Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1930 — Page 15

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STATE TO PAY 18 MILLIONS IN ROAD BUNG Stone Mill to Cost $150,000 Will Be New Industry at Bloomington. ACTIVITY IN OIL FIELD Trenton Sand Developments Interest Operators in Vigo-Sullivan Area. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Time* Encouraging developments are noted in a business and industrial survey of Indiana lor the week ended today, including announcement by the state highway commission that $18,000,000 will be spent this season as the pay roll In road and bridge coastructlon. providing employment for a large number of men directly and aiding concerns which manufacture products to be used in the work. J. Mason Hoadlev, Inc., anew company, announces it will erect a $150,000 stone null near Bloomington. The plant will compare in size with that of Hoadley-Cline and the Indiana Limestone Company, at present the largest in the Indiana stone belt. A business block at Anderson, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bonser. is to be enlarged and remodeled at a cost of $30,000. Work has started on a $20,000 building at Terre Haute to house the Hardware Supply Company, Inc. The Good Will Industry will erect a $25,000 building to house its four factories now in separate quarters. Terminal to Cost $150,000 Officials of the Ohio and Mississippi River Transit Company announce work will be started by May 1 of erecting a $150,000 river-rail terminal at Evansville. Handling of coal will be the chief business of the terminal. In about two months a $970,000 program will be inaugurated at South Bend, consisting of railroad track elevation in the western part of the city. Lines involved In the work are Grand Tnmk Western, New York Central and New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois. Spring has brought an increase of activities in the -il fields of Vigo and Sullivan counties. Drilling to Trenton sand has aroused new interest in the section. One well in ♦his sand is said to be producing 400 barrels daily. The following summary shows conditions In various cities of Indiana. Engine Company Formed Columbus—The Cummins Aviation Diesel Engine Corporation has been formed here. Incorporators of the new concern include Clessie L. Cummins, who recently attracted nation-wide attention with an automobile powered by a Diesel engine. BlufTton—With 145 persons employed and orders on hand to assure steady operation for two months and a half, the Niemann Furniture Manufacturing Company, which recently moved here from Chicago to the plant of the defunct H. C. Bay Piano Company, made Its first shipment this week. Marion—The Indiana Truck Corporation has booked an order for $125,000 worth of trucks from the Georgia state highway commission. The corporation has 450 persons on its pay roll. Officials are optimistic for steady operation throughout the year. Franklin May Lose Plant Franklin—Citizens here are much concerned over the possibility that operations will be stopped at the Franklin Manufacturing Company plant, largest employer in the city and largest concern of its kind in the nation. April 10 has been set as a final date for settlement with creditors under a receivership, and unless some plan is adopted to take over the plant, it Is expected operations will cease soon after that date. Efforts are being made to sell $50.000 in bonds to guarantee continuance of the business. Logansport—Plants of Associated Apparels, Inc., at Janesville. Wis., and Belvidere, HI., are to be moved to a $150,000 plant in process of const met ion here, and some of the machinery in a plant at Elkhart will also be moved to Logansport. From 400 to 600 persons will be employed. La Porte—A report of operations of the Advance-Rumely Company plant here for 1929, announced by Finley P. Mount, president, shows a net loss of $395,503.67. A poor wheat crop in Canada last year, causing a reduced demand for tractors and other farm implements produced by the company are biamea by Mount for the slump in business. Peru—Arthur V. Sampsel. inventor of a simplified stoker, announces that a company capitalized for at least SIOO,OOO will be formed here to produce and market the machine. FORMER TEACHER IN CITY SCHOOLS DEAD Rites for Miss Henrietta Colgan to Be Held Saturday.' Funeral services for Miss Henrietta Colgan. 85, for more than fifty years an Indianapolis school teacher, principal and supervisor will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Harry D. Tutewiler undertaking establishment. Miss Colgan died Thursday at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Miss Colgan retired fourteen years ago as supervisor of schools. Survivors are two nephews, here, and a cousin at Saranac Lake. Burial will i be in Crown Hill cemetery.

