Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1929 — Page 2

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FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS, WICKS TO BE TUESDAY Wife of City Pastor Was Descendant of Pioneer Boston Family. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Goodnow Wicks, wife of Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian Church, and widely known religious leader, who died Sunday afternoon at the Methodist hospital, will be held at the All Souls church, 1453 North Alabama street, at 2 p. m.. Tuesday The Rev. Dilworth Lupton, pastor of the First Unitarian church. Cleveland; the Rev. M. L. Haines. Indianapolis, and Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht, this city, will be in charge of the services. Death claimed Mrs. Wicks, who was a descendant of one of the prominent pioneer families of Boston after a lingering illness. She was brought to Indianapolis in October from her Boston home, and Mas taken immediately to the Methodist hospital. Surviving her, beside Mr. Wicks are a daughter. Miss Coryenne Wicks; two sons, Warwick and Devon Wicks, of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Frances Goodnow, and four nephews. Born in 1874 Mrs. Wicks was bora in Boston, Dec. 27, 1874. One of her ancestors is said to have been a leader in the “Boston tea party.” Another ancestor carved the famous wooden codfish that hangs in the statehouse of Massachusetts. She married the Rev. Mr. Wicks in 1899. In 1905 she left the home city of her ancestors when her husband accepted the Indianapolis pastorate. The family home is at 111 East Forty-fourth street. She became prominent in Indianapolis club life and served as president of the Progressive Club. She was a member of the Current His--lory Class and of the Proyplaeum. Her lectures on foreign travels, prepared after extended tours abroad, have been given before many clubs of the city. Tribute Is Paid Tribute was paid by friends and associates of Mrs. Wicks in a composite letter submitted to Victor P. Jose Jr., president of the board of trustees of the All Souls church Sunday. It said in part: “We lose a woman noted for her intellectuality. But far greater is' our loss of a friend and counselor,-| an Inspirational and spiritually di- , recting force, whose presence al- j Ways was so kindly and unobtrusive, and yet whose constant aid and di- i recting influence was unconsciously a vital part, of our church life " j

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Daniel K. Bash, 3353 Broadway, Essex coach. 99-163, from 1400 North Pennsylvania street. George Daugharty, 635 Eugene street, Ford coupe, from 635 Eugene street. Arthur D. Bames 2055 North La Salle street. Ford coupe, from Ohio and Pennsylvania streets. Herschel Johnson, 2415 West Sixteenth street, Chevrolet coach. 731234, from Market street and Senate avenue. * • John Heyob. 321 West Moms street, Chevrolet sedan, 57-482, from 400 Virginia avenue. F. C. Thorne, 3542 North Pennsylvania street. Chrysler roadster. 46-494, from 3543 North Pennsylvania street. Roy Stewart, Needham, Ind... Chrysler roadster, 37-213, ffom Capitol avenue and Market street. Merle Sparks, 4243 Sangster avenue, Buiek sedan, from Spruce and Pleasant streets. R. T. Metcalf. 1215 Marlowe avenue, Buick coupe. 99-271, from Ohio and Illinois streets. Thomas Perry, 3943 Southeastern, Chevrolet coach, from Temple and Southeastern avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Roy Wilmeth Automobile Company. 720 North Meridian street. Ford sedan, found at North and Agnes streets. Jessie Gross. R. R. C., Box 329. Ford roadster, found at Ft. Wayne avenue and Alabama street. Mrs. Ora Barlow, 3428 Prospect street. Nash sedan, found in garage in rear of 951 North Sheffield avenue. Buick Coupe. 73-105 Michigan, found in rear of 16 East Washington street. Two File Voluntary Petitions H. T. Stouffer. proprietor of the Standard Printing Company. 3210 East Michigan street, and the Hub Printing Company. Union City. Saturday filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court, listing $18,458 liabilities and $13,949 assets. David C. Hobbs. Hamilton county larmer, filed a similar petition, listing $25,914 liabilities and $14,910 assets.

