Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1930 — Page 2

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THEATER BLAZE AND PANIC TAKE LIVES OF 69 All Scotland Mourns as Full Horror of Fire Is Realized. Bv T'nitrd Pre** PAISLEY, Scotland, Jan. L Sixty-nine children, none over 14 are dead, and more than 150 are in hospitals, some so seriously injured they will not recover, as the result of a Are and pan'*c in the Glen motion picture theater Tuesday. A fund, already mounting to thousands of dollars, has beer, started for relief of the sufferer in the worst disaster in the histor: of the British film business. But no fund can assuage the grief of ail Scotland, where the usual joyous New Year’s celebration was turned into a day of horror and mourning. The victims had been admitted to the theater as a special treat—at 3 cents apiece—for a holiday matinee. They were crushed and trampled to death when a flaming film, throwing dense smoke through the auditorium, started a stampede for the doors. Scores in Stampede An assistant operator. 15 years old, discovered a blazing film, threw it into a container and hurled it into the street. But before this act of heroism had been performed, the theater was in an uproar and the auditorium was a pandemonium. With few adults to lead them, the children rushed lor exits at either side of the screen. Theater operatives tried to quiet them, but the crowd’s frenzy was overpowering, and within a few minutes piles of screaming, horror-stricken children were Jamming every door. The fumes of carbon dioxide gas spread through the big hall, suffocating scores who might have escaped if the exits had been free. The fire itself was inconsequential, but the fumes and the cry of “fire” brought bedlam. Screams filled the amphitheater as the yellow smoke oMhc burning film speeded down. Rescuers on Hand Within a few minutes every agency of relief was at the scene. J More than 100 children were saved by rescuers, who used ladders to effect an entrance at the upper stories of the building. Survivors were passed from hand to hand to the windows and thence to the street by ladders. The work of rescue was hampered by crowds of parents and citizens who jammed the street, and even the ambulances and automobiles commandeered for rescue work had difficulty on approachmg the scene of the disaster. Many families lost as many as three children. Michael Arley, a vqlunteer rescue worker, gave the following account of the disaster. He said: “I was standing near the theater when I saw smoke. Then the crowd rushed out. A constable lent me his baton ant. I broke a window' and climbed inside. The first thing I saw was a pile of moaning children six feet high at the foot of the stairs leading to the balcony. I passed them out through the window." lOWA 13 AFTER TITLE Likely to Surpass Kansas as Grower of Sunflower Types. Bp Setenre Service DES MOINES, .Tan. I.—Kansas long has borne the nickname of “Sunflower State,” but she must look to her laurels, or rather to her sunflowers, lor her neighbor commonwealth of lowa is pressing her closely for I he honors of prairie botany. At tire meeting of the systematic section of the Botanical Society of America an lowa botanist, Miss M. Rae Johns of Davenport, today reviewed the army of lowa sunflowers and their relatives. There is an imposing array of them: Sixteen genera, comprising scores of species, ranging from the true sunflowers down to tiny, creeping things like the introduced weed Galinsoag and up to the towering ragweeds, hated of hayfever sufferers. In her paper today Miss Johns presented only a part of the army in detail; the remainder are reserved for a future review. CORNER IS AUTO JINX First Accident at Emerson and Southeastern Avenues. Indianapolis* first automobile accident in the new year, at, Emerson and Southeastern avenues, was duplicated at the same comer four hours later. Cars driven by Nelson C. Fotterf, R. R. 9, Box 355. and Edward Andreas, Acton, Ind., collided there at 12:14 a. m. John Black. 950'a East Washington street, drove into a car driven by Mrs. Jack Small. 3417 Nowland avenue, at the same corner at 4:19 a. Mr. Black was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated. No one was injured In either accident. FACTORIES TO DISPLAY Four Will Have Exhibitions at Furniture Mart. Four Indianapolis factories will place displays at the American furniture mart in Chicago Jan. 6 to 25, when more than 700 leading furniture manufacturers in the country will display their latest designs. Factories include the Udell works, the John J. Madden Manufacturing Company, the Kramer Manufacturing Company and the Thomas Madden Son & Cos. Autos Kill Two Bv United Prett GARY, Ind., Jan. I— Two deaths from injuries sustained when pedestrians were run down by autos were reported in the Calumet district in a day. Mastio Simenchak. Robertsdale, and Vit Soveco, Gary, were killed.

