Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1932 — Page 3

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15 ARE DEAD AS VIOLENCE TOLL OF WEEK-END Auto Accidents Claim 11 of Victims in State: One Drowning. Violence took a toll of fifteen lives in Indiana over the weekend. a United Press survey today revealed. Auto accidents claimed eleven of the victims. There was one drowning and one suicide. A murder and suicide were reported at Evansville. One electrocution was reported and one man committed suicide after an alleged attempted murder. Mrs. Joseph Peeper. 45, was killed instantly when her head was decapitated as the auto in which she was riding with her son Theron, overturned in a ditch, near Bluffton. Douglas Plummer, 23, Hammond, was killed when the automobile in which he was riding with five other persons crashed into a telephone pole near La Porte. Two other occupants of the car suffered broken barks. Roy Gephart. 40, Pershing, was killed instantly when his trurk collided with an Indiana railroad traction car near Richmond. Crashes Are Fatal Two persons were injured fatally when the auto in which they were riding collided with a truck on a road near Washington, Ind. John Montgomery, 21, died of a punctured lung and Ollis Smith, 28, succumbed to a broken collar bone. A mother and her son were killed and two others were injured when the auto in which they were riding crashed into -the rear of a parked truck near Elkhart. Mrs. Robert Patterson, 42, Delphos, 0., was killed almost instantly. Her son Robert, 10, died in a hospital here. Three persons were killed and five injured in a head-on collision on the Dunes highway near Michigan City. The dead: Mrs. Joseph Zusman, 40, South Bend; her daughter Minnie, 22, and Mrs. Charles Ziker, 38. Mishawaka. Gerald King, 14, drowned while swimming in a gravel pit near Sheridan. Killed by Live Wire Michael Hayes. 52, Hopkinsville, Ky., shot and killed his estranged wife, Flossie, at Evansville after he failed to effect a reconciliation. After emptying his revolver into the woman s body he reloaded and shot himself through the brain. Harold K. Thurston, 46. superintendent of Ball Memorial hospital at, Muncie. died of self-inflicted bullet wounds. Despondency over illness was believed to have prompted the act. Howard Aker, 18, Pierceton, was electrocuted when he accidentally touched a live wire dangling from a utility pole. William Loebert, 44. seriously wounded Stephen Barva. 36, and then killed himself by shooting at an open air dance pavilion in a Ft. Wayne amusement park. Loebrrt shot Barva when he saw his ! estranged wife at the dance pavilion, and assumed she had accompanied Barva, by whom she is employed as housekeeper. FOUR REUNIONS ARE HELD IN CITY PARKS Garfield and Brookside Scene of Outings; Old Days Talked Over. City parks were scenes of reunions Sunday as residents of Posey county; oldtimers of the days when Maploton was a separate town; past and present employes of the Central state hospital, and descendants of the Reddick and Day families, met to talk over days gone by. Posey county residents met in Garfield park, while the other three reunions were held at Brookside. Central hospital employes selected John Deupree, president; Thomas P.erson, vice-president, and R. C. Dorsett, secretary-treasurer. Reddick and Day families named Bert Sohaller, president; William Kinnick, vice-president; Miss Nina Reddick, secretary, and Jesse Clemmer, treasurer. Posey county residents elected Charles Bohn, president; H. E. Hein, vice-persident; Alice Bohn, treasurer, and O. D. Barton, secretary. PURCHASES CITY FIRM South Rend Man to Provide Jobs for 20 Persons Here. Marion O. Staley, formerly of South Bend, has purchased machinery and equipment of the Hercules Manufacturing. Inc., at 2122 Northwestern avenue. Staley said h? plans to move the plan* to anew local location and resume operations at once. Twenty workmen and additional employes will be given jobs, he declared. Superior Judge John W. Kern approved the sale, under direction of A. F. Sutton, receiver. DEATH LEFT AT POST Far Outnumbered by Births in City During Last Month. Death was left at the post by the stork in July, health board records showing 245 more births than deaths during the month, an unusual record. There were 580 births in July, compared with 598 in July. 1931. arid 545 in June, 1932. Death numbered only 335 in July, the lowest for any months in several years. There were 433 deaths in the same month last year and 361 in June, 1931. STORE ROBBERY FOILED Two Youths Nabbfd While Cutting Hole in Floor Over Grocery. Robbery of a Standard grocery store at 703 Shelby street, was frustrated by police Sunday night when two youths were captured while cutting through the floor of a vacant room above the store. Marshall and Lee Moore. 19 and 16. respectively, of 831 Lord street, were arrested on burglary counts. City Pay Cut Is Predicted By I nited press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 8 Passage by the city council of an ordinance reducing salaries of all city employes 20 per cent, over the veto of Mayor W. E. Gifford, is predicted

