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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
MAN INSTANTLY
KILLED BY AUTO
J. 0. Allison Is Victim of
Roadside Accident.

Struck while walking to work on
the National road near Holt road at
this morning by car driven by
William H. Dotson, 43, of 405 Bosart
avenue, j. o. Allison. So, of Sill Vine
street, was killed instantly.
His son, Thurman Allison, Is,
employed as a night worker at the
Real Silk hosiery mills, drove by
the accident scene a few minutes
after his fathers death, but did not
stop, due to the cold and the fact
that a number of automobiles had
gathered, congeSting the road. The
son drove home, not suspecting
that he was passing the body of
his father.
The father, a street car company
employe, was walking on the right
side of the road coming to the city
for an early morning car run.
Dotson, dispatcher for the Penn
sylvania railway, was driving home
after his nights work at Plainfield.
He told Deputy Sheriffs Foster
Regain and Dale Brown that truck
passed him with dim lights and that
he dimmed his own lights. When he
flashed them on bright again he saw
Allison directly in front of his car.
The machine struck Allison in the
back. breaking his neck and frac-
turing his skull. His body was thrown
twenty feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
WOMAN HELD IN
JUVENILE CASE
Police Charge immortality
Resort Operated.

Police today struck at an alleged
immoral rendezvous for schoolgirls
and men with the arrest of Mrs
Florence Daugherty, SO, of 1706
South Meridian street, on juvenile
court charges of contributing to the
delinquency Of a minor, and the ar
rest of two men on charges of va
grancy.
The men, held for further in
vestigation, are Joseph Petit, 20, Of
the alleged rendezvous, 17o6 South
Meridian street, taxi driver, and
Omar Ennis, 40, of 1121 River ave-
nue.. A second woman was released
after questioning.
Story Of a 13-year-old school
girl brought the police investigation.
The action followed disappear
ance Of three school girls Monday
afternoon after school and their re-
turn Tuesday afternoon after an
automobile trip to south of Colum-
bus in stolen car.
One of the three youths who &C
companied them, Edward Morris, IT.,
of 1910 South Belmont avenue, is
under arrest on a. vagrancy charge
and is held under high bond.
The girls were trailed to the down.
town section by their fathers, who
later found them.
Investigation Of the incident
focused attention On neral condi-
tons among school children in
southwest indianapolis, and early
today police brought the two men
and two women to headquarters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

ernoon, when struck by passenger
train No. SO, bound for Chicago.
Coroner G. H. Keever is investigat-
ing the accident with a view to de-
ternining whether it may be suicide.
Two witnesses told police and the
coroner that Purdy turned his car
directly into the path of the train
and met 1t head on.
Harry Olster, 81, of $50 East Twen-
ty-second street, crossing Waterman,
told police the car turned into the
path of the train when, by turn
ing the opposite direction, Purdy
could have escaped the collision or
minimized it.
The car was demolished and
thrown across Nineteenth street.
Purdy being thrown out of the
machine and against a building.
John Murphy Of 2705 Bellefon-
.aine street, was engineer; John w.
Ulrey, OPT Rivera avenue. conductor,
and John Jarka, 2e0A Cornell ave-
.7ue, fireman of the train.
Purdy leaves his widow and two
daughters. 3 and 4 years old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
DISEASE TOLL is 81
Spinal Meningitis Claims
Another Victim.

Death of Charles Stanley, 81, of
1922 East Market street at city hos
pital, today brought the total IA
talities from cerebroSpinal menin-
gifts to f1fty-seven within the past
six weeks.
No new cases were reported.
An additional squad to take cul-
lures and locate carriers of the
germ was ordered on duty by DR..
Herman G.. Morgan, city health
officer.
DR.. Thurman B. Rice, associate
professor of bacteriology at Indiana
University school of medicine, re-
ported that cultures of nurses and
medical staff members had not re-
vealed any carriers of the germ.
Second cultures were taken on
all cases where there were unSatiS-
factory f1rStS. Long hospital is not
admitting any patients until tests
are completed, because of the death
of nurse from the malady.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Death Hand
Engineer in Fatal Crash
Stunned by Tragedy
at Crossing.

