Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1927 — Page 17

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FIFTEEN KILLED IN BURNING OF TWO HOMES

GiTZENS SCHOOL BODY MOVES 10 ELECJJFFICERS Committee Names Group to Pick Permanent Leaders of Movement. Action taken Thursday at a meeting of a citizens’ committee organized to fight the present school board situation was kept secret today, although it is declared the committee is unrelenting in its determination to impeach the majority faction on charges of alleged irregularity in the awarding of contracts. The only announcement coming from the meeting held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club and attended by more than thirty persons, was that Edward W. Harris, Carl Wagner and Fred I. Willis were appointed a nominating committee to submit recommendations for permanent officers at the next meeting to be held soon. Henry L. Dithmer, chairman; Joseph .1. Schmid, treasurer, and Grier M. Shotwell, secretary, have been serving as temporary officers. Although Prosecutor William H. Reiny has offered to conduct an investigation into the school board’s affairs, it is believed the group will carry on its investigations independently and not place the matter before the Marion County grand jury. Simultaneous with the meeting, Joseph J. Thornton, acting school superintendent attended his first board meeting since the majority body, comprised of Theodore F. Vonnegut, board president, Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, vice president and Commissioner Charles W. Kern, dismissed Superintendent E. U. Graff Tuesday night. Bids were received on lumber for a, fence to be built around the new Shortridge High School site. Thornton said he was surprised that Graff had been dismissed and that he had been appointed his successor, but" that he would serve “to the best of his ability.”

AND THEIR THOUGHTS TURN TO-Spring-Like Weather Here Is Greeted by Many Tra-la-las. By Morris G. Young Spring has come! With tar-la-las being wafted about in the sunshine and warm air . . . with young men’s fancies lightly turning to thoughts of love or what not . . . with poets emerging from their winter’s hibernation to scribble sonnets of the season . . . with goodly housewives .wielding brush and broom . . . with men-of-the-house bemoaning their plight while armed with paint brush and rake . . . Spring has come!

This selfsame coming of the gladsome season has had it direct effect upon increased sales Os varied assortment of springtime offerings in Indianapolis’ stores, it is found. _ The fishing tackle demand has taken a sudden jump this year which bids fair to exceed demands of other years, one dealer said. Golf goods are being sold in increasing quantity as winter rapidly gives way to spring.

Boys whose mothers many times made them stay in during inclement winter weather now glue etheir noses to display windows filled with baseballs, marbles, roller skates, topsyes, and even swimming suits. School days have becorrte boresome with longings for the ol’ swimmin’ ’ole. And little girls gaze fondly upon gaily-colored spring frocks when mothers takes them shopping, while mother herself “looks around” for the season’s bargains.

The painting seaspn also opens in vogue, heralded by early house paint sales. Garden supplies are being restocked by dealers preparing for spring’s boom. Automobile salesmen, shaking off the languid feeling of slow winter sales, spiritedly run down prospects and clinch sales with spring's harbinger their feature selling plea. With lawnmowers humming.... with boys having visions of going barefoot... .with dreamy, sleepy days approaching... .with green things abounding and birds lifting their song to blue skies spring lias come. More than 50 per cent of the students* of Robert College, Constantinople, an American institution, this year are Turks, contrasting with 5 per cent before the war.

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This is Alice Bryant, 635 Union St., wearing one of the beautiful Add-A-Pearl necklaces, now on display in the window of Julius Walk & Son jewelry store, 5 and 7E. W ashington St. Any Indianapolis Times girl or woman reader can have an Add-A-Pearl necklace. Read the Add-A-Pearl opportunity" elsewhere in this issue.

Adventures in Pearls

Have you written your pearl adventure story? For the winning true or fiction story each'day that does not exceed 200 words The Times will give $4 worth of Add-A-Pearls. Should anew three months’ Times subscription accompany the winning story, ?7.50 worth of pearls will be given. Throughout history pearls have been the center of adventures and great international intrigues. Rulers have bargained lives as collateral for these rare gems. Even today pearls are outstanding in their position in the wealth of kings and queens. It’s ever so easy to imagine a situation in which peases may be the center of all activities. This is the first winning story; By Elizabeth Peterson 136 N. Belmont Ave. He found the pearl—a lustrous thing palely glimmering—in the dust heap of a gutter int* front of a fashionable Indianapolis club.

