Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1933 — Page 8
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AUTO FATALITY BOOSTS TRAFFIC DEATHS TO 72 Man Dies Almost Instantly When Car Turns Over in Collision. An Indianapolis man lost his life and eight others were injured in automobile crasnes here Tuesday night and early today. Charles S. Hollingsworth. 63, of 880 Collier street, died almost instantly when his car collided with another and overturned Tuesday
night at Belmont avenue and Morris street. Mr Hollingsworth's machine crashed with one driven by Charles H Kellermyer, 53 of
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815 Organe street. Both cars spun around, turned over, and were wrecked completely. Hollingsworth, driving alone, suffered a fractured skull and died within one or two minutes. Both Kellermyer and Mr-. Kollormyer. 53, were hurt severely. She suffered a fractured right shoulder and both were believed to have suffered internal injuries. Mr. Hollingsworth's body was sent to etty morgue. The fatality was the seventy-sec-ond traffic death in Marion county since Jan. 1. Mr Hollingsworth, a monument ttetter. was born in Flaekville and had lived in or near Indianapolis all his life. Three Young Men Injured He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Luella Hollingsworth; a son, Timothy. in Saginaw, Mich ; a daughter, Mrs Florence Hurley ; two stepsons. Roy and Robert FTice; his mother, Mrs. India Graham, a sister. Mrs. Margaret Wein. and ten grandchildren, all of Indianapolis. He was on his way to get his wife, who was at her brother's home, at the time of the accident. The body was to be removed today to the Royster and Askin funeral parlors. Services have not been set. Two young men were injured early today when their machine skidded in car tracks in the 2000 block. North Talbot street, and careened into a utility pole Lester Kmnett. 21. of 622 Drexel avenue, the driver, suffered head and body bruises. His companion. Joe McGinn. 19. of 944 North Rural street, was injured about the face and legs and was r* ported to have suffered a broken kne" cap. Both were sent to city hospital. Sleeps at Wheel; Wrecked When he went to sleep at the wheel of his auto in the 1100 block North Mount street. James Noonan was cut and bruised early today when his machine crashed into a tree. Mrs. May Tsaress, 28. of 1140 South Somerset avenue, suffered bruises and shock Tuesday night when a machine driven by Lewis Pluckenbaum, 30. of 218 North Mount street, rammed into the rear of a machine driven by Thomas Tsaress. 35. at East Washington street and Pershing avenue. Mrs. Tsaress was taken to city hospital. William Davis. 65. of 887 West Twenty-ninth street, was cut severely Tuesday night in a threecar collision in the 3000 block North Illinois street. A car driven by Leo J. Donohue. 24. of 4131 Graceland avenue, collided with a machine driven by Curt V. Johnson. 41. of 3047 North Illinois street, which Johnson was turning into his driveway.
Auto Strikes Bicycle Donohue's car then swervsd head- , on into a light truck in which Davis j was riding The truck was driven 1 by his brother. Joseph M. Davis. 55. j of 1142 West Thirty-Second street. Davis was taken to city hospital and Donohue arrested on a charge of reckless driving. Charles Gaitor, 17. of 621 1 ; North California street. Tuesday night suffered an injury to his left arm when an automobile struck his bicycle at Washington street near Summit avenue He was tak-m to city hospital. The automobile was driven by Robert Callahan. 23. of 5326 Central avenue Callahan was not held BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY IN METAMORA ROBBERY Special Court Session Called to Hear Case of Wounded Gunman. BROOKVILLE. Ind.. Aug 2—A plea of guilty to charges of bank robbery was entered in Franklin circuit court Tuesday night by Homer Carter. 25. Dayton. O. wounded and captured during an attempted holdup of a Metamora bank last week. A special session of the circuit court had been called to hear the case. Judge Roscoe O'Byrne withheld sentence. Sheriff George Pulskamp is directing a search for two accomplices of Carter, who remained outside the bank during the attempted robbery Carter was wounded by the pistol fire of Cashier George Leonard. RETURN SUSPECT HERE Man Held in Ft. Wayne Wanted in $17,000 Cigaret Theft. Forest Jacoby. 30. wanted here as a suspect in the $17,000 cigaret theft at the Hamilton-Harris Company warehouse Jan. 1. 1932. was to be brought h o re today from Ft Wayne. Jacoby, arrested at Ft Wayne recently on robbery charges, had been released on bond, but was rearrested for local police. Police said Jacoby escaped when they raided a home here in which most of the loot from the robbery was recovered CRASH KILLS ATHLETE Thomttmn High School Boy Injured Fatally as Car Overturn*. Bv r MiUd THORNTOWN. Ind. Aug 2 Charles Goodbar. 15. Thorntown high school athlete, was killed when the automobile in which he was riding overturned in fresh gravel near here late Tuesday , Leo White, 17, suffered a broken leg in Uie accident.
