Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1930 — Page 3

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FORECAST ERA OF ACTIVITY IN REALTY MARKET Investment Money Return Is Expected to Prove Major Factor. Predictions that this year will bring an *ra of renewed activity In real estate and building fields is made in a 1929 year-end report of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Pointing toward an opinion held generally by financial and business leaders that Ir*>o will see the return to local interests of a largee amount, of inve.stment money which has been diverted to foreign markets, the report forecasts that industrial expansion will be a major factor in 1930 activities. R-e-idential construction should be normal, it wa r seen despite surveys showing such buildin" has decreased materially in the past year. The supply and demand for home properties is equalizing itself gradually. It is said Huge Permit Total Building permits Issued by the elty building commissioner during ♦he first, eleven months of 1929 totaled 512.610.652, a decrease in 192S figures. The report construes this as encouraging In view of property types already in existence. The 1928 figure was $18,598,484. Several outstanding construction projects of the year were pointed to in the survey as being milestones In ♦he city's progress. Chief among these were the $1,700,000 Circle Tower at Market street, and the Monument Circle; the Big Four i Railroad offices at Maryland and j Meridian streets; the remodeled ■ Architects’ and Builders’ building at i Pennsylvania and Vermont streets' and the seven-story parking garage at 147 East Market street, now under construction. Plans for remodeling the Plaza garage at 30 West Vermont street for an addition of two stories by the Test Realty Corporation, also have t been announced. Expansion of mercantile and Industrial properties also is a favorable business vane, the' report continues. New Building Listed Among these the new building of L. S. Ayres Cos., t Sears-Roe-buck Company three ry structure at Vermont and Alauama streets, the Eli Lilly <fc Cos. proposed new building at 700 South Delaware street, the occupation by the *.. R. Mallory Company of a large building at Gray and Washington streets, and the purchase of the Allison j plant by General Motors Corpora- ! tion. Another important addition to industrial Indianapolis was the reopening of the Westinghouse electric lamp and radio tube plant, at La Salle and Michigan streets. The Pennsylvania railroad also has under way a $500,000 expansion program at Hawthorne yards. In May, construction was started on a four-story warehouse for the j A &: P. Tea Ccmoanv rear Williard j park, and in July, Kroger Grocery | and Baking Company opened new j warehouses at 1011 East St. Clair j street. American Central Life Insurance Company also has announced the erection of new home offices at Meridian street and Fall creek boulevard. Health Camp Site Among other realty deals in 1929 was the building of a modern market house at Inirty-eighth and College avenue; purchase by the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis of a fiftytw T o-acre site near Traders Point for a summer health camp; announce- j ment of plans of the Supreme Oi' Company to build a SIOO,OOO petroleum refining plant near Twentythird street and the Belt railroad and the erection of anew $105,000 Irvington exchange building of th~ Indiana Bell Telephone Company at 5747 East Washington street, A fivestory’ addition has been completed at the Real Silk Hosiery’ Mills. Os residential properties, the re- ; port states that demand was greatest In 1929 for those ranging In price from $40,000 to SIOO,OOO, and in email homes, from $4,000 to SB,OOO. Downtown storerooms suffered few vacancies, according to the realty board's survey, and the demand appears increasing for well-located, properly-priced community business houses. The survey states finally that while there was little building in the apartment field, several apartments changed hands. There was considerable new construction, also, In auto service and filling stations. Some sites at the edges of districts changing from residential to business sections were purchased as investments. GAS TAXES GET MORE Motorists Par Four Millions Above 1928 Figure. Hoosier motorists paid more than $4,000,000 more in gasoline taxes dpring 1929 than in 1928, according to figures tabulated in the state auditor s office by Leland K. Fishback state gasoline tax collector. Incre sed consumption and the additio! al 1-cent a gallon tax by the leg-slature accounts for the tremendous increase, Fishback said. Total gas tax paid during the year was $16,134,568, while in 1928 it was but $11,572,316. In December consumption increased to 33.868.979 gallolns. a gain of 2.577.334 over a year -go. LIGHT BULBS SHOT OUT Three Youths Stage Wild West Stunt Along Street. Renewing the wild days of the old west, three youths In an automobile celebrated the coming of the New’ Year at midnight Tuesday by driving an automobile along Morris street and West street and shooting out street light bulbs. The marksmanship of the three was admired by police, who investigated and found that twenty-three out of twenty-six bulbs had been bullseye hits.

