Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1931 — Page 2

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CHINA ONLY ACTION BY U. S. CAN KEEP NATION WHOLE Congress Apathetic Toward Crisis Threatening Huge Loss in Trade. JAPAN READY TO STRIKE Attack on Chinchow to Be Death Blow to Peace Negotiations. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS f'rripps-lioward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Events in Manchuria are moving swiftly toward another explosion. Unless the administration snaps out of its lukewarm attitude toward preventing war in the Far East, and congress betrays a keener interest in what is going on out there, a dismembered China soon may slam the door to billions of dollars’ worth of American trade. At Chinchow, on Manchuria's extreme southwestern border, a force of some 30,000 Chinese is quartered, in momentary expectation of attack. Japan, having defied the United States and the League of Nations, and taken all the rest of Manchuria, has warned the Chinese they must go. This they refuse to do. They say they will die fighting. Further Japanese aggression, it is said here, will mean the collapse of peace negtiations and probably the beginning of a Chinese-Japanesc war, the vast spread of which nobody dares predict. War Cost Would Be Huge After nearly three months of waiting for the Kellogg pact, the ninepower treaty, and the covenant of the league to stop Japanese aggression against their country, China’s population now is demanding action. If Chinchow is attacked, they will almost certainly get outl of hand. War, even if by a miracle it can be confined to China and Japan, j would cost the United States hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars annually. Germany is hungrier for colonies today than she ever was. And she was among the leaders when, in 1900, China’s dismemberment was prevented only by the strong stand of the United States. So is Italy, which country tried to bite off a piece of China a third of a century ago, and failed. Nations Are Greedy Great Britain, her dominions gone and her hold on India and her remaining colonies slipping, might see in the Chinese debacle her chance to recoup. And France, already in possession of territory torn from south China, would not be averse to acquiring a little more. Only the United States—which, presumably, would not join in picking prostrate China’s bones —would be left outside, its most promising future market gone. Partition of China among Japan and the other great powers would mean the end of the American policy of the open door. Instead, the new masters of that part of Asia would build tariff walls to keep the fast developing trade for themselves.

Expect Japanese Attack BY FREDERICK KUII tTnited Prsss Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1931. bv United Press* CHIiyCHOW. Manchuria, Dec. 7. Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang’s 25,■OOO Chinese troops between Chinchow and Tahoshan today expected a. Japanese attack on Chinchow, but had orders not to assume an offensive. General Yung Chen. Chang's chief of staff and commander of the only large Chinese force in Manchuria, told the United Press the Chinese troops planned a defense only. League Plan Approved BY MILES \V. VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Dec. 7.—Japan instructed the Japanese delegate to the League of Nations council meeting at Paris today to accept the league’s resolution for settlement of the Manchurian dispute, reserving freedom of action for the Japanese army. Acceptance also applied to Aristide Briand's presidential declaration regarding the right of the army to suppress bandits, with the same provision for a reservation. It was believed that the council's Anal action then would be appointment of a commission of inquiry under article V of the league covenant, without Japanese or Chinese consent. Japanese in Action BY D. C BESS United Pres* Staff Correspondent MUKDEN, Manchuria. Dec. 7. Japanese troops were in action today against Chinese units identified here as bandits or disbanded soldiers. A Japanese battalion went into action early today against 1,000 Chinese, said to be disbanded troops, at Hsin Chen-Tze. twenty miles north of Mukden. Headquarters reported that airplanes were used effectively. Part of a large number of irregular Chinese were captured and disarmed Sunday night m the Changtu district. Chinese casualties were estimated at 100. Japanese Headquarters reported continuation o. Chinese military preparatkns and alleged that Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang’s army was digging trenches southeast of Chinchow. For Bad Sores Even of Long Standing "I had four large sores as big as a naif dollar for 2 years and Peterson's Ointment has healed them all and I am very g.ad to let anyone know about your Ointment. From a true friend, George Hempstalk," West Haven, Conn. Petenson's Ointment quickly ends ■chafing, pimples, Itching skin or aore feet, 35 rents a big box—all druggists. Advertisement.

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HIS LIFE HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT Girl Left Home “Till Father Dies;’ He Takes Gas

Uu United Prt** NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Sixteen-year-old Helen Krukowski, who “wouldn’t come home again" until her “old-fashioned father leaves home or dies,” may spend Christmas at home, for Anthony Krukowski was buried today in potters’ field. He had followed one of his “old-fashioned ideas from the old country" to the end. The girl believed a year ago that if she didn't have her fun before she was 20, she never would have it. Her father protested, scolded, and promised a whipping if she disobeyed him again. Helen left home. Tuesday, her mother received a letter from her which read: “Dearest mother, I am happy. I am working and I love you.