Sewage Pollution Perils Health of City’s Bathers; Bacteria Count High in Streams
$400,000 Would Be Needed to Treat Full All of Indianapolis' Water. (Continued From Page One* tan,* engineering, coupled with the state board of health, reauires. for standard swimming poo’s, water with not more than 200 bacteria growing per cubic centimeter on a single sample. Hazardous to Health The rolon bacilli, sewage bacteria, shall not show a positive test in one cubic centimeter of water and yet all of the tests taken by The Times show from 100 B coli per cc. to 5 to 10 B. coli per one cc. Bathing or swimming In polluted water, while not so dangerous as ac r uai!v drinking it, ;s extremely hazardous ” savs state sanitary board s r eport in reference to one state swimming spot along a river. ' Diseases, such as colds. Infections of eye. ear. nose and throat are more likely to be transmitted through the swimming pool," the state says of impurities in swimming water. One of the tests to determine colon bacilli is through the gas produced from samples in a lactose broth. Tests Are Positive “The presence of sewage bacteria is indicated by the produttion of 10 per cent or more of gas in lactose bile and lactose broth media in twenty-four hours at an incubation temperature of 37.5 degrees centi- j grade. - ' says Palmer in explaining I the tests on river and pools of the city. “Positive tests were obtained for all four samples," he said The gas production was 9 per cent above the finder-figure <lO per cent) at Warfleigh: 2 per cent at Ravenswood and Eagle creek, avid 14 per cent on south White rive r Microscopic green plants, called plankton algae, that develop especially when water contains sewage, were abundant at Warfleigh, Ravenswood, and on south White river. Palmer reports. Odor Present in Waters South White river also showed a large number of the microscopic plants while Eagle creek particularly was free from one of the signs of sewage wastes. Odor was present in all *he waters tested with Eagle creek's described I as "faint." Ravenswood and Warfleigh. "medium.'' and White river, south, "decided.” "The test for ammonia \vas positive for sample 3 'White river, south). A positive test for amonia indicates the presence of decomposing organic matter," Palmer reported to The Times. Ravens wood’s water ranked highest in turbidity <muddy and roiled) of the four spots sampled with Palmer's report of "decided” and Eagle creek was low with only a slight” turbidity. River Highly Contaminated In a comparative analysis of the four sampling spots. Palmer says: "Sample 3 (White river, south) is contaminated highly with sewage. This is indicated not only by the bacteriological tests but bv the decided odor, turbidity, presence of amonia and abundance of plankton ; algae. Sample 4 (Warfleigh beach) is 1 contaminated with sewage It has a slight odor, but a decided turbidity. a medium development of plankton algae 'microscopic plants found in sewage), and a comparatively low bacterial count. ‘•'Sample 5 (Ravenswood beach) is contaminated with sewage It has a slight odor but a decided turbidity. and an abundant growth of plankton algae. It has a fairly lownumber of bacteria although the number is greater than in Sample 4 (Warfleigh'. Warns Against Swimming "Sample 6 (Eagle creek) is contaminated with sewage. Although ( this water only a slight odor and slight turbidity and is practic- , ally free of plankton algae, it has more bacteria than SampD 4 (Warfleigh) and Sample 5 (Ravenswood) and contains sewage bacteria just as they do." Palmer concludes. Palmer, in making the tests, had no knowledge of where the samples had been taken The samples were taken by The Times, iced ,o prevent growth of bacteria after sampling, and placed under Palmers microscope the same day the samples were obtained. Following the tests. Palmer, as a bacteriologist, was asked: Would you swim or permit your children to
Contract Bridge
BY W. E. M KENNEY Secretary American Bridge Leacue V* THILE I want to advise you T * to be careful when holding two-suit hands, and not to be too optimistic in your bidding due to the fact that the hand may prove to be a misfit, it does not mean that you safely and intelligently cannot reach a grand slam contract if it is in the hand. Don't plunge on in the dark, but after each bid stop and see what additional information you now have on the hand, and whether it will prove of any value. Take for example the following hand, which came up at the Hanover. N. H. tournament. South opened the bidding *ith one spade. West passed. Here we again find North with two ace-kmg combinations. Due to the fact that the hands may prove to be a misfit, and with the protection of knowing that partner has made an original firsthand bid. he should overran with two hearts Holding two five-card suits, the higher ranking one should be bid first. South will now make another constructive bid of three clubs. With North's hand. I believe I would now bid four diamonds—and not three Partner has made two constructive bids, and you should not delay too long showing him the strength of your hand. a a a SOUTH will go to four no trump From this bid North knows that his partner is not void in hearts and diamonds —otherwise, he would not attempt to play the hand at no trump. However. North has .no desire to play tfce hand at no .rump, and would like to play the nand for
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Upper—Eagle creek screams other things besides the shouts of sw-imming children. In its depths at the Pennsylvania tracks colon bacilli lurks to endanger youthful aquatic stars.
