Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1938 — Page 6

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PUSH CAMPAIGN 0 HALT SPREAD

OF MARIJUANA

Police Ordered to Report Any of Weed Found on ~ Beat; Plants Destroyed.

_ Police today pushed their camign to halt the cultivation and

. Bale of the dope-producing weed, marijuana, as they announced that

‘Plants worth more than a quarter of a million dollars have been deStroyed here in the last three

months.

Sergt. Carl Ashley, vice squad head, on orders of Police Chief Morrissey, is instructing patrolmen on how to recognize the marijuana weed on sight. Police have been

ordered to report all marijuana

patches found on their beats. Sergt. Ashley estimated that approximately 248,912 plants have been destroyed in the City limits since $he drive began this year. Plants that were two feet tall

fast May now are between 8 and 12

feet tall and patches of the weeds are found along river and creek banks, in empty lots, on city dumps and along railroad tracks, Sergt. Ashley said. “We are convinced that the maJority of the plants found grew accidentally, but there is evidence in

some instances where the weed was

planted and cultivated.” More Than 250 Convicted More than 250 persons have been arrested and convicted in connection with the sale of marijuana in the last three years, Sergt. Ashley said. Under the state narcotic law passed in 1935, first offenders are

liable to a fine of $100 and costs and six months in jail. Second oifense is a felony and maximum penalty is

‘a fine of $1000 and two years in the

penitentiary. Dr. Verne K, Harvey, State Health

- @lirector, has conferred with Federal

narcotic authorities on a proposed plan to have WPA workers destroy the plant in Marion County and pther sections of the State. He said his office had been inYormed that many communities have reported marijuana growing wild in Local authorities said they have-had no funds to spend for destruction of the weeds.

Weed Is Reported In-La Porte County

LA PORTE, Sept. 1 (U, P)— Marijuana weed has been found growing wild in six townships of La Porta County, according to a re-

port by Federal narcotics Agent . William A. Frey, Chicago, who made

8 survey here. Marijuana has been found in 32 of Indiana’s 92 counties, Mr, Frey said.

Former Walkathon Manager Is Fined VINCENNES, Sept. 1 (U. P).—

g Harry Smith, former floor manager » . costs . suspended sentence yesterday for % possessing marijuana.

of a walkathon, was fined $50 and and given a six-month

MICHIGAN STUDIES EMBARGO ON FRUIT

LANSING, Mich, Sept. 1 (U. P.).

. =Retaliation against California for an embargo on Michigan apples and “other fruits was asked in a resoi lution in the Michigan House of

Representatives today by Rep. Douglas D. Tibbits (R. East Jordan). The resolution, asking the legislative council to study the desir-

Heads Speakers

Joseph G. Wood has been appointed head of the speakers bureau of the Marion County Democratic Central Committee, Ira P. Haymaker, county chairman, announced today. Mr. Wood, a member of the law firm of Schortemeier, Eby and Wood, is Dean of Indiana Law School, Day Division.

PRAYERLESS SERVICE

HELD FOR MAY YOHE|

Husband to Scatter Ashes ‘To the Seven Seas.’

BOSTON, Sept. 1 (U. P.) —Without benefit of clergy, prayer ‘or music, last tribute was paid yesterday to May Yohe. Mourner and curious filed silently past the gray velvet coffin in a Roxbury funeral parlor. Inconspicuous in the crowd was Robert. E. Thomas, a Hollywood bit actor who, in litigation over a $2,000,000 will, had tried in vain to prove he was Miss Yohe’s son. Clad in a pale pink dress, a red rose in her hand, the one-time musical comedy favorite and friend of royalty looked, in death, far younger than her 72 years. Before she died of heart: disease Sunday she had asked that her funeral be without sermon or- song. Her third and last husband, Capt. John Smuts, observed her wishes. When the last person in line had viewed the body, the coffin was closed and taken to Forest Hills Crematory. Later this week, Capt. Smuts will go off Cape Cod and “scatter the ashes to the seven seas.”

DESPERADO TO DIE IN GAS CHAMBER

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 1 (U. P.)—Adam Richetti, the Southwestern desperado ‘who was convicted of & part in the Union Station massacre in 1933, in which five men were slain, today. was ordered executed in the state’s gas chamber Oct. 7. Richetti will be taken to Jefferson City. He. previously had been sentenced to hang, but a change in the law, making the prison gas chamber the legal means of execution, made resentencing necessary.

$50,000 WILLED

T0 RILEY HOSPITAL

Darrach Papers Also Name University and Church.

The Riley Hospital for Children, Butler University and the Central Christian Church were left $50,000 each under terms of the will of Eugene H. Darrach, Indianapolis businessman and civic leader, who died last Saturday. The document, on file in Probate Court today, bequeathed $250,000 to the wife, Mrs. Maude H. Darrach,

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Doesn't Know Who Is President

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Frank Krowl, 41-year-old “Hermit of Woodlane,” who lives sublimely alone in a tiny dugout along a railroad track, never has heard a radio or ridden in an automobile and does not know who is President of the United States.

and a residence property at 1502 N.|

Meridian St. the will stated that she is to receive $1000 monthly pending transfer of the securities to her. ‘ : Other bequests were $30,000 to a niece, Mary L. Darrach; $20,000 to a brother, Charles S. Darrach, Los Angeles, and $1000 to Hazel Kuhler. The estate is estimated to be worth more than $500,000."

Maintaining a complete indif-

ference to everything that goes on

in the world about him, Mr. Krowl, who served with the U, S. Army during the World War, sums up his philosophy of life with: “What does it matter?” A tall man, with cold blue eyes beneath shaggy brows, Krowl’s raiment consists of a faded khaki shirt, corduroy trousers and a pair

in long, matted disarray. Krowl was born in Poland and came to America in 1913. After his service in the war, he worked at odd jobs in Seattle and then came to Philadelphia to begin his life as a hermit. “What difference where you live?” he said. “All land is the same.”

| searching ‘|cans and trash heaps. He has no

He eats anything he can find, for food with a long. stick which he pokes into rubbish

money, for, as he says, money means dittle to him. Mr. Krowl did not collect his soldier’s bonus because when he went to the place where the checks were being given out he found the office closed. He never went back. “I like it away from people,” he

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