Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1929 — Page 2

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YACHT BURNS. MISSING MATE MAY BE BEAD Luxurious Vessel Owned by Banker Stillman Destroyed by Flames. GLEN COVE N. Y., July 16 —The ’uxurjous vacht Wencnah 11, owned by James A. Stillman, banker, was destroyed by fire and an explosion today as it lay in Hempstead harbor, with twelve members of the crew aboard. Tire first mate is missing and is belie' ed to have* been killed and one other sailor ".as taken to a hospital. The other ten men aboard escaped by leaping into the water. Witnesses -aid thev heard the explosion and then saw the deck and smokestack; of ’he Wenohah shoot into the air. Heavy black smoke started belching up and then flames shot many leet into the air. The craft burned to the water’s edge, but most members of the crew ■were able to leap into the water and were rescued by small boats. DEBATE OIL PURCHASES Ltrrease in Collective Buying Is Urged at Farm Bureau Session. Increase in scope of the collective purchase of oil by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation was urged at a meeting at the bureau Monday. There are now twenty points of distribution for the oil bought collectively, it was pointed out. The oil business was organized last March. I. H. Hull, general manager of the purchasing department of the bureau, asserted the farmers can save $1,000,000 annually through the oil purchasing HOSPITAL NEEDS CASH With total pledges to the Methodist hospital expansion fund standing today at $873,872 as the result of two $5,000 gifts and a number of smaller contributions, workers sought the $126,128 needed to complete the $1,000,000 for new hospital units under construction. More than three hundred persons attended a special presentation of the hospital motion picture. “New Armour.” exhibited in the nurses’ home Monday night. Makes Blue Law Threat Bv United Pres* VINCENNES, July 16.—Unless August Holzkamper is permitted to operate his dance hall near Oaktown on Sunday nights he will act to invoke old blue laws in an effort to stop every business and amusement in Knox county on Sundays, he informed Sheriff Adolph Kruse, who broke up a dance at Holzkamptr's hall last Sunday night after receiving complaints from members of the Oaktown church.

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Appointment of Frank Holmes, 25 North Ritter avenue, as a deputy United States marshal to succeed S. T. Hickman, resigned, was announced today by Aif O. Meloy. United States marshal. Holmes, who has lived here for thirty‘years, formerly was a practicing dentist, but for several summers has served as Broad Ripple park promotion manager. He is a veteran of the Span-ish-Ameriean war and emerged from the World war with the rank of captain in the Thirtyfourth infantry. He is married and has one daughter. AUTO HITS WOMAN Negro Driver Held After Accident. Mrs. Mary Meeker, 34, of Carmel, Ind., was injured on the back, arms and legs when struck by an automobile driven by William Patterson, Negro. 426 Smith street, as she walked across North street at Capitol avenue today. After treatment at city hospital, Mrs. Meeker was taken to the Y. W. C. A. C L. Roush of 1520 Biookside avenue, handed a bottle of moonshine he said he took from Patterson’s pocket before the officers arrived. They charged Patterson with assault and battery, reckless driving and operating a blind tiger. LAUNDRY DRIVER HURT Truck Overturns in Collision With Another Machine. Henry C. Mathews, 28, of 975 Somerset avenue, was injured on the left arm and hand early today when a laundry truck he was driving overturned at Broadway and Tenth street in a collision with an automobile operated by Robert Langsenkamp, 18. of 910 North Pennsylvania street. A piano, which slipped as he helped to load it on a truck at 3912 East Washington street today, injured the foot of Proctor Li Reed, 34, Tremont hotel. Fred Lawson. 452 West Thirtyfirst street, city fireman, member of truck company 14, lost, a part of a finger when it was caught in a ladder during ladder practice at the station. Thirtieth street and Kenwood avenue, Monday. Oldest Mail Carrier to Retire B<j United Press CHICAGO, July 16.—A. Sidney Hayward, 71, oldest mail carrier in the service here, will make his last ! delivery July 31. He has delivj ered mail for Uncle Sam fifty-three years.

