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Among the horses to be exhibited at the annual show are Night Flower, Fiery Crags, The Sportsman, Etta Kett, Society Barrymore, King of the Plains, Shalimar, Parade of Elegance, and Allen Adair.
Band Is Selected
Announcement also was made foday that the official Indiana State Fair band this year is to be “composed of 150 picked musicians from the Indiana University band nd high school bands throughout the state Dr. Frank Simon, director of the Armco band, Cincinnati, and Dean B. W. Merrill, Indiana University School of Music director, are to be guest conductors. Winners in the statewide music contest conducted recently by the Indiana University Extension Division and leading members of bands which participated in the Hoosier Music Festival have been invited to take part in the-fair’s music program. A Hoosier Music Festival Camp is to be erected for the musicians on the fairground.
TAXI DRIVER FINED
FOR RECKLESSNESS]
Harry Norman Bright, 21, of 607 Lord-st, who left town because “I was certain I didn’t have a chance to escape punishment on a traffic violation because the arresting offiver was Chief Morrissey,” today had the dubious satisfaction of having his convictions upheld. Judge Charles J. Karrabell fined the young taxi driver $5 and costs on charges of reckless driving and driving through a funeral procession, when he appeared in Municipal Court yesterday.
GREEK-AMERICAN GROUP TO PICNIC
Thermopylae Chapter 134, GreekAmerican Progressive Association, is to Mold its third annual picnic Sunday afternoon at Steve’s farm, 49thst and Kessler-blvd. Nine American-born Greek girls are to present an ancient Greek dance, George Karas, chapter pres-
ident, is to have chaige. of if the BEO- | toms.
gram.
BURGLARY SUSPECT HELD
Charles Moritz, 20, of Seymour, released by St. Louis ‘authorities last week after local police said he was not wanted in connection with the murder of Bert Callahan; wealthy real estate operator, was arrested here last night as a suspect in several local safe robberies,
POCKET PICKED OF $60 Carl Turner, 3907 English-av, reported to police today that pickpockets robbed him of $60 in a downtown store.
as a background, this picture (above) shows some of the group houses in Lockefield Gardens, Federal slum Slearance project to be dedicated tod
SLUM PROJECT | DEDICATION SET
Kern, Rep. Richardson and U.S. Official to Speak at Ceremony Today.
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the “L” of the buildings and be forced through the apartments, and winter winds, coming from the opposite direction, will be cleaved by the prow of the “L.” At 3 o'clock on summer afternoons, when the sun is hottest, it will ‘be over the buildings, the architests said, and the rooms will be in complete shadow. Sleeping rooms, in general, have been arranged on sides with least sunlight, and living rooms in positions where they would receive the most. There will be 748 livihg quarters, 66 2-3 per cent of which are living room, bedroom, kitchen and bath size; 30 per cent are four rooms, with two bedrooms, and. 6 per cent are odd sizes, running up to five
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Fa tracts of Indianapolis in Negro districts, that the average Negro family 1s composed of 319 persons. It was further found that of the 3000: Negro women in the city available and eligible for domestic service, 1900 are so engaged. They were figured as an absentee class, needing no living quarters, because they are quartered generally ‘where they work. The living rooms are designed to accommodate no less than iwo ‘changes of furniture position—one for summer and one for winter,
Every room was set up with fur-
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY ions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
Na tional Association of Cost. Account5 ge meeting, Hotel Washing-
Hotel Waahi fon. noon. s luncheon, 0! a ngto! Kiwanis Clu Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
n. . Purdue Alumni Association, ‘luncheon, Hotel Severin. oon, Property Management Division, "luncheon, Hotel Washingto
White River Conference, United Brethin oh Sourch h, regional conference, Univers ts Church, all day.
