Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1939 — Page 2

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AUTO ACCIDENTS | WEEK-END,

OVER

Fairmount Man and English . Youth Killed; Nine Hurt in I's 20 Mishaps Here. ;

Week-end traffic in Indiana |

claimed four lives while nine per-

sons, including two children, were] #

hurt in 20 Indianapolis accidents.

The City's 1939 traffic toll stood |

at 32 with the death Saturday

morning of 2-year-old Robert Wil-| § liam Dickerson, who was struck by §

a truck in front of his home, 422%: W. Merrill St. A: hit-and-run driver killed Roy. Zarr, 46, of Griffith, as he was repairing a tire on Road 130, six miles west of Valparaiso. Griffith's wife

and five children were in the car no

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Killed in Collision

George W. Jones, 34, of Fair- ||

mount, was Killed instantly yester-

day when his cag collided head-on | driven by Stanley i Harding, Shirley. on Road 9, nine| 3

with another

miles south of Marion.

Mr. and Mrs. Harding, their baby |.& Lavonne McCormick,}

Grand Rapids, Mich. were hurt slightly. : Alson Rokerts Jr., 18, of English, died of injuries received when the car in which he was riding overturned on Road 64 near Huntingburg. 5 Verna Waltz, 21, of South Whitely, died .of internal injuries today in the Wabash County Hospital. She was injured in a motor crash yesterday near Sidney. . Charles Schafer, 2, of 1309 Hoyt Ave., was injured on the head when he ran into the path of an automopile driven by Phillip Pravatere, 2122 Pleasant St., in front of his home, police said.

Boy, 3, Is Injured

Three-year-old Arlin Williams was cut on the forehead when the car driven by his father, George Williams, 2711 E. North St. collided with one ‘driven by Art Hendricks, 3108 * English Ave., at Brookside Park.. Williams was charged with reckless: driving. Police charged Tommie Giroff, 1548 N. Senate Ave. with drunkenness after his car allegedly knocked over three guard rails on 16th St. near Indiana Ave. George Marianos, 33312 W. Washington S¢., was charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. His machine hit a parked car on N. Mount St, 1400 block, police said.

NEW METAL NEARLY HARD AS DIAMONDS

“* NEW YORK, July 24 (U. P.)— The American Chemical Society today announced discovery of a new | " metallic compound almost as hard gs diamonds -and capable of producing alloys strong enough to withstand pressures of 200,000 to $00,000 pounds per square inch. The compound, formed from tungsten, titanium and carbon, was reported to the society by Philip M. McKenna of the McKenna Metals Co. of Latrobe, Pa. 2 Because of its ability to retain sharp cutting edge at high temperatures, the report said, the new compound will increase the speed with which stainless steels can be machined and make possible production of extremely hard metals for which there has long been great industrial demand. In the metallurgical scale for hardness, diamonds being represented by the figure 10, the new material has been given a rating of | 9.8, indicating that it is only .2 softer ‘than the hardest substance known to man.

FEW CLUES FOUND; * HOOSIER IS MISSING

CINCINNATI, O., July 24 (U. P)). —A few minor clues in the disappearance of John Howard Brown of Terre Haute, Ind., were reported to-| day by Detective Chief D. Kirgan, who investigated the finding of Mr. Brown’s half-submerged auto in the Ohib River Friday. Chief Kirgan talked yesterday with Mr. Brown's son, Keith, 23, of Paris, Ill, who came to Cincinnati Sunday to try to locate his father. They. last saw each other two mont] ago at Paris. The elder Brown left on a business trip during which he intended to dispose of real estate holdings in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. : Keith Brown received a postcard several days ago from his father in Henderson, Ky., which merely stated that “everything in Indiana has. been sold.” Keith told Chief Kirgan he is a partner of his father, in charge of real estate holdings in Illinois. He said his father owned | farms, gasoline, stations and small hotels in Ohio, Kentucky and New York and traveled often.

‘NEIGHBOR CHARGED

IN FENCE SLAYING|

HAMMOND, Ind. July 24 (U. P). —Police today held Denzel G. Ellyson on a murder charge in connection with the shooting of his neighs4 bor, John Tanner. Ellyson is a brother of J. Clynn Ellyson, former State Representative and Lake County Democratic leader. The two neighbors argued over Tanner’s plan to separate their garbage cans with a fence. When Tan‘ner scoffed at his opposition to the idea, Ellyson got his shotgun and fired one blast at Tanner, killing him instantly, police said.

