Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1927 — Page 3

AUG. 8, 1927

TRAFFIC TOLL ' IS ONE DEAD AND2I HURT William Miller, 72, Hit by Car Sunday, Dies From Injuries. One person was killed and twentyone injured in traffic accidents in and near Indianapolis over the week-end. William Miller, 72, of 520% W. Washington Ave., died at city hospital Sunday, a short time after he was struck by an auto at West and Market Sts. Witnesses told police that Miller staggered into the street in front of the car. William T. Brandt, 41, of 2850 N. Capitol Ave., driver, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery and was reslated on a manslaughter charge when Miller died. Injured In Crash Vaughn Tobey. 21, of 1116 N. Capitol Ave., is in a serious condition in city hospital after he was found unconscious near Winthrop Ave. and Fifty-Second St. He was riding in a car driven north on Winthrop Ave. by Roy Morrison, 24, of 5648 Winthrop Ave. Their car collided with one driven by Rex, i Hawkins, 22, of Greenwood, Ind. All three were taken to city hospital, Tobey suffering with a severe injury to his head. Hawkins suffered three broken ribs, while Morrison received a wrenched left side and a cut over his right eye. Hit-and-Run Driver

Police were seeking a hit-and-run motorists who injured two brothers, Leo Smith, 16, of 3820 E. ThirtySecond St., and Jonathan, 14. Others injured: Charles Hunkier, 7 of 229 S. Walcott St.; Uriah Holden, 76, of 222 N. Springs St., Donald Meade, 9, of 3™ W- Eleventh St.; Leroy Campbell. 15. of 4120 E. Twenty-First St.; Alfred Linne, 17, of 2181 Station St ; Sanford Goodlet, 1229 S. Sheffield St.? Miss Lena Warner, Mrs. Mary Warner and Mrs. Julia Lyons, all of 2121 N. Capitol Ave.; H. J. Dewitt, 3735 Boulevard PL; Mrs. Lillian Dorrell and her two children, Homer, 3, and Marjorie, 2, of Camby; Sarah Reynolds, 7, of 857 N. New Jersey St., and William Rowley, 45, of 320% Virginia Ave. FRIEND FAILS TO GREET HIM: TAKES FURNITURE Two-Fisted Drinker From lowa Uses Wrong Methods in Gotham. Bn \EA Service NEW YORK. Aug. B.—From the tall corn country of lowa came Buck Ashworth the other day, bent on looking up an old friend and having a rip-roaring time. But Buck did a little two-fisted drinking before he started to find his friend, so when he came to the house and found no one there, he was not pleased. Just for revenge, Buck carried out the sewing machine and set it In an alley two blocks away. Then he went back and took the ice box, ice, food and all, and put them beside the sewing machine. Arrested, Buck later pleaded intoxication. > , He was sentenced to return the articles from the police station to which they had been taken. He did it single-handed, though the distance was twice as far. BAT ROOST OPERATED BY TEXAS COMMUNITY Accommodations for Million to Fight Mosquitoes Provided. Bn SEA Service STUTTGART, Texas, Aug. B. This city is making provisions for accommodating a million bats within its limits. Not that the bat is attractive or makes a good pet, but he is considered valuable as a foe of mosquitoes. An old structure near the city has been purchased and will be converted into a steeple-like building to serve as a bat roost. It is southwest of town, an ideal location since bats usually fly with the wind and the wind usually prevails from the southwest. They start out at nightfall, catching and insects they pass in the air. At midnight it is said, they turn back as regularly as if they carried an alarm clock, reaching their roost by dawn the following morning. STRESS CIVICS STUDY, TEACHERS ARE URGED Awakened Public Conscience Needed, Says Schortemeier. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier today urged emphasis of civics by school teachers in an address at the Teachers College of Indianapolis chapel. “State problems cannot be solved without an awakened public conscience. Education and religion are the two greatest factors,” he said. Schortemeier declared that fewer less than 1 per cent of the Indiana Reformatory inmates are high school graduates. “The 43 cents of e 3ry $1 of taxes spent for educationo in Indiana is not an expenditure but an investment,” he said. SPIRIT FINE, BUT LATE Christmas Cards He Forgot to Mail Are Sent at Last. Bn United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. B.—Christmas greetings for 1926 are being received by about 200 friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Jackson. Jackson found the bundle of unmailed cards under the seat of his automobile recently and dropped them in a mail box. He had carried them in the car since last December.

