Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1927 — Page 3

JULY 13, 1927

PROFESSIONAL KNIFE THROWER ATTACKSHOTEL Policeman Braves Barrage of Blades and Shoots Down Madman. Bn United Press NEW YORK, July 13.—A professional knife throwing, skilled in just missing targets, became crazed early today and hurled an array of kitchen cutlery at cooks in a Coney Island hotel, patrons of an adjacent combined motion picture theater and restaurant and policemen. All of the knives just missed their targets. Six bullets from a policeman’s gun hit theirs. Andrew Driesta, 42, was killed. Chester Sherman, 31, a bystander, was wounded. A score of women and children were trampled in the panic in the theater-restaurant when the screaming madman rushed from the kitchen, but none was seriously injured. It required an hour for 100 police reserves to disperse the crowd. Was Out of Job Driestra had been a knife thrower and hanger on of concessions at Coney Island for years, but recently he had found difficulty in obtaining employment. He worked for a while as a dish .washer at the Boston hotel. Yesterday he was discharged. About 1 a. m. to day he entered the kitchen of the place and was greeted by employes. He appeared surly. Driestra walked to the chopping block where cleavers and a variety of knives were lying. He started throwing them and screaming. The waiters and chefs ran for doors and windows. Others ran into the theater-res-taurant. Driestra followed. Six hundred patrons dashed for doors. Officers Rushes Him Policeman Gilbert Holmes made his way through the crowd with pistol drawn. Driestra retreated to his source of ammunition. As Holmes followed him through the kitchen door a meat cleaver whizzed past his head and stuck in the door. Holmes fired. Driestra, hit in the shoulder, threw another knife and missed. Holmes was firing as fast as his gun would shoot. Two more bullets hit Driestra, one struck Sherman, wounding him slightly, and several went wild. Driestra rushed Holmes, lifting a long knife above his head. Holmes fired again, and Driestra dropped dead with a bullet square between the eyes and the knife still in his hands.

PAVING GAPS DOOMED 7 Commission Will Let Contracts Soon on Highway 41. Pinal step towards completion of paving U. S. Highway 41, will be taken by the State Highway Commission with the opening of bids July 26. The road will offer a cement surface from Evansville to Chicago, 270 miles, the longest paved road in the State. A total of forty miles on various roads will be bid for at the opening. Another unpaved gap will be on U. 5. 20, known as the Toledo to Chicago route, through La Grange, South Bend, Michigan City and Gary. Closing gaps on No. 41, when completed will offer a shorter paved route from Indianapolis to Chicago, via Lebanon, Lafayette and Fowler. Twenty-eight bridge bids will be opened July 27. Paving projects represent a sl,400,000 investment, while bridges will cost about $260,000. MAN HURT SERIOUSLY IN CROSSING CRASH Harry Albion of Carthage Near Death in Hospital Here. Harry Albion, 53, of near Carthage, is near death in Methodist Hospital today. He was injured probably fatally Tuesday when his auto was struck by a T. H., I. & E. work car about one mile east of Charlottesville. He was returning home from Newcastle when he drove directly in front of the car, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, witnesses told police. The auto was demolished and dragged for 300 feet, while Albion was thrown out on the side of the track. Chris Albion, a brother is a local radio announcer. ENROLLMENT MARK SET I. U. Summer Session Attracts Record Number. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 13. More students are enrolled now for the summer session at Indiana University than at any time last summer, according to the registrar’s office. Fifteen hundred students are now in attendance here. No complete report has been received from the schools at Indianapolis and Winona Lake, but it is thought by registration officials the enrollment there will be approximately the same as last year. PLAN FUNERAL OF BOY Funeral services for Leo Delaney, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Delaney, 1606 E Market St., who died Tuesday noon of injuries received when struck in front of his home by a truck driven by Jesse Ballard, 25, 4140 Boulevard PI., will be held Thursday afternoon. Services will be held at the home at 2 p. m. and at the Holy Cross Catholic church at 2:30. Ballard slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. It was the third traffic accident here in five days in which a boy was killed.

Freight Cars Crash on Joy Ride

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Here’s what happened when a train of Big Four freight cars went for a joyride on their own hook in the Big Four freight yards at South and Alabama St. late Tuesday. Four of the cars crashed over into South St., wrecking and blocking traffic.

