Kingsford Smith Outlines Around the World Route for Southern Cross
Honolulu June 7 United Press Kingsford Smith proposes a global circumnavigation after reaching Australia with the Southern Cross The tentative plan starts Australia to the Dutch East Indies Calcutta Karachi Persia England Europe Seville Senegal Brazil Argentina and across the Americas to finish in Oakland California The exact US termination remains to be announced
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H. R. Ekins
United Press
Honolulu
Southern Cross
United States
Australia
Hawaiian Islands
Charles Kingsford- Smith
Kingsford-Smith
Globe
Dutch East Indies
Calcutta
Karachi
Persia
England
Europe
Seville
Spain
Senegal
Africa
South Atlantic
Pernambuco
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Andes
South America
Central America
Costes
le Brix
Mexico City
Mexico
Oakland
Cal
Kingsford Smith Readies Southern Cross For Brisbane Flight
At Naselai Beach Fiji the Southern Cross, captained by Charles Kingsford Smith, awaits takeoff for Brisbane after fueling delays. Crew includes Capt. Harry Lyon and James Warner. A large crowd watches the planned departure between 3 and 4 p m local time as weather and fuel logistics challenge the attempt.
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United Press
Suva
Fiji Islands
Southern Cross
Naselai Beach
Brisbane
Australia
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Kingsford-Smith
Ulm
Harry Lyon
James Warner
Cute in a Baby to Three and Its Dangers
A column discusses thumb sucking in babies turning troublesome by age three and potential dental, adenoid, and digestive issues. It offers remedies such as mittens or cuffs to curb the habit and emphasizes regulating bowels with Fletcher's Castoria, promoting its safety and long use by physicians.
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Ruth Brittain
Fletcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
Stewart Case Reopens Today in Senate Contempt Trial
Washington state the government will renew its case against Indiana Standard Oil chairman Robert W. Stewart to prove a quorum of eight senators attended the Teapot Dome committee session last February. Ingram Mack, clerk, to clarify the quorum dispute raised after defense contended the meeting was illegal with only three members present. Closing arguments may finish today but the verdict likely by Friday or Monday.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Robert W. Stewart
Indiana Standard Oil
Ingram Mack
Justice Siddons
Stewart
Open Day at Manual Training High School Sets 33rd Anniversary
Visitors will tour Manual Training High School for the 33rd annual open day. Exhibits from shop work and vocational classes plus home economics demonstrations will be shown. A home show and band concert run from 7 to 9 p m with cafeteria service from 5:30 to 9 pm. Several thousand visitors expected.
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Manual Training High School
Morris officers elected at Indianapolis plan company meeting
Harold B. West of West Baking Co was elected a director of the Indianapolis Morris Plan Co at the annual meeting. Re-elected directors include Paul M Akin Joe Rand Beckett Vere Brown Charles F Coffin F J De Grief Walter B Harding Arthur M Hood O B Iles Wallace O Lee Felix M McWhirter L M Wainwright John R Walker E J Wuensch and L Roy Zapf. Walter B Harding was re-elected president with L M Wainwright O B Iles and Joe Rand Beckett as vice presidents. Paul Makin was secretary treasurer and B A Joiner assistant treasurer.
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Harold B. West
The
West Baking Company
Indianapolis Morris Plan Company
Paul M. Akin
Joe Rand Beckett
Vere Brown
Charles F. Coffin
F. J. de Grief
Walter B. Harding
Arthur M. Hood O. B. Iles
Wallace O. Lee
Felix M., McWhirter
L. M. Wainwright
John R Walker
E. J. Wuensch
Woods Rites Saturday At Holy Cross Church
Funeral services for W. J. Woods 53 will be held at Holy Cross Church at 9 a m Saturday. Woods a steamfitter at Shelby St Big Four Railroad shops was a Knights of Columbus member who will supervise the service. He is survived by his widow and one daughter Mrs E J Holzhauser Indianapolis.
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W. J. Woods
Indianapolis
Elm St
Holy Cross Church
Woods
Shelby St
Big Four
Knights of Columbus
E. J. Holzhauser
Democrats Map Campaign Plans in Indiana Primary
The Indiana Democratic state convention selected a full ticket led by Governor nominee Frank C. Dailey and outlined campaign duties. Other nominees include Addison Drake for lieutenant governor Arthur Hamrick for secretary of state George Sweigert for state auditor Jap Jones for treasurer John Linebarger for superintendent Curtis Shake for attorney general Mrs May Hack the first woman on the ticket and several appellate court judges.
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Indiana
Democratic Party
Frank C. Dailey
Indianapolis
Harry Leslie
Lafayette
Cable Tabernacle
May’ Hack
Shelbyville
Supreme Court
Thomas H. Branaman
William D. Curll
Petersburg
Glenn J. Gifford
Tipton
Jones
Linebarger
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Branaman
Joseph Shea
Seymour
Shake
Hack
Supreme and Appellate Courts
Mer
Curll
Warren W. Martin
Boonville
Gifford
A. C. Wood
Angola
Samuel E. Cook
Huntington
John Marshall
Kokomo
Hold Up Drug Steve
Two men robbed William Knox at his drug store on Twenty Fourth Street and College Avenue on Wednesday night taking fifty dollars as Knox counted receipts.
