Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1934 — Page 2

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COLUMBIA CLUB NAMES ESCORT TO GREET KNOX Publisher to Be Welcomed by Committee at Train April 5. Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, who will be guest of honor at the forty-fifth annual beefsteak dinner at the Columbia Club April 5. will by a special reception committee, John C. Ruckel•haus. club president, has announced. The committee, consisting of Columbia Club members and representatives of various civic and political organizations, will meet Colonel Knox at the station and escort him to the Columbia Club. Members of the committee who will be seated at the speaker’s table are United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, former Senator James E. Watson, former Governor Harry G. Leslie, George A. Ball, Indiana national committeeman; Don B. Irwin, Republican state committee chairman; Josiah K. Lilly, James A. Stuart, Hilton U. Brown, Benjamin F. Lawrence, general-manager of the Indianapolis Star; Warren C. Fairbanks, publisher of the Indianapolis News, and Talcott Powell, editor of The Indianapolis Times. Others on the committee are Harry W. Thompson of Versailles, president of tl?e Indiana Republican Editorial Association; Neil D. McCallum of Batesville, secretary of the Republican Editorial Association; Burrell Wright, treasurer of the Republican state committee; Harry Fenton, secretary of the Republican state committee; Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce; Maurice L. Mendenhall, chairman of the Columbia Club entertainment committee; John Burke, rapresentative of twenty-five-year “veterans” of the club; Robert C. Baltzell, federal judge, and James F. Barton, national adjutant of the American Legion. Seated at the speakers’ table also will be Mr. Ruckelshaus, president of the club, who will preside: Fred C. Gardner, vice-president, and Frank A. Butler, treasurer. ADVERTISER TO SPEAK Boston Man Will Discuss Return to National Field. Explanation of a return to national advertising, after having discontinued it for three years, will be given to members of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Thursday, by S. D. Warren, advertising manager of the S. D. Warren Paper company, Boston. Mr. Warren will talk at the luncheon in the Columbia club. The company which he represents, three years ago discontinued national advertising. which it had carried for twenty-five years. Recently it was resumed.

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Renomination Sought by Judge William Pickens

Present Superior Court Incumbent Files Candidacy. Judge William A. Pickens of Marj ion superior court three today filed his candidacy for renomination on I the Democratic ticket at the state- ; house. Judge Pickens was elected to the superior bench in 1930. During the three years of his judgeship. 1931, 1932 and 1933, the court has disposed cases as against 2.765 i cases disposed of by his predecessor during the three preceding years. Total operating cost of the court during the three years was $34,730.90 as compared with $41,291.03 spent during the three years under his predecessor. Judge Pickens was born in Owen county. He was graduated from Indiana university and received his law education at- George Washington university. Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, serving as its president in 1911; the Indiana State Bar Association, of which he, was president in 1926-1927, and the | American Bar Association. He is a past master and thirtysecond degree Mason and a member of Knights of Pythias. Judge Pickens is married and has two daughters. He resides at 1043 North Pennsylvania street. RED CROSS SLATES SWIMMING TESTS Certificate Renewals Will Follow Examinations. Certificates of Red Cross examiners in the life saving and swimming course sponsored by the Red Cross will be renewed following tests made this week at the Indianapolis Athletic Club by Paul W. Goss, field director of first aid and life saving service. At the first night's class, sixty examiners and senior life savers entered. Tests given these classes will be fourfold. One will be a general examination; another a written examination for experts, and others for teachers and graduates. Students must spend ten hours with instructors this week. Mr. Goss is assisted by Dick Papenguth, I. A. C. swimming coach; Miss Euphrasia Donnelly; Mrs. Thelma Darby Willis, Antlers Club; Miss Alma Teifert, city recreation department; Miss Flora Kinder, Hoosier Athletic Club; Bill Orme and Ephraim Duckworth, Butler university, and James Clark, director American Red Cross life saving of the Indianapolis district, and coach of the Y. M. C. A. swimming team.

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Judge William A. Pickens NEWTROLLEYS TO RUNSUNDAY Swankey Cars Will Start on College Avenue Line; Service Speeded. Swanky new street cars, with leather-upholstered seats, will be placed on the College avenue street car line, Sunday. In announcing the new cars, Charles W. Chase, president of the Indianapolis Railways Company, today said that the cars would be similar to those now in operation on the Washington street line. Service on the line will be bettered with cars operating every two or three minutes during rush hours and every seven minutes during the day and nine minutes at night. The cars are to carry numbers of forty-five and forty-four with forty-five for the Broad Ripple line and forty-four for the Forty-sixth and College terminus. The installation is part of the company’s $2,850,000 improvement program for 1934. Trackless trolleys are soon to be put in operation on thirteen other car lines with new trams scheduled for the Central avenue line to start service in July, Mr. Chase said. Begins Flight Over Andes By United Press SANTIAGO, Chili March 21.—Laura Ingalls, American aviatrix, took off in her airplane at 8:10 a. m. today for a difficult, dangerous flight over the Andes mountains to Buenos Aires. Cirrus clouds form as high as nine miles above the earth and are the highest of all cloud formations.

