Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

APRIL 16, 1932.

EXPERT BLAMES GAS FOR BLAST AT COLUMBUS, 0. Du Pont Engineer Scoffs at Theory High Explosives Were Used. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., April 16.—Accumulated gas caused the explosion which partly wrecked Ohio’s $5,000,000 office building, killing eight persons and injuring sixty, according to a final report prepared today by F. B. Bickle, technical chemical engineer for the Du Pont company, who investigated on invitation of the Governor. Bickle said definitely the blast Was not caused by dynamite, TNT or nitroglycerine. It could only have been caused by natural or sewer gas, he said. 'Everything, all the evidence, supports my original conclusion that the blast was not caused by any high explosives,” Bickle said. "There is nothing whatever to indicate that it might have been. Everything tends to prove the contrary.” The expert said conditions were Ideal for a gas explosion in the lower levels of the building. A sub-basement compartment of considerable size remained under the lower floor where thousands of cubic feet of gas could accumulate. A city engineer revealed a 56-inch sewer ran almost directly beneath the chamber and that eight garages drained refuse into this pipe from which both sewer gas and gasoline fumes might have risen. The explosion occurred a few minutes after men drilled a hole to this chamber. TAX DEADLINE DELAY FOR COUNTY LIKELY Date May Be Advanced, Due to Conditions, Says Sexton. Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, admitted today he is ’’thinking seriously” of postponing the deadline date for Marion county tax collections this year. “We are to hold several conferences early next week,” Sexton said. “It seems likely that we may delay the deadline date. We understand the dilemma faced by many taxpayers and we are going to do all in our power to help them.” HORSE'S MEMORY GOOD Off Milk Route for Three Years, ; Remembers All Stops. By United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., April 16. —Scott Whitford, a dairyman, used 1 his horse, Fannie, on a milk route i for twenty years. The horse learned ! the entire route, stopping at all customers’ homes without order from Whitford. Three years ago Whitford purchased a truck and Fannie started a well-earned vacation. Recently the truck was damaged In an accident. Whitford brought out the old milk cart and hitched up Fannie for the regular run. Although it had been three years since she had made the trip, the j horse remembered all the stops without an error, Whitford said. She was confused somewhat by customers added since her last trip, but after three days she had learned all these, Whitford said.

PROTEST FOOD QUALITY Mouldy Bread Given Poor, Charge of Unemployed. Denouncing the quality of food served at the city and county employes’ soup kitchen, a group of unemployed men and women voiced protests at the kitchen and at the city hall today. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan was hot in his office and the group was directed to the city controller's office, where members presented their grievances to Captain Otto Ray. Objections to mouldy bread and bread which is not wrapped were voiced, and one man charged he was refused any more food at the kitchen when he objected to taking •unwrapped bread. METHODISTS BACK DRYS 14,000 in Rnshville District Pledge Support to Candidate. * Support of dry candidates was pledged by 14,000 members of the Rushville district of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in a resolution adopted recently, according to R. E. Badger, secretary. WELFARE WORKER DIES Julia Clifford Lathrop World-Wide Expert on Child Problems. By United Press ROCKFORD, 111., April 16.—Julia Clifford Lathrop, 74, internationally known child welfare worker, is dead, following an operation for removal of goitre. She was the first head of the children’s bureau of the United States department of labor. utility sued By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 16. —Fraudulent scheming to prevent a legal assessment of utility property in Monroe county is charged in a suit filed against the Public Service Company of Indiana, seeking a $90,000 judgment. Plaintiffs are the county commissioners.

Whoa, Anglers! By United Press WASHINGTON, April 16. It Is not only a good trick, but illegal to catch fish while sitting astride a horse, cow or other animal in Idaho, the bureau of fisheries discovered in a national survey of fish and game laws. Pennsylvania believes In a holiday for the finny tribe so anglers must stay away from streams on Sunday. In Maryland, the residents of the state can fish on Sunday, but outsiders must not. West Virginia does not allow aliens to cast a line In state waters and Oklahoma prohibits the use of artificial bait with more than fifteen hooks.

Infant Mends Broken Romance of Midget

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NATIONAL attention was attracted a year ago when Miss Mavis Lane of Memphis. Tenn., of normal height, became the bride of Jozippie ( Baron) Paucci, circus midget, under the “big top” while the show was in Charleroi, Pa. The romance faded, according to Mrs. Paucci, because of Jealousy.

“So many women would pick him up and exclaim he was cute,” she said. But now Mrs. Paucci, who is five feet three inches tall, is the mother of a baby girl, born in a Memphis hospital and weighing five pounds and 11 ounces, only 32 pounds less than her father.

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Paucci is 36 inches tall. “For the baby’s sake I think we will go back together,” Mrs. Paucci says. “I still love him.” Circus friends who attended the wedding are endeavoring to reunite the couple. Paucci, who was preparing in winter quarters in Florida for the circus season, was delighted with prospects of a reconciliation when told of the baby daughter. “I hope my wife will join me on the road,” he said, and indicated that he would like to add the new daughter to the ranks of curious exhibits in the circus. “But that will be up to my wife,” he remarked.

