Chamber hears city plan. opposes market hall remodeling
The Chamber of Commerce committee denounces a $350,000 market house and Tomlinson Hall project. It urges hospital expansion flood prevention and improved police fire telegraph systems first, warning of bond limits and annual deficits.
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City Market
Tomlinson Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Irvington
Market House
Coliseum
City Hospital
Park Department
Lowden Campaign Launches in Iowa Picnic Blast
Emmettsburg Iowa June 16 United Press reports a large picnic kickoff the Midwest drive for Frank O Lowden’s Republican presidential bid Frank J Lund Iowa Lowden committee chair criticized Coolidge for farm relief Jardine as a traitor to farmers and warned against a third term Lund hailed Lowden as the farmer’s friend and urged broad support saying Iowa will be heard though Cal has not confirmed candidacy and may be moving toward a third term
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United Press
Emmettsburg
Iowa
Middle West
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
United States
Frank J. Lund
Lowdon
Lowden
Lund
Cal
Black Hills
Scholl Given Life Sentence in Gary Child Slayings
Walter Scholl, 33, a former Indianapolis man, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Porter County for strangling his two children Vivian eight and Donald six in a Gary cottage. Judge Grant Crumpacker called him an intellectual and moral misfit in a lengthy opinion read before the verdict. The slayer’s aged parents, the Scholl family, were present in the courtroom.
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United Press
Valparaiso
Ind
Walter Schol
Indianapolis
Vivian
Donald
Gary
Grant Crumpacker
Porter Circuit Court
Scholl
Crumpacker
Charles A. Scholl
City Manager Movement Praised by Indianapolis Leader
Frank P. Manly president of Indianapolis Life Insurance Company spoke at the Indianapolis Advertising Club luncheon at Spink-Arms praising the city manager movement as a path to a brighter cleaner and healthier Indianapolis. He said the best citizens sponsor the effort and accused politicians of preying on the public.
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Indianapolis
Frank P. Manly
Indianapolis Life Insurance Company
Indianapolis Advertising Club
Spink-Arms
Manly
Chaplin Divorce Trial Date Set for August 22
Hollywood fans await the August 22 trial date in the Chaplin divorce case. Mrs Chaplin accuses Charlie Chaplin of cruelty infidelity and duress in marriage vows. Chaplin denies all charges and charges his wife with excessive drinking and cruelty.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Hollywood
Motion Picture Colony
Walton J. Wood
Chaplin
One Mile Narrow Gauge Railroad Placed In Corporation
Short but official United Press report from Fishkill New York states a one mile narrow gauge railroad has been incorporated on the estate of W. Cecil Gage. It includes locomotives passenger cars bridges tunnels signal lights and all equipment of a full sized road.
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United Press
Fishkill
N. Y
W. Cecil Gage
Shirley to be Duvall judge in election statement case
Cassius C. Shirley of Indianapolis was named special judge for the trial of Mayor John L. Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser on election statement fraud charges. He instructed the State to plan Saturday’s proceedings and possible arraignment dates as Duvall and Buser did not attend court. The State’s special prosecutors were John W. Holtzman and Emsley W. Johnson. Remy attended a Greenfield murder trial.
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Cassius C. Shirley
Indianapolis
Fletcher Savings and Trust
John L. Duvall
William C. Buser
Criminal Court
James A. Collins
Shirley
Duvall
Buser
John W. Holtzman
Emsley W. Johnson
William H. Remy
Greenfield
Klan Offers Reward for Floggers Arrest
Belmar New Jersey June 16 The Ku Klux Klan will pay a reward for the arrest of members of a robed mob that flogged a woman and her son in Toccoa Georgia Sunday Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans said He denounced Governor Alfred E Smith in a speech to 3050 Klansmen at Shark River and announced he would tour the country to oppose Smiths presidential candidacy.
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United Press
Belmar
N. J
Ku Klux Klan
Toccoa
Hiram Evans
Evans
Alfred E. Smith
Shark River
Smith
Coolidge Fishes in Black Hills During Summer Stay
President Coolidge, eager on day one in the Black Hills, fished with guide C. C. Gideon while Secret Service guarded him. Mrs Coolidge arrived with arrangements for the White House staff to set up offices in a nearby high school.
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United Preas
Rapid City
8.D
Coolidge
White House
Black Hills
C. C. Gideon
Walton
New York
Vermont
Washington
Secret Service
Sanders
Coolidge’s Lodge
Indiana highway department audit wraps up expenditures
Field examiners of the State board of accounts review administrative costs of the Indiana highway department. A final check on highway expenditures and the automobile theft department of the Secretary of State's office will complete the year’s work, announced Chief Examiner Lawrence Orr.
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State Board of Accounts
Indiana Highway Department
Secretary of State
Lawrence Orr
Tax Frauds Alleged Held Before Federal Grand Jury
Officials of twelve New York theater ticket agencies were held for the Federal grand jury after a hearing before U S Attorney Charles Tulle on alleged income tax frauds. Bail was set at 1000 each except John Sullivan freed on his own recognizance for testifying about methods to overcharge the public and dodge taxes.
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United Press
New York
Federal Grand Jury
United States
Charles Tulle
John Sullivan
Wet Repeat Charged After Liquor Sale
One day after a liquor selling hearing Costi Ivanhoff Demtros Dallas and James Alexander of 546 West Washington Street were held to the federal grand jury on 1000 cash bond for selling a pint of liquor to a dry agent on June 9. They were released again on $1000 bonds and held to the Federal grand jury.
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Costi Ivanhoff
Demtros
Dallas
James Alexander
Washington St
United States
Fae Patrick
Detectives Cornered Suspect in Purse Snatching Incident
New York June 16 Detective John Smyth attempted to arrest 17 year old John Rizzo for purse snatching. Rizzo fled as friends hurled bricks and bottles striking Smyth who fired and wounded the suspect.
