Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1931 — Page 9

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Pity the ‘Hoss 400’—the Tale of ‘My Operation’ Is Coming

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Colleoni’s steed shown in the Ipft photo while under the influence of “Dr.” Graf’s comforting hand and a saw as he undergoes

JOIN THE FIGHT OVER BROWN DERBY

It’s on Again, So Sharpen Up Your Pencils and Get in Trim. It's here again! What? Why the dizziest, wooziest, nonpolitical, nonsectarian, melee of the age. It’s the 1931 edition of the Brown Derby. Yep, all prettied up like the zebra on anew merry-go-round comes the announcement today from tl'*> keepers of Mr. Sweeney’s morgue that the Brown Derby will gallop over the city in an effort to select 1931’s most distinguished citizen in Indianapolis. And what a derby it promises to be this year! Whatta derby! Just think! The winner will be crowned the night of Sept. 11 —Indianapolis night—at the Indiana state fair. Get on Your Marks! He will be topped with the royal headpiece on that night at 8 p. m. But that’s not all, loyal subjects of the tophats, for the winner besides the coronation will receive from The Indianapolis Times a bronze plaque as his straw lid is discarded for the coronet of the community. The king of 1930, George .Winkler, will abdicate his throne. But the abdication of King George just is a thought, for deep comes the rumble that the ex-sheriff of Marion county desires one more term under the dandruff-dipper. Then, too, comes the word that the backers of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, runner-up for the skypiece of 1930, may enter the lists. But, there, ’tis unfair to other entrants to make mention of problematical candidates, for the derby track is broad and open to every one. Get Set! Ready! Ballots, starting Saturday, will be printed in The Times. The contest has no rules. Ballots can be cast with machine-gun rapidity up to 9 a. m. Sept. 10. Repeaters are as welcome as they are in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan. Yeah! It’s here again, the BROWN DERBY, and just waiting to gird some noble dome. Whittle off the lead pencil, fill the fountain pen, and get ready to write your candidate’s name until your sw’eat-band drops. The battle’s on this Saturday. CUT PRICE ON POOR RELIEF BASKETS $1.22 Lower Grocery Figures Will Mean Saving for Township. Prices on three classifications of Center township poor relief are being reduced a total of $1.22, Miss Hannah A. Noone, trustee, stated today. Lower food prices make the decreases possible. The basket for families of five members or more was decreased from $4.90 to $4.25; a reduction of 30 cents makes the basket for families of three to five members cost $3, and a decrease of 17 cents fixes the price of the two-member baskets at $2.08. Quantity and quality of food will remain the same, according to Miss Noone. The poor relief plan now in operation will be continued, at a cost of about $40,000 a month, she said. OVERTURNS BOOZE CAR Driver Gets It in Barnyard and Soon Finds Himself in Cell. Failure to make a turn on Fortysecond street off state road 52 today cost Ralph Metzger, 23, of 1405 Spann avenue, a load of olcohol and resulted in his arrest on liquor transportation charges early today. Bringing in the alcohol, presumably from the Chicago region, Metzger overturned his roadster at the intersection. He got the car wheels and rolled it into the barnyard of J. E. Meyer. Mrs. Meyer notified deputy sheriffs, who made the arrest. They said they found twentyseven gallons of liquor 4n the car. Kiwanians Hear Ludlow r.yj Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 20. Louis Ludlow, Seventh district Representative In congress, spoke before the Noblesville Kiwanis Club at its luncheon, at the local park on “Men I Have Met in Washington.”

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“his operation” at the John Herron art institute. The right photo finds Mrs. Robert Mauk, 321 North Oakland

