Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1929 — Page 2

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3,000 ATTEND CONVENTION OF EASTERN STAR Feporfs Are Submitted at Morning Session: Vote This Afternoon. Fifty-fifth annual session of Indiana Errand chapter. Order of Eastern Star, opened this morning at Murat temple with more titan three thousand members present, 1.100 of them delegates. During the morning session talks were given by Mr Ella Smyser and Mrs. Georgie Bardsley, past grand matrons. Everett M. Lenon, Evansville. worthy grand patron, gave a toast. *o the grand officers The invocation was given by Mrs. Mabel McCormick. Vincennes, and the Rev. Lewis Brown, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Indianapolis. The associate matron's station, vacated by Mrs Edith Mclntire of Grcensburg. was filled by the temporary appointment of Mrs. Jeanette Bunneil of Plymouth, past grand matron. Mrs. Alberta Huffman of Rorkport, filled lie vacancy in the office of grand conductress, caused by the death of Mrs. Lucille Johnston of Vincennes. Charles L. La Follette, grand master of the Indiana grand lodge, F. Ac A. M. delivered the address of welcome, followed bv the reports of the grand matrons, grand patron and seeretarv. Addrf ;cs by Mrs. Susie Masters, worthy grand matron, and Everett M. Lenon. worthy grand patron, concluded the morning session. The afternoon session will consider reports of committees until 3 o'clock, when the election will be held. Mrs. Abbie Hanson, associate giand conductress, is expected to be elevated to the station of grand matron without opposition, succeeding Mrs. Masters, who retires from office. The offices of associate grand matron, grand conductress and associate grand conductress are expected to be contested more closely. Several Have Chance Those conceded as likely to have the better chance of election are Mrs. Prances Curtis, grand Ada. Motion; Mrs. Leola La Monte, grand Ruth, Anderson; Mrs. Daisy Crist, grand Esther, Crawfordsvi’le; Mrs. Grace Phillips, grand Martha. Hobart; Miss Mabel Carrithers, grand Electa. Princeton. Mrs. Blanche Regctt, grand secretary, is unopposed for re-election. No opposition is expected to develop against Dr. Herbert Sears, associate grand patron, Danville, to succeed Everett M. Lenon as grand patron. A complimentary vote usually is cast for the grand marshal, but no organized effort to defeat Ura Seeger. grand chaplain. West Lebanon. as associate grand patron is looked for. At 8 o'clock tonight the 1928-29 matrons and patrons of Marion county will present the biblical drama, "Queen Esther," at the Murat theater for the entertainment of members of the Eastern Star., Continue on Thursday The session will continue through Thursday with business of interest to the order. The newly elected grand matron will make public her list of apDointments and grand deputies nt the opening of the afternoon session and the 1929 session will close with the installation. Friday the annual pilgrimage will be made to the Indiana Masonic home at Franklin, where the officers and delegates will inspect the home. Delegates and visitors are expected to attend a meeting Friday night of Naomi chapter, in the Masonic temple. Illinois and North streets, to witness the conferring of the degree and attend the thirtysixth anniversary of the chapter.

SCIENCE LECTURE TOPIC rrcfetiMtr Tells of Nov. Discoveries in the Nature of I.iglht. What Is Going on in Science,” was the topic of Professor H. H. Davis, Indiana University mathematics professor, in a lecture at central library. Tuesday night. “Today a series of discoveries about that nature of light and gravitation have made space-time a real thing about which we can perform experiments." Professor Davis said. i In the Air Weather conditions at 9:30 a. in. at Indianapolis airport: South wind, 15 miles an hour; temperature. 63; barometric pressure. 29.97 at sea level: ceiling overcast. unlimited: visibility, unlimited; field good.

