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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
CITY BOARD TO
PASS ON THREE
PARK PROJECTS
Development Of Holiday
Site, Already Donated,
Is Favored.

Three north side park develop
ment projects will be studied next
Wednesday by the park board.
The board will view the 106-acre
tract of Dr H. H. Wheeler, and the
Laurel Stock farm along MillersvilIe
road.
Both properties have been offered
the city for park purposes under
terms of a lease with option to buy
The Wheeler tract is between the
canal, White river, Capitol avenue
and Washington boulevard.
The Holiday park site along the
Spring Mill road south of Sixty
fourth street, which was donated to
the city will be inspected with the
view of deciding on some develop
ment program.
M. E. Foley, park commissioner,
indicated the board prefers to spend
money on development of the Holli-
day tract rather than to acquire or
lease the other properties.
A bond issue of $4,000 for the
extension of Kessler boulevard from
keystone avenue to MillersviIle was
authorized by the board Thursday
The board assured j. Edward
Morris, Broadway M E. church rep
resentative, that the recreational
center proposed along Fall creek
between Central and College ave-
nues, would not be ordered if pro-
tested by the congregation.
r. T. Byers headed a delegation
asking the extension of Meridian
street from the canal to Kessler
boulevard, using the present dead
end" bridge over the canal.
James E. Deery. John w. Friday
and Joseph Schmid we're named ap-
praisers of the Sinclair estate,
Forty-second street and Boulevard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
SIFT DRY DEATH RAID
illinois Legislature to Quiz
10 in Woman'S Killing.
Hawaii; Robert
BIZ / pited Press

bU LNIttH FTtS8
AURORA, Ill, May 17.-Fifteen
witnesses we're called today to ap-
pear before the opening session of
the legislative board investigating
the dry" raid killing of Mrs. Lillian
De King.
Among them we're Eugene Boyd
Fairchild, investigator who supplied
the evidence for the raid; Deputy
Sheriff Roy Smith, who killed Mrs.
De King with a shot gun; Joseph De
King and Gerald De King, husband
and son of the slain woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
LABOR PARTY GETS AID
Trade Union Congress Is Back OF
Workers in England.

. LONDON. May 1.-THE general
council Of the Trade Union con-
eress has thrown its entire support
to the Labor party in the present
general election campaign, with a
manifesto urging workers to vote
the Labor party ticket.
Miss Margaret Bondf1eld, Laborite
member of parliament, delivered her
party's second radio broadcast polit-
ical speech Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
New Unit to Fight Fire

En- Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, May l7-Fire
Chief Afford will organize a sepa-
rate unit of the Anderson fire de-
partment to operate a new aerial
pumper which was recently added
to the city'S fire fighting equipment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
FEAR NEXT WAR
MAY FIND u. S.,
ENGLAND FOES
Cruiser Building, Military
Camps Raped in Talk
Before Institute.

American and Great Britain may
be- antagonists in the next war.
Christians failed 10 prevent the
last war or TO halt 1t after II
started
Wars blame is laid on the church,
the jingoists. journalists and mill
tsrists
America and every nation IS pre-
pairing now for the next great war.
With the above thought germs IN
his talk. DR.. Charles Z. Jefferson,
pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle
church Of New York, indicted the
xorld at large for its failure to bring
peace in Thursday nights session OF
the Midwest Institute on Interna-
tional Relations at the First Baptist
church
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Marion County Ad-
visory Council of Young People.
White Race World Peril
DR.. jefferson cast all racia perils
aside by stating that the white race
with its poison gases, submarines
and cruiser building, was the
dangerous race. the real peril Of the
world
America IS competing WIN Great
Britain. Germany competed with
Britain before the last war, and
they ended deadly foes We can't
hove con1nptitiO0 between the
United States and Great Britain
without ending IN that catastrophe
var" he said.
He raped citizens military train
ing camps. war games and cruiser
building by America as preparations
for new war.
Girl Wins Peace Prize
He urged that nations learn to
live together. to point toward peace.
Miss Helen Louise Small Of the
FIRST Friends church. was awarded
a s25 prize for the best Grafton on
tho Way to Peace at the mass
meeting
At a discussion Of the League OF
Nations. World Court, and disarma-
ment Thursday afternoon at the
Lincoln. DR.. Rudolph Broda Of Anti
och college advanced strikes Of la
boring men against consumption Tor
war as one means of preventing
world holocausts. Broda is an Aus
trian by birth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

