Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1931 — Page 2
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WOMAN KILLED AS AUTO DIVES OFF HIGHWAY Driver Says Approaching Car Forced Him Over Embankment. With the death of a woman in an automobile crash on the National road late Monday night, the auto toll in Marion county today stood at eighty since Jan. 1. Miss Viola Marshall, 18, of Ben Davis, died in the city hospital admitting room after the car in which
she was riding struck a road marker and skidded over an embankment at the western limits of the city in a driving rain. Chester Woodruff,
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1812 Dexter avenue, driver of the car, was slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after investigation by Coroner Fred W. Vehlins. He told police another car headed toward Indianapolis was on the wrong side of the road forcing him to drive his car off the pavement. Three Others Injured A friend of Miss Marshall, Miss Hazel Porter, and two sisters Misses Lavcre and Freda Marshall, all of Ben Davis; were injured and taken to city hospital. Woodruff was not hurt. According to police the group had been at Woodruff’s home making plans for Woodruff's marriage to Miss Porter, which is to take place soon. Miss Marshall was graduated from high school a few weeks ago and had been employed In an aviation office at the municipal airport. She was to have attended college in the fall. John E. Head, 71, of 5226 Southeastern avenue, was injured fatally Monday afternoon when his car was struck by an Indianapolis and Southeastern traction car as his car stalled on the'tracks in front of his home. Mr. Head died in Methodist hospital shortly after the crash. Rites on Wednesday Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the home and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors are two brothers, George A. Head of Louisville, Ky„ and Oscar Head of Owensboro, Ky. When his car crashed into the Fall Creek bridge on Keystone avenue, Fred N. Richards, 1024 North Rural street, early today sustained only slight Injuries. The car was demolished. Others injured in auto crashes: Miss Mary Katherine Glllmore, 18, R. R. 12. Box 374, ri(?ht lest and head injuries; Mabel Eads. 5. of 844 Church avenue, chest Injuries; Mrs. Louise 6iersdorfer, 30. of 1134 Central avenue, lei? and face lacerations, and Willard Hawkins, radio patrolman, bruises.
YELLOW PAINT; SAFETY Correct Marking of Pavements Is Urged by State Judge. Plenty of yellow paint on pavements to show proper traffic lanes is the solution of the city safety problem, Gus Mueller, chief hearing judge in the drivers’ license division of the state motor vehicle bureau, advised today. Mueller and James W. Carpenter, division chief, are preparing to make traffic surveys for Gary and Marion. The latter was requested by Mayor Jack Edwards. Increased use of yellow paint will be recommended, Muller said. • - . Storm Causes Damage Su United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., June 23.—A wind of almost cyclonic proportions wrought heavy damage at the Jack Sicks farm, five miles south of here, late Monday, but no other damage was reported. A large barn and the house were twisted by the wind. Contents of both were hurled about.
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’GATOR YIELDS TO TWO-END HANDLING
‘Watch His Eye, but Don’t Forget His Tail,’ Is Tamer’s Advice. “Just watch their eyes and you can handle ’em.” That from an expert is advice on the precise manner to use when you want to make an alligator behave himself. The expert is Katherine Reid, diminutive blond who has been “monkeying around with alligators” ever since she was big enough to tramp the Florida everglades in which she was reared. Slight, weighing only ninety pounds, she has learned from long experience the trick of WTestling and throwing a 250-pound gator and otherwise handling him in tricks. She came here with twelve gators for an exhibition at Broad Ripple. Experience has been a hard teacher. Her work has three times brought her broken arms, resulted in a skull fracture, caused her two broken ribs—not to mention numerous lacerations. Watch Both Ends “The trouble about the beasts that you have to watch both ends of them all the time. I have seen them knock a horse down with one lick of their tail and then kill him with a tail swipe on his head. Anytime they hit you with their tail you can bet you have a broken bone some place. I’ve been hit with their tail numerous times. Once I w r as hit on the leg and knocked down. 1 got a broken leg for that. As I hit the ground another tail swipe fractured my skull. I w’as dragged from the pit by a helper.” She has a scalp scar almost the entire length of her head from that wound. 4 Now she doesn’t regard her work as dangerous because “I’ve learned how to watch them.” Keep Away From Tall “All you have to do is stay away from their tail and then watch their eyes to see what they’re going to do with their mouth. Fortunately, I’ve never been caught in one’s mouth. That almost always means finis, and it always is certain that you’ll lose whatever part of your body they crush down on.” “Is it possible to make pets of them?” she was asked. “Emphatically, no! The reason is they don’t seem to recognize people, therefore they recognize no friend.” Miss Reid uses her pale blue eyes in hypnotizing the beasts, but doesn’t regard that as the greatest of her feats. Hold ’Em Still You’re got to get hold of them and hold them still before you can hypnotize them,” she says. “Then it is comparatively easy. But the trick is in getting hold of them. Oh yes. I can hypnotize them and make them lie in a stupor for hours, but I’ve got to hold them down first.” The alligator girl will be at Broad Ripple for an exhibition Sunday. “AH you have to do is watch me do the work,” she says. “Then I’ll be glad to let you try your hand.” IT WILL BE EXACTLY —’ One Operator Can Give Whole City Correct Time With Invention. By Science Service NEW YORK, June 23.—A single telephone operator will soon be able to give the correct time to a whole city by means of new equipment devised by the Bell Telephone Laboratories here. Every quarter of a minute a tone signal sounds in a circuit into which all inquiries for “Corect time, please,” are plugged. Just before the time signal sounds a special operator speaks and tells the exact time to be announced.
