Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 17

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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 267

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Look, Girls, Before You Leap—

Mayor Reginald H, Sullivan.

Col. Roscoe Turner.

Elmer Stout.

SNOW, COLDER HERE TONIGHT

Drop to 5 Above Predicted; Cold May Stay a Week; 4 Hurt in Falls.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am 13 10a. m.... Ya. m... 12 1a. m.... 8a. m... 12. 12 (Noon). 9am... 14 1pm...

15 17 19 19

Snow flurries and temperatures that may drop to 5 above zero were predicted for Indianapolis tonight by the Weather Bureau. The continued cold will prevail tomorrow. The lowest in the last 12 hours

was 12 degrees. A thin film of snow that fell last night made walking and driving over iced sidewalks and ice-rutted streets hazardous today. The low temperatures tonight will

be caused by a second wave of

Arctic-born cold air now moving eastward from the Dakotas and Ne_braska. Cold will likely continue for “# "week, the Chicago Weather Bureau branch predicted for this region. Four persons were injured in ‘falls overnight. Fred C. Reiter, 65, of 6010 Ralston Drive, assistant buyer for the Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co.. broke his left leg when he slipped and fell on the ice last night at 60th St. and Primrose Ave. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Mrs. Eliza Sadler, 44, of 331 W. 13th . St., fractured her left ankle when she fell on the ice near her home. She is in City Hospital. Margaret Sarver, 17, of 2438 Winthrop Ave. dislocated her left elbow when she fell while watching a fire in Winthrop Ave., 2700 block. She was taken to City Hospital. Patrolman Michael McAllen, 39, of 653 N. Oxford St., injured his left shoulder: when he slipped on ice while making an investigation last night at 161 W. 41st St. He was taken to City Hospital,

17-Year-0ld Girl Hurt In Lamp Post Crash

A 17-year-old girl received a fractured jaw ‘and bruises last night when the car in which she was riding, driven by Louis Davis, 19, R. R. 4 Box 766, crashed into a lamp post at . Oakland. Ave. and Washington St. to avoid a collision with another car. Miss Avery Noland, 1417 N. Pennsylvania St., was. thrown out of the car by the impact, police said. The car driven by Mr. Davis west on Washington St. swerved to avoid striking another car driven by Frank Jordan, 5219 E. St. Clair St., as the latter was making a turn into Qakland Ave. Miss Noland and Mr. Davis were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where Mr. Davis was treated for cuts and bruises and later released. Miss Noland was admitted.

SEVITZKY HAS COLD; LANGE TO CONDUCT

Due to the illness of Fabien Sevitzky, Hans Lange will conduct the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Murat on Friday afternoon and Saturday night. Mr. Lange is associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. . Mr. Sevitzky is suffering from a cold, and his illness is not serious. His ‘physician, however, forbade his appearance at the week-end concerts. Bomar Cramer, Indianapolis pianist, will -be soloist. The appearance of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir ‘and four vocal soloists, previously scheduled, has been postponed until a later date.

STOCK GAINS CUT; HOGS HERE STEADY

By UNITED PRESS New York stocks rallied -moderately today and then lost most of the gains in a mid-session- reaction. Trade was quiet. Steel shares led the downward trend. Douglas Aircraft held a $1 gain when it was Tr that a British commission is planning ‘to’ buy planes in the United Statas. Indianapolis hog prices held even with yesterday’s levels. Chicago wheat made minor advances . in

mording ace

Chicken Heart Alive 28 Years Reported Dead

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (U. P.).— The fragment of chicken heart that Dr. Alexis Carrel had kept alive at Rockefeller Institute for 28 years was reported today to have died. The exact date of the death was not known nor would laboratory officials say pointblank that it had been permitted to die, but they

| left that inference by declaring

that all of Dr. Carrels experimentation had been discontinued. Dr. Carrel is in Paris engaged in war work and officials of the laboratory said they were not certain if he would return. Today would have marked the start of the 29th year for the celebrated sliver of tissue which Dr. Carrel took from the heart of an embryo chicken and kept alive.

