Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1933 — Page 3

MARCH 25, 1933

GARDEN DRIVES STARTED IN 100 INDIANA CITIES Many New Projects Listed and Others Expand Over 1932. Hy I l mrl <firi t'll LAFAYETTE. Ind.. March 2S.—! Upward of 100 cities in Indiana, largo and small, will have com- j munity or industrial gardeas during the coming season as a means of cutting down expenditures for relief and also provide employment j for those out of work. This is nearly double the number j engaged in organized relief work by the garden route last season, according to H. E. Young of the Purdue university horticultural extension staff, who is heading up the j state-wide movement for relief gardens. “Approximately thirty cities had ! relief gardens under township trustees* supervision last year, and about twenty-five others had relief gar- j dens of one sort or another,” said i Mr. Young. “This year we find that j practically twice this number have I adopted organized projects and that ; wherever the work was conducted j last year it is being extended this | season.'* Busy in Evansville Evansville, which had a large community garden last year, will ■ have more than 200 acres under ! cultivation this year, besides about 2,500 home gardens; South Bend relief gardens have been increased from about thirty to more than 200, acres; Terre Haute will have more than 100 acres in a community garden and Richmond, which had a very successful garden last year, will have more than 100 acres this year. Frankfort's garden will jump from : forty to eighty acres, and Gary,! which had an outstanding garden project last year, will increase its size. Among the new' cities listed are Greensburg, Portland, Fran k 1 in, Connersville. Seymour, and many others, which are working out garden projects. To provide suitable seed for these organizations, Young and the governor's commission on unemployment, relief have worked out a garden plan for the guidance of the home gardeners and also a seed list which will enable the single lot gardeners to use land to best advantage. Seed List Arranged This seed list, which includes beets, beans, carrots, lettuce, parsnips, radishes, spinach, sweet corn, Swiss chard, and turnips, providing crops for use during the summer and also for canning or storage purposes, has been let on a contract basis to one of the leading seed firms of the country. This firm will provide a packet of seeds containing all these vegetables in sufficient amount for a lot 501 x 150 feet, at a cost of 22 : cents a packet, or 41 cents for two packets. Notice of the price has gone out from the Governor’s commission to all relief officers, so that they can purchase this seed if they wish and distribute, it to users at cost or free, if they desire. “Many communities are raising funds for purchase of this seed, while in others the township trustees will provide them to the men who are on relief, but will have garden space of their own.” said a statement from the commission named by Governor Paul V. McNutt. "The .seed offer is open to any I relief organization, public or private.” RADIO PAYS IN BRITAIN NEW YORK, March 25. While expressing admiration for the American broadcasting systems. Major W. E. Gladstone Murray, an executive of the British Broadcasting Corp., who arrived on the Ma- 1 jestic Thursday, declared he pre-! ferred the British system, which j bars advertising announcements and i yields the government a million j pounds in revenues annually. Major Murray is on his way to' Canada to help reorganize broadcasting there along British lines. •'The government receives its revenues from the listeners, who pay i a license fee of $2.50 a year on their receiving sets,” Major Murray explained. TAX DISPUTE IS ENDED By Vailed rress CONNERSVILLE. Ind., March 25. - This year's tax rate for Connersville was set at $2.50 Thursday by the Fayette county tax adjustment board after months of dispute and rate setting. During the legal time for rate making last fall, the board set the rate to compy exactly with the $1.50 tax limit law. Pleas from the cny : administration caused the board | Thursday to add 40 cents to the previously set 32-cent civil city rate and 60 cents to the original 38-cent school rate. The rate was $3.08 last year.

Your Garden Now is the time to begin planning your summer garden—for vegetables and flowers as well. Now is the time to look over your seed catalogs, decide on what space you will give various features of your garden, see what you can do toward improving your grounds, replacing shrubbery, renewing the lawn and deciding on the various features of your garden. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a collection of eight valuable and informative bulletins on gardening. They are: 1. Home Gardening. 5. Shrubbery and Hedges. 2. Flower Gardens. 6. Beautifying Home Grounds. 3. Making and Maintaining a 7. Growing Dahlias. “®wn. 8. Growing Chrysanthemums. 4. Rose Garden*. You can get this jacket of eight bulletins for 25 cents. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. Q-11, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D C. I want the GARDEN packet of eight bulletins, and inclose herewith 25 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled. United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling casts: NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times (Code No.)

