Republicans Speed Work on Contests Hoover Gains Rapidly
South Carolina Republicans told the RNC hearings they settled internal differences and will seat Hoover sympathizers. In Tennessee and Georgia, Hoover backers gained seats while some opponents were seated as delegates. Louisiana and Florida contests were also resolved. Delegates total 37 with Hoover winning all but two. A farm relief push looms as Elmer Bullis predicts 60 000 to 75 000 farmers march on Kansas City to press for the issue. Hoover aides vow a farm plank at the convention.
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United Press
Kansas City
South Carolina
Republican National Committee
Hoover
Tennessee
J. E. Adams
Tom Crutchfield
John J. Jennings
H. R. Church
Memphis
L. H. Bramer
Florida
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Georgia
Herbert Hoover
Walter Cohen
J. H. Lowry
Hoover Group
anti-Hoover Coalition
Elmer E. Bullis
Farmers’ Army
Chicago
Bullis
Republican Party
Hoover Wins Victories in Republican Delegates Fight
Kansas City report shows Hoover gaining ground in southern delegate contests. The Commerce Secretary has won key battles, securing about a third of disputed delegates as Hoover forces push toward a potential nomination with 500 votes hoped at the outset. The Louisiana result sided with Hoover 55 to 41 in 96 votes, while Texas disputes over 26 votes loom as Creager leads pro-Hoover seating efforts.
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Hoover
John M. Gleissner
Scripps-Howard
Kansas City
Republican National Committee
Butler-Hilles
Commerce Secretary
Louisiana
Texas
R. B. Creager
Fletcher Cafeteria Ad Offering Big Variety
A Fletcher cafeteria advertisement promotes a big variety of food at reasonable prices. It lists hours from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and appears under a Fletcher Trust blog, alongside a weather temperature snippet for the day.
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Fletcher Cafeteria
Fletcher Trust
Milk Driver Fends Off Bandits at Plant Entry
Clarence Wilson of 1509 Roosevelt Rd. battled two youths in a car who tried to rob him as he turned his Polk Sanitary Milk wagon into the Polk plant at 1100 E Fifteenth St. He struck a kick and a punch, fired a milk bottle, and sent the bandits fleeing with the patrol. Wilson delivered the day’s $50 receipts to the cashier.
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Clarence Wilson
Roosevelt Rd
Polk Sanitary Milk Company
Wilson
Polk
Fifteenth St
Washington St to lose turns under safety plan
The board of safety discussed eliminating right and left turns on Washington Street between Pennsylvan ia and Capitol Avenues. Police Chief Worley and members Fred Connell Ira Haymaker and Robert Miller delayed action a week to survey downtown traffic policemen before voting. The plan would make Washington Street an east west thoroughfare to aid pedestrians.
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Washington St
Pennsylvania
Capitol Ave
Board of Safety
Fred Connell
Ira Haymaker
Robert Miller
Claude M. Worley
Connell
ORDER SUBWAY PLANS ALONG Holt Road PROPOSED
County commissioners ordered plans for a subway beneath the T H I E and Pennsylvania railroad tracks on Holt Road. A petition to improve the roadway from Morris Street to Washington Street will be submitted later.
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Holt Rd
Pennsylvania
Morris St
Washington St
Pulitzer Prize Given To The Indianapolis Times For Public Service
Nationally known judges honor The Indianapolis Times with the Pulitzer Prize for exposing political corruption in Indiana and promoting cleaner civil government. The award was announced May 8 and presented at Columbia University ceremonies on Tuesday night.
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United Press New York
Indianapolis Times
Columbia University
the Times
Nicholas Murray Butler
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
Ralph Pulitzer
New York World
Arthur M. Howe
Senate campaign probe pushed to after conventions
Washington June 6 The Senate campaign investigation will close after the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Chairman Steiner said the committee will not travel to Ohio Indiana or West Virginia and a brief final hearing was planned for today.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Steiner
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Seven killed when trolley hits auto near Auburn
Seven persons aged 3 to 21 were killed when their automobile was demolished by an Illinois traction system car at a grade crossing near Auburn Illinois on Tuesday. Six victims were children of Mr and Mrs Doran Brubaker. Harry Whelen of St Louis, the motorman, said he saw the car slow at the crossing and believed it had stopped.
