Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1929 — Page 1

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PUNE SOARS TO STAY TILL ENGINES FAIL Army Craft to Take Fuel in Air, Trying to Set Endurance Record. FIVE AVIATORS IN SHIP Cruise Will Be Over Course of 128 Miles Out of San Diego. Bn United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. I. The army's attempt to bring the world's endurance flight record back to the United States started here today when the tri-motored plane Question Mark took off with the intent to remain aloft until its engines failed. The crew which was quartered at Van Nuys Metropolitan airport last night, was on the field early and the plane was taxied to the head of the runway for inspection by aeronautical officials at 7 a. m. Sucess of the attempt will depend greatly on the refueling ships, which will take gasoline, oil, food and other supplies to the Question Mark as they are needed. Make Fuel Transfer After one transfer of fuel above j tan field. Refueler No. 1 j will return to San Diego, continuing its operations there, that army me- j chanies may check it regularly at i Rockwell field. The other refueler! will be stationed in Imperial valley | and will be used if weather does not permit transfer near the coast. The Question Mark will cruise over a 128-mile stretch between Van Nuys and Rockwell fie’d, San Diego, I at an average speed of seventy-five ; m'les an hour. Captain Ira Eaker, chief pilot, will j be at the controls whenever contact is made with supply ships. When the crew splits into shifts .for the night he will pair with lieutenant H. A. Halverson, relief '* ; Major Carl Spatz, in comI and Lieutenant Elwood • Ada, will be on the other Sergaent Roy W. Hooe, ! mechanic, will attempt to make | repairs while aloft. Carries 150 Gallons There weie only 150 gallons of gasoline in the Question Mark’s tanks this morning, with 250 gallons to be put aboard by the refueler as soon as the endurance craft reaches an altitude of 2,500 feet. No further contacts were to be made for three hours, when another gallons of fuel and fifty gallons oi water will be taken on. Th.T craft will circle over Pasadvta staging its fortieth Tournamentof Roses, shortly after noon. At 3:15 p. m., 250 more gallons of gasoline will be received, giving it a supply of 520 gallons. Dinner will be put aboard at the same time and after eating at 5 o'clock, the crew Will divide into shifts. Major Spatz and Lieutenant Quesada will have a 6 p. m. to midnight watch and Captain Eaker and Lieutenant Halverson one from midnight to 6 a. m. During refueling the Eaker-Hal-verson combination will operate the ship. Major Spatz will be on top of the plane making the contact and Lieutenant Quesada and Sergeant Hooe will assist with the refueling apparatus inside the plane. Planes Close Together The fuel will be transferred at the i rate of seventy-five gallons a minute, with the planes flying only seventeen feet apart. The longest sustained flight fur heavier than air craft is sixty-five hours, twenty-five minutes, made by Ristics and Zimmerman, two Germans, in 1928. In addition to this record the Question Mark will seek to break the mark of the ill-fated Frencn dirigible Dixmude. which set anew record for any lighter or heavier than air ship when she flew 113 hours, or longer than the Graf Zeppelin on its flight to the United States. DENNISON STAYS ON JOE Prison Trustee Given Reappointment by Governor Jackson. Arthur L. Dennison. Rochester, has been reappointed to the Indiana state prison board of trustees by Governor Ed Jackson. His term expires today and the reappointment is for four years. Other appointments anonunced by the Governor were Judge Cyrus E. Pat tee Sout h Bend, to succeed Judge E. Miles Norton. Crown Point, to the state probation advisory com. mittee, and Mrs. Harriett Pierce. Clinton, to the secretaryship of the committee. The latter is a reappointment. celebr/TnTis'wounped Shotgun Charge Hits Neighbor When Reveler Pulls Trigger. Firing a shotgun in celebration of the advent of 1929, Iva Hicks. 549 Lynn street, accidentally nded his neighbor. John Stew--551 North Lynn *treet. where watch party was in progress, ewart was not hurt seriously, r Stewart's protest, nolice ar•sted Hicks on a charge of firing a n within the city limits. he telephone is your gateway to World. Basic rate to CHICAGO | sl.os.—Advertisement.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 192

