Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1927 — Page 2

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COAL SHORTAGE HERE REGARDED UNLIKELY

OVERCHARGE ON HOTEL LIGHT BILL ALLEGED IN SUIT Indianapolis Light, Heat Firm Collected $25,688, Says W. T. Riley. Charges that the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company overcharged him $25,688 in light rates were made in a suit by William "T. Itiley, on file in Superior Court One today. Riley, from 1921 through 1523, operated the English Hotel, during which time he alleges the company charged him 5 cents a 100-kilowatt hours, while the maximum rate at the time was only 2.5 cents a 100kilowatt hours. Perry Answers Harvey Hartsock, attorney for Riley, is preparing an amended complaint in which the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, which was formed with the merging of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company will be made co-de-fendant in the matter,, Attorney Merle N. A. Walker announced. Order seeking to have all documents, hooks and records showing the amount charged and payment thereof brought into court was filed by Riley. Prepares Supplement Norman A. Perry, president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Com pany, and formerly president of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, filed a deposition in answer, stating he is president of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, but does not have control of the records sought. Tn the deposition no reason is given for his not being in possession of them, but it was represented to the court and Walker that since he now is president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company he does not have documents of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. MILLER OUTLINES NEW TENURE ACT Urges Contracts Be Signed Before April 20. Charles Miller, State superintendent of public instruction, issued a , summary of Attorney General "Arthur L. Gllliom's opinion regarding the teacher tenure bill today to_ all school authorities in Indiana. Miller’s communication advises school boards to sign contracts with their teachers before the new law goes into effect. It will become effective about April 20. After that date all teachers with five years experience go on indefinite tenure with the signing of their next contract. Removal is possible only in extreme cases for serious infraction of regulations. Acting School Superintendent Joseph F. Thornton said that no attempt would be made here to evade the new law. "Teachers’ contracts in all probability Will be signed in J uly this year as heretofore,” Thornton said. DAMROSCH ILL: WORKS Conducts Orchestra While Doctor and Nurse Walt. Bii United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—Walter Damrosch, retiring conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, directed his musicians in a Wagnerian concert last night while a physician and nurse waited in the wings to Damrosch was operated on for provide instant care in an emergency, sinus trouble a few days ago, but insisted on leaving his sickbed to avoid disappointing the audience. After the Concert he returned to the care of the doctors and nurse. ‘MURDERED’ MAN ALIVE Bu United Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala., April 2.—J. D. Lott, itinerant painter, “murdered” a year ago at Eutaw, Ala., has been found alive' and well in Pickens \County, Green County officials announced Friday. Mrs. Mattie Reynolds and William Upchurch, two of the six persons indicted for the crime, will be released from the jail where they have been awaiting trial. • Lott went to Eutaw a year ago, and after a few days’ sojourn, suddenly disappeared. After lengthy investigation, officials decided he had been killed because he interrupted a drinking party in the woods near town. WRIGHT RITES SUNDAY Wife of Author of “Bone Dry” Act *to Be Buried at Lynn. Funeral services for Mrs. Frank E. Wright. 32, of 840 N. Rural St., will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at , the Quaker Church at Lynn, Ind. i- Mrs. Wright, wife of Representative Wright, author of the Indiana Wright "bone dry” law, died at her home here Thursday. The body was taken to the home ‘of her parents at Lynn for burial, ■ following the services Sunday. Surviving are the parents, husband and one son, f.ge 3. WET PAVEMENT BLAMED Wet pavement is said to have caused an auto driven by George L. Liddell, 48, of 408 N. Rural St„ to skid into one driven by Thomas' Shroyer, Spencer Hotel, at Eleventh and Meridian Sts., late Friday. Liddell was thrown from his aufo and was taken to his home in a city hospital ambulance.

