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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12

II looks very much as If propo-
4 nents Of public ownership of
utilities are going to get some place
in this special legislative session.
Although large number of
lame ducks are present, there
also is sufficiently large group Of
legislators who will make the race
in November to insure enactments
which will give greater freedom to
municipalities in purchase and OPP
Grafton Of utilities.
In the past, sessions came after
the election, and two years before
the next, so that the assemblymen
operated on the theory that the vo-
| ters had forgotten their attitude on
utility legislation by poll time.
But the contrary is true this year.
The special session is working a
real hardship on the vote duckers,
utility minded members and strad-
dlers, because it truly can be said
that they are ION the spot"
Fully cognizant of this situation,
the Indiana Municipal Rights
League has prepared for speedy in
/ PRODUCTION a number Of bills which
will enable a city to purchase
utility and redeem the bonds out of
earnings and also remove these pub
/ lie properties from control and juris
diction of the public service COM
mission, whose records reveal that
it consistently has been on the side
of the corporations and against the
citizens.
Besides that, the pendulum is
swinging away from private owner
ship. Among other benefits, if such
they can be called, occasioned by
the economic depression, is an
awakening of the citizens to ruth
less gouging by privately owned cor
porations.
Although utility men are attempt
ing to point to the insult debacle
as the example of how the utilities
are losing money, their alluSion is
incorrect.
insult failed not because his earn
ings were not enough, but because
of the pyramiding of stock and
bond issues which grew so large and
top-heavy that the edifice toppled
of it's own weight.
If his businesses had not been
conducted for speculative purposes,
a different story would be told, they
tell me.
Incidentally, reports Of the Public
Ownership League of America dis
close that sixty-eight cities and
towns which own their utilities are
not levying local tax, according to
Carl D. Thompson of Chicago, league
secretary.
This may be the solution to finan-
cial and tax problems of Indiana
municipalities.
Roll calls on the bills enabling the
people to own and operate their
necessary utilities will be of impor-
lance to every citizen in the state.
Watch them and remember how
your representatives and senators
voted.
This will show the worth of the
promises they will make in the cam
paign.
Past performances, not promises,
are the real gauge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

Broadway knows, for this, it
seemed was his single shot.
n n
THEN there was Eyes We Have
Il No Bananas" which was at
tributed to Frank Silver and Irv-
ing Cohn, but which Lew Brown
says he had great hand in
writing.
There also was that kid from
Baltimore, Eddie Claypoole, who
came to town with his "Raggin'
the Scale" For several years he
was a bright boy on the Alley,
But he did not repeat, and not
to repeat, is to lose your chair
among the writer's on whom the
sun shines.
That's what happened, too, to
Felix Bernard and Frank Black
mot the Revelers' Frank Black
who failed to follow their great
Oriental tune, "Dardanella," with
another that the land liked ex-
ceedingly.
There is, you see, no greater
gamble than that involved in
scribbling down the singing in
your head. The possible success is
as uncertain as your reception on
the first appearance before the
girl friend in a bathing suit.
Take for instance, Missouri
Waltz" Well, of course, you don't
have to take it if you'd rather
leave it to read about it if you
follow this series.
Next: ROmances of fortune in
Tin Pan Alley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
Father in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, Aug. 10-Alfred
Holman, father Of the indicted
Libby Holman Reynolds, returned to
his home today feeling that 1 must
learn to take it on the chin"
He went to Winston Salem, N. c.,
Immediately after his daughter was
indicted, charging the criminal
charge was a "frameup" Today he
seemed more reconciled.
When Holman alighted from the
train, to be met by his wife and
another daughter, cameraman
snapped photograph.
Mrs. Holman screamed. Holman
nudged the photographed away with
his shoulder.
He said he expected Mrs. Reyn-
olds' trial in october.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

