Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1928 — Page 3

MARCH 10,1923.

REAL ESTATE TRADE ACTIVE DURING WEEK Board Survey Shows Increase in Numbers of Deals Following Lull. After the lull of last week real estate transactions picked up considerably this week, according to the weekly survey made by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Among leases signed was one by the Investor Realty Company to the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company on a storeroom, 225-27 N. Illinois St., for five years at $250 a month. Properties worth $45,000 changed hands in a transaction between the F. C. Tucker Company and J. C. Carr of the Carr Tire Company. In the deal the Tucker Company acquired title to two apartments, southeast corner of Broadway and Twenty-Fifth St., and Carr took over m*re than thirty properties, including residences and vacant lots, in various parts of the city. Tucker Cos. Sells Home Sites The Tucker Company sold to the Home Development Company as future home sites four lots in Tucker's E. Thirty-Fourth St. addition. The price approximated $3,500. Five lots in the same addition were sold to John L. Breedlove, builder, for $4,050. Breedlove will begin construction of modern homes on the lots within the near future. One lot in the Thirty-Fourth St. addition was sold to-Bernard W. Cadick for $750. Sale of four modem doubles. 5005 to 5019 University Ave.. to Fred W. Connell for the Railroad Men's Building & Loan Association, was negotiated by B. M. Ralston. Tire total price was $20,000. Ralston also bought from John W. Miller a double house. 418-22 Dorman St. The price was $2,800. Sales and building contracts closed by the F. J. Viehmann, Company in the last week amounted to more than $55,000. The company sold an apartment house, 2151-55 Broadway, to Brewer T. Clay for the Puritan Finance Company. Allison Sales $16,000 Sales amounting to more than $16,000 were closed by the Allison Realty Company. They included sale of a home, 2141 Napoleon St., by T. E. Grinslade to Walter Van Arsdell, and a bungalow, 428 E. Southern Ave., by Mrs. Grinslade to Ehue Miller. Price of the former was $4,150 and of the latter, $5,000. The Grinslade Construction Company sold to Everett Bailey a residence, 2501 S. New Jersey St., for $3,850, and Clyde Williams bought a home, 1831 New St., from the Union Investment Company for $2,650. Robert Allison, head of the Allison company, bought a residence, 2926 N. Denny St., from the McCord Company. Deals totaling more than SBO,OOO have been closed in the last ten days by the real estate department of the Washington Bank and Trust Company. Fifty-five lots in the Elmswood addition were bought from Joseph V. Hurley by Glenn B. Ralston, realtor. The price totaled SIO,OOO. Mr. Ralston also purchased six lots in the 2300 block on N. Rural St. from the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, trustee, for approximately $3,000. He will build on some of the property within the near future. SET MRS. WOODS RITES Body of Aged City Woman to Be Sent to Ohio for Burial. Funeral services will‘be held tonight at the home of Percy A. Wood, 27 Johnson Ave., for Mr. Wood's mother, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Wood, 82, who died there Friday night, following a short illness. The body will be taken to Andover, Ohio, for burial Monday. Surviving, besides the son, is a daughter, Mrs. Ella Sprague of Struthers, Ohio.

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Patrick Toohey, a member of the “Save the Union Committee,” one of the speakers at a recent protest meeting in the coal strike region near Pittsburgh* is shown in custody of Pennsylvania State police after the meeting was broken up by the police. Speakers had been warned as to their remarks before the meeting, and it was during Toohey's discourse that the assembly was dispersed.

HEAVIEST SNOW COVERS GOTHAM Worst Storm of Year Hits City and Seaboard. 841B 41 United Press NEW YORK, March 10.—The heaviest snow blanket of the season covered New York today while all along the eastern seabord snow and windstorms raged. Harbor traffic was impaired and telegraph service on Long Island was disrupted temporarily by the blizzard which ushered in one of the worst storms of the season Friday, after several days of spring-like weather. Four inches of snow fell which was more than l>fof as much as there has been all winter. The storm came just about on the fortieth anniversary of one of the greatest blizzards that ever swept New York. On March 11. 1888, a storm started that lasted three days. Almost four feet of snow fell at that time. The snow storm came as a boon to the unemployed of New York. This morning 16,000 men were to start cleaning the streets of the ankledeep slush The city’s force of cleaners is but 8.000. Acid Victim's Eyes Safe Btj Timex Special PERU, Ind., March 10.—Roland Kreutzer, acid bandit victim, will not lose his sight, doctors attending him at a hospital here announced today. His face was badly burned when the contents of a six-ounce bottle were hurled by an unidentified man, who accosted him on a street Tuesday night and asked for a match. 125 Chickens Stolen /?,)/ United Press WASHINGTON, Ind.. March 10.— I Chicken thieves are active in this section. Approximately 125 chickens were stolen from the farm of Louis Billings, a few miles east of here.

