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Hi THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1929. HMIK BUTLER HOME-COMING PARADE HEADS. SECOIIQ ALL-IHDIAHA AIR TOUR DISCUSSED SEVEN DEAD IN FIRE AT SEATTLE HOTEL SEATTLE, Oct. 17. Seven men lost their lives and fnur- teen persons were injured in a fire SAHARA Ell TD INITIATE 25 Langli of My Life (Thoto hjr W.

Frank Jnnrl.) i if. 11 11 1 4 -5 If ft Officials for the celebration and civic parade tonight in connection with home-coming at lint-ler university tomorrow are, front row, left to right: Frank McKinney, assistant cashier Peoples State bank; Wallace O. Lee, Indianapolis Power and Light Company; Mayor Krt Slack, Harry Metzger, Marion Finance Company; (ieorge (l'otsy) Clark, athletic director of Butler. Back row: Ignatius Dlenhart, president of Blue Key, honorary men's fraternity at Iliitler; Henry (ioett, secretary to Mayor Slack; Harmon Snoke, publicity director of the Chamber of Commerce; Prof. Italph Kealiey, faculty sponsor for the Council at Butler, and Paul Akin, vice president ot the Morris Plan.

AT HUH Two-Gun Bandit, Posing as Repairman, Gets $2,500 i From Cashier. Special to The Indianapolis Star. VERSAILLES, Oct. lone bandit, posing as an adding machine repairman, held up and robbed the New Marion bank at New Marion, nine miles southwest of here, of $2,500 at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon. The amount taken was approxi-; mately the entire amount ot currency the bank had on hand.

Cashier Alone With Bandit. F. Wildman, cashier, was alone in the bank with the robber, who had visited the institution yesterday in his role of repairman. This afternoon he told Wildman that the machines were not in need if repair, but asked him to go into the vault and obtain the dates showing when the machines were last checked. Wildman returned from the vault and faced two guns which 'the bandit had drawn.

He ordered the cashier to hand over all the currency the vault, and then forced him back inside, closing the door. Farmer Releases Captive. Blows on the door from a hammer found inside attracted the attention Frank Lehman, farmer, who had come to the bank on business, and who opened the door under Wild-man's direction, releasing the cashier twenty minutes after the robbery. Wildman described the bandit as about six feet tall, of dark complexion, slender, and wearing a dark blue suit and light hat. Posses in charge of the sheriff were conducting a search which had proved unsuccessful late tonight.

ADVERTISING MEN HELD BUILDERS OF MANKIND Advertising men are the builders of much of the advancement of mankind and wield a tremendous influence over the mental processes of the age, Dr. Edward Haines Kistler, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian Church, said in an address on "Brain Building Through Advertising" to the Advertising Club of Indianapolis the Columbia Club yesterday noon. "Our opinions are often formed by the things we read in advertisements," he said. "No advertising man can afford to prostitute his talents in the interests of his clients." VICTIM OF STUNT FALL NOT ENGAGED BY PATHE CHICAGO, Oct. 17.

The Associated Press herewith corrects a dispatch carried Oct. 15 in which it was stated that Rudy Camcnti, New York daredevil, who plunged twenty stories to his death from the new Civic Opera building during a ropo sliding stunt, had been engaged by the Pathe Company. Investigation has shown that Camenti, who was performing the stunt without jay, was. employed by the Pathe Company, and the Associated Press regrets having carried the erroneous report. The second annual all-Indiana air tour will be operated on a speedier schedule, visiting fewer cities and making longer stops.

This was the sentiment of members of the Indiana Aircraft Trade Association at their dinner-meeting; in 'he Columbia Club last night in celebration of the success of the first annual tour. The tour started from Hoosier airport Sept. 16 and finished at the Capitol airport Sept. 21. Thirty-two planes made the trip and twenty-one Indiana cities were visited.

Indications at the meeting last night wera that the number of planes next year would be the same or slightly reduced. Seeks Legion Co-Operation. H. Weir Cook, manager of Curtis Flying Service of Indiana, urged improvement of airport facilities over the state and suggested that American Legion posts sponsor the appearance of the tour in their particular communities. Other speakers were William F.

Sturm, tour director; Harold C. Brooks, chairman of the tour committee; J. O. Frenzel, assistant tour director, and Bob Shank, Donald A. McConnell, Lee H.