rates TOM OW Sigmu Nu, luncheon, Hotel | he Rainbow Division Veterans, dinner, Hotel Ad g Club of Indianapolis, lunchColumbia Club, noon. oars Society, luncheon, Board of luncheon,
Hotel Washington,
eacla, gerd “sa Indiana aM tor luncheon, H otel A Junior Order chanics and SARL } Am vention, Hotel Lincoln, all day
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DEATHS pShazies x Lents, 85, at City, pulmonary 8%. at 2426 N. Dearborn, Loving, 60, at 533 N. Jefferson®, Cox, 100; at oi uremia, : Thomas Kane, 80, + lilinols, oetenral hemorrhage. Bellefontain ston Copbenl, 5 at 1682 i a iT iemeyer, 9, at Riley, ‘endocar-
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niture: gud. to all intents and purposes, d in, before a shovel was stuck into the land on which it was built. Dishes were put in cupboards, and pans in cabinets to see how they worked. No house in this place, that will be living quarters for a population two-fifths the size of Greenfield, Ind., is more than 300 feet from a street; 500 feet is the maximum for fire protection, : It is so designed that it can not be made an exhibition place; dwellers there will have privacy. There are 22 acres of land; in the buildings there are to be 10,000 doors; 26,000 cubic feet of Bedford stone; 800,000: concrete block backup units; and. 3,500,000 bricks, which would fill a train of 125 cars. ts covered 156 sheets
if with | pawings, produced three and
one-half acres of blue prints, and
employed 52 persons to turn out the
job. There were 400 pages in specifications sent to contractors.
30-Year Liquidation
The project is being built on a straight confract basis. It is calculated to liquidate in 30 years. Representatives of the Indianapolis Negro population chose red for living room colors. This upset the government’s color experts and they asked why, Because, they were told, families who. probably will rent the apartments usually prefer carpeting to rugs and red is predominant in ecarpeét color schemes. Moreover, chintzes they can afford and will buy contain much red. And finally, Negroes as a race do not like oak furniture, never buy it, and aren't happy with it. They like mahogany. ‘The ‘project is the first and largest hotising project in Indiana, and: one: of the largest in the
country. The 22 acres are bounded |
by Indiana-av, Blake, North and Locke-sts, The project contains eight twostory group houses, 15 three and four-story apartment buildings and one affice and commercial building. ‘Tenants are to come from low-in-come groups, whose earnings can not exceed five: times the rental paid. They will be selected by need, character and priority of application. Voluntary applications already have spoken for 35 per cent of the dwellings, Federal officials said; and the project is not to be completed before Feb. 1. Rent includes. steam heat, lights and refrigeration. #ederal officials said said rents will be in
Car Wietked in Bus Crash; « i, Women Receive Injuries
Auto Skids Into Heavier 1
Vehicle; Others Hurt in Mishaps. |
Thee: persons were injured last night when the automobile in which
they were riding:skidded into a bus’
at Central-av and 55th-st and was demolished. The injured were Miss Lortaine Myers, 24, 2152 N. Delaware, the driver; Miss Gerna Myers, 30, her sister, and Mrs. Nora Cawdell, 69, 661 E. 48th-st. They were taken
line with those of similar projects in other cities. At peak there will be about 500 workmen employed daily, but there are 85 to 100 subcontractors who pyramid = the employment considerably. General contractor is N. P. Sev-
erin Co., Chicago. The contract was
let July 8, 1935, and work started July 17. William Earl Russ and Merritt Harrison were architects. Carl Ferguson is district manager of Federal housing. W. J. Weesner is project manager; N. H. Hill, project engineer, and J. F. Quinn, project accountant. The advisory committee for the local housing project is composed of William H. Trimble, chairman; Joe Rand Beckett, secretary; Louis. J. Borinstein, Charles W. Chase, F. E. DeFrantz, John E. Frederick, Mrs. John W. Kem, mother; Charles Lutz, Felix Mec-
Whirter, Reginald H. Sullivan and’
Samuel B. Walker.
By United Press WASHINGTON, © Aug.
"15, “1205. W. Herbert-st, c taxi-auto crash in the 400
Mayor Kern's
26.~The |} Public. Works Administration today | called for bids for construction of a |}
15 St. Vincent's Hospital for rot. ment. :
Mrs. Leona Myers, 55, mother of
the two girls; Eugenia Magidson, 32,
435 E. 9th-st, and Lois Brown, 29,
12152 N. Delaware-st, other passen-
gers in the car, escaped injury Other§ injured in accidents last night included Connie McPhegtson, a ock on ‘N. Delaware-st; James Bray, 32, 3702 N.° Olney-st, trackless trolley operator, who received head injuries when his car skidded and struck the curb and traffic signal at 16th and Montcalm-sts, and Norman Westlake, 13, New Palestine, a passenger. Jack Wright, 23, of 1114 Blaineav, was cut and bruised when his taxi was struck by an electric freight train at 21st-st and Collegeav; Thomas Reeves, 30, of 2341 Shelton-st, was cut by glass in tryck-auto crash in the 2300 block on Shelton-st; Ernest Hall, 25, 400 W. Raymond-st, was bruised in bi-cycle-auto accident; William Strawder, 59, White River and Raymondst, received head and neck injuries when a car in which he was a passenger was struck by a hit-run auto, and Florence White, 41, 139 W. 15th-st, was bruised when struck by auto at Capitol-av and 15th-st.
