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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-12
20 KILLED IN AUTOS
Death Toll in Wayne County So Far
This Year.

BIZ Times SDCciGl
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. r.
Deaths in automobile accidents in
Wayne county since Jan. l reached
twenty-three with the death of
Walter Kingley, 27, Cambridge City,
at hospital here, the third fatal
lty which resulted from an accident
near Jackson's Hill, ten miles east
of Dublin. Three other persons were
injured in the same accident.
incidentally a total of seven lives
have been claimed during 1929 by
automobile accidents at approx
imately the same point near jack
sons Hill on the National Old Trails,
U. S. highway 40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Ice Age and Floods
(Copyright, 1920

TT is long way from the present floods along
- the Mississippi River back to the Great Ice
Age, but happenings Of the latter period have
considerable bearing on the trials and tribula-
tons of the valley jewellers.
Before the great fields of Ice worked their
way down from the north, at least two rivers,
the upper Missouri and the Yellowstone, flowed
northeast and emptied into Hudson Bay. With
the advent Of the sheets of ice, however these
two rivers were forced to run to the south,
and their combined waters cut the gorge now
followed by the Missouri through the Dakotass
At the same time the Red River became q
huge pond called glacial Lake Agassiz, with an
outlet to the Minnesota River Valley. Part OF
the watershed of the Red River became per-
manent source of water for river flowing to
the south and the original head Of the Mis-
souri, River. This river is now known as the
James River With the melting of the great
ice DAM the Red River resumed its normal flow
to the north, but the others continued to the
south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

cite he had made over to her in her Own
name the sum Of five million dollars to do with
as she wished.
Out Of that superbly endowed amount,
Antoinette and her daughter Ellen had cooked
up q plan. It was a plan that, as the years
moved on, was to grow to such proportions that
it monopolized all of their time, leaving little
for social concerns that had to do with the
visiting cards on the hall table.
Mrs. Alexander Fresco, who throughout the
lean and hear-breaking years had known
deprivation, has built out of her hve-million-
dollar fund one Of the greatest philanthropic
organizations in the world. BY this time
Alexander and his son Dick are almost equally
interested in it.
The Frescos, all four of them, are @ busy,
constructive group Of people. Too concerned
with humanity to find time for the sociNA'
problems presented by the engraved cards OF
the elite of the countryside as they gather dust
on the hall tables.
(Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

of so, was kindness and consideration itself.
With all her heart, Antoinette pitied him the
nervous, petty, socially ambitious, eXactng wife.
He was generous and indulgent He scarcely
ever arrived in that house without some little
nick-nack for Ella Everything he did showed
consideration and kindness for Antoinette.
Then there was Dick, the only child of the
household. In the early years, Dick and Ella,
in the enormous democracy of childhood had
played together among the swans or in the
beautiful gardens that surrounded the home.
But Dick had shot up into slim boyhood while
Ella was still in rompers. For the past 10 years.
the most exciting events in that household had
been his all-too-sporadic visits from boarding
school and college.
IVES there were advantages to remaining at
the Frescos'. Antoinette tried to keep this
realization stanchly to the front of her mind
on those occasions when Mrs. Fresco made life
unbearabe when the heavy social routine
of the household with its luncheons, musicales,
teas, dinners, banquetS, balls and house parties
made the burden of the work and responsibility
almost crushing to the slim shoulders of An
toinette.
When Mrs Fresco died one night in a
paroxysm of suffocation, her passing was
source of comment in the social circles of the
large cities of both America and Europe. She
had succeeded in gouging out what she had
most craved for herself-social eminence. AS a
out of a gripping determination, had accom-
plished what she had set out to do.
There were those who might have thought 1t
not worth the candle, but that is neither here
nor there. 1t is true that in the direction of
philanthropc and charitable alienation of hui
man suffering, except where it had to do con-
spcuously with social position, Mrs. Fresco had
accomplished little, except her goal.
But she had died socially secure
What happened subsequently has happened
before and yet it did seem the last word in
irony that it should have occurred to the
Frescos. AS those who had been in the conf
dence of Mrs. FreSco and had known her am
billions said: 1T was enough to make her turn
in her grave!
Antoinette remained on in the household,
conducted 1t for Mr. Fresco after his wife'S
death. And what occurred then, it must be
said, came as much in the form of a thunder
clap to her as it did to Mr.. FreSco and the
entire community.
When Ella was a beautiful II and lovely as
the first jonquil that grew in Spring beside the
swan lake. Dick Fresco came home from college,
a new graduate, eloped with her in an airplane
one afternoon and married her in an adjacent
CITY,
1t fairly took the breath away, not only of
the community, but of Antoinette herself, to
say nothing of the boys dumfounded parent
The young heir to Fresco millions, the young
college graduate, just home and prepared to
enter into his fathers many activities had done
the acknowledgements the daughter Of o
servant girl.
Strange, with what an imperturbabnity the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
The Vain Male.

