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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24
LAUDS PROPERTY BRIEFS
Guy W. Ellis Says Lists Aid in
Realty Sales.

Property briefs, in which all the
information concerning a piece of real
estate Is neatly typed and put together
are making more sales at full listed
prices for realtors throughout the
country, according to Guy w. Ellis
director of sales conferences for the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards
Mr.. Ellis has been studying the use
OF this sales aid in his trips to cities
throughout the country, and reports
that thousands Of realtors are using the
briefs.
The briefs are bound in neat COW
ers, contain photographs Of the proper
ties. full descriptions. and most i'm
portant, according to Mr.. Ellis, also lis,
any disadvantages
Industrial property men were the
f1rst to use property briefs, and did SC
because they dealt with engineers who
demanded facts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24

cording to the Importance of each ar
ticle and based on the average prices
for 1926 as 100.
For the building material group as a
whole, the index number for wholesale
prices for last month was 74.9, as COM
pared with 75.4 in August and with
1914 in September, 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24
SILVER STAR HOME
!. INTEREST is HIGH
Visitors Continue to Come as
Dwelling Enters Third
Week of Exhibition.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
have visited the house, located
in the colonial village of Rock
Greek Park Estates.
The house is open from II am.
to 9 pm. and may be reached by
driving out Sixteenth street to
Kalmia road, then west to East
Beach drive, south one block to
Plymouth street and west short
distance to the house.
Four Fireplaces.
One of the most charming at
tributes of the house is the home
like atmosphere given by it's fire
places. There are four of them.
One is in the living room, another
in the dining room and one each
in the two front bed rooms on the
second floor.
Another feature of the Silver Star
Home, which was erected by Edison w.
Briggs Co. rom plans by John M.
Donn is the placing of the dwelling on
a gently sloping site in the thickly
wooded 35-acre tract which is being
developed into a community of homes
designed as modern likenesses of the
character of early American dwellings.
Tall trees in the lawns surrounding
the dwelling form a background for
the stone and the white color Of the
painted brickwork of the house.
Center Hall Type.
The house is of the center hall type.
In keeping with the arrangement Of
the original Valley Forge dwelling. In
the wing to the left Of the hall is
found the living room. This is Of COM
modious size and has three exposures.
To the rear is a garden terrace, under
roof
The dining room is to the right Of
the hall, with a kitchen, buffers pan
try and kitchen porch to the rear
On the second floor are three bed
rooms and two baths. The masters
suite is over the living room, in the
brick wing. The other two bed rooms
have cross ventilation from their two
exposures. All rooms are light and
airy.
In keeping with modern require
ments, the house is adequately pro-
Vlded with cupboard space
two-car garage stands to the left
and the rear of the house, reached by
neat driveway from the front of
the property. The upper story of the
garage building, reached by old-fash-
Toned wooden stairs, provides living
quarters for servant.
All of the millwork of the Valley
Forge Silver Star dwelling is of special
make, from measured drawings copied
after the original, colonial residence.
The roof of the main section of the
building is of costly type Stimulating
the appearance of weathered wooden
shingles, such as are employed in the
restoration work in progress at VIII
liamsburg. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24
MATERIAL PRICES
CONTINUE TO DROP
Costs of Lumber, Brick and Paints
Fall, but Cement and Steel
Keep Same Level.

Lumber. brick. paints and other
building materials continued their
downward movement in September, &C
cording to index numbers on wholesale
prices computed by the Bureau of La
bcr Statistics, Department of Labor.
No change was shown for cement and
structural steel. The building material
group as a whole showed a decrease Of
less than l per cent.
For all materials considered in the
study, as we'll as building materials, the
index numbers declined from 70.2 in
August to 691 in September When
compared with September. 1880, with
an index number of 842 a decrease of
Is per cent is revealed.
The index numbers are for $50 COM
mcdities or price series weighted &C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24
DISCLOSE 12-SUlTE
APARTMENT SALE
Seventeenth Street Building Buy
Made as Investment by
P. R. E. Hatton.

