Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1938 — Page 5

DEATH TOLL IN BUS ACCIDENT

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} Tie More Pupils Likely to Die; 40 in Vehicle, Check At Homes Reveals.

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had been dragged along, scattering children’s bodies and parts of their bodies, school books, sandwiches, apples, dnd their toys along the right-of-way. Preliminary investigation of authorities indicated that no human element entered into the cause of the tragedy. The bus driver, Farrold Silcox, was dead and could not tell his story, but his surviving passengers said he had stopped at the crossing as is required by State law, then continued on.

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bus and automobile drivers, and, probably, he had felt that there was no chance of a train passing then because the fast freight of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad had been due to pass two hours before. It had been delayed by the blizzard and was running fast to make up its schedule.

The engineer had whistled for the crossing. The bus came up on the rails from the fireman's side of the cab, and the fireman screamed: “Big hole her!” The engineer closed the throttle and slammed on the air brakes, and a split second later the engine was jarred by its impact with the bus. (“Big hole her,” in the language of railroadmen, means to apply the emergency brakes.—Ed.) Engineer E. L. Rehmer said he still was pulling the whistle cord when Fireman Alfred Elton shouted this command to him. He had to drop the cord to obey.

“Did Everything We Could”

“The next thing I knew part of the bus was in front of the engine,” he said. “Elton yelled as soon as he saw we were going to hit the bus which had stopped, then started again. We did everything we could to prevent it, but after it was over, there wasn’t much any of us could do. ” The 39 boys and girls in the bus were between 12 and 18 years old. Marjorie Groves, one of the children, told this story: “The bus stopped as usual and then started up again. Two of the kids were shouting, we were skylarking and having a good time. Then suddenly somebody yelled, strain’ There was a blur in front of the window. I guess it was the train. There was a terrific crash and I don’t remember anything else until I was lying in the snow beside the tracks. Another girl helped me into the caboose of the train. Then they brought us to the hospital.” Three hundred yards away stood June Wynn, 16, waiting for the bus. “7 was standing in front of my house,” she said. “It was about 9 o'clock and I wondered why the bus was late: It was snowing so I figured it might have got stuck. “Then I saw the bus coming on the other side of the tracks. The

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away. The bus stopped a short distance from the crossing. Suddenly it started again as the train came nearer, :

‘TI Heard a Crash’

1 thought sure the driver intended just to come closer to t tracks and then stop again. But

he didn’t. The train whistle must have sounded, but I didn't hear it. “I heard a crash and covered my eyes. When I looked again, the engine was right acrass the road from me with part of the bus still in front of it. “I cailed my father (William J. Wynn) and we ran through the snow to the tracks where the train had stopped. Trainmen told us to hurry back home and call doctors and ambulances. We did. “I knew most of the kids on the bus. Gee, it was awful.” David Witter of Denver, a transient riding the freight, thought it “had plowed into a herd of cattle.” “It y was frightful,” he said. “I saw a girl that had been spilled from the broken bus. She was mangled, but still alive. She was screaming and screaming. She died before I could get to her.” The train crew declined {2 make a statement until railway officials made an investigation. W. E. Speakman, chief clerk, said that Engineer Rehmer approached the crossing at 52 miles an hour. He said the crossing view was unobstructed and said he was confident that the train crew was not responsible, Governor Blood began one investigation. He personally wanted to know the reasons for the tragedy and to try to prevent recurrence. Other inquiries were begun by the Jordan School District Board, owners of the bus, the State Public Service Commission, the Highway Patrol and Insurance Division, the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission and Salt Lake County.

Parents Rush to Scene

The various investigations were expected to result in the erection of

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ings and to speed grade crossing elimination in Utah. : Frantic parents rushed to the scene as ambulances, doctors and . nurses were arriving from Midvale and Salt Lake. City. The survivors were brought to the general hospital at St. Lake City. Eight were given . emergency treatment and then taken to their homes. The three dying children were Rela and Marjorie Beckstead, cousins, who had internal injuries, and Louise ‘Hardman, whose legs were broken. The other seriously injured children were Anne Webb, broken back and cuts; Manford Osborne, chest injuries; Russell Webb, bruises; Chloe Beckstead, cuts and possible internal injuries, and Ida Smith, possible internal injuries. ; The dead were: ~ Mr. Silcox, the driver; Robert Egbert, William Glazier, George Hunt, Lois Johnsoh, Rosa Larson, Bayard Larson, Helen Lloyd, Rae Miller, Virginia Nelson, Blaine Page, Kenneth Peterson, Ole Peterson, Dwayne Parkinson, Harold Sandstrom, Viola Sunquist, Carol Stevenson, Dean Winward, Helen Young, Naomi and Wilbert Webb, Naomi Lewis, Neal Densley; one child un(identified. * Identification of the bodies was idifficult. One hospital ward was “lled with the injured. Mothers

