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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Father of Seven Dies

Ru Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. "A. -
George w. Ridgley, 10, for years a
resident of Bartholomew county,
died at his home east of here fol-
lowing a long illness. He was an
active member of the Red Men ano
Pocahontas lodges. He leaves his
widow and seven children: Mrs.
H. Il. Stamm, Illinois; Raymond
Ridgley, Mrs. Hershel Schwartz,
Mrs. Jewell Sheets, Mrs Howard
Taylor, Percy and Noble Ridgley of
Bartholomew county; a sister, Mrs.
Jake Burch, Hope, and a brother,
Ed Ridgley, Vincennes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Former Merchant Dies
BIZ Times Special

EW IWtS NptCtuI
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. IA
Isaac Davis, 80, is dead. He was
born in Wayne county and for many
years was a merchant at Green's
fork. He was a member Of the
Friends church. He leaves three
daughters, Mrs. F. G. Nicholson,
Richmond; Mrs. F. N. Roller, In
dianapolis, and Mrs. E. R. Farrow,
Pontiac, Mich, and son, Harry F.
Davis. Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
DALE: CHARGES
CUSTER PLOT
Muncie Mayor-EIeCt in
Move to Check Foes.
By Times Special

BY Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 14.-Declar-
ing that he believes plot exists
to attempt to remove him as mayor
within a short time after he takes
Office, Jan. 6, Mayor-Elect George R
Dale announced he was appointing
his Son-in-law, Lester Holloway, as
city controller. That succeeds the
mayor in office should he be re-
moved.
Dale, who has long been an op-
ponent of the practice OF giving po-
Iitical jobs to relatives, offered the
custer plot in explanation OF nam
ing Holloway. Dale declared in his
weekly publication that since many
attempts had been made in the
past to harm him, he believed II
necessary to appoint Holloway as ar
insurance of his safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Judges Uncle Dies

PU Times SDeciGl
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. 14.-Wil-
liam E. Pickett, SO, uncle of City
Judge Fred Pickett, is dead here of
heart disease. He was a lifelong
resident of Richmond. He was a
member of the Friends church and
the Masonic order. He leaves his
window, Mrs. Anna Pickett; two
brothers, Everett, Williamsburg, and
Frank, Chester, and a sister, Mrs.
Minnie Hall. Richmond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
NEW CHURCH PROBABLE
Lutheran Congregation Planned at
Bloomington.
R.U Times Special

RI Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. IA
Whether Bloomington will have a
Lutheran church will be decided
here Sunday afternoon when a large
number of laymen will inspect pro-
posed sites for building.
For the past several years student
services have been held each Sun
day at the Indiana university school
of religion. The Rev. Edward F.
Stegen, who came here this year
to take care of the charge, an
nounces that it is believed the
church will be established.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Marion Pumps Shipped

BJI Times SDeCtdI
MARION, Ind, Dec. 1.-two
electrically driven pumps for the
Marion water works, recently pur-
chased from the Worthington Pump
and Machinery Company, were
shipped Dec. 10, S. M. Van Cleave
superintendent, is advised. The
pumps. which have a capacity of
3,00O,OO gallons each twenty-four
hours, will eventually replace steam
driven equipment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Injured Woman May Die

BU ItmeS NDCcidE
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. IA
Mrs. Alfred Reynolds, II, was per-
hapS fatally injured when an auto
mobile in which she was riding,
driven by her son, collided with a
car driven by Walter Hall, north of
this city. The Reynolds machine
turned over. Mrs. Reynolds is hurt
internally. The drivers attribute
the accident to fog, neither being
able to see headlights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Anderson Recalls Filler

BH United Press
ANDERSON, Ind. Dec. 14-Wil-
liam H. Bowlus, who this week es-
tablished new United States record
for sustained motorless fight at
San Francisco, was a resident here
during his boyhood. To establish
the record, he remained in the air
two hours, forty-seven minutes,
thirteen and one-half seconds and
attained an altitude of $50 feet. Part
of the flight was over the Pacific
ocean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Postal Workers Elect

