Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1927 — Page 3

15, 1927

PR STAND AT Tcurb, TOKEN OF GRIM TRAGEDY Folice Guard Autos; Station Is Bedlam: Hospitals Are Besieged. Along the dark curbing of Emerson Ave., at Washington St., eight automobiles stood unoccupied, early today, the cars in which, a few hours before, happy persons made their way to the truck that carried sixteen to sudden death in a crash -with an interurban car. At this point members of the Sahara Grotto drill team congregated and boarded a truck and trailer. As the vehicles were crossing interurban tracks on N. Emerson Ave., a few minutes later, they were struck by an interurban. The autos parked along the curb seemed the grimmest of grim reminders of the fate that had befallen their former occupants. Police Patrol Block Two policemen patroled the block, keeping careful guard over the autos, carefully questioning each person who asserted ownership of a car the cars of relatives. For several hours following the wreck, the police station was a bedlam of noise and confusion. Frantic relatives and friends of drill team members besieged police for information. Corridc/s were crowded with citizens and offices were jammed with police and officials giving reports. Lieut. Fred Drinkut handled the information desk. Women with tears in their eyes learned that some relative or close, friend had been killed. There was no outcry from their fear-tightened lips. They bore their grief stoically and turned slowly to leave. Once j on the sidewalk in the chill air, they stood numbly acquiescent to the inevitable. Hospital Is Overrun City hospital phones buzzed, and the admitting room was overrun with information seekers. Outbursts of grief broke thq accustomed stillness of the hospital, as identification swept away the doubt upon which hopes were based. Officers and members threw open the Grotto headquarters in the Consolidated Bldg, and established an identification bureau in conneciton with the hospitals. The increasing story of grief coming over the wires brought sad shaking of heads as hopes of a small death list! vanished. ,

CARRYINGTON MARRIES EX-WIFE OF BROTHER NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Somewhere outside of New York today Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Carrington were enjoying a secret honeymoon, having successfully eluded the most persistent searchers since their marriage Wednesday. The newlyweds left the RitzCarlton after a wedding breakfast yesterday morning, announcing they Thursday, announcing they would no one know their destination. Campbell Carrington was given a public canning by his brother, Col. Edward C. Carrington, for attentions toward his present wife. The first husband obtained a divorce and established a $250,000 trust/ fund for her on. condition that she did not marry Campbell. She lost the fund with the ceremony of Wednesday. PLANE IN ‘TOUR STAGE,’ SAYS MARMON CHIEF Citing the Ruth Elder flight as an example, President G. M. Williams of the Marmon Motor Car Company, told members of the Indiana Automotive Engineers Society, that aviation is now in the “tour stage” of development. The meeting was held Thursday night at the Severin. Williams, who has been identified with aviation since its incepton, and uses a plane for business trips, predicted that in twenty years flying would be one of the outstanding means of transportation. William B. Stout of the 'Stout Metal Airplane division of the Ford Motor Company, talked on commercial aviation. George Freers of the Marmon engineering department presided. FILM AUTO CRASHES TO WARN MOTORISTS Traffic lessons by movie is the new plan of Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Accident Prevention Sergeant Frank Owen. A motion picture is being made to show motorists how to avoid being in accidents. A cameraman will accompany emergency squads to the scene of all accidents Sunday to take movies of the crashes. Sergeant Owen also will make accident prevention talks over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Cornpan ystation, each Tuesday at 5:15 p. m., as a part of the police accident prevention campaign.

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ALL SO NAPPY; CRASH! DEATH! X * Songs Change to Screams in Instant. A carefree, happy group of married couples, singing and laughing, enjoying life to its utmost, warning screams which were unheeded, a terrible grinding crash—and then desolation. Such was the description of the disaster given by Mrs. Harold O. Wolford, of 4728 Shelby St., whose husband, seated in the ill-fated trailer, was among the killed. Mrs. Wolford was riding on the truck. “We were all so happy,” she said. “We had been singing old songs to the music of an accordian played by Mr. Glascock. “While we were singing ’Back Home Again in Indiana,” I looked up and saw the interurban coming. The driver seemed to hesitate at the tracks, but he drove on. I screamed. So did some of the others. “The interurban seemed to hit the trailer about the middle. The driver was not aware the trailer had been hit, I guess. He drove on more than 100 feet, across the railroad tracks, before we could stop him.” Wolford, 31 years old, had served as electrician at the Hume-Mansur Bldg., for nine years. He was born in Columbus, Ind., and came to Indianapolis about fourteen years ago. He served two years in the army during the World War with the 139th Field Artillery, Battery F, spending six months overseas. Surviving relatives include the widow, Alma L. Wolford; .one son, Harold J., and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Wolford of Columbus, Ind. ACTOR COMMENDS CITY FOR ITS GOLF COURSES South Grove Far Ahead of Other Municipal Links, Says Letter. John E. Milnor, park board president, has a letter from Jack Redmond, actor on the Keith circuit, commending the management of the South Grove eighteenhole golf course. "You are to be congratulated for providing such a beautiful well-kept course, and I was told you have three more eighteen holes courses in excellent condition,” Redmond said. “I travel from coast to coast and want to say your South Grove course is far ahead of any municipal course I have ever played on,” he said. SUE ON COLE PROPERTY Ask Court to Set Aside Transfer for $280,000. Suit to set aside sale of Cole Motor Car Company real estate to Nellie Cole, a stockholder and mother of President J. J. Cole, for $280,000 was filed today in Federal Court. The suit was filed by Hannah G. Adler, Sam Adlar, Melvin Adler and Olga Adler, all of Georgia, owners of 2,170 shares of stock. J. J. Cole, J. F. Morrison, H. C. Lathrop, John E. Hallett, Nellie Cole and the Cole Motor scar Company are named defendants. The complaint charges the property should have been sold for more than $500,000.

