Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1931 — Page 3

APRIL 20, 1931.

TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL AT 54 AS 2 ARE KILLED Boy Rides Scooter Under Auto’s Wheels; Man Is Crash Victim, Roll of the year’s traffic deaths In the county today contained fiftyfour names, as two week-end victims were added to the long list. One of them was an 8-year-old boy, who rode his scooter to death between an auto’s wheels while playing with his brother and two other small boys Sunday afternoon. F m A The other was Kenneth Weishoff, 33 Le- > J I Grande avenue, a motorcylist, who was 1 killed instantly on State road 29, southeast of the city, in a collision early Sunday. The boy, Marvin Lee Boles, 1331 Sharon avenue, died in city hospital three hours after the car crushed him. Police held the driver, Ralph Leak, 21, of 3018 West Wren street, on a technical charge of manslaughter. Several witnesses said Leak was blameless. Falls Beneath Wheels The boys were playing “cops and speeders,” with Lee as the policeman in pursuit of the others. On their scooters Oliver Boles, brother of the dead boy, and Lawrence Golay, Leslie Golay and Robert Linville dashed ahead of Lee. The Linville boy narrowly missed crashing into Leak’s car but swerved aside. Lee couldn’t turn away. His body fell beneath one of the wheels and his chest was crushed. Survivors, besides the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Boles, and Oliver. are another brother, Gene, 7, and a sister, Mary, 4. Funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon. Weishoff’s motorcycle, carrying him and Miss Rose O’Connor, 17, of 1525 Linden street, collided with an auto driven by Harvey Marcus, 22, of New Augusta. Behind Weishoff rode Harold Carpenter, 22, of 1911 East Minnesota stret, on another motorcycle, which crashed into the wreckage. Three Others Are Injured Carpenter suffered injuries to the Wrist and legs; Miss O’Connor, and Marcus were injured. Weishoff was the son of Mr. and Mrs. August Weishoff. They and his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Weishoff, are the only survivors. Police today sought a man who fled from an auto bearing a Maryland license plate, after it crashed with another car at Fifty-second street and Keystone avenue early today. Also injured in week-end crashes were: John Meeurio. 75, of 909 South New Jersey street, cut and bruised on head, struck bv hit-and-run motorist at Bickine and East strets Sunday. Simon Grubb. 1725 Prospect street, cut on head, struck by auto at State avenue and Prospect street Sunday. Everett Hendricks. R. R. 11. Box 29; Miss Lele Bradford, 25. and Miss Elizabeth Arnott. 33. both of Anderson, slightly injured in collision at Arlington avenue and twenty-first street Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Patterson. 259 North Randolph street, passengers in midget auto, shaken up and bruised in collision at New York street and Drexel avenue Sunday night. Mrs. Ralph Bradford. 18. Mars Hill, head and body iniurles. collision at Sheffield and Morris streets. Calvin Hawkins. 57. of 408 East Merrill street, cut on head when struck by car at Virginia avenue and Pine street. Sunday rl William Wilkerson. 38. of 1022 North Noble street, cut above eye in collision Saturday night at Twenty-fourth street and Park avenue. Mrs. Catherine Mackey. 43. of 1509 South Pershing avenue, severe injuries Saturday when struck bv auto at Northview and College avenue.

STEEL FIRMS TO CUT WAGES, REPORT SAYS Manufacturers Considering: General Slashing; Steady Employment. By United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., April 20. Steel manufacturers here are contemplating a general wage reduction, it was reported today. The wage cut, reports said, is in line with proposed adjustments in industry which would provide more steady employment. Officials say that the gross annual income to workers under the new policy would be greater. Records show that most of the steel companies in this district, including Youngstown Sheet and Tube, the largest, already have effected slight reductions. The scale ranges between 10 and 15 per cent. Production schedules in the district for this week show a decided increase. TROOPS REVIEW SLATED Leslie and Fifth Area Corps Chief To Watch Maneuvers at Fort. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the Fith corps area of the United States army, will review the troops at Ft. Benjamin Harrison at 10 a. m., May 2, ;t was announced at the fort. Annual mid-western intercollegiate outdoor rifle competition will be held at the fort May 9, rifle teams from mid-west universities competing Publishers Meet in New York By United Press NEW YORK, April 20.—Approximately 500 newspaper publishers end editors were gathered here today from throughout the United States and Canada for the fortyfifth annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, which opens Tuesday.