Sandpaper is often made OF
ground glass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Fiheld Speaks Over wFBNI

Explanation Of the new drivers
license law, effective July l, was
given by Secretary Of State Otto O..
Fi1eld in a radio address over
WFBM Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

place. The south side swimming
pool site along Pleasant Run bou-
1evard near the Pennsylvania rail-
road will be appraised by Harry
Meyer, Walter S. Balenger and
Henry G. Bakemeyer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Stock Buyer Dies

~ IWCN NUCcIGI
LINDEN, md, May 17.-Alfred L.
Simmons, 68, Montgomery county
stock buyer, died at his home here
after an illness of year. He leaves
a son and two daughters. The fun
eral was held Friday afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Three Hurt in Powder Plant Bias

BU 'nitcd Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, May ia
gunpowder explosion in the powder
mixing department of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Company
plant here today injured three men,
one perhaps fatally. The small
wooden structure in which they
were working was badly damaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
NOTED DOCTOR TO TALK
DR.. Kopetzky, New York. to Address
City Medical Society.

Or. Samuel Kopetzky. New York
City. Will be guest speaker at dim
ner Of the Indianapolis Medical As
ISOLATION. at Athenaeum May % at
8,15 p m.
DR.. Kopetzky will talk on The
Present Status of the Problem OF
Progressive Deafness.
Local doctors who will speak are
H. M. Trusler. R. Wynn, S. Owen,
Rollin H. RIoser. DIN B. Norman,
Horace B. Banks. Ross G. Ottinger
and Thomas B. Noble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Twelfth Child in Family

m Times Specj0i
ANDERSON. Ind, May ia
daughter born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bolinski is their twelfth child,
eleven of whom are living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
TWO STOLEN AUTOS
RECOVERED AT ONCE
Police Hold Pair From Arlington
Va, in Connection With Miss
ing Washington Machine.

Two stolen automobiles were recovered
at one time by Ofiicer w. L. Lundy of
the Park Police early yesterday morn
ing, a report made today to Capt. P.
j. Carroll revealed. Two white men,
who gave their names as Samuel Lester
Burke, 25 years old, and James Lewis
Daniels, IT, both of Arlington, Va, were
arrested and taken to the first precinct.
Officer Lundy's report showed that
the two men were endeavoring to tow
away car parked on Seventh street,
between B street northwest and B street
southwest, the policeman having ascer-
tanned little earlier upon inquiry at
the first police precinct that the parked
car had been reported stolen.
His attention was first directed to the
car by the peculiar way in which it was
parked. Upon apprehending the two
men, after he had returned from the
station house, Officer Lundys report
said they admitted they had pushed
the car there earlier in the evening and
had come back to tow it away.
Ohcer Lundy said inquiry developed
that the car in which the two were
riding was stolen from Tenth and T
streets southwest January II. One o.
the cars was a sedan, owned by vii.
lard E. Patterson, 622 Lamont street
and the other car, also a sedan, was
found to be owned by Miss Virginia Poe
OF Piney Point Md, the report asserted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
C0L0RED MAS0NS
PLAN CONSOLIDATING
aSupreme Grand Lodge Conference
Here in April to Consider
Proposition.

