Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1929 — Page 3

DEC. 14, 1929_

DEATHS OF TWO ARE BLAMED ON SMOG BLANKET One Crashes Into Bridge: Driver Held in Wreck Killing Woman. Heavy smog Friday night and today is blamed for two additional deaths from automobile accidents near Indianapolis. Raymond Leon Bradley, 27. of 217 East Vermont street, was killed instantly early this morning when a car he was driving crashed into a bridge abutment half a mile east of New Bethel. Three girls with him were injured. Mrs. Gladys L. Patterson. 33, of 611 North Pennsylvania street, wa killed instantly at 4:50 Friday afternoon when a car driven by W. J. Steadman. 34. of Montauk, L. 1., visiting at 1710 North New Jersey street, struck a garbage wagon and another automobile on the Madison road north of Southport. Steadman was arrested on charges of manslaughter. Not Hurt Seriously Mrs. Jessie Wells, 25. of 2838 East Washington street, also riding with Steadman, was taken to city hospital, but was not injured seriously. Steadman swerved to avoid the garbage wagon and collided with a car driven by Fred Totten of Franklin. police were told. Mrs. Patterson is survived by her husband, Ivan L. Patterson, a telegraph operator. Steadman is a former Indianapolis resident, and once was police chief at Montauk. Car Hits Wreckage Bradley was driving to Indianapolis from Greensburg when he ran off the edge of the road in a heavy fog. A car driven by Russell Bartlett of Acton ran into wreckage of Bradley’s car under which Bradley was pinned. Miss Virginia Hurt, 27, of 1822 Bellefontaine street, riding with Bradley, suffered a broken arm. Miss Bessie Ziegler, 16, of Greensburg, and Miss Margaret Ziegler, 21, of 1822 Bellefontaine street, were injured slightly. Frank Bond, of 2932 Broadway, commercial traveler, was injured seriously in an automobile accident in Grand Rapids. Tuesday, and was brought to his home here.

SINGER ON PROGRAM OF CENTER MUSICALE Sunday Series at Kirshbaum to Open With Noted Vocalist. Mrs. Claris S. Krohngold of Lafayette, widely known vocalist, will appear on the first of a series of Sunday afternoon musicales at Kirshbaum Community Center. Dec. 22, at 3:15 p. m. Mrs. John Kolmer will accompany Mrs. Krohngold and interpretive and descriptive explanations of the song group will be given by Mrs. Florence S. Coffin. The event is one of a series of four Sunday musicales planned by the Jewish Community Center Association and open to the public •without charge. They will be arranged for afternoons where there is no other musical offering in the city. Following the musicale there will be tea with the Council of Jewish Juniors as hostesses.

FAILURE DOES NOT INVOLVE LOCAL FIRM Martha Washington Cos. of City Not Associated With N. Y. Concern. Dispatches from New York telling of the filing of an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against the Martha Washington Candy Shops, Inc., brought clarification today in Indianapolis when representatives of the Martha Washington Candies Cos., 29 Monument Circle, declared their firm was not to be confused w'ith the New r York concern. The alleged insolvent company 1s not controlled by the Martha Washington Candies Cos., with headquarters in Chicago. Stores of the Illinois corporation in Ft, Wayne, Terre Haute, South Bend. Gary and Hammond, in addition to others in the middle west, have no financial connection with The New York organization, officials here said. MARKERS TO BE USED Massachusetts Plans to Erect Historical Road Signs. Pu United Pres* BOSTON, Dec. 14.—Markers describing historical points of interest for the benefit of tourists are to be erected along Massachusetts highways within a year. One hundred such markers are to be put in as soon as possible, and plans call for the erection of 100 to 200 more later. The markers will be fpshioned after those now i —l-ou* Vir"iria.

