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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23

as a hotel and saloon. The hotel
and bar was furnished so hand
somely and the DRINKS so bois-
ferrous and such good aim with
bottles that the Windsor hotel and
bar were sold as bad investment.
One Of the memorable raids of
those days of the Levee was the
hammering down of the Iron
Door" with a railroad rail by po-
lice.
The Iron Door" was q bit of
Monte Carlo on Illinois street,
near the present site of Kinks
store.
Numerous attempts had been
made to break into the games
conducted by Alexander Mortland,
the owner, but his Capone shield
that might have served for a
speak" or racket" headquarters
in modern days always vanquished
the cops.
THE steel rail was comman-
deered from railroad shops
and the door caved in. Gamblers,
some of them, escaped by taking
the sky route over roofs of adj
joining buildings.
The livery stable of William
Hinesly and the Clipper" saloon
occupied the present site of Kinks.
Upper floors shufled to the
two-steps and rags of the day,
as "can-can" dancers shook their
hips in the Theater Comique.
The building got religion when
ii was purchased for the use of
the Y. M. G. A.
The Kingston bar, present site
of the Apollo theater, was one
of the towns principal cocktail
counters Later it became Siege
meier's, with huge blackboard
where one could chalk a bet on
anything from horses to hot
weather.
Back doors of the Levee bars
were popular on Sunday if one
had a "cheater" for a bartender.
Joe Stairs and Pop June's
were other night-owls of the
Levee that breathed the free and
easy days of free lunches with a
schooner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
By ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

Tiffany setting in dime-store
Sparkler mountebank and
gentleman where the can
can" and its sister, the "kooch"
dance, wiggled where poker
faced men play rhum and rum
faced men played poker where
blind beggars wheedle coin and use
it to bet on the ponies . where
mornings are drugstore pick-me-
ups and nights some of the same
in copperS and ladies -.
Illinois street! Street of
chumps and jackhustlers, chilly
fat Chinese laundrymen, store
clerks and secondhand valises,
strip dances and denim sales,
movies and myriad lights, travel
ers, trans and tattooerS {.
Jewelers. and the Old Levee -.
Gay, human, always rouged in
lights and red lemonade. with the
bangles of flash bankrolls, corner
preachers, for earrings and a slip
of store fronts to cover all.
1t never could be otherwise than
play boy.
once it tried to ritz its sister
streets in 1888. when the Cover
nor's mansion was erected on the
present site of the Traction Ter
minal building in lieu Of the
dilapidated mansion built on the
Circle that never was lived in.
DUT the Prince Albert debut in
ID society failed. The mansion
took on "ha'nts" or, at least, it
seemed that its rafters bode evil,
for practically every Governor or
his family who lived in it fell
under its curSe-illneSs.
Governor Bigger died there.
The wife of Governor Whitcomb
died, too.
Illness placed Governor Will
lard's wife abed.
Then the family of Governor
Morton allied under its wide caves
and its political life ended when
Morton moved to the southeast
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Self Help Exchange to
Open BrightWO0d office

Dedication services for the head
quarters of the Indianapolis Self
Help Exchange will be held at 2:30
Sunday afternoon at the building
formerly occupied by the Railroad
Y. M. C. A. in Brightwood
Speakers will be Harry White, Y.
M. c. A. secretary; William H.
Book, representing the Chamber of
Commerce; Hugh Nick Landon, and
the Rev Ernest N. Evans, secretary
of the Church Federation of Indi-
annapolis.
The exchange was organized III
March, this year, under the direc-
ton of Miss Gertrude B. Brown.
social worker with the Community
Fund staff, and former Y. w. c. A.
secretary. An account of it's career
is contained in recent report of
the statistics bureau of the United
States department of labor.
Intended to help the needy to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23