RATE PARLEY IS POSTPONED Utilities Meeting Delayed Until Dec. 17. Postponement, of the conference cn electric utility rate reductions from next Thursday until Dec. 171 was announced today by Mayor i Reginald H. Sullivan. On that date, the mayor and his committee, representing petitioners for lower electric rates, will meet! with officials of the Indianapolis, Power and Light Company for purposes of compromising on a rate! schedule. Change in the date for the hear- ! ing on water rate reductions, from ! Tuesday until Dec. 14, already has been announced. The conferences were called by Harry K. Cuthbertson, public service commissioner, who suggested the I compromise method and who will sit as arbiter at the hearings. Further data to support their appeal for reductions by the Indian- | apolis Water Company will be gathered by members ol the water com- ! mittee at another meeting this week.! BANK REALTY FIRMS CONFERENCE CALLED Appointment of Stockholders Group j as Receiver Aid Is Object. Stockholders in the four subsid- 1 iary realty companies of the Wash- : ington Bank and Trust Company were called into conference at noon today by Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers to discuss appointment of a stockholders committee to work with the Fletcher Trust Company, receiver for the four companies. The companies are the Hanover Realty Company, net appraisement $82,000, preferred stock outstanding $15,000; Capitol City Realty Company, net appraisement $138,000, preferred stock $140,000; Realty Mortgage and Securities Company No. 1, appraisement $140,000, preferred stock $140,000; Realty Mortgage and Securities Company No. 2, appraisement SIOI,OOO, preferred stock outstanding $124,600. BUS, TRAMWAY FARE PARLEY JO BE HELD Civic Clubs’ Committee to Meet With Tretton Late This Week. Conference of a committee of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs with Indianapolis Street Railway Companychiefs, in an effort to equalize bus and street car fares will be held the latter part of the week. Announcement of the proposed conference was made by Samuel Harrig, president of the East New York Street Civic Association, and chairman of the civic clubs’ committee. Members of the civic organization object to the difference between 7-cent street car fares and 10-cent bus fares. James P. Tretton, superintendent of the street car company, said he will meet with the committee at the convenience of its members. SIDEWALKS ToITeTaID FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Works Board Answers Pleas of Mothers for Needed Paving. In answer to pleadings of mothers for safety of their school children, the works’ board today adopted a resolution for laying sidewalks from Emerson avenue to Worcester avenue on English avenue. Mothers demanded the walks because about 200 children must walk in the street on their way to school. Only one property owner objected to the improvement. Several property owners protested against paving Lynn street, from the B. & O. railroad to New York street at a first hearing on the proposed improvement. They requested the board to block the resolution unless the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, which agreed to pay 15 per cent of the cost, would assume one-half the assessment ob ligation. The board postponed action on this condition. Estimated cost of the improvement is $5,270.40. $220,000 BILL UP TO MEET POORAID DEBTS Ordinance Is Introduced at Special Session of County Council. . Ordinance for obtaining a temporary loan of $220,000 to meet poor relief expenditures in five townships was introduced today at a special session of the county council. The ordinance and other financial proposals introduced will be acted on finally by the council Tuesday. Majority of the poor relief issue, $205,889.32, will be used in Center township with the remainder divided in Perry. Washington, Wayne and Warren districts. Other ordinances presented the council: Appropriation of an additional S6OO to boost the annual salary of John Corydon, circuit court bailiff, to $2,400 as ordered by the court; $271 for per diem pay of Warren township assessor, and S7OO to meet [criminal court jury expenses. Legion Chief on NBC Network Dangers of modern life as comj pared to pioneer day? hazards will be explained by Henry L. Stevens Jr., American Legion national commander, in an address to be broadcast over the NBC network Tuesday afternoon from 3:15 to 3:30.

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‘BEARDED’ IN HIS DEN House of David Athlete Is Pinched for Gaming. “Never play the other fellow’s game" means something today to William Pittard. bewhiskered member of the House of David basketball team. Pittard had played his own game Sunday afternoon, when he and his fellow basket tossers lost a game to a local five. The player’s next entertainment so engrossed him in the lobby of the Plaza hotel he didn’t know what to expect when an “intruder” shoved aside the curtain on a booth in which Pittard was “at play.” The other party in the case was Sergeant Edwin Kruse, who sought to use the phone in the hotel lobby. He asked a bellboy where the instrument could be found and was waved in the general direction of the curtained booth. There he found Pittard extracting two nickels, “first try” winnings, from a slot machine. Pittard was charged with gaming and Leo Schwartz, clerk, faces counts of keeping a gaming device.

