Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1927 — Page 2

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ftRLY MORNING iLAZE DRIVES 4 |FROM RESIDENCE ,800 Estimated Loss — Woman Dragged From v Bed by Friend, i 'our persons were forced to leave ir home in their night clot lies ly Sunday when tire burned the Ic and second story of the W. T. x home, 2175 N. Pennsylvania St., 1 did SI,BOO damage, rlrs. Essea Eikes. a roomer, was akened hy the flames bursting •ough the ceiling. She awakened ' room-mate. Miss Edna Logsdon, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Cox. Thought Alarm Jolte Hiss Logsdon jokingly told how habit nearly caused her to en inter great danger. Daily Mrs. tea aroused her by telling her ne one was on the phone, or that i house was on tire. She said she rays got up to find herself the viel of a joke. Sunday she laughed, 9 said, when Mrs. Eikes yelled, Ire! Fire!” Sparks Cause Suddenly she said she felt hert being dragged out of bed •hy ■s, Eikes. Slipping on a kimono | fled with the others. They ; refuge next door. Firemen sparks on the roof caused the ze. AN defective flue at the home of H. ithews, living a mile and a half >m the city limits on Arlington r e., destroyed the house Sunday on. Firemen Were helpless with, t water. Loss was $1,600. The residence of H. B. Perryman, 15 Byram St., was destroyed by i of unknown origin at 10:80 a. today. The building was a story 1 half frame dwelling. Delay in tdlng In the alarm made the fire effort futile. ILL LAUGHS AT LAW arley Birger Remains at Liberty Despite Murder Warrant. United Press lARRISBURG, 111., Jan. 3.—Charr Birger, the machine gun gangir, continued to laugh at the law he evaded arrest on charges of bel an accomplice in the muVder of ,yor Joe Adams of West City. Urge'.*, at his home here, chuckled arrant for his arrest and lich has not betn served by Saline >unty* authorities. The warrant a sworn out in Franklin County, ithorities refused to discuss the Birger denied he had met Carl elton, leader of an opposing gang, 10m he claimed to have bet SSOO would kill before New Year’s y. According to reports, Birger and Shelton met on Marion streets thout hostilities. ■ REGG FUNERAL HELD iends From Other States Attend Rites for Cleaner. Funeral services Sunday for W. . Gregg, 77, head of Gregg & Son, c„ dry cleaners, at Spiceland, sre attended by many friends and latives from over the State and a mber from other States. Mr. ■egg died. Friday at the Methodist >spital. The body lay in state at Spiceid from Saturday afternoon until rvicea at 2 o’clock at the Spiceid Friends Church. Employes of e Gregg company were pallbearers, trial was in Spiceland Cemetery. IGHT SCHOOL POPULAR urse at School 8 Has Rig Enrollment. An\increase in the present enrollsnt W eighty is expected at the :e nlglht school at Public School 8, xington and Virginia Aves., which ens foV its second semester tofht, declared Miss Alvina Stamil, principal, today. Interest in e school was evinced during the st semester by the enrollment in e various classes, twenty students ving signed up in the 7A class, onty in the eighth grade, sewing iss fifteen, and the foreign class entv-eight.

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The “stop and go kiss.” it’s the fashion here now. No more does the youthful driver swear when the stop sign (lashes. He just extends the right arm and commences the osculation. Sunday night at Michigan and Meridian Sts., the honks of impatient motorists punctured Lhe atmosphere,,when the sign read green without response from the lead car. Number two car glided up alongside. A feminine shriek, disentanglement and a hurried get away.

