Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1929 — Page 12

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AUTOISTS FACE PERILS ON ICY STATEROUTES TOO Snow Plows in Use on Highways; Curves and Hills Treated. Indiana roads are in the grip of real winter weather, with an abundance of snow, sleet, and ice which makes traveling slow and In some instances hazardous, according to the weekly traffic bulletin of the state highway department. The maintenance department is Using ashes, cinders, and fine gravel in treating the most dangerous hills and curves, the report states. It is well prepared to combat any heavy snow, having 100 snow plows located at strategic points ready for action upon short notice. General road conditions were listed as follows: Road 2—BiMge run-arounds one-half mile and one mile eaat of state line. Road 3—Watch for men working on berms north of Hartford City. Bridge run-around one-half mile north of Petroleum Road 1 —One-way traffic bridge ten miles north of Madison. Road 13—Bridge run-around two and 0.-. e-half miles south of La Fontaine. Detour at La Fontaine is one mile. Two Detours Listed U. 8. Road 24—Pavement from Monticello for fourteen miles east, then detour one-half mile north to old route to Logansport. Detour Just east of Huntington while city is paving to meet state road is one-half mile. U. S. i,oad 27—Detour two miles south of Richmond Is five and one-half miles. Detour from Winchester to nine miles north of Winchester is eleven miles. Road 28—Bridge run-around one and one-half miles west of Romney. Detour three miles east of Romney is three miles. Road 29 —Detour five miles south of Road 32 is two miles. Detour from Klrklin north Is three and one-half miles. Bridge run-around north of Michigantown. Drive carefully past workmen between Wlnamac and Knox. D. 8. Road 30—Run-around at Erie railroad crossing two miles east of Schererville. Road 34—Detour from Crawfordsville to New Ross is about sixteen miles, eight of which Is pavement. Narrow Road; Fair Road 35—Detour from three miles south of Salem to one mile south of Salem is three miles; narrow road and in fair condition. Road 37—Detour from Paoli to three miles north of Paoli Is four and one-half miles, fair condition. One-way traffic three miles north of Bloomington. U. S. Road 40—Bridge run-around at SUlesvi'le. Road 46—Maintenance has started on this section. Surface somewhat rough; many shairp turns and narrow bridges. Road 54—At two miles north of Linton Js one-way traffic for about 100 feet on account of bridge construction. Drive •lowly. Road 56—Earth surfaces between Salem and Scottsbitrg is impassable most of time. Bridge run-around two miles west of Madison. Detour around earth slide at bridge two miles west of Vevay is two and one-half miles; fair. Bridges Are Dangerous Road 58—Surface is narrow; mary

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Wall Street ‘Sells’Stock, and Holds Sack, When Ford Starts New Factory Bu Timet Svecial NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Wall street, which never did like Henry Ford’s ideas of conducting a business, is devoting more time than ever to disliking the canny auto builder nowadays. At least a considerable group of its brokers are. And all because Ford didn’t whisper into their ears what he was going to do about his new English factory before he did it. N Asa result the brokers find they have “sold” several hundred thousands shares of stock in that factory which they have never bought and have little chance of buying except at a top heavy price. The story, as revealed in Sales Management magazine, is that when Ford announced he would sell 2,800,000 shares in his Brtiish plant, the brokers began snapping up the orders which poured in from all over America. But they didn’t wait to hear the remainder of Ford’s plan. It was that the stock was to be sold only in Britain, the manufacturer going on the idea that by scattering his stock widely among thousands of small British investors automatically would create a big market for his products. The result was that many brokers here had promised to deliver blocks of the stock long before it went on the market. But the entire issue was oversubscribed twenty times most as soon as it appeared. Ford’s request that the British bankers favor their own countrymen as purchasers leaves several of the brokers in a most embarrassing position. Either they must admit that they cannot deliver, oi they must buy from the British stockholders at prices greatly above par value.