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BY BEN STERN IT is rather strange that during all the 'present discussion of Democratic gubernatorial and senatorial possibilities, the name of John Fredrick does not crop up. Yet a year ago he was being advanced for everything from state chairman up and down the line. If nothing else, the Kokomo manufacturer is the best example of the adage that business success does not necessarily assure political success. Fredrick would be forgotten today if#it were not for the reports that John DePrez, Shelbyville publisher, who is being advanced for state chairman, has indicated to friends that he espouses the manufacturer for this post. / The same factors which kept Fredrick from becoming his party’s nominee for senator in 1926 and for Governor in 1928 will keep him from again becoming a really formidable figure in Indiana politics. And these are two—first, although of boundless ambition, he lacks the ability to “follow through,” second, the quality and character of his supporters. n u u Fredrick has failed in politics at the crucial moment. Last year his was the brain back of the movement to supplant Chairman R. Earl Peters with Lee Bays of Sullivan. He promised to deliver a specified number of votes at the state reorganization meeting and failed. Bays’ supporters were unanimous in blaming the defeat upon the manufacturer’s inability to perform. “He likes to sit around and act the part of the executive, but he can’t deliver,” was their verdict when Peters was elected by half a vote. In the senatorial primary of 1928 he lacked fewer than 3,000 votes of tying the leader and went into the convention cocksure that he would be the nominee. nun But Albert Stump, a comparative newcomer, who has both the ambition and the ability to go in and fight, won the nomination. In the 1928 gubernatorial primary, Fredrick got 72,874 votes to 122,223 for Frank C. Dailey. His friends shouted that he would be the choice of the convention, but Dailey was nominated on the first ballot. No one questions Fredrick’s executive ability. As an index year after year he has been re-elected chairman of the State Chamber of Commerce. But he seems unable to “follow through.” Injuries Cause Death BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 20. Automobile crash injuries suffered several days ago resulted in the death of Miss Louise Mattingly here. Miss Mattingly, who formerly lived in Terre Haute, attended Indiana university here.

•QUICK, WATSON—’ Japanese Studies Hoosier Hokum

Tfc/f ITSU KIYOHARA, Japanese artist and gentleman, was treated to a little Hoosier hokum instead of hospitality as he was sketching the Monument from the statehouse doorway Wednesday. Some people 100 per cent- or more American, came to Chief Grover Garrott of the state police to complain about the Japanese being both an artist and foreigner neither of which the complainant could understand. Garrott took the complaint seriously. He sent Lieutenant Ben McMullen to investigate. He questioned the artist, who looked at him through thick glasses as though questioning the sanity of all who wear uniforms. McMullen called Captain How-

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avenue, sympathizing with Colleoni, himself, while he awaits the dismantling of his charger. BY ARCH STEINEL Monsieur equine, commodore Horse, Mrs. Mare and Miss Filly and others of the ‘‘Hoss Four Hundred” are going to be bored to death at the Indiana state fair, Sept. 5 to 12. For when they enter the fairground horse building to exhibit their gaits, trots and gallops, they’ll have to listen eternally to a big stallion telling of “my operations.” The gelding is none other than the “plug” being ridden by Colleoni, a one-time “big-wig” in the Italian army, in the John Herron Art institute. Now the gelding is only a plaster-of-paris statue with Colleoni astride him, but they do say he champs and snorts at the bit and talks in horsey language when no one’s around except the dust. So the equine world is prepared to hear Colleoni’s horse tell of “his operation” and how he rivaled the stage women who’ve been sawed-in-half. nun THE “operation” began this week at the art institute as Colleoni and his horse, after fifteen years’ stance in the museum, were ordered removed to anew pedestal in the equine buildings at the fairground. The statue is being loaned the fair board by the art museum. Colleoni’s horse and even his own armored self carry weight like a Twenty Grand for the statue scales in at three tons and is twenty feet in height. Carl C. Graf, Hoosier painter, is the “surgeon” in charge of the “operation.” With saws he was found today cutting off the legs of Colleoni’s charger. Colleoni was dismounted from his horse with the aid of a buck-saw and a derrick Wednesday. And what a braggart Colleoni’s charger can be at the fairground, for he can tell how he was trucked bit by bit to his new stall, plastered together again, given a coat of bronze paint and turned out to gaze and be gazed upon by the multitude of fair visitors. BLAMED M CRASH Police Nab Kansan Said to Have Forced Car Off Road. A Kansas tourist was arrested here and held on charges of failure to stop after an accident following a bad crash on the National road, six miles west of Plainfield, early today. George McDonald. 19, of Toronto, Ontaria, said the driver of the Kansas car passed him driving at high speed and cut in so close ahead, McDonald was forced to take the ditch. His car overturned, and his mother, Mrs. Anna McDonald, and his nephew, David Kerr, 13, were hurt. A telephone call to Indianapolis put a radio cruiser on the lookout for the Kansas auto. Its driver, John P. Ankonman of Dellvale, Kan., was arrested. JOIN IN TAXATION FIGHT Apartment Owners to Co-Operate With State Association. Determined to continue their fight for i eduction in taxes, members of the Apartment Owners’ Association of Indianapolis, Wednesday decided to co-operate further with the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association and the Indianapolis Real Estate Board in seeking lower rates. A committee, composed of Edward Hunter, John A. Avery and Thomas D. McGee, was appointed to meet with smaller committees of the other organizations to study the tax situation.

