Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1939 — Page 2
EIGHT KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC § OVER WEEK-END
Local Woman Is Among * Victims; Scores More Are Injured.
Eight persons, including an Indianapolis woman, were killed in week-end traffic on Indiana highways. Scores of others were hurt, 25 of them in 36 accidents in Marfon" County. The dead:
MRS. NETTIE C. COTTEY, 60, Oe 3512 Madison “Ave., Indianap0 ‘MRS. FRANCIS S. KERR, 54, Chicago. HENRY ULRICH, 69, Logans-
port - OLAF THOMPSON, 50, Grovertown. : REEVE FORD, 30, Kokomo. LLOYD FORD, 9, Kokomo. MARVIN FORD, 5, Kokomo. MICHAEL GRUBACHOVICH, 59, Valparaiso. Mrs. Cottey was hurt fatally in an accident yesterday at the intersection of Roads 52 and 9 near Fountaintown. She died at Methodist HoSpi ial 45 minutes after being ad-
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Her husband, James, who was driving, was injured in the crash which occurred as they were returning to Indianapolis after visite ing friends. State Police are investigating. Mrs. Cottey was:born at ¥Fortville. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Garner, Indianapolis; three sister, Mrs. W. A. Myers, Indianapolis; Mrs. E. P. Myers, Elwood, and Mrs. Samuel G. Garrott, Bradford, O.; four brothers, John T., Scott and Earl Raymer, all of Indianapolis, and Carlos Raymer, Anderson. Mrs. Kerr died en route to a Michigan City hospital after the car in which she was riding collided with another on Road 12 near Michigan City. Third Driver Blamed Her son, Robert, 27, driver and + Miss Margaret Hollis, 19, Cincinnati,
riding with them, were injured. State Police said an unidentified
driver crowded Mr. Kerr's car into|
one driven by Paul Arnold, Chicago. Mr. Urich was hurt fatally yesterday.in a collision on Road 218 near Walton. His lung was punctured. Mr. Thompson was killed Saturday. night when his - bicycle was struck by a car police said was driven by Martin Johnson, also of Grovertown, on Road 30 near Knox.
8 in Family Killed
Lloyd Ford died at a Kokomo hospital yesterday of injuries received in a crash near there Saturday which also claimed the lives of his father, Reeve, and his brother, Marvin Three others remained in a serious ‘condition at a Kokomo hospital today of injuries: received in the accident. They were Mrs. Vera Felknor, Indianapolis; Mrs. Ford and another son, Donald, 3. The accident occurred on Road 31 ‘when the car driven by Fay J. Felknor, husband of the injured woman, and that driven by Mr. Ford collided. Abraham Cashus Warren, 59, Paoli, died at Clark Hospital there of injuries received when struck by an automobile near his home Thursday. Mr. Grubachovich was killed when his automobile was struck by a Nickel Plate Railroad freight train two miles west of Valparaiso.
° Hit-Run Driver Sought
Only one of the 19 hurt in accidents inside the Indianapolis City limits was considered in a serious condition. ‘Kirk Jones, 8 months, received possible internal injuries when the car driven by his father, Charles Jones, 1843 Miller St., struck a telephone pole at 24th St. and Hillside Ave. Deputy sheriffs sought a hit-and-run driver after a crash at Road 40 and the German Church Road in which Denzel Roberis, 34, of 213 S. State St., and Miss Norma Wisman, 28, of Manilla, Ind., occupants of the other car, were hurt. Mrs. Mabel Green, 315 W. New York St., was fined $16 by Judge Pro Tem. Floyd Mannon when she was convicted in Municipal Court today on charges of being drunk, driving while drunk and failure to have a driver's license.
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LIST SALVATION ARMY CHANGES
Kiefer of Shelbyville and Clifford of Elwood to Trade - Posts.
Col. Bertram Rodda, Salvation Army Corps state commander," today announced staff appointments and changes. Adjutant Preston Shelbyville and Capt. Raymond Clifford of Elwood will take over others’ commands; Maj. George Boone of Goshen and Capt. H. D. Marshall of Fountain Square switch posts; Capt. Edward Deratany has been transferred from
Kiefer of
enacted a wedding ceremony on the 60th anniversary of their marriage at the New Yark World's Fair.
(center) relived romance of the past. Left to right:
honeymoon re-
the Rev. C. Ft. Wayne, Ind., best man.
$45, 000, Huh? I'll Just Doze
CHICAGO, - Aug. 14 (U. PJ. —Fifty-five-year-old Fred Sharpe went out last night to sleep on a park bench again, after expressing mildly his satisfaction at becoming $45,000 richer. Last week Chicago police were requested to find Sharpe because a cousin, Lee Saunders, had some “good news for him.” Last night
police found Sharpe and gave him the good news—a rich uncle had died, leaving him $45,000. “Well,” Sharpe gasped. “That's good.” He left immediately, saying he was going back to sleep in the park.
