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MONDAY, AUG. 16, 1937

MORE THAN 1000 OFFICIALLY LISTED AS DEAD IN SHANGHAL RESTAURANT PRICES SOARING

People Urged to Stay Indoors by City Authorities; Three British Destroyers Steam In With Additional Troops.

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was an almost complete shortage of

| turned its guns on them, and they

merchant shipping, however, and it made off.

was believed that more than 4000 Americans of the civilian community here could not be completed before the end of this week.

105,000 Chinese in Action

Chinese announced officially that they had more than 70.000 soldiers of the Nanking Government's crack German-trained divisions in action and upward of 35,000 militiamen. Japanese said they had about 10,000 bluejackets ashore in the fighting lines. They said the Japanese army regiments were landing at Liuho, at the mouth of the Yangtse, 17 miles north of Shanzhai’s International Bund. British officers confirmed this report. It was not established definitely, however, that any units of the imperial army were yet in action. Japanese admitted last night that Chinese bombing planes were hampering landing of the army ments from troop transports which had arrived from Japan. The Cabinet was in continuous session in Tokyo where slight, bespecacled Emperor Hirohito, at his desk in the moat-encircled Chiyoda Castle in the center of Japan's capital, was being kept constantly advised of developments.

Japanese Drive Stopped

It was believed that Japan had at |

least two full army route here, but the war office in Tokyo would make no announcement,

On the northern front the weath- | er was clearing and Japanese bomb- |

ing planes planned to take the air again tomorrow to blast away at the Chinese 89th and 84th divisions stubbornly resisting the Japanese land attack in the craggy mountains flanking the Nankow Pass, about 15 miles northwest of Peiping. The whole Japanese offensive along the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway, northwest of Peiping, appeared to have been checked completely, for the moment. Chinese were on the offensive south of Peiping, on the PeipingHankow Railway, and on the Tient-sin-Pukow-Nanking Railway, south of Tientsin, but the Japanese continued to hold the vital railway network in the Peiping-Tientsin area where they pro-Japanese governments

groups of firendly Chinese officials. |

Britain Rushing Forces

Most of the world’s great powers, in adidtion to China and Japan, had been drawn into the Shanghai conflict indirectly. Britain was rushing land and sea forces from her possessions in southern Asia to evacuate her big colony in Shanghai's International Settlement and to protect her huge investments in the Yangtse area, France and the United States were taking similar action and additional American Marines were en route to Shanghai from Manila. Germany was attempting to evacuate her nationals but for the moment was unable to obtain ships. France, as she always has in vast disturbances, was grimly defending her great Shanghai concession.

Refuses to Withdraw Forces

It has a comparatively small French population but has been a great source of income to France for half a century. Hundreds of Americans and Britons, about 17.000 Russians and 5000 other Occidentals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of Chinese, normally make their home in the concession—

which is largely a residential area. |

All the smaller nations which have groups of eitizens in the Shanghai area were looking largely to the Anglo-American forces for protection, Crux of the fighting in the foreign areas was that Japan, & partner in the International Settleemnt, has refused to withdraw her armed forces from foreign-controlled territory. China repeatedly demanded that the Japanese cease using the Settlement as a base for military operations and when foreign powers wers

unable to induce the Japanese to!

withdraw the Chinese attacked Japanese forces in the Settlement.

Loss at $25,000,000

Loss to foreign owned property, including American, already is estimated at more than $25,000,000. The end of the great International Settlement, long known as the “Paris of the Orient,” was believed to have been reached. One suggestion was that the defense area of the Settlement long

ssi to the Japanese and the aSsigmen p | Shanghai's ordeal was just starting. | Ave

region where the hardest fighting

is taking place, be immediately am- |

putated from the settlement and that both Chinese and Japanese then agree to cease military activities in the Anglo-American areas. United States naval and consulat authorities, fearing that a great city was doomed in the explosion of Chinese-Japane hatred, made urgent arrangement for evacuation of American women and children, giving preference to expectant mothers, the aged, and mothers of

families. pin Spreads Like Thunder

There had been a Chinese airplane raid on the water front, and a Japanese bombing of airports in the suburbs, when at 4:45 p. m, 4 fleet of hornet-like Japanese seaplanes flew over the right bank of the Whangpoo opposite the International Settlement. As they dropped their first bombs, and the explosions startled the millions crowded in the city, the Japanese warships strung along the lower

river loosed a blast from their bat- |

teries. The terrific din spread like thunder. While this bombardment was gojng on, a Chinese fleet of planes swung over the city from the west. Speeding to the water front, where the Japanese cruiser Idzumo is moored off the Japanese consulate, at the heart of the Settlement, the planes began dropping their bombs and adding to the din. The Idasmo

