Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1931 — Page 3

APRIL 18, 1931

GIANT TEXAS GUSHER AFIRE; FIVE INJURED Fear Victims Will Die; 60,000 Oiler Set Ablaze After It Blows In. B’> r nilrd Press KILGORE. Tex., April 18.—Fire reged today about the largest gusher in the next east Texas oil field and the six 10.000-barrel storage tanks adjoining it. Five men had been critically burned. None is expected to live. The Upchurch and Allen No. 2 Brightwell well, a gusher of 60,000 barrels daily capacity, was ignited Friday night irom flames which ttarted in the battery of oil tanks. The blaze prcad quickly to all r uipment in the vicinity. It was believed to have started from a mr.ich carclCo:;ly tossed away by a smoker. Part Owner Is Burned Critically No other wells are in the iminediate vicinity, so it was hoped to prevent the fire spreading wholesa'-; destruction. C. E. Upchurch, part owner of the r 11. was standing with R. C. Holcomb. a pipe line worker, when flames leaped from the oil tanks, enveloped them instantaneously and ignited the well. Upchurch's clothing was burned av.ay by the first blast, and he was critically hurt. Holcomb saved his life by closing his eyes and mouth, keeping out the deadly fumes, and staggering to temporary safety. Workmen Near Death E. T. Greene, a workman, was taken to thb Tyler hospital with Upchurch. His body was badly eep.red. J. W. Smith is near death in a Kilgore hosptial. L. H. Gray, vice-president of the Sabine Pipe Line Company, is in a Longview hospital. The giant producer blew in out of control early Friday. It finally was brought under control early last night. A few minutes later flames burst from the oil tanks.

The City in Brief

Police today sought Sidney Harris, Negro, as the man who stabbed Mrs. Margaret Anderson, 30, Negro, 446 Blake street, Friday night. “Television, the Miracle of the Age,” will be the subject of an address by Clement L. Stanford of Wabash college at the First Baptist church Monday night. Stanford will give a demonstration on a receiving set that he has constructed. Msgr. Francis Gavisk is in Providence hospital at Washington suffering from a cold, according to information received here today by friends. Father Gavisk is in Washington to attend the national Red Cross meeting. Members of the Indiana Central college choir will give a concert at 8 Tuesday night at the Second Friends church. Roy G. Ross of the religious education department of the Disciples of Christ will deliver the commencement address of the Marion county Christian church School Union Monday night at the Central Christian church. David Liggett, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund, will speak Tuesday noon on “How Indianapolis Has Met Its Unemployment Situation" before the Rotary Club at the Claypool. Civil service vacancies announced by Henry M. Trimps, local secretary, include: Junior landscape architect, assistant seed loan agent, junior technical assistant (fish culture) and home extension agent (Indiana service). Shortridge high school boys' debating team won from Walnut Hills of Cincinnati in discussion of compulsory unemployment insurance legislation at Shortridge Friday night. Members of the Shortridge negative team were Curtis Plopper, captain; Charles Feibleman, Charles Johnson and Edward Humston, alternate. Judges were the Rev. Alpha H. Kenna, Garret Bates and Sherwood Blue. Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell, mine expert, formerly connected with the Guggenheim mining interests, will speak at the Scientech Club meeting Monday noon at the Lockerbie. Two suits seeking damages totaling $35,000 for permanent injuries received in an automobile accident were filed Friday afternoon against James Yuncker, 5323 North Meridian street, in superior courts one and four by Mr. and Mrs. Toy H. Jones. 2926 School street. Active Mason Dies By Tima Special LEBANON, Ind., April 18.— Funeral services will be held Sunday for William L. McKinley, 54, active in Indiana Masonry, and a veteran employe of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Cos., who died at his home here. Two of Family Die By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind., April 18.— Within a period of five hours, scarlet fever caused death of two children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harter. The children were Caroline Marie, 23 months old? and John, 4 years old.

