Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1929 — Page 3
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THOUSANDS TO BE PRESENT AT CAMP MEETING Pilgrim Holiness Members Gather at Frankfort for Ten Days. P.'l Tim** !■ preiql FRANKFORT. Ind.. £ug. 10.—Annual camp mating of the Pilgrim Holiness church opened at, the permanent, camp grounds in the southeastern part of Frankfort Friday night and will continue for ten days, with thousands of people from Indiana and all parts of the United States in attendance. The annua! meeting is the mccca for all devout members ol the church during the summer and draws worshipers from practically every state in the Union. The piatform talent this year, specially engaged for the session, comprises a noted evangelist, the Rev. D. E. Wilson of Binghamton, N. Y., and the Rev. Walter L. Surbrook. president of Kingswood college. Kingswood, Kv. They will alternate in the pulpit at the regular morning, afternoon, and evening preaching services and will be occasionally relieved, as is the custom, by visiting ministers, missionaries, educators and distinguished visitors who are active in many fields. The Rev. C. D. Jester of Indienapolis, has been engaged again this year as song leader. ter is known as “the Rhodeltever of the Pilgrim Holiness movement.’’
Campers Already There. A large number of campers al- j ready were on the grounds Friday, in privately owned cottages, in dormitories, tents or private homes adjacent to the grounds. State superintendent. Albert M. Ewing of Frankfort, is the directing head of the camp, as he has been for the last fourteen years. Under his direction a number of ministers from Indiana have been on the job for the last week, cleaning the buildings and making all necessary arrangements for the camp. Personnel of the organization this | year is considerably different from | last, although some of the old reliables still are on the job. The Rev G. A. Newton of Wabash is superintendent of the tabernacle; j the Rev. Ray Smith of Richmond. | is the camp bunk man, having charge of all housing arrangements; j the Rev. Adam Schwing of Logansport is in charge of the dining | room; Mrs. Maude Wheldon, cook for the Pilgrim Holiness college 1 here, is in charge of preparing the food, assisted by Miss Belle Thomas of Seymour; the Rev. A. H. Plunkett of Frankfort, is in charge of the lunch room: the Rev. R. W. Chatfield of Frankfort, conference treasurer, will be in charge of the main office, assisted by Mrs. Chatfield. Full Daily Program. The Rev. Area Montgomery of Lafayette. assistant state superinten- : dent, has been here for some time I as Mr. Ewing's right hand man. j The daily program for the ten-day j session has been so arranged as to j keep the campers busy. There will be little time for visiting, as the ! days will be consumed mostly by I services in the tabernacle or other places of assembly on the grounds. ; The program has been announced by Supt. Ewing as follows: 6 a. nr. rising bell: 6:30 a. m„ morning prayer meeting: 7 a. m.. breakfast; 8 a. m. family prayers; 9 a. nr. love feast in tabernacle; 10:30 a. nr. preaching in tabernacle: noon, dinner; 2:30 p. nr. preaching in taber-/ nacle: 4 p. m.. children's meeting in college assembly hall; 5:30 p. rry. supper; 6 p. nr, ring meeting jn grove: 7:30 p. nr. preaching in tabernacle. Tnterurbans Use New Track., CRAWFORDSVILLF. Aug. 9. First interurban cars went across the new piece of track laid on the Lebanon-Crawfordsville branch of the T. H., I. Sz E. traction line. Thursday afternoon. The new track was laid to eliminate a bad crossing on the recently constructed Prate Road 34.
