Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1940 — Page 2
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37 DAYS AND NO
TRAFFIC DEATHS IN INDIANAPOLIS
Second Killed in County;
14 Hurt in Mishaps; Police Urge Continued Caution.
Indianapolis today was on its 37th consecutive day without a single traffic fatality—one of the longest no-death periods in many years. : Fourteen persons were injured in 39 accidents reported to police over the week-end, but none . was inJured critically. Fifty arrests were mage on traffic charges. ‘The City’s remarkable safety record was attributed by police par-
tially to careful driving on icy
streets in the last few weeks. Capt. Edwin Kruse, traffic division head, urged continuance of this caution now that driving conditions are im-
Tag Killed , in County : Thus far there have been two deaths in the county this year. The second victim was Pearl .Love, 59, of 1713 Prospect St. who ‘was injured fatally Saturday when his car :. skidded - and - overturned at Beeth- Grove. Sétvices for Mr. Love, who was 8 packing room foreman for the Fairmount Glass Works, will be at 10 g. 'm. tomororw in the J. C. Wilson Mortuary. Burial - will be in Memorial Park. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emily Love; a son, James Edwin Love; a daughter, Esther Love, all of “Indianapolis: three brothers; Earl, Indianapolis; Joseph, Rigdon, Ind. and Nathan, Milwaukee, Ore.; a8 half brother, Edwin Love, Fairmount, and two sisters, Mrs. Blanche ‘Archer, Marion, ‘and Mrs. Daisy Sellers, Fairmount, Among those injured (over the week-end was. Riley Masoff, 45, of 1218 8. West St., who received, head injuries when he was struck by a car as he crossec Morris St. at West St. He is in City Hospital. +The car, police said, was driven by Robert Mullis, 21, of 1439 S. East : : Arrested After Mishap Alexander Russ, 30, of R. R. 3. Box 304, received a spinal injury yesterday when his car careened
into a field. Deputy sheriffs slated |W
him -en: charges of reckless and drunken driving: and intoxication. Two youths were treated at City Hospital for injuries received when their car rammed the side of a Pennsylvania Railroad train at the Belmont Ave. crossing. They were Robert McCrary, 21, Camby, and Donald ‘Taylor, 21, West Newton.
Chrisney Pedestrian, 1, Killed by Auto :
CHRISNEY, Ind. Jan. 22 (U. P)). —A. N. Bays, 1, Chrisney, killed yesterday when struck by a car driven by Ora Lampkin of Tell
City as he walked across Main St.
OFFICERS ELECTED ‘BY SAHARA GROTTO
Installation ceremonies for. Luther J. Shirley, new monarch of the Sahara Grotto, are to be held Thursday night at the Indiana Ballroom. S. Wilbur Foster, grand orator of the supreme council of all Grottos in the United States and Canada, will conduct the installation of Mr. Shirley and ather officers. William A. Hoefgen is retiring monarch. Other officers to be installed are Harold G. Lanham, chief justice; Roy Mawson, master of ceremonies; Charles G. Waish, treasurer; H. Verle Wilson, secretary: Oscar L. Buehler, venerable prophet; Frank Haugh, marshal; William Edward Fitzgerald, captain of the guard; J. Stephen Fuller, orator; Alvin R. Light, sentinel; Edward Hinton, assistant sentinel, and the Rev. H. M. Reyuojds, chaplain,
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Ma}. Gen. Omar Bundy owt veteran of many campalgns.
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Maj. Gen. Omar - Bundy, U. S. A., Ret., Was Army Commander.
{ WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U. P). —Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, retired, who commanded the second division of the American Expeditionary Forces in the World War and contributed to halting the German offensive before Chateau Thierry, died at his home here yesterday from complications brought on by old age. He was 78. Gen. Bundy’s last post was as Commander of the Fifth Corps Area which he relinquished in June, 1925, when he retired from active duty. His record, which began
when he was commissioned a second lieutenant from West Point in 1883, included the Indian wars in the 1880s, the Philippines Insurrection and the Spanish-American War, the Mexican Border campaign against Pancho Villa and the World ar. : Gen. Bundy won the silver star with oak-leaf cluster for his service in. Cuba and the Philippines and the French Legion of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre with palm for his services in Europe. He was born at New Castle, Ind, on June 17, 1861, and entered West Point in 1879. Burial will be In Arlington National Cemetery.