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have organized from |

It was evident that the city’s ordeal was only beginning. Already there was a shortage of rice and other basic foods, and restaurant prices spurted. An emergency food committee arranged for armed escorts to bring | food into the city, and warship pro- | tection was arranged for rice boats | from Hongkong.

| looting had started—several rice {shops were attacked. Precautions | were taken to guard all food sup- [ plies.

| Three Destroyers Arrive City authorities urged that people

|stay indoors and away from win- | dows, emphasizing the danger from | falling bullets and shrapnel even if

| planes did not bomb the concessions.

French authorities barricaded all | entrances to their concession, called [in 300 Russian volunteers for chauf[feur duty and 500 for patrol, and | manned antiaircraft guns whose crews had orders to shoot at any {plane of any nation, that flew over- | head. One Chinese plane was fired lon,

Telephone communication to Nan- | | king, the capital, was disrupted. How serious Britain regards the |situation was shown when three de- | |stroyers steamed into the river with | troop reinforcements, a battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles sailed from Hongkong and it was made known that air force units at Singapore and an army brigade in India had jorders to stand by for sailing orders. | Mobilization of volunteers at Hong- | kong was considered. Two British destroyers arrived | from Hongkong with men of the | Royal Welch Fusileers, one of the | British Army's crack regiments. A | third destroyer, the Duncan, after a (race along the coast from Weihai- | wei, arrived with a 3.7 howitzer, 80 men of the Loyal North Lancashire | Regiment and 120 marines. The first American refugees got away safely in a tender to the liner | President Taft, at the river mouth, after a thrilling cruise down the river during which they watched Japanese destroyers shelling Chi- | nese positions.

Rival Air Fleets Small

Constant Threat of Death

But these air raids, terrible as they | were to the tens of thousands of for- | eigners and millions of Chinese trapped in the city, were only al background for a never ceasing] | thunder of guns as | Japanese fought north and east of | | the International Settlement. Fragments of anti-aircraft shells and shrapnel, vagrant machine gun and rifle bullets, ripped through the Settlement and brought the constant | threat of death to any of the 3,500,000 people crowded together in its | central part. Two air bombs from Chinese, planes fell within 50 feet of the] | U. 8S. gunboat Sacramento yester- | day, killing the crew of a small na- | tive craft. The U. S. Navy tanker | Ramapo, standing down the river, also was a bomb target. | An artillery shell struck the Stan- | dard Oil coastwise steamer Meinan | this morning as it lay moored at the | Standard Oil wharf. The ship's | superstructure was carried away and much damage done to the interior | but no one was wounded. | There was every indication that

Both Japan and Chinese were | pouring troops and bluejackets into | the area,

Drive for Nankow Pass Believed Stopped

BY United Press i TIENTSIN, China, Aug. | Chinese troops, fortified in the saw- | toothed mountains northwest of | Peiping, have stopped the Japanese | drive for the Nankow Pass, it was understood today. | A Japanese informant who had | visited the front said that the pass | was proving a most difficult obstacle. It was understood here that the | Japanese intended to carry out a series of air raids in hope of speed- | ing occupation of the pass which | commands communications with a big area to the north and west.

‘Liner Is Ordered to Shanghai With Marines

By United Press MANILA, Aug. 16.—The liner | President Hoover was ordered today | to proceed at full speed to Shanghai | tomorrow with a company of U. S. | Marines. The liner will race direct to Shanghai, without cargo or passengers other than the Marines called in from Cavite Navy Station today. At Shanghai the liner will aid in evacuating the women and chilrefugees,

| near the channel.

