Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1931 — Page 2

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‘4 IN MORNING' BATHING BANNED AT RAVENSWOOD Those Who Go A-swimming at Dawn Draw Howls From Cottagers. Hot weather may come and go—but when It’s 4 o'clock in the morn- ■; splashing of White River’s waters at Ravenswood is out of order. This was the word being passed today among summer cottagers at the river beach town as they again requested the town board to see that their slumbers are not disturbed by noisy, yelling bathers. The board is awaiting a decision of Judge Joseph R. Williams who had briefs filed and took an injunction case under advisement following a hearing in superior court two Saturday. Merchants and bathhouse owners are asking Judge Williams to restrain the town board from closing their establishments at 9 p. m and from collecting fees. The case was continued until July 27, Business men object to an ordinance authorizing collection of 10 cents from bathers and the collection of similar fees from autoists in the park near the beach. Contention of Charles O. Ford that fees are necessary to provide police powers for Ravenswood was met by the merchants Saturday night when they agreed to devise ways end means of financing the government for the remainder, of the year. A tax-raising ordinance may be enacted to meet the situation. CHECK ARTIST SUSPECT IS PINCHED BY POLICE • Woman Pharmacy Owner Points Out Alleged Thief to Officers. Mrs. Pearl Tucker, proprietor of a pharmacy at Hamilton and Michigan streets, who last week engaged in debate, both oral and physical, with police over a traffic violation, joined police early today in capture of an alleged check artist. She recognized Edward Grosse, 817 North Alabama street, she said, as the man who passed a bad check on another of her stores, on Madison avenue, some time ago. He presented a check for $15.65 in the Michigan street store, and she called police. Grosse, found hiding behind a telephone pole at Washington street and Hamilton atenue, is charged with issuing a fraudulent check, and vagrancy. AIRSHIP HITS FLAGPOLE Crashes In Takeoff Attempt; Pilot Unhurt, Passenger Near Death. 'By I nitnl Press CLEVELAND. July 20.—Weaver S. Johnson, 35-year-old Cleveland watchmaker, was reported to be dying in Berea hospital today, the victim of a freak airplane accident. Johnson, a passenger in an opencockpit plane flown by Lewis'Dryer, 21, was injured when the plane crashed into a fifty-foot flagpole on the pilot's third attempt to take off from an improvised landing field behind a roadhouse. Dryer, who holds a Class 1 transport pilot's license, was not hurt seriously, CONFIRM PAVING JOBS Widening Frojerls Given Approval of City Works Board. The works board today confirmed two important street, improvement resolutions, one for widening and paving Emerson avenue between Washington street and Brookville road, and another to widen Sflfp* teenth street, from Delaware to Illinois streets. The Emerson avenue improvement will cost about $31,788, of which the city will pay 75 per cent. The Sixteenth street resolution was necessary afer a previous resolution was rejected. DISPLAYS FISH EXHIBIT Huge Sharks. Octopus and Other Rare Specimens at Ripple. Man-eating sharks, porpoise, enormous turtles, octopus specimens and other exhibits of the little known inhabitants of southern ocean waters go to make up an interesting display brought to this city today by Russel Pipes, expert on south sea life. Pipes, who makes a specialty of lecturing and exhibiting his collection before college students decided this venr to make a short tour the middlewest between school semesters and will be at Broad Ripple park this week. ‘THERE IS SANTA CLAUS’ Chester Now Is Devout Believer in Optimism; And Why Not? Chester Baker. 3635 Rockville road, an employe of the United Press bureau in The Times building, is convinced there is no crime wave in Indianapolis. For eight hours Saturday, Baker's car was parked just out of the ’’prohibited'’ area. In the door of that car hung Baker's keys for car, home and whatnot. , Nobody touched it. 2 CHILDREN POISONED Drink Liquids Not Intended for Internal Use; Taken to Hospital. Two children today were recovering from effects of drinking liquids, not. intended for internal use. , Elnora Bills. 2. of 2730 James street, drank a quantity of lye solution and Lloyd George Vazant, Negro, 7, swallowed a mouthful of gasoline. Both were taken to city hospital for treatment. EDITORS WILL GATHER G. O. P. Group to Meet at Nashville on Oct. 2 and 3. Neil D. McCallum of Batesville. secretary of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, announced today that the fall meeting of the organization will be held Oct 2 and 3 at Nashville, Brown county. Walter H. Crim of Salem will head the program committee, while Samuel E. Boys, newly elected president, will preside.