ard Smith to his aid and both took up the matter w r ith Gaylord S. Morton, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Following an example set by the Governor, Morton referred them to Frank s. Caylor, Statehouse custodian, who runs, washes and paints the building. Caylor ruled to let the Japanese artist continue to sketch, ignoring the opportunity pointed out by some of the more enthusiastic Hoosier Americans to retaliate for the arrest in Japan of the American fliers, Herndon and Pangborn. Kiyohara attended the Chicago Art Institute school for four years and since has toured the country making sketches. He stays at ifte Y. M. C. A.

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SHOPPER HAS' HARD TIME OF IT INMOSCOW One Line After Another, Long Waists, High Prices Trying. APARTMENTS ARE DRAB Utility Rules, Beauty Loses in Soviet’s Mania for Speed, Quantity. Herewith the United Press presents another in the .Jack Howard series on Russia. Today's story deals with the tribulations of the shopper in Moscow. BY JACK HOWARD United Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvrieht. 1931. bv United Press! PARIS, Aug. 20.—Buying anything in Moscow is an ordeal surpassed only by the difficulty of getting a telephone connection in France. It is hard enough for a Russian to find anything to buy; and if he does, the trouble has started. There are hundreds of the most common and, to us, the most necessary articles which cannot be bought in Moscow. Other hundreds of articles, which it is hard to understand people buying when they can not purchase a lemon, can be had everywhere. The actual mechanics of making a purchase in Moscow, for either the foreigner or Russian, are very involved. In the first place, in this land where every one is theoretically equal and money means nothing, the stores never trust t the sales clerk with the task of collecting the price. Instead the purchase is set aside and you are given a complicated slip of paper with volumes of Russian writing on it. Back in Line Again Armed with this paper you take your place in a long line before the cashier’s desk and wait patiently until your turn comes. The cashier takes your slip and after a great deal of primitive arithmetic returns part of it receipted to you. You then trudge wearily back to the counter at which you made your purchase and again wait for a long time before you can get the package. When you finally get it home, you may find that you have been given somebody else’s purchase. The Russian people have plenty of money to spend, but nothing to spend it on. The ordinary wants of the women can not be taken care of. A pair of silk stockings would seem like “manna” from the Soviet skies and anything in the way of a dress which suggested 1931 would be out of place among the pre-revolu-tionary styles on Moscow streets. Must Appear Poor The Russian dares not buy anything ostentatious for fear of being suspected by his fellows of having too much money in a land where no one is supposed to have more than his neighbor. In getting rid of his money the worker may visit any number of stores filled with goods confiscated from the homes of the old aristocracy and bourgeoisie. Some factory workers living with a family of eight in a two-room apartment may come home with a fine jewel studded Tartar sword or a carefully inlaid table from some noblewoman’s boudoir. There are few stores where anything in the way of food, as we know it, can be had by the natives in Moscow. Fresh vegetables are rarer than gold because they spoil before they can be brought to the city. Can’t Get Fresh Foods The worker would give anything for a basket of peaches, but he can not have it for all his money. He must stand in line for hours to procure something which we eat every day at home. Os course, foreigners living in Moscow have special privileges in that they trade at stores which have a variety of things which the Russians themselves never see and may not know exist. An orange would make a communist kid happier than a gold ring. Meantime, Moscow is doing some dressing up in the way of repair and refurbishing of old structures, and building of new. Apartments Are Drab The most popular method in Russia of making an old building appear like new is to apply an overliberal amount of whitewash. The result is an ever-increasing amount of spotless and rather antisepticlooking buildings against which no one dares lean. Most of the new buildings being constructed in Moscow to house the workers and their families are similar to those in Germany, built for utility rather than for architectural beauty. There is something cold and Unhomelike about most of them. No flowers breaks the gray monotony of the concrete. They can only be appreciated when the old squalid workers’ ! homes of pre-revolutionary Russia are seen. The next step in the bigger and better Moscow movement has been to fix the streets. Day and night the work of repaving is being carried on and rounded cobbles are rapidly giving way to asphalt. Many churches have been tom down to make way for new streets, buildings or squares. Speed Is Amazing You can not help but be impressed with the amazing speed, amazing for Russia, at least, with which all of this improvement is being carried on. Some explanation is offered when you examine some of the new buildings that have been constructed. Apparently the Russian idea of progress is to substitute quantity for quality. Next: A glimpse at the church situation in Moscow*/