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DE PAUW EMPLOYS ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR George Lloyd Bird is Engaged for Greencastlc post. f'jt Timm Sprrinf GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Aug. 10.— George Lloyd Bird, a native of Francisco. Ind.. and instructor in English composition and journalism at Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, 111., has been added to the De Pauw university faculty and will become an instructor in the same subjects here. Along with Bird. George Edward Smock of Delphi. Ind., a graduate of De Pauw university, also has taken a place on the teaching staff of the English composition department. Stnoek will take the place of Wallace Robert Biggs, who resigned. Bird will take over the work in teaching journalism that had been done by L. E. Mitchell, who now is located at Redlands. Cal. Bird holds degrees from Allegheny college and the University of Wisconsin. Snock. in addition to his A. B. degree from De Pauw. has a master of arts degree from the University of Chicago. He taught English composition and public speak- ; ing at Illinois college last year. DEATH CLAIMS CASHIER , Prominent Forest Resident Will be Buried Saturday. P’i Times Special FOREST. Ind.. Aug. 10.—Funeral I services were held Saturday for L. A. Tranbarger, 72. cashier of the | Citizens Bank of Forest for many rears, who died Thursday. He was a prominent resident of Forest township, having taught ; school for a number of years, served | as deputy auditor of Clinton county and operated a restaurant here, in ; addition to his years in the bank. Besides the widow he is survived by a son Clarence of Terre Haute, 1 and a stepdaughter Dorris, at home.
600 FRESHMEN ARE EXPECTED AT DE PAUW Summer Session to Close Wednesday: Freshman ,Week, Sept. 11. ,U Times Special 1 GREENCASTLE. Tnd.. Aug. 10.— The summer session of De Pauw university will close Wednesday, Aug 14. Ten weeks of academic work in both liberal arts courses and music school courses has been available to those who enrolled for the summer term. Final examinations will start Monday. The summer school has been directed by William A. Huggard, associate professor of English. A faculty of twelve was retained in the liberal arts subjects while six instructors in the music school conducted classes in music and instrumental instruction. About one hundred enrolled for the summer term. University heads are anticipating the opening of the fall term at De Pauw which begins Sept. 11. with the registration of freshmen. Freshman week has been cut down to two days this year and upperclassmen will be registered Friday and Saturday mornings of Sept. 13 and 14. Recitations and lectures begin Monday, Sept. 16. An increase in enrollment figures for the first semester is anticipated. Already 525 transcripts for freshmen have been received in the liberal arts courses and approximately fifty transcripts for new r upper-classmen have been received. Registration for music school students is also under way. The total number of freshmen that will arrive on the DePauw campus next month is expected to pass 600. Nearly 250 Rector scholarships have been awarded by the Rector scholarship foundation to high school graduates over Indiana and nearby states. This is the largest number ever granted in the history of the foundation and will raise the total number of Rector scholars on the campus when school opens to 600. For the first semester last year the total enrollment figure was 1,617. It is believed that this mark will be passed with the new enrollment.
3 KILLED IN WRECK Express Train Crashes Into Standing Freight. Hu snit fi F’rrs* WAUKEGAN, 111., A”g. 10.—Three persons were killed and five injured when a Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific express train, en route from Milwaukee to Chicago, went through an open switch and crashed into a standing freight train at Wadsworth, near here. Friday night. The dead are: James Lorimer. 60. Milwaukee, engineer on the passenger train; Nicholas A. King, 48, Milwaukee, Lorimer's fireman, and an unidentified hobo on “the blinds.” Engineer George Kelly of the freight train and his fireman. J. A. Ebert, escaped unhurt. They were sitting in the grass alongside the right-of-way, waiting ror the passenger train to pass on another track when the express lunged off its scheduled track and pounded 200 yards down the side track to smash head-on with the freight. DELIVERS CAR TO IDAHO Frankfort Dealer Drives New Car 2,500 Miles. B;i Times Special FRANKFORT. Ind., Aug. 10.— William Dorner. of the P. Dorner’s Sons Company, local Chevrolet dealers. now is en route to Coeur ’d Alene, Idaho, making what is believed to be the greatest distance of anew car made by a local dealer. He is delivering anew car purchased by Mrs. G. Y. Fowler of Frankfort, who is visiting her sister. Miss Alice Kramer, in Coeur 'd Alene. The route- necessitates a drive of 2.500 miles. SPEAKAt QUINCY PICNIC Frominent Indiana Men Attend Annual Farm Outing. Pji Times Special QUINCY, Ind.. Aug. 10.—James M. Ogden, attorney-general of Indiana : Lewis A. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, and the Rev. Wiley S. Hastings, Spencer. were speakers at the annual Quincy picnic here Thursday. A large crowd of Putnam and Owen county farmers attended. TWO HELD IN HOLDUPS Negroes Are Questioned for Series of Crimes. Detectives today questioned two Negroes who were arrested Friday in connection with a series of rodent holdups. They are Thomas Bailey, 23. and Eliza Holt, 35, both of 2746 Sangster avenue. The men are held on $2,000 bonds.