TT took nearly billion dollars to dress the
males of the Nation during 1927, at least
so far outergarments were concerned. The
census taken that year by the Department of
Commerce shows a total production of outer
clothing of $932,181,718, which was a slight
decrease of Is per cent over the last preceding
census year.
The greater part of the manufacture is cen-
tered in 10 cities-New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cago. Rochester, Baltimore, Cincinnati BoStoR
and Cleveland.
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rudy genial father of this nice frank youngster
took his blow. The two children were received
back into the household. The beautiful little
Ella, startled at what she had done, yet
crammed with her happiness, was accepted by
her father-in-law and life in the big house
moved forward
NOTHING was done to change the status of
Antoinette, who by this time little
gray at the temples of her pretty brown head
and who was now occupying the role of house.
keeper. Importunings of her daughter her SON.
in-law and even Mr.. Fresco to the contrary
Notwithstanding, Antoinette continued to wear
bunch of keys at her belt and to occupy the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

NTH Ella was IA, the loveliest uni
form in all the world was the one
worn by her mother. She seldom, If
ever, saw her out of it, except on
magic Thursday afternoons when
they shopped, had their supper in a little self
service restaurant and went to motion-picture
theater together. On these days, Elias mother
slipped into a plain drab-colored frock and
dark brown coat with piece of coarse fur
around the neck She lost luster.
In the big, beautiful house on the top of the
hill where they had lived ever since Ella could
remember, her mother had worn the bright
gray, highly finished alpaca frock with sheer
patch of organdy apron in front and a crisp
organdy cap on the top Of her pretty brown
hair To Ella, especially when she saw her
mother smartly welding pert feather buster
in and out of the precious little objects that
covered Mrs Fresco's dressing table, there was
something of a pretty and bright-eyed bird
about her mother.
Quick alert, and little saucy
Mrs. Fresco, a large, horid woman whose
hands cleaned with jewels even at breakfast
and whose short, aSthmatic breathing was one
of the dominant noises in the household, came,
as the asthmatic afhction increased its hold of
her, to depend more and more on the bright
person of Elias mother.
Annie" was Elias mothers given name
Mrs. Fresco found it too commonplace, so the
very first month that Annie, handicapped by
her 4-year-old child, had succeeded in gaining
employment In the Fresco house, her mistress
had refused to call her by any other name than
Antoinette.
THE room occupied by Antoinette and her
- daughter was little, slap-sided one up
under the caves of the beautiful old house 1t
was not an unpleasant room, even though it
was furnished with all the cast-off odds-and-
ends Of the household. Its three Gothic
shaped windows arched at the top like eye
brows, looked out upon the beautiful orchards
of the Fresco estate. And sometimes at eve
ming, before Antoinette tucked her young one
into bed little Ella and her mother could look
out from one of these windows upon star shine
swan-dotted natural lake that lay to the left
Of the house.
If Antoinette sometimes found her role in
that household almost unbearable, her little
girl was the last one to know 1t. AS Mrs.
Fresco, her life fraught with the complexities
of her role as social dictator, grew heavier and
more asthmatic her demands upon her maid
sometimes became intoerable. And yet only
too we'll Antoinette realized, and was made to
realize by Mrs. Fresco, her difficult and
anomalous situation. Widowed women with
children did not find it easy to obtain positions.
Antoinette knew that from bitter experience.
The thought of placing her little girl in an
institution was simply outside her reckoning.
And so, throughout the years, Antoinette re-
manned on.
There were, after ALL great advantages in
the situation. Mr.. Fresco. great, hearty man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
BUILDING PERMITS DROP
IN NUMBER IN 80 CITIES
May Construction Estimated to
Cost $1o,314, 3o1, Against &c.
562,11o in April, 1928.