Atmosphere of Old Days Will Return in Many of City’s Bars

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But There’ll Be No Free Lunch, Is Declaration of Joe Stahr. Attempts which will be made to duplicate the atmosphere of the "good old days" are described in this second of a series of articles on Indianapolis bars in the pre-prohibition era. BY JAMES A. C'ARVIN Times Staff Writer Although most of the famed Indianapolis barrooms have disappeared and their places have been taken by drug stores, shops, and other less colorful enterprises, there probably will be at least a few places where the old-timers may feel themselves transported back to the scenes of fifteen years ago. Plans already are under way to resume the sale of beer and light wines in these places as soon as the machinery of state beer control is perfected. One which often has been recalled, when the days of the past have been discussed, is Joe Btahrs case at 127 South Illinois street. In Business 30 Years For thirty years Sta.hr has been in business at this location, and many of the fixtures were there when the bar first opened for business. Nothing much will be done at Stahr's to recapture the atmosphere of the early 1900s, now’ that beer can be sold. For many years one of the city's popular bars, the walls of the room are covered with pictures of sportsmen and sports events of the bygone period. Prominently displayed are autographed photos of Jack Dillon, the Hoosier Bearcat; Chuck Wiggins and Bud Taylor, Terre Haute’s leading contributions to fistic history. But Stahr himself is not so sure of the public's reaction to bottled beer, the only kind allowed under Indiana's control provisions. Miss the Nickel Glass “It seems to me that people will miss draught beer,” Stahr says. “Evevery one w’ants a 5 or 10-cent drink

Airman, 2Miles High, Sees \ Meteor Explode Near Earth

Burst of Flame Could Be Noticed Many Miles Over Southwest's Plains. By f nited Press KANSAS CITY. March 25.—A blazing meteor which apparently burst into fragments as it neared the earth turned semi-darkness into daylight early Friday over the Texas Panhandle, northern New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Arizona. Transcontinental and Western air pilots traced the trail of fire from Winslow’. Ariz. to Albuquerque. N. M„ and north to Amarillo, Tex. Many plainsmen were aroused by the glare. Pilot William Coyle, who flew here Friday from the west, viewed the phenomenon front his plane, nearly tw’o miles above ground. “I was cruising at 9.500 feet elevation.” Coyle said on his arrival in

Robin B*attles Own Image in Window for 16 Days

Mrs. Redbreast. Wearied by Such Foolishness, Has Deserted Mate. - Ry I nitril Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. March 25. Wearied of life with a mate who neglected his home in order to fight

Upper—An interior of the bar of William Weiss, at 13 South Meridian street, which now is the entrance to the Merchants Bank building. The photo was supplied by his son. Herbert Weiss. Lower—Joe Stahr's case and bar. 127 South Illinois street, years ago. Many of the original fixtures still are in the room and will be used when beer returns to the city.

and I don't believe bottled beer can be sold at that price. "A price of 15 cents a bottle probably will be necessary, although I understand that some breweries will have a six-ounce bottle that can be sold for 5 cents.” It is not only for his ow r n business that Stahr is glad for the return of beer. In his opinion, which also is expressed by others intimately acquainted with the old days, drinking should be done in the open. “I believe that in the course of the next few years w ; e will find the return of the saloon, but not the kind that brought about prohibition,” Stahr asserted. “A high grade bar, operated under government license and with strict regulation, is certainly to be preferred to the pres-tent-day speakeasy. ‘ Nobody wants the dirty, dark, politically controlled saloon to return. but there is no objection to a place of business operated by a business man with a high regard for law and order, who is offering for sale what people want to buy.” Neither does Stahr see cause for criticism of the alcoholic content of

| Kansas City, “when I first saw the meteor. At first I thought it \v%s a flare, but as it gradually came closer I knew it was a meteor. “I tried my radio. It was paralyzed by interference. The ball of flame grew nearer, traveling west to east, almost horizontally, and at about the same elevation as my ship. "The light was intense, temporar- ; ily blinding me. although it was forty or fifty miles north, “It looked big as a hangar—although that may be exaggeration, and a tail of debris extended 70 to j 100 miles behind, like you see in a picture of a comet. "The center was* more intensely ; red, fading to lighter colors that burned brilliantly bide around the edges.” While Coyle was watching it, the ! meteor appeared to crash to earth i in a burst of flame that could be ' seen for miles, he said. Coyle estimated the meteor fell forty or fifty miles north of Amarillo.

