Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1933 — Page 3

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MARION COUNTY AUTO FATALITY RECORD HITS 85 Two Die During Week-End of Crash Iniuries: Score Are Hurt. Marion count', s traffic fatahtv toll since .Jan 1 reached eighty-five during the wr--k-end. two persons having incurred fa'al injuries A third death occurred here a-- a result of lmuri' '.ffered in accidents OUtKlde !he rv in" Mr' Virg.: :a l '< 1. 28 Paou Ind died of m :une-. suffered Sunday night when "v automobile- collided a* Fifty-sixth and Pennsylvania street Her neck was broken Randall W: on. 26. Wilkinson. Ind died at <hospital of internal *. ’• n 5■ iff purlv

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driven bv Mi Mary Applegate It# Os 6595 Massac* . •" avenue. The irfl death was that of Alvin Huer.es 17 Osgood, Ind who succumbed at Robert W Lone hospital to lniuru incurred when struck by the ar of a hit-and-run driver n< ar Osgood. Twenty-Three \re Injured Twenty-three other persons were injured in week-end accidents. Mrs Fitch was a passenger in a car driven b\ I.lovd Harter. 28 of 2999 North . Pennsylvania street, which was in collision with a car driven b\ Clifford Manning 16 of 909 East Thirty-eighth street Harter s wife. Mr Margaret Harter 28. incurred minor injuries and Harming was < ut and bruised. He was taken to Methodist hospital. Harter war arrested on a charge of man hi igi w r on order of l#r John F Wvftenbaeh deputy coroner. Mrs Fitch former classmate of Mrs. Harter a' Indiana university, had been a guest m the Harter home. Ilii s,idr of Car According to information obtained b\ Dr John A Salb. deputy coroner, Wilson - motorcycle crashed into the side of the automobile driven by Miss Applegate, as she turned mtf th* driveway of her home. No arrest was made. Dr F R Wilson deputy coroner, who investigated the death of Hughes, said he learned the youth was walking near Osgood Saturday night when struck In an automobile and hurled into a ditch The car was halted for a moment then sped a wa y Colli ion of an automnbil* and a wrecking truck mar Fountaintown accounted tor even of the injured. Those hurt were Robert Sulgrovc. 23. R R fi. Box 201; Earl Warrenburg. 24 of 274 Trowbridge street; Pete Hallo. 22. of 209 I row bridge street Paul C Snyder. 40 Willow Branch, and his three sons Max. 12; Don 14 and Billy 9 Other Injured Listed Those injured in other accidents included Russell Deer 33. of 1318 East St Clair street; Miss Emma Jean Morris, 17, of 3014 Hovey street. Sarah Edwards. 5. Negro, 2343 Dubois street. Janies Shampay, 1912 North Meridian street; Paul W Tinder. 4400 Washington boulevard. Richard Griffith. 10. Tenth street and High School road; the Re\ R W Chatfield. Clarksville. Ind Mrs. A <; Ballard. 23. Welch. Ind . Mrs. Jennie Mack. 58. of 1410 College avenue; Claude Crawford. 2 of 29 North Jefferson avenue Eugene Carpenter. 6. of 405 North Holmes avenue; Maggie Brooks. 45 Negro. Lexington. Ky ; Ernest W East. 42. of 853 College avenue, and Dorothy Huck 2. of 929 Hervey street Seven Are Killed K\ I mlrd l*rrv Seven iiersons were victims of violent deaths in the state, outside Indianapolis. during the week-end. Five persons were recovering today from injuries received in an auto collision six miles north of Decatur Sunday which claimed the life of one man Harold Miller. 27. Piqua O . died of a skull fracture received when throw n_ngain>t the dashboard of his automobfk The most seriously injured Oscar Miller. 64 Harrison. O tincv 0 of the dead mar. He was brougHt to Adams county hospital m an unconscious condition. William W. Little. Piqua. other occupant of the Miller car. suffered scalp lacerations. Others Vre Hurt Passengers m the other machine were John Fisher, driver; Roger Debout and K igone Durkin. 27. all of Decatur none of whom was hurt seriously. Fisher suffered a broken arm. cuts and bruises A manslaughter charge was filed against Walter Urban after his car killed Eddie Slavac. 11. at Hammond Audrey O'Haver. 19-vear-old domestic. committed suicide at Linton by shooting. 11l health was blamed by relatives for the suicide by shooting of John P Kes-tcr. 48. Plymouth insurance agent. Mrs Violet Calaberta. 30. committed suicide by inhaling gas at Bloomington. ( Iwk Shoots Self At Anderson Roseo Polhemus. 48. Pennsylvania railroad mail clerk, shot himself fa ally. Samuel Stein. 18. drowned m Lake Michigan while swimming with a group of picnickers. Eunice May Bendy '.9. Spurgeon, was taken to an Fv.insville hospital m a serious condition, suffering accidental gunshc t wounds inflicted by her 15-year-old brother F.stlr VANDALS ARE SOUGHT Trio Break Window. Inter Plant. Leave: Nothing Missing. Mysterious antics oi two menjtnd a woman, who broke a w.ndc-w at the Continental Op'.zal Company plant, 14 to Not th Caj are being investigated bv police According to information given police, the trio broke the window Sunday, entered the building, and left • few minutes later. A check today showed nothing to be missing. Dudley F Taylor vicepresident. said He said lie had no theory on the motive of the trio.

