Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1929 — Page 14

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BURIED SHELLS KILL MANY IN FRENCH HELDS Cleaning Up of Old Battle Grounds Causes 2.545 Deaths. Injuries. R 4 RALPH lIUNZKN. 1 nite*! Prrv **lafT N orrrvpondmt PARIS. June 14 - The French battlefield. particularly the .carrcd "red zone, are till taking a heavy toll ol live: ten 'ears alter the armistice ended fighting. Statistic:; gathered by the Ministry ol Liberated Regions for the United Pres: show that. 2,545 persons have hern injured or killed by shell: left on the battlefields. The cleaning up of the battlefields took a heavy toll among farmers, many of v hom are blown to bits j with their animal:; when a plowpoint .strikes a buried .shell or an unexpioded mine or grenade. The government estimates that 320 uch deaths resulted, and injury to 600 more. There Mere 525 deaths and 1.100 Injuries in the task of cleaning up the battlefields before they were turned over to their rightful owners for farming again. This include- the victims of the delicate: operation ol taking tim shells apart to recover the steel they contain. Many children were among the victims, also tourists, who disregarded the .signs, posted all over the Battlefields warning trespassers! against pulling wires or picking up grenades or shells. The cleaning up process was especially dangerous, tor there was no chart, showing the location of many mine and once the troops were withdrawn from the frontline no one was left to point out! the spot., where death lav buried under the surface. The Germans, in withdrawing,'

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Mfcvbc "fill the idea ot practice makes perfect in mind, six British parachute jumpers are shown above leaving their planes simultaneously. It’s merely a rehearsal of aerial circus stunts, a feature of he program above the airdrome at Hendon, near Lqndon, England.

fixed up many hasty mines under bridges in the middle of roads, in houses and places where the Allied troops could be expected to seek shelter. Often a mine would be connected by unseen wire with an attractive helmet. The man who picked up the helmet as a souvenir would be blown to pieces. Doors were wired so that a turn of the knob would set off dynamite. It took several years for thousands of men to walk over the battlefields picking up unexpioded shells and weapons. Seven million acres of land were ruined by the war. torn up by shells, littered with barbed wire and concrete construction and filled with unexpioded engines. Three hundred and thirty-three million cubic meters Os trenches had to be filled, and 14.000 miles of barbed wire had to be unstrung and rolled up. The reconstruction effort has been remarkable, and six and a half million acres have been resowed. There are certain regions where nothing can be done. The ground was so badly cut up bv shells and trenches that the soil is worthless, ; even for tree culture. So these

areas will be formed into "red zone parks," and kept as a permanent memorial to teach future generations the waste of war.

WINDOW FALL FATAL Man Drops 35 Feet: Whisky Found in Room. Thought to have lost his balance while opening a window, Charles Gage, 64. Apartment 1, 459 1 .. East j Washington street, was killed early today in a thirty-five foot fall from his third-floor bedroom to the sidewalk. The body was discovered short- | ly before 3 a. m. by T. B. Hinf and ! L. B. Gidding. both of Greenfield, j Ind.. crew on a T. H. I. & E. interurban. Police said they found a pint ol ; white mule whisky and four empty j bottles in his room. Gage, who has [ been employed as a night watch- 1 man for four years, had been ill two days, his landlady, Mrs. Leonard j Skiver, told police. More than 800 communities in j the United States have established public playgrounds.

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STATE FIGHTS CONVICT PAROLE Prisoner Freed by Jackson: Set Hearing in La Porte, George W. Hufsmith, assistant attorney-general is in La Porte' to represent the state in the habeas corpus proceedings in La Porte circuit court to free Edward L. Bunch, prisoner at the Indiana state prison, Michigan City. Bunch was paroled among the prisoners given clemency as a final executive act of former Governor Ed Jackson. The Jackson parole stated that it was upon recommendation of the prison trustees, but investigation revealed, that Bunch's parole request repeatedly had been denied by the boai'd. With the consent of Governor Harry G. Leslie, Warder Walter H. Daly their refused to release the prisoner and the habeu.s corpus action was instituted. Another defect in tire parole was the name “Edwin,-” instead of Edward. Among the papers filed by Jackson with the parole, was a letter from attorney 'John W. Hilltop, Nashville. Tenn.. urging that Bunch be freed in answer to “the prayers cl a heartbroken mother" in Tennessee, who needed his support. It closed with an invitation to Jackson to visit in “sunny Tennessee.’’ The attorney general's office will contend that Jackson exceeded his powers in issuing the parole without the trustees' consent and above ail by saying that- lie had h. SCHOOL ‘LEGGER’ JAILED IJn f uifed Press CHICAGO. Juno 14. —Theodore Hcppelheimer was sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined SIOO here accused of selling liquor to school boys. Judge Francis Allegrctti told Hcppelheimer he considered him the most dangerous type of man in modern society.

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