swim in the water tested by you?” He answered: "I wouldn't swim ! or let my children swim in any water that showed a presence of colon bacilli.” AH samples taken by The Times showed the germ of sew r age wastes to the extent of from 500 to more than 10.000 B. coli per 100 cubic centimeters. City’s Pools Arc Safer The city's standard in swimming pool water would not permit 500 B. coli per 100 cubic centimeters in municipal pools. I "A pool with that much B. coli i needs cleaning out ” says Dr. HerI man G. Morgan, city health officer., j City swimming pools are chlorin- ; ated to kill the colon bacilli brought into pools by the persons using I them. Health authorities say that river water will show- B. coli but that the quantities of this germ life determines the safety of the water. White river, north of the city, is polluted by sewage from Noblesville, and recently reports have been received that wastes from a strawboard factory in Noblesville are seeping into the stream. 30 Per *>nt Untreated On one occasion, years ago, wastes from this factory are said to have been responsible for the death of | numerous fish. Sewage of Indianapolis receives ! primary treatment in its entirety at the disposal plant south of the city, but only approximately 70 per cent | of the sewage is treated completely. This leaves 30 per cent of the ; city’s wastes polluting White river, south of the city. It means that the swimmers found bathing one and one-half miles below the sewage disposal plant were in water polluted by 30 o°r cent of ( the city and receiving but primary treatment. “Let Indianapolis Clean Up” Sanitation engineers estimate that it would cost the city approximately $400,000 to outfit the Indianapolis plant to care for the entire waste matter and end the city's pollution of White river. i Surveys and plans for these addi-
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a slam. So his next bid should be five hearts. This bid definitely shows South that North holds two five-card suits and they must both be headed by the ace-king, due to the strong bidding. South starts to figure the hand up. The heart suit practically is solid. South has five high cards—the ace and king of spades, and the ace. king and queen of clubs—upon which losing cards in the North hand can be discarded. The, bidding has shown that there are not more than three black cards in the North hand, therefore, two losing diamonds can be discarded on the black cards and the other iosing diamond can be ruffed. Therefore. South's next bid should be seven hearts, as he has located a home for every losing card. It is true that the play of the hand will produce seven no trump, due to the fact that the queen of diamonds drops, but this is a lucky break not to be expected, and the safer play is for seven hearts. tOoprng&t. 18J3.|jr NBA Service. Inc >
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Lower—The coolness and enjoyment of Warfleigh beach and its White river wafer is reflected in the smiles of swimmers, but the beach waters have their meed of pollution, according to the survey of The Indianapolis Times.