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Four of One Family Die in Wreck at Crossing

[t V *|HILE her 13-year-old grand-daughter, Charlene, sobbed conVy j vulsively over the death of her father and mother, Mr. and L_ I Mrs. Frank H. Meredith, Mrs. C. E. Pauley, 345 S. Audubon Rd., told of the loss of three sons-in-law and a daughter and serious injury of another daughter in the interurban-truck crash on N. Emerson Ave. Friday night. While the child, covered with a heavy quilt, cried her heart out, Mrs. Pauley sought words to describe her feelings of the terrible disaster. Through death she lost Mrs. F. H. Meredith, 33, a daughter; Mr. Meredith, 33; Mr. Mefrimar.t, and Von Weber Glascock. 48, sons-in-law. Her daughters, Miss Margaret Pauley and Mrs. Ethel Merriman, are critically injured. “Just try to imagine how terrible this is,” she said. “Give me a minute to think. I have lost three sons-in-law and a daughter and another is injured. “Wp ajways have been so happy together. The families all chummed together for years and the children were like brothers and sisters. Just like one big family, we went from one place to another together. “It doesn’t seem possible that such a thing could have happened so suddenly. Where one went, all went.” Throughout the entire conversation she remained dry-eyed, but now and then she gripped the seat pf the piano bench, on which she was sitting, to control herself., Charlene Meredith, from beneath her covering, sobbed out the "fact that her mother was wearing a red dress and red hat when she left the house. Through this information officials ht the city hospital were able to identify Mrs. Meredith. A 7-year-old daughter, Janet, also survives Mr. and Mrs. Meredith.

COMMERCIAL EMPLOYES PLAN FUND CAMPAIGN Meeting of Workers Is Held at Chamber of Commerce A meeting of community fund workers of the commercial employe division was held today at the Chamber of Commerce to perfect plans for the eighth annual campaign beginning Nov. 4. Edgar J. Wuensch, chairman of the division, presided. District directors of the commercial employe division include George Kuhn, C. O. Mueller. R. R. Bair,. Albert J. Wohlgemuth, August Bohlen and George Taylor. Clarence Robinson is secretary. SHRINE TO BACK SHOW Murat Temple Shriners will stage “Shrine Week” at Keith’s Theater Itov. 6 for the benefit of the pilgrimage fund for the annual convention at Mami, Fla., in May, 1928. Shriners will sell tickets to the show for one week. Regular vaudeville acts make up the bill. “Murat to Miami in May” is the slogan for the campaign committee.

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PROFIT FOR GAR GO, % Street Railway Is Ahead on August Business. Indianapolis Street Railway Company’s balance sheet, filed with the public service commission today for August, shows a net profit of sll,566, an increase of $39,061 over the same month for 1926. The company in August, 1926, registered a net loss of $27,495. The difference was attributed to the cost of the strike last year by Robert I. Todd, company president. “We are not out of the red yet, although we did make a slight profit in August,” Todd declared. - Gross earnings for the 'month totaled $412,301, increase of $19,800 over 1926. Operating expense amounted to $319,799, decrease of $19,446. Net earnings from operation totaled $192,501, an increase of $39,247. The company has a deficit of $540,752. Its profit for August, 1927, was $39,746 less than in August, 1923.

