Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1931 — Page 10

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TRIBE NO. 118 SPONSORS FOR 81-COUNTY RITE Bartholomew and Brown Orders to Meet at Edinburg. One of the first- bi-county meetings of Bartholomew and Brown counties will be sponsored by Metamora tribe, No. 118, at Edinburg tonight. Frank Richards of Taylorsville, chairman of the bi-county organization, will be in charge. He will be assisted by other elective officers. Past Sachem Frank L. Flanigan of Columbus, Great Sachem Russell Evans of Spencer and Great Chief of Records Arch Hobbs of Indianapolis will attend. Ouray Tribe of Eaton will entertain Delaware, Blackford and Jay county lodges Wednesday at "Eaton. Friends of the order are invited. Addresses will be made by Evans and Hobbs. Pocahontas council will present an exhibition drill as part o? a program being arranged by Deputy Great Sachem Edward Lawson of Dunkirk. Tipton and Howard county lodges will meet at Noblesville Friday. This meeting will be under auspices of Cherokee Tribe No. 95 and will be in charge of Walter Martin of Kokomo who will be assisted by Secretary George B. Henry of Windfall. Judge Fred E. Hines of Noblesville, past great sachem of the order, will be chief speaker. An invitation has been extended to Everett E. Neal, collector of internal revenue of Indiana, to deliver an address. Preceding the program, a class of candidates will be initiated. Sixth of a series of district meetings being conducted by Degree of Pocahontas of Indian?, will be held at Lafayette Thursday night with Tawalla Council No. 23. Great chiefs of Indiana will all be present, including Great Pocahontas Bessie Meadows of Wolcott, Great Wenonah Goldie Greenlee, Great Minnehaha Lucy Cuscaden! and Great Keeper of Records Lillian Ross. OPTIONS SOUGHT ON CEW HIGHWAY ROUTE Interested Persons Asked to File Evidence With Commission. Interested persons have been invited by the Lincoln Memorial highway commission appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie to set forth their views as to the probable route traveled by the Lincoln family in crossing the Ohio river into Indiana and the Wabash into Illinois. Organized groups of not less than ten have been asked to file documentary evidence to support their views. The route for the Kentucky-Indi-ana-lilinois Lincoln memorial highway has-not been decided definitely, but the Indiana commission is favoring the route designated by the Cravens-Weik commission appointed by Governor Ralston fifteen years ago, it was said. • • DEATH RIDDLE QUIZ DRAWING NEAR CLOSE Inquest Tuesday by Corcner to End Apartment Death Probe. Investigation into the death of Lillian Wilmer, or Isabel McKenzie, in an apartment at 2010 North Merilian street, ten days ago, will be ended this week. Coroner Fred W. Vehling. Vehling said he is convinced the woman, found in the gas-filled j apartment, either is Mrs. Wilmer or Mrs. McKenzie and, after an inquest Tuesday, at which time all available -witnesses- will be questioned formally, he expects to close the probe. Eoth names were, found among the woman’s effects and she had worked and appeared in various Indianapolis business places and homes under both names. INITIATION IS SLATED Golden Rule Lodge to Meet at j Woodmen’s Hall. Wednesday. Golden Rule lodge, No. 3, United Order of American Workers, will initiate a' Class Os new members Wednesday • night, in Woodmen's hall, 1025 Prospect street. Lunch- j eon will be served by ladies of the | order. ! H. G. Johnson, supreme instruc- j tor, will have, charge of degree and drill teams. He will also assist in the sixty-day membership drive being conducted. A gold service pin will be presented' the winner of the drive ARRESTED IN SHOOTING Negro Wounds Self "Demonstrating” Revolver to Companions. Shot in the left foot, William Taylor, Negro, rear of 522 Douglass street, was held on vagrancy charges in city hospital detention ward, j while police sought several Negroes I who were with him Sunday. Taylor told. police he. was demonstrating the revolver to his companions and it accidentally discharged. the bullet lodging in his foot. He admitted he had been drinking, according to police, and said the others left after the accident. Travel Club W*Ul Meet Second meeting of Ship and Travel by Rail Club will be held at 8 Thursday night in the Union station assembly room. Officers elected at the last meeting are: J. p. Dorsey, president; J. T. Garber, vice-president, and Guy B. Smith, secretary. Team to Play Cards Drill team of Golden Rule lodge. No. 25, Ladies Auxiliary to the j Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, ; wIU give a card and bunco party Wednesday night at Trainmen hall, 1002 East Washington street. Honor Gold Star Mothers All Indiana posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars will honor Gold Star Mothers by presenting flowers, wherever possible, on Mother’s day.