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United Press
Auburn
Illinois Traction System
Here
Doran Brubaker
Harry Whelen
St. Louis
Worley seeks 150 more police in 1929 city budget
Police Chief Claude M. Worley announced plans to request 150 additional officers in the 1929 budget. He aims to strengthen the traffic and detective divisions, adopt a double platoon system in tough districts, motorize the force further, and add four substations for twelve neighborhood stations.
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Claude M. Worley
Worley
Chamber of Commerce
Sterling R. Holt
L. Ert Slack
Caddy Suspect In Broadmoor Club HoldUp
A 19 year old Broadmoor Country Club caddy boasted of money from the $100,000 Broadmoor hold up last Wednesday and was questioned by detectives. A 22 year old companion was also questioned. Both held on vagrancy charges under $3,000 bond. A girl said the younger boy visited her hotel room drunk and named other gang members. Police arrested them in an Ohio Street lunch room Tuesday night. The caddy claimed he talked to the girl but was drunk and unaware of his statements. A list of stolen items was mailed to principal cities.
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Broadmoor Country Club
Broadmoor
Kansas
Patrick O'Connor
Ohio St
Gennaro Paul Held at Ellis Island Over Tax Question
Gennaro Paul, famed conductor of the New York and Chicago grand opera orchestras, was detained at Ellis Island as he settled with federal authorities over alleged income tax nonpayment. He arrived from Italy aboard the Saturnia and will again conduct summer opera in Chicago after fourteen years with the Metropolitan in New York.
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United Press
New York
Gennaro Paul
Chicago Grand Opera Orchestra
Ellis Island
Papi
Saturnia
Italy
Metropolitan i
Chicago
Belgian War Memorial Guard Louvain Tablet Inscription
One thousand Belgian veterans prepared to guard the Louvain library memorial tablet to prevent a proposed change from the inscription "Destroyed by Teutonic fury, restored by American gift." Authorities seek a less provocative wording to ease wartime memories.
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United Press
Brussels
Louvain Library
State presents evidence in murder trial of Charles Blackstone
Martinsville Indiana June 6 opening statements by the State and its evidence began in the Morgan Circuit Court trial of Charles Blackstone 170 charged with first degree murder in the death of Ed Stewart. Jury selection stretched from Monday to late Tuesday before a panel was formed.
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Martinsville
Times Special
Ind
Charles Blackstone
Ed Stewart
Morgan Circuit Court
Women Set for Atlantic Race in Air
Miss Amelia Earhart and the crew of the monoplane Friendship await a wind change at Trepassy Bay Newfoundland to start for England. Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon help pace preparations as Miss Mabel Bell plans a competing Atlantic flight. Earhart hopes to lead and spur rivals.
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Atlantic
Miss Bell
Newfoundland
Mabel Bell Plans Trans Atlantic Flight Ahead of Friendship
New York June 6 Miss Mabel Bell a contender for the first woman to cross the Atlantic continues to push for a take-off at Trepassy Bay before the Friendship, with Miss Amelia Earhart at the controls. Bell hopes to beat the Friendship and claims Wilmer Stultz who flew the Friendship would pilot her Columbia. The Columbia has been tested at Roosevelt Field but awaits fueling as the field remains muddy after recent rain.
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J. T. Meaney
United Press
ST. Johns
N. F
Mabel Bell
Friendship Today
England
Trepassy Bay
Amelia Earhart
Wilmer Stultz
Lou Gordon
Friendship
Bell
Miss Earhart
Atlantic
Stultz
Boston
New York
Trepassz Bay
Roosevelt Field
Typhoon risks loom in final Pacific leg to Australia
Air pioneers of the Southern Cross chart a 1795 mile Pacific crossing toward Australia. Kingsford Smith and Ulm head toward one of the grandest homecomings in Australian history as typhoons rage between Fiji and the continent.
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Maynard Hedstrom
United Press
Suva
Fiji Islands
Australia
Southern Cross
Pacific
Kingsford-Smith
Charles T. P. Ulm
Fijis
South Seas
Kingsford Smith Aims Suva Takeoff For Australia Flight
Captain Kingsford Smith and the Southern Cross crew planned a 3 p.m. takeoff from Suva Fiji Islands for Brisbane with daylight arrival expected Friday. The pilot noted Naselai’s three mile sand runway as the world’s best for their departure.