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PARIS, July 20 —Princess Estelle de Broglie, the former Estelle Delores Alexander of San Francisco—who boasts her figure still is the prettiest among French nobility—planned today to file suit to recover S6O a month alimony, unpaid for twenty-two years. She married Prince Robert De Broglie in Chicago in 1906, when she

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Jumpy Case By United Press MONTEZUMA, Ta., July 20. —lt was like this, explained Howard Benson after his automobile swerved into a roadside ditch. "A mouse jumped on the steering wheel. I tried to catch it as it scampered about the rim of the wheel. The car swerved. That’s all there was to it." Benson wasn’t hurt. The car was. The mouse disappeared so nobody knows whether it was hurt.

FLAY UTILITY BOARD East Chicago Council Irked by Delay Given Insull. Conduct of the public service commission in the Calumet Railways abandonment case is condemned in a resolution passed by the East Chicago city council and on file with the commission today The resolution points out that the city favored abandonment of the Calumet Railways Ctreet Railway properties, an Insull unit, in East Chicago "because of the deplorable condition of right-of-way and equipment." Abandonment was authorized by the commission May 22 for completion July 1. Chairman John W, McCardle then extended time for abandonment without a hearing, this causing the censure. McCardle explained today he extended the time because the Calumet Railways felt they had a buyer for the property. They since have given up hope and the abandonment will proceed, McCardle said. He had extended the time fifteen days, he declared. ‘StartTublic work NOW,’ URGES MUELLER State Architect Points to Drop in Costs of Materials. With work in the new state highway department garage starting today, Otto Mueller, state architect, pointed out that now is the time to do needed public building at great economy. Total contracts for the new garage amount to $100,610, which is more than $15,000 below the estimate made last year. Mueller said. The construction work will employ seventy or eight men, he estimated.

PIPE WIELDER, 70, IS LODGED IN JAIL

Faces Assault Charge for Attacking Roomer in Rent Dispute, Tony Crauso, 513 East Norwood street, is 70. but he wields a pieOe of gas pipe as well and better than most of the younger generation. He was bound over to the grand jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill today. Nick Celia, 41. of 722 South East street, suffering from head and arm wounds, told Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer details of a battle that ensued after Celia moved from Crauso's room Saturday. Celia said Crauso demanded rent to the former's moving time, and when Celia refused to pay. Crauso grabbed a section of gas pipe and pursued him into the street Twice Crauso swung and as many times Celia fell to the ground. The third time Crauso swung, Celia saicMre hit the pavement and

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already had become famous as a concert singer. She began her remarkable career as a chorus girl some thirty years ago. The prince’s family objected to the match and the princess obtained a divorce in 1909. The romance and divorce of the shapely actressprincess caused a sensation. She was awarded S6O a month alimony and now says she never got it.