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LONDON—American and French tire manufacturers are engaged in a price-cutting war designed to break the British monopoly of the raw rubber market. British manufacturers said they could not make further cuts to compete with foreign tires. PEKIN—This former Mancha capital is in danger of eclipse hy the upstart city of Wuhan, which has been proclaimed the nationalist seat of government by the Cantonese invaders from south China. Wuhan is anew municipal entity composed of three adjacent cities—Hankow. Wuchang and Hanyang. BAGDAD—Sir Samuel Hoare, British air minister, and I July Hoare, have arrived here en route by air from Ix>ndon to Delhi, British, India. Bt ENOS AIRES—Four hundred Brazilian rebels encroached upon Uruguayan territory, according to a dispatch from Montevideo, and were interned. Another group of rebels was reported to be retreating before federal troops in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul. NEW YORK Known lioliday liquor fatalities here have mounted to more than forty. The number of patients received in alcoholic wards reached 222. GARFIELD —A leaky gas main led to an explosion which destroyed a one-story frame house here. Twelve persons were hurt, three seriously. Damage was estimated at SIOO,OOO. OSSINING, N. Y.—Sing Sing Prison is prosperous. Inmates’ deposits in the prison bank total $24,000, one-third more than at the beginning of 1926. MX. VERNON, N. Y.—Richard Kefter’s automobile was loaded with hay and apples as it left White Plains Tbe load attracted a deer. Keftcr said he wan chased five miles by the deer before he had presence of mind to pitch out some of the apples, the animal then stopping for lunch. DETROIT—For the next ten days E. L. Tyson, chief announcer for Station WWJ, Detroit, Is going to keep his mouth shut, literally. Two months ago, in attempting to eat a tea biscuit In toto, Tyson strained a ligament in his jaw. For twentyfour hours he was unable to close his mouth. A dentist eventually tripped the “key-log” and restored Tyson to a fairly usable degree of Ms former month action, hut not wholly. On advice of his dental surgeon, the announcer is submitting to wiring of his upper and lower jaws together for a ten-day rest period from all Jaw action. He will sip hi3 food meantime. WOMAN GOVERNOR OUT til, t'llitrit /Trsq CHEYENNE, Wyo„ Jan. 3.America's first woman Governor, Nellie* Tayjor Rohs, Wyoming’s ehiaf ajtseutive, shed her mantle of oflieiai power today. Defeated in the November election, Mrs. Ross left hep office to Frank C. Emerson, the successful, candidate. Elected two years asm to the unexpired term of her husband, Mrs. Ross received the largest majority ever given a gubernatorial candidate in this State. 2-CENT NEWSPAPER B i/ United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The New York World (morning), today reduced its price in greater New York from 3 to 2 conts. Ralph Pulitzer, publisher, in explaining the reduction,n said: "To the World a stationary circulation is a stagnant circulation and the half million dollars a year which the extra cent brings in cannot begin to pay for even the risk, of stagnation.' ’

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POLICE LOOK FOR DRIVERS FIGURING IN QUEERMIW Three Accidents Under Investigation—Three Injured at Crossing. Three mysterious automobile accidents, following which the participants tied., were being investigated by polio® today. Police sought two men injured in an auto wreck at Oaklandon, Ind., on a charge of auto theft. Thomas Hamilton, garage owner, at Oaklandon, told police the men were cut and bruised, and he drove them to New York and Douglass Sts., where they told him to wait until they went inside and got money to pay him. When they failed to return, police were called. Police sought Charles Sandlin 2034 Tipton St., whose auto was found at Thirty-Third St. and Capitol Ave., with blood on the seat. -Mrs. Sandlin said her husband left home with another man several hours before. Hits and Runs The driver of an auto that struck one driven by William Brown, negro, 1042 N. West St., at New York St and Massachusetts Ave., failed to remain on the scene. Brown said the other car hit a parked auto and then his. The driver leaped from the car and ran. Believing that when a switch engine passed, the track was clear and also thinking that the watchman signaled favorably, Christy Metcalfe, 31, of 1454 I>ee St., Sunday night drove his auto on to the Big Four Railroad crossing at Harding St. to be struck by a passenger train. Metcalfe and his son, Christy, Jr., 2, were cut about the face and head

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DRIVEN TO DEATH BY 'LIFE IN FULL ’ Three on Threshold of Manhood Commit Suicide — ‘Futile and Barren,’ One Writes.