Work for Success of Home Show

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L. h. Lewis (above), president of the Heal Estate Board, and ,1. F. Cantwell (below), Home Complete Show director, are among those who have labored to make a success of the exposition which opens ton ig lit. GUARDS ACTIVE IN FORO-SAPIRO CASE Six From Auto Company Staff Attend Court. 81l United Press DETROIT, April 2. —-Unusual precautions have been taken to guard the courtroom' where the Ford-Sapiro libel suit Is being tried. During yesterday afternoon’s session the guard Included six detectives of the Ford Motor Company's private staff; Henry Ford’s chauffeur, who is said to be in reality a bodyguard; one police lieutenant, which was taken to mean that perhaps other police were there in plain clothes, and two Federal secret service agents. The Ford men said they had been present more or less since the trial started and that it was their business to guard valuable records of the Ford company, being used in court, and he otherwise useful. The trial stood adjourned today until Monday. FOUR HURT IN WRECK Train Splits in Two Sections—One Plunges Into Ditch. Bu United Press WICHITA, Kan., April 2.—Four persons were injured, three seriously when the Firefly, crack Rock Island passenger train, split into two sections ami three coaches went into a ditch near Wellington, Kan., at 2:15 a. m., today. A defective rail was responsible for the accident. The train was making full speed and the engine, mail car and two cars, had passed the defective stretch when a rail split, hurling a chair car and two sleeping cars into a drainage ditch. LONGEVITY IS SUBJECT Rotarians to Hear Dr. E. O. Lindenmuth at Luncheon Tuesday. Local Rotarians at their luncheon meeting next Tuesday at the Claypool, will hear an address by one of their own members, Dr. E. O. Lindenmuth, on “Old at Forty or Young at Sixty?” Whistling solos by Miss Frances Sellers will 'be the entertainment feature. WILSON SPONSOR DIES Bu United Press' NEWARK, N. .1., April 2.—Funeral services for former United States Senator James Smith Sr., 75, whp died here last night, will be held Monday nwrning, it was announced today. Asa member of the Democratic convention in 1910, he nominated Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, for Governor. BRAKEMAN INJURED Millard Jones, 28, Pennsylvania yard brakeman, was injured' today when thrown from the top of a box car. He received a broken right wrist, cuts and bruises, and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. SIXTEEN EXECUTED LONDON—An Exchange telegraph dispatch from Belgrade said sixteen persons had been hanged at Tirana, Albania, for complicity in the November revolution.

S INJURED WHEN W. TENTH STREET CAR OVERTURNS Breaks Off Pole, Strikes Grocery—Motorman Says Brakes Failed. Officials of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, and Sergt. Frank Owen of the police accident prevention bureau today investigated an accident at 1 a. m. when W. Tenth St. car failed to make a turn at Blake and New York Sts., and overturned. Eight of fifteen passengers were cut and bruised, and the crew and others were shaken, police reported. Three to Hospital Those taken to city hospital: Mattie Jeffry, 20, Negro, 431 Blake St., cut on arm; John Moore, 60, of 2011 Wilcox St., cut about face; Donald Grillo, 22, of 1238 W. New Pork St., cut orr knee. Sherman Aldridge, 17, of 1120 N. Belle Vieu PI., was treated by Dr. S. 1.. Egart, 837 W. New York St., and went home. Others who went home: Warren Pierce. 33, Negro, of 2112 W. Tenth St.; Robert Helm, 38. Negro, 121 Puryear St.; Joseph Wicker, 25, of 2101 W. Walnut St., and John Hosteller, address unknown. All suffered cuts and bruises, police said. Emergency Lieut. O. D. Thomas said Charles D. Young. 315 N. Senate Ave., the motorman, told him the car was traveling at moderate speed when he attempted to shut off the power and apply the brakes at Dotiglass St. They failed to hold, be charged. Speeding. Report Roy Nowlin, 1031 King Ave.. n passenger, and and. H. Todd, 448 W. Washington St., and Martin Flisk, roi Blake St., who were standing on t lie opposite corner from the wreck, stated the car was traveling fast, Thomas reported. After leaving the rails, the car struck a pole, breaking it off, and then crashed into the grocery of Bert Hahn, 302 W. New York St. The pole probably saved considerable damage to the store and the lives of those in the front of the car, police said. An auto owned by Mrs. Lillian Day, 302 W. New York St., parked nearby, wUs wrecked. SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS Paul Hamilton, 36, Connersville, Ind., was released from city hospital today' recovered from a suicide attempt. He is alleged to have cut his throat early today in his room at 435 E. New York St.

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When Walter D. Hickman cams to the dramatic editor's desk seven years ago he brought witii him an intimate knowledge of the stage and its folks born of ten previous years of association. He also brought witii him one of tiie all-firedest independent dispositions that every graced a newspaper office—where independent spirits are legion. The combination—ability to judge and the courage to express his judgment and stand by it—naturally has resulted in Hickman's enviable place among dramatic critics. Aside from a wide personal acquaintanceship among theatrical folks and the enjoyment of llielr comradeship and confidence, Hickman holds tiie confidence of his readers—as theater managers testify. If Hickman thinks a show is good he says so. If he thinks it’s rotten lie says so just as quickly. Folks who have tested huh out have come to depend upon his judgment and spend or save their money accordingly. Hickman is widely known outside the sphere of the Indianapolis Times. The theatrical trade papers have recognized him as the leading Indianapolis critic. Variety, the Dramatic Mirror and such publications annually reprint his selection of the “Ten Best” shows of the season in Indianapolis.

