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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
FLAY UTILITY BOARD
East Chicago Council liked
by Delay Given insult.

Conduct of the public service
commission in the Calumet Rail-
ways abandonment case is con-
demned in a resolution passed by
the East Chicago city council and
on file with the commission today.
The resolution points out that the
city favored abandonment of the
Calumet Railways Ctreet Railway
properties, an insult unit, in East
Chicago because of the deplorable
condition of right-of and
equipment"
Abandonment was authorized by
the commission May % for compile
ton July /. Chairman John w.
McCardle then extended time for
abandonment without hearing,
this causing the censure.
McCardle explained today he ex-
tended the time because the Calu-
met Railways felt they had buyer
for the property. They since have
given up hope and the abandon
ment will proceed, McCardle said.
He had extended the time fifteen
days, he declared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Faces Assault Charge for
Attacking Roomer in
Rent Dispute.

Tony Crauso. 513 East Norwood
street, is 10, but he Yields a piece
of gas pipe as well and better than
most OF the younger generation.
He was bound over to the grand
jury on charges of assault and bat
terry with intent to kill today.
Nick Celia. Il. of 722 South East
street, suffering from head and arm
wounds, told Municipal Judge VIII
liam H. Sheaf1er details of a battle
that ensued after Celia moved from
CrausoS room Saturday.
Celia said Crauso demanded rent
to the formers moving time, and
when Celia refused to pay, Crauso
grabbed a section of gas pipe and
pursued him into the street Twice
Crauso swung and as many times
Celia fell to the ground.
The third time Crauso swung,
Celia saidlle hit the pavement and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
POPE ANSWERS
IN FASCIST ROW
Says Controversy Is Due to
Lack of Understanding.

By United Press
VATICAN CITY, July 20.-The
pope, in an address to the congre-
cation of sacred rites Sunday, re-
ferred to the Vaitcan-Fascist con-
troversy in mild terms. and at
tributed the Fascist attitude more to
lack of understanding than to mall
ice. He prayed for a miracle" so
that God would enlighten them.
"One Of the miracles we need at
the present time" he said, sis that
the blind may see, that those who
deliberately do not want to see, may
see, and those who do not under
stand, may understand.
Those who do not see or do not
understand are deserving of pity,
because no one probably has taught
them what they do not know, or
they had no chance of knowing,
studying and enjoying truth as we
do. This ought to force on them
the moral necessity of not talking
or pronouncing judgment on what
they do not know. We ought to ask
such miracles of God, who can do
everything"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
DEATH CLAIMS
4LONG-TIME
CITY RESIDENTS
Aged Women'S Funerals to
Be Held Tuesday at
Their Homes.

