Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1932 — Page 3

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BULLETS FROM RIFLE RANGE SWEEP YACHT Girl Wounded, 19 Others Periled on Lake Michigan by Gunfire. By t nltrd press WAUKEGAN. 111.. July 25.—Stccljackotod bullrLs whining out over Lake Michigan from a national guard rifle rang* 1 wounded a young woman on a yacht, and imperiled nineteen other members of a group of pleasure voyagers, it was determined today. The victim of the stray bullets was Rosa Peterson. 23, who was shot in the left foot and twice in the leg. Wellington Quirk, wealthy Evanston amateur aviator, the owner of the thirty-four-foot craft, said the I>iull was pierced by many bullets and that the yacht was a quarter full of water by the time it reached the dock Sunday. Believing his yacht was the target of an attack, Quirk shouted to his guests to fall to the deck when the bullets raked the boat. He jerked over the helm and headed out of range. Warning Buoys I'p Captain Walter I-. Anderson, in charge of the rifle range, said guardsmen were practicing on the 1,000-yard range and that bullets were falling in the lake. AOur warning buoys were up and navigation had been warned,” Captain Anderson said. “The men were firing from positions about 500 yards back from the lake. The yacht mus‘ havr been close in or the bullet would not have carried to it.” r lhe condition of the wounded pivi was said not to be critical. ' ' We were cruising at a normal rate," Quirk said, ‘‘just about a mile ofT shore and five miles north of Waukegan. Miss Peterson cried out suddenly she had been shot and in ,vja minute the water about us was spattered with bullets. Taking Water Rapidly "The bullets crashed into the framework of the yacht and all about us. I shouted to every one to lall flat on the deck. Bullets whined above us for a minute. Then as we gained speed and drew out in to.I he lake we apparently cleared th~wange of the gun or guns. "When we found we were taking waier rapidly, I put about and drew In here.” Quirk, owner of the yacht, is a wealthy amateur aviator. His home is at Evanston, 111. He had invited the group of twenty friends, all of them residents of Evanston and jother north shore Chicago suburbs, on a Sunday outing. The yacht, setting out from Evanston, had made a leisurely cruise past the exclusive north shore suburbs, when the startling attack occurred.

DRASTIC BUDGET SLASH IS FACING ANDERSON House to G<*t Bill Cutting Pay of City Chiefs 50 Per Cent. One of the most drastic city budget reduction bills introduced in this session of the general assembly is being prepared by Representative William J. Black (Dem.), Anderson, for submission today or Tuesday. It slashes the salaries of all city officials of Anderson 50 per cent. It abolishes the board of works, placing its powers in the hands of the rity council; abolishes the office of city controller, turning his duties over to the city clerk; and does away with the police judge, having the mayor preside over the city court;. No elective or appointive officials escape the salary slash under the B'ack bill. SALES TAX BILL FACING t ALMOST SURE DEFEAT Senator Hoffman's Retail Measure Gains in Popularity. Senator J. Clyde Hoffman's retail sales tax bill gained in unpopularity over the week-end, and today it seemed doubtful if it can pass the senate and is slated for almost certain defeat in the house. The Indiana Council of Retail Merchants has issued a statement setting forth ten reasons why the sales tax bill should be opposed and the Indiana Association lor Tax Justice also has condemned the measure. The bill would levy a >i of 1 per cent tax on all gross retail sales. ROB JEWELRY WINDOW Dale Glass Smashed in Store Held l’p Only Week Ago. Lightning in the form of thieves struck twice in the same place when a window of the Davis jewelry store, 142 ✓North Illinois street, was smashed Saturday night or early Sunday morning and the contents of the window stolen. Value of the loot is undetermined. A week ago. two bandits dressed in overalls, held up employes of the store and obtained S4OO and several thousand dollars’ worth of watches rnd jewelry. The smashed window was discovered by patrolman Emmett McCormick Sunday morning. DENIES ALIMONY CLAIM Wife Fights Husband's Charges of Cruel Treatment. Mrs. Alice Ullrich. 1821 East Maryland street, today denied charges that she had been “cruel and inhuman" to her husband John Ullrich, who Friday filed a divorce action in superior court, seeking $6,000 alimony. Mrs. Ullrich also denied her husband's charge that shs refused to prepare meals, asserting she was liable to because he would not purchase food. Allegations that he h?d lifted mortgages on her home, resiflted in Mrs. Ullrich charging th?t her husband's expenditures caused two to be placed on the property. Three Fare Theft Charges Charges of grand larceny were filed today against three persons charged with theft of *3O worth of i fiour on July 17 from a Nickel Plate L railroad car. Those held are HenIderson Davis. 38. of 1626 Bundy ■ Mace; Eugene White, 35, of 1309 ■ Yandes street, and Edna Williams, ■ 35, of 1518 Lewis street.

