School Chief Scored Over Secret Teacher List Move
City school superintendent Charles F. Miller faced sharp criticism at a special school board meeting for presenting appointments for 1,900 teachers for 1929 30 in secret as nine months of the year. Board members urged open discussion and transparency while naming several discharged teachers and noting past slipshod actions.
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Charles F. Miller
Charles W. Kern
Theodore F. Vonnegut
Miller
Kern
Miller Miller
Vonnegut
Indiana Mother Alleges Hazing Caused Son Death
Mrs. George P. Steinmetz Sr. of Indianapolis arrives in Bloomington to demand a full inquiry into her son George Steinmetz’s death amid alleged initiation abuses during Indiana University rough week at the Delta Chi fraternity. She accuses sleep deprivation, paddling, and hazardous stunts of breaking his health and links it to his death.
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United Press Bloomington
Indiana University
George Steinmetz
George P. Steinmetz Sr
Ashland Avenue
Indianapolis
Bloomington
Delta Chi Fraternity
Tion
Times Notaries Offer Free Licenses Amid Political Grab
The Times promotes free notary service to obtain auto driver licenses before July 1 as a protest against a law seen as a political scheme to collect 25 cent notary fees. Notaries are on duty long hours, with 2000 people already helped by noon, urging readers to join a local anti politics movement.
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Secretary of State
Times
Times Notaries
The
New Boston Tea Party
Torch Slayer Defense Focuses on Illness and Narcotics
Elizabeth New Jersey June 11 The defense in Henry Colin Campbell's murder trial contends his mind was warped by illness and narcotics as he seeks to avoid the electric chair for the torch killing of his bigamous bride Mildred Mowry. His wife Rosalea McCready Campbell testified his health and finances declined after marriage. Two doctors supported the defense noting heart and health troubles contributing to his alleged mental state.
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United Press
Elizabeth
N. J
Henry Colin Campbell
Mildred Mowry
Abe David
Campbell
Rosalea McCready Campbell
Mrs. Campbell
Harry
Brokaw
Union County
Oil Field Blaze Rips Santa Fe Springs Installations
Four oil workers battled a massive fire at the Santa Fe Springs field in Los Angeles. The blaze caused about 1,750,000 dollars in damage, with two flowing wells, four storage tanks holding 40,000 barrels, eight derricks, and related infrastructure burned.
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Bullued Ngelos Ngeles
Santa Fe Springs
Jury panel drawn for Peacock murder trial in White Plains
A 100 member special panel was drawn for the trial of Earle F. Peacock on charges he murdered his wife Dorothy on April 21 and set the body on fire with gasoline in his apartment. The trial before Supreme Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins is set for June 24.
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United Press
White Plains
N. Y
Earle F. Peacock
Dorothy
Arthur S. Tompkins
Supreme Court
Peacox
Youths jailed for Graf Zeppelin stowaway attempt
Three youths were sentenced to eighteen to twenty one days in jail for attempting to stow away on the Graf Zeppelin at the start of her May 16 trans Atlantic voyage. A fourth, due to extreme youth, will be retried in juvenile court.
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Friederichshafen
Germany
Milk Driver Robbed by Bandit on Pearl Street
A Polk Sanitary Milk driver Everett Winings 36 of 2515 English Avenue was forced at gunpoint to open his wagon doors on Pearl Street near Arsenal Avenue Monday afternoon and robbed of 100 dollars. A raincoat and barber supplies were taken from Frank Stiers barber shop at 115 North Alabama Street.
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Arsenal Avenue
Everett Winings
English Avenue
Polk Sanitary Milk Company
Frank Stiers
North
Alabama Street
Stiers
New Brooms Left on Porch Prompt Police Report
A. S. Lockard of 1415 North Delaware street reported to police that six new brooms were left on his porch during the night. He described the act as helpful though belated for housecleaning.
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North Delaware
A. S. Lockard
North
Delaware Street
Watson Foes Farm Bill Debenture Split Deepens
Washington June 11 Senator James E Watson Indiana senate majority leader attacks the farm relief debenture plan defending Hoover program as debate stirs a likely return of the bill to conference with demands for a house vote on debenture. Watson faces a second major defeat as Robinson misses vote while paired against debenture with Stephens. The White House meanwhile presses Nye Frazier and Couzens in an effort to swing support.