CITY GRAIN BROKER IS TAKEN BY DEATH

Otis V. Hicks Passes at Hospital; Funeral Is Set for Tuesday. Otis V. Hicks, 54, of 3510 North Meridian street, Indianapolis grain broker with offices in the Board of Trade building, died at Methodist hospital Sunday after an illness of three months. Funeral services will be at 9:30 Tuesday in the Kirby-Dinn mortuary and at 10 in SS. Peter and Paul cathedral. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Funeral services were to be held at 3:30 today in Shirley Bros.’ chapel for Mrs. Laura McKay, 82, of 633 South New Jersey street, resident of Indianapolis sixty-three years, who died Sunday in the Robert W. Long hospital. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. McKay was a first cousin of James Whitcomb Riley and was about the same age as the poet when they played together as children. Last rites for Harry P. Smith, 71, former hotel clerk, who died Saturday at his home, 2531 Tyron drive, were to be held at 2 today in the home. Services for Mrs. Emma Decker Rosenberg, 1110 North Arsenal avenue. who died Saturday, were to "be held in the home at 2:30 today, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Rosenberg had lived here all her life. Funeral services for Charles F. Miller, 60, who committed suicide Friday in his room at the Y. M. C. A. were to be held at 2 today in the McNeely & Son mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery'. John A. Schultz, 48, of 1131 North Capitol avenue, died Saturday in Sunnyside sanatorium. Services were to be held in Huntington, Ind., at 2 today. Last rites for Glen Overmyer, 42, poultry commission merchant, who died Saturday, were held at 9:30 today in the Conkle mortuary. Other services were to be held at 2 today in Rochester, his former home. Frank J. Smock, 61, of 115 North Belmont avenue, Big Four passenger conducttor thirty-three years, died Saturday at Methodist hospital. He had been ill about a month. Services were held at 9 today in St. Anthony’s Catholic church. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery. Born in Evansville, Mr. Smock came to Indianapolis forty-five years ago. Detective Busy on Own Case DETROIT, Dec. 7.—Detective Sergeant Howard T Siler has a little private sleuthing to do. For the last three days some motorist has pushed his car forward beside a hydrant and Siler ms drawn three $3 fines.

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Father doesn’t understand me. He is old-fashioned and has the old ideas of the old country. I will never come home again unless he leaves or dies.” “You see,” Mrs. Krukowski said, “she tihnks of coming home. She may be here for Christmas.” “Nonsense,” her father grumbled. Wednesday morning he started to work after cheerfully kissing his wife, so cheerfully it was a matter of comment in that home. “It might be,” he said, “that Helen will come home. I have a feeling you are right.” That afternoon a policeman called to ask if Anthony Krukowski lived there—to say that Anthony had turned on the gas in the place he worked, and was dead.

‘Seth Parker’ Here With ‘Jonesport Folks’ at Cadle Tonight. “There’s just as much religion in people who never step inside a church, as in regular churchgoers, if you just can get at it.” This is the philosophy of Phillips H. Lord, 28, known to millions of radio fans as “Seth Parker,” who with his “Jonesport folks” will appear at Cadle tabernacle tonight in a two-hour program. Lord, who has won fame through his radio programs, denies he is an evangelist, as he has been called, but says he merely is “trying to present wholesome entertainment to bring out the good that’s in people.” He began his radio sketches three and one-half years ago, when he heard a rural sketch which did not “ring true.” "The characters were using such expressions as ’by gum’ and ‘by cracky,’ ” Lord said. “I was born and reared on a farm and I knew this program was not genuine. It didn’t have the right touch. So I started writing sketches and putting in the real life touch. “I try to use certain subtle touches that real farmers will recognize as genuine. It’s the same way with sketches about the sea. I was born beside the sea and know it. I have been around sailors and fisherfolk most of my life and know their habits and dialect.” Lord and his Jonesport folks have been on tour nine weeks, with only four nights off. Their itinerary has taken them from Maine to Victoria, B. C.; Seattle, San Diego and east again. Now they are headed for Miami. Then they will head west again, and swing back to the Atlantic coast. In adidtion to Seth Parker, Lord is the creator of the sketch, “Uncle Abe and David,” which he no longer is able to present, and “The Stebbins Boys,” which he now directs, but in which he does not participate. Both won a strong radio following. Recently the group completed a talkie, “Way Back Home,” which has proven a big success. It will be shown here at the Circle Dec. 18. He is the author of three books, writes 35,000 words a week for various popular magazines with his characters for a subject and has made a number of phonograph [ records.

