Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1931 — Page 5

AUG. 24, 1934

CHINESE FLOOD DEATH TOLL TO NEAR 2,000,G00 Rescuers Hampered as Thousands Refuse to Accept Aid. BY WILFRED LING United Pre Staff Correspondent HANKOW, China, Aug. 24.-, Thousands of Chinese who believed they had angered the dragon god of the Yangtze awaited death today in the yellow waters of the river or from cholera. Firm in their belief that the dragon god intended to unleash the power of the mighty stream until it had swept over Hankow, Wuchang, and Hanyang and washed the cities to the altar of sacrifice, the Chinese looked solemnly at rescue parties and refused to be removed to safety. The river dragon temple was demolished recently. So the river dragon must have revenge. And the refugees waited, on roof tops, on makeshift rafts, some on tops of coffins the flood had swept from tfieir resting places. Millions Are Destitute A week ago they fought for scraps of fbod. Today they awaited death. Famine and disease followed the flood and took up the trail of death where the river dragon had been merciful. White men and Chinese officials estimated that the death toll would reach 2,000,000 before Christmas. The number of destitute already has reached millions. Officials of the Standard Oil Company who dispatched airplanes over the flood area said that 35,000 square miles lay beneath the yellow torrents in Hupeh province and 22,000 square miles in Hunan province. Destitute were estimated at 5,00f),000 and 2,000,000 respectively. Heroic efforts were made to relieve the refugees and save them from epidemics. Conditions in refugee camps, pitifully overcrowded, presented apparently insurmountable obstacles. Many Streets Wiped Out Rescue parties aboard junks and sampans offered fresh water to refugees perched upon rafts or house tops. The water was refused. The Chinese drank from the flood water in which corpses and carcasses floated. The heat became unbearable, adding to the suffering. Many native streets were wiped out by the collapse of buildings. In the swirling water of the flood, bodies pinned beneath debris often were liberated and suddenly projected to the surface, to float with other victims of the dragon god. Power plants in the flood area were inundated. Night brought impenetrable darkness. Survivors, able to bear the suffering of intense heat during the day, became panic stricken when night brought the fear that the flood might engulf them before dawn. Wails and screams of sufferers, of mothers holding dead babies to their breasts, penetrated the night in a thousand cries rising to a crescendo of agony. But rescuers were helpless. Realizing that when the flood recedes it will take with it all their crops, the survivors seem to prefer death immediately to the suffering and starvation of a long winter. JOBLESS GROUP WILL ASK LUESSE FREEDOM Committee of Seven to Petition Governor Leslie Tuesday. A committee of seven will visit the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie at 10 Tuesday bearing a petition for the freeing of Theodore Luesse, unemployed leader, serving a one-year sentence at the Indiana state farm for interfering in an eviction. The committee was named at Amnesty day demonstrations in Indianapolis. Terre Haute and Anderson Saturday. Plans for a state-wide campaign to obtain a pardon for Luesse will be made at a meeting of the International Labor Defense in Workers’ center, 942 1 i South Meridian street, at 8 Thursday night. The group hopes to obtain 25,000 signatures to a pardon petition. SOUTH SIDE EXPLOSION RIDDLE JFOR OFFICIALS Deputies Study Ten-Foot Crater Blown in Field; Windows Shattered. Mystery of a blast of high explosive set off in southwestern Indianapolis about 5 Sunday morning still puzzled county authorities today as they continued investigation of a ten-foot crater blown in a field near Hanna avenue a mile west off Bluff road. The blast demolished windows of ' a greenhouse operated by Charles Portish, half a mile away, and rattled windows of virtually all west Indianapolis residences. A piece of box that presumably had set off the charge, and a length of fuse resembling dynamite fuse, were found by deputy sheriffs. The blast shredded cornstalks within a radius of 100 yards. Portish said he had not estimated his damtvge today. Death Evidence Held ' liy Time* Special MARION, Ind., Aug. 24.—Prosecuting attorney Harley Hardin announces finding new evidence to place before the grand jury at its September session concerning the death of Mrs. Minnie King. She died at Kokomo recently. A severe beating allegedly given her by Thad Titus, police character, with whom she was/living here, is believed to have been one of the direct causes of her death.

