Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1929 — Page 7

JAN. 9, 1929.

PUPILS OF CITY TO CONSTRUCT MODELHOMES Realtors Announce Plans for Contest With Show in April. Plans for a miniature model house contest, open to all grade and high -chool pupils of the county, in connection with the Realtors’ home show at the state fairground April 3 to 14. were announced today by Robert Allison, chairman of a special committee of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. The winners will receive SIBO in prizes. The models entered in the contest, expected to number several hundred, will be exhibited at the home show, and each entrant will be given a free ticket to the show by the real estate board. Plans and materials for the house which will form the basis of the contest will be provided by the board for 10 cents. Materials will be available at the office of the board, 820 Lemcke building, next Tuesday. Assures Good Faith "This small charge,” Allison said, only partially covers the cost of the materials, but it will assure good faith on the part of the children entering the contest. “We have been put to considerable expense and the charge is made to prevent any child from obtaining (he materials and through carelessness or lack of Interest, falling to complete his model.” Materials for the contest to be given out will consist of a sheet of instructions on which will be printed complete sketches. These, when cut out, may be pasted together to form a model house of cardboard, approximately six inches high. May Use Any Design The contestant may arrange the parts given in any design, draw in doors and windows, decorate the house to represent brick, stucco, frame, or any other type of construction, mount it on a baseboard representing a lot, and landscape the lot with miniature trees, bushes, grass and walks. All entries must be delivered at the real estate board display space in the manufacturers’ building at the state fair grounds March 30, between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m., at which ♦ Ime each entrant will be given a free ticket to the Realtors’ home show. The contest divided into two one for grade school and one for high school pupils. Prizes for each class are: First, $35; second. $25: third, sls; fourth, $lO, and fifth, $5. Must Give Name, Address On the under side of the baseboard representing the lot, the contestant must place his full name and address, grade and school and home phone number. A building line must be established not closer than eight f.nches from the front of the board. The real estate board, at discretion of the judges, reserves the right to eliminate any entries and to keep any or all entries. Judges will be appointed by the board and names announced through the newspapers.

PASS LAW TO MAKE JOHN COOLIDGE MAJOR Permits President's Son to Wear Uniform at Ball Tonight. By United Press HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 9.—The first act of the twenty-fifth Connecticut general assembly on convening today was to suspend its rules and pass a bill whereby John Coolidge, son of the President, could be appointed a major. The bill permits Governor John H. Trumbuli to name John as a member of his staff. It was hurried through so that the Governor’s future son-in-law could wear his gorgeous new full-dress, blue and gold uniform at the Inaugural ball tonight. John will attend the function with his fiancee. Miss Florence Trumbull. The gubernatorial staff, of which he oecomes a part, will wear full dress uniforms at the ball for the first ime since the war. \

BUS MEN WILL MEET Association to Hold Annual Sessions at the Lincoln Jan. 15. Legislation, transportation problems, and election of officers will engross the attention of the Motor Carriers’ Association of Indiana, embracing every bus operator in the state, at the annual meeting at the Lincoln. Jan. 15. The bits operators are expected to take cognizance of the threat from northern Indiana that new regulations and safeguards about passenger transportation by bus will •be sought. Death of persons f.n recent bus accidents in the vt•finity of South Bend precipitated hc proposal. " H. E. Jahns of La Porte is president of the association: A. O. Harman. Indianapolis, treasurer, and Charles 1.. Pope, secretary. 'RAIN MEN TO k ■ Annual Convemion Set for City Jan. 24 and 25. Indiana gram dealers’ twentyeighth annual convention will be held Jan. 24 and 25 in the Beard of Trade library. A banquet and a dance are on the program for the evening of Jan. 24 at the Elks Club, with the Indianapolis Board of Trade and the Indianapolis grain dealers as hosts. Speakers will include John MeCwrdle, lifelong friend of the late Charles B. Riley, former association secretary; Dr. R. H. Carr, Purdue university; F. A. Jost. Chicago, grain exporter: C. A. Waalen. federal grain supervisor here, and Charles Quinn, national grain dealers’ secretary. ■

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A novel test of the “aoll-bearing strength” of the site for the new •300.000 unit of the Sears-Roebuck Company building at the southeast comer of Vermont and Alabama streets is being made by Jeup Sc Moore, consulting engineers. Testing the earth seventeen feet below the surface in the three-day experiment indicated the soil has a soil-bearing strength of 8,500 pounds a square foot. Th result will be used by Chicago architects in designing the foundation for the building. Pierre Sc Wright are associate architects. Soil tests are common practice in Chicago, but rarely have been made in Indianapolis, said Russell B. Moore, of Jeup Sc Moore.

