Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1936 — Page 1
{ FORECAST; Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer.
(Soiprs” nowano) VOLUME 48—NUMBER. 228
FOURTH VICTIM 1S CLAIMED BY AUTO ACCIDENT
Patsi Rossi, 28, Injured in Crash Fatal to Three Young Women.
COUNTY TOLL IS NOW 148
No Accidents Are Reported Here Within the Last 24 Hours.
MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE
TRAFFIC ARRESTS December 1
peeding Running red light Running preferential street. . Reckless driving Drunken driving ........ casas Improper lights ......... avenue Parking . Others
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Accidents
Marion County’s 1936. traffic. toll feached 148 with the death last night of Patsi Rossi, 28, of 706 Lordst, fourth victim of an auto accident early Monday. Rossi was injured when the car in which he was riding crashed into . an abutment under the Big Four Railroad elevation on W. Washing-ton-st. Mrs. Mildred Tucker, 20, of 713 N. Delaware-st, Miss Helen Dugan, 25, of 211 Blake-st, and Miss Dorothy Lois Eudaly, 16, of 2428 E. 11th-st, also were killed in the crash. Rockie Iaria, 25, of 217 S, Noblest, fifth occupant of the car, is in City Hospital suffering from severe cuts and bruises.
Services Held Today
Funeral services for the three women were held today. Services for Miss Dugan were held in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dugan, at 8:30 this morning, followed by rites in 8t. John’s Catholic Church. Burial was in St: Joseph's Cemetery. Services for Miss Eudaly were Reld at her former home in Paragon, while those for Mrs. Tucker were + conducted in Scipio, Ind. In Municipal Court today, 24 persons were convicted of traffic offenses by Russell Dean, judge pro tem. Four cases were continued, Judgment was suspended for seven and withheld for one. Fines ranged from $2 to $5 with costs suspended. For the second time in the last five years, Indianapolis went without an accident for a 24-hour period. From 11 a. m. Monday to the same time yesterday, no mishap was reported to:police. The only other “safe period” of the same Tengu occurred last spring, according to Traffic Capt. Lewis Johnson. “Through the diligence of the patrolmen and the publicity given our drive dn recklessness, motorists are becoming safety conscious,” Capt. Johnson said. today. “In some cases, however, motorists take their lives out of the jurisdiction of others and place their Safety entirely in their own hands,”
86 Are Arrested
Meanwhile, the police drive on traffic code violators continued, with 82 motorists slated to face Judge Dewey Myers for alleged violations yesterday. “The only way the public can reduce the number of arrests is to reduce the number of violations,” Capt. Johnson said. More than 60 motorists who appeared before Judge Myers yesterday were fined amounts ranging from $1 to $15. Yesterday's violations included: Running preferential streets, 22; speeding, 17; running red lights, 16; driving with improper lights, 6: reckless driving, 6; making illegal left turns, 6; improper parking, 4; drunken driving, 1, and miscellaneous,
Twelve-year-old Pearline Parker,
428 W. Vermont-st, was reported in.
critical condition from internal inJuries she received when a hit-and-bis stru
GAINS AGAIN SHOWN IN BUILDING PERMITS
Building permits again showed a period
building the Safety Board today. ¢ Permits for work valued at $117,last week.
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Police Have 1 Lots of Trouble With Bossy.
is a pleasure to report that -the great cow mystery at Police H was solved today at exactly 10:55 a. m., Central Standard time. The hue and cry over if, however, was expected to go on and on, far into the night, because it turned out that while a detective team in Indianapolis and one in Alexandria were working their fingers to the bone on the case, the cow was safe at home. The cow, mooing plaintively, turned up Sunday night on W. Michigan-st and uniformed police
away and turned the matter over: to detectives, Detectives Monday morning went out to search the cow and found, concealed in its ear, a metal tag that said it had been sold by an Alexandria livestock firm, ” » ” - LEXANDRIA police got in touch with the livestock people and they said it had been sold two years before, but to whom their records did not show. Late yesterday Detective: Chief Simon told Detectives Jack Welch and Howard Sanders that they would personally have to milk the cow until they found the owner. : / This morning when they went to the custodians of the cow. the people told them they had given it to police, who turned it over to the owner. Checking back the detectives found it had been given to police Monday morning, and for 60 hours they had been working to place a cow that was placed. ‘They're still arguing about the matter at police station. You ean hardly hear the chief think because of the noise.
