Forged Bank Paper Found in Defunct La Grange Bank
Federal agents uncovered more than 76000 in forged paper at the closed National Bank of La Grange after a run and probe by J F Utt temporary receiver and Justice Department agents. Val entine Weaver led the bank as president until 1927 amid warnings of overdrafts tied to the Walb Construction Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Grange National Bank
Department of Justice
Washington
Times Special
LA Grange
Ind
National Bank of la Grange
J. F. Utt
Utt
Federal
Comptroller of Currency
Albert Ward
United States
Valentine D. Weaver
Silas D. Weaver
Valentine
Walb Construction Company
Valentine Weaver
Weaver
Clyde A. Walb
Walb
Leon Rose
la Grange County Trust Company
Rose
Trust Company
National Bank
la Grange Hardware Company
Better Service Oil Com
Methodist Hospital
Silas
Times
Silas Weaver
State Securities Commission
Times Business Manager to Toledo Morrison to Succeed Him
William A. Mayborn, four years business manager of The Indianapolis Times, is named to an executive post at the Toledo News-Bee. Frank G. Morrison succeeds him as Times business manager, after four years as advertising manager at the Akron paper. Mayborn to take Florida vacation before starting January 15 in Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Mayborn
Indianapolis Times
Toledo News-Bee
Scripps-Howard
the Times
Mr. Mayborn
The
Times
Scripps- Howard
Frank G. Morrison
Akron Times-Press
Morrison
Frank Jr
Mayborn
Rotary Club
Indianapolis Athletic Club
Chamber of Commerce
Indianapolis
Florida
Toledo
G O P Senate War Breaks Out Over Peace Plan
In Washington a bitter clash in the Senate over the Independent-Republican peace agreement erupted as Independents were offered committee assignments. Senator McMaster urged Democrats to ally with Independents to lower tariff laws, calling the plan empty and promising a resolution to cut tariffs. Senator Caraway suggested secret conferences, while Harrison warned Independents not to be misled by the assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bitrshington
Senate
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
McMaster
South Dakota
Senate panel seeks Frank L. Smith appearance for fair trial
The Senate primary investigating committee, led by James A. Reed, sent a telegram to Senator-Elect Frank L. Smith asking when he wished to appear for the fair trial of his campaign expenditures case. Smith had left for home after the Senate denied him the oath of office.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Frank L. Smith
Illinois
James A. Reed
Smith
Commoner's Kin Reginald Owen Dies in Miami
Major Reginald Owen son in law of the late William Jennings Bryan died in Miami from nephritis contracted while serving as a British officer in France. Mrs Owen remains active in Florida politics.
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United Press
Miami
Fla
Reginald Owen
William Jennings Bryan
France
City Drops Inspectors From Payroll
Eleven street and sewer improvement inspectors will be dropped from the city payroll December 15, city engineer A H Moore announced. Improvements are halted for the winter and there is no further need of the inspectors. Portland Me December 13 A pet canary whose excited chirping frightened occupants was the hero of a fire at the home of Mrs Benjamin F Knowlton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Moore
United Press
Portland
Benjamin F. Knowlton
Burglars Loot Kinney Shoe Co and Nearby Home
Burglars forced entry at Kinney Shoe Co 24 N Pennsylvania St stealing silk hose shoes and 100 dozen pairs valued over 700. Thieves climbed a freight gangway twenty feet high. Radio parts and a trombone worth 275 were stolen from a William H Block Co truck at Illinois and Court Sts. Mrs M H Oates reported jewelry and household goods worth 50 taken from her empty home closed after her husband’s death.
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Kinney Shoe Company
Pennsylvania St
George Dimel
Dimel
William H. Block’ Company
Ilinois and
Court Sts
Paul Ernst
M. H. Oates
Fragmentary OCR of timetable style data
Sparse readable lines show a sequence of times and codes such as 6 and mM 63 10 a m and 64 7 m M 63 11 a m with noon 6212 and warehouse 64 1 DP Marveas 63. The text appears to be a disrupted schedule or ledger entry with several misread abbreviations and no clear event or names.
