Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1928 — Page 2

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FLOOD KILLS 2. SWEEPS VALLEY ; BARE IN N. Y. t Toll Mounts as Reports r. Come Trickling in From Isolated Towns. REPORT MANY MISSING ; Boy Campers Rescued After Clinging to Island Trees All Night. • a y United Press MIDDLETOWN, N. Y„ Aug. 27. Two men are known to have lost their lives and seventeen others are 1 believed dead as the result of the , cluodburst which swept the narrow Rondout valley from Grahamsville to Rosendale, a distance of about -j twenty-five miles. The flood carried away five main highway bridges and a score of smaller spans, virtually marooning •t. villages of Eureka, Montels, Lackawack and Napanoch. r The known dead are Abe Blatt ot t Lackawack, torn from the arms of lescuers by a torrent after he had carried his invalid wife to safety, ‘ and Charles Lavery, 50, of Paterson, t who lost his grip on a rope and was swept from sight in the torrent. Save Summer Residents Between one thousand and two thousand summer residents of the - valley were saved from drowning by the efforts of a corps of volunteers, headed by Haorld Ross, chief of police and Corporal J. B. Norton of ' the State police, aided by the Ellenville fire department. At Napanoch Country Club, two miles above Napanoch, more than 300 guests were led to safety just a moment before the 25-foot wall of water demolished virtually e\ery . building on the place. Communications between Ellenville and Kingstown were disrupted at 4 p. m. Sunday when the 150-foot steel highway bridge from the Rondout at Napanoch was swept away. Traffic over the Ellenville and Kingston branch of the O. & W. was interrupted by the flood which undermined the track at Wawarsing, and other points. Lines Down 24 Hours Since there has been no telephone communication between Grahams- ' villa ad outside points for virtually twenty-four hours it is impossible to learn the extent of damage or the number of casualties at the seat of the disaster. ( Reports filtering through various channels placed the dead as high as twenty. The waters were receding so rapidly today that authorities here believed all marooned parties would be rescued before night. 25 Boys Saved By United Press ROSENDALE, N. Y., Aug. 27. Twenty-five boys, who had been stranded for more than twelve hours as Rondout Creek overflowed after a cloudburst, were saved early today when tow lines were tossed them and they made their way to the main land. f The boys took to trees. Borne went into boats but clung close to the trees as the current of the stream had reached such proportions that boating was almost im- > possible. For hours attempts were made to save them. Thomas Krisic, living just across y from the island where the boys had their encampment, had enlisted several persons to aid in the attempt to rescue the group. It became so dark that Krisic had to abandon his attempts until the first traces of dawn appeared. Then he started work again and finally was able, through a heavy weight on one end of the rope, to get the cable stretched. The boys, headed by Father Riley, finally were able to make their way in boats across the swirling waters to safety and most of them took refuge in Krisic’s home. VETERAN REUNIONS SET

Eighth Army Regiments to Meet Separately. Separate reunions of fifty regiments of the Bth Army Corps of the Spanish-American War will be held this week in connection with the encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, it was announced Sunday night. Headquarters have been establish in room 430 at the Claypool. The organization will hold a dinner at 6 p. m. Wednesday in the Florentine room of the Claypool. The body was organized at the national convention of the Spanish War Veterans in Detroit, Mich., in 1927. Churches Pick Paoli PLAINVILLE, Ind., Aug. 27.—The centennial session of the United Brethren Church of sotuhern Indiana will be held in Paoli, next year, it was decided at the ninety-ninth annual session which is being held here. t Notre Dame to Open Sept. 16 Up Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 27. Formal opening of the fall and winter term of the University of Notre Dame has been set for * Sunday, Sept. 16, when the new president, the Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, will be installed. How would you like to go into the Restaurant Business? See the bargains offered in today’s Barter and Swamp Want Ads.