BIZ JnitCd PTeSS
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 14-City
letter carriers and their wives he'd
their annual Christmas party at til.
Y. M. C. A. and elected officer s..
The men chose Sheridan Sic E,
president; Everett Alexander, vice =
president, and Q. O. Stinson, secre-
tary-treasurer. The auxiliary elected
Mrs. Albert Grant, president; Ms.
Cecil Crane, vice-president; Mrs.
Clifton Morgan, secretary; Mrs.
Everett Perkins, Treasurer, and Mrs.
Garland Lawler, mistress at-arns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
State EmpIoye Accused

BIZ Times Special
GOSHEN, Ind, Dec. IA. H
Murphy, Columbia City, a bridge
engineer employed by the state
highway commission, is being sought
by Elkhart county authorities on a
charge of driving an automobile
while drunk His car collided near
Waterford with one driven by Louis
Adams, Warsaw. Murphy disap-
peared after being treated for cuts
on the face at local doctors of
fee. Adams was also slightly hurt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Business Men Lauded

B0 Times Special
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. A.
Business men through the centuries
have been laying the physical basis
OF civilization and in their efforts
to improve business standards,
should have full support from the
public, said Dean w. A. RawleS of
the Indiana university school of
commerce and finance, in the presi-
dents address at the annual winter
meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa
scholarship society He spoke on
the subject, Can Business Admin
iStration Become a ProfeSsion?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
GOOD SAMARITAN AND
FRIEND BOTH PAY FINES
Gary Man Aided Drunken Driver,
but Auto Rams Curb,
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WHITING, Ind, Dec. 14.-An ef-
fort to prevent a friend from hay
ing an accident and breaking several
laws cost Stanley Kalcenski, Gary,
500, in city court here. 1t cost his
friend, John Single, Gary, $40.
Single felt he was not able to drive
his automobile home and asked
Kalcenski to drive it for him.
The men changed positions in the
middle of the street and aroused
suspicion of Harry Parker, motor
officer. The car finally started of,
skidded on the slipper pavement in
turning and ran into a curb.
Kalcenski was fined S. and costs
for reckless driving and another 81
and costs for not having a drivers
license. Single was fined $40 and
costs for intoxication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Staying ACCUSED FREE
Former Dry Agents Aid Cleared
of Killing Youth.
BIZ United Press

Bp tnlted PTe5S
BLOOMFIELD, Ind, Dec. IA
Greene county circuit court jury
found Wayne (Red Lucas not
guilty of involuntary manslaughter
in the killing of Delmar Oliphant,
18, high school student.
The defense claimed that Oil
plant and a crowd of other boys at
tackled Lucas while the latter was in
his automobile. During the fight
Oliphant was stabbed fatally. Lucas
testified he did not know whether
he killed Oliphant. Lucas was
formerly a dry law enforcement aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
BOY KILLERS ABASHED
BEFORE ACQUAINTANCES
Threats Heard Against Four at In
diana HarbOr Inquest.

diana HarbOr Inquest.
BU Times Special
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, Dec. IA.
-Four boys, the oldest 16, charged
with first degree murder, faced for
mer schoolmateS and other &C
quaintances with bowed heads when
they were brought here from the
East Chicago jail to attend an in
quest in the deaths of their two
victims.
Threats of violence were fire.
quently heard at a morgue where
$50 persons had gathered for the
inquest, but special police prevented
any outbreak.
Signed confessions have been OBJ
tanned from each of the accused,
police declare. The boys held are
Joe Jacobs, Alfred Shoue and Tony
Laconic, each IS, and Walter Xalin-
ski, Is. During robberies they IA
tally shot Mrs. Mary F1aZyk and
William Hendron.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Mother of Five Dies

Bu Times SDecidt
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 14-Mrs.
Elizabeth Cooper, 81, wife Of Charles
Cooper, is dead at her home south
of here following a short illness. She
leaves her husband, three daughters,
Mrs. Nancy Carnes, Scipio; Mrs.
Mary Wynn and Mrs. Lucille Way,
this city, and son, Earl Coo.%r,
here: three brothers, John alN
Robert Gathers, this city; William
Gathers, west of Hope, and two
sisters, Mrs. Roy Reed, Bartholo-
new county, and Mrs. Archie Dud-
ley, Connersville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Liquor Case Appeal Facts

BB Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 14.-Berg
Fulp, tried in Bartholomew circuit
court on a charge of selling intoxi-
eating liquor, was found guilty and
fined 5000 and given a six months
sentence to the state penal farm
He was first tried in city court,
found guilty and fined 500 and
costs amounting to $3.50 and given
a Sixty-day farm sentence, but ap-
pealed to circuit court. He was
convicted by a jury Of ten men and
two women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Ford Wires Congratulations
BV Tim es Special

