Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 25

bUSSELDORF OCCUPIED BY BRITISH ARMY English Artillery and Infantry Joins Forces With French at Industrial Center and May Divide Control of Ruhr With Poilu. BERLIN AMBASSADOR INSi (TS ON PASSIVE RESISTANCE Poincare Declares No Effort at Reparations Agreement Will Be Made Until German Sabotage Stand Is Abandoned. By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 9.—British military forces have entered Dusseldorf in the Ruhr valley. A section of artillery and infantry was reported as having arrived in the industrial center which has been in the hands of Preneh occupational troops since the Ruhr first was seized.

Govenm*>nt advices declare additional British infantry and artillery detachments are en route to Dusseldorf. While it was at first believed the movement was only a "parade” measure thee is now some evidence the British intend to take over the southern section of the Ruhr and permit French and Belgians to hold the north. Inquires are being made at the British headquarters in Cologne as to the purpose of the advance. CUNO IGNORES DEMAND Declares Sabotage In Occupied Area Will Continue. By United Press BERLIN', June 9.—Germany will continue her policy of passive resistance in the Ruhr unabated. This Is the answer of Chancellor Cuno to the French demand that Germany first abandon her Ruhr policy before any reparation? solution will be discussed. It was expressed today in an address to press representatives at Munster. The policy of passive resistance against French occupation must continue, he said. In Paris, Premier Poincare stated on receipt of the new German reparations offer that no effort to solve the reparations question could be undertaken until Germany abandoned her stand. m ini r is ROBBER’S OKS: WOMAN SCREAMS * He Gets Away Without Being Slapped Because 'Victinf Fears Weapon, If I had been certain he was not a>med with a gun or a knife I certainly would have Gapped him good." =aid Mrs. Maty Singleton, 25, of 1225 Evison St., today, referring to the hoid-up man that attempted to rob her Friday night. He was frightened away by'her screams. "I left my friends on the car when I alighted at Prospect and Evison Sts. at 12:30 a. fn. and started down the street. # “I looked for my husband, who was to meet me. The clock he had set to arouse him at midnight stopped at 11:10 p. m. and he did not awaken. "I saw the robber follow me from thenar, but .thought he lived on the street. He passed me and turned in. However, when X passed the first aly he came toward me saying: "Stick ’em up.” “I did not see a weapon, but I thought he had one and so I screamed. “I know he was with another man on the car. As I had my purse lying on my ’ap I think he saw it and figured on following me. grabbing it and meeting his pal, who. I understand, got off the caf* at the next corner. “Believe me, today I told my husband to buy anew clock. ' v LAX AFFIDAVITS SCORED Deputy Prosecutor Blames Police for Dismissal of Three Cases. Members of the police department were roundly scored In city court today by J. Burdette Little, deputy State prosecutor, for laxity in filling in affidavits. Little asked Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth to sustain a motion for dismissal filed by an attorney tvf three clients charged with petit larceny because of lax matter in the affidavit. John Howard, 17, colored. 320 W. Wyoming St.; Theodore Heizer. 22, colored, 035 Eddy St., and Bell Tucker, 17. co.ored, 621 Eddy St., alleged to have stolen S2OO In lead and brass from the Junk shop of Samuel Sallender at 615 S. Capitol Ave., were dismissed. WiD Admitted to Probate The will of Willetts Bastian, attorney, who died recently at his home Brt 2423 Park Ave.. was filed today in Probate Court. The widow, Mrs. Mary L. Bastian, is named sole heir and executrix. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 63 10 a. m. 69 7 a. m... 60 11 a. m.. 71 8 a- m 63 12 (noon( 72 • * <8