Death claimed four aged residents
of Indianapolis, all women, over
the weekend. They were:
Mrs. Hattie STRIP. 2615 Shelby
street, grandmother Of Lieutenant
Frank E. Owen, head Of the police
accident prevention bureau.
Miss Minnie Snyder. III East St.
Clair street, for thirty years an en-
ploye of the Kahn Tailoring Com
pany.
Mrs. Sophia Cohn. 5O7 East
Eleventh street.
Mrs. Mary Borcherding, q native
Of Germany, and resident here
almost a half century.
Mrs. STRIP had been a resident Of
the south side for sixty years. Her
husband, Richard STRIP, who survives
her, has been in city hospital eight
weeks recovering from injuries suf-
fered in an auto accident.
Funeral services will be at her
grandson's home at 1851 Marker
street at 2 Tuesday afternoon.
Other survivors are two sons,
Harry and Edward owen, and an
other grandson, Kenneth Owen, Of
Venice, Cal.
Funeral for Miss Snyder will be
at 8 Tuesday afternoon. Survivors
are a sister, Miss Emily Snyder Of
Indianapolis, and two brothers, Al
fred of Los Angeles, and William
Snyder of New York.
Last rites will be at Tuesday
afternoon for Mrs. Cohn. A daugh-
ter, Miss Minnie Cohn. and son
Ernest, both of Indianapolis. to-
gether with three sisters, survive
her
Funeral services for Mrs. Bor-
cherding will be at 2:30 Tuesday
afternoon. Three sons, William, Carl
and Frank, and granddaughter,
Frances Borcherding, survive her.
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Settling streams OF fire were
creeping dangerously near a $4,000
gallon storage tank and workers
battled all night to prevent a new
confagration.
Flames Trap Crowd
The tragedy occurred late Satur-
day, just after the well was shot"
It "came in with a flow Of nearly
5000 barrels a day. News of the
big gusher spread rapidly and thou
sands came from nearby towns to
see it.
The crowd grouped closely about
the column of spouting oil, unmind-
full Of the streams of oil which
poured from the well mouth, and
were being collected hastily in stor-
age tanks.
Suddenly the area surrounding
the well was enveloped in a flash Of
! fire. The air, heavily laden with
explosive gas, became fame. Those
nearest the center of the hlast-one
Of the open storage tanks-fell
writhing and screaming on the
ground. Others, their clothing
afiame, ran screaming into the
outer crowd spreading fire to new
victims.
Streams of blazing liquid ran
among the trees of the nearby for
est and ignited tank after tank Of
/ stored oil. Pools of waste exploded
with a roar.
Turns on Creators
It appeared as if the gusher had
turned upon its creators with VEN
! geance The men who brought it
in" were grouped with their families
close about the danger area. Among
those scared by the first blast were
the well owner, Walter Lee McClan-
ahan and his wife; E. j. Guy, gen.
eral superintendent of the Roose-
welt Refining Company and his
wife; Guys son, Robert, and his 18-
year-old bride; Thomas Lamb, %,
driller of the we'll, and Mrs. Lamb
and John Melvin, oil field superin-
tendent, and his 13-year-old daugh-
ter.
George Kelly. 43, owner Of the
farm on which the Strike" was
made saw his visions of sudden
wealth turn to tragedy. His wife
was burned so seriously she is not
expected to live and he is in a seri-
Gus condition.
Child Is Victim
The crowd, plunging in a panic to
escape the fiery blast, recovered its
senses soon enough to prevent
further tragedy. Many heroes, only
few of them known, raced from
points of safety into the flames to
drag back the scared victims.
Charles Vopsey, pipe line superin-
tendent of the well company. ran
into the flames repeatedly guiding
trapped victims to safety though his
own clothing was ablaze. j. r. Fitz-
gerald. former professor of geology
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
PIPE ORGAN TO CLUB
CoIumbians Accept Gift of
Water Firm Head.

John G. Ruckelshaus, chairman
Of the house committee of the Co.
lun1bia Club, has announced pres
entation of a de luxe auditorium
model pipe organ to the club by
Clarence H. Geist, Philadelphia,
president of the indianapolis Water
Company,
A dedicatory program will be held
early in the fall, following installa-
ton Of the organ, according to
Ruckelshaus. Acceptance was rati-
fed by the board of directors of
the club, following Geists offer
The instrument is similar to the
one now in Geist's Boca Ration
Club, located near Palm Beach, Fla.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
YECGS BLAST
SAFE And GET
CASH, PAPERS
Valuable Documents Taken
by CrackSmen From
City Office.

Yeggs who broke through a rear
door of the Henry j. Amt Pickle
Company, 1928 Shelby street, blew
the safe and carried away valuable
papers and $50 in cash and checks,
police were told this morning.
The robbery was discovered when
George NJ. Amt, manager of the
firm, opened the doors early today.
More than a dozen other robberies
and holdups were reported to police
over the weekend.
A taxi drivers nerve baked one
bandits attempt at a holdup Sat-
urday night. Charles L. Schnebelt,
1914 East Washington street, said
a Negro rode in his cab to the TOO
block Minerva street, where he
talked a few minutes with a Negro
man and woman, and then asked
to be driven to the HOO block North
NIiley avenue, where he pointed a
gun at Schnebelt.
Flees in Bullet Hail
The latter dived into the cab,
shifted gears, and, lying down in
the seat out of the bandits view,
drove away. Three bullets hit the
rear Of the cab
The same Negro is thought to
have been the one who an hour
earlier held up Louis Cook, 2718
Bellefontaire street, Sinclair filing
station attendant at Tenth and
Locke streets, taking $48.
Mairen Wardell, 1909 Kappes
street, insurance company collector.
told police he had been robbed of
$50 at the Kentucky avenue bridge
over White river Sunday.
Breaking into soft drink saloon
operated by Mike Cain at 1902 South
West street, burglars took a 500
radio, $40 in cash. and tobacco val
ued at $24.
City Property Stolen
w. D. Griffis, assistant Gamewell
superintendent, said 500 feet of Ca
BILE, worth $3.50, Is missing from the
rear of the engine house at Six
teenth street and Ashland avenue.
Donald Webb, Windsor, Mo, said
clothing valued at 500 was taken
from his auto near the statehouse
Sunday.
Pat Ward, 1882 Brooke street,
heard burglars near his home to-
day and fired q, shot as they fed.
Office equipment valued at 500 is
missing from the Enterprise Ircn
and Wire Fence Company, 100 East
Twenty street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
CHECK ARTIST SUSPECT
Is PINCHED BY POLICE
Woman Pharmacy Owner Points
Out Alleged Thief to Officers.

