Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1928 — Page 2

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RENEW STUDY OF DOWNTOWN TRAFFICNEEDS Work of City Council's Committee on Problem Is Continued. Further study of the downtown bus and street car congestion was begun today by the city council special traffic committee. On motion of Judge F. White, the special committee headed by Robert E. Springsteen which revised the traffic code was i-evived to complete the traffic study. The traffic committee made preliminary study of the downtown congestion with the view of eliminating turns of street cars and motor vehicles on Washington, between Delaware street and Capitol avenue. On adoption of the code the committee was automatically discharged. Study Pedestrian Plan Efforts are being made to devise a plan whereby the right turns can be eliminated and abolish the pedestrian three-way signals at three Washington corners. Covncilmen believe that abolishment of right turns and re-routing of street cars to lighten the traffic would permit abandonment of the bell signal for those who walk, other traffic being stopped. There has been considerable objection to the pedestrian regulation but Springsteen insisted it can not be abolished as long as there are right turns of street cars and motor traffic. Reroute Street Cars A. H. Moore, city engineer, submitted a plan for rerouting street cars to the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, providing for through cross town lines and eliminating the looping of routes. Councilmen are authorized to call in consulting expertsHn making the "comprehensive study,” to work out a "convenient, safe and practical plan,” for handling the transportation lines. A fund is available for a traffic expert through the city plan commission fund, it was said. RULES ON PRISONER Gilliom Says Court Order Necessary to Call Convicted Man to Court. Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom today issued an opinion to Warden Walter H. Daly informing him that he may release a prisoner to appear as a defendant in a trial in Randolph circuit court only upon an order from the court and payment of transportation costs. The prisoner in question is Arzo E. Key, who is slated to appear in an automobile accident case at Winchester, Jan. 14, with Sam O. White as co-defendant. CHANCE RITES HELD Advertising Man Is Buried Monday Afternoon. * Funeral services for Frank S. Chance, head of the Frank S. Chance advertising agency, and a pioneer in the advertising profession, who died Saturday at his home, 4038 North Illinois street, were held at 2:30 monday afternoon at the Planner & Buchanan mortuary. Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian church, officiated and burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. WANTED MAN GIVES UP Companion of Victim in Robbery Attempt Held at Paoli. PAOLI, Ind., Dec. 18.—Garris Lockenbour, 22, is a prisoner in the Orange county jail following his surrender to Bedford police in connection with a holdup attempt at the Thomas Wininger grocery near here, which resulted in the slaying of John Currie, Bloomington, by Wininger. Hiding day and night was too irksome to endure, Lockenbour told Bedford police as he surrendered.

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Like Magic It seems only yesterday that our hundreds of Christmas Club members began saving small sums weekly—and today they have hundreds of dollars. There’s more than enough for Gifts, so many are leaving the rest in the bank and starting again for Christmas, 1929. Clubs range upwards from 25c, paid weekly. City Trust Cos. DICK MILLER, Pres. 108 E. Washington St.

Santa Steeds Reindeer Used Ages Ago as Horse and Cow by Europeans.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.— Santa Claus rides through the air behind six fine reindeer so they tell us. His neighbors away up north, are the Lapps who have used reindeer as sort of combination horses to haul their sleighs and cows to milk and eat, for many centuries. Probably Santa Claus got the idea from the Lapps and bought his steeds in some reindeer market in Lapland. For the reindeer has been one of the useful animals almost as long as there has been a human race to make use of any kind of animal at all. Even before there were any Lapps, and very long before there was any Santa Claus, away back In the stone age, when all Europe was as cold and snowy as Lapland is today, the reindeer wandered far to the south. In those days people lived in caves and decorated their homes by drawing pictures of animals on the walls. And in caves far in the south of France we find drawings of the reindeer, which never have been seen that far south by any man who knew how to write a story about it. The drawings are all we have to show, but they are so well done that there is no doubt that the people who made them knew the reindeer. We know there must have been many of these animals in the south of Europe during that faraway time. n tt # ONE other evidence we have of the presence of reindeer in the France of the Stone Age. That is the bones and horns of the animals themselves. In the caves where the cave men lived we find the bones they threw away after they had eaten the meat—for cave men were untidy housekeepers. Some of the antlers they carved into tools, and these were often decorated with pictures. Quite a number of reindeer antler tools have been found, with pictures of reindeer cut into them. The cave men did not tame the reindeer. They were hunters, not herdsmen, and they had no domestic animals at all, except possibly some half-wild dogs than; helped them in their hunting. The taming of animals was not done until very many years later. When it happened, it probably was done by catching the calf of a wild cow, or the colt of a wild horse, or the fawn of a wild reindeer that the hunters had killed, and having it brought up by children, who played around in front of the cave. DEATH BY ICE PICK Alleged Slayer’s Trial Will Open at Muncie, Thursday. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 18.—Harry Garvin will be placed on trial in Delaware circuit court here Thursday charged with the first degree murder of Jay Creek with an ice pick. The slaying occurred Aug. 12 last at a roadhouse near Dunkirk. Garvin and his alleged victim are said to have quarreled over a card game. CABLE RITES ARE HELD Aged City Woman Had Diet? Sunday After Hlncss of Year. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Cable, 69, who died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jesse E. Hanft, 816 East Forty-Second street, after an illness of nearly a year, were held at 10 a. m. today from the daughter’s home. Burial will be at Bloomington, HI., Wednesday. The Rev. E. H. Kistler, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian church, officiated. NAMED PAGEANT HEAD Thomas Wood Stevens, Chicago, to Direct Clark Celebration. Thomas Wood Stevens, Chicago, has been chosen to direct the pageant at the one hundred fiftieth anniversary celebration in honor of George Rogers Clark’s capture of Ft. Sackville, Vincennes, Feb. 25, Christopher B. Coleman, director of the state historical bureau, announced today. Alleges Company Insolvent By Times Special SHOALS, Ind., Dec. 18.—A receiver for the Shoals Pearl Button Company, operating one of the largest plants of its kind in Indiana, is asked in a suit filed in Martin circuit court here by Miss Ruby Savage. She alleges she holds S3OO in due bills assigned to her by persons who received them from the company as evidence of indebtedness for wages and alleges the company is insolvent.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen. Earl A. Wetherald, 24 North Gladstone avenue, Ford coupe, Li cense 29-890, from Walnut and Pennsylvania streets. Will Wortz 704 North Alabama street, Buick coach, 618-092, from Alabama and Walnut streets. Kenneth Bramkamp, 832 Dawson street, Nash touring, 641-113 from West and Ohio streets. Lemuel Hughes, 1619 Alvord street, Ford tudor, 629-335, from 1300 Beecner street.

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Stolen Automobiles recovered by the police: James Byers 1332 North West street, Studebaker touring, foun-i at California and Vermont streetsClint Thompson, Bloomington. Ind., Ford coupe, found in Garfield Park, automobile wrecked. John Herbert Hunt 812 Prospect street, Ford roadster found in rear of 815 Prospect street.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

DEC. 18, 1928