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FILIPINO MURDERS NORSE AND WRAPS BODY IN BUNDLE Man Is Arrested After Confession He Choked Woman to Death, By l ruled Press NEW YORK, June 9.—"1 choked her for half an hour. Then she was dead.” In these words Eluigo T.ozade, Filipino, today confessed to the murder of Mrs. Blossom Martin, a trained nurse. Loza tie wa<= arrested as he was endeavoring to throw the body of the woman, wrapped in brown paper and tied with cord, over the rail of a ferry boat at Arlington. Staten Island. He had carried the body about with him for hours after the crime, riding in taxicabs and on ferry' boats, through crowds of New Yorkers, many of whom stopped to look curiously at 1 the short, squat little man struggling “with the big bundle. Lozade. police said, confessed he strangled the nurse in the basement of an apartment house in uptown New York where she lived. THREE SUSPECTS ARE HELD Masonic lyodge Offers $50,000 for Chicago “Flapper Slayer.” i Ry United Press i CHICAGO. .June 9.—Three suspects were heM today in th<* police quest of 1 the “girl with a smile and blue eyes" ! who killed Richard Tesmer, it suranee i adjuster, in his “Gold Coast” home j Tuesday night. A reward of $50,000 for the stay- ! eress has been offered by Aryan j Crotto, Tesmer’s Masonic Trudge. STILETTO WOUND IN HEART 1 j Man and Wife Held in I’rohe of Girl’s Murder. i tty United Press YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 9.—A i slender stiletto driven to the heart of ; Miss Helene Drachma!! by a jealousycrazed woman, authorities declared today', was responsible for the death of the pretty 21-year-old sales girl whose knife-scarred body was taken from a culvert yesterday after police had been tipped by an anonymous ! note. Investigation of the murder today j centered on the wife of one of Miss j Drachman's former suitors. TAYLOR CASE REOPENED Robbery Motive Is New I.inc of Investigation Taken by Authorities. : By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., June 9. —The William Desmond Taylor murder mystery was reopened today by Sheriff Matt Starwich investigating a robbery motive. | Tavlnr, a motion picture director, i was slain in his Hollywood home and jno trace of the assassin was ever ! found. Starwich said he had infpr- ! nation that the director was not slain !by a jealous woman or drug ring agents, but by a group of five underI world men, who obtained more than ! 5200,000 in cash and jewels. Murder Theory Followed j By United Press ! CHICAGO, June 9.—The body of j James ICidd, business agent for the I International Marine Firemen’s Union j was found In Lake Michigan today : and police are working on a murder j theory. Bruises were found about ; the head and shoulder. Kidd disappeared following a fight at hie I union headquarters. Body Found In I,ak#> By United Press CHICAGO, June 9.—lnquest into the death of Mrs. Gergia Trotter, 51, nas being conducted today. Mrs. Trotter’s body was recovered from Lake Michigan Friday. It had been in the water about two days. There was no clew as to how she met death Police Hunt Bandits By United Press CLINTON, Ind. June 9.—Police were searching today for two burglars who broke into the grocerystore of John Richmond Friday- night and took SSOO in cash and a quantity of groceries. John Morrison, arrested as a suspect, wsls released.

Woman Entrant Wins Many Peony Prizes i uM " •“* ■ MRS. CHARLES F. HEAGY AND SOME OF HER PRIZE WINNERS. Prize-winning peonies of the 1923 show were on display today at the Bankers Trust Company Fortysix varieties were shown. -JThe sweepstakes prize, the Bankers Trust Company 1923 Peony Cup. was awarded to Mrs. Charles F. Heagy, 6136 Lowell Ave., who also won six firsts and one second prize on her entries. Winners: Class A (three stalks to one variety)—Mrs. Heagy. Class B (three distinct varieties, Ihree stalks each* —Mrs. Heagy. Class C (six stalks of one variety)—Mrs. Heagy. Class E (best individual specimen)—Mrs. Heagy. Class F (largest collection)—Mrs. Heagy’s exhibit of twenty-four varieties awarded first prize. Class G (artistic arrangement)— Mrs. Charles M. Cross. Class H (vase of one variety garden flowers) —R. S. Ludlow, 925 Traction Terminal building. Class 1 (one variety of garden flowers)—Mrs. Cross.