Turns Over New Leaf

HI ‘WfWwV'W Miss Mary Wagner, art’ i.st, 21*39 Kenwood avenue, turns over anew leaf and -■Hr sHHfe; vows not to bite the end off |fW her brushes when her hand foSPP ¥ slips and ruins a blooming masterpiece in water colors. Imm Wmw mi

WOMAN CONFESSES DEATH FARM GUILT; TRIES TO SAVE SON

i Mrs. Louisa Northcott Is Given Life Term in Murder Case. It ii United Press SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, Cal., Jan. I.—The doors of San Quentin prison will open today to receive Mrs. Louisa Northcott, mother of Gordon Stewart Northcott, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 9-year-old Walter Collins. In an effort to save her son from the gallows, Mrs. Northcott pleaded guilty to the murder charge in Riverside superior court yesterday. Judge O. K. Morton pronounced sentence after she had told the court her son was not at the Riverside county “murder farm” on the night of March 16, when, she said, she killed the boy. Mrs. Northcott previously had entered a plea of not guilty, but broke down at a conference with Riverside authorities and made a signed confession, in which she said she struck the boy “on the head with an ax to put him out of his misery,” after she had found him in a chicken house “with the top of his head crushed in.” The statement inferred that the first assault had been made by Sanford Clark, her grandson, whom she saw leave the chickenhouse the day after the Collins boy had wandered to the ranch. She said the latter had told her he had run away from him home in New York to go to San Bernardino. Mrs. Northcott said she had given the boy permission to sleep in the chickenhouse. where he had remained all the next day. That night she murdered him. she said. Before leaving for San Quentin last night, Mrs. Northcott sent a note to her son in Los Angeles county pail, telling him of her confession and sentence and urging him likewise “to finish it out of court if possible” rather than “to drag life history through court.” Northcott hurled the note to the floor of his cell, shouting, “Mother is crazy, anyhow. She doesn’t know what she is saying.” Northcott will be placed on trial in Riverside tomorrow on a charge of murdering an unidentified Mexican.

COLD WAVEJN WAY Snow Is on Program for City Today. Snow, but not enough to hamper traffic, was the weather program for today, embellished with a cold wave with temperature as low as from 10 to 15 degrees above zero by Wednesday morning, according to the weather bureau. The thermometer should rise to moderate temperature by Thursday, the bureau believed. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 32 9 a. m 33 7a. m 33 10 a. m 33 8 a. m 33 11 a. m 33

CITY CONTROLLER’S BOOKS SHOW DEFICIT OF $396,000

Books of the city controller's office were closed Monday night, with a deficit of almost $396 000 in the city general fund. The deficit was due mostly to the cut in the city tax levy from 61.25 to 56.08 cents on each SIOO of taxable property. The state tax board cut the 1928 levy 4.45 cents, but failed to reduce the appropriation tor departments. The budget was figured on a basis of the higher rate of taxes Some of the deficit was expected to be cared for through elimination of the police and firemen's salary increase, voted by the old city council, but a court decision forced the city to -’•’e the pay boost to all members of the department, which totaled about $160,000. The original appropriation for utility bills to the board of works

Stay! Stay! And Bullet Was Stayed When It Hit the Corset Stay.

