Arrest of Trio Here May Solve House Robberies
Three men, two colored, are held on house breaking charges as police investigate recent burglaries. Fred Abbott of 2526 Burton Ave identified by two neighbors led to arrests at Twenty-First St and Parkway Blvd. Loot included baby banks with about 20 dollars. Theodore Anderson of 31 Fayette St and Jackson Wiggins of 630 W Vermont St face burglary and grand larceny charges. A watch stolen from Harvey Harrison's home was found on Anderson. Detectives Barnaby Marren Trabue and Sneed assisted motorcycle officer Harry Smith in the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Abbott
Burton Ave
Twenty-First St
Parkway Blvd
J. W. Seitz
Emma Schmid
Theodore Anderson
Fayette St
Jackson Wiggins
Vermont St
Harvey Harrison
Bright St
Anderson
Harry Smith
Barnaby, Marren
Trabue
Sneed
Two Women In Death by Own Action Attempts
Two women who attempted to take their lives Friday are improved today. Earl McCoy of Vienna Apartments found his wife Virginia McCoy unconscious with gas burners open in the kitchen. an ambulance revived her. Stella Lewis of 1004 W Maryland St is in serious condition at Cry Hospital, expected to recover from poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl McCoy
Vienna
Virginia McCoy
McCoy
Stella Lewis
Maryland St
Cry Hospital
Shirley Bros
Father's Day Observed Across Indianapolis Churches
Father will have his day in Indianapolis Sunday with special sermons at Protestant churches. The observance mirrors Mother's Day held weeks earlier. Father’s Day began fourteen years ago through Mrs. John Dodd of Spokane and has spread to a majority of states with many families buying their dad a necktie to honor the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dianapolis
John Dodd
Spokane
Wash
Dad
Tapy to Speak at Rotary Luncheon in Claypool
George H. Tapy of Wabash College faculty Crawfordsville will speak at the Rotary luncheon at Claypool on Tuesday. Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association members are invited. Earl S. Kinnear of Marion will speak. Le Monte Daniels will preside in absence of President Henkel who attends a Toronto convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Tapy
Wabash College
Crawfordsville
Rotary
Claypool
Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association
Earl S. Kinnear
Marion
le Monte Daniels
Henkel
Toronto
Motorcyclists Held and Camp Prep Mark City News
George Collier is detained at the city hospital charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Lee Middleton faces vagrancy charges after a motorcycle accident near the Green City boathouse. Ransom Griffin is held after his car struck Emma Barnes’s vehicle on Thirty-Eighth Street. Scout Camp opens Monday at the reservation with 100 boys signed up, led by Scout executive F. O. Belzer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Collier
E. St. Clair St
City Hospital
Lee Middleton
W. North St
Green City Boathouse
Ransom Griffin
Guilford Aven
Emma Barnes
E. Thirty-Eighth St
F. O. Belzer
The Brown Family Band Heads to Circle Stage
An old photo shows Tom Brown with his five younger brothers, the original Six Brown Brothers who later formed a world renowned saxophone group. Now expanded to a thirty piece band, they are the featured attraction at the Circle starting Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Brown
Brown
Tom
Brown Brothers
Marriage Circle and Laughs Mix at Ohio Theater
The Ohio Theater offers The Marriage Circle by Ernst Lubitsch with star cast Florence Victor Marie Prevost Monte Blue Adolphe Menjou and Creighton Hale plus Going to Congress with Will Rogers. Also on bill are Fox news weekly Billy West comedy Oh Billy organ music by Earle Gordon and Virgil Moore's Apollo Orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Starke
Evelyn Brent
Anne Cornwall
Harold Goodwin
David Butler
Francis McDonald
Frank Beal
William Humphrey
Thomas Buckingham
Fox News Weekly
Billy West
Billy
Earle Gordon
Virgil Moore
Apollo Orchestra
Ernst Lubitsch
Ohio Theater
Florence Victor
Marie Prevost
Monte Blue
Adolphe Menjoum
Creighton Hale
Harry Myers
Congress
Will Rogers
Lester Huff
Gabe Waters
Southland Orchestra
Josef Stock
Mizzi
Charlotte
Franz Braun
Franz
Gustav Mueller
Through the Flames at Isis stars Richard Talmadge