Bu t nitrd l‘rcss AURORA, 111., Jan. 3.—Convinced that he had experienced everything that life had to otter, Joe N. Moore, a 21-year-old University of Illinois student, killed himself here Sunday. Moore left a note in which he told of his determination to die because he had lived “life in full.” The son of a wealthy doctor of Guanajuato, Mexico, Moore was visiting with his sister here. He seemed in the best of spirits. Just before ending his life, he had chatted with the family, listened with interest to the radio, and then whistled while he climbed the stairs. A few minutes later those in the house heard a shot and an investigation revealed Moore dying from a bullet through his head. /if/ United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The New Year brought death by self-de-struction to two boys here who felt,

and were injured about the body. Mrs. Candida Metcalf, 21, his wife, thrown through the glass and out of the car, was cut and shaken up. They were Bent to tho city hospital by Lieut. George L. Winkler. An auto driven by S. J. McCombs, Niles, Mich., and a truck driven by Walter Surface, Greenwood, Ind., collided at Madison Ave. and Raymond St. Mrs. Cecil McComb, 24, and her son, Henry, 6, were injured. All were treated at the city hospital and taken to a downtown hotel. FIGHT; TRAIN HITS AUTO B'i United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Two automobiles collided near an electric line

rampage. Thousands were driven from their homes and mueh of the city’s business life was paralyzed. Districts of the city between which lowlands intervened were accessible only by boat. The huge bridge over tbe Cumberland, at the upper right of the picture, stood out above the flood, but the ends of its approaches were under water. In the lower right-hand corner is the Tennesse capitol.

although each was yet on the threshold of manhood, that life held nothing more for them. Rigby Wile, sophomore at the University of Rochester and son of Dr. Ira S. Wile, noted specialist in mental diseases, was found shot to death in his father's home yesterday. In a letter to his father he said he had concluded life was “futile and barren” after comparing his ideas with those of the great philosophers. The other youth, Alfred Ivehoe of Brooklyn, had his twenty-first birthday on New Year’s eve. Early Sunday his body was found Under the Washington bridge in Manhattan. He had leaped-to the Speedway from the lofty viaduct. Kehoe had been slightly lame from birth. In his pockett was a note to the girl e loved. He said he was “too queer” to marry her and hoped she would marry another man and be happy.

and one car was thrown onto the tracks. The drivers, Andrew Soltis, Whiting, Ind., and Ray Swan, Chicago, immediately began a fist fight, each blaming the other. While the fight was under way a train rounded a curve. Two children in the automobile on the tracks managed to escape by leaping, but a woman, Mrs. Helen Waehowiak, was probably fatally injured when she failed to get clear of the train. The two men stopped fighting long enough to call the police. Then the fight was renewed. Police found them fighting and it was nedessary to separate them several times on the way to headquarters. A species of rat found in New Guinea dangles its tail in the sea as bait for fish.

