Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1939 — Page 4
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HUNDREDS HURT IN SUPPER-HOUR SUBWAY CRASH
Terrified Passengers Periled By Third Rail as N. Y. Trains Collide.
NEW YORK, March 31 (U. B).} —Police compiled today a list of! 243 persons injured when two trains of the citv-owned independent sub-| way system collided underground at| the height of the home-going rush| hour last night. None was killed gna only 14 were | confined in hospitals today but] hundreds of Phooaet in the two! crowded, four-car trains were flung | into aisles. endangered by the electrified third rail wher they streamed out on to the tracks through emergency exits, or terrified while waiting 20 minutes in the wrecked cars to be rescued. Train Stalled on Curve
occurred in Astoria shortly before 6
The crash Queens Borough, p. m. One train, cperated by] Motorman William Abresca, wasj stalled on a sharp curve by a de fective coupling. The other, oper ated by Paul Tomshaw and heade in the same direction, struck it from| the rear. Crews of both trains were questioned for hours and will go to the district attorney's office later today for an official investigation. Al-| though they apparently had not been injured, Mr. Abresca and his} conductor, Henry Siock, both complained of “feeling sick” were taken to a hospital at midnight. Investigators were puzzled because the automatic block Ss al system failed to prevent the crash. 1t stops a train automatically when it approaches too near another train.| Mr. Tomshaw said he got a red| signal and was stopped after leavng the Steinway Street station, but proceeded when the I turned green. Approached Curve
and
Slowly He approached the curve slowly the previous red light, he
the
because of said, but almost stalled train before he saw it. He clamped on the brakes, sending a terrific jerk through the train that hurled passengers from their seats. An instant later the crash came. Ths car floors buckled, straw cushions flew through the air, win-| dow panes shattered and passengers screamed. Some lay unconscicus. Others battled their way out to the] tracks, Many were bleeding from;
CULs Pedestrians on the street level! hearing the commotion underground, | gave the alarm that brought 200 po-| licemen, firemen and ambulances from seven hospitals. Policemen went down ladders through manholes to herd passengers off the tracks. The fact that lights staved on in both {rains and that neither was derailed, helped to minimize the hysteria. In 20 binutes the trains were towed to the next station where the more seriously injured were laid out on the platform for emergency treatment
RUTH ETTING DENIES LOVE THEFT CHARGE
HCLLYWOOD, March 31 (U. P) Blond Ruth Etting, retired biues
was upon
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Hoagy Lures
Like the Pied Piper,
Hoagy Carmichael,
the mayor
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. Times Photo. famed Hoosier composer,
lured all the folk within earshot away from their posts yesterday when
he gave a brief recital of his compositions at City who said he Also watching Hoagyv's technique is Howard C.
played, of his office. michael, the composer's father.
Mayor Sullivan eft),
Hall. As Hoagyv “had to work.” came out Car-
Gable Admits He's Lucky, Carole Calls Him Her Star
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YWOOD, March 31 (U. as a lover on the
HOLI gracefully
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Clark Gable, who performs more than off, diffidently put his arm
around the slim waist of Carole Lombard, his bride, today and said, ves,
he was a lucky guy. The newlyweds. who eloped to Ariz. said their honeyon a when, as, basis. The widely grinning Gable, clad in a slightly rumpled blue serge badly needed a haircut.
his part in “Gone and it'll be two months before that job is finished.
long for
Carole Due on Job
“And on Wednesday I go to work at R-K-0,” his bride said, “and it looks like our plans for a honeymoon will have to be as indefinite as they were for our marriage.” As for widely printed reports that Miss Lombard intends to stop earn-
{ing $425,000 a year as one of the
and become a have some said that
movie's top stars housewife and maybe she smiled and was mere guess-work.
Gable Kept Busy
“Eventually.” she said, “I'm going to retire, but that’s all in the future and I much. It's too far away. But I can say now that Clark is the star of this family. He always has been.” While his bride did the talking,
She had just called him the star in their
and if Gables | Fernando Valley would be ready,
‘the plasterers still had not finished
That] twas the rub. He has to have his]
| Askew
family.
furniture on the theory that Mr. new ranch home in the San but
their work. “So I had a few chairs and things unpacked again,” she said, "and we'll stay in this house until our new one is readv. I think it'll be about two weeks more. Their new home, situated on a 14-acre orange grove north of Burbank, contains seven rooms.
