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JAMES J. DAVIS
TO PRESIDE AT
LODGEPROGRAM
Labor Secretary to Arrive
Here on June 24 for
Moose Invitation.
Moose lodge members of the city
are looking forward to welcoming
James J. Davis, secretary of labor,
to this city Tuesday, June 24.
Davis, who is director-general of
the Loyal Order of Moose, will come
here to preside at a big initiation
of Indianapolis lodge 17. A large
number of candidates have applied
for admisssion in a class at that
t.me, to be designated the James J.
Davis class.
Lived in Indiana
Lodge officials reported today
they expected to have 100 candi
dates enrolled for the ceremonies.
Present membership of the order in
Indianapolis is in excess of 5,000.
J. E. Newcomb, membership drive
chairman, reported twenty new
candidates at the last meeting.
The initiatory session will be In
form of a home-coming for Davis,
who is a former resident of this
state and an early promoter of
Moose activities in this section.
Secretary 20 Years
William Anderson, secretary of
Lodge 17, is heading arrangements
for reception of the director-general.
Women of Mooseheart legion, aux
iliary of the order, are preparing a
class of applicants under direction
of Mrs. Anna Newbauer.
Anderson was honored by his
lodge last week in recognition of
completion of twenty years of serv
ice in the secretarial post.
He became secretary of Indian
apolis lodge June 10, 1910. Members
joined with officials in honoring -the
secretary for his long and faithful
service.
MRS. BRUNNER NAMED
COUNCILLOR OF 0. OF A.
Chosen Chief of Quaker City Group;
Mrs. White Also Elected.
Em Timn Special
RICHMOND, Ind., June 16.—Mrs.
Grace Brunner recently was named
councillor of the Quaker City coun
cil, 75, Daughters of America.
At installation services to be held
the first meeting night in July
newly elected officers will take their
posts.
Other officers are: Mrs. Mae
White, associate councillor; Miss
Mabel Engelbert, vice-counsellor;
Miss Emma Williams, associate
vice-councillor; Miss C. Stephenson,
recording secretary; Mrs. Halcie
Pickett, financial secretary; Mrs.
Katherine Baetz, conductress; Mrs.
Minnie Tipton, warden; Oliver
Bowler, inside sentinel; Leonard
Engelbert, outside sentinel; Clar
ence Engelbert, pianist; Mrs. Fanny
Morris, team captain, and Mrs.
Stella La Fuze, Mrs. Grace Ryan
and Mrs. Morris, representatives to
the state convention.
LEGIONNAIRES TO BE
GIVEN SPECIAL RATES
National Convention to Be Held in
Boston, Oct. 6 to 9.
/;u Times special
BOSTON, June 16.—Special rates
to LegionnaLcs for a round-trip to
and from annual national Amer
ican Legion convention to be held
in Boston, Oct. 6 to 9, will be avail
able, according to schedules an
nounced by Charles H. Colo, trans
portation committee chairman.
The final date on which reduced
rates will be available for return
trips from the convention is Nov. 13.
Dates during which Legionnaires
may take advantage of reduced
lares to Boston are varied, accord
ing to distance of states from
Boston.
Already special tours of consid
erable scope are being arranged by
several states, and It is expected
that many more parties will be ar
ranged before the convention time.
FORM NEW FRATERNAL
ORDER IN INDIANAPOLIS
United American Works Incorpo
rated; Carl Hill Named Ch'ef.
Indianapolis is to be headquarters
cf a newly organized fraternal
erder, the United Order of Amer
ican Workers, recently incorporated
in this state.
The order admits both men and
women between the ages of 16 and
60 years of age and announced as
being devoted to social fellowship.
Members to comprise the supreme
lodge staff to be located here are:
Carl Hill, supreme president; Ed
ward Eikman, vice-president; Don
Wells, secretary; Hyatt Johnson,
instruction, Samuel Grimes, treas
urer; Mattie Johnson, benevolence;
Hattie Wentworth, social and Oscar
Wentworth inner guard.
A campaign for members is be
ing launched to extend into every
state.
HOME TO GRADUATE 67
41 Boys and 26 Girls to Get Honors
at Mooseheart.
Bu Timet Sit rein l
MOOSEHEART, 111.. June 16.
Mooseheart, home of the Loyal Or
der of Moose here, will graduate
sixty-seven boys and girls this year,
according to the Moose magazine.
Coming from eighteen states and
one province of Canada, the class
consists of forty-one boys and twen
ty-six girls. The average age of
graduates upon coming to Moose
heart is 10 years, and the average
age at graduation is 18 years and
10 months.