NN the southeast corner Of I'LL
~ nois and Ohio streets was the
Academy of Music. one of the early
theaterS of the town.
1t played to the Hearts and
Flowers" dramas. Plays with
their saw-mills for cutting heroes
in two if help didn't arrive at a
'clop-clop" rate of the horse
manufactured by the trap-drum-
mer or by some one in the wings.
Across the street was the In
dianapolis Turnverein and, in
close proximity, on Ohio street,
Monninger's, where the suds
flowed freely.
Northward the street gentled
into good residences passed by
mule-carS.
If the mules baked at times,
what was the diff for they had
the expanse of the street-just as
trackless trolleys do today-to
right the cars in?
Rooms to Let" edged in on the
residential portion of the street
as richer patrons of its tree-lined
curbs moved north.
Electric trans came. Electric
lights supplanted gas. Apart
ments were built. Tracks we're ele-
waited at the Union Station.
TAXIS junked hanson cabs.
Il The Claypool ghosted for the
old Bates house. The Grand hotel
still lived with its memories.
Business buildings tried to make
the street sedate.
They didn't.
Chuck" Virgins, the Hoosier
play-boy boxer, wouldn't let them,
what with cop-crowning and hotel
free for-alls.
You still can get game" your
fortune told, a slug of liquor,
watch a snake dance, read in the
Y. M. G. A., or sit with your
sweetie in show on the street to-
day as you could in the Levee
days
If you stand long enough at the
intersection of Illinois and Wash
ington streets, you'll met every
one you know. you'll see every
thing to be seen and think every
thing to be thought.
It's that kind of a street,
THE END.
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AGREEMENT NEAR
ON WHEAT LIMIT
Four Countries Expected to
Join in Accord.

By United Press
LONDON, June ga sweeping
agreement to limit the worlds out
put of wheat was near today, as
delegates of the chief wheat grow
ing countries, the United States,
Argentine, Canada and Australia,
prepared to meet for the second
time within eight hours.
They we're on the verge Of an
agreement when, wearied by long
discussion, they adjt lrned their
meeting early today.
The agreement is believed to en-
viSage a Is per cent reduction of
wheat acreage in the four countries
for two years.
The delegates effort to enlist
Russia in parallel agreement to
curb the world wheat surplus was
reported nearing success. While
Russia will not agree to limit her
acreage, she was reported to have
promised adherence to two-year
restriction of exports, with the IN
Outstanding that her quota would
be sufficient for a big crop expected
in 1884.
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for the present, with anesthesia
making all operations practically
painless and Caesarian operations
almost as safe as normal birth.
Such errors of nature as cleft
palate, webbed fingers and toes, club
foot, dislocated hip-formerly IN
mune to remedy-now can be COR
rected safely.
He quoted figures to show that in
operations upon 120,125 patients in
two Cleveland hospitals-Lakeside
and the Cleveland clinic-there were
only three deaths from anesthesia.
or one in 10000.
He said that more than 1000. 900
surgical operations now are per-
formed annually in the United
States with but a slight mortality
rates
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corner of Pennsylvania and New
York streets.
The streets ghost died with the
sale of the mansion and it's later
rise to the estate of the crossroads
of Indiana as interurbans poured
in and out of the Traction build
ing.
Coming of the railroad in 1916 on
South street between Pennsylvania
and Delaware streets and con-
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struction of a Union depot in 1852,
on the present site, had much to
do with determining the character
of Illinois.
tom TAGGART, the Talley-
Il rand of Indiana's party of
Jefferson, was in charge of the
cuisine in the Union depot's first
dining room.
Defines and agility of the Tag
CART mind was equaled by his
hand and old-timers like w. w.
Spencer, of the state board of
election commissioners, tell of the
tricks he delighted to play on big
wigs who wore diamond studs and
huge anchor chained watches.
1T was even money he'd have
your diamond stud in his pocket
while asking you where it was to-
day" Spencer relates in story
telling moods.
Jackson place, the circular drive
in front of the station, and Nc
Nabb street-its predecessor, south
of the station-became the battle
ground of cabbies for fares.
Many knock down and drag
outs occurred over the right to
hoist carpet-bag into hanson.
HOTELS, among them the
i l. Spencer house. cluttered near
the union station and remained
through the years with some
changes in names, as track ele-
vation liftedthe railroad from the
street that crossed it and later
tunneled beneath.
Wholesale firms, pawnshops,
saloons, gathered at the stations
front door.
The street became known as the
"Levee" in the days that followed
Lincoln's address from the Bates
house, northwest corner of Illinois
and Washington streets.
1t was the good-time Charlie of
the town.
On the northeast corner of
Washington and Illinois streets,
certain Edward A. Cobb ran a
pharmacy which he called The
Corner Drugstore"
He had the first soda fountain
of the town and Johnny June dis
penSed the drinks, except on the
Sabbath, when a soda was con-
sidered a sin.
But nothing was thought of the
fact that the towns medical prac-
titioners hung around Cobbs.
Prescriptions had to be written
and were except on those times
when some doctor forgot to get
his breakfast pickup and rather
than expose himself TO the gossip
of patients by entering a saloon.
would have one on Doc" Cobb
behind his prescription case.
lust north of the present site
u of Blocks department store
was a circus ground, where on one
occasion A. G. Field 'mugged" as
a clown for O'Brien's circus.
Too many mirrors ended the
days of the present site of Blocks
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His glimpse into the future of
surgery was contained in paper
read before section of the Amer
lean Association for the Advance
ment of Science. His title was "A
Century of Progress in Surgery"
and his glimpse ahead was ex-
pressed as a Century of Fewer OPP
erations."
DR.. Grille recalled the era 100 years
ago when no tumors were removed
from the abdomen; there were no
operations for removal OF gallStones;
brain tumorS we're not disturbed;
there was no science of child birth
surgery; no control of infection; no
surgical dressings"
He listed also: No X-ray, no skin
grating, no anesthetics. The art of
the surgeon then, he said. was the
art of the swordsman."
A, far brighter picture was painted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
FIND MIND DISEASES AID
Medical Authority Suggests Tumor
Operations as Cure.

