Coroner Opens Probe Into Ravenswood Double Drowning
Deputy Coroner William A. Coeppers investigates the Ravenswood bathing beach drowning of Guilford Warren and Frank Grubbs after they invited Ruby Rodgers to swim with them. Warren and Grubbs disappeared after struggling two-thirds across White River. Rodgers survived.
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William A. Coeppers
Ravenswood Bathing Beach
White River
Guilford Warren
Washington St
Frank Grubbs
New York St
Ruby Rodgers
Muncie
G. Warren
Albert Wingerath
Ravenswood
Rodgers
Warren
Grubbs
George R. Gates
Brevort Hotel
Walter C. Bennett
Broad Ripple
W. Arens
Coeppers
George Hunt
Emerson Ave
Grubb
Viola
Joseph Oakey
Arens
Bennett
Thomas Mathews
Dr. Gates
Charles Carver
Bryan to Lead 1924 Dry Fight in Democratic Rally
William J. Bryan is set to lead the dry faction at the 1924 Democratic convention with support from McAdoo backers. The race echoes 1912, pitting Bryan against Tammany Hall and Wall Street allies as key figures Murphy Brennan and Taggart loom in New York Illinois and Indiana.
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United News
Washington
William J. Bryan
William G. McAdoo
Bryan
McAdoo
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Tammany Hall
Tammany and
Wall Street
Tammany
Booze
Murphy
New York
Brennan
Illinois
Taggart
Indiana
Eight Deaconess Hospital nurses to graduate at ceremony
Eight students from the Deaconess Hospital School for Nurses will graduate at 8 p m Friday in the nurses home at Ohio Street and Senate Avenue. Dr C E Orders will speak. Graduates include Laura Guskie Greensburg Nina E Quinn Nana E Freeman Alta M Fording Amy M Bosma all of Indianapolis Garnette E Gilman Rockville Janet H Vierson Grand Rapids Mich and Lillian G Mattox Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Guskie
Nina E. Quinn
Garnette E. Gilman
Nana E. Freeman
Alta M. Fording
Amy M. Bosma
Janet H. Vierson
Lillian G. Mattox
Deaconness Hospital School For Nurses
Ohio St
Senate Ave
C. E
Greensburg
Amy Bosma
Indianapolis
Rockville
Grand Rapids
Mich
Salem
Shortridge Class of 1923 Graduates 431 Seniors
Four hundred and thirty one Shortridge high school seniors will receive diplomas at commencement in Cable Tabernacle on Wednesday evening June 13. Dr. Nathaniel Butler of the University of Chicago will be the speaker.
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Elizabeth Bernstein
Jane Biddy
Hazel Biggs
Norma Birk
Ina Bishop
Eleanor Blizzard
Robert Boryant
Howland Bond
Margaret Bourke
Kathryn Bowlby
Jan Bowles
Smith Bowman
Enona Boyle
Mary F. Bradshaw
Pearl Braun
Julia Bretzman
Florence Brewer
Mary Louise Bronston
Ruth Bronston
Eugenia Brooks
Albert Brown
Arthur Brown
Arthur L. Browne
Merrill Bruning
Ruth Ann Clark
Gladys Cochrane
George Cole
Wayne Colvin
Margaret Conty
Charles Cook
Jeannette Cooper
Edith Coryn
Virginia Cottingham
Gerald Cox
Marshall Cranbill
Arthur Crabtree
Dorothy Crosby
Jasper Cummings
Dorothy Curnick
Jane Currie
Wilson Daily
Douglas Dale
Alice Davidson
Kathleen Davis
Mollie R. Davis
Emma Deal
Lingrell Deerwester
Elizabeth de Hoff
Norma Deluse
June Dexheiger
Delores de Miller
Alice Dimmick
Raymond Dirks
John Dithmer
Guy Dixon
Herbert Dixon
Juanita Donelson
Thomas Dow
Addison Dowling
Vernon Doyle
Dorothy Drew
Eleanor Dunn
Lila Dunn
Lacy Belle Du_ Pee
Freda Eckert
Burl Ely
Dorothy Enners
Elizabeth Evans
Dorothy Everroad
Frances Falender
Miriam Fay
Donald Ferguson
Robert
Telegraphers' National Bank Receives Charter and Hours
The Telegraphers' National Bank in St Louis has been chartered with a capital of 500000. It will open Saturday mornings and operate daily until 3 pm, extending to 4 pm on Saturdays.
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United Press
ST. Louis
National Bank
Thief Denied Plea Over Stolen Irish Mail and Scooter
John Horuff, 10, asks thieves to return the Irish mail and scooter given by his late grandmother. He suspects the thief was mean and says he would forgive them if the items are returned. A police officer, Patrolman Earl Fisher, resigns to take a railroad job after being appointed March 1, 1922.