WANTED: A MOTHER

Deficit Is Faced by Miss 1930

* m t and hi earned Grandpa Old Year, “so j ? jfTTT ion't get excited over starting out vith a surplus baby and a missing ; nothc-r. Here’s the notation— ’’ ’r His balance sheet read: “A baby, a •Trrbert Smith, 9 months old, was | JjL ..ouvht to the home of Mrs. Anna j. Griffin, 310 North Pine street, on Jec. 7. The baby was left to be- - never returned, either to pay j | Jfc||| p he feels about having motherhood j j : . fHH lished upon her,” replied Grandpa :

(GRANDPA Old Year audited his' J books Tuesday night and as j he turned them over to Baby New Year after her first eye-wash, his balance showed—one mother astray. “Now you’re young at this game,” ; warned Grandpa Old Year, “so don't get excited over starting out with a surplus baby and a missing mother. Here’s the notation—” His balance sheet read: “A baby, ] Herbert Smith, 9 months old, was brought to the home of Mrs. Anna L. Griffin, 310 North Pine street, on I Dec. 7. The baby was left to be 1 boarded by Mrs. Griffin, but the mother never returned, either to pay i for her child’s keep or to see him.” ; “But what'll I do?” queried Baby , New' Year in adolescent aspirates. “Go talk to Mrs. Griffin. See how she feels about having motherhood j wished upon her,” replied Grandpa 1 1929. So today, Miss 1930 went out to balance Grandpa Old Year’s books and found: A brown-eyed boy in Mrs. Griffin’s home who tosses a boat about the parlor between frets, because he’s teething. “On Dec. 8 a woman phoned me that she wanted me to board her baby. Inside an hour she came' out. She was poorly dressed. She had Herbert in her arm and a small satchel with his clothes. “She said her husband w'as in the hospital and that she worked at a telephone exchange. She gave her name as Smith, and the baby’s as Herbert. Then she seemed to get nervous. She said, ‘l’ve got to go to town. I’ll be back shortly with the board money.’ She left and i hasn’t been back.” Mrs. Griffin patted the brow'n- ■ eyed Herbert. Herbert rattled his ! boat noisily. Diffidently, amateurishly, Babv 1

HIGH TAX TARGET OF REALTY BOARD

Managing Head of Group Sums Up Activities of Past Year.

BY DONALD E. RIDER Executive Secretary. Indianapolis Real Estate Board. During 1929, the Indianapolis Real, Estate Board has attempted, and I j believe has succeeded, in widening [ considerably its field of service, both \ to members and the public generally. Outstanding among activities of direct benefit to the general public were efforts of our legislative committee during the sessions of the general assembly, and the conduct of the eighth annual realtors’ home show at the state fairground lasi April. The efforts of our legislative com- ; mittee. headed by Frank E. Gates, j were responsible largely, I believe, i for the defeat of the intangible tax ! bill. It is the opinion of the real j I estate board that the greatest need i lis for a reduction of the heavy i burden of taxes on real estate, and | i while this bill undoubtedly would { 1 have brought in some increase in | I tax revenues, it would not have j ■ lightened the burden on real property. It simply would have * | been adding to the tax burden in i another direction. Involves Option There are many persons today j ' working toward home ownership through a deferred payment financing plan which involves the use of a lease with option to purchase agreeement. There was an attempt this year to tax this form of lease as peri sonal property.. Through a special : committee headed by Lafayette Per- | kins, working with other agencies, ! the board was able to obtain a de- ; cision which saved these prospecj five home purchasers an added tax burden. One other activity of the realty board benefiting the public directly | is the annual realtors’ home com- | plete exposition. Somee 100.000 home! owners and persons interested in owning homes learn at this exposij tion each ysar the latest developj ments in building practices and materials. and so are enabled to build better homes or improve the homes j they have already. Appraise Big Total Serving the public directly Is the appraisal board of our organization, a group of nine realtors, selected for their knowledge of real estate 1 values. During the year, this committee appraised eighty- six separate pieces of property having a total valuation of $727,085.10. Worthy of particular mention in | connection with our home show this year was the miniature model house contest conducted among school pu- j pils of Marion county. Nearly 200 children who entered houses in this contest not only had a chance to win prizes, but through their work in planning attractive models, obtained valuable training in home | planning and landscaping which should prove of benefit to them ! when they achieve homes of their own. The real estate board enters 1930

Herbert Smith and Mrs. Anna L. Griffin. New Year asked, “You've checked the telephone exchanges?” “Yes, but I could find no trace of her,” replied Mrs. Griffin. “Well! What do you want me to do?” blurted New Year. “Find his mother. If we can’t, I may turn liim over to the juvenile authorities. And that’s hard to do when you've had your arms around them, fussed over them. I’ve two of my own, you see.” An hour later Miss 1930 returned to her abode. Grandpa Old Year was packing his trunks. Lazily he asked: “Didja balance my books?” “Balance them?” shouted the now angry Baby New Year! I’ll balance you! Say, I’m going to find Herbert Smith’s mother or get a new one for him. Yeah! If it takes the next 364 days. Now you git!” And Grandpa got!

with a consciousness that it has been of service both to its members and to the public. Many of its activities it hopes in 1930 to broaden, particularly those which tend toward lightening the burden of real estate taxes.

