Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1931 — Page 3
OCT. 21, 1931
CROSSING CRASH ENDS LIVES OF LAWRENCE PAIR Trapped on Tracks, Man and Wife Are Killed Instantly. A man and his wife were killed Instantly when the automobile in ■which they were riding was struck by a train, and six other persons were injured Tuesday in traffic accidents. Death of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan of Lawrence, in a crossing tragedy near - I Lawrence TuesI ~ day afternoon raised the auto .1 traffic death toll in the county to ' ~ 133 this year. Jordan, retired government employe, formerly of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, drove his auto on to the Hig Four crossing on Franklin road into the path of a train bound from Cleveland, and traveling at about sixty miles an hour. The auto’s motor stalled. Mrs. Jordan saw the onrushing train, and was attempting to get out of the car when the crash occured. E. M. Brenam, Lawrence station agent, who witnessed the crash, said Jordan, 66. had stalled the motor of his automobile serveral times previously while crossing the tracks. On one occasion, Branam said, Jordan stalled the car on a traction track nearby, escaping death only because the motorman managed to stop the car before reaching the crossing. Auto Broken in Two Force of the impact broke the automobile in two, and its wreckage was scattered along the right of way for several hundred feet. Bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Jordan were mangled. Witnesses told deputy sheriffs that the locomotive’s whistle had been blown for the crossing. Charles Chamberline, 2262 North La Salle street, engineer, said he applied the brakes and brought the train to a halt about two blocks from the crossing. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan had lived in Lawrence for many years. Survivors are a brother, Chris Jordan of Greenwood and a sister, Mrs. Bray of Mooresville. Two men were injured seriously when a truck, under which they were working, jarred loose from a jack and fell on them when struck by an automobile on the Brookville road near Ritter avenue. The injured are William Woods, 34, and Claude Dodds, 21, both of Cincinnati. Dodds’ right leg was crushed and Woods sustained severe body bruises. Both are at city hospital. Two Injured in Crash When a truck in which they were riding collided with an automobile at Twenty-ninth street and Shriver avenue, George Muir, 29, of 1310 Shelby street, and Rudolph Magin of the Broadmoor Country Club, occupants, were injured. Albert Allison, 419 East North street, driver of the automobile, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. Joe Goock, 61, Negro, of 2411 Northwestern avenue, was injured internally when a truck on which he was riding swerved from the road and overturned Tuesday afternoon at Cornelius avenue and Hampton drive. Joe Ft Bird, Negro, of 1321 West Twenty-fifth street, the driver, was not injured. Mrs. Bessie Tovey, 3538 Washington boulevard, suffered injuries to her right side when an automobile she was driving crashed into another driven by Milton Harp. 28, of 2722 North Harding street, at Fiftyeighth street and College avenue. NIGHT COURSES OPEN Crispus Attucks Still Receiving Students, Says Principal. Registration in the night school at Crispus Attucks high school still is open, according to announcement by Russell A. Lane, acting principal, today. Classes have been in progress for two weeks, and attendance in all courses is large, says Lane. Subjects taught are auto mechanics, woodwork, history, civics, algebra, geometry. English, pipe organ, chorus, Spanish, French, German, Latin, sewing, bookkeeping, typewriting and shorthand.
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TRAFFIC ROBOT TO HAVE TRIAL Washington and Meridian Chosen for Test. Installation of a robot traffic cop to contre# an automatic signal at Meridian and Washington streets, ‘‘Crossroads of America,” will be started in a few days. Charles R. Myers, safety board president, announced installation of the robot will start soon and will require about thirty days. It will be operated by wheels of automobiles and street cars passing over "trips” in the pavement and on trolley wires. These "trips” will be located on all four corners of the intersection. If there are no cars coming from one direction, the light will remain green for cars going the cross way. It will be similar to the automatic signal now in use at Fourteenth and Meridian streets. The signal is being installed free of charge for three months’ trial. Use of the signal would eliminate need for one of the two traffic officers now required at the intersection. NAME 5 DEMOCRATS FOR TREASURY JOBS Sexton Chooses Executive Aids; 25 to Get Clerkships^) Names of the five executive assistants who will succeed a like number of Republicans in the office of the county treasurer when Timothy P. Sexton, Democrat, succeed Clyde E. Robinson Jan. 1, have been announced. Twenty-five clerks and stenographers also will be changed on that date. The appointments, however, have not been completed. Those named ai;e; Fay Wright to succeed Orville Harris as chief deputy; Miss Sarah E. Henzie to succeed Roxie Sharp as first assistant deputy; Frank Ballman to succeed L. H. Henderson as second assistant deputy. John M. Cain to be cashier instead of Walter Barney, and Charles a Slinger to be chief clerk of the Barrett law department, succeeding J. M. Hillman. Air Mail ‘Saves’ Ralph Capone Hu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Air mail saved Ralph Capone, brother of Alphonse, from going to jail. An appeal for a writ of certiorari in his income tax case had to be filed with the supreme court before 4:30 p. m. An airplane did the trick.
