Lady Lindy Amelia Earhart Draws Lindbergh Compared Praise
In Boston Amelia Earhart the 30 year old co pilot of the Friendship monoplane draws comparisons to Charles A. Lindbergh. The college girl and welfare worker with a bright smile has taught Chinese and Syrian children at Denison House and earned a reputation as a fearless aviator. A deck hand shouting Lady Lindy labeled her likeness to the famed flyer.
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Boston
Lady Lindy
America
Charles A. Lindbergh
Amelia M. Earhart
Lindbergh
Bryn Julf Standenaes
Lindy
Miss Earhart
Denison
Tyler Street
Police Question Suspect in Payroll Robbery
Police questioned a man who may help solve the $1,600 payroll theft at Indianapolis Country Club. The satchel carried by cashier Charles H. Horne was found at Lafayette road stop No 3. Detectives pursued clues in the Broadmoor Country Club raid where about $200,000 was loot from 150 guests.
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Indianapolis Country Club
Charles H. Horne
Stop No. 3
Lafayette Road
Broadmoor Country Club
Indianapolis Star
Rector Scholarship Foundation Makes Scholarship Respectable
The 1919 Rector scholarship at DePauw University has grown to 582 scholars with 60 percent working students. Rector scholars boosted average annual credit points from 20.5 to 47.4, and 104 of 244 graduates in 1925 earned honors, while athletics and social life remain, now subordinate to academic training.
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Indianapolis Star
Middle West
Edward Rector
Chicago
Rector
DePauw University
Indiana
Rector Foundation
Henry B. Longden
Andes
Masters of Life Sermon and Alumni Fund Plan
The Sunday sermon at the Presbyterian Church urged devotion to God over Mammon, citing Matthew 6 24 and noting the dangers of dual masters. At DePauw Alumni council Founders and Benefactors Day a DePauw Diversity Alumni Fund was launched to support alumni activities and expand the alumni address list, with initial gifts totaling 1700 from 249 donors.
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God
Mammon
W. L. Raphael
Jesus
Mamman
New York Stock Exchange
Peter
DePauw
University of Michigan
Crawfordsville police hold youthful gang leader confession
Crawfordsville June 4. Paul Jones alias Curtis Brown confessed to a hold up and gun use north of the city. Arrested with him were Baker Bartley James Bunch and Marvin Jones, aged 18 25 and 19. Police link them to a series of recent thefts including the Darlington Williams Elmore holdup and a May 26 coat theft from Russell Switzer.
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Crawfordsville
Paul Jones
Curtis Brown
Vernon Shields
Jones
Glasgow
Lebanon
Baker Bartley
James Bunch
Marvin Jones
Chief Shields
Lewis Williamson
Darlington
Eldridge Elmore
Old
Sperry Bridge
Russell Switzer
Waynetown
Switzer
California to adopt auto honor system replacing speed limits
Assemblyman Roy J. Nielsen proposes lifting fixed speed limits in California and using an automotive honor system. Speeders could be arrested for reckless driving rather than violating a set limit, with no universal speed cap except on mountain or congested roads. The plan hinges on outcomes in other states and Fresno County's uncertain 40 mph rule.
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California
Roy J. Nielson
Sacramento
Nielson
Fresno
State Division of Motor Vehicles
Frank G. Snook
Department
Ex-Postmaster Gets 2 Year Federal Sentence in Fraud Case
Virgil H Kreigh former postmaster at Tocsin Indiana and Herman A Blackman veteran Marion employee pleaded guilty to postal rule violations before Judge Thomas Slick in the northern division federal court Fort Wayne Indiana. Kreigh received two years in Leavenworth Kansas federal penitentiary while Blackman received a three year suspended sentence. Kreigh allegedly had a 2950 postal account balance and Blackman was accused of removing 3 from a letter. Will Spencer got four months in Allen County jail for liquor law violation Leon Long one day in a similar charge.
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Ind
Virgil H. Kreigh
Tocsin
Herman A. Blackman
Marion
Thomas Slick
Kreigh
Leavenworth
Kas
Blackman
Will Spencer
Allen County
Leon Long
Rain disrupts multiple games in mixed baseball results
Yesterday's results show a rainy day across leagues. AIA American Association games in Minneapolis and Louisville ended with ties 4 1 and 1 1 after rain. American League games Philadelphia beat Chicago 6 3 while Boston Cleveland and New York Detroit matches were rained out. National League action saw Boston 5 Cincinnati 3 with several rain interruptions in Pittsburgh Brooklyn St Louis Philadelphia Chicago New York contests.
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Minneapolis
Louisville
Kansas City
Columbus
Milwaukee
Toledo
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Washington
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Friendship flight delayed by gas leak in Newfoundland
Tremendous Fokker monoplane Friendship faced a delayed takeoff to England as a fuel tank leak and strong northwest winds hinder refueling in Trepasset Bay Newfoundland. Pilot Wilmer Stulz and mechanic Louis Gorgon reported the leak despite seven casks of gasoline on hand. Amelia Earhart was among the three flyers aboard.
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Trepasset Bay
Newfoundland
INS
England
Boston
Amelia Earhart
Wilmer Stulz
Louis Gorgon
Farmer Burned to Death in Home Fire East of Vincennes
An 80 year old farmer, Alexander Reel, died in a fire that consumed his home east of Vincennes Indiana. Firemen found his body nearly unrecognizable as coroner N E Beckes conducts the investigation.
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Vincennes
Ind
Alexander Reel
Here
N. E. Beckes
Blackstone murder trial opens in Morgan Circuit Court
In Martinsville Indiana on June 4 the state opened the case against Charles Blackstone for first degree murder in the shooting of Edward Stewart in a cigar store on April 6. Stewart’s brother Wayne was wounded but recovering and attending. Jury selection began with eight jurors excused for cause and others disqualified.
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Martinsville
Ind
Charles Blackstone
Morgan
Edward Stewart
Blackmore
Stewart
Wayne
Bray
J. F. Sedwick
C. Kivett
Negro killer found drowned after posse hunt in Missouri
The body of Ocle Williams, a Black man linked to the killing of Romeo Logan, was found in the river at Boonville after a posse pursued him from Slater. He had been bound and possibly drowned by abductors, twelve masked men not yet indicted.
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Boonville
Ocle Williams
Marshall
Slater
Romeo Logan
Williams
Belgian record flight set at Tirlemont
Brussels reports a world record for sustained flying was set by Adjutant Louis Croo and Sergeant Victor Broenen Rand at Tirlemont after 60 hours and 8 minutes in the air. Officials doubt the record's official status due to in-flight refueling.
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Adjt
Louis Croo
Sergt
Victor Broenen
Tirlemont
Ait
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