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Suit for $2,000 Judgment, naming as co-defendants Carl H. Mote, Indianapolis attorney and prominent in Indiana as a utilities owner and promoter, and his wife, Mrs. Mary H. Mote, both of 3860 North Delaware street, was filed today in superior court five by Mrs. Myra Richards, 1446 North Alabama street, sculptress. Mrs. Richards alleged she made a bronze figure of Mrs. Mote and her three children at a contract price of $3,000, of which $1,400 has been paid. It is .the remainder of this sum that she seeks to obtain.

DELAY MOVE IN WAGE^MANDATE Court Contempt Threat Is Hurled by Holmes. Delaying action on a court mandate forcing it to reappropriate the salaries of eight probation officers, the county council today “laid the matter on the table” because, members said, the order was not submitted to them officially by Sheriff George L. Winkler. Ira Holmes, attorney for the probation officers, asserted he will file contempt of court proceedings unless the mandate is recognized. Issued by Special Circuit Judge Sidney Miller two weeks ago forcing the council to allow the salaries. the mandate defeated factional politics in the council which last January struck the items from the juvenile court budget. If cognizant of the mandate at a continued session Saturday, the majority faction of the council will be forced to retract the appropriation refusal. Seeks Congress Seat Bv Times Special ROCKVILLE, Ind., April 4. Robert Grieve, Parke county, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative in congress from the Fifth district.

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James Trout, 23, alleged companion of William C. Hill, former policeman, in the holdup slaying of Charles Zeller. 46. lottery operator, is held by Orlando (Fla.) police awaiting extradition action by Indianapolis officers. James Leach, 22. arrested with Trout, also will be returned here to face charges of auto theft, burglary and safe breaking. Leach and Trout, it is alleged, forced a safe in the Washington Auto Sales Company. 750 East Washington street, getting $336.

WOMEN TO BE FREED OF ALL DOMESTIC TOIL AND CARES IN SOVIET STATE

BY EUGENE LYONS Vnltrd Pt*ss Staff Corrfspondfnt MOSCOW. April 4. Uri Larin, one of the most picturesque and important Communist leaders of the Soviet government, has launched a movement to get women out of the kitchen, the laundry and other domestic trenches. If it succeeds —as most of Larin's schemes have succeeded—the average community will be collectivized. through modern machinerv. exactly as the peasants' farms are being thrown together, to be cultivated and harvested

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CLASS WILL GIVE PLAY Comedy-Drama to Be Presented at Church by Loyal Workers.

“The Road Back,” a three-act comedy - drama will be presented by the Loyal Workers Bible class of the Eighth Christian church at School 75 auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Friday. Mrs. Grace Sprowl has one of the leading roles in the presentation.

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LLOYD GEORGE LAUDED Receives congratulations Today on Forty Years in Parliament. Bv United Press LONDON, April 4.—David Lloyd George, father of the house of commons, and leader of the Liberal party, was the recipient of hundreds of verbal and written congratulations today on reaching the fortieth anniversary of his entering the British parliament. Playing “Tunnel” Costs Life CHICAGO, April 4.—Playing “tunnel” cost the life of 11-year-ola Charles Roeske. He was crawling through lengths of new concrete sewer pipe when one rolled and his head was crushed against another.

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s ..entificaily with modem and efficient implements. Under Larin’s scheme, all domestic tasks as baking and washing will be done in common, releasing women from their usual household cares. The only drawback. from their standpoint, is that they then will go to work in factories and offices. Congestion in Moscow and other cities will make this reorganization difficult, as the Soviet leaders realize, but the scheme will be tried out in rural communities and smalley eifies. Because it from Larin,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1930