F.D.R. STARTING FOR WASHINGTON
President Starts Long Trip Home; Will Stop in Uruguay. |
(Copyright, 1036, by United Press) BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2,—Presi-
Argentina today, sailing aboard the
U. 8. 8. Indianapolis after a lunch-| eon to President Augustin P. Justo
at the United States Embassy. The President bade “adios” to
delegates ‘to the Inter-American
Conference for the maintenance of peace, which He came heié to open last evening. He ‘left with high hopes for the success of: the ‘Amerfcan Family of Nations” in their striving for a new era of. economic unity and political peace. President Justo, invited by President Roosevelt to come to ‘Washington and keep the spirit of “the good neighbor” alive, embraced Mr. Roosevelt when they parted.
President Attends
Gennerich Rites By United Press " BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2.—President Roosevelt attended simple funeral services in the American embassy today. for. his personal
Adolph Gemnerich. Mourning with the President were American officials who long had known “Gus” and Argentine dignitaries who had ‘seen him at Mr. Roosevelt's side only a few hours before he dropped dead in a cafe early yesterday. | Mr, Roosevelt stood with his son
James in the flower-banked salon
on the second floor of the: United States embassy and stared straight ahead during the service, The casket was borne away by four United States Secret Service men and four Argentine police and
mo
The cruiser Indianapolis ‘will bear
the casket back to the United States
for burial, Jentatively planned at
Warm Springs, Ga
Uruguay ‘Prepares for Presidential Visit MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. al —President Roosevelt will be. given
he lands from' the cruiser Indian. apolis here tomorrow, officials said
President Gabriel Tora and mem-
took it to a barn a few blocks
" ..Back' in the Berg home,
dent Roosevelt said farewell to 1
bodyguard and friend, Augustus
placed on a fire-truck draped in
| election clerk.
one. of the gredtest demonstrations of his South American tour when
BOY MAY 0S | EYESTRUCKBY CHUM'S ARROW
improvised Dart M Dart Made From Weed Aimed at Cat By Playmate.
RIGHT OPTIC PUNCTURED
Mother Keeps. Night- -Long Vigil at Hospital Cot of Victim, 7.
At Methodist Hospital today, men in. white worked over 7-year-old Arthur Robert, Berg, but gave only slight hope that they could save the
sight of his right eye. It was punctured ye identally in after-school play yesterday near his home, 412 N. Tibbs-av. Billy Donald Kichler, also 7, his chum and neighbor, and Arthur were playing at archery. They had found a sliver of a bamboo fishing pole. They tied it into a bow with a wrapping cord. They gathered dried weeds and were shooting them. It was Billy's turn and he drew b. a’ ¢ k saying “I'm going to shoot . Blackie.” Blackie ‘is the Kichler family cat and was sleeping far and away beyond the range of the frail missile, Billy let go.
Brother Hears Scream
Arthur Berg
Mrs. Nora Gaskins, 78, who was staying with Arthur, and Warner Berg, Arthur's 14-year-old brother, ‘heard a scream. “I'll -go see what it is,” Warner said, and he ran over to the Kichler yard. He tame upon Arthur holding his eye, and Billy standing dead still in front of him, white as a ghost. . a Stepped) in front->of it). Arthur repeated: pver and over and ‘as. he :did so BU still BLE
Arthur was rushed ‘to Meth-
odist Hospital,}
‘and Billy, who had Deen inseparable from Arthur ever. since the two had been neighbors, was comforted as best his and ‘Arthur's family could. ° Last night Mrs. Arthur Berg, the wounded boy’s mother, sat with him all night and soothed him. Today Mrs. Stanley Kichler, Billy's mother, relieved her in the little hospital room and sent Mrs. Berg home to bed
Billy went to School 67, five blocks away, alone. Before he left he called at ‘the Berg home and said he would get Arthur’s report
‘card for him.