Legion Lends a Helping Hand to 3 Children Struck by Mine Disaster

Upper Lest —Some of the children of World war veterans who have benefited by the ‘adoption” program of the American Legion. Upper Right—Medical examination is given every child to which some post or auxiliary of the

Ring Bell! Phone Girls Save Day for the Tourist Who Mislaid $165.

TELEPHONE operators have been the heroines of floods and major disasters of the nation. But, until today, they never had acted as retrievers of money. The honor of the stellar place in the new niche of fame goes to Miss ‘Mary Carothers, 2819 Kenwood avenue, and Miss Yeative Ullrich, 2419 Brookside avenue, long distance operators at the main office of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Fred Stout of New York, traveling across the country, arrived in Indianapolis Wednesday and discovered he had left $165 in a Columbus (O.) tourists’ camp. His long distance call to the camp revealed the money had not been found. n n n HE interested the phone , operators in his plight and started toward Columbus. He only had left the city limits when the owners of the tourist camp called to tell him the money had been found. Miss Carothers and Miss Ullrich, knowing that he was headed toward Columbus, 0., began making long-distance calls along the route. Their third call brought police in Greenfield to his aid. They halted his car long enough to inform him of the rescue of his cash. Stout remained in Greenfield while the money was telegraphed 1 6 him. ADD INSULT TO INJURY Thieves Steal Trailer, Then Come Back for Automobile. If people do not leave Davis McCormick’s auto unmolested, he soonwill flare up in real anger. McCormick, who operates a lunchroom at 3259 Madison avenue, lost the trailer to his auto to thieves Tuesday night. Then early today, as he closed the restaurant and walked to his auto, he saw two men trying to steal it. He shot at one, but is not certain whether he hit the man. The would-be thieves escaped.

RIDE SKY NURSERY

Children Play in Speeding Plane

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—America’s first “flying nursery,” equipped with dolls, games, picture books and there live children, w T as due at Roosevelt field today, after a leisurely summer vacation tour across the continent from San Diego. The three young passengers, children of Edmund T. Price, president of the Solar Aircraft Company of San Diego, are 3-year-old Joan; Mitzi, 9, and Charles, 7. They have not only become accustomed to air travel, but view their daily flights, it is said, with an air of bored detachment. The plane, an all-metal transport cabin ship, was converted into a nursery by removing several

Legion guarantees a future of normal opportunities. Lower Lest —Elmer W. Sherwood. state chairman of the American Legion child welfare committee, who devised the “adoption” plan, and who chal-