Still Blast Sets Fire to Shed

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Motor Policeman W. H. Norman de ing the still which exploded and set fire to a shed in the rear of 1020 Centennial St., this morning and his audience. Below: The shed roof showing damage done by explosion.

PASTOR BACKS KING BENSTORY Denies Weddings Hurried to Save Cult Chief. Bu United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Aug. B.—A Benton Harbor preacher and county juvenile officer went on the stand in the House of David dissolution trial today to tell how he officiated at wholesale wedding ceremonies at the cult home. The Rev. T. W. Bellingham denied the State’s charge that the young Israelites were wed hurriedly to hide the intimacies of “King” Ben Purnell, lord of the sect, with the young girls of his flock. Mr. Bellingham, it is charged, once waited until after midnight to perform a group ceremony so one of the young brides could reach her 16th birthday. “There never was anything suspicious or unusual about these marriages,” he declared. ATTORNEYSTO STUDY REFUND Chamber of Commerce Asks Opinion on Avoidance. i James W. Noel, Chamber of Commerce legal chairman, was named head of a committee to study the tax refund^*situation today by William Fortune, chamber civic affairs chairman. Five attorneys were named to give an opinion on whether the refuifds can be avoided. The first conference was held today. Other committeemen: Alibert Baker, Frederick E. Matson, Louis B. Ewbank, former Supreme Court judge, and Samuel Ashby, Indianapolis Bar Association president. “Members of the civic affairs subcommittee, which does not include any lawyers, has found that if the refunds can be avoided in a legal and fair manner the avoidance is much to be desired from every civic standpoint,” Fortunesaid. Fortune pointed out that the refund would be unfair to those who hav acquired property since the years of the horizontal increase “to assess them for governmental expense in years when they owned no property.” PLAN HAMMEL FUNERAL Life Resident of Indianapolis to Be Buried Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Wingate Hammel, who died Sunday at her home, 408 N. Alabama St., will be held Tuesday at 3 p. m. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Hammel was born here in 1852. Her father was William L. Hammel, a member of the first town board of Indianapolis. Mrs. Hammel was a member of the Roberts Park M. E. Church and an active worker in foreign missionary ties.She is survived by her husband, George J. Hammel; two sons, William W. Hammel, Kansas City, Mo., and George J. Hammel, Jr.; two grandchildren, Walter F. Hammel and Gladys Marie Hammel, and three sisters, Mrs. Ira B. Bugbee and Misses Lucille and Harriet Wingate, all of Indianaoplis. GIRL GRADUATED ALONE STAUNTON, Va., Aug. B.—A supervisor of the Virginia State board of education recently had to travel 176 miles to address a graduating class of one person. He gave the diploma to Miss Ruth Hickman, at Millboro.

All the neighborhood had a grand time today when a still exploded in a shed in the rear of 1020 Centennial St., and set the shed afire. All but Mr. and Mrs. Metto Kolinava, that address. Mrs. Kolinava was arrested on a blind tiger charge and police will place the same charge against the husband when they locate him. The still, heated by a coal oil stove, was producing corn whisky when the coils overheated. Parts of it were blown through the roof and side of the shed and the roof was burned off. Four fire companies put out the blaze. Motor Policemen Norman and Caldwell destroyed the still, two barrels of mash and three flve-gallon jugs of corn whisky found in the shed.

Early Leader of Rotarians Here Is Dead

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Frank O. Climer Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday for Frank O. Climer, 62, of 1114 N. New Jersey St., who died Sunday following a two months’ illness. Mr. Climer was superintendent of the Technical High School printing school and a founder of the Indianapolis Rotary Club. Burial will be private, in Crown Hill cemetery. He was bom in Cincinnati in 1885 and lived in Indianapolis twenty years. Mr. Climer served on the Technical faculty for twelve years and is the author of several textbooks on printing. Siirviving him are the widow, Mrs. Alena Climer, a son, J. W. Climer, of Melbourne, Australia, and a daughter, Miss Marie Climer, of Los Angeles. YEGGS RAID MOTOR : IRM Slug Watchman; Blow Safe; Obtain Little, if Any, Loot. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. B.—Four burglars today entered a Broadway motor car agency, beat a watchman unconscious and blew open a heavy safe. They then knocked the dial from a second safe and escaped leaving a third safe untouched. Police believe the loot might run into thousands of dollars, but the agency manager, after a check-up, said he doubted if anything had been taken. There is a pyramid near Puebla, Mexico, that is comparable to the pyramids of Egypt. It was erected by the Toltec Indians, is more than 200 feet high and has a base line of 1,060 feet. The largest Egyptian pyramid, Cheops, has a baseline of 750 feet and is 400 feet high.

