Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1928 — Page 16

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SLEDS STILL IN FAVOR AS GIFTS TOR CHRISTMAS 2,400 Sliders in Stock al Vonnegut’s; Novelties for All Children. A complete stock of Christmas toys for children of all ages and at prices unusually low in comparison with the quality is carried in the toy department of the Vonnegut Hardware store. The store has stocked 2,400 sleds this year, in anticipation of a suitable sledding weather as Christina'approaches. Sleds have lost none of their popularity with boys, de spite the production of various sorts of mechanical toys rapidly gaining popularity, according ti Ralph Vonnegut. One of the featured toys is the Artascope, shaped like a microscope, through the lens of which the most commonplace odds and ends, a bead, bit of bright silk, scrap of paper, become gloriously fantastic designs, glowing with color. A touch of the finger on the revolving table and the whole scene changes into something marvelous • ly new. Pool Tables Popular Among the popular novelties for boys are miniature pool tables on which the boys can play exactly as their elders do on real tables. The legs fold so the tables can be stored away when not in actual use. For the older children, in school, there are biological sets, with which they can make microscope slides and chemical sets containing harmless chemicals with which they may experiment. A large stock of “wheeled” toys is carried, ranging from kiddie cars, scooters and coaster wagons, to sidewalk cycles and toy automobiles. Among the “best sellers” for boys are athletic equipment, such as toy footballs, basketballs and similar articles. Two hundred different kinds of games are stocked. Ball Game Is Clever One game that attracts attention of all children is a baseball game, manufactured in Indianapolis. This consists of a board, similar to a parches! board, with a baseball field layout, an arrow which when spun points to various numbers, and at the bottom a chart, numbered, with various baseball plays. When die arrow is spun, the child looks up the number, finds the play, and *""en has toy players go through the motions directed. For girls, there are the inevitable dolls of all descriptions, doll buggies, doll dresses, sewing sets, tea party outfits, toy furniture, books and other similar articles. The store carries an unusual stock of large Noah’s arks, games with whole regiments of toy soldiers, building blocks, construction sets and outdoor toys, such as motor trucks, fire trucks, gravel wagons, and concrete mixers. CITY OFFICIALS GUESTS George Marott to Eentertain Dec. 10 at Hotel. George J. Marott, shoe dealer and hotel owner, will entertain Mayor L. Ert Slack and other city officials at a formal dinner at the Marott hotel Dec. 10. Invitations sent to 300 announced the dinner “In appreciation of their splendid services in the welfare of Indianapolis.”

TROUP I. Spasmodic Croup h> froquonth - relieved by one application ofVICKS <w trmiuZi, IHsiLVER FLASH | | ANTI-KNOCK § I —Silver Flash quality | | and stops the knock, too. | Frohman Restaurants Two good places to eat No. 2—loß West Maryland Street No. 1—244 South Meridian Street Quality Service EVAN S* E-IS&KE AT ALI GROCEBB THE INDIANA TRUST CO. Pay 4% Savings I Kggff $2,000,000 DEEP CURVED LENSES Examination and t W m case, single vlcomplete— Jt-S V X*ss.so to $7.50 Dr. Jos. E. Kernel Optical Dept. WM. H. BLOCK CO. REPOSSESSED FURNITURE Some Slightly Used and In Good Condition SOLD FOR BALANCE DUE Living Room Suites , .965 Original cost, $200.00 3- Piece Bed Room Suites f65 Original cost, $150.00 8-Piece Dining Room Suites. .965 Original cost. $150.00 9x12 Rugs 918 Original cost, $80.50 Oil Stoves 910 Original cost, $40.50 Floor and Bridge Lamps 95 Original cost, $27.50 Ideal Furniture Cos. 141 W. Washington St.

