Bremen relief plane lands to repair Bremen on Greenly Island
The Ford relief plane sponsored by the North American Newspaper Alliance and the New York World landed on Greenly Island after a 460 mile flight from Seven Island. Crew includes Capt James Fitzmaurice Bernt Balchen and Ernest Koeppen. Repairs aim for a Tuesday takeoff to Murray Bay and then Mitchel Field.
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Ford
Alliance
New York World
Greenly Island
Seven Island
Quebec
Marconi Company
Detroit
Bremen
Dublin
Ireland
James Fitzmaurice
Bernt Balchen
Ernest Koeppen
Koeppen
Junkers
Baron Huenefeld
Murray Bay
Mitchel Field
Floyd Bennett ill with pneumonia in Quebec
Floyd Bennett, who flew with Bernt Balchen from Detroit delivering relief to a stranded German trans Atlantic plane, is seriously ill with pneumonia at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec. Doctors expect recovery. He arrived by air from Lake St Agnes Sunday.
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United Press
Quebec
Floyd Bennett
Bernt Balchen
Detroit
Jeffrey Hale Hospital
Lake St. Agnes
Bremen Flyers May Tour United States Likely
United Press reports German and Irish pilots from the Bremen may visit Philadelphia St Louis Chicago Boston and San Francisco as part of a trans continental flight plan.
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United Press
United States
Bremen
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Chicago
Boston
San Francisco
Clarence Chamberlin heads to greet German transatlantic fliers
Hartford April 23 Clarence Chamberlin the first nonstop flyer to Germany from America left shortly before 11 am for Greenly Island to greet the first German nonstop fliers to America. Carl A. Dixon followed in a sister ship to accompany him.
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United Press
Hartford
Byrd Heads to Quebec to Visit Frost Bennett Friend
Commander Richard E Byrd will depart Boston at 9 PM to reach Floyd Bennett in Quebec. The two fliers have been close friends since Bennett joined Byrd on the Polar flight.
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United Press
Boston
Richard E. Byrd
Floyd Bennett
Quebec
Bennett
Byrd
Supreme Court Recess Scheduled From April to May
The United States Supreme Court announced it will recess from April 20 to May 14. Arguments for the term will pause after April 27 and resume with the new term in October.
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Supreme Tribunal
United Press
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Two Murderers Die in Chair at Rockview Penitentiary
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania two inmates were electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary. Marko Matakovich 35 of Washington County was executed for the March 1927 murder of George Gregich of Cokesburg Junction. Robert Loftus of Philadelphia was executed for the 1926 slaying of Flora Terrell in Philadelphia.
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United Press Bellefonte
Rockview Penitentiary
Marko Matakovich
Washington County
George Gregich
Cokesburg Junction
Robert Loftus
Philadelphia
Flora Terrell
Death Takes Robert Elliott in Indianapolis
Robert Elliott, 69, president of Standard Dry Kiln Company and a longtime Indianapolis figure, died of pneumonia at Robert W. Long Hospital after two weeks’ admission. Born February 11, 1869 in Detroit, he built a dry kiln business, moved the plant to Indianapolis in 1894, and engaged in civic groups and clubs. Survived by widow Anna Schaefer Elliott and three children, funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. at All Souls Unitarian Church with burial at Crown Hill cemetery.
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Standard Dry Kiln Company
Indianapolis
Robert W. Long
Elliott
Detroit
Mich
Mr. Elliott
A. T. Bemis
Louisville
Chamber of Commerce
Columbia Club
Indianapolis Athletic Club
Woodstock Country Club
Rotary Club
Knight Templar
Mural Temple Shriner
Oriental Lodge
Anna Schaefer Elliott
Robert C
Edward J. Elliott
Victor R. Jose Jr
All Souls Unitarian Church
Frank S. C. Wicks
Crown Hill Cemetery
Masseuse sues Mae Murray over contract claim
Mrs. Sylvia Albeck, a masseuse, sues screen actress Mae Murray in Los Angeles alleging a contract for beauty services worth 2140 dollars. Murray denies the contract and says the engagement ended prematurely.
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Masseuse
United Press
Los Angeles
Mae Murray
Sylvia Albeck
Albeck
Miss Murray
Frear Urges House to Support Veto on Flood Bill
Representative Frear of Wisconsin warned in a final appeal to the House that the country will back a veto of the Jones Reid Mississippi flood control bill. He urged amendments the President requested and said the House should hesitate to invite a veto to avoid risking flood control legislation.