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PROBE KILLING BY POLICEMAN Man in Auto Is Shot When He Resists Arrest. Investigation into the fatal shooting of William L De Bord, of Somerset, Ky., by Traffic Officer William Cravens Saturday night at California and Washington Sts, was started Monday by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. De Bord was killed almost instantly when he tried to escape in an auto after he was placed under arrest for resisting an officer. Cravens, who was off duty and in civilian clothes, was walking on Washington St. when an auto narrowly missed hitting him. He shouted to the driver and a man in the car retorted, Cravens reported. Cravens leaped on the running board in an effort to arrest the man, thinking he was intoxicated. He was knocked off the running board, and in an effort to protect himself, drew his revolver. In the ensuing fight, Cravens said his gun was discharged accidentally. Benjamin Brown, 27, of 535 E. Ohio St., and his brother-in-law, Freeman Deburger, 34, of Versailles, other occupants of the car, were arrested. Brown is charged with drunkenness and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor. Deburger is held on vagrancy charges. SACCO RIOTING FEARED By United Press MONTIVEDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 8. —Several infantry and cavalry regiments were ordered into the city today to cope with disorder potential in the plan of the Union Syndical, Uruguay, for a twenty-four-hour general strike in protest against the death sentence about to be carried out against Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

500 Ask Times’ Help in Tax Refund Cases

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FOURTEEN MEET VIOLENT DEATH OVERWEEK-END Indiana Fatality List Includes Four Drownings. Violent death was the fate of fourteen persons in Indiana over the week-end. Four of the victims were drowned. Four others were killed in railroad crossing accidents. Only one of the fatalities was in Indianapolis. Drowning victims included Robert Stevenson, 15, and his brother, Charles, 19, who met death while swimming in Deep river near their home, a short distance from Crown Point. Walter Hamilton, 35, Terre Haute, died while swimming in the Blue Hole eight miles south of Terre Haute. Ceriallo Torrez, 25, Muncie, drowned at the Mock quarry. Charles Beckwith, 29, Corunna, Mich., and Robert Weisner, 10, Michigan City, were killed when a South Shore limited train stfuck a truck at a crossing eight miles west of South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Evans, 50 and 46, respectively, were killed when a Pennsylvania train struck their automobile at a crossing at Hanna. Wilson B. Love, 78, Goshen, died of injuries suffered when he was thrown from a hay wagon. Mrs. Adam Rader. 67. of Argos, Ind., died in the Kelly Hospital at Plymuoth today of injuries suffered when she was struck by an automobile north of Plymouth. Mabel Olinger, 6, Mishawaka, suffered fatal injuries when she was struck by an automobile. Mrs. Frank Van Dyke, 41, Ft. Wayne, was killed when an automobile struck, a motorcycle operated by her brother, William Smith, 45, who was seriously injured. v George Harold, 16, Negro, Anderson. was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Lester Brooks. 30, who surrendered to police. Police believe the shooting was caused by Harold's charges that Brooks mistreated his wife. HONOR LABOR HEADTONIGHT Pressmen Arrange Reception for Major Berry. Major George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union, will be the guest this evening at a reception in the Hotel Severin. Hilton U. Brown will be chairman of the meeting. Prior to the reception a dinner at dinner at the Elks Club has been arranged by the Indianapolis locals of Major Berry’s union. Invitations have been accepted by Howard P. Savage, commander of the American Legion; Hilton U. Brown, Curtis Hodges, of the News; W. A. Mayborn. Boyd Guriy, of The Times; James Stewart, Frank Eckert, of the Star; A. R. Kling, Ben Pigman, of the Post; Harvey Kelly, of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association; Arthur D. Pratt, on comittees, representing the United Tpyothetae of Indianapolis and comittees representing the local Pressmen’s Union. Major Berry is one of the outstanding labor leaders of the country and during his twenty consecutive years as head of the Pressmen’s Union has developed that organization to a position of prominence. Major Berry is now undertaking to erect on their properties, in Tennessee, a $1,000,000 home for widows and orphans of members. It will be the only home of its kind operated by a labor union. Major Berry was interested in the formation of the American Legion and was one of the first vice commanders. An invitation is extended to the public to attend the reception at the Severin Hotel.

saved to Times subscribers in fees which would be exacted for the work being done. In another place in this paper will be found a blank on which to make application. Fill It ip. You will be notified when your claim is ready, and then you come to The Times office, where a notary will be furnished you free of charge. The claim will be filed with the county auditor for you also. County Auditor Harry Dunn when told of the plan voiced his hearty approval. This service will be available during August for all subscribers.

