Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1938 — Page 5
AUTO AGG
DIP DURING FIRST 7 MONTHS OF ‘38
Hitchhiker's Death Brings County Toll to 69; ~ 7 Others Hurt.
(Editorial, Page 10)
Traffic accident injuries here decreased one-third the first seven months this year, compared with the same period last years Rjeut. Lawrence McCarty, Police Accident Prevention Bureau head, reported. Figures showed 1095 injured so far this year, compared with 1543 up to Aug. 1, 1937. Meanwhile, Marion County’s 1938 traffic toll reached 69 with the death of a hitchhiker, Seven persons were injured, none seriously, in 10 overnight accidents and 47 motorists were arrested on traffic charges. Lieut. McCarty warned, however, that pedestrians are not becoming as safety-conscious as drivers, pointing out that most of the accident decrease was due to motorists’ care.
462 Pedestrians Hurt
Of 1543 persons injured last year, 462 were pedestrians, and of the 1095 injured this ycar, 418 were pedes- © trians. The total number of accidents also showed a sizable decrease, Lieut. McCarty said, dropping from 2818
the first seven months last year to ||
2458 so far this year. There also has been a drop in the number of auto fatalities in the city.” Sixty-eight persons were killed in traffic accidents in Indianapolis up to Aug. 1, 1937. The city toll this year is 39. This year’s traffic deaths include 29 pedestrians, Lieut. McCarty said. Seven pedestrians were killed in trafic accidents in the city in July.
24 Pedestrians Die
Of 55 traffic deaths in Marion County the first six months this
year, State Police reported today, 24
were pedestrians, including 22 in the city and two outside the city. Included were: Under 4 years old, one fatality; age 5 to 14, two; age 15 to 24, two; age 25 to 44, five; age 45 to 64, 11, and over 65, three. Donald Smith Magruder, 52, of 1291 S. Emerson Ave. died at City Hospital of injuries received when struck by a car while attempting to hitchhike on.Road 29 near Troy Ave.
Harold Doughty, 25, of Shelby--
ville, driver of the car, told deputy sheriffs that the victim was standing in the middle of the road. He said he did not see him in time to aviod striking him.
*~Five Hurt in Crash
Five persons were hurt in a crash at 31st St. and Park Ave. when a car driven by Edward Naue, 41, of R. R. 11, Box 272, collided with one driven by Ralph Fisher, 41, of 1001 E. Tabor St. Injured were Mr. and Mrs. Naue and three of their children, Earl, 13; Mary Anne, 8, and Dorothy, 11. They were treated at City Hospital. Mrs. Mary E. Hatch, 66, of 227 N. Delaware St. received a fractured leg when struck by a car driven by Reuben C. Cohn, 38, of 1420 Union St., at Illinois and Vermont Sts. Cohn was arrested’ on charges of reckless driving.
Pedestrian Knocked Down
John C. Warner, 25, Ravenswood, was treated for knee injuries. He was knocked to the pavement by a car in E. Market St. at the railroad elevation near Noble St. by a car driven by Henry Mueller, 24, of 414 N. Highland Ave. Joseph Faccone, 26, of 115 S. Davidson St, was arrested on charges of driving while drunk and reckless driving when he came to police headquarters to inquire about his car. early today. Three hours earlier, police had been sent to investigate an auto at Julian Ave.and Hawthorne Lane reportedly occupied by four intoxicated persons: It was abandoned when they arrived, and they towed it to the police garage.
2 GROUPS FIGHT OVER GORRIGAN WELGOME
Brooklyn Irish Oppose -N. Y. City Hall Greeting.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— A possibility of a naval battle developed today as two rival reception committees insisted that they were going out to the harbor in boats Thursday to meet Douglas Corrigan and that each would bring him ashore from the liner Manhattan. : One would take him to Brooklyn Borough, for a colossal parade down Flatbush Ave. the other to ‘Manhattan for a ticker tape parade up Broadway and a welcoming at City ‘Hall by Mayor La Guardia. Mr. Corrigan, returning from Ireland where he flew alone and “backwards” in a 9-year-old plane, was getting sketchy reports of the feud by radio telephone aboard the incoming ships. Both delegations were calling him.
