Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1929 — Page 13

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FIERCE STORMS SWEEP FRANCE; 7 LOSE LIVES y. ■■ Deluge Plays Havoc in Provinces: Damage in Millions. RALPH lIEINZEN I’nMfd PrfM Mi(T torr^spondrnl PARIS. Sept. 18.—Emergency relief corps were being: organized hastily today to aid the victims of \ iolent storms which swept all France during the last twenty-four hours and killed at least seven persons. Scores were left homeless in the provinces as result of the worst deluge which has struck the country m years. Telegraph and telephone communications were disrupted; trains were delayed, and shipping along the Mediterranean and in the English channel was disorganized. Alter hours of near-cyclonic conditions in the outlying districts the downpour struck Paris with full iorce Tuesday night, accompanied by thunder, lightning and hail. Streets were flooded and traffic was disrupted temporarily. Thousands Drenched Thousands of persons strolling along the boulevards when the torrential rains descended were drenched. There was considerable property damage in Paris, but no casual tic:. Properly damage in the provinces amounted to many millions. In several districts, the crops suffered heavily from cyclonic wands and heavy rains. In the Marbonne and St. Malo regions, many buildings were wrecked. In fashionable Dinard and St. Malo the property destruction was great. More than iOO villas were submerged and the homeless occupants sfient the night in barns or in houses of more fortunate neighbors. Four inhabitants were reported missing. Towns Are Submerged Dinard w r as divided in two parts by a large body of water. Soldiers and firemen aided in the rescue of many families stranded on housetops. Twenty automobiles disappeared under the water. A numbee of small towns in the vicinity of St. Malo became submerged almost completely and several bridges were washed away. The worst known loss of life was .suffered at Toulouse and vicinity where four persons drowned w'hen the rivers overflowed.

Love Forgives Wife Asks Divorce So Her Bigamous Spouse Can Wed Girl.

/;.< I ini' 'I I’n DENVER. Sept. 18.—Taking the entire blnme for her husband's bigamous marriage to Naomi McElhinncy. 18. Mrs. M. S. Armstrong. 38. brother of four children, sought a divorce from the man she still loves, so the second wedding can be legaltf.cd. “It's all ■my fault.” she explained. "Maybe he would not have become interested in other women if I had been more understanding and had not nagged so much. I have not seen his new wife, but I know she is a lovely girl. She must be to love my husband. I love him, too. and am willing to get a divorce to make him happy.” Armstrong was in jail here on charges preferred by Miss McElhinney's father, a wealthy rancher of Phoenix. Ariz. The latter expressed little interest in the proposed divorce and declared he would press the bigamy charges “to the limit of the law.” AGED MAN DIGS GOLD TO PAY HIS BILLS Precious Metal Detected in Yard by Friend. H I nital Press INDEPENDENCE. Mo.. Sept. 18 And so when the monthly bills come in he goes out in the backyard and digs himself a pocket of gold. About two years ago two friends of Samuel H. Boydston, 86. were visiting him. One had an instrument for detecting gold. They went gold detecting in Boydston’s yard The instrument registered gold. Since then the aged man has been digging and finding the ore in small quantities. The gold mine may never prove of much value to him, Boydston said, because he has been informed the real paying ore is around fortyseven feet deep, and “I am getting a little too old to dig that deep.” TWO PLANES COLLIDE Italian Pursuit Ships Crash: One Pilot Loses Life. R l nite4 Pf"s • ROME, Sept. 18.—Two pursuit airpianes collided today in the vicinity of the airport of Campo Formido. Pilot Sergeant Salvarini jumped with a parachute and landed unscratched. Pilot Sergeant Salvatore De Salvatore was urable to use his parachute and was killed.

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AIRPLANE TO TAKE | AIR FOR FINE CAUSE -Captain Weir Cook Will Scatter Free Civic Theater Memberships While Flying Over City Thursday. CAPTAIN WEIR COOK and Walker C. Winslow, accompanied by George Bailey and Myron Green, will fly over the city at noon Thursday from the Curtiss field to scatter dodgers and also to drop 100 free membership tickets in the Civic theater. The stunt is to develop interest in the Civic theater membership drive for 10,000 new' members which is in full swing this week" and next. I Reports from drive headquarters, 25 West Washington street, indicate I that the drive is a huge success. George Somnes, director of the Civic | theater, who returned from New York city today, expresses himself as being enthusiastic with the progress made by members of the drive and

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Duci I)e Kcrckjarto A well-known violinist, Duci De Kerekjarto is one of the features on the Metro movietone acts now showing at the Palace.