OLD AGE LOSES.• FIGHT —f Judge Denies Grandparents Petition to Have Little Girl With Them in Their Declining Years

By JOH V U. XI BLACK SOMEWHERE in Indian! today a 6-year-old girl played happily In the farmhouse of her foster parents, unaware that Mr. and Mrs. David Wttre, Brooklyn, Ind . her grandparents had only rhe ashes of their rosy dreams to have her wi'h ihem in their declining years. Gray, bent many years of toil, the Jouple bowed their heads in juvenile court here Friday as Judge Frank J. Lahr. with the words “too old,” denied their petition to obtain the child from the State board of charities. Moved by love of the only child of i daughter, who years ago strayed from home. Mr. and Mrs. Ware un folded their simple tale. Two years ago the child was made u ward of Juvenile Court. The board of charities reported her living happily "on a big farm with devoted foster parents." “Folks, Pin sorry." said the judge. "In ten years the girl will need strong, guiding hands. It seems cruel, but life is life.” MAIL DELIVERY IS CUT Post-office Employes to Have Saturday Half Holiday in Summer. Saturday afternoon mail deliveries will be discontinued in Indianapolis from June 30 to Sept. 8, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, announced today. “We believe postoffice employes are entitled to half holidays during the summer,” Bryson said. Clerks and other employes will be given half holidays when satisfactory working schedules can be arranged.

Seven Hints by a Booster What do you say ought to be done to make Indianapolis an even better city in which to live'? The Times has received a number of responses to the question. Other readers are invited to contribute their views. Here is what one citizen thinks should he done. By ANDREW STONAGE, 1030 N. Meridian St.

1. Smile instead of knocking, for no matter how humble this place may be a smile will make it brighter. 2. Have the city regulate billboards, signs and advertisements on buildings. Give city more power to raze unsightly buildings and houses. , 3. Make all industries change to smokeless boilers. What they will save on coal will pay for the change, not counting what the merchants and business people will save if the change is made. 4. Establish or create a forestry department on a paying basis; charge a certain sum to plant trees, and care for them at least two years.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923

U. S. PLACES ALCOHOL BAN ON CARNEFIX Right to Purchase Liquor to Be Taken Away From River Ave, Druggist by Bert C. Morgan, Federal Prohibition Director for Indiana, The right of Louis W. Carnefix, 4628 Central Ave., former member of the city council and proprietor of a drug store at 1012 River Ave., to purchase alcohol, will be revoked, Bert G. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, announced today.

Evidence that Carnefix was guilty of violating Federal prohibition laws by illegal sale of intoxicating liquors will be turned over to Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, for presentation to the Federal grand jury, Morgan said. Morgan's decision was announced at the conclusion of a? hearing at which Carnefix was cited to show cause why his permit should not be revoked. Federal Man Testifies Charges that Carnefix had been guilty of violation of State and Fed eral prohibition laws and had made Incorrect reports as to the use of alcohol were made by Federal prohibition authorities. Joseph Strasburger, Federal inspector. principal witness , for the Government, testified that May 4 he inspected Carnefix’s store. He said he had found more than three quarts of gin and one-half gallon of grain alcohol. Carnefix's records, he said, showed that alcohol had been used in preparing tinctures and medicines when it had been not been so used. Illness Blamed Carnefix admitted his records were not correct. He said fie had ini tended to make up a quantity of tinct- | ures, had entered them on his re<- | ords and then had become ill and had j not been able to do the work. He de- : nied that throe quarts of liquid said by Strasburger to be gin were gin. lie said it was a medical preparation made by him and was not suited for beverage purposes. i He accused Morgan of assuming an j antagonistic attitude toward him. | Morgin said he would permit C.irne fix a reasonable time to appeal the case to National Prohibition t’ommis sioner Haynes at Washington. How ever, he announced, lie would revoke the permit immediately. DOG PRICE 001 10 tIS LEVEL Lowest Since Slump in February, 1915, Farmers got the lowest price for hogs at the Indianapolis stock yards today since Feb. 7, 1915. Pork on foot slid down to $6.75 a hundred pounds for the bulk of sales. The slump began several days ago, hitting $7 Friday. The highest price paid today was around $6.90. Hogs sold from $6.60 to $6-80 on Feb. 7. 1915. The low price previous to that was $6.50 in February, 1912. Oversupply was given by buyers as the reason for the slump. Prices started up after the 1915 toboggan and by the end of the war in 1918 touched the record point of $23.60. Pork chops? A downtown butcher quoted them at 35c to 40c a pound. During the 1915 slump chops stayed around 28c to 30c, the same butcher said. Uonteat Winner Harry Beem, 631 N. Gray Pt., wrote the .slogan. “Menter Meets Your Means" on a post card 1,350 times, winning a suit of clothes offered by the Menter Company, clothiers, of Indianaoplis Many others competed for the prize