BUILDING STYLE DUE Present Architecture Type Called Embryonic. BY BENJAMIN F. BETTS Editor The American Architect Wc miy count ourselves t-o be living in an age that permits us to see architecture in the crucible from which will emerge anew architectural style that will five and rival the classic designs of the Greeks and Romans, the Gothic of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of intellectual Fi ance. The progress of 1929 toward expressing this new architectural form was striking, both in design and dimension. In 1930 we may well expect a crystalization of this effort, with fewer adaptations of the old forms to today’s purposes, and purer attempts to express in great metropolitan buildings the swift, straight lines that are essential in steel skeletons. Heavy cornices and protruding ornamentation are false notes in an architecture that depends on such framework covered with no more than a curtain of brick or stone. Our new architecture is writing in masonry, steel and glass the history of the age in which we live. Yet there is no sacrifice of beauty, lire new designs lend themselves to a splendor cf detail as well as a dignity of mass and composition that proves that the steel skeleton building can be beautiful and yet express its structure. WILL DIVIDE $500,000 Churches and Hosptal Share in Miller Estate at Richmond. Bv Vnited Pre* * RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. I.—Personal "property valued at more than $500,000 was bequeathed in the will of George W. Miller, late president of the Miller Brothers Hardware Company, filed for probate here. Bequests of $5,000 each were given to the Central M. E. church and Reid Memorial hospital at Richmond and to Bishop Joseph Chartrand, Indianapolis, for the benefit of St. Mary’s and St. Andrew's Catholic churches at Richmond. Two trust funds were established for the widow, a daughter and granddaughter. Hen Whips Rat Bv Vnited Pres* ATHENS, Term.. Jan. I.—A Plymouth Rock hen fought and defeated a huge wharf rat here during high waters when hundreds of rats were driven from banks. Many fowls were killed, bitten through the neck by the rodents.

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INDIAN AFFAIRS CHANGE NEEDED, CONGRESS TOLD Legislation Suggested to Remedy Present Evils of Policy. Bv Bcrir<D*-Uoirurd SrirtiaDer Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Sweeping changes in this country’s policy of dealing with its Indians have been proposed to the senate Indian affairs committee by C. J. Rhoads, commissioner of the Indian bureau, and Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of interior. Four letters, disussing evils in the present system of administering Indian affairs and suggesting remedial legislation, have been sent to the committee within the past two weeks. When congress reconvenes they will be the basis of the most farreaching study made of the Indian problem in many years. Most important of all is a suging study made of the Indian probgestion that all reimbursable loans by the government, which become a lien on Indian lands, be discontinued. Indian allotted land nowis burdened with a lien in excess of $25,GOO,OOO, according to Rhoads, although the general allotment act provides that at the end of the trust period the United States will convey the land to the Indian or his heirs free of all incumbrance. Indians Had to Repay Until 1914, all expenditures by the government for irrigation and other improvements on Indian reservations were gratuitous. In 1914 Congress provided that all moneys spent “heretofore or hereafter shall be made reimbursable.” The Indians have had to repay sums spent by the government many years ago. In addition, bridges and public highways have been paid for with appropriations made reimbursable. Where an Indian has sold his allotted land, the government reimbursement has been taken out of the money he received. Rhoads questions constitutionality of liens thus put on the land, and points out that the courts have never passed upon it. The second problem discussed is this:' Under the lew, Indian allotted lands must be sold at death of the allottee. The result is that second and third generation Indians are landless. Rhoads suggests that land might be made to revert to the tribal estate subject to reallotment, or that the government might loan an heir who wished to buy the rights of other heirs to a piece of land, enough money to make the property his. Would Keep Control What to do with the indivisible tribal estate of Indians is the third problem. Unless existing law is changed, the government will still have paternalistic control over these lands a hundred years from now, Rhoads says, and Indians will be prevented from taking part in the business life of the nation. Rhoads asks the committee to study the possibility of incorporating Indian tribes or Vesting tribal councils with a greater degree of responsibility for managing their own affairs. In the fourth place, every congress deals with a great number of bills involving Indian claims, because Indians have no right to take their claims into any court. Rhoads asks if it would not be possible to create an Indian claims commission with power to reach final settlements in these matters. Lastly, Rhoads discusses the difficulties of Indian irrigation under a number of conflicting laws passed at various times. SHAKEUP UNDERGONE BY DRUG INDUSTRY 1929 Sees Mergers and Combines for Volume Buying. Bv Times Svccial NEW YORK, Jan. I.—The drug field during 1929 went through the most revolutionary year in its history. The most pronounced changes took place among wholesalers. Sixtythree formerly independent service wholesalers, representing about 30 per cent of the total number of service wholesalers, were merged into the McKesson & Robbins organization. Over a hundred independent wholesalers aligned themselves more definitely with the Druggists’ Supply Corporation, organized for the purpose of volume buying. The largest mutual wholesale houses, organized as an association, have anounced their intention of offering their mutual system to independent service wholesalers. Drug, Inc., the largest manufac- ; turing unit in the industry, added ' materially to its holdings by ac- ! quiring Bristol-Myers, Several less | important mergers occured, although a few of large proportions, j pending for many months, were ! dropped as a result of the break in stock market values. In the retail field, chain stores made the greatest progress, increasing their volume and number of outlets. He Got the Exercise Bv Vnited Press WALSALL, England, Jan. I.—A one-legged man of Exeter City walked 200 miles, taking more than nine days for the journey, to see his team beaten by Walsall in a j football match.

