Mooney and Billings Pardon Appeals Sent to Congress
Washington reports the Mooney Billings committee mails letters to all members of Congress asking public support for pardons for Tom Mooney and Warren K Billings. Senators Nye Wheeler Schall cited in support with testimony and pleas for clemency as Hoover urged action.
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Ruth Finney Times
Washington
Congress
National
Mooney-Billings Committee
Tom Mooney
Warren K. Billings
California Penitentiaries
Lennel F. Parton
United States
Mooney
Billings
Gerald P. Nye
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Burton K. Wheeler
Thomas Schall
Poisoning Probe Into Clay Plant Worker Death
Coroner C. H. Keever said witnesses will be called to decide if Warren Martin of 304 West Walnut died accidentally or by his own action after drinking a liquid used in his work. The 33 year old employee of the art clay company asked for the substance and was given an ounce by the foreman, dying shortly after in city hospital.
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C. H. Keever
Warren Martin
West
Walnut Street
Martin
Art Dlay Company
City Hospital
Curtiss Flying Service Pilot Solo Flight Report
William Sin clair completed his solo flight Friday under Chief Instructor Earl W. Sweeney. The solo was conducted in a chartered Capitol Airways Ryan monoplane.
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Curtiss Flying Service
Indiana
William Sinclair
Earl W. Sweeney
Capitol Airways
Solo flights and pilots head to cities from Hoosier airports
Hoosier Airport to Milwaukee and Winston Salem list solo students with Travel Air and Monocoupe planes. Mars Hill to New York City features J A Austin and D S Myhres with a Simplex and Embry Riddle air mail flight to Chicago. Capitol Airport shows Paul Smich and companions flying Swallow to Evansville and Mitchell, Ind.
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Hoosier
William Hackett
Travel Air
Milwaukee
L. S. McGinnis
Moline
Ill
Winston-Salem
N. C
E. B. Whistler Jr
Louisville
Mars Hill
J. A. Austin
St. Louis
New York City
D. S. Myhres
Simplex
Defiance
Terre Haute
William
Passengers Listed from Capitol Airways Flight to Detroit
Passengers aboard the Capitol Airways flight to Detroit include Paul Hobrock en route to Ft. Wayne and George Sweet traveling from Ft. Wayne to Detroit.
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Capitol Airways
Detroit
Paul Hobrock
Ft. Wayne
George Sweet
New 2000 Gallon Electric Gasoline Pump Installed at Capitol Airport
A 2000 gallon capacity electric pump at Capitol airport speeds fueling. Tri metered planes filled in eight minutes versus 30 to 45 minutes with hand pumps. In Greencastle Indiana on June 22, 58 of 74 sheep owned by O G Webb were killed by dogs, worth about $622.
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Capitol
Greencastle
Ind
O. G. Webb
Reckless Driving Arrest After Morris Street Crash
Paul Jarrett of 2122 West Morris Street was arrested today after telling police the accelerator on a car he was testing stuck, causing it to slam into two parked cars and a grocery in the 2100 block on Morris Street Friday night.
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Paul Jarrett
West Morris Street
Morris Street
Talkies Don’t Need Beauties Says Veteran Actor
Hollywood veteran Gus Edwards warns beauty contestants have no future in films. Born in Brooklyn he spent thirty years on stage and now predicts cinema will overhaul casting within two years. He says actresses need personality brains and a solid voice to succeed on screen.
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Dan Thomas
NEA
Hollywood
Cal
Gus Edwards
America
Edwards
Brooklyn
N. Y
United States
Michigan Woman Kills Self After Husband Enlists in Ministry
Dorothy G. Cobb, widow of Atherton G. Cobb, a Michigan pharmacist, died by auto exhaust in their garage after her husband decided to enter the ministry. The report mixes with a discussion on acting and future film performance, noting differences between stage and screen acting and the challenge of conveying emotion to audiences.
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United Press
Detroit
Dorothy G. Cobb
Atherton G. Cobb
City manager movement eyed in Indianapolis politics
Fritz criticizes the city manager movement as a power grab and urges labor to defeat three identified proponents. Wilson calls for a fair and square deal, noting the movement’s political nature in Indianapolis.
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Fritz
City Manager
Indianapolis
Wilson
Indianapolis Times
Labor League Organizes for City Election Effort
Indianapolis unionists now the Workers' Nonpartisan Political Action League launch a drive to recruit over 30,000 members to vote in the city commission race. The group splits the city into sections with local committees to mobilize turnout and plans a weekly membership meeting led by W. F. Wilson. Members include Ora Gill and Courtney Hammond. they favor nonpartisan labor representation and plan outreach to Claude H. Anderson of the City Manager League.
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Indianapolis
Workers’ Nonpartisan Political Action League
City Commission
East Market Street
W. F. Wilson
Ora Gill
Courtney Hammond
Thomas Hefling
George Strange
Adolph Fritz
State Federation
Claude H. Anderson
City Manager League
Workers
Curator Identifies Mastodon Bones Near Noblesville
Verne Patty of the state museum announced that bones found on the Harry Scearce farm near Noblesville are mastodon remains or from a mammoth creature that lived in the state about 50 000 years ago.
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Noblesville
Verne Patty
State Museum
Harry Scearce
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