5. Give the city power or right to buy ground or land that may be sold cheap or even granted to industries that want to locate here. 6. Street ear service here is very good except from 4 to 6 p. m. This can very easily be improved by adding a trailer to each car during these hours, or by stopping only at every other block, * 7. The Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce should advertise more and induce industries to .locate here by subscribing onefifth toward anew firm wanting to locate here.

TRAGEDY LEAVES TRACE Anxious Folk File Past Bier In Vain Effort to Identify Body of Man Found in Fail Creek

By RALPH /- BROOKS WJ ITH quaking hearts, hoping against hope. folk from ’ * various walks of life file into the funeral parka' of Royster and Askjn. 337 N Illinois St., to view the body of a young man found Thursday in Fall Creek “All types of people come." said Clifford Askln. "There was a man whose son was away at college, and had not arrived home when expected A pretty girl, with eyes dark from worry and lack of sleep, gazed on the body, fearing It was that of her sweetheart, from whom she had not heard for several days. Wives, whose husbands have disappeared. have called. "We always keep unidentified bodies as long as we possibly can. Askin continued "We know that some where there may be an anxious mother. , wife, or someone waiting for news. It is better to know than to spend the rest of her life wondering"” Meanwhile the body, that of a young man apparently between 22 and 26 with black hair and brown eyes, without a scar, tattoo or mark of any kind that might lead to identification, is carefully cared for. awaiting someone who, with loving hands, will give it burial. FARMER WRITES OBITUARY THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Friends Say lie Had Made Own Funeral Arrangements. By 7 ifnit Spirial NEWCASTLE. Ind . June 9.—Despondency over 111 health was today declared cause of the suicide of Charles Wooters. farmer, 65 who is said t cl have written his own obituary before he ended his life with a revolver. Relatives also said he made his funeral arrangements. MOVIE OWNERS FREED Seven Are Found Not Guilty of Sun day Closing l.aw Violation. Seven motion picture I heater owners were acquitted Friday of charges of violation of the Sunday ,-losing laws They were George J Foreman, Garrick theater Thirtieth and Illinois Sts.; Wilbur and L. J. Murdock. 1223 25 Oliver Ave.; A. C. 'Zaring. 2255 Central Ave.; Bela and William V Burchfield. 2170 N. Illnois St.: and William H. Griffin. Thirtieth and Illinois Sts. Hearings were held In Justice of the Peace William A. Conner's court. Youth’ Heath Investigated By Times Special LOGANS PORT. Ind, June 9 .—lnvestigation of the death of Beverly Hughes. 20. whos > body was found In an automobije on a road near here, was under way today. A bullet from a rifle found in the machine had pierced his heart.

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Tec/1 Students Get Scholarship Medals

