Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1936 — Page 3

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New Machinery Left in Ruins After Blast at Continental Baking Company Plant

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Shown here, i. s a picture token of the New Jersey-st side of the Continental Baking Cos. shortly after a gas explosion wrecked a basement room and destroyed machinery on the first floor today. In the foreground, walking toicard the camera, is Heze Clark, chief of The Times staff covering the explosion story.

SEVEN INJURED IN EXPLOSION Leaking Gas Is Blamed by Hurd: $60,000 Damage, Early Estimate. (Continued From Page One) searched the basement thoroughly but found no one. The first floor apparently had been raised by the explosion, and some of the wooden floor was splintered. The steel beams held, however, and the machinery did not drop into the basement. A 12-inch brick supporting wall was wrecked by the explosion and Mr. Hurd ordered temporary stays installed to protect the building Glass Is Blown Out Glass and window frames were blown out. Some of the glass was hurled to roofs of buildings across New Jersey-st. A large, heavy bolt of wrapping paper catapulted from the inside of the first floor across New Jersey-st into a yard, where it rested undamaged. A manhole cover from the sidewalk was broken into three pieces, one of which was found across the street. The doors of the bakery garage, some distance from the wrecked part of the plant, were blown clear of their hinges, and one plate glass window was broken. There was no disturbance in the offices of the plant. Hotel Windows Shattered All front windows of the Arthur Hotel, directly acrosss the street, were shattered, and the glass sprayed over the guests. 40 of whom were seated at dining tables. Some of the dishes on the tables were broken by the concussion. Inside the lobby wore about 10 men, all of whom were sprayed with broken glass. Among them were George Check. Palace Hotel, and J. Y. Scott. Arthur Hotel. Ernest Black, who also lives at th- Arthur, only a moment before the explosion had parked his car in front of the place and gone to his room. He was showered with glass from the window of his room, and the two windows of his car exposed to the wrecked building were broken out. The roof of the car also was damaged. Witnesses Tell of Blast Miss Mildred Vinson. 5432 Julianav. a bookkeeper at the Henry-Randall-Warner Cos., witness to the explosion also called the Fire Department. •'I was here at my desk,” she said, “when the blast occurred. My first sensation was seeing a great flash of light in front of the bakery, and in another instant the Bulging sidewalk and the shattered glass. I grabbed a telephone and called the Fire Department.” Another Henry-Randall-Warner employe. Mrs. Helen Harris was alone in the publishing firm bindery' at the time. “I heard the report.” she said, “and at the same moment felt the floor raise under my feet. Believe me. I was badly scared. I .thought the explosion had occurred in our building.” State and local investigations were started to determine the cause of the blast. The State Fire Marshal’s office also dispatched assistant inspectors to the scene.

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—Photo by Bretzman. Frank A. Butler SLAYER OF G-MAN ~ BECOMES CATHOLIC Barrett Turns to Church as Death Nears. BY SAM TYNDALL The realization that he is soon to die on the gallows for slaying a Federal agent has caused George W. Barrett to devote himself solely to religion. The quiet mild-mannered murderer now confined to the Marion County jail infirmary under 24-hour guard called for the Rev. John F. McShane, pastor of St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, and was baptized Friday. Barrett was convicted in December and sentenced to hang in the Marion County jailyard March 22 for killing Federal Agent Nelson B. Klein. “He has given up all interests except the Scriptures. I have been reading to him every day,” Father McShane said. “They are his sole comfort.” Praising the intelligence of the doomed prisoner. Father McShane declared that “he has shown a broad knowledge of religious history and uses an unusual choice of words.” Barrett, considered a "model prisoner” by Sheriff Ray, became ill several days ago and is now on a diet of eggs, milk and oranges. Fear that the prisoner might attempt suicide prompted the removal recently of all articles thought to be possible suicidal agents. These included his suspenders and glasses. ASK COMM ISSI O N 0. K. Telephone Firm, Electric Company File Pubiic Service Petitions. A petition to issue $25,000 in bonds by the Southern Indiana Telephone Cos., to finance new equipment at Lawrenceburg, has been filed with the Public Service Commission. The commission also has been asked to approve sale by the Indiana Service Corp. of the Dixon Electric Corp, which operates a rural powerline in Allen County. The sale price has been set at $25,000.

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MERCURY HITS 4 BELOW HERE No Relief in Sight Until Tomorrow; Cold Wave Invades East. (Continued From Page One) widow, Mrs. Anthina Christ. He was a Macedonian. Mrs. Laura Eason, 72, of 909 E. llth-st, broke her right hip when she fell on ice at lOth-st and Ash-land-av last night. She is in City Hospital. Mrs. Margaret Bennett, 30. of 300 S. Warman-av, walked from a snowy sidewalk into the stairway of the Bixby Corp.. Harding and Mor-ris-sts, last night, slipped on some of the snow that stuck to the sole of her shoe, fell and struck her head against a steam radiator. Truck Topples Traffic Light Her condition is City Hospital today was reported as not serious. The traffic light at Washington and Alabama-sts was knocked down last night by a truck driven by Frank Auslander, Chicago, which skidded into it. John Neal. 12. was recovering today from injuries he received when he coasted his sled into the side of a truck in the 1600 block, E. 18th-st yesterday. He lives at 1204 Belle-fontaine-st. Transportation Paralyzed By United Press Snow choked Midwest and Eastern transportation systems today and the nation recruited thousands of me narmed with shovels and snowplows to break through the mountainous drifts. At least eight deaths were attributed to the arctic wave. Armed guards were posted around 10 derailed carloads of coal at Imogene, la., where a fuel famine created a state-wide emergency. At Des Moines, double shift operation of lowa's coal mines was proposed in a plan for union officials by Gov. Clyde L. Herring. One hundred and twenty-five passengers on a Chicago & Northwestern train were rescued after hours of imprisonment amid the drifts at Jackson, Wis. The state ordered 4000 men and 800 snowplows out to clear traffic arteries. A school bus was blown off the icy pavement near Peru, Ind. None was injured. Many schools closed. Supplies were cut to the danger point in parts of Illinois. Indiana. Michigan. Missouri. Kentucky and Massachusetts. Ashland, Wis., reported the temperature at 28 degrees below zero. A bitter norihwest wind swept a new cold wave down from the Canadian Northwest, across the Midwest and toward the East. Snow which stalled trains and blocked highways drifted back again after plows dug out main transportation lines. Heavy rains swept streams in four Southeastern states out of their banks, causing at least four deaths and leaving many families homeless. A cold wave added to the suffering after the rains in Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and Georgia. >