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Not So Far Phone Talk to Paris and France Almost Thrilled Rotarians.

/{;/ United Press VINCENNES. Ind., March 10 Members of the Vincennes Rotary Club almost were given a “thrill'' here recently when the | Rev. Raymond Mellen, entertainment committee chairman, an- ; nounced that he had made ar- j rangements for members of the i club to converse with Paris, j France. He connected three spe- j cial phones in the dining room of i a hotel. Frank Bastin, because of his being a fluent French speaker, was given talking honors. Bat La Plant j and Bill Duesterberg listened in. j Everything went fine. As outlined j by the telephone company, the call was to go via Terre Haute, Chicago, New York and outlying | Long Island station. The noise on the wire indicated it was going ! through plenty of places, the listeners said. However, as the conversation 1 was becoming interesting, a bell- j boy came in carrying a discon- 1 nected telephone which exposed ; the "hoax.'’ Takes Stiwn in Finger Pei United Press BRAZIL. Ind. March 10.—While operating a sewing machine at a local clothing, Lester MofTord accidentally seweu a stitch in one of his fingers. The needle passed through his finger and protruded from both sides. Shot by Own. Trap ANDERSON, Ind.. March 10.— Elmer McCann, grocer, is suffering from a slight bullet wound in the side inflicted by his home-made burglar trap. After being robbed twice, McCann rigged up a revolver which could be discharged by a string. He accidentally stumbled over the string.

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1,900 SPELLERS TO PARTICIPATE IN BOONE TEST Will Compete for Right to Represent County in State Bee. lly Times Special LEBANON, Ind., March 10.—With 1,190 students participating in the Boone County spelling bee, C. O. Caplinger, county superintendent of schools, / has completed final arrangements. The county has been divided into townships with one chairrrtan in charge of each, as follows: Center township, E. S. Stansell; Clinton, Carl Buntfti; Eagle, W. J. Stahr: Harrison, Walter Ross; Jackson, W. F. Collins and C. G. Lawler; Jefferson, R. W. Leonard; Marion, Martin Nolte; Perry, C. O. Williams; Sugar Creek. Helen Heady; Union, Ellen Hancock; Washington, G. R. Peterson; Worth, Virgil Bailey. These chairmen are cooperating with local trustees in selecting a place and setting a date for the township contests. Most of the eliminations will be held at night to give parents an opportunity to attend. Select School Champion By March 17 each school will have chosen a representative, and by March 24 each township will have two representatives. Then before March 30, one champion will be named for the county. This champion will be sent to Indianapolis May 4 for the State spelling bee. “There Is no doubt about the Boone County spelling bee being a wonderful educational treat, because the patrons as well as the pupils are intensely interested,” says Caplinger. “I was doubtful at first whether enough of the students would be able to participate to make the bee of value,” he says, “But from the time the first winner in the room is picked until the winner of the county is chosen, seventy-three contests will have been held, insuring active spelling competition for all.” Other Schools Busy While Boone County students are being eliminated, schools in nineteen counties are active in the bee under the direction of The Indianapolis Times and one newspaper in each county. The national contest will be held May 22 in Washington. D. C„ under the direction of the Louisville Courier-Journal and The Indianapolis Times. The winner in the State contest will be sent to the national capital for a three-day trip with all expenses paid by The Times. There are $2,500 cash prizes to be distributed among winners. Side trips to interesting historical points comprise a large part of the Washington trip. Hurt by Revolving Door CLINTON. Ind., March 10.—The revolving door has proved a speedier entrance to some, but D. B. Lindley was slowed down considerably by one of the “revolving contraptions.” He was struck by one of the doors and suffered concussion of the brain and a badly bruised side.

