1930 Indianapolis school budget faces higher levy and cuts
The 1930 school city budget will require a 1.34 tax levy, up 32 cents from 1929, with total appropriations of 9.1254 million. Planned capital outlay includes Broad Ripple high school unit and new School 20, plus additions to several schools, while a 700,000 working balance aims to curb temporary borrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. York
York
Shortridge
Arsenal Technical High School
Broad Ripple High School
Indiana Legion Parade Opens Convention With Colorful March
The Indiana American Legion conven tion session featured a large parade led by the Eighth district posts and the Richmond Fife and Drum corps. Gov Harry G Leslie Major General Dennis Nolan and U S Senator Arthur Robinson attended as units, with the Richmond Amateur Radio Club offering free wireless messages to visitors. Major General Nolan urged universal military service and compulsory peacetime training to prepare for future national emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
Indiana American Legion Convention
Eighth District
Legion Posts
Fred Weicking
Bluffton
Harry G. Leslie
Dennis Nolan
Lawrence Handley
United States
Arthur Robinson
Richard N. Elliott
Elizabeth Eisenbise
The
Legion Auxiliary
National
Union City
Boy Scouts
Muncie Post
Decatur Post
Williamsport
Lafayette
Frankfort
Tipton
Kokomo
Vincennes
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Knightstown
Paul Comstock
Ben Ball
Robert F. Martin
Ray K. Chalfant
Leroy F. Harding
Grand Army of the Republic
Richmond Amateur Radio Club
D. E. Nolan
Columbus
Legion
Nolan
Firestone Dairy Animals to Highlight Indiana State Fair
Prize Holstein and Guernsey cattle from Harvey S. Firestone’s Firestone farms will be showcased at the Indiana state fair from August 31 to September 7. The herd includes Side Hill Ormsby Segis the United States milk champion with record daily and monthly yields, Langwater Clara, Imported Queen's Fairy of Hillside, and the $11,000 Langwater Paroah sire. Firestone farms at Akron and Columbiana, Ohio, house 170 high producing, well bred animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firestone
Harvey S. Firestone
Side Hill Ormsby Segis
United States
Guernsey
Hillside
Akron
Columbiana
Carnival employer Arnold Pierce dies from truck accident injuries
By Times Special WABASH Ind August 26 Arnold Pierce carnival employer died at Wabash county hospital from injuries suffered two weeks earlier when a truck he was riding on overturned into a ditch. The body will be sent to Ontario Canada for funeral services and burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash, Ind
Arnold Pierce
Carnival
Wabash County Hospital
Ontario
Canada
Auto theft alleged by two youths near Speedway City
Police report two young boys aged 16 and 17 stole a automobile in Cincinnati Ohio and fled toward Indianapolis. Sergeant John Wilson's squad arrested them near Speedway City and the pair confessed to the theft and are held as fugitives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
John Wilson
Speedway City
Unloaded rifle explosion wounds 6 year old Arthur Sullivan
In Philadelphia Vincent Beyer 8 and Arthur Sullivan 6 played with a .22 rifle left in a kitchen corner. A cartridge fired wounding Arthur in the liver and hip. Lawrence Beyer 22 owns the gun. Arthur is in St. Vincent's hospital with slim chances of recovery. No arrests.
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Arthur Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
Pennsylvania Street
Vincent Beyer
North
Vincent
Elizabeth Beyer
Lawrence
Arthur
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Frank
Return from Meeting Highlights State Securities Officials
Mark Rhoads state securities commissioner and Earl Coble chief examiner returned to the state house after attending the annual national meeting of securities commissioners at Minneapolis and St Paul Rhoads presented a paper as chairman of the committee on fraud prevention and Coble led the informal discussion that followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Rhoads
Earl Coble
Statehouse
National Meeting of Securities Commissioners
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Hobart Bank Reopens After Closure
American Trust and Savings Bank in Hobart reopened today after closing August 8. Assistant state banking commissioner Thomas D. Barr announced the return to the statehouse and said the bank is now in sound condition after staff and officials organized its affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ameican Trust and Savings Bank
Hobart
Thomas D. Barr
Statehouse
Negro gunman sought in Louisville shooting
Indianapolis detectives were asked to watch for Melvin Lewis alias Elihugh White a 32 year old Negro of Louisville believed to have shot a policeman in Louisville Sunday. The telegram said White was wounded in the gun battle with the Louisville police officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Melvin Lewis
Elihugh White
Louisville
Jerry Kinney
White
China Drafts Youth for War in Manchuria
China orders all youths over 17 drafted into the army as Soviet forces push along the Manchurian frontier. border defenders outnumbered three to one as new Soviet regiments arrive daily. Soviet air activity and incursions, plus damage to Chinese Eastern railway property, are reported near Muling and Suifenho.
