School Levy Fight Ahead as Budget Battles Continue
Civic groups plan to challenge the 1.34 rate on property values while the city maintains a 1.10 levy. The board kept the library budget but shifted funds, prompting opposition over the working balance and capital outlay. The council cut the proposed general fund levy and outlined various special levies and efficiency measures.
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State
Harry Miesse
Indiana Taxpayers’ Association
Charles W. Kern
William H. Book
Chamber of Commerce
Council Finance Committee
L. Ert Slack
Harry Dunn
War Memorial
The
Safety Board
Ownie Bush Resigns as Pirate Skipper
Ownie Bush resigns as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates effective immediately. Jewel Ens is named to succeed him, with Ens set to manage the team in the doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs. Bush’s departure follows a disappointing eastern trip and mounting abuse toward the club.
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United Preas Pittsburgh
Ownie Bush
Pittsburgh Pirates
Barney Dreyfuss
Jewel Ens
Bush
Pirates
Dreyfuss
Ens
Pirate
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Doctor Jordan Improves Slightly As Overwork Blamed
Palo Alto, August 28. Slight improvement reported in the condition of Dr. David Starr Jordan chancellor emeritus of Stanford University. Dr. Russell Lee, physician in charge, said overwork was given as the reason for the professor's ill health.
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United Press
Palo Alto
Cali
David Start Jordan
Stanford University
Russel Lee
Governors miss corn bounty in Indiana quarantine
In Michigan City Indiana Governor Harry G Leslie faced the federal corn borer quarantine in northern Indiana. After buying corn in Gary he was stopped by an inspector and ordered to surrender the two dozen ears in his car while traveling from the state prison to his summer home. He was told he was delaying traffic and drove away without the corn.
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Ichigan City
Ind
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Dunes Park
Gary
Walter H. Daly
United States
Arabs in Asia Minor Brace for Palestine Conflict Fallout
Unrest spreads across Arab in Asia Minor as Jewish Arab clashes in Palestine intensify. Reports cite 200 plus dead, hundreds wounded, and Arab demonstrations in Damascus and Beirut. Trans-Jordan and Syria tribes threaten into Palestine but halt at the Jordan.
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Asia Minor
Palestine
Trans- Jordania
Syria
Holy Land
Trans-Jordania
Jordan
Beirut
Damascus
Haifa
Jaffa
Bond Judgment Issued Over Liberty Bonds in Bluffton
The appellate court approved a $9 137 85 award to Frank W. Gordon administrator of the John Gordon estate for Liberty bonds deposited in the defunct Studebaker bank in Bluffton. The Wells circuit court case was appealed by bank receiver Morris E. Stultz. Bonds totaling 8 700 were deposited and sold for 7 748, with the judgment covering bond value plus interest.
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Frank W. Gordon
Bluffton
John Gordon
Liberty
Studebaker Bank
Wells Circuit Court
Morris E. Stultz
Bond Issue Approved for Irvington Schools Totals 1 215 000
The school board approved bond issues totaling 1 215 000 for Irvington High School and four grade school buildings after bids were rejected earlier. An 800 000 Irvington bond and 415 000 for four buildings were set, with 23 234 for architectural fees. Charles W. Kern opposed, citing concerns over price and legality of fund payments.
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Irvington
Cc. C. Shipp
Charles W. Kern
Kern
C. C. York
Archi
Irvington High School
Safe
Road chiefs order end of family in state highway unit
Indiana highway leaders move to end nepotism after disclosure that motor transport division chief Omer S. Manlove employed five relatives with total salaries over 10 000 dollars a year. They also plan a survey of U S Road 31 to remove turns and push rapid replacement of gravel roads with hard surface paving across 2 700 miles paved now and 450 more in 1936 plan.
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Ben Stern
Lake Manitou
Ind
State Highway Department
Highway Commission
John J. Brown
William A. Titus
Omer S. Manlove
Motor Transport
Broad Ripple
Meridian Street
College Avenue
Carmel
Monon Railroad
Brown
Commission
Doctors Petition to Reinstate Licenses Heard by Board
Doctors J C Blume Elwood and Charles T Burris petitioned for reinstatement of medical licenses at the state medical board meeting. Both lost licenses in 1926 after narcotic act convictions. Board officers’ changes were discussed but no action taken.
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J. C. Blume
Elwood
Charles T. Burris
Agnes Street
State Madical Board
Tariff bill released by Senate Republicans
Senate Republicans led by Smoot made public the completed Republican tariff bill text with administrative provisions and submitted it to Democrats for inspection.
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United Press
Washington
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Pilot Who Took Lindy 1500 After Bet Visits City
Phil Love the Indianapolis arrival noon plans to meet Lindbergh in Cleveland for air races. He and Lindbergh bet 1500 that they would not marry, now settled as Lindbergh weds Ann Morrow. Love, advance pilot on the Lindbergh tour, was in Cuba when the engagement was announced. His father, William R. Love, accompanies him.
