President Coolidge seeks four billion dollar budget with cautious tax stance
President Coolidge asked Congress for 4.014 billion dollars to run the government for the coming year and urged no permanent tax cuts but a temporary tax credit for next year. He rejected dropping existing taxes while signaling restraint on war preparedness spending and aviation construction. The budget highlights a projected 1928 surplus and notes revenue limits as the nation carries a large debt.
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Congress
Coolidge
Pat Dermott Loses Bid to Delay Murder Trial
Canton Ohio December court action denies Pat Mc Dermott a postponement and orders selection of forty jurors. The case concerns the murder of Don Mel lett editor of the Canton Daily News. Prosecutors claim Canton's underworld plotted the assassination.
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United Press
Canton
Ohio
Pat McDermott
Don Mellett
Canton Daily News
E. W. Diehl
Can- Ton
Prisoner Captured After Post Office Robbery Escape
U S Marshal reports Haute police captured Shields near Shields after an escape from Fort Leavenworth on Dec 1. Shields, tried by Federal Judge Robert C Baltzell for stealing a money order from a post office in Orth Indiana, received a sentence of a car and a day. He was returned to prison Nov 16 by Deputy Marshal Lickman.
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United States Marshal's Office
Serve Haute
Shields
Obber
Fr.eavenworth Penitentiary
Robert C. Baltzell
Times Santa Claus Club Seeks Santa Helpers
The Times announces its Santa Claus Club inviting volunteers to help needy Indianapolis families this Christmas. Readers can contact the Santa Claus Editor at Main 3500 to adopt a numbered family, with welfare groups verifying needs and no addresses printed.
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Times
Indianapolis
Santa Claus Club
the Times
Christ‘mas
Santa Claus
Times Santa Claus
Times Office
Christmas Clearing House
Community Fund
Track Elevation Delay To Seek Additional Levy
The major track elevation program cannot proceed without an extra levy beyond the current 2 cent rate. Oren Hack says the 2 cent levy covers only Shank administration contracts. Projects include Belt Railroad from Tenth to Pratt and Pennsy and C. I. & W. from Pine to Cruse. Total cost about 15 million. a 4 cent levy may be requested. Boynton Moore supports funds if legal. south side relief cited. A resolution urges all interested to confer with officials to study pending statutes.
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Hack
Shank
Belt Railroad
Pratt Sts
Pennsylvania
Pine
Cruse Sts
Boynton Moore
South Side
Moore
Polishing Up for 1927 Legislature
Indiana lawmakers prepare for the 1927 session with refurnished legislative halls. Workers polish Senate seats and House desks and lamps, while the speaker's chair draws special attention from cleaners and members alike.
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Indiana
Senate
House of Representatives
Five Dollar Yearly Parking License Proposed by City Leader
Boynton Moore the city council president proposed a garage style plan selling a five dollar yearly license to motorists granting exemption from downtown parking limits. The majority council faction weighs an ordinance to ease burdens on business owners who must park downtown. License holders would gain priority over others and avoid trips to the police station for stickers amid the current enforcement.
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Boynton Moore
Moore
Needy Families Listed For Times Santa Claus Club No 1
The Times Santa Claus Club lists eight needy families with specific requests. Family 1 a 14 year old boy needs a suit and his mother washing to support them. a 13 year old girl seeks a gift and Christmas baskets. family 2 an elderly brother and sister request a basket, muffler, and gloves. family 3 an aged couple seek small gifts and a Christmas dinner. family 4 a 3 year old boy and parents need a basket and gift due to the father’s heart condition. family 6 a grandmother headed family needs underwear stockings and toys. family 6 (duplicate) an invalid mother and a 4 year old boy need a filled basket. family 7 twin girls expect twin gifts and a basket.
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Times Santa Claus Club
Fight Coolidge on Plum Giving
Senate fights mount over Coolidge nominations. Tilson faces Georgia Central district judgeship, Myers to the Federal Trade Commission, and Brossard to the tariff commission. Republicans press to withdraw Smudgett as U S marshal in North Dakota to avoid further battles.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Senate
William J. Tilson
House
Central District of
Georgia
Tilson
Abram F. Myers
Iowa
Federal Trade Commission
Edgards. Brossard
Tariff Commission
L. V. Hanna
North Dakota
C. F. Smudgett
United States
Four Indianapolis Men Held After Looted Car Crash
Four men, believed from Indianapolis, are held at Brownstown Indiana after a stolen Lincoln car laden with liquor wrecked during a hi jacking. The car bore title to John Arnold of Indianapolis and carried rifles pistols and bullet holes mark the vehicle. Names given are Joe Shea Albert Summers George Lewis and Charles Geisking.