Building permits issued in 80 leading
cities in the fifth Federal Reserve dis
trict in April last were fewer in number
but higher in estimated valuation than
permits issued in April, 1920 The
cities issued LIT permits for new con-
Struction, estimated to cost $40, ID, 3o1,
compared with 1873 permits for new
work with estimated valuation of So
$685. issued in April last year.
Alteration and repair permits totaled
2,079. in April this year, and were val
ued at $2093, 4l9. compared with 2,370
permits valued at 81 ,405 1891 in April a
year ago. Total valuation figures for all
classes of work for which permits were
issued last month amounted to $l2,-
407 ,72o compared with q total valua-
ton of $10,968,001 for all permits is
sued in April, 1923, an increase OF
81 .4397 19, or 1871 per cent, during the
1929 month. 1t is interesting to note,
however, that the increase this year is
due TO gains in a minority OF the cities,
IL cities reporting higher figures and
Is lower figures than in April last year.
Although Frederick, Md; Hagerstown,
Md, and Danville, Va, showed higher
percentage increases than any other
cities, the gain Of 90 per cent in Bal
timore really accounted for the NTH
district increase. Washington reported
an increase in April this year of 15,7
per cent, but both Richmond and Nor
folk reported large decreases.
Contracts awarded in April 1929, for
construction work in the fifth reserve
district totaled $52,139,358 compared
with S66s590,e23 awarded in April, 1928,
according to figures collected by the
F. w. Dodge Corporation. OF the
awards in April this year, $15.4s1 1868
went into residential work. the balance
of more than $36,000,0o0 representing
industrial, commercial or public utility
construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
PROGRESS NOTED
|. ON c. j. BUILDINGS
New MiIIion-DoIIar Plant for
Medicine and Surgery
Ready for Dedication.

Rapid progress is being made by
Charles II. Tompkins Co. in the con-
struction of the new million dollar
plant for the medical and dental de-
partments of Georgetown University on
high elevation overlooking Reservoir
road and Broad Branch Valley.
The buildings will be dedicated at
exercises tomorrow afternoon in con-
nection with the annual commencement
program at Georgetown.
Grading for the project required the
removal of a large hill, heavily wooded
and further grading will be necessary
to construct the series of terraces lead
ing from Reservoir road to the front
entrance of the main building. Brick
work is up to the second floor of the
main building, and it is expected the
two buildings, which will be joined by
central wall. will be ready for occu-
pancy this Fall.
Importance is attached to the project
as it is the first building to be erected
on the south side of Reservoir road
between Thirty-flfth street and Foxhall
Village.
The style Of the buildings will be
colonial, done in brick, with limestone
trimmings. Each will be four stories
high. 282 feet in length by 40 feet in
width. The cross-wing will measure
102 feet in length. Six quarter
limestone columns will guard the main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
TAYLOR WILL DISCUSS
TREND In HOME DESIGNS
Commerce Department Official to
Speak at Convention in
Boston This Month.

What type of architecture is the
American home builder to choose?
Muse he cleave to the Colonial house
as the only type of residential archi-
lecture indigenous to his soil, or shall
he make Spanish, Swiss, Dutch and
other foreign adaptations, as long as
the style of architecture is in agree
ment with the climate in which the
type originated?
And what of the ultramodern home
design which with its austere SIM
plicity and efficiency is proclaimed, a
thing of inspired beauty by many and
a freak by others?
These are a few of the problems on
which the home builder and Subdivider
must needs be a prophet, if his sub
division project is to have lasting de-
STABILITY. James S. Taylor, acting
chief of the division Of building and
housing, United States Department of
Commerce, will address the home build
ers' and subdividers' division in session
at the National Association of Real
Estate Boards convention at Boston,
June IS to %, on the new trends in
home design.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08