PURDUE STUDENTS SrECIAL SERVICE TERRE HAUTE, INDIANAPOLIS & EASTERN TRACTION CO. TO LAFAYETTE THURSDAY NIGHT, JAN. 2nd Account opening of School at 8:00 A. M., Friday, Jan. 3d. Our 11:30 P. M. train leaving Indianapolis at 11:30 P. M, Thursday, Jan. 2d. will run through to Lafayette.

WORD ‘PRAIRIE’ MISUSED Botanical Gardens Expert Declares Plains Often Confused. By Science Service DES MOINES. Jan. I.—“ Prairies” are not wide, flat, lonesome, windswept plains that figure in wild west song and story. The right name for such plains is just plain “plains.” The frequent misuse of the term “prairie” was corrected today at a meeting of the Ecological Society of America here, by Dr. P. A. Rydberg of the New York botalical garden, who has made a lifetime study of the plains of the west and knows both prairies and plains. The real prairies, he said, are the regions of gently rolling hills of the central Mississippi valley, of which lowa and eastern Nebraska are good examples. These prairies are blessed with an annual rainfall of thirty inches of more, and originally supported a vegetation of long grasses. They are the best com lands. ANCiENTSCRIPT IS MADE CLEAR Writing Found on Grave Solved by Bible By Science Service NEW YORK, Jan. 1. —The strange, forbidding inscription recently discovered on ap ancient tomb in Corinth was explained to Biblical scholars this afternoon by Professor George S. Duncan of American university. Professor Duncan discussed the newest contributions, which archeology has made to knowledge of the Bible, in an address before the Society of Biblical Literature and Egegesis, meeting here. The inscription, found by Professor T. L. Shear on the tombstone of a lady named Makedonia, stated in Greek that “if any opens her grave, the curse of Annas and Caiaphas shall be visited upon him.” Annas and Caiaphas were the two high priests before whom Jesus was tried. The curse seems to refer to the fate of these characters. Professor Duncan said, for in the Apochryphal New' Testament it is stated that Annas and Caiaphas were among several others who were arrested. On the way to Rome, Caiaphas died in Crete, but the account states that the earth would not receive his body and he was covered with a cairn oi stones. Annas’ fate was to be sewed into a fresh bull's hide which, contracting as it dried, squeezed him to death. Evidence of a great flood, probably the source of the account in the Book of Genesis, has been found at Kish as well as at Ur of the Chaldees during the past season, Professor Duncan said. BOOM ERA HERE IN RESTAURANTS Increase Is Computed in Case Business. By Vnited Press CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Jan. 1. The nation’s restaurants apparently have learned to serve dishes “like mother used to make,” judging from the optimism of a report by Carl G. Stoddard, president of the National Restaurant Association. Nearly half the nation’s annual $23,000,000,000 food bill is paid to restaurant and hotel diningroom cashiers, making the public serving of food the third largest retail industry in the United States, Stod- ; dard said. Basing his report on telegraphic information from restaurateurs in Boston, Detroit, Columbus, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the association president stated that gross sales of the industry increased 5 per cent and the number of persons served 4 per cent in a period of observation just ended. “We believe business generally will reflect this prosperity, as we regard our industry as basic,” Stoddard said. “Things not only look fine, they actually are fine.”