They’ll Take Care of Riots

dH; If there are any bandits in Marion county wh '' • are thinking of starting a riot they should thin ■■■’ 'W&W' twice before they proceed. Sheriff George Wink ler has ordered SSOO worth of riot tear gas equipment '***'' r The gas completely incapacitates the breathe; ' W&C"*' J|||j prison riot at Auburn. In the top photo, Deput Sheriffs Stanley Wilson and James Haynes ar firing the riot gun, while H. H. Clifton, (left : ' demonstrator, watches. In the right oval is th v “gas billy,” and at left the ‘‘hand grenade tea

SHERIFF. FORCE BUSYJN 1929 Activities Show Increase Over 1928 Report. Duties perlormed in the Marion county sheriff’s office during 1929 were substantially increased over 1928 activities, according to a yearend report of Sheriff Gecrge L. Winkler to county officials. The largest task was the delivering of subpenas, court summons and writs, numbering in all 52,392 cases. Among other duties was the sale of 374 parcels of real estate, the sale of forty-four lots of personal property; the arresting of 267 insane persons, and the serving or 247 writs of replevin. A fleet of cars composing the county read patrol traveled 103,373 miles during the year, making 2,235 investigations. One of the heaviest dut eo was transportation of 1,639 convicts to the Indiana s ate farm; 135 to the state prison at Mi h gan City; 134 to the referreatory at Pendleton, and 212 to the Indiana women's prison. The county jail housed a total of 7,156 prisoner during the year, including 600 federal prisoners and 6,542 state prisoners with an average of about 300 prisoners a month. PINCHED 3 MINUTES AFTER 1930 ARRIVES Carl Tierze Is First Victim; Twenty Arrests Made. Carl Tierze, 23. of 2161 Butler avenue, today held the doubtful honor of being the first person arrested in Indianapolis during the New Year. Tierze fell into hands of police at 12:03 a. m., charged with intoxication, driving a car while drunk, and reckless driving. New Year’s eve celebrations Tuesday night were marked by twenty arrests. Three women were arrested on charges of vagrancy, intoxication and reckless driving. Charges against men arrested ranged from vagrancy, malicious trespass and intoxication, to drawing deadly weapons and operation of a blind tiger. Faces Booze Charge James Thomasello, 1120 North Pennsylvania street, was bound over to the federal grand jury on a charge of liquor law violations when arraigned before John W. Kern, United States commissioner, yest*rday. He was released on $4,000 bond.

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If there are any bandits in Marion county who are thinking of starting a riot they should think twice before they proceed. Sheriff George Winkler has ordered SSOO worth of riot tear gas equipment. The gas completely incapacitates the breather. Identical weapons were used in quelling the recent prison riot at Auburn. In the top photo. Deputy Sheriffs Stanley Wilson and James Haynes are firing the riot gun, while H. H. Clifton, (left) demonstrator, watches. In the right oval is the ‘‘gas billy,” and at left the ‘‘hand grenade tear bomb,” before and after explosion.

HE WAS A LEADER IN THE REAL DAYS Charles Ray Comes in the Flesh to This City at the Lyric Theater for a Definite Purpose. CHARLES RAY, once the idol of millions of movie fans the world over, is coming to town. Not in a talkie, nor in a silent film, but ‘‘ln the flesh.” Yes. siree. He is the headliner on the second Lyric ‘‘Prosperity Show of 1930,”

which starts at this theater next Saturday. It was Charles Ray who first Introduced us to the naive, appealing country boy roles which made for him a mint of money. Ray had always a certain definite, unmistakable quality of youth in all of his picture parts.