The City in Brief

TUESDAY EVENTS Chamber of Commerce election. Chamber of Commerce. International Travel Society, 6:30 n. m.. Washington. Zonta Club. 6 o. m.. Columbia Club. Rotarv Club luncheon. Claypool. Gvro Club luncheon. Snlnk-Arms. Mercator Club luncheon, Columbia Club. Architectural Club luncheon. Architects’ and Builders’ building. Young Lawyers’ Club luncheon. Washington. Republican Veterans luncheon, Board of Trade. Indianapolis Chapter. American Chemical Society, luncheon, Severin. University of Michigan Alumni luncheon. Lincoln. Indiana League for the Hard of Hearing. 7 p. m.. Stokes building. Pu-chasing Agents’ Association luncheon. Severin. . . , . Theta Chi luncheon. Washington. Universal Club luncheon, Columbia Club. Forum discussion of “What Brings About Industrial Depression?” will be led by Eben H. Wolcott in the meeting at the Central Y. M C. A. tonight. The meeting is the first of a series of ten on problems concerning development of leadership on successive Monday nights. Dr. Frank O. Beck. Chicago, will speak on “What’s New in Russia," at the dinner of the Men’s Club of the Norch M. E. church, Maple road and Meridian street, at 6:30 Tuesday. Dr. Beck, formerly on the Northwestern university staff, recently returned from an extensive visit in Russia. Broad Ripple Social Club will sponsor a public card party Saturday night at Odd Fellows hall, Riviera avenue and Bellefontaine street. Two Indianapolis young men, A. V. Fox, R. R. 17, and D. S. McCloskey, 1527 North Chester street, were among twenty-six University of Illinois students initiated into Tau Nu Tau, honorary engineering fraternity. Saturday at Urbana, 111. 1,000 ATTEND ART~SHOW Eight Pictures Are Sold at Exhibition in Carr’s Hall. More than 1,000 patrons attended the eight-day exhibition by Irvington artists at Carr’s hall, 5436 East Washington street, and eight pictures were sold during the show which closed Sunday night. Pictures by Frederick Polley, Hilah Drake Wheeler, Clifton Wheeler, Carolyn Bradley and Constance Forsyth w r ere purchased. Other exnibiting artists were Simon P. Baus, Robert C. Craig, Dorothy Morlan. Helene Hibben and Robert Selby. Dr. John Smith Harrison, professor at Butler, spoke Sunday on ‘The Function of Beauty in the Spiritual Life of Man.” Others who spoke during the exhibit were William Forsyth, Brandt Steele, George Calvert, A. F. Wickes and Wilbur D. Peat.

