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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1929
Page
8
Washington views the Owen D Young plan as easing Germany’s payments by about 120 million dollars annually, yet Berlin fears continuing strain. Officials say creditors considered the Dawes terms unfeasible and that delaying the Paris conference might have yielded better terms.
In Washington officials hailed the Paris reparations report as a tool for European financial stabilization with potential benefits for the United States. A cautionary view noted benefits mainly from European stabilization while warning a German bond flotation could tighten U S credit conditions and hamper lending to Latin America and Canada. The settlement might also spur renewed debate on Allied debts to the United States.
Paris reports that Owen D. Young and delegates have completed talks on the reparations plan. The accord, signed by Germany as debtor and France and other powers as creditors, will begin September 1 with Germany paying about 4.88 hundred million dollars annually for 37 years, then reduced later.
The Sherman-Emerson Civic League will host a Mardi Gras festival July 26 and 27 on East Tenth Street between Linwood Avenue and DeQuincy Street. L. K. Harlow announces. Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak July 26 and Governor Harry G. Leslie is expected July 27. committee chairs listed for various events and divisions.
Lower and upper form boys gathered for Park School for Boys field day featuring a model airplane contest and a faculty versus students baseball game. Entrants Richard Sommers Robert Simon Stanley Anderson are pictured and other students Harold Cumming Donald Modrall Thomas Taggart Sin clair William Burford III Joseph Lilly Charles Latham Jr. competed in races and tennis with Norman Perry Jr. Charles Seamans and John Spann Lynn advancing to semi finals.
Six persons are hospitalized with injuries after a series of traffic accidents Friday afternoon and night. Otto Humble 43 suffered a broken arm when his car overturned after a collision with Carl Barr 21 of Fairview West Virginia. Barr faces charges of failing to stop assault and battery and disregarding a traffic signal.
Four Indianapolis men and one Purdue engineer join the new architects examining board named by the state building council. Members include Robert Frost Daggett L A Turnock Fennor S Cannon Louis W Bruck Willard A Knapp with Turnock elected president and Cannon vice president. A salaried secretary will be chosen next Friday.
Roy P. Wisehart reversed his opposition and joined state education board members in reappointing Miss Blanche Merry as state attendance officer for a four year term. The meeting included an executive session and a secret ballot, ending with an unanimous vote for Merry who has held the post since 1921.
Miss Ida Tyler, described as old fashioned, was warned to mind her ashes after embers from her pipe set her couch afire though she escaped injury. In Indianapolis, Julian B. Foster, the American trade commissioner for New Zealand, met with local manufacturers about exports to New Zealand including cars, chains, hosiery, apparel, machinery and electrical goods.
Henry Warres a barber in Rockville Connecticut collapsed and died while preparing to shave a customer. The incident occurred during a routine daytime haircut and Warres was known for his cheerful conversations.
Cambridge June 38. A burglar used a hidden door panel in a Harvard dormitory room to enter Drayton Hall and steal clothing worth 100 dollars belonging to James Cosgrove, a student.
Congressional wets welcomed President Hoover's call for a special congressional committee to probe prohibition enforcement and suggest changes. They urged mixing committee personnel from both sides, while drys and wets alike noted the vagueness of the recommendations and debated potential investigations and agency transfers.
City health records show seven deaths from alcoholic poisoning in Indianapolis during May, the highest monthly toll in four years. Five month total reaches sixteen, one less than all of 1928, per statistician O Tom Johnson who notes deaths with contributing factors are not counted in these stats.
The County Superintendents Association adopted a resolution urging state payment of all minimum school expenses. A 1929 legislature bill to fund this was defeated. The measure would raise state taxes by 88,000 to 12,000 dollars, with local assessments reduced accordingly. Lee O. Baird of Muncie was elected president.
Mrs Jennie Foletti and Mrs Kasper Kratzer praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring strength, nerves, and vitality after illness or stress. Each notes multiple bottles used and a commitment to keep it in the home.
Police seek Bill Tallman a radio operator linked to the clothes closet murder of Mrs. Frank Patty. Her body was found bundled and hanging in a Los Angeles apartment. Tallman, last seen aboard a ship near San Francisco, disappeared when the vessel reached harbor. The victim's husband, a Portland financier, is pictured nearby.
Davey tree surgeons brought to Indianapolis by Indianapolis Power and Light Company under William A Jacoby are trimming trees in eastern Indianapolis to reduce radio interference. Next, the north side will be worked on with resident cooperation urged to trim branches touching lines while maintaining tree health. The crews begin Monday morning.
Indiana fire marshal Alfred E. Houston announced 344 fires statewide in April, with 163 in large cities, 68 in smaller towns, and 84 in rural areas. Total property loss reached 637,415 dollars. In Michigan City, a search by community members found 8 year old Robert Shaver’s body after a drowning in Lake Michigan on June 8.
High school graduates aged 18 to 28 sought to learn long distance telephone operating. Applicants must live at home with parents. Address is 101 Indiana Bell Telephone Building, New York and Meridian streets.
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