Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1937 — Page 16

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CRIME ROUNDUP

Five Youths, 16 to 21, Held On Suspicion of Stealing Milk; Safe Looted.

Eleven persons, arrested in the police week-end crime roundup, were to be questioned by detectives today. Five youths, their ages ranging

: from 16 to 21, were to face vagrancy charges in Municipal Court today after police said they found several . bottles of milk in their possession which they suspected had been stolen. A 34-year-old man was charged with vagrancy after a filling station attendant identified him as the man who tried te hold him up with a tear gas gun last night, according to police. High Bond Set

A high bond was placed on a 28-year-old man held for investigation in connection with reported burglariess and prowlings in the 2300 block on N. Illinois St., officers said. He was charged with vagrancy.

Four Negroes, two men and two women, were arrested yesterday after Leroy Penny, 19, of 327 Toledo St., told police one of them had drawn a gun on him every time he passed a certain, Colton St. address. They were to face Judge Charles J. Karabell in Muncipal Court today. Burglars who broke open the safe in a restaurant at 1160 W. 16th St, obtained more than $70, it was reported to police yesterday. A gunman early yesterday fired one shot at Chandos Graham, 4730 E. 16th St., a milk truck driver, who defied his order to ‘stick ’em up,” according to police. Graham told officers the man approached him as he started to put milk on the porch at 4730 Broadway. He ran back to his truck and the man fired, Graham said. The gunman fled down an alley.

Escape Trap

A young Negro escaped a police trap last night after officers said they saw him attempting to steal a car belonging to Elvada Bridges, Route 17, Box 115. He escaped on foot in the vicinity of California and Ethel Sts., according to police. Police last night searched the 1300 block on N. Meridian St. for a prowler seen peering in the windows of the SS. Peter and Paul priests’ home, 1347 N. Meridian St. . A Negro who followed a North Side resident for several blocks and then seized her as she walked in the’ 1000 block on College Ave. was hunted by police today. Mrs. Helen McMahan, 27, of 611 E. 12th St. told officers she was walking in the 1400 block on Massachusetts Ave. when a man and a woman came out of a yard and began to follow her. They trailed her to 10th and College where the woman disappeared and the man seized her arm, she said. Her assailant fled when she screamed and jerked away from him, Mrs. McMahan told police.

Yeggs Failed

Burglars failed in an attempt to break the combination on the safe in the office of the Merchants Parking Lot, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., but took a radio worth $10, George Levenson, manager, told police. Another building on the same company’s lot at 117 S. Pennsylvania St. also was entered and a $10 radio stolen, police were told. Dennis Whitaker reported the theft of a radio from the office of his parking lot at 236 N. Capitol Ave. Horace Veit, 516 N. Bradley st., reported that when he opened his drug store at 802 Massachusetts Ave. this morning he discovered it had been ransacked and an unestimated amount of merchandise stolen. :

FORUM TO DISCUSS ‘HANDLING ‘PEOPLE’

“Fundamental Techniques . in Handling People” is to be the discussion subject at the opening Speech and -Human Relations Forum at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Y. M. C. A. The series, sponsored by the In-

dustrial Club, is open to both men |

and women. Bert McCammon is to be in charge of the forum. Subjects for the remainder -of the series are “Ways to Make People Like You,” “Ways of Winning People to Your Way of Thinking” and “Rules for Living Which Will Make Life Happier.”

CITY STARTS FIGHT © ON JAPANESE BEETLE

Approximately 10 tons of lead arsenate are to be used in the Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne areas for Japanes€ beetle treatment, according to Virgil Simmons, Conservation Department Commissioner. - A WPA project in the Indianapolis area has been started, he said. Department of Agriculture representatives are supervising projects where beetles were found last year.

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FIVE KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

Five Others From Here Hurt As Auto Overturns Near Crawfordsville.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

April 24 and 25

Accidents Injured TRAFFIC ARRESTS Speeding Running preferential street... Running red light Improper parking Drunken driving Reckless driving Others

Six persons were killed and several injured critically in Indiana traffic over the week-end. In Indianapolis, police arrested 21 as speeders, and 18 on charges of failing to stop at preferential streets. Thirty-one others were held on miscellaneous charges. Five Indianapolis persons were injured, two critically, when their auto skidded and overturned on State Road 34, 11 miles west of Crawfordsville last night. Critcally hurt were Orville Barker, 55, and Mrs. Ruth Barker, 19. Others injured were Mrs. Barker's husband, Robert, 26; his mother, Mrs. Bessie Barker, 54, and Dorothy Marrs, 20.