THE life of Mrs. Edith Ayres 35, of 2015 Barth avenue, probably was saved early today by a corset stay. Mrs. Ayres had returned from an early watch party New Year’s ve and w’as sitting in the front room of her home. Someone walked up on the front porch, pofice say, and fired two .38-caliber bullets through the glass of the door. One of the shots went wide, and the other struck Mrs. Ayres in the side after deflecting from some ether object. The corset stay stopped the bul'et. Police are investigating the affair. and the family of Mrs. Ayres is mystified over the motive. ROOSEVELT ON JOB Succeeds Alfred E. Smith as N. Y. Governor. By United Press STATE CAPITOL, ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. I.—Franklii. D. Roosevelt was inaugurated today as Governor of New York state, the second time in twenty-eight years that a Roosevelt has been the chief executive of New York. Shortly after noon today he accepted responsibility for the state's guidance from Governor Alfred E. Smith, who four times has served as New York’s Governor, and became the forty-fourth man to hold the New York governorship. 40,000 GET REWARD Harvester Company Gives Workers Two Weeks Off With Pay. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. I.—Forty thousand employes of the International Harvester Company will receive a two weeks’ vacation, with pay as a New Year’s present. The company estimates the cost will be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, which is expected to be offset in good will of the employes. The vacation will be extended to workers in all departments. RIKHOFF REFUSES JOB Harry Alford Named to Courthouse Deputy Job. Harry Alford today was appointed a courthouse deputy sheriff by Sheriff George L. Winkler, when Herman Rikhoff, former police chief under the late Mayor Lew Shank, declined the appointment. Alford’s father, Fremont Alford, formerly was criminal court judge.

was $700,000. about SIOO,OOO below what was estimated" to be spent The 4.5 cents cut in the levy brought about a $296,000 deficit. Most of the unpaid bills are due utilities for sendee to the city in the last year. A year ago the city issued a bond issue when a judgment was granted for bills due. Attorneys say the only way the city can pay the overdue account? is through a court judgment which permits issuance of bonds. Board of works records in the office of Emmanuel Wetter, bookkeeper. show that the city board owes these bills at the close of the year: Indianapolis Water Company $103,408; Indianapolis Power and Light Company. $143,000; and Indiana Bell Telephone Company 1 . $845.

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MOB SEIZES KILLER, BURNS HIMATSTAKE Mississippi Rioters Take Convict From National Guardsmen. CAPTURED BY WOMAN Forced to Plantation by Hunger, Desperado Is Taken Easily. Bii United Press ROME, Miss., Jan. I.—The charred body of Charles Shepherd, Negro convict, today rested against a stake two miles north of here, where he was burned to death for violating the unwritten law of the south. A mob, eager to avenge the murder of J. D. Duvall, prison guard, and the abduction of Duvall’s 18-year-old daughter, Ruth, lynched Shepherd last night. It was Mississippi’s fourth lynching of the year. Earlier in the day the long search for Shepherd ended when he was captured by Miss Laura May Keiler 30, who found him in one of th cabins on her plantation. Since the murder of Duvall, Friday, posses had been hunting for the Negro, aided by bloodhounds and airplanes, Father Was Murdered According to the story told by Ruth Duvall, Shepherd murdered her father and forced her to flee with him her night dress. After staggering thirty hours through the woods, Ruth collapsed in front of a Negro woman’s cabin and told her story. The lynching was quick and thorough, according to J. R. Walters, jailer at Sumner, who witnessed it. First reports said Shepherd was killed and then his body was burned but Walters denied that. He said the stake was driven into the ground in a cotton field just off the highway between Rome and camp No. 11, Wodd was piled around the convict after he had been tied to the stake and the pyre was soaked with gasoline. Walters said he believed Shepherd implicated another Neg-o inmate; of the Parchman prison farm in the murder and abduction. ' Driven by Hunger Reports received at Parchman said Shepherd was driven to the Keiler plantation by hunger and that he made no resistance when Miss Keiler, armed with a shotgun, entered the cabin. A mob of about 100 men met the detail of National Guardsmen who were taking Shepherd to Jackson for safekeeping, the report said. The njen took the convict away from the guardsmen and started for Parchman wth their prisoner where he was to have been hanged and then burned. Apparently the members of the mob feared the National Guardsmen would return and recapture Shepherd. for they suddenly changed their plans and took him a short distance off the highway, where they,burned him. Miss Keiler’s plantation is near Mound Bayou. Miss., and Shepherd's brother is an employe there.

