The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-11
The City
in Brief

Il SE1 SKEI
i i'm Brief
Defective wiring caused small
fire in the Claypool music shop,
Illinois and Washington streets,
Sunday morning. The loss was
small.
DR.. r. A. Solomon of Indianapolis,
has been elected president of the
statae alumni association of Phi
Beta Pi, medical fraternity, it was
announced today. DR.. E. o. Asher,
New Augusta, was elected vice-presi-
dent and DR.. L. o. Geider, Indian
apolis, was named secretary.
Grover #. Baker of Washington,
American Institute of Installation
head, will speak on 1.-THE Value of
Memory in Business" at the XII
wants Club luncheon at the Claypool
Wednesday.
Members of the Bethany class of
the Tabernacle Presbyterian church
will repeat the play, "The New Min
ister," at the church Tuesday, at 8
o. m. The leading roles are taken
by Wilma Robinson, Mrs. j. AM
brose Dunkel and Mrs. Helen Dettra.
The plan to reroute street cars to
relieve downtown traffic congestion
will be discussed by A. H. Moore,
city engineer at the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board luncheon Thurs
day at the Chamber of Commerce.
More than 1890 persons attended
the annual Junior vaudeville OF
Shortridge high school Saturday
afternoon and evening in Caleb
Mills hall. Proceeds from the show
will be used to buy new stage set
tings and furnishings.
Albert ]. Wedeking, chairman of
the state highway commission, Will
speak at the Gyro Club luncheon at
the Spink-Arms Tuesday, DR.. Frank
B. Fish, president of the club, an
nognced today.
Henry A. Reninger, president of
the National Safety Council, will be
the principal speaker at the first
annual meeting of the indianapolis
Safety Council Friday evening at
the Chamber of Commerce. He will
be introduced by Frederick E.
Shortemeier, former secretary of
state and president of the local
safety council. Officers will be elect
ed.
Police today were asked to search
for VeInla Van Kirk, II, who dis
appeared Friday night from her
home at 300 Mercer avenue.
Fire believed to have been caused
by defective wiring did damage esti-
mated at $1,000 to the home of FL
mer Day, $50 South Emerson ave-
nue., Sunday evening.
dorado Taft, noted Chicago sculp-
tor, will lecture and demonstrate
modelling of statues at School 81,
East Washington street and Ritter
avenue, Tuesday night under aus
pices, of the Iryington Union of
Clubs.
The Rev. Myron L. POntius, Jack
sonville, ILL.,, former governor of the
west central Illinois district of Ro-
tary Clubs, will speak Tuesday at
the Rotary Club luncheon at the
Claypool. His subject will be "The
Rotary World
"Some Pertinent Facts Regarding
Indiana Legislation" will be the
subject discussed by State Senator
Luther o. Draper at the Universal
Club luncheon at the Columbia Club
Tuesday.
Burglars who entered the Woods
grocery, 982 West TWenty-fifth
street Sunday night, took a pay tel
ephone from the wall and looted it
in the rear of the store, where they
cast it aside. The providers also took
cigaretS and candy.
Eugene d. Foley Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene D. Foley, 4427
Broadway, has been pledged to the
University of Pennsylvania chap
ter of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity,
according to dispatch today from
Philadelphia.
Final settlement of the strike at
Albany, New York, where union
printers we're out for twenty weeks,
was announced here today by
Charles P. Howard, International
Typographical Union president.
The Knickerbocker Press and Union
have agreed to the new wage scale
asked, Howard announced. The
Albany Hearst newspaper, The
Times Union, previously had signed
on the new scale.
BUILDING IS DEDICATED