BV Science Serrice
CHICAGO, June 2S.-Many suf-
fererS from mental disorders might
be restored to their right minds by
surgical operations removing tumors
Of the pancreas, a report to the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science reveals.
These patients have a disease
that is practically the opposite of
diabetes, DR.. EvartS A. Graham of
Washington university School of
Medicine, st. Louis, declared. They
suffer from a lack of sugar caused
by the presence of too much insulin
which rapidly uses UP the sugar of
the body. DR.. Graham explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
STAB WOUND is FATAL
Negro Women Dies at Hospital; As
saiIant Is Hunted.

Mrs. Alma Nathan, Negro, 7G7
Indiana avenue, died at city hospital
Thursday night from a stab wound
inflicted in the abdomen Wednesday
night in a fight in the 500 block
Utah street. Police are searching
for the Negro woman Mrs. Nathan
said stabbed her. She would give
no reason for the fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
INSURANCE co. AGENT
H0N0RED AT PARTY
200 Employees Pay Tribute to Frank
Olin, 80.

%VV LmpioyeS ray ITlDute 10 FRANK
Olin, 80.
Ice cream and cake was served
more than 200 employees of the State
Automobile Insurance Company,
Thursday afternoon, when the com
pany gave birthday party for
Frank w. DIN, POOP Central avenue,
a district agent for the company.
He was 80 Thursday
DIN was presented with several
presents, gifts of the firm and its
board of directors, by Arthur Wolf,
president of the company. DIN
has been with the company since
its establishment seventeen years
ago.
The party was held at the COM
pany's Offices in the Occidental
building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
LIST FIREWORKS RULES

Detailed Instructions to Be Given
Each City Store Keeper.
Orders to all vendors and users Of
fireworks for Fourth Of July cele-
brations were issued today by Fire
Chief Harry Vostell and Bernard
Lynch, fire prevention chief.
A copy of the city ordinance regu-
lsting the sale will be given each
alicant for selling licenses, with a
of donts."
Only one fire occurred last year
in places where fire works were seids
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help themselves, the exchange has
185 acres of land under cultivation,
and prospective crops include sew
eral thousand head of cabbage
which will be converted into kraut
for winter use. Tomatoes also will
be canned as we'll as other garden
produce.
Officials Of the exchange are So
Letting equipment, including sprays
and also plants to be used for late
crops. Already 2o,000 plants have
been supplied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
2 HURT HOPPING TRAINS
Men Fall From Freight Cars in
Efforts to Catch Rides.