MERGED UTILITY FIRM WILL RE INSULLCONCERN Petition Not Ready for Filing With State Commission, Says Andrus. President Lucius B. Andrus of the Indiana Electric Corporation, 606 Guaranty Bldg., announced today that petitions for the merged company, financial organization of which has been announced by Halsey, Stuart & Cos., Chicago investment house, is not yet ready for filing with the public service commission. Approval of the plan to consolidate several utilities into the Indiana Electric Corporation has been voted by securities holders’ committees through the efforts of Martin J. Insull, brother of the Chicago utilities magnate, and Robert I. Todd, Indianapolis. Insull to Control Utility Central Indiana Power Company and its subsidiaries and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Railroad and subsidiaries are involved. The merged company will be an Insull utility. Plans for the consolidation have been under way for two years and ninety per cent of the stockholders have exchanged their securities for those of the Indiana Electric Corporation. If the present plan is carried out in full the new company will have outstanding $30,967,000 in capital stock. Birdsall Is Secretary Whenever the Indiana Electric Corporation takes over actual property and becomes and operative utility, rather than a holding company, this new financial set-up will have to be given approval by the public service commission. Besides Andrus, officers of the new company are Louis B. Sehiesfc, treasurer, and Paul Birdsall, secretary.

AUTO DRIVERS SUED Six Persons Seek Damages for Accident Injuries. Six suits seeking $85,500 for damages suffered by various persons in local automobile accidents were filed Tuesday afternoon in Marion Superior Courts. Miss Mildred Sypherd, 18, sued in Superior Court One for $35,000 from the Henry C. Smither Roofing Company. Suit for $20,000 was filed in Superior Court Two by Miss Margaret E. Stevens against. O. Cecil Coomler for injuries resulting from an autbmobile accident June 11 near Lagro. Wilbur A. Hittle and his wife, Mrs. Lillian Hittle, sued for $5,000 and SIO,OOO, respectively against the Red Ball Transit Company, charging they were* seriously injured when a transit company bus struck their car at Ohio and East Sts. Nov. 2, 1926. Mike Stevens, former railroad repairman filed suit in Superior Court Three against the P. C. C. & St L Railway Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad for $15,000. He alleges he was injured July 13, 1925, when tools supplied him were xaulty. COURT CLOSES CASINO Neighbors Fight Dance Place on Shelbyville Rd. Under order of the Morgan' County Circuit Court, Hay’s Casino, dance place on Shelbyville Rd operated by Joseph B. Day and Lucilla Day, was closed temporarily until Tuesday. Hearing on a permanent injunction against the place will be held then. Suit to close was brought by persons living in the vicinity, alleging the dance hall was a public nuisance. The suit was filed in Superior Court Four, but taken to Morgan County on change of venue. TRAIL STOLEN PLANES Two Aviators Still Hunting Machines Taken Last Year. Walter Anderson and C. £,. Herschberger, Richmond, Ind., aviators, still are looking for their two planes stolen from Berry Field, north of Richmond, more than a year ago. The two men came to Indianapolis Tuesday to inspect two planes operated by commercial fliers, who, however, proved the regularity of their purchase. The first plane was stolen at Richmond more than a year ago, and the | second a few weeks later.

Film Stars Are Near Trip to Divorce Court

HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 13.—-Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell, film stars, were to decide today at a conference with their attorneys whether they have come to the crossroads in their marital journey. The fact that the pair, one of the most popular couples in the film colony, had separated, was learned with surprise in many quarters. They were looked upon as one of the most happily married couples in Hollywood. Miss Windsor attributed the misunderstanding to her husband’s long absence on a vaudeville tour, but said it was possible "we may patch this trouble up.” They were married in Juarez, Mexico, May 14, 1925.

MUST CUT PAY, MINE MESSAGE Indiana Operators Write to Union Members. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 13.--The quiet that has marked Indiana's coal mining suspension situation since shortly after its inception April 1 had been perturbed today. The disturbing development, took the form of individual letters from the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association to coal miners of the State tacitly declaring the impossibility of a resumption of operation without a reduction in wages. The letters explaining the operators’ attitude and advising that “if it is right, you should be governed accordingly,” are deeply resented by officials of the mine workers’ union, according to William Mitch, secretary of District No. 11, and are construed as an attempt to go over the heads of union officials and cause miners to demand of their officials settlement according to operators’ terms.