Richard Talmadge stars in Through the Flames at the Isis theater with Charlotte Pierce and Ruth Langston in a drama about arson gone wrong. A three story fire scene showcases heroism and a banished firefighter seeks redemption. Also on bill are Fast Black and The Empire Builders with Rex Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Talmadge
Isis
Talmadge
Charlotte Pierce
Taylor Graves
Ruth Langston
Fred Kohler
Edith Yorke
George Sherwood
Pathe Review
Pathe
Opening Sunday at Mister Smiths The Great White Way Broadway Tale
Opening Sunday at Mister Smiths presents The Great White Way a Broadway story featuring a pugilist and an actress. Cast includes T Roy Barnes Anita Stewart Arthur Brisbane Tex Rickard Irvin S Cobb Buggs Baer Tom Lewis Harry Watson Olin Howard Ned Wayburn and the Ziegfeld chorus. Pushmobile Race Winner eight year old Frank Steinmetz wins Ruskin Place area event after twenty five laps in just over ten minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mister Smith's
Great White Way
Broadway
T. Roy Barnes
Anita Stewart
Arthur Brisbane
Tex Rickard
Irvin S. Cobb
Buggs Baer
Tom Lewis
Harry Watson
Olin Howard
Ned Wayburn
Ziegfeld
Frank Steinmetz
Central Ave
Ruskin Pland
Cheaper coal planned for city schools next winter
R. O. Johnson of the school board said bids for 26 000 tons of coal will be requested soon with specifications ready shortly. The aim is to avoid wrangling over vein designations as in prior years, and to secure cheaper coal for schools next winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Johnson
Watermelons and produce listed for sale at city market
Watermelons debut at the city market selling for 1.25 per mel publicized alongside Indiana cherries at 0.20 per quart and roasting ears at 0.10 each. Other items include strawberries 0.25 per quart cucumbers 0.15 each and home grown tomatoes 0.49 per pound with a wide range of prices for peas beans celery onions and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Indiana
California
Mrs Harris Held for Grand Jury
Eleanor Harris must face a New York grand jury on third degree forgery charges. Magistrate Oberwager bound her over after her husband testified that the alleged roses and kisses letter in their divorce suit was a fake document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eleanor Harris
Oberwager
National City Bank
Harris
Canary Kidnapped In Theft At Home
Mrs. Herman Abbott reports the theft of a canary and its cage from 1833 Lockwood Street. The value of the bird and cage is listed at 15 dollars and police note the incident as a reported theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Abbott
Lockwood St
Dare May Cause Death Man Falls From Telegraph Pole
Roy Sutton climbed a high‑tension telegraph pole on a dare and touched a live wire. He was shocked unconscious, fell forty feet, and his condition was listed as serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timea Sneci
Noblesville
Ind
Roy Sutton
Singleton Named to Public Service Board
Frank Singleton, secretary to Governor Emmett F. Branch, is named to the public service commission to succeed Oscar Rats. Rats term expired May 1 but continued in office after McCray appointment of Oscar Smith. Batts sues to force $500 May salary from Auditor Bracken. case set in Marion Superior Court. If Batts loses, Singleton’s appointment may be withdrawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Singleton
Emmett F. Branch
Public Service Commission
Oscar Rats
Paoli
Ratts
McCray
Oscar Smith
Knox
Batts
Robert Bracken
Bracken
A.S. Lesh
Marion Superior Court
Singleton
Frederick Schortemeier
Republican State Committee
Branch
Schortemeier
Alley E. McCoy
Versailles
Ind
Ed Jackson
Track elevation proposal opens Oriental Street in Pittsburgh
The board of works will act on closing Oriental St by elevating Pennsylvania Railroad tracks between Davidson and State Ave after a resolution reaches them. Citizens and Southeast Civic Improvement Club protested at Friday’s meeting. H. G. Wray said he will recommend closing Oriental St and reopening Arsenal Ave with the elevation plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Works
Oriental St
Pennsylvania Railroad
Southeastern Civic Improvement Club
Davidson
State Ave
Pittsburgh
H. G. Wray
Arsenal Ave
First heat death of season reported in Northwest
United Press reports in Minneapolis on June 14 that Harry Adfield aged 30 died of heat prostration after collapsing on a downtown street as temperatures reached 83 degrees in the Twin Cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Minneapolis
Minn
North West
Harry Adfield
The
Mercury
Twin Cities
