Shank and Board Remove 48 Jobs From Duvall Era
Consternation grips G. O. P. as Mayor Shank and safety board shuffle forty eight patronage posts worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars annually. Police department gains forty eight new officers two women among appointees with several others reinstated or assigned pending duty. Mayor-elect Duvall remains untroubled saying good men may serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shank
Board of Safety
John L. Duvall
Joseph L.hogue
Mother Versus Mother in Slaying Case Near Evansville
In Evansville Indiana on December 1 the Ruby McIntosh murder trial opened with testimonies arguing a quarrel between the Taylor boy and McIntosh girl. Prosecution alleges McIntosh killed Devans Taylor 18 after a quarrel. The trial features both mothers as participants and the judge ruled against admitting the dying statement of the victim.
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Evansville
Ind
Ruby McIntosh
Devans Taylor
Taylor
McIntosh
Bock
Devans
From $60 a Month to $125,000 Yearly
George H. Jones began at Standard Oil as a $60-a-month stenographer thirty five years ago. He has been named chairman of the board of Standard Oil of New Jersey with a salary of $125,000 per year.
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George H. Jones
Standard Oil
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Furnishings of Club Go to Winners in Receivership Auction
The Marion Club assets including furniture and portraits were sold in a receivership auction. About 2,500 stockholders watched bids for items such as six cash registers, a club piano, a soda fountain, office equipment, rugs, chairs, tables, dishware, bedspreads, blankets, and built in showcases. Portraits of G O P presidents and officers sold, with prices ranging from 20 cents to several dollars, plus a historic electric flag sign bringing five dollars.
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Swick
Symmes
Club
Indiana Society of Sons of Revolution
Benjamin Harrison
Harry S. New
George Washington
Dalton
Marion Club
Givan
Roosevelt
Grant
McKinley
Taft
Fairbanks
Lincoln
No Sargasso Sea, Says Historian
Miss Ruth Rose, historian of the William K Keehe scientific expedition, described the Sargasso Sea as barren seaweed and recounted treasure legends tied to pirates and Spanish officials buried jewels and gold. The talk to over 100 at the Contemporary Club cited Cocos Island treasure stories and a 19th century coin find of $29 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Rose
Contemporary Club
John Herron Art Institute
Miss Rose
William Hkeehe
Sargasso Sea
Cocos
Pacific
City Market Prices: Oranges Fall and Turkey Prices Dip
City market prices show oranges dropping 15 to 20 cents with typical sales 40 to 70 cents a dozen. Turkey prices ease to about 60 cents per pound. Other items include cucumbers 35 to 40 cents each and beans 20 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaga
California
Florida
Auto Driver Sought After Hit And Run Wounds Local Man
Police seek the motorist in a hit and run that left Jerry Short aged 63 of 1514 Sauley Street seriously injured at Harding and West Washington Streets. Henry Schmid and John Gordon saw a Ford coupe speeding east from the scene and Short was carried to City Hospital in serious condition.
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Jerry Short
Sauley St
Harding and
W. Washington Sts
Henry Schmid
Cable St
John Gordon
Short
City Hospital
Patrolman Wise Covers Gas House Beat
Patrolman E A Wise assigned to District 58 from 7 a m to 3 p m over the Gas House Gangs area. A 1915 veteran, Wise patrols English Ave Keystone Ave city limits east and south including Norwood, handling cutting and shooting affrays and making arrests. He lives at 1505 Burdsall Pkwy.
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E. A. Wise
Perrott
Wise
Pretty Will
English Ave
Keystone Ave
Norwood
Burdsall Pkwy
Six arrested in rum drive on Iowa road incident
Four men and a woman faced liquor charges after police and deputies found a working still two gallons of whiskey one hundred gallons of mash and other ingredients between Kitley and Arlington roads on Iowa Road. An auto fled as officers arrived. two more men were later arrested.
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Kitley
Arlington Rds
Iowa Rd
John Hoffman
New York St
Robert Austin
Agnes St
Hoffman
Miss Pearl Conner
W. St. Clair St
Eisenhut
Ford Whitaker
Vermont St
St. Clair and Ketcham S&st
Mike George
Tenth St
Lieut. Richter
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Claude K. Newhouse
Theodore R. McNeill
Clyde S. Underwood
Kenneth C. Kerlin
R. J. Robertson
Robert H. Hathaway
James R., McGarvin
Oral B. McClain
Willard B. Hawkins
Arthur Kingston
David Richards
Walter E. Lyons
John Ross
George Tansy
William F.lawler
Horace Stone
Ray Connor
Jack Leslie
Turner Robinson
Rosa@oe K. Jordan
Stephen McGraver
Walter F. Cummings
Oliver J
Covert
George Kinney
Kenneth Snyder
James Rights
Clarence ‘H. Ricketts
Josephine Fairhead
Alma Baker
Miss Baker
Howard Martin
James Scully
John J. Haney
Norman L
Schoen
Burl, Adams
Martin Corylon
F. J. O'Connor
Charles L. Springer
Thomas A. Reilley
Emmett McCormick
Claude B. Koontz
Waward
C. Murphy
Bert Bowman
Harry E. Voorhies
Otto E. Zipperver
George A. Byrum
Lad
J.B. Ashelman
Fr Teas
Tamag
Asherman
Rosewood
Navy
Selig
Seligs Subway
Subway 300
Georgettes
Lauren
Chine
Subway
City Market
S. Meridian St
Jacob Wohlfeld Fur Co
Occidental Bldg
Bakers
Martin Bros
Indiana Ave
Rum Drive
Indianapolis Dairy and
Food Council
United Labor Bank and Trust Company
Christmas Saving Club
East Market Street
M’nutt
Paul E. McNutt
Indiana University Law School
Lawyers’ Day
Indiana University Alumni Association
Dee
Fletcher
American Beauty
American Electrical Heater Company
Detroit
American Beauty Irons
E. Wash. St
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