HUNT KILLER OF CITY FIREMAN Bruce Scott Scales Wall of Oklahoma Pen. Nation-wide search is under way for Bruce Scott, alias Charles Stanley, gun slayer of an Indianapolis fireman, who escaped from the Oklahoma state prison in McAlester Friday night by scaling a prison wall. Scott was convicted of bank robbery in Oklahoma in May and was serving a life sentence. Scott shot and killed Henry Millikan, 40, of 525 South Alabama street, a city fireman, in a gunfight with police near Virginia avenue and New Jersey street, Jan. 10, a few days after his escape from the Indiana reformatory. Scott made his escape from the western prison by changing cells with a convict serving time for auto theft. Guards fired several times at Scott as he scaled the wall, with the aid of a plank, but the convict made a safe getaway. SECOND SALARY SUIT FILED AGAINST COUNTY Deluge of Court Actions Predicted After Corydon’s Victory. Veritable deluge of salary suits in protest of the county council’s budget slashes is threatened by court attaches since John Corydon, I bailiffe of the circuit court won his fight to keep his annual pay at $2,400. The second of these actions was started by Theodore C. Kempf, chief clerk of the circuit court, who filed a petition with the court that it mandate councilmen and Harry Dunn, county auditor to restore his 1932 salary to $2,000, the amount set originally in 1925 by Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. The council reduced the clerk’s annual salary to $1,620. i Kempf’s complaints also asks that the county be mandated to pay him S2OO this year, the difference between the $2,00 set by the court and the SI,BOO appropriated by a preceding council. S. MERIDIAN CIVIC CLUB ELECTS KIRCH LEADER 25 Per Cent Cut in Utility Rates. ! New Officers’ Goal. Newly elected officers of the South Meridian Street Civic Club ! are recommending a 25 per cent reduction in all utility rates, gas, light, water and telephone, according to letters sent out by the club. These officers, chosen at a meeting In Druids’ hall Friday night, are headed by John C. Kirch, president; Fred Strack, vice-president; Louis Koerner Jr., secretary; Charles Springman. treasurer, and A. J. Voigt, J. Henry Brinkman and Nicholas Noe. trustees. All except Brinkman served last year. I The club will ask Representative j Louis Ludlow to seek legislation in j congress regulating truck and bus j lines. CHANGES IN NAMES OF EIGHT STREETS SOUGHT Ordinance to Be Introduced Tonight at Council Meeting. Changes of names of eight streets will be requested in an ordinance to be introduced tonight at the city council meeting. Those included in the list are: Bellefontaine street, from Twenty-third street to Sutheland avenue, changed to Gilford avenue; Wheeler street, from ! Thirty-fourth to Thirtv-eighth streets, I changed to Dearborn street; Dearborn steet, from Thirty-fourth th Thirtv-eighth streets, changed to La Salle street; West | Euclid avenue, from Thirty-fourth street I to East Euclid avenue, changed to Coloi rado avenue; Pratt street, from east to i west city limits, except small portion, I changed to Knight street: St. Clair, from Arlington avenue to Anderson street, changed to Ninth street; Pratt street, from i Arlington avenue to Anderson street. | changed to St. Joseph street, and first i street east of De Quincv street, from Sixteenth street to C.. C.. C &• St. Louis railroad. changed to Kildair avenue. State Oil Output Drops Indiana oil fields yielded 150.000 barrels less oil in 1931 than in 1930, according to a report filed with Dr. W. N. Logan, state geologist, today by Paul F. Simpson, state gas superl visor. * To End a Cough In a Hurry, Mix ! • This at Home -- - i To quickly end stubborn coughs due to colds, it is important to soothe the inflamed membranes, get rid of the germs and also to aid the system inwardly to help throw off the trouble. For these purposes, here is a homemade medicine, far better than anything you could buy at 3 times the cost. From any druggist, get 2V2 ounces of Pinex. Pour this into a pint bottle, and add plain granulated sugar syrup or strained honey to fill up the pint. This takes but a moment, saves money, and makes a remedy so effective that you will never do without, once you have used it. Keeps perfectly, and children like it. This simple remedy does three necessary things. First, it loosens the germ- ; laden phlegm. Second, it soothes away the inflammation. Third, it is absorbed into the blood, where it acts directly on the bronchial tubes. This explains why it brings such quick relief, even ia the obstinate coughs which follow cold epidemics. Pinex i< a highly concentrated compound of Norway Pine, containing the active agent of creosote, in a refined, palatable form, and known as one of the greatest medicinal agents for severe coughs and bronchial irritations. Do not accept a substitute for Pinex. It is guarai&eed to give prompt relief or money refunded. -Advertisement.

QUIZ WILL DARE 1 USE OF MONEY PAID TOINSULL Surplus Claimed by Huge Utility Far Too Large, Says Accountant. B;> ScriiJi/g-Uotcard Xeicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Some seven million consumers of Insull utility companies will learn from the federal trade commission, within the next few weeks, what becomes of the dollars they pay in monthly light bills. A smaller number of investors in these same companies learned, during the last week, details of the surplus and profits of Middle West Utilities Company, principal holding company of the Insull group. Asel R. Colbert, accountant, who examined the company’s books for the commission, reported that the surplus claimed by the company should, in his opinion, have been only a little more than a third as large. “The surplus of the Middle West Utilities Company as of Sept. 30, 1930, was expressed in two accounts, as follows,” Colbert said: Capital surplus, $22,115,762.32; surplus (termed earned surplus in annual report of company for 1929), $13,532,928.51. Not Earned Surplus “This surplus account did not only represent the earned surplus of the company, but recorded appreciation of investments, financing charges, premiums on stocks and other items which, in the opinion of the examiner, do not constitute earned surplus.” Discussing profit on sales or exchanges of securities and properties and revaluations of them Colbert said: “A total of $28,196,229.53 was recorded as income from this source which may be accounted for as follows: “Profit on sale of securities and properties to subsidiaries, $17,710,887.21. Profit on sale of securities to outside companies, $8,220,526. Profit on sale of Middle West Utility company’s own securities, $732,694.32. Appreciation recorded through revaluation of securities (net), $1,371,712.56. Unapportioned as between sales to subsidiaries and outsiders, but consisting principally of profit on sales to outsiders, $160,429.15. ‘Writeup’ of Values “A considerable portion of the profits recorded on sales to subsidiaries has been based on security exchanges, with values assigned to the securities received measuring the amount of profit. In a number of cases, such so-called profits have been nothing more in effect than a writeup of investment security values and represent no realized earnings cf the Middle West Utilities Company.” Subsidiaries of Middle West Utilities serve 4,524 communities with electricity, gas and ice. Among