TOYLAND IS PARADISE FOR RAILROAD LOVERS

“ A LL aboard —board-d-d —” xV “Where’s that train going, conductor?” “Why, to Toyland, of course, where else?” The National Furniture store’s Toyland is ruled by a railroad air. Here—in the basement of the store, which has been converted into a veritable world of toys—will the mechanically inclinder get the biggest thrill of his life. For a miniature railroad track

AIMEE’S CASE TO BE SIFTEO Grand Jury Again to Look Into ‘Kidnaping/ 11-ts United Prcfs LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29. The now famous “kidnaping” of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, soon may be reopenrtl, it was indicated here today, with the Los Angeles county grand jury taking the case under consideration. The grand jury was in recess today, but will continue its investigation tomorrow. Anew phase of the probe, which resulted in bribery charges against District Attorney Asa Xeyes. will be investigated, it was said. Yesterday, the Rev, J. W. Arthur, financial manager of Angelus temple, was called as a witness by the investigating body and was told to bring all records of the church for two years back with him. The first case against Mrs. McPherson, charging conspiracy to obstruct justice, was dismissed. Meantime, followers of Angelus temple planned to greet Mrs. McPherson with two brass bands and a 1,000 strong welcoming committee, when she arrived here today from an extended tour of Europe. WIRE FLYING Anderson Company May Go to Another City. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 29.—The Welch Aircraft Company has closed its .flying school after a year’s successful operation, because stringing of an electric light wire at the edge of its field makes take-off and landing of planes hazardous. Officials of the company intimate that unless some arrangement is made providing a suitable field, it will move to some other city The city council will have a final hearing Monday on a proposed $75,000 bond issue to finance a municipal airport. City officials had hoped the Welch company would move to the site proposed for the airport, but as the project is not yet assured are doubtful such an arrangement can be made.

< ‘fOYL F ANb M Ilt_JOoiOTjr —Toys!—Toys!—Wonderful Toys—the kind that this scientific age j Bring the kiddies to “Victor’s Toyland” and let them make their V own selection. Let them rejoice at the sight of so many novelties JjmWmt their little hearts. Select what you want and we’ll Following Are Just a Few of the Thousands of Lloyd Loom Doll (f O r/\ The Popular SHO and | O A CARRIAGES Up FLIES pl*£f( Up lag”. Beautiful Character /q Rubber-Tired • darn DOLLS U*JC Up COASTER WAGONSPfI.OU Up BEARS ... : Uy . 89c Up AUTOMOBILES .. $5.45 UP Doll Dishes and 40 C Six-Pocket POOL 05 "The Home of Guaranteed Furniture’’ Is conveniently located on Washington Street, just lVi blocks west of Illinois street, directly opposite the Statehouse. 231-237 W. Washington St. I “The Best Choppers Meet on West Washington Street’’

that circles over more than 100 feet of space Is the chief attraction in the basement. Trains run at any speed, electrically controlled. They are switched by merely pressing a button at the control board. They roar through tunnels. They stop automatically at stations. Elec-tric-lighted semaphore systems guard against wrecks, and trestles carry the tracks over water hazard and the like.

Thanksgiving Day in Theater

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Charles Purcell and Queenie Smith

Indianapolis theaters offer quite a lot of entertainment on Thanksgiving day. • Queenie Smith and Charles Purcell are on the Thanksgiving menu at English in the musical comedy, “Hit the Deck.” Francill tops the vaudeville bill at the Lyric. The Mutual offers “High Flyers,” burlesque. The Colonial presents movies and a girl revue. Other theaters today offer: “The Home Towners” at the Apollo; “The Masks of the Devil” at the Palace. “The Haunted House” at the Circle; Charlie Davis at the Indiana, and “The Melody ol Love” at the Granada.

3 INDICTED FOR AUTO THEFT BY COUNTY, JURY Elev*n Ar§_ Named in Charges Returned Today. Three men were indicted on vehicle taking charges Wednesday by the county grand' jury which returned eleven indictments tc Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Persons indicted and the charges are: Lowell Harold, 819 Rivera drive; Lee Walker and John Boat vehicle taking; Anthony Henderlesteir, second degree burglary; Samuel Haybes, 1503 Hudson street, failure to stop after an accident; Sterling Fulton, second degree burglary; Oliver Lewis, robbery; Ernest I’. Smith, Monon, Ind., child desertion; Robert Smith, second degree burglary and Charles Vance, Lowell Harold and Bennett Dokes, entering a house to commit a felony. Fred O. Magsam, 122 East Ohio