Sounds sort of familiar to me-"
I replied.
We'll" he conceded, there may
be little Puccini in it. The au-
thor always did have a leaning
toward the classics"
While we were talking, there
was maze of activity around
us. Show folk and radio Groom
ers dropped in to get copies of
songs that might be suitable to
their particular geniuses.
A gent with a cigaret hanging
out of the corner of his mouth
and through the smoke seeming
to be even bluer on the face and
chin, was hammering out a tune
mechanically while a girl of the
vaudevilles behind him was nod
ding the platinum top of her body
in not such perfect tempo.
Even the clock was twenty
three minutes fast And a thin,
dark youth, whose eyes we're phos-
phorescent seas behind his horn
trimmed glasses, hurried up to
us with an angry rhythm in his
stride.
IND you hear what that thief
~ across the street did to me?"
he snapped, obviously more than
i'll at ease. HE stole the chorus
of my song; that's what he did!
And I'm going to sue him."
But" piped up the piano
wrecker who had hurried over to
lend his bit to fan the composers
wrath, you lifted the entire
chorus from Wagner"
Il know, I know" the young
genius retorted, but I discovered
Wagner. He didn't"
1t is, you see, a mad, incongru-
Gus, effervescent part of the town,
this section of Tin Pan Alley.
like it as I like to witness a George
kaufman play because there is al
ways laugh in it.
Il should love to take Alice from
her Wonderland and lead her
among the strange men who
speak of kiss, a baby, a love
nest, a bluebird, with greater
practical exuberance than she
Sobbed for her missing tabby cat.
Alice" 1 would say, those
three fellows around that piano
are writing love song"
But she would reply, what
big cigars they have in their
mouths
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
LIBBY HOLMAN
IN MARYLAND
WAITING TRIAL
Rests at Closely Guarded
Estate of Friend Near
Baltimore.
RnTnited Press

By United Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.-At the
closely guarded estate of Leonard
Richards Jr., Libby Holman rested
today in preparation for her trial on
charge of killing her young husband
Smith Reynolds.
The Broadway torch singer re-
turned to the Richards estate Tues
day night, police said. A special
guard was placed around the
grounds to assure complete privacy
for her.
She is an expectant mother-the
child, according to information
reaching police authorities, is ex-
pected in February.
Although the worry and grief of
her husbands death and the subse-
quent investigation and indictment
of herself and Alb Walker have
Slapped her strength; she has man
aged to engage in several tennis
matches and fishing excursions.
She was at the Richards estate
prior to her appearance in North
Carolina for arrangement on the
charge of killing her husband.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

4 ND yet this mad, incongru-
L \ GUS, efervescent atmosphere
is not all there is to that Tin
Pan Alley.
Underneath there is a gross
pessimism, because radio so
greatly has disrupted its business,
as I shall show you later, and in
the heart of Tin Pan Alley there
beats another fear-a certain SOL
emn dread of the tomorrow which,
experience rather than instruction
has taught the least inspired
-plugger, inevitably must
come.
For tomorrow brings with it a
demand for new songs, new ideas,
and new songs and new ideas
never are practicable. Prosperity
in the tune writing craft is based
solely on the human equation.
A composer simply must produce
a song that thousands want to
whistle, else a raven will take
the robins place on the pub
Hsher's sill. There can be no com
promise with human limitations,
for brain is expected, as a mat
ter of course, to produce a popu-
lar tune if it is to have any
standing on the Alley,
We we're talking about that COL
lege kid who had come to town
several years ago with a tune
under his arm, confidence in his
stride, and asked Lew Brown to
help him score the melody. This
tune became Last Night on the
Back Porch"
OF course you remember it-one
of the great hits of the day. The
kid has disappeared. so far as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

MOTION PICTURES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
GIANT U. S. LINER ON
FIRST ATLANTIC TRIP
1900 Passengers Are on Manhattan;
Fried in Command.