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Secrets of Makeup to Be Revealed by Expert at Times School. You can be beautiful. V. E. Meadows says so. Who is this Meadows, who thinks he knows all about it? Why, he’s the internationally known beauty expert, who will conduct The Times beauty school in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel, starting at 2 o'clock next Thursday afternoon. The school will be held Thursday.! Friday and Saturday afternoon at 2with a night session at 8 Friday. Meadows will explain and illustrate the proper use of cosmetics, as applied to different types and, faces. He will polrt out the correct' HOME SHOW TO CLOSE TONIGHT Capacity Crowd Is Expected During Final Hours. With every exhibitor keyed to a pitch to greet a capacity crowd, the Realtors Home Show opened its doors today for its final day’s exhibition. The show will close at 10:30 tonight. Albert E. Uhl, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, said the tenth annual exhibition has been one of the most successful held in the city. “The influence of the show will not terminate with its conclusion tonight. Exhibitors expect to benefit from its work for months to come,” Uhl said. The model home, sunroom and porch exhibits, and the daily cooking school are highlights of the show. The final day’s program was a test to “household furnishings’’ as exhibitors in this line took the center of the stage. A short circuit Friday in a booth created a slight furror. The blase was extinguished by city firemen on duty at the fairground with only slight damage to the booth. BOYIJUREOI CMS Car Driver Flees, but Police Hold Companion for Drun A small boy was injured slightly today in an accident after which the driver of one car was charged with drunken driving. In the collision at Pine and Michigan streets, Charles Henry, 11, riding with his parents, Mr.'and Mrs. T. J. Henry, 621 Rochester street, suffered cuts and bruises. The driver of the other car got out, gave a false name, police say, and fled. His companion was charged with drunkenness. The driver, Ora Glore, 1567 Broadway, was arrested at his home later. Floyd Suhre Jr., 5, Southport, was cut on the head in an auto collision Friday night on Madison road, six miles south of the city. George Weimer, 35, R. R. 9, Box 302, driver of the auto wiiich struck and injured fatally James H. Deery a week ago, was arrested Friday night on a manslaughter charge. Educators Convene By Times Special MARION, Ind., April 17. Dr. Lura Zirbes, member of the Ohio State university faculty, made the principal address today at a meeting under the auspices of the Marion Primary Council. Several hundred educators from nearby cities attended. Following registration. visitors were taken on a tour of the school buildings.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

U. S. HAS GONE TARIFF 'LIMIT.' ASSERTS SNELL Living Conditions Stimulated Artificially, Declares Speaker Candidate. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 18.—Declaration by Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, a Republican candidate for Speaker, that tariff legislation has “gone the limit” has created a favorable reaction among congressmen and senators now in Washington. Because he heretofore has been such a devout conservative, Snell’s speech before the St. Lawrence County Society in New York is regarded as a further bid for the support of progressive Republicans in his fight fer the speakership. Snell asserted that through the protective tariff system the United States artificially has stimulated and maintained a higher standard of living than in other countries. He predicted that in the next few decades living conditions in the United States and throughout the world would be nearer the same level. Senator James Couzens (Mich.) independent Republican member of the finance committee which writes the senate versions of tariff laws, said. “Generally speaking, I think Mr. Snell is correct. “There may be some exceptions and I do not intend that my statement shall be conclusive in all respects, but jve' have gone the limit on artificial stimulation of living conditions.” GOING BACK TO OPERA Ernestine Schumann-Heink to Revive Her Old Wagner Roles. By United Press NEW YORK, April 18.—Ernestine Schuman-Heink has accepted an invitation to revive several of her .roles in the Wagner operas at the Metropolitan Opera House next season, George Engles, her manager, revealed today. Mme. Schumann-Heink first joined the Metropolitan in 1899. She has been singing in public for fifty-four years.

