Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1939 — Page 19

FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939

VALUE OF PRE-TRIAL 'Busy Business

CONFERENCE LAUDED

The value of pre-trial conferences in clearing dockets was described by two local judges at the Indianapolis Bar Association luncheon yesterday atl the Columbia Club. Federal Court Judge Robert C. Baltzell and Judge Russell J. Ryan of Superior Court Room 3 poke. Judge Baltzell said that of 13 of 24 cases assigned to trial during the November, 1938, term were disposed of without trial by the use of pretrial conferences. Facts are stipulated, he said, at the conferences and presentation of evidence speeded.

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Despite the present expansion of ncreasingly so with each new store been in some years,” one official because a competing establishment

Indianapolis, cficials of W. A. Bren- In the downtown area. Second, is said,

nan, Inc, believe that the downtown business district may be restricted

to its present size. The realty company reports there! is an increasing demand for storerooms and other retail locations but that there “just isn’t any room in the downtown business district.” The fact that Indianapolis was laid out with everything directed to one center is cited as a reason for the small business area. { Two major factors are contributing to the stabilized business area, real estate men believe. First is the parking problem, which already is acute and becomes!

a trend toward decentralization.

Many of the larger downtown stores are branching out and opening sub stores in neighborhood communities such as Broad Ripple, Irvington and West Indianapolis. In these communities the new groceries, theaters and other establishments are including in their holdings large parking lots to attract customers from the congested business district downtown. | Judging by the demand for retail locations and storerooms, the realty company believes a business is gradually improving. “There is more manufacturing going on locally today than there has

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has already redecorated and is atThe “face-lifting” of stores, espe- tracting new customers. cially noticeable on N. Meridian St.| However, thére dgesn’t seem to be between the Circle and Fall Creek, any trend in the type of buildings is just a matter of keeping up with being constructed or proposed for

. the future. For several years glass the Joneses and catering to a fickle and glass bricks were in vogue, but

public which has been educated to pext year may bring something else, expect the best and the most mod- the firm predicted. ern, the realtors believe. | The one. characteristic of buildToday people will deal at the store ings which contain show windows is which has the most modern appear-|the arcade. Several downtown stores ance and the most recent gadgets,'have utilized this construction. But the company asserted.” An invest- for a prediction on what the future ment of $40,000 or $50,00 to put up building of a busiriess nature will

la new front or remodel an interior look like, the realtors admit quite

is not only a good investment in candidly that they don’t know and many cases but is often necessary|they don’t think anyone else does.

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NEAR NEW AUGUSTA

Two Federal prisoners who es-| caped Nov. 5 from the Atlanta, Ga., | penitentiary, were captured yester-| day by State Patrolman Fred | Cogshall, single-handed, east of New | Augusta. The fugitives were John Gibson, ! 22, Coeburn, Va., and Robert Walker, 20, Elwood, Ind. They had been | sentenced for resisting Federal officers and stealing Federal property. | Patrolman Cogshall, on routine patrol duty, notice a car containing | the two men and a woman. The car | was stalled, and he spotted it for| one reported stolen in Louisvifle.

Second Watch

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (U.P.) .—- The Doodlebug treasure-hunting expedition which is digging a pit in the Hollywood Bowl auto lot was encouraged today by the unearthing of a second rusty, battered dollar watch. This indicated, said Henry Jones and Ray Johnson, that they are not deep enough and that the $200,000 treasure of Benito Juarez is still some feet below. They are down 17 feet.

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| | FT WORTH, Tex. Dec. 1 (U. P). {—Elliott Roosevelt interrupted his (celebration of Thanksgiving last ‘night to make a radio talk blaming Adolf Hitler -or the Russian in|vasion of Finland. | “Stalin and his mob would not {have dared to attack Finland while the world was still at peace,” Mr. | Roosevelt said in his coast-to-coast {commentary broadcast from the [Texas State network. “It was he | (Hitler) who opened the gates to communism in Europe and invited {the Reds to help themselves.”

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