BLAST TOWN’S 200 HOMELESS CHECKJ.OSSES Awaken to Face Scene of War-Time Desolation; 10 Lives Lost. PROBE GETS UNDER WAY Work Progressing Serenely as Explosion Wrecks \ Bomb Factory. BY T. J. O’DONNELL United Press Staff Correspondent DEVON, Pa., April 4.—More than 200 persons, made homeless when this town’s principal industry literally was blow' off the map, awoke from makeshift beds today to look on a scene rivaling war-time desolation. Their dwellings stood stripped of doors and windows and sometimes barely a stick of furniture remained intact to mark their former homes. Even the cots and blankets they slept in were furnished by civic organizations. Many of them had lost parents or relatives in Thursday’s catastrophe, when six explosions following each other in deadly succession erased the factory of the Pennsylvania Fireworks Display Company and took the lives of ten persons. Cadets Patrol Section Thirteen others were sent to hospitals, some permanently disabled, and not until a careful check of the company pay rolls is made, will the exact toll in lives be known. The list of identified dead today stood: Victor Antonio, 65, watchman, Devon. Luigi Purizzo, Devon, son-in-law of the factory owner. Joseph Catelli, Devon, who died in a hospital. Other identifications were expected hourly as checking was started. Meanwhile 230 cadets from nearby Valley Forge Military academy, under command of Major Milton G. Baker, joined police in patrolling the desolated section, and an investigation into the cause of the explosion was being made by Inspector R. W. Hackett of the state department of labor and industry. Witnesses were able to add little to what had been learned. Flaraes Spread Quickly Work in the small building of the factory, devoted to the manufacture of aerial bombs, was progressing smoothly at 9:50 a. m. Thursday when a terrific blast wrecked the building and sent its reverberations echoing as far as Philadelphia, Trenton, N. J., and other New Jersey places, i Instantly the place changed into a scene of horror. Those not killed or disabled ran to the street, but were greeted by another ear- | splitting blast, followed by flames I which quickly spread to nearby i buildings. j Then four lesser blasts followed in succession to add to the confusion. Fire apparatus called from Bryn Mawr, Malvern and other nearby joints, found the way blocked by fallen trees and telegraph poles. Women, hysterical with fright, ran through the streets, and men, women and children ran from nearby buildings only to block the way of rescue apparatus. Nine Killed Outright The fire was brought under control within an hour and the injured were taken to the Bryn Mawr hospital while nurses and doctors took care of many lesser injured. The fireworks factory had been made up of four small buildings and it was in the first building where tile initial blast occurred that most of the lives were lost. Nine perrons including two women, were ki led outright. Os these, two were identified. the others being blown co bits. Miss Josephine Catelli died in a hospital later. TARKINGTON SILENT -■■■ ■ ■... • Condition of Author Kept Secret by Doctors. Bv United Press BALTIMORE. April 4.—The condition of Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis author, who is receiving treatment at Wilmer institute, Johns Hopkins hospital, for eye trouble, remained unknown by any one save attending physicians and members of the family today. Tarkington, when he entered the hospital several days ago, asked that no reports be given of his condition. Members of the family also refused to comment. It is not known whether an operation is scheduled or has been completed and the exact nature of the author’s sight failure never has been announced by Hopkins physicians.

the scheme has attracted instant attention and loosed torrents of discussion. The Soviet public has learned to take this man’s suggestions, no matter how farfetched they might sound, with the utmost seriousness. Larin is one of the most remarkable personages produced by

When the ideal Soviet state has reached Communist perfection women will have no household cares at all. Eugene Lyons, United Press staff correspondent at Moscow, describes the movement now progressing for domestic emancipation in this article.