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John Horuff
Frank Horuff
Central Ave
John
Earl Fisher
Brookside Ave
New snag seen in tax refunds delays case
Marion County tax refund fight faces another setback as commissioners refuse Harcourt’s claim for 451.93 citing no funds. Harcourt, a Washington Township farmer, presses a test case while two others won court judgments and 40 claims plus 56 000 more expected before spring.
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Marion County
State Tax Board
John R. Harcourt
Harcourt
Washington Township
Circuit Court
Emsley W. Johnson
William Bosson
Supreme Court
Bosson
Evans Fatally Injured in City Street Collision
Charles Evans of 115 Adelaide Street was injured when his car rolled forward after he stalled on Fall Creek at Meridian Street Tuesday night. He attempted to restart the engine, the vehicle jumped from gear and struck a tree, hospitalized with injuries.
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Charles Evans
Adelaide St
Evans
Fall Creek
Meridian St
New Reparations Plan Proposed by Cuno Cabinet
Berlin reports Chancellor Cuno proposes a yearly reparations payment of about 1.5 billion gold marks with final terms to be set at an international conference. Revenue ideas include taxes on tobacco sugar and brandy, a customs monopoly, a 10 billion mark gold mortgage on railways, legal mortgages on industry and land, and a property tax. The note hints at funds from other sources if needed and urges a conference to settle terms.
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Carl D. Groat
Berlin
Cuno
Germany
Wisconsin wets predict victory on repeal day
Madison announces that pro repeal forces expect to win the repeal vote in the Wisconsin Assembly at noon Thursday. Wets plan caucus to solidify support while drys warn the upper house will kill the Tucker bill and the Anti-Saloon League presses for electoral consequences.
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United Press
Madison
Wis
Wets
Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition
W. Stanley Smith
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Blaine
Officers Elected by State Druids at Grand Grove Session
The sixty second annual Grand Grove of Indiana United Ancient Order of Druids held its final session at Druids Hall Indianapolis. New officers include Junior Past Noble Grand Arch William Hodapp Richmond and Grand Secretary Charles G. N. Grider Indianapolis. Representatives to the Supreme Grove are C. E. Paulsen Indiana Hoosier Hs, Albert Hodapp Richmond, Joseph C. Bogard Indianapolis. Next annual session location to be decided. The Grand Circle Ladies Auxiliary will meet at Druids Hall Thursday morning.
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Grand Grove
Indiana
Brder of
Druids
Druids Hall
Ohio St
Noble Grand Arch
William Hodapp
Richmond
Jacob H. Hilkene
Indianapolis
Grand Arch
Frank A. Engelking
Charles G. N. Grider
Indianapoli
EB. B. Jameson
Lafayette
F. Earl Geifer
Grand Herald
M. (. Hembree
Grand Circle of
New Radio Studio Planned on Severin Roof
Indianapolis Broadcasting Association files Articles of Incorporation to erect a thousand watt radio station atop the Severin building. The $50,000 project aims for operations within three weeks with Ferd L. Birch as manager. Programs will include market reports music educational and business talks and the Severin orchestra will provide music along with the association's own orchestra. Directors are Ford L. Birch C Fred Fitchey Bert A. Boyd Howard M. Gay John A. Hook John Connell and T B Hatfield.
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Indianapolis Broadcasting Association
Severin
Ferd L. Birch
Severin Orchestra
Ford L. Birch
C. Fred Fitchey
Bert A. Boyd
Howard M. Gay
John A. Hook
John Connell
T. B. Hatfield
Bridge Wrecker Injured in Collapse
Albert Lipz age 48 living at Massachusetts and Cornell Avenues was seriously hurt when a bridge he was wrecking at Churchman Avenue and Pleasant Run collapsed. He melted a steel support with a torch and suffered a broken shoulder and head injuries, hospitalized.
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Albert Lipz
Massachusetts
Cornell Aves
Churchman Ave
Pleasant Run
Lipz
Ex-Manger of Shoe Store Held in Theft Charge
John E. Gilbert, 41, former manager of Haruff Shoes at 2630 Northwestern Ave, is charged by grand jury indictment with embezzling 2250 dollars. Accusations include specific yearly amounts from 1920 to 1923, book padding, selling on credit, and gifts of shoes. He disappeared in 1923. Moss pursued him in Virginia mountains and extradition papers were signed by the Virginia governor.
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John E. Gilbert
W. Thirty-Seventh St
George Snider
M. D. Moss
O'Neil Secret Service
Gilbert
Rockbridge County
Haruff Shos Company
Northwestern Ave
Moss
Virginia
Indiana Sunday School Parade Highlights Convention
More than 10000 Indiana Sunday School workers will march in a parade at Cable Tabernacle with a pageant requiring 800 cast. Counties plan floats while over 100 Indianapolis Sunday Schools prepare. Harry B. Smith will lead. a mounted police detachment follows.