SLACK ASKS IMMEDIATE MORTGAGE IN GAS CASE

Immediate mortgaging of the Citizens Gas Company property for enough to retire the $2,000,000 in outstanding common stock certificates was outlined today by Mayor L. Ert Slack as the first step necessary in the movement of the city to take over the gas properties in accordance with the 1905 franchise. The mayor said this was the duty of the gas company trustees, who have declared they are sympathetic with the move to carry out the franchise agreement to turn the property over to the city. The mayor issued a long statement outlining the procedure to John W. Holtzman and Fred C. Gause, special counsel for the city in the gas fight, who began their duties today. “Personally. I think the trustees should take proper steps to bring about this situation and I do not see why it is necessary that the board of works should demand that such action be taken.” said the mayor. “It seems to me that the duty is imposed upon the trustees to make the first move in the matter.” The mayor said he agreed with the gas trustees in not desiring that the gas plants fall into political con-

Parting ‘Pour’ ffH Times Special MONTICELLO. Ind.. Jan. 1. At the last, “pouring party” held by I. M. Stanley before he retired today as White county sheriff, 395 pint bottles of various kinds of intoxicants trickled out on the city dump. A box of bottle caps and two cappers were also destroyed at the “party.”

Liquor Flows Freely at Fetes Welcoming New Year; Federal Agents Missing at Festivities

Only Dozen AiTests Made; Churches Greet 1929 With Prayer and Song; Business at Standstill. New Year's liquor, flowing copiously here, caused only twelve arrests, the lowest number in years, police records showed today. Os the twelve slated on charges, four were arrested for driving while intoxicated, six for drunkenness and two for operating a blind tiger. Convivial merrymakers with a thirst for forbidden stimulants found a variety of circumstances working in their favor New Year’s eve. Police, in uniform and tuxedo, were as numerous as ever, but federal agents and deputy sheriffs were almost a minus quantity. So many federal men had failed their civil service examination that their ranks were all but wiped out. No Deputies on Job From midnight until this morning not a deputy sheriff even existed. Their terms expired at midnight and they were shorn of their authority until sworn in again this morning. Thousands of revelers attended elaborate dances at the city’s clubs, where bedlam was loosed as the midnight hour passed, ushering in the new year. City detectives in formal clothes attended these functions, but exercised little restraint. Lawlessness was held to a minimum at public places and traffic officers kept a sharp eye for unsteady drivers. Wihle revelry was at its highest, congregations of many Protestant churches observed the new year’s advent with prayer and song. Church bells and whistles sounded the knell of the parting year and welcomed in the new. Many Social Events While business and industry was stilled today for the holiday, numeious social events were held throughbut the city. The annual New Year’s day “open house” was staged at the Central Y. M. C. A., 310 North Illinois street, open to the public. Games, athletic exhibitions and concerts were on the all-day program. An exhibition of student branch activities has been arranged by the Indianapolis Hi-Y Council, the art school of the John Herron Art Intitute, the Intercollegiate Cosmopolitan Club and the Indiana university school of dentistry. Shriners and their ladies will attend the open house reception at Murat temple this afternoon, 2 to 5 o’clock, when dancing will be a feature. Potentate William H. Bockstahler and his official divan will receive the guests. The New Year celebration extends over tonight. Jack Westfield, impresario in various forms of entertainment for a quarter century, is giving a free, public party for as many persons as can be packed into Tomlinson Hall tonight. Dancing and vaudeville will be provided. Robbed of $lO and Watch Confronted by an armed holdup man on Belmont avenue just north of Washington street Monday evening, Russell K. Igames, 1907 West Washington street was robbed of $lO, an expensive watch, scarf and gloves.