STAIRS OF MYSTERY Personal Friends of Mayor Use ‘Back’ Entrance. An air of mystery hangs over the secret stairway to the mayor's office! Each visitor who enters the “back'’ stairs through the private board of works office and treks up to see Mayor Duvall immediately commands the attention of everyone present. Close personal friends of the mayor and politicians, who visit the municipal building on a private political mission prefer the “back” entrance. Usually Mayor Duvall has no comment to make on visitors who do not enter through the front office. Frequently when employes are "called in” for a very secret conference with Duvall they use the private entrance. Majority faction councilmen, who recently have conferred daily with Duvall “swoop” on the mayor via the private way. Majority council.men are Boynton J. Moore, Walter R. Dorsett, O. Ray Albertson, Otis Bartholomew and M. W. Ferguson. “We don’t have to wait this way,” said Dorsett. NEW BUSINESS BUILDING ON NEW YORK PLANNED Sale of Site to Samuel Howard Is Announced. Construction of anew business building on the southwest corner of New York St. and Colorado Ave., is contemplated by Samuel G. Howard, 3351 N. Pennsylvania St. Sale of properties at 4215-17 E. New York St. and 136 N. Colorado Ave., by Nancy B. Bates of 4215 E. New York St., to Howard, was announced by Lawrence J. Sexton of 316-18 Indiana Trust Bldg., real estate dealer. The present seven-room cottage and five-room double residence on the property will be removed. Sale of property at 2809 Shriver Ave. to R. R. Booker, by John J. Core, was announced by E. M. Robinson of the real estate firm of Waddy & Springer of 132 N. Delaware St. TWO SUFFER LOCKJAW July 4 Wounds to Negro Boys Result in Tetanus. Two Negro boys are in serious condition at city hospital suffering from lockjaw resulting from blank cartridge wounds received July 4. John James, 15, 220 W. Twentieth St., became serious Tuesday afternoon when a wound in his right hand brought on tetanus. Lorenzo Bryant, 12, 2361 Indianapolis Ave., developed tetanus Tuesday from a similar wound.

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DUTLER FUNDS AREGROWING Total of $717,799 Added to Assets in Year. A total of $717,799 was added to the assets of Butler University in the year ended June 30, Financial Secretary J. H. Atherton, announced today. Collections totaled $680,428 for the year. June, 1926, reports show the university’s total assets as $3,751,722. It is believed the auditor’s report for this year will show assets of $4,500,000. a gain of almost $4,000,000 since 1920. With the building program ui.'er way at Fairview the coming viv.r will be devoted to increasing endowment building and scholarship funds, Atherton said. Expenses of operating Atherton's organization were met entirely from interest, none of the collected money being touched Heat Kills Hoosier By United Press DECATUR, Ind., July 14 —John Pearson, 63, died of heat prostration this morning while working in a barn at his home in Linngrove, Adams County. A widow and five children survive. The temperature was 85 early this morning and climbing rapidly.

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CITY ESTIMATE OF FIRE LOSS HELDTOO HIGH Chief’s Report SIOO,OOO Under Actual Damage, Say Insurance Firms. Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell estimates fire loss in Indianapolis for the first six months of 1927 at approximately SIOO,OOO less than figures of settlements by insurance companies show it actually to have been, according to two reports made public today. Hutsell declared the loss the first half of this year was $297,843.22, as compared with $416,873 for the {feme period of 1926. The report of Lieut. Vem Earle of the Indianapolis Salvage Corps, operated by insurance underwriters, stated that it is impossible to give exact figures because settlements on several large fires, including that at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, have not beeen made definitely. Loss About $400,000 However, Earle stated, available figures show that insurance companies, which settle for no more than they are compelled to, total their Indianapolis loss at between $390,000 and $405,000, depending upon accurate figures upon the several big blazes. ! The insurance figures for the loss for the same period of 1926 was $460,755. Hutsell accompanied his report with a statement that his men had decreased the fire loss approximately $120,000 In six months. The Earle report shows actual decrease to have been about $60,000 and that the amount of loss was approximately SIOO,OOO higher than Hutsell figured it. Estimates After Five Days The fire department figures come from estimates made within five days of the blaze. The salvage corps figures are obtained after final settlement of the actual losses by the Underwriters’ Adjustment Company and the Western Adjustment Company, which cover all fire losses in Indianapolis. Earle reported there were fewer shingle roof fires the first half of the year than in 1926, and that there were 1,792 alarms as compared with 2,120 in the first half of 1926. ORIOLE ORCHESTRA TO PLAY AT RIVERSIDE Dancers Await Visit of Famous Dan Russo Band. The announcement that Dan Russo and his Oriole orchestra will come to Cinderella ballroom. Riverside park, for a four-day engagement Sunday has stimulated interest in dancing in Indianapolis. The Oriole orchestra is considered one of the country’s most recognized musical units. It has achieved such national popularity that there is scarcely a person, who is not familiar with the name. Very rarely does the Oriole Orchestra leave their permanent engagement for a few weeks trip on the road, but on this occasion, it has been arranged to bring the Oriole orchestra to Indianapolis for a brief engagement, out of the only open week of the season.