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Reception and Degree Work Scheduled Tonight by Pocahontas. Delegates to the great council of Pocahontas degree, auxiliary to Red Men, will be welcomed tonight at i an informal reception in the Denison parlors. Degree work to be given by a ! team from Dayton, 0., will be fol- | lowed by dancing. A banquet at ! the Y. M. C. A. for past great and I present great chiefs of the order j will precede the reception. Formal opening of sessions by the i ladies of Pocahontas at 9 Thursday morning in the K. of P. hall, will be followed by business meetings. Elections and installation of officers are to be held late Thursday afternoon. High officials to be advanced are: Mrs. Josephine Casadv. Anderson, to the office of great instructress, succeeding Mrs. Clovie C. Nicholas. Indianapolis; Mrs. Bessie Meadows, present great Pocahontas, to great prophetess; Mrs. Goldie Greenlee, Sulphur Springs, inooming great Pocahontas; Mrs. Lucy Cuskaden. St. Paul, Ind.. great wenonah. and Mrs. Lillian C. Ross of Shelbvville, great keeper of records. Mrs. Ross has no opposition. Candidates for other offices are: Minnehaha Mesdames Gertrude Schmink. Indianapolis; Lizzie Brownlee, Terre Haute; Nellie Jeffries. South Bend. Great keeper of wampum—Miss Fleurv Gutaftl. Rushville: Mesdames Louise Hale. Indianapolis: Louise Brewer, Elwood: Lizzie Bair. Richmond. Mrs. Nellie Whiteford of Aurora and Mrs. Falger, Frankfort, are candidates for great trustee. Installation this afternoon of newly elected officers of the Improved Order of Red Men closes the two-day meetings of the sixty-sec-ond great council of Indiana. Officers to be installed by William H. Lightholder of St. Louis, official representative of the great incohonee, are: Russell H. Evans. Spencer, great prophet; W. Irving Pryor. Worthington, great sachem; Steve L. Smith. South Bend, great senior sagamore; E. C. Seabrook. New Albany, great junior sagamore: Frank L. Flannigan, Columbus, and Arch H. Hobbs of Muncie. great chief of records. Hobbs has held the office of great chief of records for seventeen years. D. N. Lewis of Lebanon and Alfred Frick of Indianapolis were elected great trustees; Frick was selected to fill the vacancy caused by election of Cory Seabrook to great junior sagamore. Adoption degree work was given by Spencer degree team at Comanche hall, 1802 West Morris street, Tuesday night. Several hundred delegates attended ceremonies which included induction of candidates to Warriors’ degree by a Connersville staff and presentation of the chiefs’ degree by combined Comanche and Connersville teams.
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NATIONAL CHIEF WILL ADDRESS P.-T. CONGRESS Mrs. Bradford to Give Address Tonight at Annual Banquet. "The day of the small, expensive township unit of school administration is past, and it must go,” Professor W. W. Wright, Indiana university, told dele-
gates to the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers convention here today. "From every that we may view the small unit of admi nistration, there is but one conclusion, if we are to consider educational efficiency and financial economy —it must g o,” he added.
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Professor Wright also attacked the general property tax for school support as an unjust and antiquated system. National Congress, Topic Feature of the convention, which opened Tuesday, will be reached tonight with the address of Mrs. Hugh Bradford, national president, at the annual banquet at the Claypool. Mrs. Bradford, Sacramento, Cal., a member of President Hoover’s unemployment commission, appeared on the convention program at the Severin this morning, rjnducting a question box. Tonight she will discuss “The National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the White House Congress.” Other speakers and their subjects at the morning session today included Mary L. Mathews and Ruth Patterson, “The State Program of Work;” Dr. Edna Hatfield Edmondson, “The National Conefrence on Parent Education,” and Bertha Medsker, “Juvenile Protection for Every Child.”
Traveling Libraries Urged Mrs. J. C. Todd, study course state chairman, discussed "Study Courses of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers” at the study course luncheon today. Speakers Tuesday urged elimination of detrimental environment to protect city children, and establishment of traveling libraries for children in rural communities. Petty gambling at carnivals and bazaars, lotteries and raffles in stores adjacent to schools, poorly selected magazines, roadhouses and cabarets were among dangers to children cited by Mrs. S. M. Myers. “Indiana has 43,721 persons 10 years of age or older who can not read or write any language,” Mrs. Homer J. Miller, South Bend, past president, told the convention. CONTRACTORS TO MEET Delegates from Indianapolis and from southern Indiana will attend the district meeting of the Sheet Metal.and Warm Air Heating Contractors’ Association Friday night in Red Men’s hall at Columbus. The meeting, sponsored by the state association, will be open to non-members as well as member contractors, manufacturers, jobbers and salesmen.
Jo-Jo Is Back Boy, 3, Happy Again, for Pet Is Returned by Stranger.
LITTLE Odia Boston Jr., 3, is the happiest boy in the world today. And Jo-Jo, his pet dog, is just as happy. For Jo-Jo, who vanished Sunday from Odia’s home at 37 South Mount street, has come back and to make sure he won’t go away again, Odia has him tied to a door knob. When Jo-Jo disappeared, Odia’s mother appealed to The Times. Odia’s heart was broken. Tuesday night the door bell rang at the Boston home. An unknown man asked if “this is where Jo-Jo lived.” Odia Jr. overheard the conversation and ran to the door shouting gleefully, "Jo-Jo!” And there was Jo-Jo on the porch, wagging his stubby tail. He had come back. "We were so excited that we forgot to ask the man his name,” Mrs. Boston said, "but my husband gave him a dollar.’ “Really, it’s wonderful. We had given up hope of finding Jo-Jo, but he’s back now and we’re so grateful to The Times.” Comedy to Be Given by Auxiliary Brookside auxiliary of Brookside chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will give a comedy, "What Ann Brought Home,” Friday night at the East Tenth street community house under the direction of Mrs. W. S. Holmes. Members of Brookside lodge, F. and A. M., and the East Tenth Street Methodist church also will be in the cast.
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FATHER OF NINE SPARED ! Convicted of Blind Tiger, Man Is Given Mercy by Court. Because poverty Is just around the comer and the stork Is on its way, Lee Brannon. 615 Warren avenue, father of nine children, convicted of blind tiger, was given a chance today. Municipal Judge Pro Tern. Sol O. Bodner sentenced Brannon to 180 days at the state farm and fined him SIOO and cost, but suspended the penalty when informed by police that the family of nine faces destitution. Raiders found a half gallon of mule in the Brannon home.