Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1932 — Page 3

FEB. 1, 1932.

ZERO WEATHER GRIPS COUNTRY; MANY SUFFER Two Planes Missing in West; Boy Scout Dead in Mountain Storm. Hv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I.—The winter’s coldest weather gripped the Midwest today with forecasts of snow over a wide area. Subzero cold which swept into the ■United States over the week-end from the Canadian northwest, brought aalf a dozen deaths. Two missing airplanes may add to the toll. Below zero weather was reported from Helena, Mont., to upper Michigan and as far south as Omaha and Des Moines. In Chicago, the thermometer hovered near but did not touch the zero mark, unequalled for more than two years. Four deaths were attributed to the cold wave here. Two Hanes Missing Slightly warmer temperatures ana snow is predicted over the entire region from the Rocky mountains to the Great Lakes today. A passenger airplane, carrying eight persons, including the pilot, was missing on the Pacific coast. A hunt of the rugged storm-swept mountain area over which it was believed forced down failed to reveal trace of the craft, and it was feared the party would have been unable to withstand the exposure had a crackup not proved fatal. A second plane was reported by residents of Soda Springs, Cal., to have crashed near there in a raging blizzard last night. The Soda Springs residents said the plane had flown low over the little village, high in the Sicrre Nevada mountains, evidently seeking a landing place. The motor was heard to cease but the blizzard prevented any search for the plane, residents reported. Boy Scout /?<es John Taylor, 14, a Boy Scout, lost his life in a blizzard on the slope of Mt. Hood. He was frozen to death fighting his way through fourteen-foot snow drifts on the mountain side. Four other Boy Scouts, who became lost in the hills in the heavy snow fall, made their wav back home safely. Two deaths in Chicago were reported due to cold and exposure and two others to heavy exertion in the near-zero temperature. All records for Yosemite Nation-1 nark were broken when the total snowfall reached 137 inches, three inches more than the previous record made in 1906. Heavy rains and cold winds swept the entire Pacific coast. The lowest mark reported to the ! weather bureau was 46 below zero, 1 at Battleford, Sask. Increases Flood Sufiering Advent of sub-freezing temperatures today increased suffering among the 25,000 flood refugees in central Mississippi, eastern Arkansaw and northern Louisiana. Many homeless victims are sleeping in tents. The cold also added to the difficulties of the thousands of citizens fighting flood waters. The Mississippi, a foot above its | flood level at Vicksburg, and a foot below at Memphis, still bottles up the Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Ouachita, j Red and St. Francis rivers. Weather i men predicted further rain and i continued cold.

Fletcher Trust is near you in every part of town One bank downtown . . . four on the North Side . . . four on the East Side . . . one on the South Side . . . three on the West Side ... all parts of the same institution ... all under the same management... all with the same strength. No wonder so many persons bank with Fletcher Trust Company. For Fletcher Trust, instead of asking all of its customers to come to one central banking office, takes its offices to the people—places them all over town in convenient locations where they are easy to reach. If you, too, wish to save time in your banking, you are cordially invited to open a checking or a savings account at any one of our banks. Choose the one piost handy to you. Through it you can obtain all of the protection and all of the services of Fletcher Trust Company. jTletcher itust tammy Jlllt . wiimM Northwest Comer Pennsylvania and Market Streets i l i> | §5 ofel NORTH SIDE BRANCHES WEST SIDE BRANCHES EAST SIDE BRANCHES t 1* *s| 1541 North Illinoi* Stret 474 Wet Washington Start 2122 East Tenth Street A |f CS 5 fc* |j} 3001 North Illinois Street 1233 Oliver Avenue 458 East Washington Street ~ *1 (! Si Ps 153 J Roomv.li Avenu. 2600 West Michigan Stmt 2506 East Washington Street I- ] fcj:..*t fn I; 33 BellefonUin. Street U 5501 Ease Whington Stmt '

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Lett to right—William Henzie, Winford Fox, Carl Hancock and La Vaughn Brabender.

JOBLESS WILL ASK $1,500,000 Demand Dole of County; Plan Mass Meeting. “In the name of the 60,000 unemployed in Marion county,” the unemployed council will demand of county commissioners $1,500,000 “to allow $25 for each unemployed family in the county to buy some necessities of life.” The demand will be made at 2 Thursday. The action was decided upon at a public meeting at Workers’ Center, 932>2 South Meridian street, Sunday afternoon. Additional demands will include: Payment of 40 cents an hour, instead of in food, for city and county j “made” work; abolition of segregaj tion of Negroes on county jobs; payment of $5 cash weekly to sin- ! gle unemployed; no evictions of unemployed persons; free gas, light and water for unemployed and part time workers, and free automobile licenses for unemployed, and part time workers earning less than $lO weekly. Plans for a mass meeting Thursday on the steps of the statehouse were made. A delegation from the unemployed council will call on i Governor Leslie Thursday afterinoon. HIKER STEALS CLOTHING Repays Motorist for ‘Lift’ by Theft of SIOO Worth of Apparel. Ingratitude was the reward paid Henry Hudson of Columbus, 0., i Sunday night, by a hitch hiker he | had driven from the Ohio city to Indianapolis. Hudson reported the youth stole i clothing valued at SIOO from his i car when he was in a downtown hotel a few minutes. State police and deputy sheriffs are watching Road 40 for the youth, who told Hudson he was en route I to St. Louis. % LIBRARY ADDS BOOKS Business Branch Places Seven New Volumes on Shelves. New books placed in circulation this week at the Indianapolis business branch library are: “America Weighs Her’'Gold,” by Rogers; “Union-Management Cooperation on the Rialroad,” by Wood; “The Cultural Significance ;of Accounts,” by Scott; “Window Display for Profit,” by Leahy; “The Merchandising of Drug Products,” I by Olsen; “Getting a Job and Getj ting Ahead,” by Fancher, and “Year j Book of the National Association of (Cost Accountants, 1931.”