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Edward G. Schaub, state commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has announced organization of a new post of that order. It will be composed exclusively of drummers, buglers and musicians. A. Everett Bloom (representative) of Ft. Wayne resigned as member of the house of representatives, it was announced by the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. He has become a deputy prosecuting attorney in Allen county. Dr. E. B. Haggard, Dr. O. K. McKittrick, Dr. E. B. Hubbard, Dr. Cleon A. Nafe and Dr. R. J. Kemper will speak before the Indianapolis Medical Society at the Athenaeum at 8:15 Tuesday night. Abandoning the regular monthly meeting Monday, members of the Indianapolis chapter, American Socoiety of Mechanical Engineers, will attend the dinner of Indiana Manufacturers’ Association at the Columbia Club at 6:30 Monday night. Teachers of the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation will be guests at a dinner at Kirschbaum center Tuesday night with Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, educational director of Union of American Hebrew congregations, Cincinnati, as speaker. Special programs each night next week will usher in the Christmas season at the Y. W. C. A. “The Hanging of the Greens” will be observed Monday night; the greenroom players presenting a play. Friday night members will sing Christmas carols about a Christmas tree in University square. Speaking on religious uncertainty and turmoil confronting boys and gills, Dr. William E. Steckel, pastor of First Presbyterian church, addressed a union meeting of Presbyterian men at Tabernacle Presbyterian church Friday night. The address followed a dinner, with more than two hundred present. The Rev. Charles E. Ingles, who has been elected general chairman of the membership division of the Marion County Good Government Club, will name his captains and lieutenants at a meeting Wednesday. The committee in charge of the Indianapolis poultry, rabbit and cat show announced the show will be held in Tomlinson hall, Jan. 10 to 12. The 1930 show will be the fiftyfourth annual exhibit.

ACCEPT HOSPITAL PLANS Ward Building Addition to City Institution Is Approved. Preliminary plans for a sevenstory ward building at city hospital, which were prepared by Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, were approved tentatively today by the board of pubic health. The ward unit will cost about 1.200.000, but construction is not mtemplated at present. The oard signed a contract with Robert . rost Daggett to draw' plans for a ''.undry building and contracted with C. V. Ammerman, engineer, for irigeration, fire alarm, surgical id clock system, water supply and >okup specifications. * Bids on the out-rpatient and labitory building will be received ?C. 23. ."IVE DIE IN EXPLOSION Blast in Bulgarian Gunsmith's Shop Takes Big TolL •/ I'nited Prigs SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 14.—An explosion in a gunsmith's workshop and subsequent fires destroyed eight buildings in the town of Popovo in eastern Bulgaria today. Five persons were killed and fifteep injured. Five fire brigades from neighboring towns were called to fight the flames which defied the firemen for two hours.

Precaution Against Colds Urged in Warning by Health Head. Citizens were warned to use precaution against colds in event of a sudden drop in mercury by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner, today. Sudden changes to cold weather without extreme precautionary measures will result in a wave of infections from sore throats, resulting in pneumonia and intestinal influenza, Dr. Morgan advised. “Unseasonable high temperature and weather conditions of the last few days are conducive to development and spread of respiratory and gastro-intestinal infections which prevail,” Dr. Morgan said. “Wearing clothing in keeping with the outside temperature is an important factor in increasing body resistance against infection. In event of a change in temperature individuals should avoid becoming chilled, particularly after retiring, for during sleeping hours body resistance is lower than during wakeful hexurs. “Wet shoes and damp clothing should be changed immediately on going indoors to prevent contracting infection. It is essential that overheating of public buildings and living quarters be avoided at all times. “Sufficient moisture indoors is absolutely essential to a high state of body resistance against the winter group of maladies. “If unfortunate enough to contract a cold, and if at all severe, the individual should remain indoors, preferably in bed, for twenty-four hours. This may prevent pneumonia. Avoid orer-fatigue, overloaded stomach and obtain sufficient sleep and rest, giving proper attention to elimination, if you want to prevent colds and respiratory infections,” Dr. Morgan urged.

NAVAL GROUP TO DINE Speaking Program Slated for Annual Rabbit Feast. The second annual rabbit dinner of the eighteenth fleet division of the Indiana Naval Reserves w'ill be held at the Chamber of Commerce tonight. Lieutenant Roy McCoy. U. S. N. R., chairman of the eighteenth division Booster’s Club, will be toastmaster. Speakers will include Lieutenant O. F. Heslar, U. S. N. R., reserve commander for Indiana; Lieutenant F. F. Ferris, United States recruiting officer; Captain J. Tibbs, United States marine corps recruiting officer; Lieutenant H. S. Thurston, battalion medical officer and Chief Petty Officer F. E. Jackson.

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CHURCH PENSION IS DINNFR TOPIC State Missionary Group Discusses Fund. Emphasis on Indiana’s share in the Disciples of Christ pension movement was stressed Friday night when the Indiana, Christian Missionary Association held its third annual state-wide dinner in the Third Christian church. Speakers were G. I. Hoover, secretary of the association; E. S. Jouett, trustee of the pension fund; M. R. Dennison of South Bend, and Merle Sidener, Indianapolis, chairman of the state’s fund committee. Jouett, vice-president and general counsel of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, urged the pension fund as the best means to keep a minister from the growing dread of dependency. “It serves to recruit forceful young men to the pulpit,” he said. Sidener told of the financial capabilities of the church to handle the pension fund. He pointed out how easily the fund could be provided. “Servants of the church must be assured a living when their active days are over as well as'during the days of activeness,” he said.

