Council Probes City Gasoline Use by Officials
City council considers a report finding city cars used Sundays and after hours for the Me and Sarah baseball trips. It cites figures for McBride and Zener, notes 3,529 extra gallons this year, and orders stricter garage records to aid investigation.
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Ira L. Bramblett
Ben H. Thompson
Me and
Sarah
Edward McBride
John Zenner
Recreation Department
McBride
Crawfordsville
Ind
Indianapolis
Zener
Harry Newby
Board of Works
Board of Work
Klansmen Initiation Held At Henley Farm Near Carthage
More than 100 robed Klansmen took part in an initiation and meeting on the Henley farm one mile south of Carthage Indiana. Several candidates were admitted. A fiery cross was burned and lights lit the surrounding countryside during the ceremony.
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Carthage
Ind
Henley Farm
Tech Senior Miss Gertrude Kaiser Wins Essay Prize
Miss Gertrude Kaiser of 842 N. Drexel Sr., a June 1923 Technical High School graduate, won first prize in a national Atlantic Monthly familiar essay contest for an essay titled Sherwood. She will have the essay published and serves as associate editor of staff two on the Arsenal Cannon. She is an honor student.
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N. Drexel Sr
Atlantic Monthly
Sherwood
Technical High School
Arsenal Cannon
Peeping Incidents Reported at Rolando Apts
Two men were seen peering into rear windows of the Rolando Apartments at 1409 North Pennsylvania Street Monday night. Mrs. Bruce Hughes reported the sighting to police.
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Cleveland
Willitts A. Bastian Dies After Two Years Illness
Indianapolis attorney Willitts A. Bastian 56 died at home after a two year illness. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. at Flanner Buchanan chapel with Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks officiating. Burial Crown Hill. Born Oct 20 1866 in Ligonier Ind he studied at De Pauw. Survived by widow Mary, father H M Bastian, brother H M S Bastian, and three sons Robert Ellison Richmond E and Frederick E.
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From Far and Near News Digest Across the Nation
A compilation of scattered incidents including drownings near Springfield Vermont and heat deaths in Cleveland. A streetcar strike near Chicago is delayed a few days. A Pittsburg man killed during a gambling house hold up. A missing Montrose girl dies of hunger. A bridegroom and guests hospitalized from poison. Various court, political, and economic notes from Illinois, Colorado, and abroad.
Bible mistreated in school prompts investigation
An Indianapolis high school literature class faces a committee inquiry after a student complaint that the Bible was not treated with respect. The Indianapolis Ministerial Association elected Rev. J. D. Garrison as president with a slate of clergy and lay leaders guiding executive and evangelistic efforts.
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Corner Stone Laid by Fraternity at DePauw
In Greencastle Indiana Delta Kappa Epsilon held corner stone laying for a new house with Albert J Beveridge Tracy Drake and Frank Hall assisting. Building cost set at 50000 and Kappa Kappa Gamma also conducted ceremonies with Mrs C E Bacon laying the stone and speeches by Bishop E H Hughes President Grose Miss Katherine Alvord and Miss Florence Seiders.
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Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
de Pauw
Tracy Drake
Chicago
Frank Hall
Kansas City
Kappa Kappa Gamma
C. E. Bacon
Indianapolis
E. H. Hughes
Grose
Katherine Alvord
Florence Seiders
Thief Steals $25 Watch From Local Gas Station
Louis A. Roach reports a thief took his $25 watch from the Maddison Ave Morris St filling station. He filed a theft report with police today.
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S. New Jersey St
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Americans Must Be Made Says Pastor
Columbus Ind June 5 The Rev Alexander Sharp pastor of the First Presbyterian Church urged that the birth rate in the United States is too low to meet future needs and that Americans must be created. He warned against immigrants who only seek money or plan to return home along with political exiles and criminals.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
United States
Alexander Sharp
First Presbyterian Church
Purdue Gala Week Radio Program To Broadcast
Purdue University department heads and notable alumni will speak on a forty minute Purdue Gala Week radio program broadcast from the university station Wednesday evening. The station operates on a 360 meter wavelength.
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Purdue University
Purdue
Police search for woman charged with giving poison
Police are seeking a woman charged by Fiscus Carpenter, a Black resident of 1501 Samoa St. He is recovering at city hospital.
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Samoa St
City Hosital
Dry Army to Mobilize Along Dominion Line to Stop Booze Flood
The federal government plans rapid prohibition enforcement on the New York-Canada border as general agents concentrate to curb rum running. Treasury Secretary Mellon will meet with Internal Revenue and Haynes to map action amid border tensions after New York repeal.