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Drugs Youth, Tries to Burn Him Alive, for Insurance

Thu ;v 'hr fourth of of tor <■- o r , th- ri\f ■ ,T' of ;h* fr* <iterttvr Th- ♦•oi ar* from record* tr. p*.**.nn of F.r* \!ar*r *1 Thorr.** P Broji! . v B: B• .* < .r.i*v.a*ad of th* *;■ Board of T.r* t'Bdmrltrrt and other ources. BY 1.01 WUHMVR Tim*, sp*ft*| Writer N r EW YORK Aig 28 A young man stood on a Bowery corner, inconspicuous member of a group of unemployed. He was a iilile different from the others He was as ragged as they we r e and as they did. he needed a shvr He came from Syracuse, and most of the others were out-of-t owners Bir he had very broad shoulders. This alone set him apart from the rest. A man a little older than he walked ip the Bowen staring into the faces of those he met The un< mpioyed man saw him approach, and for some reason a cold shiver went through him That man looks like me." he thought. Thf stranger approached the youth on the corner Looking for work 1 he asked. "Yes." "Come and have a drink I think I can get .soqje work for you." They went to a Bowery speakcast and drank a little, I am opening a soda fountain and I need a clerk Have you any ( xpcrienre?" No, but I could learn ." They went to a house at 1202 Adee avenue, in the Bronx. The wife s awa'. and I'm lonely. said the youth's new-round acquaintance. "You may stay with me a few days Let's have another drink BUB HE brought out bottles of some . sweet liquor and the youth drank more than was good for him. Things became vague; he was living a dream that was very pleasant after his months of jobset king 7 lie man helped hir.i up.,l airs h°)ped him undress and put him to bed T feel doped." said the youth. The man leered at him and bewail to sprinkle some liquid over the bedclothes. What's that?" 'Just water to cool you off. You'll b" all right." The man then spread several strips of cloth about the room and poured more of th° liquid on them. These rites disturbed his guest, but he was spellbound. He finally fell asleep. Some lime later he was conscious of horribh pain. His first thought, as he struggled vainly to arise, was that the mysterious liquid had been acid, and that it was burning his flesh away, while lie wn s held in a nightmare spell. H.s nostrils were full of heavy smoke He got his eyes o|>en. to stare wildly into an inferno. The bed. the walls and the floor, wherever the liquid had fallen, were burning The strips of cloth were snakes of re criss-crossing the rftom. The youth managed to get to his feet He stumbled to the door and found it locked. The heat of it however, told him there was fire b?vond it, too a a a HE found a window but if was covered with cloth A trickle of air came through and he filled his lungs with it That single breath saved him from death in that room for. with renewed strength. he hurled himself through the window into space. His clothes still were burning when he staggered into an automobile service station An attendant called an ambulance from Fordham hospital. Before it arrived, he collapsed But in the hospital he revived sufficiently to tell his story to detectives of the Wakefield police station