LODGE TO HOLD PICNIC
Annual Fete to Be Held July 26 at
Northern Woods.
A calendar of activities for the
summer months has been an
nounced by Oliver P Throckmorton,
worshipful master of Broad Ripple
lodge. 646. Free and Accepted Ma
sons.
Degrees will be conferred tonight,
June 23, June 30, July 7 and Mon
day, Aug. 4. Tae annual picnic of
the lodge is being planned for July
26. to be held at the Northern
• Woods beach.
New Shrine Potentate
Makes Masonry Hobby
Esten A. Fletcher, new imperial potentate of the Shrir?, is shown
at the right. Above is George Stewart Henry potentate of Rameses
temple, Toronto, who was host to the 1930 Shrine conclave, and, below,
Leo V. Youngworth, retiring potentate.
Quit School at Age of 13
to Work for Father;
Retired at 48.
Bu XF.A Service
TORONTO, June 16.—A man who
quit school at 13 to buck the world
for a living and prospered suffi
ciently to retire at 48, is the new
head of the Shriners in the United
States and Canada, numbering more
than half a million.
Eston Asprey Fletcher, although
a Canadian by birth, made his home
for many years in Rochester, N. Y.
He was advanced to the imperial
potentate position at the 1930 con
vention of the Ancient Order of
Mystic Shrine in this city, June 10
to 12, succeeding Leo V. Young
worth, Los Angeles;
Masonry His Hobby
Fletcher is a man to whom noth
ing appeals so much as Masonry.
It was his hobby from the time of
his induction in 1902, and since his
retirement from business in 1917
he has made it his life’s work.
The son of a lumberman, Fletcher
was born in Ivy, Ontario, July 23,
1869, and completed his education
before 13. He entered his father’s
business, taking planks from plan
ers in the latter’s mill.
Advanced Rapidly
He has been president of the New
York State Lumber Dealers’ Asso
ciation, trustee of the Rochester
Chamber of Commerce and now is
a bank director. In 1917-18 he served
on the war industries board.
In recognitiop of his fraternal
service, he was crowned a sovereign
grand inspector general, thirty-third
degree, in 1913. He advanced rapid
ly through the offices of the Scot
tish Rite and other branches of
Masonry.
GORDON EDWARDS
WINNER OF PONY
College Avenue Lad Makes
Best Drawing in Times
and Lyric Contest.
Bob, the Shetland pony from Otto
Gray's ranch in Oklahoma, has a
new home today as well as anew
master.
The new master is Gordon Ed
wards, 10% years old, of 2616 College
avenue.
Gordon was awarded the pony by
the three judges in The Times and
the Lyric theater pony coloring con
test.
It required hours of work by
Randolph Coates, artist; Henry R.
Behrens, interior decorator, and Lee
Williams, Times artist.
Hundreds of boys and girls went
to the Lyric last week and each re
ceived a sketch of a pony.
When the judges called at the
Edwards home, gordon hardly could
believe that he was the winner.
Gordon and Bob are going to have
a great summer, because Gordon
spends his entire summer vacation
with his grandmother on a big farm
in Ohio.
“L always have wanted a pony
and now I have one,” the boy said,
when told he was the owner of
Bob.
Hundreds of boys and girls will be
disappointed because Bob did not
come to their homes, but they must
remember that it would have taken
several thousand ponies to go round.
But Bob now has a fine home—a
big farm to play in with his master
in the summer.
MUNCIE MAN NAMED
TO HEAD RITE WORK
J. C°°pcr Props Degree Chairman
in Indianapolis District.
Scottish Rite activities in the
fifty-two counties of the Indianapo
lis jurisdiction outside Marion
county will be directed by J. Cooper
Props. Muncie, who was appointed
by John F. Engelke, thrice potent
master.
As chairman of preparations for
the fall exemplification of degrees
here. Props will start his campaign
at once by holding a series of
summer district meetings. Plans
also are to form several new Scot
tish Rite clubs in the jurisdiction.
All Master Masons are eligible to
petition for higher degrees of the
rite. Ritualistic work made possi
ble by facilities offered in the new
.athedral will be stressed at the
district sessions.
MBS. BELSER IS
NAMEDTO POST
Elected as Prophetess By
Pocahontas Group.
Bu Times Soccial
ANDERSON, Ind., June 16.—Mrs
Marie Balser was elected prophetess
of the Chief Anderson council, 420,
Degree of Pocahontas, at annual
election of officers here.
Other officers are Miss Margaret
Shaul, Pocahontas; Mrs. Maud Rob
inson, Winona; Rufus R. Robinson,
Powhatan; Mrs. Ruth Boone, trus
tee; Herman Childs, degree master;
Mrs. Bessie Lee, district deputy.