his own reflection in a window pane. Mrs. Robin Redbreast Friday deserted her quixotic mate. Cock Robin improved in fettle, however, ate a hearty meal and continued to battle his Image in the sixteenth-day round in the strange drama. “You can't blame Mrs. Robin', either, ’ said Mrs. H. E. Songer, who has watched the scene outside her window daily, “but it is too bad." "She was so jaunty when Cock Robin first saw himself in the window. Then she began to try to coax him away. She was sweet and fine about keeping her temper, but it finally broke and she scolded him, and Friday she flew away and left him.'’ Another woman watcher called Ccck Robin a “wretched little beast" because he seemed in a much better frame of mind after his spouse left him. Dr. and Mrs. Songer have tried everything they can think of to stop the fight. Hundreds of letters and telephone calls have been received from persons with suggestions. Covering the window with a blanket only resulted in the robin finding another in which to fight his own image. Half of the world's fine merino wool comes from Australian sheep.

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the beer which will be available after midnight April 6. Its alcoholic content of 3.2 is close enough to the brew of former times, he says. “Most of the beer I handled ranged from 3.75 to 4 per cent alcohol,” Stahr says. “It was claimed sometimes that the alcoholic content was greater, but I always doubted it.” But Stahr declared that one thing will be missing from his bar, if he obtains a license and serves beer again. There will be no free lunch. No Lunch Counter “Can't afford it,” Stahr stated. “The margin of profit on barreled beer was large enough to permit the free lunch, but it can't be done with bottled goods.” Across the street from Stahr’s place one may find Lase Weathers, now manager of the Edwards hotel, but for many years manager of the Claypool bar. Weathers recalls the days when the Bates House, now the Claypool, charged 10 cents for a glass of beer and held the distinction of being the only place in the state where such a price prevailed. The barber shop there, operated by Louis Reibold, charged 15 cents for a shave, while other shops were content with a dime. Kept Hotel Exclusive The de luxe prices were part of a plan to keep the Bates House exclusive, frequented only by the “upper crust.” With numerous saloons in the vicinity where a foaming schooner could be purchased for a “jitney,” the Bates house had no trouble in controlling its crowds, according to Weathers. Weathers recalls an incident which occurred in the Crystal Palace, a popular bar on West Washington street near Illinois street. “There was a politician who persistently wore a high hat of the style known as a ‘plug hat.’ Since it was not usual around Indianapolis, he was distinguished easily in a crowd,” relates Weathers. “One day in the Crystal Palace he ordered a round of drinks for every one present. The bartender noticed only that the top hat wearer was the purchaser. A few minutes later the politician traded hats with a friend and remained at the bar, while the friend departed.

One on the Bartender

“When the time came to settle | the bill, a puzzled expresssion came ! | over the bartender s face. Pounding ! ! the bar, he shouted: “ 'Where the blankety-blar.lt is ; the guy who bought these drinks?’ ■'The politician was not recog- ; nized, as he stood a few feet from ! I the bartender." | Old-timers also like to tell the story of the jokester with a party of j friends who asked if the bartender I knew how to make a "tin-roof cock- ' 1 tail.” Nothing daunted, the barj tender fixed a concoction, which he j placed before the party. After the drinks were gone, all started to leave, but were stopped j by a rquest for payment. “Why, I thought you knew what a j tin roof is." the joker said. "It’s j always on the house."