Hottel, H. F. Connor, B. P. Prunk, Walker W.

Wins-low, R. W. Bruene, Stanley S. Feezle and C. E.

Baker, all of Indianapolis; Clyde Shockley of Koknmo, Earl F. Ward of Evansville, Ellis Fish of Bedford, Macy O. Teetor and Herman Teetor of Hagerstown, Arthur V. and Paul Cox of Terra Haute, B. U.

Young and Ray Mathews of Gary. Resolutions of Sympathy. Resolutions of sympathy to be extended relatives of J. H. Stewart, one of the tour pilots who was killed recently in Huntington, W.

and to Harry White, fatally injured yesterday in Muncie, were adopted by the association. Most of the out-of-town aviator at the dinner flew to Indianapolis. The association is composed of pilots, airport managers, manufacturers of aircraft and aircraft supplies and members of allied industries in Indiana. UNIONS ARE ACTIVE IN CITY CAMPAIGN Meetings planned for tonight will bring the total held under the direction of the Workers' Nonpartisan Political Action League to nearly twenty this week, Al Royer, campaign director, announced yesterday. Division No.

11 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men has joined the league, bringing practically all organized labor group in the city in the movement, Mr. Royer said. Four meetings were held last night, at, which the labor record of A. M. Glossbrenner, Republican candidate for mayor, was attacked.

Leslie Andrews of Typographical t'nion No. 1 and Clyde Pierce of Plasterers' Local No. 46, spoke at meetings of Hoisting Engineers laical No. 10.1 and Moulders Union No. 5fl in Plumbers' hall.

Local No. 14 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen was addressed by Robert Fox of the plumbers' organization and C. E. Hammond of the painters. E.

Curtis White and Frank Broden of the Web Pressmen's union spoke before street railway employes. White also spoke, with Thomas Johnson of the brick masons, before Boilermakers' Local No. 5L Grand Steward From Windsor, Canada, Is Guest of Honor at Ceremonies. Two hundred and fifty will be initiated Into ihe Mystic Order, Veiled Frophets of the Enchanted Realm, at the Sahaia Grotto home dedication ceremonial in Indiana pblis today. Edward Blake Winter of Windsor, Canada, grand steward, will be the guest of honor at the ceremonial in the Athenaeum and at the dinner in the Claypool hotel tonight.

Brings Sand From Drtert. This ceremonial will be the occasion for receiving ten pounds of the sands of the Sahara desert, which were collected by members of I ord Kitchner Lodge No. 3402, of Ca ro, Egypt, and sent to H. Verle Wilson, secretary of Sahara Grotto, by S. Flux, secretary of the English Masonic lodge in Egypt.

The sand will be placed in the tower of the new Grotto clubhouse at Thirteenth street and Park avenue in a glass case. The official invitation to the supreme council session was broadcast by station WKBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company, by officers and members of Sahara Grotto last night. Music hy I'irmte Band, The musical program was provided by the Sahara Pirate band, directed by Brewer Clay. J. W.

Berry, chief justice, and Ross Riddle, master of ceremonies ot Othmeir Grotto, Windsor, Canada, accompanied Mr. Winter to Indianapolis for the broadcasting and ceremonial activities. Raymond F. Murray, chairman of the convention committee, announced appointment of a state advisory committee consisting of officers of Indiana Groltos. The committee will meet in Indianapolis today to consider plans for of all Indiana Grottos with Sahara Grotto in entertainment of the forty-first supreme council session.

CANDIDATE COMMITTEE IS NAMED BY C.0FC. A committee to nominate candidates for directors of the board of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce was named at the monthly meeting of the board yesterday. Members of the committee are W. A. Atkins, chairman; Henry L.

Dith-mer, Guy Wainwright, Herman P. Lleber and Irving W. Lemaux. Fourteen candidates will be voted upon at the annual election Dec. 10.

and the seven receiving the highest number of votes will be elected. Additional names may be submitted by twenty-five members. WIFE WINS DIVORCE. Mrs. Rosa Gentile yesterday was granted a divorce from her husband, Tony Gentile, by Judge William O.

Dunlavy of Superior court, Room 3. The husband filed a divorce complaint against his wife several weeks ago after she was arrestud on a charge of administering nouon to Kim nanHla filpH fl. r-rnsft- complaint. She was found not guilty OI me poison IHUl in ruiniini iumi, riontilc nnpi'iitpfl b. ifl renair shon on East Washington street.

