Lindy’s Plane With Gasless Motor Flies Promises New Power
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh expected to leave Selfridge Field for Mitchel or Washington with Maj. Lanphier and backers of his Paris flight. They will confer in New York with Guggenheim officials if they go, testing a mystery motor claimed to run on earth currents with no fuel. Authorities view the device as potentially revolutionary, though details remain guarded and patents pending.
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MT. Clemens
Mich
Charles A. Lindbergh
Selfridge Field
Mitchel Field
N. Y
Washington
Maj
Thomas G. Lanphier
Paris
St. Louis
Lindbergh
Lanphier
Mator
Lester J. Hendershot
D. Barr Peat
Pittsburgh
Cenfer
New York
Lndbergh
Guggenheim Foundation For
Evangeline Lindbergh
Charlie
Boston
Cage Player Injured In State Tournament Fall
A sideline player during the State tournament at Tomlinson Hall leaped for a ball, fell and dislocated an already injured knee, kept from the game. Heber Winebrenner, 21, Albion, was treated at city hospital and the fall broke knee bandages. He belonged to the Wolf Lake Independents. Manilla, Ind Feb 25. Special service marks re opening of the Christian Church built in 1860 after interior redecorations. Ancient Bibles and hymn books will be displayed.
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Tomlinson Hall
Heber Winebrenner
Albion
City Hospital
Wolf Lake Independents
Manilla
Ind
The
Christian Church
Hourly Temperature Readings Include 6am to 1am
The fragment shows hourly temperature notes with values like 98 and 108 and times such as 6am 2m 16 and 1am 16. It appears to be an incomplete weather log segment with unclear units and dates.
Train Held Up by Six Bandits Loot Totals $100000
Six men in mechanics clothing hijacked Grand Trunk train No in suburban Chicago, blew a mail car safe, and seized pay rolls worth about $100,000 bound for factories at Karvey and Blue Island. They fled in an automobile. a similar holdup occurred nearby a year earlier with $90,000. Police wide alert but bandits slipped away.
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United Press
Chicago
Karvey
Blue Island
Ill
Port Huron
Mich
St. Marie Cemetery
Judge in Kokomo imposes press ban on grand jury probe
Judge John Marshall of Howard Circuit Court in Kokomo warns that contempt of court charges will be filed against any newspaper or press representative who seeks information from grand jury witnesses or members during the American Trust Company bank failure investigation. Eleven people are indicted, including Luther Symons and Ora Davies. Extradition efforts for W. H. Arnold fail, blamed on press. Prosecutor Miller plans to call D.C. Stephenson as witness regarding the bank failure and $30,000 in cashier’s checks.
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Times Special
Kokomo
Ind
Howard Circuit Court
John Marshall
American Trust Company
Indianapolis
Marshall
Grand Jury
Luther Pf. Symons
Thomas D. Barr
Ora J. Davies
Indiana
W. H. Arnold
Howard County
Arnold
Florida
Miller
John Spearman
D. C. Stephenson
Homer R. Miller
Stephenson
Low Bids Come In For Meridian Street Widening Project
The Marion County Construction Company bids 7.70 per foot for Meridian between Fall Creek and 34th Street and J E McNamara bids 8.07 per foot between 34th and 38th Streets. Bids run about 30 percent under engineer estimates as the street will widen from 36 to 50 feet. Eight other contractors submitted bids as the works board approves widening from Tenth to St Clair Streets.
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Oren S. Hack
Works Board
Marion County Construction Company
Meridian
Fall Creek
Thirty-Fourth St
J. E. McNamara
Thirty-Eighth St
Meridian St
Tenth
St. Clair Sts
Opening Markets on the Stock Exchange Reports Narrow Early Upturn
New York February stock market opened with a narrow, upward tilt in a short-session start. Wabash Railway jumped after Friday gains, other rails followed, and special issues led advances. Victor Talking Machine rose on a $4 annual basis while Radio and International Nickel moved in heavy turnover. United States Steel and General Motors were steady. Packard stressed the motor unit. Vanadium demand rose in steel. The Journal noted short sellers and market watchers anticipated steadier conditions, though general business showed uneven improvement.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Wabash Railway
Victor Talking Machine
International Nickel
United States Steel
General Motors
Packard
Wall Street Journal
Financial Review Today
Philippine delegates back Smith at Houston convention
Philippine Democratic insular convention delegates to the national Democratic convention in Houston will cast their votes for Governor Al Smith of New York. The convention today passed unanimously resolutions instructing delegates to support Smith.
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United Press Manila
P. I
Houston
al Smith
New York
Smith
Indiana Firm Included in Huge Merger Adds to Rail and Theater Deals
Wall Street reports highlight four mergers nearing completion worth nearly a billion and a half dollars. Marion Truck Company joins Brockway Motor to form a 700 worker plant with more than nine million in assets. Bank of America scale targets 800 million in resources under Giannini. Loree leads plans for a major rail combination and Fox interests aim to control 600 theaters in a national chain.
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United Ipreas
New York
Wall Street
Marion Truck Company
Marion
Ind
Brockway Motor Truck Corporation of
J. W. Stephenson
Marion Company
George Brockway
New York Company
Brockway
A. P. Giannini
Banc Italy Corporation
National City
Chase National Banks
Giannini
Manufacturers’ Trust Company
Financial and Industrial Securities Corporation
Bank of America
Open Campaign Office for Harry G Leslie Governor Bid
State headquarters for Harry G Leslie Republican campaign opened today in the Illinois Building Lafayette. Ed Randolph the state manager will run the Lafayette office while Bert C Fuller of Indianapolis will be in the city office. A mass meeting of 1000 Tippecanoe County residents boosted Leslie for governor and announced county clubs formation.