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T'O be sure, there are toys of every description on display, and a Christmasy air pervades the basement, but —oh, boy—that railroad system! Among other outstanding features of the toy city is the doll shop. Here hundreds of dolls, in as many different costumes and of as many different sizes, are on display. Many of them wink roguishly,

street, was charged in an affidavi with sale, possession and manufacture of liquor and maintaining u nuisance. AWAITS OPINION ON LAW BEFORE SIGNING Slack Holds Up Traffic Code for ' Legal Interpretation. Signature of Mayor L. Ert Slack to the new traffic code was delayed today pending an opinion from the legal department as to the validity of the ordinance. Slack said some of the penalties provided In the code were believed to be In conflict with state law, probably making necessary the revamping of the code. “I that is the case the code would be invalid TRven if I did sign it. I wil lawait an opinion from the corporation counsel,” the mayor said.

others simply smile, while virtually all talk. A large ferris wheel, nearly eight feet tall, whirls round and round in one section of the toy city. Airplanes, hobby horses, games of all descriptions, automobiles —all popular Christmas toys, aye on display. It’s enough to make a feller or a girl dizzy with excitement and expectant joy. Well, it won’t be long now.

TRIES TO FREE ALLEGEDKILLER Woman Aids Man Who Escaped Newman Guy. E.y Times Special NEWPORT, Ky.. Nov. 29.—The slaying of two men near Greenfield, Ind., a few weeks ago by Newman Guy, former Sullivan county sheriff and Shelbum town marshal, is recalled here in the arrest of Mary Jackson, 24, Waukegan, 111., charged with an attempt to liberate Jack Crawford from jail. Crawford, the Jackson woman says, was the companion of Dewey Colvin and Herman Steele, slain by Guy when they attempted to kidnap him and steal his auto after their own car, loaded with alcohal, was made useless through stripping of gears. Authorities announce that the woman has implicated Crawford in the slaying of Constable William Tressler, near here; serious wounding of William Hardin, Louisville (Ky.) policeman, and of Leroy Hall, Covington (Ky.) policeman. The shootings followed holdups. Crawford already faces a first degree murder indictment in the Tressler slaying. MEREDITH HEADS CLUB Christian Men Builders Hold Annual Turkey Dinner. Officers elected Wednesday night by the Christian Men Builders of the Third Christian church at the annual election and turkey dinner will be installed Jan. 1. New’ leaders are Charles Meredith, president: Ira Dyer, vice-president of membership; James Jay, vicepresident of social; Everett Wright, vice-president of advertising; Virgil Davids, secretary, and E. G. Jacobs, treasurer. The Blue Devils of Sahara Grotto were entertainers.

OL’ MAN SANTA / f L —and all his little helpers have been busy for many months preparing for this Christmas and the results of their preparation are now in evidence at— Charles Mayer and Company Ssnll VJ>, Indiana’s Oldest and Most Complete Toy Store The children of Indianapolis have for 88 years con* sidered this store Santa’s headquarters and each year come * here to see the latest examples of his toymaking art. /v; 1 I 4 # I ———— *. Toys—4th Floor Flexible Flyers Blackboards Electric Stoves Aeroplanes ai> „ , 93.00 to 98.50 92.25 to 922.50 25£ to 910.00 93.75 to 910.25 •SfftSSSL 4 Mechanical Boats IgTOj MSpjrv Dolls Woolly Dogs Doll Houses chnsiL/,'<■ and 50< to 915.00 91.00 to 932.50 50<* to 930.00 Ornaments IChARLES rtAYERPAN\I |29-5I S | H I N uiijljilT 11 _.m S i l |J l i F || I ! Jgiag