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You'll please pardon Gene Lauder Tunney, Mr. Cameraman, if he steals a wink or two of sleep while you work! Here’s a picture showing the heir of the former heavyweight champion during the slumber hour. companies in the Insull group is the Great Lakes Radio Broadcasting Company, which owns Station WENR in Chicago, and operated it until it was leased recently to National Broadcasting Company. At the top of the organization of Insull companies are Insull Utilities Investments, Inc., and Corporation Securities Company of Chicago. In the latter group, Insull, Marshall Field Company, Swift & Company, and Halsey, Stuart & Company are all represented in the directorate. OPEN RELIEF DRIVE Legion Asks'Contributions for City’s Needy. American Legion posts and auxiliaries of the city opened a relief station at 118-120 East New York street today for the receipt of clothing for distribution to the needy. Although distribution will not begin until next week, John W. Hano, Twelfth district commander, is making an appeal for clothing and cash donations. Investigation of applicants will be made through cooperation of other relief agencies. Compensation of persons in charge of the station will be from the legion welfare fund. All cash donations will go into relief work. James C. Olive will act as treasurer of the fund. Captain Otto Ray, city license inspector, is general chairman of the relief organization. Serving with him will be Dr. Frank E. Long, past district commander; Gus Meyers, commander of Osric Mills Watkins post; Mrs. Richard E. Brann, chairman of the auxiliary relief organization, and Mrs. Blanche Breedlove, Twelfth district auxiliary president.

DEC. 7, 1931

TRAFFIC TOLL HEAVY; POLICE START SMASH One Man Is Killed, Three Officers Injured in Car Accidents. One man was killed, three police officers were hurt, one seriously, and several other persons were injured in week-end automobile accidents which today resulted in an intensive police drive against traffic law violators. William I. Moreland, 71, of 1238 Shepard stree*. . watchman at Mor"i f ris street and the I r'vfl I Belt railroad, was 1 vJ v_/ killed by an auto alleged to have been driven bv Claude Owens, 2325 Shelby street. Apartment 1. Owens, arrested a few hours after the accident Saturday night by Sergeant Kent Yoh, is charged with manslaughter. Lieutenant Frank Owen was injured critically Detectives William Stalcup and William Kurrasch cut and bruised when the police car in which they were riding was struck by an auto operated bv Albert H. Ward. 30. of 21 West Fortysixth street, Sunday night at Broadway and Sixteenth street. Driver Is Arrested Owen, head of the accident prevention bureau, who. with the other officers, was working on the alleged hit-and-run murder of Mrs. Nettie Bertram, is in city hospital. He is suffering from fracture of three ribs, cuts, leg fracture and internal injuries. The detectives were taken to their homes after medical treatment. Ward faces charges of drunkenness, driving while drunk and failure to give a police car the right of way. Arrest of Claude Owens on the charge of Moreland's auto death and his alleged confession resulted from pursuit by George Grinsteiner, undertaker, 522 East Market street, of the alleged killer’s car. He obtained the license number, which he turned over to police. Carried 100 Feet by Car Moreland, watchman for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, was sanding rails when struck. He was carried more than 100 feet along the tracks by the car. Grinsteiner, driving behind the accident car, struck the watchman's body as it fell to the pavement. An unidentified man yelled at Grinsteiner to pursue the driver of the car which struck Moreland. Lieutenant Owen and other officers were en route to Nineteenth street and Ashland avenue, in search of another “lead” in the Bertram killing, when the accident occurred. Ward is alleged to have told them he “didn't give a damn if they were police; drivers on Sixteenth street always have the right of way.” Owen was thrown from the front seat and Kurrasch was unconscious for several minutes after the accident.