Attended Asbury and Then West Point
NEW. CASTLE, Ind. Jan. 22.— Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy was educated in the New Castle schools and attended old - Ashbury College, now DePauw University, at Greencastle. At Asbury he was a classmate of Willis VanDevanter, retired Associ-
rate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. He was the son of Judge and Mrs. Martin L. Bundy. He entered West Point in 1879 and was graduated as a second lieutenant. In 1888, on a visit home, he met Miss Addie Harden, daughter of William H. Harden, County Treasurer. The following year they were married at the Presbyterian Church. here.
STORE IS LOOTED
The following items were stolen over the week-end from a department store at 2854 Clifton St., Sidney Cahn, proprietor, reported to police: Two hundred dresses, 125 pairs of trousers, 50 sweaters, 30 jackets, 10 dozen slips, six dozen gowns, one dozen rayon panties.
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FOR CORN FIELD
Hoosier Offers Financial Support for 10-State G. 0. P. Meeting.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22 (U:. P), — Homer E. Capehart, multi-million: aire phonograph manufacturer, today pledged financial support to a “corn belt” convention proposed at a meeting of 10 Middle Western state Republican leaders. Party rally as a
Mr. Capehart told G. O. P. leaders yesterday he would| refuse to be a candidate for any ani but that
{he would provide financial support for-the corn belt convention “in the interest of a 1940 Republican victory.” He conducted a huge corn= field rally at his Washington, Ind., home during the 1938 campaign. Indiana Republican] _Chairman Arch Bobbitt and chairmen from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin and National Committeeman, William Stern of North. Dakota attended the meeting. Chairmen from Kentucky, Nebraska and Ohio were invited but| did not attend.
Albright Enters State
Race for Congress
Claiming the support of the Townsend Clubs, Alanson L. Albright of Terre Haute, former State Senator, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Sixth District. “I have worked with all the labor organizations, the farmers and the various business men of the Sixth District and I can also command the vote of the Democrats of the Townsend organization, having worked for this organization the past five years,” he said. Mr, Albright was State Senator during the 1933 and 1937 sessions of the Indiana Legislature,
Republican Veterans Here Support Hillis
The Eleventh District Republican Veterans of Marion County has indorsed the candidacy [of Glen R. Hillis of Kokomo for the G. O. P. nomination for Governor. Arthur G. Gresham was named chairman of a committee to further the candidacy of every member of the organization as a delegate to the State Republican Convention.
HANOVER TO LAUNCH 41,000,000 DRIVE
Hanover College trustees today made plans for a fund-raising camspaign that they hope will result in a million-dollar endowment within the next few months, . They haye accepted an offer of William ‘H. Donner, retired Philadelphia tinplate: millionaire, to
match any fund the college can raise between $250,000 and $500,000. Mr. Donner stipulated that the college must raise the minimum before he will make his donation. More than two years ago, Mr. Donner, a former Hanover student, made a similar offer ahd the college raised $250,000 which was matched by the industrialist. A girls’ dormitory was built with the funds. Mr. Donner specified that only half of the new funds be used.for new buildings and the remainder
for equipment.
KANSAS oITY, Mo, Jan. 22 (U. P.) —Priends of Mary McElroy concluded today that life had dealt unkindly with her. She killed herself Saturday night, firing a bullet into her brain, and leaving a note which implied that
society had imposed a “death _penalty” upon her. Miss McElroy, 32, had played a sentimental role on. the national stage. In 1933, she had been chained to a wall for 26 hours by kidnappers, who released her when $30,000 ransom was paid. On the local stage, she had played a glamorous role. Her father was Henry F. McElroy, who, before the fall of boss Tom Pendergast, was City Manager. Kidnapers broke into the McElroy home in 1933 and rusher upstairs where Mary was taking a bath. They permitted her to dress, then took her to the country ‘and chained her to a wall while her father raised $30,000. The kidnapers, Walter and George *J McGee, brothers, and Clarence Click were arrested. Walter McGee was sentenced to hang, George was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Click got. eight years. Though criminals, they assured her while
Mary McEl roy, 1933 K iin ap Victim, Ends Life, Blaming Society for Dea th Penal ty RALLY PLEDGED|
Mary McElroy . , . brooded after the death of her father.
they were going straight.
. She believed them i softened her testimony at their trial. Later, she persuaded. the Governor to com- ¥ Imute Walter McKee’s Sentence to i | life. r This was one phase of her disillusionment.- A .second phase con- | cerned her father. ‘She idolized him. Her mother |died when she was very ‘young and she had been her father’s official t hostess.
{when the Federal Grand Jury {gan revealing things about the Pendergast ‘machine. pleaded guilty to income tax fraud {and is now in Pederal prison. Her |: father resigned. that the grand jury was investigating his affairs. he died.