Guillotine Death Asked for Assassin of French President

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Dr. Paul Gorgouloff, assassin of President Doumer of France, went on trial today in Paris. At the left he is pictured with his attorney, Henri Geraud, and below with his wife. At the right is Judge Dreyfus, president of the court of assizes.

LESS BUSINESS VACANCY FOUND This Year’s Figures Reveal Decrease Over 1930. Fewer business buildings, aside from office rooms, are vacant in Indianapolis now than in November, 1930, according to a count by city mail carriers made at the request of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. The count was made July 12 and results w r ere announced today. A. B. Mundelle, assistant postmaster, and William Buchanan, superintendent of mails, were in charge. A sharp drop in construction work was disclosed. Only sixty-seven structures were being built July 12, against 340 in November, 1930, date of the last count. Complete report follows: Occupied Structures 1932 1930 Oflftco rooms 4.133 4.430 Business places 9.299 9,718 Residences 92.176 92.711 Apartment suites 9.363 11,627 Vacant Structures 1932 1930 Office rooms 1.320 924 Business places 1,689 1.705 Residences 9.766 8.643 Anartment suites 4,202 2,131

Olympics Were Started as Greek Funeral Games

Contests Were Part of Cult for Dead: First Was in 776 B. C. P.y Brienrr Srrrire WHEN athletes from all parts of the world compete for honors in the Los Angeles Olympiad in August, they will be continuing a custom that archeologists believe began in the games with which the ancient Greeks honored their dead ancestors. Homer in the Iliad sang of the funeral games, contests that were a part of the Grecian cult of the dead, and not until mrch later in history were the athletic tournaments organized as worship of the gods on Mt. Olympus. Greek athletics and Greek religion were connected from the beginning, but the Olympic and other games of antiquity would not have developed to such importance if the Hellenic race had not had great athletic spirit and love of competition. a a tt At first the games at Olympia shared honors with national festivals at Delphi, Nemea and on the Isthmus at Corinth. But by the beginning of the seventh century before Christ, Olympia had begun to gain its prestige. Professor Walter W. Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied the ancient athletic contests and art of Greece, finds that the traditional data of the first Olympic games in 776 B. C. marked a restoration of the games. From that date until the end of the fourth century A. D., when the games were abolished by the Roman Emperor Theodosius, they were held every fourth year. The Olympic of tradition thus continued for more than a thousand years. a a a Winners of modern Olympic games have their photographs and portraits widely distributed in newspapers and magazines. In ancient Greek games it became customary for the winners to commemorate their successes by erecting statues to themselves near the stadium. Much of what is known about

Lost Flier Finds Calf Tied to Tree,. Waits Owner; Rescued

By United Press MEXICO CITY, July 25.—Clarence McElrov, Medaryville and.), flier who cracked up in the jungles, lived through two foodless weeks—and came back alive because he found a calf tied to a tree and waited for someone to untie it —was in a hospital here today. The Indiana flier was “very tired," he told hospital attendants who received him as soon as he arrived here by airplane from San Geronimo, W’here he wss taken soon after he was found. His plane was destroyed; his flying companion, Roy Gordon of Tegucigalpa, was killed in the crash. The flier was met here by his brother, Rich-

Over the Andes on Muleback to Exile —Far Fall

By I,'nited Press SANTIAGO, CHILE, July 25General Carlos Ibanez, Chilean dictator for three years, rode across the snow covered Andes today into

exile—on muleback. Ibanez flew to Chile from Mendoza, Argentina, early this month. He had lived in exile in Buenos Aires and Mendoza since the overthrow of his gov e r nment by Juan Montero, He came back, uninvited, when Carlas G. Davila came into power, but the government announced that he was leav-

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ing again. Well informed sources said the present socialist regime considered Ibanez’ presence a disturbing influence. He was offered a diplomatic post abroad, but refused it.

