The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-20
THE CITY
IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY EVENTS

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Lions Club luncheon, Lincoln.
Junior Chamber OF Commerce luncheon.
Chamber OF Commerce.
African Methodist Episcopal Church an
nual conference, Bethel A. M. E. Church.
Alpha Eta Pi meeting. Lincoln. 1880
Master BARRIERS Association meeting.
Eugene johnson, 81, Negro, 220 w.
North ST., is held in city prison to-
day on a vagrancy charge in the in
vestigation of the death of Pearl
Dixon, Negro, in city prison Sunday
of alcoholic poisoning. She had
been found in stupor at Missouri
and Fourteenth SITS.
State Attendance Officer Blanche
Merry of the department Of public
instruction will preside at confer
ence at Jacksonville Saturday,
where the topic, Cooperation of
Public Welfare Work and Workers"
will be discussed. Speakers include
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Roy P. Wisehart, DR.. Will
liam F. King, State health board
secretary, and Chief Robert T. |
Hume of the State police.
One hundred members of the |
Master Plumbers Association, at |
tending a dinner at the Hoosier
Athletic Club Monday night, heard
an address by Col. w. G.. Archer of |
Evansville, representative of the ma
tional trade extension bureau of the |
plumbing and heating industries of |
the United States. Sanitation and |
Organization" was his topic.
Fora q. CIevenger, director of In |
diana University athletics, told the
Indiana University Club at lunch
con at the Lincoln, that a special |
train will be chartered for the In
diana Harvard game at Cambridge,
the train leaving Bloomington the
morning of Oct. %, and stopping |
here for indianapolis alumni and
fans.
Indiana University's field house |
plans will be advanced late this
week, when representatives of the
university and alumni will meet in |
the Office of Robert F. Daggett,
architect.
Newly elected officers of the Indi- !
ana Reserve Officers Association are |
announced as: Maj. Raymond S.
Springer of Connersville, reelected |
president; Maj. Wilbur Ryman OF
Muncie, vice president, and Lieut..
R. D. Wood of Indianapolis. secre- |
tary-treasurer.
Athletic classes at the Y. NJ. c. A.
were opened Monday. Robert Louis
Konecke, physical education direc-
tor, introduced the instructors:
Clarence Roembke, gymnastics; A.
r. Swomp, swimming; Ray Rice,
wrestling; v. Montgomery, tumb-
ling; Il. R. Hiatt, boxing, and Prof.
L. LeNaire, fencing.
The Electric Machine Corporation,
529 N. Capitol Ave-, has leased from
Joseph G. Schaf, Indianapolis cap
italist, the building at 522 s. New
Jersey St., formerly occupied by The
D.. v. Reedy Elevator Company.
Schaf recently purchased the build
ing from the estate of D. V. Reedy
for about $4,000.
w. ]. Herring, 1920 N. Alabama St.,
reported a $500 theft Monday. He
said a handbook containing $50 in
cash and checks Endorsed and totsI-
ing $202.50 were taken from his coas
pocket.
Robert Jones, 5, of 37O3 Robson
ST., received a severe head injury
when he ran in front of an auto
driven by Mrs. Leona Salter, 1907
E. Michigan ST., at Robson st. and
Healing Ave.
The Travellers Aid Society today
asked police to notify Walter and
Russell Aldrich, believed to be stop
ping at some tourists camp nearby,
that they have information for them
from their party stranded In st.
Louis.
The Negro who attempted to steal
two boxes of mems hose from G. w.
Solomons store, 1901 Cornell Ave-,
didn't get the hose and lost his coat.
Solomon held the coat when the
Negro slipped from it and ran.
Harry Williams, 30, Of 142 N.
Noble ST., who took poison Sunday
night. is in serious condition at city
hospital. Marital difficulties were
the cause of the suicide attempt, po-
lice said. william left note saying
he had a wife and child in Cincin-
natl
Richard Fulknor, II, Of 4347
Hovey St., may lose his left leg as
result of being shot by his father,
while on a hunting trip near Waver-
ly, Ind, Monday. Young Fulknor's
leg was shattered by the bullet.
An auto driven by Harold RAIDER,
Buena Vista, Ind, and L. E. & w.
railroad engine collided at Sixteenth
st. crossing late Monday. RAIDERS
wife Elsie was taken home IN an
ambulance.
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