Leaders of All Faiths in World Peace Parley

HURRICANE SCENES FEATURE NEWS REEL Damage Along Coast Is Shown in Striking Films. Remarkable pictures at Norfolk and along the Atlantic seaboard as hurricane causes heavy damage to shipping and waterfront property, are to be seen in the current issue of The Indianapolis Times-Univer-sal Necwsreel Graham McNamee. noted radio announcer and the screen's Talking Reporter, describes these and the other outstanding news events in the reel. Other outstanding news events reported by McNamee include striking scenes at Rome, as Pr mier Mussolini and huge crowtis we' :ome General Italo Balbo and his aerial armada at the completion of their epochal flight from the United States, and spectacular scenes at Forest Grove. Ore . where a forest fire rages over 200 miles of woodland. destroying timber valued a: $1,000,000. City theaters showing The TimesUniversal film are Zaring.e Roosevelt. Vivoli. Howard. Tacoma. Garfield. Alamo and Indiana theater for colored*. 419 Indiana avenue.

Gone. but Not Forgotten

A'.uomobtlM reported to police a* stolen belong to C: :> V Cutcheon 132* Ba'e.i ,!reet. P s coupe, no license number, from O: :r ‘.i. and Bates streets it." less. *'.9 Ear \e York ftteet B>td roupe *?-* from front of Souths'-.* :*.>-,i ;rm. Massachusetts ave-

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S*o>j .1 .tomobiies recovered bv police belong to Ro\ Lcgg. 719 1 st NVu York street r F Sr: g S, . ‘;i :t Por.uac sedan .nd rear of 2514 GutHord asenue !e S -o sedan .tcer.se 1-213-719 1111.nd .<• Ste' ens and Orav streets A. ,m Ptipes 910 .Vhon street. Chev- •• coach found at rear of 941 Indiana avenue. Svepard. 3.5d4 E-.ergreen avenue, ■eord roadster found at Danville. Ind 1 of battery, Hie tries and wind-

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"A man named Luigi Raffi gave me a job." he said. "He took me home and tried to burn me alive. I jumped nut of the second-story window and got away." Assistant Fire Marshal John J. Cashman was notified by the detectives and he began an investigation. He located the house at 1202 Adee avenue, badly damaged by fire In the cellar, which the flames had not reached, he found a suit of clothes containing the identification papers of Luigi Raffi If the youth had not gotten out of the house alive, the authorities naturally would have mistaken his body for that of Raffi. The house rvas insured for $4 500 and there was $5,000 insurance on Raffi's life, payable to his wife. Mrs. Raffi came homo late that night and began wailing at the destruction of her home. "My husband must have been burned up." she moaned. Assured that this was not so, she went to stay with friends. BBS SOON the lungs of the "proxy,” Earl Spencer Fox. gave out, and he died in the hospital. Characterizing the case as a most atrocious murder by arson. Fire Marshal Brophy promised Fox's family to punish his slayer.

Indian Maharajah Opens Fellowship Conference at Chicago. Hu In it* and Pt z*s CHICAGO. Aug 28 Representatives of old and new religions assembled here Sunday night for a World Fellowship of Faith conference which was unprecedented. Among those attending the opening session of the three-weeks conference were leaders of all the many branches of Christianity, a 28-year-old Japanese religious leader reputed to hold the fate of 6.000 000 followers in his hands, an India Maharajah who controls the religious destiny of 2.000.000 persons, and. in fact, leaders of almost every known religion. It was the first time in history that leaders of so many faiths assembled from all parts of the world. Their specific purpose was to promote universal peace and a better understanding between men of all races and creeds. Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda. India, officially opened the conference. A feature of the first meeting was the award of a bronze plaque to Frank B K-fflngg. winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1929. It was a coincident that this was the anniversary of the signing of the famous Kellogg-Bnand Peace Pact. Because of this, a movement was started to make Aug. 27 International Peace day in all countries. Mass Sung for Valentino Hu I'nitcd /'* LONDON Aug 28 Women flocked to Westminster cathedral Sunday to attend a high mass sung for the late Rudolph Valentino, film star and "heik" of the silent screen, who died in 1926