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Rushed from Chefoo to Shanghai as fighting beIt was anhounced, ominously, that | tween Chinese and Japanese menaced the safety of 1 3800 Americans in the International Settlement, the cruiser Augusta, shown above, flagship of the United |

Steamship Offices In Rush to Get Away From Shanghai

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Americans Throng

By JOHN R. MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent ! SHANGHAI, Aug. 16.—Americans | and other foreigners thronged | steamship offices today, seeking to | get away from the misery of Shang- | hai. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, American naval commandant, and Ameri- | can Consul Clarence E. Gauss warned that American women and | children should get out. They ruled that expectant mothers, elderly women and mothers of families should have preference, They listed Dollar Line sailings— the President Jefferson, sailing tomorrow, and the President MecKinley, sailing Wednesday for Manila. The booking office was opened | this afternoon for the President | Jefferson. An hour before ne | were opened, hundreds thronged the | office, and 150 tickets were sold in | one hour. The crowds jammed of | fices, hallways and overflowed into | the street.

Deck Passage Considered

So great was the press that | steamship line officials were con- | sidering selling deck passage to the | overflow. The war had closed in tight on the city. All the north area of the International Settlement was closed and the last residents of the big Broadway mansions were ordered out | today. Prices of foreign ioods in | restaurants spurted at lunch time. For the present those who leave in accordance with the warning of American authorities must pay their own way, but any destitute appli= cants will be taken care of by an official committee. The first lot of American women and children and tourists left this morning to board the President Taft down at the mouth of the river.

Plans Bring Panic

Officially, a truce had been ar= ranged by Dollar Line officers for the tender that took the 230 Americans and Chinese to the liner. The Japanese cruiser Idzumo and other Japanese warships lay dangerously

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Flagship of U.S. Asiatic Fleet

States Asiatic fleet, was held in readiness to evac= uate U. S. nationals. the Augusta commands the 17 American vessels now Stationed in Chinese waters.

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Admiral Harry E. Yarnell of

the customs inspection shed and thence to the front steps of the customs house, squeezing through the iron gate which an attendant was clanging shut. From the steps I saw the planes elude the guns and disappear northward. The gate was reopened, and we went out. Navy men took charge

| of the tender, and it went on down

the river, hugging the shores, the passengers herded in the cabin while the American bluejackets stood guard. Adventures of American civilians were many, varied and exciting. U. Fox of Montclair, N. J, partner in Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, brokers, of New York City,

| was sitting in his apartment this

morning with his wife, an expectant mother. A six-inch unexploded shell tore through a window into the room and landed in a chair immediately behind Mrs. Fox, who comes from Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Fox leaped across the room, seized the shell though it was so hot it burned his hands, and threw it back out of the window into the garden. Another six-inch shell plunged through the roof and walls of an apartment house called King's Lynn, in which live numerous Americans, and continued on to explode in a yard across the street. In the apartments, the shell penetrated the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Tim Mullen,

Myr. Mullen is with the Dollar Line. |

He was on guard duty with the Vol= unteer Corps at the time, but Mrs. Mullen was at home. She was not injured. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Miles, in their penthouse, also escaped. Mr. Miles of Detroit, is General Mo= tors’ Far Eastern manager. He formerly was a reporter on the Detroit News. The American-owned Henningsen Produce Co. abandoned its Poplar Grove dairy farm because of the danger. J. H. McKennan of Houston, Tex. is manager. The Chinese staff had fled and the American staff went to the international settlement. The cows were unattended but it was reported that Chinese troops had occupied the farm.

George Shecklen, formerly of Phil- | adelphia and San Francisco, now |

vice president of RCA communications resident here, Nanking yesterday in a specially scheduled plane. He passed four of the big Japanese bombers that

IN INDIA

MEETINGS TODAY | Indianapolis Press Club, meeting, Press | Club, 7:

Republican 5446'52 E. Washington St. 8 p. m. Service Club, luncheon. Hotel Building Owners and Managers, eon, Colun bia Club, noon

Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash- | ington, noon. { Hub Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | noon. | Delta Upsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, | 1.

meeting, |

Lincoln, |

luneh- |

MEETINGS TOMORROW | Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, | 00 { Tau Omega, e, noon. Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink Arms Hotel noon. | Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | noon, Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, |

noon, University of Michigan Club. luncheon | Board of Trade, noon. |

luncheon, Board of

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are trom official records at the County Court House. The Times is not responsible for any errors of names or addresses.)