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Ul Wiied
Sydney
Kingsford- Smith
Southern Cross
Suva
Fiji Islands
Kingsford-Smith
Brisbane
Naselai
Bandit Steals $100 From Pratt Meridian Street Station
A young bandit robbed a Standard Oil filling station on Meridian Streets Tuesday night. Attendant Walker Baker of 116 East Sixteenth Street complied with orders and helped the thief open the safe, which yielded $100 before the suspect drove away with Baker briefly held at the car.
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Standard Oil Company
Prattang Meridian Sts
Walker Baker
E. Sixteeenth St
Baker
Thaw Barred From England on Arrival
Harry K. Thaw was refused permission to land in England after arriving from the United States aboard the Aquitania. Immigration authorities gave no reason. The alien restriction act bars anyone convicted of an extraditable crime, Thaw planned to stay about three days before continuing to the continent by air.
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Earl of Craven
England
Continent
Prohibition Chief Shot in Ambush During Arrest Attempt
State Deputy Prohibition Commissioner O. E. Summers was shot while trying to arrest five rum runners at Leetown Wood County. He was taken to Parkersburg hospital with poor prospects for recovery. Fellow officers noted anger over his past arrest of an 8 year old boy and a 14 year old girl for operating a still.
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United Press
Charleston
W. Va
Prohibition
O. E. Summers
Leetown
Wood County
Summers
Parkersburg
W.C. Burdette
Alaskan Peak Erupts Above Dutch Harbor
The largest volcanic mountain on Akuta Island was believed erupting today as the motorship Patterson reported dense clouds of black smoke rising from the island near Dutch Harbor.
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Island Mountain
United Press
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Akuta Island
Motorship
Patterson
Democrats Ready to Ballot for Governor at Cable Temple
Delegates at the Democratic State convention in Cable Tha ernacle began balloting for governor amid calls for reform and moralizing attacks on the G O P. Dailey expected to win on first or second ballot. other gubernatorial names linger. The convention also organized delegates for national posts and set rules to prevent early voting shifts.
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Cable Thaernacle
Frank C. Dailey
Dailey
John E. Fredrick
Kokomo
Earl Crawford
Milton
George R. Dale
Muncie
Committee On Rules and Permanent Organization
Indiana
Friends
al Smith
New York
Smit
Evans Woollen
Woollen
Smith
Thomas Taggart
William H. O'Brien
Lawrenceburg
Lew G. Ellingham
Ft. Wayne
Dale Crittenberger
Anderson
William Cronin
Terre Haute
Samuel M. Ralston
Thomas R. Marshall
John W. Kern
Taggart
Houston
Soviet Fliers To Speed Nobile Hunt In Arctic
Soviet Russia rushed preparations to search Franz Josef Land for General Umberto Nobile, believed to have landed there after the Italia disaster. Top airmen and ice cutters join relief expeditions, aiming to reach the Arctic inlet late today or Thursday following a government radio report.
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Arctic
United Prear
Moscow
Russia
Franz Josef Land
Umberto Nobile
Italia
Obdosk
Siberia
Nobile
Lindbergh Visits Indianapolis Then Heads to New York
Lindbergh arrived unannounced in Indianapolis for an overnight stay at the Lincoln hotel with Maj. Lanphier and Col Breckenridge. He inspected his Ryan monoplane at the airport before flying to New York as part of a Transcontinental Air Transport advisory tour. Local guards and fans watched as the aviator’s party departed, while girls waited in vain for a chance to glimpse him.
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Indianapolis
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
New York
Lincoln
St. Louis
Thomas Lanphier
Selfridge Field
Detroit
Henry Breckenridge
Matt G. Carpenter
Indiana National Guard
Carpenter
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc
National Guard
Aaron Vance
Harry Cox
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Lew O'Bannon
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H. C. Uhlen
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William W. McMahon
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Charles Wright
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Kenneth Meara
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Frank R. Martin
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Pat Kennedy
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Otto H. Krieg
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Frank Ireland
Laketon
Joseph R. Harrison
Columbia City
Paul Dunton
Lasgrange
Joseph A. Goshen
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