—Science Service. Diskobolos, or the discus thrower. a masterpiece by the Greek sculptor Myron, as restored from copies that found their w r ay to Rome early in history. The athlete who posed for Myron was a winner in an ancient Olympiad.

Greek sport was learned from the statutes which occupy places of honor in the galleries of the world today? The most noted artists of ancient Greece fashioned the statues in bronze and marble. When the victor was a poor man he often was cohtent with a small statuette, a relief or a painting. Myron's statue of the discus thrower is one of the most famous athletic statues of all time. Copies may be found in almost every art gallery and miniature replicas are common. Incidentally, Myron began anew era in athletic art, according to Professor Hyde. He put action to the victor statues that he made, and that had not been customary. (Copyright. 1932. by Science Service)

ard McElroy of Medaryville, Ind., and Dr. A. B. Goodman. Clarence was able to tell correspondents how he wandered in the jungles for fourteen days, without food, altnough he was able to get water. Finally, he found a calf tied to a tree. He decided to wait until somebody came for the calf. After twenty-four hours, a Mexican boy arrived. The flier, not knowing Spanish, explained his predicament as best he could. After another twenty-four hours, the boy led a rescue party to the spot. One of McElroy's legs was paralyzed in the crash of his plane, which he said struck the side of a mountain during a storm. *

Fanatical Russian Creates Scene in Court: Willing to Die for ‘ldea.’ By United Press PARIS, July 25.—Dr. Paul Gorgouloff, fanatical Russian assassin of President Paul Doumer, fought to save his head from the guillotine today at the opening of his trial on murder charges. The prosecutor demanded the death penalty. The efforts of Henri Garaud, defender of the assassin, to have him declared insane were set back, when Judge Dreyfus refused to permit a defense counter-exam-ination for sanity. State alienists have declared Gorgouloff sane. A jury was chosen and the trial started in a surcharged atmosphere. Shouts ‘Lie’ at Russians Gorgouloff admitted he was a bigamist, but shouted "a lie” to testimony of Russian monarchist refugees that he was a Communist and, as chief of a local cheka, had shot 200 persons. "I am not fighting to save my life, for my life is finished,” Gorgouloff said. ‘‘l want to clear my name, because I fought Monarchists and Communists. I am a Democrat.” The court’s interrogation of Gorgouloff lasted an hour and a half and was broken by repeated cries from the accused, "It’s a political plot. I am ready to die for my ideas, but I am the victim of machinations.” The court sought to establish that ! Gorgouloff was twice a bigamist and had been accused by the Czecho-Slovaian police on a succession of complaints of having bothered a 14-year-old girl and maid servants. Gorgouloff addressed the court for forty minutes in an impassioned political oration in which he expressed no regret for the murder. Wants Idea to Live “Kill me, kill me,” he cried, “but let my idea live. I will protest to the guillotine against the charge that I was hired by Bolshevist gold.” Gorgouloff, weakened by prison, w'as pitiful in the big moment of his life, but the jurors sat impassive. Hostile crow'ds gathered outside the court hours before the trial began. Inside, Gorgouloff sat in a high railed, w'ooden prisoners’ box, guarded by three men. He w'as nervous and pale. When the court asked the prisoner’s identity, Gorgouloff answered in a squeaky voice. He appeared to be suffering stage fright. The charge of premeditated murder carries with it the sharp edge of the guillotine for conviction—or life at hard labor in the dreaded Devil's island penal colony, if the jury find extenuating circumstances.

