Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1940 — Page 4
. pert, Murat Theater,
"PAGE 4
12 Are Overcome as
- Gas Main
Breaks in
3700 Block, Ww. 10th
Police and Firemen Crash:
Doors to Arouse Scores Of Sleepers.
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gas was the cause of . collapse.
had collapsed. Then, just before Dr. Hancock arrived, his father col“lapsed. : Dr. Hancoék immediately detect.ed the odor of gas. He went to the
‘ basement and inspected the fur-|.
nace thinking at first that it was : defective and leaking fumes.
While there he saw two Kittens|; overcome by the fumes. He went back|:
Later, a fireman in the Wright
Mrs. Kinnedy's| Shirley went back to his| home and found that his mother]
home said one of the kittens ap-|
peare parently having made his way upstairs. The fireman said the kitten wabbled drunkenly and that he picked it up and carried it outside. The other kitten was not accounted or Places Boy on Couch
Shirley knocked on the Kennedy door and collapsed in the doctor’s arms. Dr. Hancock took the boy in the houst and put him on the couch. Mrs. Bryant had arrived in the meantime, call the police and opened the windows. Dr. Hancock called City Hospital. As Dr. Hancock finished his call, another woman entered the Kennedy home, | “You're a doctor, aren’t you?” she asked. “Yes. ” “Come over to my house,” the woman pleaded. “Everyone there is unconscious.” Dr. Hancock said he went with the woman but could not remember - the name of her family. By this time, firemen and police had arrived. They began immediate rescue of the families known to be victims and then canvassed the neighborhood. Up and down the street they went, banging on doors and windows to awaken people who wers asleep. They moved the Wright family outdoors and used an inhalator on Mrs. Wright and 3-year-old John Wright, Shirley's brother. revived, went back into his home and got a blanket to wrap around his brother John. Shirley and his brother then were taken in a po‘lice' car to City Hospital, the first victims to arrive| there.
Boy, 11, Carried to Safety
Other firemen and police went to the darkened home of Alvan Jones, 3718 W. 10th St. There was no re- ' sponse to their knock. They banged at the windows and
still got no response. They then - broke in the tront door. As it flew inward, Mr. Jones fell unconscious into their arms. Apparently he had made his way to the door in a semi-conscious effort to answer the knocking. . Firemen dragged him into the ‘open and then rushed up the stairs and carried out Wesley Jones, 11, also unconscious. They found him in bed. They applied artificial respiration and an inhalator before he was revived. : Other firemen and police, meanwhile, had rescued Mrs. Emma Smith, who was semi-conscious, and ‘her ‘daughter, Irene, who was un‘conscious. “You'd have thought you were lin Europe the way they were taking ‘people out of here on stretchers,” ‘one of the unaffected neighbors said. As the rescue proceeded, two men from the gas company desperately searched for the leak in the main. They told police that the gas probably had seeped into the basements through openings in the foundations. Policeman Injured
Firemen, police and others en-|
gaged in rescue work made their headquarters at the grocery of Mrs. - Grace Latta, 3730 W. 10th St. Emergency Police car No. 5, speeding ‘to the scene to assist in the rescues, collided with a truck at. Washington and West Sts. Elbert Burns, 35, of 313 N. Davidson St., a policeman, was injured on his right hip when the the car rail was crushed. His fellow officers called another
in the front’ room, after ap-|-.
Shirley, |.
squad car to the scene -which took
.Times Photo. Shirley Wright. . . . Dared deadly fumes to bring his brother a blanket.
