Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1928 — Page 3

MAT 22, 1928

WIND AND RAIN CHECK MENACE OF POISON GAS 8 Dead, 150 in Hospitals as Result of Mishap in German City. By United Press HAMBURG, Germany, May 22. The combination of two forces of nature today had checked the threat of great disaster in the wellpopulated Vedder labor district where a quantity of,deadly phosgene gas escaped from a container. A friendly wind sent the gas cloud —carrying possibility of death to anyone close to it—safely away from the more thickly settled parts of the towns. A steady rain beat down for several hours and dissipated the fumes that menaced some 30,000 of the city’s residents. Rain and the wind were able to give more ai<| than the ammonia guns that police, troops and firemen used. 150 in Hospitals However- eight persons were reported* dead today while it was said 150 were in hospitals suffering from poisoning. Many of those in hospitals were not expected to live. Only, about nine cubic meters ol the gas—one of those gases used so effectively on the western front during war days—escaped Monday. Seemingly' it was a small amount to be scattered, over the rangy suburb. However. _ chemists have found that a half gram of the gas in one cubic meter of air is sufficient to kill a person who breathes the mixture for a minute. Many of the Hamburg residents had known of the disastrous results of gas from the war days. Consequently when the residents learned the air was filled with the fumes of this one-time war implement, there was panic. Masks Sent By Plane More than 30,000 persons rushed from their homes, some collapsing in the streets, while police urged a complete withdrawal from the most highly affected zones. Firemen ana Reichswehr troops fought against the fumes with ammonia guns. Some firemen and some police were overcome. One group was said to have been able to check the flow of gas from the container, but not until after special phosgene gas masks had arrived. Some of these were sent by airplane from Berlin. TERRE HAUTE ARRANGES SEASON’S DEBATE CARD Two Triangular Contests Placed Or. Indiana State Schedule. Bii Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. 'May 22. Students at Indiana State of Terre Haute have begun work on the debate question, “Resolved That a Criminal Code Similar to the Present Criminal Code of Great Britain Should Go Into Effect Throughout the State.” (Constitu-tionality-waived.) Professor J. B. Wisely, debate coach, was present at a meeting of debating coaches of the State ac Indianapolis recently, and while there planned for two triangular debates for Indiana State. In one the school will meet Manchester College and Taylor University, and in the other State will debate with Butler College and Muncie Normal. Dual debates were planned with /Wabash College and De Pauw University. Dramatic art classes will produce in June an original one-act pla.v by Kenneth Gantz, who was a member of the department classes last term. The production, “CoUwebs Across the Moon,” is the first original play which the students have ever presented. The will also give “The Patchwork Quilt,” a one-act play, in Rachel Lymna Field. CONTRACT FOR POWER EQUIPMENT Gilliom Issues Ruling to Speed Work on New Plant. Walter H. Daly, warden ol the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, today was given an opinion by Attorney General Arthur Gilliom which will enable the prison authorities to contract for the instalation of new equipment in the new power house. Appropriation for the power house was for $150,000 and was divided, $75,000 to be used after Oct. 1, 1927, and $75,000 after Oct. 1, 1928. Construction on the power house has progressed to the stage where the equipment may be installed.

C. M. T. C. QUOTA FILLS Interested Youths Urged to Send Apj< Nations at Once Marion County’s quota for the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Ft. Harrison. June 20 to July 20, is expected to be filled within the next two weeks. Youth between 17 and 24 are urged to hurry their applications if they wish to get in. Four States of the corps area have filled their quotas 90 percent. Indiana have enrolled 80 per cent and is increasing at the rate, of 1 per cent daily, it was stated. Doctors of the city will give free medical examinations to applicants and all expenses of the camp are paid by the povernment. Music School Opens Bil Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind-, May 22.—With an enlarged faculty and aeded course of study, the Craw-, fovdsville School of Music opened its fourth annual summer term Monday. Registrations, which fstarted Saturday, were completed Monday night. Warn on Bird Killing By Timm special PORTLAND, Ind., May 22Warning that boys’ sport of killing birds wife air rifles will not be tolerated further has been sounded ly Chief of Police Ed Loper. The Ihief announced... .arrests will be V&de if the practice - is cor^mued.