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Left—John B. Colgrove. Right —Amelio Puzzoli and James Gammaitoni (extreme right). Illinois Man Under Sentence for Finance Crash Is Found Alive. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 8. John B. Colgrove, 57-year-old president of a defunct Taylorville bank, staggered into Springfield Sunday after being kidnaped, beaten, bound and gagged, and left in a field of weeds to die. Prosecutors charged that John Gammaitoni, who lost $6,000 in the $1,000,000 Colgrove bank failure, engineered the kidnaping in hope of getting his money back. Amelio Puzzoli was accused of helping Gammaitoni abduct the exbanker last Friday night. John and Amelio steadfastly denied their guilt. Banker Under Sentence Colgrove, who is under sentence of one to three years in prison for receiving money when he knew his bank was insolvent, collapsed in a doorway at 4 a. m. Neighbors, thinking him intoxicated, called police, who took him to a hospital. Physicians said he was suffering from a scalp wound, severe bruises and a bad cold. They said he would recover. “I went to my home Friday night,” said Colgrove, ‘and a big man jumped out at me. We scuffled and then somebody hit me on the back of the head. ‘‘Two men floored me then, tied me up in a blanket and put me in their black automobile. “Every time I’d try to remonstrate they’d kick me. Finally, they bound my arms and legs with tape and stuffed my mouth. Thrown in Weeds to Die “Then they threw me in a field of weeds some where between Springfield and Taylorville. I lay there for twenty-six hours, trying to free myself. “I was drenched by a heavy rain, baked by the hot sun and bitten by insects. “I thought surely I was going to die when Saturday midnight, I managed to free one hand. “After working an hour I got the tape off my legs and started to walk in a daze. I must have gone about twelve miles before I came to a railroad track and followed it into Springfield. Gammaitoni and Puzzoli, who were held in Taylorsville, twentysix miles south of here, were charged with murder. BOBBITT IS APPOINTED Heads Stale Speakers’ Bureau for G. O. P. Vole Campaign. Archie N. Bobbitt, former state auditor, will head the speakers’ bureau for the Republican state committee during the coming campaign, according to an announcement by Ivan C. Morgan, state chairman. Preliminary arrangements for the bureau will begin this week, Bobbitt said, although it will not be opened formally until later. Bobbitt, who at one time served as Crawford county auditor, was manager lor M. Bert Thurman in h's Governor campaign preceding sh - stale convention. GEORGE J. YOKE DIES Realty Company Head Born on Garfield Park Site 81 Years Ago. Funeral services for George J. Yoke. 81. realty company head, who died Saturday, were to be held at 2 today in the home. 869 East Southern avenue. Mr. Yoke, who was president of the Yoke Realty Company, was born on a farm near the present Garfield park. He was a member of the Methodist church, and belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fifty-five years. He attended the old Indianapolis academy and Indiana State Normal college at Terre Haute. Burial was to be in Crown Hill cemetery.