FORT TROOPS LEAVE
Warsaw to the Chicago Training College, and Capt. Stanley Hook, Independence, Kas, has been moved to Warsaw. / Other changes were: Capt. Nils Bonger from Madison to Peru; Capt. William Davis from Bicknell to Madison; Capt. Critzer from South Bend to Bicknell; Maj. Harvey Moore from Peru to South Bend; Capt. Robert Anderson from Mishawaka to Anderson; Capt. Paul Robb from Anderson to Richmond; Maj. Fred Brewer from Richmond to Ft. Wayne; Brig. B. B. Isaacs from Ft. Wayne to Mishawaka, pro tem. Maj. and Mrs. Boone will be receveid officially Thursday night. Capt. and Mrs. W. S. Stevenson will lead a group of instrumental and vocal musicians and vocalists. Maj. |A. S. Thomas will be in charge of the welcome and will conduct the official induction on behalf of Col. Rodda. Three of Maj. Boone's sons are
Kenneth Boone of Bedford; Lieut. Ralph Boone of Indianapolis and
FOR NATIONAL SHOOT
Troops of the 10th and 1ith Infantry Brigades of Ft. Harrison left today for Camp Perry, O. for duty during national rifle matehes opening this week. Five officers and 475 enlisted men will compose the detachment which will encamp during the tournament sponsored by the National Rifle Association, but held under supervision of the War Department. The convoy will include more than 100 vehicles and will be commanded by Capt. Robert Childs, 11th Infantry. The detachment will include the 11th Infantry pistol and rifle teams which will take part in the competition. Lieut. Gilbert F. Bell will be in charge’ of the Ft. Harrison marksmen. Ft. Harrison was the scene yesterday of a “big party” by the Citizens Military Training Camp enrollees for their friends and relatives. Trainees of the August camp
Lieut. Loren Boone of Warsaw.
played informal hosts to the visitors.
Hoosiers Relive Romance of Past at Fair
Frances Nalle, bridesmald. winner of the Fair's “Fairest of the Fair” Beauty Contest; Mrs. Kindt, A. Neyman, Navy Chaplain at Camp George Washington; Mr. Kindt, and Frank Buck,
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Motorist Robbed, Thrown From Car; Woman Is
Slugged in Store.
repre Abduction and robbery of a motorist and the slugging and robbing
of a woman in her store were among crimes reported in the city over the week-end. Otto Tamm, 57, of 2606 N. Delaware St., reported he was abducted by two men as he was putting his car away in the garage at the rear of his home Saturday night. The men put him in the rear seat of the car and drove to a point on Girls’ School Road, where they struck him and took $450, he said. They then threw him out of the car. The machine ran over his ankle as it was driven away. Mr. Tamm was taken to City Hospital. Mrs. Alta M. Gettle, 64, reported that two youthful gunmen entered her dry goods store at 602 S. West St., Saturday, knocked her down, struck her repeatedly, threatened Jo kill her, and escaped with $14 in loot. Paul Shirley, 19, of 1208 Cruft St., drug store delivery boy, was attacked by a man as he was making a delivery Saturday, inh the 3400 block on N. Pennsylvania St., he reported. The man struck him with a bottle and escaped with $11, he said. The youth was found in a semi-conscious condition and taken to City Hospital for treatment.
Miss Tressella Murphy, 2035 N.|’
Meridian St. said a man snatched her purse as she was leaving her apartment and escaped with $5. When employees were momentarily out of the office of the Grimes Tire Co., 222 W. Michigan St., yes terday, some one took $100, it was reported to police. Burglars last night broke into the Harris-Stein Tavern, 1121 N. Meridian St., for the second time witha week and stole liquor valued at
By JAMES THRASHER
another week. If you are not— and thousands of Indianapolis citizens aren’t—it ushers in six weeks of tears, sneezes and suffocation. What's in the air today? Pollen. What's the result? | Hay fever, that scourge of the sensitive schnozzle. It\is a tibe of sufferig ad bisery. Hay fever, as everyone knows by now, is not a fever and is not caused by hay. The activating agent is pollen, usually from the ragweed plant. Each grain is about one fifteen-hundredth of an inch in diameter. It has been’ known to ride a summer hreeze for miles, ascending sometimes to a height of 10,000 feet, for the express purpose of bringing the misery to some distant and unsuspecting proboscis. Ragweed flourishes in vacant city lots and other places which have been cleared once and then allowed to grow wild. But the city, isn't the weed’s | only stamping’ ground. State Entomologist Frank Wallace says it is a natural companjon of wheat. It follows the ripening grain as surely as Johnson follows Olsen. And it's harder to eradicate from our civilization than death and taxes. As if this were not enough, Mr. Wallace makes a statement tending to strike terror to the hardiest nose. “I've never seen a finer crop
(of ragweed than the one this year,” | says he—ard, it must be added, {with a chuckle. “It’s going to make
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|a swell crop of seeds for the birds. If you are lucky, this week is just | Of course, I'm not a hay fever suf-
ferer myself, so there are two ways of looking at it.”