trol nor to private interests, and he preferred safeguards to make public ownership benefit citizens. The mayor recommended that the trustees offer certificate holders their money and if any opposed the move it would be up to the opponents of. the move to go to court, thereby sparing the city the necessity of starting the battle in court. GUILTY OF BANDITRY Amos Will Be Sentenced for i Hohlt Holdup. Carl Amos, found guilty of participation in the F. W. Hohlt & Son dry goods store holdup Dec. 8, j by a criminal court jpry Monday ! afternoon, will be sentenced byJudge James A. Collins, Saturday. The jury 7 deliberated 35 minutes. Amos faces a five to twenty-one-year sentence on the charge of auto banditry and robbery. He -nd three other men were alleged to have p' nned the robbery at the store, 1239 Kentucky avenue, the night before police entrapped them in the place, killing Carl Kittrell and Otto Price, two of the bandits. Closing arguments were made in the case by A. G. Manning, defense i attorney: the retiring prosecutor, William H. Remy. and Prosecutor- | Elect Judson L. Stark. Manning j bombarded Herman Armfieid, the state's chief witness, who informed police of the contemplated robbery, although he was one of the group, *'m planned the stickup. Throughout the arguments, Amos sat In front of the jury and cried. The defense will not appeal, Man- ' ning said.

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Alma Rubens, Film Star, to Go on Trial

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Alma Rubens Bn United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. I.—Alma Rubens, film star, is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow on charges of disturbing the peace. A complaint issued by the city prosecutor’s office here yesterday cited the charge. The complaint, sworn out by Mrs. M. Uhl, proprietress of the Bungalow court, in which Miss Rubens lives, charged the actress with giving wild parties and “prowling about the court at all hours of the night with a flashlight, apparently hunting something.” Witness for the prosecution included Leroy Masdn, Rita Carew and Mr. and Mrs. Finis Fox. all prominent members of the screen colony. CUT PHONE_ RATES Day Long Distance Calls Are Lowered. Anew reduction in long distance telephone rates, the third in two years, was announced today by C. H. Rottger, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. TJhe rate reduction, which applies only to day station-to-station and personal calls, lowers the tariff on phone messages from 10 to 25 cents on virtually all circuits and is expected to result in a saving of more than SIOO,OOO a year to Indiana telephone users. For a call from Indianapolis to New York, under the new schedule, the basic station-to-station rate is reduced from $2.80 to $2.55. New rates for Indiana calls are being compiled. Three new announced rates, however, show the scope of the reduction. They are: Indianapolis to Evansville, reduced from $1.05 to 95 cents; Indianapolis to Michigan City, $1.05 to 90 cents; Indianapolis to South Bend, 95 cents to 85 cents. No reduction in rates on evening and night calls was announced. BREAK - WINDOWS: STEAL Pennies Taken at A. and P. Store; Other Thieves Foiled. Two windows were broken early this morning by sneak thieves, it was reported to police. A front glass of the A. and P. grocery, 1283 West Ray street, was broken at 1:50 a. m. with a larce chunk of coal. A few pennies were stoleft. After breaking the glass of the Johnson Auto Livery Company at 725 North Illinois street at 2:50 a. m., thieves were frightened away by Carl McDaniels, an employe. Gas Tax in Massachusetts By United Press BOSTON, Jan. I.—A gasoline tax of 2 cents per gallon became effective in Massachusetts at midnight. State Tax Commissioner Henry F. Long estimated that the commonwealth would receive approximately $11,000,000 this year as result of the new assessment.

CONFUSION IS CAUSED BY NEW CITY TRAFFIC CODE

Enforcement of the new city traffic code, which became* effective today, was accompanied by considerable confusion on the part of motorists. Police Chief Claude M. Worley .said the department will show leniency a few days until motorists are familiar with the new' regula-' scions. Worley urged the public to familiarize Itself with the new l code and obey the ofifcers seeking to instruct them. |

Close Watch by Federal and Other Officials Fails to •Kill Off’ All Fetes as Year Ends.

