Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1936 — Page 1
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TAAROFF, 86, MUNITION KING,
DIES IN MONACO
Heart Disease Is Fatal to ‘Mystery Man of Europe.” |
NO MARKET REACTION
Rated as One of World's Richest Men; Held v. S. Stocks.
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By United Press
MONTE CARLO, Monato, Nov. 21. Sir Basil Zaharoff, Hake of kings and of wars, died ~~ The aged seller of munifi > to any government which paid the price amassed a fabulous fortune in his long: career, during which he
traced a finger of blood across the |
~ map of Europe. Sir Basil died suddenly of a heart attack at the Hotel Paris, where he has been in seclusion, He awakened at his regular hour of 8 a. m; after a peaceful night. When his valet arrived at 8 a.m. with his breakfast he found Zaharoff dead. His stepdaughter, the Princess of Bourbon, who has been staying with him, was called to the death bed and took charge of funeral arrangements. Zaharoff was believed . to’ have been 86 years old, although the exact circumstances of his birth remained obscure, as did many of the events and activities of his life. He was familiarly known as ‘“The Mystery Man of Europe.” Death finally overcame him here where he spent the last few years of his life in inactivity forced by his feeble condition.
No Stock Reaction
European stock exchanges did not. ‘react to Zaharoff's death, although he was rated as one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune of so many millions hat it can not be - estimated accurately. Most of his :
on Charge
Karabell Claims Case One of
A father collapsed in M
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table.
MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE
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TRAFFIC ARRESTS November 26
Speeding :... preferential street. .. g red light .. Drunken driving ssesvsasnncs Reckless driving esse vss arse Improper lights ... Improper parking ...........0
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
INFIRMARY SITE MAY BE MOVED
Commissioners Considering Plan Jo Use Julietta, New Buildings.
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Construction of new_buildings -at Julietta Hospital: for the Insane. to house county infirmary inmates is planned if the General Assembly authorizes the state to take over the county hospital patients, county commissioners disclosed today. Commissioners said tentative plans call for outright sale. ofthe present poor farm on Tibbs-av near the Indianapolis Speedway. + “With money rehlized from: the]
‘holdings were: British and American’ stocks; as x Sle of the property the county | ¢I&
liquidated - all ‘other_ foreign assels long ago. Since his arrival here fine days ago from a visit to Paris, he had ridden daily in his carriage, ap‘parently in good health. He took his daily drive yesterday and after-
ward dined at a restaurant oppo- | site the gambling casino, in which it | ls reputed he was once a principal I
shareholder. A man about whom little wis known, but much was said and written, Sir Basil became the subject of a el such as few men have known in‘their lifetimes."
Had Colorful Reputation The: power to make himself felt
where he seldom was seen gave
. Zaharoff his colorful reputation. Wealthy as Croesus, the owner of banks, railroads, hotels, theaters, oil wells and mines, and the “angel” of many kings and staiesmen, he was the secret force behind tottering, fallen and newly established thrones, infant republics and young . nations. : For 40 years he rode the war Slougs s over Burope 8} and Asia, he was : ps the armanfent king of the world, a dominant shareholder in , Vickers-Maxim, Krupps and Schneiders. It often was said that Zaharoff’s money found its way into i the war chests of one or the other of the: belligerents in every war or revolution since the beginning of the century. Yet this sen of Mars was a lover of quiet and seclusion, He liked to cook and was exceedingly: proud of . one of his concoctions—transversely sliced bananas cooked inside a bain-marie (double boiler) and
soaked in melted sugar. | Basil’ 'S pos lan
was “mystery man”—the mys who was he and whence id he + rise. For a half century, Bir Basil , pulled the strings that maneuvered - dozens of puppet armies and he was behind the scenes of most of Europe's political dramas since the Franco-German ‘war,| until recent years sentenced him to only oc(Turn to Page Three)
YOUNG ROOSEVELT IS ILL IN HOSPITAL (Mrs. Roosevelts Column, Page 13)
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would be able to provide an ade-| quate infirmary at Julietta and relieve the growing congestion that rapidly is becoming a Serius “problem,” Commissioner Wheatley said. 7 John Linder has
patients to sf te hospitals. Based on Constitution The bill is fo be based upon a section of the Constitution, which provides that the state care for all insane persons. - Commissioners - pointed out that the present ding at Julietta is in good condition and that expansiofi on that site for a poor farm would be more desirable than trying to enlarge the present infirmary on Tibbs-av. | Opposition | to - transfer of the county's Julietta patients has been voiced by Edward Brennan, state Fudget committee director. He said the state lacks sufficient funds to take care of the added burden.