SEA CAPTAIN DIES HAPPILY ABOARD SHIP Veteran Declares Sailor's Home ’No Place’ for Old Salt's Death. Hu T.'nited Press NEW YORK. July 16.—“A sailor’s home is no place for a seafaring man to die.” said Captain Millard L. Duntcn. who had passed most of his 77 years on the deck of a ship. “I am going to die,” Dunton told companions at Sailor’s Snug Harbor, Staten Island, “and it’s going to be on a ship.” So Dunton, feeble and ill, was loaded into a taxi and taken to the docks. He chose the Sandwich, sailing fi r Portland, Me. “My daughter lives near there,” Dunton said, “and if I die they can bury me at home.” As the Sandwich steamed out of the harbor Dunton was in the stern waving a feeble hand to friends. It was his last sea vogaye. for he died in his stateroom after breathing. for only a few hours, the salt air he loved.

INJUNCTION SOUGHT TO PREVENT STREET PAVING English Avenue Property Owners Will Fight Improvement. Frank Baker, attorney for property owners, today notified the board of works he will file a suit to restrain the board from resurfacing and paving the section of English avenue between Southeastern avenue and Brookville road. The city’s plan to improve the street to provide an additional thoroughfare from Irvington to the business section has met considerable opposition. City Engineer A. H. Moore recommended paving the center strip with asphalt to correspond with the outside pavement, which is to be resurfaced. The restraining suit will be based on the fact only one material is specified in the board’s plans. Bids are to be received July 25.

AUSTRIAN POET DIES AFTER SON’S SUICIDE Takes Own Life Following Passing of Younger Man’s Passing. By United Press VIENNA, July 16.—Circumstances of the death of the famous Austrian poet, Hugo Von Hofmannstahl. and his son, Franz, 26, at Villa Boduan near here Monday, provided a puzzling situation today. The death of the father and son occurred only a few hours apart. Young Hofmannstahl’s body was found near his father’s villa. His death was caused from a gunshot wound thought to have been self inflicted. A short time after the aged poet returned from his son’s funeral he was found dead at Villa Roduan. It was said at first he had suffered a stroke of apoplexy, but it was reported later that brooding over the loss of his son had led him to take his own life. Bungling Burglar Confesses COLUMBUS. Ind., July 16.—Delmer Percifield, faces a charge of burglary in connection with the robbery of the John H. Schaefer flour mill. When arrested near the mill he had a complete kit of burglar tools, and electric drill and some dynamite. He confessed that he had attempted to open the safe in the office of the mill, but admitted robbing the safe of $132 a few weeks ago.

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In the Air j Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Indianapolis airport: East wind, six miles an hour: temperature, 78; barometric pressure, 30.12 at sea level; ceiling unlimited; visibility four miles; local jmoke, field fair. OFFERS TO GET CITY 325,000 Officials Wonder How They Overlooked Sum. City council and city officials today wondered whether they actually have overlooked $25,000 indebtedness due the city “from one source or another.” Their perplexity was occasioned by the offer of W. E. Lowe of the American System and Audit Company to collect that indebtedness from undisclosed sources if allowed 35 per cent commission, $8,750. A. B. Good, deputy controller, said Lowe’s offer had been rejected by Sterling R. Holt, controller. “It is money the city never could get,” Lowe told city councilmen Monday night. “The items I’ll collect are items that are not in the controller’s office and you can’t get them from any record. They will run back as far as ten years, but they are legally due the city. “When the money is collected it will be deposited in the bank and I will specify who paid it and why,” Lowe continued.

INJURIES ARE FATAL Grain Elevator Worker Is Struck by Iron Beam. George Elliott, 39, of 3618 Rockville road, died early today in city hospital from a skull fracture, received when he was struck by a falling beam while working in the National Grain Elevator Company’s buildings, Morris and Dakota streets, Monday afternoon. The elevator burned June 19, with a $200,000 loss. Elliott was employed by fanners who had contracted to salvage a quantity of grain, and was shoveling oats when a cast iron beam toppled on him. Elliott’s death was the second resulting from post-fire mishaps. Clarence Fox, Chicago, superintendent of a salvage crew, was fatally injured June 24, when a brick wall crumbled, burying him and six workers.

