Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1938 — Page 3
“MONDAY, DEC. 26, 1938
"FOUR KILLED IN ANGOLA CRASH: ONE DIES HERE
Eight Others Hurt in Three- ~ Car Collision on lcy State Highway.
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under arrest on charges of reckless driving and speed. Clarence L. Ray, 29; 1750 N. Rural St., and his wife, Merrille Jean Ray, 25, were treated at Methodist) Hospital for injuries received When the car Ray was driving collided with a car driven ky John Sauter, 20, 2254 Union St., according to police. ‘The accident occurred in the 1400 block of Madison Ave.
Police arrested Sauter on charges of operating ar, automobile without a license and reckless driving. A six-month-old bgby, Frank Claspill Jr., suffered slight injuries when the car which his mother was driving collided with a hit-and-run car Christmas Eve., police said. The accident happened at Arsenal and Washington Sts. Mrs. Claspill lives ay 2250 Kenwood Ave.
Drunken Driving Charged
Charles Marlett, 40, 826 S. Illinois St., was arrested on a charge of drunken driving while aiter the car he was alleged to have been driving was damaged in an accident Christmas Eve, according to police. A passenger, Horace Bell, 30, 1848 Kessler Blvd., was sent to City Hospital for treatment for injuries received when he had apparently been thrown through the windshield of the car. He was charged with being drunk. The accident occurred at Chesapeake and West Sts. Two women ‘were treated at City Hospital for injuries received when the cars in which they were riding collided at 22d and Meridian Sts. They were Mis. Daisy Trinnell, 41, 2539 College Ave., and Mrs. Gertrude Miller, 47, R. R. 2, Box 452, wife of Frank Miller, 52, driver of one of the cars. The other car, was driven by Pallas Fleming, 29, 2031 Carrollton ve. | Joséph Freeland, 21, of 430 S. Keystone Drive, was arrested on charges of reckless driving, drunkenness and drunken driving and was
sent to City Eospital after police |
said the car he was driving struck a car driven by Mrs. Ada Kimbler, 36, 2210 N, Tacoma Drive.
3 Killed, 9 Injured Near Angola
ANGOLA, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Four persons were killed and eight others were injured, one seriously, when two automobiles crashed yesterday on an ice-covered highway 10 miles east of here as the drivers attempted to avoid striking a large truck. The dead are William Olshonsky, 30; his wife, Fay, 24, and Mrs. Soria Brockstein, 35, of Chicago, and Mrs. Clara Learner of La Grange, Ill. The others were less seriously injured. The two automobiles, one driven by Mr. Olshonsky and the other by Fred McKeen of Delta, O., missed the truck. The truck, driven by Glen Danielson, 30, of Detroit, who was injured slightly, was damaged when the carrier struck a bridge as Danielson tried to avoid striking the wrecked cars. {
Hold Funeral Services
For 4-Car Victims
PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 26 (U. P.). —Quadruple funeral services will be held here today for four victims of a head-on auto-bus crash near Limo, O., Friday night. The victims were Franklin Smith, 60; his wife, Edna, 44, both of Whitesville, Ky; Charles Schell, 31, and Schell’s wife, Mary, 32, bath of Portland. The ‘$miths were the parents of Mrs. Schell. | - The accident occured as the two couples were traveling together from Portland to Toledo, O., where they were $0 be holiday guests of Mrs. Smith’s son.
SHIPPING MEN OPTIMISTIC
MONTREAL, Dec. 26 (U. B). — The visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada next summer and the New York World's Fair will help revive the slumping trans-Atlantic passenger business, shipping men here believe. | They forecast that both events will give impetus to westbound traffic.
LEGS BALK ON MIND
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 26 (U. P.). —Lawrence Krum, 86, discovered that his old legs would not conform to his young ideas when he tried to jump a puddle, misjudged the distance, missed the curb and fell. He suffered lacerations on the forehead as a result of his ‘“pud-dle-jumping.”
QUILL PENS OF 1790 FOUND GALLIOPLIS, O.; Dec. 26 (U. P.). —Quill pens belonging to Francois Creuzet, one vf the original French settlers here- in 1790, . have been found stored in an old chest. Frank R.. Vance, a gerat-great grandson, gave the pens to friends.
In Indianapolis
Here Is the Traffic Record County Deaths |Arrests ...... 17 * (To Date)
1938 ........ 118 1937 ........ 152
City Deaths (To Date)
1938 ......... 14}, ! Pedestrians .. 52| Running Red 1937 M\.......101| Light ....... 0 Drunken Driving .....
Speeding .... 4 Reckless Driving .... 2
Running Preferential Street. 0
Alms.
. Dec. 24-25 Accidents .... 59 Injured ...... 19 Dead ........ 1,Others ...... MEETIN(G:S TOMORROW Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,
n. : | Alpha Tau Oniega, luncheon, Board ot Trade, noon.. Wo dig Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, oon. : { ; ‘ ereator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Uni of Mic : RY i higan Chun, , ncheon,
Yor Frad noon. “of Colm
‘Hopeful’
14-Year-Old Boy Fights ‘Fatal’ Disease—
: And Grins.