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Swimming Simplified By JAMES A. LEE Athletic Director, Cleveland Athletic Club

- —I p" - U "" - ••• ...... ■.rre-WfMUv fT is§f | | s correct Intertiming of head /^frgA and arm movements is essen■f- I** | tial to gain body balance in 111 < /.. the crawl, the combined action jm /,%?<:';■ should be given a brief trial, standit in a swimming position. HH: *Bend forward, extend right arm 1. m in front and left arm backward. W hands touching the water, and turn to the left. Then, without moving head or shoulders simultaneously sweep the right arm down and back, ••••** .. the left U P and forward. & The right should press directly down, grazing the thigh in pass•fllliM? ing; the left should circle high and strike the surface close to vhere the right arm started. Next turn head and shift shoulyy I % , ♦ ders to right, repeating the move- * ijjfmf ments in the opposite direction, left : / moving down and back, right up ill \ and f° rward - When you can guide the head and shoulders with fair success, try Start with a push-off, set the r\ : feet in motion, then press directly down and back with the left arm,

keeping head and shoulders straight. As this arm nears the thigh, press down and back with the right arm, at the same time twisting the head and rolling the entire body, feet and all, to the left, bringing the left arm out of the water. Retain the position now assumed while the left arm sweeps forward above the water and the right drives backward. Then, when the left arm hits the surface and starts to press down again, twist the hea<i.j,nd roll the body right, keeping it so rolled throughout the forward motion of the right arm and backward of the left. Do not hurry the movements. TOMORROW—Breathing in Crawl Stroke.

WEATHER HAMPERED CODLING MOTH FIGHT Purdue Professor Expects Increase of Fruit Pest. By United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 13. Weather conditions have made it impossible to get the best control of the first brood of 'codling moth worms or apple worms in many cases this year, according to Prof, j. J. Davis, head of the entomology department of Purdue university. The alternate cold and wet periods this spring prolonged the emergency and egg-laying occurred over a very long period. Asa result there will be an appreciable overlapping of the first and second broods. In other words, late worms of the 1 irst brood probably still will be going into the fruit when the first worms of the second brood appear. "According to our records the first worms of the second brood will be

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entering fruit about July 10 at Vincennes and Bedford. In the northern part of the State this will be a week or ten days later,” said Prof. Davis. "Beginning about July 20 or a little later, there will likely be a sharp increase in the number of worms going into the fruit.” Gas Case Before Tax Board Officials of the Citizens Gas Company appeared before the State tax board yesterday to ask that the $1,000,000 added to their valuation at an earlier session be removed. They argued that the company has filed a reduced rate schedule with the public service commission.

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SCHOOL BOARD ; GETS BIDS ON COALSUPPLT Defer Action on Thornton’s Recommendations; No Superintendent Chosen. Bids on the winter’s supply of coal for city schools, ranging from $3.48 to $5.77 a ton were opened at the meeting of the board of school commissioners Tuesday night. Bids for the supply of approximately 26,000 tons of coal were submitted by the Indianapolis Coal Cos., Peoples Coal and C ement Cos., and Capital City Coal Cos. Board members found the bids confusing and referred them to the coal committee for analysis.. The committee includes Charles W. Kern, Charles R. Yoke, Jacob H. Hilkene, superintendent of buildings and grounds and Ure M. Frazer, business director. Approve House Bid Bid of J. M. Williamson of $3,6(10 for a house at 1717 Ruckle St. was approved by the board. One other bid was submitted by Harry Drees. No bids were submitted on five other properties adjacent. The property was purchased some time ago as the site for a proposed new school, but the plan has been abandoned. Acting Superintendent Joseph F. Thornton submitted a partial list of appointees for the new Crispus Attucks High School, but the board withheld action. Thornton’s List A number of other appointments were recommended by Thornton, including Marie A. Lane, Mildred Benedict, Emalyn Collins, Verna Johnson. Mabel Lanham, Helen York, Esther Sundling and La Verda Lamb, elementary schools; Van Miller, Shortridge high school; J. R. Paxton, Arsenal Technical High School; and Sara Jane Hunter and Elizabeth Brown, attendance department. No mention was made at the meeting of the appointment of a superintendent of schools to succeed E. U. Graff, recently dismissed. Board members congratulated Charles E. Rush, city librarian, on his election as second vice president of the American Library Association at its convention in Toronto. AULTMAN OFF FOR WEST Rousing Send-Off Given Commandant at Ft. Harrison. Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman. for five years commandant at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, today is on his way to Ft. D. A. Russell, Wyoming, where he has beeen transfer-fed. General Aultman left Tuesday, after receiving a rousing send-off from the camp.