Garden City youth jailed for life murder of Byrle Healy
Winfred Meeks, 20, of Garden City, S D, was sentenced to hard labor for life after pleading guilty to murdering 17 year old Byrle Healy. Authorities rushed him from jail as a mob gathered. He confessed to striking Byrle with a tire iron and hid her body in a straw stack.
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Lyited
Watertown
S. D
Winfred Meeks
Garden City
Gyrle Healy
State Penitentiary
Sioux Falls
Meeks
Hanson
Robert Depeel
Crocker
Byrle Healy
Byrle
William
Carth
Here
Weeks
Bradley
Women Urging Widow to Run for Senate Seat
Women across the country petitions Mrs. Robert M. La Follette widow of the late independent leader to enter the Senate race and push for women’s legislation. Her consent could ensure strong chances of election and make her the first woman elected to the Senate to participate in legislation. The National Woman's Party leads the drive.
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Uv United Press
Washington
Robert M. la Follette
United States Senate
la Florette
Senate
National Woman’s Party
Weather snippet shows temperatures through late morning
Readable lines indicate hourly temperature readings with values around 70 to 86 degrees and times from morning to noon. The fragment suggests a warm up to the high eighties by noon with missing context for location or date.
TIMES WANT ADS Quick Action Drives Cash Sales
The Times want ads deliver fast results by notifying over 50 000 homes within hours of submission. They help you tell your story, sell items quickly, and turn unwanted goods into cash. Call Main 3500 to place an ad.
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TIMES
My Most Harrowing Experience as a Pedestrian Contest
A public appeal from the Harassed Order of Pedestrians offers cash prizes and gear for letters describing harrowing street experiences. Readers can win $16 for top entry plus a roller skate or vaulting pole as prizes. three winners will be announced with prior details.
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Indianapolis Times
Sweetie
Hop
Teachers file injunction to halt merger
Three Indianapolis teachers filed an injunction in Circuit Court to stop merging the city teachers pension fund with the State fund. Plaintiffs Grace Duran Jane Draydon and Laura E Hanna name the Indianapolis School Board the trustees and John L Duvall as defendants and seek to halt about 380000 in assets transfers arguing contractual rights and due process concerns. The suit, filed by Elias D Salsbury, argues the transfer violates teachers rights and would furthur deprive them of property.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Teachers’ Pension Fund
State Pension Fund
City Fund
Grace Duran
Jane Draydon
Laura E. Hanna
Indianapolis School Board
Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund
John L. Duvall
City
Elias D. Salsbury
Miller, Dailey & Thompson
Jury To Try Murder Case Not Selected
Louis Owens a former L. S. Ayres barber faces a murder charge in the Dec. 8, 1924, stabbing of George Robinson. After a morning of juror examinations, 12 were not accepted and 25 more were ordered for the afternoon session for a second trial after a prior deadlocked verdict. Owens, a World War veteran, claimed self defense saying Robinson attacked him first in the Ayres locker room.
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Louis Owens
L. S. Ayres & Co
George Robinson
Charles
Wiltsie
James A. Collins
Omer Hawkins
Owens
Robinson
W&rber
Ayres
State Roads Inspected by Governor Jackson Party
Governor Jackson and the Indiana State highway commission inspected state roads in the southwest region visiting Jasper Huntingburg and Ferdinand with a stop at Nancy Hanks Memorial Park and Lincoln City. An Evansville delegation met them at the park before the group continued to Tell City for the night.
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Press
French Lick
Ind
Indiana
Jackson
State Highway Commission
Jasper
Huntingburg
Ferdinand
Commission
Nancy Hanks
Lincoln City
Evansville
Tell City
Police Chiefs Call for Lifelong Judges in Politics Debate
The 32nd annual convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs endorses life tenure or good behavior for judges and adequate pay. Chief S J Dickson of Toronto argues Canadian police free of politics and judges for life, warning US politics meddling harms justice.
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International Association of Police Chiefs
United States
Chicago
S. J. Dickson
Toronto
Canada
Haircut Rule at Camp Banishes Long Locks
At Fort Benjamin Harrison Citizens Military Training Camp Lieut Col E J Nowland orders youths with long hair to be sheared to military style hair not longer than one and a half inches. A banner reading Soldiers Not Sheiks will be awarded to the company with the fewest long haired members after Saturday inspection.
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E. J. “Nowland
Fate of condemned man Scott looms in Springfield
Springfield July 15 Russell Scott, 32 once a millionaire now under death sentence for murder, may learn today if he will hang July 17 or receive another stay. His father Thomas W. Scott and his wife kept vigil as petitions for clemency were heard by the pardons board. The board signaled a decision would come today after testimonies and pleas.