State News in Brief

Bv United Press .. „ MUNCIF. April 4. The Muncie board of works lost its first legal tilt in an attempt to cancel sixteen improvement contracts awarded by the precediiv city administration, when Judge L. A. Guthrie in Delaware circuit court, having granted a temporary restraining order preventing the board from carrying on its program of improvements where contracts previously awarded had been canceled. Two Confess Bank Robbery NEWCASTLE. Ind., April 4. Robbery of the state bank at Kennard March 22, in which Charles Pierson, cashier, was wounded, was cleared w r ith the signed confessions to Henry county authorities here by Claude Connor, 26, of Muncie, Indiana Harbor and Chicago, and Leonard Mendenhall, 26, Yorktown. Negro Demands $12,000 Bain BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 4. Failure of a Monroe county grand jury to return indictments after a recommendation by Attorney-Gen-ei al James M. Ogden that it investigate a case brought to his attention by John Nichols, Negro, has a sequel in two suits asking $12,000 damages filed by counsel for Nichols in Monroe circuit court here. College Head to Speak SANDUSKY, Ind., April 4.—L. A. Pittenger, president of Ball State Teachers’ college, Muncie, will be the speaker at Sandusky high school corrmencement exercises to be held April 24. Graduates are Woodrow Kirchcoff, Mary Frances Thorpe, Loren C. Sefton, Naomi Ruth Amos, Paul O. Joliff, Janith Corrine Root and Charles W. Bergen. Dale Wary on P. O. Addition MUNCIE, Ind., April 4.—Mayor George R. Dale wants definite information from the government regarding the proposal to build a $210,000 addition to the Muncie postoffice, before he is willing to even talk about giving the government any part of Federal park, adjacent to the present building. Nurse Says Pauper Beaten FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 4. Thelma Arnold, a nurse employed at the Allen county infirmary, testified here that an inmate, an aged man, was beaten with a stick about two and one-half feet long, by an attendant. Bank Names Administrator ANDERSON, Ind., April 4.—The Citizens bank of Anderson has qualified as administrator for the estate of Herbert N. Hosier, killed in an automobile accident here, March 21. The estate consists only of a cla're for damages growing out of the accident, 200 Marksmen to Shoot CULVER, Ind., April 4. Two hundred of the best marksmen in the state will compete at Culver Military academy Saturday in the annual indoor rifle and pistol matches of the Indiana national guard and the Indiana State Rifle Association. $275,000 Gem Theft Prebe ANDERSON, Ind., April 4.—ln a belief that the men who conspired to conduct a fake hold-up of the Wright jewelry store in Elkhart, were implicated in the $275,000 robbery of the Leo Roos jewelry store here, local officers are making an investigation at Elkhart today. Methodist Laymen Meet HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 4. —Nearly 1,200 laymen of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference attended their first business session here in connection with the eighty-seventh annual meeting of the conference here this week. Leslie Speaks at Road Dinner EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 4. The Evansville Automobile Club was praised for its aid in highway development by Governor Harry G. Leslie, principal speaker at a good roads celebration here Thursday night. Education Held Greatest Task RICHMOND, Ind., April 4.—“ The biggest job the world has today Ms the education of the coming generation,” declared Dr. George Strayer, of Columbia university, addressing Rotary Club members here. Banker’s Trial Delayed HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 4. —Trial of Guy R. Bracken, former president of the defunct Farmers Deposit bank of Montpelier, charged with banker’s embezzlement, was continued to May 12. City Sued for $5,000 ANDERSON, Ind., April 4. Samuel L. Gray has filed suit in superior court against the city of Anderson, alleging its negligence caused him to fall into an excavation in North Anderson. He asks $5,000 damages for injuries. Short Fall Costs Life EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 4.—A fall of eight feet in an elevator shaft caused fatal injury of Louis T. Bohn, 68, at the plant of Servel, Inc., where he was employed as custodian. He fell from the first floor to the top of the elevator, which was ih the basement.

the Russian revolution. He is partly paralyzed and moves about only with the greatest difficulty. He makes up for his physical weakness by a tremendous mental force and imaginative daring. A dynamo of intellectual activity, he constantly Is advancing new ideas and carrying on furious polemics