George sDevine, AZ, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, suffered a laceration of
the face Thursday when he fell
from a freight car he attempted to
board at the New York Central rail-
road and Elder avenue. He was sent
to city hospital.
Lucian Hester, Negro. 40, of
Greensboro. KY, suffered a crushed
left foot when he fell in attempting
to board a freight car at the Belt
railroad near Oliver avenue Thurs
day.
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Named Engineers President

BIZ United Press
LAFAYETTE. June 23.-Arthur
Huntington, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
headed the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers today fol-
lowing his election at the annual.
meeting here. He succeeds Charles
E. Seit, Blaekburg, Va. y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
PICKS BLIND ATTORNEY
RoOsevelt's Choice for Idaho Post Is
SightleSs Man.
By United Press


POCATELLO, Idaho. June o.
Justice may not be blind here. but
the prosecutor will be as a result of
the nomination by President Roose-
welt of John A. Carver, blind at
torney. for the post of United States
district attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
Day VisiOned When Knife
of Surgery Will Pass
BY RAY BLACK
United Press staff Correspondent

CHICAGO biochemstrv and biophvscs will
suppant
George Grille of the famous Cleveland clinic
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Burglar Steals So, Drivers License
A burglar early today robbed the
home of F. j. Shurman, 3045 Cen
trail avenue of a billfold containing
So cash and a drivers licenses
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lust north of the present site
- of Blocks department store
was a circus ground, where on one
occasion A. G. Field "mugged" as
a clown for O'Brien's circus.
Too many mirrors ended the
days of the present site of Blocks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23

Am trying TO find the person who
has reread Alice In Wonderland"
the most times. If you have read
1t many times, let me know. Also
What edition you like best.
Evening star., 1933-10-29

by the fact that the blood OF something
like 5o,ooo,oCo of his people has been
poisoned" He is more cautious and
patient than .Ludendorff, but no less
fanatical. It should, therefore, sur
prise no one who has followed his
career, if he shortly sets about herding
the 'Nordic' sheep from the Alpine"
goats and attempts slowly by surely"
to build up dominant Nordic caste
This is coming dangerously near to
the frontiers of the realm of prophecy,
which it would be nothing but folly
to cross, despite the fact that every one
who hears this much about Hitler
ism wants to know, more than any,
thing else, when and how 1t Is going
to crash. The Scylla and Charybdis
between which the Nazis are now
driving their ship Of state at such a
terrific pace are these; a decline in
employment which the big Industrial
lists might bring about very suddenly
if the Nazis became too meddlesome
with big business (as Hitler knows
and armed Intervention, which might
be provoked at any time that the ebul-
lition of arrogant nationalism bubbled
over frontier. If these two imminent
dangers can be avoided there would ap-
pear now to be no other obstacle in
the charted Nazi voyage ad absurdum,
unless, with the Jewish question out Of
the way, the larger racial issue itself
rises as a rock in mid-channel and the
movement founders on it.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
W. G.. T. u. News

The Mary Pollock Union met at the
home of Mrs. Sadie Burton, 4315 Schley
avenue southeast, last Monday, with
the president, Mrs, Neyin Ladd, in the
chair. Mrs. Ladd reported on the con-
vention. Re-electing all old officers
plans for the soldiers and sailors Christ
mas and for the neL' year were dis
cussed. The next meeting Is with Mrs.
Toney. 2315 @ street southeast. No.
vember 2s at $50 O'Clock.
North Capitol Union met Monday eve
ming at the home of Mrs. M. r. Line
back, 27 U street Mrs. Ina M. Liver
more presided. The devotions were led
by Mrs. Lille Moore. o. G. Christgau,
publicity director Of the Anti-Saloon
League, spoke. Refreshments were served
by the hostess, assisted by her daughter,
Mrs. Paul Ledig, and Miss Erma Bush.
lexington Union met with Mrs. B. j..
Wrightsman. 120 Bryant street, october
"a. Mrs. Grissom led the devotions.
Reports were given by Mrs. Burhtt,
Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Day. Mrs. James
Matthews will be S. T. I. director. Mrs.
Wrightsman, hostess, served refresh
ments, assisted by Mrs. Fowkes Grissom
and Mrs. Adam Miller.
Evening star., 1933-10-29