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COUNTY CHIEFS DEFY COURT ON SALARYRULING Prepare to Appeal Order Directing Money for Juvenile Court. The Marion county council Friday decided to defy a salary mandate from superior court five and in structed Charles Clarke, county attorney, to prepare an appeal from the order directing the council to appropriate $1,980 for pay to two juvenile court bailiffs. Special Judge Howard S. Young issued the mandate Feb. 11 in a suit by Peter Rollis and William White, bailiffs, whose salaries w’ere slashed. Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler today declared court salaries are below the levels of tw’o years ago and that juvenile court work has increased 40 per cent in the last three years. More Officers Needed “'The number of juvenile court officers is inadequate and is less than the law provides,” Geckler asserted. "We are entitled to tw r o more probation officers who have not been appointed. The council is not conversant enough with juvenile work.” Request of John McCloskey, Center township assessor, for $5,178.52 to hire deputy appraisers for a reappraisement of Center township property, as ordered by the state tax board, was approved by the council. Feeling the city should, and probably will, consent to sharing in the SIB,OOO cost of a special election of delegates to the state convention for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the council deferred discussion of this approppriation. Poor Relief Bonds Approved It w’as pointed out the “skip-elec-tion” law relieved the city of neces- ; sity to pay for the regular city elecj tion scheduled this year, and that [ there is approximately $64,000 in the city budget for that purpose Also deferred W'as a $350,000 issue of tax anticipatory bonds, the council feeling that taxes may be paid in time to obviate the need for more funds not indicated. An issue of $186,961.22 in notes for poor relief was approved and a $4,295 supplies request from the children’s guardians home will not be acted upon until funds on hand are spent.

STEAL JEWELS WORTJU7O.OOO Americans Are Victims in London; International Ring Sought. LONDON. March 25.—Scotland I Yard today sought clever international thieves for the theft of jewelry valued at $70,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Emery, New York social registerites. Emery, who is a. brother-in-law of the Russian Grand Duke Dmitri, told Scotland Yard authoriites that the missing jewels included a beautiful rope of eighty-five matched pearls, which he valued at 11.000 pounds sterling (about $37,000). Experts from Scotland Yard hurried to the palatial suite in one of Park Lane’s most luxurious hotels, where Emery reported the robbery ! occurred Thursday night. The operatives said the thief, or thieves, left the room occupied by Mrs. Emery absolutely undisturbed, to all superficial inspections, aside from the removal of the gems. Traces of fingerprints were found on glass table tops, but so far the authorities had failed to match any of them with any in their records. Emery said the rope of pearls was the greatest prize in the reported lost loot. Aside from the eightyfive pearls he described it as having a diamond clasp, itself very valuable. The pearls weighed 957.2 grains, he said, and were believed one of the finest collections in the world.

Meat Stolen From Market

Meat valued at approximately $23 was stolen Friday night from the grocery-meat market of William J. Ponder, 1556 Columbia avenue, he reported today to police.

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North Chinas dardo-teh. or “big swords,” the irregulars who used their traditional weapons in the Chinese defense of Jehol. are shown here as they advanced to action against the Japanese. This photo is among the first of actual combat pictures to reach the United States from the Jehol front.

Five Persons Are Injured in City Traffic Mishaps

Leg Fracture Is Most Serious Injury Suffered by i/ictims. Five persons were injured Friday night in traffic accidents, the mast seriously hurt being Ralph Stormont, 54. of 3''77 North Meridian street, who suffered a fracture of the left leg. Stormont was struck by an automobile driven by David W. Silvey 18, of 3232 North Illinois street, w’hile walking at Thirty-eighth and Illinois streets. Richard Bowers. 52, R. R. 18. Box 365-F, suffered cuts on the head and face when his automobile struck a utility pole on Sixteenth street in Speedway City. Deputy sheriffs, who fojund him wandering nearby, arrested him on a drunkenness charge, j Robert Corcojran, 18, Plainfield, was cut on the 1 head w’hen his automobile, driven by Francis Hauft. 21, of 130 South Harris avenue, collided at Washington and Greeley streets w’ith a car driven by Joseph Thompson, 30. of 1635 North Talbot street. Ha.uft w’as arrested on a charge of failure to have driver's license. Cut on the chin and lacerations of the tongue caused by the impact when his automobile struck a traffic signal W’ere incurred early today by Neville Hartley, 33, of 2934 North Capitol avenue, at Tw’enty-second and Meridian streets. Police found Hartley’s abandoned car and noticed blood spots on the pavement nearby. Hartley w r as found at city hosiptal, where he said he w’as taken by his brother, Gordon, 19. A cut on the nose w’as incurred by Lee Hawhee. 33, of 2230 Kenwood avenue, when his automobile struck a safety zone guard at Sixteenth and Illinois streets. ALE FUNERAL SUNDAY Plaza Garage Explosion Victim Will Be Buried at Noblesville. Funeral services for Harry R. Ale, 31, of 933 Kealing avenue, manager of the Plaza Motor Inn, who died in the city hospital early Friday from burns received in a gas explosion at the garage Wednesday, w’ill be held at 2 Sunday in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial will be in Crown Land cemetery, Noblesville.