BB United Press
TOLEDO, O., Jan. 22.-John A.
l. Hand, engineer of New York
Central's fast express, No. 10,
which crashed into a school bus
at Berea today and killed nine
pupils and the bus driver, got
down out Of his cab here today
pale and nervous after witnessing
the tragedy at the unguarded
crossing.
A new crew took the train to
Chicago with its mail and express
and Hand explained his version
Of the miShap. He is a veteran
engineer and the hand that held
the throttle was one which had
been trained well.
Hand crawled down from the
seat box quietly. There was
curious crowd at the station to
see the train pull in, but Hand
slipped away unobtrusively.
To fellow engineer standing
near the engine Hand nodded
briefly. He tried to talk, but his
throat was huSked.
"It killed all but one OF them, 1
think" he said. God, it was ter
rible! Terrible! Terrible!"
The other man nodded sy1npa-
thetically. He laid compassion
ate hand on Hands overalled back.
On the other side of the engine
when the crash occurred was Fire
man John Deal. He was so affected
by the tragedy he could hardly
speak of it.
Both Hand and Deal said they
had not seen the bus approach
the crossing and were unaware of
the impending tragedy until the
crash came. They said the train
was travelling forty-five miles an
hour.
"They must have come toward
us from the other side" Hand
said, over and over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
AID FROM AIR
ONLY HOPE OF
FLOOD REGION
Planes to Drop Medicine,
Food to Victims of
Ice Blockade.
PECK, GENAR0 ON WAY
Relief Workers in Boats
Are Unable to Reach
Devastated Area.

Hundreds of families isolated by
ice and water in unheater southern
Indiana homes, looked to the skies
today for relief from hunger, sick
ness and intense cold that caused
widespread suffering throughout
flooded regions.
Red Cross relief workers, reporting
to Indianapolis headquarters this
afternoon, said the only hope for re-
lief of the majority of maroored
refugees lay in dropping food, blank
cts, medicine and fuel from air.
planes.
Relief workers made their way
in boats through water, and dragged
supplies across ice to some families,
but were unable to penetrate the
heart of the devastated regions.
Plotting a national guard plane.
Lieutenants Walter r. Peck and
Frank Genaro, Indianapolis Fla
mingo endurance pilots, sped south
ward this afternoon to Vincennes,
where the plane will be loaded with
relief supplies.
They will attempt to land to dis
tribute supplies among refugees
grouped on Claypole hill, in Decker
township, southwest Of Vincennes,
but, failing, will bomb" the hill
with parcels of food, clothing, and
medicine.
They probably will make many
trips later today, H. B. Williamson,
national Red Sross representative in
charge of southern Indiana relief
work, said. He will attempt to reach
seventy-five isolated families near
Griffin, with the plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
BY DICK MILLER.
Times STAFF (:orreSuondent


WABASH, Ind, Jan. 22.-Selec-
ton of jury to try Mrs. Josephine
Alger, pretty, auburn haired wife of
Gene Alger, slayer and bank bandit,
began in Wabash circuit court here
this morning.
The defense accepted four and
excused six tentative jurors. The
prosecution late today had not be-
gun examining prospective jurors.
Mrs. Alger is accused in two in
dictments. One naming her as
accessory before the fact Of auto
autobanditry and the other charg-
ing auto banditry. Conviction on
either calls for a sentence of ten
to twenty-five years in prison.
A special venire of fifteen, called
by Sheriff Zenno Malctt reported
for examination and completion Of
the jury is expected to consume the
entire day, with evidence to begin
Thursday.
None of the jurors are from La
fontaine township, where the rob-
berry of the Lafontaine State bank
last October by Alger and his bride
of few months, is the basis of the
charges against her.
1t is expected the defense may
file a motion for Mrs. Ayers re-
lease similar to the one fled at
Vernon, Ind. Claude Mcbride, de-
tense attorney. pleaded the wife, an
expectant mother, be released, be-
cause, If she participated in the
robbery of the Paris Crossing bank,
1t was under duress and at the
command of her husband.
While the motion was pending,
Judge John r. Carney of Jennings
circuit court accepted Ayers guilty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
White House Silent