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United Arena
Springfield
Russell Scott
Scott
Chicago
Thomas W. Scott
Board of Pardons
Inquiry into Fletcher Building Lift Tragedy Begun
Coroner begins inquiry into the death of Doris Parker eight of Lieut and Mrs James E Parker of 2049 N Meridian who was killed Monday in a Fletcher Savings and Trust Company Building elevator. Operator Alvin Summers says he started the lift with the safety device not engaged and passenger Simms Redwine recounts the child’s head caught between the door and wall. Funeral services set for today at 5 p.m. at the home of Mrs Herbert A Payne.
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Doris Parker
James E. Parker
N. Meridian Sr
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
Paul F. Robinson
Alvin Summers
Parker Ave
Simms Redwine
Pennsylvania St
Herbert A. Payne
Fifteenth St
Pump Owners Warned Over Unlicensed Gas Pumps
City treasurer Joseph L. Hogue announced arrest for garage and filling station owners without gasoline pump licenses. Delinquents are numerous. Registration fee is 1 dollar and 15 dollars per pump.
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Joseph L. Hogue
Motorist Sentenced in Reckless Driving Case
Roy Fleener, 22, of 1202 S Harding Sr, fined 25 dollars and given 15 days in jail by City Judge Dan V White for reckless driving. A 10 dollar fine and 10 days jail were suspended. It is alleged he struck Mrs Elizabeth Grant, 37, and her two daughters on May 3. Mrs Grant died June 13 of heart trouble.
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Roy Fleener
S. Harding Sr
Dan V. White
Fleener
Elizabeth Grant
A. A. P. Box
Mayor Brav es Cramp Signs 385 Bonds for City Hospital Unit
Mayor Shank signed 385 bonds of 1000 dollars each to fund a new surgery unit at the city hospital. Sol Schloss, president of the board of health, expects construction to start early this fall.
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Shank
City Hospital
Sol Schloss
Board of Health
Confession Alleged From Two Suspects In Grocery Hold Up
Detectives today said they obtained confessions from William Cullen aged 18 and Forst Helms aged 19 both of 2525 Sangster Ave to an attempted hold up of grocer William Mohler of 1623 E Thirtieth St Mohler resisted and the men fled in January.
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William Cullen
Forst Helms
Sangster Ave
William Mohler
Grocer
E. Thirtieth St
McNamara Trial Set In Blackmail Case At Elks Club
John J. McNamara business agent for the Structural Iron Workers of America faces a blackmail indictment after vandalism allegations at the new Elks Club under construction. Special Judge Fred C. Gause set the trial for July 27 and notified Prosecutor William H. Remy.
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John J. McNamara
Structural Iron Workers of America
New Elks Club
Fred C. Gause
Gause
William H. Remy
Kaiser's Grandson to Attend Nuptials in Germany
German Swedish and English aristocracy will attend the August 15 wedding of Miss Louisa Fletcher of Indianapolis to Count Bernard Gottfried Von Schmettow. The ceremony at Pommerzeig follows a tradition linked to the estate Valeska Hof. After a six month American honeymoon the couple will reside in Sweden.
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United Press
Serlin
Germany
Louisa Fletcher
Stoughton A. Fletcher
Indianapolis
Bernard Gottfried von Schmettow
Prince Royal
Sweden
Schmettow
Pommerzeig
Miss Fletcher
Trousseau
Valeska Hof
America
Miss Fletcher’s New York Art Study and German Wedding Tale
Miss Fletcher studied art in New York for months and traveled to Germany under chaperonage of Mrs. Justice. She stayed with Princess Schaumberg Lippe and met a nobleman whose estates adjoin the princess. Earlier, she rose in notoriety after leaving a Maine summer home to work as a farmhand. Stoughton A. Fletcher said he consented to the wedding but Fletcher refused to attend.
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Miss Fletcher
New York
Germany
Jean Justice
Berlin
Princess Schaumberg-Lippe
Maine
Stoughton A. Fletcher
Fletcher
Poison Proves Fatal To 17-Year-Old Miss Carstensen
Miss Clary Carstensen, 17, of 98 Layman Ave formerly of Terre Haute Ind took poison July 8 and died at city hospital today. Police report she had lived in Indianapolis briefly and was to be married June 29.