Tomorrow is Arthur's birthday.
GIL DOBIE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CRASH
By United Press BOSTON, Dec. 2.— Gilmour (Gloomy Gil) Dobie, 58, who has coathed college football for 34 years, was injured critically today: when his sedan smashed into a railroad overpass ‘upright. A companion, : Frank Murdoch, freshman football coach at Boston College, where Dobie last February became head coach, also was hurt seriously.
SPENCER SPENT $1596
- Campaign expenses totaling $1506.30 were filed with the county today by Herbert Spencer, Demosrat, Marion County prosscuper. The largest item was tributed by Mr. Spencer to | ty central committee.
————————————— NAGURSKI TO WED .
By United Press
INTERNATIONAL FALLS. Minn., Dec. 2.—Miss Eileen Kane of Inter-
bers of his cabinet will greet him af- | America
fectionately during his brief pause. |
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‘WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 1936
Thin 1 Cook Snow Covers Indianapolis
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Indianapolis awakened today to be greeted by a. white Dec. 2 that was a part of the general color scheme winter had devised tor most of the Eastern half of the United States. Nowhere except Pittsburgh was the snow heavy, but it was general. There are likely be little spits of snow all day, too, the Weather Bureau said. Tonight is to be fair and tomorrow cloudy and somewhat warmer, the bureau predicted. Temperatures today were practically normal for this day of the year.
33 BOYS, GIRLS TO GET CLOTHES
Times’ Annual Christmas Aid Campaign Is Off to Fine Start.
(Donors List, Page 3)
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Fifty-five needy school children today had been pledged warm apparel for wintry days ahead by donors to The Indianapolis. Times’ annual “Clothe-A-Child” campaign.
be installed in Clothe-A-Child impatient donors literally clamored for children. Employes of a retail firm took 50 children. One_ donor, who has ‘clothed a child each campaign year, returned to honor the memory of a daughter who died, by taking a boy to dress. How do jou enter Clothe-A-Child? What do you do? * 4 Here's How It’s Done 5 Just call RIley 5551 and ask for “Clothe-A-Child. ” A boy or girl willl be given to you to dress. You sit his or her home. you shop for dress them as “you
fldren for need. The ‘social service department of the public schools has re-checked the rolls to insure against duplication. ; : If, however, youre too busy to shop, Clothe-A-Child will do the job for you. Simply mail or bring a check to 2068 W. Maryland-st. The child’s name, address and accounting of money spent will be sent ‘you. Clotite-A-Child waits to serve you this Christmas, to make a happier holiday: for’ the underprivileged school childrén of Indianapolis.
JUDICIAL ELECTION
Nonpartisan Selection of Judges Recommended.
By United Press Enactment of a state law providing for non-partisan election of judicial officials was recommended today to Gov. McNutt by the Indiana Judicial Council. Judges of -Circuit, Superior, Probate, Criminal, Juvenile and City Courts ‘and prosecuting attorneys would be affected by the proposed legislation. The Judicial Council, created sd oy the 1935 General Assembly, ‘asked creation of a “judicial ballot,” which
ballots at primary and general elec
tions. The proposal also provides that the: Daliot Feshall bear no emblem, name or other device to indicate the
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WEILAND APPOINTED
Hardly waiting for telephones to. headquarters, 206 W. Maryland-st,
LAW IS PROPOSED
NEW EXCISE COUNSEL.
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would be separate from all other||
Last: of “Seven Brothers 1s|
Victim of Pneumonia In New York.
PILED UP HUGE FORTUNE
Barn Poor, He Became the
| «Greatest. Magnate of
Sawdust Ring.
