Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1925 — Page 17

FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1925

LEGION IS SHEDDING POLITICAL ASPECT

The Times’ American Legion column Is conducted to restore the organization to its proper place In this city. If you have suggestions, | write. Hold them down to fifty words. Also, please send all post news you hear. It’s your-column! r=TJ RIENDS of the American 11* I Leg, * on ln Indianapolis caught I * I the spirit of Thanksgiving They were thankful the organization is shedding -rfi'H. its political aspect and enlisting young men with er this continues, be the Legion. Although there are many days between now and Jan. 1, Four Indiana department posts have exceeded their 1925 enrollment in dues paid for 1926, according to Frank H. Henley, adjutant. The posts are at Tipton, Akron, Warsaw and Jasonville. Warsaw post was the first iJn the world to go over the top for 1926, the event having taken place Sept. 24. Member of Hilton U. Brown post point with pride to the fact they intend to repeat th,eir action of last summer in sending a war orphan to the Naval Reserve training camp at kCamp Shank on White River. Grover ' Workman and Everett F. Saxton recently were elected post commander and adjutant, respectively. Mrs Saxton was elected president of the .post’s auxiliary and Miss Hilda Seheurer, secretary. The famous Mid-Nite Hundred Club of the Hayward Barcus post is drafting extensive plans to renew memberships. A guiding spirit is City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth. "I’d like to see the Legion boys get a downtown clubhouse where they could get together,” Mayor Lew Shank said today. After membership, the necessity for a meeting place is considered greatest by leading members. The executive committee for the big membership drive reads like a blue book of Indianapolis veterans who have dope something in the world. It includes: Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, State Senator Robert L.' Moorhead, Robert B. Rhodes, Guy Wainwright, Lucius French, William Guy Wall, Judge Harry O. Chamebrlin, Judge Sidney S. Miller, Thomas D. Stevenson, John R. Royce, S. A. Bishop and John H. Klinger. A Legionnaire will be .at the right hand of John L. Duvall, mayorelect. He is L. V. Schneider, recently named secretary to the next mayor. >The American Legion Weekly will not become a monthly publication i until next summer, it has been de- I elded. Tribute to Bowman Elder, Indiana national executive committeeman, was paid by Legion commanders and adjutants of forty-eight States who assembled here recently. Elder is considered Jo have been a powerful SERVICES ON WtEK-END Religious Meetings Begin Tonight at Sundown. Beth-El congregation will hold a series of religious meetings this week-end at Thirty-Fourth and Ruckle Sts. Sundown services will be held Friday eyening, followed by a religious forum at 8:15 p. m. At the same services Rabbi Isadore Goodman will speak on “The Realities of Life.” Services Saturday will begin at 8 a. m. “Ambition” is the subject of the morning sermon. The Bible class for adults will meet at 8 p. m. Monday and there will be instructiin in the elements of the Hebrew language at 8:15 p. m. Wednesday.

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influence in electing John R. MeQuigg, national commander, and in national affairs of the organization. Philip B. Stapp, former editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire, is high in the list of successful field secretaries of the orphans’ endowment campaign, according to national headquarters.

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HUGE STILL IS SEIZED Raid Nets 330 Gallons of Mash and Elaborate Equipment. Bv United Prest SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Nov. 27. Grover Snepp is ni the county jail here today as a result of discovery of a thirty-gallon still at his home. Raiders seized 330 gallons of mash, seven gallons of whisky and equipment. The still, largest confiscated in Shelby County, and the first this year, was equipped with cooling system, container and bottling machinery.

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