Mrs. Gentile also was granted custoay oi the daughter Angella. i 10 o'clock this morning at the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, Mr. Parker suffered a stroke of paralysis while visiting in Detroit, more than two years ago.

Since that time he lived in Lafayette. He had been a resident of Indianapolis practically all his life up to that time and was formerly associated with the Polk Directory Company. Survivors are the brother and a sister. Miss Fanny M. Tarker of Indianapolis.

MRS. NANCY PARKER MONFORT. Mrs. Nancy Parker Monfort, 72 years old, 3167 Kenwood avenue, died yesterday after a short illness. She had been a resident of Indianapolis more than fifty years, having come here from Springfield, 111., where she was born.

She was a member of the Roberts Park M. E. Church and the W. C. T.

U. Survivors are the husband, Alfred A. Monfort; a son, Edward W. Monfort, and two grandchildren, Wallace A. Monfort and Dorotrfy Gene Monfort, all of Indianapolis.

Funeral services will be held at the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek drive, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. CHARLES L. NICHOLAS. Charles L.

Nicholas, 78 years old, 4137 Rookwood avenue, died at his home yesterday afternoon after a short Illness. He was a resident of Indianapolis since the civil war, having come here from Cambridge City. He was a member of the Centennial Christian Church and the Knights of Pythias. Survivors, beside the widow, Mrs. Jenny G.

Nicholas, are a son, Charles Walter Nicholas; a daughter, Mrs. Ida Nicholas Summers, and two grand children, Patricia Ann and Lynn Nicholas Summers, all of Indianapolis, Funeral services will be at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek drive, Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetey, 200 ATTEND ANNUAL DEPAUW BANQUET Two hundred alumni and former students of DcPauw university attended the annual DePauw state banquet last night at the Columbia Club and heard short addresses of greeting from six department heailj of the school. R. W. Pence, head of the department of rhetoric and English composition; Harry B.

Gough, head of the department of speech; William M. Blanchard, head of the chemistry department and dean of the college of liberal arts; Robert G. McCutchan, dean of the school of music; F. C. Tilden, head of the department of comparative literature, and Dr.

Henry B. Longdun, vice president, spoke. Music was provided by the DePauw choir and the university sextet. Dr. G.

Bromley Oxnam, president of the Institution, presided at the that sent billows of choking smoke through the Portland hotel here early today and trapped guests as 1 they slept. Reports that oil soaked rags and i a broken bottle which smelled of kerosene had been fnund in the stairway where the fire s'arted. were being investigated by the fire marshal. The hotel, one of the oldest In Seattle, is operated by K. Mayeda.

a Japanese, and caters to laboring men. The three-story structure was comparatively undamaged as the blaze was extinguished within a few minutes after fire apparatus reached the scene. Property loss was estimated at $7,500. Bodies of the victims of the fire were found in many parts of the building. Some of them were still In bed, others were on the floor in front of doors they had tried to reach.

One man was found underneath his bed, where he sought to escape the smoke, and the body of another was in a chair in the hallway. Mrs. Mayeda, wi'e of the proprietor, suffered a broken leg and broken shoulder and a possible fiac-ture of the skull. The injured are suffering from severe burns, inhaling smoke and shock. Reports that several Japanese children were in the building and had perished were found to be without foundation.

John Brink, 29 years old, son of the Rev. H. A. Brink, Lynden, was among those killed. SUES TO CONTINUE INSURANCE LICENSE Petition for an injunction to prevent Clarence Wysong, state insurance commissioner from revoking the license of the Iroquois Auto Insurance Underwriters was filed yesterday in Federal court by the Iroquois Underwriters, attorney in fact for the insurance firm.

The petition asserts that Wysong) has threatened to revoke the license because, he alleges, interchanging of contracts of indemnity by subscribers of the company is in conflict with the Indiana law In that it does pot provide for a limited liability and does not permit or reqmie assessments upon subscribers for maintenance of assets. The company has been operating In Indiana since May 22, 1924, and has approximately policies in effect in Indiana, it was said. Rev-oration of the license would be "arbitrary, unreasonable, wrongful and oppressive," it is charged. DREISER MENTIONED FOR NOBEL LAURELS STOCKHOLM, Oct. Dreiser, American novelist, was mentioned in Stockholm literary circles today as a possible winner of this year's Nobel prize in literature.

