School Board Meeting Ends In Midnight Fight
A midnight altercation at an Indianapolis school board meeting pitted Charles L. Barry against Bert S. Gadd after a clash over personnel. The two men, John Logan and Frank Garringan, faced potential dismissal. Barry struck Gadd as the chair pushed to remove them. The incident prompted apologies and a pause before the board moved to approve plans for new schools and staff pay timing.
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Charles L. Barry
Bert S. Gadd
Indianapolis
Barry
Gadd
John Logan
Frank Garringan
Frank L. Reissner
Finance Committee
Reissner
Elevator fire call at Marion County Courthouse delays responders
A short circuit in wiring in the courthouse elevator shaft triggered a fire department response downtown Tuesday. Fire officials reported no damage.
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Marion County
Clinton (Ind.) Woman Slain and Husband Confesses
A swamp grave near Donges Bay north of Milwaukee yielded the decapitated body of Mrs. Ora Belle Tompkins formerly of Clinton Indiana. Her husband E Ray Tompkins a wealthy real estate operator and former normal school instructor confessed to the murder. One former pupil was questioned on another charge connected with Tompkins and released on bail.
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Donges Bay
Milwaukee
Wis
Ora Belle Tompkins
Clinton
Ind
E. Ray Tompkins
Tompkins
New Terminal Company Formed To Expand Warehouses
National Terminals Corporation with William J. Hogan as president and treasurer plans warehouses in major cities. Real estate valued at 12 100 000. Other officers include Norman E. Metzger and A B Efroymson. Subsidiaries set up in Cincinnati Ohio Erie Pennsylvania and Detroit Michigan.
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William J. Hogan
National Terminals Corporation
Norman E. Metzger
A. B. Efroymson
Cleveland
Ohio
H. A. Groff
J. S. Gano
Cincnnati
Erie
Detroit
Mich
Board Halts Building At Sixteenth and Bellefontaine
The City Baking Company building remodeling at Sixteenth Bellefontaine Streets was stopped by the board of zoning appeals. The district around the bakery is residential. a public hearing is set in four weeks. The board also continued several cases and kept Forty-First and New Jersey Streets and Harding and Twenty-First Streets as residential.
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City Baking Company
Sixteenth and
Bellefontaine Sts
Board of Zoning Appeals
Forty-First
New Jersey Sts
Harding
Twenty-First Sts
Lloyd George and Asquith Move to Aid Labour Against Baldwin
Former Prime Ministers Lloyd George and Asquith with Liberal leaders declare war on Premier Baldwin. They will lend no support to the Conservatives and back Labour as the opposition, aiming to defeat the government at the next division. Labour executives vow to form a ministry when invited. Liberal leaders pledge to assist in the first Commons division.
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United Press London
Davie Lloyd George
H. H. Asquith
Baldwin
Commons
Asquith
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Liberal Party
Laborites
House of Commons
Proverb Picture Contest Details and Bank Vault Custodian
Readers are urged to order proverb pictures by number, not date, to receive back images. Cents after the first fifteen pictures are requested. A complete answer list will be published after the contest ends, once judges remove the original pictures and proverbs from the Fletcher American Bank vault where Ralph K. Smith is contest custodian.
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Fletcher American Bank
Ralph K. Smith
Times
the Times
Indianapolis Times
Edward J. Gansepohl
E. J. Ganse
Smoke Ravages Hit Indianapolis Costs Says Purdue Expert
Professor A W Cole of Purdue University warned at a city hall lecture that excessive smoke in Indianapolis drives up repair and cleaning costs. He cited darker winter clothing, wallpaper cleaning, and hospital cleaning bills 50 to 75 percent higher than in cleaner cities.
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Indianapolis
A. W. Cole
Purdue University
City Hall
Indianapoli
New $275000 Dixie Bee Line bridge dedicated at Hazelton
Times Special Hazleton Ind December 12 dedication today of the new Dixie Bee Line bridge over White River marks twenty years of effort by Knox and Gibson County people. The span replaces the old ferry as the sole crossing and signals a trade expansion for the Pocket cities along the Dixie Bee Line highway. Governor McCray spoke on extending the state highway system and a $27 million program through 1925 was outlined. The structure comprises eight steel spans and twenty-one concrete spans totaling about three miles with two long approaches, using 1,500,000 feet of steel and 6,200 cubic yards of concrete, and weighing roughly 52 million pounds.
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Hazelton
Day
William J. Titus
Hazleton
Ind
Knox
Gibson County
Chicago
Ohio River
Princeton
McCray
Indiana
Dixie Bee Line
Chambers of Commerce of
Vincennes
William J. Titius
State Bridge
Middle West
Titus
Ex Governor McKelvie to Address Advertising Club
Lemuel R. McKelvie ex governor of Nebraska and Nebraska Farmer publisher will speak Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce on The Farmer's Fool Friends. Thursday is new member day with Jesse Hanft winning commander in chief of the membership army. other winners include Hank Williams Lester Meyer Joe Moeslein Bob Heuslein Paul Morgan Russell Etter Earl Ferguson Mrs Otto Abel Tillie Mayne and Ralph Jacobs.
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Lemuel R. MckKelvie
Nebraska
Nebraska Farmer
Lincoln
Neb
Advertising Club
Chamber of Commerce
Farmer's Fool Friends
Jesse Hanft
Hank Williams
Lester Meyer
Joe Moeslein
Bob Heuslein
Paul Morgan
Russell Etter
Earl Ferguson
Otto Abel
Tillie Mayne
Ralph Jacobs
Democrats May Meet in Chicago
Chicago officials declare confidence that the Democratic National Convention will be held in the city after losing the Republican gathering. Illinois Democratic leader George Brennan Mayor Dever and Edwin N Hurley say several states are swinging toward Chicago with Brennan noting Iowa Indiana Minnesota Wisconsin Ohio Nebraska Colorado Kansas and others moving in.
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Chicago
George Brennan
Illinois
Mayor Dever
Edwin N. Hurley
Shipping Board
Brennan
Iowa
Indiana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ohio
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Judge Dismisses Lottery Charge For Three Men
On lack of evidence Judge Delbert Wilmeth dismissed charges against three men named Reed of Chicago St Charles Reed at 908 Colton Street and Burrows at 400 North West Street who were accused of operating a lottery.
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Delbert ©. Wilmeth
Jack Reed
Chicago
St. Charles
Haynes Bond Sale Opens in Kokomo for 2.75 Million
The sale starts today after approval by the State securities commission. It comprises 1.75 million in first mortgage bonds and 1 million in income bonds. Kokomo citizens weigh refinancing the Haynes Company and appeared before the commission Tuesday.
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Haynes
Haynes Automobile
Kokomo
State Securities Commission
Haynes Company
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