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Harry G. Leslie
Lafayette
Illinois
Leslie
Ed Randolph
Bert C. Fuller
Indianapolis
Charles W. Jewett
The
Severin
Ind
Tippecanoe County
Teacher Will Tell Of Blast In Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse
Iola Bradford, a young teacher, was to testify in the bombing trial of Hiram Reed in Ottawa Illinois. The State alleges Reed planted a dynamite bomb to kill Bradford after she rejected him and to force marriage for their unborn child. Eleven pupils testified, with Grace Johnson, age nine, among the injured describing the explosion.
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United Peesa
Ottawa
Iola Bradford
Hiram Reed
Pleasant Valley
Reed
Russel O. Hanson
Miss Bradford
Grace Johnson
Real Silk Dinner Set Invites Indianapolis Mens Club Meeting
Reservations are being received for the annual meeting of the IndianapolisMens Club at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills Monday at 6 30 p m. George Opp safety engineer of Detroit Edison will speak on The Foremans Place in Accident Prevention Walter B Harding Indianapolis Safety Council executive chairman will also speak Reservations should be made at the club offices 1406 Merchants Bank Bldg.
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Indianapolis Formen
Real Silk
George Opp
Detroit Edison Company
Walter B. Harding
Indianapolis Safety Council
Merchants Bank Bldg
Indiana Medical College Class of 1878 Golden Jubilee Meet
Seven members of the Indiana Medical College class of 1878 will observe their graduation anniversary Tuesday. Dr. James H. Taylor of 1808 N. Pennsylvania St. chairs arrangements for the reunion at Keith's Theater, successor to the old Dickson's Opera House where graduation was held. Dr. H. B. Tanner of Eastland Texas has labored five years to locate remaining members.
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Indiana Medical College
James H. Taylor
N. Pennsylvania St
Keith's Theater
Dickson's Opera House
H. B. Tanner
Eastland
Texas
Piano Recital Planned at Herron Institute by Mrs Monninger
Mrs Arthur G Monninger will give a piano recital at the John Herron Art Institute on Sunday afternoon March 4 The performer has appeared in the Indianapolis Maennerchor artist series for several seasons and before major music clubs across the state
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Arthur G. Monninger
Herron Institute
John Herron Art Institute
Draws Set for 64 Indiana High School Sectionals
Regional tourneys run March 10 in sixteen cities with the State finals March 16 and 17 at Butler Fieldhouse Indianapolis. The Indianapolis sectional March 2 and 3 will be at the National Guard Armory with pairings and game times listed for Friday and Saturday rounds culminating in finals. Officials Vaughn Russel and Harry Conover noted.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Butler
National Guard Armory
Vaughn Russel
Harry Conover
Oakland City College Debaters Triumph Over ISN Speakers
In Terre Haute Indiana on February 25 Oakland City College men debaters defeated Indiana State Normal women speakers in a discussion over the resolution that the direct primary system for nominating State and Federal officers should be abolished.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Oakland City College
Indiana State Normal
Torch Slayer Eludes Police
Morristown New Jersey February 2 authorities disclosed the killer of Miss Margaret Brown a New York governess found burning to death was identified and sought in New Jersey Pennsylvania and New York. Police noted the man may be socially prominent and well educated and that a bizarre confession note had been received though his whereabouts remain unknown and state guards fear escape.
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Morristown
N. J
Margaret Brown
Park Ave
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
State Guard
Poison ends life of young wife after quarrel
Mrs. Lucille Muhlholland, 25, died at city hospital Friday night after taking poison following a quarrel with her husband of four weeks. Miss Martha Braggs, a hotel roommate at Fairground Hotel where both worked, told police the husband visited Thursday and the couple argued for some time.
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Lucille Muhlholland
City Hospital
Martha Braggs
Fairground
Kansas City Southern Charged in Clayton Act Suit
The Interstate Commerce Commission filed a formal complaint accusing Kansas City Southern Railway of violations of anti monopoly laws. It marks the first such action under the Clayton act and was announced from Washington.
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United
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City Southern Railway
Fear Scores Lost When Ships Crash Near Dungeness
Off Dungeness in fog a collision between the Italian steamer Alcantara and the Russian cadet steamer Tovaritsch sank the Alcantara with the crew feared lost. Early estimates varied from eighteen to thirty four, while the fate of the Tovaritsch remained unclear. Lifeboats and tugs searched through the night without locating the Italian crew.
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Alcantara
Tovaritsch
Exchange
Deal
Southampton
Moldavia
Rye
Dover
Police Officers Prohibited From Entering Home Without Warrants
In Marion Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins ruled police cannot enter a home without a warrant even when pursuing a felony arrest. Officers testified they entered John Gross's home to arrest for assault and battery with intent to kill and discovered liquor. The court suppressed all liquor evidence, merging the case with the assault charge. Gross had awaited grand jury action on an indictment.
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James A. Collins
Marion Criminal Court
John Gross
W. Forty-Fifth St
Baker Brothers
Gross
Henry Winkler
Judson Stark
Collins
Stark
Grand Jury
State Roads Turn Soft After Thaw
State Highway Commission will issue load restrictions within 48 hours after assessing thawed ground and melted snow. John D. Williams, highway director, says central and northern roads likely will be soft, while southern routes remain firm.
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State Highway Commission
John D. Williams
Everton man seeks Democratic nomination for Congress
W H Myers of Everton announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for congressman of the Sixth District. He had been the party nominee in 1926 and said he favored enforcing the eighteenth amendment but criticized the treasury secretary as a large distiller.
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Connersville
Ind
W. H. Myers
Everton
Myers
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