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BY BEN STERN. It JTARION county Republicanism has come to a fine star' of affairs when John L. Duvall, for* mer mayor, who recently completed a thirty-day jail sentence for violation of the corrupt practices act; members of his discredited administration, and wheel horses of the Coffin organization, such as Ira M. Holmes, become leaders of a “reform” movement. Those Republicans who never have been allied to George V. Coffin and his organization, and who have led various movements to oust him as “boss,” do not know whether to laugh or cry at the temerity of members of the above group in labeling themselves “reformers.” # It is without a doubt a most ludicrous situation, and the real reason for the sudden “clean politics” consciousness of the new “reform” group lies in the question asked by Holmes at the first iheeting Wednesday night: “Will the people support an organization headed by Coffin?” There was a chorus of nces and that explains in detail the new “reform” movement in the Republican party in Marion county. ' Holmes, it will be recalled, has been election commissioner in Marion county for ten years. He was appointed by Coffin to the position which pays $3,000 an election, as the vouchers show. a a a “Coffin is a good organizer,” said Holmes, “but a situation has arisen where I don’t believe the party can win with Coffin.” He went on to term Clyde E. Robinson, present chairman and county treasurer, just a messenger boy for Coffin. The tenor of all speeches was “w r e can't win with Coffin,” although all praised his leadership in the past. This brings to mind some old saying about the devil -which went: “When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.”

BUSSES TO RUN NORTH FROM 6ISTSTREET Central Avenue Line to Be Extended During Trial Period. Peoples Motor Coach Company will operate an extension of the Central avenue bus line from Sixtyfirst street north on Central avenue to Riverview avenue for a ninety-day trial period. Order for this operation was passed by public service commissioners at their conference Friday afternoon. After the trial period, report will be made on profit or loss of the extended line and the extension will be ordered continued or abandoned. Elgin. Joliet & Eastern railway was authorized to ourchase the Griffith <fc Northern Railroad Company in Lake county. Terms of purchase were not set out In the order. Frank E. Larne was denied permission to operate a Lafayette to Frankfort bus line. Lon F. Payne was granted a certificate for a Muncie bus sendee. Westville Water Company was authorized to issue 11.900 shares of common and 17.400 shares of preferred stock. The company Is newly organized and the money raised will be used to finance the plant. Capital Greyhound Lines. Inc., was authorized to issue 750 shares of no par value common stock and transfer 745 shares to the Central Greyhound Lines. Contract for street lighting between Plainfield and the Interstate Public Service Company was approved. AGED VETERAN DIES Greenwood Man, 92, Served Through Civil War. Funeral services for David Whitenack, 92, Civil war veteran and oldest resident of Greenwood, who died Thursday, will be hel’d at 2:30 Monday at Greenwood. Burial will be in the Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Whitenack, who was captured by Confederates in the being held in the Andersonvjlle prison, later escaping, was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Greenwood prior to his retirement in 1896.

Sea Hop Ahead

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A star of the st and radio, charming Marion Eddy expects soon to join the aeronautical . onstellation. The American actress, pictured here in the cockpit of her plane at Brooklands, England, plans a trans-Atlantic flight from London to New York in the near future. She is well known as a pfiot of amphibian planes. Movie Stars’ Honeymoon Over HOLLYWOOD, April 18.—Charles Farrell and Virginia Valli, motion picture players, who were married in New York last February, were back in Hollywood today after a honeymoon In Europe.

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‘JAKE’ POISONED VETERANS GET DISABILITY AID New Ruling Makes Former; Soldiers Eligible for U. S. Allowances. By Scripps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 18.—War veterans who have become disabled through “jake paralysis” are made eligible to disability allowances from the veterans’ bureau, by anew ruling based upon an opinion by Attor-ney-General William Mitchell on blindness resulting from poison alcohol. “Jake paralysis" is a disease which this far has baffled cure. It is caused by drinking adulterated Jamaica ginger, and became an epidemic in parts of the middle west, southwest and south in 1930. It especially was serious in Oklahoma and challenged the efforts of Senator Elmer Thomas of that state to obtain a ruling from the veterans’ bureau, authorizing regional offices to issues disability allowances to veterans who were its victims.