| budget, the surveyor still expects
County Welfare aly oe Official action on the new budget and tax rate is not to be taken until the council meets in formal: session
| Sept. 8, it was said.
If the road levy is taken from the receive approximately $140,000 in
| gasoline tax money from the state,
it was said. The levy would raise approximately. $60,000, it was esti-
meted. Bloemker - explained that ‘he requested the road. levy as an emergency measure. He pointed out that when he took office less than two years ago, he inherited highway de:pariment « debts totaling more than
Hard Surfaces Needed
Department records show Mr,
Bloemker has been able to pay these debts and te the department on a cash + “We need the levy to build hard, surface, dustless roads, for whieh there is a great popular demand,” he said. “Many miles of county
gravel roads carry heavier traffic]
than concrete roads in the state highway system, and both the traveling public and the suburban residents should be reliev He pointed out that department equipment has not been replaced in six years, and without the support of WPA, the county: highway system would have suffered great damage through lack of repairs during the last two years, - a——————————————
_ CITY TO BE HONORED Monday is to be Indianapolis Day at the Great Lakes Exposition at Cleveland, and Mayor Kern has ft Epon sone vs ents o y to a ——_—
$1,000,000 low-rent and slum-clear- |:
ing housing project in Evansville, | #
Ind. Bids will be opened here Sept.
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‘| HONOLULU, T. H, Aug. 26— d The Harbor Board ue
occasion today to comment on “the ‘use of grea) wealth for private ends”
The heiress an to build the pool in connection with her $500,000 beach estate. It would have been located on the white sands of the beach between Diamond Head and Koko Head. The Harbor Board said the permit would deprive the public of free access to the beaches, and therefore would be class legislation.
LIQUOR ASSOCIATION SECRETARY NAMED
Lenhardt E. Bauer, Bauer, Vigo County state represenfative, has been appointed executive secretary of the Indiana Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. Er Headquarters are to be opened in
Hotel Severin, Mr. Bauer said. Ed-|
ward Joseph, Evansville, association president, said a meeting of all wholesale liquor dealers in the state is to be held here Saturday.
GRAND JURY TO MEET Subpenas for members of a Fed-
‘eral grand jury scheduled to meet
Sept. 8 have been issued and are to
be served by the United States Mar-| shal’s office later this week, B.|
Howard Caughran, assistant. United States District Atfomey.
A announced today. COUPLE FLEES GAS
Gas escaping from a pipe under Henry-st, near Coffey-st, this morn-
of Honolulu took |
School. The remainder of the increased revenue, $221,41250, is chiefly for partial elimination
announcing approval of the b said “it is absolutely necessary, our high standards of education are to be maintained, that we begin once to carry out the recommendas tions of the building committee. “With 4600 high school students in excess of adequate building facile ities, it is imperative that we approe priaie funds for buildings to relieve ous crowding.” Mr. wilde said in the emergenc the commissioners believed could” not fail to meet the mos pressing of the school housing needs without ' evading their responsibilis ties.
TROTSKY PERMITTED TO STAY IN NORWAY]
By United Press OSLO, Aug. 26—The Norwegian government decidéd today that Trotsky, accused by the Soviet gov: ernment of planning the assassinae tion of Josef Stalin, may remain in Norway to Dec. 18, ‘When his period of asylum expires, despite a ruling of the immigration office that he has already violated thes conditions of
‘home, At .Was anno
lof threats against him by. Come munists in Moscow. ;
MOSCOW, Aug. ug. 26.~Soviet ‘secrelf police struck lose to Karl gale,
ing forced Mr. and Mrs. G. P. May, arrested
501 Coffey-st, to flee . from their
home, they reported to police: An | emergency crew repaired the in the pipe.
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