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THROAT CUT FOR LIFE Man Wounded in Neck by Bullet May Live Due to Surgeons. Bu United Press JAMAICA, N. Y.. April 2—Physicians cut the throat of Charles Collins to save his life. He was shot in the neck. The bullet punctured his windpipe. The wound caused his throat to swell, cutting off his jiir supply. Physicians slashed his throat and inserted a silver tube In the windpipe. In order to jteep the air at the same temperature and with the same amount of moisture it jvould have after passing through the nose or throat, a gauze tent was placed over his bed. A vaporizer provided chemically treated air. burgeons said he would recover. t $55,000 DAMAGE < ( SUIT Motorist, Bus Operator, Named in Complaint Filed on Injuries. Suits seeking damages -of $55,000 from Holman Hill, 430 E. Washington St., bus operator, and John W. Browning, Greenwood, Ind., were filed in Superior Court 2 by Leonard Carter. 4304 Guilford Ave.. in behalf of his wife, Ella B. C'ark, and daughter, Thelma Clark. Both the child and woman were seriously injured when they were riding in the bus driven by Hill, when it collided at Union and Orange Sts., Dec. i2, 1925, with a car driven by Browning, it is charged. ANNOUNCE CIVIL EXAMS Many Positions Open, Announcement by Secretary Reveals. Civil service examinations to fill the positions of forest fire prevention lecturer, assistant radio inspec tor, minor laboratory assistant, laboratory apprentice, assistant scientific aid, library assistant, associate architect, map printer's helper and multigraph operator have been announced by Henry M. Trimpe, civil service board secretary. Information and application blanks may be obtained from the secretary, 421 Federal building. DE PINEDO MAKES HOP Italian Flies From New Orleans to Galveston, Texas. Bli 1 lilted Press GALVESTON. Texas. April 2. Cheered by fellow countrymen and a large crowd of Americans, Francesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator, landed in Galveston mrbor at 10:36 a. m. today after a nonstop flight from New Orleans. De Pinedo left New Orleans at 7:35 a. m., covering the distance in 3 hours l'minute. It was-Jhe first leg of De Pinedo's tour which will take him to the Pacific coast, thence to New York, from where he will fly to Italy.

-Walter D. Hickman

ROUNDING THEATERS

Stuart Walker lias definitely decided to open his stock season at B. F.. Keith's on Monday nipht. May 2. according to word received by Gus Showaiter of Keith’s from William Fields, Walker’s respresentative. George Somnes, production director for Walker, intends to leave Indianapolis the first of next week for a conference with Walker in New York City.

indications today are that ‘Walker may open his season here with Elizabeth Patterson and George Gaul ip “Lazy Bones.” Miss Patterson played the lead in this play in the original New Y'ork cast. Miss Patterson *s at present the featured player in “Charm.” It is hoped here that she will be given a chance to appear in this success at Keith’s during the summer. As Mr. Walker Is opening his season here later than he expected, he has announced that his stay will be limited to ten weeks. Mr. Fields will arrive here next week to make plans for the opening of the season. * Charles Berkell tells me that he has secured the Indianapolis rights to the stock presentation of “Square Crooks,” “White Cargo,” “The Seventh Guest,” “The Home Towners,” "Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Iz Zat So,” and others. This assures the Berkell Players at English’3 some interesting successes in the early weeks of the season. George Somnes is considering a three year contract as director of all productions for the Little Theatre Society of Indiana. It is essential that the Little Theatre has the services of this man. Jlis record in the season just closing guarantees real future for this organization. I believe that the contract will be signed and it is most important that this is done if the Little Theatre is to carry on its program of accomplishments. The productions of “R. U. R.” and “The Adding Machine” this season proves beyond any doubt the efficiency of George Somnes as a director. I sincerely hope that the building fund will be completed in time so that the seating capacity may be increased from 250 seats to 500 before the season opens in the fall. If this is done, it is probable that the Little Theatre next sek;on will present | Shakespeare's with

HAS 49 PROOFS THAT HE’S A ‘GOOD SCOUT’

Seout Kobcrl Thompson.