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Whseuse
Marveas
Lindbergh Begins Non-Stop Flight to Mexico City
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh launched from Bolling Field in the Spirit of St Louis bound for Mexico City aiming to reach daylight next day. He faced headwinds with escort by navy, army, and commerce planes and planned a 2,000 mile nonstop flight via Galveston and the Mexican border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mexico City
Bolling Field
Spirit of
St. Louis
New York
Paris
Navy
Commerce Department
Army
Potomac
Lindbergh
Galveston
War Department
United Press
United States
War Office
Wallbuena Military Field
Stimson Gets Manila Berth
President Coolidge nominated Henry L. Stimson former Secretary of War as Governor General of the Philippines. Stimson visited Nicaragua as the President’s representative this year and is noted as a personal friend of the President and the late Gen. Leonard Wood, with substantial Philippine experience. The nomination surprised some due to his stated reluctance to take the post.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Senate
Henry L. Stimson
Philippines
Stimson
Nicaragua
Leonard Wood
Islands
Labor behind Reeves for vocational board post
Indiana labor groups urge Senators Watson and Robinson to back Perry W. Reeves of Indianapolis as successor to Harry L. Fidler on the Federal board for vocational education. Fidler’s term ends in June and his recess appointment remains in place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Labor Organizations
Watson and Robinson
Perry W. Reeves
Indianapolis
Harry L. Fidler
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Fidler
Senate
Indianapolis Air Mail Service Begins With Record Letters
One thousand letters have been received for the inaugural Indianapolis air mail flight. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson sets a 2 p.m. Saturday deadline for first mail. An hour later the plane will depart Mars Hill, launching daily Chicago to Cincinnati service with Indianapolis as central hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Robert H. Bryson
Mars Hill
Chicago
Cincinnati
Trio Charged After Chickens Cause City Lockup
Three men William Goolsby age 33 of 714 Bates Street Wilbur Thatcher 31 of 403 South Holmes Avenue and William Thatcher 33 of 436 South Holmes Avenue were taken into custody late Monday night at Senate Avenue and Washington Street after a trio of chickens led to their arrest. The men are detained in the city jail awaiting stories about how the fowls ended up in their car.
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City Prison
William Goolsby
Bates St
Wilbur Thatcher
S. Holmes Ave
William Thatcher
Senate Ave
Washington St
Farmer Kills Six In Oklahoma Family Tragedy
Phillip Millis, 35, a farmer in Hennessey Oklahoma, killed his wife and four children and then himself with an ax in their bed. Neighbors found the bodies hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hennessey
Okla
Phillip Millis
State buys groceries for twenty institutions this Friday
The State Joint Purchasing Committee will receive a buy one on three months and grocery supplies for twenty state institutions on Friday. In New York a poodle named Trixie narrowly escaped execution after a group of Italian boys formed a defense committee and raised funds for her license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
NEW York
Trixie
Defense Committee
Colder Weather Forecast With Rain Expected
Weather Man J H Armington predicts cloudy and colder conditions tonight and Wednesday with rain possible. He notes a forecasted 63 degree high, 32 above normal, not a record despite atypical warmth for December as heavy rain began this morning.
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J. H. Armington
Armington
Impeachment Charges Move Against Oklahoma Governor
The Oklahoma House voted six charges of impeachment against Governor Henry S Johnston and charges against Chief Justice Fred Branson and Agriculture Board President Harry Cordell. The charges now go to the Senate for trial. The irregular session was held amid National Guard presence and a district court injunction.
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Oklahoma City
House of Representatives
Henry
Johnston
National Guard
House
H. Tom Kight
Fred Branson
State Supreme Court
Harry Cordell
State Board of Agriculture
Senate
District Court
Commonwealth
Supreme Court
Cordell
Statehouse
Oklahoma
City police shakeup promotes Democrats and demotes Republicans
A major city police overhaul ordered by Mayor Slack promotes fourteen officers and demotes eight, reshaping leadership to favor Democrats. Chief Claude Worley, a Republican, retains his post as Maj. Lewis Johnson, a Democrat, also stays, while promotions take effect December 15 and January 1.
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Board of Safety
Slack
Claude M. Worley
Maj
Lewis Johnson
Jerry E. Kinney
Fred Simon
Sergi
Herman Rademacher
Walter Claffey
Leonard Forsythe
Roy Pope
Samuel Lewis Shank
Edward Helm
Patrick O'Connor
Otto Pettit
Thomas Ruse
Homer Dailey
Carl Sheets
Lawrence McCarty
Ralph Dean
Claude F. Johnson
Walter White
George L. Stone
William Fields
Arthur McGee
Ku Klux Klan
John L. Duvall
McGee
Duvall
Bridge Readies Car Lines Reopen on College Ave Route
College Ave street cars will return to their old route via the College Ave bridge over Fall Creek on Wednesday after months of work. Resurfacing finished Monday but weather delayed the opening to vehicles and pedestrians. Broad Ripple Forty-Sixth St cars will turn north in Pennsylvania St, and interurban trains will resume the College Ave path. Buses moved passengers to Fairfield Ave will be abandoned tonight. Central Ave cars will run to Meridian Heights and Thirty-Fourth St.