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BY BEN STERN i * A fellow is In a tough spot when he can’t make up his mind whether j he wants to be Speaker of the naI tional house of representatives or Governor of Indiana—and that is j exactly the quandary in which Fred S. Purnell, Ninth district congressman. finds himself. At least, that is what his friends say. Purnell, ranking member of the house committee on agriculture, has made a profession of being the “farmer’s friend.” Listening to one of his speeches makes it appear that if it wasn’t for Fred Purnell and the Republican party the farmers would be bankrupt. Well, the records show that both he and the Republican party have been in power for some time and the farmers aren’t exactly jubilant, one commentator declared. tt tt a Politics made Purnell a farmer. This is the eighth consecutive ! time he has been elected to congress from the old Ninth district, composed almost entirely of agricultural counties. The last legislature played a mean trick on Fred when it put the industrial Vigo county into his new district, the Sixth. Fred didn’t want Vigo county and the county didn’t want Fred, but what could he do about it with Governor Harry G. Leslie determined on a reapportionment. The other day Fred visited Kokomo and expressed regret, the dispatches say, because Howard, Clinton, Carroll, and Tipton counties no longer are in his district. He would have prevented it if possible, he said. “Congressman Purnell,” the dispatches declared, “also indicated that he would be a receptive candidate for Speaker of the house succeeding Nicholas Longworth. He pointed out that the middlewest is entitled to the honor. * n tt “Mention from time to time of Purnell as a choice for the G. O. P. nomination for Governor in 1932, is not unpleasing to the congressman,” the dispatch naively added. And why wouldn’t it please him? For when Purnell seeks the Republican nomination for congress in 1932, he will find the sailing wont be as easy as in the old Ninth, of which he was “boss.” Noble Johnson of Terre Haute, defeated for re-election in November, is sure to fling his hat into the ring for the nomination, as will half a dozen others, and to Vigo county, the most heavily populated in the district, Purnell is an utter stranger. Incidentally, while at Kokomo Purnell refused to be drawn into the postmastership fight there. He announced he would take no action until the civil service commission announced the eligible list. The Watson faction in Kokomo is said to be opposed to the appointment of Ernest Hunt, G. O, P. county chairman. There is said to be a possibility that Purnell, to gain that senator’s suport for Governor, might desert Hunt. POSTOFFICE STONE TO BE PLACED WEDNESDAY Ceremony at Lebanon Will Be in Charge of Masons. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., April 20.—The Indiana Grand Lodge of Masons will have charge of the laying of a cornerstone for Lebanon’s new postoffice Wednesday. The principal speaker will be Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president. The building will be the only federal structure in Boone county. The government’s place on the program will be filled by Representative Fred S. Purnell. Special guests will be Postmaster Robert Bryson, Indianapolis, and James J. Patchell, Union City, president of the Indiana Postmasters Association. NAB BURGLAR SUSPECTS Two Are Arrested by Deputy Sheriffs Charged With Theft. Deputy sheriffs today held William Peterson and Floyd Fields, R. R. 8, Box 145, on charges of possessing stolen goods, following a raid on their heme Sunday. Merchandise valued at S3O, identified as having been stolen from the grocery of W. S. Gibson, Eeech Grove, was found, they said.

