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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1928
Page
9
Publishing notes from The Indianapolis Times dated Monday June 4 1928 list editor Boyd Gurley and business manager Frank G Morrison. The masthead shows price ten cents a week and the publisher address at 214-220 West.
The piece argues Delegate Ed Jackson should present Senator Watson at the Kansas City convention, accusing political machines and highlighting the statute of limitations as protection for Jackson. It notes missing figures, pleads for the Governor to address the nation, and urges action on Muscle Shoals legislation before June 7.
President Calles dismissed and had arrested Brig. Gen. Jose Alvarez for complicity in a large smuggling plot involving government archives from the United States. Calles defended his action as a duty to enforce honesty and warned that other officials could face swift justice.
The piece argues railroads provide efficient service at reasonable cost and notes they invite government regulation. It warns against eliminating regulation entirely while acknowledging bureaucracy. It mocks a claim about private business under Washington control and cites car usage in public processions as evidence.
David Dietz reports on the ongoing debate about Earth's magnetism. The piece discusses Gilbert's ancient magnet analogy, magnetic declination, secular changes, and the challenge of demagnetization at high temperatures, noting Carnegie Institution experiments on high pressure and temperature effects on magnetism.
The author argues civilization lifts backward peoples, noting China and Manchuria in flux with Chang Tso Lin and the Nationalists. He compares Pacific journeys by air pioneers Kingsford Smith and companions, and reflects on rapid global modernization, dress standardization, and travel advancing knowledge and practical skills worldwide.
The author argues that English already drives commerce and travel and will soon dominate as the universal medium for trade and diplomacy. With 250 million speakers and control of wealth and power, English is too entrenched to be displaced by existing languages. The trend toward English as global commerce language is near.
June 4 covers events such as American and British forces intrenching at Charleston D C and Kentucky legislature peace signing with Tripoli in 1908 along with Confederate actions in 1864.
Will Durant outlines Cervantes life from 1547 birth through Lepanto and piracy to his final triumph with Don Quixote. He links Spain’s expansion and cultural flowering to Cervantes’s rugged endurance, poverty, and ultimate literary achievement.
Readers submit questions to the Washington Bureau asking facts about presidents births and theatre casts. Answers cite Philadelphia inaugurations for Washington and Adams, 1924 birth statistics, and cast members of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
A compact May era page presents religious and moral maxims. The entries include a scripture verse from Ecclesiastes and a quotation attributed to B. R. Haydon, reflecting on virtue and temptation within a daily devotional context.
The Times Washington Bureau promotes an instructional bulletin for beginners outlining camera types lenses exposures developing printing enlarging and mounting. Readers are invited to send five cents plus name address city state and stamps to obtain the bulletin from the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau.
Washington June 4 The Federal Trade Commission probes the power lobby as the joint committee on national utilities withers under pressure. P H Gadsden Philadelphia utility magnate asserts critics misstate evidence and denies paid propaganda in schools while detailing funding for university courses and alleged textbook influence.
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