Combined forces of federal, city and state officials patrolled cities of the nation on New Year’s eve and effected one of the quietest celebrations in the history of the country. Advance warnings sent out tended in most cities to keep the liquor from flowing too openly and in others patrols of federal and city officers broke up parties where liquor was being displayed. A few cities reported lots of liquor and little official interference. The weather joined forces with authorities in the midwest, a heavy blanket of soggy snow falling ov • the entire area and tending to keep the celebrators at home. Booze Is Plentiful Liquor was plentiful, and in some cases officers acted merely as sort of chaperons to keep the exuberance down. In New York City the crowds were forced to quiet down shortly after midnight, when raids were staged in many parts of the city. Liquor was in abundance, but th A officers broke up a number of parties where the liquid refreshment was too much in evidence. In Chicago, speakeasies reported large sales of whisky, gin and beer, but the hotel, night club, and restaurant parties were unusually qu et. There as in New York and other cities, federal prohibition aids dressed in evening clothes guarded the parties. But few instances of much liquor being in evidence at the dance halls and night clubs were reported. In St. Louis and Kansas City, many celebrations were staged in homes, and for the most part the New Year was ushered in rather quietly. Wet in Philadelphia Cleveland experienced “just another night,” with few wide-open celebrations. Washington experienced rather a quiet night. Philadelphia and Boston reported more of the usual New Year’s activities. In the former, 128 persons were arrested for intoxication. Hotels and night clubs were crowded. Boston had one of its greatest celebrations in years, despite advance warnings that the city woifid be dry. Detroit, too, was more or less open. No arrests were made there by federal authorities. Some arrests were made by city officials who picked up revellers who had had “one too many.” Liquor was plentiful and the crowds noisy. ‘ACCIDENTISFROBED Victim Is Suspected in Chicken Thefts. Police today attempted to link the "hunting accident” of Arthur Price. 835 East Georgia street, Saturday afternoon with the shooting of chicken thieves Saturday night at the farm of Dr. H. E. Phares on State Road 29, north of Shelbyville. Henry Paris, a tenant on the Phares farm, told police he heard prowlers in the chicken yard and fired his shotgun in their direction. One of the men was hit by the buckshot. They returned the fire, and a bullet went through Paris’ trouser leg and lodged in the kitchen wall. Price is the brother of Otto Price, the bandit shot by police in the Hohlt dry good store robbery attempt recently. Price told police he was shot by a man nam “Slim” while on a hunting expedition Saturday morning in the White river bottoms. NIBLACK GETS PARTNER Carl Vandiver to Be Associated with State Senator-Elect. John L. Niblack, state senatorelect. and retiring deputy county prosecutor, today announced that he will be associated with Carl Vandiver, also a former deputy county prosecutor, in the practice of law at 411 Indiana Trust building. Niblack, prior to becoming a deputy prosei cutor. was an Indianapolis news- ! paper man. | Paul Rhoadarmer. who took office today as chief deputy prosecutor and who has been associated with Vandiver and Niblack, retired from 1 the law firm, it was announced.

Automobiles parked at an angle of 45 degrees on downtown streets sere conspicuous today because of .'he jiew flat-to-curb parking rule. Many motcvists who went to w r ork early this morning were hazy as result oi New Year’s festivities and gnored the new regulation. Flat parking- on Washington street is expected greatly to aid the downtown area and relieve considerable ongestion, traffic officers stated. Parking on Monument Circle is permitted under the new code.

