Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1930 — Page 20

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PTWO ELDERLY WOMEN BADLY HURIJY CARS Struck While Crossing Streets, Victims Suffer Severe Bruises. Two elderly women were injured, cne seriously, when struck by automobiles at street crossings late Tuesday. Mrs. Marie Gillette, 80, of 19 North Oriental street, is in city hospital today suffering from injuries received when struck by a car driven by Ralph Alexander, 26, of 3414 West Washington street, at Pennsylvania and Washington streets. She suffered severe head cuts and bruises. When she crossed Twenty-third street and Capitol avenue, Mrs. Virginia Moore, 73, of 209 West Twen-ty-ninth street, was struck by an automobile, suffering bruises. The car was driven by Mrs. Mary M. Wagoner, 3523 West Twelfth street. Mrs. Moore was treated and taken to her home. Miss Florence Strong, 21, of 1633 Ashland avenue, is at city hospital today recovering from injuries suffered late Tuesday when she fell while getting off a street car at Illinois and Thirty-third streets. Face injuries were suffered by Mrs. Anna Ellis, 43, of 423 Kaufman place, when she fell on ice near the county jail Tuesday afternoon. CHAIN STORES GIVEN 30 PER CENT OF TRADE ——————— Chicago Report Shows Single Stores Do 50 Per Cent of Business. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—More than 30 per cent of the retail trade in Chicago is carried on by chain stores, according to a preliminary report of the census bureau based on data collected in the first na-tion-wide census of distribution, taken in connection with the regular census of 1930. Single-store independent establishments reported 50 per cent of the retail business, which the bureau said was “a proportion considerably smaller than that found in any of the other cities completed by the bureau up to this time.” The total number of stores was set at 43,625, which did a business of $2,153,626,553 in the preceding year. The yearly pay roll is $267,072,881, and the full-time employes totaled 171,749. GREEN SEEKS TO END TEXTILE MILLS STRIKE Urges Arbitration in Danville, Va., Dispute, but Owners Spurn Offer. By United Press DANVILLE, Va., Dec. 31.—The prolonged textile workers’ strike here seemed a long way from settlement today despite the suggestion of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, that the mill workers submit all the questions in the dispute to a board of arbitration. Speaking here Tuesday night, Green advised some 3,000 workers to return to work provided they were given the right to join the United Textile Workers of America. R. R. West, vice-president of the Riverside and Dan river mills, said the company management would continue its present policy in the controversy. Harry R. Fitzgerald, president of the mills, has refused to meet the union 'for conciliation, explaining he does not recognize the American Federation of Labor. DIVORCED IN 3 MINUTES Walks Into Reno Court; Says He’s “Henpecked;” That’s That. RENO, Nev., Dec. 31.—Leland E. Crossman of Olivet, Mich., walked into a Reno court Tuesday, complained he was “henpecked” and three minutes later went out with a divorce decree. Guilty of Nonsupport KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 31.—Clayton Wood, 22, was fined $1 and sent to the peqal farm for thirty days when convicted in city court of failing to provide for his wife and child. Testimony was offered to the effect that in two years Wood had given his wife only a few pieces of cheap clothing and that the child had received only 98 cents worth of baby food.

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PENSIONS FOR PASTORS Disciples of Christ Plan Will Go in Effect Thursday. Trustees of the pension fund of the Disciples of Christ here today said the new pension plan for ministers and missionaries will begin Thursday. Each minister will receive a pension equal to one-half his average salary after a normal period of thirty-five years participation. The pension is earned on payment of 2!’2 per cent of his salary and an amount equivalent to 8 per cent of the salary by the church. These payments also provide disability pensions for widows and minor children. More than 3,500 churches have committees appointed to organize and conduct the canvass for their portions of the $8,000,000 fund. More than a million dollars have been raised since the middle of November, and the entire amount is expected to be pledged by June 30, 1931. DISPUTE CASE DROPPED Dismissal Recalls Clash of Muncic Mayor and City Judge. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 31.—A case dating back to a controversy between Mayor George R. Dale and City Judge Frank Mann, has been dismissed. Prosecutor Joe H. Davis, who will retire from office Thursday, dismissed a case against Stanley Whetstone, which originally was filed in a justice of the peace .court when Dale refused to permit policemen to file charges in Judge Mann's court. After Judge L. A. Guthrie ruled in circuit court that a justice of the peace could not try criminal cases, the case was then taken to Mann's court. Liquor law violation was charged. Rabbits Hunted for Poor Fy Times Special PERU, Ind., Dec. 31. —A three-day hunt for rabbits to be given the needy for food was started today by seventy-five men.

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CHAIN GROCERY STORES LOOTED; ROB PHARMACY Drug Store Delivery Boys Also Are Victims of City Bandits. After ordering a variety of merchandise, a nervous bareheaded bandit early today robbed Frank L. Mullen, manager of an Atlantic & Pacific grocery, 823 North East street, of S4O. The bandit, who was armed, and a companion, who waited outside the store, ran after the holdup. Mullen told police the bandits asked for doughnuts and several varieties of meats. He then changed his order and bought eggs, which he jammed into his pocket and then drew the gun. After the robbery he forced Mullen to lie on the floor behind a counter. Taken for a ride by two Negro bandits Tuesday night, Homer J. Reed, 2826 Ruckle street, manager of a Standard grocery, 1850 North Alabama street, was returned to his store, where the bandits obtained S6O. Reed told police he was forced into the bandits’ car near Twenty-

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ninth Central avenue. He said when he offered the bandits two sacks of change they threatened to shoot him and forced him to give them the remainder of the store funds. Trio of youthful, well dressed bandits of which two pharmacy delivery boys were victims Tuesday, are sought today by police. John McCoy, 19, of 2624 Central avenue, employe of the Taylor pharmacy, 39 East Thirty-fourth street, was robbed of sl2 by the youths, he told police. Lloyd Pikes, 16, of 1125 West Twenty-eighth street, Haag Drug Company delivery boy, the second victim, said he was robbed of $1 by two of the bandits at Clifton and Udell streets. Trapped in the rear of his tire store, Harry Weghorst, 4401 East Washington street, Tuesday night was robbed of S7B by a Negro bandit. Other robberies reported: Miss Margaret Stevens. Marott hotel, sls; Albert C. Frits, pharmacy. Grant and Michigan streets. $8: Bradie Cupps, 415 Kentucky avenue, house ransacked, revolver stolen; H. T. Van Zant, 3539 Watson road, car looted of glove sample cases, valued at $300: W. G. Grisham. Terre Haute, clothing taken from parked auto. $65; Frank H. Nesbith. 5820 Haverford avenue, two tires; Cornelius Allison. 2801 Sutherland avenue, house ransacked, but no loot obtained; William Jared, 1232 Naomi street, pistol. S2O; Frank Barrows. 3737 Hillside avenue, house entered, loot unknown; Miss Martha Hollenbuck and Miss Betty Warner. Apt. 5. 316 East North street, clothes and money, SB9, and Truman Mess. 514 South Keystone avenue, radio testing set. SSO. The United States supplies the world with about one-fifth of its chemicals.

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