ILLINOIS RIVALS NEAR END OF VOTE CAMPAIGN Mrs. McCormick Defends Republicanism Before Home-Towners. VOTE FRAUDS ARE BARED 25 Election Workers Are Indicted for Alleged Irregularities. BY MERTON T. AKERS United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 4.—Sons and daughters of folk who thrilled to the debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in pre-Civil war days carried on the tradition of Illinois political fervor today as the McCormick-Deneen senatorship struggle neared its climax. Stirring campaigns of the past were paralleled at Rockford, which claims Ruth Hanna McCormick as a part-time resident, when she motored there Thursday night to tell the home folk why they should vote for her as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate. Old timers joined in a torchlight parade and mingled their cheers with the blare of bands and the roar of bombs. Defends Her Republicanism When Mrs. McCormick arrived at Lyran hall, which was packed to overflowing, she was greeted by Robert Henderson, 93, who cast his first vote for John T. Fremont in 1856. The first woman to aspire to a senator’s toga devoted most of her address to a defense of her Republicanism, which she said Senator Charles S. Deneen had attacked, and to national issues such as the tariff, agricultural relief and the world court. “It did not occur to me that the Republicanism of Mark Hanna’s daughter was capable of being attacked,” she said. Just then a newspaper photographer exploded his flashlight. The audience was startled. “We Don’t Mind Them” “I’m sorry if that frightened you,” said Mrs. McCormick. “In Chicago we’re so used to bombs that we don’t mind them.” The quip was apropos, in a sense, for Chicago was rumbling with political scandals. Senator Deneen, veteran of public life, twice Governor of the state and versed in the strategy learned in the upper house of congress, charged that Mrs. McCormick had instigated a “whispering campaign” against him. He declared the attack was centered in the accusation that he had “attended the funeral of a gangster,” and that the memory of Diamond Joe Esposito had been disparaged by that accusation. Election Workers Indicted The number of election workers indicted for alleged ballot box stuffing and other irregularities mounted to twenty-five. Nearl fifty other cases were before the grand jury, and state’s attorney men characterized the vote fraud as “the most widespread ever uncovered in Chicago.”

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Four junior art students of John Herron Art institute who will dance in the department’s pageant, “The Three Gifts,” at the institute at 7:30 tonight are pictured above. They are, left to right. Misses Helen Blankenship, May Nell Anderson, Lena Sansome and Marynetta Hiatt.

and propaganda in their defense. Some say Larin has done more than any other single person among present Soviet leaders to revolutionize the everyday life of the ordinary Soviet citizen. His was the idea of the “unbroken work-week” through the abolition of Sunday. His was the idea of the five-day week—four days of work followed by one day of rest. At first greeted with hoots of derision, both these ideas now are the accepted time basis of life ard work throughout the country. Among his other pet schemes,

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Carl Champion, suspect in connection -with the murder of motor policeman Paul Miller in Brightwood, July 17, 1928, now held in Los Angeles, who says he will fight extradition to Indiana for trial. An Indianapolis policeman is en route to California to attempt Champions return here. ANNUAL SCOUT EXHIBITOPENS Public Showing of Work Closes Saturday. The annual Boy Scout exposition was to open at Tomlinson hall this afternoon and will continue through Saturday night. The public showing of scout work is the closing event of Boy Scout week. Thirty booths demonstrate various activities. Prizes for the best booths will be awarded and Edward Kahn, scout council president, will present an engraved silver shield to the troop contributing most to the exposition. Awards made at the court of honor held in Tomlinson hall Thursday night included 338 merit badges. The Eagle badge, highest honor in scouting, was given Jack Sweeney, Troop 46, and James Shoemaker and Ralph Hook, Troop 80. Honor records were the highest ever attained by the Indianapolis council. Irving Williams presided as chairman of the court of honor. EDITOR SEEKS OFFICE George C. Mercer, Ben Davis, Files for Representative Post. George C. Mercer, 6335 West Mor-

ris street, attorney and editor of the Old Trail News, Ben Davis, today an n ounced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state representative. Mercer formerly was a reporter on an Indianapolis paper and started publishing the Ben Davis paper four years ago. He is a veteran of the World war, having served in

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France twenty months. Tobacco Juice in New Cocktail WASHINGTON. April 4.—Tobacco juice and liniment are the basic ingredients Oi anew cocktail just introduced to the capital. The concoction was found in a Negro’s possession when arrested.

for which he works indefatigably, Is total prohibition of vodka and other strong liquors. He has had more to do than any other single person with putting into effect the present policy of limiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Larin, indeed, never loses a chance to tell the Soviet public about the horrors of drink. His present intense interest in altering the domestic lives of millions of housewives is, therefore, accepted as a sign that legislation to encourage such an alteration really may be expected.