MERCURY TO SLIP TONIGHT; FORECAST
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 18 10am... 24 am.... 18 " lla. m.... 23° S§a.m.... 19 12 (Noon). 24 9a.m.... 24 lpm...
fn It will be warmer today, the ‘Weather Bureau forecast, but tonight the mercury will slip back down again around the 25-degree mark. No snow is expected tomorrow despite a prediction of increased cloudiness tonight, becoming unsettled tomorrow.
MEREDITH NICHOLSON * ONU.S. HOLIDAY
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Meredith Nicholson, American minister .to- Venezuela, was expected to leave ‘Caracas today to return to the United States for holiday leave, the State Department reported. The Hoosier author, by his wife who also is
total of State
Father Collapses i in Traffic’ ‘Court as Son Is Bound Over
of Manslaughter
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‘Most Vicious’ Ever to Come
Before Him; 45 Persons Are Sentenced as Safety Campaign Continues.
Court. today. when his son, accused
unicipal of involuntary manslaughter and failing to stop after an accident, was held to the grand jury under $3000 bond.
the first time at the arraignment,
“we’ve never nad any trouble in our family before. My son is good; he
Here his voice trailed off, and he staggered backward to the lawyer's He sat on it, and then ‘slumped ‘gently into a coma. 'He was
helped from. the courtroom by a
those who presently were fettered and taken across the street to the Marion County jail. The heart-broken father was Ira Merriman, 1122 Gimber-st. = His son, James, 20, is accused of having struck William Redman, 52, o£ 1022 Virginia-av, néar his h 10. Mr. Redman died the way to a hospital. :
Tried to Miss Him
According to his own story in court, - Merriman tried vainly to miss Redman and in so doing struck another car, veering his own up onto the sidewaik. Then, he, said, he-got out of his | car, went back Ao where Mr. Redman “was lying, and turned , him over. “He was breathing,” Merriman told. the. court,” but I saw he was badly hurt and I got panicky and left. 1 drove home.” Judge Charles J. Karabell allowed a dramatic silence to follow this story. “This is one of the most vicious cases ever before me,” he said. “What kind of a man are you—to look -at a man dying in the street and fail to give nim help?” The prisoner bowed his head and murmured: “I don’t know.” It was then that the father sought to intervene. 45 Sentenced
. Forty-five persons in Judge Karabell’sroom were convicted or pleaded guilty to traffic violations today and received fines or sentences or both. afm or were ShaiEed with Latins. oii
ing; one for speeding: ofle fOr passjog o anon at while it was n= oading; two for inadequate light ed for inadequate’ ‘brakes, and one
and driving 8 voted of $57 and’ sentenced to ‘® 150 days on ‘the Indiana
One hundred seventeen persons were: arrested: yesterday on charges of traffic law violations.
‘Four persons were in City Hos- |
pital recovering from injuries re-
terday. X Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, both 27, of 708 Cleveland-st, were cut and. bruised when’ an automobile struck them at Michigan-st and Massachusetst-av last night. Ernest Fleming, 32, of 717 In-diana-av, the car driver, told police the couple ran in front of his car to avoid a machine coming from: the opposite direction.. :
Baby Thrown to Ground
‘ |* Richard Clark, 9 months old, who
was riding in a baby ‘being pushed by his father, was thrown to the pavement but escaped injury. Mr. and Mrs, Clark were taken to City Hospital where their condition today was described as fair. Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, 504 West Drive, Woodrufi-pl, were injured yesterday when their car collided with a fire department truck at 10th-st and Carrollton-av. : After the collision, the fire truck careened into the front porch of the residence of Irvin King, 924 Carroll-ton-av. * None of the firemen was injured. Scott ‘was arrested on a charge of failing to give a fire truck the right-of-way. Clyde Henninger, 49, of 1466 N. Drexel-av, was in charge tof the truck.
STRESSES WRAPPING OF YULE PACKAGES
: ‘wrapping of packages for parcel post delivery, Patticulatly during the Christmas rush, stressed in a bulletin received at the local postoffice.
friend as the son turned to join :
Simplicio’s life."
‘| AWRY 7s I >. stage.
ceived in Indianapolis traffic yess d
Fails to Find Adequate!
Words. to Describe . "Sensation. |
SUFFERS ‘FROM ‘SHOCK
Survivor Could Tell When
Condition of . - Other Became Worse.