FIRM FILES PETITION FOR REORGANIZATION

A petition to reorganize the corporate structure of the Patterson Shade Co., 1142 N. Meridian St., was filed in Federal Court today. The petition stated that the company is “unable to meet its debts as they occur and therefore is in ‘danger of foreclosure.” Assets were listed at $132,000 and liabilities at $111,000. The petition, signed by ~ W. T. Patterson, president, stated that the company employs 100 per-

ons and has a $100,000 annual pay-|} as to re of I'S’ LX] L |

police itself through a

Leaders of a movejby Indiana’s liquor industry to Ne program formulated at a meeting today in.the Claypool Hotel were, left to right: E. W. Arens, Indiana Retail Alcoholic Bev-

cording secretary.

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erage Association president; Sam E. Rosen, Indiana Retail Package Association secretary-treasurer, and E. A. Ogle, Indiana Retail Package Association re-

2 PEDESTRIANS HELD UP IN CITY

Well-Dressed . Bandits Get $275 From Man After He Leaves Store.

“Two pedestrians were held up by armed bandits and robbed of more than $300 here today and last night. More than $200 was stolen by burglars who broke into the downtown office of a construction company. George Taylor, 117% N. ‘Alabama St., was robbed of $275 by two welldressed bandits who stopped him at Park Ave. and Wabash St. last night. The two. fled on foot through a vacant lot south of Wabash St.,

he said. Pockets Money

Mr. Taylor said that earlier he had stopped in a drugstore and believes that the men saw him put his money into his pocket after making a purchase. . : Police believe the bandits are the same two who Friday night bound, gagged and robbed Dr. John R. Miller, 955 E. Tabor St. and Dr. Paul C. Hulse, 1806 Woodlawn Ave,, in their Fountain Square Building office. Flee in Auto

Isom Williams, 2422 N. Capitol Ave., ‘was robbed of $56 by two armed men who stopped him on W. Fall Creek Parkway east of Kenwood Ave. He said they fled in an auto. 2 : Between $200 and $300 was taken from two steel cabinets and a money box at the office of the Crinslade Construction Co. 127 E. Ohio St., it was reported by the manager, Thomas Grinslade, 4721 N. Pennsylvania St. Entrance was gained by jimmying a rear window.

ELWOOD PREPARES T0 BUY WATER CO.

Timer Special ELWOOD, July 24.—City officials today were to notify Indianapolis owners of the Elwood Water Co., of the City Council's resolution last Friday to purchase the water company -for $475,000. The total price was $51,000 below the appraisal of the Indiana Public Service Commission and $30,000 below an approisal by a utility en« gineer, city officials said. The company is to be paid for by issuance of revenue bonds, which will in turn be paid off by revenue from the sale of water. Indianapolis owners of the: Elwood Water Co. Benjamin Perk, Charles Edwards and E. Alexander, said today they had not been notified of the action of the Elwood City Council in moving to buy the company. ' Mr. Perk said, however, that thre owners had offered to dispose of the 1000 shares of common stock [for $375,000. The other $100,000 is in outstanding bonds. Mr. Perk said that if the City of Elwood paid the $375,000 for the common stock, as asked, ownership of the water company would probably be transferred before-Aug. 1.

HEARST SYRACUSE PAPER ‘ACQUIRED’

SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 24 (U. P). —Changes in the newspaper -publishing field today left Syracuse with but two daily publications. The Herald, an afternoon daily, announced it-had acquired the name of the Journal and American. It appeared on the streets with a double masthead of Herald on top and Journal underneath. This left the Post-Standard, a morning publication, as the only other paper published in this city. Edward A. O'Hara will continue as ‘vice president and publisher of the Herald. The Herald management announced about 80 employees would be hired gy the expansion program. y : 2The Journal management said that “We understand some of our employees have already accepted epiployment with another newspaper. Except for these, we have set aside sufficient funds to provide a substantial bonus. . . .”

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4 More Believed Buried

LACIER, Wash. July 24 (U. P)—Tons of slowly thawing snow piled in a 100-foot crevice near the summit of Mt. Baker were expected to relinquish today the bodies of four victims of an » avalanche. The snow slide swept down upon a climbing party of 26 college students and teachers Saturday. Bodies of two have

The 20 survivors, who had set out from here on the Western Washington College of Education’s annual mountain climb, had returned to their campus at Bellingham. Several score searchers-dug all night. Digging began Sunday morning by rangers and volunteers 8000 feet up the 10,700-foot peak. They found bodies of Alice James, Arlington, Wash., and Julian Dornblunt, Alderwood Manor, Wash. ; Missing were Maynard Howat, Seattle; Verne Fisher, Coupeville, Wash.: Beulah Lindberg, Simms, Mont., and Hope Weitman, Thornton, Wash. Forest rangers held no hope for them.

