Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1934 — Page 3

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HIGHWAY AUTO CRASHES TAKE LIVES OF MANY 400 Die Each Year in Spills on Indiana Roads, Survey Shows. At least 400 persons are killed each year in traffic accidents on Indiana highways, a tour-year survey of the state highway comir.isHon showed today. Conducting a survey of all highways outside cities and towns of more than 3.500 population, the comm:'Sion found that 1 597 fatalities result from 5.546 motor vehicle accidents. Pointing out that the figures are not accurate due to the fact that many highways have been taken into the state system since the survey was started, the commission has appealed to citizens to report all fatal accidents to the state highway department during the last five years. Figures to lie C hecked The figures are to be recorded and checked by the highway department and used in its accident prevention campaign. From the figures the department will draft plans lor changing highways in various sections of the state to eliminate hazards. During the last year the commission has worked especially to eliminate hazards such as narrow’ shoulders. bridges and pavements, sharp turns, steep grades and railroad crossings. The "fatality map.” published by the highway department, and covering a period four years ending July 1. 1934. shows the major portion of the fatal accidents occuring near larger cities and on the more heavily traveled highways. Tolls Heaviest on Road 40 The heaviest toll was recorded on U S. highwav 40. which stretches across the state from Richmond to Indianapolis and Terre Haute. A majority of the fatalities were in the vicinity of Indianapolis. U. S. 31. between Indianapolis and Jeffersonville, over which the majority of the traffic to and from Louisville. Ky.. travels, was another heavy contributor to the death list. The Dunes highway, through th*' Calumet district; Road 67, near Anderson; Road 3. between Muncie and Newcastle; Road 31. between Indianapolis and South Bend; Road 52. between Indianapolis and Lafayette. and U. S. 41. between Evansville and Hammond, were the other heavy accident toll contributors. CASH RELIEF CHECKS EARLY, OFFICER WARNS Federal 4Vrk Slips Must Be Exchanged in 30 Days. Warning that all federal emergency relief administration checks should be cashed within thirty days was given today bv R. H Matthius, state disbursing officer of the Governor's commission on unemployment relief. "Workers usually cash their checks at neighborhood stores, and sometimes the grocer or druggist allows the check to remain in a cash drawer.” Mr. Matthius said. ALLEGED ANNOYER OF YOUNG GIRL, 9. HELD Elderly Man Seized by Mother in City Theater. An elderly man who is alleged to have made improper advances to a 9-year-old girl is being held by police today after the girl's mother seized the man in a downtown theater last night. The man. Clarence Miller, 60, of 215 North Capitol avenue, was charged with disorderly conduct, assault and battery and vagrancy. He us alleged to have slapped the mother during a struggle. THREE I. U. CO-EDS ARE HURT IN CRASH City Girls Injured. One Seriously, as Car Hits Ditch. Three Indiana university co-eds were injured, one seriously, early today when the auto in which they were riding was ditched at the north edge of Bloomington. The co-eds are. Miss Dorothy Strong. 20. of 2951 Ruckle street; Miss Thelma Hohlt. 22. of 3630 Coliseum street, and Miss Barbara Varin. 19. of 4110 North Illinois street. They are attending an Alpha Chi Omega rush party. Muss Strong was injured most seriously. FEDERAL JOBS VACANT Civil Service Posts Disclosed by Local Secretary. Several civil service positions open at the present time will be filled through competitive examinations, Frank J. Boatman, local secretary, announced today. The position of junior technologist in the bureau of plant industry pays $2 000 to $2,500 a year; associate cotton technologist. $3,200 to $3,800; assistant cotton technologist. *.'6<X) to $3,200. and junior examiner. $1,620. Women Lawyers to Meet B<t Tim fa Special CHICAGO. Aug 24 Mrs. Florence Thacker. Indianapolis attorney. will address the National Association of Women Lawyers here Tuesday on "Women of the NewSocial Order.”

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•UTTERLY UNSO.' SAYS CHEVALIER OF NUPTIAL Screen Star Denies Engagement to Kay Francis. HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24.—Maurice Chevalier, French film star, today

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[denied emphatically reports from Cannes, France, that he will be married to Kay Francis, screen act--1 ress, on the Riviera some time in September. “It is utterly unso,” Chevalier sputtered. “There is no truth in it, i whatever.”