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Maj. George L. Berry, president of International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union, is guest here today.

CHANNEL CUCKOOS

Clarion Call Heard by Swimmers

BY MINOTT SAUNDERS NEA Sirvice Writer I—l APE GRIS NEZ, France, Aug. I n I B.—They're at it again over I here. Trailing thermometers j ui uie water, checking tides, testing currents and feeling the air as only a channel cuckoo can do. And on the sands the talk is the same as it has been for the last dozen seasons —channel swimming.

Although Gertrude Ederle was supposed to have kicked most of tha romance out of the sport, the song of the channel siren still is heard by long distance swimmers of all descriptions. Representatives of LEVINE SIGNS: OCEAN RACE ON German Planes Will Try to Beat Bellanca. Bu United Press PARIS, Aug. B.—A Franco-Ger-man air race across the Atlantic to the United States seemed assured today when Charles A. Levine and Maurice Drouhin composed their differences and signed a contract whereby the Frenchman will pilot the BeHanca monoplane, Columbia, on its westward flight. It was announced that the contract provided Drouhin should receive half the profits accruing from the flight. It also provided that Mme. Drouhin would receive $12,000 if her husband were killed or disabled. With that removing the difficulties which were expected to cause attachment of the Columbia today, the flight may proceed now as soon as favorable weather conditions permit. Meanwhile, at Dessau, Germany, two Junker planes were being prepared for the trans-Atlantic flight. In addition to Drouhin and Levine, Pilots Givon and Corbus were almost ready today with their Bluebird plane and Lieutenant Costes has obtained a Breguet plane which has been remodeled and equipped for alighting at sea. Dispatches from England said Capt. Frank Courtney still awaited favorable conditions to attempt a flight from that country to New York. BANDITS GET $30,000 Hotel Manager Kidnapped by Five Masked Men. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. B.—Search for five masked bandits who held up the Edgemore Hotel at South Haven, Mich., kidnapping the manager, and escaped with $30,000 loot, centered here today following receipt of information that the men were recognized as Chicago gangsters. The manager, A. M. Greenberg, was tied to a fence post near Coloma, Mich., fifteen miles away. After an hour’s struggle he freed himself and reported the robbery. About SIO,OOO in cash was taken, the remainder of the loot being in jewelry. FACES FEDERAL CHARGE Mail Sack Ripped to Divert Suspicion in Slot Machine Robbery. Arthur Danner, 30, Frankfort, Ind., will be brought before the Federal grand jury to face a charge of ripping a mail sack. The man, a mall truck driver, confessed, according to Postal Inspector W. B. Ela, that he ripped the sack to divert suspicion from robbery of a slot machine fiom which he took $1.50. He was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail for the slot machine robbery.

England and Egypt already are on the Job, and swimmers of France, Germany, Belgium and Denmark are expected as soon as the weather clears. For King Fuad's Sake Ishak Helmy, the Egyptian, is back for his third year. He says he is in perfect condition, down to 252 pounds in weight, and completely cured of the stomach trouble which undermined his strength last year and forced him to abandon his two attempts. He is determined to swim the channel for the sake of King Fuad, who is interested in Helmy and has expressed a wish for him to succeed in order to stir up interest in athletics in Egypt. Frank Perks, the Birmingham mechanic and another veteran seasoned in channel failures, again is In training at Dover. Otherwise the chief aspirants this year are women. Tough as the channel Is, they are out to beat the Ederle record of fourteen hours and a half. The News of the World offer of 5,000 for the British woman who will break this record has stimulated great interest among English girl swimmers. One of the foremost is a newcomer, Miss Hilda Harding of Brighton, who is training here. She is 18 and built very much like Gertrude Ederle, though shorter and about twenty pounds lighter. Others already in the race are Miss Mollie Hudson, a London diver; Miss Connie Jeans of Nottingham; Mrs. Jack Weidman, wife of the veteran trainer who died last year; Miss Jane Darwin, called the “myster / woman” because she tries to corfceal her real name and activities; Dr. Nora MacClellan and Miss Mercedes Gleitze. So far these have been doing their training in England. The best woman swimmer on the job is Mrs. Mille Corson, the American who last year succeeded after Miss Ederle and in slightly longer time. The Other Direction She swam from Grlz Nez to Dover and now wants to swim from the English to the French coast, which is a harder job owing to the peculiar twists of the tides. Edith Jensen of Denmark says she is coming to Griz Nez as soon

as the weather is favorable for swimming. The weather, however, has been most discouraging so far. The water In the channel Is much colder than usual at this time of year, and this section of France has had practically no summer yet. Last year Miss Ederle swam across on Aug. 6, but it will probably be much later before any serious attempts can be made this year. Helmy and Miss Harding are training under Jabez Wolffe.