CRACK PASSENGER IS DERAILED: ONE KILLED 4 Coaches, Engine Overturned When Speedy Train Crashes Freight. Bit United Press PITTSBURGH. July 16. The Pittsburgher, crack New York-Pitts-burgh passenger train, was derailed last night when it crashed into three box cars that had been left on the main track at Hillside, near Derby. Ben Evans of Pittsburgh, engineer of the passenger train, was crushed to death beneath his overturned locomotive. A club car and four sleepers also were overturned but no injuries were reported. Passengers transferred to another train and continued to New York. BATTERY MEN TO FLY Flights over the city in the company’s monoplane were included in the program of the second annual convention of the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Sales Corporation today. More than 150 distributors were to arrive this afternoon. A joint session with the salesmen will close the convention Wednesday.

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BUS DRIVERS TO MEET HERE Saftey Expert to Address Session in September. Marcus Dow, safety supervisor of the Greyhound bus lines, will address a meeting of commercial vehicle drivers here in September. The fleet truck owners and superintendent's division of the Indianapolis Safety Council is sponsoring the session. The meeting will be held the second or third Wednesday in September, at the Morris street plant of the Indianapolis Power and. Light Company. Dow 7 directed the safety division of the New York Central railroad for several years. J. E. Fitzwater, in charge of the utility vehicles, is arranging for the meeting. J. E. Campbell, R. S. Kiefer, H. E. Byrkett, L. R Hoffman and J C Abrams compose the entertainment committee. Certificates for drivers who have a thirty or sixty-day clear record were distributed at a meeting Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce.

BOND ISSUE DELAYED Postpone $27,000 Request to Move Gamewel! Wires. Sterling H. Holt, city controller, today postponed the request for a $27,C”* ' ~”d issue to transfer city Gamewell wires from the Indiana Bell Telephone Company’s poles to underground conduits on East Washington from Noble street to Arlington avenue and on Virginia avenue from South street to Shelby street. Holt stated that the bonds will be combined with other bond issues of the board of works. Bond issues of from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO bring higher premiums than smaller issues. The telephone company recently requested the city to remove Gamewell wires from company poles, and offered the city use of underground conduits free. As soon as the wires are removed, the telephone company will remove the poles to eliminate danger of having them blown down. Retired Farmer Buried ANDERSON, Ind., July 16.—Funeral services were held Monday for Levi Cox, 68, retired farmer, a resident of Coon Valley, near Frankton, until ten years ago when he came here to reside. .

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Arrivals and Departures Capitol Airport—D. Downs. Monocoupe, Philadelphia to Colorado Springs, overnight; E. H. Jose, Capitol Airways president, to Anderson today in an Eaglerock biplane. Hoosier Airport—Bob Shank returned Monday evening from Dayton with two passengers. Travel Air biplane. Curtiss-Mars Hills Airporb—Lieutenants Matt G. Carpenter and Paul Zartman to Dayton, with two Douglass 02H biplanes, leaving one at Wright field for anew engine; Em-bry-Rid die air mail plane passengers to Chicago were B. E. Lundblad and O. L. Scales, both of Indianapolis, and V. Hodson, EmbryRiddle pilot, to Moline,' 111., for a new Monocoupe; E. L. Benway and two passengers, Lockheed monoplane, Burbank. Cal., to Detroit; Pilot Fred Strine and A. E. Kuhl, Aero Sales Corporation, StinsonDetroiter, from Chicago to Indianapolis for a several days business visit; Pilot Martin Young and Henry Hay, American Eagle, from Gary to Indianapolis and return. Fliers to Visit Paris ROME. July 16.—Roger Q. Williams and Capt. Lewis A. Yancey will start for Paris in their transAtlantic monoplane Pathfinder at 5 a. m. Wednesday, it was announced here today. The American fliers who spanned the Atlantic from Old Orchard Beach to Rome with one stop at Santander. Spain, were expected at Littorio airport here at 5 p. m. today from Milan, by way of Turin. Student Is Soloed Charles Lamb, Indianapolis, was soloed Monday at Hoosier airport by Harold C. Brooks, airport secre-tary-treasurer. Pilots Are Added With the inauguration a week ago of three round trips daily between Indianapolis and Chicago and Cincinnati, four new pilots have been added to the Embry-Riddle air mail pilot group. The additions include Charles and Wright Vermilya, Charles J. Stoffer and Harold Beals. Other pilots include Warren R. Vine, Tom Hill, Charles fChuck) Wehrung, Operations Manager Stanley Huffman and General Manager John Paul Riddle. Air Show Dates Set /?,;/ Times Special NEW YORK. July 16.—'The 1930 national aircraft show of the Aero-