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Nicht after night detectives and firemen in civilian clothes kept watch on Mrs. Raffi. believing her husband had planned to collect the insurance through her. They were almost thrown from the trail when, on Manhattan bridge. Raffi's coat was found with a suicide note. "It's a fake." Commissioner Mulrooney decided.# and the search continued. Days passed, and Raffi did not appear. Then Mrs Raffi was summoned to the corner store for a telephone message. Marshal Cashman kept vigil that night personally with Detective Charles Gannon. Mrs. Raffi came out of the house at midnight and strolled toward the Bronx Botanical Gardens. Near a clump of bushes she stopped and looked about her. A low whistle sounded at once The marshal and the detective crept silently toward them. A man they recognized as Raffi from his similarity to the murdered Fox appeared and began a low-voiced conversation with the woman. "Put your hands up. Raffi! ordered the detective.

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A I TILD-EYED. Raffi leaped to- ’ ward them, a stiletto gleaming in the moonlight. Cashman and Gannon closed with him. and after a brief struggle had him disarmed and handcuffed. Raffi was brought to trial a few months later. Among the witnesses against him was Tessie Russo, who said he had her ■ admirer. j "He told me he got the boy | drunk and set fire to the house." she testified "He said we soon would have a lot of money.” He was convicted and sent to the deathhouse at Sing Sing. On the ] night, of July 21. 1932. when two ! other condemned men were eating j their last steak dinners. Raffi | complained that he had no appetite. He broke a prison tradition by refusing to eat. | "I keep seeing things that make me not hungry " he said. And so he went to the chair. Next—Maniac at large.

SPECIMENS OF RARE VALUE TU GRACE MUSEUM Expedition of City Youths Results in Important Discoveries. Laden with treasures for th° Children's Museum, which they found in their excursion among the Blackfoot and Sioux Indians, members of the museum's expedition will return here Thursday Included in the collection of jawbones. teeth and other remains from prehistoric days which they have ' excavated, the boys have two choice items These are the complete skulls of two mammals, believed by Hiliis Howie, in charge of the pxpodi'ion. to be those of horses, and a turtle, i dug from the mud and shale strata, j Monday and Tuesday the boys will visit the Seminole village and the Mayan temple at A Century of Progress. From Chicago they will co to the j sand dunes, a part of the expedi- : non not planned originally, and then will return to Indianapolis. Asid’ from the collection of speci--1 mens to be added to the museum, ; the high point of the trip has been i forest fires encounteafd in the Biackfoot umber just east of Glacier park. When they arrived on i the scene, the boys were presented I with shovels and axes, and put to I work fightng the fire Flames shot a hundred feet in | the air Scattering, they caused numerous small spot fires to spring tip nearby. It was these small fires, according to information received bv Mrs Grace Golden, at the museum. which the boys helped extinguish i The boys were assigned to differj ent tasks in the discovery of ma- | terial for the museum. Alan Appel and James Darlington were deleI gated to find specimens for the enj tontology division; Jack Breed, herpetology; John Crume. geology; James French. Robert Fortune. Alex I Holliday and Harley Rhodehamel, | ethnology; Joe Langfitt. ornithology; Tom Pogue, conchology. and mammalogy, and Bob Trimble, photography. The expedition is composed of fourteen boys and three directors. LIVES PERILED BY GAS ESCAPE Milk Plant Foreman Is in Hospital: Four Flee to Safety. When a tank containing a small amount of chlorine was was disconnected from a bottle washer at the Weber Milk Company plant. 1131 Cruft street, Sunday, one man was overcome and four lied to safety. Clarence W. Floerke. 42. of i 120 Cruft street, foreman, was treated by the fire department oxygen squad and sent to Methodist hospital. Although effects of the gas can not be determined for forty-eight hours. Floerke's condition is thought to be not serious. Police were told that Floerke and L. J. Wendling, 2626 Allen avenue, plant, superintendent, disconnected the tank in the belief that it was empty, after two years’ service. Wendling held his breath and ran outside the building, but Floerke inhaled a quantity of the gas Henry Roell, Frank Carter and A. L Wendling. also in the building, were unharmed.

