Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1927 — Page 6

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Be Our Guest at State Title Bee on Friday Night Indiana University Sends Professor Here as Official Pronouncer for Indiana Spelling Championship Contest at Shortridge High School.

Indiana is about to select her champion speller. If you've nothing more important to and it’s quite likely that you haven’t—we invite you to “sit in” on the session. It isn’t often that you have the opportunity to attend an oldfashioned spelling bee. Perhaps you’ve never attended one. Most people haven’t. So The Times is including you on its guest list at the Indiana State Spelling Bee, Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School. The time is Friday, the hour 8 p. m. Invitation General The invitation is general and of course there is no charge. But because of the limited space in Caleb Mills auditorium, seats are available for only 1,500. Others must stand, and we are sorry. Those who attend wfll find It a most enjoyable evening, for they will hear twelve champion spellers battle with words until only one—the State champion—remains standing. The champion will represent Indiana *in the National Spelling Bee in Washington the week of Juno 20, when champions from many States will compete for the national title and a first prize of SI,OOO in gold. Additional prizes, totallling $1,500, will be divided among other winners. From McCall Speller Words for the State Bee have been chosen from the McCall Speller, standard text book in Indiana grade schools. The list includes easy words, words that are difficult and words that are tricky. The contest will force the competitors to the limit and it will boa battle royal. Prof. Carl G. F. Franzen, professor of education Indiana University, will serve as the official pronouncer at the State Bee, Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, sponsor of the contest, announced today. Indiana University is sending Professor Franzen to Indianapolis to serve as pronouncer because of the university's interest in the educational value of the spelling bee to the State. Professor Franzen has served as “caller” In other spelling bees and ha§ expressed deep interest in the selecting of a State spelling cham- ——— —i

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pion, from among grade school spellers. The contest -will be in charge of Arthur L. Gilliom, attorney general of Indiana, Judge Julius Travis, of the Indiana State Supreme Court and Charles Miller, superintendent of public instruction in Indiana. They will serve as judges, and their decisions in the contest will be final. Rules governing the contest have been announced. Contest to Be Oral. Champions of Marion, Bartholomew, Franklin and Grant counties and the eight zone champions of the Indianapolis public schools will enter the State bee. The contest will be oral, and will continue until eleven liaVe been eliminated through the misspelling of words. The Indianapolis Times, promoter of the spelling contest program in the Indiana schools, will send the State champion to the National Spelling Bee. Kxpenses of the winner and a chaperon to Washington and during their stay there will be paid by The Times. They will be taken on- tours of the national capital and places of historic significance in and near there. A complete program of entertainment has been arranged. Winner of the title of National Spelling Champion, in the contest being fostered by the Louisville Cour-ier-Journal, The Indianapolis Times, and other leading newspapers, will receive the gold award of SI,OOO. Every contestant will win a prize, the lowest being $35. The “runner-up” will receive SSOO.

THREE DIE WHEN AUTO HITS FLIER Indianapolis Woman One Victim of Smash-Up. Bu Time s Rnerinl PLAINFIELD. May 19.—Three persons were killed here late Wednesday, when the auto In which they were traveling to Indianapolis from Putnamville crashed into the Highlander, crack T. H., I. & E. traction flyer, one mile west of here. The dead are: Mrs. Disa Clemons, 34, 610 N. New Jersey St., Indianapolis. Lloyd Herrin, 17, Mark, Ky. Arthur Harris, 31, Ma-k, Ky. Motornmn Walter A lba ugh of Greencastle said that the machine was speeding toward a crossing, apparently not aware of the interurban, and when it tried to miss the car it skidded into the slippery grass of an adjacent field and then crashed under the interurban. Mrs. Clemons was returning to her home in Indianapolis after visiting her son, Louis B. Hall, who is serving a term at the penal farm on a liquor charge. The bodies were taken to the W. A. Rushden undertaking establishment here pending orders from relatives. GHOST GRAY SKY SHOW MOCKERY (Continued From Page 1) whitehaired, stood out in contrast to the surroundings. Somebody’s mother, pernaps. One house at 225 Keystone Ave., was practically stripped of its clapboards, leaving only the skelton. On a roof of a bungalow, a piece of timber, about 12x12, lay, thrown there from possibly a great distance. District Wrecked The business district along Washington St. was wrecked. Garages and stored automobiles were destroyed. A dentist’s chair was practically all that remained in a dental office. Darrah’s drug store was ruined. The Pennsylvania round house lay crumpled over engines and, other railway materials. The nose of one locomotive pointed its way majestically out of the wreckage—steel still defying the ele’ftients. The Dog and the Cat And then in a little tree there was a black cat. A dog sat beneath, whining, watching. Yesterday the cat might have evoked sympathy. The cat meowed, the dog whinect and the jjersons unnoticing them, went about, finding what they could of their belongings.

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T. M. White had to crawl through a pile of debris hunting a safe in what was once his public garage at 321S E. Michigan St., to get a large sum qf money which he had left there overnight.

FIRE HOUSE FIRST AID Station No. 20 Turned Into Emrrgenoy Hospital. Fire Engine House No. 20. at 352 N. Beville Ave., was turned into an , emergency hospital for the care of j victims of the storm in that section ; The “hospital” was under super- j vision of the city hospital staff under Dr. William A. Docppers.

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atfd checks in a mad rush to get ta the street floor when the tornado swept through Washington St. Tha hotel rocked perceptibly, Gerritt M. Bates, of the management reported. Broken windows in the elevator shaft through which came heavy wind, temporarily balled elevator* service.

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