And now that same Ray has been captured by vaudeville. And for the past two or three years has stood the test of the varieties. In his footlight act Charles Ray presents a well balanced program of mixed monologue and songs. He is assisted by Ray Gould. It seems an assured fact that a majority of his large picture following will be anxious to meet Charles Ray in person, to know the sound of his voice. Three RKO vaudeville acts are to be presented with Ray. The next stellar attraction to the star being a novelty contortion and acrobatic feature, to be introduced by the De Long family, former stars of Ringling Brothers' circus. A brand of cross-fire patter is the forte of Ray Wylie and Elsie Young, who are to present their new act, called “A Few Lies.” The screen feature is “The Sacred Flame," anew all-talking Vitaphone production. It is said to be a gripping drama of two kinds of love, and was adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s well-known stage play. No less than six stars and stellar players appear in the leading roles. They are Pauline Frederick. Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee, Alec B. Francis, Walter Byron. Dale Fuller and William Courtenay. a a A LAUGH IN THEIR OWN FEET They put the laugh and the joy In their feet. Am speaking of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi at English’s last night. Their program was that of Friedrich Wilckens The man at the piano. I told you about their first concert. They were with me on the air through WKBF. To me a wonderful experience. Last night at English’s—the grandest and the most sincere fun I have ever witnessed. I have gone on record with these artists. The very height of personality and brain. (By Walter D. Hickman.) a a a Other theaters on this New Year’s offer: “Navy Bkies” at the Palace; “The Lady From Alfaqueque” at the Civic theater; “Show of Shows” at the Apollo; Britt Wood at the Lyric; “The Love Parade” at the

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Circle; “The Virginian” at the Ohio; “The Marriage Playground” at the Indiana; burlesque at the Mutual, and movies at the Colonial. CITY HALL IS OPEN TO PUBLIC Many Citizens Greeted by Officials. Indianapolis citizens visted city hall today in response to the “open house” invitation of Mayor L. Ert Slack. Although the day was a legal holiday, all city hall offices were open with someone present to show the “inside workings of the city government.” The building was decorated gayly with a Christmas tree and the mayor’s office was adorned with ferns from the park board greenhouse at Garfield park Mayor and Mrs. Slack were to mingle informally with the hundreds of citizens passing through the mayor’s office from 1 until 5 p. m. The new pictures selected by the Woman’s Department Club and paid for from the police and firemen’s emergency fund w’ere on display publicly for the first time. Mayr-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan, City Clerk-Elect Henry O Goett and members of the present and new city council were present. It was the first time city hall observed “open house.” Slack inaugurated the plan to familiarize citizens with routine of government and permit them to see the municipal building.

inning more friends by serving well During the heavy snows and blizzards at Christmas time, when nearly all types of transportation were seriously crippled, the UNION TRACTION system maintained uninterrupted passenger, freight and express service on all divisions. We appreciate the many compliments from travelers and shippers. Let us suggest that service like this deserves your regular patronage—in good weather as well as bad. We trust that we may serve you often during 1930... UNION TRACTION service is dependable, comfortable, convenient and economical. EXTREMELY SAVE EXCURSION BUYA FARES UNION SATURDAYS }M TRACTION and SUNDAYS $5 Mileage Round Trip: Coupon Book One-Way Fare for $4 —Good Plus 10c. for One Year. A HAPPY , PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO YOU!