SLAPS AT DARROW Lawyer Assailed by Speaker as Peril to Youth. Clarence Darrow was assailed as anti-Christ and a menace to American youth before the Indiana Association of District and County Fairs at the annual banquet of that organization at the Claypool Tuesday night. The speaker was A. P. Sandies. Ottawa, 0., one time candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in that state and long identified with fairs there. The banquet marked the close of the day’s business session. Sandies’ condemnation of Darrow was brought in when he urged young persons to remain on the farm, where, he said, the real aristocracy will reside. Other speakers included Mayor L. Ert Slack and Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie. J. H. Claussen, Crown Point, was re-elected president; C. H. Taylor, Boonvllle, and E. J. Barker, Thorntown. City Woman’s Mother Dies By Time* Special WASHINGTON. Ind., Jan. 9 Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Delana McCracken, 91, who had lived her entire life in Daviess county. Among surviving children is Mrs. Ida Rittenhouse, Indianapolis.

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TWO PINTS: SI,OOO FINE Wisconsin Man Penalized Heavily for Third Offense. By ttntlrd Prc BELOIT. Wls., Jan. o.—Otto F. Karken was fined SI,OOO by Judge C. H. Christensen here for possession of two pints of wihsky. It was Karken's third conviction of liquor law violation. D— FOR DEMOCRAT? Sanatorium Trustee Protests Label in Directory. Mrs. Alma McKinsey, Frankfort, president of the Indiana Women's Republican Club, has a capital "D” behind her name in the state directory, where she is listed as a member of the board of trustees of the state sanatorium, Rockville, That indicates that Mrs. McKinsey was appointed to the board as a Democrat. There are four trustees and are supposed to be equally divided. according to political faith. Mrs. McKinsey has denied the Democratic appellation and says she was appointed as a Republican. Governor Ed Jackson declared there was some error and the matter could be rectified when her reappointment comes up June 8. Other Republican members of the board are: Dr. Denzil C. Barnhill and Fred B. Robinson, both of Indianapolis. The real Democratic member is Parke Beadle, Rockville.

THE LNDUNAPOUB TIMES

WOMAN DRAWN TO GRAND JORY DUTYEXGUSED First in County Let Off by Judge: Pleads ‘Too Busy/ The first woman ever drawn for grand jury service in Marlon county was excueed today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins because she was a woman. Her name is Miss Ollie B. Owen*' secretary of the literary department of the Indiana Baptist convention, 110 North Euclid avenue. No Place for Women "I suppose whoever drew my name thought it was attached to about 200 pounds of he-man,” laughingly explained Miss Owens to the court. She pleaded that her duties were so intricate no one could fill her place and the court let her go with the remark: "It has been my policy for fourteen years not to have women jurors until the county is able to provide proper places for women to stay In the courthouse, even though women have been granted full suffrance rights and In many instances ‘play men.’ ” Three Jurors Obtained Only three Jurors were obtained out of fifteen talesmen ordered to report Deputy sheriffs were sent after two who did not appear—Clyde E. Osborne of 2011 North Delaware street, and Albert G. Hawkins, mechanic, R. R. O. Hawkins erroneously had been excused by a bailiff Tuesday. Those accepted were Henry F. Hohlt, gardener, R. R. O; Elmore G. Shirley, farmer, Acton, and Reese A. Maxwell, partner in the Correct Sales Weight Company, 27 West Pleasant Run boulevard. Hawkins was brought in and after explaining he would lose hts job at the Ford assembly plant If he was absent, permanently was excused. Judge Collins ordered ten more prospective jurors drawn this afternoon to report Friday. KING HOLDS GROUND British Ruler Has Fair Night, Say Doctors. B 'loWßon' Jan. 9.—An official announcement from Buckingham palace at 11:26 a. m. today said that King George had passed a fair night and that there was no change in his condition. The announcement was made in lieu of a morning bulletin by the king’s physicians. The last official bulletin, issued at 8:15 p. m. last night said: "The king had a quiet day. His condition remains unchanged. The next bulletin will be Wednesday night.”

BRIDE, 21, MISSING Bu Vr itrd Prc CINCINNATI. Ohio. Jan. 9. Mystery surrounded the disappearance of Mrs. Lydia Lester Caddell. 21, bride of three weeks, who has not been seen since she entered a taxicab yesterday. Mrs. Caldwel, formerly of Norris-

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town. (Pa., entered the cab when the chauffeur handed her a note purporting to say her grandmother, just arrived from Pennsylvania, was 111 at the Union station and needed assistance. Caddell. a steel worker, intimated another suitor, angered over the marriage, possibly had arranged for her abdutcion.

Married Couple Totals 217 Years SEMLIN. Serbia. Jan. 9.—A Util village near here houses what is said to be the oldest married couple

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in the world. Demetrius FilUenociv and his wife. Zivana, with 89 years of married life, claim the title. He is 110 and she 107.