Road 59—Run-around four miles north of Linton is 520 feet long. Road 62—Run around account of enbankment slide three miles west of Sulphur for one-way traffic only. Road 66 —Impassable between Newburg and Hartford with no detour. Through traffic avoid Road 66 and route via roads 45 and 62 until further notice. Road 67—Bridge run-around three miles south of Centerton. Detour from five miles northeast of Muncie to two and one-half miles west of Albany Is three mUes. Detour from Albany to Portland Is twenty-one and one-half miles. Detour one and one-half miles east of Bryant is three miles. Detour is fair. Roads not mentioned, and parts of roads mentioned but not specified, and all detours otherwise described, are in good condition. ALASKA WAS GOOD ‘BUY’ S Mineral Production Repays Price of Purchase Hundredfold. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Alaska, which the United States bought from Russia for $7,200,000, has produced $600,000,000 worth of minerals since 1880, and the output for 1928 is estimated at $14,128,000 by the geological survey, Secretary of Interior West announces. Total production value of Alaskan minerals decreased from an actual value of $14,404,000 in 1927 to an estimated value of $14,128,000 in 1928, but the worth of gold, coal and miscellaneous minerals increased this year. The drop was in copper and silver production, the interior department said. 'HUNTERS’ FILL THE BAG “Game” Is Found in Filling Station Cash Register. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 18.— Three men dressed in all the accoutrements of hunters stopped at a local filling station. “Going hunting, fellows?” questioned the filling station attendant. “We are hunting now,” one of the men replied, and ordered the attendant to open a cash register, which they emptied.

ROUT CHALLENGER Cops Prove Groceries Man Carried, Stolen. “Go and find out, if you’re so smart,” William G. Gill, 39, of 1749 West New York street, defied Major Lewis Johnson early today when police questioned him as to where he got the groceries he was carrying in two large sacks when arrested at Koehne and Harding streets by Traffic Officer Thomas Pollard. Taking up Gill’s challenge, police discovered the groceries and several hundred dollars worth more had been stolen from the store of F. H. Campbell, Astor and Minker streets. Informed Gill had been seen earlier in the evening with a man named Parker, they arrested three members of a Parker family in Koehne street on vagrancy charges. The Panama canal is operating at 70 per cent of its capacity.

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CHINA WILL REDUCE ARMY TO 800,000 MEN Forces Will Be Slashed ThreeFourths by Government. Bu United Press SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 18.—A plan for a wholesale reduction of China’s armed forces was adopted by the Nanking military conference, advices received here today said. The progra mcalls for reduction of armies, now estimated at 2,500,000 men, to 800 000.

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SOCIETY MAN KILLS COP IN BULLET DUEL Another Officer and Wealthy Man, Believed Demented, Injured. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.—W. Griffith Gribbel, prominent society man, was in a serious condition today after a gun battle with police in which an inspector was killed, a police chauffeur wounded, and Gribbel himself shot three timesThe fight occurred in the Gribbel home in Chestnut Hill, an exclusive suburb, where Gribbel had been taken after treatment in a New York sanitarium. Gribbel has has had recurrent nervous disorders since he was shell-shocked and gassed in the World war. The dead man is inspector John Blackburn, who answered a call for help from Dr. John McCloskey, physician to Gribbel, after Gribbel had driven the doctor from the Gribbel home. Blackburn and his chauffeur, Joseph Lawrence, entered the front door and found Gribbel downstairs. He opened fire on them. Blackburn fell, pierced by several bullets and

Lawrence, standing a few feet behind him, also was wounded. Then patrolmen, answering another call from McCloskey, hurried to the Gribbel home where they cornered Gribbel after exchanging shots, two of which struck Gribbel in the

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sicians as critical- Lawrence is expected to recover. Gribbel was to have been sent to a sanitarium here tonight, and Dr. McCloskey was preparing for the removal. Police said there was no doubt that he was demented.