150 Clothed

Golden Gloves Funds Bring Happiness to Scores of Children.

go%k-0! ; When the Golden Gloves boys were knocking the socks off each other in the boxing cam= paign sponsored last winter by the Indianapolis Times and the Bruce P. Robison Post of the -American Legion, they were knocking socks onto some of the needy Indianapolis school children this winter. Yesterday 150 were clothed by the proceeds of the tournament. One hundred and fifty school children now are clothed for classy the first of The Indianapolis

for this year. The first of a large, perhaps the largest group of children yesterday were taken into Indianapolis clothing stores and outfitted against wintry blasts that are as inevitable as taxes. And so the campaign starts, to end less than a month from now. Lots of children need clothing.

QUIZ OPENS IN TRAFFIC DEATH

Woman, 73, Killed After She Alights From Bus On State Road.

County officials today investigated the death of Mrs, Louisa Glitzenstein, R. R. 9, Box 375, who was run down by an auto last night as she alighted from a bus on State Road 29 near Arlington Ave. She was 73. Mrs. Glitzenstein, who was Marion County’s 107th traffic victim of the year, was struck by an automobile driven by Marvin White, 20, of 11 E. 24th St. Witnesses told deputy sheriffs that when she alighted from an outbourid Shelbyville bus, George Sommers, 61, who also got off the bus, helped her across the street and she started walking along the edge of the pavement toward her home. Mr. White said he was passing a truck and did not see the elderly woman until too late. He said he was not driving fast, and deputy sheriffs said this was substantiated by the driver of the truck, Delbert Willsey, 34, of 2323 Churchman Ave. Mr. White was not held. Both Mrs. Glitzenstein's legs were broken and she died almost instantly. A native of Germany, she had lived in Indianapolis half a century. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical Church and the Ladies’ Aid Society of the church. - She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Louise Waterman and Mrs. Hazel Ulrich.

Woman, 80, Killed When Struck by Auto

DECATUR, Ind. Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Funeral services are being arranged today for Mrs. Barbara Lehman, 80, Berne, who was killed yesterday when she was struck by an auto driven by Wildas Liechty, 29, also of Berne. Coroner Robert Zwick said he expects to return a verdict of accidental death.

Dies of Injuries From Crash Fatal to Wife

SHELBYVILLE, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Funeral services will be held tomorrow for John Hill, who died here from injuries received when two autos crashed headon a mile south of Mt. Auburn, Sunday night. His wife, 75, died shortly after the crash.

NOT TOO YOUNG -- JUST UNDERSIZED

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 2 (U. P.). —Brake-testing. patrolmen stopped a Baby Austin here to make the routine brake test. “Get out and let us try ‘em,” one of the policemen said, trying to get a good look at the occupants, “Why, you don’t look old enough to drive, aényway.” The driver, as he stepped from the tiny car, hardly came to the policeman’s waist. His companion was no larger. They gave their names as Harvey B. Williams, 33, and Louis Croft, 19. Both were midgets who had worked at Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition. “It’s nothing new,” Mr. Williams

said, “Most folks think we're too young to drive.”

YOST GIVES UP IN WOLVERINE HUNT

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Mich., Dec. 2 (U. P).—Fielding H. Yost, director of Athletics at the University of Michigan, has given up a 15-year search for a Michigan wolverine “dead or alive.” The famous former coach of Wolverine football teams has de-

stuffed wolverine he obtained from British Columbia. ! “There just ain’t no sech animal as a Michigan wolverine,” Mr. Yost paraphrased ruefully as he recounted his fruitless 15 years of tracking down any stinblance of wolverine that had been born, caught, or even killed within the borders of the State.

and fathers wept. Several became hysterical. Some fainted. The parents who passed through that there were no irregularities in the Nov. 8 election.” He said the the ward without finding their children knew that they lay in the room beyond—the morgue. One mother said one of her two

a toothache. But Carol had gone. “Pind out if this body: could be Carol's,” she said. It was.’ George Hunt's body was identifled by his leather jacket. Naomi

Webb’s oy was identified by her red-gold

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ABDUCTED GIRL SAFE AT HOME AFTER RELEASE

Father Says Daughter Convinced Men He Had No Money.