EVERY LITTLE HAIRCUT A MEANING OF ITS OWN •Name Your Poison',* Barber’s Edict to Sterner Sex Since Womeniy Whims Have Whetted His Dexterity.

Said to have taken their cue from the ancient Chinese ivory cutters, the modern barbers have become Scalp Sculptors. The next time you slump into a barber chair and nonchalantly mumble, “hair cut, no clippers on the side,” be prepared to talk intelligently' on the periods of haircuts as they have paraded down the highway of time since the stone ages. It will be futile to try to change the subject with, “Have you heard the story about —” because a renaissance has taken place in barber art circles, according to leaders in the

FORD SUIT SKIRMISH UNDERWAY Counsel for Auto Maker and Cooperative Leader Prepare for Trial. Bii United Press DETROIT, Mich., March 11. With the date of trial only three days distant, opposing counsel in Aaron Sapiro’s million dollar libel suit against Henry Ford today wrangled over issues In the case. Sapiro, Chicago lawyer of Jewish descent and organizer of cooperative market organizations among farmers, is suing the automobile maker and his Dearborn Independent for a series of articles which bitterly attacked organization and operation of the cooperatives. William Henry Gallagher, attorney for Sapiro, will base his attack on charges alleged to have been made in Ford’s publication that Sapird is a member of a “Jewish conspiracy” seeking to gain control of agricultural produce marketing. The defense meanwhile is preparing to fight the case with Sapiro’s methods of organization among farmers at issue. It is charged Sapiro dominated and exploited the cooperatives and ‘lwas not actuated by’ unselfish motives.” The trial will open Tuesday in Federal Court here before Judge Fred S. Raymond. A distinguishing array of twenty some odd attorneys are connected with the suit. The defense will be led by Senator James A.' Reed of Missouri, who is reported to receive a retainer of SIOO,OOO. Gallagher of Detroit and Judge Robert S. Marx of Cincinnati will direct the prosecutjon.

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He was ignorant, poor, only ft street sweeper. He did not know the value of his find, and the disappearing form of a fashionable woman entering the club, he did not connect with the pearl he carelessly stuck in his pocket. That night, eating, he tossed the palely shining thing across the red checked table cloth to his little daughter. “There’s a pretty I found for you,” he said. Downtown, at the same hour, a woman was listening almost frantically to detective reports, "We can’t find a clew.” “I’ll raise the reward to $5,000,” she shrilled. “I lost that pretty,” the street sweeper’s little daughter told him the next day. _ “I’ll find you another,” he consoled. Later, a Negro emptying his eart at the city “dumps” caught a faint gleam among some trash and reached for it, but his partner had raised the lever and down beneath the ton of refuse, the gleam disappeared—forever.

International barbers’ union, and barber shop stories have been relegated to the Turkish baths. As usual, the women are responsible. Bobbing hair to suit the tireless imagination of wqmen awakened the imagination of barbers and now you can get a haircut to suit your own sweet style of beauty. . A pompadour that might make your roommate look like Apollo in the Court of the Gods might make you look like a mushroom after the rain. It is to be supposed that Scalp Sculptors will divide Into cults so that hair cuts may become hair cults. The important thing, “How will it affect the price?” has not been announced.

NEW MEMORIAL 'TO SHAKESPEARE Theater Will Replace One Destroyed by Fire. Bu United Press LONDON, March 11.—American as well as British architects are invited to submit designs for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon, to replace the old theater destroyed by fire early last year. A site plan and specifications have been prepared by the Royal Institute of British Architects and will be ready shortly. They will be issued on application by the secretary of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, Stratford. The new theater will cost 1500,000, and towards this the governors already have half the amount in hand. Many subscriptions have been received from the United States. A town-planning scheme of historical importance will be combined with the new theater. This provides for the preservation of the famous Clopton Bridge, which was erected about 1420. Shakespeare constantly traveled across this bridge, and it was also used by Queen Elizabeth on her journeys to Kenilworth. MRS. RYAN SOUGHT Mrs. M. P. Ryan, formerly of San Antonio, Texas, believed to be in Indianapolis, is sought by police here upon receipt of a 'telegram from T. J. Ryan, San Antonlp, saying that Mrs. Ryan's jjusband died Thursday,