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Is Thirty The Love Deadline? Irwin Cobb Just Doesn’t Know; Opines Durant Doesn’t, Either.

BY IRVIN S. COBB THE trouble with a professional alienist is that he never meets persons. He only meets subjects. And the trouble with a professional philosopher Is that he tried to measure the infinity of human nature by the little tape-measure of his own experience, his own limited observations, his own faulty powers of deduction. The alienist doesn’t say: “Here is a seemingly attractive individual. I shall-cultivate him. He might make a good friend, a sprightly companion.” Not at all. What inwardly he says is: “Here is a case. I shall study its inhibitions. It may constitute anew type. I might even be able to put it into an article or a lecture.” He has a perfectly rotten time, going along through life. He's bound to have. Existence for him is a card-index system. On the other hand, the philosopher says: “Ah, here now we have a condition. I shall apply to It the processes of my own peculiar and personal school of philosophy, and having arrived at a conclusion, will broadcast It forth as being positively the last word on that particular topic.” He has a lovely time of it—while he lasts. Now, Dr. Will C. Durant is a professional philosopher—God help him!—and Dr. Durant is credited with having said that a man past 30 is incapable of love; and I. as one of a selected group, am asked to answer him. not according to his own folly—if he be correctly quoted—but according to mine own. st m n BEFORE I tackle it permit me to repeat what the expert and scholarly Dr. Durant wrote in amplification of his large, bald, bold original premise. He added this: “A man above thirty may go wild over a blonde ‘chorine.’ That is not love. Love is absolute devotion—the desire to give full service to another.” To which I would reply as follows: “I don’t know a blamed thing about it. I don't profess to know. I don't believe Dr. Durant knows a blamed thing about it either. I think he makes a mistake—but one common to philosophers—in setting up to know anything about it.” As I look at it, a man past thirty or a man of any age between the latter stages of adolescence and the early stages of senility, may be capabfe of love, or then again he may be incapable of love. Everything depends on what particular man you have in mind. You mention love, and to this one love means this thing and to that one love means another thing. And so on and so forth. I claim that if you think you are in love and think it hard enough, why then you are in love—only, it's your own special sort of love, which is not to be confused with any of the billions of other brands of love. So much for broad, all—enveloping conclusions. But if you’re asking me to cite my own observations I would say this: I have seen men this side of thirty

INDIANA NINTH IN USE OF GAS Autos Used 347,757,000 Gallons in 1927. Indiana ranked ninth in Uuited States in 1927 in total consumption of gasoline by motor vehicles, according to figures announced by the American Road Builders’ Association. The automobiles, motorcycles and trucks of the United States burned 11,563,490 000 gallons of gas in 1927, an increase of 12.4 per cent over 1926, according to the report. About 550 gallons of gas was the average consumption to the motor vehicle. On a basis of 13.5 miles to a gallon, it is estimated that the gasburning vehicles traveled more than 150.000,000,000 miles. who, by reason of their selfishness or something, seemed to me incapable of giving to any woman the sort of love which—again using Dr. Durant's qualifying definition—amounted to absolute devotion. I’ve seen men twice thirty who, as I viewed them from the outside looking in—or tried to—seemed capable of falling in love with all their hearts and all their souls and all their physical beings. Mind you, I say they seemed to be thus constituted. I had no way of knowing. a tt tt MOREOVER, it appeared to me logical that I should take sides and write a brief for one wing of the contention as against the other wing, I would state that when I come to look over the field it strikes me that p. good many of the outstanding lovers of the world have been men and women who were past 30. I'm not exploring into history for illustrations, although heaven knows the pages of romantic history are studded thick with such illustrations. I’m not calling up King Solomon or Brigham Young or any of those old heavy sugar-daddies to help me prove my case. Look at the present. Look at Peggy Joyce, the leading bridegroom fancier of our times. Look—for all I know to the contrary—at the average established philosophizing gent of 1928. I have an elderly friend and a true philosopher although he doesn't know it and vehemently would deny it—who, to my way of thinking, summed up the whole matter in a paragraph, by leaving it open for discussion at both ends. He was speaking, by indirection, of his sons-in-law. He was very fond of one of them and not in the least fond of the other. “This here loving business is a funny thing." he said musingly. “Take my two daughters —two as sweet girls as you'd find anywhere on this earth. It was like as if two butterflies come sailing along on a summer’s day and one of ’em lit on a tube rose and the other one lit on a garbage pile. How're you going to figure out this thing of falling in love .anyway?” I leave this final question for Dr. Durant and the rest of the world to ponder over. (Copyright, 1928. Bell Syndicate. Inc.)

