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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1930
Page
8
Merit badges and tokens will be presented to scouts who earned recognition during the camping period at Camp Chank-tun-un-gi near Indianapolis. The camp fire ceremony starts at 7 tonight with parents and friends attending. Camp breaks Saturday morning. the next session opens July 7 for two weeks.
Sidney J. Sternberger was installed as president of the Indianapolis chapter of B'nai B'rith at Kirshbaum Center. Isadore Feibleman, past district No. 2 president, led the installation. Other officers named include H. Joseph Hyman as first vice president and Charles J. Karabell as second vice president.
United States Representative Stephen G. Porter, 62, died at Allegheny General Hospital after months of illness. Porter, longtime congressman from Pennsylvania's Thirty-second district, led a narcotics bill drive and served in various key posts including chairing the foreign affairs committee. He was born May 18, 1869, near Salem Ohio. He had led US diplomacy efforts and drug control initiatives. In other notices H J Borders, 65, died at his Dublin Indiana home, leaving a large family, and a Swiss hotel sector is noted with 3 600 hotels and 61 000 workers valued at about 300 million dollars.
In Marion County the clerk's office reports a brisk June for marriage licenses, with Horace Line back as the clerk and 360 licenses issued so far this month. The paper notes a tense contrast to alimony slips at another desk and highlights the office also issuing firearm permits amid a cheerful mood.
Alonzo McDonald known as Lon, 71, a famed Grand Circuit race horse driver, died of heart disease in Cleveland Ohio while competing. He lived in Indianapolis at 406 North Delaware street, recently moving from Malone New York. Survived by widow and two children George and Sarah. The body to be taken to Malone for burial.
The four Hunter brothers push their endurance airplane City of Chicago past 372 hours circling Sky Harbor airport in Chicago as they seek a refueling record for sustained flight. If successful, they would match the current record of just over 240 hours at 5 01 a m Sunday.
The City in Brief notes Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Scoeee Theta Pi luncheons with Chamber of Commerce sponsorship. William de Cock Buning of The Hague will address the Indianapolis Rotary Club on Holland facts and figures, followed by George P. Torrence discussing unemployment at a Sci Club luncheon. A frame boathouse at Fernbank near Brockville, Ontario, was wrecked after an explosion on the St. Lawrence river.
Police say 18 year old Donald Eaton of Peoria Illinois confessed to planning another robbery after a prior failed hold up He was arrested on Madison avenue by motor officers Elzie Carter and Roy Pope and found with a revolver A female accomplice rode away with a taxi at Illinois and McCarty streets police reported thefts from ten Indianapolis homes and a burglar seized by Detective Edgar Deeter at Walter Bassett home on Sutherland avenue boarding up the house while family was away
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