Coffin forces push bond for juvenile home site
George W Coffin led a Republican bloc to secure five votes for a 100000 bond to buy a site for a new juvenile detention home at Walnut and Alabama, after George N Montgomery resigned and Harry Calton was elected. The session included rival site bids and sharp exchanges as Acre and Schmidt questioned the process. A drowning incident in Hammond, Indiana, involving John Bim, 14, was reported separately.
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George N. Montgomery
George W. Coffin
Montgomery
Harry Calton
West Forty-ninth Street
Coffin
Frank Cones
Grant Moore
Otis Dodson
Callon
Dodson
Walnut
Alabama
Robert H. Acre
East
Market Streets
Osbon
Walnut Street
Acre
Paul Dunn
Dunn
State Tax Board
Joseph Schmidt
Snook Denies Guilty Plea in Ohio Murder Trial
Dr. James H. Snook, accused of killing Theora Hix, pleaded not guilty at arraignment in Columbus. Judge Robert P. Duncan set the trial for July 22 as attorneys indicated they would not allow a guilty plea after Snook's confession.
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United Press
Columbus
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
Ohio State University
Robert P. Duncan
John F. Seidel
E. O. Ricketts
Snook
Miss Hix
Duncan
Former Afghan King Aman Ullah Leaves for Italy as Farmer
Bombay dispatch notes Aman ullah former king of Afghanistan sailed for Italy last week with 150000 dollars in cash and jewels valued at 2500000 dollars, reportedly to take up farming there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Bombay
Amanullah
Afghanistan
Italy
Police seek Ross Allison in Indiana murder case
Police extended the search into adjoining counties for Ross Allison 42 of 1317 Roache Street accused of murdering Mrs Ida M Davis 52 of Worthington Indiana after an intoxicated dispute on a Worthington porch. The suspect fled Indianapolis in a Ford coupe after the killing while autopsy plans were announced and funeral arrangements set for the victim.
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Ross Allison
Roache Street
Ida M. Davis
Worthington
Ind
Indianapolis
Allison
Ross
M. J. Blackbetter
Coal City
William Conway
Thelma Grimm
Mt. Vernon Church
Worthington Cemetery
O. H. Bakemeier
Bare Tunney payments to escape publicity in breach of promise case
Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight champion, denied the breach of promise charges brought by Katherine Fogarty and filed a cross complaint claiming he paid $1 to halt a renewal and $35,000 to his manager to prevent bad publicity. The actions occurred before his fights with Dempsey and Heeney. A court injunction against further prosecution is sought. In Madison Indiana, George H. Dryden, 39, farmer, was killed by lightning while in a field. his dog also died.
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United Press
Bridgeport
Conn
Gene Tunney
Katherine King Fogarty
Tunney
Fairfield
Homer S. Cummings
Jack Dempsey
Tom Heeney
United States of America
James J. Tunney
William Gibson
Madison
Ind
George H. Dryden
Here
Slack Sheds Coats As Mayor Installs Shirtsleeve Day
Mayor L Ert Slack opened the coatless season at city hall saying heat makes coats unnecessary in offices. He urged city employees to feel free to remove coats for comfort. Dr Herman G Morgan, city health board secretary, supports the shirtsleeve custom.
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City Hall
L. Ert Slack
Slack
Herman G. Morgan
City Health Board
Auto Run Sets Endurance Record At Indianapolis Speedwa
Roosevelt car No 2 completed its 219th hour of continuous running at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, besting prior gasoline motor endurance marks. Car No 1 logged 242 hours behind the leader after a slow start day one, while both cars soaked gasoline oil and water on the two and a half mile oval. Officials under the American Automobile Association invited the public to watch despite Sunday restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Car 1
Ft. Worth
Publs
American Automobile Association
Milwaukee's new sewage dehydration cuts costs and profits fertilizer
Milwaukee announces a perfected sewage dehydration process turning solids into Milorganite fertilizer. O C Ross says $205,000 equipment finally used will slash operating costs, with annual fertilizer revenue projected at $600,000 to $700,000. Italian? No. Oops.
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Milwaukee
Wis
O. C. Ross
Indianapolis Sanitary Board
Indianapolis
America
Sanitary Board
White River
Ross
Robert Kramer
Kramer
Slack
Chamber of Commerce
Cecil Calvert
Chicago
Broad Ripple
Charles H. Hurd
Princess’s Interlude Ends in France With Don Luis Plans Off
Ex stage star Mabel Gilman Corey confirms to United Press that engagement to Don Luis of Bourbon, cousin of the King of Spain, is abandoned after protracted contract disputes. She plans continued social retirement at Villa Genis castle in France, praising American men while cherishing her estate, cattle, and a devoted dog.
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Princess Ali Frazil
United Press
United Press Aris
Mabel Gilman Corey
Pittsburgh
Don Luis of Bourbon
Spain
Don Luis
France
Italy
Jerome Bonaparte
Jerome
Auto crash near Gas City kills one, injures another
Gas City, Indiana, June 24. John W. Sharpnack, 21, was killed instantly when his car overturned in Deer Creek near here. His companion, Frank Lostutter, 23, was probably fatally injured in the same accident.
