Coast unions press Mooney Billings pardon drive
California labor groups vow renewed action to win pardons for Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. The California State Federation of Labor, representing 100000 workers, will push a Sept. 15 Marysville meeting to adopt a stronger resolution asserting the two labor leaders innocence and condemning key witnesses as liars.
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San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Warren Billings
California
California State Federation of Labor
Marysville
Supreme
Mooney
Billings
Paul Charrenberg
Peddler Works On Despite Fortune in New Orleans
United Press reports Paul Mariano an Italian born man worth about 150000 dollars continues door to door selling vegetables and salvaged kindling in the French Quarter. Once an olive oil dealer and owner of multiple buildings in the Vieux Carre he sold his holdings and now works daily, saving his money.
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United Press
New Orleans
Paul Mariano
Italy
Vieux Carre
Mariano
Eugenie Grandet
Portable Golf Device Invented by City Man
Indianapolis introduces a portable practice golf driving device named Golf-O-Scope designed to measure distance slices and topping. Inventor Harry W. Aschinger, a Burke-Cadillac representative, also leads the Golf-O-Scope Company which contracts Hercules Manufacturing to produce the device. Milton W. Mangus serves as general counsel and secretary-treasurer. The mechanism uses a ball secured to an arm balanced with mercury and rotating on a ball bearing axis.
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Indianapolis
East Market Street
Harry W. Aschinger
Audubon Court
Burke-Cadillac Company
Hercules Manufacturing, Inc
Northwestern Avenue
Milton W. Mangus
Golf-Oscope Company
Martin Rettig Begins Art Gallery Judging at Indiana State Fair
Cincinnati artist Martin Rettig has started his duties as the sole juror for admittance and awards in the fine arts department at the Indiana State Fair. He is judging pictures in the art gallery of the woman's building.
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Martin Rettig
Cincinnati
Woman's Building
Sky Broadcaster Broadcasts Air Race From Plane
Robert Brown a radio announcer broadcasts the Los Angeles to Chicago nonstop air race from a plane piloted by Captain William S. Brock owned by Powell Crosley Jr. of Cincinnati. He will also broadcast the start of the Gordon Bennett International Balloon races at Cleveland on Labor Day following the big bags for fifty miles.
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Robert Brown
Chicago
William S. Brock
Powell Crosley Jr
Cincinnati
Brown
Cleveland
Former Evelyn Nesbit Husband Is Jailed
Jack Clifford Evelyn Nesbit's divorced dancer husband was in Moyamen Sing Prison in default of 800 bail on a disorderly conduct charge. Police said he created a disturbance at the home of Mrs. Lillian Hodgson aunt of his present wife early Sunday morning. Mrs. Clifford said she came here from Hollywood to escape alleged cruelties.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Jack Clifford
Evelyn Nesbit
Moyamensing
Clifford
Lillian Hodgson
Treaty to be pushed for St. Lawrence waterway
Bay United Press reports officials expect early conclusion of a treaty authorizing a St. Lawrence waterway. Hanford MacNider, newly appointed American minister to Canada, prepared to depart for Ottawa after receiving Hoover administration guidance at a conference at the President’s Rapidan camp Sunday.
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Bay United Press
Washington
St. Lawrence
Hanford MacNider
Canada
Ottawa
MacNider
Hoover
Rapidan
Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Evade Police in Indianapolis Area
Fifteen people were injured in a weekend series of auto accidents in and near Indianapolis as police hunted two hit-and-run drivers. One hit the car of J. C. Hughes at New York Street and White River Boulevard, then fled after jumping from the vehicle. The other escaped after colliding with La Verne Caurt at Bloomington and Washington streets. Injured victims include C. E. Scott, Edward Schenk, Mrs. James Miller, Miss Virginia Christy, and several Christys, among others, with injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to facial fractures and head injuries. Police continue seeking the two suspected drivers and their vehicles.
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Indianapolis
J. C. Hughes
Lyndhurst Drive
New York Street
White River Boulevard
la Verne Caurt
South Harding Street
Bloomington
Washington Streets
Daurt
Cc. E. Scott
North Elder Avenue
Edward Schenk
Kesslar Boulevard
James Miller
Buckle Street
Virginia Christy
Robert Moore
North Kealing Avenue
James Reese
Olive Street
Horace Wheatley
Oakland Avenue
Flora Sawyer
Carrollton Avenue
Thomas Osborne
Poplar Road
Stolen Cars Reported By Multiple Residents
A list of automobile thefts from various residents includes Richard La Follett at 518 Holly Ave with a Ford Touring. A L Piel at 4419 N Pennsylvania with an Oldsmobile Coach. Loren Shimer at 928 W Vermont with a Leslee. Roy Butler in Hope Indiana with a Ford Roadster. Robert Maney at 810 N Oxford with a Ford Coupe. James Hussey at 31 N Highland with a De Soto Roadster. D K Cash at 3353 Broadway with an Essex Coach.
