Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1932 — Page 2

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VIOLENCE TOLL OVER WEEK-END IS 14 DEATHS Five Hoosiers End Own Lives, Six Die in Autos, Two Are Slain. By United Press Violence took a toll of ten deaths In Indiana over the week-end, a survey by the United Press revealed. Five persons committed suicide. Three were killed in auto accidents, two were slain and one died in an explosion. There were no drownlngs reported. Two Negroes were shot fatally fn Indianapolis over the week-end. Mrs. Gene Lytle, 37, Negro, was held on a charge of murder after she Shot and killed Merle Laswell, 30, NegroHerbert Pennick, 35, Negro, died of bullet wounds allegedly inflicted by Luke Robinson, Negro. Auto Hit by Train Mrs. Fred Barstcdt, 65, was killed and her husband, 71, was injured seriously, when their auto was struck by a Nickel Plate freight train near Walkerton. Edward E. Palmer, 81, was injured fatally when struck by an auto ne r Gary. The body of Pleasie Etchison, 40, Tipton farmer, was found in a barn by his son, Robert, after he had committed suicide by shooting. Harry Ashton, 45, farmer, at Corydon, hanged himself in his barn. Two persons committed suicide in Evansville over the week-end. Phillip H. Neu, 62, hanged himself because of illness. Harry Daniel, 38, shot himself while despondent over financial worries. Ex-Postmaster Is Suicide Wesley Eley, 60, was killed when his truck overturned in a ditch near Anderson. Andrew Czanik, 16, was killed at Gary when he thrust a lighted match into the mouth of an abandoned gasoline drum, and it exploded. Earl Sell, 48, former Pennville postmaster, committed suicide by shooting at his home there. Fred Barsted, 72, Hanna, died in a La Porte hospital several hours after a crossing accident at Walkerton Sunday in which his wife. 65 years old, was killed outright. Barstedt’s auto was struck by a Nickel Plate freight train. The ambulance carrying the injured man to the hospital went into a ditch near La Porte, and the shock is believed to have hastened his death. Ray Nussbaum, ambulance driver, was injured. MISSION GROUP WILL HEAR CHURCH EDITOR Harold Fey, New Head of World Call, to Make Speech. Harold Fey, new editor of the World Call, international magazine for Disciples of Christ, will speak Tuesday before the Indiana Women's Christian Missionary Society at Bethany Park. He is an authority on social, political and religious affairs in the orient, The Flanner house will be represented by Mrs. Myrtle L. Roper, who will discuss the work of the settlement. She is director of the Flanner employment bureau. A two-day program, starting at 9:30 Tuesday, will be conducted by the society. Symposiums will be held each day by state leaders of the organization. •GOOD SAMARITAN’ IS LOSER: AUTO BURNED Lantern Overturns as Stranger Siphons Gas; Car Catches Fire. Somewhere today there is a man who indirectly was the cause of Mrs. Emma Habusch’s automobile burning Sunday. The unknown stranger stopped Mrs. Habusch and her husband, who live at 3917 East Washington street, on English avenue and toid them he needed gasoline for his car. Mrs. Habusch offered him a supply from her car. Using a lantern to light his work, the stranger began siphoning gas from the tank. The lantern overturned, Mrs. Habusch's auto caught fire, and the man fled. The automobile was damaged badly. SET TYPING CONTEST $360 Scholarship Prizes to Be Awarded at Danville. By Time* special DANVILLE. Ind., Aug. I.—A typewriting contest wdth scholarships valued at $360 as prizes will form part of an educational display of Central Normal college at the Dan-1 ville festival to be held Aug. 11 to 13. College departments exhibiting will be commercial, music, health and science. DELAY MINE WAGE VOTE Illinois Referendum Postponed in Face of Huge Opposition. By United Brest SPRINGFIELD. 111., Aug. I. Faced with tremendous opposition among the union membership to a i proposed $5 basic day wage agreement, Illinois district Miners Union’s officials who favor the proposal, today postponed the date for a referendum on the subject and laid plans for a “campaign of education” to win support to the agreement. GARAGE, CAR DAMAGED Fire Damage Estimated at S500; Home Also Is Burned. Fire caused damage of? 500 Sunday to a garage and automobile at the home of Frank Nesbit, 5820 Haverford avenue. At the home of I Ted Green, 1015 East Maryland street, fire early today caused a loss of S3OO. A New York Central box car on the Belt railroad vas dam- ; aged Sunday by fire of undetermined origin. Takea Poison in Love Quarrel Carl Funk. 1728 Kelly street, is recovering today following an attempt at suicide by taking poison on Sunday night while in the company of Mlsa Ruth Morton her home, 1441 Hiatt street. Police were told the couple had quarreled.