3 Hurt in Collision

Three Knightstown citizens were injured critically in a. collision of two autos at the intersection of U. S. Highway 36 and Main Street Pike, six miles south of Anderson, last night. Charles Baxter, 68, Mrs. Matilda Baxter, 66, and Mrs. Carrie Wilkins, 78, were seriously injured. Richard Bess, 28, of near Markleville, driver of the other car, was injured slightly. J. B. Lanham, 65, was killed near Newcastle and five were injured seriously when two cars collided on Road 3 north of Spiceland. Injured in the crash were Dr. John Charles Turgie, Clarence Turner, Howard Himes, Lewis Baxter and Max Baker. Mrs. John F. Large, 34, died in St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka, yester-

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day from injuries received when she drove her automobile into a parked car. Frank Weist, 54, died at Peru of injuries in a Saturday accident. Ernest F. Johnson, 60, died at the time of the accident. Albert Worble, Gary ambulance driver, was killed when his ambulance struck another auto as he was making an emergency run. Ett Murana, and his wife, Chicago, in the other. ear, were injured seriously. Mr. Worble was 50. Miss Ellen Campion, West Lafayette, was killed when she was struck by a car driven by Beecher Rawles, 21, W. Lafayette. She was 68.

RECORD 125,000 SEE HOME SHOW EXHIBITS

Attendance at the Indianapolis Home Show, which closed last night, exceeded 125,000, it was reported today by Walter L. Stace, executive secretary. “The 1937 show has been the finest educationdl exhibit for the building industry ever presented in Indianapolis during the 16 years of home ‘show experience,” said J. Frank Cantwell, manager. “The crowds have been far greater than any in the past.” Reports of heavy sales of home Sobiiances were reported by exhibiors. Bids on the Home O’ Dreams were accepted until the show closed. Sale is expected to be completed soon.

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Owner Charged With Murder; Claims Fall Killed Man Leading Animal,

A test of a dog’s fidelity resulted in the death of Lee Robbins, 62-year-old molder, Saturday night, John H. Grigo,. 45, of 227 S. Dearborn St., told police in a purported statement today. Mr Grigo, who surrendered to police last night, denied striking or pushing Mr. Robbins during their brief argument over “Lassie,” a silver-gray police dog. He was charged with murder ahd held without bond. A preliminary hearing on the charge was scheduled in Municipal Court today. Reads of Death in Paper He fold police that he came home

tunity to read a Saturday newspaper. “It was then he learned Mr. Robbins had died and that he was being sought by police, officers said he told them. He came to headquarters immediately, he said. - Mr. Grigo’s in part, follows: “I was in a restaurant on Shelby St. with my dog, Lassie, when I started talking to a man. who I later learned was Lee Robbins. “We were talking about the dog and he was admiring her. I said: “‘I bet you that dog would go with no one but me.” ” “He said: ‘I'll bet.you that dog will go with me.’ “I said: ‘If that dog goes with you, you can have her.’ “He then took the dog by the collar and led her out of the lunch room. I thought the dog would be back any minute; so I sat still and ordered a cup of coffee and placed a half-dollar on the counter. The dog didn’t come back so I left my coffee and change on the counter and went outside. “Robbins had crossed to the west side of -Shelby St. and was goin south. ° I saw that he was holding the dog by the collar and I saw her struggling to get away. I rah across the street after him and nollered at him. Dog Slips Collar i “About that time the dog pulled her head through the collar. He turned around facing me. Then he stepped off the curb backwards and fell. I was about 10 feet from him when this happened and as he didn't get up, I tried to raise him. He

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“While I was raising him up, a woman came up and I asked her if she knew him. She called him Lee, and said, ‘Yes. .“I asked the lady if she thought he would be all right and she said she thought he would.” Mr. Grigo said, according to police, that twp men came up and carried Mr. Robbins home. He then went back to the lunchroom to get his change, he said. Dr. Norman Booher, Deputy Coroner, said his examination failed to

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS BEGIN DRIVE ON REDS

A campaign to combat communism was begun today by the Catholic Daughters of America following the adoption of a resolution yesterday at their biennial state convention in the Spink-Arms Hotel. Miss Elizabeth O'Hara, Indianapolis, was re-elected state regent. Other officers are Mrs. Marie Douglas, Lafayette, vice regent; Mrs. Alice McGuire, Fowler, monitor; Miss Isadore O’Hara, Indianapolis, secretary; and Mrs. Clare Simons, Kentland, treasurer.

show ‘indications that Mr. Robbins had been struck in the face. He died of a fracture at the base of the skull and a brain concussion, it was reported. Mr. Grigo, an iron worker, was a German seaman interned in the United States during the World War.

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Unity was described as the, real need in the Christian world today by the Rev. P. H, Welshimer, Canton, O., at the closing session of the North American Christian convention in Cadle Tabernacle last night. Delegates attended Churches of Christ here yesterday morning and participated in a mass communion service at which nearly 600 persons went to the altar in the afternoon. «Mr. Welshimer said “God prayed for unity of the church when He was on earth and has endeavored to accomplish that end even to this day.” “A divided church will fail and

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