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CITY SEEN HIGH BIDDER FOR '32 U.SJIRSHOW Aviation Chiefs to Inspect Facilities of Competing Cities in Two Weeks. Civic leaders today were confident that Indianapolis has an excellent chance of bringing the 1932 national air show to this city. Officials of the National Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce will visit Indianapolis and Kansas City, both of which have tendered formal bids for the show in competition with Detroit, within the next two weeks to inspect facilities. The Indianapolis invitation was tendered at the 1931 show at Detroit which closed Sunday by Charles E. Cox, municipal airport, Indianintendent; Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis convention bureau manager, and Clifford G. Dunphy, Chamber of Commerce industrial commisison chairman. In event Indianapolis should be successful in winning the show, municipal airport would be used for demonstration flying and buildings at the state fairground for the exposition. However, show officials have suggested that large tents be placed on municipal airport and used to house exhibits of planes. URGE DEMOCRATS TO QUIT ANTI-DRY TALK Raskob Stand Feared Hindrance to 1932 Possibilities. By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance NEW YORK, April 20.—Friends of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt are considering urging National Chairman John! J. Raskob to abandon his anti-prohibition agitation, which they fear will so split the party, on prohibition that the Democratic presidential nomination next year will be worthless. The anxiety of the Governor’s friends has been increased by scores of letters from all sections of the country pledging support to Mr. Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination yet deploring attempts to make prohibition the chief issue of the 1932 campaign. The Governor has been forced to hire three additional stenographers to answer his steadily increasing mail, much of which comes from writers he does not know. School Athlete Hurt By United Press FOWLER, Ind., April 20.—A twelve-pound shot, dropped accidentally on the head of Robert Simons, 15, Monticello high school freshman, during a track and field meet here, inflicted a severe scalp wound.

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Mr. Fixit—There is a bad hole in the 400 block Grant avenue, which has been there about two years. Please try to get it repaired. MRS. N. V. S. This has beep referred to the street repair department and wiU be remedied as son as the department's schedule permits. Dear Mr. Fixit—ln grading our street about a year ago, the curbing was broken off in front of 2122 Ringgold street. Please see if you can get this fixed for us. MRS. A. J. B. City Entineer A. H. Moore has ordered an investiaatlon to determine the necesary repairs. Mr. Fixit—l have a house in the 1900 block Southeastern avenue. Near it is a lot covered with trash and an eye sore. What can be done about it? A CITIZEN. The complaint was investigated by order of Dr. Herman G. Morran. health board secretary. The inspector reported the sanitary board has screed to move the trash and cans from the lot. Aged Man Fatally Burned By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 20. John E. Champ, 84, is dead at his home from the effects of burns sustained when he slipped and fell on a hot stove. He was an employe of the National Carbon Company for thirty-six years. He leaves his widow and five children, Frank Champ, Anderson; Mrs. Gertrude Leonard, Nebraska; Mrs. John Quear, Carl and John Champ, this city; two brothers, Harmon Champ, Sheridan, and William Champ, Ingalls.

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ROBBERS LOOT PARKED CAR OF CANADIAN PAIR Jimmy Door and Get Away With $1,400 in Gems " and Clothing. Loss in robberies and holdups during the week-end, was valued at hundreds of dollars. Theft of Jewelry and wearing apparel, valued at $1,400 from their auto while it was parked at Meridian and Maryland streets Sunday night was reported to police by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kaiser of Toronto, Ontario. They were en route home from Florida. The car door had been jimmied and the car rifled. Police today were investigating the theft of S2OO from the room of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Edgar of Chicago at a hotel. The robbery was discovered Sunday morning. Frightened after they had succeeded in opening the safe, burglars early today fled the Fisher Brothers Electric Company offices, 1521 Shelby street, without obtaining loot. After trailing his auto several miles on Road 31, two bandits Sunday robbed H. S. Shepard, 4720 College avenue, of SIOO, near Carmel, he informed police. Other robberies reported: J. H. McCaslln. 2948 East Michigan street. Insurance collector. 8105 and a $l5O note; Raymond and 1-e Roy Dusing. 1307 East Vermont street. S3O; Posey Hylton. 1618 Holliday street. s4l: Kerth Marsh, 756 Pleasant Run boulevard. S3O; Sam Frankowitz. grocery at 1150 West New York 6treet, $25. and Horace Goodwin. 24 South Colorado street, clothes, valued at S6O.

STATE ORGANIZATION ON TAXATION FORMED Reducing Levies by Abolishing Some Offices Will Be Objective. By Times Special TEERE HAUTE, Ind., April 20.—A charter has been granted the Taxpayers’Protective Association of In-

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