Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1934 — Page 2

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CEREMONIES TO MARK START OF SLUM PROJECT Blasting of First Building to Feature Celebration Here Tuesday. The opening 'gun" in the arNial demolition of houses in the Indianapolis slum clearance project will be fired next Tuesday when Col. Horatio B Hackett, housing division director of the Public Works Administration. yill touch off an explosive charge wrecking the first house in the area The ceremony announced yesterday by Joe Rand Beckett, secretary of the local advisory committee, will be a gala occasion which it is hoped will attract thousands of Indianapolis residents. Strict Railway Company busses will be furnished to convey the crowds, free of charge from downtown to the site of the project. A lun-heon at the Travertine room of the Lincoln will inaugurate the ceremony, Colonel Hackett announced. He and Gov. Paul V. McNutt will be the principal speaker. Mayor Reginald H Sullivan, Louis J. Bonnstein. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president. and Edward D. Pierre. Construction League of Indianapolis president, will speak briefly. High Officials to Attend Mayor-elect John W. Kern. Senator Ferederick Van Nuys, Senatorelect Sherman Minton. Rep. Louis Ludlow and William H Larrabee, Fred Hoke, National Emergency Council state director, and R. Earl Peters. Federal Housing Administration state director, have been invited to sit at. the speaker's table. The luncheon will be followed by a parade in busses through the area to be demolished. “We want every one to see that Indianapolis really has a slum district," Mr. Beckett explained. House To Be Dynamited Dynamiting of the house, yet to be selected, is scheduled for 2:45. Col. Hackett v 11 meet with members of the advisory committee later in the afternoon, and the same group will ssemble for dinner at. 6. Construction work on the district will start about the first of May, Mr. Hackett said. The 22 acres are bounded on the north by Indi-aana-av, the east by Blakc-st. the south by North-st and the west by Locke-st. The project will cost approximately $3,000,000 and is designed for 750 Negro families. It is expected that construction will* be completed during the first months of 1936. Less than 22 per cent of the finished project will be covered by buildings. JThe remaining area will be devoted iO landscaped parks and

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WILL ROGERS LEADS FILM STARS IN POPULARITY

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playgrounds. A business section will face Indiana-av. I Half of the residents of the area already have move's to other quarters and the rest will leave shortly. Rentals in the new homes will approximate the charges made for the old structures during 1930, Mr. Hackett said. He added that the amount of building in the project will be greater than all building work in Indianapolis during 1933. LAFAYETTE G. 0. P. LEADER KILLS SELF Ross D. Myer Was Surveyor in Tippecanoe County. Hu United Pi t pm LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Dec. 13.—Ross D. Myer. 47, prominent Republican and former county surveyor in Carroll and Tippecanoe Counties, killed himself late yesterday with a shotgun while seated in his automobile about a mile from his home. The body was found by two brothers-in-law, Amel ano Homer 'Spring. Delphi.

1000 TO ATTEND MASONIC EVENT Banquet Tonight to Close Rite Convocation Here. A banquet tonight which more than 1000 Scottish Rite Masons are expected to attend, will conclude the order's 69th semi-annual convocation. During the day a class of 100 will receive the 32d degree and thus will be hailed as sublime princes of the royal secret. This ceremony will be presented by a large cast directed by Lee S. Busch, command-er-in-chief of the Indiana Consistory. Other degrees to be conferred today will be the 29th and 30th

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under O. A. Tislow and the 31st under James H. Lowry. Candidates adopted the name of the A1 V. Reschar class at a meeting yesterday in honor of Mr. Reschar, former postmaster at Apderson and master of ceremonies in the consistory. He is an honorary member of the 33d degree supreme council and is state membership chairman. Carl A. Ploch, Indianapolis,, was elected class president and MayorElect John W. Kern, orator. Paul E. Fisher, thrice potent master, will preside at the banquet tonight. Prominent Scottish Rite Masons from Milwaukee, Wis., Ft. Wayne and South Bend will attend. CITY LAWYER HONORED Preston Woolf Admitted to Practice Before Supreme Court. Admission to practice before United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and before the United States Supreme Court has been granted Preston G. Woolf, 4530 Guilford-av, Indianapolis attorney, it was announced today.

50,000 ACRES OF STATE LAND TO BE RETIRED Submarginal Property in Three Counties to Become Game Refuge. Approximately 50.000 acres of submarginal Indiana farm land in three counties will be developed for recreational, reforestation and game propagation purposes by the State and Federal Governments. Submarginal farm land is of little value for agricultural pursuits, cultivation not/ being worth the time and effort required. The Government will pay approximately $lO an acre for the land, permitting the owners to find more productive tracts. Approximately 1000 persons are living in the Martin County area to be taken over and almost as many in the Brown County area, according to Virgil M. Simmons, State conservation director. Although complete plans have not

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Fracture* Ankle in Fall While crossing Cdllege-av at 10thst today. Mrs. Clotilda McDaniels slipped upon ice in the middle of

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the street and fractured her left ankle U. the ensuing fall. Mrs McDaniels. who is 34 lives at 1136 Col-lege-av.