Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1929 — Page 11

JULY 5, 1929.

ARMORY QUIZ LIES ASLEEP IN LESLIE'S OFFIGE ‘Closed Corporation’ Probe Started by Senate in Deep Coma. Investigation of the “closed corporation' Armor.- building plan, instituted by the state senate early this year and ordered continued at once,’* under Governor Harry G. Leslie, still is sleeping peacefully in the Governors office. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of was •o have been given SIO,OOO to “employ engineers and o'hers to conduct the investigation, but Leslie got the framers of the bill to strike out that provision, declaring that he would finance it. So far the Armory probe hasn't taken a penny from the Governor's 520Q.000 emergency fund. No investigation by engineers has been launched. Orr's regular accounting staff has rathered some figures on construc’ion and rental charges of nineteen armories constructed under the scheme, and twenty-five that were financed through the Peoples State bank. One Company Did Financing The senate investigation was' launched when i f was learned that , all financing was done through : The Peoples State bank, of which Felix McWhorter is president. All | the building, without open bidding, it was revealed was by the Ostrom Realty and Construction Company, a bank subsidiary. Adjutant General William H. j Kershner in a statement to the senate declared -hat McWhirter was author ol the building program. It was launched by Kershner under the recitne of former Governor Ed Jack' in and brought, to an abrupt halt, alter four years, by the 1929 legislature. The law-makers refused further I appropriations to finance con-! Sfrucfion under the scheme. The plan is to build armories; under holding companies with i figure-head trustees and let the , state pay for them in rentals, re- ! suiting finally in state ownership, j Kershner Still on Job Kershner thought the idea so j good that he proposed that Leslie ! build ten more before the new budget goes into effect, despite a definite order of the legislature to j build no more without a specific i appropriation for the purpose. Leslie turned this plan down. j Kershner remains at his postj without reappointment, Leslie having inherited him from Jackson. It is reported that Leslie intends eventually to replace him. TABLE COSTS $7,500 Mahogany Banjo Clock Brings 52,500 at Antique Sale. NEW YORK. July s.—ln these : days of modern taste in art, dance, music and other things, one wonders why some people still take to antique furniture. Charles Arthur paid $7,500 for a mahogany lyreshaped card table, and $2,500 for a Connecticut seventeenth century oak chest. A mahogany banjo-clock made in 1815 sold for $2,700 and a miniature tail-case clock of 1800 went for $2,350 at a recent sale.

Sander & Recker's Sensational Sale Hickory Furniture At Less Than v? price y 2 | Hickory Rocker i Oenuine Hickory 'iflfc!*- I \ Frame Rocker -iUu fi Pfjflff l I with comfortable IjJJwn B ISSf | I Two Additional Values Genuine Hickory Frame Genuine Hickory Frame Rocker with comfortable Rocker with rattan'back and shaped back of rattan. A Mat _ A regul ar $8.70 value.. regular $10.20 value $4.85 53.95 Chair to Match. $+.35 Chair to Match. $S.+5 Semi-Annual Now Going on Clearance Guaranteed Savings Sale 20% to 50% Sander & Recker Meridian at Maryland

Porter Is Edison Double, Moujik Looked Like Czar

Resemblances Are Due to Blood Relationship, Says Scientist. Pu T im<" Sotdal CHICAGO, July 5.—A half a i block away from the roar of the Grand Central Terminal, in New ! York City, a man who is a “dead ringer’’ for Thomas A. Edison, wears a porter’s badge and pushes a bag- : gage truck. A humble moujik was the double of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, and a petty swindler of Count Leo Tolstoy, the great novelist. A delicatessen dealer, a dentist and even a chimneysweep have been mistaken for former Kaiser Wilhelm o' Germany. To account for such doubles, Dr. van Bemmelen, a professor at the University of Groningen, Holland, has advanced the rheorv that they are blood relations, though the family connection is often remote, writes Michel Mok in the July Popular Science Monthly. In many instances of striking resemblance, Dr. van Bemmelen es--ablished e common ancestry. He calculates that, going back eight venerations, a man has 256 ancestors. and in thirty generations 1,000,000! Hence, there would not be DEATH DRIVERS TO GO ON TRIAL George Sutton and Max Kos Cases Set This Month. Two important involuntary manslaughter trials, in which two men are charged with the death of three persons, will be held in criminal court this month. One hundred talesmen have been drawn for the trial July 9 of George Sutton, 29, of 3303 West Tenth street, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the auto death of Miss Ethel Irquhart, 15. The girl came to Indianapolis from Scotland six days before the accident and was residing with her family at 2922 West Tenth street. Sutton also is alleged to have failed to stop after the accident and was arrested several days later. Max Kos, 245 West Maple road, will be tried July 15 for the death of two Indianapolis Street Railway Company employes on East Washington street New Year's eve. Kos struck the workmen as he w T as driving to a New Year’s celeoration. He also is charged with driving while intoxicated. MUSIC FUND IS LOW City Spends $2,400 Yearly on Park Concerts. Indianapolis’ parks are below par in municipal music, according to a recent survey received at the office of Walter Jarvis, park superintendent. Indianapolis spends only $2,400 a year on music for its park system, and lower than any other city in the United States of comparative size, except New Orleans, which appropriates nothing for public music.

