Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1931 — Page 6

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NORTH SIDE IS INUNDATED BY FREAK STORM Basements Are Flooded by Heavy Downpour: Cars Stall in Streets. Brooms and shovels were in use In basements of north side residences today to erase marks of a cloudburst that struck between Fortieth and Sixty-fifth streets shortly after 4 p. m. Tuesday. The rain fell in torrents and sewers with Insufficient capacity to carry off the excess, backed water up into basements. The downpour was hardest in the ,vicinity of College avenue and Broadway, between Fiftieth and Sixtieth streets. In these sections, water rose to three feet in basements and water that reached running board heights in the streets, blocked auto and bus traffic. Strips to ‘Shorts' It was estimated that several inches of rain fell during the cloudburst. One autoist stripped his trousers off and gave first aid to his drowned car as he displayed a fancy pair of “shorts” to the tvorld at large. Neighbors in the district, clad in bathing suits, waded into the streets and helped push stranded autos. Downtown only a trace of rain fell during this time, but the central and southern sections of the city were struck by another downpour at 1:30 this morning. Meridian street, near Sixteenth street and Talbot and Pennsylvania streets near Twenty-second street, were seas of water. .97 Inch of Rainfall The weather bureau recorded .97 inch of rain Tuesday afternoon and night. J. H. Armington, chief of the bureau, sand several rains, similar to the two Indianapolis received, fell in the state. The mercury that had reached 81 Tuesday afternoon dropped to 65 early today. The unsettled condition that brought the “spotty” storms throughout central Indiana Tuesday was moving eastward today, the weather bureau forecasting skies will clear here tonight and Thursday should be clear with rising temperature. YOUNGEST DOUGHBOY TO LEGION SESSION Carl Palmer Enlisted at 12, But was Discharged When Age Leaked Out. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 26.—Among the thousands of former soldiers who will attend the American Legion convention here Sept. 21-24, will be Carl Palmer, who has the record of being the youngest American soldier in the war. Palmer, now but 25, is a Detroit automobile salesman. When war was declared Palmer was living at Sunfield, Mich. He j was 12, but large for his age. He ! saw his brother and cousin leave for the training camps, so one day, instead of going to school, he went j to lonia, gave his age as 18, and en- j listed. Later he was transferred to Camp MacArthur for training before going overseas with the Thirtysecond division. It was there his | true age was learned. He was given an honorable discharge and sent home. Subsequent efforts to enlist in the navy were not successful. BANDIT SLASHES VICTIM Draws Knife on Man Who At- | tempted to Frustrate Holdup. Claude Alexander, 22, of 405 North Alabama street, raised his hand to strike one of two bandits who put guns on him Tuesdayj night under the Pennsylvania railroad elevation at Cruse street. But the blow never fell. The second bandit struck Alexander on the head and the other slashed his wrist with a knife. They obtained $6 from Alexander, who was taken to the city hospital for treatment.

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Primitive mountain love was disclosed In the confession of Elmer Schnell,. 20, who is seen here with his 17-year-old wife, Shirley, after Schnell had kidnaped his neighbor, Frank Baker, 23, bound him hand and foot, and threatened to brand an “S” on his cheek for alleged attentioas to his wife. Arrested, Schnell said he “was only fooling.” He is out on $1,500 oail, facing serious charges at Tacoma, Wash.

HOOSIER COLLECTS CAMPAIGN BADGES

Former Petersburg Editor Treasures Nearly 600 Souvenirs. ft;/ Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Aug. 26. Marmaduke M. C. Stoops, representative in the state legislature for Knox and Pike counties, has a collection of nearly 600 badges, pennants and other mementoes of political campaigns and conventions of various kinds, in addition to old books and documents. He was the editor of the Democrat here for thirty-three years, and only recently retired from the newspaper field. The collection includes five silk badges of the campaigns in 1840 and 1844, respectively, of Henry Clay and General William Henry Harrison. The last badge collected was one used at the Salvattion Army convention held in Chicago last year. Books collected by Stoops bears dates as far back as 1700. Among them is a history of the United States published in 1818, in which a page and one-half is devoted to Indiana, which then consisted of four counties with a population of 24,520. According to the book, “Indiana is chiefly settling with Swiss emigrants one of whom calculated on making this year, 1,500 gallons of most excellent wine at $2 per gallon.” The most prized document Stoops owns is a deed for the land on which Petersburg is situated. The realty was deeded to Peter Brinton, namesake of the city.

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CIGAR RELIC IS FOUND Old Glass-Burner Unearthed by Souvenir Hunter. By United Press VIRGINIA CITY, Aug. 26.—A striking relic of the old Comstock days was unearthed here by Albert Dressier, of Berkeley, a souvenir hunter, when he found an imitation glass cigar five feet long that was used to advertise a famous cigar store fifty years ago. The device, forerunner of modern electric signs, was lighted with gas and is constructed of 15,000 to 20,000 glass prisms.

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DATES SET FOR NATIONAL DRIVE TO AID JOBLESS Greatest Funds Campaign Since War Times to Start Oct. 19. By Scripps-Hotcard Vet espaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—With relief of the unemployed as its chief aim, one of the greatest fundraising campaigns since war times will begin Oct. 19 and extend until Nov. 25. The President’s organization on unemployment relief has recommended that all agencies concerned with relief or welfare work schedule their drives during that period. Because practically every community chest will seek money during that time, and because the Red!

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Cross annual roll call also will fall between those dates, the total to be raised will reach into many millions of dollars. No national total, however, has been named, and it is improbable that one will be, for, except for the Red Cross roll call, the “national” drive will, in fact, be a series of local drives. Funds thus raised will be used locally; there will be no pooling of funds for national disbursement. The whole basis of the drive will be to have local communities take care of their own needs. While some of the funds raised will come from private sources, more than three quarters of the amount spent nationally for unemployment relief will come from public treasuries, according to present estimates. The recommended dates for the local drives were agreed upon Tuesday by Walter S. Gifford, director of the president's organization,

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meeting with heads of various national relief, welfare and social service groups. Their belief was that all cities would benefit if they would schedule their drives within the dates suggested. SHIP’S VISIT. IS BANNED Aug. * 26.-The United States S. S. Constitution will | not visit Ohio river towns, persons ; who queried the navy department have been informed. The navy de-

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partment replied that the Ohio river is too shallow to float the ship. NABS BIG PORCUPINE TRINIDAD, Colo., Aug. 26.—H. G. Kendall, baker and president of the Trinidad chapte rof the Izaak Walton League, stepped into the yard of his home and made the strangest catch of his life. A husky porcupine had selected the yard as a parking place. Kendall lassoed it, and later sent it to the park at Monument Lake.

-AUG. 26, 1931

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