BE- United Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-The
White House declined to comment
today on Premier Andre Tardieus
statement IN London that Prime
Minister MacDonald'S visit here last
fall failed to achieve an Anglo
American accord on naval reduc-
ton.
Secretary Of State Stimson is be-
ing given a free hand in the con-
duct of Americas part in the con-
ference, 1t was said. and any re-
ply which may be made to the Tar
dieu statement will come from him.
President Hoover has received no
official report Of Tardieu's opinion,
il was stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22


Clara, remembering that she was
supposed to be engaged to Richman,
turned her back squarely on the
twenty photographers and kissed
Harry. He woke up Immediately.
Then Miss Bow thought of her
public. Once more she kissed Rich.
man while pictures were taken.
Then she received reporters.
Are you going to marry Rich
man?" she was asked.
Eyes," came the answer in husky
voice, which Miss Bow explained
was caused by a cold.
"When?"
ooh, that's a secret"
"That's up to Miss Bow, of course, -
Richman interrupted.
why did you bring the big doll?"
she was asked.
Because Harry wanted it."
Richman eyed TootS Skeptically
and made no move to caress the
present brought by his fiancee.
Persons who have seen Miss Bow
Oh VIC SC1SCll FOWCO DIG WetS SOAA-
siderably thinner, and were mildly
surprised to note that she wore no
rouge.
Richman pushed through the
crowd again and steered Miss Bow
to a Rolls-Royce to escort her to
her hotel.
did you make this trip especially
to marry Richman?" q reporter
shouted.
IT don't know" screamed Miss
Bow vaguely as she shifted Toots
on her lap. Maybe it is just a
pleasure trip"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Water Wall Threat

PALESTINE, Ill, Jan. pa peril
typical of the far north confronted
an expanse Of southern Illinois to-
day as the f1ood-swollen Wabash
river amassed tons of fury behind
an ice jam three miles south of
here.
Engineers debated whether to
dynamite the barrier, behind which
a wall of water, ice foes and debris
had risen four feet above the level
of the river below the jam, whether
to attack the ice by bombs dropped
from planes, or whether to await
thaw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
French Premier Asserts Breach, Result OF
Macdonald Visit to Washington,
Widened by Views of Experts
EFFORT TO RECONCILE IDEAS MADE
Fascist Delegates to Farley Spend Day il
Study of Franco-Italian Situation;
Major Problems Smoothed
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

LONDON, Jan. 22-The British and American govern
mens failed to reach accord naval policy result
of Premier j. Ramsay MacDonads recent visit to Washing
ton and today farther apart than ever Premier Andre
Tardieu of told the United Press interview
day.
Assuming the role of mediator between the two deega-
tOn Tardeu said he must spend the day between Mac
Donald and Henry L. Stmson effort to reconcile Amer
lean and British theories of several outstanding points"
Tardeu further insisted that the breach between the
two Engshspeang nations actually has widened the
American navy department and the British admiralty
perts assumed prominent part in the negotiations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
MERCURY TUMBLES
TO 4-BELOw MARK

ington, meteorologist, said. Today
and Thursday probably will be fair.
The lowest temperature, 4 below,
was recorded between 7 a. m. and
a. m. At the mercury returned
to below. Highest reading Tues
day was % above.
The cold wave, now centered in
the DakotaS, extended southwark
into Texas, and probably will con-
tinue for several days, although
slightly higher temperatures were
forecast for Indiana Thursday aft
ernoon.
Terre Haute and Indianapolis
were the coolest cities in the state
reporting government readings. Chi
cage reported s below.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
CLASSIC BOOKS OF AGES HELD MENACE BY light FIC7