TOLL GROWS IN BEACH TRAGEDY Four Lives Believed Lost in Giant Combers. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Freak rain, wind and lightning storms along the Atlantic City beach terminated in floods and disrupted communications left a toll in lives and property damage. Four were feared drowned in the surf off Atlantic City when the deadly undertow frohi a series of waves six to eight feet high sucked scores into deep water. The one known victim at Atlantic City was Charles F. McKenna, 58, of Pittsburgh. His body was recovered. Three others reported missing there are James W. Cannaday, 25, of Baltimore; Eugene Bauerle, 18, Paterson, N. J.; Homer Fry, 17, Carnegie, Pa. Plane Crashes in Storm By United Press PITTSBURGH, Aug. 20.—Heavy rain storms in the Allegheny mountains were blamed today for the crash of a Chicago-New York plane at Bettis field, McKeesport, in which six persons were injured and for two forced landings at the Everett (Pa.) airport. Two pilots and four passengers, injured when the New York bound plane skidded over a thirty-foot embankment as it was landing at Bettis field, were in McKeesport hospital today. The first plane forced to ’and at Everett field because of the blinding rain was piloted by Camille Vinet, en route from Newark to Pittsburgh. Lowell Scroggins, en route from Washington to Pittsburgh, also was forced to land because of rain. C HI Mayor Cermak Starts What May Be Great Police Shakeup. CHICAGO, Aug. 20—Anton J. Cermak, who succeeded William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson as mayor of Chicago last spring, has started a police reorganization campaign which many officers feared today might develop into a shifting about of the entire force of several thousand men.

passenger seats. Baby Joan has her own cot, on which she has slept during a great part of the trip. The older children were amused with a clay modeling outfit, puzzles, crayons and drawung books. “The flying nursery” left San Diego last Thursday, and has flown six or seven hours each day. Only one exciting experience has interfered with the smooth progress of the ship. That was at Las Vegas, Nev., where a rainstorm isolated the machine w T hen it landed, and a relief plane, with bottles of milk, came to the rescue of the hungry babies. Stops were made at Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, lowa City and Jackson, Micl%

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lenged Legion posts and auxiliaries to take care of underprivileged children of war veterans. Lower Right—Three children whose father is dead. The post at Ft. Wayne has agreed to look after their welfare.

Bright Future Provided For, Through 'Adoption’ by State Posts. BY FINLEY M’GREW JOHN LETOT Jr., 10, felt a great lump in his throat. The man at the door was telling his mother that his father had been killed—killed in the Little Betty mine explosion that was making all Linton heartsick. John thought back. He remembered a few years before when another man had stood at the door and told his mother of the death of his two brothers in a mine disaster. If John did not wonder what his future was to be, his mother did. The family income, never very large, was now cut off altogether. A job for herself was almost out of the question. There were no jobs—not in Linton, anyway. a But nearby, in Bloomfield, Mrs. Letot found there was a man who was already making plans for taking care of just such boys as John —plans that would allow a great many John Letots to enjoy normal home environments. * x x Elmer w. sherwood, state chairman of the American Legion child welfare committee was the man. Only a short time before the mine explosion he had sent to each Lepiqn post and auxiliary in the state a challenge, calling for them to be “big brothers” to underprivilged children of World war veterans. Soon after the Little Betty tragedy the women’s auxiliary at Greenfield agreed to give John Letot Jr. a chance in life, along with Eugene Cooper 10, and Mary Cooper, 8. whose father, Clarence Cooper, also was among those who were taken from the Little Betty, mangled and burned by explosion and fire. Since this first “adoption” the posts and .auxiliaries have vied for leadership in number of acceptances of Sherwood’s challenge. X x x LAST week, the posts led, twen-ty-two to twenty-one, but over the week-end, the auxiliaries stole several marches on the masculine organizations. Thirteen of the women’s units accepted the task of caring for underprivileged children. Under the Sherwood plan, the Greenfield auxiliary will see to it that John Letot and Eugene and Mary Cooper have hundreds of advantages which they otherwise would not have. They are assured that they will not have to go to a children’s home, that their mothers will be able to give them all the opportunities which normal children get. They have the American Legion batting for them. TAX REDUCTION VOTED Muncie Mayor Expected to Veto Cut to 63 Cents. By United Pres MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 20.—An Indiana tax record was cut by the Muncie city council when it voted to fix the 1932 tax rate at 63 cents, 25 cents below the 1931 rate. More than $150,000 was slashed from the budget for next year. It is expected that Mayor George R. Dale will veto the reduction measure, but council members, with a 11 to 2 majority, believe it will be passed over the veto.