HE ‘climbers had reached the foot of .the “Roman Wall,” a sheer snow-covered cliff on the northwest side. warning, a tremendous section at the cliff’s top .gave way and came thundering down. A roaring torrent of heavy wet snow caught up members of the party, snapping their Alpine stocks: like match - stems. It spewed out from the cliff’s base, over a precipice a few yards away and completely filled the: crevice. ¢ : . The four missing, it was believed, were _of the avalanche and carried into jhe crevice, “I thought at first we could ride it,” said Miss June MacWil- ‘ liams of Bremerton, Wash. “The slide started with just a whisper. By the time it was upon us it roared like thunder.” W. C. Muenchir, another student, hurled head-foremost for ‘several feet by the first wave, said. “It

Mrs. Glenna Rolle of the college faculfy, said the climbers :

Without

lifted by the first wave

was a terrible battle. ‘We

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DENY BEATING

THEFT SUSPECT

Charge Follows Suicide of Indianapolis Man in Ft. Wayne Jail.

Charges that State Police officers manhandled a 53-year-old Indianapolis junk dealer held in Ft. Wayne as a larceny suspect were branded as “absolutely false” by State Police Capt. Walter Eckert today. The junk dealer, Samuel Gold-|-stein, committed suicide in the Allen County jail Saturday, following his arrest in connection with the

‘Safe’s Doors

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COLUMBUS, -Ind., July 24. —If memory serves him right, County Auditor Leonard R. Thayer may prevent an official safecracking at the Bartholomew County Court House. Auditor Leonard, the only one knowing the combination to the safe -in which the county books were kept, scribbled it on the side of the safe. WPA workmen cleaning the Court House did some of their best scrubbing on the safe. Directions for opening it vanished with the dust.

theft of several thousand dollars worth of copper wire from the Indiana Railroad. Three Noblesville residents arrest-

DIVER QUITS SEARCH

FOR MUNCIE WOMAN

~. Blocher, Rosalyn, 5. A pet dog, “TIPPY,. was :

ed with him waived preliminary hearings in City Court and were pound over to the Allen County grand jury on grand larceny charges under $2000 bonds. Found Dead in Cell Goldstein was found banging by a towel which had been tied to the crossbars in his jail cell. The charges of beating were brought by Dan C. Flanagan, Goldstein's attorney, who

MUNCIE, Ind. July 24 (U.P) — Fred Smith of Cincinnati, diver searching for the body of Mrs, Freda Laduron in gravel pits near here, today had abandoned his hunt. ot Smith started a search last week and had made several descents into pits in an attempt to find the yorans body. She disappeared in Prosecutor Fred Davis said that investigation into the disappearance would continue along other lines,

local

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said his client had told him of the alleged mauling by two State Police officers. : “Goldstein was caught redhanded

however. He said the search of the pits was only one phase of plans ‘mapped out at a recent: conference with State and City Police. ‘*

WAGE-HOUR LAW | FRIENDS DIVIDED

ON EVE OF FIGHT

Of Andrews as Hearing Is Ordered. -

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, - July = 24—The conservatives’ campaign to undermine New Deal labor agencies probably will be victorious again this week. Last week the House voted a special “smear” investigation ‘of the Labor Board, and this week it plans to emasculate the Wage-Hour Law with the Barden amendments. Today t antilabor forces rejoiced over the split in the Administration’s ranks. Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews has “deserted” the Administration amendments which he helped to draft, thus leaving Chairman Mary T. Norton and the House Labor Committee exposed to even a ‘worse

‘| slaughter than the last time they | tried to slip the 'Norton-Andrews

amendments past the hostile House. Tomorrow the antilabor Rules Committee, led by the Cox-Smith faction which snatched the Labor Board investigation away from the Labor Committee, will try to take the wage-hour amendments out of its hands. As Thé Rules Committee will hold “hearings”| on the ,Barden amendments, which are still pending in the Labor Committee. They would remove wage protection from an estimated million workers, and hour protection from a million and. a half, - The special Labor Subcommittee ‘appointed last week to attempt a compromise between the friendly Norton amendments and the unfriendly Barden amendments has been unable to act. . This is due in part to the failure of the conservatives to consider compromise, as pledged by Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) following President Roosevelt's attack on the Barden-

| Cox assistants, and in part to the

Labor Committee's feeling of futility following Administrator Andrews’ switch.

