Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1936 — Page 34

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1936 PIED PIPER LAUNCHES WAR ON CUTS RATS Former Undertaker Expects to Kill 30,000 Rodents Here Weekly. BY TOM OCHILTREE Promptly at dawn today, W. F. Amann and his army of three launched a city-wide campaign against the city’s 725,000 rats. They intend to advance along a wide front and carry on operations for six weeks. If they meet with a fair amount of luck, and get enough contracts from local concerns, these modern “Pied Pipers’’ estimate they should average 30,000 fatalities a week. Mr. Amann, the tactician of this force, is a big, jolly fellow who was a St. Louis undertaker until rats almost ran him out of business. In desperation he fought back, and was so successful that he was hired to clean up the city. That was 22 years ago, and since then. Mr. Amann has followed this vocation in almost every city in the country. His death toll runs 11,000,000. This last of a vanishing tribe of “boomers’’ gets his mail in Washington, but his home is wherever he hangs his hat. To Mr. Amann, rat killing is a romantic business. He pictures himself on an outpost of civilization fighting against man’s mortal enemies. But, no matter how successful he is in his wars, his work never is done. Under favorable conditions, he says, rats can breed at the rate of 3,500,000 a year. A few years after he kills off many of them, the population has been restored to the former level. This is his fifth campaign here. Talks by Hour on Evils He can talk by the hour on the evils they do. The Federal government estimates, he says, that rats destroy $1,000,000,000 worth of property and eat $400,000,000 worth of food annually. In addition they spread bubonic plague, pneumonia plague, trichonises, cancer, typhoid fever and infantile paralysis. There used to be five or six organizations that fought rodents, but the depression has driven all but Mr. Amann out of business. In several cities, WPA projects on rat extermination have been set up. He has directed some of these and may do some of that work here. “There seems to be more rats than ever during the last two years,” he asserted. “I have so many calls now, it is impossible for me to reach all the cities needing help.” Explains His Attack How is this war carried on? Instead of rifles Mr. Amann uses a mixture of deadly poisons. First he saturates large quantities of food with the poison and scatters it around as bait. . After the rats eat it they rush into the open and die some 12 to 15 hours later. Therein lies the secret of his success. The rats must have air and water after they have been poisoned. and this produces remarkable chemical effects. Although they don’t know what a chemical reaction is, they realize shortly that it is the last of the ninth inning for them. Blames Columbus for Rats Mr. Amann blames Columbus for our rat troubles. There were none here, he says, before the discoverer landed. Now every city, no matter how well it is kept, has this problem. He claims he exploded the theory that rats can’t stand high altitude by killing a group of them on Pikes' Peak. Richard Cameron, Robert High and Ed Coffman are members of his army. Like their chief, they like the work because they get to travel around. Although Mr. Amann uses the fineest kind of food for bait, it’s nothing for rats to chortle about, and there is to be a lot of missing in the basement next week.

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W. F. Amann, who claims to have killed 11,000,000 rats in the last 22 years, is giving this rodent one last chance to warn his relatives and friends that the war is on. He is conducting a mass rat-poisoning campaign here for the next six weeks.

BOYS EAT TAMALES; HOT TIME FOLLOWS Parole Agent Asserts Two Feasted on Stolen Food. Ernest Hardacre, 130 W. Vermontst, put down his basket of hot tamales and entered a drug store at 22nd-st and College-av to get himself a bite to eat. Someone stole the basket, containing 32 tamales valued at 70 cents. Two hours later William Walker, parole agent for the Indiana Boys’ School, Plainfield, Ind., called police and told them he had two young Negroes, both 13, at 22nd and Yandes-sts. They had the basket and had eaten most of the tamales, he saidFORMER BLOOMINGTON OFFICIAL AWARDED PAY Court Grants Robert G. Miller $1032.50 Slashed From Salary. Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 28Judgment of $1092.50, sought by Robert G. Miller, former city attorney as back salary, has been granted

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by Circuit Judge Donald A. Rogers. Mr. Miller, who served as city attorney during the administration of former Mayor H. Campbell, contended that salary slashes during the last three years of his term were too drastic and contrary to state laws. INSURANCE INSTRUCTOR IS TO ADDRESS CLUB J. Russell Townsend to Speak at Luncheon Tonight. J. Russell Townsend, Butler University insurance instructor, is to speak at a dinner for members of the Mutual Insurance Club of Indianapolis tonight in the Harrison room of the Columbia Club. Mr. Townsend is a Butler graduate and has studied insurance at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the master of business administration degree. His subject at the dinner will be “Man’s Efforts to Insure Himself Against Loss.” Burned in Gas Explosion Clyde Thorpe, 55, Broadway Hotel, was burned last night when gas exploded in the kitchen of a taproom where he is employed.