him to City Hospital and the emergency car proceeded to the scene. . Two ambulances were sent to the scene and one of them made two trips with victims. 2 8 J Charles Alley, 13, of 2211 Winter Ave., had been visiting back and forth between the home of Mrs. Bryant, his aunt, and Mrs. Kennedy during the school vacation. Last night he elected to stay at Mrs. Kennedy’s. He would have escaped being overcome had "he been at Bryants, 2.8 8 MRS. ANTHONY T. LEONE was back in the neighborhood today seeing how her old neighbors were. Just a month ago the Leones moved from 3721 where Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Smith and their daughter, . Irene, 15, were overcome. Mrs. Leone said she smelled gas at times in the house before she ‘moved, # 8 8 Citizens Gas & Coke Co. crews, after repairing the leak, dug air vents along the curbing to permit .air to get into the ground and stop fumes from seeping into basements. "Workmen wore gas masks and every few minutes stopped work to warm themselves at fires. Investigators visited every home for blocks to check gas lines. # ” ” Only two homes in the block have city water. Pumps at other homes froze when basement windows had to be left open. 2 ” z The home of Frank Rosemere, 3714, was the only one in which no one complained of fumes.
BEGIN RATIONING IN ITALY THIS MONTH
ROME, Jan. 5 (U.P) —It was an-|.
nounced officially today that ration cards will be distributed throughout Italy by Jan. 15. An official announcement said that in view of the international situation, ration cards will be distributed “for certain products, the consumption of which should be limited.” Since the outbreak of the war gasoline has been rationed and the sale of coffee has been banned
throughout the country. Prices in all | _
food stores have heen regulated drastically by Government decree and baking hours have been limited in order to conserve flour supplies.
BELGIAN CABINET QUITS BRUSSELS, Jan. 5 (U, P.).—The Cabinet resigned today to make a reorganization possible under Premier Hubert Pierlot.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record) County City C000 ENBR Rest B rE Bo 2 2 0
1939
1940 0
Jan. 4
Injured ...... 2 | Arrests I viveeeses 0} Accidents .... 6
THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT = Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid 0 0 $3 3
20 11
Speeding Reckless driving. 0 Failing to stop at through street. 1 Disobeying traffic 1
All others esojesee
Totals
—, _MEETINGS TODAY
napolis Symphon Drehesira, con-~ cor diana Theater, 35 D.
a atpange Club. Oe Hotel Severin,
"opitmist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club;
pod de Delta, luncheon, Columbia
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BIRTHS ’ Boys Earl, udine Howard, + 3 oy. James, Betty Bel rf st. Francis. Clarence,
Pearl uncilman, at St.
ve Lg 73 oS I is owe Olu! a. 3209 S. Key-
415 W. Abbott. Ee Barrett, 1 425 Marlowe. ly, 139 8 Oriental. | illside.
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Girls Per ier Josephine Edwards, at anc Abraham, Ida Miller, at f i5ihodist, Thomas, Laura Miller, at Harry, Louise Daniels, 40 a est. Richard, Lois Smith, 1154 W. Voth. Chlorus, Noreen: Corder, 1130 N. Illinois.
DEATHS Sam Tjchey, 69, at Long, pneumon
Mansfeld Mitchner, 36, at City, pneumonia. Guy Owens, 33, at 19 N. Oriental, pulmonary tuberculosis. Julia Kelly, 82, at 5730 E. Washington, chronic myocarditis Joseph Byrne, 80, at 1920 N. Alabama, coronary occlusion. Aletha 2262
Smith, hi cerebral hemorrh Samantha ay ®82, at 330 N. Parker, chronic myocarditis. Hill Huddleston, 23, at 536 Birch, pulmonary tuberculosis. Edward Reed, 67, at Yoorann artero-
sclerosis. tr . 3516 Central,
Jacob Simon, bronchopneum: Sophia Sonia. 67, at 2015 N. Illinois, chronic myocarditis. 53, at city, cerebral
Cornett, Margaret ‘Haupt, 48, at 1352 S. Alabama, myocarditis. Nellie Lawson, 71, at 2220 ‘Thornberry, diabetes. . Jeremiah Donahue, 61, at City carinom William Brunnemer, 62, at 1126 8. Sherman, epithelioma. Dessie Buskirk, 73, at 730 E. 524, arteriosclerosis John Huffer, 65. at City. carcinoma.
St.
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at Central,
myocarditis. Walter Whetstine,
58, at St. Vincent's lobar pneumonia.