The apartment house at 1926 Seven
tenth street has been purchased from
M. E. Gallagher by Phillip r. E. Hatton
and associates for an undisclosed con-
sheraton. it was reported by the office
II N. E. Ryon Co., Inc, which acted
IN the negotiations in association with
Che Office of Thomas D. Walsh.
The apartment building contains ~
apartment suites. The property, it is
announced, will be held as an invest
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24

among the first to come out Of economic
depressions.
Nelson Thomasson, Chicago, aged go:
Real estate values have marched
on through the years: the demand for it
goes on and the price cannot be kept
down when there Is a demand.
I'm 1867 was finding Army life bit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24

sale, there were the depressions of 1907,
1914 and 1921"
Angus s. Hubbard, former vice presi-
dent of the Chicago Telephone CO.
(now Illinois Bell Telephone Coz:
II consider available and necessary
real estate the most staple of invest
ments. I have always found it has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-24

lots at the corner Of Ashland and
Forty-Seventh street. A friend Of mine
came to me and said he would sell these
lots to me for $500 and bought them.
In three years I sold them for 81 300.
That same property Is worth $2,5oo.000
today"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25
FORD IS ACQUIRING VAST
 ACREAGE IN MICHIGAN

Quirk Farms of Ypsuanti. Mich. which acquired ownership of about 4,0O0 acres in Macon township in % deeds filed recently, is a cor poration in which Henry Ford of Dearborn is the principal stock holder. Mir. Ford acquired the principal interest in the Quirk Farms in August, the company at hat time owning about 5000 aeres along the Huron river. be- tween Ypsilanti and Belleville, in addition to 1000 acres south and east of Tecumsee. The effect of the transfer is to consolidate all the Ford farm lands in that part of the state. about 14,000 acres. into the ownership Of a corporation.
 It is reported that Henry Ford is buying lands in Mackinaw county in Clarke township, where it Is believed that large deposits of limestone exist. The property men toned includes a resort property and harbor on Bush Bay, along Lake Michigan. The limestone would be of value to the Ford company in a blast furnace which Is to be constructed at Gladstone.
 Ford's mo garden, no Job" edict,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25


 these, also, to be opened one each day during the mothers stay in the hos pital. Why not send the small child a holiday package" containing enough little gifts for the child to look for ward to on each day of the ensuing vacation period? These need not be expensive articles. If possible they should provide the child with some thing pleasant to do on the day that they are opened, something not too diff icult for his abilities. Children love to open packages. There are myriad possibilities among the crayons, paints, small and large blocks, pattern or de- sign-making toys, tools, sewing mate rials, tiny dollhouse furnishings. and, of course, among the children's books. A pair of warm gloves or a bright handkerchief. might be tucked In among the other things, according to the child's age and the amount one wishes to spend.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

recently issued to family men em-
 ployed in his automobile plants at
 Iron Mountain and Gladstone. is
 meeting with opposition from out side sources. Farmers and truck men throughout the upper penin- sula of Michigan are raising storm of protest. asserting enforce ment of the order would i'm them. The Baraga Grange. leading in the complaint, passed a resolution against the plan and that copies would be sent to every subordinate Grange in Michigan, as well as to the state Grange. The resolution urged that means be taken to have Ford's order rescinded or modified.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

Old Gent-Here, what do you mean by selling me a paper and yelling United States vessel gone down with all on board?" There's been no mishapi
 Newsboy-0f course not-it was submarine.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

scribbler: eGive to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you"
 Scratcher: "Yes. that's the way it's been with every poem I've written so far"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

an idea might De borrowed from the popular sunshine paekag ge" tlh't is often sent to con- valescents or new mothers. For an inv valid, such a packa ge consists of a number of small, interesting gifts to be opened one at a time, daily, for an equal number of days. For the mother of a new baby, It should contain ten or a dozen small
 articles to add to thn hahrIs laratta-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25
neseeseeeeees.eesssssseeeee~eesNN
Holiday Goods
James K. McGuinness in Life