New Technical Course Will Be Given at School

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Dr Harold T. Davis Anew course in the mt. hematic theory of statistics will be available this fall at the Indiana university extension division. 122 East Michigan street, under Dr H irolci T Davis. professor of mathematic.- at Indiana. The course is being organized at the request of a group of s .cntists associated with F!i Lilly laboratories and some meetings will b- held there. Tire opening session vili br in the extension building The course will deal with the thoorv of correlation of time series, of frequency curves, and laboratory technique. Dr Davis is associate editor of Eoonometrica a publication ->f the Econometric Society of America and is known locally for his extension lectures during recent years in astronomy and Einstein theory.

CHURCH HOLDS LAST SERVICES East Park Methodist to Be Moved Today to New Site. Last services of the East Park Methodist church Beville avenue and New York streets, were held by members of the congregation Sunday. The church will be moved, beginning today, to Temple avenue and New York streets. East and west wings of the present building will be torn away and the main auditorium will be moved to the new location to become a part of the"church edifice The Rev. J A Spaulding pastor from 1924 to 1929. and now in charge of the Fletcher Place Methodist church, gave the Sunday morning sermon. At noon a basket luncheon was served Thi Rev E A Robertson, now retired and pastor of the rhurch from 1921 to 1924. spoke at an afternoon program The Rev. Ralph A Ul; ey. the present pastor, spoke at the night service. 9 Morning worship and Sunday school will be held in the community building of the East Tenth Methodist church until the new church edifice is completed. Night services will be held at the homes of members. Next Sunday night services will Ire at the home ol Mr and Mrs. W. A. White. 328 North Temple avenue. Florida farmers are growing all kinds of winter vegetables, since it was found that the trouble with these crops was lack of manganese in the soil.

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MOLEY RESIGNS AS KEY MAN IN 'BRAIN TRUST' President’s Chief Adviser Disagrees With Hull on Policies. Continued From Page One! ternationalist. believing in world ro■'lteration and elimination of 'rade barriers Mol' y suddenlv was switched from the state department to the justice department several week.' ago. to undertake for Attornev-General Homer Cummings a survey looking to enforcement of laws against kidnapers and racketeers The switch was attributed to Hulls reported determination to have him removed from the state department. M\ service is an official in the government professedly was temporary. Moley wrote Mr Roosevelt. "It was continued through the preliminaries of your administration and now reaches a convenient time for its termination Offers His Resignation I therefore offer you mv resignation as assistant secretary of state, to take effect Aept 7 As I do. I pledge \oti my active and continued support of the ideals to which you have given such a hopeful and auspicious realization " Mr Roosevelt replied I need not tell you that I appreciate and always shall remember your participation during these two years in the development of ixilicirs based on our common ideals You nave rendered a very definite service to vour country and your departure from an official ixisition to undertake an editorship will give you opportunity to carry on the task in an equally wide field "The ending of our official relations will in no way terminate our close personal association I shall count on seeing you ofun. and .n ihe meantime I send you every good wish and mv affectionate regards" First Break in Group Moley's breaking away from the administraction was th° first deflection in the ranks of the brain trust that was recruited before, during and after the Democratic campaign. He first became associated with Mr. Roosevlt while the latter was Governor of New York. Moley is known as political scientist He first gained recognition when he was railed into the 1928 ; Democratic campaign to assist Allied E Smith Associated with Moley and Astor in the management of the new magazine will be Mrs Mary Ramsey. chairman of the consumers' advisory board of the NR A. F A\rrell Haniman. chairman of the New York state NR A committee, and V. V McNitt. Astor will br the pubh her and McNitt the executive editor Astor said publication will start about Oct 1 CRACKSMEN TAKE $25 Commission Row Is Visited b\ Yeggs Over Week-End. Commission row on South Delaware street, was visited during the week-end by safecrackers, who entered two offices and obtained $25. Entrance to both places was gained through transoms. | At the commission house of Ilarrv 1 C Taylor. 128 South Delaware street, the combination of the safe | was worked and $25 taken Although t ile office of Toledo Ar Sons, 39 South Delaware street, was ransacked. nothing was taken Combination of the safe had oeen battered.