@ street and lexington place northeast,
under lease to the F'rigidaire Sales Cor
poration, in addition to a cash con-
SiCleration.
The sale was handled through the
Office of r. owen Edmonston, jr., Ss.Iss
the trust department of the District
National Bank. The property at Nine
tenth and D streets has been trans,
ferred by Mabel j. Schneider and
Thomas E. Ogran. executors and
trustees under the will of Charles F.
Schneider. and Mabel j. Schneider and
William M Stockton. to Harry M Bra
love and Robert o. Scholz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
BALTIMORE'S DEBT
TOTALS S112,381,336
Net Figure Excludes Water obi
gation-$4,6so,0o Bonds to Be
Offered for Sale June II.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June S.-The net debt
of Baltimore exclusive of the water
debit now amounts to $l1238l 1868
according TO a statement Of A. M. Den
hard, city register. 1t is 512 per cent
of the total assessable basis Of the city
which amounts to $2,O41 .2S3,S28
Mr.. Bernhard showed the total funded
debt of the city Qess the water debt OF
$29. GAS, 000) to be $142, 941 042.69.
The face value of the sinking funds
for the retirement of the funded debt
was placed at 3o,55o, 1851, exclusive of
the water sinking funds, amounting to
$312l ,846.54.
The commissioners of finance will
offer for sale June IT $4630,000 of 4
per cent coupon bonds, increasing the
funded debt of the city to that extent
and its relation to the taxable basis to
STA per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
CORNER is BOUGHT
BY LOCAL BUILDERS
Harry M. Bralove and Robert o
Scholz Acquire Property at
Nineteenth and D.

Harry NJ. Bralove and Robert o.
Scholz, local builders, have purchased
from the estate of Charles F. Schneider
the property at the northeast corner of
Nineteenth and D streets, containing
about $4,000 square feet.
The new owners gave in exchange the
four-story apartment house at 1349
Kenyon street, which contains 40 apart
ment units, and warehouse property at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08

moneys coming into his possession
which belong to others; or
"thl Being unworthy or incompe-
tent to act as real estate broker or
salesman in such manner as to safe
guard the interests of the public; or
"d) Paying commission or valu-
able consideration to any person for
acts or services performed In violation
of this act; or
"(D Any other conduct, whether of
the same or a different character from
that hereinbefore specified, which con-
stitutes improper, fraudulent or dis
honest dealing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08

entrance. extending to the fourth floor.
The buildings will cover considerable
area and a commanding view from all
approaches.
The present project Is the first step
taken in the establishment of an en-
larged medical center for the univer-
sity on this picturesque site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08

F Street Property Transferred.
Title to property at sic F. street has
been transferred by Morris and Rose
Fichtelberg to Samuel and Gussie Rose,
according to recent recording.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
FORMER QUEEN is MOTHER

BOMBAY, India. June 8 (P.--For-
mer Queen Souriya of Afghanistan,
wife of Amanullah, gave birth to a
daughter at the hospital here last night.
Amanullah recently departed from
Afghanistan in the face of successful
rebellion by Bacho Sakao, water boy
of the North" who now occupies the
throne under the title "Habbiballullah
Khan"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
BALTIMORE PERMITS OFF.
Total of $2,637, $50 for Last Month
Reported.
Special Dispe tch to The Star.

Special Dispet ch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. June 8.-Building per-
nits issued last month represented a
total of $2,637, $50, according to figures
Just made public by the buildings en-
gineer. This compares with $3,401 GAO
for the corresponding month last year
and with $4,222 200 for the preceding
month of this year.
So far this year the building total is
s15,l16,64O, as compared with $17,533,-
200 for the corresponding five months
of 1923.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
Flyer Dies When Chute Fails.

COON RAPIDS, Iowa, June o.
w. G. Slingerland, IS, Mount Clemens,
Mich, was killed yesterday because his
parachute failed to open when he leap
ed from a stalled airplane. Slingerland
was plotting one of six Army planes to
an airport dedication at Sioux City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
French Soldier-Painter Dies.

PARIS, June 8 (P).-Henri Alexandra
Jervex, commander Of the Legion OF
Honor, who had painted portrait OF
Cardinal Gibbons among other promi-
nent subjects, died yesterday at the age
of n years. His works are in several
French museums.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08
G Street Interest Transferred.

