Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1934 — Page 3

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67 COUNTIES IN STATE TAKE UP DIPHTHERIA WAR Wnmunization of All School Children Goal of Intensive Drive. Sixty-seven counties have joined the drive to wipe out diphtheria and Kmallpox, it was revealed today by Dr. V. K. Harvey, state public health director. The campaign, conducted by the state board of health, Indiana State Medical Association and county medical societies, aims to immunize all children against the diseases. The medical profession is tendering its services free to those who are tonabie to pay for the vaccination •ervice. The state supplies materials. Educational bulletins have been sent throughout the state. Lectures and film showings have aided in organizing immunization programs in communities. The Indiana campaign has been praised by W. W. Bauer, director of public instruction, American Medical Association, as one of the most outstanding ever undertaken. Dr. Harvey said today, “Diphtheria is one of the few diseases which human beings have the power entirely to blot out if they are intelligent enough to use the simple means which science has placed at Iheir very doors. “Every physician who has attended a terrible case of diphtheria. In which the child has died, never bill forget and automatically beeomes a crusader for immunization. “Too often it is the advanced case that comes to the physician. The helpless child, blue and struggling lor breath, is taken to the hospital. The physician and parents then are forced to stand by and see the little bne choke to death with the diphtheria membrane that fills his larynx and trachea. "The knowledge of the ease with *hich the disease can be wiped out fire the reasons why all physicians are so anxious to see that all babies and young children are safeguarded by the simple means of having a doctor give toxoid.”

BUTLER WILL OBSERVE FOUNDERS DAY FEB. 7 Special Chapel. Banquet and Reception Are on Program. Butler university will observe founders’ day Wednesday, Feb. 7, the birthday of Ovid Butler, benefactor and incorporator of the institution. Dr. Edwin R. Errett, Cincinnati, principal speaker, will address a special chapel service in Arthur Jordan memorial hall at 3, honoring the memory of the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, Columbus, who foundect the Butler college of religion in 1924. The day’s program includes a banquet at 6:30 in the Claypool and an informal reception afterward. The Rev. George Arthur Frantz, First Presbyterian church pastor, will speak at the banquet, and the Jordan conservatory choir, directed by Max T. Krone, will sing. ETUDENT CLEARED IN SLAYING OF FARMER Ohio Youth Not Indicted for Shooting of Intruder. By Vnitrii Prr*g CLEVELAND. Feb. 1. —A youthful law student was absolved of blame yesterday for having shot to death an elderly farmer who intruded upon au automobile in which the youth was parked with a co-ed companion along a little used highway in Pepper Pike village. The Cuyahoga county brand jury refused to indict Britton D. Young, law student at Western Reserye university, who had been held on a technical charge of manslaughter after shooting to death Carl Meteling. 52. farmer, on Dec. 18.

WEST'S OPINION OF JAPAN IS EXPLAINED Economic Nervousness Underlies Misunderstanding. Hirota Says. By Timr Sprrinl TOKIO. Feb. I.—Koki Hirota. Japan's astute foreign minister, told members of the imperial diet today that 'economic nervousness" of western nations underlaid "misunderstandings" of Japan's policy in the Orient. Speaking during interpolations of cabinet members by the diet. Mr. Hirota “regretted" the misunderstandings. but said that the economic situation made explanations difficult. The United States gained seven-ty-one new airports and landing fields in 1933. not including new airports being established by the CWA committees.

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City Man Is Kidnaped, Forced on Chicago Trip

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Seated in a comfortable chair in his home. 3206 North Capitol avenue, John P. Rich this morning recounted his experiences last night, when he was kidnaped by two bandits in front of his office, and forced at the point of guns to drive them to Chicago.

Northsider Threatened by Two Gunmen; Seized at Office. “Move over—you're going for a ride!” With only these words as a warning. John P. Rich. 3206 North Capitol avenue, made a hurried trip last night to Chicago, with the muzzles of two .45-caliber automatic pistols pressed against his back. Mr. Rich just had driven his car in front of his office at the John W. Rich & Company plumbing company. 1524 North Illinois street, shortly before 6 and was preparing to enter the building. The two men accosted him, he said, and under their orders, he drove north on Capitol avenue, past his own home and that of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rich. 3204 North Capitol avenue, to Road 31. “Don't talk; just drive this car at sixty miles an hour; that's your job,” the bandits told him. When they reached Nora, they told him they wanted to go to Chicago. Mr. Rich said he explained they were ors the wrong road and the men told him to cut through to the right one. “I told them they could have the car or anything else I had, and that I would take them wherever they wanted to go, if they would, just see that those guns didn’t go off,” Mr. Rich said this morning, recounting his experiences. "We bought gas at two stations; they selected them, and were careful to choose stations which were poorly lighted, with pumps in front of stores. “They talked very little, and only between themselves. I couldn't hear what they said. They showed a little nervousness when we passed other cars, and also when we went through Lafayette, but other than that, seemed to feel safe.” The car bearing Mr. Rich and the two gunmen arrived in Chicago about 10:30. he said. “We drove over a bridge, and they told me to cut my speed down to twenty miles an hour,” he said. "There was a barbecue stand, and no other buildings close. On the other side of the street was a 1932 model Buick sedan, without license plates. Its motor was running, and two other men were in it. “The two men in my car got