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Steve
William Knox
Twenty-Fourth St
College Ave
Knox
Stage Star Miss Hopkins Peters Marries Secretly During Honeymoon
United Press reports Chicago judge still weighs the divorce petition of actress Miriam Hopkins Peters from Francis Peters while she allegedly wed writer Austin Parker. The couple sailed from New York on the De Grasse after a Newark New Jersey ceremony.
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United Press
Chicago
Thomas J. Lynch
Ellen Miriam Hopkins Peters
Miriam Hopkins
Francis Brandon Peters
Miss Hopkins
Peters
Milton Smith
America
Parker
Newark
N. J
Arranges Ladies Fete By Indianapolis Optimists Club
The Indianapolis Optimists Club schedules a ladies day luncheon Friday at Claypool. Prizes include a diamond ring donated by Charles C. Peek. Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown speaks on India with Columbia-Kolster phonograph music loaned by the Cartin Music Co.
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Indianapolis Optimists Club
Claypool
Charles C. Peek
Demarchus C. Brown
India
Columbia - Kolster
Cartin Music Company
Peek
Don Trone
W. F. Roepke
Art Mundt
Confuse Names in Suit Over Padlocked Farmhouse
Local woman Mrs Josephine Weber of Indianapolis was mistaken for Mrs Josephine Webber in a liquor law padlocking case near Greensburg Indiana. Federal Judge Robert C Baltzell ordered the farmhouse padlocked Tuesday. the Indianapolis resident had no connection to the case.
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Josephine Weber
E. St. Joseph St
Indianapolis
Josephine Webber
Greensburg
Ind
Robert C. Baltzell
Indianapolis Board Seeks Post Office Daylight Saving Adoption
The Indianapolis Board of Trade mailed a resolution urging the Indianapolis post office to adopt daylight saving time in line with the city ordinance. The board’s annual meeting is at 6 pm in the Board of Trade dining room with Charles P. Taft II of Cincinnati to speak on the city manager form of government. Marion County legislative candidates are invited to attend and speak informally.
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Indianapolis
Harry S. New
Indianapolis Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Charles P. Taft II
Cincinnati
Marion County
Navy policy aims for ships ready to fight regardless of relations
Secretary Wilbur told the Naval Academy graduates that a constant repair program underpins a navy ready to fight in any case. He noted Congress appropriated over 1.25 billion dollars for modernization in four years, converting six ships to oil, with two more in process and five awaiting similar approval.
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United Preas
Annapolis
Wilbur
Naval Academy
Congress
Navy
Coolidge Plans Large Staff for Wisconsin Summer Trip
President Coolidge will take more than sixty aides and staff to Cedar Island Lodge near Brule Wisconsin for his vacation. The party includes private secretaries stenographers clerks aides and the President personal physician and Secret Service along with a yacht officer camera operators and household staff.
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Robert Moorefield
Washington
Coolidge
Cedar Island Lodge
White House
Brule
Wis
Wisconsin
Superior
Everett Sanders
Kansas City
Col
E. W. Starling
Secret Service
Lake Voyage
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Duluth
Dog ology by Times Spelloe
Columbus Indiana June 7. Trick questions tested by dog owners to assessors. Henry Monroe Columbus township assessor cites a case where a sick dog at assessing time would be taxed under strict law, but the dog was not assessed and died two weeks later.
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Times
Spelloe
Columbus
Ind
Henry Monroe
Columbus Township
Monroe
11000 Porters to Strike Friday in Wage, Recognition Bid
Eleven thousand Pullman porters will walk out at noon Friday seeking wage increases from 72.50 to 150 dollars a month and recognition by railroads for the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters. The strike, backed by the American Federation of Labor, aims to cut a 400 hour to 240 hour monthly work load and rejects mediation recommendations.
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EU United Press
New York
Pullman
Brotherhood of Pullman Porters
American Federation of Labor
Porters’ Union
Federation
Edwin P. Morrow
United States Board of Mediation
Royal wedding halted in Franco-Spanish frontier region
Plans for the marriage of Gen. Primo De Rivera to Senorita Mercedes De Castellana have reportedly been abandoned near the Hendaye frontier on June 7. No reason was given for the rift in the dictator's romance, and confirmation was lacking.
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United Press
Hendaye
Primo de Rivera
Senorita
Mercedes de Castellana
Divorce rate in Indiana for 1927 shown to dip
Indiana may have a lower 1927 divorce rate than 1926, based on 76 of 92 counties reporting 5115 divorces and 31825 marriage licenses so far. National data place Indiana high in divorce and marriage percentages, with 15 plus age residents married at 18.21 percent.
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Charles Kettleborough
Legislative Reference Bureau
Marion
Vigo
Allen
Howard
United States
Bureau
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