SCAN PLAN FOR MORE GARAGES

Realtors, Apartment Owners Wait Ordinance Before Taking Stand.

Indianapolis realtors today studied a Safety Board proposal to amend the City building code so apartment builders would be required ‘to provide adequate garage space as a condition of getting a building permit. The amendment has been proposed by : Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey and George R. Popp Jr., City Building : Commissioner, as a means of eliminating overnight parking on! city streets in apartment districts where there are insufficient garages. The Apartment Owners’ Association and the Indianapolis Real Estate Board declined to take a position on the proposal until it is drafted as an ordinance and presented to City Council. William P. Snethen, Apartment Owners’ Association executive secretary, said his organization would meet at the Hotel Washington Jan. 24 to discuss the proposed measure. The effect of enforcement of present bans on all night parking also will be considered. Chief Morrissey said that beginning next Tuesday, his men will place parking stickers on all cars found parked from 2 a. m. to 6 a. m. {Continual o on Page Page Three)

WORKS BOARD 0. K.S STREET LAMP SALE

Light Co. Buys 495 Posts For $62,618.

The sale of 495 municipally owned street lights and standards to the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. for $62,618.16 was approved today by the Works Board. Provision for selling the lighting equipment was made in the new 10-year lighting contract negotiated last fall between the City and the light company. The sale included all the City’s light | equipment with the exception of 40 lights and standards on S. East St. valued at $11,289, which the City | has decided to lease to the company for 99 years, the equivalent of a sale. The large two-lamp standards .on this street were installed last year. The lighting equipment being sold represents only a small part of the street lamps in the City, the light company having installed the remainder itself. It was decided to sell the 495 City-owned lamps when City | officials found it cheaper to rent [the lamps from the company than to pay for the electric current and maintain the lamps at City expense. Leo F. Welch, Works Board vice president, said the equipment had been sold at its exact appraised value as set by three appraisers named "by Circuit Court.

EX-RACE DRIVER TO WED Lee Oldfield, 50, Mooresville, former | race driver and race car builder, today obtained at the county clerk’s office a license to wed Helena C. Wanner, 518 E. 23d St,

32 DAYS-NO AUTO DEATHS

It’s To Stretch Without City Fatality in Four Years.

Indianapolis today was on: its 32d day without a traffic fatality. A check of the records by Accident Prevention Bureau officers failed to disclose a longer period of deathless days within the last four years, The longest previous deathless stretch was last August when 16 days went by unmarred by a traffic fatality, Two Die in County

The last traffic death within the

Firemen Clifford Woods was killed

Beauty Ave. north of New York St. Two deaths have resulted since that time, however, from traffic acs cidents in the county. . . The Police Traffic Department als ready is beginning to dream of a new all-time low record of trafic deaths, with 1940 yet unmarred. In no other recent year, officers say, has the city got off to such an auspicious ' start. Fifty-one were killed in 1639. - The traffic record for the first 16 days of the last four year follows:

193% 1938 1939 1940

Deaths .... 4 . 2 0 Injuries .... 99 87 98 71 Accidents ...179 162 224 303

The increase in the number of traffic accidents for the first 16 days of 1940 is due, according to Traffic Capt. Edwin Kruse, to the system of recording all accidents, even though they are only scratched fenders. Previous to March of last year, such a system was not used, he said. Police then never answered an accident call unless they were informed someone was injured. :

Two Give Lectures ‘The . improvement in the traffic

record is due, Capt. Kruse said, to

education, law enforcement and engineering. Two officers, Sergt. Albert Magenheimer and Sergt. Walter Houck, lecture at school and civic clubs on safety. Their lectures at the schools are particuarly important, the traffic captain said, since they make the children safety conscious even before they reach the driving age. Capt. Kruse also gave much credit to the system of studying the places where the most accidents occur and then installing breventive devices. For instance, if they discover that a large number of accidents oceur at one intersection where drivers are making left turns, they often ask the Safety Board to install a “no left turn.”