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SUGGESTS P. 0. PLAN IN LETTER SENT PRESIDENT City Woman Urges Building by U. S. to Save Money, Aid Employment. A project for erection of branch postoffice buildings by the government in various sections of the country to increase prosperity, provide employment for thousands and save the postoffice department money has been proposed by Mrs. Daisydean Deeds, 2507 East Michigan street, to President Hoover. The President referred the suggestion to the postoffice department, which assured Mrs. Deeds in a letter that the suggestion offered several new ideas and that such plans were under construction. Cites Big Rentals Mrs. Deeds called attention, in her letter to President Hoover, to the fact that in Indianapolis, alone, the government is paying rental for fourteen separate buildings for use as branch postoffices and that erection by the government of postoffices here would mean saving in rentals and increased profit to the government over a period of years. At the same time, she declared, the building work w'ould provide employment for thousands of persons and would mean increased business prosperity through circulation of money. Suggests Banks She suggested that, in connection with the branch postofflees, the government operate Christmas

Dependable for 79 Years Modern life is highly exacting in its demands upon the railroads. Freight requirements are an illustration. The railroads must move freight in shipments ranging from packages to trainloads over distances of from a few miles to thousands, accepting traffic as it is offered, handling it promptly and delivering it safely and punctually. The dependability of the railroads in meeting such exacting demands under all conditions explains their pre-eminence as a means of transportation. The importance which the railroads place upon the dependability of their service is seen when there is a threatened interruption of service. They have won public renown and community gratitude in fighting floods. They have as diligently fought against the ravages of snow, ice and hurricane. Disaster always finds them striving to keep their lines in operation and to restore service at the earliest possible moment on a line where service has been temporarily interrupted. The reputation of a railroad is staked upon its dependability as a servant of the public. The skill with which the railroads strive to uphold that reputation is evident in the dependability of railway performance. The Illinois Central System has such a reputation. Fore more than three-quarters of a century it has been upbuilt and strengthened year by year in dependably filling the exacting transportation needs of an ever-progressing territory. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. L. A. DOWNS, President, Illinois Central System CHICAGO, January 1, 1930. —Dependable for 79 Years —

savings banks. She pointed out that many American families distrust private banks and said that millions of dollars of boarded savings would be brought into government-oper-ated Christmas savings banks. She also declared the government's branch posioffices would be useful as community centers and for civic purposes, would increase adjacent property values and would encourage the building of neighborhood business sections. Steals Chickens; Fires Garage ’ After stealing ten chickens from a garage at the home of Edward Hudson of 1257 Lawton street, the thief set the garage on fire, using coal oil to set the blaze. The fire was discovered and extinguished with S2O damage.

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OUR STORE When you visit the market you are only a few steps from our store. We have been in this location for more than forty years. EVOLUTION has played its tricks with our store just as it has changed every material element of commerce and industry. THE CHLY CLD THING ABOUT US IS OUR NAME Folks who shopped in this store years ago are fairly startled at the changes in our merchandise lines. Every department has placed its best foot forward with values that are outstanding, and the people of this community have placed their stamp of approval on our present method of doing things. THE PROOF OF THE PURGING is in the eating—our expansion to store number two at 215 West Washington Street demonstrates an increased business. The only way anything can grow is by addition of the substance that makes for greater things. Our constanly growing army of satisfied customers is the substance tkat makes expansion possible. OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY is in the atmosphere of both stores. The only training bur associates have is to perform their duties according to the "‘Golden Rul. Our customers will bear witness we are living up to this rule every day. We believe we are under obligation to any one who crosses our threshold to favor us with their patronage. We also believe folks want to shop with ease and select the things they know will satisfy their needs without a lot of “ high - powered ” so-called scientific sales pressure, fn other words you will feel right at home in our stores. IF EVERY ONE KNEW all the good things in store for you at either of these busy stores we would work overtime to care for your requirements. Indianapolis is filled with good stores that have established a standard of service hard to equal in any city in America. If our store is not on your shopping route we are sure you are missing something. COME AND SEE US—ALL OF US OF THE INDIANA DRYGOODS COMPANY STORE No. 1 306 E. WASH. STORE No. 2 215 W. WASH.