(CEcaco, Dec. 26 (U. P)— ] Twenty-one days ago Raymond Potter Jr. 14, was stricken by staphylococcus meningitis, a rare disease usually fatal within 48 hours. Today his physician announced he has a good chance: "to recover. : \ There is no standard treatment for the disease. It attacks the bones, blood and covering of the brain. Medical records show that only 11 persons have recovered from it. Physicians believe the reason Raymond still is alive can be credited to 11 blood transfusions
he has received from persons who |
recovered from phylococcus infections of a similar but not the same specific ‘type. Dr. Luther M{ Lorance, the attending physician, said that if Raymond conti ues to improve, further transfusions may -be unnecessary. “Fach day /that he lives,” Dr. Lorance said/ “his chances for recovery impyove. To say the least, we are hopeful.” or ” 4 s
AYMOND'S parents visited him at the contagious disease hospital yesterday. Through a glass door they saw him grin and hold up a package pf Christmas cards and telegrams received from all over the country. His father, a chain store manager, sent a message to him by a nurse. “There’s a Christmas tree at. home and that wristwatch is waiting for you.” Raymond smiled, “That's the' thing I wanted most,” he told the nurse. “Now I will have to hurry and get well.”
LIBYA TO HAVE ITALIAN GABLE
Work Started on World's Longest Submarine ~ Phone Line.
ROME, Dec. 26 (U, P.).—Italy has started: work on the world’s longest submarine telephone cable. When completed it will insure
continuous telegraphic as .well as telephonic service between Libya and the Italian mainland. It will be about 435 miles in length. The longest underwater telephone cable presently in use is the one joining Australia with Tasmania, which is approximately 195 miles long. The new submarine cable will extend from Tripoli to Pandelusa Island, which is directly south of the westernmost tip of Sicily. It will then go north to the fortified island of Pantellaria to Porto Empedocle in Sicily, which is two miles from the better-known city of Agrigento. At present there is a telegraphic cable which joins Tripoli with Syracuse in Sicily. It is 325 miles in length. Laid in 1913, it no longer is: adequate to handle the increased telegraphic traffic between Italy and its Mediterranean colony. There is also the British-con-trolled cable which passes through
Malta. - For. national and political
reasons, Italy naturally wants a wholly Italian telegraphic and telephonic line. The new cable will be completed some time next year and be ready for service before next fall.
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. Dec. 26 (U. P.).—A Blickenderffer Model 8, similar to the typewriter upon which Mark Twain wrote the first yped manuscript ever submitted to an editor, was displayed here. Developed in the ‘latter part of the 19th Century, its letters and characters were arranged on a revolving dum and were inked by a wick-like cloth before they came into contact with the paper.
BACK TO FIRST LOVE NEWCASTLE - ON - TYNE, Eng. Dec. 26 (U. P.).—A decree nisi was granted at Newcastle assize to Mrs. Emily Hancock, of Northallerton, Yorkshire, on the grounds of the misconduct of her husband, Mauriee Ernest Hancock, with his first wife. It was explained that Hancock had abandoned his second wife and gone back to live with his first wife.
ASKS SON BE LASHED
HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 26 (U. P.)—In an effort to avoid having his son associate with criminals, William Forrester suggested that the 24-year-old youth receive lasHes instead of a prison sentence. The son was charged with stealing a golf stick.
Santa Claus
closed today. : Joyce Mathews, daughter of James | F. Mathews, Wall Street broker, announced her engagement to John Hartley, a young leading man recently drafted from the stage to appear in motion pictures. Gwen Kenyon, Hollywood native, is to marry Robert Heasley, Beverly Hills socialite who turned actor. Miss Kenyon also met her fiance on a film studio set. Dolores Casey, blond actress from Brooklyn, is engaged to Bob Linden, an assistant director. _Hollywood Christmas Briefs— Clark [Gable gave Carole Lombard, his best girl, a Persian lamb coat and she gave him'a ruby pin, camera and motorboat. . . . Sam Goldwyn Save his employees an extra week's pay. . . Bing Crosby played Santa Claus before a movie camera. He had a studio camerman film the entire proceedings as 22 members of
his family celebrated Christmas with]
him. |. . Isa. Miranda talked to her mothe in Italy via trans-Atlantic
telephone. . . Olympe Eradna and her N83 ents drove to Palm Spring:
0. OF C.URGES
"BALANCING OF
| STATE BUDGET
Labor Law, Security Study, ‘Intrusion’ Attempts i Also Discussed.
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ture is to balace the State bucget|,
by reduction of expenditures. In other words, the State spending now on an annual basis—excluding the large building program voted by the special session in July-—almost six million dollars more than if is collecting. “The large balance of $24,500,000 on last June 30 will have melted almost, if not entirely, away within the short space of the biennium ending June 30, 1941, under the present basis of intake and outgo..