DEAIH CONQUERS ALFRED FRICK IN 10MR FIGHT Paralysis Victim Succumbs Despite Efforts of FiftySeven Workers. Bii United Press EVANSTON, 111., March 11.— Death has won its struggle against the loyal, loving hands that for more than 105 hours pumped “borrowed life” into the body of Alfred Frick. The 22-year-old salesman who would have died last Sunday but for the constant, rhythmic pressure on his lungs—applied by fifty-seven of his co-workers fend friends working day and night In fifteen-minute shifts —finally succumbed at 10:12 o’clock last night. Frick had been suffering since Sunday of Landry’s paralysis and for‘most of the time was unable to breathe, sleep or eat. Losing Fight Began The final struggle of Frick’s losing battle started In shortly atfer 9:30 p. m. Doctors noticed a cyanotic condition—where the flesh starts turning blue —set In. Oxygen tanks were brought into use. Frick failed to respond. H. C. Frick, the boy’s father, who has been almost in constant attendance, walked to the bed where young Frick had been propped at a 45 degree angle for four days. “Can I help, son?” the father asked. For the first time in 108 hours young Frick failed to respond to his father’s question. Prior to that time he had always gasped, ‘’push, dad.” At 10 p. m., Chris Hendrickson and Harry Reynolds took up their shift at forcing breathing on Frick. They pushed, relaxed, pushed, relaxed with the same cadence that has been kept up since Sunday, Called to Father Once the pain wracked and exhausted youth, half shook and gasped: “Dad—” But his voice faded away. Doctors said he Vas gone. But for ten minutes more the pressure was kept up. Oxygen was pumped into Frick’s lungs. The two comrades of Frick, tears streaming down their face, refused to give up Finally Dr. T. E. Conley, who was bending over the body,'gave .the announcement that fifty-seven men have been fighting against for five days: “He is dead.” Silence enveloped the little room where the losing battle had been going on. The two workers pressed gently on Frick’s chest once or twice as though loath to believe the task they had worked at could have failed. It was only when Frick’s father collapsed and fell to the floor that all realized an all-powerful death had taken the victim it had beckoned for. Science Wins Medical science won over mother love this morning, when Mrs. H. C. Frick, mother of the dead youth, gave permission to doctors to perform a post-mortem examination. The doctors desired to make the examination in order to learn of the various reactions of the paralysis which brought on Frick’s death. When they made known their desires last night, Mrs. Frick said to her husband: “Herman, please don’t let them do anything. Don’t let them harm his body. He’s still our little boy, you know, even now.” But this morning, in order to prevent —if possible—any recurrence of the dragging death of her son, she gave permission for the post-mor-tem, which will be held later. Frick’s body was taken this morning .o Crystal Lake, 111., his home.

DEALERS PLAN CREDJTCONTROL 250 Retail Food Merchants Attend Meeting. A/ new plan’, of credit control to aid retail food distributers is being planned by the Indianapolis Food Dealers Association, recently formed, according to D. O. Taylor, president. More than 250 attended a meeting Thursday night at the Chamber of Commerce to promote the welfare of individual retail food dealers. C. H. Janssen, National Retail Grocers Association secretary, and Charles W. Myers of Chicago spoke. The association is affiliated with the Associated Retail Merchants Credit Bureau, 311 Chaiftber of Commerce. Association officers: R. D. Hippie, vice president; W. E. Fear, treasurer, and William H. Flanders, secretary manager. * PRIEST IS RECOVERING The Rev. Francis H. Gavisk Reported Improved at Hospital. The Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church, is improving at St. Vincent’6 Hospital, where he has been ill with bronco-pneumonia, attaches at the hospital said today. BULL INJURES MAN Bv United Press KANE, Pa., March Peterson, 77, was recovering today from a fractured arm and severe bruises resulting when he was charged and knocked to the ground by a Holstein bull late yesterday. The enraged animal was driven off before he could gore his victim.

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Bu United Press CAPE JUBY, Morocco, March 11. —After a night-long celebration with the Spanish garrison here, Maj. Todeo Laare Borges and his- three companions, brought here yesterday by Moorish tribesmen, prepared today' to fly to Cass Blanca. An airplane was understood to be en route from that city to take the UruquayMajor Borges said he and his companion aviators were well treated by the tribesmen, who gave them food and tobacco, but -took their money and jewels.

BOY DESCRIBES EjREAM LEADING TO GOLD STRIKE Nineteen-Year-Old NevadsT Youth and Chum Make Rich Find—Badger Hole an Index to Rich Ore.