WANDERING SON ASKS | FOR PARENTS, DIES,
JOPLIN. Mo., March 31 (U. P) — Emmett Askew, 28, who left his farm home nine years ago and never cor-| responded with his parents, died | vesterday, a few hours after he had | sent for them when told that he] probably would die from a bullet wound. He was shot when he re-
haven't thought about it Sisien arrest at Mulberry, Kas.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert] of Sheldon, Mo., said bey had worried about their son since | he left home. In the intervening!
Texas Worker Ha Hauls Victim 400 Miles Before Police Stop His Car.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 31 (U. P).—Hugh White, middle-aged oil-field worker, was almost grateful last night when highway patrolmen overhauled his automobile. For 400 miles he had carried in it the bulletriddled body of his friend, G. F. (Punk) Weaver, whom he admitted shooting in a drunken quarrel. White had no objective, had driven haphazardly eastward for 20 hours across vast sotuhwest Texas where he could have dumped the body miles from the nearest house.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
GHASTLY RIDE COMES TO END
Land 14-Pound
Somehow he couldn't get rid of his burden. When he stopped for gasoline here, | a filling station atiendant noticed blood trickling from the trunk of | the automobile. after White drove on. | White told Patrolman John Owen- | by that he and Weaver, Tex.
to steal at a well. said, suggested they get it to blast
release, in a pares handed encounter,
3943 Rookwood Ave.
‘Possum Here
Times Photo.
A l4-pound opossum is the guest of Brvant Basler, 3949 Rook- , and Ira Dooley, | until Stale Conservation officials call to take the ‘possum into the They captured the stranger Wednesday night
who will keep him
He called police fish in a river. They had been drink(ing, White said.
a Royalty, and Weaver drew a garage owner, quarreled last| tol,” said White. night over dynamite they planned from him and began firing. I don't Weaver, White | know how many time I shot him.”
rear seat of the car and started. At
San Angelo, he crammed it in the
arguing at the well 22-caliber pis“I took it away
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White put Weaver's body in the night.”
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‘trunk and continued. On the windshield of White's car was a sticker advertising an ama-
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INFLOYD INQUIRY
Lorch Says Witnesses will
Have Opportunity to | Vindicate Selves. |
NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 31| (U. P.) —Opportunity to take a lie | detector test will be offered to 16
witnesses appearing before the| Floyd County Grand Jury investi-| gating a shortage in the County Treasury, Prosecutor Frank E.| Lorch Jr. said today. Mr. Lorch said the witnesses| would not be required to take the| test, but that it would “give them a| chance to vindicate themselves of any | suspicion that they are withholding | information.” He said he had made arrangements with experts of the Indiana | State Police to give the lie detector tests before the ‘ury. i One of the witnesses refused to| take the test on attorney's counsel] but the remaining 15 failed to state| whether they would take it or not,!| according to Mr. Lorch. “The whole truth in this shortage | has been buried beneath layers of! hypocrisy and subterfuge,” Mr.| Lorch said. “If it is possible, either | through human or
PRIDSY, MARCH 31, 1939
lone
Butane Expert Plays 2 Games Daily For 6 Years.
SHKOSH, Wis., March 31 (U. P.).—A thumbnail sketch of Otto (Scout) Ziebell, if not the best, at least the nation’s most persistent solitaire player: He has played an average of 22 games daily for nearly six years; he uses a new deck every three weeks because he wears the spots off the cards; he knews at least 25 different versions; his best record: 15 victories out of 24; his worst: three out of 27.
A Spanish-American War veteran, Mr. Ziebell, 66, worked with a construction firm 25 years without missing a day. He retired in 1930.
means, to solve this case, I intend {to do it.” The present Grand Jury investigation is the third that has been made of the shortage. Indictments {voted previously against Joshua T., | Crandall of New Albany and Claude M. Gladden of Scottsburg, former |field examiners for the State Board of Accounts, were quashed by the courts on the ground of faulty
mechanical | wording.
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