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KAISER'S GRANDSON IN U. S. ‘TO SEE SIGHTS’ Prussian Prince Is Greeted by Brother as He Lands at New York. fly United Press NEW YORK. July 25. —Prince Frederick of Prussia, fourth son of the former crown prince of Germany, arrived in New York today aboard the North German Lloyd liner Bremen. He was greeted at the pier by his brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is employed at the Ford factory in Detroit. The two wil drive back to Detroit, Prince Frederick being very anxious to “see the sights in America.’’ The visiting prince, a student of banking in Bremen, said that he had recently visted his grandfather, the former kaiser, at Doom, and that he had found him in excellent health. $25,000 JJIGARET LOOT Truckload of Smokes Stolen by New York Bandit Gang. By United Press NEW YORK, .July 25.—A bandit dressed in the uniform of a New York policeman and three companions in civilian clothes today held up and robbed two employes of the Lorillard company of a truckload of cigarets. Officials of the company estimated the stolen cigarets to be worth $25,000.

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DOZEN DIE IN STATE: SEVEN ARE DROWNED Woman Murdered: Two Are Killed by Train, One by Auto. Twelve lives were lost by violence in Indiana over the week-end, a survey by United Press disclosed today. Drowning took the heaviest toll. Seven persons lost their lives in water, one of them in a rescue attempt. A w r oman was murdered in a family fight, two brothers were killed by a train, one man was killed by an auto and another died of accidental gun wounds. Mrs. Harley Edwards was shot and killed at her home in Mitchell by her husband, 40, after he had wounded her tw’o children, Clarence, 17. and Louise. 15. Edwards fired twice at his estranged wife when she attacked him with a stick of wood after he w'ounded the children. Police w-ere informed that Edwards went to Mitchell from Martinsville in an attempt at reconciliation. He told authorities he found that the family had been holding a beer party and opened fire. The children's condition was reported not serious. Charged With Murder Charges of murder were placed against Edwards, who is held in the Lawrence county jail at Bedford. George Hufnagel, 75, former president of the Cannelton Milling Company, was drowned near Cannelton, in the Ohio river, after a futile attempt to save his grandson, Quentin Feder, 8, and a companion, Bessie Cummings. The children stepped beyond their depth while wading. Hufnagel was pulled under by a strong current before he could reach them. The third drowning in Tippecanoe county this season was recorded! with the death of Howard Magert.! 30. a farmhand. Magert drowned j while swimming in a gravel pit near i Montmorenci. Paris Peden, 26. was wounded fa- j tally when the shotgun he was car-' rying discharged accidentally. Pe- j den, who lived on a farm near Spencer, was crossing a fence v/hen the accident occurred. Killed by Auto John R. Spaulding. 76, was killed instantly on the National roffd near Greencastle when he was struck by an auto driven by J. Fortner, also of Terre Haute. Merritt Millspaugh was drowned in Lukins lake, near Wabash. The body was recovered by Ivar Johnson, a professional diver of Michigan City. Millspaugh drowned while swimming. Floyd and Carl Buckingham, 17 and 24, respectively, were killed instantly by a B. & O. train near Aurora Sunday. Authorities believed they either fell from the train or had fallen asleep on the tracks. Willard Coleman, seen with the victims shortly before the bodies were found, was sought. Twenty-months-old Nina Ingle was drowned in a wading pool near her home In South Bend. The body was found in the water soon after she had left her home. The body of Edward Gravien, 25, was recovered from Lake Michigan in Gary after he drowned while swimming. It was believed Gravien suffered an attack of cramps.

TWO MEN ATTACKED; ACCUSED PAIR HELD Assailants Apparently Drunk, Police Are Told by Injured Couple. Severe injuries were incurred Sunday by two men who told police they were attacked by three men while seated in an automobile at East Washington and Rural streets. Lester O’Connell suffered a broken nose and John S. Coffey was cut and bruised. Both live at 127 Detroit street. William Perdue, 20, of 60 South La Salle street, and Earl Bennett, 19, of 3847 Fletcher avenue, two of the alleged assailants, are held on charges of assault and battery and vagrancy. A third man escaped. O’Connell said he and Coffey, were waiting for the former's mother, who was in a library at 2832 East Washington street. They could assign no reason for the attack other than that the three men were drunk. **)UR IN FAMILY^HURT Shalanskys Injured as Car Turns Over in Accident. Four members of a family were cut and bruised today when an automobile in which they were riding collided with another at Park avenue and Twelfth street. Those injured were Max Shalansky, 3145 North Illinois street, driver of one of the cars, and his passengers, Jacob. Harry and Morris Shalansky, all of 1956 Central avenue. The car they occupied turned over. The other driver, Dwight Coffin. 34. of 2101 Nowland avenue, was not injured.