Connecticut avenue, the following were
elected as officers: Commander, David
B. Herman; senior vice commander,
John Caswell; Junior vice commander,
Z. r. Baker: quartermaster. Almon F..
Rockwell; post advocate, Harold De-
Courcy; chaplain, A. j. Bartram; sur
geon, D. c. Dodic; officer Of the day.
Karl StandiSh. Department Senior
Vice Comdr Nathan d. Golden outlined
partment Comdr. Daniel e. Campbell
also spoke. Karl Standbh, who served
with the Yankee Division In France.
gated
The official presentation Of co1ors Of
the District Of Columbia Department,
Ladies' Auxiliaries, will be held at the
Marine Barracks Band auditorium.
Eighth and I streets southeast, Thurs
day at 8 pm. Department President
Clay Keene Miller announced. The COL
ors presentation will be followed by the
joint installation Of the newly elected
officers Of each auxiliary and by the
presentation Of past officers jewels.
The ceremonies will be followed by
dancing, music for which will be fur
nished by the United States Marine
Band Orchestra. All members Of the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars and their
friends are invited.
The colors will be dedicated by Ma
tional Commander in Chief James Z.
Van Zandt. Scheduled to speak are
also Past National Comdrs. in Chief
Paul Wolman and Robert Z. Coontz.
Honor guests will be all past depart
ment commanders and all post and
auxiliary presidents.
Rehearsal for Thursday nights cere-
monies will be held at the Marine Bar
racks Band auditorium at 2:30 pm.
today.
A meeting Of United States Treas
ury Auxiliary. No. 2400 was held last
Tuesday at the Soldiers. Sailors and
Marines Club, featured by the election
Of officers.
The next regular meeting Of this aux
iliary will be November 81 at the home
OF Mrs. Beulah Draley, 340l Thirty
fourth street, Mount Rainier, Md This
meeting is to be followed by social.
Evening star., 1933-10-29

At the October 18 meeting Of MAJ.
Gen Clarence r. Edwards Post. at 1882
Evening star., 1933-10-29

Arrangements are being completed for
the ArmiStice Ball at Wardman Park
Hotel. Miss Margaret Hart Of The
Washington Star. in addition to serving
as vice chairman Of the Publicity Com
mittee, has secured some well known
Broadway stars who will entertain on
the night of the ball. In addition to
Miss Hart, the following are also active
on the Publicity Committee: Mrs. Sal
lie Pickett, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs.
Mae Kearney Ward. Hardie Meekin, c.
Dorsey Warf1eld, Col. Leroy w. Heron,
Miss Katherine Brooks and Maj. Gen.
George s. Simonds, commandant Of the
Army War College.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
head the list of patrons. Mrs. Daniel
G. Roper, wife Of the Secretary Of Com
merce, has accepted the Craftsmanship
Of the Patroness' Committee and the
Assistant Secretary Of War, Mr.. Harry
H. Woodring Is serving as chairman Of
the Patrons Committee.
Leon Brusilo6, q member Of Fellow
Me Post, and his musicians will be in
attendance.
Past Commanders night was observed
by Equality Walter Reed Post October
10 in Pythian Temple. Past Comdrs.
Jamison, Clooney, NJ D. Smith, Wisch-
husen, Donaldson, St. Jacques, Camp
bell, Golden, Spreckelmyer and Glueck
were present. Fred B. Oppenborn, who
served with the Marines in Nicaragua,
was elected and obligated in member
ship.
oscar g. Jones, veterans liaison off,
Ger for the Department Of Labor, out
lined the policies Of the Federal service
relative to the employment Of veterans.
The following officers were elected:
Commander, Howard w. Woerner;
senior vice commando, Arthur C.
Fowle; junior vice commander, Manley
c. Lawton; quartermaster, Victor H.
Dodge; chaplain. Rev. H. E. Snyder;
surgeon, DR.. Don s. Knowlton; post ad-
vocate, Howard E. Chase; officer of the
day, Fred B. Oppenborn. The officers
will be installed at the next meeting
November Is.
The posts bowling team, captained
by John G. Wischhusen, has gotten of
to a good start in the v. F. w. Leauge
tournamnet, by winning all six Of its
games.
Follow Me Post met at Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club, when the
following officers were elected: Com
mander, Philip R. Belt; senior vice COM
mander, Fred c. Kelly; Junior vice COM
mander, Hugh L. Finnigan; quarter
master, Selby c. Harr; chaplain. James
o. Grubb surgeon, Ira T. Byram: ad-
vocate, Robert W. Boteler; ofdcer Of
the day, William A. Downs. Arrange
ments are progressing for a card party
to be held during the latter part of
November.
The post Is now holding its meetings
on the fourth Tuesday of each month
at Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club,
20 the newly elected officers will be in
stalled.
At the October 18 meeting Of MAJ.
Gen Clarence R. Edwards Post. at 1882