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Clary Carstensen
Layman Ave
Terre Haute
Ind
City Hospital
Indianapolis
Federal court opens more cases as liquor prosecutions rise
The year ending July 1 saw 326 criminal cases begun in Federal Court, up from 215 the prior year, with liquor cases driving the increase. Seventy six guilty pleas were in liquor cases, 37 of 42 jury trials were convictions, and 264 criminal cases were disposed of. Civil cases reached 83 of 409 new filings, with 317 disposed.
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United States
Albert Ward
Sun
Waldron Pool Fight Over Boys Attire
In Aldron Indiana on July 15 a dispute over bathing attire at Waldron's pool sparks town debate as girls push for decency rules. Two youths, Earl Aldridge and Norman Kanouse, face justice decency proceedings after authorities arrested boys found without swimsuits at the pool.
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Aldron
Ind
Waldron
Adam
Justice of Peace Court
Earl Aldridge
Norman Kanouse
Eunice McKay
Irene Thurlow
Elene Bailey
Shank Boosted for Sawdust Trail
During a visit to Mayor Shank, Doc Waddell praised the evangelist potential of Shank while noting Herrin residents once armed now carry prayer books. Waddell cited Mayor Shank as an old friend and suggested four years as mayor would hardly train him for evangelism.
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Doc Waddell
Howard
Williams
Shank
Waddell
Fortune Security Transfer To Fort Wayne State Bank
Heavily guarded by state police a consignment of negotiable securities worth 33 million dollars was moved today from the State Insurance department at the Statehouse to the First National Bank in Fort Wayne for deposit. The cargo filled a large truck and was moved at 8 a m under State Insurance Commissioner Thomas B McMurrey Jr. The transfer was kept secret until arrival. The securities are unmatured policy guaranties deposited under a 1925 law designating banks across the state. Fort Wayne received those from the eastern portion of the state.
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State Insurance Department
Statehouse
First National Bank
Ft. Wayne
Thomas 8. McMurrey, Jr
State Insurance Commissioner
Family Tries Death Pact After Straits Take Strychnine
Mrs. Ed Newcomb of Gordon Nebraska dies after she and her husband and two young children ingest strychnine in a fatal attempt to blot out troubles. Husband jailed in Rushville in a strait jacket. Edwin 10 and Vera 5 in serious condition but expected to recover. Two notes from the mother explained a death by own action pact.
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United Preas Gordon
Neb
Ed Newcomb
Rushvilles
Edwin
Vera
Elevator Destroyed in Union City Fire
Fire early today destroyed the Union City Elevator causing an estimated loss of 20006 dollars. The building was empty and the origin of the blaze is not known.
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Times
Union City
Ind
Two Teens Sought After Car Jump Escape
Police seek two youths about 20 who fled a stolen car after jumping from it in front of 351 Ogden Street early today. The stolen vehicle belonged to John Clayton of 631 Sanders Street, taken Tuesday night from Delaware and Market Streets.
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Ogden St
John Clayton
Sanders St
Delaware and Marke
Anti Evolution Law Case Upheld Teacher Must Stand Trial
A court denied the petition to quash the indictment on the anti evolution law case. The judge ruled the indictment valid and ordered the teacher to stand trial. Attorneys for the defense indicated plans to appeal the decision.
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William J. Losh
United Press
Dayton, Tenn
Tennessee
John T. Scopes
Dayton
John H. Raulston
Rhea
Scopes
Shank Agrees to Ask Sale of City Barns
Dayton Tennessee news reports Mayor Shank will petition the board of works to sell the city barns at Shelby Street and Fountain Square after a council push for improvements. The plan includes reallocating 14 mules and equipment to other barns and a new municipal garage, with residents divided over relocating the barns.
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Shank
Board of Works
Barnes
Shelby St
Fountain Square
State Ave
Washington
Prospect Srs
Shanks
John FE. Walker
South Side
Walker
Barna
Lavelle Foundry
Palmer St
Madison Ave
Elizabeth Atkinson
Lexington Ave
Cleaners Overworked After Storm Damage
John F. Walker street cleaning superintendent appealed for public help as complaints surged after a storm. Cleaners worked day and night, hauling more than 800 loads of debris, and progress continued toward finishing the task by Saturday.
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John F. Walker
Walker
City Levy Faces 28 Cent Boost If Budget Tightens
Mayor Shank disclosed a proposed 28 cent increase in the 1926 city tax levy after departments submitted budgets to city controller Joseph La Hogue. The figure follows a pruning effort with budgets still pending and review by Duvall, Shank, and the city council.
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Shank
Joseph la Hogue
Hogue
John L. Duvall
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