Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1929 — Page 3

JULY 8, 1929.

SHIPS CRASH AT FULL SPEED IN FOG: 249 RESCUED

COASTGUARD BOAT, STEAMER IN COLLISION Passenger Vessel Is Ripped Open Above and Below Water Line. CALM SEA SAVES LIVES Cutter Hears Radio Calls for Aid and Rushes to Help. BOSTON. July 3.—Another thrill;ng adventure of the open sea has i) e en written, in the matter-of-fact . nra-eoloey of marine records, into ■he ]otr of the United States coast 'uard. It concerns the rescue of 249 pasp.ger.s from the coastal steamer Prince George, carried out without the los.s of a single life after a colli on fifty miles off Cape. Ann. The accident was described unofficially today as unavoidab.e, al- ■ ! .r,ugh investigations were going . orward both on the part of the 1 ner of the Prince George and of the coast guard, whose 125foot patrol boat Agassiz figured in toe crash. It wa reported by some of the Prince George passengers that the Agassiz was running at full speed through a heavy fog when it tore ,ntn Hie Prince George, Bostonhound from Yarmouth. N. S. The passenger vessel was ripped open above and below the water line while he nose of the Agassiz was flattened. Passengers Are Saved An R O S \as sent out Immediately by the Prince George and the ■ ork of transferring her passengers o the Agassiz, which seemed the more spaworthy of the two ships, was begun. The 249 men. women and chilvfn clambered to -afety in the murky light of early morning over a gangplank that lurched and v a\rd over the gently heaving seas. The Agassiz sent, out radio calls for assistance and the cutter Mo- . ve. which last winter rescued the u i a bled M earners West Hika and ilver Maple, sped to the scene. The iniave took the passengers aboard nci brought them here. The Agassiz returned to the coast .ard base at East Boston and the 'rincc George, every pump in oper,on to save her from sinking, ar- • er! safely at her berth here Sunevening. She was escorted in the destroyer Tuscarora and the ter Wainwright. The Prince George was placed in c drv dock today and company t ials hoped to have her in sen - , e again this week. Tells Story of Collision A story of the collision and res- ' wa related by Miss Bessie "age of Lynnfield, one of the u engers. upon her arrival. I was in a stateroom with my er and her daughter." she said. The crash awakened me. The ship ncked from side to side. I aroused ny sister and as we hastily were messing a member of the crew nocked on the stateroom door and 'old us to take life preservers and ••I on deck. He said not to be alarmed. On deck we saw men. children, some clad in pajamas, ome half-dressed and others fully dressed and carrying baggage. All had life preservers on. “There was terrible excitement for n few minutes. But much of this was allayed by coolness of the crew. • At a distance of what seemed to lip only a few yards we could see Mir Agassiz. The fog was very thick. p r ettv soon the Agassiz drew alongside and two gangplanks were placed from our ship to the coast cuarri beat. Double lines of pasengeis were formed on all decks, with women and children first and then the men. faint Sea Prevents Disaster •'Perfect order prevailed while the transfer took place. The words, women and children first.' echoed often as the passengers were being transferred. •'The coast guard crew must have been well drilled for just such an ''mergence, because the rescue was effected like clockwork. "Their courage, skill and gentlemanly action: were a credit to the ervice."’ The Misses Mclva Mac Neil and Helen McCarthy of Roxbury, other ■’u-sengers. told a different story and omplained that all was not orderly: -at men grabbed for live preservers nd that for some time many of the ■'■omen were unable to obtain them. It was the consensus of shipping •■on hat oniv the calmness of the *i prevented a disaster. iO.OOO DOCTORS GATHER \mericar Medical Association Meets at Portland. Ore. PORTLAND Ore . July B.—Portland today became the medical capal of the United States, with one physician to each thirty-five inhabitants. as medical men from the United States* and foreign countries ssembled for the opening of the r.ghtieth convention of the American Medical Association. Nearly 10.000 physicians and sur--rons will attend the five-day sessions. Grows 61 Varieties of Iris. UKIAH Cal. June 21.—Every mown variety of iris is growing in he home garden of Mrs J. Q White of his city. Mrs. White has specialised m collection of this flower fer years and now has sixty-one varieties in bloom simultaneously..

