New School Head Urges Standardization in Public Education
Paul C. Stetson, Indianapolis schools head, told Marion county teachers at Perry Township High School that standardization benefits both industry and newspapers. He argued intelligent followers combat demagogues and urged schools to foster originality while fitting citizens to modern civilization. Other speakers included Willis Sutton and Dr. E. E. Harper as the institute closes.
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America
Paul C. Stetson
Indianapolis
Marion County Teachers’ Institute
Perry Township
Southport
Stetson
Willis Sutton
National Education Association
Atlanta
E. E. Harper
Evansville
G. Bromley Oxnam
de Pauw University
J. Raymond Schutz
Manchester College
Schutz
Hoover Sends Posies to Ill Boy Scout
President Hoover sent flowers to 13 year old Charles Johnson of Anderson South Carolina who fell ill with bronchial pneumonia just before meeting the President. He also invited the youth to call once he recovers. Johnson had left his scout troop as they approached the White House.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Charles Johnson
Anderson
S. C
Johnson
Dog Show At Indiana State Fair Showcases 275 Dogs
The Hoosier Kennel Club organizes a dog exhibition linked to the Indiana state fair. Two hundred seventy five dogs from Chows to English Pugs will be shown starting Labor Day in the old poultry building, including eight Chihuahuas among the champions.
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Hoosier Kennel Club
Fear of poverty linked Pittsburgh triple tragedy
Police believe fear of poverty motivated F. M. Fish, 53, to shoot and kill his wife Ada, 52, and their son John, 19, then fatally shoot himself. The family faced unemployment, a mortgaged home, and $1,000 past due, authorities said.
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United Presse
Pittsburgh
F. M. Fish
Ada
John
W.x. Long
Palloe
Winning Baby at Hamilton County Fair Show
Times Special reports in Noblesville Indiana that Phyllis Jean Day age 14 months daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Day won first prize among seventy five entries in a Hamilton county fair baby show.
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Times
Noblesville
Ind
Hamilton County
Phyllis Jean Day
Robert Day
Indiana Farm Singers Compete for 500 State Prize
Indiana farmers sing for a 500 state prize at the state fair with a male quartet contest under the Indiana farm bureau. Ten prizes range from 100 to 15 dollars with finalists chosen from county eliminations and district winners performing at the farm bureau tent each day.
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Indiana
Indiana Board of Agriculture
Indiana Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
State Federation of Music Clubs
Eight Hurt by Autos in City Crashes
Eight people including four children were treated for injuries after two auto crashes Thursday. Dora McCreary 15 of Nordyke avenue grabbed the wheel of a car driven by Effie Eastridge 24 of North Alabama street when she thought a bicycle rider would be hit. The car overturned injuring McCreary Eastridge and Mary Jones 7 and Robert Jones 9 of Nordyke avenue. Injuries were not serious. Orvie Barton 25 of South Tremont avenue drove into a ditch to avoid a collision at Harding and Raymond streets. Barton his wife Ethel Barton 24 and their two children were cut and bruised.
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Dora McCreary
Nordyke Avenue
Effie Eastridge
North Alabama Street
Orvie Barton
South
Tremont Avenue
Harding and
Raymond Street
Barton
Ethel Barton
Ohio mariner Clifford Galloway sights Point Breeze voyage
Coast guard headquarters received word that the steamship Point Breeze sighted Clifford Galloway, a 34 foot sailing yacht, on a solo voyage from Havana to New York. The steamer reported the yacht about thirty miles off the North Carolina coast between Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras and Galloway said everything was ok as he headed for New York.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Point Breeze
Clifford Galloway
Ohio Mariner
Havana
New York
O. K
New Yorktown Mineral Wool Plant Boosts Calumet District Industry
A Yorktown plant under construction forms a mineral wool production site following a $75,000 Greensburg fire. Indiana survey notes stronger steel mill activity next week and five months of pipe plant orders, with multiple cities reporting growth in production, bids, and new facilities.
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Calumet District
the Times
Indiana
Yorktown
Standard Gasket Hardware Company
Greensburg
Greenfield
Indiana Rayon Corporation
Kokomo
Western Union Telegraph Company
Continental Steel Corporation
Bloomington
Here
G. O. Boltinghouse
Mooresville
Fall Creek Furniture Company
Smith, Day Company
Indianapolis
Marion—The
Commercial Printing Company
Peerless Printing Corporation
Brazil city budget proposes 5 cent tax cut
Brazil Indiana residents may see a five cent reduction in the city tax rate under the 1930 budget. The plan lowers city expenditures from 68 000 to 65 000 dollars and final action is set for the September 9 council meeting.
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United Press
Brazil
Ind
148 City Students Enrolled at I U
Indiana University opens the 1920 31 term September 10 with 148 Indianapolis freshmen. Credentials for 1 114 new students were accepted as 148 local women and men join the campus community this year.