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POISON ALCOHOL REMAINS IN ISSUE BEFORE CONGRESS Some Members Feel Death Too Severe for Violating Unpopular Law. Times Washington Bureau. ISit .\ etc York At ctiue WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—Congress continues disturbed by deaths throughout the country due to poisonous alcohol. The anger aroused by Wayne B. Wheeler’s remark at the White House that pe-sons determined to violate the constitution should be permitted to "commit suicide in their own way” was somewhat api>eased by Secretary Mellons announcement that his department is endeavoring to find a method of denaturing industrial alcohol without rendering it poisonous. Wheeler, counsel for the AntiSaloon League, after a talk with Mellon —and after one or two dry Senators had talked quite plainly to him —modified his callous observations and expressed himself satis fled with Secretary Mellon's efforts. But the feeling continues among members of Congress that “death is a severe penalty for violation of an unpopular law.” Deaths Tell Story An indication of the damage being done by tho use of poisonous denaturants is given by statistics gathered from a number of cities. These figures, received from health officers in some cases represent only cases of death by poison and in other eases include deuths from alcoholism, without specifying that the alcohol was poisoned: all are for the single year 1926: New York (eleven months), 531: Boston. 135; Chicago, 328; St. Louis, 56; Columbus, 7; Pittsburgh, 127; Baltimore, 71; Cleveland, 138; El Paso, 6; Oklahoma City, 2; Indianapolis, 7; Evansville, 2; Knoxville, 3; San Francisco, 26; San Antonio, 3; Omaha, 10; Harrisburg, 6; Detroit, 121; Los Angeles, 30; Minneapolis, 28, and Seattle, 28. • That these figures do not represent the total number of poison alcohol victims in the scattered cities listed is the view of many of the health officers. The health registrar in Columbus, Ohio, says that instead of the seven deaths listed, he would not be surprised If there were fifty deaths, directly or indirectly due to bad liquor in that city. Real Cause Not Listed In Baltimore it is explained that many deaths listed as due to acute indigestion are in reality due to alcoholism. Baltimore’s official records show only four such deaths in 1920, as contrasted Ith 71 in 1926. Oklahoma City health officials say that some deaths due to nlcoholism are recorded as due to heart diseases. San Francisco reports that some such deaths are listed as due to "natural caus'es.” In collecting the above statistics the following interesting telegram was received from Knoxville, Ten.: “There were only three deaths from alcoholic poisoning in 1926. This low figure is explained by the high grade of corn liquor made in the mountains. This is the honest opinion of experts, who point out that mountaineers were proficient distillers long before prohibition. Although the standard is somewhat lower than in foriper years, because of heavy demands, it is nevertheless a far better grade than that made In northern cities.” FAVORS CHURCH DANCES Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 3. Dr. John Thompson, pastor of the largest Methodist church in Chicago, a denomination whffih for years forbade dancing under penalty of expulsion, believes that dances should be held in churches. “The trouble is not with dancing,” he said in a sermon, “but with the churchy which prohibits dancing.”

Robbers Get Loot From Grocery a* Filling Station —Eight Reported JB Over Week-End. > Two daylight hold-ups this morning brought tho week-end robbery total in Indianapolis to eight. Shorlly after 9 a. m., a white bandit about 23, patched trousers and coat, held up the Kroger Grocery E. Vermont St. and obtained $35.

After loafing a while with Ray Morton, manager 610 E. TwentyFourth St., the bandit pulled a gun and commanded Morton to “give me your money.” The bandit ordered Morton to stay in a back room or "I’ll shoot you.” Oil Station Robbed Two bandits robbed the Western Oil Station, 2401 N. Harding St., at 7 a. m. A dirty-faced bandit, with his left knee protruding through a bursted trouser leg, a bleeding nose and slightly undef the influence of liquor, robbed three filling stations within fifteen minutes, Sunday night. Early today two men drove into the Western Oil station on Harding St., with drawn revolver, one of the bandits cautioned Alva Caldwell, 3181 N. Harding St., attendant, to move his hands carefully, but to open the cash register and hand him the contents. Caldwell told Lieut. Fred Winkler he did as commanded. After the bandit took $35.25 he ran to the auto and sped away. Winkler said there is a possibility that the grocery bandit may have committed the filling station robberies. The description tallied in some respects. Miss Hazel Ford, 329 Fulton St., living near the grocery, told police she saw a Chevrolet touring car with curtains, similar to the one in the Western Oil robbery, in the neighborhood this morning. Made Three Stations The bloody-nosed bandit walked into the Pure Oil station, New York and Indiana Ave., at 8:25 p. m. Sunday night and ordered Harry Kountz, the attendant, to "Stick ’em up.” He did not flash a gun but told Kountz that the protruding point of his coat pocket was caused by a gun. Taking sls from Kountz he rail to a parked auto and sped east. He then drove to the Western Oil station, Massachusetts Ave. and New Jersey St., police say, and held up P. A. Boyer, 417 E. Twelfth St., in the same manner. He took about $26. From there he drove to the Pure Oil station, East St. and Massachusetts Ave., where he told James Smith, 2332 Gale St., attendant, to "stick ’em up,” and this time Hashed his blue steel gun. He took $lB. That was the last police heard of him. Dade Fields, negro, of 371 W. Twelfth St., satd he was at Roanoke end North Sts,, when two negroes took his bill fold and $14.25. Ralph Grepperhaus, Columbus, Ohio, visiting with Edward Schneider, 423 E. Thirty-Third St., reported that they were walking at Ohio St. and Capitol Ave., at 11 p. m., Dec. 31, when two white men held them up and took a watch and $3.60. Marlin White, 1142 McDougal St., was walking at Shelby and McDougal Sts.. New Year's Eve., when three men in a roadster drove up to the curb, one alighted inquiring the time, White told police the man drew a gun and took $12.50 and a watch. Purse Snatched Mrs. Martha West, 1716 Sheldon St., said she was walking at Sheldon and Seventeenth Sts., when a Negro took her purse containing $5. Mrs. Agnes Wat hen, 2225 Sheldon St., was walking at Twenty-Second St. and Arsenal Ave., when a Negro walking in front of her turned and told her to ’ put up her hands. She said she bit his finger but heseized her purse valued at $5 and a fountain pen and ran. Paul Eudaly, 502 Dorman St., reported his barber shop looted and tools and equipment valued at SIOO taken. A porch climbing burglar entered tho home of John F. Morrisey, 764 E. McCarty St., and took clothing,