ANCIENT TOMu DISCOVERED BY i ARCHEOLOGIST / Believed on Mizpeh Site, Mentioned Often in Bible. | By Science Service BOSTON, Jan. I.—A tomb in Palestine used during the first years of the Christian era has been explored by Dr. William F. Bade of the Pacific School of Religion. The tomb was found near the site of Tell °n-Nasbeh, which Dr. Bade believes o be the town of Mizpeh, mentioned | importantly in the Bible. The site is .seven miles north of Jerusalem. Reporting his discoveries to the Archaeological Institute of America, ; in session here. Dr. Bade said that a bronze coin is the most valuable clew to the age of the tomb. Because of the peculiar political conditions in Palestine just after the birth of Christ, the age of the tomb can be estimated within a few years by this single bit of bronze. The coin bears a wreath on one side and the prow of a war-galley on the other, and was from the mint of Herod Archelaus, who succeeded his father, Herod the Great, as ruler of Judea. Archelaus was cruel and so unpopular that his reign was brief. He w r as deposed about six years after the birth of Christ. Small Die Found “It is extremely unlikely that coins of Archelaus circulated more than a year after his banishment,” Dr. Bade said, “and this for two reasons: First, he was so hated by the Jews that they probably removed all signs of his rule as soon as possible; second, Herodian rule ceased altogether in Judea after the removal of Archelaus.” Judea, he explained, was then placed under the immediate rule of the Roman empire, and this fundamental change of administration would have brought a change of coinage. Two lamps w’ere found in the debris of the tomb, and many glass beads with marked opalescence, probably due to long burial. A find ; of unusual interest was a small die, which w’as w’orn as an ornament, j and bears the impression of what appears to be a donkey rearing in front of a human figure with upraised arm. - Rifled by Arab “The design quite naturally suggests Balaam’s ass and the angel,” Dr. Bade pointed out. “In view of the fondness of antiquity lor mock representations of enemies, one can scarcely help w’ondering whether this seal involves a mocking allusion to Archelaus.” The tomb had been rifled some years ago by an Arab purveyor of antiquities, but a variety of objects remained. HOME HEAD CHOSEN Alice Fiske Will Direct Orphans’ Institution. Appointment of Miss Alice Fiske, social service worker, as director of the Indianapolis Orphans’ home, first step in an expansion program for the home, was announced today. At present, about 150 children are enrolled. The expansion program will include redecoration of the home and adoption of periodical medical and psychiatric examinations for children. A graduate of Earlham college, Miss Fiska, who was born in Indianapolis, formerly served as director of the children’s bureau in Norfolk, Va., and for a time was with the Michael Keese clinic in Chicago. She also served as director of the New Bedford (Mass.) Child Aid Society. Miss Ida Roberts will continue as superintendent of the home. New Source of Rubber SAMARKAND, Turkestan, U. S. S. R., Jan. I.—What may develop into an important source of rubber has been discovered in this region in a plant called “kuzinia” which contains about 8 per cent rubber.

Hunting, for Honeymoon

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Theirs was a foxy wedding. For Donald C. Perkins and the former Mrs. Margaret W. Bulkelev, both socially prominent, wore these riding habits when they were married at Fairfield. Conn. The newly-weds here are pictured immediately aftr the cermonv when, with fifty other members of he Fairfield Country Hunt Club, they prepared to ride to the hounds in a fox hunt.

POLICE SOLVED 21 MURDERS IN YEAR

Twenty-one out of twenty-four murders in Indianapolis during 1929 were solved by police, records show. One of the unsolved crimes was the fatal shooting of Ephriam Watts, 57, of 557 North Tremont avenue, by a bandit, the night of Feb. 23. Watts resisted a holdup at the Indiana market. College avenue and Fairfield street. The year's most sensational murder was that of George Lewis, 26, of 818 Union street, who was found in a dying condition in his auto parked on Locke street, in front of the City hospital. A mysterious phone call announced to hospital attendants that he was there. On information from his brother, John Lewis, is was learned that he

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SCHOOL BOARD AGAINCLASHES Verbal Darts Hurled at Final Meeting. “Most brazen imposition on the public by any business board at any time,” was Theodore F. Vonnegut’s criticism at the final meeting of the board of school commissioners ; Tuesday night. Further stones were thrown when Mrs. Lillian G. Sedwick. leader of the outgoing majority faction, proposed to grant C. C. York, retiring business director, one month’s leave of absence, from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1, with pay. The board accepted York's resignation effective Feb. 1, making this leave possible, in spite of the protest of Charles W. Kern, president, that “all laws of ethics, all rules of common decency were being cast aside.” Vonnegut, minority faction leadI or. said this action was “nothing more or less than a raid on the ! school city of Indianapolis." A. B. Good, choice of the outgoiyr majority group, was named actlfig director during York’s leave. CHURCH AMITY URGED Baptist and Disciples of Christ Ministers Meet. Unity and closer fellowship between Baptist and Disciples of Christ ministers was urged Tuesday night at a meeting of the Indiana Christian Ministerial Association in Central Christian church. In one of the addresses, the Rev. W. F. Rotherburger declared: “Ecclesiastically the atmosphere never was so surcharged with sentiment of unity of the two churches." He urged Baptist and Disciples of Christ ministers to change pulpits frequently.

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