81 United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. IA new
era in American shipping began on
Wednesday night. with the sailing
of the sl0,0O000O United States
liner Manhattan for Hamburg,
Germany.
The Manhattan not only Is the
largest transatlantic liner ever built
in the United States, but the first
one constructed in an American
shipyard for the North Atlantic
trade in thirty-five years.
Capt. George r. Fried. famed for
his ocean rescues. was in command,
and many notables were aboard.
Capacity passenger list of 1900
was carried. The ship has rec
ord speed on trial trips of nearly
"a knots an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

Standing on corner ihgurativeIyl OF
Tin Pan Alley fhgurativslyJ has been
Jack Foster. Times Writer and New
York world-Telegram radio oomments-
tor and stan writer. He has not been
waiting for street car. He has been
drinking in the melodies. listening to
the stories and watching the dramas Of
the metaphorical street. This is the
hrst OF six articles he has since written.
Copyright. 1892 BY the New York World
telegram corporationl
BY JACK FOSTER
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
AID TO EMPLOYEES COSTS
R0SENWALDS MILLIONS
Brokerage Account Guaranteed
After Stock Crash of 1929.
BIZ UNited Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE cost of
one of the many philanthropies that
marked the life of the late Julius
Rosenwald became known only
Wednesday.
With the terrific crash of the
stock market in 1929, the benefac-
tor, and head of the great Sears,
Roebuck 81 Co, mail order house,
announced he had guaranteed the
brokerage accounts of his employees.
Wednesday claims against his eS-
tate of S7,825.0OO by the Chase Ma
tional bank were approved by Less
ing j. Rosenwald, executor of Ro-
senwald's estate. This represented
the amount borrowed to cover the
employees accounts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
PROBE STATE MURDER
Seek Motive for Staying of Man at
New Albany.

DW LWtTtW 7 ~"
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Aug, IL
The motive for the Staying here
last night of Elmer F. Bossler, IS,
in which Mrs. Jennie Bruder, So,
was killed by a stray bullet, re-
manned unknown to police today.
Kenneth Courtney, questioned at
length, denied that he fired the
shots. Three bullets struck BoSsler
and one hit Mrs. Bruder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
STORM SWEEPS TOWN
Lightning Causes Four Fires at
Washington Within an Hour.

BY United Press
WASHINGTON. Ind. Aug. IL
An Electrical storm Of unusual vio-
lence occurred here on Wednesday
night, during which several resi-
uences and other buildings were
struck by lightning, and a rainfall
Of more than two inches was re-
corded.
Lightning caused four fires with
IN an hour Numrous smaller blazes
were extniguished by the fire de-
partment
Evening star., 1932-02-27
28 TESTIFY TO NEED
OF HOME LOAN BANKS
Realty and Loan League Witnesses
Tell Senators System Is
Permanent Necessity.

Twenty-eight witnesses called by the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards and the United States Building
and Loan League to testify at the Sen
ate hearing on the proposed home loan
bank system stated that the measure is
a permanent necessity.
Hearings on the measure have been
concluded and the report of the sub
committee of the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee is being awaited.
The bill provides for the creation OF
IL banks the sole business of which
would be the discounting so per cent
to so per cent of the face of sound hrst
mortgages held by building and loan
associations and other financing inStl-
tutions.
w. c. Miller testified there is no
overbuilding in residences in this city
| and that mortgage loans are difficult TO
obtain.
Millions OF people will be encouraged
to buy homes as result OF the long
term financing provision in the home
loan bank bill, according to Edward A.
MacDougall, New York City, large scale
home builder and town planner.
Mr.. MacDougall, who stated he had
built $50,000.000 worth Of housing in
the New York City area, declared pres
ent short-term mortgages, which he
defined as running from three to five
years, were "a detriment to home
ownership" He asserted the proposed
bill, by providing a premium on all
long-term mortgages discounted, would
correct this situation.
Mr.. McDougall asserted that financing
for all types Of American housing ulti-
mately would have to have a system
similar to that proposed by the home
loan bank bill. He stated that in time
the system should be so set up as to
cover the needs of apartment financing.
THE establishment of the home loan
bank system by making sound first
mortgage money readily negotiable
would divert vast sums of money into
this field" he said.
Evening star., 1932-02-27