11-Year Records Studied
«These facts have been brought to light in a study of the trend of State expenses and receipts during the past 11 years, recently published by the Inter-Organization Council of Indiana. # “From this study it has become evident that the State’s expenditures must be curtailed sharply to avoid the demand for increased State revenue and must be reduced even further if there is to be any substantial reduction in the
State tax load. : «One of the important angles of the taxation problem is that tne increase in ‘State expenditures is to a large extent due to the increase in State grants-in-aid to local units. The widely divergent methods of distribution used by the State seriously discriminate against the urban centers, to such extent that they have in the main obtained little or no property tax relief, while other areas have been enjoying relief to the extent of 50 per cent or more. : “Led by the Indiana Municipal League, a determined effort will be made in the session to reapportion the State’s grants-in-aid on a more equitable basis.
Model Bill Prepared
“One of the important issues affecting employee-employer relations will revolve about an attempt to pass a State wages and hours law. A model bill for State adoption has been promulgated by a conferance on State labor legislation held under the direction of Secretary of Labor Perkins.
“Such a bill would be in many respects more drastic than the Federal law, and to such extent would apply to concerns doing interstate business, as well as to those doing intrastate business only. If would exempt no employment except agricultural and domestic and executives. “The effect of such legislation on the service and retail trades is being studied closely. There seems to be considerable sentiment for withholding passage of such a law until the success or failure of the Federal law becomes more apparent.
Already much confusion and diffi-| gulty have become apparent in the
application of the Federal law. “Attempts to amend the workmen’s compensation laws also will be a feature of the session. Whether a serious attempt will be made to require the State to set up the insurance system for this purpose, as has been under study by a legislative commission during the past
year, appears to be somewhat problematical, but those anxious to have the Government stay out of business enterprise and to prevent the extension of State bureaucracy are
QUAINT TYPEWRITER STOLEN ‘co-operating to oppose the passage
of such a plan. # Desired Changes Listed
“Defense of the employer-reserve; partial pool system in the Unemployment Compensation Act, and changes in the act will be the goal in this field. Among the changes desired are reduction of the reserve requirements which would permit earlier reduction of tax rates on employers and disqualification from benefits of those who quit work voluntarily without cause attributable to the employer. “Maintenance of the ‘needs’ principle in public welfare and relief will be another issue, based on the numerous enterprises rangingsfrom an increase in the minimum sallowance for old-age assistance to plans akin to the California “ham and eggs” proposal of $30 every Thursday to all over a certain age. “Officials of local taxpayer as-
‘|sociations in the larger centers have
been conferring on needed changes in township relief legislation. The continuing increase in case load and expenditures, despite the tremendous expansion of WPA during the past. few months, they believe to have emphasized the need for devising some method of budget con-
jtors at the Wichi
trol.”
In Hollywood They Make
Into a Cupid
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Santa Claus took the form ‘of a pudgy little fellow with bow and arrow—Cupid—for three young actresses whose engagements were made public on Christmas, it was dis-
teaching her young son to ride a pony which Santa Claus left at the Stanwyck ' ranch home. . . . Joan Bennett spent the day at home with her daughters, Melinda and Dotty. . . . Dick Powell gave Mrs. Powell— Joan Blondell—a diamond bragelet while she presented him buffet silverware. . . . : Stuart Erwin gave his missus, June Collyer, -a: station wagon, the second they own. . .. Fred MacMurray had his mother and grandmother at his Bel-Air home for Christmas dinner. . . . Marie Wilson spent the day in bed trying to.get rid of an attack of flu, . . . Hedy Lamarr had the most lavisn Christmas tree in Hollywood, covered with 200 angels. . . . Spencer Tracy, after carving and consuming ‘the turkey with his family, worked off the extra poundage with a round of polo.
“BUGLE CALLS” FROM ELK LAWTON, Okla., Dec. 26 (U. P.). —The “bugle calls” reported by visMountairs
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CERTAINLY ... TUESDAY
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7A MtoTP.M In fact 3 Sales are on!
This Is the famous Sale... the Classic & that completely
In this sale you can have Strauss customary service in alterations and fittings . . . but this sale so completely overwhelms us . .. that we request a bit of additional time in the matter + of deliveries.
dominates the 3 great price fields... (1)
store, through every floor... Heading the Sale— ~~
6280 Men's and Young Men's Suits, and Topcoats at Sweeping Reductions.
(Plenty from HICKEY FREEMAN and FASHION PARK) ps like 3000 TIES, quantities of
More than 6000 SHIRTS, something SOCKS, MUFFLERS ... deeply price cut. ~ 400 Gentlemen's HATS, and 400 Gentlemen's OXFORDS (the “Four Hundred”)...Out they go! This is perhaps the foremost opportunity in fine, highly wanted apparel that has preseqted itself in Indianap We repeat—“First Pick, Best Pick! ACT QUICK"
In the , LADIES’ SHOP . .. and on the BOYS" " FLOOR the Sale is onl
| the finest... (2) the medium priced . .. (3) the popular priced. It sweeps through the
Overcoats