New officers of the Roines Club, senior boys’ honorary organization at Manual Training high school, are: Wililam Henzie, president; Winiford Fox, vice-president; Carl Hancock, secretary; and La Vaughn Brabender, treasurer. FIGHTS NEGRO THIEF Apartment Custodian Loses 3-Block Chase. A Negro thief who escaped after a hand-to-hand fight with Cliff Beyers, custodian of an apartment at 668 East Eleventh street, was sought today by police. Beyers grappled with the man in the basement after discovering him looting three lockers. Wresting free, the Negro fled into an alley and Escaped after a three-block chase. William Thomas, 79, Mount Vernon, Ind., visiting in the city at 2426 North Olney street, informed detectives $785 was stolen from his coat pocket while he walked Saturday afternoon in Brookside park.. Other persons reporting thefts and losses are: Clifford Gerhart, 1229 Bellefontaine street, $100; H. H. Fletcher, 1825 Broadway, S2O; John Stephenanoss, 2602 West Tenth street, sls, and Louis Weiss, 134 North Pennsylvania street, sls. COPS TREE SUSPECT IN HITCH-HIKER SHOOTING Victim Still Critical as Police Seek Young Asailant. With one suspect absolved, detectives today pressed the search for the hitch-hiker who shot and stabbed J. Russell Gardner, 50, of 3226 North Illinois street, in a robbery at Seventy-first street and Keystone avenue, Thursday night. A youth, whose name was withheld, was arrested Sunday, but was to be released today. He knew nothing of the shooting, detectives said. Garned, former purchasing agent for the state highway commission, today remained in a critical condition at city hospital. He was shot in the head three times and stabbed in the neetk. Gardner told police his assailant was a hitch-hiker, whom he gave a lift to Indianapolis from Lafayette. As they neared this city, the youth drew a revolver and shot Gardner, after taking $9 from his pockets. , Predicts Subzero This Month By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I.—John F. Barrett, grain broker, who won fame as a weather forecaster with his successful bets there would be no zero weather in Chicago last winter, today predicted subzero temperatures here late in February.

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TRAFFIC CUSTS THIRTEEN LIVES DURING MONTH January Toll Continues at Rate Which Made 1931 Worst in History. Thirteen persons were killed in traffic accidents in Marion county in January. * Seven were pedestrians, who. either were run down by careless motorists or, disregarding safety laws, walked into the paths of automobiles. Three others were victims of injuries incurred in automobile crashes; two were killed by a train and another by an interurban. Last year, 176 persons lost their lives in traffic accidents. That total previously had been unheard of. But, if 1932 is marked with thirteen deaths each month, the total would be 156, without allowance for increase in traffic during spring, summer and fall. The deaths in county accidents last month were: Charles Swihart. 34. of Argos. killed Jan. 4. bv an interurban at Thirty-eighth and Dearborn streets. Mr. and Mrs. William Nicholson. R. R 2, Carmel, auto struck Jan. 9. by a train at the Carmel crossing. Lester D. Hanscom. 1333 North Pennsylvania street, hitch-hiker, killed Jan. 15. on the natiohal road, east of the city. Alva West. 43. of 2220 Kenwood avenue, killed Jan. 16. in auto crash at Seventeenth and Alabama streets. David Fugate. 43. of Brazil, hitchhiker, injured fatally Jan. 13. near Cumberland. Hubert Scott. 35. of 31 South Chester street, struck bv an auto in the 4100 block. East Tenth street. Jan. 22. Emma Kennedy.) 14. Negro, 244 Puryear street, hit bv an auto. Jan.*22. John Hunter. 40. Negro. 1040 North Talbot street, hit bv an auto Jan. 15 at St. Clair street and Capitol avenue and died Jan. 22. J. E. Taylor. R. R. 3. Box 472. injured BARGAIN EXCURSION FARES Week-Ends During February CHICAGO... $5.00 Good on all trains Friday and Saturdays also on 12:10 a. m. and 1:55 a. in. trains Sundays. Good returning until Monday night following date of sale. $3.00 Round Trip to Louisville. Good going Fridays and Saturdays: returning Monday following date of sale. Sunday, February 7 CINCINNATI $2.25 GREENSBURG ... 1.25 SHELBYVILLE ... .75 Leave Indianapolis 7:30 a. m.: returning leave Cincinnati 6:15 p. m. or 10:05 p. m., same date. Tickets good in coaches only. Children half fare. Tickets at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle, and Union Station. Big Four Route A Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK Southeast Corner of Market and Pennsylvania

Death Trap Governor Harry G. Leslie’s office at the statehouse is proving a death trap for goldfish. The of a school of goldfish, being educated in the office by Misses Rose Sapirie and Elsie Leo, did a flip-flop out of the fish bowl during the night and this morning was found dead on the floor. Mourning for the poor fish, Miss Sapirie praised its conduct and attributed its death to the fact it was leaping with glee. The fish was pure gold, she said, and so tame it used to eat from her hand.