- NAVAL FLIER KILLED WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P.) — Ensign Malcolm Charles Kirby, 27, Naval Reserve flyer, was killed when his plane attached to aircraft carrier U. S. S. Ranger crashed: and sank. The body was not recovered.

Police Chief Michael Morrissey.

city limits was on Dec. 16 when

when a fire truck overturned on.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940

mittee of Three

itself.

but very complex theory that in this single year single maidens may propose to single men whom they find singularly attractive. (On other yeags, single men must propose to single maidens , . . etc., ete.). Now if you have all that pretty well in mind, you might be interested in what some of the town’s bachelors have to say about leap year, and in an incomplete list of the bachelors. ; Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is the No. 1 baghelor, and he also, in this case, . the No. 1 delegator of in 0 Said he: “I have appointed. a committee of | Wally Middleswor 1 Peene Mike Morrissey to ao my Leap worrying for me. This was to have been a four-man committee, ‘but Wilbur Winship disqualified himself. I don’t expect a committee report until 1941 at the earliest, and that will be too soon.” It so happens by an odd coincidence that has not yet been called to the Mayor's attention, that Wally Middlesworth is the City Recreation director and a bachelor; Al Feeney is Sheriff, and a bachelor, and Mike Morrissey is Chief of Police, and a bachelor. Mr. Winship married his secretary early this year. Sheriff Feeney, on his own and not the committee's time, said he was not particularly worried about Leap Year. “Leap Year's been such a disap(Continued on Page Three)

CALIFORNIA GARAVAN HEADS FOR PARADISE

Goal Is Bahamas Island 700 Miles Out in Atlantic.

PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 17 (U. P)). —The intended Bahamas idyll of 21

when their over-packed caravan started the first leg of the trip which was destined to end on an island paradise. They tacked “For Sale” signs on their homes here and started in pas-

senger cars, trucks and trailers for Tampa, Fla., where they will purchase a boat, Across 700 miles of the Atlantic they plan to sail to the tiny island of East - Caicos, partially owned by one of their number, James Lake. Their design for’ living includes construction of substantial residences there and cultivation of the soil, their products to be traded to the outside world to furnish them

a comfortable living.

* United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE FINNISH CENTRAL ARMY IN RUSSIA,

a few miles away.

life. The only living things

zero when we left Lieska, former taxicab. The Finnish countryside

EAST OF LIESKA, Jan. 17.—I have entered Russia, unchallenged, without visa or passport. No credentials were required because I was accompanied by a Finnish ski patrol. I have seen very little of Russia yet—only a stretch of deserted, primitive forest—and no Russians, but I have seen their tracks in the snow and know that they are only

It is a lonely wilderness here, without houses or animal

we saw were another small

Finnish patrol, reconnoitering across the Russian border. It has been a strange journey. The weather was ex- * ceptionally cold, even for this part of the country and this time of year. The thermometer showed 86.4 degrees below

iraveling by ‘automobile—a

’

was desolate. There weren't

even any jogs to be seen. We passed the ruins of villages

Francis D. Brosnon,

By JOE COLLIER

So far as leading Indianapolis bachelors are concerned, Leap Year seems to be only a means of correcting a mistake, and not a mistake in

California residents began today|’

Bomar - Cramer.

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City’s Leading Bachelors Non-Committal, Elusive

Some of Them Have Even Left Town; Mayor Names Com-

for Single Task.