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PATIENT IS BEATEN | Hold Two Central Hospital Attendants in Attack. Alleged to have beaten William I Gates, 61. Negro inmate of the Central Indiana hospital so brutally he may lose one eye, two attendants, Van Snivel.v, 21, address unknown, ■ and Onis Howes. 18, of Folsonville, awaited trial in municipal court today on charges of assault and bat- | tery with intent to kill. The attendants were discharged i summarily after they were alleged I to have attacked Gates, an epileptic, ! with a metal cuspidor when he bejeame unruly Saturday night, i E. O. Thompson, secretary and ■ acting hospital superintendent in .the absence of Dr. Max A. Bahr, | ■ superintendent, who is attending I the American Medical Association convention in Oregon, declared violence toward inmates is not tolerated under any circumstances. 2 DIE IN DRY BATTLE Officer. Alleged Bootlegger. Shot in Gun Fight. By I iiitcd firs* CHIDESTER, Ark.. July B—Walter Patterson. 40. alleged bootlegger, and E. R. Marsh. 50-year-old marshal. were shot to death in a gun battle between Patterson and officers here. The officers. Marsh. Deputy Sheriff John Pruitt and Constable Luther Meeks, had gone to Patterson's home to arrest him and his brother Albert on prohibition charges. Patterson submitted to arrest and then grabbed Marsh's pistol and I emptied it into the officer's body, killing him instantly. He then at- : tacked Pruitt with the empty gun. Meeks shot Patterson to death. Albert Patterson was arrested and brought to Ouachita county jail, where he is held on a bootlegging charge. ELKS OPEN PARLEY 120.000 Attend National Session at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. July 8. Elkdom turned its attention to the transactions of nationally important affairs today. Registration headquarters announced that most of the expected 120.000 delegates to the annual con- : vention here this week already have arrived. A series of business meetings was scheduled to intersperse the program of amusement. Governor C. C. Young of Cali- : fornia. Mayor John C. Porter. Grand Exalted Ruler Murray Hulburt. Exalted ruled Edward Gibbs and other dignitaries were to deliver addresses at a public session to be held at Philharmonic auditorium today. CAR BURNS. OWNER HEL Auto Alleged to Have Been Saturated With Gasoline. > Alleged discover- that a blazing automobile in a wooded lot on the Graveyard road, near Maywood, had been saturated with kerosene was responsible for Bluford Sturgeon. 25, of 508 Bird street, being held by deputy sheriffs today on vagrancy charges, under 55.000 bond. Sturgeon was owner of the car. A short time before deputy sheriffs were called to put out the fire. Sturgeon had reported the car stolen AIMEE LEAVES DEFICIT fi>< I < }!■<! Press DETROIT, July 8 Leaying a deficit tor her fifteen-day campaign of between $2,000 and S8.000." Aimee Semple McPherson left Detroit by automobile today for her birthplace. Ingersoli. Ontario. She plans to leave the Canadian city tonight by train for Los Angeles. During her stay here th c evangelist told how she had healed a boy in Jackson' ille. Fla . after he had his arm broken in thrSe p'.aooc. but she did not practice any healing in Detroit.