Both Factions Determined
Stanley Howe, the Mayor's secretary and chief of the Manhattan faction, said Mr. Corrigan assured him that he was interested only in the ticker tape and City Hall celebration. James A. Keily, speaking for Brooklyn and all the Irish of the city, said maybe Mr. Corrigan said such\ a thing and maybe he didn’t, and Brooklyn's parade, planned for two weeks, would proceed as scheduled.. Mr. Howe said it was too much to ask policemen to handle crowds for two ‘parades in one day and there would be but one—Manhattan’s. “If the Police Department refuses us a marching permit we are marching anyhow,” Mr. Kelly said.
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Persons Offering Land for Tubercular Unit to Appear Aug. ho
Persons offering land for the $650,000 southern Indiana tuberculosis | pospital today were invited to appear before the site commission at
in. the House of Representatives chamber, At its first meeting today, the commission elected officers and made plans for proceeding with its work. Arthur H. Sapp, Huntington, was -named chairman, with Thomas PF. O'Mara, Terre Haute, vice chairman, and Murray A. Auerbach, Indianapolis, secretary. ik Other commission members are Dr. Vern K. Harvey, State Health
MEETING IS SET : FOR HEARING ON | HOSPITAL SITE|
a public hearing to be held Aug. 11 |
~ New State Purchasing
Agent
Director, and Dr. L. A. Pittinger, Ball State Teachers College presi-
| dent.
State Excise Police and Federal officers confiscated ‘“one of the. largest illegal stills ever taken in Indiana” on a Parke County farm 20 This still, shown in the two pictures above, had a 1500-gallon capacity, was 17 feet 4 inches high and could distill one The rdid resulted in the arrest of Alec Mann, 30; John Stankus, 51, and Stanley Wesrelewski, 30, all of Chicago.
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Fred Stevens has been elected commander of Police Post. 56, American Legion. Clyde Mitchell was elected vice commander; Byrum Patterson, second vice commander; Frank Arbuckle, adjutant; Joseph Stutsman, finance officer; Edward Jordan, chaplain; Frank Delators, sergeant-at-arms; Patrick ; McMahon, service officer. Otto Burk, historian; Paul Laughrey, athletic officer; Murl Pollock, boys’ state chairman; Ernest Haught, child welfare officer; Albert Slate, Americanism officer; William Cravens, employment officer; James O’Brien, ‘membership chairman; Leo Troutman, publicity officer; Daniel Scanlon, Poppy Day chairman; George Rusler, C. M. T. C. chairman, and Samuel Ritter, grave registration chairman. Commander Stevens and Sheriff Otto Ray were “elected delegates to the state convention.
The Indianapolis chapter of the American Cosmetics National Association made plans at a dinner last night to attend the national convention in Chicago Sept. 12.
The Indiana Society of Sons of the American Revolution was to hear Frank B. Fowler, Indianapolis. talk about “What I Saw in Europe” at a luncheon today at the SpinkArms.
Indianapolis Western Union messengers have been declared winners of the company’s safety contest for the. second quarter of 1938 in competition with boys in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, O., Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
William O. Nelson, Anderson, Republican nominee for 11th District representative to Congress, will speak at a picnic of the Irvington Women's Republican Club Saturday night at the home of Mrs. John T. Askren, 21st’ St. and Shadeland Drive.
Approval of a Sons of American Legion drum and bugle corps .contest the afternoon of Aug. 21 during the state convention here was given last night by the Indianapolis American Legion Corp.
Indiana Kiwanis Club members will attend an interdistrict jamboree Aug. 10 at the Miami Valley Golf Course, Dayton, O., at which «Ohio Kiwanians will. be hosts. There will be golf in the afternoon and a din= ner at night. i “The evening meeting,” the announcement said, “will end in time for’ every one to reach home so he
About 20 members of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. Bicycle Club left today for s trip to Turkey Run.
James F. (Sonny) Sebree, 545 N. Senate Ave., was dancing with all his physical resources in a local dance spot, he told City Hospital physicians today, when he got too near the band. The baton of the leader, who was
‘doing all right himself, struck him
in the eye. and treatment was necessary for the wound.
Robert Carroll, Hotel. Lincoln steward, has been installed as president of the newly formed Indianapolis branch of the Catering Executives Club of America. Other officers are George Ehrhardt, Highland Golf and Country Club manager, vice president; John Hostetter, Columbia Club steward, secretary;
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Watler Altmann, Pretzel Bell manager, financial secretary; Paul Hess, Athenaeum manager, sergeant-at-arms; Charles E. Crawford, educational committee chairmen, and August Souchon, Indianapolis Athletic Club chef, membership committee chairman.