Scout-craft was “on parade” today in Tomlinson Hall, where hundreds of persons inspected displays arranged by Scouts of the city as the closing feature of Boy Scout week. Thrown open Friday afternoon the coliseum was crowded Friday night with friends of Scouts and scouting, who marveled at ingenious booths arranged to show various phases of Seout activity. The most honored Scout at the exposition was Robert Thompson of 1545 Barth Ave. Young Thompson is a. double-eagle Scout, holding for-ty-nine merit badges. Only fortytwo are required for this honor. He is working toward the “diamond" Scout honor, which demands fifty merit badges. He is assistant scout master of Troop 34, and was responsible for the planning of the arrow making and marksmanship booth. Booths were to be judged today by John A. Hook. Indianapolis Boy

ROUND With WALTER D. HICKMAN

George Somnes as the Prince of Denmark. Idabelle Arnold may be the last word in independence while on the stage, but on the street she takes the arm of her husband. Larry Sullivan. She needs no support on the stage as site Is one of the cleverest f unmakers in stock today. The young son of Ace Berry and Mrs. Berry is probably the most photographed and filmed youngster in town. Even when he was in the cradle, Berry, Jr., blinked at a movie camera, not knowing what it was all about. HJs growth has been reflected In many foot of film. The latest show him In his little automobile on the porch of his parents’ home. The proud parents have private showings of the film in the screening room of the Circle. Some youngster, this one. Al Jolson last week during his many remarks in “Big Boy,” told Indianapolis folk that Nelson Trowbridge, former manager of the Murat here, and now manager of the two Shubert houses in Cincinnati, Ohio, “was doing splendidly” and that Trowbridge sent his love to all of his Indianapolis friends.” This remark was greeted with applause at English’s. Have been requested to have Stuart Wnlker this summer present at last one play of Ibsen. Mrs. Fiske during the past legitimate season here us “Ghosts.” If those who want an Ibsen play with a Stuart Walker cast this summer will let me know their choice of the play, I will be glad to let Mr. Walker know. C. Roltare Eggleston, for years manager of B. F. Keith's here, and now head of the Keith Interests at Atlanta. Ga., will arrive here next week for the annual Shrine Ceremonial at the Murat. Following this he and Mrs. Eggleston will return to Atlanta.

Scout council president: E. W. Harris. vice president, and Wallace O. Lee, Scout commissioner. Band concerts, vaudeville acts and Scout stunts will entertain the crowds at tonight's final session. BLUFFTON BANK HEAD KILLS SELF I Worry Over Depositors’ Losses Blamed. ' Bu Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., April 2.—Business circles here today were stunned over the suicide Friday of Ralph Studebaker Todd, 46. president of the Stuuebaker State Bank. Todd’s body was found in a barn on a farm near here Friday afternoon. He had shot himself through the temple. The bank closed its doors last St turday and State bank examiners have been at work on the books. In letters left to several friends, Todd declared “he could not stand the distress of the depositors" of his bank. “Please be assured that my records at the bank are in entire balance,” another letter said. He blamed “enemies” for the bank’s failure. The widow and two children, James Todd, 23, and Martha Todd, 17, survive. Mr. Todd was a graduate of De Pauw University and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Hocsier Identifies Bandit Suspects Bu United Press ST. lAXJIS, April 2. —Identified as bandits who staged a holdup near Danville, 111.. Wednesday night, Floyd Haverstick, 28. Madison. 111., and his brother, Harry Haverstick, 26, St. Louis, are held by police here today. They were identified by Freeman Wright, Louisville, Ky., and Thomas Fagan, Terre Haute, Inch, as the two men who took nearly S3OO from them after shooting Wright in the hand, causing a superficial wound. The brothers were released on SIO,OOO bond after preliminary hearing and left the police station immediately after their victims. A few minutes later detectives found Floyd had “trapped” the automobile containing Wright and Fagan at the curbing, near the station, and was threatening their lives unless they withdrew charges. The brothers were immediately rearrested and held without bond. FORD’S CONDITION GOOD Doctor Announces No More Bulletins Will Be Issued. Bu United Press DETROIT, April 2.—Henry Ford’s i ecovery continues normal and there has been no material change in his condition, a spokesman for Dr. R. D. McClure, surgeon-in-chief for the injured manufacturer, informed the United Press this morning. Dr. McClure last night Issued a statement announcing there would be no more medical bulletins issued about Ford’s condition, and that he was making a "perfectly normal recovery.” i GIRLS FLEE AUTO CRASH Two young women who jumped from a stolen auto at Sixteenth St. and Indiana Ave. late Friday as the car ran over an embankment were sought today by police. The car. owned by G. P. Kemper, 718 N. East St., was found overturned near the place wiiere Col. F. W. Gilbert, American Legion national commander. met his death in an auto accident several years ago. PARENT TEACHER CLUB The Parent-Teacher Association of Margaret McFarland school, Perkins and Raymond Sts., will meet Tuesday at 3 p. m. A.program will be given and refreshments served. Mrs. E. 11. Wischmeyer, president, will oreside.