BU IimeS SDecf0G
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dec. IA
Henry Ford has not forgotten L. E..
Webb, Shelbyville's mayor-elect, al
though several years have passed
since they were acquainted in De-
troit while Ford was a night en-
gineer at an electric plant and Webb
was employed as a printer on a
newspaper. The Millionaire auto
mobile manufacturer has sent a
telegram of congratulations to Webb,
stating that Webb's election victory
only recently came to his attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Body Sent to Anderson

bH tHiith EIto*
ALEXANDER, Ind, Dec. 14-Tha
body of Lynn Stone, former resident
here, who died in November, 1928,
at Indianapolis, has been removed
from Crown Hill cemetery and
placed in a mausoleum in the I. o.
O. F. cemetery here. The body viii
be transferred to Delaware county
when a mausoleum is completed N
a cemetery near MUncie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Club Collects 1.5OO Toys

RB Times SDeciGI
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, Dec.
14.-More than / 500 toys have been
collected by the members of the
Service Club, organization of local
young business men, for distribu-
ton among poor children OF the
city at Christmas. Old toys as well
as new ones are being collected and
those that are broken are being
repaired by members Of the club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Mother of Five Dies

B,V tmeS SDecldE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. IA
Mrs. Edward Pickett, 46, is dead
at her home southwest of this city.
She leaves her husband and the
following children: Mary, Harriet,
Fayola, Albert and Malcolm, and
brothers, Daniel and William Berg,
Washington: Bert and Ralph, South
Bend; Walter, Buffalo, N. Y, and
John, Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Ben-Hur to Aid Santa

BIZ Ifme8 bDGCfNT
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 14.-Ben-
Hur will aid Santa Claus in provid-
ing Christmas cheer for needy
children of the south side. The
motion picture of the Lew Wallace
book will be shown at Washington
school to provide funds for the an
nual Christmas party of the COM
munity, one of the features OF
Anderson's observance of the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Injured Man Asks $1,000

BIZ Tines Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 14.-Clyde
Perry has filed suit in circuit court
here against Mrs. Ella Meek, asking
81 900 damages for personal in
juries received in an automobile &C
cident Sept. II, west of this city.
Perry was injured on the head and
ice and one of his legs was hurt
y an automobile he was driving
collision with a car driven
5. Meek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
OLD INVOICE REVEALS
LOW EGGS, HIGH PINS
Prices Were 3 Cents Dozen and
so Cents a Paper.

BIZ United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. Eggs
we're 8 cents a dozen back in 1910
but pins were 60 cents a paper, an
old invoice made for j. M. Davis
a leading merchant reveals.
Other items listed were wheat, Is
cents a bushel; corn, 10 cents; oats
8 1-3 cents; butter, cents; apples
Is cents bushel; coffee, 9 cents
pound; women's black hose. 50 a
dozen; blankets, $1.1212; women's
carriers, 6 cents, and black silk
gloves, IS cents.
Several items now obsolete were
listed, including Il watch keys at Sc
cents.
Most of the products were hauled
overland by wagon from Cincinnati
over almost impossible roads and
through unsettled country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
DISTURBANCE IN COURT
Man Acquitted of Girl Attack
Roughly Handled
N Times Special

BIZ Tan CS NDeCidt
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Dec. 14.-Dis-
order prevailed in the Tippecanoe
circuit courtroom here after Miguel
M. Malvar, a Filipino, was &C
quilted by a jury of criminal as
sault on a 14-year-old girl.
Eyes, you are guilty" the girls
grandmother screamed as she laid
hands on the acquitted man. Two
policemen used force in removing
her and Joseph A. Andrew, judge
pro tenn, stopped the disturbance by
ordering the courtroom cleared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Newcastle Kiwanians Elect

BIZ Times fDPci0I
NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 14.-The
Newcastle Kiwanis Club has elected
DR.. j. A. Tully, president; Harry A.
Spannuth, vice-preSident, and Wal
ter wilkinson, treasurer. New di-
rectors are Gilbert K. Hewitt, Carl
Pfeger, William McKown, Charles
L. Heichert, Donald Rogers and
James Rhode.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Injured Student Dies