Mrs. Pearl Tucker, proprietor of a
pharmacy at Hamilton and Mich
igan streets, who last week en-
gagged in debate, both oral and ply
steal, with police over traffic VIC
lation, joined police early today In
capture of an alleged check artist.
She recognized Edward Crosse,
DIT North Alabama street, she said,
as the man who passed a bad check
on another Of her stores. on Mad
ison avenue, some time ago. He
presented a check for $15.65 in the
Michigan street store, and she called
police.
Crosse, found hiding behind a
telephone pole at Washington street
and Hamilton Avenue, is charged
with issuing fraudulent check, and
Vagrancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
PIPE WIELDER, 70,
ISLODGED IN JAIL

stayed there. Crauso, following
through, then attacked him, beat
ing him on the arms and body.
Celia testified
Celia said he was saved from fur
Their beating by Harry (Stovepipe)
Harris, Negro, TAI South East
street, who with others in the vi
cinity had hard task holding
Crauso until police arrived.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
New Line to Get Under
Way With Flight to
New York.
Cancellation Mark to be Used on
Letters on New Night Air Mail.

Hundreds of souvenir letters
posted by stamp collectors will be
carried on the first flight of the
new night transcontinental air
mail line to be opened today by
Transcontinental & Western Air,
Inc.
A special cachet used for can
ceiling letters carried on the first
trip has been prepared by the
Chamber of Commerce.
First plane on the new line will
leave Kansas City at o'clock to-
night and will arrive acre at mu-
nicipal airport at 1920 o'clock to-
night. A large crowd of spectators
is expected at the field. Leaving
here ten minutes later, the plane
will reach Newark, N. j., at Sis a. m.
Westbound plane will leave New
York at Z p m, arrive here at 3:1S
a. m. Tuesday, depart at 1923 a. m,
arrive in Kansas City at tbs a. m.
and in Los Angeles at 8:53 .. m,
requiring about twenty-three hours
for the westbound trip.
Speedy Northrop nonoplane, with
q top speed of about ITO miles an
hour, will be used on the mail line
Fokker transport planes will be used
as reserve planes.
For the present, no passengers
will be carried on the night air mail
line.
The first ALBRIGHT public air line
in the United States will be opened
Aug by T. and w. A.
Freight flights will be made be-
tween Newark and Kansas City
with stops at Philadelphia. Harris
burgh, Pittsburgh, Columbus. Day.
ton, indianapolis and st. Louis.
The tariff is expected to average
one cent a pound for each 100 miles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
CONFIRM PAVING JOBS
Widening Projects Given Approval
of City Works Board.

The works board today confirmed
two important street Improvement
resolutions, one for widening and
paving Emerson avenue between
Washington street and Brookville
road, and another to widen SIX
tenth street. from Delaware to
Illinois streets.
The Emerson avenue improve
ment will cost about $31,788, of
which the city will pay rs per cent.
The Sixteenth street resolution
was necessary afer a previous reso-
luton was rejected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

at Ohio State university, directed
the rescue work until he fell uncon-
scious from burns.
Two lives were lost when the
flames trapped young Mrs. Robert
Guy, Is. Her baby was to have been
born today. An operation failed to
save the child
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
THRONG TO WATCH
NIGHT MAIL PLANE
Jun1by Case


BIZ United Press
MONTEzUMA, Ia, July 20.
1t was like this, explained
Howard Benson after his auto
mobile swerved into a roadside
ditch. "A mouse jumped on
the steering wheel. I tried to
catch it as it scampered about
the rim of the wheel. The car
swerved. That's all there was
to it,"
Benson wasn't hurt. The car
was. The mouse disappeared SO
nobody knows whether it was
hurt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
DISPLAYS FISH EXHIBIT
Huge Sharks, Octopus and Other
Rare Specimens at Ripple.