(Photo Bottom of Page) By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 2 ~—John Ringling, 70, last brother of the famous Ringling Brothers circus family, died of bronchial pneumonia in his New York apartmens:.today, Mr.
‘| Ringling, sixth of . seven. brothers,
had been ill only a few days. . Almost to the last he spoke in his low, soft voice to family members and close friends. ‘At his bedside were Ida Ringling North, a sister; John Ringling North, a nephew; Frank Hennessy, life-long friend; Dr. Maurice Costello, his personal physician, two nurses and -a chauffeur. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Merged with Barnum John Ringling, called the greatest magnate of the sawdust ring, |. was horn a, poor boy. At the height of his: caréer he was reputed to have been worth $50,000,000, a fortune which dwindled during his later years. John and four of his brothers started in the entertainment world by holding “kid” circuses on a vacant lot in Barbaoo, Wis. long the winter home of the Ringling Circus. In 1884 the show went on the road bannered under an imposing string of - descriptive adjectives, It was a’ success from the start. . During the busy years which followed a number of circuses: were bought and merged with Ringling
Brothers, climaxed in the deal
which brought Ringling and Barnum together under one big tent. Backed Tex Rickard ;
John, who dressed conservatively 3 Hinancer. He
developed into a Sreat
| built railroads, .
Second-Class Matter ce, Second Clans M 1nd.
King Suits
Edward Scorns Togs Army Designs for “Coronation.
By United Press ONDON, Dec. 2—King Edward emphatically «rejected today the new dress uniforms which the army has designed for his coronation and which were proudly displayed to him in a miniature fashion parade at Buckingham Palace. An officer and three privates strufted before the King in the new uniforms, but His Majesty © was in no mood to be pleased. He said he didn’t like their color, facings or their buttons or much else about them and refused his approval. i The soldiers slunk away abashed. The press was supposed to see the uniforms at the war office this afternoon, but red-faced officers embarrassedly apologized, saying, “There has been a hitch. You can’t see them.” They did not explain why.
WANTS $27,000 FOR SLANDERING PIG’S PA
By United Press
By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 2—Pigs is pigs, but D. F. Walker, Marion, Ind., told the Superior Court today it’s worth $27,000 to him if people cast aspersions upon the paternity of his pigs. He filed two suits of $1000 each for slander in Municipal Court and suit for damages of $25,000 in Superior Court against directors of ‘the Hampshire. Swine Record Associaon Walker, owner of Will Rogers, "” champion boar Hampshire swine at 1935 National Swine Show, was by directors of the assosuit clai He was ac-
He billed the shaw. he an his| 7
brothers founded as “the greatest |p |
oN SPAIN'S CAPTAL|
show on earth.” the job of making this slogan a| reality, working 12 to 18 hours daily, He could always be found with the circus on the road until recent years. Twice married, Mr. Ringling had no heirs. His, first wife, the former Mabel Burton, died in 1029, .Eighteen months later he married Emily Haag Buck.’ They were divorced in July, 1936.
300 FACE SIGN CHARGE
Affidavits were filed ‘today with the city prosecutor against approximately 300 persons charging violation of the city sign ordinance. Offenders face a fine of $500 and 100 days imprisonment. The affidavits charge failure to pay annual Feinspection fees. 5
Introducin --
3 COLORS ‘and BLACK
- In“this edition, the L. S. Ayres ' advertisement is printed in four colors, the first such color advertisement in “any Indianapolis daily.
The Times has been a * ‘pioneer in the printing of color. And with the installation of new press units, in_addition to the © latest in color presses, ~The Times: is now en-.
abled to do the type of
confined to magazines and a few metropolitan Suidey mSwspaper.