Irvington Republican Club members in a discussion last night said the special session of the Indiana Legislature “merely followed the general idea of the national Administration in a reckless, aimless spending program.” Irving T. Swaim, attorney, led the discussion.
Police today held a pair of shoes and men’s hose left by a burglar at the scene of his crime.
They said the recovered the cloth- |
ing at 1638 N. Illinois St. in the room of Russell Smith, where a burglary was committed. .
Two men who drove past the Indianapolis Water Co. plant at Keystone Ave. and Fall Creek and fired eight shots into the ground were sought by police today.
Catherine Wampner, 16 months, 2249 Butler Ave. was in a fair condition today at City Hospital where she was treated for burns received when she put, some lye into her mouth.
The Sigma Nu Alumni Club will hear the Rev. Elmer Harvey, Broadway M. E. Church assistant pastor at the luncheon Thursday at Hotel Washington. He will. describe the coronation of King George VI of England.
Y. M. C. A. members and their friends will visit Acme .Evans Flour Mills tomorrow morning, another in a series of visits to Indianapolis'industries during the summer months,
CITY FIREMAN CITED The Safety Board issued a citation of merit today, commending Howard Clark, city fireman, who leaped into the Canal at Vermont
St. Saturday and pulled a drowned woman from the water.
. Free Land Offered More than a dozen applications
Jor sites have been received, and
most of these offered free land, the
| commission said.
Mr. Auerbach, who is also executive secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, said several
points will be considered before a final. location is chosen. These in-
clude means of transportation to the site, surrounding developments — with a view to avoiding location
near a factory—scenic value, recrea- |
tional facilities in the nearby town which would be available to the staff, typography and general health conditions of the locality, and the proximity to the center of the infected area. Site commission members said that following the hearing, they would visit the sites. ;
TOLEDO NEWSPAPER STOPS PUBLICATION
News-Bee Action Result of Continued Losses.
TOLEDO, O., Aug. 2 (U. P.).—The
Toledo News-Bee, a Scripps-Howard
newspaper, announced today that with its final edition of the day it was suspending publication. The announcement follows: “The News-Bee will suspend publication with its last edition today. “The News-Bee, for several years, has been published at a loss. So long as it appeared that there was a place in the Toledo field for the News-Bee, its owners have been willing to sustain these losses, and make further investments, on the chance that the News-Bee would, in time, become a reasonably profitable institution. This was done in the face of greatly increased production costs, due to mounting labor costs and rising newsprint prices. “The decision to retire from the field was based on the conviction, finally, that two afternoon newspapers cannot be published, with a fair profit for both, in Toledo. It was felt by the owners of the NewsBee to be sound business, as well as good journalism, to retire from a field which offered no hope of bet-
| terment — and to concentrate time
and effort and investment on those properties within the ScrippsHoward concern which occupy more favorable fields for expansion and
“Efforts will be made to find
places for News-Bee employees elsewhere in the Scripps-Howard concern. All released employees will be given dismissal pay. The local managers of the News-Bee—Messrs. C. K. Matson, editor, and W. C. Coutney, business manager—retain their connection with the SecrippsHoward concern.”
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‘+L. L. Needler, newly appointed State Purchasing Agent, announced that all activities of the department “will be .open to public inspection.” Mr. Needler resigned his position as legislative director for the Indiana Farm-Bureau to succeed C. M. McAlpin to the State post. :
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CARRY GOSPEL TO TROUBLED. BABSON URGES
Delivery of Mimeographed Sermons Suggested By Statistician.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—Many - struggling ministers should stop trying to compete with radios, automobiles and movies on Sundays and deliver their sermowus in mimeographed form door-to-door, according to Roger W. Babson, “We must carry the gospel and
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not expect people to come to get it, Mr. Babson, statistician and’ form | national moderator of the Congre=. ‘'gational Church, said. “Ministers should cease being content to preach to the ‘saved,’ he added. “They should go out as house-to-house canvassers—not for money or to get people to church, but to hunt for those in trouble.”
NEW CASTLE VOTES DISPOSAL SYSTEM
NEW CASTLE, ‘Aug. 2 (U. P.).— The City Council last night voted to construct a new $450,000 sewage disposal system to be financed with aid of PWA funds. sh The city’s share is expected to be
$250,000. The PWA grant will cover 45 per cent of the total cost, with a maximum of $215,000. To obtain the grant, the city must start cone struction before Aug. 29..
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