Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1931 — Page 2

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YOUNG WOMAN IS INJURED BY HIT-RUN AUTO Four Persons Are Hurt as Machines Collide on North Side. Police today searched for a hitrun motorist who injured Miss Lenora Boyd, 24, of 1603 Central •venue, Monday afternoon. Miss Boyd reported that a speeding car struck her as she crossed Sixteenth street at Central avenue. Pedestrians carried her to her home. She suffered cuts on the head and body. Four injured persons were taken to City hospital Tuesday night after an automobile collision at Delaware and Twenty-eighth streets. They were: Helen Schwarzer, 14, of 5511 Winthrop avenue, injured shoulder; Mrs. Mabel Schwarzer, 40. same address, cuts and bruises; Miss Edith Toole, 17, of 1108 North Tibbs avenue, cuts and brulsess; and Robert Rutherford, 19, of 1140 Arnolda avenue, slight injuries. The Schwarzer car collided with n car driven by Joe L. NeUl, 18, of 730 North Tibbs avenue. Neill was arrested on charges of failure to atop at a preferential street, and for driving an automobile with more than two passengers on the driver's scat. A 6-ycar-old boy, Lincoln Shoop of Mars Hill, died early today at the Indiana Christian hospital of Injuries received in an automobile accident Tuesday near Morristown. A fractured ankle was suffered by Charles Britt, Negro, 22, of 517 West Twenty-fifth street, said by police to have been injured by a hit-run driver at Northwestern avenue and Twenty-fifth street. Russell Leandiades, 11. of 644 East Pratt street, was injured slightly Tuesday, when hit by a car driven by W. L. Pensford, 47, of 5202 Park avenue, at College and Pratt street. WASHINGTON GIRLS TO SPONSOR YULE PLAY *Dust of the Road’ is High School Production Scheduled Thursday. The Washingtonians, senior girls’ honorary at Washington high school, will sponsor a Christmas T>lay, “Dust of the Road’’ Thursday. The play will be given for the student body* in the morning, and will be presented in the evening for the benefit of the senior scholarship fund. Players in the cast will be Jack Engle, Herman Schmink, Virginia Boswell, and Carl Pryor. Miss Marie Smith and Miss Elizabeth Lane will direct the production. Music will be furnished by the glee clubs, the band, and the orchestra. SEEK SCHOOL PURCHASE Civic league to File Suit Demanding Acquisition by City. Completion of purchase of school !No. 1, Thirty-sixth and Gale streets, •will be demanded in a legal complaint being drawn up by members of the East Thirty-Eighth Street Civic League. Part of the school -property was annexed more than two years ago. Complete purchase never was made. Henry Johaningsmeir is chairman of the committee formulating the complaint. Other members are Donald Bradway, Scott Kirkpatrick and Ed V. Fitzpatrick, attorney. One hundred families were represented at a meeting of the league Tuesday night in Forest Manor Methodist Episcopal church. ELKS TO GIVE BASKETS 500 Needy Families Will Receive Yule Dinners From Order. Five hundred baskets of food will br distributed by the Indianapolis Elks lodge on Christmas eve, according to announcement today by William J. Fahey, chairman. The baskets will contain twentytwo articles of food, sufficient to last the average family a week, and will be delivered personally by Elks. Uther members of the basket committee are; Frank Cullivan, Frank H. Krause, James N. Nelson and Thomas F. Broden. For twenty-five years the organization has given Christmas baskets. AKRON FLIES INTO DIXIE Giant U. S. Dirigible Bound for New Orleans on Training Trip. By United Press LAKEHURST, N. J., Dec. 16. The new naval dirigible Akron was over the southland today on a training flight scheduled to take the giant ship as far as New Orleans. Lieutenant-Commander C. E Rosendahl was in command with Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, -chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics, aboard. The dirigible carried a crew’ of twelve officers and fifty-one enlisted men. The Akron is expected to reach Wew oneans bv nightfall, the schedule calling for its return here Thursday. PLAYLET AT NORTHWOOD Do Shi Kai Class Will Prrsont “Thanks Awfully” Tonight. “Thanks Awfully,” a playlet, will be presented by the Do Shi Kai class of the Northwood Christian church tonight in the church. Ella Jean Ward and Juliarose Robertson have the leading roles. Others in 7the cast are: Frances Robtshaw. Vintlnla Harbauah. Marita DeVault. Virginia Weiss. Manna McCleastet. Mary Hev. Alleera Dyer. Fern Enirlch. Marjorie Wilson. Martha Yelvin*•ton. Hortense Guthrie. Dorothv Dermit and Donald Hoffman. Lawyer Gets High Honor By United Press VATICAN CITY. Dec. 16.—Frank J. Hogan. Washington lawyer, has been nominated a grand officer ol the order of the Holy Sepulchre, il was announced today. Mrs. Hogar was nominated a dame of the same ; order. Wed Sixty Years •' By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 16.Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Brewer will celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary Monday. The husband is if, the wife, 81.