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Subway Cars Hurtle Into Death Trap

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The death trap (upper left), where nearly a score died and 100 were ihjured in one of the worst subway wrecks in New York’s history. In this steel car, which wa3 crushed like a match box in its terrific impact with a concrete wall, home-bound passengers met death in the dark tube below gay, bustling Times Square. Workers with acetylene torches had to cut the wreckage in many pieces before it could be removed. How the subway tragedy occurred is clearly shown by the diagram at the right. Eight cars of a ten-car train passed safely ove a defective switch. The front trucks of the ninth car went over properly, but the rear trucks followed another track. Thus the car moved sideways to crash, squarely in its middle, on the end of a heavy concrete wall. Then the front and rear halves, strewing maimed, screaming passengers along the pitch-black tunnel, hurtled into masses of wreckage about 100 feet farther on. Without a single previous black mark on his thirty-year record as a signalman with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York, W. G. Baldwin (lower left), was held for murder in connection with the Times Square subway tragedy. He had charge of the switch that wrecked the train and caused a score of deaths. He’s shown here, with a lawyer, at his preliminary hearing.

PREACHER HELD IN LIQUOR CASE Charged With Drunkenness After Auto Crash. The Rev. William Ritchey, 39, of 829 College Ave., was arrested on charges of drunkeness and drunk driving, following an auto accident at Liberty and North Sts. Sunday. Mr. Ritchey was driving his automobile north on Liberty St. when it struck the parked car of Fred Sawyer, 318 Eastern Ave. Ritchey told police he was a preacher but city directory lists him as a mechanic. Forest Jones, 35, Negro, 1311 N. Capitol Ave., was arrested for vagrancy and operating a blind tiger in a raid on his home. Alonzo Walker, 22, Negro, 1311 N. Capitol Ave., and Sally Dedmon, 20, Negress, 2310 Paris Ave., was held for vagrancy. Earl Ross, 1501 Dawson St., was held for operating a bilnd tiger after police allege they found fifteen gallons of white mule whisky at his house. Thomas Willard, 716 N. Pine St., was arrested on the charge of operating a blind tiger. Omar Golhsboro, Apt. 1, at 28 N. East St., was arrested on blind tiger charges after the police say they found two half pints of mule whisky in his home. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen: W. H. Wiebke, 1826 E. New York St., Essex coach, 27-986, from Maryland and Meridian Sts. Donald Jameson, 4644 Central Ave., Pontiac coupe, M-745, from the Country Club. Carl C. Van Buskirk, Dayton, Ohio, Buick coupe, Ohio A-97-903, from 200 S. Meridian St. Jettie Wood, McCordsville, Ind., Overland coach, 654-176, from Cornell Ave. and Thirtieth St. Sarder Ropp, rural route 8. Franklin, Ind., Ford coupe, 166-779, from Franklin, Ind. Dale Durbon, 1024 N. Keystone Ave., Chevrolet coupe, from Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. Daniel A. Gearin, 818 N. Riley Ave., Oakland sedan, from S. Emerson Ave. and the Big Four Railroad. Homer Walton, Danville, 111., Ford icoupe, from Capitol Ave. and Market St. Lawrence Arnold, Thorntown, Ind., Ford touring, from Senate Ave. and Market St. C. C. McDonald, 551 E. Adams St., Franklin. Ind., Ford roadster, from Senate Ave. and Market St. W. A. Richmond, 1013 Lexington Ave., Oakland touring, 627-151, from

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Hunter and Prospect Sts. Stolen automobiles recovered: Willy s-Knight, Ohio 290-771, found at Washington St. and Senate Ave. B. R. Prather, Union Stockyards, Chrysler sedan, found at Market and Delaware Sts. W. A. Richmond, 1015 Lexington Ave., Oakland touring, found at Thirty-Sixth'St. and College Ave. Ford coupe, 629-301, Central Ave. and Thirty-Sixth St.

