Indiana University Holds Twilight Commencement
Governor Ed Jackson presided as W L Bryan conferred degrees on about 900 graduates at Indiana Memorial Stadium. Everitt Sanders former secretary to President Coolidge delivered the principal address praising public education. Trustees paid tribute to Charles L Henry Carl H Eigenmann and Joseph Swain as Bryan marks silver anniversary.
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United Press
Bloomington
Ind
Indiana Memorial Stadium
Ed Jackson
State University
Everitt Sanders
Coolidge
W. L. Bryan
Charles L. Henry
Carl H. Eigenmann
Joseph Swain
Sanders
Indiana University
Board of Trustees
Bryan
Indiana
Supreme Court adjourns after 900 decisions in eight-month term
Washington June 7 The United States Supreme Court adjourned until October after issuing 207 decisions and disposing of 900 of 1 150 docketed cases. Chief Justice Taft and eight associates will vacation in Canada and the U S A. Clerks Cropley named clerk after long service. Only five cases remain for next term including Teapot Dome naval oil reserve and Liberty warehouse contract challenges.
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United Press
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Taft
W. R. Stansbury
Canada
Charles Elmore Cropley
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Liberty Warehouse
Standard Farm Cooperative
Seven Die Daily in American Mines
The United States Bureau of Mines reports coal mines average about sixty three deaths every ten days and metal mines fourteen. Nearly half of the fatalities come from falls of the mine roof, the biggest problem facing U S mining. Congress has allocated funds for a special investigation.
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United Press
Washington
United States Bureau of Mines
Bureau
United States
Congress
Silence Edict Ends Court Dissolves Pastor Lips About Woman
In Monroe Michigan on June 7 an injunction against Rev Evan Curtis pastor of a local church was dismissed on motion of Mrs Iva Bryan. Curtis resigned from the church in 1926 and moved to Adrian Ohio. The Bryans are believed to be living in Middletown Ohio.
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United Press
Monroe
Mich
Iva Bryan
Evan Curtis
J. J. Kelley
Bryan
Curtis
Adrian
Middletown
Ohio
Widow marks second silver wedding anniversary
Baltimore June 17. Married fifty years Mrs F A Broadsent has had two silver weddings. She wed in 1867 at age 15 and celebrated a silver wedding in 1892 as Mrs B H Morgan. Her husband died and she remarried in 1902. Now she celebrates a second silver anniversary.
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NEA Service
Baltimore
F. A. Broadsent
B. H. Morgan
First Contest Winner in The Times Opportunity Contest
Entrants not yet assigned to a weekly program should report on stage at the Circle Theater Wednesday after the last performance. Miss Dorothy Williamson won the first evening elimination based on personality beauty and talent. Final tryouts will select the touring winner of Young America with a 75 dollar weekly prize and travel, hotel, and railroad fare.
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Times
Circle Theater
Dorothy Williamson
Sutherland Ave
Tor
Miss Williamson
Times-Publix Theaters
Circle
Indianapolis
Young America
Marjorie Miller
E. Twenty-Seventh St
Doris Nesmith
Ambassador Hotel
Esther Lefkovits
Carrollton Ave
Ruth Mosias
Highland Dr
Henry Schurmann
Indiana College of Music and Hine Arts
Randolph L. Coats
Indiana
Frank 8. C. Wicks
All Souls Unitarian Church
Dexheimer
Times-Publix
Dorothea Walser Poison Plot Shaker Steady in Jail
Dorothea Walser the Fairmount girl who confessed to a role in poisoning her 12 year old cousin George Cox appears calm and composed in Grant County jail. She recalls Sunday school, loves her baby, and shows little emotion despite facing murder charges.
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Dorothea Walser
Fairmount
Ind
Gil
Times
Marion
George Cox
First Presbyterian Church
Grant County
Dorothea
Jacob Campbell
Coolidge Smith dominate presidential talk says observer
Walter Brown of Toledo reports White House that voters focus on Calvin Coolidge for Republicans and Alfred Smith for Democrats. He says no other candidates are discussed and the third term idea plays no role. Separate item notes Japanese women campaign to save a half cent daily to pay Japan’s war debt of about 739 million dollars.
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Sweci
Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Alfred Smith
White House
Walter Brown
Toledo
Ohio
Coolidge
Smith
Brown
Andrews Pushes Unified Prohibition System Nationwide
Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews plans a uniform unit to run from coast to coast under shared staff control. He aims to leave a dignified, business like organization by Aug. 1, with manuals akin to Army field service regs for prohibition administrators. He cites staff cohesion and new deputy leaders as key steps.
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Times
Washington
Lincoln C. Andrews
Treasury
Army
Andrews
Prohibition
H. H. White
Maryland
Alf Ostedahl
San Francisco
J. M. Doran
Mrs Snyder's Health Failing in Sing Sing
Ossining N Y June 7 The spirit and poison that carried Ruth Brown Snyder through her trial for her husband Albert Snyder in prison have collapsed under the death cell alienists plan to examine Mrs Snyder and Henry Judd Gray. The Prudential Insurance Co fights to avoid paying $95 000 in life policies and may recover premiums.