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Cancellation Mark to be Used on Letters on New Night Air MallHundreds of souvenir letters posted by stamp collectors will be carried on the first flight of the new night transcontinental air mail line to be opened today by Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc, A special cachet used for canceling letters carried on the first trip has been prepared by the Chamber of Commerce. First plane on the new line will leave Kansas City at 7 o'clock tonight and will arrive Here at municipal airport at 10:30 o'clock tonight. A large crowd of spectators is expected at the field. Leaving here ten minutes later, the plane will reach Newark, N. J., at 5:15 a. m. Westbound plane will leave New York at 7 p m., arrive here at 3:13 a. m. Tuesday, depart at 3:23 a., m., arrive in Kansas City at 7:15 a, m. and in Los Angeles at 8:53 p m„ requiring about twenty-three hours for the westbound trip. Speedy Northrop monoplane, with a top speed of about 170 miles an hour, will be used on the mail line. Fokker transport planes will be used as reserve planes. For the present, no passengers will be carried on the night air mail line. The first all-freight public air line in the United States will be opened Aug. 1 by T. and W. A, Freight flights will be made between Newark and Kansas City, with stops at Philadelphia. Harrlsburgh, Pittsburgh. Columbus, Dayten. Indianapolis and St. Louis. The tariff is expected to average cne cent a pound for each 100 miles. Death Laid to Alcoholism John Wingate, 38, of 1877 Shelby street, was found dead.at home Sunday night. Death w-as due to alcoholism. Coroner Fred Vehling said.

stayed there. Crauso, following through, then attacked him, beating him on the arms and body. Celia testified. Celia said he was saved from further beating by Harry (Stovepipe) Harris, Negro. 741 South East street, who with others in the vicinity had a hard task holding Crauso until police arrived.

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YEGGS BLAST SAFE AND GET CASH.PAPERS Valuable Documents Taken by Cracksmen From City Office. Yeggs who broke through a rear door of the Henry J. Amt Pickle Company, 1928 Shelby street, blew the safe and carried away valuable papers and $l5O in cash and checks, police were told This morning. The robbery was discovered when George M. Amt, manager of the firm, opened the doors early today. More than a dozen other robberies and holdups were reported to police over the week-end. A taxi driver's nerve balked one bandit’s attempt at a holdup Saturday night. Charles L. Schnebelt, 1214 East Washington street, said a Negro rode in his cab to the 700 block Minerva street, where he talked a few minutes with a Negro man and woman, and then asked to be driven to the 1100 block North Miley avenue, where he pointed a gun at Schnebelt. Flees in Bullet Hai! The latter dived into the cab, shifted gears, and, lying down in the seat out of the bandit’s view, drove away. Three bullets hit the rear of the cab The same Negro is thought to have been the one who an hour earlier held up Louis Cook, 2718 Bellefontaine street, Sinclair filling station attendant at Tenth and Locke streets, taking S4B. Mairen Warden, 1209 Kappes street, insurance company collector, told police he had .been robbed of S6O at the Kentucky avenue bridge over White river Sunday. Breaking into a soft drink saloon operated by Mike Cain at 1002 South West street, burglars took a SIOO radio, $lO in cash, and tobacco valued at $24. City Property Stolen W D. Griffis, assistant Gamewell superintendent, said 500 feet of cable, worth $l5O, i£ missing from the rear of the engine house at Sixteenth street and Ashland avenue. Donald Webb, Windsor, Mo., said clothing valued at SIOO was taken from his auto near the statehouse Sunday. Pat Ward, 1132 Brooke street, heard burglars near his home today and fired a. shot as they fled. Office equipment valued at SIOO is missing from the Enterprise Iren and Wire Fence Company, 1100 East Twenty-fourth street.