rough forebears to “go ’round" uness many of us have the same ancestors in common. Anouther striking instance of resemblance Is that of Winston Jhurchill, the English statesman, vho looks so much like the bust of Titus, emperor of the Romans from A. D. 79 to 81, in the British Museum, that he might have posed for it. President Woodrow Wilson enjoyed the luxury of several facial counterparts. A tremendous commotion was caused In New York City in the spring of 1916. when one of them. Deputy Fire Commissioner W. Holden Weeks of New York, dropped dead in the street. Grief-stricken crowds with bared heads blocked the thoroughfare. So pronounced was the resemblance to President Wilson that police had difficulty in convincing the people of their error!

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HOOSIER CLUB SEEKS BOOST IN U.S. ROAD AID Motor Organization Backs Move for Increasing of Appropriations. Advocating increased federal aid for highway building, the Hoosier Motor Club will ask work by Indiana congressmen to increase the present annual federal aid appropriation of $75,000,000 to a maximum of $125,000,000, Frank D. Hatfield, club president, said today. Although there is one automobile to every 5.6 persons in the United States, only about 20 per cent of the nation's highway mileage has been surfaced, Hatfield said. The

total certified mileage of highways is 3.013,584, of which approximately 625,000 miles have been surfaced. “Realizing that road building is net keeping pace with new car registrations, the Hoosier Motor Club solidly is behind the American Automobile Association in its campaign for increased funds for federal aid." Hatfield said. Advocating the appropriation increase, the club officials said that "under the present policy of making these appropriations two years ahead, the regular session of the j Seventy-first congress will turn its attention to the appropriation for 1932 and 1933. It is imperative that the present federal program should be enlarged. “The federal government now is; contributing approximately 5 per cent of the nation’s road-building bill, although improved highways j have contributed possibly more than j any other factor to national pros- , perity.” The Janissaries, famous Turkish army corps, was instituted in the latter half of the fourteenth cen- j tury.

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Clearance of Spring Coats July Sale Only 75 velvet, flannel and tweed coats that are reduced more than half. Attractive styles for summer dress and sports wear in a splendid assortment of colors. All sizes. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

“Famous Temptation” Delustered Rayon JO. Perfect Stockings if®® 2 Pairs for 90c 3 Pairs for $1.35 Service weight, perfect fitting, seamed backs, and with narrow French tops. Well reinforced. Double point, single point and square heels. Naive, suntan, allure, breezee, pearl blush, mystery, evenglow, gunmetal, white and black. All sizes, —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

Organdy and Crepe Presses, Ensembles For Girls 7 to 14 200 Dainty Frocks in clever, grown-up styles. 1 July Sale (G&. 2f! KM \ Crepe Frocks with panties \ to match, and sleeveless. \ \ Pastel shades. Also lovely ' organdy frocks and printed t \ ensembles just like mother’s and big sister’s. A wide 6mr range of attractive styles \ \\ \ Ira and many colors and com- \\\ binations from which to ‘S&.JHhHH —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

July Sale Very Special 2 for sll Crepe de chine, georgette, chiffon and prints in a great variety of styles and colors. Long sleeve and sleeveless styles, in gay prints, pastel shades and dark colors. A beautiful assortment in which you’ll find many styles you'll be sure to want. All sizes. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

Straw, Braid, Felt Hats 88c A splendid assortment of women’s hats and about 80 hats for children in all materials, colors and styles. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

I 0O Pleated Flannel Skirts Smart flannel skirts with bodice top. Pleated all around. Several colors. Ideal for sports wear with sweaters or blouses. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

1,000 Pairs New Shoes $ 1 Patent and kid shoes in pump, one and two-strap models. Trese shoes would sell regularly at $3.95 to $5. All sizes. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

Silk Crepe Costume Slips $ J .49 A beautiful assortment of crepe slips in white, pink, flesh and green. 8Inch hems. Sizes 16 to 44. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

Rayon Spreads s2 125 Rayon bedspreads in rose, blue, green and orchid. Sizes dlxlos inches. —Pettis, Downstairs Store.

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