Baptists Plan Daily Bible Schools Across Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Baptist churches will open daily vacation Bible schools on Monday June 23 with an unusually large attendance expected. Theme centers on Jesus and character building. Mrs. L. C. Trent chairs the committee with Rev. George C. Chandler as daily school chairman. A final conference at First Baptist Church is open to the public next Monday at 7 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Jesus
L. C. Trent
George C. Chandler
First Baptist Church
Summer Musical Hour at Fairview Presbyterian Church
Dr Edward Haines Kistler announces a Sunday 11 am summer hour of musical worship at Fairview Presbyterian Church Indianapolis with organist Mrs F T Edenharter and a varied program. A reception for the new pastor and wife will follow Wednesday at 8 pm in the church gymnasium hosted by the Women’s Association. Future services to be arranged through the Federated Baptist Churches executive secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Haines Kistler
Fairview Presbyterian Church
Nineteenth
Alabama Sts
F. T. Edenharter
Sturgis
Parker
Hawley
John’ Li Elliott
MacDowell
Alpha and Omega
Kistler
Temple Baptist Church
School of Jesus
The
Federated Baptist Churches of Indianapolis
Reunion Of Confirmed Members At Gospel Church
A multi church schedule lists reunions and services. Confirmed members by Rev L C Fackier since 1917 hold a Sunday reunion at Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church with a sermon The Promise You Made. Children’s Day observances unfold at Grace M E Church with Dr M B Hyde giving an illustrated lecture and a subsequent sermon The Man That Is Down. Other churches host evangelistic events baptismal services and sermons including Christ Is All One Thing a Church Cannot Do Without and Father Has the World Gone Pleasure Mad. local services at Crooked Creek Baptist Central Universalist Calvary Baptist and Spirituali st Church of Truth are noted with multiple sermons and the Evangelistic Services ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church
L. C. Fackier
Fackier
Arthur Foerster
Hoyt Ave
Grace M. E. Church
M. B. Hyde
Man
Crooked Creek Baptist Church
F. A. Hayward
Federates Baptist Churches of
Indianapolis
Leroy James
Hayward
Evangelist R Russell to Preach at W Washington Street Tent
A weekend revival opens Saturday night through Sunday in a tent at W Washington Street and Alton Avenue led by Rev R Russell of Nashville Tennessee. Rev H R Waldo of Second Baptist Church speaks in the morning on The Ever Present God and at night on Zaccheus the Climber. Evangelist Armin A Holzer of Philadelphia preaches at 2 30 p m Sunday at Cable Tabernacle under the Indianapolis Christian Layman Committee. The program lists organ music song service and a postlude by local quartets and ministers with Holzer presenting The Jewish Passover in the Light of the Christian Communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Washington St
Alton Ave
R. Russell
Nashville, Tenn
H. R. Waldo
Second Baptist Church
Armin A. Holzer
Philadelphia
Cable Tabernacle
Indianapolis Christian Layman Committee
Wm. Duthie
George Scruggs Witt
Iss
Svere
Indianapolis
E. Wilmoth
B. F. Nieman
R. C. Hiller
P. C. Turner
H. V. Cook
Mother Versus Son in Forgery Trial
Closing arguments began in Shelbyville Indiana for Otto Coyle former county clerk charged with forging his mother's name on a 1500 dollar note. Mrs Coyle testified against her son during the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Shelbyville
Ind
Otto Coyle
Tribute Paid 10 Veteran Medic
Dr. W. N. Wishard, a veteran Indiana physician, spoke at a testimonial dinner honoring his fiftieth medical graduation anniversary. About 300 physicians attended at the Claypool, where an oil painting by T. C. Steele was unveiled and planned for Indiana University School of Medicine beside his father's portrait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. Wishard
Indiana
Wishard
Claypool
T. C. Steele
Indiana University School of Medicine
Dr. Wishard
Jail Breakers Sentenced for Escape in Fort Wayne
Roy Lemont aged 18 and Ralph Shanks aged 24 were sent to the State Reformatory at Michigan City to begin ten to twenty one year terms. The pair were sentenced for breaking jail in Fort Wayne last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
FT. Wayne
Ind
Roy Lemont
Ralph Shanks
Michigan City
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