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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1928
Page
8
Leslie Homer, 36, a Lebanon man, confessed to more than a dozen hold ups in Lebanon and Muncie. He was bound over to the grand jury today in municipal court on robbery and banditry charges with a bond set at 14000 dollars.
United Press reports that Frank Mellus, grieving husband of Myrtle Mellus, is guarded as police plan an inquest into her death after discovering she had a five year love affair with Leo Kelly. Kelly claimed innocence. Mellus beat the woman after an argument during breakfast.
A resolution to provide for a civil service department in the 1929 city budget was referred to the law and judiciary committee. Introduced by John F. White, it seeks to establish a personnel system with exams for employment and promotion under the mayor's cabinet, preserving independence comparable to other departments.
Democratic leaders decided to push a farm relief plan, with John J. Raskob and Rev. Owen D. Odell present. Alfred E. Smith opponents noted and Gov. Smith's campaign stance cited. The discussion centered on a proposed equalization fee and farm relief approach.
Quiet funeral rites were conducted late Monday for James A. Allison, capitalist, at his Riverdale Springs home on West Riverside Drive. The Methodist Episcopal Church burial followed at Crown Hill Cemetery. Dr Edwin W. Dunlavy, pastor, read the funeral rite. scriptures were read by Dr.
John J. Raskob announced that a major commissions inquiry into the farm problem and the equalization fee remedy will be led by Columbia University economist Irving Seligman with a staff of specialists. The study, described as purely economic and not political, is expected to take weeks or months of hard work. Raskob noted Seligman surveyed GM installment selling and is among the world's foremost economists, while stressing he will not commit to any policy stance.
Bids were being prepared by several firms for laying a large gas pipeline from Lafayette to Crawfordsville Indiana. The project, to start within weeks, aims to greatly boost gas supply in Crawfordsville.
James W. Doty 43, president of Economy Automobile Painting, died at home after illness of typhoid fever and pneumonia. Widow Mrs Doty is critically ill. services set for Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church with burial at Crown Hill. Doty, a Johnson County native, led his company for 15 years and leaves two children, an adopted daughter, four sisters, two brothers, and several lodge affiliations.
London reports Durham in North England welcomed forty thousand miners with families totaling about 120000 paraders. They drank massive quantities of beer and tea, marched to many bands, delivered revolutionary speeches, and dispersed at sundown with no fights or arrests, in good humor. The event marked the annual gala of the Durham County Miners Association.
Bicknell Indiana August 7 The man killed in a Monday gun duel with Patrolman Roy Horn has been identified as Spencer Cooper 28 a former Vincennes policeman on parole from the Pendleton State Reformatory for auto theft Police are probing an auto theft ring and have arrested Ashel Lance 20 Bicknell suspected as Cooper s accomplice
El Paso Aug 7 Big butter and egg men from the West must sidestep to make room for El Paso's new est business concern J R Eich elberger opened the Horned Toad Novelty Company His business has grown to the extent that he has taken a partner moved into larger quarters and has added Chihuahua dogs desert cactus specimens and resurrection plants to his stock
Police search for a young woman in a red dress and three men after an ice cream wagon robbery on West Street Monday night. Victim Guy Coy, 30, was held up for $30 by a gunman while the bandits fled with the cash. The girl, about 18, had heavy black hair and rode with a 23 year old accomplice.
Frank Hawkins, president of the 113th Engineers Association, announced committee chairs for the ninth annual reunion to be held September 1 and 2. Chairmen include Dickey invitations Ford registration Johnson picnic Wright transportation Boyle publicity. Events feature a stag party at the Claypool, a reception and theater party, and a Forrest Park picnic. During World War II about 3,000 served. several hundred are expected.
Daily Mail dispatch reports Stefan Daditch, leader of the opposition, wounded weeks earlier, in a deteriorating state with five doctors attending. The government mobilizes Serb regiments fearing unrest if he dies. In France, bandits terrorizing tourists along the Spanish frontier are captured after gendarmes trap them in a mountain pass.
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