BIZ ItmeS SDecfdt
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. IA
Robert Fickersham, De Paw uni
verSity student, whose home is in
Monticello, is dead here of injuries
suffered a week ago when he fell
while playing leap frog in gym
nasium class. He struck on his
head and shoulders, causing paraly-
sis from the shoulders down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
EUen Head of House Has
Some Rights, Court Holds

company with one Of the daugh-
tiers in the home, but Mrs. Dau
sided with Bing, who was once
fined for beating the aged head
of the house.
The court refused Mrs. Dau a
divorce, declaring that the head
of the house has a right to say
whether a stranger shall occupy
a part of it and keep company
with a daughter. Despite the re-
fusal, Mrs. Dau declared recon-
citation with her husband was
impossible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
New Postoffice Proposed

Cost of erecting new poStoffice
buildings at Winchester and Union
City is included in the half billion
dollar appropriation bill to be intro
duced by Representative Richard N.
Elliott of Indiana. The postofflces
Of these places have second class
ratings and are in rented buildings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Teacher Chosen

BIZ Times ADfciuI
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 14e-Miss
Dorothy Busby OF this city has been
engaged as home economics teacher
in the Gas City schools. She viii
take the position made vacant by
the recent death Of Miss Cora James
Whitehead
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
CHOSEN
FOR DE PAUW PLAY
RObbe7- tSabS

BU IniICd PfCSS
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec.
= 14.-Three men who pleaded
guilty to store robberies at
Morgantown and North Terre
Haute, were characterized as
"saps" by Circuit Judge John
P. JefferieS. The three are
Roy F. Cox, 80, Sandborn;
James B. Needham, Anderson,
and Daniel F. Smith, North
Terre Haute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Insurance to Rebuild School

h,R mos NDCCiGt
NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. IA
Trustee Burch of Stony Greek town.
ship proposes to rebuilding the
school at Brownsville, burned this
week. with s2l 900 insurance which
was carried on the structure. The
building was not yet paid for, SIS, 900
still being due, but this will be
taken care of with taxes, the levy
for which is already in effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
FARM CAREER URGED
Purdue Man Sees Opportunities for
Trained Men.

Bu United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. lathe fact
that farm problems are becoming
more difficult to solve, provides
greater opportunities in agriculture
for the trained man, w. o. Mills
Purdue university school of agricul-
ture, said in an address here.
Economic problems, problems of
diseases among stock and other sit
uations demand experts for their
solution" Mills said. THE high
school graduate should seriously
consider agriculture as a field for
opportunity."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Shotgun Brings
Eagle Doom

BIZ Tim rs Special
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec.
14.-The largest eagle that
has been killed In north central
Indiana in several years was
brought down with a shotgun
on a farm near here by Roy
Hodgin, who caught the bird
stealing chickens.
It measures nine feet from
wing tip to wing tip. The
feathers are a dark brown.
Hodgin believes the bird was
strong enough to carry away a
good-sized pig.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
ByT nited Press

VALPARAISO, Dec. 14.-Wil-
liam Dau, aged father OF
seven children, found an ally in
Judge Grant Crumpacker OF
Porter circuit court here, who
refused to aid in efforts to eject
Dau from his home, as result
of a divorce suit brought by
Mrs. Margaret Dau.
According to Dau, life in the
home was serene until Wayne
Bing became a star" boarder.
Dau objected to Bing keeping
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Sidewalk Parking Ended

By Times Special
ELWOOD, Ind, Dec. 14.-Gilbert
Wilburn had the best parking space
in town until the complaint Of
neighbors caused police to prohibit
him from leaving his automobile on
the sidewalk in front of his home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
FAKE CORPSE DIVORCED
Decree Granted Evansville Wife from
Death Hoax PerpetratOr.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. IA
divorce has been granted Mrs. Anne
Pennington Yeager from Allen G.
Yeager, Evansville business man and
Boy Scout executive, who fled from
Evansville after he perpetrated a
drowning hoax last summer. Mrs.
Yeager charged failure to provide.
Yeager set out on the Ohio river
in a motor boat just before a storm
His boat was found upside down
and a hunt was staged for his body,
He was later found and arrested in
Michigan, where he had gone with
a 14-year-old Evansville boy to get
a new start" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Princeton Woman Killed