This year is Leap Year, one day longer than most other years, and it is one day longer mainly because mbst of the other years are shorter. Coincidental with that situation is supposed i 80 the Unrelated,

FEENEY PUSHING DRIVE ON LIQUOR

Launches Campaign Against " Drugstores That Sell To Minors. ; Sheri]. Al Feeney today launched

to minors. .The sheriff said that his investigations have shown that only a

small percentage of the druggists

are guilty of sales to minors and Sunday sales, but that such sales contribute heavily to the delinquency -of minors and to traffic

hazards. His campaign was launched after

he had received promises of co-op-|

eration from A. C. Fritz, Indianapolis Retail Druggists Association secretary, and had talked with leading druggists who pledged aid, the sheriff said.

‘Used to ‘Spike’ Pop

The drive is the second phase of the sheriff’s program to make it imposible for Indianapolis minors io get liquor. The first was a drive against taverns which served minors. Sheriff Feeney said that his deputies have been investigating sales to.minors and find that liquor so purchased usually is used to “spike” soft drinks bought in drive-in-places. Such drinking contributes greatly to the delinquency of minors, in addition to creating the traffic hazard that any ‘drunken driver constitutes, he declared.

Home Deliveries Discussed

. Another problem discussed . by Sheriff Feeney and the druggists was the hame delivered liquor that may fall into the®hands of minors. He said that often minors, when their parents are not at home, order liquor delivered and pay for it without knowledge of their parents. The sheriff said that a system of receipts to be signed on home deliveries *of liquor may be adopted. Moreover, the druggists association intends to send placards to members which will announce that it will aid in prosecuting minors who give false information about their ‘age. ' The Sheriff said that the investigation of drug stores was undertaken when parents complained of violations.

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FORECAST: Snow flurries and colder tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cold; lowest temperatures tonight about 5.

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WARTO SPREAD BUT WHERE?

Every Nation Prepares for Worst in Trying to Outguess the Fuehrer.

BULLETIN BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 17 (U. P.)—Information circulated by both diplomatic and military sources today professed to explain extraordinary military precautions in Belgium as due to warnings that Germany had everything prepared for an invasion of the low countries.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE . United Press Cable Editor

Dispatches from everywhere in Europe today all have an ominous

“| underlying note. They reveal a feeling, almost a conviction, that the

war will spread. The main question being raised in anxious minds over - there is where the fighting is going to be. Every possibility is being examined and a study of dispatches shows that among half a dozen developments being given serious thought are the following: Germany pay open a savage, unrestricted sea and air war on England. The Germans may fry to smash through Belgium and the Netherlands to outflank the Maginot Line. The Germans may spring a tactical surprise with a direct lightning thrust against the Maginot Line. Germany may join Russia in ‘an attack on the Scandinavian countries. The two powers may move in southeastern Europe and the Far

tenn "Sruggists who ~geli. Tiquor] “ "Germany and HUREATY ToH8Y wn

nounced an economic agreement which is expected to increase materially the shipment of much needed foodstuffs to Germany. An official announcement of the agreement was expected in Budapest at any time. The agreement was regarded here as a victory of some importance for Germany, particularly because trade negotiations between France and Hungary are expected to start in Paris within the next two weeks. The new agreement is for the. next three months. Its exact nature has not been made known, but it was understood that the trade turn over between Hungaty and Germany would ‘be increased. In all the speculation on the war’s spread, there seems to be an (Continued on Page Three)

FOUR DIE IN BLAZE AT WORKERS’ HOME

12 Hurt at Salvation Army Building; Five Leap.

HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 17 (U. P.). —Four men were killed and 12 persons were injured early today when fire swept the Salvation Army Industrial Home. The dead were: E. H. McGill, 55, an upholstery worker; James Melton, 55, store worker; Arthur Speed, 47, a cook, and Al Wilson, 36, truck driver. The injured, including two firemen, were not in serious condition. The fire, discovered at 3 a. m, trapped 16 men who worked in the home and lived on the second floor of the building.

windows and two were hurt. Seven On were taken down ladders and four fought their way through heavy smoke to gain the only escape to safety—an outside stairway.