He continued on |
| Ruopes two
color printing. heretofore - |
24 Ships Loose 30 Bombs in Attack. By United Press
MADRID, Dec. 2.—Twenty-four
insurgent war planes roared over |
this beleaguered capital today and poured death from the skies on the scurrying civilian population in the
midst of the greatest battle of the:
civil war. Nine © silver and black threemotored bombers and 15 silver fighters dropped approximately 30 bombs around University City, where loyalist. and rebel troops are locked in combat. The raid, designed to terrorize the populace, served only to intensify the hatred seething in the capital. This hatred was enhanced earlier by charges that the rebels, desperate, were using gas in their attack to offset ‘the sudden change in the course of the war brought about by
‘a resurgence of loyalist resistance.
U. S. MAY GIVE PARIS ITS MORAL ‘SUPPORT
By United Press ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — ‘The
| United States has cast its moral
great and at Britain, in the
support’ definitely on the side of democracies,
4 Pranes gathering war. storm, it was tive quarters | vision
believed in au
Edward May Marry Mrs. Simpson, but She
Can Not Become Queen, According to Latest Moves, Rumors Say.
MONARCH, BALDWIN IN CONFERENCE
Ministers Said to Be Ready to Resign if Rul . Refuses to Accept ‘Deal,’ According To ‘Reliable’ Sources.
BY WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1836, by United Press)
LONDON, Dec. 2.—King
Edward’s friendship for Mrs,
Wallis Simpson, reliable sources said tonight, has resulted in a compromise proposal whereby he could marry her with« out causing resignation of the Cabinet and his forced abdicas
tion.
The proposal was understood to be under consideration
between the Cabinet and the
King. It would provide
His Majesty would be permitted to marry Mrs. Simpson provided she become only the Duchess of Cornwall and no
Queen of Great Britain.
One. of the gravest constitutional crises in England}
history thus could be averted.
The government has threats
ened to force through Parliament a bill making it impossibl for the King to marry a commoner, and the King threatened in turn to refuse to sign it. The Cabinet worked overtime to prevent disaster. Afte the regular weekly meeting, an informal cabinet session wi held late today in Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's room
in the House of Commons.
BELVEDERE IS KING'S CHOIGE
Wallis 10 Parties: Sis
and Windsor Castle, that the democratic British ruler gives house pare ties to which Mrs. Wally Simpson, is always invited. In spite of the grim stone fortress’ exterior and” the} baronial formation of the buildings, “The Fort,” as the King calls if, is the antithesis of all that’s stiff and feudal ceremonial. Only ‘two stories high, the rooms ‘run out like spokes of a wheel from the round. central entrance hall The carpet of the study, drawing room and dining room are of beige to match the buff sandstone walls of the original fort. The furniture (Turn to Page Three)
ASKS BUSINESS MEN T0 TAX CONFERENCE
Approximately * 700 invitations to the public erence on gross income tax revision, to be held Dec. 10 in the Claypool Hotel, were mailed out today by Anderson Ketchum, conference chairman. Members of the General Assembly, state department heads and of-
ficials, manufacturers, retail mer-|
chants and civic associations and various Chambers of Commerce were invited to attend. :.
FURTHER DEBT CUT OPPOSED BY BORAH
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 —Senator
William E. Borah (R., Jiatio), re-|
ounced bluntly any propa To 7c
of ihe wai Seis suk ms)
rl pms, or AvTo INJURY A
Baldwin then went to Bucks ingham Palace and was clos eted with the King in what presumably was a cri conference. No inkling came from the closed and Suarded gates. of
| Edward Always. Invites the Del palace:
The etibitional ausation most, thorny. one, gdogause of
.jout whatever his wishes
However, it was understood. that hy opponents have blocked that making a secret ment Clement R. Attlee, leader of the Labor Party, under which Attlee would refuse to form a cabinet [the Baldwin ministry resigns ona constitutional question. It was 1 that an editorial in today’s: es, referring to the possibility that children of the Duk of York, the King’s brother and" heir presumptive, might reign written with deliberate purpose. Present indications are that method of solution of the crisis depend largely upon the state public May Cancel Tour So serious was the situation publication of the program for King’s forthcoming tour of | {ressed areas in South Staffordsk It was hinted that it might e be announced that the King “indisposed” or something of sort as an excuse for aban or
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