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ter, Lucy, 15, reported that Mary had been seized by two or three men driving a light truck. Lucy reported

through a wire fence and running frantically for home. Unshaven but obviously gladdened by the return of his daughter, Mr. Brown told reporters: “My daughter came home last night about 10 p. m. The kidnapers let her out about one-half mile down the road from the entrance to our farm. It was near Hanson Branch. “She came home wearing only a slip. She said the men burned all her clothes. She spent a restful night. A doctor examined her and found she had not been harmed. in any way by her experience. Mary said after she was shoved into the truck she was driven to a hut where she was kept on a mattress.

Blindfolded, Not Gagged

“She said the abductors placed a blindfold on her eyes after she was put into the truck, but she was not gagged. “There were three men when she was kidnaped. One of the men jumped out of the car, another was driving, and a third was in the rear compartment. She said the men talked and whispered. “The motive for the kidnaping was ransom. When she convinced them that I was not in a position to pay the ransom they said they did not want anything more to do with her.” Mr. Brown said Mary reported she was brought back to Oxon Hill in an automobile instead of the truck which the abductors used to snatch her. Mary told her parents that she was twice unconscious during her stay at the hut. She thought she might have been struck in the stomach. Happy that his daughter was back, Mr. Brown said that he did not desire to discuss all the details since it might hamper the police.

Find Abandoned Truck

Washington police reported discovery of an abandoned light truck which they said seemed to answer the description given by Mary and her sister of that used in the abduction. The truck was found abandoned in the southeast section of the city. Officers found several blankets, a suit of man’s clothing and fishing tackle in the truck. State Police Capt. Edward McK. Johnson refused to, comment on her return, but indicated that he could not account for the truck approaching the Brown home so closely—apparently within 1% miles—without it being seen by the numerous road patrols.

Roads Very Muddy

Other clues police looked for were the mattress upon which Mary said she was forced to lie. Police believed that the men might try to dispose of it. Another factor considered important was the muddy condition of all roads in the vicinity. Any car that had been in the neighborhood could not have escaped gathering much red clay on its wheels, fenders and tires. Neighbors had only the highest praise for Mary. They said she was a quiet girl, a “home girl,” that she did not go out much with boys and as far as they knew did not have a real boy friend. She graduated from the Notre Dame Academy a year ago but was taking an advanced business course. She planned to study to be a trained nurse. She. became .nterested in that vocation through her stepmother, who was a nurse before marrying Mr. Brown about cight years ago.

FSCC BUYS WHEAT FOR BRITISH EXPORT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P.)— The Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. increased wheat purchases today to fill a contract for the export of 20 million bushels to millers in the United Kingdom. The wheat will be bought at prevailing prices on the cash markets and resold to exporters at a price which will enable them to meet world competition in the British market, officials announced. Officials declined to disclose details of the transaction, the largest completed under the wheat subsidy export program announced Aug. 29, but said. the wheat would be delivered over a period of several months.

she had escaped only by clambering}.

Recount of votes in three County cases got under way today at 2001 Northwestern Ave., but not before commissioners saw to it that the building was heaps

CLAIM SCHOOLS | NOT FIREPROOF

Unions Charge Materials in New Structures Are Inflammable.

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rector, and Ira M. Shouffer, State Industrial Board chairman.

The petition follows: “Come now the undersigned petitioners and respectfully show that they are the duly - constituted officers of the Marion County Building Trades Council, and that as such they are interested in the safe, sanitary, healthful and best construction of all kinds of buildings, public and private. “Your petitioners further show that there have been built within the last year a number of buildings wherein combustible materials fave been used for the purpose of finishing the interior of buildings and public places. “This material is of such a character that it is highly combustible, unsafe and a menace to public health and safety. Within the last year new buildings have been constructed for Crispus Attucks High

Ind., where this material has been used. “It is proposed, at the present time, to erect buildings for the Medical Center of Indiana University, and in the plans for construction the same kind of material is being designated.