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KERN PLEDGES TO KEEP RULE OF CITYCLEAN Mayoral Candidate Will Open Campaign in Few Days. 0 Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for mayor, in his third campaign speech, delivered last night, pledged himself, if elected, to exert every effort to make Indianapolis as clean a city as it has been under administration of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. He spoke before 400 members of the Riverside Democratic Club at Pruitt street and Riverside drive. Judge Kern, who is expected to open this campaign formally, in the next few days, explained that he would have been a candidate for re-election to the bench, had party leaders not urged him to enter the mayoralty primary in the interests of harmony. He declared that he was not prepared to detail his prospective policies last night. Other candidates w’ho spoke, together with the offices they are seeking, are Judge Joseph R. Williams, superior court two; Herbert E. Wilson and Chalmer Schlosser, for judge of superior court five; Bruce Short and Frank McKinney, for county treasurer; Ernest K. Marker, for county commissioner, Second district; Herbert M. Spencer and Russell J. Dean, for prosecuting attorney, and C- E. Shover, for sheriff. John McNelis spoke on behalf of James Cunningham, who is a candidate for assessor of Center township. and J. V. Stewart, president of the Ray-for-Sheriff Club, spoke for tha candidacy of Captain Otto Ray for sheriff. Grossart Announces Charles A. Grossart, Marion county auditor, today announced his candidacy for re-election, subject to the Democratic primary. Mr. Grossart was the first candidate of either major party to announce for the office. He has served as auditor the last two years. During his term of office Mr. Grossart has introduced many innovations, including a new 7 bookkeeping system. He served as street commissioner under Mayor L. Ert Slack. He has served as precinct committeeman, Tenth ward chairman and assistant treasurer of the Democratic county committee. Mr. Grossart is a past exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, a member of the Scottish Rite, Shrine, Center lodge, F. & A. M., and is treasurer of the Indiana Democratic Club. He is a trustee of the General Protestant Orphans’ home. He is a grariute of Manual high school and Notre Dame university. He resides, with his family, at 5148 North Meridian street. Perry for Trustee Leonard A. Hohlt. Perry township ; assessor, will seek the Democratic nomination for Perry township trustee, he announced today. Mr. Hohlt. who has served as assessor four years, was instrumental in placing the assessment of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company generating plant on South Harding street on the tax duplicates of his township. Perry township taxpayers will be given approximately a 50 per cent reduction in the tax rate as a result of this action, he said. Seeking Judgeship William O. Dunlavy, 2859 Sutherland avenue, an attorney here since 1899, will seek the Republican nomination for judge of superior court three, he announced today. Mr. Dunlavy w 7 as on that bench from 1927 to 1931 and had only three decisions reversed by higher courts. He is married, a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Broadway M. E. church, the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias. He attended Central Normal college and Valparaiso university and is a graduate of the Indiana Law school. Announces Candidacy Joseph M. Milner announced hi* candidacy for the Republican nomination for superior court judge, Room 5, today. He served as judge of this court from 1927 to 1931 and w 7 as the Republican nominee in 1930. Mr. Milner is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, Third Christian church and the Masonic! order. He is president of the But-ler-Fairview Civic Association and is a graduate of the Indiana university law school. Mr. Milner is married, has three children and lives at 145 Hampton drive. Seeks Recorder Post James L. Bradford announced his candidacy for county recorder sub- i ject to the Republican primary, today. He has been active in Republican organization work. He is a member of the Riverside M. E. church, Mystic Tie lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and the directors board of the Riverside Civic League. He served as Fourth w 7 ard Republican chairman last year. He is married and lives at 2003 Mansfield avenue. Borns Announces Frank Borns, 451 North State avenue, former county state representative, announced his candidacy for Marion county auditor subject to the Republican primary, today. He is an attorney, was born in this city and received his education in Indianapolis public schools. Councilman Candidate Glenn W. Parrish, 411 North Noble street, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for city councilman from the Sixth district, today. He is engaged in the general insurance business. Mr. Parrish is married and has two children. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Files for City Clerk Scott V. Smith has filed his candidacy for city clerk subject to the Republican primary, he announced today. Born in Indianapolis, Mr. Smith attended Shortridge high school and Indiana Law school. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church and Center lodge, F. & A. M,

THREE CWA PROJECT FOREMEN DISMISSED Men Failed to Provide Against Hazards, Says Board. Three foremen on Indian CWA projects were dismissed yesterday on order of the state civil works administration. for failure to provide proper precautions against construe-

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tion hazards, it was announced today. The dismissed men are Charles Petri. Tomlinson hall repair project; Glenn Chad, Delphi courthouse project, and Pat Duvall. Richmond. Men were injured on all three projects. Marquis Hooker, an employe on the Tomlinson hall project, was injured fatally when he fell from a scaffold on the west side of the hall yesterday. Levi Austin.

another worker, was Injured seriously at the same time. COMEDY TO BE GIVEN Mothers Club Sponsoring Play at School 54. “Ming,” a three-act comedy, will be presented by the Mothers' Club of School 54. East Tenth and Gray streets, Friday night at 7:30 in the

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school auditorium. Music will be furnished by the Eastside Ramblers.

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