FAMED CAVALRY HORSE HAS MILITARY FUNERAL Garry Owen. Army Pet, •shit, After Leg Fracture. By United Press EL PASO. Tex.. Feb. I.—A white horse named Garry Ow r en today joined General George Custer and the other heroic dead of the Seventh cavalry. Garry Owen, show horse pet of the regiment and valued at more than $7,000. had to be shot after his leg was broken in a feed lot disturbance by a lesser and possibly jealous mount. Officers and men of the regiment paid final tribute to the dead charger with a military funeral on the Ft. Bliss polo field and a bugler sounded taps over his grave. Garry Owen was one of the best jumping horses in the army, rarely hesitating regardless of the heighth or breadth of the barrier.

out, cursed me and told me to drive on the way I was headed, and to keep still. They had a heavy suitcase with them; so heavy that they could hardly carry it across the street to the waiting car. I think it must have had other guns in it.” Mr. Rich drove to one of the Chicago police stations where he telephoned his family, advising them, of his experiences. Chfcago police immediately sent out radio warnings concerning the car which had picked up Mr. Rich's passengers. Examination of the handles of the doors in the back seat was made, but there were no finger prints, and Mr. Rich was unable to' identify from police photographs the men who had kidnaped him. He returned to Indianapolis last night.

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SPEAKER OPENS RETAILERS’ WAR ON SALES TAX Hardware Group Urged to Support Candidates Backing Repeal. Active efforts to elect legislators committed to repeal of the state sales tax will be made by Indiana retailers, L. F. Shuttleworth, Associated Retailers of Indiana executive secretary, today told the convention of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association. The present 1 per cent tax merely was an entering wedge, he said charging that sponsors of the law are planning to get the percentage increased. A survey revealed that in a majority of cases, the merchants’ tax load has increased from 100 to 300 per cent in the last year, because of inability to add the tax to the selling price. Asa secondary objective, Mr. Shuttleworth said, the association plans to seek a means of empowering the taxpaying public to regulate the tax budget. This might be done, he said, by creating a nonpartisan commission in each tax unit, free from political influence, and elected on ballots entirely separate from any partisan ticket. This commission would have complete control of budget making. “It seems to us an unsound, unfair practice to allow tax spenders to determine the amount they are to spend and be clothed with authority to sell your property and mine to collect levies to pay the bills, size of w'hich they determine themselves,” he said. Other speakers on today’s program include Clarence A. Jackson, gross income tax division director, and Ralph W. Carney. The annual banquet and entertainment will be held tonight in the Lincoln. FILE IN RECEIVERSHIP Liabilities of Goldstein’s Not Estimated in Action. Voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court late yesterday by Goldstein Brothers department store. Liabilities and assets were not estimated. Frank R. Weaver, of Hibben-Hollweg & Cos., was named receiver. The number of births in the world averages 60,000 a day, while deaths average 40,000 a day.

ZOO CHIEF TO SPEAK

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“The Fight to Live,” a discussion of whether animals think, is the topic of Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, New York zoological park curator, for his address before the Indianapolis Town Hall at 8 tomorrow 7 night in Caleb Mills hall. Dr. Ditmars is author of the book, “Strange Animals I Have Known.” The talk will be illustrated with motion pictures. The lecture is open to the public, and student tickets will be offered at a reduced rate. TULAREMIA VICTIM IN MAINE NEAR -DEATH Stricken Trapper Is First Case Reported in Section. By United Press GREENVILLE. Me., Feb. I.—Victim of the first case of tularemia or “rabbit fever” ever reported in this part of the nation, Allen MacDougall, a trapper, lay near death today at Greenville hospital. “There is virtually no hope for his recovery," doctors said. The trapper, a 61-year-old bachelor was stricken several days ago after he had become infected w'hile skinning a fox. In a bulletin issued by George J. Stobie, state commissioner of fish and game at Augusta, Me. hunters and trappers w 7 ere warned to “be careful in handling all fur-bearing animals and rabbits.” Threatens Burlesque Patrons Alleged to have threatened patrons of a downtown burlesque theater with a knife last night, Mose Davis, 40, of 2102 North Harding street, was arrested by police and charged with carrying concealed weapons, drawing deadly weapons and intoxication.

SIX PAROLES GRANTED: 13 AREJENIED Southport Bank Bandit Is Freed on Promise to Return to Ohio. Curtis Pollard stole a pipe wTench and seven balls of binder twine. Carl Beckett held up and robbed

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the Citizens state bank at Southport. Both landed in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. Both were paroled today by the state clemency board, in session at the state house. Pollard was sentenced from Shelby county on July 12, 1932, to serve from three to ten years. Beckett was sentenced to ten years in Marion criminal court here on March 26. 1930. He then was 18 and came here from Wilmot. O. He has promised to return there and report on his parole until the ten-year term has elapsed. Total of six paroles was granted by the commission, two commutations of sentence and thirteen petitions denied. Paroles included Joe Tucker, senI tenced for auto banditry from Clark

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county: Mary Miller, sentenced to the Indiana woman's prison here from St. Joseph county for robbery; Walter Heironimus. sentenced from Parke county on a conspiracy charge. Susan Robinson, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of Theodore Bradshaw in Marion criminal court, Oct. 23, 1923, received a commutation to twelve years. According to the evidence in the case, she met Bradshaw on an Indianapolis street, asked for money he owed her and he drew a knife. In the fight that followed, he was killed. A ten-year robbery sentence of Ethel Vochran from Vigo county w as commuted to from four to ten. Olive oil keeps better on the pantry shelf than it does in the icebox.