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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen belong to: Harry Grimes. 215 Traub avenue. Ford coupe, from rear of Indianapolis Times office. Indianapolis Truck and Parts Company. 1125 East Maryland street. Dodge truck, from garage at 11£5 East Maryland street, C. L. Moore. 1205 Sterling street. Chevrolet landau, 58-374. from Sixteenth and Illinois streets. Ernest E. McClemman, Monrovia, Chevrolet coach. 747-729. from Bird and New York streets. Wendell M. Adamson. Bloomington Ind.. Ford sport coupe, 213-380, from parking space north of Statehouse. -
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Kokomo’s “Magic Garden” KOKOMO. Ind., Aug. 10.—“ Have you ever tried to find the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow?” Os course all of us have had fanciful dreams of some day coming upon the hidden treasure. But why bother about such things, when all the peace of heart can be obtained by visiting the “Magic Garden” locatec. in Highland park here? The small “island” literally is covered with flovvers and is beileved to be the most beautiful spot in Kokomo.
AIR SAFETY SOUGHT IN MADISON COUNTY
Flying by Unlicensed Pilots Will Be Curbed by Prosecutor, Pji Timm Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 10.—Oswald Ryan, prosecuting attorney of Madison county, has taken steps to 1 curb the flying of airplanes by in- | experienced and unlicensed pilots, j following the visit here of W. E. ! Shumack, aviation inspector of the United States Department of Agri- j culture. The presecuting attorney said: “Information has been received in my office to the effect that unlicensed aviators are operating in this county and that planes unsafe are being used in violation of the law. It is also reported that two air circuses' have been advertised to take place in this county within the next few vveeks in which some of the fliers are not licensed pilots. “Chapter 171 of the Indiana Acts of 1929 provides that the aircraft operating within the state must conform to airworthiness standards prescribed by the United States government, and it is unlawful for any person to navigate a plane unless the plane is licensed by the department of commerce. “The law provides further that the aviator must have a license to fly a plane. Fine or imprisonment is provided as penalties for violation of the section.” Prosecuting Attorney Ryan cautioned that all aviators flying planes within Madison county must conform to the requirements of law for protection of life and property, or be subjected to criminal prosecution. CELEBRATE FOUNDING Winona Lake Will Commemorate Opening 35 Years Ago. B>i Timm Special WINONA LAKE. Aug. 10.—Sunday, Aug. 11, will be wholly given up to the celebration of Foundation Day at Winona Lake. Religious emphasis will be put upon the leaders and doings that resulted in the founding of Winona thirty-five years ago. The speaker for the day is the evangelist and mission worker, Mel Trotter. He has just returned from a tour of the Orient and will describe his trip. Music will be under direction of Homer Rodeheaver. A special program is announced for the afternoon. SCHOOL WILL BE BUILT Anderson Township Board Gives O. K. to Park Row Project. Em Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 10.—The Anderson township advisory board has completed legal details necensary to construction of anew consolidated school in the Park Row district next to the city. Work will begin at once. R. S. Wilson, Lapel, holds the building contract. Wilson also is constructing the Lindbergl' consolidated school north of the city. The latter building will be completed for the fall term of school. The Park Row project will require until Jan. 1 for completion. CITY PLANS FOR POOL Jeffersonville Gets Estimates for Bathing Center. Pji Time* Special JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind.., Aug. 10. —Jeffersonville may get anew municipal swimming pool. Mayor Harry C. Poindexter announced today that Charles Mather, city engineer, has been instructed by city council to prepare estimates of the cost of building a pool 75x200 feet in size in Play Square. Jeffersonville's municipal playground. RED CROSS HOLDS TEST Boone County Chapter Is Chosen for Experiment. Pji Times Special LEBANON, Ind.. Aug. 10.—Selection of the Boone county Red Cross chapter as one of the chapters in Indiana to carry out an experimental project in civilian relief, with a view to having the program adopted by the national Red Cross, was announced today by Myra Van Most-rand, field representative for northern Indiana. Iron Causes Fire in Home CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 10.—Returning to her home after an absence of thre ehours, Mrs. James Day found the dining room "tables, chairs and rug on fire as a result of her having left an electric iron burning. The house was filled with smoke and firemen said that if the blaze had had five minutes’ more start the building would ' have been destroyed.
