Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1928 — Page 3

OCX- 2, 1928.

PYtHIANS open ! SIXTIETH GRAND LODGEJARLEY I, State Delegates Halt Convention Today to Visit Lafayette. Business of the Grand Lodge of Indiana of the Knights of Pythian was suspended this afternoon when 1,500 members and delegates journeyed to the Pythian Home at Lafayette, Ind., by special train. The home under the direction of William B. Gray, superintendent, welcomed visitors. Lafayette civic and fraternal groups aided in the celebration of the Grand Lodge visit. The sixtieth annual convention opened in Indianapolis this morning in the grand lodge hall at the Pythian Bldg., with routine business and reports of officers. First Night Session The first night session in many years will be held tonight in the Grand Lodge hall for members and their friends. Alva M. Lumpkin, Columbia, S. C., supreme chancellor of the United States, will be the principal speaker, Levi Hooker, grand master-at-arms; Charles S. Loy, grand prelate; Samuel L. Trabue, grand vice chancellor, will speak. Leona Burket, grand chief of the Pythian Sisters, will be one of the speakers. Carl R. Mitchell, grand keeper of records and seals, will call the roll of members who have died in the last year. Prominent members will pay tribute to individual leaders who have died. Election will mark the closing day of the convention Wednesday. A contest will be staged for the offices of grandl outer guard and grand inner guard. Edwin R. Thomas, Ft. Wayne, and J. Burdette Little, Indianapolis, are candidates for grand inner guard and A. C. Duddleston, Terre Haute; Harry C. Sullivan, Vevay, and Walter Domer, Elkhart, are candidates for grand outer guard. Rename Logansport Man John H. Frank, Lebanon, and Henry S. Bailey, Peru, are contesting for the position of trustee. Trabue will become grand chancellor, replacing Dolph E. Farr, who will become past grand chancellor. Hooker will move from grand prelate to grand vice chancellor, and Dr. Colon V. Dunbar, grand inner guard, will advance to grand prelate. Mitchell and Henry Kammerer, Logansport, grand keeper of the exchequer, will be re-elected. Levi Hooker was elected brigadier general of the Indiana Brigade Assembly of uniform rank, Monday, replacing William B. Gray, who resigned after seventeen years service. Uniform Rank Officers Other officers named: C. C. Ritter, Indianapolis, Colonel of the first regiment; Leo Stanley, Indianapolis, major of the second battalion; C. A. Phelps, Newcastle, colonel of the third regiment; John W. Garrett, Wilkinson, major of the second battalion; T. P. Mathies, New Albany, colonel of the fourth regiment; G. T. Bartlett, Seymour, lieutenant of the fourth regiment. W. B. Thorley, Jeffersonville, major of the fourth regiment; Charles L. Keifner, Terre Haute, colonel of the sixth regihent; Lee Ellis. Sulivan, lieutenant colonel of the sixth regiment; Horace C. Manning. Logansport, lieutenant colonel of the eighth regiment; H. W. Heine, Lafayette, major of the second battalion. Shambah Temple of Dokkies entertained members of the uniform rank Monday night at Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio St., at a ceremonial. The two-day convention of the grand temple of Pythian Sisters will open Thursday. LAUDS JACKSON REGIME; SCORES DEMOCRATS Irvington G. O. P. Club Hears Talk by Attorney. Governor Ed Jackson’s administration was commended and Democratic campaign orators taken to task for their “generalities upon Republican corruption,” by Oscar Ratts, attorney and former public service commissioner, addressing the Irvington Republican Club Monday night. Ratts challenged Democrats to cite an example of official corruption by any Republican office holder. “Rumors of corruption,” he said, “were started by an insane man trying to get himself out of prison, and there always is somebody ready to take advantage of such a situation to advance their own selfish interests.” J. Clyde Hoffman, candidate for State Senator, and Frank E. Wright, candidate for State Representative, will be the speakers next Monday night, Claude H. Anderson, club president, announced. CANDIDATES INVITED McKinley Club to Hear G. O. P. Speakers Tonight. Harry G. Leslie, Republican gubernatorial nominee, United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, and Congressman Ralph E. Updike have been invited to address the McKinley Club, 2217 E. Michigan St., tonight. All Marion County Republican candidates have been invited and will be introduced. Albert J. Middleton, Ninth Ward Republican chairman is to preside. Petitions to Establish Bus Line James W. Powell, Princeton, Ind., has petitioned the Public Service Commission to permit him to operate a bus line from Oakland City j to Evansville. Towns to be served, besides the terminal points, would be Somerville, Mackey and Buckskin in Gibson County; Elbersfield in Warrick County; Gabloin and McCutchender in Vanderburgh County. Cleaners’ Office Entered A burglar early today broke into the Virginia Smith Cleaners office, 935 N. Illinois St., and removed a panel from the door of C. F. Adams House Furnishing Company store, 937 N. Illinois St. No loot was taken.