 LETS drape the cotton snow abous Our imitation Christmas tree. With flowing cup and cheery shout We'll laud synthetic chemistry. Our presents tied with ribbons gay. From paper fashioned, let US ope. Thus truly shall we keep the day Of what will be good will-we hops. The yule log leaps with lancelike flame, So bright it hardly seems like gas, That Santa Claus is What's- lis Name In whiskers. Oh, well, let it pass. The evergreens were dipped in dye. Our holly in no Vood did grow. Bur one real thing attracts the eye-- Al least, there's honest mistletoe.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

 wildered by the array of gifts he re- ceives at Christmas that he scarcely knows where to begin when It comes to opening them.
 A child specialist of the bureau Of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture believes that far fewer toys and games. and those of a very simple kind, should be given children at any time, but espe- cially at Christmas A selection should be made among the things which will enable the child to prolong his enjoy ment by using them constantly-things he can do something with, not simply loked at or watch another person wind up and set going.
 To avoid some of the bad effects of too many gifts at Christmas time,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25

NE of the disadvantages under which the modern
 child labors is that there are too many kinds of play things and possessions show cred upon him at Christmas or on his birthday, or at other present-giving times. Iittle child is often so be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
hint YOUTH IS
GANG MURDERER
Maryland Man Is Taken to
Newport, Ind.

Suspected by Vermilion county
authorities as the slayer of an I'M
identified man near Clinton Mon
day night, Albert Kitzmiller, %, of
Oakdale, Md, was returned to
Newport, Ind, today to face a
charge of vehicle taking and ques-
tioning.
Sheriff Harry Newlan Of New
port, presented warrants for Kitz-
miller, charging him with theft of
an auto wrecked early Tuesday at
Newport.
Newlan told local authorities the
wrecked car is the one used when
two men hurled the bullet riddled
body of man from an auto Mon
day night.
The killing, according to western
Indiana authorities, probably re-
suited from rum gang war.
Newland said the car and its tire
marks had been identified by the
farmer on whose property the
murdered man was thrown.
Kitzniller, also believed wanted
in Maryland cities for robbery, was
arrested in a freight car at the local
Baltimore & Ohio railroad yards by
police squads Tuesday. -Four other
men arrested with him were not
connected with the theft or the
Staying, police said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
DISCUSS SUCCESSOR
Butler 'Prexy' Seat to Be
Filled by June> Is.

Selection of a successor to DR..
Robert J. Alley as president of But
Ter university, probably will be made
about June Is by the board Of di-
rectors of the institution.
Alleys resignation, submitted after
ten years as head of the school, was
accepted Tuesday afternoon by the
directors. He will retire July 1,
becoming president emeritus of the
university.
A committee to select Alleys sue
cessor was named by the board.
Members of the group are: Hilton
U. Brown, president of the board;
VIII G. Irwin, Columbus, Ind;
Emsley w. Johnson, local attorney;
Arthur v. Brown, Ind annapolis
banker, and Clarence L. Goodwin,
of GreenSburg, Pa.
DR.. Alley has been engaged in edu-
cational work flfty-two years and
said he wants the opportunity to
write, travel and play"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SAILORS SAVE
BLAZING ship
Fight Fire Four Days to
Reach Safety of Dock.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 13.-
Grimy sailors who since early Sun
day have been fighting a blaze at
sea in the hold Of the 9,000-ton
freighter Ell Captain OF New York
were aided today by f1reboats and
city firenen as the steamer locked.
The fire broke out as the freight
err moved down the Florida coast
Sunday. Captain S. L. Damn started
the pumps. A steady stream of
water was poured into the blazing
cargo. Smoke still belched from
below decks at the Florida Keys.
Damn believed the fire under con-
troll and set the course for New
Orleans.
The blaze f1ared up again in the
Gulf of Mexico. The weary crew
of twenty-five again worked long
shifts. A call for aid was sent IS
the steamer reached the lower
Mississippi. Fireboats went down
the river last night. They escorted
the craft here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
POLITICS GETS WHITE
HOUSE BACK SEAT

HoOver's Political Secretary is
Moved to Rear Quarters.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 13.-An in
dication that politics may be more
remote at the White House de-
veloped today when it was learned
a back Office is being constructed
for President Herbert Hoover's po-
litical secretary, Walter Newton.
Newtonls Office always has been
nearest the entrance to the execu-
tive offices.
The new Office is being built by the
department Of public buildings and
grounds far out of reach of casual
White House visitors.
1t will adjoin the secluded Office
of Lawrence Richey, the presidents
confidential secretary. A caller will
have to go out the back door to
the White House to enter it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

