07 Jun 1929
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
1
The article reports a protest by women over a driver license form that requires listing exact birth date. Grace Banta Urbans, state treasurer, led the revolt by omitting age on her submission. Secretary Otto Fifield and Attorney General James M. Ogden upheld the law demanding full age disclosure.
The Times condemns a notary fee tied to auto license applications as political favoritism and waste. It announces it will provide free notary service at its office starting Monday to help citizens avoid the 25 cent notary charge and urges a wider revolt against the scheme.
At the Indiana School for the Blind alumni gathering, 84 graduates from 1867 to 1929 bid farewell to their school before a new building replaces the aging campus. Stories span bead-maker Melissa Hoffman, romance among unseeing students, and Frank Toombs recalling a star he saw as a child.
Poland liquor case upheld by high court. Claude Poland fined 100 dollars and sentenced to thirty days in jail after a South Capitol avenue soft drink parlor was padlocked for liquor law violations. Poland and ex policeman Fred O Roark are involved in county probe of last August store explosion.
Edward Blankett a poolroom operator and former Democratic city clerk candidate was killed early today at a roadhouse run by Mrs. Ethel Boyer in Mishawaka Indiana. Police detained Marvin Cramer 24 an auto salesman and sought three others. The slayer fled through a window as Blankett stood by a piano. Boyer held as material witness.
Vatican City is established as a state with the Lateran treaty ratifications exchanged in the Vatican palace. Cardinal Gasparri represented the pope while Benito Mussolini stood in for King Victor Emmanuel III. The ceremony ends the era of a non secular state and reopens church education stakes in Italy.
Paris June 7 The Owen D Young plan to settle Germanys World War obligations was formally adopted by experts from Germany and six creditor nations after four months of work. The plan was signed by the experts late today and will be sent to the governments as a unanimous solution.
Abbreviated climate readings show early morning temperatures around 66 to 69 with mixed times from 6 a.m. to noon. The garbled entry includes scattered timestamps and stray digits, suggesting a broken daily weather log.
The U S House approved the conference agreement on the administration farm bill by a 64 to 9 vote without a record tally. The measure creates a nine member federal farm board and a 500 million dollar revolving fund to aid cooperatives and stabilize surplus products. The Senate debate moves to Norris opposition to the debenture plan.
A Philadelphia Air Transport Company biplane crashed on Captain Clement B. Wood's estate in Woodlane on Thursday night, killing pilot William J. Welsh age 28 of Norristown and passenger Francis O'Brien age 18 of Conshohocken.
Washington June 7 Loans on stocks and bonds to brokers and dealers by reporting federal reserve members bank in New York City fell 4 million in the week ended June 5 to 5.284 billion. This compares with 5.288 billion on May 29 and with the 5.739 billion, the high on March 20, and with 4.563 billion on June 5, 1928.
The Rev. James B. Lathrop aged 103 years and 6 months, Greensburg’s “grand old man,” died at 11 Thursday night. He was famed as the oldest living alumnus of any U S college, the oldest Knight Templar, the oldest Methodist Episcopal minister, and the longest retired bank president. Born Nov 24 1825 he joined Indiana University in 1847 and later became a long time Mason.
A World War II veteran, William Howard, 35, sentenced to ten years for pointing an unloaded pistol in a 1 1 2 robbery case, will get a new trial on a petit larceny affidavit. Prosecutor Stark seeks retrials for Dugan and Haley, who received suspended sentences after a February filling station holdup.
Betty Steinbach a 23 year old from Pittsburgh jumped from a speeding Pennsylvania Railroad train near Lewisville Ind while in the custody of nurse Nina Wayte and another patient. Steinbach died and her body was found along the track as the party returned to Pittsburgh from Norwalk California.
A broad citizen group forms the Citizens School Committee in Indianapolis to elect a school board free of Coffin influence. Leaders say the drive aims to elevate school quality, with Herman Wolff as general chairman and Roy Combs tied to ongoing political intrigue at the county jail. More than fifty directors join as the committee expands, seeking a nonpolitical slate of three trustees.
New York June 7 Eight institutions will receive $100000 each from the will of Charles H Ditson music publisher to advance musical education. The list includes Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia College of Music Cincinnati New England Conservatory of Music Boston Chicago Musical College and the Ann Arbor Mich School of Music.
Catherine Cassler is to be arraigned today in Valparaiso on a preliminary murder charge for the slaying of Miss Cameola Soutar of Chicago. The body was found in a swamp near Hebron after coroner E. H. Miller ruled the death a homicide. An anonymous letter to Sheriff Maxwell offered to electrocute Cassler for 100 dollars or a price agreed upon, signed by Jim Leonard of Woodstock Illinois.
Arthur Court the Indianapolis furnace tender who bought a $1 Derby ticket is traveling with a manager two bodyguards and an extra shirt to collect $84,750. They stopped in Cleveland and avoided interviews saying nothing through their wary entourage as they moved toward Quebec.
Federal Judge Robert Baltzell resumed work at the federal building after an appendectomy at Methodist Hospital two weeks ago. He conferred with attorneys on postponed trial dates and declined a summer court designation in Los Angeles due to health reasons.
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