GET BANDIT SUSPECTS Officers on Way With Two Hostetler Brothers. Robert and Howard Hostetter, alleged Southport bank bandits, were expected to be returned tonight or Tuesday by Sheriff Omar Hawkins and Detective John Gaughm. They were released to the Indianapolis authorities today at Buffalo. The Hostetter brothers have been sought for months on charges of robbing the Southport State Bank and shooting a deputy sheriff.

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RUM RUNNERS SLAY TWO ON PATROL BOAT ‘Kid Glove’ Tactics Used on Florida Coast Blamed by Coast Guard. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. B—Necessity of the coast guard using “kid glove” tactics to allay publis illfeeling in Florida was blamed by guard officials here today for a death battle between guardsmen and rum runners in the Atlantic forty-two miles east of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., yesterday. Two arrested smugglers opened fire aboard the guard patrol boat CG-249, killing Robert K. Webster. Roanoke, Va., special treasury agent, and Boatswain’s Mate Victor A. Lamby. They themselves were wounded after setting fire to the guard boat. Smugglers “Too Cocky - * “Bootleggers and smuggler* are too ‘cocky’ in Florida,” Lieutenant Commander Stephen Yeandle, aid to the guard commandant, declared today. “Public opinion is against us there. For that reason, we have emphasized caution by guardsmen in resorting to guns, and I suppose the smugglers yesterday expected to find our men unarmed." Yeandle declared the patrol boat captured the liquor-laden speed boat V-12,997 without firing a shot. Four men went aboard, arrested Horace Alderman and Robert Weechs, and arranged for a tow. As Sanderlin went into the wheelhouse, Alderman whipped out two pistols and shot him through the back, killing him. Weechs simultaneously began firing his revolver, killing Webster, who was assigned to hunt counterfeiters in the Bahamas and elsewhere, and bringing down Hollingsworth and Lamby. Sets Fire to Craft Then while Aldemman held others of the cutter’s crew at bay, threatening to kill them all, Weechs dashed below to the engine room. A coast guardsman was there repairing a broken feed line. Weechs threw a lighted match into the spilled gasoline, setting fire to the craft. The guardsman lopped overboard, swam around wie seized launch, found a monkey wrench and threw it at Alderman. It missed. Then he found an ice pick and closed with the rum rurtner, stabbing him. Weechs was disarmed a few minutes later, and the flames were extinguished. The craft was helpless, however, with its pipes broken. A call for help was radioed and a speed boat hastened out and carried the wounded to a hospital at Fort Laur i derdale. STRAPHANGERS STAR IN ‘THE BIG SPLASH’ “It’s All Wet,” Decide Actors in Street Car Comedy. Aftar-thejater homecomers on a fairground-Illinois street car took part in a comedy good enough for a movie scene Sunday night. At 11 p. m. the rain was falling in torrents. Passengers armed with umbrellas Jammed into the car and sighed comfortably, but not for long. Rain began seeping through the car roof. Front seat passengers were treated to a big splash. What to do? “Put up your umbrellas," some one advised. Soon the majority of the passengers were riding with umbrellas up, the water sliding off into the main aisle of the car. AS POLICE TO HUNT THREE MISSING PERSONS Parents Looking for Two Boys; Wife Seeks Husband. Police are seeking three persons, including two boys, who have been missing four days. Mrs. James Condon, 755 Luett Bt., said her husband, James H. Condon, 59, left for a walk Friday and has not returned. Charles Scott, 14, of 2104 Valley Ave., was sent on an errand Saturday and did not return. Clarence Ausln, 13. Negro, 1224 Yandes St, has been missing since late last week ALPS FLIER IS KILLED Plane of Mountain Aivator Crashes Near Summit. By United Press GENEVA, Aug. B.—Lieut. Adrien Ouex was killed in an attempt to fly over the Alps when his plane crashed in a small lake Sunday near the summit of St. Gothard. - Jail at Brazil Empty By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. B.—Clay County’s jail here is empty. Sheriff Tlffee and family, with no “gueat*" to take care of, have gone on a vacation to Danville, 111.