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Bu United Press
Peiping
China
Red Army
Frontier
Manchuk
Manchurian
Muling
Suifenho
Going Too Far in Divorce Petition Details
Charles Bremmer of 326 Orange Street files in circuit court alleging his wife Julia pressured him to name her chief beneficiary on a life policy. He says after eight days of marriage on February 10 she refused to live with him over the rented house and demanded the policy before they separated on February 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia
Charles Bremmer
Orange Street
Circuit Court
Bremmer
Hay Fever and Asthma Treatment on Free Trial
D. J. Lane a druggist at 1413 Lane Building St Marys Kansas offers a free trial bottle of a treatment for asthma and hay fever sending a $1.25 bottle by mail with payment only after the user is satisfied and the recipient judges the result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Lane
Lane Building
St. Mary’s
Kan
Rupture Pain Relief Promise Through Plapao Adhesive Pads
An advertisement promotes Stuart's Plapao pads as a self-adhesive, mechanico chemic applicator for abdominal ruptures. It claims pads strengthen by continuous muscle toning, stop friction, and avoid trusses, with gold medals and testimonials from multiple countries. Readers urged to mail a free test coupon without payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart
Rome
Paris
San Francisco
Highway probe planned by Indiana highway board Wednesday
Highway Director John J. Brown will lead a private Wednesday discussion by the state highway commission at Commissioner Jess Murden’s Lake Manitou cottage near Rochester to map plans and review an inquiry into motor transport inefficiency. Bids for oil fuel and several bridge projects will also be opened, including 3,000,000 gallons of gasoline and new river and railroad spans in multiple counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Brown
Highway Commission
Jess Murden
Lake Manitou
Rochester
Brown
Commission
Harry G. Leslie
Albert J. Wedeking
William A. Titus
Motor Transport Department
Wedeking
Statehouse
Standard Oil Company
Wabash River
Vincennes
New York Central Railroad
Newton County
Delaware County
Jay County
Unwritten Law Defense in Double Barrel Slaying
Harry Briggs 37 of 2827 Moore Avenue admits killing Clyde Smith 35 on a front porch to avenge his honor and protect his 12 year old daughter. Briggs claims Smith threatened him and had an affair with his wife. Briggs and wife live with two children Velma 12 and John 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Briggs
Moore Avenue
Clyde Smith
North East Street
Smith
Briggs
Hey
Monrovia
Velma
John
Cracked World War I Bell Sent to Scrap Heap
In Bloomington Indiana the old fire bell cracked during celebration of the war's end and has been scrapped. Fireman Jerry Ayres kept it ringing all day on November 11 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ind
Jerry Ayres
School board names five for three commissioner posts
Five persons were named by Herman C. Wolff to form a sub committee to select three candidates for city school commissioners for the November election on a non partisan slate. The nominees include Mrs. Logan Hughes A. J. Wright Thomas C. Howe Edward Harris and Wolff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman C. Wolff
Indianapolis Citizens School Committee
Logan Hughes
Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations
A. J. Wright
South Side
Thomas C. Howe
Butler University
Edward Harris
Wolff
Indianapolis
Lincoln
Citizens School Committee
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Indiana Legion
Fletcher
Crust Banks
Feeney Furniture Co
S. Meridian St
Lad
Hobart Bank
Institution
Riley
Manchuria
Plapao Laboratories, Inc
Stuart Bldg
St. Louis
Plapao
Highway Body
Eiteljorg
Washington
J. L. Smith
Arcola
Ill
C. H. Keever
J. W. Patterson Undertaking Establishment
Illinois Street
Cloverdale
T. S. Sinclair
PMN
Repe
Ncra
Vanta Vests
Vanta Hose
Rubens
Men’s Union Suits
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