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Indianapolis
Brownstown
Ind
Claude Worley
Joe Shea
Albert Summers
George Lewis
Charles Geisking
John Arnold
Capitol Ave
Worley
Geist offer word by lieutenant in wake of Indiana bid
Former Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank describes a Philadelphia entrepreneur Clarence Geist offering up to forty thousand dollars to finance a future Indiana governor, detailing a social dinner and a plan to buy canal and river properties. He recalls gas mergers and urges public accountability and abolition of the public service commission unless it serves the people.
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Samuel Lewis Shank
Universal Club
Chamber of Commerce
Indiana
Taylor Grofsinger
Shank
Clarence Geist
Philadelphia
Indianapolis Water Company
Ed Blessing
Public Service Commission
Geist
Leutenant
Claypool
Noblesville
Indianapolis
Benjamin Reed
Reid
Remy
Criminal Court
James A. Collins
Lew Shank
Clarence H. Geist
Shanks
D. C. Stephenson
Three Arrests Near Police Deadline for Christmas Shoppers
Three men with police records were arrested by Detectives Houlihan and Englebright for vagrancy in the police deadline zone formed to deter pickpocketing. The area runs from Senate Avenue to Alabama Street and from Ohio to Georgia Streets.
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Houlihan and
Englebright
Senate Ave
Alabama St
Ohio
Georgia
Senator Robinson Pays Courtesy Call on President
Senator Arthur R. Robinson visited the White House today in a courtesy call on President Coolidge. The meeting was described by Robinson as a formal courtesy call with no policy announcements.
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Times
Washington
Arthur R. Robinson
President Coolidge
White House
Robinson
Missing Olson Youth Sought in Indianapolis
Erdman Olson wanted in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin for murdering his sweetheart Clara Olson was seen in Indianapolis last Friday by four reporters who identified his pictured likeness. Detectives Brickley and Brumfield found no trace while Ferguson Printing owner Denver Ferguson provided details of Olson washing windows and seeking work for 35 cents. Detective Inspector Calude Worley noted the four sightings clustered within a block of each other.
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Erdman Olson
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Clararothy Olson
Indianapolis
Brickley
Brumfield
Olson
Denver Ferguson
Ferguson Printing Company
N. Senate Ave
Ferguson
Calude Worley
Arrest Alleged Friend in Olson Case
Charleston police hold J B Bowman, friend of Erdman Olson, believed killer of Clara Olson, after a nightlong manhunt. He admits sending two telegrams to Melvin Helverson seeking money and a $1,000 advance but says he acted for another party. Bowman denies knowing Olson or Helverson.
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Charleston
S. C
Olson
United Press
J. B. Bowman
Erdman Olson
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Clara Olson
Bowman
Melvin Helverson
Mt. Sterling
Helverson
Shipment of Silver Foxes Valued at 175000 Re Shipment
The Indianapolis Silver Fox Company received 168 silver foxes from Moncton New Brunswick in a record shipment likely the largest to the U S. The animals valued at 175000 to 180000 were moved to a farm near Mayfield Valley Mills after transport by Dr B L De Bushe and partners C L Rader and S Pallardy. Fox pelts fetch 200 to 2000 each in New York markets. Dr De Bushe recently sold a fox pelt to Charles Chaplin for Lita Grey, who plans a divorce suit.
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United States
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Silver Fox Company
Moncton
New Brunswick
B. L. de Bushe
Mayfield
Valley Mills
Dr de Bushe
C. L. Rader
S. Pallardy
New York
Dr. de Bushe
Charles Chaplin
Lita Grey
Denby Testifies In Oil Conspiracy Trial
Edwin Denby on the stand as a surprise defense witness says he asked President Harding in 1921 to transfer naval oil lands to the Interior Department due to depletion. In Washington, Justice Bailey sets December 17 for arraignment of Albert Fall and Harry F. Sinclair on Teapot Dome conspiracy charges.