Eagles to Unveil Bronze Tablet

Bronze tablet to be unveiled by Eagles at English’s at 1:39 p. m. next Sunday.

K. GF G. DRIVE IS LAUNCHED 100 Mew Members Sought for June Initiation. Knights of Columbus will launch a campaign tonight for at least 100 members to be initiated the latter part of June. The effort will follow the recent refinancing campaign in that division. Teams will be organized and awards will be given teams and individuals having the highest percentage of candidates. Two divisions designated by Grand Knight John A. Royse are headed by William J. Clark and Dr. Claude Hadden. Next Monday, the Rt. Rev. Monsigncr Schurmann de Barenbrook, will speak at K. of C. lodge rooms, 1305 North Delaware street. VETERANS TO MEET Indiana Volunteers, Cos. D, to Hold 33d Reunion. Spanish war veterans of Company D, One hundred fifty-eighth regiment, Indiana volunteers, will hold their thirty-third reunion at Brookside park shelter house Sunday, May 10. At the same time, the first battalion, composed of Companies A and H of Indianapolis and E of Franklin, will meet to make plans for reunion of the regiment. The regiment was made up of: Company A. Indianapolis, Capt. Janies Little; B. Rochester. Captain E. L. Clinser; C. Frankfort. Capt. D. F. Allen; D. Indianapolis. Capt. F. F. McCrea; E. Franklin, Capt. J. H. Tarlton: F of Winchester, Capt. W. H. Dailey; G. Covington. Capt. W. G. Miles; H. Indianapolis. Capt. C. S. Tarlton; I. Sheridan. Capt. O. A. Cox; K Martinsville. Capt. G. S. Monical; L. Kokomo. Capt. R. L. Jacobs, and M. Crawfordsville. Capt. F. B. Alexander. Mrs. Hobbs to Be Hostess Mrs. Arch Hobbs, 4132 Byram avenue, will be hostess to the A. W. T. Pocahontas Embroidery Club at a covered dish luncheon to be served at the home at 12:30 Wednesday. Lodge To Sponsor Dance Capitol City Circle lodge, No. 176, Protected Home Circle, will sponsor a benefit dance, euchre and bunco party Friday night in Woodmen’s hall, 322 East New York street.

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The Schwarz Sisters Equestrienne idols of the continent, the famous Schwarz sisters, are among the dozen or more star riding acts featured with Sells-Floto circus, to be seen here Thursday, May 7. The sisters for several seasons have been the principal features of the famous winter circus in Berlin and come directly to America from lengthy and highly successful engagements with the enormous Strassburger circus, one of the leading and most popular outdoor entertainment organizations in Germany. Gretchen and Louise Schwarz are accompanied In their equestrian exploits by their brother, Rudolph Schwarz, one of the ablest and best riding athletes in Europe. £

B’nai B’rith to Install Fifty at Celebration Indianapolis order of B’nai B’rith will hold a smoker and Dutch lunch meeting at Kirshbaum Center tonight at which fifty candidates will be Initiated. Initiation ends a membership drive conducted throughout the nation by B’nai B’rith lodges. Sidney J. Sternberger, president of the local group, will preside at tonight’s meeting. He has been assisted in arrangements by Walter Lichtenstein, chairman of the arrangements committee. Attorney-General James Ogden addressed the B’nai B’rith luncheon club last Friday noon at the Lockerbie. Isadore Feibelman was chairman of the luncheon and more than fifty members heard Ogden’s speech. The lodge’s athletic committee has | reported the opening of its summer sports program and the order has both a golf team and baseball team in the field. Richard K. Munter is chairman of the sports board. GRAY GETS STATE JOB Schortemeier’s Former Assistant Given Insurance Post.