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nautical Chamber of Commerce of next February, it was announced America will be held in St. Louis today by Charles L. Lawrence, chairman of the show committee of the national aircraft trade association. Mr. LawTence also announced grant of a sanction by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to Detroit for the third annual allAmerican Aircraft show there, April 5 to 13. Detroit was among the cities which made a strong bid for the 1930 national show as well. World Air Show Opens LONDON, July 16.—Heralded as the greatest display of aircraft the world has ever known, the international aero exhibition was opened formally here today by the Prince of Wales. American and continental European airplane manufacturers, as well as all the British concerns, are represented at the show. The air ministries of Great Britain, France and Italy also have displays. The exhibition will continue for twelve days. Plans Globe Tour by Air Bit United Press NEW YORK. July 16.—Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and C. T. Ulm, conquerors of the Pacific in their tri-motor Fokker monoplane Southern Cross, probably will attempt to complete circumnavigation of the globe by air in a London-to-New York nonstop flight. The announcement came from officials of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, who have received a message from Kingsford-Smith asking advice on whether the old motors of the Southern Cross will stand another grueling ocean hop. Fahy Ready to Hop Off WICHITA, Kan„ July 16.—Lieutenant Herbert J. Fahy, California flier held here by motor trouble, after a forced landing in an attempt to span the United States from Los Angeles to New York, was ready today to continue his flight. A. A. A. Gives Air Service WASHINGTON. July 16.—The American Automobile Association has formed an air travel division to extend to air travelers the type of service now given to motorists.

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FIVE INJURED IN CITY ACCIDENTS Four Hurt in Auto Crashes, One Struck by Trolley. Five persons today were recovering from injuries sustained in automobile crashes and a street car accident Monday night. An automobile driven by Curtis Zahn, 34, Rural Route 1, Box 36-J, was struck by a machine operated by C. J Tillett. 30 Anderson Ind., as Zahn made a left turn into his driveway. Zahn was thrown out of his car as it turned over and was unconscious for several minutes. Miss Evvline Crosby. 38. of Anderson, riding with Tillett, was cut over an eye. Clarence Pierce, 18. 2040 Luther street, was arrested on charges of failure to give the right of way after his auto collided with a car driven by Otis Pierson. 22. of 2134 North Talbott street at Pleasant and Laurel streets Monday. Miss Louise Thomas. 1310 Lexington avenue, riding with Pierce, was slightly injured when thrown from the car. Oliver DeCarpp, 62. of 302 East Michigan street, was taken to city hospital after he walked into the side of a streeet car in the 400 block on Massachusetts avenue. He was injured on the head and hands. INSURANCE FIRMS UNITE American Automobile Indemnity Company Incorporates. With the taking over of the American Automobile Indemnity Association and the filing of new articles of incorporation Monday, the American Automobile Indemnity Company becomes the first Indiana automobile insurance concern specializing in old line stock insurance. Dudley R. Gallahqe, president of the company said. Officers and directors of the concern will remain the same. Present stockholders have subscribed practically all the stock in the new company. Druggist Is Bankrupt Oliver R. Rasico. 4620 East Michigan street, proprietor of a drug store at 622 North De Quincy street, has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court, listing $27,355 liabilities and $2,807 assets.

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