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Spare a Dime? Low-Priced Meals to Be Provided for I. U. Students.

By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. March 25.—Meals for a dime will be served in a private dining room of the Indiana university cafeteria starting immediately after the close of the spring vacation, according to Mrs. Alice Nelson, director of the university commons and dormitories. But there's a string to it. Students eating for a dime will serve themselves and wash the dishes. The cost can be reduced still further under a plan whereby the cafeteria will take farm products from their homes by students on a swap basis for meals. An X-ray specialist says that, in the thirty-eight years since X-rays were discovered, radiology has advanced faster than any other branch of medicine.

Home Builders’ Savings & Loan Ass’n ORGANIZED 1891 Will Begin Its Forty-First Series Monday, April 3, 1933 For Information Call During Business Hours at 1000 Lemrke Building, or Monday Evenings at 2130 E. Tenth St. NO PREMIUM NO COMMISSION Payments: Mondays Only, at 1000 Lemrke Building, from 8:30 A. M. to 4 P. M. or at 2130 E. Tenth St., between 7 and 8 P, M.

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TEST MEN FOR JOBS. IS ADVICE Scientific Planning Urged in Roosevelt Program. Th;.s Is the second of *n on scientific rlnnmr.g for choosir.c th* men who wiil bo Riven Job? under President Roosevelt's new unemployment program. l-.il Science Seri ire NEW YORK. March 25—Careful assaying, through tests, of the human raw material availabi° for use in President Roosevelt s mammoth project for relief of the unemployed Is urged by Dr. Hairy D. Kit-son of teachers’ college. Columbia university. Test every applicant, was the re-, ply of this vocational guidance expert and business psychologist to an inquiry by Science Service as to the best technique for rssembling the proposed "army" for unemployment relief. “In selecting men for a nationwide effort such as that proposed, I should employ methods similar to those used by the personnel division of the army during the World war," was Dr. Kitson's suggestion. “Organize a national personnel ! service manned by experts. By this I time we have a large number, welltrained. “Submit every applicant to a j searching examination with respect to physical condition, mentality, education, acquired abilities, social I and economic status, j “This analysis of individuals would j have to be accomplished by an analysis of jobs to be filled and also by facilities for retraining where necessary. 'An excellent pattern for such services is being furnished by the Minneapolis employment stabilizaI tion research institute.” ABANDONED CHURCH MAY BE BEER BAR Promoter Pledges Back Tax Payments in Return for City Permit. PEOTONE. 111., March 25.—Henry Monk plans to turn the First Evangelical church building into a “beer ; emporium" if the Pcotonc city | council will give him a permit to j sell the beverage after it is legalized March 7. The church building has been vacant for several years since the congregation consolidated with another. The c” v bought the building and used it for a time as a schoolhouse. Monk has offered to buy the building and pay up beak assessments, if the council will permit him to sell beer there. HAEHL BURIAL TODAY Woman, Lifelong Resident of City, Taken Wednesday by Death. Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes M. Haehl, 69, lifelong resident of Indianapolis, who died Wednesday in her home, 2225 West Morgan street, i were to be held at 2 this afternoon !in the home. Burial will be in 1 Washington Park cemetery.