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Bootleggers Rush Shipment From Montreal to U S
American bootleggers from New York rush shipments of Canadian liquor southward hoping to smuggle heavy cargoes before a boundary front is set. The repeal of New York State’s dry law and looser enforcement spur the surge.
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Montreal
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New York State
U S Army Prepared for Any Invasion Says War Department Official
Col George H Healey notes wartime conferences with General Pershing staff in Washington. He represents the Sth Corps area incl Indiana Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia. He says the goal is a 1 000 000 strong army ready within thirty days after Congress acts.
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State Board of Printing
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Washington
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Kentucky
West
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America
Religious War Looms After Spanish Cardinal Slaying
Madrid reports a threatened religious war following the assassination of Cardinal Soldevila archbishop of Zaragoza. Authorities brace for street clashes in major towns as a manhunt for the killers continues after gunmen struck his car outside St Vincent de Paul monastery.
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Madrid
Soldevila
Zaragossa
Spain
St. Vincent de Paul
Oh Benjamin and the Benton Harbor Burlesque
A fragment from a Michigan State investigation era piece references a Benton Harbor religious colony in a burlesque act tied to Fatty Arbuckle. It mocks the group with verses about Benjamin and his whiskers and a barber connection amid rumors of punishment if caught.
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Benton Harbor
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Fatty” Arbuckle
Elba
London Bridge
Benjamin
Sampson
Minnesota GOP split over Minnesota senator race and Preus
Washington June 6 A power struggle within the Minnesota race tests administration support as a court suit over Preus election delays clarity. Republicans fear a labor candidate Mengus Johnson could win the nomination and jeopardize a GOP victory in a pivotal by election.
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United Press
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Preus
Mengus Johnson
Sixteen Die In Italian Cyclone Raging Through Ossola Valley
In Milan officials report sixteen killed as a cyclone devastates the Ossola valley. Government aid requested for food shelter tents and bridging materials. Total losses placed at seventeen million dollars.
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United Arean
Milan
Ossola Valley
Quarrel Endangers Life in Terre Haute Shooting
In a love dispute Lloyd Hensley 19 was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Lunsden 17 in Terre Haute. Police hunt for answers as details emerge about the young assailant and motive.
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Charles Lunsden
Terre Haute
Fidelity Trust Company Re Elects Present Officers
Fidelity Trust Company announced that all officers and directors were re elected after a stockholders meeting. Officers include William M. Fogarty president James McNulty vice president and insurance manager George F. Kirkhoff vice president J Albert Smith vice president and trust officer James G Flaherty secretary treasurer Timothy P Sexton assistant secretary treasurer and manager of real estate Albert E Lamb auditor. Directors elected include James Burns and H H Woodsmall.
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James McNulty
Insurance Department
George F. Kirkhoff
J. Albert Smith
James G. Flaherty
Timothy P. Sexton
Albert E. Lamb
Lamb
James Burns
H. H. Woodsmall
Testimony Favors Wife in Banker Divorce Suit
Mrs. Eleanor Harris wife of Beverly D. Harris former vice president of National City Bank of New York testified favorably in depositions from Memphis and Tennessee cities. Former Governor Patterson and a Memphis minister also supported her conduct. Deputies failed to seize her personal belongings at the Statler Hotel after she appeared in Circuit Court to contest a $3,000 attachment claim by Lee Meriwether, who said he rendered services in the case. Harris denied engaging Meriwether and said his New York trip last year was not at her request.
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United Press
ST. Louis
Eleanor Elaine Harris
Beverly D. Harris
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Meriwether
Three Hurt In Auto Crash At Raleigh Church
In Rush County Indiana a car rammed a crowd outside the Raleigh Church injuring three. Herbert Jackson twenty from Newcastle faces preliminary manslaughter charges and a one hundred dollar bond for disturbing a religious service. He and two relatives attended services and were asked to leave. Victim Margaret Scott sixty six is not expected to survive.
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Times
Rushville
Ind
Herbert Jackson
Newcastle
Raleigh
Rush County
Jackson
Audrey
Susie Howe
Margaret Scott
Charles Mohler
West Richmond property owners form fire protection group
An organization to secure fire protection has been perfected by property owners on the west side of Richmond. They will raise 3500 and, under agreement with the city, pay 25 dollars per hour for each company answering a fire call in the vicinity.
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Times Special
Richmond
Ind
Coal Official Dies in Indiana After Auto Crash
TERRRE HAUTE Ind June Following a short illness John M Manson 55 secretary of the Deep Vein Coal Company is dead at his home He never recovered from injuries in an automobile accident in which his wife was killed
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Ind
John M. Manson
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Deep Vein Coal Company
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