Quiet Comes in Wake of Bonus War

. . ' V; -Y . 0. P. LEADERS HIT ROOSEVELT J|| WASHINGTON. Aug 1.-Three publican leaders joined in week- % .*;■■■ *’*-• MM and statements denouncing the '.wml anklin D. Roosevelt of New York. L Treasury Secretary Ogden L. r 11s, chairman Reed Smoot (Utah) f t Ho conat a finoKiAA AAmmliiAn

G. 0. P. LEADERS HIT ROOSEVELT Campaign Talk Denounced by Hoover Aids. ■ By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Three Republican leaders joined in weekend statements denouncing the campaign utterances of Governor P’ranklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills, chairman Reed Smoot (Utah) of the senate finance committee, and Senator L. J. Dickinson (la.) Republican keynoter at Chicago, charged the Democratic presidential nominee was attempting to ! deceive the American public in his speech at Albany Saturday night. "The Governor knows not whereof he speaks,” Mills concluded after denying Roosevelt's assertion that the Hoover administration had resorted to currency inflation. Smoot attacked Roosevelt’s tariff proposals, deolaring the Governor was attempting to “deceive ihe American people by the use of cunningly devised phrases and weasel words.” Dickinson accusde Roosevelt of “an amazing deception upon the American people” by interpreting the Democratic platform as an indorsement of the St. Lawrence waterway project. WALKER EYING 60VERN0RPOST I Jimmy May Enter Race If Ousted as Mayor. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. I.—Mayor James J. Walker intends to become a candidate for Governor, if removed from his present office as the result of charges now being studied by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, it became known today. The mayor’s vindication idea was received by Democrats here with astonishment. If carried out, they saw a complicated campaign in New York state with possible disastrous results for the entire Democratic ticket. THREE HURT BY AUTOS Aged Man, Two Boys Are Treated for Traffic Injuries. An aged man is in city hospital suffering from injuries received when he was run down by an automobile, and two boys were treated for minor injuries over the weekend. Winfield Aldridge, 70, of 961 Dorman street, was crossing Massachusetts avenue Sunday when he was struck by an automobile driven by Vernon Parker, R. R. 10, Box 10, Peru, Ind. Aldridge was taken to the city hospital by Parker. He suffered leg and head injuries. Cuts and bruises were suffered by Leroy Mitchell, 7, 1607 West Ohio street, Saturday night, when he was said to have run into the side of an automobile driven by George Armstrong, 1207 South Dryer street, at Richland and New York streets. TROLLEY HITS WOMAN Mrs. Mary Rainage Steps in Front of Street Car; Cut, Bruised. Stepping in front of a northbound street car at Market and Illinois streets this morning, Mrs. Mary Ramage, 33, of 331 Grand avenue, was knocked down, cut and bruised. Police were told that Mrs. Ramage, in company with Mrs. Ellen Strader, 420 Grand avenue, stepped into the path of 4he car, which was | in charge of Albert Fox, 59, of 2157 North Illinois street, motorman. Witnesses said the street car was | moving slowly and that Fox stopped ; at once. Mrs. Ramage was taken to city hospital for treatment. NATIONALISTS TO MEET State Ticket to Be Completed at Tuesday Meeting. Completion of the National party state ticket will be purpose of a meeting of the state advisory board Tuesday night at Troy and Keystone avenues, with Francis X. Walters, state chairman, presiding. Principal speaker will be John Zahn, candidate for President. Bert Dicker, candidate for Governor, will be another speaker.

Count Sheep Insomnia cure was taken bv motorists on State Road 34 Sunday, when they corralled and counted ninety sheep released from a trailer in an automobile accident. T. J. Finchum. 48, of Lebanon, owner of the sheep, told deputy sheriffs he swerved his truck to avoid a collision and the trailer overturned. All the sheep were recovered.

All was quiet on the Washington front early''in the morning, after United States infantry, cavalry and tank had routed members ot the bonus army from encampments in the capital, burning the shelters of the ex-service men who had gathered in Washington. Top photo shows one veteran with members of his family, forced to camp in a public park after their home had been burned by troops. Below, United States infahtrymen, wearing gas masks and looking like part cf a big offensive in the World war, advancing with fixed bayonets after laying down a gas barrage to drive out veterans from their shelters at Camp Marks.