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INFLATION EVILS ARE PAINTED BY MONEY EXPERT State Sound Currency Club Head Addresses City Organization. Evils of unbridled inflation of currency were stressed today by John T. Beasley, president of the Indiana sound money committee, in an address before the Exchange Club in the Washington. Declaring that there is only a remote possibility of the federal indebtedness being reduced during the present administration, Mr. Beasley said the incentive for inflation would be as great at the end of President Roosevelt's team as at present. “Maturing government obligations can be met only by refunding operations. To pay its huge debt, our government either must increase taxes, borrow more money or resort to the printing of irredeemable paper money,” he declared. All Attempts Failures “Experience of other nations has taught us how easy it is to start the downward path of inflation. The same experience has taught us how difficult it is to stop when the policy once is entered upon. Every attempt in human history to substitute legislative fiat for the natural laws of finance has resulted disastrously,” asserted Mr Beasley. He told at the height of inflation in other nations people became panicky and farmers bought diamonds. brokers bought plows and shovels, and how holders of currency sought to turn it into tangible things without regard for use. “Repeated issuance of paper currency results in people losing faith in its integrity. The greater the loss in faith the more desperate the efforts of governments to allay fear. Denies Roosevelt Attack “The weight of the unprecedented drought has added to our President's problems. To ameliorate conditions the government has poured out money without precedent in our history. No one can question the high purpose of this opulence,” he said. In opening his talk Mr. Beasley declared that his statements were in no way a criticism of President Roosevelt. “I am not an economist. I am not versed in the science of money. My talk is along practical rather than technical lines,” he declared. STRIKERS MJSS PARLEY Terre Haute Workers Fail to Appear for Labor Session. Failure of striking employes of the Terre Haute Paper Company to appear before the regional labor board 3’esterday afternoon caused a postponement of a scheduled hearing before the board. The employes struck recently for higher wages and the company closed the establishment.

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Edward B. Nicholson Charged with the attempted extortion of SIO,OOO from directors of the Fletcher Trust Company by threats to bomb the building and harm the directors, Edward B. Nicholson, 59-year-old amateur photographer, is being held for the federal grand jury.

LEASES ARE SIGNED ON CITY PROPERTIES Rentals Are Closed by Barker Firm. Edward Barker & Son, realtors, of 1308 New City Trust building, today announced signing of a longterm lease for a warehouse building and business property in the 1300 block, North Meridian street. Additional warehouse space in the Indianapolis warehouse building at 330 West New York street has been leased by j. Solotken & Cos., dealers in waste paper. Both parties in the transaction were represented by the Barker firm. They also announced that the Hocus Pocus Club, a newly-formed club for magicians and their friends, has obtained a lease on the business property at 1320 North Meridian street. The property is owned by W. A. Atkins. pittsburgFcollector GIVES UP HIS POST Gives In to Morgenthau Demands for Political Separation. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—David L. Lawrence, United States collector of internal revenue at Pittsburgh, has relinquished his government post to continue as Pennsylvania state Democratic party chairman. Severance of his government connection was believed the outcome of orders by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau that all United States treasury officials and employes must relinquish their political posts by Sept. 1 or resign from treasury service.

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LOOPHOLE MAY FREE GAMBLING j CASE SUSPEGT Ownership Not Proved of Machines Said to Be Stolen. A technical legal point may free Elwood Stockton, 739 North New Jersey street, alleged slot-machine hijacker, it was pointed out by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers today. Judge Myers continued the case until Monday because officials of the Grotto Club. 1238 Park avenue, from which the machines are alleged to have been stolen, failed to i prove that any part of the ma- | chines was their property. An elderly custodian of the club, Joe Whitcsell, testified that Stockton and two others stole the machine, Aug. 5. He said the club operated the machines on a percentage basis and that there was no actual money in the machines at the time they were stolen. With no one present claiming ownership of the machines the court was faced with the peculiar situation of trying a man for stealing something which apparently belonged to no one. Asa parting quip, Judge Myers told Grotto Club officials they should “get slot machines from someone who can give you protection.” The grand jury is investigating the activities of Stockton, it was reported today. 150 ARRESTED SINCE ELECTION, NAZIS ADMIT But They Deny They’re Rounding Up “No” Voters. By United Press BERLIN, Aug. 24.—The government admitted today that 150 persons had been arrested since the recent elections, but denied the arrests were because the suspects had voted “nein’ on Adolf Hitler’s policies. It was explained officially that the arrested persons were "Communists, charged witn treasonable activities.” The government denied foreign reports of mass arrests of Catholics and Jews who dared to vote against the dictator. BYRD RECOVERING AT ICE HUT, IS REPORT Admiral Takes Long Walks Daily With Three Rescuers. By United Press LITTLE AMERICA. Antarctica, Aug. 24.—(Via Mackay RadiolRear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is recovering rapidly from the illness which almost prostrated him during his isolation in a hut 123 miles out on the Ross ice barrier, a message from the hut said today. Byrd is able to take a walk each day. His three rescuers are with him, awaiting his recovery before they return to the base here in their snow tractor.