JANITOR FALLS 18 FEET DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT Condition Reported Serious at Hospital; Negro Burned by Blast. David Carter, janitor at the Baker Apartments, 310 N. Alabama St., is suffering from injuries received when he fell eighteen feet in an elevator shaft Sunday morning. His condition was reported serious at city hospital. Carter backed into the shaft opening on the first floor with an armful of waste paper. He was found unconscious at the base of the shaft by Charles Richmond, 412 E. Market St. Eugene Burnette, Negro, custodian of the Avondale Apartments, 549 N. Senate Ave., was burned about the face Sunday when the furnace exploded. AGED WOMAN DEAD Funeral Set for Tuesday for Mrs. Frank Kamp. Funeral services will be held at the Hisey & Titus undertaking establishment at 2 p. m. Tuesday for Mrs. Mary Jane Kamps, 72, of 2109 E. Tenth St., who died Sunday afternoon from heart disease. She was found unconscious in the bathroom of her home by her husband, Frank G. Kamps, and died shortly afterward. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Death was first believed due to fumes of a gas water heater. Mrs. Kamps was a life-Jong resident of this city. She Was a member of the Christ Episcopal Church and Queen Esther Chapter, O. E. S. Surviving with the husband are two sons, Frank G. Kamps, Jr., of Indianapolis, and Edward J. Kamps of Los Angeles; a daughter, Mrs. Herbert G. Knight; a sister, Mrs. Rudolph Bauer, and a brother, Edward Marton, all of this city. PREDICTS U. S. DEFICIT Budget Director Says Expenses Will Exceed Receipts. Pi! United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. A Treasury defiicit for the first time since the war is predicted by United States Budget Director Lord. In his annual report, Lord estimated today that Federal expenses for the fiscal year ending next June 30 will be $3,801,780,92, or $94,279,346 more than estimated receipts. The increased expenditures will be necessary, he said, to provide for increased activities of Government bureaus.

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CAR CRASHES; TWO HURT Negroes in Critical Condition at Hospital. Edward Denny, Negro, 915 Meikel St., and Charles Wiggins, Negro, were taken to city hospital critically Injured this morning after the car Denny was driving sideswiped a telephone pole at State Rd. 52 and W. Riverside Dr.

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Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland chooses OL D GO L D

While having tea with several American friends, someone suggested that it would be amusing to try the blindfold cigarette test, now so popular in America. I volunteered as the subject, and while blindfolded, smoked the four different makes of cigarettes . . . each brand making its appeal “incognito.” Without the least hesitation, I named Cigarette Number 3as the best—and it proved to be an Old Gold. I am not at all clairvoyant, nor am Ia particularly good guesser. I identified my favorite cigarette, Old Gold, because its delightful smoothness and coolness immediately distinguished it, to my taste and throat, from the other brands.

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FARM WOMAN SUSPECTED OF NINEMURDER? Confesses Putting Poison in Medicine for Two of • Victims. By United Press UNION, Mo., Aug. 27.—Indicted for two murders, confessing three, j and suspected of nine, Mrs. Bertha j Gifford, 50-year-old farmer’s wife, was held in Franklin County jail! here today for trial at the November term of Circuit Court. 'T ain’t saying anything,’’ she re- ! plied to repeated efforts of Chief of | Police Andrew McDonnell of Webster Groves, to force an additional confession from her Sunday. McDonnell obtained Saturday her signed confession that she put arsenic in the medicine of two boys and a man “to ease their pani.’’ Investigation revealed eleven separate purchases of poison between Sept. 15, 1911, and May 16, 1927. The deaths which Mrs. Gifford admitted were those of Edward I. Brinley, May 16, 1927; Elmer Schamel, Sept. 22, 1925, and Lloyd Schamel, Aug. 11, 1925. All died at her home in Catawissa, which came to be known as “the house of mystery.’’ Six additional deaths at the Gifford home under investigation by officials of three counties today are: Mrs. Emilie Gifford, her mother-in-law, Jan. 24, 1912; James Gifford, May 8, 1913; Sherman Pounds, Feb. 20, 1917; James Ogle, Nov. 20, 1917; Beaulah Pounds, Dec. 27, 1922, and Mrs. Gifford’s first husband, whose i name was Graham, who died at I Morse Hill, Jefferson County, in j 1913.

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What is this quality that tells . . . even in the dark ? Old Gold’s honey-like smoothness ... that’s the net of it. But this cool and fragrant charm can come only from the heart-leaves of the tobacco plant. No heavy, coarse topleaves ... no withered ground-leaves. That’s why Old Golds are different, better. .. why you can pick them with your eyes closed. Made from the heart-leaves of the tobacco plant • • • '• • ,

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