Robert W. Rousch, 25, of 520 Rybolt St : Bertha Pavne, 20, of 1126 8. Sheffield

» 8. Losey. 21, of 946 N. Meridian a , Indianapolis. \ \ 22, 2027 LaSalle St: Dora Jane Keith, 19, of 2055 Kinwood Ave. NM. M. Smith, 21, of 1908 Bellefontaine; Elizabeth Ruth Graves. 16, of 1315 Yandes

Edward Mareum, 16, of 318 N. Lansing St; Anna L. Abbott, 15, Cincinnati. Emery Edward Miles, 64, of 106 W. Kap sas St.: Grace Evelyn Nesbit MeCurdy, 41, Indianapolis. Meivin ailler 21, of 838 College Ava: Dorothy Marie Myers, 10, 1856 N. Harding

t. Allen. Eugene Wilson, 25, Anderson: Helen L. Hawkins, 23, Indianapolis.

BIRTHS

Girls

Joe, Emma Stinnett, at 526 8S. Warman, William, Harriett Hafer, at 1331 W. Ray. , Jeanette Jones, at 807 W. Walnut. , Mary Robbins, at St. Gwendoiyn Favre, at St. Vine

t's. herman, Helen Shepherd. at St. Vine t's

Kenneth, Lorraine Hughes, at City, Paul, Estella Horton, at City Jack, Mary Goodwin, at City. Milo, Maty Anderson, at C Charles, Bula Swafford, at

Boys Virgil, Grace Newman, at 1004 Church-

nan. Ben, Lucille perry. at 2253 Sheldon. Leonard, Sarah agsdale, at 2712 N.

ney, ouis. Hildred Wolfla, at St. Vincent's, ward, Dally Hiller ae 2422 E. Michi-

an. ys Robert, Marv Jones, at 803-2 BE. 63d.

Ray, Pauline, Frye at Cit, Russell, Helen Morris, at City,

DEATHS Eugene Williams, 54, at 2054 Newton, chronic myocarditis mona y 63, at 223 8. State, sis. 0. at St. Vincent's, acute Jlda Barnett Aulas, AL at Methodist, chronic ulcerative ¢ 8. Ruhis Hhiton 70, at 2415 N. Olney. 1 19s ‘ Delia Howard, 8 at 1008 Hadley, carci

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MOM Charies Seite, 60, at 32 N. Jefferson la

‘s. | Bismarck, N. D

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coronary oeclusion, Frederick Albin Schreiber. 72, at 246 N Oxford, chronic myocarditis Leonard Robert Miles, 56, at City, pneusmocoecie engi Frederick W. Thiesing, 53, at City, coro= nary occlusion. Alta W. Byrne, 55. at 1525 Barth, uremia. Paul Scherf, 73, at Methodist, coronary

thrombosis. Malissa Caroline Pyles, 40, at 1154 N Haugh, uremia, William Herbert Payne, 47 at 21 N. Chester, acute dilatation of heart. Laura Wilson, 83. at Reed Sanitarium carcinoma. Griffith Wilkins, 76, at Methodist, concussion of brain, Connie F. Kestner. 43 at 75 N. Warman, chronic endocarditis Clarence E. Cooper. 56, at 1402 W. Ray, paralvsis. "5, at 713 N. Riley, enterocolisis, Sylvia Pollard, 61, at 1840 Boulevard Piace, chronic myocarditis Jane Pout, 73, at 5322 Lowell, chronic myocarditis.

George Mosmeier David Fleming, 65, at City, hypostatie

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST-<Fair and continued warm tonight and tomerrow. TEMPERATURE 1936— IPM. 22

BAROMETER

Ta om 30.22 1pm

Precipitation 24 hra. ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan, 1. .... Excess since Jan. 1 ‘ :

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—QGeneraliy fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow with slightly warmer extreme north tonight. Lower Michigan—Possibly local thundershowers tonight or by tomorrow, central and north portions: fair tonight with ine creasing cloudiness tomorrow extreme Sout; cooler tomorrow extreme north por.

30.1%

ion 00 28.64 "2.85

Ilinois—Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow, except poss gibly local thundershowers and not so warm tomorrow along Wisconsin boundary. Kentucky—<Fair, warmer in east portion tonight; tomorrow partly eloudy.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 1 A. M.

Station, Weather, Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. 0.04 68

Boston Chicago Cincinnati .,... Cleveland, O. Lg ‘ odge City, Helena, Mont, ‘vs Jacksonville, Fla, ... ansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. .

