Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1927 — Page 3

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EAT SALE FOB •SPEEDWAY RACE MAKING RECORD Demand to Date 10,000 Tickets Ahead of Any Previous Year. This year's 500-mile Speedway race will be the greatest ever. Such is the word from downtown offices of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, The two and one-half-tnile oval will be the scene of trx annual gasoline classic Memorial day, Monday, May 30. A crowd of 150,000 is expected, according to Miss Eloise Dollendoch, in charge of the office during the absence of Theodore Myers, secretary of the Speedway. Myers will return to Indianapolis in a few days jnd begin putting final touches on for the race. 10,000 Ahead ; vßßlmo. 10,000 more tickets have old than during the same 39gH] any other year. When mail for seats were checked in kgrand stand A, the largest at the ■track, it was found that this stand Pwas more than two-thirds oversold. Persons from all over this country and many from Europe are going to attend. With the eventful day falling on Monday, the city will be jammed with visitors over the week-end. Hotel accommodations are being prepared and soon Indianapolis residents will begin to offer rooms in their homes for occupancy by the visitors. The capacity at the track is 1 GO,OOO persons. Last year 125,000 attended. The last minutes -v ’< for any kind of location, depends largely on the weather, Miss Dollendoch declared. Persons who have tickets nerally attend the race regardless * ' cither, but others who mentarily ’•> to smell castor oil for the day, weather conditions decide for them, she said. Point I p Throughout the year, the track and stands are kept in top-notch condition. But there is always more to be done. Soon workmen will be on the scene with hammers and nails, paint buckets and brushes, repairing and decorating. The elimination trials this year are expected to draw larger crowds. Each year the trials are held with an admission fee charged, in order to collect the drivers’ lap prize fund. The only excitement before the race will be the thrill of watching the hundreds of musicians in the massed band on parade. Soon after annual performance, the starting Psmb explodes and they are off. LIPSTICKS BANNED Lin I nititl Press PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, March 21*.—Use of lipsticks by schoolgirls was prohibited in a decree issued by the minister of education today.

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Jeffersonville also has anew newspaper—The Weakly Clarion.” First copies appeared on the streets this week. April Fool’s day will he a sad one for unlicensed dogs at Lebanon. Effective April 1 all dogs without city tax tags will be shot. Immediately after her acquittal of charges of chicken stealing, Mrs. Bertha Martin of Evansville asked her attorney to be a witness in procuring a marriage license to wed Fred Bleickroth. City council at Marion has ordered the sale of Civic Hall. Proceeds will go toward the erection of anew city hall. They will no longer deal them off the arm at the Hartford Hotel stt Hartford City. A cafeteria is being installed in place of the dining room. Tsaac Hurwick of Kokomo lias propose 1 that the city buy an old brick yard for a municipal golf course. City council at Nappanee has purchased a plot of ground for $5,400 on which anew city hall will be built. Total age of five sisters and a brother who attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and .Mrs. J. W. Howell of Memphis (Clark County) was 495 years. They were .Mrs. Sarah Armstrong and Mrs. Susanna Straton, twins and 87: Mrs. Mitchell Guernsey, 78; Mrs. Station, 85, and John Van Cainpen, 83. Mrs. Howell is 75. Elaborate precautions were taken at Evansville to keep the divorce case of E. Mead Johnson, Jr., a baby food manufacturer, and prominent socially, out of the newspapers. E. M. Johnson Was the name that appeared in the suit.

MORTGAGE RATE DROPS .Metropolitan Life Reduces Interest Charge From (1.5 to 6 Per Cent. Persons purchasing or constructing a'residence property in Indianapolis during the coming building season will benefit from the announcement that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has reduced the rate of interest on first mortgages for home owners and buyers in this territory from 6.5 per cent to 6 per cent. Announcement of the reduction was made by the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, Indianapolis agent for the Metropolitan company. The company now is offering, through the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, to loan 60 per cent of the total appraised value of house and ground. The loans are made for fifteen-year terms and are repayable at the rate of 3 per cent of the principal, plus interest, semi-annually.

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MOVE 10 THWART POULTRYTHEFTS Dealers Ordered to Register With County Clerk. Warning was issued to poultry dealers today by Deputy Prosecutor John L. Nlblack, that if they do not register with County Clerk George O. Hutsell they face arrest after farmers’ organizations declared Indianapolis is the center for chicken thieves. Niblack declared 16,000 chickens were stolen in Marion County last year. He said seyeral groups of chicken thieves, working within a 100-mllc radius of Indianapolis, are selling chickens here. Niblack wrote let tors to Police Chief Johnson and Sheriff Omer Hawkins asking them to arrest all dealers not registered and who fail to keep a report of purchases. TAFT LAUDS MEMORIAL Chief Justice Commends Plan for Nancy Hanks Monument. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court and former president of the United States has praised highly the proposed Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial to be erected at Lincoln’s boyhood home and his mother’s grave in Spencer County. His praise for the project was

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