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I. U
Indiana University
Indianapolis
University
Charlene Schowe
Doris Schoen
Ruth Sanders
Mildred Peacock
Margaret Tripjett
Alice Hill
Harriett Watkins
Edna Forkner Shore
Jean Hunter
Joan Freeman
Bernice Shaw
Clement Lloyd
Dorothy Hutchinson
Pamela Murray
Constance Roche
Fern Lyster
Elizabeth Radliffe
Mary Moore
Ethel Jenkins
Lens Moore
Ruth Merrifield
Marjorie Inwood
Winifred Butler
Dorothy Rearick
Hilds Rabb
Frances McKenzie
Martha Phares
Marie Fear
Nellie Larkins
Edith Cash
Leolyn Hamilton
Evelyn Meyers
Maxine Mitchell
Lucia Haston
Roberta Rubdle
Dorothy Ricketts
Louise Harriman
Madeline O'Reilly
Gertrude Free
Geraldine Hutton
Marie Collins
Mary Dunkerson
Dorothy Behmer
Lois Walker
Shirley Collier
Jean Miller
Beatrice Martin
Nina Corn
Thelma Brooks
Alberta Dannell
Mary Murray
Marie McCrory
Helen
Indiana bandoliers rehearse for state fair show
After rehearsals in Bloomington the Indiana university bandoliers traveled to Indianapolis for a dress rehearsal ahead of four daily one hour programs at the state fair. The troupe will present a historical sequence marking five epochs in the university’s 100 year history with works by Verdi and Herbert and featuring baritone Bert Whaley.
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Lloomington
Ind
Indiana University Bandoliers
Indianapolis
Bandoliers
State University
L. R. Norvelle
W. E. Dillard
Victor Herbert
Bert Whaley
Bloomington
Whaley
I. A. Jordan River
Forrest Graham
Walton
Cap Shepard
Frankfort
Sam Bobele
Gary
Frank Clemens
Cannelton
William Schergens
Tell City
Joe Welack
Anderson
Thomas Inkley
Hammond
Jack McKittrick
Washington
Vernon Heckman
Peoria
Ill
Wilbur Hedman
Harry Somers
Robert Roseberry
Mother Sues Society Women Over Claimed Parentage
New York August 29 an elderly woman filed an injunction suit seeking to halt two prominent society women from claiming to be the orphan children of James Allen Archibald and to assert that Mrs. Archibald is their stepmother The suit asks corrections to marriage certificates and passports and cites statements by Mrs Harriss and Mrs Vanderhoef denying Mrs Archibald as their mother and calling her an impostor
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United Press
New York
Supreme Court
Everett A. Archibald
Carolyn Archibald Harriss
Nathaniel Scudder Wyckoff Vanderhoef
James Allen Archibald
Archibald
Forest fires grow in Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan.
Forest fires spread across Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan with firefighters unable to contain flames without rain. One blaze threatened Upson near Ashland as smoke blanketed Lake Michigan causing boats to proceed cautiously with fog horns sounding.
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United Press
Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Upson
Lake Michigan
Federal Land Banks Sound, Says Mellon
Secretary Mellon writes that the federal land bank system is fundamentally sound and useful. He notes the banks are permanent institutions meant to function in good and bad times, in response to a bankers report on banks and bonds sold to the public.
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United Press
NEW York
Federal Land Bank
Secretary of Treasury
Mellon
Federal Land Banks
Candidates to Meet Plans for Republican County
A report outlines upcoming meetings where Republican candidates will discuss county issues. Organizers aim to mobilize supporters and outline campaign priorities for the upcoming election cycle.
Three Auburn Prison Riot Slayers Executed
OSSINING N Y Aug 29 Three Auburn prison convicts paid with their lives for the December murder of Henry Sullivan during the riot. Jesse Thomas William Force and Claude Udine were executed in Sing Sing prison with defiant farewells and grim remarks to witnesses. Thomas said he would die like a man, Force taunted the executioner and claimed the crowd came for blood, Udine calmly proclaimed he was undertaking an exploration trip as he faced the chair.
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United Press
Thomas
Force
Robert Elliott
Beasley in Greene County Jail Awaiting Trial for Misappropriation
Joe E. Beasley a Linton real estate and insurance agent remained in Greene county jail in Bloomfield Ind after making no bond effort while awaiting trial on misappropriation charges He is expected to file bankruptcy soon Beasley surrendered after an affidavit charged him with misappropriating 500 dollars entrusted for investment by George Doran
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Bloomfield
Ind
Joe E. Beasley
Linton
Greene County
Beasley
Sheriff’s Office
Greene Circuit
George Doran
Body Found In Wabash River Near Terre Haute
An unidentified man about 60 was recovered from the Wabash River in Terre Haute by two fishermen. The body was tied to trout lines and is believed to have been in the water for about two days. Coroner E. E. Hoffa planned to hold an inquest later today.
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United Press
Terre Haute
Ind
Wabash River
E. E. Hoffa
Museum presentation to be given at reservation
A formal presentation to the Indianapolis Boy Scout Reservation will be held at 7 30 Saturday night. The museum in a converted barn near the reservation houses relics and antiques donated by Scout Executive F O Belzer and council member H L Stenger. Scouts and friends contribute many interesting objects to the display.