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Girl Drowns in Creek BRAZIL, Ind., June 23.—Mary Nicoson, 15, drowned in Walnut creek seven miles east of here.
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WALES IS 37 TODAY, STILL WITHOUT BRIDE Many Believe ‘Eddie’ Will Abdicate Throne in His Brother’s Favor. LONDON. June 23.’—The prince of Wales observed his 37th birthday today, unmarried. For nearly twenty years, ever since the prince approached a carrying age, public opinion has expected him to v.ed. Almost every eligible girl in the world has been suggested as his bride. He has turned them all down, and today is as far from married bliss as he ever was. From sources close to the royal court, it is understood there is growing concern about the prince’s apparent lack of interest in marriage. King George is 66 and partly due to his age and partly to illness he no longer can take the active interest in affairs of state that he once did. There is an opinion that tne time is not far distant when the British throne will be vacant. The question is, will the prince
of Wales become king? It Is known that he is not fond of the idea, although all his life has been devoted to the idea that one day he must become a ruler. The British constitution does not provide that the king must marry, but there is an unwritten law that he should do so, if only to carry on the, line of succession. Observers believe that if the prince ever is going to marry it must be soon, because he is rearing the dividing line between youth and middle-age, and because it would be a matter of policy to mount the throne accompanied by a queen. On the other hand, there Is a fairly large section of the public convinced that the prince never will marry and never will become king. With absolutely no official basis for its theories, it believes that when the time comes the prince will abdicate in favor of his brother, the duke of York. ZONING POST UNFILLED Mayor Considers Successor to Mrs. J. H. Taylor, Resigned. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today was considering appointment of a city plan commission and zoning appeals board member to succeed Mrs. James H. Taylor, who resigned because of impaired health. Mrs. Taylor served on the two boards under the Shank, Duvall and Slack administrations, as well as in the present administration.
BLIMP BATTLES FIERCE STORM OVER CHICAGO Outrides Lightning, Rain in Safety as Four Die on Earth. CHICAGO, June 23.—For more than two hours the Goodyear blimp Mayflower was tossed about over Chicago Monday night in the grip of a terrific rainstorm that took four lives and caused much property damage. Thousands of north side residents watched the blimp's progress and deluged police and fire departments with reports of its threatened destruction. Although watchers reported the ship barely was skimming tall buildings in its battle against wind and rain, R. E. Greene, Evanston, a passenger, said it never was lower than 1,000 feet and in no distress. The blimp had been carrying passengers and was returning to Curtis field when the storm broke suddenly and poured an inch of water over the city in seventeen minutes.
Besides Greene, two pilots and a mechanic were in the craft. During the storm, Donald Keller, 12, was killed by lightning as he hunted golf balls on a golf course; one woman fell dead of heart failure as she waded across a downtown street, and two persoAs were killed in traffic accidents due to the storm.
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Bond for Alleged Slayer RENSSELAER, Ind., June 23 Newland onion growers have provided $6,500 bond releasing William Rlsner penning trial on a charge of being an accessory in the slaying of Ernest Prouty, Jasper county deputy sheriff. Rlsner had been in Jail here three months.