Perhaps we in America are go
ing to build up classic literature
distinctly our own. 1t is worth
thinking about; but If the older
classics can not be kept alive.
what hope can we have to pro-
long the life of any book? Pub
fishing then will be on a very diff
ferent plane.
81 am not sure, therefore, that
this cry for something new Is not
becoming a menace. The flood Of
latest offerings, beautifully adver-
rised, pampered by book clubs and
doomed by literary critics, may
swamp everything else
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

eran publisher viewed with alarm
the numerically vanishing class
ics'
Only one additional step need be
taken to consign them to popular
oblivion, he pointed out. That
would be the substitution Of mod
ern" books in the enforced, or
must" reading in colleges. In
such an event the Bunyans, the
Flauberts, the Thackerays, the
Montaignes and even the Antaole
Frances would be snuffed out, like
SO many scented, but outncded,
wax candles. One sort of inn
mortality would vanish for the hui
man race.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

may lie not far distant, one of the
leading bookmakers of the United
States hazarded today.
1t was the theme of the fare
well speech today of Joseph w.
Lippincott, head of the Philadel-
phia publishing house that bears
his name, on the occasion Of re-
linquishing his Office as president
of the National Association of
Booksellers.
Pointing to the flood of Eek
wives" and "ex-husbands" books
on an unparalleled market, not 70
mention the slightly Quieter best
sellers having to do with war and
the left bank Of the Seine, the vet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Nine CHILDREN KILLED AS
SCHOOL BUS IS STRUCK BY
TRAIN; Driver MEETS Death
Tragedy Occurs at Ohio Railroad Crossing
When Fast Filler Hits Car as 1t Passes
Over Tracks; One Girl Badly Hurt.
Investigations Into Catastrophe Started by
Several Sources as Word Of Calamity
Reaches Nearby Towns.

UnftedPre8
BEREA o. JAN 22-The New York Central railroads
fast express No. 10 crashed bus load of Chatteng
school children here today their to Brook Park school,
killing nine pupils and the bus driver.
The express literally smashed the bus to splners BY
miracle yet unexplained Mary Davidson escaped with
slight injuries.
Windows of the bus were covered with frozen moisture
and believed that John Taylor of Brook Park Village the
driver failed hear the approaching er The railroad cross
ing is guarded by nothing but wood warning sign
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

Interest in the great books Of
the past is showing signs of dying
out" said Lippincott. The latest
thing is the vogue. The old titles
that delighted our parents or
grandparents, or both, have to be
issued in new form to gain much
attention. The phrase, here is
something new apparently is the
open sesame to sales.
Were it not for their present
use in schools and colleges, what
would become of the classics? Is
it not possible that books such as
Pilgrims Progress viii be buried
in oblivion before another decade?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
TWIN is CRITICALLY ILL
Slight Hope Held for Sole Survivor
of Disastrous Blaze.

Evelyn Kluesner, months old,
last survivor Of the family of MI.
and Mrs. Donald Kluesner, six mem
bers of which have died from burns
suffered in a fire at the Kluesner
home Jan. 10, remains in critical
condition at city hospital.
Physicians have little hope of saw
ing the baby's life. The child Is the
second of twins, Everett Kluesner
having died Jan. II, while the father
and mother and three other children
died shortly after the blaze which
followed an explosion when the
father threw gasoline into a stove
bv mistake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

Ushered in by a blizzard that laid
another blanket Of 16 inches of
snow on Indianapolis, new cold
wave forced thermometers down to
degrees below zero this morning,
according to the United States
weather bureau.
The mercury may fall one or two
degrees more tonight, j. H. Arm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
BY SAM LOVE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

NHIEtu ttas cfAtI WI-tNF'VElueHt
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-"'Pi
~ grim's Progress never heard
Of it."
Madam Bovary?' sorry, but
my book of the-week must have
got lost in the mails. Is it not?"
Vanity Fair?' We just buy it
at the newstands since We moved
to New York and sometimes I for
get"
Holy Bible?' Haven't spent a
night in a hotel for ares"
The time when such ccnversa-
lions. even in the hest drawing
rooms-wil be less than startling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
DURESS LIKELY As
JOSEPHINE ALGER'S
DEFENSE At TRIAL

plea and consented to dropping the
charges against Mrs. Alger because
the evidence was circumstantial, &C
cording to the prosecutors adnis-
sion.
Released to custody of her father
and attorney, she was brought to
Wabash, where, unable to give o
$4,000 bond, she has been held in
Jail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
Filler Hits Bus

BIZ United Press
ALLIANCE, o., Jan. 22.-Return-
ing from the Edinburg school after
delivering bus load of pupils, Ed
ward Clayton Of Akron was injured,
probably fatally, when Pennsyl-
vania f1ier demolished his bus on
the Edinburg crossing, thirteen
miles north of here, today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
% indictments Returned

Twenty-Five indictments, charging
thirty persons with felonies, were
filed before Criminal Judge James
A. Collins by the Marion county
grand jury in the first report Of the
spring term Eight persons we're
discharged In the report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22
What?NO
TYOzUeI?
Bang!