It’s Chuckle to Wallace So that is the situation facing the sufferer as he approaches the big blow of 40 days duration. He has reason to dread the annual vis"itation on three separate counts: (1) The immediate symptoms, which are severe and unrelenting; (2) the fact that recurring attacks may leave him with chronic asthma; (3) the regrettable certainty that he is going to be laughed at —for some obscure reason, hay fever and sore feet. of all the ills that human flesh is heir to, are considered screamingly funny by heartless nonsufferers. There are also three avenues of escape. The victim may head for the north country, he may live in an air-conditioned house, or he may put himself under a physician's care. Health Commissioner Herman G. Morgan makes these suggestions with the cautious preface that “the majority of patients know more 3bous comfort and relief than I 0 ” The patient cannot go to his doctor after the symptoms start, however, and expect any benefit. He must start in the winter or spring before the August attack and be tested for the pollen variety which causes his trouble. Once tagged, he is given pollen extract injections, with relief following in a large majority of cases.
Three Ways to Escape Dr. Morgan leans toward the pollen extract treatment, while Mr. Wallace thinks that air conditioning will be the ultimate solace. He knows of one Indianapolis man who had his house air condgtioned, set up cots in ‘his basement and invited fellow-sufferers in the neighborhood to come there and sleep. Most of them were able to get through the day with comparative comfort after a night of easy breathing. Mr. Wallace thinks someone should go to work and devise an inexpensive way of washing the air of at least one room in a house,
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If You Say It With Sneezes, Look Out! State Ragweed Crop Never Was Better
where thé pollen victim could sleep. Néither Dr. Morgan nor Mr. Wallace thinks that cutting weeds in city lots is going to eradicate ragweed and the suffering it causes. Since a weed-inféested acre can produce 60 pounds of pollen, the City health official believes that cutting will reduce the density of particles in a given locality. But the. way the pollen grains float around, it's like trying to chop down a cloud of smoke.
Even Can Affect Romance
Speaking of smoke, Dr. Morgan believes that gases in the city atmosphere are making allergistic reactions more prevalent. They increase respiratory diseases in winter and leave humanity prone to greet the autumn with sneezes and wheezes.
Allergies, of course, are bodily sensitivities which have been stopping up the world’s noses for generations. Only in the past 20 years,
however, have wé come to use the ;
more precise term in place of such titles as hay and rose fever, Dr. Morgan says. He estimates that one out of every 20 persons in Indianapolis suffers from some sort of allergy. his is only natural, he explains, since there are only a few weeds, flowers or foods which do not affect someone. One allergy in Dr. Morgan’s recollection nearly blighted a ‘romance. A Californian had come' to Kansas City to be married at his bride’s home. No sooner had he come near his fiancee, however, than he went into a violent fit of sneezing. This occurred every time he came into his loved one’s présence. Domestic relations generally became a bit tense, and there was talk of calling the whole thing off. Then the family doctor stepped in, advised the bride to change her brand of face powder, and they lived happily ever after.
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CIVIC LEADERS BACK WATER CO. SALE TO CITY
Paul Wetter and Other Federation Heads Issue Statement.
The City’s proposal for purchase|
of the Indianapolis Water Co. today had the support of officers of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs. As City officials: marked time in their negotiations awaiting attor-
Federation officers issued a statement listing various reasons why
the utility should be acquired by|
the municipality at this time. The statement commented that recent “so-called polls of public sentiment concerning this proposed purchase” should be given “little if any credience”- because: “1. Probably no information as to the advantages of this acquisition to the City of Indianapolis and no
information concerning the successes of municipal ownership in other cities has been placed: before the persons who are being polled. “2. The polls are being conducted unsupervised by an avowed opponent of municipal ownership who has repeatedly refused to place all the facts concerning this acquisition befote the public.”
Yearly Profit Cited
The statement was signed by Paul C. Wetter, Federation president; Edward O. Snethen, chairman of the Federation's utility committee; George Q. Bruce, treasurer, and John F. White, former president. In outlining the advantage of buying the utility now, the group asserted the City could buy it out of water revenue without spending a cent of the taxpayers’ money, could realize a surplus, or profit, of approximately $363,558 a year permitting:a 7 or 8 cents tax levy reduction, would give the City control over a proposed lake or reservoir at Oaklandon that could be made into a recreation spot, and would eliminate entirely “the present menace of increased water rates through expensive rate hearings.” -
Point to Dickerman Fgures With the annual retirement of
one-fortieth of the bonds to be is-|*t
sued, the City would have an average annual benefit of $931,349, the Federation leaders said. They said ‘no responsible person has challenged either the figures or conclusions” of Judson C. Dick-
erman, Federal Trade Commission utilities engineer, who surveyed the | property, and they recommended’ that the City “can well afford to pay $4,500,000 for the holding com- | pany’s stock.” The group repeated Mr.. Dicker- | man's statement that “if the property remains in private hands, with the general level of revenues and expenses at present," the public will
‘continue to pay into private hands ‘$1,268,301 a year which will be gone, forever as regards any future bene-
fits to the City or the consuming
public.”
She doesn‘t need specs—but Mrs. Aitina Sanders, New York heiress, wears them to show attractiveness of new eyeglass frames she invented. Frames are patterned after the Harlegquin mask and tilt upward. A desire to make féminine spectacle wearers more beautiful sparked her idea.
MNUTT FINANCES PITTSBURGH SPEECH
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Fed-|
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