SENTENCE AFFIRMED Term of 2 to 14 Years for Conspiracy Upheld. Miss Marie McGlynn, 26, today was committed to the Indiana woman’s prison on a two to fourteen year sentence, given her Friday by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony. Miss McGlynn was tried in May, 1926, with four other women for the theft of merchandise from a downtow’n department store. Her conviction was appealed to the Indiana supreme court and was affirmed several days ago. She w T as arrested Thursday with Turner Robinson, Negro traffic policeman, who was suspended from the police department following his arrest on an immorality charge. They are alleged to have been discovered together in a room. PANIC CAUSES DEATH Student Flier Froze to Controls, Causing Crash of Plane. 11 1/ United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 14.—A tailspin to test the nerves of A. H. Romines, student flier, into which instructor Clarence Page threw his plane, ended tragically for the student. He froze to the controls. Page explained today, causing a crash. Romines died Friday night Page was not hurt seriously.

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NATIONALISTS IN CHINA SWIFTLY TAKINGCONTROL Follow Up Decisive Victory With Continued Drive on Rebels. BY RANDALL GOULD,, United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. General Chiang Kai-Shek followed up the Nationalists’ decisive victory in the Canton district today with concentrated offensives against revolutionary forces in Hohan and Shantung provinces. A, determined offensive was launched by the Nationalist troops against the rebel concentration at Chengchow', in Hohan province, about 325 miles from Nanking. Governor Yen Shi-Shan, model governor of Shansi province, telegraphed Chiang Kai-Shek today reiterating his loyalty to the Nanking government. Yen Shi-Shan Shansi loyalists were directed against the mutinous Nationalist troops who revolted a week ago and seized Pukow and had threatened Nanking with an attack near Chuchow, north of Pukow and about forty miles north of the capital. The Canton victories and the launching of the offensives aimed to crush completely the rebellions which have menaced the Nationalist government for several weeks, seemed to have a distinct effect toward restoring public confidence in Chiang Kai-Shek. Reports from Nanking said there was complete confidence in the Nanking government’s ability to crush the rebellions. Americans Remain Bu T nitrd Press SHANGHAI, Dec. 14.—-Thirteen American women, undaunted by the proximity to the city of the battle front, where government troops were fighting rebellious chiefs, remained in Nanking today, after more than 100 persons had evacuated the Chinese capital. Eighty Americans, twelve Britons, and several Japanese subjects had fled from Nanking, dispatches said. Foreign residents remaining in the city were confident they were safe, and no further departures were expected.

GOES TO WASHINGTON TO ASK PENSION HIKE Coxe Will Present Local Resolution of Retired Federal Men. Robert S. Coxe, Retired Federal Employes’ Association secretary, of Indianapolis, was in Washington today to present a resolution to Congressman Louis Ludlow, indorsing the bill to amend the retired federal employes’ act, now pending in congress. Branch No. 4 of the association in this city, recently prepared resolutions including an amendment to the retirement bill, providing that compensation for retired employes be computed on basis of salary for the last five years, instead of ten years. According to Coxe all members signed these resolutions, which he took to Washington. Many retired federal employes have died in recent years. Os twen-ty-six retired Aug. 1, 1920, sixteen have died. WRITER DINNER SPEAKER Nicholson Asks Confidence in Public Officeholders. Meredith Nicholson, councilmanauthor, urged the public to “get rid of cynicism toward public officeholders” at a meeting of the Men’s Club of St. Paul’s Episcopal church Friday night. “We need to get rid of the prevalent cynicism concerning men in public office. There are no unimportant positions in government,” Nicholson said. The dinner was in honor of Mayor-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan. F. E. Raschig was toastmaster.

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Sheriff John Bingham (left) of Temple, Tex., is shown here with Arthur B. Crouch, former Texas grain broker, who is accused of the embezzlement of $160,000 in bank funds fourteen years ago, as they arrived in Los Angeles from New Zealand. Ater many years of search, Sheriff Bingham finally located his man at Helensville, N. Z., obtained extradition papers, and made the longest trip of the kind on record —17.000 miles—to effect his arrest. Crouch had become a leading citizen of Helensville during his years of residence there and mass meetings were held in a vain effort to prevent his return to the Ignited States.