KEY TO DEATH -IS SOUGHT IN FURNACEASHES Police Up Blind Alley in Search for Missing Louisville Widow. By United Press LOUISVILLE. Ky., Nov. 29.—Conflicting evidence in the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Ella McDowell Rogers, pretty 29-year-ola widow, confronted detectives today as they continued to sift ashes from the furnace in which her body may have been burned. The ashes and a bloody monkey wrench constituted the evidence found in and around the furnace of the -fashionable apartment house where Mrs. Rogers, the widow of a Louisville newspaper man, lived. She disappeared early in October and It was learned she had been advised to go to a southern sanitarium to be treated for a nervous disorder. Other investigators are on their way south today to check up on that angle of the case. Phillip Hanes, Negro janitor of the apartment, was being questioned today. Charles Lanfron, 60, a neighbor, told a story that started the investigation of the furnace. Lanfron said on the night of Oct. 8 he heard groans in the furnace room. He investigated, and upon reaching the basement he said he heard someone breathing deeply. He said he feared an attack, so returned to his apartment for a gun. His wife persuaded him not to return, he said. Four grate bars from the furnace were found in the city dump and ashes from them are being analyzed. Wallace McDowell, a Cincinnati undertaker. Mrs. Rogers’ brother, has starred proceedings to have his sister dt dared dead. He also sought the appointment of a trustee for his sister's $25,000 estate. He said he was convinced his sister was murdered and that her body probably was disposed of in the furnace. A message to the police here tonight from Boiling Springs, Tenn., said a woman who- answered the description of Mrs. Rogers spent some time there in a sanitarium, but has left. The clew r will be checked up, police said.

Needs Tact

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Back of the interesting interviews with prominent stage celebrities we get when we listen to WGBS, New York, at 7:30 every Monday night, is the tact and diplomacy of Sylvia Golden. Miss Golden has the delicate job of corralling a star to the mike each w’eek, and that’s not as easy as getting them in front of the footlights by any means. But she’s done it, and to her goes credit for the success of the weekly Theater Magazine Hour at WGBS.

CLUB HEARS MINISTER 1 H. T. Wilson Is Speaker at Bible Investigation Lesson. Tile Rev. H. T. Wilson, pastor of the Wallace Street Presbyterian church, was the principal speaker Wednesday night at a meeting of the Bible Investigation club in the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. It was his fourth and final address before the club. A. H. Godard, general seceretary of the Y. M. C. A., led the song service. Dr. W A Shullenberger, pastor of the Central church, will speak next Wednesday, according to C. E. Guthrie, club secretary. Receive Body of Baby B>u Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 29.—Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Gault. Brandenburg, Pa., today received from Pittsburgh the body of their baby daughter. She died of exposure Sunday at the latter city while the family was speeding here in an automobile to the bedside of his mother, Mrs. Lucy Gault, who Ls still in a serious condition.

NOV. 29,1928

WILLEBRANDT FACES QUIZ ON ‘SPrSYSTEM Espionage Over Federal Prisons Under Fire ot Congressmen; WASHINGTON, Nov. 29,-Mabel Walker Willebrandt Is to be quizzed by congress concerning some of the things she has done as assistant attorney general in charge of federal prisons. Her system of espionage over federal prison officials is under attack by members of the appropriations committee in charge of department of justice funds, members of the special house committee investigating penal institutions and others in the lower body. She will appear before the appropriations committee this week. Mrs. Willebrandt has defended her program, which consists of placing department agents in a prison so as to make a checkup on officaifs and their methods of administration. Denying that this savors of the “stool pigeon” idea, she contends that often it is necessary. One who disagrees is Representative Tinkham, Massachusetts, who has been acting as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee during recent hearings. He bitterly has opposed the use of what he calls "agent provocateurs” in prohibition enforcement and other branches of the government. He wants to know how much federal money has been used for this purpose by Mrs. Willebrandt, and where she gets the authority for such an expenditure. Representative John J. Boylan, New York, whose resolution led to the prison investigation, also disapproves the practice. He is a member of the committee which visited many institutions throughout the country during the summer, and will direct a fight against the Willebrandt system when the justice department appropriation bill reaches the floor. He is expected to present an amendment providing that no money shall be spent to finance the so-called spy system. "The idea inaugurated and defended by Mrs. Willebrandt,” said Representative Celler, "is vicious and un-American. Begun by the federal prohibition authorities, it now is being extended, and it is time for congress to intervene. “If Mrs. Willebrandt and other federal officials select able and honest men to run our prisons in the first place, there is no need to have others spying on the appointees."