trict, Wesley Heights and Spring VAL
ley, in addition to other operations.
The first two dwellings they erected,
at 749 and Isl Kenyon street, were de-
signed by Kendall & Smith and were
built under the supervision of A NJ
Fetzer. foreman carpenter, who still Is
in the employ of the firm.
In 1920 they bought two blocks Of
land in Woooley Park and built there
a group Of dwellings representing a de-
parturc from the standard row house of
that day
Evening star., 1932-02-27
PLANS FOR HOMES FILED
Two-Story Brick Dwelling to Rise
on Brandywine Street.

Loren M. and Joseph A. Herbert, jr.
as owners and builders, plan the con-
struction Of two-story brick dwelling
at 1927 Brandywine street. Designed
by George T. Santmyers, the building
has an estimated building cost of $4,000
The same builders have filed plans
with the District government providing
for the erection of a two-Story brick
dwelling at 4815 Forty y-seventh street at
an estimated construction cost of $4,000
Evening star., 1932-02-27
by the Bureau of Labor statistisA D,

by the Bureau Of Labor Statistic De-
partment of Labor.
Index figures of the bureau illustrate
price levels of 784 commodities, weighted
according to the importance of each
article and are based on the average
prices of 1926 as 100. All commodities,
taken as a whole. showed an increase
in the index number from 66.2 to 66.3
for the period of the week indicated.
The index number for the wholesale
cost of building materials showed a de-
cline from 1873 to 1872, while the de-
cline in cost of fuel and lighting was
from SO to 678 The index for house
furnishing goods remained steady at
1871
Evening star., 1932-02-27
DEVELOPERS CELEBRATE
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
W. C. and A. N. Miller Started
Construction Operations in
Capital Early in 1919.

W. c. & A. N. Miller. Washington
realtors and developers, are celebrating
the twentieth anniversary Of the start
Of their operations in the home-build-
ing field here.
Starting from the construction of two
dwellings IN February, 1912, William c.
and Allison N. Miller expanded their
operations and in more recent years
have developed two Of the large, de-
tached home communities of the Dis
Evening star., 1932-02-27
$6,450 Dwelling Planned.

o. T. and w, A. Carr, as owners and
builders, plan the erection of a dwell
ing of one and half stories, Of brick
and tile construction at 1880 Forty
seventh street. at an estimated building
cost of S6450.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
Home Will Cost $40, 900.

Tolson, Kemp g. Nix, builders, and
Ira P. Madden, owner, have filed speci-
f1cations for the construction of two
story brick and tile dwelling, to be
erected at 2615 Bunkerhill road north
east, with the District government The
construction cost estimate is $4,000.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
r. I'll e. N s

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The Company operates its own lumber
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absolutely knot-free-can be supplied, if
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BY cutting the lumber to size at the
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is eliminated.
Further savings are assured through
the employment of a veritable army of
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SEARS 3-POINT SERVICE
Enough houses have been built through
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The advantages of building through
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Every house is built to conform to the
U. S. Bureau of Standards and all build
ing codes. And each house is backed by
$2OO,000,000 guarantee.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
Kalorama Road Home Leased.

The residence at 2446 Kalorama road,
the property of William Payne Meredith
has been leased for a period to Mrs.
Thomas E. Curtin Of Santa Fe and
Pasadena, it was announced today by
the Office Of Miss Laura Harlan, which
handled the transaction.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
WHOLESALE MATERIAL
PRICES DOWN SLIGHTLY
Labor Department Reports Show
Fuel and Lighting Cost
Also Dropped for Week.

