Senate probe of 1926 city strike injunction
The U S Senate Judiciary Committee began an inquiry into the Baltzell injunction issued July 1926 during the Indianapolis street railway car strike. The probe follows AFL leader William Green testimony and names Parker Armstrong as central figures in the strike. Prison sentences for the involved union officers and others are noted, with appeals denied.
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United States Senate Judiciary Committee
Robert C. Baltzell
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Times
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Thomas Walsh
Montana
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employee of America
Street Car Company
Robert B. Armstrong
John M. Parker
Marion County
Baltzell
Carmen
Parker and
Harry Boggs
Parker
Armstrong
Edgar Day
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
United States Supreme Court
Day
Albert Ward
United States
United States Attorney General’s Office
Mrs Coolidge Ill Forces First White House Absence
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge is sick with a severe cold and confined to her room. The illness caused her to miss the White House dinner honoring Speaker and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the first formal function she has missed since President Coolidge took office.
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United Press
Washington
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Nicholas Longworth
Aged Woman Laughs at Judge Over Liquor Charge
Reeva Book, 71, of 634 Miami Street, told Municipal Judge Paul Wetter that cops know where to get liquor. The judge laughed and suspended the $10 fine and costs after fining her in toxication charge for arrest at Pennsylvania and Maryland Streets.
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Reeva
Miami St
Paul C. Wetter
Pennsylvania
Maryland Srs
Lindbergh to Tell His Epic Story in The Times
Col Charles A Lindbergh writes of his Atlantic flight and life in his own words in a multi chapter epic to run starting Monday in The Indianapolis Times. The serial promises intimate detail from boyhood to Paris flight and an immersive, personal account.
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Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh
Indianapolis Times
Times
Lone Eagle
Atlantic
Paris
Colonel Lindbergh
Army Air Corps
German Guns for Memorial Plaza in Indiana Prepared
Two 105 millimeter Krupp guns stored at the State School for the Blind await permanent placement in the World War Memorial Plaza in Indianapolis. They are the first of five captured German cannon voted by Congress for the memorial. Two 150 millimeter howitzers and one 210 millimeter gun from Camp Knox will join soon for permanent foundations north of the memorial shrine.
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Indiana
State School For the Blind
World War Memorial Plaza
Indianapolis
Congress
Camp Knox
Kentucky
Frank J H. Henley
World War Memorial Board of Trustees
Danville
Lafayette
Pendleton
Burns
Baxter
Chicago
Ill
Delayed Death Penalty Predicted for Hickman Case
William Edward Hickman faces a likely death sentence for the Marion Parker kidnapping and murder with potential life imprisonment as an alternative. Judge Trabucco may delay sentencing pending motions for a new trial and possible appeals, while co-defendant Welby Hunt awaits trial on a separate murder charge.
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Dan Campbell
United Press
Los Angeles
Calif
William Edward Hickman
Marion Parker
J. J. Trabucco
Hickman
Welby Hunt
Ivy Toms
Asa Keyes
Parker
Trabucco
Jerome Walsh
Richard Cantillon
Supreme Court
Young O'Neil Flees to Europe For Teapot Dome Probe
Wayne O'Neill son of James E. O'Neil, a Teapot Dome oil witness, reportedly fled to Europe. United States Marshal Jesse D. Moore told the Senate Teapot Dome Committee that the youth is sought as a witness.
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United Preas
Washington
Wayne O'Neill
James E. O'Neil
Europe
Senate Teapot Committee
Jesse D. Moore
United States
Brooklyn
Young O'Neil
Babe May Be Adopted After Abandoned Baby Found
Police continued a search for Angella Carr the six week old girl left in a car at St Vincents Hospital Tuesday night. If parents remain unfound the infant will be placed for adoption under Home Attaches rules.
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Angella Carr
St. Vincents Hospital
St. Elizabeth's
Kidnaping Letter Epidemic Bared In Indianapolis
Police reveal a wave of threatening letters to Indianapolis parents demanding ransom. A group of youths, inspired by local cases, sent letters to families including Dr and Mrs Garland L Young of 102 Pleasant Run Blvd threatening to kidnap their son Gordon, 12. Detectives monitored the home and Gordon’s school day routines after three letters were found, though no money was ever left. Parents are urged to report any letter and obtain a description of the writer.