Man-eating sharks. porpoise.
enormous turtles, octopus specimens
and other exhibits of the little
known inhabitants of southern
ocean waters go to make up an in
teresting display brought to this
city today by Russell Pipes, expert
on south sea life.
Pipes, who makes a speciality of
occurring and exhibiting his collec-
ton before college students decided
this year to make short tour 1'
the middlewest between school
semesters and will be at Broad
Ripple park this week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
EDITORS WILL GATHER
G. o. p. Group to Meet at Nashville
on Oct. 2 and 3.

Neil D. McCallum of Batesville,
secretary Of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association, announced to-
day that the fall meeting of the or
ganization will be held oct. 2 and
3 at Nashville, Brown county.
Walter H. Grim of Salem will head
the program committee, while Sam
uel E. Boys, newly elected president,
will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
AIRSHIP HITS FLAGP0LE
Crashes in Takeoff Attempt; Pilot
Unhurt. Passenger Near Death.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, July 20.-Weaver S.
johnson, 35-year-old Cleveland
matchmaker, was reported to be
dying in Berea hospital today. the
victim of freak airplane accident.
johnson, a passenger in an open
cockpit plane flown by Lewis Dryer,
81, was injured when the plane
crashed into flfty-foot lagpole on
the pilots third attempt to take of
from an improvised landing field
behind roadhouse. Dryer, who
holds a Glass / transport pilots
license, was not hurt seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

BIZ Jntted Press
PARIS, July 20-Princess Estelle
de Broglie, the former Estelle De-
lores Alexander of San Francisco
who boasts her figure still is the
prettiest among French nobility
planned today to file suit to recover
$50 a month alimony, unpaid for
twenty-five years.
She married Prince Robert De
Broglie in Chicago in 1906, when she
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

already had become famous as a
concert singer. She began her re-
marRable career as a, chorus girl
some thirty years ago.
The princes family objected to
the match and the princess obtained
a divorce in 1909. The romance and
divorce Of the shapely actress
princess caused a sensation. She
was awarded $50 a month alimony
and now says she never got it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
DEATH TAKES OFFICER
John D. EweII, Policeman Since 1924,
Succumbs at Home.

John D. Ewell, as. a policeman
since 1924, died at his home at 1863
West Fifty-feurth street, early to-
day, after a long illness.
Mr.. Ewell had been on leave of
absence from the police department
since September, 1880, and had been
Ill since then. He is survived by
the widow, Mrs. Elsie Ewell. FIJI
neral arrangements have not been
made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
CHILDREN POISONED
Drink Liquids Not Intended for
Internal Use; Taken to Hospital

Two children today were recover
ing from effects of drinking liquids,
not intended for internal use.
Elnora Bills. .. of 2730 James
street. drank a quantity of I've solu-
ton and Lloyd George Vazant. Ne
GRO. 7. swallowed a mouthful of gas
oline. Both were taken to city hos
pital for treatment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Troon sponsors Lawn Fete

Boy Scout troop No. SO, will at
tempt to clear the mortgage on
Utley hut, troop headquarters, at
1881 Boulevard place, with their an
nual lawn social Saturday at Thirty
fourth street and Capitol avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
90 RESERVE OFFICERS
REPORT FOR TRAINING
Lieut.. Col. Charles w. Mason Is in
Charge at TT. Harrison.

Lieut.. COT. CharIes ". NIason IS I'D
Charge at TT. Harrison.
More than ninety officers Of the
army reserve corps reported today
to FIT. Benjamin Harrison for two
weeks training under Lieutenant
Colonel Charles w. Mason Of TT.
Hayes, Columbus, o.
The reservists and their in
structors will occupy the barracks of
the Third field artillery, which now
is at Camp Knox, KY, for summer
training duty
Glasses we're organized today in
map reading and sketching, bayonet
instruction, scouting and patrolling,
range practice and il1fanty drill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
START PUBLIC WORK
Now URGES MUELLER
State Architect Points to Drop in
Costs of Materials.