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Indianapolis
F. O. Belzer
H. L. Stenger
Scout Council
End of third grand jury over Lingle murder
Chicago Aug 29 The third grand jury appointed to probe the murder of Alfred J. Lingle has dissolved without uncovering the killer. The June jury did not act on Lingle’s death, the July panel exonerated police in the crime context, and the August jury reported it had examined 416 cases and returned 333 true bills, excluding the Lingle case. State’s Attorney Swanson said no tangible evidence was presented about the reporter’s slaying.
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United Press Chicago
Alfred J. Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Lingle
Carl Burgsthaler
John A. Swanson
Duel wounds two lawmakers in Argentina public clash
Justo Rocha a provincial legislator and Manuel Fresco a national legislator were involved in a sword duel in Buenos Aires. Rocha was gravely wounded and Fresco unharmed.
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United Press
Buenos Aires
Justo Rocha
Manuel Fresco
Death claims Bremen dairy baron Henry Schlosser
Henry Schlosser 67 former president of Schlosser Brothers Creamery died at home after a long illness. He helped found the Bremen company in 1884 and built its Indianapolis branch into a large Midwest unit. Survivors include widow Emma, daughters Mrs. Lindstaedt and Mrs. Aldag, five brothers and a sister. Funeral Monday at 2 PM at his residence with burial at Crown Hill.
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Henry Schlosser
Schlosser Brothers Creamery Company
Bremen
Pleasant Run Boulevard
Schlosser
Indianapolis
Mid-West
Emma Schlosser
Harry Lindstaedt
Robert Aldag
Samuel Schlosser
Elizabeth Penrod
Crown Hill Cemetery
Circus Evangelist to Speak at Church
The Broad Way M E church Bible class hosts a unique church circus on Sunday at 9 AM with Doc Waddell, a long time circus evangelist and pastor of Dodson's shows, who will present Sawdust and Spangles. Waddell, 58-year showman, has worked in Herrin and Camden during turbulent times and will tour downtown Indianapolis with Dodson's.
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Broadway M. E
Camden
N. J
Indianapolis
Dodson
State seeks rehearing in Rhodes death penalty case
Indiana Attorney General requests a rehearing before the state supreme court to restore the death penalty for Dreyfus Rhodes, who twice escaped the electric chair after being convicted in the Vincennes slaying. The supreme court reversed Rhodes’ conviction twice, prompting the unusual move to push for a new murder appeal ruling.
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Dreyfus Rhodes
Vincennes
Ind
Indiana
James M. Ogden
State Supreme Court
Rhodes
Supreme Court
Knox
Michigan City
David A. Myers
Gibson
Raymond Winnegar
Peace and Pain in France as Gold Star Mothers Visit
In France on Aug. 29 a Times correspondent describes Gold Star mothers touring battlefields and ruins from Belleau Wood to Rheims. She notes restored towns, shattered chateaus, and graves of fallen U.S. soldiers while reflecting on lingering war scars and memories of November 11, 1918.
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France
Hindenburg Line
Man's Land
Paris
Marne
Belleau Wood
Las Ferte-sous-Jouarre
Soissons
Rheims
Chateau Thierry
Gambling Cases Dropped In Muncie Police Raid
Nine men facing gaming charges after a warrantless raid on a local gambling den had all charges dismissed by Prosecutor Joe H. Davis in city court due to lack of evidence. The August incident involved a police raid and a search of the establishment.
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Muncie
Ind
Joe H. Davis
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Oxnam
Boy
Lad
Ohio
Charles C. Stone
Attica
Wabash Valley Canning Company
Sheridan
South Bend
Palace Theater
Palace Theater Corporation
Orpheum Theater Corporation
Radio-Keith- Orpheum Interests
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Huntington
Orton Crane and Shovel Company
Beatrice Stephens
Katherine Davis
Ruth Laird
Marie Ross
Dorothy McKinney
Kathryn Faust
Beatrice Spong
Bettina Johnson
Edna Mae Schoen
Margaret Kirk
Gretchen Klee
Isabelle Early
Maxine Foltzenlogel
Margaret Jenkins
Gladys Cook
Sarah Baird
Dorothy Moore
Margaret Thompson
Frances Blank
Marcue Rubin
Leo Kireh
Ladine Hall
Robert Hammer
Floyd Matthias
Robert Bates
Almon Coble
Russell Abdon
George Beckerich
James A. Stuart Jr
George Wade
Harry Alpert
Alfred Tilly
Franklin Seidensticker Jr
Joe Aufderheide
Pearlie Schwarts
Robert Shaffer
Robert Russell
Simon Gold
Chester Conway
John Erdman
Ariel Grenz
Charles Mally
Kempster Ruggles
Sam Caplin
Jurt Flee
Scott McDonald
Thomas Woodward
Fred Gardner
Charles Bardach
Simon Portnoy
Joe H. Welack
William Scergens
William Calvert
Republican County
Auburn
Udwine
Adwine
Grand Jury
Slayer
Doc” Waddell
Broadway
M. E
STATE
Ruth Finney
Chateau Accursed
Chateau von Hindenburg
Pershing
Belleau
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