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AUG. 31, 1035 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 3 ACTION INDIANA’S FAIR OPENS WITH Activity Starts FINAL Fairground Bustles With as Big Show ON CITY BUDGET RECORD CROWD ON HAND TO IS DUE MONDAY INSPECT ARRAY OF EXHIBITS Fiscal Program Now Calls State Pays Tribute to Farmers, With §114,000 for Levy of $1.16 in Civil District. Prize Money Awaiting Winners; Show The City Council will take final action Monday night on the 1936 to Go on 18 Hours Daily. budget which now calls for a civil city in- ((antinurd From Page Onei tax levy of $1 16. a 1-cent crease over this year's rate. After a week of study, council- the fine arts of Hoosier toil, whether how, where, and why of various men last night whitled down the from the land or a farmhouse yields of grain, was an attraction figures submitted by department kitchen. for many early visitors. heads to $1 13 on each SIOO of tax-, week, the agrarians property, and then added a For one state's Industry Stages Show able will play a daily 18-hour show, with 3-cent levy to th total *o provide prize awards of $114,000 awaiting A tented city at the southeast for track elevation. the winners. section of the grounds housed the In asking for this 3-cent levy. From the Midway to the race heavy farm implements. Diesel-oper- Mayor John W Kern told council track grand stand and Coliseum, ated tractors, and plows that cut members that the city would have where nightly horse shows will he with razor-like sharpness. ; to raise $200,000 to pay for materials Works-Progress held, the Fair will not cease from Indiana’s industry was on display before the Federal $3,058,000 6 each morning until midnight. at the Manufacturer's building Administration will grant Dick Heller. Fair manager, said Products, were shown from various for elimination of grade crassings. shortly before noon that the first industrial cities of the state. | Rinds from the Pennsylvania and (Belt) day's attendance record may be Throughout the day the Junior j Indianapolis Union Rail- ! necessary broken by nightfall. Chamber of Commerce broadcast roads a'so are if the Fed- the of information of events in the eral project is to be approved, With an advance sell-out 125.- various mayor pointed out. assured the sections of the Fairground. 000 tickets the Fair was The plan includes elevation of the that Fair officials were guests of the guaranteed attendance made Pennsylvania tracks from Board State Girls’ School at a dinner last Orango- it unnecessary for the Fair L-- to and elevation night in the Women’s Building. st Southern-av of to have rain insurance. the Belt tracks from S. Meridian- "Let's hope for no rain, but if st to Pleasant Run. If the Federal it does —let it rain,” said the opti- money is received the Pennsylvania mistic Fair manager. will have to contribute $390,000 and Approximately 3000 individual ex- ; the Belt $435,000. r LABOR TO MARK hibits of cattle. sh ep, hogs, chick- Mayor Kern will meet with rail- ens and culinary arts were on dis- way officials Wednesday and ask play this morning, with this figure them to give financial aid. to be raised to 4000 exhibitors by QUIET HOLIDAY The Council slashed two large tomorrow morning. items in the budget last night. A A check-up showed but two ex- contemplated $35,000 for a West hibitors from out of the country, i City Workers to Take Rest; Side park was eliminated and the They were W. Gaspell & Sons. Board of Park Commissioners was Oshawa, Ont., and H. M. Highgate. | No Parade, Union advised to issue bonds for the land Ont., Canada. They exhibited pens purchases. Chief Mike Morrissey's of sheep. Officials Say. request for 34 more second grade patrolmen was cut to 10. Race Horses Warm I'p A full day of picnics, family re- had Beef cattle entries reached j unions. parties at the club, and all- 1400 head. The swine department day loafs on the front porch are RAILROAD VETERAN reported 157 exhibitors with the being planned by Indianapolis labor TOMORROW draft horse classes showing 90 en- for Monday, Labor Day. TO RETIRE tries. Hundreds of local workers, with a William Downing, Pennsv Agent, In front of the grandstand this full holiday, will visit the Indiana noon, the harness horses from State Fair, where a special program Has Served More Than 50 Years. tha half-mile tracks warmed up in has been arranged to attract those William C. and trotting Downing, Indianapolis readiness for pacing interested in labor and its activities. general agent of the Pennsylvania races this