ARRESTED ON WAY TO SAVE PAL FROM JAIL Good Samaritan Also Speeds; Needs Money Himself. By United Press EVANSTON, 111., April 16.—Richard Hansen, 39, was unperturbed when asked to furnish $25 bail on a speeding charge. “I’ll call up my friends, Alfred Pareti, and have him bring tlje money down,” said Hansen. "It won’t take him long to get here.” It didn’t. When Paretti arrived he was under arrest for a charge of speeding. He bailed himself out with the $25 brought for friend and left Hansen in jail. SLASH EXTRA FARES Pennsv Announces New Rates Effective on April 24. Extra fare charges will be eliminated for all Pennsylvania railroad trains serving Indianapolis, effective April 24, it was announced today by J. L. Gressitt, general superintendent. Every train will offer coach accommodations, thus affording the opportunity to travel at the lowest cost, Gressitt said. Several schedule revisions will become effective with the fare change. One will provide the fastest service ever given between New York and St. Louis. The crack train, Spirit of St. Louis, which passes through Indianapolis, will make the 1,052-mile New York-to-St. Louis run in twenty-two hours and fifty minutes. U. S. JURY TO CONVENE District Attorney Calls Session for Thursday, April 28. George R. Jeffrey, United States district attorney, today announced he had issued a call for the grand jury to convene April 28. He indicated no major cases were due for consideration, but that he desired to dispose of small cases in order to make way for the summer recess. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind. 3 miles an hour; temperature, 52; barometric pressure, 30.13 at sea level; ceiling, overcast, estimated 7,000 feet; visibility, 8 miles; field, good. Women Gas Thieves Get 10 Days By United Press PORT HURON, Mich., April 16. —Caught stealing gasoline from a motor car, Mrs. Mary Johnson and Mrs. Beatrice Gerrow were sentenced to serve ten days each in the county jail.

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DROP CITY WORKERS Cermak Orders 1,492 Let Out as Saving Move. By United Press CHICAGO, April 16.—Another large reduction in the city’s pay roll is expected today, if instructions given by Mayor Anton J. Cermak to drop 1,492 employes are carried out. The mayor, resting at French Lick, today, before his departure gave orders for the reduction which would amount to a savings of more than SIOO,OOO a month. The city’s annual pay roll has been reduced in the last year from $61,763,000 to $54,526,000. ASK TOW-IN REFUND Driver Files Suit Against City Officials. A suit aiming at return of auto tow-in fees is on file in circuit court today against the city, Charles R. Myers, Donald Morris, and Frank Dailey as safety board members; William L. Elder, city controller; Chief Mike Morrissey and the Plaza garage. The suit was filed late Friday for Harry H. Trimble, 1552 West Washington street by Lawrence Shaw and Samuel Blum, attorneys, and asks for return of a $3 impounding fee. The tow-in ordinance recently was held unconstitutional in municipal court.

FIND $3,000 IN GOLD Coins Disclosed as Iron Pipe Is Broken Open. By United Press FREEPORT, 111., April 16.—An iron pipe, used as the handle of an ax, yielded a fortune when it broke In the hands of a workman at Galena. More than $3,000 in gold coins dropped out of the pipe. The coins were claimed by J. M. Nack and his sister, Miss Clara Nack, who said they believed the treasure had been hidden in the pipe many years ago by their father. DOUG FAIRBANKS’ AID, NATIVE PRINCESS WED Member of Movie Expedition Given Island Name, ’Red Glow.’ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, April 16.—Walter Pahlman, 42, member of the Douglas Fairbanks motion picture expedition, has become the husband of Simone Terai, daughter of a Polynesian chieftain, in a romance of the South Seas, a cablegram revealed today. A two-day ceremony of feasting, dancing and contests preceded the actual marriage at Tiariroo, the bride’s ancestral home, according to the message. Pahlman is head of the technical department of the company making “Robinson Crusoe of the South Seas” in Tahiti. Cub Bora In Bronz Zoo By United Press NEW YORK, April 16.—Sultan II and his favorite lady at Bronx Zoo were bassinet shopping today following birth of the first club lion in two years at the park.