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Lindy
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Ann Morrow
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Phil Love
Mars Hill
William R. Love
Ann
Love
Lindbergh
St. Louis
Cuba
States
Ove
Atlantic
National Printers
Washington, D. C
England Wins Reparations Clash at Hague Talks
United Press reports at the Hague that British chancellor Philip Snowden won a decisive 78 percent satisfaction of Britain’s reparations demands in talks with Italy France Japan and Belgium. The breakthrough ends the three week stalemate on the Young plan while evacuation of the Rhineland remains the next major issue. Snowden will receive over 83 percent of his initial demand and secure 80 percent of Britain’s share of unconditional German payments.
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United Press
Hague
Europe
Philip Snowden
Italy
France
Japan
Belgium
Rhineland
Snowden
Great Britain
Germany
Bandits Take $9,000 From Pequot Bank in Minnesota
Three bandits robbed the Farmers National Bank of Pequot in Minnesota of 9000 dollars in currency. The heist occurred in Pequot on August 28 as the bandits escaped with the money from the bank’s vault and fled the scene. Significant details about suspects or motive remain unavailable.
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United Press
Pequot, Minn
Farmers National Bank of Pequot
Indiana Manufacturers Leader Talks Tariff Plans in Washington
H. M. Cochrane secretary of the Indiana Manufacturers' Association is in Washington with Senator James E. Watson to discuss schedules of a new tariff bill and their impact on state industries.
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H. M. Cochrane
Indiana Manufacturers’ Association
Washington, D. C
James E. Watson
Last Man's Club Thin Ranks After Two Civil War Vets Left
In St Paul Aug 28 ranks of the Last Man's Club dwindled to three. John H Goff 86 of St Paul secretary and self described high private in the rear rank died after a long illness. Peter Hail 91 Atwater Minn and Charles Lockwood 87 Chamberlain S D remain. they toast their thirty four comrades from forty four years ago, drinking burgundy wine from a bottle.
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United Press
ST. Paul
Last Man's Club
John
Goff
Peter Hail
Atwater
Minn
Charles Lockwood
Chamberlain
S. D
Hearst Buys Bulletin and Merges with San Francisco Call
The San Francisco Bulletin was sold to William Randolph Hearst and will suspend as a separate daily after today. Beginning with the first edition Thursday it will merge with Hearst's San Francisco Call to form the San Francisco Call Bulletin. Sale price was not announced but reported at about $1,000,000.
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United Press
San Francisco
San Francisco Bulletin
William Randolph Hearst
Bulletin
Call
Zeppelin Speed Over Iowa Toward Chicago Heads Westward
The Graf Zeppelin neared Chicago after crossing the Missouri Iowa border and flying at high speed toward Lakehurst New Jersey completing its world encircling flight. Crowds in Milton Iola and Kansas City watched as the airship moved west to east with engineers reporting steady fuel and favorable winds. Amelia Earhart and Lady Mary Heath entertained onlookers at Cleveland races while Lindbergh performed stunts for cheering crowds.
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Morton Takers
United Press
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Lakehurst
N. J
Chicago
Akron
Lady Mary Heath
Amelia Earhart
Philadelphia
Boston
Oakland
Springfield
Ill
Lindbergh
North Atlantic
Lindy
Miami
George Halsey
Kansas City
Portland
Ted Wells
Wichita
Keith Miller
New Zealand
Missouri-Iowa
Corn Belt
Milton
Cleveeland
International Aircraft Exe
Hugo Eckener
Zep
Iowa
Los Angles
Oklahoma
Kansas
Iola
Olathe
Kan
Eckener
Army Airport
Belleville
Man Charged With Murder After Infant Killed In Cliff Crash
Frank E. Andrews, 45, is charged with murder for driving his car with his estranged wife and infant son over an eighty foot cliff into Lake Erie. The 19 month old Chester drowned, body found 200 feet from wreckage. Andrews injured, wife believed dying in hospital. Investigating officers say the incident followed a trip to the Cleveland air races.
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United Press
Cleveland
Frank E. Andrews
Chester
Lake Erie
Andrews
Texas police report Kirby Davis arrested
Kirby Davis wanted for the May First National bank robbery and a $120000 Canada mail robbery is held in Dallas Texas.Dallas detectives say he worked near downtown before telephoning his ailing wife and being jailed. Postal agents traced him with a stolen Indiana car. He claims ignorance of Canadian robberies and says he was in Florida and Detroit before Dallas. Indiana wired for extradition.
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Angola
Ind
Kirby Davis
First National Bank
Canada
Dallas
Tex
Indiana
Florida
Detroit
Davis
Muncie
Ft. Wayne
Recruits Arrive as Veteran Soldiers Inspect New Draft
All Quiet on the Western Front describes reinforcements arriving with gas masks and coffee. Katczinsky, a seasoned scavenger, assesses the newcomers and shares tricks for obtaining food, while Kropp and Haie West align with him. The unit is relocated to a new, dark quarters in a repurposed hole.
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Katczinsky
Kropp
Haie West
Haie
Kat
Seven crew of globe plane to land at Mars Hill airport
Seven members of the tri motor plane crew and Lieutenant T W G Seattle of the US Navy may land at Mars Hill airport at 4 PM today for a brief visit if weather and schedules permit. They were moved from Los Angeles to ease load as the craft flies to Cleveland to join a large dirigible.
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Globe
Zeppelin
T. W. G. Seattle
United States Navy
Mars Hill
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Los Angeles
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