Dealers Say Reserve Stocks Are Larg'n Enough to Forestall Higher Prices for the Time Being .Indianapolis coal users arc temporarily safe from increasnl coal prices resulting from the present mine shutdown, coal deal ers said today.

Far and Near

BLAST KILLS EIGHT LA PAZ, Bolivia—Eight persons were killed and nine injured when the motor of tlie launch Ana Catarina exploded in the Chapa re River. NEW SHOOTING STORY PARIS Further complications confuse the stol-y of the shooting by the Countess De Janze, formerly of Buffalo and Chicago, of Raymond De Trafford, wealthy Englishman, The Countess told a police questioner that Trafford had been with her when she purchased the gun used. Botli are recovering. I NIT ED STATES MONEY HELPS ROME—American gold will he used to recreate part of ancient Rome, the government revealed. Part of the Rome municipal loan floated in New York this week will restore the Marcellus Theater and probably reconstruct the Ara Pac.’e erected hy Emperor Augustus. HUNTING TROPHIES NEW YORK—CoI. William Hayward, former United States attorney here, returned with a large collection of hunt trophies \ dch his party secured during several months in East Africa. The collection, which will be given to the Fifteenth P,egiment, his former command, includes lions, water buffalo, oryx, hartbeest and other rare members of the deer family. MORE WOE FOR KIP WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Application to serve Leonard Kip Rhinelander by publication with the summons and complaint in his wife's proposed suit for separation will be made within the next ten days, Lee Parsons Davis, trial counsel for Mrs. Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, has announced. SUIT OVER PRIZES PHILADELPHIA The Sesquiotftennial Exhibition Association has been sued for alleged irregularities in the award of prizes at the exhibition here last fall. The Hoover Company, vacuum cleaner manufacturers, charges it. was defrauded of the grand prize after the jury had awarded it to the plaintiff. The prize was received by the Eureka Company, joint defendant with the sesqui manager. HUNGRY; C AME BACK ORANGE, N. J.—Donald Hager, 16, ran away from home and his Odyssey lasted all of two days. His mother, waking at 3 a. m., found Donald had returned and was In the pantry, ransacking the icebox. NO “GO-GETTING!” NEW YORK—GoIf and sleep, particularly the latter, will be the pastimes provided at the Rip Van Winkle Club, which will occupy fifiO acres in the Catskiil mountains. Members of the club said they wanted to eliminate “GoGetting!” FEWER BEARDS NEW YORK—The number of beards has been reduced 20 per cent since the war, even in Russia, Thomas W. Pelham, safety razor manufacturer, saiij upon his return from a trip to Europe and Africa. BIBLE BALLOT HANOVER, N. H— Students at Dartmouth generally believe the Bible was uninspired. Asked tlio question in a religious questionnaire, they voted: Yes, 245; no, 731; undecided, 44. FISHY DYNAMITE NEW YORK—George Falley, a laborer, explained the presence of a stick of dynamite in his room by saying he intended to use it on a fishing expedition. By exploding the dynamite, he said, he would have been assured of a large catch. He was given an indeterminate penitentiary sentence. SPEEDY TRIAL CHICAGO—TriaI of Oliver Dickson, Negro, 19 years old, for attacking a white woman, took only two hours and resulted in sentence of 99 years. FEW CLOTHES NEW YORK-Although John A. Stewart, banker, who died at the age of 104 recently, left a gross estate of $4,029,563, his personal effects totaled only $345. The figure included clothing, with a value of $l5O. C A MPAIGN FOR $6,000 leaders Say Hawthorne Social Service House Is Widely I'sed. Under the leadership of Mrs. Enos Carsten, 70 N. Addison St., a campaign committee was organized Fridad to complete plans for raising $6,000 of a $12,000 equity for the Hawthorne Social Service House at 2440 W. Ohio St. About 130 boys and girls are enrolled in the Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Camp Fire activities of the center. Twenty basketball teams, having an enrollment of 160 boys and young men, are using the “gym” each week. Ninety girls and eighty-four boys and men take part in regular “gym” work. Two public schools and ten churches in tiie community make use of the social center weekly and those in charge of the drive feel that because of the wide use made of the Hawthorne House the public Will respond generously to the call for funds.