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Mrs. F. S. C. Wicks DEATH TOLL IS 72 Chinese Pirates Fire Ship After Raid. Bv Cmled Brens HONG KONG, Dec. 9.—The death toll from a raid by Chinese pirates on the steamer Haiching had mounted to seventy-two at noon today. Authorities learned that twelve were killed by bullets and sixty were reported drowned. Hospitals here are treating thirty-eight injured. Only four officers and a handful of Indian Chinese guards defended the bridge when the pirates attacked. it was learned. The Pirates had sailed from Swatow as passengers. The Haiching was en route here. Twice the pirates charged the bridge. The officers threw electric torches to one side of the deck to draw the pirates’ fire, then sent a volley into their midst. The pirates then fired the ship. Two British naval boats, towed the Haiching here, after answering calls for help. OFFICERS AT BUTLER Misses Reavis, Holder to Head Organization. Two women's organizations at Butler university have elected new officers. Miss Bessakee Reavis, left, of 3962 Ruckle street, is president of the Woman's Glee Club, which has sixty girl members, and is directed by Franklin Taylor of the Arthur Jordan school of music. The glee club will give programs in a tour of the state soon. Miss Georgia Holder, right, is j president of the Woman’s League, comprised of all women in the uni- | versity and sponsors the Ladies’ j Cotillon. June day and yearly award I of the freshmen scholarship cup. j Miss Holder is a member of Delta ; Delta Delta. TRAVELER TO SPEAK McDonald Will Lecture on Columbia Club Tour. Howard Brenton McDonald, world traveler, will lecture at the Colum- ■ bia Club at 8:15 Tuesday night in \ interest of the Columbia Club’s West 1 Indies cruise this winter. The address will be illustrated with motion pictures showing different places to be visited on the cruise which will include nine countries, Bermuda, Virgin Islands. Martinique, Curacao. Colombia, Panama. Jamaica. Haiti and Cuba, leaving New York. Jan. 18. on the trails Atlantic liner Calgaric. Members who desire to spend 1 winter in Florida can leave >.. cruise at Havana, last port of call.. McDonald has traveled approximately 250,000 miles and has circles the globe twice.

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CLUB SLAYER KILLS TEACHER WHILE ASLEEP Fingerprints on Gas Pipe Furnish Only Clew in Apartment Crime. Hus„ nited Press ROCKFORD. 111.. Dec. 9.—Fingerprints on the length of gas pipe with which Miss Cordelia E. Gummerslieimer, 35-year-old Spanish teacher in the Rockford high school, was clubbed to death after she apparently had been attacked while asleep in her apartment, furnished the only clew today to the identity of the murderer. The body of the pretty and popular teacher, clad in a pink night | gown, was discovered lying on a bed ; in her third-floor apartment by two j teachers', who investigated, when she I did not keep a dinner appointment j Sunday night. j Police determined she had been | dead at least twelve hours. An | open book was beside the bed, inj dicating Miss Gummersheimer had been reading before turning out the light some time after 11 p. m. Saturday. Tire pipe also was beside ; the bed. Miss Gummersheimer, a Knox college graduate, whose home was in Belleville, 111., has been teaching j here .several years. Neighbors said j she Lyid had numerous men cajlers and letters found in her apartment indicated she had been engaged to Glen Wiseman, business man of Modeltown, N. Y., and Carbon Springs, Fla. Friends said they understood the engagement had been broken. Police attributed the crime to a degenerate. GARNER FACES CONTEST Lumber Interests of South Are Stirred by Lobby Case. Bit ficrivps-Haward Xescspaper .Ulianee WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A fight to defeat Representative John Garner. mnority leader of the house, is expected to result from the senate lobby investigation. The fight will be in the next election in the Fifteenth district of Texas. John Henry Kirby, mull -millionaire lumberman of Houston, and J. A. manager of the Southern Tariff Association, are expected to take a leading part in it. Kirby blames Garner for the senate inquiry into the association, during which Arnold has been denounced as a lobbyist interested only in collecting funds. WAYNE IS RE-ELECTED Miss Lucy Campbell Vice-President of Nature Study Club. J? Lloyd Wayne was re-elected president of the Indiana Nature Study Club at its annual meeting in Cropsey auditorium at the Central library, Saturday night.. Other officers are Miss Lucy Campbell, Miss Maude E. Kerr, secretary, and Walter Wingenroth. re-elected treasurer. New directors are Mrs. Samuel Perkins and Mrs. Robert L. Dorsey. PASTOR TO LEAVE POST Meridian Heights Congregation to Pass on Minister’s Resignation. Resignation of the Rev. T. R. White, Meridian Heights Presbyterian church pastor, announced Sunday, will take effect next March, it was made known today. The congregation will pass on the resignation at a called meeting on Dec. 19. Mr. White has been pastor of the Meridian Heights church since 1920.

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