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WOMEN GET BEATING L Male Proves Most Deadly in Love Brawls. Monday was a bad night for love affairs, police records revealed today. Mrs. Laura Johnson, 30, of 627 W. Market St., is in city hospital with seven stitches closing cuts in her back and head. She told police that she met Mrs. Stella Johnson, 31, of 20 Douglass St., in the 600 block on W. Market St. “You’ll leave my husband alone or I’ll fix you,” Stella said to Laura, according to the latter. Then she commenced. Police are seeking Martha Young, Negro, 1006 N. Ave., as a witness against ‘ Frank Courtney, Negro, who is alleged to have struck her in the head with a hatchet. She fled and was not seriously injured, police say. Courtney is charged with assault and battery. Mrs. Mabel Jones, Negro, 810„Talbott Ave., was taken to city hospital by police about 3 a. m. today with an injured eye. She said a woman asked her to come and stay with her and protect Ijer from her husband. She did. The husband came home. GROCERS VIEW SUSPECT NegTO Is Held as “Patch Bandit” in Store Robberies. Several grocery keepers, all victims of a Negro bandit in the last few ninths, were called to detective headquarters today to view Walter Stayhorne, 31, of 2034 W. Tenth St., held as the “Patch Bandit” suspect. In the hold-ups the bandit wore an adhesive plaster patch on his face which storekeepers charged wds placed to mar identification. Sergeant Sheeham and squad, who made the arrest, said Jack Whitt, manageer of Standard grocery, 930 Wi Michigan St., positively identified Strayhorne as the bandit.

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Appeal to City Issued by National President of Legion Auxiliary. An appeal to Indianapolis to support the annual poppy sale of the American Legion Auxiliary Saturday was made today by Mrs. Irene Mclntyre Walbridge, national president from headquarters here. The appeal: “Memorial day, when we honor the men who have died for America, also brings thoughts of the thousands of disabled men who are still struggling under the burden of war wounds and sickness. “More than 27,000 World War veterans today are in Government hospitals and the number outside of the hospitals, wdio with weakened bodies, are striving to reestablish themselves in life, is vastly larger. Lighten Loads of Vacation “And for nearly every disabled man there is someone, an aged father or mother, a wife, child, who must bear part of the handicap of iiis disability. “The American Legion auxiliary is endeavoring in every way possible to lighten the load of these living victims of the war. \ “Through its 6,500 units, located in cities and towns throughout the country, it is working to bring relief to the disabled men and their families in distress, to secure Government aid for them, to give them employment, to help the hold their families togetther and to' see that the children are not denied a fair start in life. “The chief financial support of this vast relief program comes from the sale of tjie Memorial day poppy. Each year the poppy sale brings more than half a millon dollars into the welfare funds of the auxiliary departments and units. Serve Living, Honor Dead “This is in addition to the fifty or ; sixty thousand dollars which are 1 i paid each year to the disabled men ! I who make poppies. The amount of [ distress which is prevented by these little red flowers of remembrance is inestimable. “There is no finer way of honoring the dead than by serving the living. The wearing of the Memorial day poppy marks the wearer as one who has forgotten neither | the dead who gave their all for America, nor the disabled who gave ! so much of that which makes life worth living.” SEEK NEW TRUCKS street Department To Ask For Equipment. Authority for City Purchasing Agent Noel A. Baker to buy two trucks and one sewer eductor for the street commissioner’s department will be asked of city council i tonight in an ordinance introduced j by the Board of Works. The order will replace old equipment and will total SI,OOO, accord- * ing to Street Commissioner Charles I A Grossart.

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