MARGARET PIERSON (ABOVE). LEON ADLER AND GRACE E. I.ASHBROOK

; Two girls and one boy received i scholarships medals for proficiency in their four-year course at Techni--1 cal High School Friday. Margaret Pierson, 730 Cottage Ave., received the Riley medal, do- ■ noted from a fund raised by 100 of James Whitcomb Riley's admirers. Grace Elizabeth Lashbrook, 711 ! N. Do Quincy St., and Leon Adler. 1 21 Whittier Place, received medals given by the faculty. "You can have a good time and still get good grades if you can concentrate," Says Grace Elizabeth. "Diligence is more important than I brilliancy,” is Margaret’s comment. J "if you are going to do a thing, ; do it rignt, " says I^eon. STEGEIfIER GIVES fiO EXPLANATIONS Cafeteria Owner Rests After Dazed Wanderings, Where Richard W. Stegemeier, cafeteria owner, who was found in a dazed condition near Fishers Station Friday after being missing since Tuesday, spent his nights and the course of his wanderings remained a mystery today. He was resting at his home. 1628 Pleasant St. "Father has not talked to any extent since we took him home,” Richard Stegemeier Jr., said today. “What he needs is a long rest and the doctor has ordered him kept quiet. Considering all he has been through, bis condition is as satisfactory as can be expected. He has slept a great pert of the time.” LASKER TO END DUTIES AT WASHINGTON SOON Two-Year Period of Service as Ship--0 ping Board Head Closes. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 9.—Chairman Albert D. Lasker of the United States Shipping Board, who’s two-year period of service ends within a few days, will retire from political and official life, a Washington correspondent states. The passing of Lasker, millionaire, marks the departure of one of the most interesting figures in Washington. NEW -DUDS’ FOR BAND Police and Firemen's Ball Is Financial Success. Brand new blue military uniforms are in store for the newly organized police and firemen*! band. About $2,000 wa# cleared at a benefit bali at Casino Gardens Friday night, Assistant City Attorney William T. Bailey, in charge, said. Bailey expects to have enough funds left to purchase several new instruments. More than twelve hundred persons attended the ball. Valedictorian Elected From a field of eight candidates, Robert Hutchinson has been chosen to represent the 1923 graduating class of Shortridge High School as vaiedlotorian next Wednsgday evening. Arthur Long is president of the class.

DEAF GIRL IS FATALLY HURT : AT CROSSING Mary Caroline Scoggan, 13, Walks Into Path of Engine on Big Four Tracks Near Harlan St, Without Noticing Approaching Train, HAND SEVERED, OTHER ARM TORN—BODY DRAGGED / > ■ Child Dies at City Hospital—Was on Way to Her Grandmother’s After Passing Might With Aunt — Had Book in Hand, While en route to the home of her grandmother today, Mary Caroline Scoggan, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scoggan, 432 N. Warman Ave., was struck by a Big Four engine at a lane north of the Harlan St. cross- Sm in, and fatally injured. The girl had been *1 deaf for five years, following an illness of scarlet fever. &'WaOfeSl She was taken to the city hospital. Her |-S right hand was tormoff at the wrist and her left arm was wrenched from the socket at the • shoulder. She suffered head and internal in- J , j“ ries - The girl had just left a Lexington Ave. street car She had spent the night with her mart scoggan aunt, Mrs. Mildred Weaver, Pinex Apts., Fletcher Ave. and Pine St., and was going to the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Robert A. Waterbury, n!4 S. Keystone Ave.

John Ottwell, 54. of 1509 Fletcher Ave., engineer, told Sergeant Dean he blew the whistle twice, put on the brakes and then threw the engine Into reverse, but failed to stop before passing over the girl. Arthur Rlnley. 751 E. McCarty St., was conductor on the engine, which was going to the roundhouse, with the tender. Had Head Down. Miss Mary Welch, 1027 S. West St., who crossed the tracks just before, hut did not witness the accident, said the girl was reading a magazine as she left the car. Ottwell said her head was down as the engine approached. The magazine was found near the scene. The girl was taken home. 111, two weeks ago from the Indiana School for the Deaf and Dumb. She had two slstertrnnd two brothers. Marjorie. 7; Roy, 11; John Floyd. 5, and Doris June 3. Her father is general manager of the foundry at the Brest O-Lite Company. LOCAL SHRINERS RETURN Murat Nobles Elated Over Showing Made at Washington. Their red. blue and peacock uniforms discarded, some of 400 Indianapolis Shriners who have made merry in Washington all week wert back to work this morning, while others slept. The special train carrying the Indianapolis delegation from the national convention arrived Friday night at 9:15. Other trains carrying Shriners to points west passed through the city in the night. Indianapolis Shriners were elated over the showing in the parades and other whirlwind activities of the week. POLICEMEN BOOST GAME City Employes Promise to Soil 6,000 Tickets for Riley Event. City police and firemen are boosting the baseball game at Washington Park next Tuesday when Indianapolis and Minneapolis meet in a benefit game for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. An old stage - coach, the jproperty of the city, used many years ago to convey travelers between Indianapolis and Kokomo, was on the street today with persons selling tickets for the game. M'GROARTY BODY HOME Services for Park Board Secretary May Be Held Monday. The body of Miss Sadie MrGroarty, secretary of the park board, which was found Monday in the Niagara River, below the falls, arrived in Indianapolis at noon today, accompanied by Hubert S. Riley, her brother-in-law. The funeral tentatively has been set for Monday at 9 a. m. at St. John’s Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. ‘PETTING PARTIES’ FEW . Sheriff Finds Two Cars Parked In Country Roads. Only two “parking” parties were found F*riday night by Sheriff George Snider as he scoured country lanes, he said today. It was "too cold.” Snider found the two machines a* he returned from a meeting of the Horsethlef Detective Association In the Glen Valley schoolhouse, where plans were made to get buev next week on pat ruling the roads. The work has been helld up by com planting. the sheriff said he found. Central Americans Entertain The city recreation department will present the Marimbo entertainers of Central American musicians, in concert in University Park, Sunday, between 7:30 and 9:80 p. m., R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks, wdd today. ff