CHECKS BOUNCE; GETSTTOIO’ Judge Baker Hands Out Heavy Terms. Frequent visits to criminal court will warrant little sympathy from Judge Frank P. Baker, he demonstrated today. Particularly unsympathetic Is Judge Baker when the visits are as close together as those of Mark Huff. Huff canle into court today for the second time within a week, charged with issuing fraudulent checks, “You are back sooner than I expected,” said the judge, adding, "and you are going away sooner than you expect." The sentence was one to ten years on the state penal farm. William Parhan, 31, of 804t£ South Senate avenue, who last week confessed more than a hundred auto thefts and many robberies and holdups, and Russell Milton, 813 Church street, who admitted he was Parhan’s 16-,vear-old 'accomplice, were sentenced today, Parhan to fifteen years ip the state prison, and Milton to from one to ten years in the state reformatory, Peter Bennett, 31. Negro, Y. M. C A,, was sentenced to one to ten years on the state farm for vehicle taking, PIPE ORGAN TO CLUB Columbians Accept Gift of Water Firm Head. John C. Ruckelshaus, chairman of the house committee of the Columbia Club, has announced presentation of a de luxe auditorium model pipe organ to the club by Clarence H. Geist, Philadelphia, president of the Indianapolis Water Company. / A dedicatory program will beheld early in the fall, following installa- | tion of the organ, according to : Ruckelshaus. Acceptance was ratified by the board of directors of j the club, following Geist's offer. ■The instrument is similar to the one now in Geist’s Boca Raton I Club, located near Palm Beach, Fla. Troop Sponsors Lawn Fete Boy Scout troop No. 69, will ati tempt to clear the mortgage on j Utley hut, troop headquarters, at ! 3731 Boulevard place, with their annual lawn social Saturday at Thirty- ; fourth street and Capitol avenue

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Despite sweltering temperatures, a large crowd of Indianapolis society folk watched an exciting game between Rolling Ridge of Indianapolis and Camargo Polo Club of Cincinnati at the local field on Forty-sixth street Saturday. Camargo won, 3-2. The top photo shows Ficks of

Nine Die in Gusher Blaze; Thousands Periled by Blast By United Press MT. PLEASANT, Mich., July 20.—Struble No. 1, biggest gusher in the history of the Michigan oil field, was a roajing pillar of flame today, after taking nine lives when it went wild and caught fire. A carelessly dropped cigaret was blamed for the first major disaster since oil was discovered in Michigan. It is feared the death list may reach fifteen. All the victims died in hospitals Sunday and today. „ A call was sent to Oklahoma for cappers and fire experts, who may be brought here by plane if today’s efforts to check the fire fail.

Seething streams of fire were creeping dangerously near a 50.000gallon storage tank and workers battled all night to prevent anew conflagration. Flames Trap Crowd The tragedy occurred late Saturday, just after the well was “shot.” It "came in" with a flow of nearly 3,000 barrels a day. News of the big gusher spread rapidly and thousands came from nearby towns to see it. The crowd grouped closely about the column of spouting oil, unmindful of the streams of oil which poured from the well mouth, and were being collected hastily in storage tanks. Suddenly the area surrounding the well was enveloped in a flash o? fire. The air, heavily laden with explosive gas, became flame. Those nearest the center of the blast—one of the open storage tanks—fell writhing and screaming on the 1 ground. Others, their clothing aflame, ran screaming into the outer crowd, spreading fire to new victims. Streams of blazing liquid ran among the trees of the nearby forest and ignited tank after tank of stored oil. Pools of waste exploded* with a roar. Turns on “Creators’* It, appeared as if the gusher had turned unon its creators with ven- ; geance The men who “brought it in” were grouped with their families close about the danger area. Among those seared by the first blast were the well owner, Walter Lee McClanahan and his wife; E. J. Guy. general superintendent of the Rocsavelt Refining Company and his wife; Guy’s son, Robert, and his 18-year-old bride; Thomas Lamb, 28, driller of the well, and Mrs. Lamb and John Melvin, oil field superintendent, and his 13-year-old daughter. George Kelly. 43, owner of the farm on which the “strike” was made saw his visions of sudden ! wealth turn to tragedy. His wife j was burned so seriously she is not! expected to live and he is in a seri- ! ous condition. Child Is Victim : The crowd, plunging in a panic to | escape the fiery blast, recovered its j senses soon enough to prevent i further tragedy. Many heroes, only a few of them known, raced from points of safety into the flames to drag back the seared victims, j Charles Vopsey, pipe line superinj tendent of the well company>. ran ! into the flames repeatedly guiding | trapped victims to safety though his own clothing was ablaze, J, R, Fitsi gerald. former professor of geology