Plans for uniting all colored Masonic
organizations will be taken under con-
sideration when all grand masters and
Masons convene at a general conference
in this city in April, it was announced
today by Rev. r. B. Robinson, thirty
third, supreme grand master, Universal
Supreme Grand Lodge of the United
Scottish Rite Masons, Inc. (symbolic)
grand east.
There are now IL Supreme Councils of
Colored Scottish Rit Masons in the
United States, 1t was pointed out. Some
States have two and three Grand Lodges
and Washington has five. The Universal
Supreme Grand Lodge conference in
April will consider consolidation of these
various organizations.
The conference will be attended by
Harry Wilson, supreme grand sergeant;
Ollie Billings, supreme grand treasurer !;
C.. Derount Franey, supreme grand
ruler, and other prominent colored Ma
sons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
URGES FUND TO AID
VOCATIONAL WORK
Federal Board Suggests Appropria.
ton for D. G. to Promote Train
ing of Disabled Residents.

Three representatives of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education called
on the District Commissioners today to
urge inclusion in the District appropria-
ton act for the next fiscal wear of
$4,000 for the Districts share of a
program of vocational rehabilitation
for disabled District residents.
The $4,000 would be matched with
similar appropriation from Federal
FUNDS, under the terms of bill passed
py both House and Senate. The bill
mas 70 go to conference owing to slight
amendments made in the House bill by
the Senate. Forty-one States already
carry on the program proposed with the
ald OF State and Federal funds.
The Commissioners promised to give
the matter careful consideration. The
Dill has never been before the city
heads previously. The education board
representatives at the conference were
j. c. Wright. director: j. C. Aronoff,
secretary, and John A. Kratz, chief of
the civilian rehabilitation service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
WASHINGTON HOST
TO NOTED VISITORS
Lindbergh, Lady Mary Heath,
Courtney and Swiss Altman
Among Those Here.

This city played host today to a group
of internationally famous aviators, in.
Guiding Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Lady
Mary Heath, Capt. Frank Courtney anc
Maj. Nabholz Grabow, president of the
Aero Club of Switzerland. Clarence
Chamberlin is expected here this after.
noon from New York for a brief visit
Capt. Courtney, who became known
In this country as a result of his I'M
successful transatlantic flight attempt
and who Is noted as flying boat ex-
pert, was the first of the group to ar
rive. He landed at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station yesterday afternoon in a
British Moth airplane.
equipped with the new slotted wing
which Is widely used in England. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Courtney. who
Is well known in England as a flyer,
and who piloted the little plane on the
trip here from New York yesterday.
Warner Has Bad Try.
Capt. Courtney invited Edward p
Warner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for AeronauticS, to try out his plane and
the invitation was accepted with re-
suits which provided thrill for the
crowds waiting for the arrival of Lind
bergh. Secretary Warner, after short
hop, brought the plane down into a
deep mudhole, where it begged down
to the axle. The Secretary attempted
to pull the plane out under its own
power, but the wheels refused to leave
the mud when Mr. Warner "gunned''
up his motor to top speed. The nose
was pulled down into the hole and the
tail OF the plane rose to an indignant
vertical
There was no damage beyond brok-
en- propeller, Mr. Warmers ruffied feel
ings and pair Of shoes which he
ruined walking out Of the mud hole.
A new propeller was ordered from New
York and Capt. Courtney expects to
be flying again this afternoon.
Lady Mary Leaves.
Lady Mary landed at the Naval Air
Station, 10 minutes after Lindbergh's
arrival at 1882 o'clock yesterday after
noon. She also few here from New
York, making the trip in a British
Avian plane with Cirrus 90-horse-
power motor. She left New York
shortly after noon yesterday, stopping
at Philadelphia to refuel and have a
gas gauge adjusted.
Lady Heath took off from the Naval
Air Station today to return to New
York, after taking several friends for
short rides over the city in her little
plane. She was taken for short ride
over the city in a Curtiss Robin cabin
plane of American manufacture by
Comdr. Robert Gamble of the Naval
Reserves. Maj. Grabow accompanied
Lady Heath back to New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
F. S. LANDSTREET, JR.,
IS CALLED BY DEATH