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Richard la Follett
Holly Avenue
Ford Touring
Oliver Avenue
A. L. Piel
Pennsylvania Street
Oldsmobile Coach
Meridian
Thirty-third
Loren Shimer
Vermont Street
Leslee
Ohio Street
Roy Butler
Hope
Ind
Ford Roadster
Twenty-ninth
Parkway Boulevard
Robert Maney
Oxford Street
Michigan
James Hussey
North Highland Street
de Soto
Thirteenth
Pennsylvania
D. K. Cash
Broadway
Essex Coach
North East Street
Officers named at six family reunions in Indiana parks
Six family and county groups held reunions Sunday in Indianapolis and Muncie parks electing new officers. The lists name McCormick Butterfield Bright Clifford Mann and others as presidents or organizers at Brookside Keekin Park Garfield Cannaday-Walker Dubois county and Boner-Kinnick venues.
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Indianaplis
Muncie
McCormick
Brookside
D. I. McCormick
Indianapolis
Butterfield
Velorous
Boner-Kinnick
Garfield
James Bright
Cannaday-Walker
Keekin Park
Sadie Mills
Clifford
Austin V. Clifford
Dubois County
Walter H. Mann
Head of City Firm H J Yount Dies at 66
H J Yount 66 president of the Eagle Machine Company died Saturday in a Battle Creek sanitarium after two weeks illness. His body will arrive in Indianapolis with widow Lydia and daughter Ruth. Surviving: widow, Ruth, sons C W Edward J and H J Yount of Indianapolis. daughters Nellie Bowers and Gladys Bell. thirteen grandchildren. He belonged to Heath Memorial M E church.
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H. J. Yount
North de Quincy Street
Eagle Machine Company
Battle Creek
Mich
Indianapolis
Lydia Yount
Ruth Yount
Yount
Heath Memorial M. E. Church
Ruth
C. W
Edward J
Nellie Bowers
Gladys Bell
Dolly Sisters Deny Huge Gambling Wins
Jenny Dolly says she and Rosie are done with gambling and denies reports of large continental wins. She adds that avoiding the tables prevents financial trouble and calls tales of needing to hire cars to haul winnings mere stories told to mislead.
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Dolly Sisters
Paris
Jenny Dolly
Rosie
Jenny
Halts to pray as police fire on suspect in Chicago case
A Chicago man identified as Ted Benson, pursued after an officer says the suspect tried to start a car at 1307 North Meridian, drops to his knees and prays as shots ring out. The incident occurred Sunday night with officers firing several rounds.
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Ted Benson
Chicago
Carroll Nymal
North Meridian Street
Thorn Burial Held for Pennsy Freight Official
Funeral services for William Thorn 69 Indianapolis freight representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad who died Friday at his home 5737 Beechwood avenue were held at 9 am at Our Lady of Lourdes church with burial in Holy Cross cemetery.
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William Thorn
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Beechwood Avenue
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Athletic Club Plans Expanded Fall and Winter Activities
Indianapolis Athletic Club outlines fall and winter plans led by president Peter C. Reilly. The entertainment committee, chaired by Austin V. Clifford, will map social events and gymnastic activities. Women’s groups are chaired by Mrs. Ray C. Fox, Mrs. Charles L. Buschmann, and Mrs. C. Harvey Bradley, overseeing luncheon and dinner bridge, tournament bridge, and women’s squash.
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Indianapolis Athletic Club
Peter C. Reilly
Austin V. Clifford
Ray C. Fox
Charles L. Buschmann
C. Harvey Bradley
Jobless Seek Soldier Posts amid Tight Military Enlistments
United States recruitment data show thousands sought military posts at army navy and marine recruiting stations but only a small fraction were accepted. In six months the navy received 53069 applications with 5243 enlistments. the marine corps saw 21610 applications and 2441 enlistments. army figures were not released.
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United P. PA
Ashington
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Ill flier convalesces after appendicitis in Middelburg
Wing commander Charles Kings ford-Smith shown resting in a Holland hospital after an appendicitis operation. Italian engineers report recovery of the ancient Caius Caligula barges from Lake Nemi near Rome, long believed lost for nineteen centuries.
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Charles Kingsford-Smith
Middleburg
Holland
Lake
Nemi
Rome
Rites Set for D C Jenkins State Senator and Manufacturer
Last rites for David C. Jenkins 76 former state senator and glass maker who died suddenly of a heart attack at his Lake Maxinkuckee summer home will be at 2 30 Tuesday at Addison Jenkins Kokomo burial in Kokomo Crown Point cemetery He was once head of the D C Jenkins Glass Co of Kokomo and Arcadia and lived at 5957 Washington Boulevard Survivors include widow Mrs Anna Jenkins two sons Howard Indianapolis and Addison Kokomo two sisters Miss Addie Jenkins Long Beach Calif and Mrs Florence Schute New York Also noted Shelbyville chosen to host the 1931 Indianapolis district Church of Nazarene conference at the 1930 meeting here.
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David C. Jenkins
Lake Maxinkuckee
Addison Jenkins
Kokomo
Kokomo Crown Point
D. C. Jenkins Glass Company
Arcadia
Jenkins
Washington Boulevard
Indiana State Highway Commission
Anna Jenkins
Howard
Indianapolis
Addison
Addie Jenkins
Long Beach
Cal
Florence Schute
New York
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