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SCANT WARNING BEFORE SMASH Car Near When It Sounded ✓ Whistle, Says Officer. In a few words, Harry Smith, telephone operator at police headquarters, and a member of the Saharra Grotto drill team, told his version of the interurban-truck accident that killed sixteen on N. Emerson Ave. Friday night. “We formed at Emerson Ave. and E. Washington St. for a Hallowe’en party and barn dance at Ft. Harrison,” he said. “We left our own cars there and boarded the truck and trailer. “We went north in Emerson and the first thing I knew I looked up and saw low lights that looked like those of an automobile. When the interurban was two poles away, it whistled. “It-was too late to jump. I threw my arm up in front of my face. There were terrible screams and the crash. “I was stunned for a minute and then, realizing that I was a police officer, I took charge.” WHAT NEW YORK WEARS REACHES HERE NEXT DAY Ship Hats by Air Express in Evening; Arrive in Morning. What New York wears one evening Indianapolis may wear the next day. This was demonstrated Friday when the first shipment of millinery by air express arrived at Rauh’s store, Roosevelt Bldg. The shipment, part of 4,000 hats scattered across the country by air express, left New York last night and was delivered to Rauh’s at 7:45 this morning by the American Railway Express Company. The hats were transported to Chicago over the regular air express line in time to catch one of the night trains into Indianapolis for delivery this morning. Greek Guards Slain by Bulgars ID/ I'nltcfl Press ATHENS, Oct. 14.—A band of invading Bulgarian comitadjis killed two Greek guards near Sorovitz, it was reported here today.

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Two Tiny White Crosses Warned at Death Scene

■--| T 8:24 p. m. Friday, two small white crosses stood at the interA urban tracks at Twenty-Third St. and Emerson Ave. £_zl As this minute passed a truck and trailer loaded with joyous, singing members of the Sahara Grotto and their wives came along the highway, approaching the railroad. From the east not more than 200 yards away qame a speeding interurban. It whistled. Before the sound of the whistle vanished into the cool night, death and disaster had replaced the sounds of happiness. First screams, then excited yells, then groans, and finally the wailing of persons who began recovering the dead; the interurban had struck the trailer! Five bodies clung to the front of the interurban as it screeched to a stop farther down the track. The truck trailer was stripped of every piece of wood, all that remained being the chassis and wheels. The frame rods, thick as a railroad track, were twisted in the middle a? though a giant force had grappled with them. Arms and other parts of bodies were strewn over the area. And along the track were pools of blood that gradually soaked into the cinder track bed. Some day the number of small white crosses at that spot will total eighteen.

Sounds Church Cry for . Battle on Modernism

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with this teaching? The Rev. Mr. Taylor discredited the “story of the rocks,” and said schools of mode nism attempt “to prove evolution by the theory of geology, and geology by the theory of evolution.” “Young people come home from these universities with a sneer of skepticism. They look upon their elders as ignorant or superstitious and think it’s a pity that lack of education robbed mother and father of seeing their mistake.’ “The damaging agency of modernism is everywhere. In the home. In the papers, magazines. In the universities. And in the pulpits. “I know preachers who have said they couldn’t present the old-fash-ioned God to the modern mind. I tell you I’m prepared to change the modern mind and not the Bible.” The Rev. Irvin T Green of Bethany College, W. Va„ was the first speaker today, discussing “Training for the Ministry.” The Rev. Fred H. Shaver, Cedar Radips, lowa, was the day’s chairman. The convention is being attended by 1,500 Christian ministers.

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MARION WIDOW 1 CHARGED WITH SLAYING MATE Mrs. Charles Eckman, 32, Admits Love for Farm Hand, 21. Bn I nited Press MARION, Ind., Oct. 15.-Mr. Flossie Eckman, 32, is charged with the murder of her husband, Charles Eckmari, 39, a farmer, who died Sept. 24 of strychnine poisoning, in an affidavit filed Friday by Prosecuting Attorney Edward C. Hays. She is held in the Grant county jail here. Hays announced that the Grant County grand jury probably would be called into special session to investigate Eckman’s death, but said the summons would not be made for some time. Body in Yard at Home Frank Worrick, 21, farm hand, who had been employed by Eckman for three years, returned from a shopping trip to Marion with Mrs. Eckman, Sept. 24 and found the farmer dead in the yard of his home. A post-mortem analysis showed he died of strychnine poisoning. Worrick and the widow were arrested Wednesday and the farm hand was released later, declared to have been found above suspicion. Hays told the United Press he was uncertain whether Eckman had committed suicide or had been administered the poison in his food by someone else. Money Not Motive Money has been eliminated as a possible murder motive, the prosecutor said. Eickman had no life insurance, rented the farm from which he earned his living, and owned only personal property of little value. According to Hays, Mrs. Eckman admitted to him that she was in love with Worrick and had quarreled with her husband over the farm hand’s attentions. Eckman had gone as far as to discharge Worrick several times, but on his wife’s pleas reinstated him each time, Hays said. Mrs. Eckman denied, however, that her intimacy with Worrick had anything to do with her husband’s death. SEEK AR cn N SUSPECT Man Held in New York Accused of Starting Church Fires. Bp t’nited Press HARRISEURG, Oct. 15.—Governor Fisher was asked Friday by Lackawanna County authorities to requisition the New York authorities for the return of Frank Bilbin to Scranton. Bilbin. who is held in Albany, Is wanted on the charge of firing five churches. Churches which Bilbin Is alleged to have set fire to are Baptist Church, May 19; Providence Presbyterian Church, July 7; St. John’s Church, July 8; St. Stanislas Church, Sept. 4, and Puritan Congregational Church, Oct. 4.