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They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea VIII 7 is cited in this fragmentary line.
23 Aug 1928
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1928
Page
1
They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea VIII 7 is cited in this fragmentary line.
Millionaire Cleveland resident M F Bramley telegraphs Washington protest after coast guard cutter opened fire on his yacht two miles off Edgewater Beach. Bramley said he was cruising with friends when the warning shot was fired across the bow.
Six Indianapolis Negro Masonic lodges schedule a joint initiation tonight at Trinity Hall as part of Grand Lodge activities. Prince Hall Affiliation sessions are held here while general lodge meetings convene at Masonic Temple. Officers to be elected. John W. Burden of Marion is present grand master. Ed Druhot, missing 21 years, regains memory after nine days in a box car in Fremont Nebraska.
Frank E. Rozelle former U S marshal for northern Indiana will waive immunity before a Federal grand jury investigating the Omaha Tapestry Paint Company. About forty witnesses are summoned including Hicks and several outside Indiana. Names mentioned include James Hart Lewis Whitaker Robert Hicks and Lewis C. Sheets. The probe likely extends beyond Friday.
Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, health board president, said the sanitary park and other city departments should buy coal together to obtain a lower price. The health department purchases 10,000 to 12,000 tons annually and expects savings of about $5,000 this year from the new contract.
Mary Devinney of Flint area sues Dr. Blythe Sleeman of Linden for 25000 claiming a misdiagnosed ankle fracture led to lifelong crutch use. The suit argues improper treatment after the alleged misdiagnosis.
Assistant attorney general Ferre Watkins began probe into alleged padding of the Chicago payroll. He says evidence shows political workers were paid after they did not perform actual duties.
Final decree set to end the marriage of Liza Grey Chaplin and film comedian Charles Chaplin in Los Angeles. Mrs Chaplin plans a wide vaudeville tour of the United States and Europe and Roy D Arg y is noted as a potential future husband also heading on tour.
James Gibbons and Dave Smith motor policemen discovered Mamie Brown a 21 year old Negro in the yard with a black eye and a broken right wrist. She claimed she fell from a closed window. Officers noted a broken rear door glass and a man's cap on the Davenport suggesting a fight with her as the likely harmed party.
Former senator and mayoral candidate Myers was kidnapped near Columbus, Ohio, driven across state lines to near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, held twelve hours in the back of a car, and released after a tense chase. The abductors, planning a swift escape, demanded compliance as Myers observed reckless driving and a violent threat with a .45 automatic. The incident ended as the bandits departed toward an eastern highway miles from his destination.
Federal agents from Louisville and Indianapolis will attend arraignments in Clinton Ind for three men linked to a Chicago Louisville bootleg gang in the Slaying of Edward J Shannon also called Ewald Eckerle. Homer Wright is noted as a gang leader. Wright holds a $2500 bond on a Louisville liquor transportation charge.
A board meeting this afternoon was expected to take favorable action on a proposed playground near Fifty Second Street and Keystone Avenue. Superintendent Walter Jarvis led a committee reviewing a petition from several hundred residents seeking parks facilities in the district. Mike Foley park commissioner supported the request.
Bruce Barton argues the Hoover side in a Times page 11 piece while H L Mencken counters with the case for Al Smith. The note frames the nation’s questions about leadership in a brisk town talk column.
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation leaders publicly back Governor Alfred E. Smith Democratic nominee, praising his agricultural relief plan and tariff stance. Republicans push prohibition and subsidy debates, while Democrats laud his candor and frank positions on key issues.
In Warsaw Indiana Billy Sunday addressed 5000 people denouncing Al Smith’s campaign. He claimed Smith’s supporters would not seat John Barleycorn and asserted Smith would not be elected president because he is a wet and connected to Tammany Hall.
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