Brooks requested that Nen re-
main at his side, and hold his
hand when death came.
Neff left his side only a few
minutes this morning for break
fast.
DR.. Brooks chatted with his for
mer roommate about the days
when their household furniture
consisted of a 50-cent bucket, a
10-cent washpan, a crude wash
stand that also served as a study
table, and a dipper.
All social activities Of the uni
versity were Cancelled. Several had
been scheduled in connection with
the graduation next week of 468
seniors, whose diplomas DR.. Brooks
tried to sign even after told that
he was dying.
He succeeded in signing more
than 300 of them before his
strength failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
JOE COOK, COMEDIAN,
DIVORCED AT NEWARK

Decree Granted Broadway Star on
April Is, 1t Is Reported.
By United Press
NEW YORK, May 13.-Joe Cook,
considered by many to be Broad
ways most versatile comedian, was
divorced from his wife Beatrice on
April IS in Newark, N. j., it was
reported today.
Cook, who came to Broadway
from Evansville, Ind, now is in Chi
cago as star of the musical show
Fine and Dandy"
Mrs. Cook is with her mother in
Detroit. She has their two chill
dren with her.
Mrs. Cook did not contest the &C
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
LOSING
LAST BRAVE FIGHT


XKTACO 13Ie declared physicians today to
w matter
vy president losing fight for his
students.
Unconscious Of final tributes piled about him. Brooks weakening
rapidly today
in a growing
matter only the bulletin condition
a. m.
Throughout the night Pat M Ne Governor of Texas and
his college Baylor sat at the death
bed.
during the night Brooks turned "reminiscences
college
thirty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
-Four Horsen1en' Line Up Again
for Wedding of Don Miller

ELEET backs from Army,
L stalwart, red line from Ne
braska, the big, white huskies of
Stanford-none could stop them.
Their cleatS thrummed rhythmic
devastation over green fields
fecked with white lines, from
West Points plains to Rose Bowl
in Pasadena. The Four Horse
men of Notre Dame.
But one little sniper, wiser. per-
haps, maybe more ambitious than
other tacklers, lay wide off the
end as the ambling quartet swept
out from school to ride off tackle
into life.
The play was to the left. and
behind the interfering heels of
Stuhldreher, Layden and Crowley,
dived Danny Cupid at Don Mil
ler'S feet ankles.
NOW the Horsemen are lined
IN up again, to clear the way for
Miller. Saturday, in the church
at st. Mary Of The Woods COL
lege, near Terre Haute, Miller will
be married. The bride is Miss
Mae Lynch of Terre Haute.
Miller chose his three former
running mates, with whom he
made up the classic back field at
Notre Dame in 1924, as ushers at
the wedding. His brother, Jerry,
will be best man, and three older
brothers, Ray, Walter and Harry,
also will be uShers.
y n
TINE flashy half back of 1924
l. now is an attorney in Cleve-
land. Harry Stuhldreher, quarter
back on the famous team, is coach
at Villanova, near Philadelphia.
Sleepy Jim" Crowley is director
of athletics at Michigan State
college, East Lansing, Mich, and
Elmer Layden, full back, is di-
rector of athletics at Duquesne
university in Pittsburgh.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand,
bishop of the indianapolis diocese
of the Catholic church, will Off
ciate at the wedding mass, and
all attendants will be graduates Of
st. Marys and Notre Dame.
Virtually all of the eleven men
who made up the team the quar-
tet made famous will be there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