BIZ United Press
PRINCETON, Ind, Dec. 14.-Mrs.
Luther Benson, so, wife Of a local
attorney, was killed instantly three
miles south of Carlisle on U. S.
Road Al, when the automobile in
which she was riding swerved from
the pavement. James Benson,
Owensvile, a brother-in-law, was
seriously injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Former Official Dies

BIZ United Press
WABASH, Ind, Dec. Thames
P. Ross. a Civil war veteran who
served as Wabash county clerk and
issued his own marriage license, is
dead here. He was clerk fifty years
ago and served again just before
the incumbent and had expressed
his intention of being candidate
in 1890,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Dive in Pool Fatal

BIZ United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. IA
A dive into the Y. NJ. c. A. pool
here ended fatally for Henry C..
LaSwell, senior at Indiana State
Teachers college. He suffered a
broken neck when he struck the
bottom of the pool.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Attends Peace Meeting

BIZ Times SpeciaI
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. IA
President G. Bromley Oman of
De Paw university attended a
world peace conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in New York
Friday. He is secretary of the or
paniZation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
TRIBUTE TO LA SALE
Marion Lions Club Will Sponsor
Program Monday.
BIZ Times Special


Bp Times Special
MARION, Ind, Dec. 14.-The
Marion Lions Club will entertai !
school teachers of Marion and else
where in Grant county, members Ct
the Grant Historical Society ard
Lions Clubs from Lafayette, Koko-
mo, Converse and Warren, at dis
trict meeting of Lions here Monda &.
Edward o. Snethen, Lion district
governor, will be the honor guest.
The meeting is being held in &C.
operation with state Lion Clubs, IL
honor the memory of Robe ;
La Sale, the first white man to S :
foot in Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14

RB Times SDCCidL
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 14.-The
distinction of being the youngest
ordained minister in Florida, if not
in the United States, is held by
Morris Book, %, son of the Rev.
William H. Book, pastor for twenty
years of the Tabernacle Christian
church here. The son is pastor of
the First Christian church at Or
lando.
Before entering the ministry,
young Book had in succession ambi-
tons to be a vaudeville comedian, a
surgeon and journalist, but at 10
decided to preach. He is a former
student at Butler university, Indi-
annapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Aged Woman Buried

RV Times Special
FILLMORE, Ind, Dec. II. -
Funeral services for Mrs. Mamie D.
Arnold. so, Marion township resi-
dent, who died Tuesday, were held
at the Christian church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-24
ARMY OFFICERS
PLAN DEFENSE
IN GASSED CITY
Say Attack Is Unlikely in
Modern Warfare; Use
Cleveland Example.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Copyright. 1923. NEA Service. Inc.)
WASHINGTON. May 24.-If any
future var a large city subjected
to a poison gas attack will be able
TO defend itself. 1t will be far from
helpless.
High officers of the United States
army do not anticipate that any
nation will undertake TO reproduce
in a peaceful city the conditions
which gassed and killed so many
persons in the Cleveland Clinic the
other day. They do not believe such
an aim could possibly be achieved
and they do not believe such a ma
jor military effort would be justi-
ned by the results.
Nevertheless, it might conceivably
happen. A gas attack might some
day be launched against an IN
evacuated city outside the fighting
zone. In time of war. the city it
self could make these preparations:
How to Meet Crisis
People would be warned TO go to
the higher floors, close doors and
windows. stuff cracks, put out fires
ano close up any air intakes
Gas proof shelters would be es-
tablished.
The fire department would be
ready to flush streets.
Emergency bathing and flrst-aid
stations would be established for
prompt bathing and treatment Of
the gassed
Surplus var and emergency masks
would be provided for men who
must remain at their pots, such as
hremen and power plant operators.
Must Excavate at Once
Instructions would be published
directing people to leave gassed
areas quickly.
Complete regulation and control
of citizens would be established for
their protection.
An alarm system would be devised
TO give warning Of an approaching
attack and authentic information
about gas would be published.
Officers of the army's chemical
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-24

warfare service believe that the diff
ficulty of making gas attack be-
hind the lines of city and the pos
sible protective measure would dis
courage the enemy.
A surprise gas attack by air might
be made for purposes of demorali-
zation, but such attacks on cities