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-John jan
" kowsky lost his trowel the
other day, so he laid off brick
laying several days while he
searched for it. He found it in
his own pantry, serving as his
wife's cake knife. He brought suit
for divorce. His wife brought
counter suit, charging he beat her
when he found the troWel.
MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 22.-When
John Feinburg, furniture dealer,
wants a stenOgrapher, he wants
her perfect. Miss Ruth Manning
applied, but when Feinburg start
ed to measure her with tape line
she objected and went to the dis
trict attorneys office. Feinburg
said all his stenographers must be
blonde, wear size four shoe and
weigh 100 pounds. Miss Manning
won't prosecute. Feinburg is look
ing for another Stenographer.
DETROIT, Jan. 22.-An injury
received in an accident causes her
nose to turn blue, thus depriving
iler of any chance of happiness,
Miss Norma Renhack charged in
q suit for $4,000 filed against
Charles Harrington, driver of the
car.
DETROIT, Jan. 22.--Taking
their cues from what the we'll
dressed rum runner is wearing,
federal border officers today
donned spiked shoes to insure
greater facility in travelling over
the ice on the Detroit river. Rum
mers have been distancing officers
in ice chases. Tuesday one fell
through and when they pulled him
out discovered the reason for his
fleetneSS.
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.,, Jan. g.
His wife wouldn't tell him what
became of her wedding ring, so
George Standard, hotel bellhOp,
stripped her of her clothes and ap-
Piled lighted matches to her flesh
in an attempt to make her talk,
Mrs. Standard charged in police
court here today.
He claimed 1 pawned the ring"
she said, land wouldn't believe me
when 1 said I lost it." Standard
was fined $100.
n
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Jan.
22.-The two husbands of Marie
Sowinski, 80, sat side by side in
court here and heard the judge
sentence her to from six months
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-22

The French delegation left
their headquarters shortly
after II a. m. to go to No. 10
Downing street, where they
were to go into conference
with Premier Macdonald.
So seriously do the Italian dele
gates consider the effect of Tues
days private negotiations between
Tardieu and Foreign Minister Dino
Grandi that they planned to spend
the entire day In intensive study
and work on the FTanco-Italian sit
uatiOn.
The Italians announced they
would accept no engagements for
the day. remaining at their hotel
throughout.
Real Progress Reported
Real progress. however, resulting
from the three-hour dinner confer
ence Tuesday night of American,
British and French delegates, was
reported today by a spokesman for
the American group.
The American envoy declined to
give exact details of the discussion,
other than to say that much heavy
underbrush" had been cleared away.
Following the dinner, Macdonald
and Stimson gave Tardieu a full re-
port of the preconference discus
SionS between America and England,
and today the American delegation
was holding a full meeting to review
the results of the negotiations.
At the conclusion of Thursdays
session at st. James palace. it was
announced. a full stenographic copy
outlining the position of each ma
ton will be issued for the benefit
Of the public.
Already Left
Stimson went to No. 10 Downing
street at noon to confer again with
Prime Minister Macdonald. The
French delegates. Tardieu. Aristide
BRAND and Georges Leagues, had
left the governments residence
when the American chief delegate
arrived.
The prime minister also saw the
delegates of the British dominionS
for half an hour during the morn
ing.
Tardieu, after studying both the
British and French positions again,
announced that various minor diff
cultieS had been smoothed out in
regard to procedure and that pro-
greSS should be much faster than
had been expected if the delegates
continued the pace Of the last twen-
ty-four hours.
He said conversations In which
all of the delegates would partici-
pate were scheduled for Friday.
The delegates, however. will not give
definite naval figures in their
statements at the plenary session
Thursday but will make general
surveys.