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President Herbert Witherspoon of Chicago Musical College wiH be one of the principal speakers at the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs convention at the Lincoln, April 12-14. Formerly a leading bass of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he assumed the presidency of the Chicago school in 1925. He enjoys an international reputation as singer and teacher and has trained some of the leading artists of the present day. REALTORS JOIN BOARD Thirteen Applications Accepted by Directors. Thirteen applications for associate membership in the Indianapolis Real Estate Board have been approved by the board of directors. New members are M. J. Abbott, president, Central Lien Corporation: W. J. Byrne, 12 E. McCarty St.; W. T. Cannon, Railroad Men's Building and Savings Association; H. H. Cummings. DeWalt Machinery Company; Cicil R. Dillon, Fulton Office Furniture Company; Samuel J. Mantel, 1109 HumeMansur Bldg.; S. L. McCormick, West Side Lumber Company; James P. Moynahan, 301 Holliday Bldg.; Byron J. Smith, Indianapolis Paint and Color Company; T. Carr Worthington, Hydraulic Press Brick Company; Adrian C. Linn, BurnetBinford Lumber Company; Robert E. Bragg, American Radiator Company; O. L. Miller, O. L. Miller & Cos. Ray S. Trout was named a member of the membership committee to succeed Frank F. Woolling, resigned. FILES IN G. 0. P. RACE Fred Hollingsworth Seeks Nomination for Commissioner. Fred Hollingsworth. 807 Spruce St., today announced his carffiidacy for the Republican nomination for county commissioner. Hollingsworth was born and reared on a farm near Clayton, Ind., coming to this city eighteen years ago. He is a Spanish American War veteran, member of the Christian Church, North Park Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine and Sahara Grotto. “I’ve been a str.unch Republican for thirty years” Hollingsworth’s announcement said, “and am convinced conditions in the county should be remedied in this election.”

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NORRIS BATTLE ON ‘LAME DUCK' SESSIONS LOST House Conservatives Defeat Measure Providing for Amendment. BY ROSC'OE B. FLEMING WASHINGTON, March 10.—Senator Norris of Nebraska must begin all over again his fight to amend the Constitution to eliminate tha “lame duck” and filibuster evils in Congress. A coalition of conservative Republicans and conservative Democrats in the House Friday defeated the resolution for such a constitutional amendment. It received 209 votes to 157, but not the two-thirds necessary to submit such amendments to the States. Fought Filibusters As finally voted upon, the resolution came nearer Norris’ original plan than the hacked-up version of it reported by the House committee. Tlie amendment would have brought Congress into session on Jan. 4 of each year and provided for inauguration of the President and Vice President on Jan. 24. Norris proposed that there be no limit to either session, but the House committee stipulated that sessions in election -years end May 4. This would have defeated one of Norris’ original objects, to eliminate filibusters, since a filibuster only works, as in the case of the present short session, when adjournment date is fixed and a few members can hold the floor. Strike Out May 4 Clause Upon motion of Representative Jeffei's of Alabama, the House Friday struck out the May 4 adjournment provision. During the debate Representative Gifford of Massachusetts charged that the Rules Committee, which strangled the resolution in three previous sessions, compelled a change in the resolution before they would report It to the House, and it is believed that this was to include the May 4 provision. JURY ACTION SUB ROSA Silent Pending Arrests; Deny Bills in Kokomo Bank Failure. By Times Staff Correspondent KOKOMO, Ind., March 10.—Indictments returned by the Howard County grand jury here late Friday did not include any connected with the defunct American Trust Company bank, which the jury has been investigating for several weeks. Although refusing to divulge the names of persons indicted until arrest is made. Prosecutor Homer Miller stated that the six returned Friday were all on charges growing out of vice and liquor in Kokomo. Miller stated that the bank indictments, if any, probably would not be returned until the end of the jury term, which is March 24. He considered it unlikely that a certain high public ofTiical would be indicted.