75 REGISTER FOR LAYMEN’S RETREAT

Pontifical High Mass to Close Event Sunday at Notre Dame. Registration for the annual laymen’s retreat at Notre Dame university, opening Thursday, indicate that more than seventy-five Indianapolis Catholics will attend. The retreat will close Sunday morning following a pontifical high mass, annual farewell breakfast and election of officers of laymen. The retreat will be given by the Rev. Father Thomas Duffy, C. S. C., a member of the Holy Cross mission band of the university, part of whose training was received at the Gregorian university in Rome. Among Indianapolis men to make the trip are J. Tieman, William Meyer, Timothy P. Sexton, Edward Boren, Joseph A. Kebler, Bernard Toens, John Custard, P. H. McCurdy, Ben Fahlander, Carl Huesing, Andy Frcmhyde, Joseph O’Hara, Michael O’Brien, William Greener and James Shea. Retreatants from Greencastle, Columbus, Edinburg and many other cities and towns near Indianapolis will be included in the local party. GAS BAN JROPOSED Council May Prohibit All Deadly Fumigants. Ordinance regulating use of lethal gases in fumigation is to be submitted to city council tonight by the safety board. The ordinance is designed to safeguard citizens against death or injury from dangerous gases, in view of several deaths from this cause in other cities. The proposed law would permit use of deadly hydrocyanic gas or fumigants containing it, but would require that it contain at least a 30 per cent mixture ■of “warning” gas. Provision also is made regulating use of other fumigants, a permit, costing 25 cents, to be obtained from the city controller, with approval of the health board; occupants of the premises must be warned in advance, signs posted, and the rooms fumigated must be vacated at least six hours afterward. Persons doing the fumigation would be required to remain on the premises during the fumigation and for six hours afterward. PHARMACY IS ROBBED S7o in Cigarets Loot at Haag Store; Residence Is Entered. Burglars who removed a steel plate, which closed an opening made four years ago by burglars, to enter the Haag pharmaev at Meridian and Twenty-s f ond streets, stole cigarets valued at $75, Saturday knight. Silverware of a value not yet determined was stolen Sunday from the home of John B. Cochran, 1416 North Alabama street, by a burglar who entered through a rear window. Value of the loot will not be known until Cochran returns to the city Wednesday. Bank Holdup Suspect Held By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. I.—William Finley, 43, has been taken to Scottsburg as a suspect in a bank holdup there July 22. He was identified by Robert Blunt, bank cashier, through a photograph. A brother, Robert Finley, said the prisoner was working in a local factory the day the robbery occurred. Opens Private Detective Agency A private investigating agency was opened today at 507 Circle Tower by Forrest C. Huntington, former investigator for the state bureau of criminal Identification for four years. Huntington has been a federal court bailiff the last year.

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On the Cards Soothsayer Who Foretold Death Sees Widow Going Free.

By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. I.—The same soothsayer who predicted the slaying of Mrs. George A. Carl’s husband, and who saw in the cards that Mrs. Carl would be arrested on charger of murder, shuffled th cards again Sunday to foresee Mrs. Carl’s acquittal. Mrs. Susie Ballo, Hungarian fortune teller, drew three cards, one by one, from her deck to warn of Carl’s death sixty hours before a bullet ended his life. Three more cards foretold Mrs. Carl’s arrest. Again Mrs. Ballo turned to her cards. The first showed the husband dead. Th second showed the widow grieving. Th third showed the friends wondering. But the card showing the picture of the jail remained in the pack. That proved conclusively, said Mrs. Ballo, that Mrs. Carl would be freed. The latter is held in jail with her brother, Ivan Grilec. 4 Both are charged with first degree murder. Mrs. Carl told police that her husband was killed on July 17, less than three days after the fortune teller said he would die. MARY PICKFORD ‘TALKS IT OVER’ AT AIRPORT Indianapolis Movie Fans Meet Film Queen in Brief Halt. Mary Pickford, known a few years ago as “America's Sweetheart,” treated a small but appreciative group of Indianapolis fans to an unannounced personal appearance Sunday when she made a brief stop at Municipal airport. Miss Pickford was en route on a T. & W. A. plane to the west coast, where she plans to make another film, reviving the “million dollar curls” for which she was famous. Mary confided to the group of admirers who surrounded her at the airport, while the big tri-mo-tored plane was being refueled, that the new picture, “Secrets,” which she, herself, will produce, will present her first as a little girl wearing curls, and later as a mature woman, minus curls. At the request of T. & W. A. officials she spoke a few words over the airport microphone to a throng gathered there. GIVES TALK ON CHINA Former City Girl, Now Secretary to Pearl Buck, Speaks Here. Experiences while a missionary in China were related to the young adult class of the Downey Avenue Christian church Sunday by Miss Adaline Bucher, former Indianapolis girl, now secretary to Mrs. Pearl Buck, author of “The Good Ekrth,” the novel which received the 1932 Pulitzer award. In February Miss Bucher was included in the party which evacuated Nanking on consular advice during the Sino-Japanase disturbance there. She has returned to Ithaca. N. Y. TWO FIRES ARE PROBED Woman Returns to Find Curtains of Home Set Ablaze. Two fires occurring simultaneously in the 1400 block, Churchman avenue, Saturday are under investigation by police and fire prevention officials. Miss Wilma Bolser, 1407 Churchman avenue, reported that on her return home, she found that curtains in her home had been fired. At about the same time, fire was discovered in a vacant house at 1401 Churchman avenue. Damage was slight in both houses.