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Indiana
Indiana Sunday School Council of Religious Education
Cable Tabernacle
Indianapolis
F. M. Dickerman
Harry B. Smith
Criqui Invited 10 Veterans Meet Rainbow Association Guest
Eugene Criqui, famed French fighter who KOed Johnnie Kilbane for the featherweight title in New York, is invited to the Rainbow Veterans Association national convention on July 16 as the most distinguished son of France. Gen Henri Gourand, with Rainbow Division troops, will share honors. Indianapolis chapter extends the invitation stressing wartime comradeship.
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Eugene Criqui
Johnnie Kilbane
New York
Rainbow Veterans Association
Pollu
France
Henri Gourand
Rainbow Division
Indianapolis
Criqui
Boxer Jack Dillon Appeals Jail Term For Blind Tiger Charge
Ernest Price known as Jack Dillon was fined 100 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail after appearing in city court on a blind tiger charge. Special investigator Worley testified he found 15 bottles of liquor at Dillon’s Seventy-Eighth Street home after a May 9 warrant. Dillon admitted liquor ownership and prior conviction on February 8 1922. Former City Judge Walter Pritchard defended him.
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Ernest Price
Jack Dillon
Delbert O. Wilmeth
Claude Worley
Criminal Court
Dillon
Seventy-Eighth St
White River
Ravenswood
Worley
Walter Pritchard
Power Firms Seek Bond Issues for Readjustment and Expansion
The Merchants Heat and Light Company petitions the Public Service Commission to authorize issuing 454 200 in securities to reimburse past and planned additions, with total expenditure 833 866 15. Indiana Electric Corporation also seeks permission to issue 4 058 000 in securities to fund transmission lines from the Wabash River plant to Indianapolis Sullivan and Clinton at an estimated cost of 3 697 372. capital stock listed as 5 750 000.
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Merchants Heat and Light Company
Public Service Commission
Indiana Electric Corporation
Wabash River
Indianapolis
Sullivan
Clinton
Powell found guilty in bank loot case
Clarence Powell age 22 of 422 Ritter Ave was found guilty in Juvenile Court of contributing to the delinquency of Opal Isley 17 now in the Indiana Girls School in connection with the conspiracy to loot the Alert State Bank in May 1922 He was fined 1 and given six months on the Indiana State farm Powell admitted meeting Miss Isley while delivering ice to the Isley farm eleven miles east where bank bonds were buried
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Clarence Powell
Ritter Ave
Opal Isley
Indiana Girls’ School
Alert State Bank
Indiana State Farm
Powell
Miss Isley
Irvington Ice Company
Isley Farm
Court hears bigamy case as Mrs West faces tangled marriages
Rebecca West 19 of 225 West Ray Street stands accused of bigamy after marrying Arthur Ele in 1919 and Floyd West in 1922 while Ele sought a divorce. The case, heard by Judge James A. Collins, was assigned to attorney J Stephen Fullen for resolution as arguments with both spouses continued.
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Rebecca West
W. Ray S&j
James A. Collins
J. Stephen Fullen
Floyd West
W. Ray
Fullen
Ele- West
Ele
Whitfield Seen North of Indianapolis in Cleveland Officer Slaying
Police track John Leonard Whitfield after the Cleveland murder of Dennis Griffin. A Milwaukee Madison arrest, a Buick with Wisconsin plates, and a possible Indy route via Anderson are reported. A $1000 reward is offered for Whitfield’s capture as detectives fear he may head toward Indianapolis colored district.
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Indianapolis
John Leonard Whitfield
Dennis Griffin
Cleveland
Anderson
Whitfield
Madison
Wis
Griffin
Michael Griffin
St. Arsenal Ave
Diamond's Fates in Jurors' Hands
Valparaiso Ind June 6 The case of Harry Diamond charged with murdering his wife and wounding his chauffeur goes to the jury in Circuit Court today after three hours of final argument from both sides. The defense centers on testimony that Diamond suffered an epileptic fit and was unconscious during the slaying.
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United Press
Valparaiso
Ind
Harry Diamond
Diamond
Witness Leland Fishback testifies in Rivkind circus death suit
Secretary of the State industrial board Leland Fishback testified at Toledo in a case arising from the death of Ray E. Rivkind a Hagenbeck-Wallace circus employee killed in a June 1918 circus train wreck near Gary. Rivkind lived in Cleveland and was a tent worker.
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Leland Fishback
State Industrial Board
Toledo
Ray E. Rivkind
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Gary
Rivkind
Cleveland
Ohio
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