Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1929 — Page 5

FIRST STEPS ARE TAKEN TO UNITE LURCHES Presbyterians and Methodists Are Named on Committees at Parley. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Jan. 31. Uniting of the 2,000,000 members of the Presbyterian church, north, with the 4.000,000 members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and possibly with other denominations, seemed a step nearer today. Accredited clergymen delegates of the churches met here and Wednesday night appointed two committees to devise methods of procedure and set further meeting dates in connection with the “unity” movement. A report adopted by the delegates eai’s upon the newly formed committees "to support so far as possible the effort for the organic union of all evangelic churches. ’ This declaration, it was emphasized, is virtually an invitation to other Christian demoinations to become interested in the subject of unity. Dogmatic faith in the divinity of Christ is the sole requisite of a sect to participate. One committee will seek a solution on administration and property rights, and the other will act on doctrine and policy. A Presbyterian, the Rev. Dr. H. C. Swearingen of St. Paul, is chairman of the former committee. A member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Bishop William F. McConnell. Washington. D. C., is chairman of the second committee. Members of Dr. Swearingen’s committee are the Rev. Dr. A. Vance. Detroit; the Rev. Dr. W. O. Thompson. Columbus. Presbyterians, ao r Bishop F. D. Leete, Omaha; Bisiiop Herbert Welch, Pittsburgh; Dean James A. James, Evanston, HI., and Attorney E. R. Conder, Indianapolis, Methodist Episcopalians. On Bishop McConnell’s committee are the Rev. Dr. Ray Allen, Buffalo, and F. A. Horne, a layman of New York, both of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Dr. J Ross Stevenson, president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J.; the Rev. Dr. Louis S. Mudge. Philadelphia; the Rev. Dr. W. P. Merrill, and Robert E. Speer, both of New York. Paupers May Be Moved Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 31.—Tippecanoe county commissioners propose that all of the thirty-four inmates of the Frank Wetzel Christian Mission here be sent back to the counties from which they came, except three from Tippecanoe county, who will be sent to the county infirmary. Until last September the Wetzel place was self-supporting. Frank Wetzel, ouperinter dent, died and since then the county has aided in keeping up the mission.

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Suit Yourself Wear Spats on Goulashes to ‘Strange Interlude’ If So Inclined.

BY RADER WINGET THE coming of “Strange Interlude” to Indianapolis today throws the “well-dressed man” and the “better-dressed woman” into a quandary. Even Emily Post or Beau Brummei would be perplexed. The oftasked question—“ Should she ask him in? ’—becomes a nothing beside the query, “How shall I dress for the ‘Strange Interlude’?” It is well known that one should dress formally for an opening night at the theater. Many have gained fame for doing it. Consider "Diamond Jim” Brady— Solomon in all his glory did not button his vest. But how can one dress formally for evening at 5:30 in the afternoon? Or how could one “in the know” u_ess informally at a first night attraction of the magnitude of “Strange Interlude?” an * * TAKE my own case. If I dressed formally, imagine my embarrassment when stepping from a bus on the Circle in the midst of hurrying throngs homeward bound—wing collar thrusting my chin skyward—patent leather shoes digging the snow—and top hat glinting in the last rays of setting sun. Or if I go informally, I would feel as out of place as a bottle of near-beer at an Elks’ picnic. A third theory advanced by fashion experts is to go informally for the first half of the play, then run home during the interlude and “play fireman,” dressing formally for the last half. But without benefit of clergy or even ten easy lessons on the s.xopnone by mail, I have solved the problem. a a a SINCE the play is in both afternoon and evening, I will dress in both afternoon and evening clothes. My ensemble is as follows: High hat, frock coat, wing collar, soft shirt, red four-in-hand tie, brown trousers, goulashes, and a cane. Spats over the goulashes and an eyeglass will be optional. "Quick, Jeeves, the smelling salts.” Two Sets of Twin Calves By United Press HILLSBORO. Ind.. Jan. 31. Daisy, 3-year-old pure bred Jersey cow, has just given birth to her second set of twin calve heifers. She is the property of Austin Livengood, five and a half miles south of here. Hotel May Be Open March 15 Bit United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan, 31. The new Hotel Graham is expected to be ready for formal opening by March 15. The structure is eight stories high. ,

CIGARET TAX IS ADVOCATED FOR SCHOOLJONEY Demands for State Aid Are on Increase and Fund Is Insufficient. Establishment of a sinking fund to meet increasing requirements of state aid schools was a suggestion before the ways and means committee of the house of representatives today, as it weighed a proposal to take care of the present deficiency by a tax on cigarets. “This proposed cigaret tax would help immediate conditions,” Representatives J. H. Lowry of Indianapolis, told the committee Wednesday, “but it seems to me that in view of certain increase in demand for state aid, we’ll eventually have to create a sinking fund through a general luxury tax or some other means.” Drastic need for increased revenues for the aid of schools in the poorer counties of the state was outlined by Harry Kirk, state aid auditor. Deficiencies in thirty-two state aid counties has run as high as $69,000 in a single county, he said. Number on Increase Whereas 125 school corporations took advantage of the state aid of 1921, the number has grown to 240, Kirk said. State aid last year, he said, amounted to $1,162,207, administered on the basis of 83 cents for every $1 of legitimate vouchers presented by trustees of the needy school corporations. “One-fifth of the school townships receiving state aid virtually are bankrupt,” Kirk declared. “The deficiency has increased because assessed valuation of property in the state has decreased, school corporations have received ’less money, the state has received less, communities demand better schools, school terms are longer, more children are going through school and transportation costs have increased.” Need Forest Fire Fund Representative Harlan R. Denton of Owen and Putnam counties, author of the cigaret tax bill, said his measure suggested one way of meeting the deficiency and that he was willing to have any other means substituted for it, if a better one could be found. The ways and means committee heard explanations from conservation department officials of the need for the $25,000 appropriation requested in the house bill creating a forest fire prevention division and decided to approve the bill with a $15,000 allowance. Officers of the Indiana Workers for the Blind requested support for their blind pension bill, which would extend pensions of not to exceed S3O a month to approximately 1,500 blind in the state.

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AIMEE KIDNAP CASEISSIFTED Evangelist Hears Details Retold at Assembly Quiz. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31.—Aimee Semple McPherson, head of the Four Square Gospel, today was to hear more of the purported intimate details of her mysterious abduction three years ago. The auburn-haired evangelist, in constant attendance at the special state assembly hearing, already has listened to considerably more of her famous sur-to-sand trip of 1926 than to any posible grounds for the impeachment of Carlos Hardy, superior judge, the obvious purpose of the present sessions. Mrs. McPherson has heard it said that dismissal of legal proceedings following her asserted kidnaping cost her SIOO,OO, that three newspapermen were “her deliverers” and that Judge Hardy and others used her Angelus temple raido for political purposes. Os the actual purpose of the hearing—to determine if the jurist accepted $2,500 in attorney’s fees

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mother of Mrs. McPherson, told him that the evangelist spent SIOO,000 ridding herself of the annoying conspiracy charges which arose directly out of her disappearance and reappearance. The three newspaper men whsr

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acted as Mrs. McPherson's “deliverers” and aided her in getting &H charges dismissed were named by Mrs. Kennedy as Ralph Jordan, who later became business manager of Angelus temple; Morris La vine and George Taviner, Marek said.