With work in the new state high
way department garage starting to-
day, Otto Mueller, state architect,
pointed out that now is the time to
do needed public building at great
economy.
Total contracts for the new ga
rage amount to slO0,610, which is
more than $4,000 below the esti-
mate made last year, Mueller said.
The construction work will employ
seventy or eight men, he estimated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Aged Man Dies

By Unitcd Press
WARSAW, Ind, July 2o.-J. D.
Miller, II, Okene, Okla, died of
apoplexy, superinduced by heat,
while milking on the farm of Will
liam Teghtmeyer, near here, where
he was visiting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Nine Die in .G4sher
Blaze; Thousands
Pe1~iIed by Blast


PLEASANT Mich, July 20Suble biggest
history Michigan field pillar today
taking lives when wild caught
caresy
discovered Michigan feared the death list
Oklahoma for and fire experts who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Death Laid to AlcohoIiS,

Death Laid to Alcoholism
John Wingate, 38, of 1877 Shelby
street, was found dead at home Sun
day night. Death was due to al
coholisrn, Coroner Fred Vehling said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
THERE is SANTA CLAUS
Chester Now Is DevOut Believer in
Ontimism: And Why Not?

Optimism; And Why Not?
chester Baker. $685. Rockville
road. an employe of the United
press bureau in The Times building,
l. convinced there is no crime wave
in indianapolis. For eight hours
saturday. Bakers car was parked
inst out of the prohibited" area.
In the door of that car hung Bak-
er's KEYS for car, home and what
not.
Nobody touched 1t,
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known in Seward having form erly been in business there.

Master Billie Walkoff, the son of MT. and Mrs. Peter Wolkoff, an inmate of the Baptist orphan age located on Wood Island, a nearby location, was drowned on December 9th, while attempting to skate on ice which proved too thin. Master Billie was nine years of age and one of the two child ren of Mir. and Mrs. Wolkoff. Full details of the deplorable and un- necessary accident are wanting, but it is assumed that the child had wandered away from the Orphanage and had strayed out on the thin ice little realizing the danger ne was encountering. The watching companions we're un- able to render any assistance and by the time help from the Mission was obtainable the little fellows soul had already commenced its long journey to the etheral re- gions
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COURT MARTIAL Is . ORDERED FUR GEN..
 sNEDLEY BUTLER

WAsHINGToN, Jan., a0. Secretary Adams ordered a court martial for General Sraadley Butler.
 This action followed the re- ceipt of a letter from Butler which gave the Generals version of hts recent Philadelphia speech in which he was quoted as hav- ing criticized Premier Mussolini
 General Butler Was ordered to place himself under arr5st.
 He was quoted as saying tie Duce's automobile struck ~ child and that the Duce did not stop
 The Duce sent a denial to the Italian ambassador in protest.
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KODIAK NEWS
(By special correspondent)

The hand of the law reached forth on the evening of January l2th and grasped one Frank Mi auchi, the proprietor of the Ko- diak Hotel for the now unin- teresting offense, if it is an of fense and not a privilege, of hav- ing in his possession one entire and unused gallon of the Elixer of Life, popularly known as White Mule. Frank, upon his plea of guilty was given a fine of $500 and the opportunity of spending the next three months in the bowels of the local bastile- While Frank is vacationing across the street his place of business is in charge of his friend Bill symisest. The subject of this inquest is well
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NOTICE

The Belmont Trading Company will shortly open for business as traders in all kinds of merchan- disc, new and secondhand, at the old log house on Fifth Ave.
 Joe Holman
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Weekly service at the monthly rate of $5. Join the Cleaning and Pressing Club of the Seward Steam Laundry. Phone us of drop in and ask us about it
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-30

Join the Cleaning and Pressing Club of the Seward Steam Laun- dry: s month entities you to send suit, dress or a hat each week.
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James Hartman, the 8 year old son of Captain and Mrs. Charles Hartman, was stricken by the hand of Death on the afternoon of January 14 and was buried in the local cemetary four days later. Captain Hartman IS now engaged in the halibnt industry and is at present in Ketchikan.
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100 YEARS MORE

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 (49-- One hundred years or more of lava and spouting fire may be offered soon by Kilauea volcano in Hawaiian National Park. This is the belief of Thomas A. Allen IF former superintendent of the park, who had arrived here on the steamer Maui, en route to his new post as head of Zion National Park, Utah.
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Annabel Anderson, the infant daughter of MT. and Mrs. Julius Anderson, old timers of the VN- lage, departed this life at the home of her parents on December 10th. MT. Anderson is the son of Mir. Charles Anderson, one of the best known residents of the Is- land, having at one time or an other been resident of practic- ally every camp on the Island.