Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1927 — Page 9

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Parole Favored for Warren T. M’Cray

CINCINNATI MANAGER TOSPEAK Public Meeting Tonight in Indianapolis Campaign Mayor Murray L. Seasongood, Cincinnati, will arrive in Indianapolis today to tell ctizens interested In good government how the city manager plan has functioned successfully in his city. He will address a public meeting at the Claypool Hotel, at 8 p. m., preceded by a "dinner. Reservations for the dinner may be made through J3lythe Q. Hendricks, city manager campaign speakers’ bureau, 520 Illinois Building. The speech will be broadcast over ■WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club. Noon Manager Speakers Two noon city manager meetings {Were held. Mrs. George Finfrock spoke at the Sutherland Ave. Fresybterian Church, and Le Roy Lewis before the Traffic Club at Hotel Severin. Another evening meeting will be held at Castle Hall at 8:15, where Harvey Hartsock will address the Bricklayers, Masons and Tile Setters Union. Not Party Attack “Proposal to place this city under the commission manager plan is not an attack on any party,” J. W. Esterline, manufacturer, campaign leader, told an audience that packed the social rooms, North M. E. Church, Wednesday night. The meeting was over before the tornado. Esterline challenged the contention that the city manager government was “undemocratic” and pointed out that it was nearer the ideals of America’s founders than the mayor and council system. Shouting, Befogging "Our opponents also are shouting that the city manager law is unconstitutional,” he said. “Being adept at befogging the issue, they are doing all in their power to make the I people of Indianapolis believe that for some vague reason they cannot enjoy the benefits of good government as other cities do. “'l'he question of unconstitutionality cannot be answered by argument —let’s try it and find out. If the people of this city wait until we have a city manager law that will meet the approval of our opponents, we can put Gabriel in as our first city manager. "Such conditions as have existed In Indianapolis during Ihe last fifteen years are enough to take the heart out of any man. - Those Here to Pay ‘‘When we look about us and see much of the public work which has been done disintegrating within a few years, thousands of vacant houses, industries leaving the city and none coming to take their place, it ought to be apparent to thinking people that the burden of replacing the poor work which has been done and of doing vast amounts of work which has been neglected will have to be paid for by those who are already here. The sooner we realize this situation and apply corrective measures the better off the city will be.”

STORM RECALLS ~ 1925WD0 110 Killed in South State Disaster, The last severe windstorm in Indiana struck the "pocket” section March 18, J 925, taking more than 110 lives instantly and injuring about 3,000 others. The tornado entered the southwestern portion of the State from the west, having taken its toll in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee as well. Princeton badly wrecked suffered great loss of life, and many were killed at Owensville. The hamlet of Griffin, a town of about 350, near the Wabash River, was virtually wiped off the map. For about a week State- troops patrolled stations in the stricken area. Flood followed the heavy wind, leaving isolated what remained of Griffin. Estimates of the immediate dead in the five States struck by the storm were placed beyond 850, with damages figured to be around $10,000,000. PIPE PIERCES WALL Woman's Arm Broken While Seeking Son in Darkness. A one-inch water pipe was driven through the wall of the sitting room Mrs. Caroline Prang, 220 HenWdricks PI. No one was near the wall. Mrs. Matilda Conover, 75, same address, was rejoicing today, although she received a broken arm when she sought her son, E. F. Conover, who was looking for her in the Ldftrlfnaaa

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Here are the first views of the east side area devastated by the tornado Wednesday night Above, the wrecked home of the Arthur Funiiture Company 2215 E. Washington St.; center, Hamilton Ave. homes north of Washington St. leveled to the ground; below, view of Jefferson Ate. north of Washington St.

MOTHER OF 4 THANKFUL FATE WATCHED FAMILY Downstairs When Tornado Struck, She Finds Tots on Wreckage—Neighbors Shelter Homeless Ones. -

Although her home was wrecked, Mrs. Vlra Brengle, 56 N. Jefferson Ave., today was thankful that her four children were unharmed by the tornado. x Sitting on the side of a water soaked bed at the home of Thursman A. Owen, 48 Jefferson Ave., a neighbor whpse house was less damaged, Mrs. Brengle told of her plight. “Fate certainly held a watchful hand over my home," she declared. Children to Bed Mrs. Brengle had put the four children to bed on the second floor shortly before the tornado struck. She was downstairs. After the tornado she found the four children unharmed on the top of the heap of wreckage. * Chester Suiter, 32, a roomer, and Herbert Farren, 202 N.' Jefferson Ave., rescued the children, clad in night garments. Bed on Floor The husband, Lawrence Brengle, was summoned from work. At the Owen home beds were made on the floor to accomodate the family.

