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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1930
Page
4
Ten district teams in the Indianapolis Community Fund campaign’s individual gifts division are key to reaching the $865,000 goal. H. C. Atkins chairs district 1 while R. S. Stempfel and Robert W. Fleischer co chair district 10.
Bishop James Cannon Jr. faces charges filed by four church members upon his return to Washington from a honeymoon. He issued a statement urging suspension of judgment until the church’s procedures adjudicate the complaints.
Senator Patterson of Missouri announced he would not travel to Tennessee for the Nye slush fund committee's southern investigations citing a son's death there years earlier. He plans to proceed with inquiries in North Carolina, noting the state's situation warrants further examination.
Indiana Pythian Orphans Home band of twenty five from Lafayette visits Indianapolis for a radio concert and appearance at the Indiana Pythian Sisters state convention closing session. They will broadcast a thirty minute program from station WFBM at 2 30 p m. The convention includes business sessions in the grand lodge auditorium K of P building and new officers are elected led by Mrs Nell McCurry Goodland.
The Times reports wholesalers accused retailers of profiteering over egg prices with 29 and 30 cent eggs sold at 39 to 40 cents. J P Groves of H Redfearn Co says the claim misrepresents the Redfearn firm and asserts retailers have not knowingly harmed consumers. The Times quotes several wholesalers on the matter.
A stunting airplane failed to recover from a tailspin, causing a crash that killed Colonel Ben S. Taylor, 37, noted World War I hero and Arizona landowner, and Robert McDonald, 32, a real estate man.
The Fortieth annual convention of the Savings and Loan League of Indiana opens at the Lincoln on Tuesday for two days with over two hundred members expected. An executive committee meeting precedes the event Monday. Carl J. Weber will call the session to order Tuesday at 10 AM. Speeches by Thomas D. Barr Charles E. Conger L. Holtby Myers and H Morton Bodfish follow in the afternoon. Weber will lead the banquet Tuesday night with Douglas Malloch set to deliver a humorous lecture. Wednesday features John R. Welch and Herman F. Cellarius as speakers.
Former Indianapolis members of Kappa Delta Rho will attend a dinner at the Butler chapter house on West Forty sixth street. The gathering includes members from Kappa Delta Rho chapters at Butler Purdue De Pauw and Franklin universities.
Captain W. W. Counts exhibites the embalmed whale Esmeralda on a flat car near Michigan Boulevard. About twenty thousand people pay 25 cents daily for a glimpse earning most of the four thousand dollars in profits. Esmeralda is one of nine whales touring the country with shows in New York Boston Philadelphia and smaller cities.
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