Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1929 — Page 7

IfABCH 13,1939.

POSTERS URGE OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY ‘Give Hours to Christ/ Is Plea; Merchants Asked to Close. Bill-po6ting the city with requests to take a three-hour shopping vacation on Good Friday, March 29, started today under the auspices ol the Church Federation of Indianapolis. The posters, carrying a landscape with three crosses for a background, says: “He gave his life. Give him three hours. Attend Good Friday services. Make purchases before 12 and after 3 p. m.” According to Dr. Ernest N. Evans, executive secretary of the federation, it will take the advertising company furnishing the posters four days completely to bill the city. Request will be mad.. of merchants of the city to close their stores for three hours on Good Friday in honor of the Lenten services. Dr. Evans said several stores had signified a willingness to adhere to the poster’s request by closing their doors during the three hours suggested. Within the next ten days committees of the federation will take up the matter of closing stores with merchant associations and business firms. Arrangements for the Lenten noonday meetings, which will be held daily at Keith’s theater next week, have been, completed. The music committee of the federation will meet Thursday to decide on the organist for the meetings and lay minor program plans. Dr. A. W. Beaven, Rochester, N. Y., will speak each noon next week with Dr. Charles Wishart, Wooster, 0., as the speaker during Holy week. Attendance records for the preEaster meetings are expected to be broken, Dr. Evans said. The noon meetings will open promptly at 12:05 p. m. daily and close at 12.50 p. m. An offering will be taken to aid in defraying expenses. Cruiser Makes Speed Record SPEZIA. Italy, March 13.—The Battle Cruiser Trento, which was recently completed at the Orlando shipyards, attained a world record speed of thirty-eight knots in tests today. = NO MORE CATMRH = This Simple Home Treatment Has Stood the Test of Time. Every fall and winter, for more than twenty years, thousands of people have made It a daily practice to breathe the air of Hyomei and so keep themselves free from Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis and Sore Throat. This is certain and you should try it. If you will breathe Hyomei daily, as directed, it will free ysu and keep you free from all these troubles or it won’t cost you a cent. Hook’s Drug Cos. or any reliable druggist can supply you with the Complete Hyomei Outfit, Including a hard rubber pocket inhaler. The Inhaler will last a life time and extra bottles of the liquid Hyomei cost but a few cents. A few drops of oil in the inhaler will last for day. - and its pure, soothing, antiseptic, healing air, breathed deep in the air passages of your nose and throat, should keep you free from coughs, colds y and catarrh all winter long. Pleasant to use, takes but a few minutes daily and is guaranteed to satisfy or monty back. — Advertisement.

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When Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, the Northampton, Mass., housewife, went shopping the other day, she took with her on a tour of the stores Mrs. R. B. Hills, a friend of school days. The smiling shoppers are shown here as they set out, with one of the erstwhile White House dogs, from the Coolidges’ nine-room duplex in Northampton.

FIGHT TARIFF BOOSTS Canada May Withdraw 0. K. on Waterway Project. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 13.—Canadian officials gently have intimated to Washington that there Is a possibility the consummation of the St. Lawrence waterway project might be blocked if congress materially increases the tariff barrier against Canada in the forthcoming special session. It has been suggested Premier Mackenzie King “might not be able to carry public opinion with him in favor of the waterway if the American tariff wall is increased.” This situation is typical of the difficulties foreseen by diplomats here if President Hoover’s farm relief program causes general tariff increases on agricultural products. Four countries, France, Cuba, Argentina and Great Britain, already have approached the state department to explain their opposition to increases on specific commodites. ROTARY CLUB MEETS World Needs Gulden Rule, Pastor Declares at Luncheon. Rotary’s appeal to all creeds and nations and the need for its Golden Rule influence in wiping out human selfishness to bring about perpetual peace was explained Tuesday by the Rev. Myron L. Pontius, Jacksonville, 111., governor of the west central Illinois Rotary district, at the luncheon of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis in the Claypool. He asserted that Rotary had abolished cut-throat competition in business by its spirit of good-will.