Fairfax Stuart Landstreet. jr.. vice
president of the Landstreet Downev
Coal Co., Of Huntington, w. Va, died
yesterday in Cincinnati. He leaves a
wife, the former Eleanor Hoover, daugh-
ter OF William D. Hoover, president of
the National Savings & Trust Co. of
Washington, and two daughters and a
son.
Mr.. Landstreet was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fairfax S. Landstreet of New
York City.
Death resulted from complications
following an operation. Mr.. Land
street. a graduate of the class of 1917
OF Yale, served in the Yale batteries.
and as an oficer of the 18th Field Ar
tiliery, I'd Division, in France. He
was So years old. Funeral arrange
menta have not been completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
SCHOOL WILL GET
URUGUAyAN GIFT
DR.. Varela Will Make Presen.
tation of Album as Friend
ship Token.

Ceremonies bespeaking the friendship
of public school children in the United
States and the countries of Latir
America will take place tomorrow morn.
ing at III O'Clock in the Jackson School
Thirty-flrst and r streets.
The occasion will be the presentation
to the school of an illustrated album
prepared by the pupils of the United
States School of Montevideo, Uruguay
named in honor of the sister republic.
DIR. Varela to Make Presentation.
DR.. j. Varela, Minister of Uruguay
who will make the presentation, will be
introduced by DR.. Frank w. Ballou
superintendent of schools. The exer-
cises will be preceded by the playing of
the national anthem of Uruguay by Miss
Adela Varela, daughter of the Minister.
The album will be accepted by pupil
on behalf of the jackson School and by
DR.. Ballou on behalf of the Washington
public schools. Miss L. E. Ballenger is
principal of Jackson School. officials
of the Pan-American Union will be
among the guests.
1t was explained at the Pan-American
Union today that the United States
School at Montevideo was dedicated on
July 4 last in accordance with a practice
in Latin American countries of naming
new public schools after sister republics
and their national heroes 1t is usually
the custom to dedicate such schools on
the national holiday of the country that
is being honored by the designation.
A number of the Latin American
schools are named after the United
States and the practice, it was said, has
done much to bring the school children
of the several countries in closer SYM
pathetic contact.
Practice Spreads Rapidly.
Argentina has United States School,
normal school named after Abraham
Lincoln and also school named after
Theodore Roosevelt. In Brazil there is
United States School in Rio de Janeiro
and it was said the practice which
originated in Uruguay is spreading
rapidly throughout Latin America.
The pupils of the school nj Montevideo
conceived the idea of preparing the
souvenir album for their American cou-
sins in Washington. 1t is handsomely
bound in leather and is illustrated with
maps, original drawings and other pic
lures pertaining to the United States
and the nameSake. school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
Banded Fledgling
Flies From Labrador
To South Africa
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The longest flight ever record
ed for a banded bird, marked by
the United States Biological Sur
yey, was made by a fledgling
Arctic tern from Turnevik Bay.
Labrador. to Margate, IS miles
southeast of Port ShepStone,
Natal, South Africa.
The bird was marked by q CO.
perator of the Bureau at Tur-
nevik Bay on July %, 1923, and
was found dead at Margate on
November IA, 1928. Not only
was the distance of the flight
remarkable. but the time element
also, as the bird was only about 4
months old when found. 1t sug-
gestS, the survey said. that these
birds. which are rarely seen on
the South Atlantic coast of the
United States, may cross the
ocean j to Europe and then pro-
coed south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
GEORGE WRIGHT DIES;
WITH U. S. 48 YEARS
Funeral Services for Retired En-
graver, So, to Be Held
Wednesday.