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Indianapolis
Ois
Jerry Kinney
Zidtedtines
Kinney
Hickman
Garland L. Young
Pleasant Run Blvd
Gordon
Madison Ave
Theater Lease Talk Awaits Publix and Skouras Pact
Officials expect confirmation or denial of a lease transferring Indiana Ohio Circle theaters to a Publix Skouras group. Circle vice president Robert Lieber in New York handles the deal while Ace Berry would stay as general manager. Also reported a Manila obituary notes 73 year old Philippine bar veteran A. S. Crossfield, GOP committeeman, dead.
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Circle Theater Company
Publix Theater
Skouras Brothers
St. Louis
Robert Lieber
Circle Company
New York
Indiana
Ohio
Circle Theaters
Uptown
Market Circle Realty Company
Ace Berry
City Faces Power Suit Against Indianapolis For 237,589
The Indianapolis Power and Light Company filed suit in Superior Court One against the city seeking 237,589 dollars for heat and light supplied since May 1927.
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Superior Court
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
Quest fails to disclose two bodies in Indiana quarry
A thorough search of Kokomo stone quarries in Indiana failed to locate the bodies of Deputy Sheriffs John P. Grove and Wallace McClure, who vanished Tuesday with two prisoners en route to Pendleton Reformatory. Investigators questioned a crayon letter from the prisoners, traced to Marion, and broadened a large manhunt that included Lafayette, Danville, and Frankfort.
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United Preas
Howard County
Johnston
Tippecanoe County
Lafayettte
Frankfort
Marion
John Burns
Samuel Baxter
Clinton County
Burns
Baxter
Lafayette
Pendleton
Kokomo
Indiana
American Legion
Danville
Ill
Reformatory
McClure
Grove
John Smith
Ten Men For Jackson Jury Passed But End Of Quiz Not In Sight
The Jackson conspiracy trial jury selection stretched with frequent passes between State and defense. Peremptory challenges reduced the pool as the State and defense shuffled ten of the twelve talesmen, aiming to finish a verdict on Governor Jackson’s alleged offer of immunity to McCray to appoint a prosecutor.
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Jackson
Criminal Court
Warren T. McCray
James E. McDonald
Marion County
William P. Evans
McCray
James A. Bange
Central Ave
Henry W. Boggs
Washington St
Johnson
Clyde Jones
Marsh
Charles McCabe
Jones
Ralph G. Coe
E. Sixteenth St
Emsley W. Johnson
Coe
Kivett
Morgan Circuit Court
Hollweg
Stephenson
Remy
Citizens’ School
Ritter
Fred Robinson
George H. Oilar
E. Thirty- Fifth St
Oilar
James W. Noel
E. E. Neal
Noblesville Ledger
Woman Sentenced to Life for Bridge Game Shooting
In Detroit on February 10, Mary Lee Bishop was given life for shooting and killing her partner Rosa Lee Henderson after Henderson played a wrong card twice in a bridge game. Henderson died December 27, 1927.
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Detroit
Mary Lee Bishop
Rosa Lee Henderson
Crawford Pitcher Charged With Grand Larceny in $63 Theft
Crawford Pitcher of 407 East Ohio Street was booked on grand larceny in municipal court after detectives Brickley and Finneran alleged he stole $63 from Curtiss W. Elliott at 911 East Washington Street.
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Crawford
C. W. Elliott
Crawford Pitcher
Ohio
Brickley and
Finneran
Curtiss W. Elliott
Washington St
Wanted ad sells stove quick in The Times
Ida Bevans of 34 Walcott Street placed a sale want ad in The Times for a combination coal and gas stove. The item sold for cash and the ad promised similar fast results for readers, urging calls to Main 3500 and six days for the price of 65.
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Ida Bevans
N. Walcott Sr
The
Times
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Greenwood
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Buckle St
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