Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1929 — Page 12

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*500,000 TO REPAIR CITY CARTRACKS 3n Per Cent of Revenue to Be Spent This Year for Improvements. More than half a million dollars, most 10 per cent of the a.nnual . venue of the Indianapolis Street Railway company, is being spent his year to replace and I*7 new icks. according to T. L. McCarty, fief clerk of the engineering divi--1 TO. The company hopes to complete l: • Jan. 1 the two miles of single track extension of the Fast Michic n street line from Bradley to 1 nerson avenue, together with one n tie of double track. This mile of double track alone will cost SBB,OOO. Two hundred twenty-five men have been employed on this job and on the one-half mile of double track on Shelby street and the laying of 400 feet of new track between Washington and Maryland s reet on Illinois street. This, together with the English avenue replacement and extension, \ ill total four miles of single track t ;ls year. Several new methods in track c instruction have been introduced t iis season by the street car comy my. including the thermit welding i pe of rail and steel tie place l stenlng. Through use of thermit welding, t ie protruding rail joint has been ruminated. A step] alloy which binds the two ends of the rail is used, making for smooth stretches cf rail. The steel tie plate will help to lessen the wear and so provide for level track instead of a series of hills and valleys. A heavier rail also is being used in the 1929 construction and reacement program. Rails formerly • eighed 90 pounds to the yard bib he new rail weighs 102 pounds, and is expected to have greater wear- . cslstine qualities.

MINNESOTA HANDICAP IS HUNG ON NEWTON • Hoover Secretary is Unlikely to Be Successor to Good. i:n ReiipVK-nnward Xrwapapcr Atlinrire WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. The fact that Walter H. Newton, sectary to the President, was born in Minnesota, may keep him from beng named secretary of war, Washington observers agreed today. Newton is 'r fine for a cabinet position, it s believed. The pro: - ent vacancy, caused by the death Secretary Good, might go to Nev - ton but for the fact that at th present time Minnesota already is represented so well in Washington Not only is Attorney Genera'. Mitchell from Minnesota, but als Assistant Attorney General Youilgquist, presidential secretaries Akerson and Newton, Roy A. Young, governor of the federal reserve board; William F. Schilling, member of the federal farm board; Charles H. March, member of the federal trade commission; Arch Coleman, first assistant postmaster-general, and Edgar Markham, assistant to the chairman of the federal farm board. “LIZZIE'S” SPREE FATAL Alcohol Fumes Ignite in Wreck With Interurban Car. “Lizzie’’ got all “tanked up” on “alky.” She was strutting “high, wide and handsome” near Tenth and Brookside today. You could smell her alcoholic breath a square away. Then an outbound freight interurban crashed into her. The potent “alky.” coupled with the crisp air, ignited “Lizzie” and. when firemen reached the scene they found Manuel Schoneeker, 27. of' 1533 North Hamilton street standing beside “Lizzie”—his car. He estimated the fire loss at $l5O. YEGGS CAN SEE A JOKE Finding Safe Empty Burglars Drink “Pop” and Leave Nickel. Itv United Fre LAMEST. Tex., Nov. 22.—Burglars who staged four robberies in this city apparently have a sense of humor. After breaking into the safe of a local bottling company, where they found nothing, the yeggmen sat down to enjoy a bottle of “pop" Manufactured by the company. When the manager opened the place in the morning he found a lone nickle—left for him in payment for the drink. HIDDEN FORTUNE FOUND Death of Aged Woman in Old House Reveals Secret Hoard. />' u United Fret* NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—'The death of Pauline Poppitz, 80-year-old Brooklynite, brings up the controversy—“ What good did she get out of It?” and. “It gave her old age independence." She lived in an old broken-down house, and did all ol her own work. Alter she died more than $500,000 was found in her rooms in bonds, mortgages and bank accounts. EVADE WALL OF SPEARS College Students Find Way to Gel to Night Parties. /:■< United Fret* OXFORD. England, Nov. 22. Students ol Corpus Christ! college returned from vacation to find the ;sual six foot wall around the college augmented by spears twelve feet high, surmounted by a row of cttlng spikes. The solved the problem of climb - g tr. and out of college after dark ay piling pricks at the bottom of the spears, and throwing a rug over the spikes.

OPEN BIDS ON NINE HIGHWAY PROJECTS

Improvement of 65 Miles of Roads Involved in Competition. Bids on nine highway projects, for Improvement of sixty-five miles of state roads, chiefly by paving, were opened by the state highway commissione today. The projects and low bids were: Btate road No. 42, from the Dale to Perry county lines, one mile northeast of St. Meinrad, Dale and Perry counties, 12.014 miles Low bidder. Globe Construction Company, $267,808.72 State roads Nos 3ti and 41, from Dyer, three-quarters mile east and one-half mile west of U. 8. No. 41. to one mile north of Hartsdale, Lake county, 3.066 miles. Henry Downey, Hammond, $81,134.02, State road No. 24, nine miles northeast of Ft. Wayne to the Indiana-Ohlo state line. Allen county, 8 037 miles. Roger Da oust. Defiance, O . *126,898 52. State road No. 67, from Switz City to one-quarter mile northeast of Worthington, Greene county, 8.037. John J. Quinn Company. Bedford, $156,318.70. State road No. 2, Lowell to state road No. 53, one and one-fourth miles south

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