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An Indianapolis man, J. Burdette Little, is a candidate for the office of grand inner guard at the election of officers of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, Wednesday morning. Little has been active in Pythian work for a number of years and has held several important offices in the subordinate lodge. Both his father and mother were active members of Pythian organizations.

AUTO PUTS OUT STREETLIGHTS Smashes Into Pole; Busses Collide. A Pontiac sedan with an Ohio license crashed into an electric light pole at Fall Creek Blvd. and Illinois St. early today and put out street lights on the boulevard and Meridian St. for seven blocks. Three men and three women in the car had left when police arrived. Flames shooting from a short circuit in the pole threatened them as they crawled from the machine, witnesses said. Police took the car to the Market St. garage where it will be held until the driver calls for it. J. E. McGuinness, 45 W. TwentySeventh St., telephoned police this afternoon he believed the car was his, stolen from his garage during the night. A broken steering knuckle caused a Peoples Motor Coach Company bus, driven by W. A. Haile, 612 N. Delaware St., to collide with a bus driven by Robert Clements, 1101 E. Michigan St„ at Arsenal and New York Sts. Monday night. George Harris, 63, of 1040 Virginia Ave., was injured slightly when struck by a car driven by Charles Wysong, Lynhurst Dr., on W. Washington St. Jean Lewis, 20, of 1017 N. Seventeenth St., suffered a sprained left knee when the car in which she was riding with Jack Betman, Ft. Harrison, collided with an auto at New York St. and Euclid Ave. Patrolman Joe Stutesman received a sprained back Monday afternoon when the car in which he was riding was struck at 130 W. Washington St. by another. SEEK MURDER JURY Place Reecer on Trial for Stafford Shooting. The Marion County Criminal Court is plural today and probably will be for the remainder of the week. Because of the heavy arraignment Monday, Special Judge Frank A. Symiiits moved his jury in the arson case against Clarence E. Armstrong, 811 N. Dearborn St., to Superior Court Four. Instead of returning to Criminal Court location today, this case remained in Room Four while a jury murder trial started in Criminal Court with Judge James A. Collins presiding. Jury is being selected to try Andrew Reecer, charged with the fatal shooting of William Stafford, June 3, in the home of Mrs. Sylvia Stafford, 311 Cincinnati St. The State challenged Andrew Underwood, 627 Stevens St., as a talesman. The State rested in the Armstrong arson case. The defense opened with k series of character witnesses, including former Superior Court .Tudge Sidney S. Miller, Howard Bates, attorney, and Ward B. Hiner, head of the Red Ball Transit pany.socFaljst^laborparty GETS PLACE ON BALLOTS The Socialist-Labor party today filed its petition, containing the required 500 names, which places its National and State candidates on the ballots for the November election, with Otto Lee, State printing board secretary. Verne L. Reynolds, Michigan, is the presidential candidate; Charles Ginsberg, Indianapolis, the candidate for United States Senator and Cassmer Benward, Ft. Wayne, the candidate for Governor. Five parties now have filed for places on the ballots. The other four are Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, Socialist and Labor parties. Petitions must be filed by Oct. 17. The National party and the Workers’ party plan to file tickets. v Arrest Man Hunting Wife Frank Coleman, 37, of 414 N. East St., was arrested early today on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct when the police were called to 210 S. Pine St. The police allege Coleman was cursing and threatening people at the Pine St. house when they arrived. Coleman said he went to the house in search of his wife.

ESTIMATE 1928 POPULATION OF CITY 382,800 Census Bureau Figures Show Gain of 66,354 Inhabitants Since 1920. Indianapolis has gaineed 66,354 population in the last eight years, the conservative estimate of the United States census bureau as of Ju’y 1, 1928, made public today shows. The census bureau estimates the city’s inhabitants at 382,100, as compared with the 1920 official figure of 315.746. Indianapolis still is the twentyfirst city in population in the country, having outdistanced Rochester, N. Y., since 1920, and having been passed by the narrow margin of 1,100 persons since 1920 by Seattle, Wash. The census estimate is far below other estimates recently made. The R. L. Polk Company in compiling the 1928 directory estimated the Indianapolis figure at 408.000. This is arrived at by multiplying the number of heads of families by the average number of family members for cities of this character. Ft. W’ayne Second Largest The census shows Ft. Wayne to have advanced into the hundred thousand class with 105,300, giving it a comfortable lead over Evansville, as the second city of the State. The 1920 census showed the two in a race for second place. Evansville now is estimated third with 98,100; Gary fourth with 89,100; South Bend fifth with 86,100, and Terre Haute sixth with 73,500. East Chicago climbed from 35,967 in 1920 to 50,800; Hammond from 36,004 to 56,000; Muncie from 36,524 to 46,800, and Kokomo from 30,067 to 40,400. Only cities of over 30,000 are included in the estimate. Estimate Believed Low The Census Bureau explains its estimates are based, in most cases, on the assumption that the annual increase in population between 1920