2353332583

— DUP Dt BIBS et 23 DD et 333338533353

S352535533353385535333333333

SHERWIN WILLIAMS

Has a Pal for Every &;

As Purpose. STS LESS! Beea Wee It in Pa

VONNEGUT'S

San Francisco. |

arrived from |

bombed Chinese airdromes. Accompanying Mr, Shecklin was A. B. Moulton of Boston, RCA-Victor sales manager. Mr. Schecklen took over today the management and operations of Chi= nese wireless stations here and the central office in Sassoon House in order to maintain communications service. He invited C. T. McClelland, Mackay representative, to partici= pate in control. The American flag | was raised over the Chenju and | Lihuhong stations,

SHELLING HIDES

| Indiana Leader May Get

TROOP LANDING

‘Writer Watches Cannonading of Chinese Positions By Warships.

By ROBERT BERKOV (Copyright, 1937. by United Press) YANGTSE FRONT, SHANGHAI, | | Aug. 16.—I crouched behind a Chi- | | nese grave mound near the mouth of the great, yellow Yangtse River tonight and watched one of the most battles of this bloody | Shanghai war. A dozen warships of Japan's third battle fleet, anchored in the Whangpoo River below Shanghai, reinforced by cruisers off the mouth of the Yangtse, started a terrific bombardment shortly after 10 p. m. to cover the landing of Japanese forces which were preparing to attack large Chinese concentrations in the flat lands across the Whangpoo from Shanghai's famed Interna= tional waterfront. It was believed that infantry regiments and their equipmeni were

| amazing

going ashore in flat-bottomed boats. | Rain Shells on Trenches

The Japanese warships were | raining big shells on the Chinese trenches, built yesterday after a | Nanking division had crossed the | Whangpoo in junks and prepared | to bombard the Japauese warships | in the comparatively narrow channel of the Whangpoo, just north of | Shanghai proper. The Chinese artillery apparently | had not yet been brought up as the only reply from their lines appeared to be from machine guns So great was the din, however, that=in darkness—one could get only a rough idea of the course the battle was taking.

Answer With

Flashes of the guns on the Jap- | anese warships threw a weird yel= | low glare across the sky. | At 10:30 p. m. the roar of the | Japanese naval guns was continu | ous. Occasional deep-throated roars came from the Chinese positions indicating they had brought up some | of the mortars sent down yesterday | from Nanking. | Japanese officers who permitted | | me to enter this sector and use their field telephones said that this | battle was part of a general offengive on all fronts “designed to give us full control of the entire Shan= ghai region within two days.”

Mortars

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[EARTH SPLIT PERILS ~ SINKING-FARM HOME

By United Press ROBERTSON'S FARM, BUHL, Ida, Aug. 16.—~The earth opencd today and another portion of land 40 feet nearer Harvey Robertson's farm home sank from the surface. The great, gaping canyon, that once was a wheat field, was within 300 feet of the house and barns. Scientists were getting first<hand information of the processes under-

a new president be selected at the | earliest practicable time,” members | said in calling the special meeting.

gone by the shrinking earth,

FIRST OF YOUN DEMOCRATS DUE ON WEDNESDAY

Auto Crash

Score Hurt in State; 92 Drivers Face Charges

Vice Presidency at Here.

Parley.

Heavy traffic bn Indiana highways brought death to a motorist and a pedestrian, and injury to nearly a score of others during the week-end. In Indianapolis, four pedestrians were recovering in hospital today, and five motorists were treated for | minor injuries as police ordered 92 drivers to face traffic violation! charges in Municipal Court. Thirty-nine drivers were fined a total of $403 by Judge Pro Tem Edwin Smith in court today, He suspended only $30 in costs. Victims added to the mounting toll were: Wilford Bowners, 32, of Monroe= ville, who died in a Ft. Wayne hospital yesterday from injuries received when his automobile left Road 49.

Woman Killed by Train

Mrs. Mary Ann Sparks, 75, of San Pierre, who was injured fatally when struck by a Wabash freight train as she crossed the tracks near her home yesterday. Eight persons were injured, two critically, in a head-on collision of two automobiles at the intersection of Indiana Highway 54 and 45 about 14 miles southwest of Bloom=ington. Mrs. Arthur Fortner, Huron, and Mrs. Knofel Fortner, both in critical

Acey Carraway of Washington, executive secretary of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, was due in Indianapolis today to help local committees make final plans for the clubs’ national convention, opening here Thursday. The first of approximately 10,000 young Democrats, including those ranking in prominence from President Roosevelt's son, James, to the chairman of a remote precinct, are to arrive here Wednesday. Registra= tion is to open that day at convention headquarters in the Claypool Hotel. Officers are to be honored at a reception that night in the Claypool. Guests are to include Frank Wick= hem of Sioux Falls, 8. D,, president; Mrs. John Galleher of Leesburg, Va., vice president; Charles J. Murphy, Portland, Me. treasurer, and Mr. Carraway.