20 CARS JUMP TRACK IN WRECK OF FREIGHT Crew Escapes Injury; Mishap Blamed on “Hot Box.” Leaping from the rails while speeding toward Indianapolis early this riioming, twenty freight cars, fifteen of them loaded, were scattered for hundreds of yards along the Big Four Railroad right-of-way a short distance east of Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Members of the train crew, all of whom escaped injury, blamed the wreck on a “hot box.” The engine, operated by L. L. Neargardner, engineer, and L. E. Watkins, fireman, did not leave the rails. A. W. Terrel was the conductor. Big Four trains were re-routed on other lines during the morning while wrecking crews cleared the track. TRAINING SHIP LOST Danish Sailing Vessel Missing Since Dec. 14. By United Press COPENHAGEN, March 13—Scores of Denmark’s best families were anxious today over the fate of their sons aboard the world’s largest sailing ship, the Kjoebenhavn, long overdue at Australia from Buenos Aires. The vessel left Buenos Aires Dec. 14 and has not been heard from since. Among its personnel are seventy young boys of the most prominent families of Denmark who axe training for the navy.

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‘MAIN STREET’ COMPOSED ON LOANOFSSOO 800,000 Copies of Book Are Sold; Earns Fortune for Author. Bu Times Svedal NEW YORK, March 13.—“ Main Street,” the phenomenon of recent American literature, the book that buried its author and publishers under an unprecedented golden flood of profits and royalties, was written by Sinclair Lewis while he lived virtually from hand to mouth for nine months on a loan of SSOO. This is the romantic inside story of Lewis’ triumph as revealed by Arthur Bartlett Maurice in the March issue of the Bookman. Lewis, although he had written four more or less successful novels before “MBin Street,” had never contrived to keep a bank account. But he had built up an abiding faith In the ability of Sinclair Lewis as a novelist. So, when he felt the time had come to depict American small town life, he borrowed the SSOO from his father, hid away in Washington, D. C., in November, and emerged the following August wi/n the manuscript. Although his publishers believed in Lewis and his book, neither they nor the writer had any idea of the sensation it was to create. Lewis estimated it would sell 15,000 copies. The publishing firm guessed 25,000. One rash head salesman made an estimatee of 35,000. Within two months it had been bought by 50,000 readers —and to date the sales record shows approximately 800,000 copies, excluding foreign translations. Incidentally, the Bookman article discloses that the Lewis novel was not the result of a week-end inspiration. The red-haired Minnesotan really began work on it fifteen years before it was published, when as a sophomore at Yale he wrote a tale labelled,' “The Village Virus,” embodying the essential idea that emerged in 1920 as “Main Street.” In a second draft, some years later, he wrote 25,000 words before abandoning the attempt. Then he carried the story around in his mind, changing its characters and rearranging its plot and ideas for ten years before he set pen to paper again. The independent fortune which

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“Main Street” brought him, enabled Lewis to write his later novels under strikingly different circumstances. While writing “Babbitt,” for example, he traveled to England, to Italy and back to England. “ArT ' Do You Know the Hevo of Chains of lightning By JG**A®A'N BROOKS (■JOHN C.MEEEHTT) Author of H4gh Ground TeiJs the story of Pubhic Utilities from the inside /Hip HERE will be speculation I as to the identity of the JIL characters in this novel—the book is sb clever in its realism that it probably could not affect its audience otherwise. It is probable that the author's long experience in the publie utility field has furnished pictures of the very life-like men that walk through the pages. Readers will take literary pride in the fact that the intricacies of the vast structure of business have given an, Indiana author inspiration for a pictrrresqtie outlet for hrs genius. —Wie IniHamiffoits Star. At <M storesi $&00 v / I £ aid on * /U Savings FIDELITY TRUST CO. 148 E. Market St. ALL-WOOL SOC SUITS A f*r Made to Your Measure Leon’s 254 Mass. Ave. |

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Ask Weight Inspector County commlsisoners today considered appointment of a county weights and measures inspector.

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