(Editor’s Note: Frank Horton Jr.. 19. who with his companion. Leonard Traynor, discovered the Weepah cold strike, considered one of the West s newest, tells in an exetusive interview with the United Press how they happened to reach pay ore.) By Frank Horton Jr. - (As Told to the United Tress) TONOPAH, Net'., March 11. Seems funny to admit that the luck my pal and I had was due to a dream that came true, but that’s ,what happened. Leonard Traynor, my chum, and I had been working some claims without reaching pay ore. One night, as we slept under the stars, the dream came to me, and I told it to Leonard. Right off the bat he says: “Let s go out and try our hunch. We aren't doing any good here, anyhow.” ' Describes Dreimi - In my dream I imagined myself going to Weepah, where my dad had been working- some claims for several years. Our provisions were mighty low, but we managed to rustic sopie grub. HUGE THEAIRICAL MERGER FORMED Keith-Albee, Orpheum and Pathe Among Parties. Hi/ United Press NEW YORK, March 11.-*-A mammoth combination of motion picture interests, by which the film interests of the Keith-Albee and Orpheum vaudeville circuits. Pathe Exchange, Inc., and the Producers Distributing Corporation will be merged, was announced today by the Keith interests. The merger, involving millions of dollars, has been predicted hero for several weeks, and final agreements were signed last night. The deal does not include vaudeville circuits of the Keith-Albee and Orpheum organizations. It was said today, only the inotion picture Interests being affected. Details of plans for operating the companies under one management were not made public. No name for the merged interests has yet been decided upon, it was said. Light Wires Are Cut at Marion Bu Timrs Special MARION, Ind.. March 11.—T. F. Hidebrand, Roy Davis, W. R. Townsend and I. J. Townsend, employes of the Indiana General Service Company,' were under arrest today for cutting light wires, controlling the boulevard system of the city, Thursday night. The wires were cut as a result of a controversy between the city and the company in connection with the municipal light plan to -furnish street lights for the city and the city building. Officials of the company said the wires which were cut belonged to them, and cite an ordinance which reads the boulevard -wiring system is not owned by the city. The business district was thrown into darkness. The wires were repaired by the city electrician. The utility workers were arrested when they made another attempt to cut th wires,. i

Major Borges said a broken off distributor in the seaplane carrying the aviators on an attempted transAtlantic flight forced them to descend seventy-five miles from Cape Juby. The plane was crippled in landing on the waves, and after guiding it as close as possible to shore, the four were forced to swim to land, he said. After fighting the surf for half an hour, they reached shore and found Moorish tribesmen awaiting them. I*o Moors believed the plane, bobbing about on the waves several hundred feet from shore, was a fish, Borges sakl.

We were both dead broke and all we could afford was some bologna and cheese and crackers. We got to Weepah finally and managed to live on the lean fare for a couple OT days. But wo didn’t find anything, so we drove back to town. Mother helped us this time, and, with a few square meals in sight, wo wont out to give my hunch another chance. / We did all pur prospecting and digging close tc dad's old workings for I knew that he had run onto streaks of high grade ore. One day Leonard and I noticed some good looking rock just at the edge of an old badger hole. I remembered my father saying that several of Nevada’s biggest gold strikes had been made by a badger. I guess that's what happened when we made this strike. We panned the rock around the badger hole and got some nice strings of gold. We kept on digging and the ore started to get better and better. It was pretty good looking stuff. But It was no until we had dug several feet that we made the real strike. Dazed by Riches When wo opened tip the ledge with all that gold we were dazed. Neither of us could ltelicve our eyes and we didn’t know exactly what to do with it. I thought" maybe I was having another dream, but Leonard kept dancing around like a wild Indian, yelling, “we’r.e set for life.” We finally settled down, filled some old cans with the stuff and started Pack to town. Os course, we staked our claims first. Jin the way to town we decided to keep, the whole thing quiet until my dad got here, but of course It got out when the ore assayed $78,000 a ton. That's all, except that Leonard and I made sure our claims were not on my dad's land, and that from now on I believe in all dreams. Father of Suicide Planning Memorial Bu United Press I NEW YORK. March 11.—Louis Untermeyer, the poet, whose son, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20. committed suicide six weeks ago at Yale University, will endow a fund to educate youth to faith in life in an effort to wipe out suicides by young people, the New Yofk World said today. His, son'S\ suicide hiZs made him deternirted to substitute love for living for lost religious faith of modern youth. NAME LINKS MANAGERS Officials Assigned to Municipal Golf Courses. Golf course managers, who were appointed at the meeting of the park board Thursday afternoon, were formally announced today by R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks. The managers appoolnted were Harry Schopp, South Grove, and general advising supervisor of all municipal courses; Calvin “Chick” Nelson, Riverside: Harold McClure, Coffin, and Herman Uebele, Pleasant Run. The new managers will receive a salary of $2,000 a year and will devote their, entire time to the management of the golf courses. They will not be permitted to give lessons, but will be allowed to hire a professional for that purpose.