tional facilities to the city plant have been made. The cry in other cities has been “Let Indianapolis clean up its backdoor for fishermen and swimmers before it talks of the po’lution of other cities in other streams of the state.” But while these protests are heard
Automobile Trades Group Is Preparing NR A Code
City Dealers Are Drafting Their Idea of 'Square Deal’ Pledge. A meeting of the Automobile Trade Association of Indianapolis'* Athletic Club, preliminary to another session of Indianapolis automobile dealers Thursday to consider an NR A code for the trade. Monday 500 Indianapolis automobile dealers met at the Athenaeum to discuss the code by which their business will subscribe to the pro- i visions of the NRA. The meeting was one of twentysix sponsored by the National Automobile Dealers Association held simultaneously throughout the nation W. J. Robinson. Indiana director of the organization, presided at the meeting. "No set of fair rules in our in- 1 dustry or in any other industry will i mean much unless the organization; with the industry is set up with the understanding to regulate the provisions agreed upon," said Robinson. "The government has extended to our trade an opportunity to govern and police itself. "Failure to do this would cause the government to impose upon us a code perhaps not to our liking, and possibly enforced by the license system.” A suggested code was read to the audience by Robinson. It contained provisions regulating every part of automobile merchandising. It was presented that committees i might form their own programs. 2 BOYS ARE DROWNED Lads Lose Lives in Separate Tragedies in Ft. Wayne. Bii l'nitt '1 Prrr* FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Aug. 2.—Two boys were drowned in separate accidents here late Tuesday. Fred Fox. 9. lost his life in St. Mary's river when a canoe in which he and Robert Beyhan, 13. were riding, overturned. A transient. who witnessed the tragedy, j rescued Beyhan. Warren Sallfrank. 14. Hoagland. was seized with cramps and drowned while swimming in a gravel pit.
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a baby learns to mud-crawl in Ravenswood water with a B. coli count. Eagle creek has a 5.000 bacteria count, an dives are made from platforms at Warfleigh in bacteria- : laden water. I Next: What to Do About Pollution.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported to police as stolen belone to: The Standard OH Companv. 137 West Eleventh street. Ford coupe. 9-121. from a garas- in Franklin. Ind. Arthur Schofield. 516 Snnders street. Essex coach, from Davidson and Market streets.
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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belonir to: Fred Fancher. 1401 Kine avenue. Chevrolet coach, tecovercd near Plamfleld. motor stripped. Robert Dvkes. 2258 North Meridian street Ford coupe, found at Twcntv-third and Pierson streets. Georee Bruce. 1424 Woodlawn avenue. Flvmou'h sedan, found at Fletcher and State avenues. James Lansford. 450 North Rural street. Plymouth sedan, found at Fifteenth street and the Monon railroad. URGES PROTECTION OF HOME OWNERS EQUITY City Man Makes Proposal for Change in U. S. Financing. Plan for reorganization of the entire home loan finance structure, as a means of preventing home owners from losing their equity in foreclosures, has been suggested in a letter from H. L. Seeger, 801 North Bradley avenue, to Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to President Roosevelt. Seeger proposes creation by the federal government of a state home corporation in each state, into which the lending groups may be merged, through a common stock ownership, and in which present owners of mortgaged homes may obtain their equity or appraisal in common stock and by future payments increase their stock to a point where it will equal value of the property, then surrendering the stock for the property. A person building a home would subscribe for half the necessarystock. the remainder being replaced on the market, bearing 5 per cent interest. If a buyer were forced to abandon his home, he still would own his stock, which would have an open market value.
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U. S. 'ENEMY' FOR JAPAN IN FLEETPRACTICE Most Extensive Naval Maneuvers in Years Being Held. BY FREDERICK P. WHITEING United Tresi Staff Corre.ponilent TOKIO. Aug. 2.—Japaan's most 1 extensive naval maneuvers in recent history were begun Tuesday in the : Pacific waters south of the empire.' Upward of 100 units of the Japanese , navy participated. The warships, fit and trim, slid out of harbors and naval bases and turned toward the south, where at a point about half-way between Japan and the Philippine islands most' of the war games will be conducted. U. S. Is "the Enemy” The grand maneuvers, testing the practical fighting strength of the Japanese sea force against a theoI retical enemy—this year the United States, it was admitted—will be held I in secrecy. No foreign naval attache or ofI fleial was permitted to accommpany i the fleet. Customarily, foreign at- ' taches are permitted to view tne airj force and army maneuvers. but > the naval games are held in prl-1 j vacy. The naval attaches were notified j 1 of the maneuvers, to last more than: three weeks, and invited to attend : the grand renew on Aug. 25. tff Yokohama, when the fighting ships' steam in a long line past Emperor j Hirohito. Plan Building Program The war games started stmul- i > taneously from the navy ministry's announcement of its construction of anew warship program involv- j ing an expenditure estimated at 500.000.000 yen (about $135,500,000) j ! as a minimum. For a total in ail j classes of thirty-three new fighting | lihfts. as replacements of obsolete ships. In addition, the program estimates j 160.000.000 yen i $143,000,000. on the naval air force. Eight new fly- | ing navy units are planned. The program will be in effect dur-1 i ing the new- fiscal year, if approvedj by the government. It is designed to put Japans navy up to treaty strength allowed by the pact signed in 1330 at London. SUICIDE ATTEM PT FA lIS James Lee. 45, Recovering at Hospital After Drinking Poison. James Lee. 45. of 120 West Twelfth street. Apt. 5. was recovering at city hospital today after an attempted suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Lee. a former employe of Blacker Chile parlors for a number of years, was said to have been despondent over unemployment.