Herman B. Gray, formerly assistant secretary of state under Frederick E. Schortemeier, has been appointed securities clerk in the office of John C. Kidd, state insurance commissioner. He succeeds Charles Unger, Indianapolis., Gray has had law offices in the; Fletcher S a vings and Trust Building.

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ODD FELLOWS TO MEET Jennings County Lodges to Gather at Vernon Wednesday. Odd Fellow ledges of Jennings county will meet at Vernon Wednesday night. Shepart Whitcomb of Vernon is district deputy grand master. Ladies’ Auxiliary Canton. No. 2, of Indianapolis will sponsor a card party Thursday afternoon and night at the lodge rooms, Prospect and South East streets.

AHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'*

Robert E. Proctor

Indianapolis Eagles will elect officers tonight for the coming year ar.d will discuss plans for unveiling of the bronze tablet pictured above at 1:30 p. m. Sunday, Mothers’ day, at English opera house. Ceremonies will commemorate the first recorded public appeal for nation-wide observance of the day. The appeal was made by Frank E. Kering, twice national president of the order. Following the unveiling, a public program will be given on the stage of" the theater. Robert E. proctor of Elkhart, national Eagles president, and Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times, will be the speakers. Women visitors will be guests of the Indianapolis aerie auxiliary of which Airs. Mary Williams is president. Other officers are: Mrs. liwz Miller. Mrs. Edith Air.ick and Mrs. Clara O’Keefe, past presidents; Mrs. Georgia McDaniel, vice-president; Mrs. Gertrude Eversole, chaplain; Mrs. Nable Fryer, conductress: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stone, inside guard; Mrs. Helen Potcova, outside guard; Mrs. Beitfca Sturgeon, secretary; Mrs. Ruth Currens. treasurer; Mrs. Frances Pfarr. pianist, and Mrs. Anna Cornell. Mrs. Anna Jones and Mrs. Dorothy Seim, trustees.

Mr. Fixit Write your troubles to Mr. Fixit. He is The Times representative at the city hall and will be slad to present your case to the proper eity officials. Write him in care of The Times, s’sninz your ful! name and address. Name will not be published.

Persons writing to Mr. Fixit for assistance in calling attention of city officials to conditions requiring attention must sign their full name and address. In the future, unsigned communications will be ignored. However, in no case will names be used unless- requested. In writing Mr. Fixit, persons complaining should be careful to give I tho exact address or location and describe exactly conditions com-! plained of in order to facilitate 1 remedial steps. In printing the letter, the exact address will not be used where it might prove embarrassing to owners of property referred to. Dear Mr. Fixit—There is a dangerous corner at English avenue and Shelby street where many accidents occur. Something should be done about it before someone is killed. MP.S. R. K. The complaint has hesn referred to the accident prevention bureau for investigation of conditions referred to. Mr. Fixit—l wrote to you two or i three weeks ago in regards to seeing if you could have the B. & O. crossings at North Belmont, and Arnold? streets repaired. The railroad did do some repair work on the Belmont crossing, but net at Arnolda street, which is in very bad condition and should be fixed at once. C. O. S. City Engineer A. H. Moore advises i that the railroad officials have promised to correct these conditions as a ! part of the railroad’s annual spring j program of repairing all crossings. Mr. Fixit—ln the Biltmore Gardens west on Washington street are some vacant lots. A creek, dry most of the time, runs through the lots. Some of the neighbors have run sewer pipe to the creek and ; dump their sewage in it. When the creek is dry, the smell is unbearable and flies swarm in the place. TAXPAYER. City health board officers advise they are powerless to act in this case, be.cause the lots are outside the city limits. The matter should be taken up directly with the county health board. HEIRESS DISAPPEARS Daughter of Wealthy Pennsylvania Family Vanishes in New York. By United, press NEW YORK, May 4.—An attractive 15 -year-old girl, daughter of a prominent York (Pa.) family, who disappeared mysteriously from her home shortly after midnight April 22 with only a few dollars in her pocketbook, was sought here today by her father and detectives. The girl, Doris Dempsey, was reported to have called at Pennsylvania station the morning of April 23 to reclaim some luggage she had checked three hours previously. That was the last trace police could find of her. Her father, William W. Dempsey Jr., wealthy lumber merchant, knew of no reason for the girl’s disappearance. ‘LADY MARY’ IS WINNER : Pigeons Owned by H. H. Carter First and Second in Race. Weekly race of homing pigeons i from Jeffersonville to Indianapolis sponsored by Indianapolis Racing j Figeon Club Sunday was won by Lady Mary, owned by H. H. Carter, 3145 Northwestern avenue. Carter also is owner of the pigeon that placed second. Birds of other members finished as follows: H. S. . Wyeth, third; Charles Schwert,! fourth, and Mrs. Margaret Beck- j ham, sixth. _ LESLIE INSPECTS FORT Governor Is Guest at Inspection of Troops at Army Post. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan were guests of Brigadier-General George H. Jamerson at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Saturday, when they inspected troops on review. The Governor was met at the city limits by a military escort and given a salute of seventeen guns upon his entrance to the fort. Following the review, Mayor Sullivan inspected new buildings being erected at the fort.

