The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-04
The City in
Brief

Frank McCray, former judge, will
speak at the tenth annual home
coming program of the Clermont M.
E. Church Sunday. The program
provides for special morning serv-
ices, a dinner at noon, and musical
entertainment in the evening.
Matthias NOIcOx, principal of
Crispus Attucks high school, will
leave for st. Louis, Mo, Oct. 81,
where he will speak to the annual
conclave of the Association for the
Study of Negro Life and History on
the subject 1.-THE Call for Trained
leadership"
The official board of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church VII en-
terrain the pastor, the Rev. Vern
KrauSe, with a reception at 7;45 p.
m. Tuesday in the church parlors.
A progra moi music and speeches is
planned. The Sunday school or
chestra will play.
DIR. 1. J. Good, president of In
diana Central College, will speak
at the first of a series of fall din
ner meetings of the Mems Club at
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church,
Thirty Fourth st. and Central
Ave, at $50 p. m, Friday. The
club has a membership of 200, &C
cording to Wayne Schmidt, presi-
dent.
Daniel w. HOan, Milwaukee's
Socialist mayor, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a Socialist meet
ing Sunday, 2:30 p. m, Oct. IA, in
the knights of PythiaS Bldg.
Ninth Ward chairmen and vice
chairmen will hold a Hoover-for-
President tea tonight at at the
Mckinley Club to organize precinct
workers. All precinct workers have
been invited by Mrs. H. w. Knowles,
vice chairman.
Police are seeking Robert Graham,
Toledo, to advise him fthe death
in Toledo Wednesday night of his
mother.
Police have ben asked to search
for Marion Hamilton. Is, son of
Mrs. Anna LANCER, 40 N. Spring ST.,
who left home last June to visit
relatives in Louisville and has not
been seen since.
Noel A. Jones and Verl Davis we're
named patrolmen Wednesday by the
board of safety. Both are Dem
ocrats. The appointments were
made to fill vacancies created by re-
tirement of officers.
Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak at
a dinner at Northwood Christian
Church tongiht. mo Mean City"
will be the Mayors topic. The
program was arranged by Wallace
o. Lee.
Temporary officers, who will serve
until the first of the year, were
elected by the indianapolis Florists
Club at meeting Wednesday night
at the Chamber of Commerce. The
officers named are L. S. Elder, pres
ident; Harold Wilcox, first vice pres
ident; o. E. Steinkamp, second vice
president; Edward G. Grande, secre-
tary, and William Fox, treasurer.
The annual tournament of the In
diana Whist Association got under
way in the SEVERN Hotel Wednes-
day night with fifty experts COM
peting for trophies in bridge and
whist. The tourney will continue
throughout the week.
A permit to double its watt power
for the State addition of the At
water Kent foundation has been
granted WKBF, Hoosier Athletic
Club radio station, by the Federal
Radio Commission. That watt
power will be increased from $50 to
500. The foundation program is to
be broadcast Oct. Is and 10.
Harold West of the West Baking
Company will discuss the use of
machinery in bread making before
the Scientech Club, at the weekly
luncheon meeting in the Chamber
of Commerce, Monday. A directors
meeting is scheduled for tonight at
the Columbia Club.
Charles OwsIey, Negro, 429 w.
Sixteenth ST., fireman at the Mer-
chants Ice Company, 317 w. Six
tenth St., died at city hospital
Wednesday night where he was
taken after collapsing at work.
William Wade, 62, Of 1928 N. ILL
nois St., was taken to city hospital
with deep scalp wound when he
was struck by an automobile driven
by Thomas Willis, Sphinx Hotel, at
1870 p. m. Wednesday on Capitol
Ave. near Sixteenth st. Wade's
condition was not regarded as Sc
rious today.
Lowell Thompson, IL, of 81 w.
New York ST., was reported missing
by his parents today The boy at
tended school Wednesday, but did
not return home.
County election commissioners to-
day met to consider bids on sup
plies for the general election Nov.
6. 1t was said they might recon-
slider the request of political groups
to have voting booths distributed
prior to the election in public places
for practice.
BOY BLINDED BY ARROW
Archer Looks Up to Watch Flight,
Struck in Eye.