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MUCH WANTED BANDIT HUNTED Search for Kirby Davis Near Ft. Wayne. r.'J I nil' ll Prt ss FT. WAYNE. Ind., April 24.—The search for four bandits who killed a woman, hurt another and wounded a sheriff while robbing the State Bank at Columbia City, turned to this vicinity today after it was reported that Kirby Davis, notorious Indiana bank robber had been seen. Davis has been identified as one of the four men that robbed the Columbia City institution. A man whose identity is withheld by police, said he saw Davis near Ft. Wayne with another man whose head was bandaged. A posse numbering thirty-five immediately was organized and a search instituted. A filling station attendant said a man whom he recognized as Davis stopped at his place to inquire the route to a roadhouse. The attendant said another man was in the machine with his head and arm bandaged. Authorities at Warsaw reported they exchanged shots with occupants of a large automobile which was headed in the direction of Pierceton. The officers said they attempted to stop the automobile but the driver opened fire on them. The Warsaw officers notified surrounding towns and a network of posses immediately went on duty. Later a local posse raided a roadhouse near here that Davis was known to have frequented, but no trace of the bandit was obtained. Sheriff J. M. Haynes, who was wounded seriously in an exchange of shots when the bandits robbed the Columbia City bank of SBOO. was released from a hospital late Tuesday and is expected to join in the bandit search soon. Lightning Shocks Two . ' MARTINSVILLE. Ind.. April 24. -Aside from shock. Harry Williams and son Austin are none the worse for being struck by lightning which traveled along wire fencing they were erecting.

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Alfred Ayres, 29, gas meter reader, 913 Chadwick street (below), walked past the sign shown in the upper photograph, down the stairway, and opened the door into the gas-filled basement of an apartment at 3507 North Pennsylvania street (lower photograph), Tuesday afternoon. He died soon after in city hospital. An exterminator company had filled the apartment with gas and placed the signs.

BANDITS ARE FOILED Attendant’s Slow Work at Safe Saves Cash. Because he was nervous and fumbled at the combination of the safe, Edward Lollis, attendant at the Standard Oil filling station at Washington street and Southeastern avenue, saved the day’s receipts when two men attempted to hold him up late Tuesday. The bandits became frightened and fled after locking Loliis in a back room. A thief took a purse containing $lO from the home of Mrs. W. H. Blodgett, 2934 North Capitol avenue. It is believed the same burglar entered the home of Mrs. Blanche Darnell, 2216 North Illinois street, a few minutes later. Nothing was taken. A S4O watch was stolen from the home of Ernest R. Jones. 223 West Twenty-sijth street. AID INDIAN AFFAIRS Senate Committee to Extend Help to Interior Department. E.y Times Special WASHINGTON, April 24.—The senate Indian investigating committee will probably offer its services to the department of interior in reorganizing the Indian bureau. While the plan has not yet been broached to Senator Lynn D. Frazier, chairman, it is understood to be under consideration by committee members. The committee has 250 witnesses waiting to testify regarding alleged cruelties, mismanagement and other evils on Indian reservations.

CALL AUDUBON SESSION Annual Meeting to Be Held Here * May 3 and 4. Annual meeting of the Indiana Audubon society will be held here May 3-4 in conjunction with the Nature Study club of Indiana, Headquarters will be at the Lincoln. Samuel Perkins 111. announced. The program will consist of addresses by several noted Audubon workers and tours of scenic points. Dr. Henry Baldwin Ward, president of the Izaak Walton League of America will speak at the Friday night dinner at the Lincoln. CORE THROAT Your money back if not relieved 353 by one swallow of (jy. THOXINE Jf letcfjer (Trust (Banks 1 person out of every 6 in Indianapolis keeps money on deposit here.

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ALUMINUM COMPANY IS PRAISED BY WITNESSES Firm Commended at Hearing Before Federal Trade Commission. Bn United Press NEW YORK, April 24.—Fou- witnesses were on record today as upholding the “exceptional fairness” of business methods of the Aluminum Company of America. The witnesses, testifying Tuesday before W. W. Sheppard of the federal trade commission at the hearing of the government’s charges against the aluminum company, also took occasion to commend the aluminum company for its prompt and full delivery of material. The government alleges the company deliberately delayed deliveries, shipped defective material and tried to monopolize the aluminum virgin ingot market by paying unreasonable prices for scrap aluminum. PENNSYLVANIA PLANS $500,000 EXPANSION Koad to Enlarge Hawthorne Yards; More Men to Be Employed. A $500,000 building pro’gram for the Hawthorne yards has been planned by the Pennsylvania railroad, according to J. T. Ridgely, superintendent of the Indianapolis division of the line. Additional employment will be necessary upon completion of the building program, which will make the Hawthorne yards the largest engine terminals on the system west of Pittsburgh. Plans call for twenty moi’e engine stalls, 23.000 additional feet of trackage an additional power plant, an office building and a machine shop for the yards. The enlarged terminal will serve the St. Louis and Columbus divisions as well as the Indianapolis one. When completed the engine house will have thirty stalls, capable of servicing 100 locomotives a day, and it will be equipped with drop pits and other new machinery. Hemorrhage Causes Death Est Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. April 24.—Reason Wilson. 84. known to thousands of Delco-Remy employes here as their veteran elevator operator, died of cerebral hemorrhage at a local liosiptal. He lived in Indianapolis at cne time.