K, OF P. STATE PICNIC TO BE HELDJUNE 21 Lafayette to Be Scene of Home-coming Celebration; 15,000 Expected. Second annual homecoming and statewide picnic for Knights of Pythias in Indiana has been set for June 21 at the Pythian home in Lafayette. More than 15,000 members and friends attended the homecoming and picnic last July. In choosing the date, Grand Chancellor Colin V. Dunbar and members of the Pythian Home Board <ope to avoid the excessive heat of July and at the same time suit the convenience of a majority of members. Tonight, work in pirate shipwreck, fun degree of the Knights of Pythias, will be given a class of candidates of Lafayette. Tuesday night, rank of knight will be conferred at Centerville and Muncie. Thcmas J. Buckingham, district deputy, will participate. Grand Chancellor Dunbar will be present. Two meetings are scheduled for Friday night. Muncie lodge of District 9 will welcome lodge No. 37 at a Joint meeting. Arlie Spencer of Lynn is district deputy. Tell City lodge No. 203 will sponsor a moonlight excursion on the Ohio river, to which all members are invited. , Last Saturday a clast: of candidates were initiated into rank of page by a degree team from Cincinnati at Dillsboro. N ;xt Saturday candiates will be given rank of knight at Norwood, suburb of Cincinnati. - - Grand Master of Arms Harry C. Sullivan of Vevay will preside. Mormont lodge No. 747 will be joined by ether lodges in southeastern Indiana. Russell Uhlmanseik of Rising Sun is district deputy. JOB’S DAUGHTERS END STATE SESSION HERE Installation of Officials Closes Convention of Bethels. Business sessions of the various bethels of Job’s Daughters in the j state closed Saturday in the Severin j with election and installation of officers. Newly elected state officers are: Mrs. Florence Ashley of Ft. Wayne, grand guardian; Gay Stammel of Indianapolis, associate grand guardian; Mrs. Beatrice Trussler of Indianapolis, grandmessenger; Mrs. Eula GriSy of Indianapolis, grand secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre of Indianapolis, grand treasurer; Mrs. Jessie Pruitt, Indianapolis, grand guide; Mrs. Marie Leonard, Indianapolis, grand marshal; Mrs. Minnie Tonner, Clinton, grand chaplain; Mrs. Hazel Maehlind of Terre Haute, grand librarian, and Mrs. Dena Welsh of Indianapolis, grand director of music. Dinner and dance in the roof garden at the Severin Saturday night concluded the convention program.

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Dedication Speakers

E. M. Mason

For twelve years Arrius court, No. 5, Ben Hur, has held regular meetings each Monday night in Moose hall, 135 North Delaware street. Wednesday night at 8, Ben Hur will hold its first meeting in Woodmen hall, 322 East New York street. Dedication of the new lodge rooms will include addresses by John C. Snyder, president of the order, and E. M. Mason, secretary, of Crawfordsville.

