The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
DEATHS HAND
UPON CURVES
OF ROAD 81
One Killed, Five Injured in
Two Accidents Short
Distances Apart.
MANY HURT IN CITY
Slippery Streets Make Peril
Greater for Pre- HoIiday
Motor Thronq.

When drivers lost control of their
cars in two accidents on curves, less
than a quarter of mile apart, on
state Road So, northwest of the city
Sunday, one man was killed and
five persons were injured.
These accidents were most serious
of the pre-Fourth of July automo-
bile crashes, in and near the city,
which were increased by rain that
made streets slippery.
Nathan Giles, Negro, "a, of Gary,
was killed; his wife, Mrs. Birdie
Giles, %, suffered a broken hip and
cuts, and his brother, Wilson Giles,
10, of Girard, Ala, was cut in the
face.
Albert Olsen of Chicago received
hip and back injuries in the other
accident. His son, Arnold, 16, was
cut on the legs and hip and another
son, Harold, 10, suffered a broken
collar bone. Olsen's wife and two
daughters we're not injured.
Baby Suffers Broken Arm.
A headon collision of his auto
mobile with a street car at Wallace
and East Washington streets, caused
by slippery car tracks, critically in
jured Walter Wiley, 40, of 218 North
WalcOtt, city fireman. He suffered a
fractured skull and arm fractures.
His passenger, Miss Eva Hurt, Is, of
735 Elm street, was bruised and cut.
A man and 3-monthS-old baby
suffered broken arms in an accident
at Twenty-f1fth street and Indian
apolis avenue late Sunday. Those in
jured were Marion Dicks, 81, of 2702
Burton avenue, and an infant son
Ralph.
Police arrested George R. Will
man, %, of sol East Thirty second
street, for reckless driving as re-
suit of an accident at Massachusetts,
avenue and Sherman drive.
Five Hurt in One Crash
WilIman's car collided with an
automobile driven by Edward Nc
Gill, %, of $3.50 East Thirtieth
street. Arthur Dayhoff, 90, Of 2734
North Olney street, a passenger in
McGill's car, suffered cuts and
bruises.
Five persons were injured when
car driven by Clarence Wood,
Negro, 80, of 2454 Ethel street,
skidded on the car tracks at 1900
Shelby street. They we're: Clar-
ence Wood, Mary Wood, %;
Thomas Wood, 90, his father; Mary
O'Bannion, 40, of 427 West Twen-
ty-eighth street, and Otis Smiley,
48, same address, all Negroes.
Anna Allison, "a, of 1854 Egemont
street, was cut and bruised in an
accident at Thirty fourth and
Capitol avenue, late Sunday, when
a car driven by Sam Shambaugh,
%, of 269 East Minnesota street,
struck another driven by Shirley
Hopson, As, of 314 East Raymond
street.
Arrests Are Made
Police arrested Raymond Agan,
of 1913 South Sheffield avenue, on
charges of assault and battery and
reckless driving, following an ac-
cident at 1914 Hyatt street. Agans
car, driven on the left side of the
street, struck a car, driven by James
Robinson, Route 2, Box 902, Valley
Mills, injuring his sister-in-law
Miss Anna McGinnie, 81, of Route
g. She is in the city hospital
Mrs. Anna lager, 76, of 1851 Ken
wood avenue, and Betty Ann Roes-
ner, Is, same address, were injured
when truck, driven by Joe John
son, Negro, 80, of 344 California
street, struck an automobile driven
by Fred Roesner, 26, Of 1851 Ken
wood avenue.
Harry Demoss, of 1927 North
Temple street, was arrested and
charged with drunken driving and
operating a blind tiger, late Satur-
day. His car struck and automo-
bile, driven by Robert Jones, 40, of
1865 East Tenth street, at Beville
avenue and Tenth street.