Camargo carrying the ball down the field, pursued closely by a Rolling Ridge player. Lower left, Tom Ruckelshaus at an amplifier microphone explaining the play to fans. Seated with him, from left to right, were; Mrs. Timothy Goodman of Cincinnati, Mrs. Samuel Sutphin,

at Ohio State university, directed the rescue work until he fell unconscious from burns. Two lives were lost when the flames trapped young Mrs. Robert Guy, 18. Her baby was to have been born today. An operation failed to save the child. Aged Man Dies By United Press WARSAW, Ind., July 2d.—J. D. Miller, 77, Okene. Okla., died of apoplexy, superinduced by heat, while milking on the farm of William Teghtmeyer, near here, where he was visiting.

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POPE ANSWERS IN FASCIST BOW Says Controversy Is Due to Lack of Understanding, By United Press VATICAN CITY, July 20.—The pope, in an address to the congregation of sacred rites Sunday, referred to the Vaitcan-Fascist controversy in mild terms, and attributed the Fascist attitude more to lack of understanding than to malice. He prayed for a "miracle” so that God would enlighten them. “One of the miracles we need at the present time,” he said, "is that the blind may see, that those who deliberately do not want to see, may see, and those who do not understand, may understand. “Those who do not see or do not understand are deserving of pity, because no one probably has taught them what they do not know, or they had no chance of knowing, studying and enjoying truth as we do. This ought to force on them the moral necessity of not talking or pronouncing judgment on what they do not know. We ought to ask such miracles of God, who can do everything.”

TOLY 20,1931

DEATH CLAIMS 4 LONG-TIME CITY RESIDENTS Aged Women’s Funerals to Be Held Tuesday at Their Homes. Death claimed four aged residents of Indianapolis, all women, over the week-end. They were; Mrs. Hattie Sirp. 2615 Shelby street, grandmother of Lieutenant Frank E. Owen, h?ad of the police accident prevention bureau. Miss Minnie Snyder. 11l East St. Clair street, for thirty years an employe of the Kahn Tailoring Company. Mrs. Sophia Cohn. 507 East Eleventh street. Mrs. Mary Borcherding. a native of Germany, and a resident here almost a half century. Mrs. Sirp had been a resident of the south side for sixty years. Her husband, Richard Sirp. who survives her. has been in city hospital eight weeks recovering from injuries suffered in an auto accident Funeral services will be at her grandson’s home at 2651 Manker street at 2 Tuesday afternoon. Other survivors are two sotr, Harry and Edward Owen, and another grandson. Kenneth Owen, of Venice, Cal. Funeral for Miss Snyder wii bn at 3 Tuesday afternoon. Survivors are a sister, Miss Emily Snyder of Indianapolis, and two brothers, A1 fred of Los Angeles, and William Snyder of New York. Last rites will be at 2 Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Cohn. A daugh ter, Miss Minnie Cohn, and a. son. Ernest, both of Indianapolis, together with three sisters, survive her Funeral services for Mrs. Bor cherding will be at 2.30 Tuesday afternoon. Three sons, William, Carl and Frank, and a granddaughter, Frances Borcherding, survive her. 90 RESERVE OFFICERS REPORT FOR TRAINING Lieut. Col. Charles W. Mason Is in> Charge at Ft. Harrison. More than ninety officers of the army reserve, corps reported today to Ft. Benjamin Harrison for two weeks’ training under Lieutenant Colonel Charles W Mason of Ft. Hayes, Columbus, O. The reservists and their instructors will occupy the barracks of the Third fiield artillery, which now is at Camp Knox, Ky., for summer training duty. Classes were organized today in map reading and sketching, bayonet instruction, scouting and patrolling, range practice and infanty drill. DEATH TAKES OFFICER John D. Ewell, Policeman Since 1924, Succumbs at Home. John D, Ewell. 46, a policeman since 1924, died at his home at 1063 West Fifty-fourth street, early today, after a long illness. Mr. Ewell had been on leave of absence from the police department since September, 1930. and had been ill since then. He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Elsie Ewell. Funeral arrangements have not been made.