WOODMAN JUBILEE MEETING PLANNED

Membership Trophy Will Be Presented Lodge by National Chief. Jubilee ceremonials for Camp No. 3907, Modern Woodmen of America, will be held at Bloomington, Wednesday night. Out of 480 lodges, the Bloomington camp stands highest ■in rating for success in obtaining new members during the past year. A prize trophy will be awarded by John D. Volz, national chief of the order during a banquet and musical program which is being arranged by Charles Stinberg, district deputy. State Deputy George E. Hopkins will participate in the celebration. Lodges from Bedford, Mitchell, Oolitic, Paoli, Spencer, Nashville and Martinsville are sending delegations to the meeting. Members of the Who, What and When Dramatic Club of Capitol City lodge, No. 8743, will present two two-act plays in Woodmen hall, 322 East New York street, Friday night. Cast of “Dinner at Six” includes Eva Dunn, Ellis Dunn, Cornelia Black and Harry Gruber: in “Dr. Cure All” are Joseph P. Heath and Margaret Portia. National Chief Volz and State Deputy Hopkins will be present. A short talk on the Woodmen sanitarium will be given. All members and friends are invited. Ladies Club camp of Marion camp, No. 3558, will confer degree work in Woodmen hall, 322 East New York street, Tuesday night.

John C. Snyder

Preparations are being made by local officers to take care of a large crowd. Delegations from Crawfordsville. Marion, Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne and other courts will be present. The program which will be followed by dancing, cards and bunco is in charge of officers of the court —Louis H. Mills, chief; Burt E. Kimmel, scribe, and W. O. Treverton, representative. All members and their friends are invited.

GRESHAM GETS WORK CITATION Veterans’ Chief Lauded for Legislative Program. Arthur G. Gresham, national legislative deputy for the department of Indiana, Veterans of Foreign Wars, recently has been cited for his werk on national legislation by Edwin S. Bethelheim, national legislative chairman. Gresham’s work during the last session of congress has been of material benefit to all ex-service men in the United States, Bethelheim said. Jim Ebby post of Ft. Wayne is first in a membership campaign recently concluded by Indiana posts. This post reports 393 new members. La Velle Gossett post, Indianapolis, is second with 170 members added. Forty-six new V. F. W. posts were organized in March. Although returns for April have not been tabulated completely, Commander Edward G. Schaub believes that this mark will be surpassed. Post to Give Dance Irvington post No. 38, American legion, will give a dance at 9 Saturday night in Irvington Masonic temple. Ray Woods, chairman of the dance committee, said several special entertainment features had been arranged.

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TEMPLARS WILL HOLD CONCLAVE ON.WEDNESDAY Visiting Delegates Will Be Entertained in Rites at Masonic Temple. Seventy-seventh annual conclave j of Grand Commandery Knights j Templar of Indiana will be held at the Masonic temple, 525 North Illinois _ street, Wednesday afternoon, May 13. Plans are now being j completed for the session. I Fort the first time in many years, j the Indiana state meeting will not be featured by the attendance ol uniformed drill teams and knights. The session will consist largely of routine matters to come up for action. George L. Davis of Kokomo, grand commander, announced that official representatives from all commanderies in the state, together with as many past grand commanders who can attend, will be expected and are to be in Templar uniform. Next Tuesday afternoon the jurisprudence committee will consider business that will come before the Wednesday meeting. At the business session there will be a note of sorrow due to the recent death of Vestal W. Woodward of Indianapolis, treasurer of the grand body for many years. Mr. Woodward has been long prominent as an officer and worker in the various Masonic bodies and was honorary member of the supreme council of the Scottish Rite, thirtythird degree. His office will be filled at the annual election which will be on the conclave program. Though there will be no parade of knights, appropriate entertainment for official delegates and visitors is being arranged by a grand commandery committe which includes: Meade Vestal of Noblesville. L. P. Newby of Knightstown, Harry G. Strickland of Greenfield, Clyde E. Titus, Albert L. McCullum, George F. Schreiber and Franklin L. Bridges of Indianapolis. At the business session, plans will be explained for the Indiana “pilgrimage” to the triennial meeting of the Grand Encampment of the order at Minneapolis, June 20 to 27, for which a special train has been arranged. A record Indiana delegation is expected. Transportation and hotel reservations will be closed May 20 by W. W. Suckow of Franklin, general chairman of arrangements. PLAN ORPHANS’ PROGRAM Caravan Club to Sponsor Party at the Indiana Theater. Caravan Club of Murat Temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will sponsor an entertainment for orphans cf the city at the Indiana theater in the near future. Invitation for the party was extended on behalf of the theater by Brooke Johns, master of ceremonies.