SEES SMOKE, SAVES

SLEEPING FAMILY

A neighbor youth returning from a dance edrly yesterday was credited by Fire Department authorities with saving an East Side family when their home burned as they slept. £ Archie Cutshall, 21, of 1416 N. Kealing Ave., saw flames and smoke coming from the rear of the home of- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Blocher, 1403 N. Kealing Ave., at 2.30 a. m. - He pounded on the front door,

'|awakening Mr. and Mrs.. Blocher; {the

grandmother,

Mrs. Flora 75, and

a daughter,

trapped and: suffocated in itcl His barks had failed to arouse the family, firemen said. Damage from the fire, cause un-

~ | determined, was estimated at $1500.

COUNTY BUDGET LIST |& | To BE MADE PUBLIC “Budget request figures of a ma- | .

jority of County departments and be institutions for 1940 will be an- |i

nounced tomorrow by County Auditor Fabian Biemer. All County departments and institutions except the Auditor’s office and the County Welfare Department have prepared reports and filed them in Mr. Biemer’s office.

.\ |It is expected that the requests will ‘show a slight increase over amounts |§

requested last year.

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with the wire and there was no need

for us to even question him,” Capt. Eckert said. “He confessed imme- |} diately and implicated two other men.” Allen County Sheriff Walter A. Felger and State Detective Fred Morley who questioned Goldstein after his arrest also denied force had been used to obtain the confession. Tells About Bruises

Mr. Flanagan said Goldstein had showed him cuts and bruises on his back and arms and quoted his client as saying they were inflicted at the Ligonier State Police barracks. Deputy Coroner C. B. Parker of Ft. Wayne said a riumber of small bruises were found on Goldstein's body, but apparently they had bee there prior to his arrest.

WOUNDS TWO, KILLS SELF :

DENVER, July 2¢ (U. P.) —Harry |}|

Jips, a patient at the National Jewish Hospital here, shot and wounded two nurses today and then commit-

ted suicide.

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By LUDWELL DENNY. |

The Rev. Gerould R. Goldner

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TREATED WELL’

Goldner Plays Cards With Arabs, Writes He Gets ‘0. K’ Care. ©

JERUSALEM, July 24 (U P) — An Arab emissary carrying ransom money was believed tonight to be negotiating for release of the Rev. Gerould R. Goldner of Akron, 0. held by desert kidnapers since Wednesday. ;

Arab custom, left his son in custody of a notable resident of Bethlehem as a guarantee that he would not abscond with the ransom money entrusted to him, it was understood.

Reports Health Good

‘The ransom money was $2500 in silver pieces. The Arab kidnapers originally had demanded $5000. Hope that the Rev. Mr. Goldner would soon be safely returned to

. Bethlehem or Jerusalem was still

strong. The Rev. Mr. Goldner previously had reported in a letter that he was in good health and spent most of his time playing cards with Arab rebels who held him. The letter disclosed that Rev. Goldner was being kept in a dry well most of the time, so that he would be safe from search parties.

Addressed to Father

" The Rev. Mr. Goldner’s letter was addressed to his father, Dr. Jacob H. Goldner of Cleveland, who suffered a heart attack Saturday because of worry and sleeplessness. Dr. Goldner and his son were kidnaped Wednesday in the “Valley of Fire” near the Dead Sea. The father was escorted to Jesusalem and in-

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NLRB ORDERS VOTES IN TWO STATE FIRNS

Easy Now Kansas City Promised

Tax Cut—But Will ‘Tt Get 182

Times Special. WASHINGTON, July 24—The National Labor Relations Board today ordered collective bargaining elections held for employees of two Indiana companies. A runoff election has been set tentatively for Aug. 1 for employees of Kingan & Co., Indianapolis, to vote on whether the Amalgamated

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 24 (U. P.).—Walter H. Miller, county - assessor who gave the taxpaye and members of the County Co as well, a surprise when he nounced that taxes on real esta land valuations would be reduced 15 per cent, may give some ex- ° planation .to the court when it meets today. .

Mr. Miller acted without knowl= edge of county judges, who were on vacation. He did not consult the county counselor. His action could be overruled next spring by | the Board of Equalization. The. reduction applies to 208,088 city: ‘lots and farms. ’ >

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Purpose. Because It Lasts Longer.

VONNEGUT’S

men of America, ‘Local 165, an A. P. of 'L. affiliate, will represent them in collective bargaining. The NLRB also ordered an election within 15 days at the Showers Brothers Furniture Co. at Bloomington, Zed. The employees will decide whether the National Furniture Workers, A. F. of L.,. the United Workers, C.1. O, or neither will represent them. i,

CLUB IS REORGANIZED

Townsend Club 10 has reorganized and will meet every Wednesday night, starting this week, at the Knights of Pythias Hall, 612 E. 16th St. Mrs. Emma Beechman is the new president. :

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