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candy, cigars and $8.50 in amounting to $l5O. Floyd Matthews. 1302 turned Sunday night to find and jewelery valued at SIOO nßj The dry goods store opera D. R. Gillispie, 1706 E. St. was burglarized and valued at SIOO taken. > While Gene Mehaffey, villa Rd., was reading a when he heard a noise In of the house. Investigating a burglar had pried open a wf but ran when he approached. Two watches and two hanks valued at S6O were the home of Harry Krause, Kealing Ave. The emergency police rushß the Indiana National Bank wheil burglar alarm sounded. Invest] tion revealed a short circuit.

AN ERROR CORRECTED Typographical Mishs p Docs Injustice to Man. Through an inadvertent typo graphical error in which one word was dropped it was made to appear in an article In The Times Saturday, that Jim Robinson, former Indian apolis cab driver had said he was in the county infirmary, “because I drank or squandered my money.” Subsequent sentences make it plain in the story printed hy The Times that this was not the case, but, in Justice to Robinson, it should be understood that Robinson does not drink or use tobacco, and that the quotation intended in the story as printed by The Times was: “I’m not out here In this county home because I drank or squandered my money.”

POLICE LOOK FOR DEATHCAR PILOT Greenfield Authorities Ask Local Men to Help. Police were asked to. akj, Haapoejf County authorities today in tTsearch for the driver of a “death car” that fatally injured Alonzo A. Watts, 22, of 569 Lynn St., two miles west cf Greenfield at 5:30 a. m. Saturday. According to word from Greenfield, where the body was taken. Watts, with Basil Bennett, Edward Kavanaugh and Karl Kountz, all said to live in Indianapolis, were en route to the city after a visit with friends there. They drove off the road to avoid being struck by an auto headed the opposite direction. None of the four were Injured, but the auto was disabled. While waiting for a garage man. Watte started to walk to keep warm, when the Bulck roadsted sped hy, they say, at about fifty miles an hour. The noise of the motor was such that the otohers did nto know Watts was struck until later. ELLEN TERRY NEAR DEATH Bu United Press LONDON. Jan. 3.—Ellen Terry, 79-year-old doyen of British acresses, lay critically ill in her London home today, interrupting stretches of restless silence with lines from the parts which made her famous to the parents and grandparents of present day theatergoers. Dame Ellen was able to eat and that alone, according to her physician’s prolonged her life over the weekend.

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