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Closed Rank to Pay OOLITIC. Ind.. Dec. 16.—The first dividend for depositors of the Oolitic State bank, closed in February,

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will be paid late this week, it is announced by the receiver, Albert J. Fields. The dividend will be 25 per cent of claims, and will total $13,500.

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RADIO COPS NAB BANDITjSUSPECT Charge Ex-Convict Held Up Filling Station Man. | An alleged holdup man, Identified j as Roy Skaggs, 20, of Hayworth, 111., former Pontiac reformatory Inmate, | sighed today at city prison because j things are not what they used to be I in his racket. “This police radio don't give a rod man a chance,” the prisoner commented, when he was trapped by the radio after a holdup at Bridgeport Tuesday night. In a stolen car, it is charged, Skaggs attempted to escape after robbing Thaddeus Shaw, Texaco station proprietor, of ten gallons of gasoline, a quart of oil and $2.46. Radio Patrolmen O. B. McClain and Charles Felton, aided by radioequipped sheriff cars, gave chase and caught the robber at the Washington street bridge over White river. Skaggs’ car had been stolen at Danville, police charged. A Negro bandit took $25 from J. R. Phillipe, drug store operator at Senate avenue and North street, Tuesday, but police found no trace of the bandit.

SCHOOLS’ ‘USELESS’ THEORIES ASSAILED

Moose Dictator Upholds Lodge’s System of Education. “We will not fill children’s heads with useless theories and cast them adrift to get through the world as best they can,” said Frederick N. I Zihlman, supreme dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, Tuesday night as he outlined the Moose basis of education, training the hand as well as the brain.”* Hundreds of members of the order gathered at Moose temple, 135 North Delaware street, to welcome Zihl-. man on his first official visit to Indiana. “A supreme dictator class of more than 150 candidates was initiated. Loyal Order of Moose advocates vocational training in public schools and has as a goal the building up of a balanced educational system adapted to the needs, both mental and physical, of each child. Abolition of county homes and i

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poor farms is part of the Moose program. At Mooseheart, 111.,- more than 1,400 dependent children are being cared for. A place of rest for aged members has been established at Mooehaven, Fla. Sketching the accomplishments of the order, Zihlman said: “Ours is an international fraternity with a membership of more than 700,000 in the 1,700 lodges in countries where English iss poken. Several millions are being spent in general charitable work outside the fraternity. Eleven millions have been spent in the establishment and maintenance of Mooseheart.” Zihlman commented favorably on the location of the municipal airport and condition of the grounds. A tour of the city preceded the reception and initiation. The supreme dictator formerly was a member of the congressional airport committee. Today, Zihlman was to leave for Terre Haute where he will be entertained tonight. He was accompanied by M. F. Mahoney and William Anderson of this city.

TRIES TO HIDE HIT-RUN VICTIM Driver of Costly Car Flees Scene With Boy, 11. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 16.—A hit-and-run driver who ran down an 11-year-old boy, then attempted to hide his victim by removing him from the scene of the accident, was hunted by police today. The victim. Edward McHugh of the Bronx, was knocked dow’n while playing in the street. Before the few persons who saw the accident could reach the scene, the driver of a costly machine jumped out and lifted the boy into his machine. Then he sped away. Instead of driving to a hospital, however, he turned off toward a reservoir. Then he stopped and pushed the unconscious boy into the street, more than half a mile from where the boy was run down. One motorist saw the boy shoved into the street and he pursued the driver, but was outdistanced. The license number of the hit-and-run

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car was noted, however, and given to police. The boy was in a serious condition today, suffering from a skull fracture and other Injuries. Chicken Thief Sentenced COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 16. Leonard Hyden, 28, charged in circuit court here with petit larceny in connection with the theft of some chickens, was found guilty by a jury and was given a sentence of from one to five years In the state reformatory. He was also fined $lO and costs. The jury deliberated on the case eight hours. Hayden stole chickens from the Charles Guinn farm southeast of this city.

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