The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
Violence Flares in City Truck War;
Driver, Victim of Mistaken Identity,
May Lose Eye; Labor Board in Action
Two Affidavits Are Sworn
After Drivers Report
Sabotage, BeatingS:
POLICE KEPT ON RUN
Truckers Not Involved, Say
Union Officials; Blame
SympathizerS.

Violence and troubles between
striking truck drivers and the Kib-
Ter Trucking Company, 1444 East
Nineteenth street, were brought be-
fore the regional labor board to-
day as a fresh outbreak of sabotage
seethed in the city.
Harry PeatS, business agent of
Transfers, Chauffeurs union No
1873, declared that sympathizers of
the union truckers and not the
truckers themselves were to blame
for today's episodes of violence.
Two affidavits were sworn to
against alleged vandals who halted
the trucks. Arrests have not been
made The affidavts charge ma
licious treSpaSS.
One man may lose an eye because
of the guerilla warfare. Several
men were beaten. Police were kept
on the run throughout the early
morning hours as calls of fight"
came into police headquarters as
the delivery trucks attempted to
stock city groceries.
Mistaken identity may cost Murle
Weaver, %, of 1903 Locust street.
Terre Haute, his right eye. Early
this morning Weaver and Chester
McIndoo of Terre Haute were en-
route to Terre Haute when a car
load of men attempted to stop them
at State road 40 and Lynhurst
drive.
They wanted us to show our bills
of lading," Weaver and McIndoo
told police.
Struck by Flying Glass
Weaver pointed to a light in
filling station and told the men
he was going to stop. He says
some one in the car threw a brick
breaking the glass of the truck. The
flying glass cut Weavers eye.
Weaver was treated at city hospital.
where physicians say he may lose
sight of the eye.
truck was mistaken for a Kibler
machine. It was loaded with to-
mato Juice and is owned by Leo
Baldwin, 328 North Twenty-hrst
street, Terre Haute.
Roy Lintsie, 1888 Hiatt street,
Kibler company driver, was beaten
by four men who drove up to his
truck as it was delivering groceries.
They pulled Lintsie from the truck
and administered the whipmng
Lintsie told police that he recog-
nized the men as former employees
of the KILLER company.
Pulled From Truck
Lintsie said he would sign affi-
davits against his assailants.
At Sixteenth street and College
avenue, police squad car on call
found Frank Sullivan, 1922 NARROW
avenue; Fred Mosbaugh, 1850 South
Delaware street, and Carl Jefries,
348 East McCarty street.
Sullivan said they had been pulled
from their KILLER truck as they at
tempting TO unload groceries at an
Atlantic & Pacific store at Sixteenth
street and College avenue.
He said as five or six men, who
were in a car, attempted to beat
them, that he and his companions
ran. The alleged strikers gave up
the chase. Sullivan and his helpers
returned to the truck. 1t had not
been molested.
With report of the trouble. other
drivers of the trucking company and
friends swarmed to the aid of
Sullivan.
Police received a second call to the
corner on the report that pitched
battle between the strikers and the |
truck company employees was in the
offing.
Another Attack Feared
When police arrived, approx
mately fifteen men were standing in
Sullivan's truck armed with banana
stalks in defense of the truck.
They reported to police that
SuudQS VI VI NoA VI oOl ANONo
had been circling the block in west
ern Indian fashion. Sullivan con-
tinued making deliveries. Police
feared another attack on his truck.
Yesterday afternoon, police ar
rested Orlando Gait, 1909 West |
Tenth street, on vagrancy charge |
in connection with the strike trou-
BILE. Three half bricks were found
in his car, police charge.
They say Kibler drivers, William
Demaree and Wilbur Roberts, |
recognized Gait as the driver of a
car that approached their truck at
Twentieth street and Martindale
avenue and fired Slingshot missiles
into the cab of the truck, breaking
glass.
Peats declared that Gait was
home in bed at the time Of the pur-
ported vandalism.
The business agent charged the
trucking company worked men
longer than the NRA code provides
and had refused to comply with
labor board attempts to arbitrate
differences.