FIRES Thursday
75th and Keystone, restaurant “coal” oil - heater explosion, total
m. 135 Puryear, kerosene stove Friday
phd” ing,
explode el,
5:0 m. 730 W. 10th, overheated tor 3. 5:52 a Auto, Tecumseh and 10th, al[6 Soin
ng. :27 a. m. Auto, Illinois and Washington. Shot -£ -circuit. 7:30 a. 815 Virginia, auto, hot motor. od a. m 150 W. 26th, laundry behind of: 8:35 a. m. 1613 Dawson, hole in smoke
° :37 a.m, 50 W. on broken smoke p 48 a. m. 2043 N. Delaware, Ry in 8 9:12 a. iy 5112 Boadway, bigwiarch used
| of the event.
Marie Franz, 60, at 758 Terrace, chronic}
BOY, 16, TAKES HERO'S ROLE IN FUME RESCUES
Shirley Wright Summons Doctor to Stricken Homes, Then Collapses. ee
Sixteen-year-old Shirley Wright was conceded the hero’s role in today’s near-tragedy in the 3700 block of W. 10th St.,, where 12 persons
were overcome by gas seeping into their homes from a broken main. Shirley was one of those overcome, but he fought grimly against the gas until he had helped turn out the neighborhood to aid the stricken. He didn't pass out until he had led a doctor to a phone to summon ambulances. : Shirley was awakened in his home, 3721 W. 10th St, by his father, who told him -his brother was ill.
Calls Physician
“I ran over to Kennedy’s to call a doctor,” he said,” “and when I got back my mother had passed out. Just before the doc came, dad passed: out. : “When the doc came in he looked around and asked where the furnace was. He said he thought it was that that was making us sick. “Doc went down to the basement and came up and said two kittens! were unconscious down ‘there. He said we should call City Hospital. “I took him across the street to the phone and then things went blank.” Shirley collapsed in the arms of\, Dr. John Hancock, 2226 W. Michi= gan St., who carried him into the Kennedy home, at 3722 W. 10th St.; and put him on a davenport.
Inhalators Used
Pretty soon Shirley was conscious again, but still groggy. He stumbled out of the Kennedy home and across the street to his own. There he saw the rescuers had carried his mother and father and 3-year-old brother, John, into the cold and were working on his mother and brother with inhalators. t He felt how cold it was—subzero. He thought of his little brother. And he went again into the gas-filled house. He: seized a quilt from his bed, and went back out again. Tenderly, he wrapped up his brother. ’ Then police took the brothers to City Hospital, the first victims removed from the scene. That's why the neighborhood looks upon Shirley today as the hero
As far as he is concerned, his greatest worry was to get to work. So, instead of staying for treatment, he showed up on time at the West Side sandwich shop where he works to help support the family.
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THE CORNER GROCERY store operated by Mrs. Grace Latta at 3730 W. 10th St. not only became warming up headquarters for police and rescue squads, but was somewhat of a news bureau after the excitement was over. Mrs. Latta, who swallowed aspirin tablets frequently to cure a headache which she said was induced by the gas, described for customers what had happened. She had opened the store at 3:30 a.m. After being aroused by firemen to see if she had been overcome. “It didn’t make me mad being awakened then,” “she said.” I always get up at 4 to open the store at 5. Customers start coming in then. I built a fire in the stove and police and firemen kept coming in and out. They didn’t ask for any hot coffee or I would have made it. They asked only for cold soda pop. I don’t see how that could warm them up.” Mrs. Latta has a homey neighborhood store where you still get a sack of candy or a package of chewing gum when you pay your bill.” ” 2 8 Trixie, a fox terrier pet at the Kennedy home, is a sick dog today from the fumes and is con-
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house roof at 410 W. North St. He was carried down by firemen and taken to City Hospital. ‘ The flames in the two-story brick warehouse, filled with rags, paper and metal, broke out at 4 a. m. «Seven fire companies responded to the two alarms and -laid seven lines of hose under the direction of Fire Chief [Fred C. Kennedy. e smoke and heavy steel doors hdndicapped the firemen in entering the building and the flames swept| through the interior rapidly. Water froze as it was poured on the building. Firemen’s coats also were | frozen stiff. Water, which flowed into the street, froze and the City [Street Department assigned crews to scrape it away. Relief companies were sent to the scene | at 7:30 a. m., shortly before the flames were completely extinguished, and the shivering men .who had been on duty for more than three| hours, returned to their stations. In lines . Low,