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United Press
Ossining
N. Y
Ruth Brown Snyder
Albert Snyder
Sing Sing
George Smith
Joseph W. Moore
Paul Taddiken
Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
Prudential Insurance Company
Too old to work ends job for 90 year old man
New York dispatch reports Abraham Bass at 90 is fired with the comment too old to work. He has a lifelong work record with 26 years at his last job and 60 years of marriage. He vows to find another position saying there is work in him yet.
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NUA Service
New York
Abraham Bass
Bass
Boy Struck On Street In Auto Collision
Robert Daugherty of 18 N. Tremont St. suffered a sprained back and bruises after trying to catch a streetcar on Washington Street between Capitol and Illinois Streets and was struck by an auto driven by Roosevelt Stanton of 2216 N Arsenal. A wheel passed over his back and he received treatment at City Hospital.
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Robert Daugherty
N. Tremont St
Washington St
Capitol Ave
Illinois St
Roosevelt Stanton
Arsenal
City Hospital
Shipping Board Fleet Stays In Perpetual Port
New York June 7 Captain A S Lee calls the Shipping Board fleet a family of ships kept in top shape at anchor near Jones Point. Once 140 vessels, now 74 remain. the South Pole serves as base for launches while drunk sailors are jailed briefly. Lee, a veteran Norwegian American, notes life ashore and recalls wartime service. a line about an Abyssinian ark expedition follows.
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New York
A. S. Lee
Lockport
Hudson
Jones Point
Albany
Captain Lee
South Pole
Lee
Shipping Board
Caldwell
Gulf of Mexico
Delaware Bay
France
Atlantic
Brooklyn
Gears Fire Suspect Pleads Guilty In Arson Case
Robert L. Thomas of Greencastle confessed to arson in Putnam Circuit Court after admitting he set his second hand car on fire to collect insurance. He described a faulty $12.50 gear issue, a $50 down payment, $15 monthly installments, and $120 insurance. The judge took the case under advisement.
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Robert L. Thomas
Greencastle
George E. Coogan
Putnam
Thomas
Rotary Nominates Sapp for 1927 International President
At Ostend Belgium Arthur Sapp of Huntington Indiana was unanimously nominated for the 1927 Rotary presidency. W T Elliott of Leeds England withdrew from nomination. The convention also named global Rotary directors and set elections for Thursday. A city council traffic code amendment targets parking on Illinois Street and Pennsylvania Street with curb parking on Virginia Avenue. The council declined June 20 meeting and approved waste paper box contracts and street improvements on Bicking Street.
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Arthur Sapp
Huntington
United Preas
Illinois St
Georgia
Ohio
Pennsylvania St
Maryland
Virginia Ave
Boynton J. Moore
Board of Works
W. H. Blair
Bicking St
Delaware and
East Sts
Physicians to Meet at National Eclectic Medical Meet
Several hundred eclectic physicians will gather in West Baden June 21 24 for the fifty seventh annual meeting of the National Eclectic Medical Association. Indianapolis physicians expected to attend include Dr Earl Holman Dr F W Moses Dr F W Holman and Dr W P Best. Dr Robert Oleson of the United States Public Health Service surveying goiter conditions will speak.
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West Baden
National Eclectic Medical Association
Indianapolis
Earl Holman
F. W. Moses
F. W. Holman
W. P. Best
Robert Oleson
United States Public Health Service
Runaway Girl Armed In Boy's Clothing Sought By Police
Police report 13 year old Anna Rose Hummel wearing a dark blue suit with brown eyes and bobbed hair, armed with a revolver in boys clothes, last seen between here and St Louis en route to her mother. Father Jacob Hummel, Fifty Fourth Street and Nickel Plate railroad, says she ran away Monday. Beef contains a large amount of fron food.
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Anna Rose Hummel
Here
St. Louis
Jacob Hummel
Fifty
St. and Nickel Plate Railroad
Hummel
Legacy Prize For Contact With Heavenly Body Prompts Debate
In Paris a 1893 will left 10 000 francs to the Academy of Science for the first scientist to communicate with a heavenly body and receive a reply. The prize excludes Mars and has drawn widespread claims and letters from hopefuls worldwide, sparking international ridicule and debate.
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NEA Servier
Paris
Academy of Science
Mars
Mme
Anna-Emillie Clara Guzman
French Academy
Actress Helen Evens Dies by Self Inflicted Poison
Hollywood detectives say domestic discord sparked the death of Helen St. Clair Evens, a film actress and daughter of New York society leader Mrs. A. G. Daniels. After arguing with husband Arthur Evens over a scenario versus a movie, she drank poison last night after an escorted theater visit.
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Hollywood
Cal
Helen St. Clair Evens
A. G. Daniels
New York
Arthur Frederick Evens
Evens
Edwin Bower Hesser
Charles Knowes
My Soldier Lover among July True Story features
Lorraine narrates a stormy summer tale of love with George Miller then entangled with Captain Stephens. The dramatic incident leads to fear and despair, described as part of the magazine’s sixteen big features for July.
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George Miller
Captain Stephens
True Story Magazine
True Story
Emily
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