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BARROW CALLEO ON TO IDENTIFY NATIVESLAYER State Wants Killer Named Before Further 'Honor Insanity' Pleas. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. bv United Pres*) HONQLULU, April 16.—Clarence Darrow was confronted by prosecution demands for an immediate showdown in naming the slayer of Joe Kahahawai w’hen he rose today from a sick bed to resume defense of four accused American:.. The murder trial, interrupted at a crucial point by the aged attorney’s illness, was to continue today in a conference of judge and opposing counsel, with Darrow facing one of the most important battles of his case. John Kelley, fiery territorial prosecutor who seeks life sentence for Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, her navy officer son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, and seamen A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord, announced he will resist further defense testimony only until the actual slayer in brought into the open. Aimed at Massie The demand was aimed chiefly at Lieutenant Massie, whose graphic story of a brutal attack on his wife by a gang of island hoodlums—one of whom allegedly was Kahahawai —has been the only mitigating evidence. When Lieutenant Massie Is recalled to the stand he is expected to relate for the first time what happened last January when Kahahawai was spirited away from this ancient judiciary building and a bullet fired into his heart, thus revealing who did the shooting. Kelley’s point, however, was that Darrow first must name the slayer, if Lieutenant Massie is to be permitted to bring the Ala Moana case —as the attack on Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie is known—further into this trial. Darrow’s announcement that an insanity plea would be brought up on behalf of the actual slayer spurred Kelley in his demands. “We want to know for whom insanity is being pleaded,” Kelley said. “If this is admitted, we presume it automatically would d'sclose the slayer.” Hundreds Disappointed Darrow, stricken suddenly Thursday afternoon by a slight digestive ailment after finishing a swim at Waikiki beach, disappointed hundreds who had waited at the courthouse all night to hear Lieutenant Massie’s closing testimony. The elderly counsel—he will be 75 Monday—was attended by Lieuten-ant-Commander J. E. Porter, navy physician from Pearl Harbor, who reported Friday night Darrow was progressing rapidly and would be ready to appear today. He was principally in need of rest, Dr. Porter said. There were few dry eyes in the courtroom when recess Thursday halted Lieutenant Massie’s anguished story of his wife’s ordeal at the hands of her abductors She was permanently disfigured by brutal blows, and twice submitted to corrective operations, he said A startled courtroom, waiting for Darrow to claim insanity for the defendants, leaned forward when Lieutenant Massie, his face a picture of agony and despair as he described the attack, cried, “it had a strange effect on my mind” Injury Kills Young Athlete By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 16— Bernard Noll, 17, Klondike high school athlete, died at St. Elizabeth hospital Friday night of a skull fracture sustained a week ago. Apparently the victim of a hit-run motorist, he was found lying on Road 52 near Klondike. He never regained consciousness. *AND N#W| SUN-RAY^afe HEALTH MM LAMPS GUESTS?? SLjjP* h/ewYotA i SapJttme. \fc£ue.~ raj 1000 ROOMS ff lvß Each ft with a K4SI RADIO, a ■ PRIJ m/m VATE BATH and SHOWER,-circu-. lating ice water, m large closets and radH many other seaQffQ hires. 1000 homes , u nder _ one roof. Garage Opposite Hotel the new € HOTEL DISON 47th St. just w.of B*wcry. NYC. A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL Stronc business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses; Individual instruction in major subjects, large faculty of specialists in their respective lines. Free Employment Service. Fred W Case. Principal CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North V. W. C. A. Indianapolis, Ind. "3-ir Paid on Savings Security Trust Cos. 11l North Pennsylvania Street

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The Blue Belle of Shortridge high school was named at a dance given in the high school gymnasium, Friday afternoon. Miss Janet Shuman was victor

Arson Suspect Acquitted By United Press PORTLAND, Ind., April 16. George Bowers was acquitted on a charge of arson by a jury which deliberated tv'o and one-half hours

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over fourteen other misses. Robert Ellsworth and his Royal Syncopators provided the music. The party is sponsored annually by the high school's social committee.

Friday night. Bowers was charged with setting fire to his home, in which the body of his wife was found. He was indicted only last month, although the fire occurred on March 12, 1931.

SAPP LIKELY TO KEEP POST ON HIGHWAYGROUP Leslie Reported Favorable to Reappointment of Huntington Man. Governor Harry G. Leslie was not at his office today, but he was reported considering reappointment of Arthur L. Sapp. Huntington, as a member of the state highway commission. Sapp's term expires Sunday and the Governor’s decision in the matter is expected Monday. Leslie was reported backing Sapp for the Republican nomination for Governor, thereby dictating his successor to the high office. Fails to Materialize Sapp was scheduled to announce his candidacy and withdraw from the highway commission to make the race, but this move failed to materialize. Sapp's appointment to the commission last year was received with great joy by sincere w-ell wishers of the state administration, who were rejocing over the resignation of Jess Murden, Peru, whose commission career caused the Governor some embarrassment. Things went smoothly at first, but soon it developed that Murden had advocated the Sapp appointment and the more things changed on the commission the more it remained the same. Joins With Wedeking This was disclosed dramatically recently when Sapp joined with Chairman Albert J. Wedeking in putting across the Versailles-Madi-son road deal for rock asphalt at a price higher than either bituminous retread or concrete, which were both in the competition. Such a hue and cry was aroused

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by the award that Governor Leslie wouldn't permit Director John J. Brown to sign the contract. Later Leslie and Brown decided it didn't need paving now, altliough plans for paving it had been pending for more than three years. PEACH DAMAGE HEAVY 95 Per Cent of State’s Crop Injured by Freeze. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind.. April 16 Damage to peaches In the main peach-growing section of Indiana, extending from Oaktown to Evansville, approximately 95 per cent, it was estimated today by the Purdue university horticulture department. The freeze during the early part of March was found to have destroyed virtually the entire Elbert crop, the principal commercial variety, C. L. Burkholder of the horticulture staff, announced.

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