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College Ave
Fall Creek
Broad Ripple
Forty-Sixth St
Central Ave
Fairfield Ave
College
Union Traction
Farmer Tries Triple Poisoning Case In Murder Trial
In Georgia on December 13 1927 a farmer faces a murder charge over claims he used strychnine to kill his two sons and daughter in law or to kill vermin on George H Hayes plantation. Witness Frank Coleman testified he bought sixty grains of poison in September 1921. Solicitor General Castellow said the poison may have been used to kill Amos and James Hayes and Amos wife Gladys from Detroit. Hayes maintained the poison was for vermin.
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George H. Hayes
Frank Coleman
B. T. Castellow
Amos
James Hayes
Detroit
Gladys
Hayes
Man Dies On Duty At Gravel Pit Night Watch Job
Louis Irwin aged 53 failed to return home from night watch at the gravel pit at Twelfth Street and Fall Creek. His wife and two grandchildren searched the area and found him dead in his shack. Police and the coroner were notified and the body taken to the morgue.
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Louis Irwin
Brooks
Capitol Ave Site Sold For Nine Thousand Dollars
A former Indianapolis resident James L. Hill of Estacion Maricon Guatemala sold 815 N Capitol Ave to Mrs Berlie E Lovett formerly of Anderson Indiana now of St Petersburg Florida for 9000 cash announced today by Charles S Maxwell of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company Lovett will hold the property as an investment
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N. Capitol Ave
Indianapolis
James L. Hill
Estacion Maricon
Guatemala
Berlie E. Lovett
Anderson, Ind
St. Petersburg
Fla
Charles S. Maxwell
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
Lovett
Pioneer Society elects officers and governors in Indiana
The Society of Indiana Pioneers announced the results of its election. Charles N. Thompson was reelected president, W. H. Insley vice president, Katherine Graydon registrar, Mrs. Arthur V. Brown secretary, and J. K. Lilly Lee Burns and Amos W. Butler named to the board of governors. Almus G. Ruddell was elected treasurer.
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Society of Indiana Pioneers
Charles N. Thompson
W. H. Insley
Katherine Graydon
Arthur V. Brown
J. K. Lilly
Lee Burns
Amos W. Butler
Almus G. Ruddell
Arrest Two for Death in Streetcar Collision
Eunice Johnson and Luther Briggs were arrested on involuntary manslaughter charges after a Nov 27 collision between a car driven by Johnson and a street car at Minerva and Michigan Streets that fatally injured Eleanor Copeland. Both were released on their own recognizance.
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Eunice Johnson
N. Senate Ave
Eleanor Copeland
Shepherd St
Minerva
Michigan Sts
Luther Briggs
S. Harding St
Former Police Chief Lengel Freed on Bail in Mellett Case
Former Canton police chief S. A. Lengel, convicted in the murder of Don Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton Daily News, was freed on a $25,000 bond. He fled the jail as his release was ordered by Judge Edward Diehl and awaits a Supreme Court review to revoke the Court of Appeal’s grant of a new trial.
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United Prene
Canton
Ohio
S. A. Lengel
Don Mellett
Canton Daily News
Lengel
Daisy
Common Pleas
Edward Diehl
State Supreme Court
Stark County
Court of Appe
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Val
la Grange Fixture Sales Company
G. Morrison
Times Business
G. O. P. Senate
Reed
Jogs’ Smith
Wires
Major Owen
Bryan
Canary
Loot Shoe Store
LINDY
Airman
Lynchburg
Knoxville
Hooks Suicide
United Press W
Manila
Friend
United States Vocational Board
Pup
Don. A. Higgins
Worley
Louis Johnson
the Safety Board
Police
City Hall
Republican Safety Board
Robert F. Miller
Johnson
Kinney
College Ave. Span
Farmer
Watchman’s Shack
Capitol Ave
Thompson
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