Writer Walks in Desolate Soviet War Zions

By HUBERT UEXKUELL

that the Russians had burned to the ground in the first few days of the war. Only the hearths and chimneys were left standing, like fingers pointing upward. The sun seemed to be veiled although the sky was

cloudless. It probably was due to a layer of invisible mist air striking the earth. The

caused by the-colder upper

snow was deeper than any I have seen in Finland. The fir trees stood like gaunt sentinels, weighed down with

snow.

We passed a bridge where sappers were digging a hole for a mine, then arrived at one of the early battle-

fields of the war. holes.

The car bounced over shell and mine Once it skidded into a ditch when the driver tried

to avoid a hole and it took the full strength of five of us to

get it back on the road.

Finally the road ended i ina snowdrift. We talked to

the ‘commander of the front he told us no Russians

patrol by field telephone and

ad been seen in the region for two

hours, so we assumed it was safe to proceed.

The: trip. ‘was_resumed

by. horse-drawn sled. - Skis

; Contin ed on Page Three),

Five jumped from second floor |

-| Ave,,

Oomph Man

Twelve Screen Beauties

Select Jerry Colonna (And Mustache).

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17 (U. PJ). —Comedian Jerry Colonna is Hollywood's new ‘oomph man.” Twelve screen beauties selected him for the Se He honor—and the publicity. Colonna has jet black eyes, black hair, and a mustache stretching a, full three inches on either side of his nose. He is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 156 pounds. He is married. He was chosen by Madeleine Carroll, Paulette : Goddard, Roalind Russell, ~ Jerry Colonna Linda Darnell, Lana Turner, Susan Hayward, Nancy Kelly, Phyllis Brooks, Dorothy Lameur, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland and Maureen O'Hara. “He is a definite throw-back to the glamour boy of grandma's day, consequently personifying hoth past and present male virtues,” they decided. The “oomph man” vote was arranged by comedian Bob Hope, on whose radio program Colonna performs. Hope eliminated himself:

HOOSIERS FIGHT FINN LOAN PLAN

at Ameri-

Nan! ys Fors T That

Money ot Abroad.

By DANIEL ™ KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. ‘17.—8enators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton wére united ‘today ifn opposing loans for Finland “either directly or indirectly” and this attitude was reflected -throughout: the Indiana delegation in the House. All based their opposition on: the grounds that such aid would violate United States neutrality and might mean the first step toward war. Senator VanNuys is so aroused that he has made criticism of the Finnish loan plan part of an antiNew Deal speech he will make at Alexandria, Va., tomorrow night at a Jackson Day dinner sponsored by the Fairfax County, Virginia, Democrats, he said. “I am opposed to making loans to Finland and will vote against it,” Senator VanNuys declared. He is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. “Certainly we should have foarned our lesson in the World War. To finance Finland, or any other European country, in wartime merely means that our men will follow our money. So I am against loans to

poses and would vote against giving them a single dime.” Senator Minton, an A. E. F. veteran, said: “I don’t want to make such a loan either directly or indirectly. (Continued on Page Three)

FUMES OVERCOME FIVE IN GOURT HOUSE

Women Victims as Water Cooler Coil Breaks.

. Five persons were overcome today when a coil in a refrigerating unit of a water cooler broke in the Court House and liberated a gas described as dangerous by City Hospital ambulance doctors. Those overcome ‘were Miss Alberta Goins, 114 S. Sheridan St, elevator operator; Miss Emaline Mitchell, 2637 Boulevard Place, elevator operator; Mrs. Louise Hogan, 937 English Ave, WPA bhookbinder; Miss Gladys Ringer, 2209 N. Talbot librarian, and Mrs. Mary Cheshier, 732 N. Fulion St., bookbinder. Miss Goins and Miss Mitchell were taken to City Hospital for observation. The other victims returned to work. The accident occured in the Law Library on the third floor as. an electrician was installing a water cooler. Apparently a coil snapped in the refrigerating unit of the water cooler, releasing sulphur dioxide into the building. Office doors were banged shut and windows opened. Miss Goins’ and Miss Mitchell were on elevator duty when the cooler; exploded. | They both collapsed after leaving their stations. The gas had been: escaping for more than 10 minutes before police were called. Although the electrician disconnected the cooler im-

any foreign country: for war pur-|:

2 DEAD AN NITRO BLAST JARS 50-MILEN. J. AREA; SABOTAGE DISCOUNTED EIROPERNDN

Two Hurt Grallvd Cause Is Not Yet Determined.

BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P.), —The Federal Bureau of Investigation today said that it is investigating the explosion in the du Pont experimental laboratories at Gibbstown, N. J.

GIBBSTOWN, N. J., Jan. 17 (U.P.).—At least two persons were killed today, and two others injured seriously, when 6000 pounds of nitroglycerine in a dynamite mixing plant of the E. I. du Pont de Nemons & Co. exploded.

The plant is one of the units at which the company posted 27 addi< tional guards two weeks ago to prevent “possible sabotage.” Cause of the explosion was not

. | ascertained immediately. Du Pont

officials discounted sabotage, al-~ though they admitted the guard had been strengthened. The same plant was wrecked by three cxplosions in January, May and October, 1916—a World War year—with a death toll of 18. : The detonation was. so terrifies that it shook a 50-mile area in southern New Jersey, eastern Penne sylvania and Delaware.

Two Carpenters Trapped

Those killed were Earl Harbeson, Glassboro, N. J., and Edward Bune dens, 35, Paulsboro, N. J. They were working near the vat in which the nitro-glycerine was stored. Two carpenters working on the roof of a building 250 feet away were trapped by falling debris and rescued by other workmen. They were identified as Samuel Hartshon and Michael Geitz, both of Woodbury. The plant hospital reported their condition critical. Earlier reports said that at least five men were working in or near the. plan

| there could not have been any ig

ther casualties unless some other employees happened to be walking through the plant. Windows in the Greenwich Towne ship School, located more than a mile from the plant, were shattered and all pupils were sent home for the day.

18-Foot Crater in Ground

The explosion left a crater 18 feet deep in the ground. A column of smoke rose 300 feet in the air following the blast, The blast occurred around 10:30 a.m, (9:30 a. m. Indianapolis Time), Ordinarily, it was said, about| a dozen employees are in the plant at that hour. One workman, work= ing in a unit 500 feet away. was struck and injured slightly by flying debris. A du Pont spokesman said the explosives manufactured at the plant were purely for commercial pure poses, and not intended for war material. Although the plant is located in a ‘wooded section, far from other company buildings, the explosion was so terrific that windows in buildings within the 50-mile area were shattered.

No Further Danger

Company officials said there was no danger of further explosions. Théy pointed out that great loss of life and property damage was averted because of the peculiar con= struction of the units, which are placed in isolated spots to guard against such mishaps as occurred today. dente in the area shaken by the blast became so panicky that newspaper offices, the Philadelphia Electrical Bureau and telephone exchanges were flooded with calls. Gibbstown is a village of about 300 and the du Pont plants are its only industries. Most of the du Pont employees live in nearby points. It is across the Delaware River, about 10 miles from Philadelphia.

Officials Silent

In Massachusetts Blast

| MAYNARD, Mass., Jan. 17 (U.P.), —State Police and Company of< ficials refused today to discuss reports of sabotage in connection with an explosion of a smokeless powder magazine at the American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp. last night. | Fire that followed the blast caused about $1000 damage, accord . ing to officials. No one was in the building and five men were une harmed in another magazine nearby, Firemen fought for more than an hour before .quelling the flames among timbers which were shattered and tossed hundreds of feet by the explosion. The concussion was felt over a two-mile area.

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