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Washington
James E. Watson
Indiana
Senate
Herbert Hoover
William Borah
Idaho
Watson
House
Arthur Robinson
Los Angeles
Robinson
Stephens
Mississippi
Hoover
White House
Nye
Frazier
North Dakota
Couzens
Michigan
Belt Head Belts Job With Indianapolis Union Railway
Bel t Head B C Byers former superintendent of the Indianapolis terminal and Springfield branch of the C C C and St L railway is named superintendent of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company per an unconformed report. He fills the post left vacant by the death of P J Landers a week ago after a long career with the Big Four, including prior role as general superintendent.
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B. C. Byers
Indianapolis Terminal
Springfield
C. & St. L. Railway Company
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
P. J. Landers
Byers
Big Four Railway
Indianapolis
Police Officers Plead Guilty Before Safety Board
Patrolmen Sam Bennett and Charles Bauer admitted intoxication and conduct unbecoming officers before the safety board. Police Chief Claude M. Worley filed the charges, and Fred W. Connell said the board would take the cases under advisement.
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Sam Bennett
Charles Bauer
Board of Safety
Claude M. Worley
Fred W. Connell
Safety Board
Search Ends as Daughter Near Death Gate Returns
After eleven years of searching for Margaret Riley the mother and father learn their daughter may be saved from injuries after an auto crash. The 19 year old, living near McCordsville as the Offenbacher's adopted child, is hospitalized in Anderson Indiana with a fractured skull and jaw. Her condition offers renewed hope of recovery and a future close to her mother, with a planned wedding to Orin Schuyler of McCordsville.
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Margaret
St. John's Hospital
Anderson
Ind
L. S. Hunt
Abner Riley
Big Four
West
Washington Street
McCordsville
P. E. Offenbacher
McCordsville High School
Fight Annexation Protest Meeting In Center Towns hp
Residents oppose city annexation of Center townsshp first precinct gathering at Union church Sloan and Alexander tonight at 7 30. Bert Wilhelm president of the Property Owners Protective Association says the area is only 10 built up with low values making incorporation and higher taxes unwarranted.
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Center
Thieves Loot Cash Register at Eisemann Ignition Co
Burglars carried the cash register from Eisemann Ignition Company at 415 North Capitol Avenue into a rear room Monday night and broke it open to steal 16.75 dollars, police were informed today.
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Eisemann Ignition Company
North Capitol Avenue
Limelight Irks Derby Winner Court Returns Home With Cash
Arthur Court, winner of an 84 000 lottery prize from a 1 ticket in Quebec, returned to his farm near New Augusta northwest of Indianapolis. He shuns reporters, leaving the exact sum unclear though estimates range around 64 000 to 70 000 after debts and donations. He plans to buy a farm and remains employed as an engineer at the Jackson Building, with celebrations anticipated by friends.
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Athur Court
New Augusta
Indianapolis
Court
Quebec
East Washington Street
Moore
Que
Jackson Building
South Meridian Street
Detroit Youth Shot by Border Day Officer During Fishing Trip
Archibald Eugster 21 was shot in the abdomen while reportedly leading companions on a fishing trip near a seized rum runner’s boat. Border patrol inspector Jonah Cox admitted firing in the air and was arrested. no action will be taken until a full investigation.
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Archibald Eugster
Eugster
Border Patrol
Jonah Cox
Customs Border Patrol
Cox
Detroit
James M. Doran
National Prohibition
Seymour Lowman
Lowman and
Doran
Thomas E. Stone
Michigan
Walter Petty
Customs
Coast Guard
Prohibition
Ontario
Canada
Cuba
Great Britain
Lowman
Carey D. Ferguson
U S to Pay Widow in Minn Shot by Border Patrol
Representative J C Schafer introduced a bill authorizing Secretary Mellon to pay 25000 to Mrs Henry Virkula of Big Falls Minnesota whose husband was killed by a federal border patrolman near International Falls Minnesota The move followed an announcement by Seymour Lowman assistant treasury secretary of a thorough investigation of the shooting and Schafer described the incident in the house
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Washington
Andrew J. Mellon
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Virkula
Big Falls
Minn
Inernational Falls
J. C. Schafer
Rep
Wis
Schafer
Seymour Lowman
Treasury
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House
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