LESLIE SIFTS NEW SYSTEM OF CLEMENCY M Michigan Commissioner to Explain Plan on His Return Here. i MAY RESTORE BOARD Abolition of Pardon Group in 1927 Is Viewed as Backward Step. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Regarding Indiana’s penal problem as one of the most Important requiring solution in the state, Governor Harry G. Leslie and Gaylord Morton, secretary in charge of paroles, have launched a study of clemency methods which may result in recommendations in the Governor’s message to the 1931 legislature, it was learned today. Abolition of the state pardon board by the legislature in 1927, upon recommendation of former Governor Ed Jackson, has proved a step backward, members of the Governor’s crime conference generally agree. Leslie’s recommendations may ask the board’s restoration, creation of a penal department to handle probation as well as pardons and paroles, or creation of the position of pardon commissioner. Plan to Be Explained Arthur D. Wood, pardon commissioner of Michigan, stopped at the Governor’s office Thursday en route to Louisville, where today he is attending the annual national conference of governmental social workers. Morton arranged for him to return here Saturday morning, when he will explain the Michigan plan at a conference with Leslie. “We appreciate Indiana’s problem in this matter of pardons and paroles, for in Michigan we tried all systems before hitting upon a satisfactory solution,” Wood told The Indianapolis Times. “Leaving pardons and paroles to institution trustees was abandoned long ago in our state as being perhaps the most efficacious system. Then we tried the part-time board. This turned into a sort of log-roll-ing contest for freeing prisoners. “One member of the board would want this man out and another that. They would trade and the resuit was that two prisoners would be freed when perhaps neither should have been. Responsibility Centered “The advantage of the one-man commission is that it definitely fixes responsibility. There can be no passing the buck. If a mistake is made, the commissioner is blamed, and justly so. Only appeal to the Governor is possible, and it is seldom that he approves or denies petitions without the commissioner’*’ recommendation. “The commissioner is appointed by the Governor, and of course carries part of the responsibility for success or failure of the administration.” Wood has a staff of eleven employes functioning in his department. Besides the offices at the Lansing statehou.se, . Michigan has branches at Grand Rapids and Detroit, he explained. All important cases are investigated personally by the commissioner or his assistant. Paroles of prisoners not having served their minimum sentence run as high aa 300 a month, Wood declared. Wins High Reputation Wood has made such a reputation that he is being considered for one of three federal commissioners if and when the new federal prison commission is created. A bill for its creation is pending in congress. A penal department, to handle probation as well as paroles, is perhaps the most advanced and enlightened system for solving modern penal problems, Wood believes. After leaving the siatehouse, Wood went to Pendleton and inspected the Indiana state reformatory. Upon his return he particularly praised the economy employed in construction of cell blocks at the institution. He said that cell blocks are built at Pendleton for SSOO a unit, which In Michigan cost from $1,500 to $2,000. TWINS GET ‘BREAK’ V. F. W. Wants Set to Act as Drum Majors. Seeking twins, the Veterans of Foreign Wars drum corps offers a trip to Washington, Baltimore and other eastern cities as the reward to two Indianapolis girls. The twins must look alike, as all good twins do, and must be between 18 and 25 years old. They are to be made drum majors of the Veterans of Foreign Wars drum corps, the Indiana championships corps, which will compete in the national drum corps contests this year. The twins will be a feature of the drum corps appearance at Broad Ripple park dumig the V. F. W. sports carnival, now being arranged. Twin girls should apply to the Veterans of Foreign Wars office, 123 Pembroke arcade. Horseshoers to Meet Ifv United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 4 Nearly eighty men are expected to attend the convention of the Indiana Horseshoers* Association to be held here April 8 and 9, It waa announced by W. F. Geary, Ft. Wayne, in charge of arrangements.