ThiXton answered that challenge
by holding up the garments before
the jury and pointing out spots.
Thixton declared the stains. were
caused by blood although time had
almost obliterated them.
Confirm Arrest Details
Murren Clements, Miss braves
brother-in-law, testified that Kirk
land came to his home at dawn last
Nov l, carrying Arlene's hat and
coat, announced that "Arlene's
dead-she FELL" and waited until
police came to arrest him.
Detective Opie Gross confirmed the
details Of Kirkland's arrest, while
Miss Carolyn braves, Arlene's
school teacher sister, resumed the
stand to go through the formality
of Identifying the dead girls cloth
ing.
Altogether, it was a parading of
stories already detailed in Kirk
lands first trial, when the youth
was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment, only to win a retrial
in which the state has reduced the
possible verdicts to two-the death
penalty or freedom.
Lie Detector to Be Dared
Attorney Oscar ThieI announced
Kirkland again would testify and
would submit to a "lie detector"
test upon the stand.
This instrument, perfected by po-
lice experts of Northwestern univer-
sity, is intended to record minute
blood pressure changes when the
subject tells an untruth.
The lawyer said Kirkland had
been subjected to the test and his
reactions proved him innocent"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
ROTARY IN SESSION
100 indianapolis Men at
Michigan City Event.

More than one hundred members
of the indianapolis Rotary Club to-
day were in Michigan City attend
ing the district conference of the
clubs and to seek to bring the con-
ference sessions to Indianapolis in
1882.
Obie ]. Smith, local president, was
to speak this afternoon. The con-
ference will close Thursday night.
AT the meeting of tie organi1a-
ton at the Claypool Tuesday, Ralph
c. Miller, general superintendent of
the western region Of the south
western division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, urged elimination Of waste
full and uneconomic competition
among transportation agencies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
KIRKLAND TO DARE
LIE DETECTOR' IN
DEATH TRIAL TEST
Agrees to Use of Device When He Goes on
Stand in Second Gin Murder Hearing.
By United Press


VALPARAISO Ind May 1svig Kirkland 2Oyear-old athlete
almost collapsed when he viewed the body Arlene Braves girl
heart he accused Of numbering Lieutenant Paul Txton Gary police
testified today at Khkands
Kirkland beside mother
Lieutenant TXton youth
drinking party discovered
testified after Kkands the visit
the that the youth admitted having intimate with Arlene
during the party
1t the except
attempted attack testimony blood
stained by injuries she suffered during party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SEEKS TO HONOR MICK
Cincinnati Veterans Hospital May
Be Named for Longworth.

CINCINNATI, May ia move
ment has been launched by Glenn
A. Beckman Post No. $40, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, to name the new
veterans hospital here in memory
of the late Nicholas Longworth,
Speaker of the house of representa-
tiveS.
Mr.. Longworth's efforts to aid
veterans won him the friendship Of
and esteem of thousands of ex-
service men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
WARS ON KID REDS
Gotham Alderman Would Expe

Gotham Alderman Would Expel
Baby Communists From School.
By United Press
NEW YORK, May 13.-Immedi-
ate dismissal of all public school
students who participate in Eny
Communist demonstration and a
compulsory oath Of allegiance to
the United States are advocated in
a resolution by Alderman James F.
Herman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

hoax on the other guests and
Butler was in on the secret.
I'VE fooled the boys" chuckled
McCarriar, "and it was worth it
to watch their faces every time
they heard the general working
up 20 a good. resounding damn
They'd shift around, in their
chairs and look at eacn other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
INDICT 112 IN GIANT
RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY

Accused of Sabotage Plot Costing
Millions of Rubles.
BIZ United Press
MOSCOW, May 13.-One hundred
and twelve persons were indicted to-
day, and forty-siX ring leaders were
arrested, on charges of being inpli-
Gated in an extensive CONSULTATIVE
organization, headed by a former
nobleman, now timekeeper, named
Ivanon.
They we're charged with sabotage
costing millions of rubles through
misdirecting railroad consignments,
especially Of machinery and motor
parts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
ELECT BUTLER COUNCIL
Five Seniors, Four Juniors and

Five Seniors, Four Juniors and
Three SOphS on Student Board.
Five seniors, four juniors and
three sophomores were elected by
Butler university students Tuesday
to comprise the student council for
the next school year.
Juniors elected to serve as senior
members were Wales E. Smith Of
Martinsville, Jane Hadley of Dan
vile and Malcolm Snoddy, Virginia
Holt and Tom Butz of Indianapolis.
Ann Arnold of Peru and Marjorie
Lyle, Theresa Bagnoh and John
Lookabill of indianapolis viii serve
as junior members. Lee Boiling of
Ladoga and Ensley johnson and
Katherine Fitchie of indianapolis
will represent the sophomore class.