George Wright, So years old, retired
engraver of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, where he was employed
for 48 years, and long active in organ
izations here, died at his residence, 1913
r street, Saturday. He had been in
falling health for several years.
His death was believed to have been
fastened by the death of his wife last
Wednesday. She was formerly Miss
Victoria Towner of Leesburg, Va. They
were married in this city May %, 1867.
:. Mr.. Wright was reputedly the oldest
living past master of Masonic lodge
in the local jurisdiction. He became a
master Mason in the st. Johns Lodge,
No. IL, F. A. A. NJ, in the old Masonic
Hall, Ninth and d streets, December IL
1868. He was elected master of st.
johns Lodge in 1872. to serve the fol-
lowing year. He was a member of
Mount Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, and of Washington Com
mandery, No. l, Knights Templar.
He also was a member of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia, the Siderogra-
pliers Association. which he served as
president for many years, and of the
st. Andrew Scottish Society.
Mr.. Wright was for a number OF
years vice president of the Perpetual
Building Association and was a di-
rector of that organization at the time
of his death.
He was born in New York, but had
resided in this city since 1861. He
was in Fords Theater the night Presi-
dent Lincoln was shot.
He was retired from his position at
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
~ 10 L 49, NJ
Grace Wright. Miss Sarah j. Wright
Miss Jessie Wright and Miss Gertrude
Wright.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the residence Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in
Oak Hill Cemetery. with Masonic rites
at the grave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
BIKES AWAIT OWNERS.

Youths in the northwest section of
the city whose bicycles were stolen
from them recently may get them back
by calling at the eighth precinct and
identifying those confiscated last night
when police, led by Sergt. H. G.. Gala
han, arrested seven colored boys in the
rear of a vacant house at 1852 Wallack
street and discovered six bicycles.
The boys were dismantling one of the
bicycles when Callahan arrived, he said
They we're taken to the House of De-
tention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
Pig Point Blast Probers Named.

Maj F. H Miles, jr.; Maj. A. ]. Stuart
and Capt. D. C. Hall, Ordnance Corps,
the War Department, have gone to
Portsmouth, Va, under orders to inves-
tigate the cause Of the explosion at the
Pig Point foundry last Friday which
resulted in the death of four men, in
GLIDING Warrant Officer r. @. Andrews.
They will report to the War Depart
ment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
Window Smashers Take Jewelry.

The fourth consecutive early morning
jewelry robbery was perpetrated yester-
day when robbers smashed the show
window OF the Kay Jewelry Co. and
escaped with jewelry on display valued
at $181.
The loot consists of watches and
rings. Detective Hubert Brodie at head
quarters is investigating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
"LAME" MAN SOUGHT.
Accused of Taking $3.50 in Cloth
ing After Losing Limp.

Police are seeking a man about 80
years old, who is said to have devel-
oped a sudden lameness in order to
make away with $3.50 worth of clothing
belonging to James Mclaughlin, at
1343 L street.
According to Mrs. Boyd Piser, who
maintains rooming house at that adj
dress the man, with perceptible limp
assembled the stairs to room which he
had rented for the night, after telling
the woman he was preparing to join
his wife and two children in New Jersey
When he walked out in the morning
Mrs. Piser said, the limp was missing
and SO was McLaughlin's wardrobe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
MRS. GRiMMELL BURIED.
Husband, Two Children and Par
ents Survive D. C.. Woman.

Funeral services for Mrs. Gerelda
Duffiell Grimmell, % years old, who
Church Saturday. Interment was in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. Grimmell is survived by her
husband, George Grimmell; two chill
dren, Elminda Grimmell, years old,
and George Martin Grimmell, months
old, and her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Duffiell of Detroit, Mich Mrs.
Grimmell had been q resident of this
city since 1916. She was graduated
from ST. Cecilia's Academy and from
the Murry Conservatory Of Music
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
Three D. C, Couples Get Licenses.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, February 18
Especially Three Washington couples
were among the Is to whom marriage
licenses were issued here this week
They were: Thomas F.. Moore, jr., 90
and Gladys S. Risdon, 90: Paul
Strohmyer, 81, and Edith Manning,
NJ; J.. M. Jennins, 90. and Mamie
Nlls. "a. IA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18

The United States sent more than
$63,000,000 worth of automobiles and
accessories to the Far East in the first
nine months Of 1928.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-06-07

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