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REPORT SHOWS STATE'S ROADS FREEFROM ICE Detours and Run-Arounds Still Unchanged on Highways. Indiana's roads practically are free from ice because of moderate weather, the State Highway Commission reported today. Detours due to construction work, and bridge run-arounds, are unchanged. Heavy traffic is advised to avoid Road 41 south of St. John and take an alternate rouue over Roads 30, 53 and 152. Detours in effect include: Road I—Detour over city streets In Hagerstown. Road 9—Drive carefully from Junction Road 67 south of Pendleton to Huntsville account shoulder and bridge construction. Road 15—Closed between Wabash and Road 114, detour 20 miles marked over Roads 13, 213 and 114; detour 13 miles marked from Silver Lake east over Road 14 and north over 4 miles of county gravel road and six miles of county concrete to Warsaw. U. S. 31.—Closed from junction Road 6 just south of LaPaz north to Vs mile south of South Rend: detour marked east over U. S. 6 to Road 331, north over Road 331 to Ireland Road and west over county pavement to U. S. 31. U. S. 36—Drive carefully between Oakla ndon and Huntsville account bridge and culvert construction and unfinished shoulders. Road 37—Detour in Paoli over city streets. U. S. 40—Traffic drive carefully past construction forces between Cambridge City and E. Germantown; two-lane traffic through bridge east of Cambridge City. U. S. 41—Drive carefully account men working one mile north of White River north of Hazeltown; drive carefully from Cook to U. S. 30 account unfinished shoulders; closed from U. S. 30 to U. S. 6; detour marked west over U. S. 30 and north over Road 141 Road 43 —Detour from a point just south of Westville to Michigan City is 14 miles over U. S. 6, county concrete and county bituminous r iad. U. S. 50—Drive carefully west of Shoals due to settlement of road; bridge runaround north of Aurora. U. S. 52—Closed between Indianapolis and 71st-st r.orth of Indianapolis; detour marked over Road 29 and county concrete through New Augusta. Road 58—Detour from one m’.le west of Kurtz east is 5.4 miles over county gravel road account bridge out. Road 62—Bridge run-around one mile south of New Washington. ' Road 64—Bridge run-around at St. Anthony. ~ . . , _ Road 67—Detour over city streets in Indianapolis: drive carefully between Oaklandon and Huntsville account bridge and culvert construction and unfinished shouldPßoad 115—Closed between U. S. 24 and Road 15, detour marked over U. S. 24, Road 13, 213 and 114. Road 236—Detour 2.9 miles just east of junction Road 67 and 236 is over county paved road and Road 67. MATERIALS FOR STREET REPAIRS TO BE ASKED City Council to Get Requisitions Totaling $95,000. Requisitions for $95,000 worth of material to improve city streets are to be introduced before City Council Monday night, Albert H. Losche, city purchasing agent, announced today. The Works Board plans to spend $62,580 for cement, $6030 for concrete reinforcements, $14,910 for concrete gravel, $6112 for pavement expansion joints and $5440 for saiid, he said. Ernest F. Frick, board secretary, announced that gasoline tax revenues are to be used to purchase materials.

To the Rescue Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Indiana’s only woman member of Congress, has assumed the role of chief Red baiter here. Asa member of the District of Columbia committee, she is leading the fight to keep Soviet Russia from being mentioned in the district schools. That ban was slipped into the district appropriations bill last session by Rep. Thomas L. Blanton (D., Tex.), who spends much of his time in the House in noisy attacks on Washington newspapers. Educators here and throughout the country have pointed out that such hamstringing of teaching is not only silly but vicious. • However, the Hearst papers here are using it in their antiRed campaign and have secured Mrs. Jenckes 1 support. Her pictures gets on Page One.

7 WIN CLEMENCY AT STATE REFORMATORY Pleas of Five Inmates Are Denied by Indiana Commission. Seven long-term • inmates of the State Reformatory today were granted paroles and commutation of sentences by the Clemency Commission. Five pleas were denied. Louis Connor, 35, Chicago, sentenced to 10 years for holding up three Hammond filling stations in 1930, was paroled. Joseph Faccone, 23, serving a 10year sentence from Vigo County on an auto banditry charge, was paroled. He was sentenced March 5, 1930. Fred Denney, serving 10 years for auto banditry from Boone County, was paroled. He was sentenced Jan. 31, 1931. LARGE THYMUS FATAL Unusual Disease Causes Death of Infant by Strangulation. An autopsy today disclosed that the death of Thelma Maxine Yarling, 11-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Yarling, was due to strangulation resulting from an enlarged thymus gland. This is an unusual disease, according to Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, who performed the autopsy. The child strangled while playing at her home, 1157 Sharon-av, Wednesday. PASTOR’S FUNERAL SET Former City Minister Dies in North Manchester. The Rev. J. L. Bashore, former pastor of the Winter-av Church of the Nazarene, died in North Manchester last night. He served his Indianapolis charge five years before being transferred. Funeral services are to be held at 2 Sunday afternoon in North Manchester.

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