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E. Mark Ferree FERREE NAMED TO TIMES POST Native Hoosier Appointed Advertising Director of Publication. Appointment of E. Mark Ferree as advertising director of The Indianapolis Times was announced today by E. D. Baker, business manager. For several years Mr. Ferree was advertising and publicity manager of the Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, La., and since 1932 has been advertising manager of the Washington Daily News, ScrippsHoward newspaper of the nations capital. Mr. Ferree is a native of Marion, Ind. VanNuys Bill Passes Senate Times S per in l WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Senator Frederick VanNuys’ bill providing fines and imprisonment for employers using coercion to control votes of workers in any election involving Federal office has been passed by the Senate.

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—Times Staff Photos. This picture shows the concrete sidewalk on the New Jersey-st side of the baking company after the explosion. On that part of the sidewalk when the blast occurred was Stanley Bates, a pedestrain, who subsequently was treated for nervous hysteria.

F. D. R. ORDERS MONEHHECK Billion Authorized Loans Canceled as Fiscal Aids Are Summoned. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—With threats of inflation rumbling in the background, the New Deal took inventory of its spending needs today preparatory to presenting a tax program to Congress. Developments in the swiftly changing financial situation were: 1. House Administration leaders mil call at the White House to urge postponement of bonus tax proposals. 2. President Roosevelt summoned heads of “spending” agencies to a White House conference tomorrow. 3. Rep. Wright Patman (D., Tex.), inflation leader, called a meeting today of currency expansionists to plan for a legislative fight. 4. Inflation “scare” depresses dollar value and sends gold exports of $15,665,000 abroad in two days. 5. Cancellation of more than sl,000,000,000 in congressional authorizations to government lending agencies announced by President. A desire to strengthen the Federal government's credit and borrowing ability was reported back of Mr. Roosevelt’s move to reduce lending authorizations of its credit agencies. The principal agency affected by the cancellation, Mr. Roosevelt said, will be the Home Owners Loan Corp., from which authorization of $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 will be lopped. Others mentioned were the Farm Credit Association and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Cannon to Address Club Fermor S. Cannon, Railroad Men’s Building and Savings Association president, is to speak tonight before the Young Men’s Discussion Club of the Y. M. C. A. on the subject, “Social .Trends.”

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BROAD RIPPLE HIGH CLASSES TO ENTERTAIN Freshmen and Sophomores Arrange Program for Friday. Fre-So night is to he celebrated by Broad Ripple freshmen and sophomores Friday with an entertainment program at 8 in the high school gym. Several plays are to feature the program, to be followed by a dancing exhibition. Music is to be furnished by the music department and art work of the last semester is to be displayed. Teachers on the Fre-So sponsorship committee are Mrs. Irma Richards, Mrs. Milo Stuart, Edgar Stahl and Miss Elizabeth Jonnson. Workers to Hear Address Lester B. Granger, Workers’ Bureau secretary of the National Urban League, is to address industrial workers at the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y. W. C. A., 653 N. West-st, tomorrow evening at 7:30 on the subject “Why Are We as Negroes Unemployed.”

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STATE STDDIES LIGHTJ’ETITION Interested Parties Testify Before Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission today took under advisement the plea of the Municipal Power and Light Cos. of Huntington for the right to operate a municipal plant there in competition with the Northern Indiana Power Cos. The commission indicated decision would be made in a few days in the 13-month fight between Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and the private utility. More than 100 of the mayor’s supporters appeared at a hearing before the commisison yesterday to confirm the executive's statements that rates are excessive and that a municipally-owned distributing and generating plant is a necessity. Bangs Directs Fight Mayor Bangs, who spent about 100 days in jail for defying a court order by attempting to give patrons service without holding a franchise, directed the case with the help of

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Huntington City Attorney Clyde Cline. During the hearing a three-cor-nered fight developed when the Indiana Farm Bureau protested against Mayor Bangs’ proposed extension of municnpal service to rural districts. Fred I. Barrows, attorney for the State-Wide Rural Electric Member Corp., set up by the farm bureau to supply rural power with the aid of Federal funds of the Rural Electrification Administration, represented at the corporation. He contended : Opposes Rural Service “If Mayor Bangs expects to extend his service to rural patrons in the Huntington area, we oppose it, as it is in conflict with our efforts to give power to communities which request it and already have made preliminary plans in that territory.” The Northern Indiana Power Cos. presented its employes and Huntington manufacturers to show that its facilities are among the best in the state, to refute Mayor Bangs’ contention that distributing equipment was obsolete and inadequate. The company also countered the testimony with evidence showing that rates are those approved by the commission, and that objections should be in a rate case instead of in a move to establish another utility.