Jan. 25 tn a head-on auto crash at Holt j road and Washington street. | Theodore Reyer. 69. of 2064 Central avenue. struck bv a police car Jan. 26 at Pennsylvania and Washington streets. George Walsh. 43. of 302 South *■ andoloh street, struck Jan. 29. by a ear at i Oriental and Washington streets. | Harry L. Grubbs. 36. 734 North Capitol J avenue, hitch-hiker, killed Jan. 29. .-hen , struck bv an auto In 2800 block. South Meridian street. Analyzing the pedestrian death toll, it is revealed majority of the fatal accidents were caused by carelessness on the part of pedes- ; trians. The train and interurban ! deaths strictly were the result of failure to heed safety rules. Indianapolis or any part of the country, it is necessary, authorities point out, for the pedestrian to exercise as much care as the autoist. Peisons crossing heavily traversed thoroughfares should not depend on the motorist to stop. Neither should the motorist depend on the pedestrian to stop.

Fabrics for Spring This year more than ever people are giving their dressmaking talents a chance . . . and why not . . . for this year prices on silks and wash goods are lower than they have been in years. Pettis’ has an almost unlimited selection of beautiful fabrics for your approval. Silk Flat Crepe, Yard, 69c Begin now to make your owm Spring frocks. Choose your material from this A group of fine quality all-silk Flat Crepe. There are 20 attractive shades from Ud which to choose, and the width is 39 inches. Rayon Satin Rayon Flat Crepe Ji|y / For drapes and bed sets. Choice of 20 Extra heavy quality, and 39 inches WBSf , new shades. wide. Choice w&M&W f /^~Ov srr 33 c Yd. ? ... 39c vd. .. New A. B. C. Prints, Yd, 18c Those crisp, chic little frocks for Spring are most attractive when fashioned fr o m these unusual prints. 36 Inches wide. Fast colors. New Wash Prints Hollywood Prints depend y WWCh y °" *“ alwßys All new and attractive fast colors and colors, and 36 7%C Yd. Width e 36 nS ‘ O Q inches wide .... % inches Yd. PETTlS’—street floor Stevens Linen “Golden Star” Toweling, 6 Yds. Sheets Size .Ix9o inches. This Toweling is of a very absorbent quality, un- Sheets 81x99 inches, 89c. usually low priced. Borders in assorted colors. Table Oilcloth Outing Flannel A fine quality which usually ~B Just 1,000 yards at this price, sells for 29c yard. Assortment I Vd White, plain colors and fancy BJ of fancy patterns. 45-inch J * stripes. It is 36 inches wide Yfl. PETTlS’— street floor. for Your Old Mattress J This Allowance Will Apply on Any Come in. Select your new Mattress. We’ll deduct $5.00 for your old one. The Salvation Army will call for it and in turn /y deliver it to some worthy Indianapolis family without cost! We want to put one thousand new Mattresses into the homes of Indianapolis, and in co-operation with the Salvation Army are g making this astounding offer. All inner-spring Mattresses, fully fa&H ■yO gfjjpT ' guaranteed—lndianapolis factory made. Use Our Economy Budget Plan! Sale Price, $14.95 1 S/^.95 Old Mattress, 5.00 vJ t||l§§>gip • Total, PETTlS’— fourth floor.

RAIL EMPLOYES TAKE ONE-YEAR CUT IN WAGES 10 Per Cent Slash Accepted by 1,200,000 Workers on 210 Roads. BY JOHN B. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. I.—The country’s railroads deducted 10 per cent from pay checks of their 1,200,000 workers today after leaders of railway labor voted to accept a oneyear wage reduction. Amicable settlement of the sev-enteen-day parley between the twenty labor unions and nine rail--1 road presidents representing 210 Class A roads was reached Sunday. The pact was signed near midnight. In return for the approximate $215,000,000 saving to the industry, the individual roads promised “an earnest and sincere effort to main- ; tain and increase railroad employment.” They also withdrew formal notices mailed last Dec. 21, seeking 15 per cent reductions from their employes for the same temporary period. The reduction was labor’s contribution, through personal sacrifices, to aid return of national prosperity ! as well as to alleviate the industry’s desperate plight. Basic rates of sal--1 aries remain the same. The agree-

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ment terminates automatically Jan 31, 1933. Officers and general chairmen of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen today followed the workers I they represent in accepting voluntarily a 10 per cent wage reduction for one year. “It would be selfish of us not tc . take the same steps,” said A. F. 1 Whitney, chief executive of the brotherhood.

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