By United Press’ =~ , NEW YORK, ‘Nov. 21. —Dectors agreed today that-Simplicio Godina, severed Siamese “twin, probably knows more ‘about the mysteries of death then any living person. Trying to explain the death of his cinta from his hospital bed,
“A very strong’ ‘and strange feeling came over me and I knew even before 1 turned to touch Lucio, that he had just died.” Simplicio attempted to relate How he felt Lucio’s life ebb away, but failed to. find adequate words.
Shortly. after Lucio died Tuesday |
night from pneumonia and complications doctors. operated to save
few successful operations ever performed to sever Blamese twins. ' °
Joined by" Bridge
The brothers, 28, were joined by 2 bridge, some eight inches in diameter, of muscle and fibre at the. base of the spine. They hdd separate circulatory: systems which made it possible’ for Simplicio to survive. -For 18 ‘days previous to Lucio’s death cio had Iain beside his sick brother, ‘He knew how nis brother felt: before physicians made their examinations. .When Lucio’s fever became higher Simplicio told nurses. Simplicio knew when Lucio began ‘tp lose ground in the battle for life.v. Following the surgical ‘severance, fot EERE Ce a > Pla which had wandered
plat ‘by the
on Sim dition said; Snpliige contihues to make good
progress; feniperatite. pulse and
quires ive days to ta,
from shock aed by his death and the experience of the, Tite eparting . from: .the body ‘to which. he was ‘than front the two operations, doctors reported. They said he had gained physically following the operation. Surgeons pronounced him the stronger of the twins, although Lucio always had conducted business matters, including vaudeville tours, which provided their livelihood. . Once Simplicio has recovered’ from
¥
{shock and the operations he must
learn to turn oven in bed and to walk forward.. Previously he walked backwards. Simplicio’s . wife, Victorina, visited him today. Her - sister, Natividad,
| wife of Lucio, remained in seclusion.
Relatives assumed charge of private
funeral Arrangements
37 CHILDREN HURT IN THEATER PANIC
By United Press : COALDALE, Pa., “Nov. 917. —Seven small children were in the state hospital today and more than 30 others were recovering at homes from injuries suffered | in; a theater stam-
It was one of thé.
nott her 1 : Delay for Duelists
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By United Press B
was was postponed today until to-
ta the disclosure that the duel apparently would be fought with harmless wads, Gebei still was too ill to meet “his challenger, it was learned. As a result Sargas’ next en- : gagement was expacted to be ~ with sabers tomorrow. Arrangements made by sec-. | onds. who are negotiating con“cerning. Sargas’ 100 duels have permitted Sargas to take his bows in the city’s night clubs with little fear of the outcome.
STREET NAMES TOBE CHANGED
Survey on :Duplications - in v City Is Nearly * "Completed. -
BY JERRY SHERIDAN Final check-up on street name duplications by the City Plan Commission’ is to be ‘completed soon, George R. Rooker, assistant secretary to the commission, said today. More, than 500 ‘duplications in Marion County are to be eliminated when the new: names are adopted, Mr. Rooker said.. ‘The plan, started as a Works Progress. Administration project, has been in preparation for almost a year. Duplications creep into the street naming. system when real estate additions are laid out and named oy by
yas FL in Sek but errors n naming, duplicating similar- = sound date. back
Lie: etn t Vistar York Hosof Medicine |
other. An. Ad names_for ‘every street | County, has. been. Prepared. Many
2 PIGKETS. INJURED |
By United Press AR CUMBERLAND, Twelve pickets at the strike-closed | plant of the Celanese Corp. of America were injured today when they sought to prevent a train from unloading a group of workers inside the plant gates. «It was the first serious outbreak in the 15-day-old strike, which was called by the United Textile Workers in protest against the company’s refusal to grant a flat 15 workers, ge increase fo: iis 9000
* BABY IS BURNED BY HOT ‘GOOSE: GREASE
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Eight-moniths-old Frank Wotring 1s. in serious condition today with
‘second-degree burns received when |
‘he pulled a pan of hot goose grease off the stove in the kitchen of his home at 1128 N. Illinois-st yesterday afternoon, spilling the boiling liquid over his’ arms; legs and chest. Mrs. Ernest Wotring, the baby's mother, Jtold police she was heating the grease as a cold remedy. The
‘baby was sitting in his high chair | { ‘beside the time of- the | gutes. was taken to | or
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the stove. “accident, she nid;
warfare {a
Md, Nov. 27. —
Germany and. Japan Targets |
: of Warnings: Delivered at Moscow Meeting.
POPULAR "FEELING "HIGH
Russia Ready to Deliver : - -Crushing Blow if At-- : tacked, Claim.