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With Berlin and the Prussian province of Brandenburg under virtual martial law, Chancellor Franz von Papen, shown above in a recent posed portrait, is serving as the Reich’s commissioner in Prussia—a position equivalent to the of dictator.

DROP FIRE DEATH FOUL PLAY THEORY

Woman’s Burning Will Be Ruled Either Suicide or Accident. By Times Special BROWNSBURG. Ind., July 25. Theory of foul play has been discarded by’county authorities in the death of Mrs. Katherine Kelley, 45. whose burned body was found early today in the ruins of the barn on the Kelley farm, near here. Deputy Coroner Ernest Cooper indicated a verdict of suicide or accidental death will be returned. Investigation failed to reveal evidence pointing to the theory that Mrs. Kelly had been attacked in the barn and the building burned to conceal the crime. Relatives said Mrs. Kelly had been in ill health for more than a year, Dr. Cooper said. Possibility of mental dislSfurance, of which Mrs. Kelley recently had given evidence, points to suicide. A lantern, found near the body, is believed to have caused the fire. Homer Warrick and Ernest Burns,

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neighbors, discovered the fire while searching for chicken thieves who had raided Burns’ farm, a mile and a half from the Kelley place. They gave warning to the family, consisting of Patrick Kelley and two children, Neal, 22. and Mary, 18. In the excitement the absence of Mrs. Kelley was not noticed and it was believed that she was lost in the crowd that gathered at the scene of the fire. It was not until the fire nearly had consumed the building that her body was seen lying near th° barn entrance. The body was charred beyond possibility of determining injuries. It was released to an Indianapolis undertaker. No live stock was in the barn. Farm implements and a large quantity of hay placed in the barn last week were destroyed. Search for the chicken thieves at the Burns’ farm began when George Veach, a tenant, surprised the thieves. E. W. Huddleston, Brown-s----burg marshal, said that numerous raids by chicken thieves recently had occurred in the vicinity.

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ADVANCES NEW STATE JOBLESS AID LOAN PLAN Measure Based on Federal Law, Says Chief of Indiana Board. Anew unemployment relief loan plan is being advanced by Dr. John H. Hewitt, chief of the state unemployment relief commission, today. Formerly, Dr. Hewitt announced $8,000,000 might be borrowed by the state through federal highway aid and this, in turn, loaned to the counties where poor relief budgets are depleted and bonds can not be sold. The new plan. Dr. Hewitt explained. is based on the federal law passed in the closing days so congress and bears three titles: 1. Relief of destitution. 2. Loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. 3. Public works. Unler the first heading the finance corporation is ordered to make available $300,000,000 to the several states to be used “in furnishing relief and work relief to needy and distressed people and in relieving the hardships from unemployment.” Not more than 15 per cent of the amount shall be available to any one state. It is this money which can be made available to Indiana -communities. without any state assumption of debt, which is forbidden under the Indiana constitution, Dr. Hewitt said. The only necessity for the loan is that the local governmental unit show actual need and obtain approval of the Governor. This approval will halt any unnecessary borrowing, Hewitt declared. Counties, such as Lake, where difficulty has been experienced in raising money through sale of poor relief bonds, can borrow from the fund and pay off the loan at 3 per cent interest, first payment not to be made until after three years, according to Dr. Hewitt. Grain Dealer Kills Self By United Press PORTLAND. Ind.. July 25.—John Grimes, 67. grain dealer, drove to a point six miles from town Sunday night, and shot himself to death. Illness was blamed.

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