TRY TO CHANCE WHEEL IN AIR; NEARLY CRASH Flier Replaces Landing Gear as Disabled Plane Glides. fly r Itiird /'* ATLANTA. Ga , July B.—Atlanta fliers told a story today of a hairbreadth escape 1,000 feet above the ground. Somebody remarked to Pilot Beeler Blevins and Bonnie Rowe, parachute artist, that there was one thing you couldn't change in the air. and that was a landing gear. So Blevins and Rowe went aloft ■ Sunday ir. an old Curtiss "Jenny’’ to ] show that the trick merely hadn't yet been done. Above them as assistants, flew Mackay Solenberger and W. C. Striplin in another plane. Wind Acts I'p A thousand feet up. Rowe climbed out of the cockpit of the Jenny and. hanging by his feet from a w’ing, pulled off a wheel and heaved it back into the cockpit. He then ' signalled Striplin in the plane above . to lower another wheel, Striplin lifted the wheel over the side of the plane on a rope and begin to lower it. A gust of wind caught the rope j and flung it into the propeller of ! the plane beneath, smashing the! blades and dragging the planes together. Propeller Wrecked Striplin. hanging head down, cut the rope with his pocket knife, the j planes veered apart again, leaving 1 Belvins at the stick of a propeller- j less plane, on the w’ing of which i Rowe hung. Belvins headed for a cotton field gliding slowly. Rowe climbed up, pulled the wheel out, of the cockpit and worked desperately to replace it. A hundred feet above the ground, he finished replacing the wheel and slid back on the wing as Belvins glided to a perfect landing. CITY YOUTH DROWNS Drag Sugar Creek for Body of John E. Filcer. ledianapolis police today continued dragging rain-swelled Sugar creek, five miles north of Edinburg. Ina., for-the body of John Edward Filcer. 19. son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Filcer, 2009 Hoyt avenue, who was drowned while swimming Sunday afternoon. The youth was a member of St. Patrick's H. and S. baseball team, that left Indianapolis Sunday to play an Edinburg team. Apparently he was the victim of cramps, for he was an experienced swimmer. The youth’s parents, who went with the team to see their son play, were witnesses to the rescue efforts. Filcer had attended Cathedral and Arsenal Technical high schools, where he was first baseman on the baseball team. Surviving are his parents, and three sisters. Dorothy. Frances and Helen Filcer. GAS COMPANY TO ADO 40 MORE COKE OVENS Expansion at Frospect Street Plant to Cost 5779.000. Erection of forty new coke ovens, installation of anew compressor and extension of the compressor house at the Prospect street plant of the Citizens Gas Company, at a cost of $779,000. will begin this week, according to C. L. Kirk, vicepresident and general manager. With the new ovens there will be 120 ovens ath the Prospect street plant, with a coal capacity of 1.520 tons a day. The Langsdale avenue plan has a daily capacity of 445 tons of coal, bringing the total consumption to approximately 2,000 tons daily. Increase in gas consumers, from 11.000 in 1912 to 78.375 in 1928. was given as the reason for the expansion.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tag! You ’re It Motorist Gets Ticket Due to Obstruction of Officer’s Car.

WHEN Charles Howard. 138 West Twenty-First street, tried to park his motor truck in front of 211 East Washington street Saturday he found an automobile in the space. Howard waited two hours, double parked, for the owner to showup and move the car, and then got a tag himself for overtime parking. Today Howard stood before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter to answer charges of the tag. He told the judge he had discovered that the car had obstructed him for the two hours belonged to Patrolman Eugene O'Sullivan. Judge Wetter took the case under advisement. KIDNAPED BOY IS FOUND SLAIN Missing 18 Days; Parents Had Received Threats. By i nitdl Pirns SAGUS, Mass.. July B.—Kidnaped and slain, the body of 10-year-old Salvatore De Mona of Boston was discovered in a creek on the Pine river marshes here Sunday night after he had been missing eighteen days, police revealed today. The body was identified this morning by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Santi De Mona, who disclosed they had received two “black hand” letters demanding $5,000 and declaring that the boy would be killed if the money were not forthcoming. ‘DRUG’ TRUNKS HELD Chinese Vice-Consul’s Wife Under Suspicion. By Uti’led Pirns SAN FRANCISCO. July B.—William B. Hamilton, customs inspector. admitted today that seven trunks, belonging to Mrs. Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese vice-consul here, were being held for examination. It was rumored that the seizure was made because of suspicions that the trunks contained opium. Hamilton said the entire matter was being handled in Washington. D. C.. by special agents of the treasury department. The trunks arrived here last Friday after a voyage from Honolulu.