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Victims Include Entire Family of Seven / and Father and Five Children in Another Blaze Bu United Press SALTSBURG, l J a., March 11.—An entire family of seven persons and another mother and one child were burned to death when fire destroyed the home of Clarence Marsh in Tunnclton, six miles from here, today.

The dead: Clarence Marsh, -Uk Mrs. Clarence Marsh, 40; five Marsh children, ranging in age from 1 to 12 years: Mrs. Harry Montgomery 21; baby of Mrs. Montgomery, one year old. The injured: Harry Montgomery, burns on face

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BROWN’S MILLS. N. J.. March 11.—A laborer and five of his seven children were burned to death in their home today. William Stevenson poured kerosene into the kitchen range. An explosion followed, and the house went up In flames. Using long poles and rakes, firemen aiyl State troopers removed the charred bodies from the embers. ORDINANCE MAY BE PAY REMEDY Buser Seeks Amicable Settlment With Policewomen. An ordinance providing that the fifteen police women, who have served since Jan. 1 without pay. will be appointed as regular patrolmen on the police force us vacancies occur is being drafted by City Controller William C. Buser for presentation to the council at Its next meeting. “I think that this will take care of the women and their pay and satisfy all cohcerned,” Buser said. “Mayor Duvall is very much in favor of the ordinance.”^ An ordinance passed by the council over the mayor’s veto sought to transfer s2Sfl)oo from the board of works funds to pay the women. The controller refused to recognize it.

GOVERNOR SIGNS JUDGES’ PAY BILL Twenty House Measures, Six Senate Get 0. K. The hill authorizing Marlon County commissioners, on petition of twenty free holders, to increase the salary of judges of Circuit, Superior, Criminal, Probate and Juvenile Courts so a maximum of SIO,OOO a year was among twenty-nine measures signed by Governor Jackson today. Twenty House bill, six Senate bills and three Semite Joint resolutions were signed. The utilities question was touched by two resolutions signed: one, by Senator Russell Harrison, jndlanapolis. requesting Congress to limit Jurisdiction of Federal Courts in utility rate cases to Instances where the utilities have exhausted remedies in local, Btate courts; and the other, by Senator Sumner Clancy, Indianapolis, requesting Indiana members of Congress to introduce and support legislation which would prohibit public service corporations from appealing public service commission orders to Federal Courts under the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments unless It is shown the rates are confiscatory of the utility property when calculated on the basis of honest investment in the property. The House measure creating a criminal bureau of investigation and identification was signed, as was the -bill authorizing acceptance by Indiana University of the William A. Coleman hospital gift, amounting to M 50.000. Os leading interest among measures not yet signed are the Hfms "mayor protection bill," the Huffman "medical Injunction" measure, and Mils for the licensing of barbers and Cosmetologists. WILL HONOR SHERWOOD Lunelieon Saturday for Retiring Head of Public Instruction, A luncheon honoring Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, retiring State superintendent of public Instruction, will be given at the Lincoln Saturday noon. The program will he in charge of President Edward Elliott of Purdue. • The arrangement committee is composed of Superintendent W. W* | Borden, South Bend. Dean 11. L Smith. Indiana University, RimSert Hougham, superintendent of Johnson County schools, and Eugene B. Butler, assistant State inspector. BRUTAL ATTACK, REPORT W* But Police Ait Unable to Lorate Victim or Assailant. Police emergency squads searched the vicinity of Fifteenth and Lewis Sts., late Thursday night for a woman said to have been attacked and beaten by a Negro, but failed to find any trace of her or her assailant. C. L. Roush, 819 N. Keystone Ave., told Lieutenant Fred Drinkut that In driving past the intersection he. I saw the woman lying in the street' and a Negro man striking her.

and hands. The tiro followecMhc funeral yesterday of a sister of Mrs. Marsh. The fire, which started at about 1 a. m., had gained such headway when discovered that it wits impossible to rescue any ks the persons.