afternoon. City stores will be closed all day. Railroad since March 10, 1927, to- Purses have been offered for vie- j Special show schedules are being ar- morrow will retire from active duty ranged by tors of 2.23 pace, 2 18 trotters, and downtown theaters to Upper Left—Clothing soils at the Indiana State Fair just as it after more than half a century of take care of the 2.13 pace. expected crowds. does back at the farm home and so Miss Ruth Magner, Orleans, honor service. Mr. Downing's name will —the local labor union au- The big line track Grand According to student at the State Fair Girls’ School, is not only receding instruc- be placed on the company pension Circuit —opens Monday with Grey- thorities, none of the traditional today at the fair’s opening in how to do a washing but is keeping roll. He became 70 on Aug. 21. winner, Labor Day parades place tion hound, Hambletonian sched- will take ‘lt’s Not True!’ Sobs AGENT’S KILLER her own garments clean. Mr. Downing is one of 89 veterans track, by Sep here. uled to take the driven Upper Center—And as yre fair crowd swarmed over the grounds who will retire from active service veteran, against Mail deliveries in Indianapolis Palin, Indianapolis the Rev. J. J. Karrick, of the Fairfax Christian Church, is shown tomorrow in accordance with the the harness world. will be suspended Monday, accord- today stars of Belgium’s Child Princess here chalking up the day’s menu at his church's booth. Pennsylvania’s pension regulations. Arrives Today ing to John H. Rothert, superinten- INDICTED cake is not certain. It may be Others being pensioned are Ed- Champion HERE of dent of mails. Upper Right—The gender this is certain and that is that it ward A. Lawson, conductor, Greyhound was scheduled to ar- of the a Lady or Lord Baltimore but one thing and All departments postoffice capital, where King Albert lies Ida Ray, Franklin, honor stu- William O. Terry, engineman, both rive late today, it was reported at will be closed with Daughter of will be tasty after being baked by Miss Monday the ex- 7-Year-Old buried. Early of Indianapolis; Rudolph H. Lau- the Palm stables. The 1935 Ham- ception of the special delivery sec- Ohio Outlaw to Get dent at the State Fair Girls’ School. victor is owned by E. J. Long lines of mourners continued winter’s soup being tested by Mrs. Frank mann, carpenter. Ft. Wayne, and bletonian tion, which will be open all day; one Astrid Forlorn Over thinkers Lower Left—Here’s this Baker. Illinois turfman. today to file through the Trial on Charges of Kirkpatrick, Frankfort. Ind., judge in the culinary department at Edward J. Valentine, machinist, parctl past window, open from 8 to hall in the royal palace, where As- Richmond, Ind. While sellers of fried fish and 10 m.; Mother’s Death. the women’s building. a. one general delivery win- trid has lain in state since yes- Slaying show "Three Men on hamburger, and side-show barkers i open from 8 G-Man. Lower Center—They didn’t get the stage dow\ to noon. iCopvriKht. 1935. by United Press) terday afternoon to receive the last on a turned on their lung-power on to- j No Horse” at the Fairground this year, but you here see five misses rural deliveries are planned for Aug. homage nation. An early trial was promised to- VICE SQUAD ARRESTS day’s early visitors the annual BRUSSELS, 31—The cour- of the caterpillar-Diesel tractor. state! the day. Perishable articles, how- Bowed with grief, King Leopold W. Barrett, Hamil- boys’ camp awoke to lowing age of King Leopold the Bel- day for George three-gaited show horse from the ever, will be given consideration and of of the Lower Right—"Crackerjack,” 8 ON GAMING COUNTS cattle at their camp grounds on the knelt in the room royal pal- ton (O.) desperado, following his Indianapolis, sees something in this photo but he’s collections will be made on regular gians failed for the first time in his be- R. H. Brown stables, section of fairgrounds, ace and prayed silently, alone, not that extra eye to Miss Lucille Raines, northwest j Sunday schedule. The Belgian monarch wife’s bier. the un- indictment for first degree murder missing something by giving Cloth Top of Dice Table Held as Two hundred and sixty youths over- , life today. fore his From she cuddles close to him. “Crackerjack” will appear in steadiness of his bandaged hand by a Federal grand jury here last Shelburn, as Evidence by Police. crowded the camp and an extra tent qualied, as would any father, be- the horse’ show in the Coliseum during Fair week. was and the pitiful manner in which his night.