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Mrs. Ruth Mers, 225 N. Jefferson Ave., whose home was struck, escaped through a window with her children, Thelma 7, Emma 9, and Howard 4. Mrs. W. E. Huston, 206 N. Jefferson Ave., wiiose husband was away at the time of the tornado, anxiously watched over her small children. She was alone with Martha, 6, James, 3 and Ruth, 15 months. House in Darkness “On the first indication of the arising storm I called the children/close to me in the dining room. I had been preparing them for bed. The lights went out and darkness made it impossible to tell what I was doing except for a few flashes of lightning,” said Mrs. Huston. “The roar was, deafening. I prayed that we might all be spared and fortunately we all escaped with only little scratches. I thought it was the end. “After the calm I managed to help the children out,” she said. The Huston family\was taken in by Hubert Farren, 202 N. Jefferson

Ave., whose home also was wrecked. Huston's wife and four children; shared their remaining room with them for the rest of the night. They had a coal oil lamp. “We’re thankful that none of us was hurt,” said Farren. AUTO HITS POLICE CAR Woman Badly Hurt; Two Officers Also Injured. Helen Neff, 1415 Naomi St., Is in city hospital with a broken collar bone and a sever head cut, result j of an accident about midnight in | which in which she was rid- J ing crashed into a police car from Station No. 2. . ' Leo Troutman and Fred Hague, policemen, also were treated at city hospital for injuries suffered in ths crash, which wrecked both cars. : Troutman suffered a rib fracture and i leg injuries. Fred Wertz of Muncie, Ind., is I under arrest charged with failing to i give police right of way at Delaware and Tenth Sts., when the officers were speeding to 3340 N. Meridian St., in response to a report that an automobile was being stripped by thieves. Nora Spencer. 824 N.* Capitol Ave., riding with Wertz and Miss Neff, 1 waa uninjured.

REMOVE DEBRIS AT TERRE HAUTE City Employes Find Track Blocked, Strewn Trees. B Time* Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 19. City employes are cleanirg the streets this morning of debris caused by last night’s wind storm which came out of the northwest shortly before 8 o'colck. A wall of the old Hominy Mill was blown down and fell across tr*ks of the Big Four Railroad, causing traftiic delay. Serious damage was done to Bauermeister's warehouse. The building may have-to be wrecked. Ligthning and high wind wrecked the building on a farm owned by John McFall, south and southwest of West Terre Haute. Shade trees and shrubbery were torn up by roots on the south side, Terre Haute's best residential district.

BLAST TOLL 43; MANIAC’S WILE BURNED ‘Criminals Are Made/ Note Found After School Tragedy. Bn l nitrd Prr** BATH. Mich., May 19.—The story of Andrew Kehoe’s mad attack on society was completed today when his murdered wife was found near the ruins of their farmhouse. This brought to forty-three deaths he caused when he blew up the village school with dynamite, destroyed his own possessions and died - at the scene of his crime. Thirty-seven of the dead were children. Criminals .Made On the Kehoe farm, nailed to the door of the partly burned barn,- was this note: “Criminals Are Made, Not Born.” Pieced together, stories seem to indicate that Kehoe, a farmer, - had been brooding over financial troubles, increased by taxation for the new school, and he blamed the school board. A mortgage on his property recently had been foreclosed. Apparently his rage turned against the community and he decided to destroy himself, his property, and Inflict the deepest wound he could on his neighbors. , Troop to Funeral Pyre The grief-stricken community, with forty-three of its members in hospitals, many badly injured, left the scene of the school disaster when Mrs. Kehoe’s body was found. All else was temporarily forgotten is citizens trooped out to the Kehoe farm. Mrs. Kehoe's head had been beaten In with a club. Her bodyhad been placed on . hand truck ns a funeral pyre and the torch applied. Beside the charred ,rusk and body were the Kehoe family silverware and a box of money, apparently Indicating that he intended to destroy with her all he had left after financial reverses, which sent him mad. One Cheering Note One cheering note came from the Sbite capital. Governor Fred W. Green has taken steps for Red Cross and financial aids. “There is much Justice in the suggestion that the State should aid this village In some material way,” the Governor's note said. “This is a terrible blow to any community, and the sympathy of the State of Michigan goes out to the people of Bath.”