TAX VALUE INCREASED Monroe County Figures Take Big Hike Upward. Eji Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 10,— Valuation of Monroe county’s taxables for this year is more than a million dollars over last year's valuation. According to figures compiled in the county auditor's office and announced today, the total for the county is $38,267,660, as compared with $37,256,615 for last year. WAYNE COUNTY TOLLJSHEAVY Eleven Deaths in Motor Crashes This Year. i Pji Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 10.— Eleven deaths in automobile crashes in Wayne county since Jan. 1, and the death of seven Richmond residents in one crash in an adjoining county two weeks ago, have caused local authorities to ponder the casualty list in an effort to see if it can be reduced. Out of twenty-eight cases investigated by Coroner Russell Hiatt this year, eleven have been deaths caused by automobile accidents. The immediate cause of the deaths range from a boy killed while his sled was hooked to an automobile to head-on collisions which terminated fatally. Prominent marking of dangerous crossings and places in the highways has followed a number of accidents. The Pennsylvania railroad and the state highway commission have placed floodlights and markings on the National road where it dips under the railroad bridge near Pershing, scene of a number of fatal accidents in which automobiles were driven into steel supports of the bridge in the center of the highway. MASONS TO VISIT CITY 250 Scottish Rite Members from Anderson to Come Here, Em Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 10.—'Two hundred fifty local Scottish Rite Masons will visit the new Scottish Rite cathedral at Indianapolis on visiting days next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Anderson Masons will comprise the team for the twenty-seventh degree work, with A. V. Reschar. Anderson postmaster, as degree master. PLANT MERGER URGED Linton Wants Utilities Under One Superintendent. Pm Times Special LINTON, Ind., Aug. 10.—Consolidation of the municipally owned light and water plants here under one general superintendent is being sponsored by Mayor Bull and the majority of the members of the city council. The mayor has written a letter to the state public service commission and is expecting a favorable answer. The mayor stated that this would mean a saving of $1,500 a year to the city, the salary of the superintendent of the city water system. Will Open Store. GREENCASTLE. Ind., Aug. 10.— William J. Blumenstein. Brazil merchant, will open a ladies’ ready to wear store here Sept. 1.
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RIFLEMEN WILL HONORS Best Marksmen of State Will Enter Contests at Camp Perry. Fjt Tim** Siucial COLUMBUS. OF Aug. 10.—Picked from among 4.000 youthful residents of Ohio, Indiana. West Virginia. and Kentucky, thirteen outstanding candidates of this summer’s citizens’ military training camps in the Fifth corps will uphold the rifle shooting supremacy of this section of the United States against crack shots from all parts of the country in the annual national rifle matches to be held at Camp Perry, 0., from Aug. 25 to Sept. 15. The thirteen were named today in an announcement from the headquarters of Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commanding the Fifth corps area of the army at Fort Hayes here, under whose supervision the Citizens Military Training Camps were held. - General Nolan picked them as the choice among the four thousand C. M. T. C. youths of this corps area, it was said at army headquarters,“because of their markedly good character, sense of responsibility, and ability to become instructors in rifle practice.” Several Indianians Included. As representatives of the Fifth corps area they will fire for the National C. M. T. C. rifle championship against teams from each of the other eight corps areas into which the United States is divided. In addition, these youths will toe the firing line with sharpshooters of the regular army, navy, marine corps, and leading civilian shooting clubs, many of them marksmen of international fame. Clyde F. Wilson, 19, of 672 Adams street, Gary who completed the Blue, or fourth year course at Ft. Thomas, Ky., and now may qualify for a commission as a second lieutenant in the army reserve, was designated as captain of the rifle team that will go to Camp Perry. Others are Chosen. Other shooting members are William R. Hizar. 19, of 527 Piedmont road, Columbus, James S. Certain, 20, of Clinton. Ind.; Nicholas P. Gratchen, 19, of Lorain, O.; Walter W. Hoffman. 19, Ft. Wayne, and George H. Vise. 22, Crown Point, all students at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Owen S. Hamilton, 19. Wellsburg, West Va.; Jacob H. Bersch, 18, Madison, Ind.; Charles D. Cooper. 19. Dayton. O.; and William Fields, of Bloomfield, Ind., all of Camp Knox. Ky.; and Mahlon Gus Nicholas, 19. Huntington, West Va.; James E. Griffiths, 19, Charleston. West Va.; and Howard D. Denison, 17, Elkins, West Va., all of Ft. Thomas, Ky. Besides these thirteen regular members, General Nolan named as alternates William E. Ellis, 23. Alliance, 0., and Robert H. Daubenspeck, 18, Milroy, Ind. They will go to Camp Perry if illness or other cause should prevent a principal from making the trip.
