Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1927 — Page 4

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EXCISE TAX ON INDIANA AUTOS IS $£229,526 More Than 65 Millions Paid Into U. S. Treasury by Nation’s Motorists. Bn Times Bveeial * WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—With launching before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives the fight for repeal of the war excise tax on passenger automobiles, the American Automobile Association made public ;oday a chart disclosing in the twelve months ended August 31, 1927, the buyers of 2,790,804 new automobiles paid $65,574,303 into the till of the Federal Government. The chart of the A. A. A. shows that in the twelve months for which complete figures are given the buyers of new cars in Indiana paid $2,229,526 to the Treasury Department in Washington. Registration of motor cars in Indiana up to the first of the year numbered 665,126. The average Government levy per new car, it is disclosed, stijl remains at $23.50, while the average per state on account of the automotive tax is at present running at the rate of more than $1,300,000 a year. Two states, New York and Penn-, sylvania, paid an automible excise tax in excess of five million dollars in the twelve months period. One state, California, paid more than four million dollars, four states, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Texas, went well beyond the three million dollar mark. HELR YOUNG ORATORS State Distributes Booklets Giving Constitution Information "Sketches From Our Constitutional History” is the title of a bulletin being prepared by the State Education Department for distribution to contestants in the oratorical and essay contest fostered by Supertendent of Public Instruction Roy P. Wisehart and the Indiana Bar Association. The booklet and plans for local, district and State contests were discussed by bar members and educators at the Columbia Club Tuesday night. Contests will be held in December.

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Sickly Boy Gains 15 Lbs.—Father Happy "My boy would not eat. I gave him Vinol and the way he eats and plays now makes me happy. He gained 1J pounds.”—J. P. Andres. Vinol is a delicious compound of cod liver peptone, iron, etc. The very FIRST bottle often adds several pounds weight to thin children or adults. Nervous, easily tired, anemic people are surprised how Vinol gives new .pep, sound sleep and a BIG appetite. Tastes delicious. Haag Drug Co.—Advertisement. Is Your Tongue Coated in the Morning? A coated tongue is a danger signal! It's a sure sign 'of those digestive disorders which lead to so many kinds of serious illness., And it’s a sure sign that you need Tanlac. This good old reliable medicine has helped thousands who were physical wrecks from stomach and bowel troubles—who had ‘‘tried everything” in vain and about given up hope. Read what Mr. Walter J. Frisble, of 2108 Ashland Ave., Detroit, Mich., says, ‘‘Six years I suffered from stomach trouble and my appetite dwindled to nothing. Tanlac certainly did wonders! Now my digestion is so good I can eat everything. I'fij never bothered with colds— Tanlac keeps ne in such good health.” That coated tongue teils you why the least exertion tires you out; why you have pains in the bowels, gas, sour stomach, dizzy spells. See how the first bottle of Tanlac helps you. Tanlac contains no mineral drugs; it is made of barks, herbs and roots—nature’s own medicines for the • sick, (let a bottle from your druggist today. Vour money back if it doesn't help you.

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Open Band Season at Hoosier Club Dance

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Russ Holler and bis band of Indianapolis musicians, began its fall and winter engagement at the Hoosier Athletic. Club’s opening dance Saturday night. Members of the band: Morris Conn, saxophone; Harold Cork, saxophone; John Carlin, cornet; Forest Gilbreath, trombone; Lee Crouch, banjo; Ray Cork, bass horn; Emil Prokl, drums; Russ Holler, piano and director.