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United Press
Washington
Edwin Denby
Fall- Doheny
Navy
Harding
Interior Department
Denby
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Albert Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Train collision in Manchuria kills 25 and injures 54
Dispatches from Mukden Manchuria report 25 dead and 54 injured when a South Manchuria railway passenger train crashed into a freight train near Machungho. The accident occurred as trains collided in dense fog.
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United Press
Woman from Indiana tribe seeks control of most of Indiana
Victoria Brady of Wabash, descendant of the Miami or Wabash tribe, travels to Washington to press Congress to validate tribal claims. She argues that land ceded in treaties from 1795 to 1850 was not properly paid or executed, potentially invalidating the cessions. About 400 Miamis remain to share the state, with roughly 35 in Indiana and the rest in Oklahoma.
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Washington
Times
Indiana
Trib
Victoria Brady
Wabash
Congress
United States
Brady
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Peru
Oklahoma
Gould Bribery Hearing Set by Senate Panel
A Senate privileges and elections subcommittee of five will meet next Monday to hear evidence in the bribery charge against Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine. The probe centers on Gould's alleged role in creating 100000 for J. Fleming’s premiership campaign in New Brunswick.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Arthur R. Gould
Maine
Privileges and Elections Committee
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Gould
J. K. Fleming
New Brunswick
Canada
Goff
Shortridge
California
Deneen
Illnois
King
Utah
George
Georgia
Council President Moore Defends Police Recommendation Practice
Boynton J. Moore city council president reviewed legal documents at city hall amid a council majority inquiry into the civil service commission. Moore said he has recommended only one man for the police force, praising the appointee’s efficiency as noted by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson.
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Boynton J. Moore
Civil Service Commission
Moore
Claude F. Johnson
Royal Fire Destroys Bucharest Cotroceni Palace
King Ferdinand and royal family were at Cotroceni Palace when a blaze gutted the mid town palace in Bucharest. Fire raged from midnight until control at 2 am. Officials report King Ferdinand’s condition satisfactory after a second operation was postponed.
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United Press London
Ferdinand
Cotroceni Palace
Bucharest
Evening News
Cotroceni
Four Minors Reported Missing in City Search
Police aid relatives in seeking four young persons reported missing. Glenn Wyatt ten from Connersville Indiana is believed wandering the city after accompanying his uncle Tuesday. Madison Martin seventeen from Crawfordsville Indiana is missing. Helen Ballew sixteen from Kokomo Indiana was traced to the traction station and boarded a car for this city. Walter J Merrick nineteen of 478 Summit 81 is also missing.
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Glenn Wyatt
Connersville
Ind
Madison Martin
Crawfordsville
Helen Ballew
Kokomo
Walter J. Merrick
Summit
Reid Testifies Before Grand Jury In Indiana Probe
Harry Reid president of Interstate Public Service Company spent forty five minutes before Marion County grand jury as part of a probe into alleged political graft. Prosecutor Remy issued subpoenas for Reid and other witnesses while the case centers on Insull utility campaign contributions and a circuit court injunction over a merger.
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Harry Reid
Interstate Public Service Company
Insull
Marion County Grand
Indiana
Reid
Indianapolis
Alvah J. Rucker
Public Service
Rucker
Jackson
Public Service Commission
William H. Remy
Jesse McMurtry
Lawrence Lyons
Brook
Ind
The
Times
Lyons
Philadelphia
Robert I. Todd
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Rural education committee to study Indiana survey results
Governor Jackson meets with a five senator and seven representative committee to review the Indiana rural education survey and draft rural school legislation. The group will base proposed laws on the study and discussed the survey with Governor and American Legion official Paul V. McNutt. Members include Senators Evans Lindley Perkins Shake Shank and Representatives Bender Denton Gray Knipper Pittenger Saunders Wedeking.
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Jackson
Indiana Rural Education Survey
Paul V. McNutt
American Legion
Legion
Rural Education Committee
W. P. Evans
L. H. Lindley
C. A. Perkins
Curtis Shake
H. Lyle Shank
E. D. Bender
H. R. Denton
Arthur Gray
Forest Knipper
L. A. Pittenger
A. L. Saunders
A. J. Wedeking
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United Preas
Pat Mdermott
Mellett
Slayer
U. S
Perth
Indianapolis Times
Oren
Board of Works
Plum
Geist Offer
Atlanta
Hiram W. Evans
Ceived
Naval
Roscoe B. Fleming
Grand Jury
Insull Utility
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