged With Attacking Cos on Auto Ride. By United Press SYCAMORE, 111., April 24. Leonard Rich, Emerson Wilson and Stanley Hurt, students in the Northern Illinois Teachers’ College, were indicted today on charges of attacking Miss Dorothy Westervelt, a coed at the school, during an auto ride. SALE AT FAIRGROUND Indiana Shorthorn Breeders Will Have Annual Event. Indiana Shorthorn Breeders* Association will hold its annual sale at the State fairground next Wednesday. Buyers from all parts of tho State are expected, as well as county agents and boys’ club members. RUSSIAN-GERMAN PACT Treaty for Mutual Protection Signed by Two. By United Press BERLIN, April 24.—The RussoGerman neutrality treaty, providing for mutual protection during economic or military attacks from other nations, was signed today. Notes were exchanged reaffirming the treaty did not conflict with the Locarno agreement nor with the League of Nations covenant. PARK COMPANY FORMED Incorporation papers for the new Broad Ripple Park Company were filed at the State House today, listing capital stock at SIO,OOO. The property is valued at $48,000, the papers state. Directors of the new firm are William Mahoney, Wallace Leo, John Loncrgan, A I’. Klee and John Jb’rakeman. , __

Forecast Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler tonight with strong winds diminishing by morning.

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DEFEAT NEW LEE SCHEME TO ESCAPE Deputies Find Make-Shift Handcuff Keys Concealed in Clothing. BELIEVE FLIGHT PLAN Must Be Tried in Johnson County, Gilliom Says. By Clyde G. Byers Ralph Lee's plans for an eleventh break for freedom were upset by Sheriff Hawkins and deputies today. Two watch rrainsprings, either of them perfect keys for handcuffs, were discovered cleverly concealed in tho diminutive desperado’s clothes at Marion County jail. Facing charges of slaying Abner Peek, Speedway Ave. grocer, in a hold-up July 3, 1924, Lee was brought back to Indianapolis from Buffalo, N. Y., Friday night. He was stripped, given overalls and put In a cell. Hidden in Clothes When jail attaches searched his clothes before returning them to him this morning, one of the mainsprings was found In his hatband and the other spliced between the lining and cloth of his coat. A dollar bill was found with the one Inside his coat. Asked by deputies If he thought he could pick tho jail locks with them, Lee answered by asking “po I look dumb?” Then Hawkins demonstrated how the thin metallic strips rail he slipped under the ratchet lock on handcuffs, releasing the lock, nud asked him if that was his plan. “It might have been,” he replied. Hawkins believes he planned to wait until taken to court before attempting his eleventh escape. Lee refused to comment on the murder charge but talked freely, mirthfully about his prison break in Nashville, Tenn., where ho led fifteen other prisoners, including three "lifers,” to liberty with a wooden revolver, April 9. “You hadn’t ought to say anything about that toy gun,” Lee said. “Someone might think t hey’re looking at a wooden gun some day and get. killed.” Lee must be tided In Johnson County, Attorney General Gilliom ruled in an opinion to Prosecutor William H. Remy, who had raised the question whether Lee’s escape from Jail at Franklin had stripped (Turn to Page 10)

1 BEAD, 2 HURT IN TRAIN CRASH Big Four Strikes Machine at Crossing. Joseph Hillard, 26, Negro, 1724 Sheldon St., was killled and Palo Elliott, 28, Negro, 916 E. Twentieth st., and Charles Patterson, 20, Negro, 1631 Yandes St., were seriously injured when a Big Four train struck Patterson’s auto at W'arman Ave. crossing today. ■The three Negroes, employed at American Foundry, 400 S. Warman Ave., were returning from work. All were thrown from the car. Lieut. Walter Claffey sent the injured men to city, hospital. AUTO THIEVES SLOWED Only Six Cars Stolen—Eleven Are Recovered. Automobile thieves, who Thursday night worked overtime and stole thirteen machines, slowed up Friday evening and took only six machines, reports at police headquarters today showed. While thieves were for the most part inactive, officers recovered eleven automobiles and one motor cycle, valued at $5,575. Several of the cars recovered were among those stolen Thursday.

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