N. Y. Haircut Prices Soar, but Hoosiers Pay Same

Same Old Fojir Bits Here Despite Rise in Market. "Are the barbers organizing? Just be glad. Are the haircut prices rising? Just be glad. Why repine at costly fleecing? Don’t the scientists unceasing Tell us baldness is increasing? Just be glad. The above is being hummed by New Yorkers where haircut prices, have soared to seventy-five cents. Non-bald-head Hoosiers, however, have small cause to worry. A tour of the Indianapolis barber shops reveals that hair-cuts have a bear, rather than a bullish, trend. Although most shops have charged 50 cents since the war days, there always have been cut-rate places MRS. MARY LIVELY DIES City Resident for 30 Years; Burial to Be Thursday North Park Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will take part in funeral services this afternoon for Mrs. Mary Lively, 55, resident of Indianapolis for thirty years, who died Tuesday at her home, 745 W. Thirty-Second St. She had been ill for fourteen weeks. • ‘ Service will be conducted at the home at 3 p. m. The Rev. Aubrey Moore pastor of the Seventh Christian Church, will be in charge. Interment will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Surviving are the husband, Oscar Lively; a son, Chester Allen Lively; and three brothers, Harry Owen of Indianapolis; George Owen of Milton, Ky.; and Clifford Owen of Grand Rapids, Mich. Novice Kills Moose Bn Times BDenial KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Nov. 3. Richard Be~halter was a novice at big game hunting when he accompanied Dr. J. E. Rarick and E. C. Bothuck to Aguwa, Canada, but he was the only one in the party to bag a bull moose. Berhalter’s prize was a moose weighing half a ton with an antler spread of forty-seven inches.

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where one's locks could be shorn for 35 cents. The number of these is increasing and huge signs announce the change. Feminine bobs have also tumbled to the lower figure in several shops. In a certain basement establishment, not a barber college, the announcement is made that haircuts are now back to 1913 normal, except on Saturdays. All week days the cost a quarter. SPEND $20,000 ON DOGS Miami, Fla., Humane Society to Build Permanent Home. Bu Untied Brest MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 3. Dade county plans to throw $20,000 to the dogs. The -Dade County Humane Society, recently chartered by the ctiy, will erect a $20,000 building to carry on its work. Plans for this permanent home of the society call for 200 kennels, patterned after the most modern type.

A Message to Mothers

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■when I took him out I gave him Father John s Medicine. In April he had whooping cough and we gave him Father John’s all through the time. This picture was taken at the worst stage of the sickness. We are giving it again this winter, and, as before, he has no cold. I wish every mother would use it for it seems so unnecessary for little folks to he always sick." —Advertisement.

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SHOW SOAP SCULPTURES 150 Small Pieces Carved From Bars in National Competition Exhibition of 150 pieces of small sculpture, carved from bars of soap, is being arranged at John Herron Art Institute for display until Nov. 26. Among the 2,000 pieces of soap scuipture entered this year in the prize competition sponsored by an American soap manufacturer, were pieces by George B. Figg and Rufus Myers of Indianapolis. The exhibition to be opened here this week includes sculptures entered by professionals, art students and amateurs throughout the United States. Holds Benefit a Penny Bu Times Sveeial FRANKLIN, Ind., Nov. 3.—One cent—that’s Edgar Utterback’s idea of the benefit of his property from a '.idewalk recently constructed. He has filed a suit for re-assessment of benefits and damages, asking that what he terms the true benefit to his property—a penny—be judicially declared.

FATHcR JOHN’S MEDICINE GAVE BABY STRENGTH PREVENTED COLDS. f ■ft/TRS. W. R. HUGHES, 652 East •*■*-*■ Grand Ave., Decatur, 111., in a recent signed statement issues this message, which all mothers should heed: '‘We have a little son aged 20 months. His first winter I gave him Father John’s Medicine every night at bedtime. He did not have a cold all winter. We did not keep him in, but

HOME ECLIPSED BY APARTMENT Building of Houses Falls Behind in U. S. WASHINGTON. Nov 3. The apartment house definitely nas eclipsed the one-family dwelling in American cities. Space was provided for 98.361

