The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-11


Hundreds Of phone calls were r
papers as details Of the quake slowl
Inasmuch as the devastated sec
tion is a favorite wintering spot Of
fasteners, numerous residents Of
the city and state we're known TO
be vacationing there.
Early press dispatches did not list
local residents as victims OF the
earthquake.
Assured by Wire
Former residents of the city and
state assured friends by wire and
by telephone Of their safety.
Telephone communications from
indianapolis to Los Angeles were
being made rapidly and without in
terruption.
An Indianapolis man said he was
connected with the Los Angeles
home of a relative in less than a
minute from the time the call was
placed
Local operators found some diff
Guilty in reaching exchanges in
larger California cities, due to fran
tic intra-city telephone converse
lions there,
Sister-in-Law on Coast
Louis Tlliison, 429 North Riley
avenue, has a sister-inlaw, Mrs
Irwin Goldberg, in the quake area OF
Los Angeles. He has not heard
from her. Heer husband operates
a furniture factory in Los Angeles
They are former residents of In
dianapOliS.
The mother and father Of Ray
Churchill, 3817 North Pennsylvania
street, live at Huntington Beach,
Cal, twenty miles south of Long
Beach. No reports of dead or in
iured had beeen received from
Huntington Beach. Churchill had
been unable to receive any word
from his parents.
Among Indianapolis persons in
the quake zone are Ensign j. o. F.
Dorset and his wife Betty, who are
in San Pedro. the harbor of Los
Angeles. Ensign Dorsett is assigned
to the u. S. S. Pennsylvania and
has been there several months.
No More Received
Mrs Clara Hammersmith, living in
Los Angeles, also is known here by
many persons. No word has been
received from her or the Dorsetts.
Friends end relatives of Mr.. and
Mrs William Campbell who for
merly lived at $40 North Bosart
avenue, said they did not know of
the quake until after Z this morn
ing. They said no word had been
received from the Campbells, who
live in Long Beach.
The T. w. e. A plane that ar
rived in indianapolis early today
from the west coast carried four
passengers VINO were concerned
over the major disaster.
Plane Passengers Phone
Oficials of the company said two
of the passengers, one a woman,
used phones at the municipal air.
port in an attempt to communicate
with relatives and friends. They
were unsuccessful.
The passengers continued east
ward after obtaining all informa-
ton available at the port.
News of the earthquake spread
rapidly in indianapolis after the
first shock was felt at 1854 central
standard time.
Amateur shOrt-wave radio station
operators were among the first to
receive actual news of the cataS-
trophe and the homes of several
of them were filled with persons
seeking news.
Police Sets Garry News
Captain Otto Petit of the Indi-
annapolis police department said
that officers in equipped autos
here learned of the earthquake over
their short wave sets. Graphic de-
scriptions of police activities in sew
eral California cities was heard.
Irwin c. Chapel. 1877 Parker av-
enue, in charge of the police de-
partment's radio station in Willard
park, returned to his home after
receiving the news and spent hours
searching the air for authentic re-
ports of the disaster.
He said that shCrt-wave broad
casters were ordered off the air at
an early hour by government au-
thoritieS.
Indianapolis business firms with
branch offices in the damaged cities
of the Sunshine state were seek
ing information of their employees
and investments. Serious loss had
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