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Candidate Attacks G. 0. P. Standpat Policy in His Rochester Speech. By United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 2. Governor Alfred E. Smith will catch a late train today for Albany for a few days’ rest from his strenuous Western campaign. He closed his first campaign trip here Monday night and opened his campaign for his own State, dramatically, with an analysis of his record as Governor and a denunciation of Republicans as “stand pat and reactionary” and as obstructors of his “progressive program,” in a speech to the Democratic convention. Referring to the Republican rcord in New York State, Smith said: “Nothing would be more regrettable than to let the Republican record I have laid out before you tonight get the approval of the people of the biggest State in the Union. “It would in effect be saying to a political party—go ahead, it makes very little difference to the rank and file of the people where you stand on anything; take any kind of position you like and when the time comes, by the force of numbers we will send you back into office. “This is what it means; it means what Senator Moses of New Hampshire, the permanent chairman at the Kansas City convention, said: Because there are five million more Republicans in this country than there are Democrats, we defy you. Bring on your candidate and we will bury him. We do not care whether his name is Brown, Jones, Robinson or Smith. “That is the attitude of the Republican party in this State.” Two Local Men Accused SHELBXVILLE. Ind., Oct. 2—Refusal of Orville Bray and John Vaul, Indianapolis, to pay for coffee and sandwiches served them in the confectionery of Nicholas Rusie, preceded a fight with Rusie, who caused their arrest on larcency charges. They gave bond of SIOO each for appearance at trial Oct. 11.

‘PAID gesture: Gi Os P. BRANDS FARMER RALLY Republicans Scorn ‘Smith Demonstration’ for W. H. Settle. A paid “Smith demonstration” was j the Republican view today of the ; appearance Monday of 160 Indiana Farm Bureau Federation members before the bureau’s directors here, bearing a resolution defending President William H. Settle for his indorsement of the farm relief pledges in the national Democratic platform. Implication that the delegation j that appeared before the directors and some hundred others who at- } tended a meeting at the Denison, I when the resolution was adopted, ! were financed by Smith campaign I funds in their pilgrimage from all parts of Indiana was contained in comment today from John G. Brown, director of the agricultural department of the Republican State committee. “If they continue to use the $50,000 understood to have been conj tributed to the A1 Smith campaign I fund to getr the support of the In- ! diana farmers in staging such dem- | onstrations as this,” Brown comj mented, “it will require less to con- | duct the Republican campaign from J this on. ! “The farmers of Indiana are not j a weak-minded class of men, which I will be proved by election returns. ; I think I know thejn, for I have associated with them for many years. Indiana farmers, taking them as a whole, are the most conservative, and as high a class of men as can be found in the country.” Answering criticism that he had been fighting the farm bureau, Brown said neither he nor his field agents have spoken disparagingly of the bureau, but on the other hand have stressed the necessity for a strong farm organization. Meanwhile, farm bureau directors proceeded with their quarterly ses-

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John Wilkins Williams, veteran Indianapolis insurance man, who died Sunday at his home, 1433 N. Pennsylvania St. Mr. Williams was manager of the Merchants and Manufacturers insurance bureau. sion at headquarters in the Lemcke Bldg., putting a final touch to their "harmony program” by accepting the resignation of Everett McClure, director from the Tenth Farm Bureau district. McClure, blamed for abetting criticism of Settle for his advocacy of farm relief along lines of the McNary-Haugen bill, announced his resignation last week to become a speaker for the Republican State committee and to work for Herbert Hoover’s election. A committee report tendered the farm delegation here Monday denied that the Farm Bureau Federation ever had given or pledged assistance to the Independent Equality for Agriculture league, a Smith organization having headquarters in the English. Bureau directors today set Mopday and Tuesday, Nov. 26 and 27, as dates for the annual bureau convention here, and conducted routine business.

DAILEY SLAPS NIGH GOST OF G. 0, P, REGIME Carries Campaign Into Putnam County; Due Here Wednesday. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 2. The four-fold increase in the cost of State government since the last Democratic rule “hasn’t been worth it,” declared Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor, carrying his campaign into Putnam County with an address here Monday night. He was introduced by Judge James P. Hughes of the Putnam Circuit 4Jourt. Asserting he favored rigid economy in government and reduction of taxes, the nominee cited figures to show that in the seven years of Democratic rule before 1916, State government spent $68,000,000, while in the seven years of Republican control up to 1927, the State spent $295,000,000. Making frank admission that Democrats alone can not hope to effect a political cleanup in Indiana without Republican help. Dailey pleaded for the support of “honest upright Republicans.” Recounting the acts of public officials which have “blackened the good name of Indiana and held it up to ridicule,” Dailey declared: “Whenever a man or a party has been intrusted with the public affairs of the State and abuses this trust, he should be driven from office. The Democratic nominee declared for honest allocation of State funds; elimination or consolidation of boards and commissions’ where possible; decentralization of government to provide more home rule; revamping of the Public Service Commission; elimination of municipally owned utilities from commission control and employment of an assistant to the attorney general to represent municipalities and taxpayers in utility hearings before the commission.

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