McElroy lived alone in the McElroy home, attended by one servant. She was always brooding. Yesterday at noon the servant found her body on a couch on the sun porch, the deaths pistol on the floor. . A note was on ’ a table, written in her hand.
; only people on earth who don’t conshe was their captive that this was |sider me an utter fool. their last job and that henceforth |your death penalty now so—please give them a chance.”
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FLU CASES GAIN OVER LAST YEAR
Pneumonia Deaths Drop Sharply Here.
Seventy-one cases of flu were reported in Indiana during the first two weeks of January as compared with 24 cases in the same period a year ago, Dr. Verne - K. Harvey, State Health Board secretary, said today. | However, this is no appreciable increase over ‘last month, he reported. Pneumonia fatalities In Indianapolis for the first 19 days of the month totaled 24, less than onethird of the 76 deaths for all of January, 1938, according to City Health Board figures. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City health officer, said the rate this year compared to last was the result of newly discovered treatment for pneumonia put into general use this year plus unseasonably mild weather during the first part of the winter. The two new drugs for treating pneumonia, serum and sulfapyradine, will have a greater effect in reducing the pneumonia death rate as their use becomes more common, he said. The City health office urged citizens to take precautions against| colds and to see a physician as soon as any type of respiratory infection
ception, sustained cold weather is not particularly healthful, although it Is not so ddngerous as rapidly changing temperatures, he said. Dr. Morgan said the continued cold weather would ‘probably increase respiratory infections, including influenza, in Indianapolis. He said the prevalency of the respiratory ailments began to rise two weeks ago.
New Drug Credited With Saving 91 Lives.
BALTIMORE, Md. Jan. 22 (U. P.).—The use of sulfapyridine, a new drug, today was credited with saving 91 lives in a campaign by the Maryland State Department of Health against pneumonia. C. H. Halliday, a member of the pneumonia control committee, reported the results obtained by use of the new drug at a meeting of jcounty health officers. The state campaign has been under way since November. Sulfapyridine is distributed free by the State Health Department to physicians whose patients are unable to pay for it. A fund of $20,000 has been set aside to finance the campaign. . No deaths have been caused by use of the drug, it was reported.
FIVE CHARGED WITH LIQUOR VIOLATION
Five persons today face charges of violating the 1935 Beverage Act following raids by police over the week-end. They are Flint Wilson, 47, of 636 Eddy St.; Helen Young, 28, of 806 Paca St.; Jerry Williams, 40, of 306 E. Michigan St.; Eli Hamilton, 58, of 1232 Barrow St., and Lovie Ratcliff, 37, of 740 W. Walnut St. Clarence Settles, 38, of 921 E. 25th St., and Clarence Thomas, 35, of 254 W. St. Clair St., were charged with gaming and keeping a gaming house after police raided a pool room in the 700 block N. Senate Ave., Saturday. Two ‘men found in the pool room were charged with visiting a gaming house.
71 Are Reported in State;
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DROPS IN STATE,
Stiver Attributes Decline to ~ Stricter Enforcement of Road Laws.
Traffic deaths totaled 1029 in Indiana last year, 70 less than during 1938, according to the annual report of Don F. Stiver, State Safety
Mr. Stiver attributed the decrease to stricter law enforcement, pointing - Boss Tom |out that State Police made 25,746 traffic arrests during 1939, an increase of 6000 over 1938. Collisions between two or more vehicles led all other types of fatal accidents with 391 persons killed. Pedestrians killed by autos during 1939 totaled 286, a reduction of 53 below the 1938 figure. Non-collision accidents caused 133 railroad crossing crashes
killed 105 and autos striking fixed objects killed 72 persons. Evansville recorded the lowest traffic death rate for cities having a population of more than 70,000. Next in order were Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Indianapolis and Gary. Kokomo had the lowest fatality rate for cities between 25,000 and 70,000 population.
EIGHT DIE IN PLANE CRASH AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22 (U. P.) —|} Officials of the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways said today that eight persons—three crewmen and five
passengers—all on board, were killed in the crash of an air liner near Batavia. The plane, en route to Australia, crashed shortly after taking
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Times Special DETROIT, Jan. 22. —The Detroit Kiwanis Club, recognized as .the first club in Kiwanis International, will celebrate 25 years of service here tonight. The club, formed as a businessmen’s club, adopted the name Kiwanis and received a state charter Jan, 21, 1915. The organization took on its international character the following year when, Hamilton, Ont., started a similar club. Indianapolis, in August, 1916, became the first city in Indiana to organize a Kiwanis Club. There now are 76 clubs in Ihdiana.
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