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FUTURE OF FAIR TO BEDEGIDED Muncie Grounds May Be Sold Soon. Bn Vnited Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Aug. 10.—The future of Muncie’s fairground will be at stake next Thursday when the county council and county commissioners meet in joint session. At that time a petition will be presented the council for the sale of the grounds, which are owned by the county and lie in the heart of an exclusive residential district. The palatial homes of the Ball families border the grounds on two sides. It has been reported that one person or a group of persons have made an offer for the grounds, and that if the sale is made, the grounds will be returned to the city or county for park purposes. It has not been learned as to the fate of the fair association, which holds a lease on the grounds. The association has not paid the county anything for many years. If the sale is made it is reported that the county may buy a big farm close to the city to be converted into anew fairground. Veterinarian in Program. GREENCASTLE. Ind., Aug. 10.— Dr. T. A. Sigler, local veterinarian, will take part in the program of the annual convention of the American Medical Veterinary association, to be held next week at Detroit. Dr. Sigler is a former president of the association.
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’FIXING' CHARGEU BY GAMBLERS AT MUNCIE FAIR ‘Go-Between’ Makes Escape With Cash: Five Are Found Guilty. MUNCIE. Ind.s Aug. 10.—After pleading guilty to charges of gaming, five men arrested in Prosecutor Joe H. Davis’ raids on the Muncie fair, complained they had been paying daily for so-called "protection.” The men charged that each stand where gaming was carried on had been assessed $25 to SSO daily and that the money had been paid Owen Mack, who termed himself the ’fix.'' Mack has disappeared since the raid and Prosecutor Davis is seeking to have one of the men charge him with obtaining money under false pretences. The prosecutor said more than SI,OOO has been paid Mack for “protection” and that in addition Mack had raised a fund of $2,200 for defending a showman in Tennessee, who is charged with murder. The five men arrested paid fines in city court on their pleas of guilty to gaming and operating gaming devices. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR JUDGE R. R. CARR Services for State Jurist Are Conducted in Rochester. Pa United Press ROCHESTER, Ind.. Aug. 9 Funeral services were held here Friday afternoon in the circuit court room for Reuben R. Carr, 65, judge of the Fulton county circuit court and once a prominent foe of the klan in this vicinity. He died Wednesday afternoon. Judge Carr, a Republican, had been on the beenh for nine years. During the early years of his office his jurisdiction extended to Marshall county. He was born in Cedar Rapids. la., and spent his early life as a telegraph operator. After studying law nights he was admitted to practice at Logansport in 1895. His brother Benjamin is at present judge of the circuit court in Cass county at Monticello. It is the only case on record in the state where two brothers have held circuit court benches at the same time. Child Felled by Auto. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Aug. 9. Richard Poppa, 4, was knocked to the street, but not seriously injured, by an automobile driven by Rushton LaFollette. The youngster had a cut over his right eye and his left foot bruised. The boy was said to have run out in the street directly in the path of LaFollette's car.
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