5) United Prom he - ‘MOSCOW, Nov. 27—War to the death. against Japan and Germany it ‘they molest Russian territory either on the east or west was proglaimed today by orators at the Soviet All-Union Congress. ‘The frankest speech was by G. M. Kratov, president of the executive committee of the Far Eastern area, who warned Japan that Russia: will deliver a “crushing blow” if attacked, referred to.the Orient asthe’ ho rth of war.” “We have a great. many spies and saboteurs crossing our frontiers,” Kutov said. “Many are caught by Socal peasants, indicating the hign ouism of the populauon. At tne needed ‘moment we will deliver a crushing defeat. = © “As stalin said, ‘the Far East is one of the hearths of war. We see préparations by Japanese imperialists against. the Soviet Union. The foreign policy .of the Soviets is one of peace, but we warn:Japan frankly that if there is an attack, we will aeliver a crushing blow and. not give up an inch of terz.sory.”
Pact With Germany Seen as Nippon Victory "BERLIN, Nov. 27.—The signing of the German-Japanese agreement was an A Saportant step toward fulent of Japa's imperial destiny.
el "the Japa-
nese x. Sad npr Oriental chess onder vin roo
Observers recent weeks have
tan end ‘had come to
“Signing Ph the “anti-Communist sgteement, long sought by Japan, oy res. the tables and resumpf HO apaness activity in China, suspended: this fall for the first
me ney eur fiw. may be ex-
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|JUMBO DIES AFTER EATING. BROKEN GLASS
By. United Press ROCHESTER, Ind, Nov. 27— Jumbo II. a giant African elephant, owned by the Cole-Brothers-Clyde
Beatty circus, died yesterday after
eating fragments of glass for dessert at a | dinner. ‘The huge animal, valued at more than $6000, had a desire for soda pop. After given a bottle by attendants for dessert, he drank the contents. and dropped the bottle on
| the concrete floor. Before attend-
ants could remove the shattered glass, the elephant had eaten the
Jnlgest fragment.
BLUM INTRODUCES ~ ARBITRATION BILL
By. United Press
LEAGUE PARLEY Sets
IMNUTT PREDICTS |< B16 APPROPRIATIONS.
[CAN P
Roosevelt Addresses Joint Session of Bra ian Court, Senate and Chamber En Route to Conference at Buends Aires.
‘CAN LIVE WITHOUT WAR,’ HE SA (8
New World Will Prove Complete Ability Raise Standards of Living for Millions, _ He Declares in Earnest Speech.
Text of Roosevelt's Talk, Page 35
BY DAN CAMPBELL |
United Press Staff Correspondent
RIO. DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov. 27.—President Ro Of
velt called for peace in the New World in a strong denun
Th
tion of war before a joint session of the Brazilian Supre Court, Senate and Chamber today. .
“I think I can say that if
we can live without war,”
said, “democratic government throughout the America’s prove its- complete ability to raise the standards of life those millions who cry for opportunity today.” The ‘President's audience, including President | i
Vargas of Brazil, was deeply moved by
8 earnest add
and listened with strained attention as he extolled the eff
MADRID ASKS
Note Sent From Valencia Where Capital | Been Moved. By United Press
GENEVA, Nov. 28—The Spanish | government requested a special
Has |
of Brazil for peace and utter such sentences as: “There is roem for all us. There is no Ameri conflict which can not be tled by orderly and pe means. . . . We are hap
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"opportunity (to banish war fr | new world and dedicate it to
meeting of the League of Nations |
cotincil today to consider the alleged
itérvéntion ‘of Tly and Germany|
in the Spanish civil war League circles ‘said the Council probably would meet next week to consider the situation.
The Madrid government invoked |
Article 11; 11; Paragraph 2, League action:
prescribing | Said: fo the event of war or| 4
the threat of War
: Madrid mote was sent from Va- motto of
by Italy and Germany of Gen. Fran~ cisco Franco, insurgent leader, and their alleged aid id fot the rebels.
British Cabinet | Meets
in London
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press)
LONDON, Nov. 27—An international crisis over a Spanish .Nationalist threat. was diminished today upon receipt of advices that Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel dictator, had designated a neutral zone for foreign ships as Great Britain demanded.
But it was expected that before 5
the day was over there would be fresh trouble. A special Cabinet meeting was held this morning but it was denied
that the foreign situation was dis-| cussed. : A sub-commitice ‘meeting on the
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Gov. McNutt. sald today he expected 1937 General Assembly bud-
get appropriations those of the last regular session.
“The ent s ‘that New World can present to the of the universe convincing that peace is easily attained
World
EINSTEIN. INVENTS DEVICE FOR CAM
By United Press