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Gas City
Ind
John W. Sharpnack
Frank Lostutter
Deer Creek
Here
Nebraska Youth Dies in Leap From Cleveland Y M C A
Allyn E. Hawthorn a 22 year old Superior Nebraska youth committed suicide by leaping from the sixth floor of the Central Y M C A in Cleveland Ohio. A note found in his room read failure to adjust myself to surrounding conditions anywhere there is no other season. He had been living there briefly and was a graduate of State Teachers college at Superior.
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United Press
Cleveland
Allyn E. Hawthorn
Superior
Neb
Central Y. M. C. A
Hawthorn
State Teachers College At
Five Days Left to Get Free Notary Service at Times Office
Eleven thousand people had avoided a 25-cent notary fee by having driver license applications notarized free at The Times office at noon today. Five days remain before the law takes effect July 1 requiring a license to drive. The Times office will stay open until 8:30 p m with blanks and notaries available at no charge.
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Times Office
Torch trial set in White Plains for Sept 16
In White Plains New York on June 24 Earle Peacox labeled torch murderer of his wife had trial set for September 16 by Justice Arthur S. Tompkins after district attorney Frank Coyne said he was not ready. Peacox appeared with his mother. He stands charged with killing his estranged wife in their apartment, moving her body to a lonely spot and setting a fire to destroy evidence. A rainstorm prevented cremation.
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United Press
White Plains
N. Y
Earle Peacox
Frank Coyne
Arthur S. Tompkins
Peacox
Storm Rages Round Montreal Killing Several and Damaging Plant
A violent wind storm struck the Montreal region killing several and causing wide property damage. Firemen battled a blaze at the Sacred Heart convent after a lightning strike, forcing twenty two convalescent nuns to safety from the Sault Au Recollet building, a $1,000,000 plant threatened by the fire.
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United Press
Montreal
Quebec
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Sault Au Recollet
Warships Hunt Missing Fliers Amid Azores Search
Spanish government and Portugal marshal all resources to locate Commander Ramon Franco and three aides in a Dornier 16 missing between Portugal and the Azores. Britain’s embassy in Madrid seeks aid from Gibraltar if available. A gunboat from San Miguel island reports no news as the plane could last two weeks but pilots have only a day’s supplies.
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United Press
Portugal
Ramon Franco
Azores
Madrid
Gibraltar
San Miguel Island
San Iguel
Horta
Firemen Keep Oxygen Boy Alive Three Days
In Cleveland on June 24 firemen pumped oxygen into 11 year old Gerald Hodge’s lungs after pneumonia ravaged him last Friday. Doctors had given up hope, but the Euclid village fire department volunteered to help keep Jerry alive, and today a smile returned as oxygen therapy continued to sustain him.
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Cleveland
Gerald Hodge
Jerry
Gerald
Euclid Village
Refused Citizenship For Not Taking U S Oath
Federal Judge Warren B Burrows refuse the citizenship application of Douglass C Macintosh at Yale who declined the defense oath. Macintosh a Canadian and World War I chaplain plans to appeal to the NY Circuit Court of Appeals then the Supreme Court to test the case. Dean Clark argued the conscience guided choice and the right to quiet resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New Haven, Conn
Warren B. Burrows
Douglass C. Macintosh
Yale University
United States
Macintosh
Dean Clark
Clark
Burrows
Mac- Master University
University of Chicago
Europe in peril of becoming a U S colony warns Stresemann
German foreign minister Gustave Stresemann, frail and relying on a chair, warned the Reichstag during a reparations conference session that Europe risks becoming a colony of the United States. He mocked Nationalists over Dawes and Young plans, argued the Reichstag must approve laws, defended Locarno treaties, and urged easing Dawes while rejecting misrules that could bring a broader foreign control of the Rhine.
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Europe
U. S
Stresemann
Germany
Frederick Kuh
United Press
Erlin
Gustave Stresemann
Reichstag
United States
Young Plan
Dawes
Wall Cave-In Kills Superintendent At Elevator Plant Ruins
A wall collapse at the National Elevator Company plant in Dakota Street south of Morris Street buried six workers. One man, Clarence E. Fox 57, died in city hospital. five others were injured, including John Heindrick and Benjamin Byrd. Rescue efforts directed by Fox before his death. many details of the cave-in and ensuing salvage work unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Elevator Company
Dakota Street
Morris Street
City Hospital
Clarence E. Fox
Fair Oaks Avenue
Oak Park
Chicago Grain and Salvage Company
John Heindrick
Bluff Road
Benjamin F. Byrd
Belmont Avenue
Robert Ashford
Jones Street
Lee Conover
William Kellogg
South Meridian Street
Charles Cannon
Ilenois Street
Ashford
Heindrick
Works
John Sheehan
Fox
Hospital Ate Taches
Oscar Hupp
Plymouth farmer killed by auto in Batavia traffic mixup
Plymouth Indiana June 24. Andrew Larson 74 a farmer was struck by an automobile driven by John Moynihan near here and died fifteen minutes later. Larson reportedly stepped into the path of the machine after being confused by traffic in Batavia New York.
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Plymouth
Ind
Andrew Larson
John Moynihan
Batavia
N. Y
Larson
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