Wholesale prices Of building materials
and fuel and lighting showed slight de-
clines for the week ending February 20
as compared with the week ending Feb
ruary r3, according to reports compiled
Evening star., 1932-02-27

builder were to take a block, and
build upon it a residential unit, the
city can, or will, after its building,
change the local area to residential
usage, or to any other usage that will
prevent the building of undesirable
structures In proximity to the unit"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28

SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
Under and by virtue of the power and au.
thority conferred in that mortgage deed OF
trust executed March 7th, 1880, by Pattie L
Miller and husband, George H.. Miller to J.
Allan Dunn. Trustee. to secure the payment
of a certain note payable to John E. Hoff'
man and described in said mortgage deed Of
payment of the said note, as in said note and
mortgage deed provided, the said mortgagee
will sell for cash to the highest bidder Al
the court house door in Salisbury, Rowan
County. North Carolina, on
AUGUST 18TH, 1892,
AT IL 100 O'CLOCK NOON
the following described real estate. to-wit:
Adjoining the lands of Geo. H. Miller,
]. D. Shoe. and others, BEGINNING at 4
stake, Geo. H. Miller's corner on ]. D.
Shoes line, thence with said ]. D. Shoes
Agnes Catherine Fishers corner in Shoes
line: thence with her line, N. "a deg. As
min. E. Gil chs. to an iron stake, Fish
er's corner in S. B. Rinehardt's line;
thence with Rinehardt's line N. 4 deg.
E., 3.72 chs. to 4 stake, Geo. H. Miller's
corner in said line: thence with Millsr's
line, N. 79 deg. W., s.79 chs. to the be-
ginning, containing s acres more or less,
being a part of J. Allen Miller's home
place. For back title see deed from J. AL
bert Heilig and wife to James A. q. AL
at page 436, in the office of the register
of deeds for Rowan County.
The mortgage deed herein mentioned is
recorded in Book of Mortgages lis, at
page 1873, in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Rowan County.
This 7th day of July, 1892.
]. ALLAN DUNN.
Jly S-29 Trustee.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
AGRICULTURE A
IN NORTH CAROLINA

past three years.
1t is also encouraging to note that
wen though the number Of crop.
acres in the piedmont area comprise.
approximately one-third the crof
acreage of the state that the piedmont
area in 1881 only purchased u pei
cent of the total amount of fertilizer
purchased in the state. The amour,
purchased was @9,6o7 tons.
1t is a pleasure and distinctly en-
couraging to study the statistics Of
crops and livestock in the piedmont
area as the trend is definitely toward
the production 2f more grains, feeds,
pastures and hays, which will ulti-
mately lead to a great expansion in the
numbers of livestock kept on all the
farms.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
JINnER

Pursuant to the power contained in a deed
of trust. dated the 18th day of August, 1925,
and recorded in Book Of Mortgages No. "a,
at page No. All. in the Office of Register
Of Deeds for Rowan County, executed by
E.. G. Thompson and Gertrude w. Thompson
his wife. to David B. Harris and Tristram 7
Hyde, Jr., Trustees. default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness thereb,
secured, the undersigned will sell at public
auction at the Court House Door in Sails
bury to the highest bidder for cash on
SATURDAY,, THE S0TH DAY OF JULY,
1882. AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, NOON,
the following described real estate:-
The following described tract or parcel
of land in the West Ward of the City of
Salisbury. County of Rowan and State
of North Carolina, bounded Is follows. to-
wit:
BEGINNING at a stake at the North
asst corner of the intersection of Main
and Horah Streets; thence with Horah
Street North AZ deg. West 140 feet, to a
stake P. H. ~Thompson's corner thence
North 45 deg. East 100 feet with P. H.
Thompson's line. and parallel with Main
Street to a stake in Mauney's line( now
Holiness thence South 45 deg. East with
Mauney's line (now Holmes) lao feet to
a stake in the line of Main Street thence
South AZ deg. West with the line of Main
Street 100 feet to the beginning corner.
This the 30th day of June, 1882.
DAVID B. HARRIS, Trustee
CLYDE E. GOOCH, Attorney. Jlys-2s