They will be installed next month.
Representatives to the great coun
cil in October are: Mrs, Mamie Mc-
Mahan, Mrs. Rose Lewis, Mrs. Lewis,
Mrs. Bessie Lee, Mrs. Ellen Ehrhart,
Mrs. Pearl Childs, Mrs. Leona Edle
man, Mrs. Doris Hardwick; alter
nates, Mrs. Fannie Michaels, Mrs.
Bessie Hall, Mrs. Lizzie McVey, Mrs.
Emma Maple, Mrs. Sarah Leicht,
Mrs. Mary Childs and Mrs. Mary
Conner.
NAMED FORT HOSTESS
Miss Ann Thatcher Is Appointed to
C. M. T. C. Post.
Miss Ann Thatcher, 624 North
Colorado avenue, has been appoint
ed hostess for the C. M. T. C. en
campment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison
this summer, with Miss Frances
Kinsley of the Greenfield high
school faculty as an assistant.
Miss Thatcher has been in charge
of attendance and social work at the
Arsenal Technical high school and
was chosen on the recommendations
of the Hoosier unit of the Women’s
Overseas Service League.
19 GIVEN DIPLOMAS
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Graduation Exercises Held
at Sacred Heart Academy.
Diplomas were awarded nineteen
pupils at the Sacred Heart academy
Sunday by the Rev. Joseph Char
trand. bishop of the Indianapolis
diocese of the Catholic church.
Graduates were Robert Sauer, Jo
seph Kriner, Eleanor Lauck, Mari
anna Schludecker, Lemont Zimmer,
Helen Schneider, Paul Field, Viola
Blankemeyer, Helen Lou Soland,
George Cafouras, Hermina Ritter,
Charlotta Mueller, Joseph Scherrer,
Anna Lohman, Ernest Schnippel,
Marcella Bertram, Marie Lauck,
Mary Lou Sauer and Ruth Kraeszig.
LOSE LODGE STANDING
Cupid Trespasses and Two of the
“Free” Are Married.
Cupid trespassed the sanctum of
clubrooms of the Widows, Widowers,
Maids and Bachelors Joy Lodge No.
5, during the week-end. to claim twe
members in good standing.
Joe Githens, 68, caretaker, and
Mrs. Vina Hatfield, lodge members,
were wedded Saturday night at a
temporary altar in the clubrooms
while maids, widows, widowers and
bachelors crammed the meeting
quarters to see the couple pro
nounced man and wife by the Rev.
William Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Githens. “home”
today at 371% Massachusetts ave
nue. are eligible now to attend club
functions only as guests.
DRIVE HEADS TO MEET
75 Good Government Member Drive
Captains to Get Orders.
Seventy-five captains for the
membership drive of the Marion
County Good Government League,
a Republican organization, will re
ceive instructions at the meeting to
night at 31 East Georgia street.
Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter
and Walter Hemphill, president of
the West Side Civic Association, will
be speakers.
Roy L. Kemp has been named city
chairman for the league by the Rev.
Harry A. Working, who is in charge
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
1,500 RED MEN
DUE ATSESSION
Members From Four States
to Meet at Winona.
E.u Tunes Special
WARSAW, Ind.. June 16.—Nearly
1,500 members of the Red Men order
from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and
Illinois are expected at a meeting
to be held at Lake Winona Satur
day.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Northern Indiana Red Men’s As
sociation and will be attended by
great chiefs of the order from the
f9ur states.
An elaborate entertainment is be
ing arranged by the Warsaw Cham
ber of Commerce and Red Men’s
lodge with Charles A. Kelly, heading
committees.
The adoption degree will be con
ferred by a degree team from
Lansing, Mich., at the afternoon
session with Great Sachem Fred
Wessells. of that city, in charge.
Other ceremonies will include the
second degree at 7 p. m., conferred
by Mongosia tribe of Miami, Ind.,
and the chiefs’ degree by a team
from Chicago.
Indiana will be represented by
Arch H. Hobbs, Indianapolis, great
chief of records; Eli G. Lee, Terre
Haute, great sachem; Russell Evans,
spencer, great senior sagamore, and
Irwin Pryor, Worthington, great
junior sagamore.
Thomas Irwin, great sachem, and
John Braunsweizer, great chief of
records, both of Toledo, will head
the Ohio delegation.
FLAG RITES ARE SLATED
itebekahs to Join I. O. O. F. Lodge
in Ceremony Wednesday.