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Negro Flees to Shelter of Porch, but Loses His Bank Roll. Bandits who ignored yells for help and who fired shots at their victims created a lively time for police Friday night and early today. Edward Lee, 25, Negro, of 720 North Senate avenue, was held up at North and Senate streets by two Negroes, Friday night. He ignored their guns and ran to 610 North Senate avenue where he began to ring a door bell and call for help. Undaunted, the two bandits followed him to the door and took $10.50 from him, he said. Albert Johnson, Negro, of 417 Bright street, was held up by a lone Negro bandit in the 300 block on Bright street. He yelled and ran when the bandit flashed a gun and the bandit fired three shots at him, but did not succeed in hitting or robbing him. Safe Balks Efforts A safe at a Standard Oil Company filling station at Oliver and River avenues was battered by yeggmen, but resisted attempts to open it. The Freeman hardware store at 1277 Oliver avenue, was entered by burglars who took padlocks, guns, knives and watches valued at SIOO. Lockers were broken open in the White City Aquatic Club’s boathouse. tied at Twenty-sixth street and the river, and whisky bottles

$15,000 IN CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT BY BOARD Alley Paving Predominates in Awarded Improvements. Public improvement contracts totaling $15,000 were awarded this week by the board of public works. The work will be done at the direction of City Engineer A. H. Moore. Contracts were: Hinesley avenue, Fifty-second to Westfield boulevard, grade and curb, Schwert Brothers, $1,872; Temple avenue, Thirtysixth to Thirty-seventh street, local sewer, $3,113; Euclid avenue. Thirty-fifth to Thirty-sixth streets, local sewer, Columbia Construction Company, $1,400; alley west of Capitol avenue, from alley north of Sixteenth street to Eighteenth street, concrete pavement, Schwcrt Brothers, $1,700; alley north of Sixteenth, alley west of Capitol to Boulevard place, concrete pavement, Schwert Brothers, $733; alley north of Slxt.v-third street, from Bellefontaine to point thirty-three feet east, concrete pavement, Abel Brothers, $880; first alley north of St. Clair street, from Pierson to Illinois streets, concrete pavement, Schwert Brothers, $599; second alley north of St. Clair, Pierson to Illinois streets, concrete pavement, Schwert Brothers, $935; alley west of Illinois street, McCarty to second alley south, concrete pavement, Abel Brothers, $1,100; first alley north of Watson road, Carrollton avenue to Guilford avenue, concrete pavement, Mead Construction Company, $1,360.

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were strewn over the decks, W. H. Lowe, 615 East Primrose avenue, reported to police today. Police believe parties have been held on the boat. Steal Radio Burglars stole the radio mechanism but left the cabinet at the home of William M. Russell at 3928 East Thirty-first street, Friday night. A diamond ring and $8 cash also were taken, bringing the total of loot to SIOO. Two watches and a ring, valued at a total of S4OO, were stolen from the home of Charles Stoutenburg of 1263 Singleton street by burglars. Robert Marlett, 1201 Broadway, attendant at a Shell filling station at White river boulevard and Washington street, was held up and robbed of $7 by a Negro bandit Friday night. The Negro is the same one who has held up almost a score of filling stations within a month, according to a description given by Marlett.

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FLOOD MENACE FORCES LONDON TO ACT QUICKLY Preparations for Onslaught of Thames Made by. City. Bu Vnitnl Press LONDON, Dec. 14. —London prepared for the onslaught of the flooded river Thames today while the entire countryside of England counted its damage in thousands of homec wrecked and crops destroyed by floods from a week of rains and gales. Although there still were isolated reports of ship disasters the weather in the channel and along the western coasts appeared to have Improved. Barriers were strengthened along a distance of twenty miles, where the Thames passes from Hammersmith through the heart of Lor4 don. Work crews were ordered to work night and day to prepare for the high tides expected to continue for four days beginning Monday morning. Anew concrete barrier was being constructed a quarter of a mip) along the Chelsea embankment, where only an iron railing sperates the road from the river. Other sections were being bolstered with sandbags. The entire area constantly was under patrol of guards. INDIAN HEADS TO MEET May Accept Dominion Status or Demand Complete Independence. h CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 14.—Preparations were pushed today for the momentous session of the Indian national congress at Lahore during Christmas week, when delegates are expected to decide whether to accept a scheme for dominion status or demand complete independence from Britain. Mahatma Gandhi presumably will hold the key to the decision of the congress and the advocates of Independence have been greatly encouraged by his recent cable to Fenner Brockway, secretary of the Independent Labor party, asking guarantees of Britain’s good faith.