Roosevelts to Speak

Sessions are to be held on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday. One of the highlights of the conclave is to be Friday morning's session, when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and her son, James, are to be speakers. Postmaster General James J. Fars ley, the President's personal repre= sentative, is to speak at Friday night's session in Cadle Tabernacle.

state's

Governor Townsend, Mayor Kern | condition, were taken to Dunn Me-

and numerous other officials of vari ous states and cities are to take part in the programs. Saturday morning's session is ex pected to be the most exciting of the convention. Officers are to be elected at that time and the contest for presidency is developing into a real “political” battle. Candidates include Lockwood Thompson, Cleveland, member of the law firm headed by Newton D. Baker, war-time war secretary; Paul Williams, Columbia, Mo, and Pitt Maner, Montgomery, Ala,, Governor Graves’ secretary,

State May Get Office

Alvin Johnson, Indianapolis, Ine diana club president, who has a prominent part in the program, also is reported to be a candidate. Naomi Whitesell is chairman of arrangements for Wednesday night's reception for the officers. District presidents and secretaries are to be hosts and hostesses. Among the outstanding young politicians who are to attend is George T. Gundry. At 30 he is Michigan Auditor General and is to lead that state's delegation. Entertainment features, besides the Wednesday night reception, are to include a boxing show Thursday night in Sports Arena at Pennsylvania and North Sts, and the clos ing dance Saturday night in the Fairgrounds Coliseum.

NEW I, U, PRESIDENT

ington Hospital were Mrs, ald Webber, Montgomery,

| ber's sister, Miss Obedia Colbert. Jackie Oliver, b-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Oliver, Rochester, was injured critically near his home when he ran into the path of an automobile driven by Eddie Overmeyer, 25, Argos. Mrs. Virgil Hopkins, 23, of near Ft. Wayne, and her 2-year-old son, Clifford, were injured seriously when the automobile driven by the hus band and father collided with one driven by Robert Cann, Indianapolis, at the intersection of U, 8. 31 and Road 28, near Tipton. Thirteen alleged speeders, six alleged reckless drivers, and six alleged drunken drivers were arrested. Sixteen-year-old Russell Fankler of 723 Worth St., who was struck yesterday oy a hit-and-run driver as he crossed W. Washington St. in the 3900 block, was reported in a fair condition in City Hospital, He received a broken right leg and head injuries. Goldie Showecker, 10, 321 N. East St, who was bruised and cut when an automobile ran over the curb and struck her at the intersection of Bast and Michigan Sts. yesterday also was reported in fair condition in City Hospital,

Car Crashes Into Wall

The automobile continued down Michigan St. more than a block and crashed into a brick wall after jumping the curb a second time. A charge of reckless driving was placed against the driver, John Newton, 86, of 418 Cleveland St.

Deputy sheriffs yesterday arrested

Board to Discuss Candi- | Vaughn Tully, 37, of Newcastle on

i charges of drunkenness and drunken dates at Aug. 30 Session. | asees when he failed to stop at

| their s ‘ Indiana University's new presi- han Siena of the defendants in dent may be named at a meeting | court today were charged with igof the Board of Trustees here Aug. | noring preferential streets. They 30, it was learned today. ; | were fined $220. Twelve drivers Judge Ora L. Wildermuth, Gary, charged with disobeying traffic sigBoard vice president, is to present nals were fined $124. The lone an analysis of the qualifications of speeder arrested was fined $1 and candidates interviewed by the Board COStS. : ’ y at the meeting. i ’ . Among those under consideration woes, Jy. Scayens; | SPRrEed are Dr. Ernest H. Lindley, Univer | oi, ox another at 16th and Pennsity of Kansas chancellor; Dr, Lotus sylvania Sts., was fined $5 and costs Coffman, University of Minnesota | .\4 hic driver's license was suse president; Dr. Walter Jessup, former pended for 60 days sith Iowa University president and now lity connected with the Carnegie Foundation, and Dr. Frank Aydeylotte, Swarthmore College president. All are Indiana University graduates. “It is the desire of the Board that

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

Aug. 14 and 15

Accidents .. Cite renars tjured ............,

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Speeding . Reckless driving ... Drunken driving .. .e Running red light ............ 26 Running preferential street .,. 27 Improper parking .. EE Others .............