War Veteran. 83, Dies MARION, Ind.. July 8. Robert William Bird. 83, pioneer resident of Van Buren township, and a Civil war veteran, is dead at his home near here. He was a member of the Van Buren Masonic lodge more than fifty years. He leaves the widow. STOPS ASTHMA OR NO PAY D. .T. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building. St. Mary’s. Kan., manufactures a remedy for As tom a in which he has so much confidence that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail to anyone who will write him for it. His offer is that he is to be paid for it after you are satisfied with results, and the one taking the treatment to be the judge. Send your name and address today.—Advertisement,.

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POLICE RAID 3 BUND TIGERS, 16 ARE HELD Large Quantities of Liquor Seized in Week-End Campaign, Sixteen persons were under arrest on blind tiger and vagrancy charges today, and police are seeking another man for alleged liquor law violation, after three raids over the week-end. Raiding the home of Mrs. Edna Perkins, 208 Beauty avenue, Saturday night, police arrested Mrs. Perkins and three men and three women on blind tiger charges and say they confiscated a gallon of beer. The party is said to have consumed fifty-five quarts of beer before the arrival of police. Melvin Clark, 23. of 2806 North Denny street, was charged with operating a blind tiger, and Ben Brock, 2860 North Denny street, faces vagrancy charges, after a raid at 2434 North Keystone avenue early Sunday. Police say that as they arrived Clark was breaking bottles of beer and Brock was carrying a five-gal-lon can of alcohol out the back door. One hundred quarts of beer and two and one-halt gallons of alcohol were confiscated in the house, ploice say. Clark and Brock said Cecil Johnson, alias Nichols, who lives at the Keystone avenue address, left the house shortly before police arrived. Roy Crawfords, 35, Negro: Richard Fowler, 37. Negro, of 943 Hosbrook street; Mrs. Caroline Marshall, 924 Senate avenue, and William

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Captain Edward Schmelzer. whose heroism when his Company G. 112th Infantry, was almost wiped out by the Germans at Fismes later won him election as safety‘director of Erie, Pa., now faces the charges of violating the prohibition law. Dry agents say they found liquor in the clubrooms of Erie’s V. F. W. Post, of which he is past commander, and in the clubrooms of the American Legion post of which he is present commander.

Mathews, 39, Negro, same address, : were arrested on blind tiger charges Sunday when police are said to have found two quarts of alcohol in Fowler's automobile, near Mrs. Marshall’s home. Charles Northern, 21, Negro. South Senate avenue, was charged with vagrancy, and Robert Dodson, 28, Negro, 940 Hosbrook street, was arrested on a blind tiger charge when Mrs. Mathews told police Dodson was the one who -delivered the alcohol.

FRENCH WORRY OVER EXODUS FROM FARMS Paris Bright Lights. Stories of Small Town Boys Making Good Are Lures. BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS. July 8. —Bright lights and gay Parisian life, cases, theaters and stories of small-town boys who made good in the city have drawn so many farm hands and milkmaids away from the rural districts that the problem has become a matter for parliamentary discussion. It, has been estimated that 6.000.000 youths of France have deserted their pastoral settings for a fling in Paris since 1846. Deputies Maurice Dormann and Prosper Blanc, after making a survey, admit there is little to be gained in France from agriculture and that, life is much more pleasant in the cities. Among remedies suggested in the resolution are electrification of the principal farming regions of France, the installation of modern water works, extension of facilities for borrowing money by the young farmers, and better educational facilities. The craving of girls to become a second Mistinguette and of boys to become another Maurice Chevalier is put down as one of the chief causes for the influx of the youth of France into Paris and the other large cities.

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