MOBILIZE ALL TROOPS, ORDER FOR PARAGUAY General War Preparations Made After Gran Chaco Fort Is Abandoned. By United Press ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. I. The government decided today to order general mobilization after Paraguyan troops abandoned Ft. Boqueron. in the Gran Chaco, in the face of i Bolivian bombardment. Newspapers and the public continued to demand war against Bolivia. There were repeated military clashes in the Gran Chaco, the jungle territory, which has caused threat of hostilities between Paraguay and Bolivia for many years. The cabinet decided to contine a state of siege. It was announced that Bolivian troops began to attack on Ft. Boqueron with an artillery bombardment, beginning Sunday at 9 a. m. The Paraguayans abandoned the port, without loss, on orders of the high command. Paraguay claims her troops have not been guilty of aggression, and that the withdrawal was in accordance with this policy.

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‘How’ll You Spend It?: Curb on Hunger Loans

To Get Funds, States May Be Required to Tell First Where It’ll Go. By Bcripps-ttoxcard Xcirspnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—The Reconstruction Finance Corporation will require states applying for emergency hunger relief loans to tell how the moneey is to be spent, and will make this one of its tests for refusing or approving loans, its first grant of money indicates. Before Illinois received the $3,000,000 loaned It last week. Governor Emmerson supplied the corporation with information concerning the administrative methods of the state relief commission and the allocation of funds by that commission. Announcement to this effect by the board has surprised congressmen who framed the relief bill and state officials. One of the disputes which held up relief legislation for many months in congress concerned expenditure of relief funds. A considerable number of senators believed the federal government ought to have the right to scrutinize the way in which its funds were being spent, and make sure that adequate relief standards were maintained, and that funds

were being used only for the purpose intended. Others resisted this as an invasion of state rights, and their protests were so vigorous that their views finally prevailed in the legislation passed. The relief act provides that “all amounts paid to the Governor of a state or territory under this section shall be administered by the Governor, or under his direction, and upon his responsibility.” Asa safeguard from the standpoint of the federal government, the act then provided that each Governor shall file a statement of expenditures, after they have been made. The reconstruction corporation has not disclosed what standards it has set in regard to relief expenditures, nor what sort of state plans will cause it to refuse loans. GAS TAX RECEIPTS"" OFF July Figures Are $20,266 Less Than Those for 1931. Gasoline tax receipts for July this year were $20,266.12 less than for the same month of 1931, it is shown in the report today of Joseph M. Tracey, gasoline tax collector. Consumption last month was 266.001 gallons less. Total collections for July this year were $1,783,369.83. Total consumption was 44,711,680 gallons. j

JAUG. 1, 1932

RITES SET FOR SLAIN BONOSEER Chicago Man, Riot Victim, to Rest in Arlington. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. I.—William J. Hushka of Chicago, who came to Washington in quest of a bonus and got a bullet in the heart instead, will be laid to rest in Arlington national cemetery with military honors. Some of the same troopers who drove his fellow bonus marchers from their billets will fire a salute over his grave Tuesday. The war department granted permiisson for Hushkas burial in Arlington after checking his fingerprints and establishing beyond question his identity as a veteran cf the World w’ar. A squad of soldiers were ordered to escort the body, as is customary at all Arlingon burials. Hushkas divorced wife. Mrs. Frank Krivenko, was due here late today's from Chicago. With her was their 11-year-old daughter.

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