Aures Anniversary b SALE

3-Pc* Bedroom Suites Present Remarkable Value 20® • Customers who have been shopping for bedroom furniture are greatly impressed by this value. Three commodious pieces, beautifully designed and of unquestionably good construction, at oply S2OO. We were able to secure a limited number of these suites from one of our finest manufacturers. They are certainly choice prizes for Anniversary! You will get an idea of the charming design from the sketches above, but you will have to see the suite to know the rich, soft tones of the beautifully finished walnut in combination with handsomely grained maple. Grain is matched carefully and the hardware on all pieces is chosen with an idea of quiet harmony. Suite at S2OO consists of full-size bed, dresser, chiffonier. (You may substitute vanity for a dresser at same price if you wish.) Buy This Beautiful Bedroom Suite on Easy Terms of Deferred Payment —Ayres Furniture, Fourth Floor

Linen Damask Table Cloth Impressively Correct Fine quality linen damask pattern table cloths and napkins, our own importation from Ireland. In conventional, floral and stripe patterns. TABLE CLOTHS 70x70 Inches $3.95 70x88 Inches $4.95 70x106 Inches $5.95 70x126 Inches $6.95 Napkins, 22 Inches $4.95 Ayres—Linens, second floor.

Specials From Drapery Department Ruffled Curtains, Ru££led Curtains, French Marquisette

$1.95 Pr. Made of excellent quality marquisette, choice of ecru or tobaccor color. Full 2\\ yards long and made *ull. Closely woven, square weave.

families in new apartment houses during the first half of 1927, according to figures compiled from all cities above 100,090 population by the Department of Labor. Against this only 64.747 single-, family dwellings were built, and addition of the new duplexes brings the total of families provided for barely above that provided lor in apartment houses. A considerable falling off in home building was shown, the total families provided for in 1927 being 18/,000, against 201,000 during the first half of 1926. The apartment houses averaged about 12 families each. In 1922 about 65 per cent of all

$195 Choice of ten wanted colors in these ruffled curtains. Sets are complete with valances and tiebacks, curtains are 2Vi yards long.

new dwellings were single-family, against the bare 50 per cent of 1927. CHURCH DUSTING PEWS Rector Seeks to Bring "Lapsed” Members Into Fold. Bu United Brest CHICAGO, Nov. 3.—The Rev. Charles T. Hull, Rector of St. Paul’s-by-the-lakc Episcopal church has started a drive to reclaim "lapsed Episcopalians” for his church. Mr. Hull estimates there are 2,000 "stay-a-ways” in his parish who could be Induced to go to church with a “little pressure.”

Morning Frocks 4.95 Dresses of gay prints in small designs, the shades making charming color harmony. Styled as smartly as your afternoon dresses—skirts pleated, necklines following newest whims of fashion—the cheeriest, prettiest sort of morning frocks. Eminently practical, too, for they may visit the tub with equanimity. In a full size range. —Ayres—Morning Frocks, third floor.

AGED WOMAN IS LOST. Police Peek Mrs. Belle Jumper, 68, of 714 Highland Ave. Police have been asked to search for Mrs. Belle Jumper. 68, of 714 Highland Ave., who Is believed to be wandering about the city. When last seen she wore a rtf', dress, white apron . She has white 'wbbed hair. Mrs. William Tatmar., 1901 Columbia Ave., told police her husband, drove away from the house Sunday in his Pontiac sedan and failed to return. ,' _

Silk Umbrellas ’4-45 These 16-rib all-silk umbrellas are specially priced for Anniversary Sale and are good values. The frames aro gilt, the shanks of wood and they may be had in several colors: Red — G reen—Purple Blue — Brown —Black —Ayres—Umbrellas, street floor. U: Women's Linen Kerchiefs 6 for 69e All white tine Irish linen handkerchiefs with midget hc m s are remarkably priced at 6 for 69c. 6 for $1.25 Women’s all-white fine Irish linen handkerchiefs with hand rolled hems, cord and tape borders, are 6 for $1.25’. Men's . Handkerchiefs, 3forsl All-white Irish linen handkerchiefs for men with 74 and %-inch hems, 3 for sl. All-white Irish linen with colored borders, also 3 for sl. —Ayres—Handkerchiefs, street floor.

29c—39c Two prices, each one a bargain, on this French Marquisette. Two widths, 38 and 47 inches. Come in ecru. Ayres—Draperies, fourth floor.

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