Undivided half interest in lot at
1874 G. street has been transferred by
Cragin w. and Margaret L. Donaldson
to Felix Lake, according to transfer
of title recorded recently.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-22
By T. R. GILL GA. P. Feature Writer)

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 22-Some- where in q secret zhaEboF along the shore of Tampa Bay, a modern counterpart of the swashbuckling pirate king, Gasparilla, who scourg- ed the seas in other days, is rig ging up his Spanish galleon for his annual foray to capture this city with merriment and laughter and pillage the hearts of it's maidens.
 For 20 years, the swaggering rover and his mystic crew have sailed up the picturesque Hills. borough river figuratively to sack the city. His entry formally opens a program of entertainment that lasts week and signalzes the opening of Tampa's annual mid winter carnival, patterned after the Mardi Gras at New Orleans.
 Back in the early days of the eighteenth century, the rowing Gas parilla, seeking gold and Jewels, sacked the coastal cities of this peninsular state with regularity and carried off the most beautiful
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-22

women to hold them captive on his island retreat in the gulf
 As the years rolled by, vivid stories describing the pirate cap tain as a ddshing Don Juan of nu merous loves, so fired the imagl- nation of a group of prominent SO cial leaders here that they formed an exclusive organization of "Ye Mystic. Krewe" in 1904 and named their first carnival after Gasparil- ia. The name has stuck and the carnival which has been held each year with the exception of four, has grown to such magnitude that it now ranks as one of the ont standing attractions in Florida's social affairs.
 This years program has been en- larged to include the Pirates Ball' January 28 and the Honor Seekers Ball" January 31, but the high spot in the festival is the night of February 5, when the coronation ball is scheduled at the municipal auditorium. It is then that the reigning king and queen, L. G. de la Vergne and Miss Ema- la Parkhill, abdicate and the newly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-22
PURITAN LAWS AND DRY LAWS
 ARE COMP AIRED
Senator Blaine, of Wiscon- sin, Talks for Nearly
 Three Hours

W A SHIN GTON, Jan. 29.-- Tales of stringent laws of Puritan Days in New England and racy stories of dry voting Legislators who were drunk when they voted for Prhoibition bills, filled the Senate records yesterday as Sen ator Blaine, of Wisconsin, talked l early three hours while advo- oates of the naval cruiser bill waited impatiently.
 Senator Blaine's attack came during the discussion of the Har- ris proposal to boost dry enforce ment funds by $25, ,00O,00 He attacked the dry laws as inyad- ing persons rigAt of liberty. declaring that mo one liked his liquor so much, tobacco so much, or hated his neighbor, who be- longed to different church, so much, as the Puritan"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-22
CONVICT AND
 DEPUTY SHOT
 D0WN,BATTLE
Duel Takes Place in Eleva- tor Tn Los Angeles
 Investigation

LOS ANGELES. Cal. Jan. 22. With John Hawkins, convict dead, and Deputy Sheriff Jones in critical condition the ogand Jury Is prepareG to make an ina vestigation into a gun battle in the steel jail elevator which Hawkins converted into a death trap yesterday when he attempt ed to shot his way to freedom.
 The Grand Jury will be asked by the Board of County Super visors to determine where flaw kins got his gun with which he attempted to murder his guards, also inquire into apparent negli- gence of the jail officials, in permitting a convict to smuggle an automatic into the elevator where he was being returned to jail after appearance in court.
 Gun Is Drawn
 Hawkins and Zeke Hayes, con- victs, were brought back to Los Angeles fer trial on charges of eight felony counts of robbery, assault and kidnapping. The two convicts were handcuffed togeth- CT and guarded by Deputy Sher- ifs Jones and Higgins. The con victs were being returned to their cells when Hawkins suddenly jerked a gun from his clothes and demanded Down with the elevator"
 Higgings grabbed Hawkins's s gun. Hayes tried to grab Hig- gins's gun.
 Shots Ring Out
 Hawkins was shot five times and Jones was shot through the neck and stomach.
 Hayes received chest wound. Higgins escaped with minor in- juries.
 When the gun battle was end ed, Hawkins lay dead and Hayes was kneeling beside him plead ing for his life.
 The others in the elevator were not injured.