‘Numerous’ Others

“In numerous other proposed building operations throughout the State of Indiana, the same thing is being done. “For the reason that the finishing of buildings of this character constitutes a menace to public

dersigned, as representatives of the various classes of persons engaged in building operations, respectfully petition your Board that a time be fixed for hearing, at which the undersigned may cause persons to appear and give evidence with respect to the kind and character of building construction that is taking place throughout the State of Indiana. “Your petitioners whuld further show that in September, 1938, through their duly constituted representatives, they conferred with the Hon. M. Clifford Townsend, Governor of Indiana, concerning this particular matter, and that this request for an investigation at your hands is made at his suggestion.” The Administrative Building Council was created by an act of the Lofislature and approved March 3, It consists of the executive committee already named and 12 appointive members composed of three engineers, three architects, three contractors and three building

building industry and engaged in actual practice and construction, Power to Fix Standards Powers and duties as outlined by the Act give the State Council “power, jurisdiction and authority, to administer, execute and enforce any and all laws now in force or hereinafter enacted in this State relative to the construction, repair or maintenance of places of employment and public buildings, as shall render the same safe and sanitary; to ascertain, fix and order such reasonable standards, rules, regulations, classifications, approval of

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Left to right are Charles Ettinger, County Clerk-elect; Harry Gasper, deputy Clerk and ProseYor Herbert Spencer.

Recount Officials Get

‘Cold Feet,’

‘but They

Will Count Hour-a-Day

UE to conditions over which they have no control—cold feet, the weight of voting machines, and absence of heat in the voting machine warehouse—Recount Commissioners decided today

to recount only one hour a day. They visited the warehouse

yesterday at 2001 Northwestern

Ave., and discovered it unheated. They noticed it contained a small,

thoroughly inadequate stove, but

there was no coal even for that.

The machines weigh so much and will have to be carried so far for recounting that the whole thing is going to be awkward, they

decided

So they decided to order five tons of coal and to huddle around the stove counting just one hour a day after the stove had been started. They buttoned up their coats and left for home and office, stamping their feet to get them warm as they did so.

employment and public buildings as shall be necessary to carry out the purpose of this act.” The act further provides that “upon petition by any person that any place of employment or public building is not safe and sanitary, the Administrative Committee may proceed, with or without notice, to make such investigation as may be necessary to determine the fact of

the complaint.” The 12 additional members of the Administrative Building Council

Prof, W. K. Hatt, Purdue University, Lafayette; Clyde E. Yater, president, Shelby Construction Co., Shelbyville; C. M. Gross, plant engineer, Delco Remy Co., Anderson; A. C. Bohlen, 1001 Majestic Building, Indianapolis; Warren D. Miller, Opera House Building, Terre Haute; - Joseph E. Wildermuth, Gary; John Niewoehner, Richmond; H. H. Herbert, Michigan City; Ross Eschelman, Anderson; Brose Marks, Muncie; Charles Frauer, 921 Tuxedo St., Indianapolis; Charley Lutz, 4528 Winthrop Ave. Indianapolis.

2 MURDERERS DIE BY GAS SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Dec. 2 (U. P.) —Albert Kessell, 28, and Robert Cannon, 29, murdeyers, were executed today in the lethal gas chamber at the State Prison here. They were the first persons put to death

by gas in California. Hanging previously was the method of execution.

. IDENTIFIED BY NUMBERS NORMAN, Okla., Dec. 2 (U. P.) — Here is how the Bobby Davises identify themselves: “I'm Bobby Davis No. 1,” and “I'm Bobby Davis No. 2.” The “twin-name” students are not related.

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Legislative Conference to Be Held Dec. 13 to Study New Proposals.

The biennial legislative conference of the Indiana Federation of Labor will be conducted here Dec. 13 to formulate the A. F. of L. program in the 1939 Legislature. The meeting, called by Adolph Fritz, Federation secretary, will be attended by representatives of the various local unions throughout Indiana. Meanwhile, Carl Mullen, Federation president, announced that the

original group which supported and:

obtained enactment of the Occupational Diseases Law will meet Wednesday to decide whether any amendments strengthening the law are needed. The A. F. of L. legislative program will include several major bills, Mr.- Mullen said. Among these are the direct primary system for nominating all State candidates, having the State take over disability compensation insurance, the merit plan for all State employees, repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism and Garnishee laws, and support of State wage and hour legislation.

BUGS OVERPOWER TRACTOR JOGGINS, N. C, Dec. 2 (U, PJ). A swarm of mosquitoes stopped a tractor working on the marshlands near here. The insects alighted on the tractor fan belt in swarms, and as they were crushed they formed a slimy surface, stopping the machine.

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Writ Says Judge Coerced Grand Jury to Return Indictments.