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AUTOPSY TO BE HELD IN POISONING DEATH Widow of Late City Detective Found Dead in Park Pavilion. An autopsy was to be held today to determine the cause of death of Mrs. Flora Manning. 1244 North Illinois street, widow of Chauncey A. Manning, Indiana polls detective, who died Tuesday night at city hospital from the effects of poison. I Detective Manning died last November. Mrs Manning was found unconscious in the pavilion at Riverside park Saturday. She never regained consciousness. Dr John E Wvttcnbach. deputy coroner, said he would make a complete probe today. A brother, Fred Romel. survives her. Mr. Manning, who was a victim of heart disease, had served the Indianapolis police department for thirty years, and in that time held virtually every important post in the detective division.
Drastic Price Reductions in the lace of swiftly rising prices! W WHITES GALORE "S. a. well as Bluest HB jfL Beiges! —e ¥ Straps, P Ox- T fords, and | Sandals! j‘■ !ML BUY NOW—lt's the savings j. , ... thrill of the season—All size. In Railroads Keep Pace U With Business * jy ' Business again is marching on. and U the railroads as usual are keeping pace. Vj Many doubts were recently being vV A expressed over the railroads. Traffic UF and earnings were suffering both from the general decline in business and Ut from the inroads of other methods of t % transportation. It was hard to tell P where one wound ended and another | \ began. The outlook was anything but i it promising. fj Now. however, business revives and y/u with it railway traffic. Unfair competiftj tion remains, but that will be modified If; as aroused public interest is asserted (Vll # * In action. The cham of interdependence which ArfEjLpm joins the railroads and business ha been tested in the strain of depi-es-and it still holds. Constructive criticism and sug.'.c*tions are invited. \ L A DOWNS RAILROADS Peso^. Illinois Central SyVM PROVIDE I ESSENTIAL SERVICE *
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YOUTH ADMITS 21 BURGLARIES, POLICE CLAIM Boy. 17. Tells Officers He May Have Committed Others: Can't Remember. An epidemic of burglaries in recent weeks has been solved, police announced today, with the purported confession of Clyde O'Pherna, 17, who said he came here from Chicago five weeks ago and has been staying at an East Washington street notel. O'Pherna. who was arrested Saturday night on the roof of the Alvern hotel. 506 East Washington , street, confessed, police said, to twenty-one burglaries, adding that he knew he had committed other burglaries, but couldn't remember all of them.
Homes he admitted entering included those of: James F. Powers, 209 North Slate avenue; Arthur Norton, 1601 East Ohio street; Logan J Winegar. 3049 Central avenue; Anna Baron. 3057 Central avenue; Mrs. Emery Bowling. 515 East Thirty-first street: Ira Baumgardner. 413 West Thirty-second street; Donald Driscoll, 3129 North Illinois street. Marvin H Lively, 3108 Kenwood avenue; Earl Mann, 1204 West Market street; Guy Pierson. 30 North Lansing street; Fred Drexler. 1302 East Market street: Dr. Christian Emhardt. 1612 South East Street; R M Guedel. 224 Pleasant Run parkway, and Fred J. Schurman, 3045 Central avenue, entered twice and attempted a third time. O'Pherna entered the Driscoll home while Mis. Driscoll was ill. stealing Driscolls purse, and the money from the purse belonging to a nurse attending Mrs. Driscoll. Th<* intruder was discovered ov Driscoll but escaped before police arrived. A British naturalist has studied the ringed circles resembling eyes that are found in some moths, on beetle wings, and notably on th that they are imitation eyes to peacock's tail, and he concludes frighten enemies.