Members of the Swedish academy, who actually make the decision, are maintaining their usual secrecy, however, and nothing definite will be known until formal annoucemet is made the middle of November. Thomas Mann, the German novelist, previously had been spoken of as a likely candidate for the honor. Several of Mr. Dreiser's novels have been translated into Swedish. The literary prize this year Is worth $46,192, a new record, reflecting the higher yield of the Nobel foundations investments, mostly in Swedish securities.

eve rutrunq BT WALTER MARANVILtE, Baseball Star. One day, when I "was playing on the Pittsburgh baseball team and we were Boston to play the Boston Nationals, I was arrested for parking my car in the wrong place. 1 didn't know the rules of the crooked Boston streets. Judge Fuchs. the owner of the Boston team, came over and got me out.

I thanked him, and said I would be Walter Jlaranvllle. glad to do him a favor. Then I went Into the game and made a home run, which was the deriding run in winning the game from the judge's team. You can imagine how I felt. (Copyright.) FLOYD B.

COATES iSlES IN HOMELAWN Floyd B. Coates, 3627 Salem street, died yesterday morning in the Home-lawn sanitarium at Martinsville of acute nephritis. Mr. Coates was district sales manager of the Allith-Prouty Company of Danville, 111., in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. He was well acquainted throughout these states in the lumber and hardware trade and had attended almost every convention in the trade in his territory in twenty-five years.

He was born near Phelps, N. Oct. 6, 1861. Survivors are two sons, Floyd S. Coates of New York and Don Coates of Dallas, and four daughters, Mrs.

E. B. Gage of New York, Mrs. F. G.

Wheeler, Mrs. J. H. Grace Jr. and Miss Margaret Coates of Chicago.

Funeral services will be under auspices of Calvin Prather Lodge No. 717, F. and A. and the DcMolay Commandery, Knights Templar, at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. In addition to holding membership in the Prather lodge and the Knights Templar, Mr.

Coates was 'a member of the Scottish Rite, 'Shrine, Prather chapter No. 157, R. A. M. Prather council, No.

100, R. S. and Nettie Hansford chapter, Order of Eastern Star. BANKING DEPARTMENT RECEIPTS, $125,288.50 Receipts of the state department of banking for the fiscal year which closed Sept. 30, were S125.288.50, according to a report issued yesterday by Luther F.

Symons, bank commissioner. The receipts comprised examination fees, fees for filing bonds and miscellaneous and special fees. Operation of the department cost $82,778.01. The report showed that the department had an unexpended balance of $489.51 from its appropriation of $83,000 for the fiscal year. 0.

E. S. ENTERTAINED. Thirty-five members of the Marion County Past Matrons' and Patrons' Association of the Order of Eastern Star were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Pollard near Oak-landon last night. A wiener roast, outdoor games and contests were on the program. 0.1929. Liggett Mtoi Tobacco Ca in of at band it's in a -q MRS, VONNEGUT DIES, FUNERAL Tl Mrs. Nannette Schnull Vonnegut, widow of Bernard Vonnegut, architect, died at her home, 3707 North Meridian street, yesterday.

Mrs, Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Oct. 16, 3859, the daughter of Henry and Mathilda Schnull, She attended the German-English school and Baptist seminary in Indianapolis and St. Mary's-of-the-Woods. For many years she was an active member of the board of trustees of the Indianapolis orphans' home. She was a member of the All Souls Unitarian Church.

Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Clemens Vonnegut a brother, Gustav A. Schnull; two sons, Kurt and Alex Vonnegut, and a daughter, Mrs. Kurt Lindener of Hamburg, Germany. Funeral services will be held at the Flanner Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Private burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Friends may attend the funeral services. EARL PARKER. Funeral service's for Earl Parker, 66 years old, who died Tuesday night at the home of his brother, Frank Parker, in Lafayette, will be held at SUCH PEP in a cigarette its TAST 'There's no denying an "extra something" to Chesterfield. Call it better tobacco, or higher standards of manufacture more skilful balance, or more expert blending the fact remains that in Chesterfield you get a smoother shading of flavor, a richr- tobacco character, a spicier aroma- one hint of harshness Taste is what counts, in any cigarette; and in Chesterfield it's P0 ldt TASTE above d.

MILD, and yet THEY SATISFY POPULARITY MUST BE DESERVED.