iana Ave. across which water ere laid, was closed to traffic. wooden platforms were built over [the hose to enable trackless trolleys to remain in service. Fire Chief Kennedy said the blaze apparently started in the office and
‘was caused by an overheated fur-
nace.| He said it was the fourth fire at the warehouse. Between 5 a. m. and 10 o'clock, the Fire Department answered 12 calls.| After that time, when furnace | firing was the heaviest and more| autos were hrought out of the garages, firemen got a little time to write their reports.’ Most of the fires were minor. One blaze re by defective wiring in
fan elevator shaft at 235 S. Meridian St. resulted in the call of nine pieces of apparatus. The roof was burned off the onestory] residence of Frank Baxter at 1142 N. Tibbs Ave. | Restaurant Destroyed
The Department made a run to 2704 Rader St., where an iron in
bed started a blaze. On this run|C
Syd Wagon 14 was involved in a slight accident when it swerved to avoid an oil truck. The Chicken-Koop at T5th St. and Keystone Ave. caught fire last night for the second time in a month. This time it was a complete loss to its owner, Frank Raimondi of 605 E, McCarty St. The fire started when an electrician who was repairing the damage caused to the wiring by the first fire used a coal oil heater to keep him warm. This exploded, started the fire and slightly injured the electrician, James Overby, 34 of Baltimore Ave. and 80th St. Water, flowing from a broken fire. plug |at Barth Ave. and Raymond St., froze on Barth Ave., 4100 block. The plug was broken when struck by a truck-trailer.
| Midwest Is Covered All Middle Western and Plains states were bitten by the sub-zero cold. | Florida, Gulf states and the West Coast basked in temperatures near 70 degrees. Continued cold was forecast for the middle west by the TU. S. Weather Bureau ‘and northwest shippers were warned to prepare
20 degrees below zero. U. S. Forecaster C. A. Donnel at Chicago predicted that temperatures would rise slightly tonight in extreme western areas and tomorrow
sofa.’ Bismarck, N. D., was one of the coldest places in the country today with 20 degrees below zero at 5 a. m. at Chicago, the mercury fell to 4 degrees below zero. The cold wave sweeping. down from the Canadian Rockies dealt sub-zero body blows to the entire state from the Michigan border to the Ohio River. Crawfordsville. appeared to! be Indiana's coldest spot today with a reading of 11 below zero at 8 a. m. Bedford, reported 9 below today.
coldest spot in the first chill early five below .blasts while the Ohio
‘River continued to freeze nore solidly.
valescing at the Bryant home.
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— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Firemen Battle Flames As Mercury Hits 7 Below
for temperatures ranging from 5 to
in the Missouri Valley and Minne-|
ami ‘Terre Haute, which had been the|M
this week, reported eight below. Ev-| Nel. “ois ansville residents shivered through|9Q
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Valparaiso reported only four below, but there was a virtual stand-
after yesterday's lone day of relief in almost a week. Logansport reported six below and comparable temperatures were state-wide. At Washington, Ind. the thermometer dived to 8 below and Perry County reported 6 below, with ice forming in the Ohio River, which is expected to close the ferry at Cannelton. At La Porte the temperature was 6 below and. the . lowest reading at Kokomo showed almost 9 below. Aurora reported 10 below zero. The weather station at the Ft. Wayne City Airport recorded a low of 5 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock this morning. This was the lowest temperature recorded by the Bureau since 1936 when the mercury reached 13 below. "A report of 5 below was also recorded by Plymouth. The State Highway Department issued a stern warning that highways were extremely hazardous. For a few minutes yesterday afternoon there was a slight drizzle of rain in parts of central and southern Indiana, including Indianapolis, which coated already dangerous roads with a thin sheet of ice, Snow on Roads From Anderson south there was a snowfall which reached a depth of from one to three inches in places, covering highways rutted with ice. The Highway Commission reported most of the roads in Indiana south of Road 40 were icy and unsafe for traffic. The northern part of the state . was reported . fairly
clear.