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THREE KILLED IN NEW YEAR EVECRASHES Speeder’s Car Crushes Ori Two Lives; Held Under Heavy Bond. TRUCK STRIKES TRAI Driver Dies in Wreckage of Machine; Four Injured in Smashup. Three persons were killed and four injured in New Year’s eve accidents in Indianapolis. The dead are Carl Sulkerson, 43, of 1236 West Washington street; William Riley Osborne, 55, of 817 Rybolt street, and Bam Shirley, 45, Negro, of 527 West Wilkens street. The injured are Miss Frances Cameron, 16, of 1116 West Thirtyfourth street; Miss Margaret Miller, 16, of 3234 Ruckle street; Eugene Bender, 22, of 2110 College avenue, and Aldine Meyers, 2?, of 1009 Central avenue. Max S. Kos, 34, of 245 West Thirty-eighth street, Apartment 110, was held under $7,500 bon-i following an accident at Lin*cod avenue and Washington street in which Osborne and Sulkerson were killed. Ira Holmes, attorney for Kos, had - the case continued to Jan. 25 this morning in Municipal Judge Paul j Wetter’s court. The bond was re- s ducea to $3,000. Struck While at Work Sulkerson. a foreman, and <fsr* borne, a track laborer, were work; on the Washington street track;/ the Indianapolis Street Railwi Company at the intersection w m Kos sped west on Washington sty around another automobile { struck the two men, police say. The men were carried on/ ‘A radiator of the car lor some/ ■■ lance and hurled against a ■ . They were dead when rived. Other men raced f} A path of the speeding car fy! death. JmM Kos, who is a the Traveler's Insurance Lo'atpas was arrested on charges of matslaughter, speeding, operating * automobile while under the influl ence of liquor and intoxicationji Some gin is said to have been found I in his automobile by police. Kos admitted to police he had taken a drink about 5 p. m., short-if: ly before the accident and was oc; his way to a New Year’s eve party v at Richmond, Ind. He was unabklto explain why he was driving westj§ Rush Prisoner Away A large crowd gathered at th4| ■scene of the accident and police “1 took Kos away immediately, tea avoid trouble. _ Shirley died today in the city hos-|| pital following an accident at Mot-fp ris street and the Belt railroad. PoJf lice said he drove his truck into thj| side of a freight train, ignoring thl warning signals of a watchmai*, The truck was carried more thajf 200 yards by the cars, and Shirk# was pinned beneath the wreckawF Four persons were injured i Northwestern avenue and Thirtl ; second street when an automob:| driven by Edson Wood. 34 EaS Forty-third street, collided with M automobile driven by Egbert Cam bell, 615 East Twentieth street, fi Taken to Hospitals All persons injured were in Carnf bell’s car. Misses Frances CamerSNP and Margaret Miller were sent to the Methodist hospital, Eugene Binder to St. All are in serious condition. Campbell was arrested on charges of assault and battery and failure to stop at a preferential street. Charles McAree, 21, of 2034 Southeastern avenue, was arrested for driving while under the influence of liquor, when his automobile struck a car driven by Mrs. William Til- | son. 48. of 4425 Guilford avenue, akr Oriental and Washington streets^ John Jones, 51, of 1201 FletcWr avenue, was injured about the ld and legs when struck by a “hit-ami-run” driver as he was crossing the street at Madison avenue and Morris stre. londay night. Witnesses j failed to get the license number. Jones was taken to city hospital. He was not injured seriously. MOTHER SENT TO JAIL ■ Arrested for Selling Booze to Helpj Pay for Home. Jr Mrs. Lizzie Beck will have thirtfi days to think over her New Year® resolution and plan a way to pay ft® her home by other than liwM methods. She will serve a in the county jafl for violation IT ! the national prohibition laws. j I “I never will sell liquor agaiif said Mrs. Beck, 53, mother of rl ; children who could not eaf| | enough selling milk and chickens 4 i pay for her .home. Judge Robert C. Baltzell gaS | Mrs. Beck until Thursday to arran|§ matters at her home and for tnEj care of her husband, who is deaf, i

No. 1 at 12:0i J A baby girl, born to Mr Mrs. C. R. Cayto. 880 Twenty-fifth street. w&M. first arrival of the New* * in Indianapolis. She will at city hospital at 12:01...#?