One Killed, Five Hurt in State Plane Crashes

State Police today launched a drive against unlicensed airplanes and pilots. One man was killed and five injured in two week-end accidents over the State. Everett Ryker, 33, Linden, was to face charges today of flying an unlicensed plane and failure to have

The new leader is to succeed Dr. William Lowe Bryan, who resigned this spring after 35 years of service. | Dean Herman Wells is serving as acting president.

COY TO LEAVE FOR MANILA TOMORROW

Wayne Coy, administrative assistant to Philippine High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, is to leave by plane tomorrow night on the return trip to Manila, T. W. A. line officials announced that Mr. Coy had booked passage for San Francisco, leaving Municipal Airport at 8:03 p. m, tomorrow. He will leave San Francisco on the China Clipper Wednesday. Mr. Coy, former State Welfare Di-

morial Hospital at Bedford. Others| more than $150, i | in serious condition taken to Bloom. Only what Dr. Myers calls “routine Don- | her | Penses, personnel salaries, ambu=

daughter, Patricia, and Mrs. Web-|lance run costs, and so on. It does

Road Accidents Kill Two;

Cost to City

Put at $50,000 ‘in 1936

Hospital Expense Said To Average $4 Day For Each Vietim.

Auto accidents cost the City of Indianapolis $560,000 last year. Dr. Charles W. Myers, City Hose pital superintendent, based the es« timate on actual hospital records, He said it cost $4 a day for each patient's hospitalization. Last year, the Hospital treated 576 auto victims at a cost of $20,872. A total of 1440 were treated but not admitted. Allowing $3 per patient, that cost $4320. “Thus,” Dr. Myers said, “it can kL. safely said that automobile accie dents cost the City last year $34,212, exclusive of any charge for medical service.”

Services Not Included

Medical service, X-ray and other charges would bring the total well beyond $50,000, Dr, Myers said. The $4 a day per patient does not include X-rays, laboratory exe aminations, splints and casts, core rective appliances, fracture beds, other special equipment and medie cation, Just what does “medication” mean? It means that physicians donate their services to patients un able to pay-services for which they usually would charge between $100 and $150, So, Dr. Myers said, in addition to the $4-a-day expense, each patient receives X-ray and medication that would be valued conservatively at The $4 includes (X=

care” — institution operating

not include equipment or building depreciation, Here are some explanatory accie dent figures Dr, Myers released on July of this year: TREATED BUT NOT ADMITTED? Fireworks Falls Injuries in homes eo Nails and broken glass....... Fights ,...... AUTO .... Bicycle Motorcycle

FABRE RR REET ERAN CRAIN N RAEN as

SEs NIB N EINER,

Total PO HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS: AUTO All other accidents.

fesse

Total

Dr. Myers pointed out the serious= ness and number of patients injured in auto accidents decreased during July as compared to previous months, Fatalities also showed & drop. “But most of them are prevente able,” he said, then added, “Recke less driving doesn’t pay.”

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persons and enlist their co-operation, Self-consciousness and false pride often hameprs case work of this type, he stated. Names of the disabled persons are to be submitted by welfare agencies, school officials and interested indie viduals. Persons eligible include those crippled physically, those suffering from tuberculosis and heart disease and those partially deaf and blind, it was announced. Meanwhile, a training clinic for crippled children has been estabe lished at Riley Hospital by the United States Children's Bureau, Funds are provided by the Federal Government under the Social Secure ity Act, it was announced. The clinic, said to be the only one in the United States, is to provide habit training and the teaching of simple muscular movements and brain co-ordination to children,

a pilot's license. He was arrested yesterday near Plainfield under a 1929 Indiana statute prohibiting une licensed pilots from flying until they have conformed to Federal regulae tions, William Bowman, 22 Danville, Ill, was killed when the plane in which he was riding crashed near Rocke ville. Injured seriously in the cracke up were his brother, Earl Dallas Bowman, 19, also of Danville, and Elmo Parker, 30, Rockville, the pilot, Near Logansport, C. T. Smith, and his: two passengers were injured when his plane plunged 300 feet into a cornfield.

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