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HOTEL OWNER IS SHOT DOWN Gangster Tactics Are Used in Wisconsin Killing. By I nitrd Press WISCONSIN DELLS. Wis.. Aug. B.—Employing gangster tactics, two gunmen shot to death Ole Hanson, 45. proprietor of a resort near here, today. They fled in an automobile carrying Illinois plates. “Are you Ole Hansen.” one of the men inquired as they entered the Black Oaks hotel. Hansen was seated in a chair. He answered “Yes.” Without further, conversation, each man drew a gun and fired. When Hansen fell the gunmen jumped into their small black sedan and drove out of town. Hansen died fifteen minutes later. Police Chief J. F. Willard is working on the theory that the slayers were connected with an Illinois liquor racket and came here expressly to put Hansen “on the spot.” Two Held in Robbery of Veteran Two men charged with robbing a World war veteran of $250 in bonus money, are in custody today, having been arrested in Dayton. O. They are Andrew Sexton and Pat Schrader, both of 631 East Maryland street. Vivian Purdue, 39, of 1445 English avenue, charges the men robbed him Friday, while he was riding in a taxi with them.

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Express Veteran Retires After Fifty Years of Faithful Service. “Johnny” Polk, know*n for half a century to shippers in Indianapolis, has been retired. Johnny, w*ho w*as known fifty years ago as the nervy kid w*ho drove the freight w*agon for the Adams Express Company, has left the service of the Railway Express Agency, successor to the old Adams Express concern, as a beloved veteran of the money w*agon. Johnny spent his first ten years with the express company as driver of the freight wagon. Then he graduated to the money w*agon, a position he held for forty years. Express records shew that he carried 15,000.000 parcels during his service. They fail to show a single instance when a package w*as not delivered. Records at the company stables and garage show that he traveled 156,300 miles by horse and wagon and 213.000 miles by truck during his fifty years. Mr. Polk has had only three employers during his life. His first job w*as in a grocery and his salary was $2 a week. He then obtained a job in the commission house owned by Arthur Jordan. At 20. he left the Jordan company to take a job w*ith the express company offering w*hat then w*as a princely "salary”—s9 a w*eek. The veteran expressman ranks as one of his best experiences the t me he saw John L. Sullivan give an exhibition in the old opera house. Young Folk delivered the champion's trunks to a regal suite in the old Bates House on the morning of the show. “Although it was after 10 in the morning the champion was still in bed.” Polk reminisces. “He arose, came to the door, and told me where to pit the two huge trunks. Then he asked. ‘Young fellow, are you going to see the exhibition tonight?’ “I answered. ‘I wouldn't miss it for the world.’ “So he tcok a sheet of hotel stationery and w*rote me two passes, ! “I planned to take my girl, but the thought occurred to me that it might not be a ladies’ gathering,

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Gone to Stars By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. B.—Stargazing that had meant a livelihood for Arthur N. Nursey brought him death. A week ago he stepped into the street near First avenue as he gazed skyward. Brakes screamed and Nursey fell, severely injured. When Nursey died he was 71. For thirty years he had been the “telescope man” of Union square. There he had stood beside the metallic tube that was his telescope, and urged passersby to gaze at the ’'mountains of the moon, the pale splendor of the pole star, the beauty of Saturn, all for 10 cents.” He never trained his powerful telescope upon the Empire State building.

MRS. ROOSEVELT IS 71 Day Observed Quietly by Widow at Sagamore Hill. By Times Special OYSTER BAY, L. 1., Aug. B. Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt. widow of President Theodore Roosevelt, observed her seventy-first birthday quietly Saturday at Sagamore Hill, with a family dinner Saturday night at which the only two of her children who are on Long Island were present. They were Mrs. Richard Derby, with Dr. Derby and Kermit Roosevelt with Mrs. Roosevelt. The elder Mrs. Roosevelt will leave for Washington on Wednesday to be the guest of President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House.

