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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1927
Page
6
The Times hails Indianapolis adopting the city manager system by a large vote. It credits The Times for championing reform, notes opposition from other papers, and praises orderly, honest government and citizen self rule. It also discusses national affairs in China and California pardon debates.
The article compares the Chinese power struggle to a baseball league, with north led by Chang Tso Lin and south by Chiang Kai Shek and Feng Yu Hsiang. It notes rival factions totaling about 500,000 each, Britain and Japan backing Chang, and Britain fearing India unrest. It concludes with a call for peace and reflection on weather and summer plans.
Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the pedestrian could recover damages after tripping over a hose stretched across a public sidewalk by a construction company. The court noted travelers are not required to watch the ground constantly due to inevitable distractions like shop windows and street signs.
M. E. Tracy surveys a packed summer scene with trans oceanic flight activity and a Dempsey-Sharkey bout in prospect. Ford lines up a new car. New York weighs subway consolidation while Sacco-Vanzetti and Snyder-Gray decisions loom. Coolidge, Al Smith, Cantonese tensions, Balkan volatility, Mussolini, Germany’s realignment, and Poincare’s political gambits shape the season.
Governor Young of California offers seven reasons for pardoning Charlotte Anita Whitney, arguing she is not a criminal and would not have been tried but for wartime abnormal conditions. The piece suggests anti-syndicalism laws should be reconsidered and notes wartime excesses and even sauerkraut as liberty cabbage symbols.
Isadore Charles Zwerling was denied a diploma after allowing his sick mother to occupy his room, despite Tufts College policy forbidding women to stay in dormitories overnight and threatening graduation denial for violators.
Six physicians at Kings County Hospital in New York City face charges of hazing three Jewish colleagues. The alleged acts included tying to bed posts gagging submerging in cold water and smearing bodies with shoe polish amid long smoldering Muslim animosity. the incident shocks liberal New York.
The passage condemns racial and religious bias, noting politicians exploit these prejudices and arguing that medical professionals and public hospitals should show none of this narrow thinking. It urges higher standards for care and impartial treatment.
"If it be true," says Mayor Walker, "that these men were hated especially because they are Jews, or of any other faith, I will 'see that the guilty ones are prosecuted to the last ditch." He pledges an investigation to fix responsibility and removal of those involved from city service, promising broad public support.
D. Roach defends Gilliam and Governor Jackson against Indiana bonehead liquor law charges. He cites biblical references and personal experience to claim whisky saved lives, attacks Niblack as hypocritical, and urges repeal and medicinal sale at low prices. He urges prosecutions for Jackson and Gilliam.
Stuart Walker presents The Butter And Egg Man at Keith's with Miss Elizabeth Patterson delivering one of her funniest roles. she walks away with the show as the evening's highlight.
Question and answer brief covers Cybele as Phrygian mother goddess identified with Rheg. It explains dry farming as non irrigated crop production with about 20 inches of rainfall and lists crops from wheat to olives. Includes Nadine meaning hopeful and notes no constitutional barrier to a Catholic becoming U.S. president. Mentions Charles K Harris and the 1897 publication Break the News to Mother.
New York audiences view the American debut of Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh at the Rialto. The film, based on Perley Poore Sheehan’s story and adapted by Lajos Biro, stars Jannings as a German-American banker and features director Victor Fleming and Paramount credit. Local theaters list a busy lineup including Grounds For Divorce and Resurrection.
Charles Fitshugh Talman examines will o the wisp data as a meteorological curiosity. The piece surveys luminescence explanations from fungi bacteria and decaying wood and notes the term’s historic ties to weather while calling for scientific study.
Answers cover a range of topics from U.S. presidents to aircraft and early biology. The list includes questions about Giuseppe Bellanca the aviation designer, the Samuel Ryder Cup sport, Ovila Chapdelaine’s fighting name, transcontinental train times, William B. Stout, palmator, pterodactyl, psychiatry, the aileron’s machine, Batik origins, city width and street mileage, and full names of Harding Coolidge Grant Polk Garfield Hayes with corrected spellings.
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