APRIL 2, 1927

Indianapolis coal users are temporarily safe from increased coal prices resulting from the present mine shut-down, coal dealers said today. “We all knew the strike was coming,” O. A. DeLoste, Indianapolis Coal Company vice president, said. “We have enough stored to last at least ninety days. There will bo no increase in the “Prices are not advancing, but the customary spring reductions are not being made,” E. Dewey Fitch of the American Coal Company said. No Change Yet “There has been no change in the price ynt” Charles S. Merrick of Muesing-Merrick Coal Company said. “Shippers are quoting us rather temporary prices to enable them to take advantage of any rise in price later. Os course, advances in price arc inevitable if the strike lasts from three to five months, as some are predicting.” Suspension of activities in union coal mines of the central competitive d' trict passed into its second day today, with both operators and miners holding to their “watchful wa ing” policies. W Scene Shifted Headquarters for the four States comprising the central field are Terre Haute, Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; Springfield, 111., and Pittsburgh, Penn. Negotiations at any of these cities resulting in a temporary agreement between operators and miners of each State will grfatly affect the national situation. The scene has shifted from international headquarters here and. district agreements are hoped for that will force the entire central competitive field into line. Accurate count of the number of miners affected at present is impossible, but at least 200,000 union members in four States are believed to bo idlo awaiting anew wage agreement. I>e\vis Silent John L. Lewis, mine workers* president, has refused to comment since Monday. He delivered an address Friday at Taylorville, 111., upon the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the eight-hour day in the mines. At least another week is expected to pass before the present situation takes a definite turn in favor of either the operators or the miners. An interstate conference is unlikely and union forces are pinning their hopes on signing an important temporary agreement in one of the four States comprising the central competitive field that will force other three to terms. | BANDIT GETS SSO Ai POINT OF GUN Flees From Filling Station in Stolen Truck. A lone bandit using a stolen truck staged a bold hold-up late Friday and escaped with SSO from the Indiana Refining Company filling station. Tenth St. and Sherman Dr. J. C. Taylor, attendant, said he faced a revolver when he approached the truck. The bandit. Taylor said, forced him to open the safe and drove away. The truck, property of the Indianapolis Bower and Light Company, was stolen from Michigan and Linwood Sts. CRASH BRINGS ARREST Driver Jailed After Collision Hurls Girl Through Windshield. Miss Valeria Barber, 16, of 904 E. Fifty-Second St., remained in a serious condition today at Methodist Hospital, where she was taken Friday night after being hurled through the windshield of a car driven by Ivfl brother when it was struck at 83* N. Meridian St. hy an auto driven by Melvin Server, 21, 707 E. Thirteenth St. Server was lodged ,n jail on a charge of speeding, assault and battery and reckless driving. Police Sergeant Jack O’Neal reported he had been following Server for several blocks before the crash and that Server ifras speeding, swinging from one side of the street to the other and forcing other cars to run over the curb to avoid being struck. Three persons with Server were hot injured, but both cars were badly damaged. TO GIVE GALLERY TALK Richmond Woman Will Discuss Exhibitions at Herron Institute Sunday. A gallery talk by Mrs. M. F. Johnston of Richmond, Ind., will be given at the Jfthn Herron Art Institute Sunday, 3:30 p. m. Mrs. Johnston will discuss the Max Bohm and William Ritschel exhibitions. There is no admission charge. ARREST ENDS SHOPPING Girl Charged With Buying S7OO of Goods on False Pretenses. Miss Catherine Dengler, 19, of 445 N. Arsenal Ave., faced charges in municipal court today of obtaining more than S7OO worth of merchandisjH from downtown department stores o* false pretenses. J. W. Lovett, Quigley-Hyland detective agency superintendent, whose operatives mado the arrest, that unauthorized sho had used the charge accounts of ten persons, nine of them women, in purchasing the goods. She denied the.charges.