Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1937 — Page 2
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SECOND EARTH SHOCK IN WEEK JARS MIDWEST
11 Drowned Fleeing Ship Seized By Rebels, Survivor Reports
By United Press The Mar Cantabrico sailed from ARCACHON, France, March 9.— |New York and Vera Cruz, supposedThe strange odyssey of the Spanish |ly with a cargo of war materials
freighter Mar Cantabrico, camou-
Tremor Here Heavier Than
The One Last Week, Bureau Says.
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ern Michigan to the Ohio River and from the Alleghenies to the Missis-
sippi, had shifted. No Part of World Immune
The tremors, though slight, in this | region during the past few days, | serve as a reminder, Science Service authorities point out, that no portion of the earth's surface is wholly
immune to earthquakes.
The so-called earthquake zones, |.,q shelled
like Japan, Central America, New Zealand, are only places where the disturbances are more frequent and more violent. But the peace-
flaged and flying the British flag when she was torpedoed and shelled by a Rebel warship in the Bay of Biscay, was told here today by the only known uncaptured survivor.
York Harhor with a cargo of airplanes and war supplies only a few hours ahead of the deadline which Washington statesmen were hurriedly setting for the enforcement of neutrality. She sailed to Vera Crug, Mexico, and then across the Atlantic into the trap which the Rebels had | laid for her. The survivor who gave the first | factional account of the voyage is | Pablo Juan Boo, who was picked up | from the water and brought here by
a French fishing schooner. He said |
| the Rebel cruiser Canarias torpedoed the Mar Cantabrico,
and | setting it afire, and then escorted it
{as a prize of war to the Rebel port
of San Sebastian. The Canarias, Boo said, captured
fullest Indiana farmyard may get 2|150 of the freighter's crew, and 11
shaking sometimes; “no man knoweth the day or the hour.”
The very region that now figures in the news of earthquake excitement has been visited before 1937. The records of the U. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey show quake centering near the town of Anna, O, on Sept. 20, 1931. It was
felt as far away as Indianapolis on
an earth-|
| were drowned trying to escape.
HINTS EARLY TRIALIN |
CHLOROFORM DEATH
By United Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. March | 9.—An early trial for Dr. Richard G.
the west and Tthens, O, on the mor middle-aged dentist, was
east. In the same year there were two earthquakes in the equally “quiet” region of the South, one centering north of Birmingham, Ala. and the other near Oxford, Miss. Associated With
Earthquakes are usually associated with mountainous regions, and quite rightly so, for their most fruitful cause is the slow folding
Mountains
| sought today following his indictment on charges of murdering Cleo Sprouse, 18, high school honor pupil. Prosecutor W. O. Fife indicated he | would seek to start the case early in | April. Witnesses told the grand | jury Dr. Miller confessed that he | killed the girl with an overdose of | chloroform in attempting to perform an illegal operation.
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The freighter raced out of New |
valued at $2,700,000 destined for the Madrid Government. The Rebels put a cordon around the coast and swore to capture the ship with its
{load of American airplanes and | | guns, “The voyage was uneventful after | leaving Mexico until we were 50 |
miles off Archacon,” Boo said. “Then we sighted the Canarias. “We changed direction and headed for Bilbao but the Canarias
| could not return the fire. | “A shell from the Canarias set | fire to the Cantabrico amidships.
rescue boats arrived.
“Later, to avoid capture, another man and I jumped overboard. hour until the Henry Cameleyre picked me up.”
| An appeal to the Circuit Court |
Ten men jumped overboard trying | to escape, but they drowned before | | nois Sts. were denied by the Board
He |
was drowned. I swam for half an | Side residents were present.
DRAFTS APPEAL FROM DECISION OF ZONE BOARD
Permit for Commercial Building Near Butler To Be Fought. |
from the Zoning Board's decision | permitting construction of a com- |
was swifter and chased us and tor- | mercial building opposite the Butler | 1 qo,” Mr. Eby replied. pedoed us. We were unarmed and | Fieldhouse was being drafted by | they are conducting business in a
Attorney Robert Eby today. Two other petitions seeking zoning law variances to permit construction of stores at 46th St. and Boule- | vard Place and at 46th and Git
at its meeting yesterday.
Heated debates preceded decisions | in the three cases. Nearly 100 North
Mr. Eby, representing James J.