TRUSTEES TO RUSH SUDOVICH DEPORTATION Lake County Killer, Center of Parole Scandal, to Get Swift Action. • ORGY REPORT DOUBTED Warden Daly Is ‘Convinced’ That Thug Was Not at Capone Revels. Nick Sudovich, Lake county slayer, racketeer and Capone henchman, is to be released from the state penitentiary at the trustees' meeting Aug. 28. so he may be deported to Yugo-Slavia immediately, it was learned today. Although the minimum term of his two-to-twenty-one-years’ prison sentence for the slaying of Uron Marovich, rival racketeer, does not expire until November, Warden Walter F. Daly has announced that the board will consider his case at the next meeting and take immediate steps to have him sent away as an undesirable alien. This action closely follows the report that, while granted a fifteenday parole and an extension of fifteen days by Daly and Governor Leslie to attend to "important private business,” the racketeer attended farewell parties in honor of Capone. Doubts Tarty Story Daly says that after questioning Sudovich he is convinced that he did not attend the Capone parties. Meanwhile, the Governor’s office declares that Daly is responsible for the parole given the slayer. The warden counters with the statement that it was recommended by Leslie’s office. Sudovich was ordered deported in September, 1930, when he was taken from state prison ter federal court to be tried in connection with the Lake county liquor and political conspiracy. He was convicted and as the federal government does not consider law violations as moral turpitude, the court ordered him deported because of the Marovich slaying. . Parole Plea Allowed Efforts began a year ago, according to Gaylord Morton, secretary to the Governor, to get Sudovich out on a temporary parole. Oscar Ahlgren, Whiting attorney, and state representative in 1929, appeared for the slayer. The SI,OOO bond required by the department was posted by Sudovich’s friends and he was rel ised on fifteen days temporary r role. Official records say this was recommended by Warden Daly. While Daly was away on a fishing trip, his deputy granted a fil-teen-day extension. MOTHER OF ATTORNEY DEAD AT WALKERTON Mrs. Amanda Snethcn to Be Buried Friday in Walkerton. Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda A. Snethen, 74, of Walkerton, Ind., will be held in the Methodist church in Walkerton at 2:30 Friday. Burial will be in the Walkerton cemetery. Mrs. Snethen, who is mother of Edward O. Snethen, Indianapolis attorney and president of the Lions Club, had been ill several weeks. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Daisy Rupel of Alton, 111., and Mrs. Mildred H. Holmes of Kingsbury, Ind.; three sons, Edward, Dr. E. L. Snethen of Evansville, and Perry W. Snethen of Nutley, N. J.; a brother, William Pollock of Niles, Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. Isabella Jackson and Mrs. Eliza Paul of Walkerton, and Mrs. Ellen James of Willard, 0., and a half brother, Edward Grider of Walkerton. PREPAREDNESS PLEA IS VOICED TO VETERANS Senator Robinson Cites Arming of European Nations. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who recently returned from a tour of this nation’s Asiatic station, where he had gone on the U. S. transport Henderson, spoke on international affairs Wednesday night at a meeting of the Frank T. Strayer post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. “There are more armed men in Europe now than at any time since the Napoleonic wars,” he said. “There are several various situations in Europe which undoubtedly will lead to war or serious trouble. “None of them, however, directly concerns us. But we must be able to protect our neutrality in case our commerce, which provides much of our prosperity, is threatened.” Robinson pleaded for maintenance of adequate preparedness. “Nobody knows better than you men that \wr is futile, but I maintain we should be prepared for emergencies,’’ he said. THREE HURT fiS AUTO BACKS ON TO HIGHWAY Crash Occurs as City Fireman Drives Car on to Road. Three persons suffered minor injuries today when William Huber, 60, of 29 East Raymond street, a city fire captain, backed his sedan into another automobile on Stale Road 67 in Mars Hill. Ben Poulton, 52, R. R. 7, driver of the other machine, and Mrs. Maggie Holman, R. R. 7, a passenger, were cut, and Mrs. Poulton was bruised. Four children in the Poulton car were uninjured when the machine ran off the road into an advertising poster. With Huber were Mrs. Huber and Mrs. John Hess, 19 East Raymond street. The accident occurred when. Huber backed up on the highway into a watermelon stand along the road. i