EGGS LAID GENTLY BY HOUSE-RAZING TORNADO

By Eldora Field_A tornado is a grim joker. Such was the on*, that visited Indianapolis. Powerful. relentless, crushing houses with all their contents — Uprooting great trees, snapping telephone poles like matches, yet— Depositing a layer of eggs, quite unbroken on a pile of debris at the wrecked grocery of P. J. Hannon, 2750 E. New York St. Lifting shelves with their glass canned goods unspilled from the pantry walls of R. D. Lawhorn, 2720 E. New York St., and setting those shelves squarely onto the dining room floor. Bringing a trass bird cage with Its tiny drenched occupant unhurt and placing it quite gently on the lawn of the wrecked home of Philip Roth. 318 N. Eastern Ave. Depositing a nifty spring hat with perky bow unscathed on the doorstep of the home of Ralph Clark, 315 N. Eastern Ave. Throwing a Ford touring car high up in a tree on the lawn of Oliver Anderson's home at 235 Tacoma Ave. Those were some of the tornadoes tricks. At the drug store of J. G. Glatt, 2102 E. Washington St., the tornado demolished the huge plate glass windows, hut carried a tall glass from the soda fountain with whipped cream and a cherry topping It, and set it on the ledge of the window. Mrs. John Klein, 62 N. Keystone Ave.. was sitting In her porch swing when the tornado was approaching. “Not an automobile was in sight,” asserts Mrs. Klein. When she looked out a few minutes later five automobiles and a truck were massed in convention on her front lawn. Auto Upended The tornado took the auto of Charles Trabaugh, 302 N. Tacoma Ave., gave It a flip and set It down with wheels in the air at the home of James Allen, lives at 322 N. Tacoma. It took the winding stairs by which they , were about to descend right from under the feet of Mrs. Kate Benz and Hildegarde Grusslap, 312 N. Eastern Ave. Anthony Simon of 310 N. Eastern Ave., brought them down from the second floor by means of a stepladder. C. P. Batten, 257 N. Eastern Ave., had been in a Kansas cyclone years ago and recognized this one as it approached. “Run to the basement,” he called to his family. They escaped harm, but the porch of the house across the street cleanly cut across the Batten living room and settled into the dining room. When Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kelly of 240 N. Temple Ave., come home from Louisville, where they are visiting, they will find the roof of

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Attorney-General Sargent Indicates Desire to Follow Board’s Suggestion to Free Former Governor. Bu United Pm* WASHINGTON, May 19.—The parole board has recommended that Warren T. McCray, former Governor of Indiana, be paroled from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attorney General Sargent announced today.

ALL THREE PARIS PLANES MAY GEJ AWAY ON FRIDAY Trouble Over Belleaneco Entry Believed Again Smoothed Over. Bit United Praia GARDEN CITY, N. Y., May, 19 - Clearing weather over the Atlantic Ocean gave hope today that all three airplanes awaiting the start of a flight to Paris would leave perhaps tomorrow morning. Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, 26 year-old air mail pilot, was confident the weather would clear up sufficiently to permit him to start his lone flight tomorrow. Commander Richard Byrd planned to test hfs Fokker plane today with a full flight load of j 1,500 pounds, and if the test was successful it was possible he, too, might be ready to leave tomorrow. Onco more a formal announcement has been made that all the quarrels in the camp of the Bellanca entry in the New York-to-Paris airplane flight have been settled. This time is was Lloyd Bertaud, navigator of the Bellanca plane, who said that he and Charles Levine, owner of the machine, reached an amicable agreement at a meeting lasting most of the night at Levine's home. He said the agreement would be put into writing this afternoon. Details were not made public. In the meantime an injunction restraining Levine from sending the i Bellanca to Paris without Bertaud | as navigator, issued in Brooklyn yesj terday, will be withdrawn, Bertaud said. Courthouse Damaged Large areas on each floor of the courthouse were roped off and boardi ed off today to protect persons from further glass that might fall from the building skylight. Many panes in the enormous skylight crashed to the courthouse corridors during Wednesday night’s windstorm.