Charges that Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker “coerced the Grand Jury into returning indictments” against 92 Primary election workers were made in a plea in

{abatement on file in Criminal Court

today. Judge Baker declined to comment on the charges set out in the plea. The plea, filed by attorneys for

{the 92 defendants charged with vio-

lating the Indiana election laws, asked that the indictments be “declared null and void” because of Judge Baker's alleged “inflammatory statements.” Special ‘Judge John W. Spencer, of Evansville, who last week overruled defense motions to quash the indictments, is expected to set a

hearing date for the plea next week.

The abatement plea recited several alleged public statements made

from the bench and in his private office during the three months’ investigation of alleged Primary election irregularities. ° Flagrant Abuse Charged The plea stated: “All statements made by said Judge Baker were inflammatory against defendants as contrary to law, a flagrant abuse of the discretion of the court and an invasion of the rights of the defendants to a fair investigation. “By reason of the influence and pressure of Judge Baker the Grand Jury was induced and coerced into returning the indictments against the defendants.” The plea referred to Judge Baker’s proceedings to take the investigation. away from Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer last June and appoint his own special prosecutors. “‘I don’t believe the public will be satisfied with an investigation conducted by Prosecutor Spencer because one of his deputies was a member of an election board’,” the plea quoted Judge Baker as saying during the investigation. The deputy prosecutor referred to was Joseph Howard, who was among those indicted by the Grand Jury. The plea also quoted the statement made by Judge Baker, Sept. 2, when he reprimanded the Grand Jury for delay in voting on the question of indictments. According to the plea, the Grand Jury foreman allegedly conferred with Judge Baker in the latter’s office about procedure in the investigation and defense attorneys described the action as “prejudicial to defendants.” Last week Judge Baker discharged the Grand Jury that returned the primary’ indictments because of what he described as its “failure to return an indictment on conclusive evidence of vote fraud” in the Nov. 8 election.

NEW AIRLINES HEAD IS APPOINTED HERE

Announcement was made today by American Airlines of the appointment of Don: Urquhart as city sales manager. Mr. Urquhart, connected with the aviation industry for the last 10 years, was transed here from St. Louis. He succeeds Ralph Radcliffe, city sales manager here for the last two years, who has been transferred to Oklahoma City.

by Judge Baker to the Grand Jury’

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2 Recheck Totals Jibe With Those Returned By Canvassing Board.

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Superior Court No. 2 Judge, also were the same as announced by the Canvassing Board. This tabulation was Jeffrey, 1850; Spencer, 2040. Seven of 13 Republican candidates who filed recount petitions dismissed their cases and special judges pres

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complete rulings for recounts today. Thomas Garvin, attorney for Democrats, charged that the Ree publicans “never have been sincere in their recount motives.” “It. is all just sham action,” he said. The third case in which recount of votes was started was John A. Schumacker against Albert Goepper, Recount commissioners in the Jeffrey case are Jerry Gates, Karl J. Stipher and Thomas Sullivan; in the Royse case, John Quinn, John

D. Hughes and Jeremiah L. Cadicks Commissioners named in-the case of Edwin McClure vs. Smiley Cham= bers for Probate Judge were Julius: Birge, Max White and Mr. Gates, They will be sworn in later today. Special judges in the cases of George Schmidt vs. John Ryan for Surveyor and Addison Dowling vs. Herbert E. Wilson for Superior Court 4 judge were to rule .on points of law this afternoon before naming recount commissioners. Cases dismissed yesterday, some of which had reached the point of starting recounts, were: John Engelke vs. Henry O. Goett for Superior Court 4 judge; William Oren vs. Glenn Ralston for County Auditor; Frank Huse vs Charles Ettinger for County Clerk; William Remy vs. Wilfrea Bradshaw for Jue venile Court; Mabel Lowe vs. Hane nah Noone for County Recorder; Frank Cones vs. Walter Boetcher for County Treasurer, and Edwin J. Haerle against David M. Lewis for Prosecutor. Attorneys for Democratic candidates protested the dismissals on the ground that the Republican candidate’ petitions “had charged they believed fraud was committed in the election.”

Township Trustee Wins One Vote in Recount

Times Special LOGANSPORT, Dec. 2. — The 5 Clinton Township trustee recount board ruled today that Laurel Reed, Democrat, won the office by thrée votes instead of two, as formerly announced, over Leroy Rice, Repub= lican. The board places the total vote at 196 for Reed and 193 for

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