Forecast" PARTLY cloudy tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature forecast.

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HOME-MADE BREW KEEPS CITY COURT AND POLICE ACTIVE Thirty Gallons of ’White Mule 1 Seized in North Side Raid —Three Held, s White mule and home-made beer i today held the centqj of the stage in | several raids and in a number of cases tried in city court. Thirty gallons of the white whisky were found in a garage in the rear of 1850 N. Pennsylvania St., where Lieutenant Stoddard said he had j waited for seven hours. Lieutenant Cox and squad had just reached the garage to relieve Lieutenant Stoddard when thrbe men in an automobile arrived to haul away the whisky, police said. Walter Hickson, 610 S. West St.f j Oliver Propst, Rural Route J., Box ' 141, and E'.zie Hawkins, 911 Maple j St., were arrested. Mrs. Ella Routt, j living at the Pennsylvania St. address police say, rented the garage to Hickson. Lizzie Naef, 54. and Emil Naef, 35, lof 309 S. Roena St., were arrested j Friday night after Lieutenant Corri- : gan and Sergeant O'Conner raided j their home. They said they found I 50 pints and 11 quarts of beer, 3 gallons of wine, a 3-gallon copper tank and copper coils. Federal Prohibition Agent Georg* Winkler and Lieutenant Jones allege they found 200 quarts of home brew at the residence of Carl Cox, 1033 S. Cap:to l Ave. CO4 was charged with operating a blind tiger. In city court an attorney entered a plea of guilty for James Hickson, 610 S. Missouri St!, charged with operating a blind tiger. Hickson is serving a sentence for assault and batI tery. j Others found guilty of operating Ia blind tiger: Conrad Laßoach, Joe Car. Auflie Gunn, John M. Huber, Herbert Lee, Ellis Tucker, George Whitley, Bernice Barr and John Johnson. In all but one case, defendants were fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Gunn was fined SIOO and costs and to sixty days on the Indiana State Farta. TWO LOCAL MEN STABBED Defense of Woman Results in Injuries in Rushville, Ind. R. L. Whitehead, 1209 Roosevelt Ave., and O. R. Umbarger, 2358 pect St., were stabbed Friday night la Rushville, Ind., as a street demonstrOe tion of the Ku-Klux Klan was In progress, according to dispatches from Rushville today. Whitehead suffered tnurias In the back near the left shoulder, and Umbarger suffered cuts In the right chest. , The men we e said to have been defending a woman from an unidentified man who escaped in the large crowd that had gathered for the Klan meeting. MOTOR CLUB TO MOVE Hoosier Organization Takes Larger Quarters in felacherne. Th 6 Hoosier Motor Club will move from the Clay pool and Roosevelt buildings to the Blaeherne. Meridian and Vermont, in about two weeks. The tourists' bureau will maintain a desk in the lobby of the Spink-Arms Hotel, adjoining. Moving from the old home is due to increasing membership and larger service demand. The club will Mnthiue to have a touring connection in the daypocA