Times Harmonica Contest I wish to enter The Indianapolis Times Harmonica Contest, to held at the Lyric theater the week of April 20-26. I understand that it is for the championship ot Marion county and that a winner will be selected each night for the finals Friday evening. April 26. Name Age Street City Contestants are requested to send in their pictures to the Harmonica Contest Editor, Times, or to Dick Wright, manager Lyric theater.

GRAND JURY TO SIFT BAYONET RAID IN STRIKE North Carolina Governor Orders Probe of Clubbing of Pickets. D V ( iiilrrt m ex GASTONIA, N. C . April 24.—Alleged brutality of deputy sheriffs in using boyonetted guns and clubs to break up a parade and meeting : f striking textile workers is to be investigated Thursday by a special grand jury on orders from Governor 6. Max Gardner of North Carolina. The Governor, in a telegram to John G. Carpenter, solicitor-general, ordered investigation of all acts of violence in connection with the strike, including the alleged blackjacking and bayoneting of a Charlotte Observer reporter, and demolition of the national textile workers’ union headquarters here last Thursday. The deputy sheriffs, who took over cc itrol of the town when National Guard troops were withdrawn, attacked a strikers’ parade again Tuesday night with fixed bayonets. Although tactics were like those used Monday w'hen forty workers were seriously taken, none was injured. The parade, according to workers, merely was a double column of relief picket duty men, marching to take up posts in picket lines around the mill. About three hundred men were in the march, the deputies numbering nearly fifty.

8l WET SHIP TRIP Characterizes La Guardia Quiz ’Spectacular Stunt.’ Bv I nited Press NEW YORK, April 24.—Bishop James Cc-nnon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, returned today aboard the White Star liner Olympic from a Mediterranean cruise with an answer to Representative F. H. La Guardia’s question as to why he was returning from England on a British “rum-soaked” vessel. “All I tan say for that,” said the bishop, “is that I took the most convenient ship. Naturally, if a dryship had been available I would have taken that.” The bishop said he has not yet decided whether to answer La Guardia formally. “It was a spectacular stunt” the bishop said of Representative La Guardia’s demand. “I do not know the congressman and I don’t know whether I will answer him.” When informed that the United States Lines, Inc., plan to operate their vessels wet on the westbound voyage, Bishop Cannon said; “It is up to the officials of the line to run their ships as they please so long as they don’t violate the law on government property.” RIVER BREAKS DIKE Mississippi Floods Farms in Illinois: 300 Flee.

Ba I nited Press QUINCY. 111.. April 24.—The dike protecting the south Quincy district, five miles down the Mississippi river, gave *way under the pounding ot flood waters today and inundated 5,000 acres of rich garden lands. Three hundred residents of the area fled to higher levels as the water rose about the foundations and first floors of more than eighty homes. The gap through which water was rushing out onto garden lands reached a width of 100 feet. PRINCESSES BECOME -RED CROSS NURSES \ Take Training Course With Wife of Cabinet Member. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, April 24.—The Red Cross had on its roll of new nurses today, the wife of a cabinet official, two princesses and a daughter of a former cabinet member. The four were part of a class of twenty graduated Tuesday at Waiter Reed hospital. Mrs. Jean R. Davis, one of the granduates. is the wife of James J. Davis, secretary of labor; Miss Alice Dads is a daughter of Dwight Davis, former secretary of war. and the two princesses are Antionette De Ligne and Elisabeth De Digne, daughters of Prince Albert De I ; "ne, ambassador from Belgium. ‘HOT DOG’ MAN WINSj Elected Mayor of Dallas; Gave Away Thousands of “Animals.” Pv United Press DALLAS. Tex., April 24.—J. Waddy Tate Tuesday was elected mayor of Dallas by a majority of more than 3,000 votes over his opponent, Temple H. Morrow. Tate was known as the “hot dog” candidate when he gave thousands of the “animals” away at campaign meetings.