GIVES BACK $2 REWARD Deputy .Marshal Finds $2,000 in Bonds. Returns Them. Bn I nihil Press . CHICAGO. Sept. 17.—A deputy United States marshal found $2,000 worth of Liberty bonds here today returned them to their owner, an aged woman, and likewise returned to her a reward of $2 for his honesty. The marshal, Janies McLaughlin, was scuffing a package down the hall of the federal building with his foot and finally decided to pick it up. He found the Liberty bonds, which lie traced to Mrs. Augusta Droves. 76. widow of a Civil war veteran. Mrs. Droves handed McLaughlin $2. but he handed it back.

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their co-workers during his absence. Lester C. Negley, secretary-man-ager of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis, sent the following letter, occasioned by the Civic theater membership drive now in progress, to the drive headquarters publication: Dear Sirs; I am anxious to express on behalf of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis sincere approval of your plans to build in Indianapolis an adequate civic theater. I am confident that through the Civic theater our city can be better advertised. The prestige of any city that develops drama is well known, and I am sure that Indianapolis will be no exception. I am sure that all members of the Advertising Club join with me in this indorsement of your project. I am' positive that many of our members will be glad to affiliate as members of the Civic theater movement. a a a Indianapolis theaters today offer; Zelaya, at the Indiana; “Show Boat,” at the Granada; “Evangeline,” at the Palace; Jack Norworth at the Lyi'ic; “Nite Life in Paris,” at the Mutual, “The Lady Lies,’’ at the Circle; “The Cock Eyed World,” at the Apollo. “Hard to Get,” at the Ohio, and movies at the Colonial. Army Appointment Made WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Briga-dier-General Lyttle Brown today was appointed chief of army engine eds Tuesday, President Hoover announced.

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Pity Is Costly Bn I nil"I I’rms CHICAGO, Sepr. 18.-v-For months Hirsch Pinelber nursed a poignant sorrow. “Ah. my dear,” he w'ould exclaim to his wife, 'Gertrude, as he purveyed himself night after night in a tall mirror. “What a pity it is I did not marry a woman as good-looking as myself instead of a dowdy like you.” Anci he would slick down his glossy hair and ogle himself from all angles. But Gertrude did not share her husband's enthusiasm. So she explained the whole thing to Judge Charles A. Williams. Thee jurist decreed Pinzelber should pay Mrs. Pinzelber S2O a week to improve her ap9D.IOAIP c Suipuad ‘aouß.mad hearing.

AIR MAIL PILOT KILLED Crashes Into Mountain in Fog Soon After Take-off. B.u I nil' ll Press EERLIN, Conn., Sept. 18.—A 32-year-old veteran air mail pilot, Henry H. Tallman of Ridgewood. N. j„ was dead today, the result of a crash Tuesday night. Tallman took off from Brainard field for New' York into the murk and fog that shrouded the state. He had loaded fifty gallons of gasoline and 510 pounds of mail into his comparatively small ship against the advice of other pilots. Less than fifteen minutes later word came he had crashed into Lamentation mountain and had been killed. Japanese Volcano Erupts Violently Bit In til’ll Press TOKIO, Sept. 18—The AsamaYama volcano, ninety miles northwest of here, erupted violently today, showering ashes over a wide area and causing, the inhabitants of the district to flee in terror from the danger zone.

CITY CONSIDERS ACQUIRING BEN DAVIS AIRPORT Annexation of I.ooo*Acre Tract is Necessary to Control Development. Annexation of the 1.000-acre : municipal airport south of Ben Davis is contemplated by city offi- | eials. Mayor L. Ert 'Slack revealed j today. He pointed out it is necessary to annex the territory to give the j city authority to regulate developi ment and elevation of buildings surrounding the field. It also would | aid the city in making street im-

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closing several roads through the airport. \ Slack said the city will build a road through the airport if the project is carried out. It is estimated that the total project, including a bridge over Eagle creek and an elevation at the traction crossing, will cost about $300,000. i , Loyal Times readers—remember to look for what you want among Times want ads first.