The dead: Stevenson and five Stevenson children, Ernest, 11; Shinn, 12: Alfred. 9; Mildred, 6, and Lillian, one month. Three members of the family, Mrs. Stevenson, and two of tho children escaped. Clara, 20, who Jumped from the second story broke both hips and is expected to die. Most of the Stevenson household were asleep when tho eldest daughter, Clara, went downstairs to heat # a nursing bottle for tho Infant, Lillian. It was about 1 o'clock In i tho morning. Clara had difficulty in heating the) bottle on the coni fire in the range. She asked her father to help her, i He poured kerosene In tho stove and | an explosion followed that shook the' house. Stevenson and his duughtcr I were enveloped in Ihimes, but they j thought only of each other, and tho father tried to save tho daughter while she was trying to help him. Coolidge Receives Hoosier Invitation 'l'iines W’nsh Unit nil Bureau. 1.122 Ycie > or> A renut WASHINGTON, March 11. Seventy-eight Calumet boosters arrived hero today, intent on getting President Coolklge to ngree to dedicate in person tho new Wicker Memorial fark at Hammond, Ind, I They arrived on a special train, christened tho.“Coolldge-to-Calumct” j special. A conference with Coolidge | was arranged by Senator Watson ! and Representative Wood, who met ; the delegation at tho train. The President took the invitation under advisement. Dr. 11. E. Kharrep of Hammond Is general chairman ct tho party, and Mayors S. E. Williams of Gary, A. E. Tunkhum of Hammond, It. P. Hale of East Chieago, W. fierage of Whiting, Ed Glover of Crown Point, K. Broertjes of Munster, Krootz of Highland, and Jaranoski of Calumet City were Included. The President lmd nlre uly declined an Invitation for Memorial day, on the ground that he must be present at Memorial day exercises at Ailing,‘on Cemetery, here. BANS SOFT COAL USE Steam and Hot Water Heating Plants Must I so Coke After April 15. Use of soft coal in nil steam and hot water heating plants of the city is banned after April 15, by order of City Smoko Inspector James Knox, issued today. Knox Is campaigning for the use of coke, and coke only, in hciting plants and will insist on strict olc servance of the rule in mid-April. "We have suffered from smoke all winter by tho burning of soft coal,” Knox said, “but T ani going to stop it pow. By putting nil hot water and steam heaters on a coke basis'* 1 5 per cent of tho smoks will be eliminated." PHONE VETS at”PARTY Kienfi, Marks slxt Anniversary of TANARUS Ir'phone Invention. Veteran Indiana Bell Telephone Company employes and guests enjoyed a banquet and entertainment Thursday evening H t the' Chamber of Commerce under auspices of tho Hoosier State phapter No. 15 of tho Telephone Pioneers of America. -The occasion was the fifty-first anniversary of the Invention of the telephone. , "• T. Allen, Hoosier chapter presl. dant. made the welcoming address. Mrs. Demnrchus Brown talked on. "Sketches Froai a South African Book.** Members of entertainment committee: W. F. Johnson, chairman; Anne Dugan, H. W. JUurtMll, Edith Timmerman and Harry Shaw, ARREST BELIEVED HOAX Eugene Paynter IJsted MbwMng When Not Found In C ity Prison, i Eugene Paynter. 215 N. Capitol Ave.. was listed missing by police today when Mrs. Paynter, informed thnt her husband had been arrested, visited police headquarters and found no record of tho arrest. The woman said two men poing as detectives onme to the Paynter home Thursday at 11 p. m. and told her husband they were going to arrest him for pawning a watch not paid for. ‘ They left, taking her husband with them, liefore she reached the door. CASHIER KIHS~~SELF Hunker llill Bank Is Closed for Day. fill f nit id Press PERU. ind.. March 11.—A. M. Zehrlng, 42, cashier of the titate bank ut Bunker Hill, eight miles south of Peru, shot and killed himself today in tho bank building. The hank was closed for the day. Nothing Is known yet aa to the condition of Zehrlng’a account.