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Fitzgerald, 4832 Graceland Ave. said he will base the appeal on grounds that the Board is without jurisdiction in the matter. Mrs. Myrtle E. Hinesley, the petitioner, contended before the Board that the vicinity, although zoned for residences, had been commercialized by the use of the Butler Fieldhouse for bicycle races, professional tennis matches and midget auto races. Mr. Eby said he had examined the Zoning Board records and had found no evidence where permission had been granted the University to operate the fieldhouse commercially.
In Family 102 Years
“Do you feel Butler University is conducting business illegally,” Board member asked him. “If six-day bicycle and midget auto races are business enterprises, “And if
residential area they should be enjoined from such activity future,” he said. Mrs. Hinesley said the property had been in her family's hands for 102 years and is unfit for residential purposes. “We should not be denied the just benefits of our holdings,” she said. Mrs. Frances E. Booher and Mrs. Clara Ruffing told the Board they
in the |
felt their property in the vicinity would benefit by the proposed structure at 49th St. and Rookwood Ave, Others Enter Protests
Other property owners present protested the building would de-
| preciate the value of their resi-
dences materially. | The Board voted 7-2 in favor of
| the petition. George T. O'Connor, |
| president, and Louis J. Borinstein | cast the negative votes. | The other two petitions were | denied by 8-1 votes. The Ostrom
fectionery store in the front room of her home, 1634 Barth Ave.
George Seidensticker was denied permission to erect a filling station on the southwest corner of 38th St. and Sherman Drive.
CHICAGO PHYSICIAN TO TALK TO DOCTORS
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 193
COUNTY ODD FELLOWS: WILL HEAR ATTORNEY;
An address by Vincent H. Manifold, attorney, is to feature a coun= | ty meeting tonight of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs in the Germania | Lodge 129 hall, Prospect and S. | Bast Sts. | A vaudeville program by the WPA
Dr. Rudolph Schindler, Chicago, is | Recreation Bureau is to precede the
| to speak at the Indianapolis Medi- | speech. cal Society meeting at 8:15 p. m. |today in the Hotel Antlers. A demonstration of clinical cases | Realty & Construction Co. requested is to be given at the City Hospital
Henry E. Roesner is ar- | rangements chairman. He is assisted, {by Herbert Kimbrell and Raiph Welch.
YOUTH KILLED IN CRASH
the variance at 46th St. and | at 5 p. m,, in charge of Dr. Schind- By United Press
| Boulevard Place and Marion Stump |
were|Y. M. C. A. 1S TO OFFER SHOWCARD CLASSES
|at 46th and Illinois Sts. Three other requests granted, one was denled and four
were continued until the next meet- |
ing. Allowed to Build Store
S. J. Preston was given permission to erect a store at 2622-28 W.
land Illinois Sts. for use as a steam I laundry.
New classes in showcard writing and poster making are to be offered | 16th St. Harry G. Calwell was al- | beginning today in the Y. M. C. A.
lowed to remodel the existing build- | trade school, according to James M. ing on the southeast corner of 22d | Ogden, educational committee chairman. I. W. R. Keen, Boaz Sign Co., The Board permitted Mrs. | is to be instructor for the 12-weeks
(Loretta M. Miles to operate a con- | course.
| FT. WAYNE, Ind, March 9.—Ar- | gyle Foster, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Foster, Columbia City, died late yesterday of injuries received in an automobile collision. The Foster car collided with one driven by Rey Schwartz, also of Columbia City.
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NSA and crumpling of the earth's crustal | with the sudden formation of sev- Pro rock layers. x eral large lakes. IED For this reason earthquakes are | : : not ordinarily expected to happen | It's All a Mystery During the recent Ohio flood.
in such regions as the great central |
valley, where the underlying rocks are spread in great. even, almost horizontal sheets with very little folding to set up stresses.
Yet even in such flat strata
stresses can be set up, and some- |
times very severe ones at that. One of the most notable earthquake regions in the country is the New Madrid area, along the Mississippi just below the mouth of the Ohio. Here, in 1811 and 1812, a series of severe earth disturbances forced wholesale abandonment of the region by early settlers, and caused
| tremors in this region raised fears | that the New Madrid fault was | “alive” again, and that it might | rupture the overstrained levees. But | nothing came of it. In earthquake zones situated in [or near mountain systems, it is | usually easy to trace the fault lines. The minor earthquakes in “quiet” | regions, like the two which have shaken Indianapolis, are not only less sharply defined but come from | faults in underlying rock deeply | blanketed with earth. So nobody knows just what they are like or
widespread sinking of the land, !exactly where they ave.
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