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so I had to give the extra ticket to a total stranger. But we had front row seats.” Another of the highlights of his career w*as his delivery of a package to President Grover Cleveland —almost. The President was in Indianapolis inspecting the statehouse, then being constructed. Polk, determining to see the great man in person, decided to deilver a parcel addressed to him during his tour of inspection. His ambition was stilled, how*ever, when Mr. Cleveland’s private secretary took the package, and signed for it. “But I got to see the President, anyw'av,” says Polk. “I didn't care about his signature. I wasn’t collecting autographs.”

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POLITICS STAGE TAKES ON NEW LIFE THIS WEEK Leading Actors Will Step in Spotlight; Continuous Show Till November. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. B.—The apathetic presidential campaign probably will take on new left this week when the leading actors on the polit- ; ical stage step into the spotlight. From now until November the j play will become a continuous performance. except for interludes between monologues. President Hoover formally will open the Republican campaign when he delivers his acceptance address Thursday evening, and outlines his issues. The delay, so far, has cramped Republican orators’ style and delayed their attack, especially on the prohibition problem. On the same day as Hoover's notification his rival. Governer Roosevelt, will take up the charges against Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York. Stimson to Speak Tonight Both sides have submitted their cases to the Governor, and on Thursday he will give a hearing to the mayor. It is expected Roosevelt will make his decision soon thereafter, or before he makes his next speech at Columbus. 0., on Aug. 20. Without waiting for Hoover’s acceptance address, state secretary Henry L. Stimson will make an important pronouncement on foreign affairs in an address tonight. Although nonpolitical, it is expected to lay the basis for the adminis- i tration’s claims of its achievement in the international field. James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, starts a series of conference with state leaders in i New* York today, and within a week he will have talked with representatives from all over the country. Map Democrats’ Fight These meetings are expected to aid in mapping out the kind of fight the Democrats will w T age. Next Monday the two Democratic nominees will get together for the i first time since they were nomi-! nated. The failure of Speaker John N. Garner, vice-presidential candidate.! to discuss plans with Roosevelt has; aroused some suspicion and com- ! ment, but friends of both deny there is any disagreement. The principle problems worrying party chieftains on both sides are business conditions, finances and prohibition. FARM BOARD’S POLICY ON COTTON ASSAILED Farmers to Lose Millions, Senator Gore of Oklahoma Charges. By Scripps-Howard Xcicspaper Alliance j WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Cotton farmers will lose $50,000,000 and perhaps double that amount, on their current crop, in the opinion of | Senator Thomas P. Gore (Dem., Okla.), by the refusal of the federal farm board to impound the cotton held by the board until Aug. 1, 1933. Having failed in an effort to obtain legislation to this effect, Gore appealed to Chairman Stone of the board, to withhold the cotton, or at least, not permit more than 2,COD bales per day to be marketed. Stone replied that the board did not regard the impounding policy as sound, and that it did not care to embark upon it unless congress assumed the responsibility. YOUTH SWINDLE VICTIM Believing that he was buying a peanut vending business, Henry Gundlach, 19 North Wallace street, Saturday paid S2OO to a man and woman who disappeared. Replying to an advertisement, Gundlach told police he went to a house at 3029 Shriver avenue, meeting a couple W’ho gave the names of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dawson. They said they operated the Peanut Specialty Company. Gundlach left when the man said he wished to take his w’ife to a doctor. Returning several hours later, Gundlach found the house unoccupied and was unable to obtain any trace of the couple.

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Professor August Piccard in the ball in which he ascended into the stratosphere in 1931.