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United Press
New York
John Smyth
John Rizzo
Rizzo
Smyth
Byrd Plans Sunday Flight to Europe in Record Breaker
Commander Richard E. Byrd reached New York from Virginia and announced a Sunday takeoff for his airplane flight to Europe. The tri motor monoplane America awaits at Roosevelt Field with Paris as the destination while weather could delay the launch and a nonstop record attempt is possible.
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United
New York
Richard E. Byrd
Virginia
Europe
Byrd
America
Roosevelt Field
Paris
Mail planes sold at auction in Washington
The Postoffice Department sold twenty six mail planes at auction for 155,835 dollars. The National Air Transport Company of Chicago and New York bought seventeen planes for 108,200 dollars. Western Air Express of Los Angeles purchased three planes for 17,585 dollars. Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis, former employers of Charles Lindbergh, bought six planes for 30,050 dollars.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
National Air Transport Company
Chicago
New York
Western Air Express
Los Angeles
Robertson Aircraft Corporation
St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh
National Open Golf Championship Set for Brae Burn
The United States Golf Association announced that the 1928 national open will be played at Brae Burn Country Club in Newton Massachusetts. The event dates were disclosed from Oakmont Country Club in Hulton Pennsylvania.
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United Presse
Oakmont Country Club
Hulton
Brae Burn Country Club
Newton
Mass
United States Golf Association
Lowman Begins Treasury Enforcement Role June Start
Seymour Lowman began work today as the incoming Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, effective August 1, and virtually assumed charge of the government's enforcement service. General Lincoln Andrews will take a vacation in Vermont.
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Pwwieshington
Seymour Lowman
Lincoln Andrews
Treasury
Andrews
Vermont
Jurors Called for Melvin Rigsby Murder Trial
Fifty prospective jurors have been summoned to Circuit Court in Newc. Ind. to hear the trial of Melvin B. Rigsby former town marshal at Shirley charged with killing Herman Riggs a farmer in a pool room argument. The venire is made up entirely of farmers.
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Melvin 8
Rigsby
Shirley
Herman Riggs
De Pinedo Ends Record Flight Across Four Continents
Francesco De Pinedo and his crew landed in Ostian Italy at 5:02 p m ending a four continent flight that began February 13 in Calgiari Sicily They crossed the equator twice and sailed over the South Atlantic and the North Atlantic linking Europe Africa South America and North America The return to Italy drew the greatest popular demonstration for Italian airmen.
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United Presa Ostian
Italy
Francesco de Pinedo
Cagliari
Sicily
Santa Maria
Equator
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
Europe
Africa
South America
North America
de Pinedo
Washington Hosts 150 Farm Youngsters At 4-H Camp
One hundred fifty rural youths from 38 states arrived in Washington for the first national 4-H camp hosted by the Agriculture Department. The delegates have generated about 48 000 dollars in property and earned 52 421 dollars in profits through club enterprises, with many funding their way through school.
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United Preas
Washington
America
Agriculture Department
No Suit Death Stuns Warsaw Party Crowd
Adam Tytan, boastful of arriving in a premier dress suit for a special party, killed himself by leaping from a third story window after a tailor failed to deliver. Police report a sad tale of pride and ridicule in Warsaw.
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United Press
Warsaw
Poland
Adam Tytan
Tytan
Probe prison charges loom over Indiana inquiry
Secretary John A. Brown of the State charities board is to confer with former Judge W. H. Eichorn and other board members at Bluffton today on the evidence gathered in the investigation of D. C. Stephenson's cruelty charges at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
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John A. Brown
State Charities Board
W. H. Eichorn
Bluffton
D. C. Stephenson
Indiana State Prison
Michigan City
Indiana Governor Lets Prison Visit For Stephenson Kin
Mrs Nettie Stephenson Brehm former wife of D C Stephenson visited him at Indiana State Prison Michigan City with a letter from Governor Ed Jackson She seeks $12082 for their daughter Florence Catherine 11 and claims Stephenson promised support and discussed money from his Klan era assets The affair includes depositions and an appraisal of four rugs from the Stephenson mansion and touches on Stephenson's parole petition and his disputes with Hiram W Evans.
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Nettie Stephenson Brehm
D. C
Stephenson
Mattie
Ed Jackson
Indiana
Steve
Catherine
Mrs. Brehm
Madge Oberholtzer
Hiram Evans
Indianapolis
Washington
Lindbergh Reunites With Spirit of St Louis In New York Flight
Lindbergh and his aircraft the Spirit of St Louis were briefly united in a dawn round trip from Curtiss Field to Anacostia and back. He flew from New York to Washington and returned to Mitchel Field before continuing home.
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United Press
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Spirit of
Parliament Dissolved In Jugo-Slavia Elections Ordered
London dispatch reports King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia has dissolved parliament and entrusted Premier Yukitchevitch with arranging new elections for September 11. The plan follows Belgrade dispatches detailing the royal decree and electoral schedule.
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Jugo-Slavia
United Press
London
Alexander of
Belgrade
Yukitchevitch
Temperatures Chart and Local Ad Fragments
The readable fragments show hourly temperatures and a line about Hiller Office Supply Co with a Main 0612 address. Also appears an advertisement urging to reserve to sell you again and a partial divorce notice.
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Hiller Office Supply Co
Main
Adv
Mother of Lindy Smiles at Indianapolis Station Welcome
Mrs Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh arrives aboard The Spirit of St Louis at Union Station Indianapolis for a brief five minute welcome. She greets reporters and local figures with a warm smile as flowers are exchanged and farewells are exchanged before the train departs toward St Louis.
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Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh
Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Union Station
Col
Charles Lindbergh
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