mission’s road report for today: SEYMOUR DISTRICT—Seymour, | Bloomington, Columbus, Aurora and Madison, roads all covered with thin film of ice, which is breaking up slightly under traffic. NEW ALBANY—Roads practically ear, ; VINCENNES—Thin film of ice in Linton sub-district. Vincennes, Paoli, Petersburg and Dale roads are icy in spots. EVANSVILLE—City streets are slick, but roads fairly clear. GREENFIELD DISTRICT—Roads are icy south of Road 40. In the northern part, icy only in spots. CRAWFORDSVILLE DISTRICT —About same as Greenfield District. FT. WAYNE DISTRICT — Light snow last night, but roads practically clear. LAPORTE DISTRICT—Same as Ft. Wayne. The victim in the Indiana fire was Mrs. Elizabeth Letts, 83, who lived alone on a farm near North Vernon. She was trapped by the flames and the building collapsed before bucket brigades could extinguish them. They found her body lying near the kitchen stove in the smouldering ruins.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8S. Weather Bureatl pee
‘INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight and tomorrow;. continued cold tonight with temperature of zero or somewhat below; slowly rising temperature tomorrow.
Jan. 5, 1939 Sunrise......7:0¢ | Sunset...... 4:30
Tis 55 Pp. m
6:30a, m
Precipitation for 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. .02 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 .02 Deficiency
Station Amarillo, Tex. .. Bismarck, N. D. Boston
Weather Bar Rain 30.08
29. 30.
Doge. City, Kas. . Helena, Mont. aes jacksonville, Fla. . Kansas City. M Little Rock,
St. Soul
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This very day, as you talk from the warmth and comfort of your home or office, operators are at work; a lineman may be scaling a pole far out on some lonely country road, so that service may go on. Such constant watchfulnes makes possible year-"round reliability of your telephone
still in traffic as cars froze solidly]
Following is the Highway Com-|
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 6:30 A. M,
LINK NAZI OUTBURST AND SPREAD OF WAR
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sary to finish with Germany first and then take care of Russian aggression. The other school of thought is that it would be better to tackle the whole job at once rather than prolong the agony. Those who think so believe Germany would be extremely vulnerable to British naval and air forces based in Scandinavia, and what can’t be done on the Western Front can be done from the North. They question the value of the aid which the Red Army could give Germany, on the basis of its lack of success against Finland alone.
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The retort of military observers to that is that the Red Army has not
yet been proven to be weak, and moreover, the services of efficient German military experts and technicians in a unified command with the Red Army would make a tremendous difference. So far the talk has been academic. Until and unless Sweden and Norway decide to permit their countries to be made a hattlefield in the belief that if Finland is lost their turn is next, it is apt to remain so. In southeastern Europe, the Allies have steadily prepared for war if the theater of operations is extended there. The preparations have been both military and diplomatic. A large British and French force, estimated at 500,000 or more, is reported ready for action in tie Near East. Tukey is counted on by the Allies as well as Rumania and other Balkan States, if they are invaded.
The Allies are bound by pledge to go to Rumania’s aid if it is in-
vaded. That King Carql foresees the possibility of invasién is evdenced by his ‘steady dispatch of troops to the border regions where either Germany or Russia might attack. . The King arrived today at Kishineff, capital of Bessarabia, and proceeded immediately to the frontier aboard a special train to ine spect important military units which have been stationed in the province, won from Russia after the World War, for the past three months. Political circles attached conside erable importance to the visit. Italy could scarcely be kept out of any Balkan conflict because of her interests there, which she is deter mined to protect. Italy is definitely opposed to Communist Russia and undoubtedly would resist any gen=
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