Rebekahs will join members of
Brookside lodge, 818, I. O. O. F., in
observance of Flag day with a flag
presentation ceremony in the lodge
hall, Tenth and Rural streets,
Wednesday.
Mrs. A. L. Pauley, past state presi
dent, Woman’s Relief Corps, will
speak. Grand officers will be guests
and the Marion County Odd Fellow
band will play.
Arrangements Complete
for Annual Lodge Picnic
Prather Masons, Auxiliary
Units in Beaih Trip
Next Saturday.
Arrangements are complete for
the annual Prather picnic to be held
Saturday afternoon and night at
Northern Beach under auspices of
Calvin W. Prather lodge, F. & A.
M.; Prather chapter, Prather coun
cil and Nettie Ransford chapter, O.
E. S.
A baseball game between the
Prather Craft Club and officers of
the lodge will be staged in the aft
ernoon. Games and contests are
other features of the program, in
cluding a track meet for persons of
all ages
The picnic is being held for mem
bers, their families and friends. Any
member desiring transportation to
and from the beach is requested to
communicate with some member of
the entertainment committee.
Robert M. Thompson, worshipful
master, is heading arrangements,
assisted by K. V. Ammerman, illus
trous master of Prather council; J.
Lewis Bray, high priest of Prather
chapter, and Mrs. Edna Mann, wor
thy matron of the Eastern Star
chapter Fred G. Buskirk, past
master, is chairman of the enter
tainment committee.
JOHN HABBE, Y. M. C. A.
HEAD, DIES SUDDENLY
Former Insurance Man Passes at
Home; Interested in Welfare Work.
John F. Habbe, 72, recording sec
retary of the board of directors of
the Y. M. C. A., and formerly state
agent for the Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company, died sud
denly Saturday at his home, 2351
North Pennsylvania street.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, pending communi
cation for distant relatives.
Resident of the city almost half
a century, Mr. Habbe devoted most
of his life to welfare work for boys
and young men as a Y. M. C. A.
leader.
Survivors are three sons, Richard
Habbe, Indianapolis; Dr. Edwin
Ha'obe, Milwaukee and Paul Habbe,
New York. Daughters, Mrs. Ruth
Methercue, Milwaukee, and Mrs.
Edith Marx, Merchantsvile, N. J.,
also survive.
CONGRESS FAILS AS
j HOME BREW DEFENSE
Richmond Judge Punishes Man Who
Cited “Wet’’ Speech.
RICHMOND, Ind., June 16.—Ac
tions and words of congress pro
vide a poor criterion for the pub
lic, John Van Atta, lay preacher,
has learned to his sorrow.
Van Atta was frank in his admis
sion to Judge H. Hoelscher, in
Wayne circuit court here, that he
had manufactured and possessed
home brew. A member of congress
had made a speech contending that
it was no law violation, he said, so
he felt no fear in pursuing the prac
tice.
“Don’t you pay any attention to
what is said and done in congress,”
the judge said, and imposed a SIOO
fine and a thirty-day jail term.
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Wins High Ritualistic Honors
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Highest ritualistic honors in Indiana and Kentucky have been won by this Knights of Pythias degree team
of Stones Crossing lodge, 464, which*is expert at conferring the rank of knight. The team is taking part
in fifteen district meetings of the order this month.
Plans Are Complete for
K. of C. Session June 29
Third-Degree to Be Given
at Meeting; Class of
75 Expected.
Final arrangements for the “red
letter” session of Indianapolis
council 437, Knights of Columbus,
June 29, were to be made at the
council’s meeting tonight.
The “red-letter” session will be oc
casion for initiation of candidates
and exemplification of the third de
gree of the order.
Daniel Doyle, chairman of the
initiation committee, anticipates a
class of seventy-five candidates for
ceremonies at that time.
THREE RANKS GIVEN
12 Pythian Neophytes Get
Initiatory Work.
By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, June 16.—Crusade
Lodge 14, Knights of Pythias, of this
city, celebrated culmination of its
spring membership campaign by
conferring the three ranks of the
order.
A class of twelve neophytes were
conducted through initiatory cere
monies. Charles S. Loy, Swayzee,
grand chancellor, .was principal
speaker at a meeting following de
gree work.
Charles E Pommert presided at
the exemplification, assisted by sev
eral past chancellor commanders.
Arthur Miller was announced as
winner of a gold emblem ring for
his efforts in the membership drive.
The lodge is arranging to initiate
a class to e bcomprised altogether
of city firemen. Candidates will be
taken to Michigan City and Elkhart
for initiatio nthe latter part of this
month.