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AUTO FATALITY TOLL IN COUNTY HITS HI7 MARX Motorist Dies in Hospital; Dozens Are Injured Over Week-End. Marion county's auto death toll was boosted another notch and several persons were injured in and near Indianapolis in automobile crashes over the week-end. The death toll now stands at 107 since Jan. 1, following the death of William Lee Comwen, 20, of 5023

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truck he was driving crashed headon with a street car at Morris street and River avenue. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at the home. Burial will be in Washington park cemetery. Two persons were injured early today when their car careened from the County Line road near Tenth street and overturned in a ditch. John Chambers 25, of 639 Darnell street, driver of the car, sustained face and neck cuts and his wife, Sarah, 23, arm and back injuries. Both were taken to the city hospital. A 5-year-old boy was injured fatally and six other persons, all Negroes, hurt Sunday afternoon when

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Speakie Bank By United Press FOX RIVER GROVE, HI., Aug. 24.—The only bank which this village boasts now is being run after the fashion of a speakeasy. Anybody who wants in has to knock and be recognizee! through a peep hole before the door is opened to him. The bank has been held up twice in recent months and its officials are taking no more chances.

their car was crowded off the National road near Plainfield by a truck. Richard Ncrel, son of Louis and Annie Norel, 2207 Lexington avenue, died at the city hospital several hours after the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Norel and their other children, Dorothy, 7; Daisy, 10; Mildred, 3, and Margaret, 15 months, were hurt and Smith Chatham, 28, of 1440 South Keystone avenue, driver of the car, suffered superficial wounds. Others injured in auto accidents: William Thrasher. 63. of 2017 North DeOuincev street, cuts and bruises, and Mrs. Herbert Gaines and her son Clifford. 2. ridinsr with Thrasher, cuts and bruises: Miss Ruth Forbis. 23. of 223 North Walcott street, cuts: Grover Reger. 38. of 32a East Washington street, head lacerations: James Crawford. 10. of 808 South West street, head and neck Injuries: Miss Violet Ruee. 1521 West Twenty-first street, face and arm injuries: Robert Cruse. 3730 North Capitol avenue, shoulder dislocated: Robert Welsh. 2837 Central avenue, head cuts and C. J. Isaacs. 4526 Washington bodlevard. neck lacerations. Child-Beater Sentenced By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., .Aug. 24.—A six months’ sentence at the state farm and fine of SSOO was given Eldred Name, 37, charged with beating his 4-year-old son unitl he was nearly unconscious.

VEHLING INSISTS HE OBEYED LAW IN AUfl DEATH Coroner Ready to Defend Himself; Impeachment Suit Attacked. “I delivered the deceased man’s property to his widow. I have the receipt for the property from her. I handled the case as I understand the law of Indiana and believe I acted wisely and correctly under that law.” This answer was given today by Coroner Fred W. Vehling to impeachment proceedings started against him following the death of John Snyder at city hospital July 17 bf alcoholic poisoning. Back From Vacation The coroner returned Saturday from a Canadian fishing trip and immediately had a short conference with his attorney, Fred Barrett, following a visit to the city hospital. Preparations to defend the suit against Vehling in the Marion circuit court were made by Barrett and the coroner today. The impeachment suit was filed by James Holland, administrator of Snyder's estate, on the charge that the coroner failed to turn the dead man’s effects and property over to him. Attack Suit Filing Barrett has filed a demurrer to the suit requesting dismissal on the ground that only the county prosecutor has the right to bring impeachment charges. The de-

Such Nerve! By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Miss Cora Lockren told police she didn’t say a word when she awoke and saw a burglar ransacking her room. “But,” she said, “when he saw I was awake and told me my pajamas were becoming, I screamed. Just imagine the nerve of the man!” The burglar got SB.

murrer also alleges that there are not sufficient facts to warrant prosecution. Snyder’s estate consisted of deeds to ten acres of Florida property, insurance policies and a small savings account in the Bankers Trust Company. Vehling has been on a vacation trip, fishing near Georgian bay, Canada. GIFFORD JOB BEGINS Confers With President on Relief Program. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-A borrowed office in a government building was ready today for Walter S. Gifford, head of a four-billion dollar industry, to move in and actively begin the task of mobilizing the nation’s unemployment relief agencies. President Hoover and Gifford outlined the federal relief campaign in week-end conferences at Camp Rapidan. - They agreed Gifford's first job as national relief director would be to co-ordinate all state, city, village and private efforts in a vast organization under federal guidance.

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had made no effort to open th® strongbox in the store. # , A woman who drove a bandit car Saturday night and her gunmen companions were sought today by police. The trio robbed Ivan Byers. 28, of 1015 North Tuxedo street, Saturday night as he walked on lowa street near East street. Byers said two men got out of the car and took $6.50 from him while the woman stayed at the wheel. Theft of a work bench which would have taken many men to remove from the United States Veterans’ hospital, under construction near Riverside park, was reported to police today by construction superintendents. The bench was valued at $75 and weighed 600 pounds.