Reserve Officers Elect Detroit Man President

Pick Los Angeles as 1930 Convention City: Plan R. 0. T. C. Study. Colonel Walter C. Cole, Detroit, today was the new president of the Reserve Officers’ Association. He was to succeed Brigadier-General Roy Hoffman of Oklahoma City, at the closing business session of the national convention Tuesday at the Elks Club. Other officers elected were Briga-dier-General Edward Orton Jr. of Columbus. 0., vice-president; Major H. K. Bant-ley of Washington, treasurer; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Miller Kenyon*, of Washington, judge advocate; Colonel James Barnes of Princeton, historian, and Major William Stevens of Los Angeles, chaplain. Colonel Robert L. Moorehead of Indianapolis was elected a member of the national council. Recommendations brought by committees caused many heated wrangles Tuesday afternoon. Charges that politics were handicapping the work of the association were made by Colonel Orvel Johnson, Washington, retiring secretary, whose successpr has not been named. Formation of a “military education foundation” were discussed. An anonymous donor has given $30,000 to be used to study the R. O. T. C. problems in colleges with a view to increase the interest in national defense and to bolster interest in the officers’ association. Los Angeles has been selected for the 1930 meeting, to be held in April.

Rotary Rivals

M. Eugene Newsom of Durham, N. C., and Ray Knoeppel of New York City have announced their candidacy for the presidency of Ro-

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Former Grocer Dies ANDERSON, Ind., April 24.—Wallace E. Britton, 50, former grocer here, is dead at his home in St. Louis, Mo., according to word received here by relatives.

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ARMY GROUPS TO WAGE WAR Reds and Blue Will Begin Mock Campaign May 15. |Bv rnited Press WASHINGTON. April 24 —A civil ! war will be fought this summer in the United States. A few,.queer statistics concerning the event give it away as but a mock affair, though war department plans indicate it will be none-the-less furious. The opposing sides, Blueland and Redland, will open hostilities at midnight, May 15, 411a end them May 26. Ground and air forces will hold a front stretching from Toledo, 0., to Knoxville, Tenn. The key cities, for which the armies will fight, are Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Wheeling. Cleveland. Akron and perhaps Pittsburgh and Youngstown. More than 260 planes will participate in aerial battles with Red planes having a base at Norton field, near Columbus, and Blue planes at Wilbur Wright field at, Dayton. On May 18 all \ offensive type planes in the army will attack Cincinnati with all pursuit planes defending. The battle is to be broadcast by radio. One of every five of our Presidents have been Vice-Presidents who came to office through the death of the president.

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MAYOR WALKER WHIPS AL ON TAMMANY HEAD Appointment of John F. Curry as Leader Is Victory for Old School. Bv Tnited Press “ * NEW YORK. April 24—Return :j the old policy of concentrating on local government, ascendency to power of Mayor James J. Walker and loss in the prestige of former Governor Alfred E. Smith wer seen today as the important result - in the election Tuesday of John 1 Curry as leader of Tammany halt succeeding George W. Olvany, re signed. Curry immediately after his eici tion announced his unqualified support of Mayor Walker for re-noir, mation and expressed himself , confident of Democratic success i:: the coming municipal election. Smith lost face in the organization by Curry’s election became Curry was an opponent of the Smith policies which dominated Tammany for the past five year and put the organization into the field of national politics in support of Smith's presidential candidacy. Tire New York Herald-Tribune said editorially; “In the election of John F. Curry as its new leader Tammany lias decided a genuine old Tammany is to be preferred to a bogus new Tammany.” A New York Times editorial said: “At least for the moment A1 Smith has been repudiated by the organization whose reputation he refurbished almost lone-handedly. Mayor Walker rules the roost.” FIVE OFFICERS QUELL DISTURBANCE BY GIRL Escapade of Youthful Miss on Peace Bridge Costs Heavily. liv l nil I'l Press BUFFALO, N. Y.. April 24.—The Peace Bridge, an international span running from Buffalo to Ft. Erie, Ont., is no place to disturb the peace, Miss Eleanor Seymour, 22, learned in city court here. The youthful miss was fined $lO6 and sentenced to ten days in jail for her escapade, at the American end of the structure. According to customs official . Miss Seymour drove up to the customs office driving her car while under the influence of liquor and clad in male garments. She proclaimed loud and often that she not only had sought ale in Canada but also found it. The court wir told Miss Seymour refused to get. out of her car and it was only after three customs men and two policemen banded together that it wa . possible to oust her.