their garage resting tipsily across their front porch and a basket of artificial flowers in a tall handled basket hanging on one jagged beam. New Furniture Ruined Although Mr. and Mrs. Walter Powell, 258 N. Eastern Ave., had bought all new furniture and had but recently got into their netV homo they have no word of complaint to offer as they gaze around a completely wrecked house. Through a wide gap in a side wall, they look at a great stone, blown from some cornice which rests squarely and neatly in the crib of their only cftild, june. “Just think," said Mrs. Powell, “I usually have June in that little crib, and she's sound asleep by 7. I don't know why we were late last night." Mrs. William Scfiwomeyer, 252 N. Temple Ave., was another storm sufferer who had a narrow escape for her life. “I was resting on the davenport in the dining room," Mrs. Schwomeyer said, “I'd been there an hour or so, but suddenly thought I’d get up. I only reached the door, a moment later, when that great brick thing came through the wall.” The chimney from the house next door crashed the davenport. Mrs. Ralph Lawler, 2820 E. New York St., possibly saved her baby's life by falling down on it and covering its body with her own as bricks from a falling wall came thundering Into her bedroom. Loses House, Autos One of the hard sufferers from damage of the tornado was Mrs. Margaret Klmberlin, 20 N. Hamilton Ave., at whose eight-room home there Is not one whole piece of furniture left and whose two automobiles were completely wrecked. It was next door to this home that Alvin Dremer had one ear tom off a.nd William Forthroff was also badly Injured. W. S. Smith, who lives at 2718 E. Washington St., came placidly home at 9:30 Wednesday night to find that his houses, a four apartment building, which he owns, and another single, which recently came into his possession, all on the same block of E. Washington St., had been almost destroyed. The roof of the apartment house was turned upside down and deposited in an alley. “It didn’t last more than a minute —the terrible roar,” Ben Weaver, 2714 E. Washington St., said. “Sounded to me like high-powered automobiles coming doArt the street,” asserted Frank Mitchell, 238 N. Eastern Ave. “Some sound that sounded like heavy hall, was what T noticed first," observed Ralph Clark, 315 NT Eastern Ave. All agree that the wind did Jts work with lightning like rapiditg.

McCray, serving a tep-year sentence for using the mails to defraud, Is eligible for parole In August, when otife-thlrd of his term Is ended. Sargent intimated he would act on the parole board's recommendation. McCray's friends have urged executive clemency for him because of ill health.

WRITER OF 810 WOODS STORIES SPEAKS AT FAIR Dream of Future Yarns Best Part of Work, Says Stevens. The best part of being an author ' is when he is really dreaming and thinking of his story. That's the opinion of Janies Stevens, author of "Brawnyman" and “Paul Bunyan,” who arrived here j today as one of the guests of honor at the Ayres’ Book Fair. What Stevens likes best is the new thing that he iq doing and that is his unfinished book. Htevens is, the writer of lumber- ; jack stories, basing many of his I yarns on actual own experience. Stevens Speaks Stevens will speak at the Book Fair Friday afternoon with Richard Halliburton, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, Daniel W. Streeter and others. Today is known as Indiana day j and it had a good start at noon j with the L. S. Ayres & Cos. enterI tabling about seventy librarians of ' the. at a luncheon at the Vti diamipolis Athletic Club. ' Among the Indiana authors wl\o - spoke tills afternoon in the tea .room were Louis Howland, Kin Hubi bard, McCready lluston, Henry Lane I Wilson, William Herscliell, Marcus i Dickey, Max Ehrmann, Kate Milner 1 Itubb, Margaret Weymouth Jackson, ' A.lbion Fellows Bacon and Chic Jackson. Meredith Niclulson was chair | man of the afternoon. Dr. Frank IS. C. Wicks will have that hono. I Friday. Alcott Collection ; Olio of the interesting exhibits m i tlio Ayres store in connection with | the fair is a part of the Louisa M. I Alcott collection of Concord. A noted feature of the collection | is a copper tea kettle used by the | authotf during her services as a J nurse in the Civil War. ; The fair will close Saturday with i the day being given over to authors i who write for children.

MAYOR INSPECTS STRICKEN REM Duvall Promises All Possible Aid of City. Mayyjr John L. Duvall made a personal inspection of the devastated storm area this morning and announced that the city administration would extend all possible aid. “Every branch of the city government is, at the disposal of the stricken area and will be until there. Is nothing further to do,” the mayor declared. “The police and fire departments, as well as all other city employes, are on duty and have been since I was advised of the storm last night “The board of works will be a active ns possible to relieve the situ ation. “If any of the families are in warn or need we will certainly arrange to help then?. Indianapolis has had n hard blow, but we will soon master the situation.” GUM NOW ENEMY~O?FAG Doctor Says Chewing Sweets Is Aid to Calm Thought. Bu Vnltot Preen BIRMINGHAM, Eng., May 19. “There's a reason," for chewing gum it uppears from an article written by Dr. W. J. Burns Selkirk, in the British Medical Journal. “Presumably," declares the writer, “it Is analogous in effect to the baby's comforter. It seems capable of producing even the state of mind of the ruminating cow and Its Buddhistic calm.” The doctor also suggests that gum can be offered as a substitute for cigarettes to excessive smokers that it is useful in curing the "chocolate habit” and that acts as a sedative for frayed nerves and insomnia. G. 0. P. Worker Dies Bv Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind., May 19Funeral arrangements were being made today for Charles Sells, 10. prominent Republican party worker and retired liveryman, who fell dead with heart attack hut tUckt