GRAIN MEN TO GUY
Dealers to Hold Meeting
Here Wednesday.
Midsummer convention of the In
diana Grain Dealers’ Association
will be held Wednesday at the In
dianapolis Board of Trade with
about 350 members from all parts
of the state attending.
E. E. Elliott, Muncie, president,
will open the first session at 10 in
the library. John E. Frederick,
Kokomo, president of the Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce, will
follow with an address, “Business
Conditions as I See Them Today.”
Other speakers include C. A.
Waalen, federal grain supervisor;
Otto P. Deluse, retiring pres.dent
of the Board of Trade, and Millar
R. Mydrs, Chicago. *
THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY
OF LODGE CELEBRATED
Oweene Tribe. Red Men. Observe
Date at Windfall Tonight.
B>l Times Special
WINDFALL, Ind., June 16.
Oweene tribe, 292; Improved Order
of Red Men, this place, will observe
its thirtieth anniversary in the I.
O. O. F. hall here tonight.
A. B. Burkhardt will give the
welcome address and Arch H. Hobbs,
Indianapolis, will present the re
sponse. Fred Hinds, prominent Red
men’s lodge worker, will give the
memorial speech.
Drill work will be given by the
Kokomo Eagles’ drill team and mu
sic will be furnished by the ladies’
band of Marion. A dance will fol
low the memorial meeting.
Degree Staff to Hold Party
Temple Rebekah degree staff will
give a supper and euchre-bunco
pasty at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Gebhart, 341 West Thirty
third street, Thursday night. Supper
will be served from 5 to 7.
An added feature is to be appear
ance of one of the most popular de
gree staffs in the country, the Lud
low (Ky.) team, which will super
vise initiatory work.
The total membership of 1,000 is
being enlisted in the campaign for
the June class. Approximately fifty
candidates already are enrolled.
Harry Cailan is heading a ban
quet and entertainment committee
which is arranging a program to
follow the initiation.
Second degree initiatory officers
will be William P. Holmes, grand
knight; George Bischoff, chancellor;
Clarence Beidelman, warden, and
D. T. Doyle, Fred Ashbaugh, B. F.
Deery, John Minto and Thomas
Jones, members of the initiatory
committee.
Hundreds of Styles,
tive—and workmanship exception-
ally fine. On sale in our basement.
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WARMAN IS HONORED
Retiring Chief Is Given
Eagle Ring.
Bn Times Special
RICHMOND, June 16.—Lester
Warman, retiring worthy president
of the Wayne aerie, 666, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, was presented with
a diamond Eagle ring at the annual
installation ceremony held here.
More than three hundred new
members have been taken into the
local order during the last year.
Lewis Watson was installed as
worthy president.
Other officers installed were: Dr.
E. K. Longnecker, vice-president;
Robert Hungerford, chaplain; Henry
Warman, conductor; Henry Schroe
der, treasurer; Milroy Harter, sec
retary; Oscar Williams, trustee;
Russel Alexander, inside guard, and
Louis Lott, outside guard.
_JUNE 16,1930
PYTHIANS HOLD
ROUNDUPS TO
SPUR INTEREST
First of Fifteen District
Sessions Is Held at
Martinsville.
State-wide interest is manifested
by Pythian lodge members this week
in June "roundup” meetings being
held to revive enthusiasm in frater
nal affairs during the hot weather
months.
The first of fifteen dLrtrict meet
ings. scheduled for this month, was
held at Martinsville, June 11. with
large delegations of lodges from
neighboring cities in attendance.
Seven Sessions Slated
Charles S. Loy, Swayzee, grrnd
chancellor, has announced seven
similar meetings for this week at
the following places: Geneva, June
20; Michigan City and Butler, June
16; Newcastle and Brookston, June
17; Evansville, June 18, and Greens
burg, June 19.
The rank of knight, the final step
of the initiatory ceremonies of the
order, is being conferred, at all the
meetings. More than fifty thousand
members of the order along with a
large number of auxiliary members
are being reached by the sessions.
Not State Only
Meetings are not confined to state
district of the order, but are open
to members living within the radius
of fifty to seventy-five miles of the
meeting place. Each district is unit
ing classes from its various lodges
into a district class for initiation.
Among attractions are basket din
ners, band concerts, parades and di
versified entertainment.
The boys’ and girls’ band from the
Indiana Pythian home in Lafayette,
which will play at the sessions,
made its first appearance at Mar
tinsville. The band is composed of
twenty-five members, all attractive
ly uniformed. They are directed by
Louis B. Elmore, who was grand
chancellor of Indiana at the time
the home was dedicated.