Professor Piccard to Seek Data on Cosmic Rays in Flight. By United Press ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. B. Professor August Piccard, frail and bushy-haired Belgian scientist, completed plans today for his second ascent ten miles into the heavens where he hopes to obtain invaluable data concerning the cosmic rays, probably by Wednesday of this week. His huge balloon, with an improved gondola, to carry himself and his companion 50,000 feet or more above the earth, is on the ground. It w*as reported that King Albert of Belgium will come to Zurich to witness the professor's feat. Mrs. Piccard and the five Piccard children arrived Sunday from Brussels. They will attempt to follow* the balloons’ flight by automobile. Remain Up all Day The adventure-for-science w*ill be started at dawn. The balloon will not be brought down until sunset. Professor Piccard said today that he hopes to remain eight hours in the stratosphere. The lean, middle-aged man, who startled the world in May of 1931 by soaring to a height far greater than any ever before achieved by a human being, went about his preparations quietly and methodically. In his 1931 flight with his assistant, Charles Kipfer, he barely escaped death w*hile his balloon hung high above Switzerland’s mountain peaks for more than a day, due to a broken vent. Yet his only apparent concern now is that the wind might carry him into the Mediterranean. The new gondola, constructed at Brussels, contains many improvements over the old, looking to the further comfort and safety of its occupants. It is built of aluminum. It has been w*hite enameled so as to reflect the sun’s rays. Radio to Be Carried Last year Piccard and his assistant suffered terribly from the heat because this precaution had not been taken. All apertures have been made water tight in event of a sea landing. Professor Piccard and Max Cosyns of Brussels, who w*ill accompany him, will carry parachutes as an additional precaution. A radio receiving and sending apparatus will be in the equipment. Piccard intends to wireless new*s of his position periodically, and to receive weather information from below. He has no desire, he said, to beat his altitude record of last year. Altitude interests him only in that it takes him into the stratosphere where he hopes to discover something of the secret of the cosmic ray. He believes that it will be necessary for him to reach about 52.000 feet—the altitude he attained before.

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HUNT DUDE BANDITS Fashionably - Clad Youths Get $l2O at Pharmacy. Two fashionably-dressed young bandits held up Michel’s pharmacy No. 1, at 2202 Shelby street, late Sunday night, taking $l3O from the cash register. The proprietor. Albert Michel. 917 Hervey street, told police the bandits fled on foot after the holdup. Pharmacy of William Price, 901 Indiana avenue, w*as robbed of merchandise valued at slls, he reported to police. Loot included razor blades, shaving brushes and patent medicines. DEMOCRATS TO FROLIC Tom Taggart to Sponsor Street Carnival on Wednesday. First ward, Tom Taggart Democratic Club w*ill hold a street carnival at Caroline street and Foosevelt avenue. Wednesday night. The activities, which will start at 5:30, will include pushmobile races, fiddlers contests, street dancing and ref - ''ments.

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SUNDAY STORES BAN LAW HELD TO BE ILLEGAL Proposed City Ordinance Would Be Void by State Statute, Says Spencer. Opinion that the proposed ordinance banning Sunday sales by groceries. meat markets and fruit stands, is unconstitutional will be submitted to city council at its next meeting by Herbert M. Spencer, assistant city attorney. The ordinance was submitted to the council several weeks ago at request of the Indianapolis Retail Grocers' Association. It also is reported to have support of grocery chains. Action on the measure was deferred at the last council meeting to await Spencer's opinion. Spencer holds the ordiance would be null and void because of an Indiana statute prohibiting cities and towns enacting an ordinance on a subject already covered by state law*. An old Indiana statute forbids “rioting, hunting, fishing, quarreling, common labor, or following usual vocation," excepting only works of charity and necessity. Exceptions under the "necessary'* clause are travelers, those engaged in conveying travelers, newspaper workers and baseball players. Spencer cited a supreme court decision invalidating a Crawfordsville (Ind.i ordinance banning Sunday movies, because operation of shows already was banned under the Sunday “Iblue law.” Grocery association officials, at the last council meeting, pleaded for passage of the ordinance, adding that action of a few groceries in remaining open on Sunday might force all groceries to remain open seven days a week, in self defense. ONE CENT A DAY PAYS UP TO SIOO A MONTH The Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Cos.. 4578 Dierks Building. Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to SIOO a month for 24 months for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths—costs less than lc a day—s3.so a year. More than 148,000 have already bought this policy. Men, women and children eligible. Send no money. Simply send name, address, age, beneficiary s name and relationship and they will send this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspection. No examination is required. This offer is limited, so write them today—Advertisement.

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