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United Press
Washington
Representative Frear
Rep
Wisconsin
House
Frear
Prisoner Denies Attack on Nurse in Auto
James Willard 40 Pendleton denies striking a Methodist Hospital nurse with a revolver and attempting to attack her Saturday night. He remains jailed on $2,000 bond after being arrested Sunday by State Policeman Charles Bridges while the nurse, injured with head lacerations and possible skull fracture, is treated at a hospital.
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Methodist Hospital
James Willard
Pendleton
Willard
Charles Bridges
Indiana Christian Hospital
Bridges
Martinsville Bandits Plead Guilty in Early Sunday Robbery
Two Martinsville men Scott Boles and Byron Dillenger pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to automobile banditry and were sentenced to five to twenty one years in Indiana State Prison by Judge James A. Collins. They robbed F. O. Beck’s drug store at 2602 Shelby Street at about 7 a.m. and fled in a stolen car, which crashed. Authorities recaptured them near Troy Avenue. Dillenger threatened an officer with a revolver but dropped it as others surrounded him. Boles admitted four other recent holdups. Dillenger confessed to one. Boles claimed to be an artist who once ran an art shop.
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Peter Mause
Martin Fahey
Scott Boles
Byron Dillenger
Criminal Court
Judge Collins
Claude M. Worley
Indiana State
James A. Collins
Michigan City
Martinsville
F. O. Beck
Shelby St
Craft St
Sergt
Harry Kernodle
Troy Ave
Dillenger
Boles
Indiana State Farm
City Prison
Dillinger
N. Senate Ave
Orators Selected for State Lincoln Contest
Edward Fillenworth of Cathedral High School and Eileen Myrich of Martinsville High School will represent the central area in the State finals of the Lincoln oratorical contest at Central Library next Saturday. They won the central area contest in Indianapolis Saturday afternoon. State winners will receive a trip to Washington from the Indiana Lincoln Union.
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Cathedral High School
Eileen Myrich
Martinsville High School
Central Area
Lincoln
Central Library
Fillenworth
Miss Myrich
Indianapolis
Washington
Indiana Lincoln Union
Indianapolis considers daylight saving poll before May vote
City council seeks public sentiment on moving clocks ahead for summer time. A special session may be called to discuss daylight saving with a welfare committee review and a public hearing likely before action.
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Indianapolis
Edward B Raub
Welfare Committee
Earl Buchanan
Raub
Council
Children's Day Set in Indianapolis Parks
Children's day will be observed June 16 in Indianapolis parks and playgrounds with contests for city children. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, said Director Jesse P. McClure will direct the activities and playgrounds are likely to open June 16 with the opening and children's day programs combined.
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Indianapolis
Walter Jarvis
Jesse P. McClure
Jarvis
Sinclair Lewis to Wed Dorothy Thompson
Sinclair Lewis announces engagement to Dorothy Thompson former Berlin correspondent for the New York Evening Post. He told United Press the engagement is official and planned to marry.
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United Press
Rome
Sinclair Lewis
United Press Today
Dorothy Thompson
Berlin
New York Evening Post
Miss Thompson
Policy critics upheld right to criticise foreign policy
Senator Norris of Nebraska reaffirmed that criticizing the Administration's foreign policy does not impugn the President's motives. As the Senate resumed debate on the Navy appropriation bill, Norris argued it is the duty to critique if the policy is believed wrong.
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United Press
Washington
Norris
Rep
Nebraska
Senate
Nicaragua
Daylight Saving Ballot Offered By Indianapolis Times
Citizens may vote on daylight saving in Indianapolis via a Times ballot. Mark an X, sign, and mail or deliver to the Daylight Saving Poll Editor. Results reported to the council before next Monday night. I am for Daylight Saving Name Address
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Indianapolis
the Times
Indianapolis Times
City sleuth shoots to end beating. man wounded in Ray St clash
Eddie Siersdorfer, 25, recovering at City Hospital after Detective Claude F. Johnson shot him when he refused to drop a weapon. The incident began near Ray St and River Ave as Johnson pursued two men, one later identified as George Geisendorf, who fled after the exchange. Totten, 26, is jailed for intoxication and vagrancy. Geisendorf remains at large.
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Claude F. Johnson
Ray St
River Ave
City Hospital
Siersdorfer
Johnson
George Geisendorf
Geisendorf
Eddie
Geisendrof
Totten
Mix signs $3,000,000 film contract in Kansas City
United Press reports a two year motion picture deal for Tom Mix and his horse Tony totaling 3 million dollars. Calvin W. Brown of Film Booking Offices of America announced the pact after a vaudeville engagement in Kansas City.
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United Presa
Kansas City
Tom Mix
Tony
Mix
Calvin W. Brown
Film Booking Offices of America, Inc
Brown
Death trial opens for Harry Hill in Ottawa Illinois
Harry Hill faces a second murder trial in Ottawa Illinois for killing his mother Mrs Eliza Hill of Streator. The defendant disappeared after the basement shooting, was tracked to Seattle, and arrested after a nationwide search. Also included is report of Alva Woods, 30, attempting suicide due to ill health but expected to recover.
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United Press
Ottawa
Ill
Harry Hill
Eliza Hill
Streator, Til
Hill
Knox College
Seattle
Wash
Alva Woods
Robinson St
S. Meridian St
Ex Crowe aid Ben Newmark slain in Chicago home
Former state investigator Ben Newmark, once with Robert E. Crowe, was murdered in his South Shore bungalow. Police say gunmen fired through a bedroom window with a sawed-off shotgun as he prepared for sleep. motive believed to be an underworld grudge. Neighbors heard a car speed away. Mrs. Newmark was with him moments before the shot.
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United Aress
Chicago
Ben Newmark
Robert E. Crowe
Crowe
Newmark
South Shore
New Jewish Religious Education School Opens in Neustadt Area
The Neustadt school building at Union and McCarthy streets was dedicated Sunday afternoon for Jewish youth religious instruction. Tributes were paid to founder Rabbi Isaac Elchunum Neustadt.
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Neustadt
Union and McCarthy Sts
Isaac Elchunum
OUSTED KLANSMEN SEEK STEVE PARDON
Greensburg Pa April 23 Twenty six banished Ku Klux Klan chapters launch a bid to bar the Klan in Pennsylvania via quo warranto. They also seek a gubernatorial pardon for D C Stephenson the former Klan leader serving a life term for murder in Indiana. They plan to turn over trial evidence to Pennsylvania's attorney general.
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United Press
Greensburg
Pennsylvania
Indiana
D. C. Stephenson
National Klan
Stephenson
Pittsburgh
Court Names Soggemeier as Clerk of New Indiana District
Judge Baltzell named Albert C. Soggemeier, longtime deputy, as clerk of the new southern Indiana Federal Court district after William P. Kappes walked out. Soggemeier, at $2,500 yearly, will fill the post when the new law takes effect, while Kappes leaves the office with hours to lockup.
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U. S
Kappes
Baltzel
Soggemeier
Robert C. Baltzell
Southern
Indiana
Federal Court District
United States
William P. Kappes
Albert C. Soggemeier
Pleasant Run Blvd
Ft. Wayne
Baltzell
Coolidge
Esides
Oliver M. Loomis
Arthur R. Robinson
T. M. Folland
Crown Point
Robinson
James E. Watson
Walb and Weaver Jury Picked in Ft Wayne Bank Fraud Case
Jury chosen for the first federal trial in the split Indiana districts tests Clyde Walb former Republican State chairman and Valentine Weaver once bank president. They face charges tied to the La Grange First National Bank failure with forged papers totaling about 76000 dollars.
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Charles E. Carll
Times
FT. Wayne
Ind
Indiana
President Coolidge
Clyde A. Walb
Valentine D. Weaver
Walter Lindley
Danville
Albert Ward
Indianapolis
Ward
Robert C. Baltzell
Northern District
Walb
Weaver
First National Bank of
Talesmen
Lindley
James Hasselman
Waterloo
Gail Bradley
Huntington
Clark Campbell
Auburn
Farmer
John E. Peterson
Decatur
Clothier
William Montgomery
Portland
T. W. Knapp
E. W. Dodez
David Rapp
Ezra Brand
Ashley
A. D. Sadders
Lynn Grove
Harry Wasmuth
Andrews
John Willem
Hamilton
Lindbergh Confers With Olds On Proposed Good Will Flight
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh met for thirty minutes with Undersecretary of State R. E. Olds in Washington to discuss plans for a forthcoming good will flight to European and Asiatic nations this summer.
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United Press
Washington
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
R. E. Olds
Lindberg
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