Two Injured in City Traffic Accidents Reported
Two people were injured in separate automobile accidents Tuesday afternoon and were listed as recovering today. Mrs. Everett Wickard and 3 year old David Jones suffered body bruises and cuts from windshield glass as vehicles collided on Washington Street and Emerson Avenue near Burgess and Guilford avenues. A separate crash on Westfield Road sent the car of colored driver Ulysses Akers into a river bank, the vehicle wrecked but Akers uninjured.
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Everett Wickard
S. Bradley Ave
David Jones
Ralph E. Jones
Guilford Ave
Emerson Ave
Finch Park Opening Plans Advance for July Event
Elaborate preparations for Finch Park opening at State St and Fletcher Ave on Monday evening July 2 were advanced today by Southeastern Civic Improvement Club members. Mayor Shank and park board members will speak. Music by the police band and South America Marimba band. Robert F. Miller leads a committee of ten south side leaders.
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Finch Park
State St
Fletcher Ave
Southeastern Civic Improvement Club
Shank
Park Board
South America
Robert F. Miller
South Side
Church Meeting Closes with Dayton Cleric Address
Christian Endeavor workers of the White River branch of the Young People's Christian Endeavor Union United Brethren in Christ will close a three day conference tonight at Indiana Central College University Heights. Dr J E Shannon secretary of evangelism Dayton Ohio will deliver the closing address followed by installation of new officers.
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Christian Endeavor Workers
White River
Young People’s Christian Endeavor Union
United Brethren In Christ
Indiana Central College, University Heigts
J. E. Shannon
Evangelism
Dayton, O
Auto thief frightened as woman blocks car theft
Mrs. Laura Jackson of 113 Ari zona St. blocked an attempted auto theft early today. The would be thief fled when confronted, and Jackson provided a description of the prowler Felice.
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Laura Jackson
Arizona St
Felice
Milk prices hold firm after Chicago rise on July 1
Chicago dispatch reports a 1 cent increase in retail milk price effective July 1. Local dealers see no reason to raise prices beyond the January 15 hike, noting dairies will stay steady unless heat reduces pastures. Carey & Sons Dairy at 2911 Bellefontaine St. confirms the current stance.
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Chicago
Carey & Sons
Bellefontaine St
Hoosier Boys Will Play Soldier at Camp Knox
Dorothy Stanhope reports from Camp Knox Kentucky about the Citizen Military Training Camp. By late summer 15 000 to 20 000 men from Indiana Missouri Iowa Wisconsin Illinois Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and other states will have passed through the facility. The vast 33 000 acre site near Louisville sits on joint farms with orchards and decaying farmhouses used as targets. the nearby village of Stithton was moved and its residents paid for property.
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Dorothy Stanhope
Camp Knox
Indianapolis
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Louisville
Illinois Central Railroad
Camp Bragg
North Carolina
Jesse James
Stithton
Fostered fall leaves 76 year old in hospital
Mrs Frankie Wilson age 76 of 441 North Davidson Street was hospitalized at Methodist Hospital after falling down a cellar stairway and suffering a deep forehead cut.
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Frankie Wilson
N. Davidson St
Methodist Hospital
Champion guard leaves tonight after aiding swim campaign
Captain Charles B. Scully, from Washington, D C, assisted Indianapolis Red Cross and city recreation in Learn to Swim Week. He tested life guards at White River beach and taught at Willard and Douglas pools before departing for Johnstown Pa. Local swimmers including Thelma Darby and others passed Red Cross tests amid a citywide program involving about 3000 participants. the campaign ends Saturday night.
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Charles B. Scully
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
City Recreation Department
White River Beach
Twenty-Sixth St
Red Cross Life Saving Corps
Scully
Willard and
Douglas
Johnstown
Thelma Darby
Carburetor quarrel leads to court and stabbings in city
Three men will appear in city court today on charges related to a neighborhood quarrel over a carburetor. Horace Schafer, 1433 McLain St., is accused of striking Harry Sharp, 44, of 1619 Howard St. Sharp’s father, James Sharp, 81, allegedly joined with a knife and stabbed Schafer in the back. The Sharps were jailed. Schafer’s condition is not serious.
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Horace Schafer
McLain St
Harry Sharp
Howard St
Sharp
James
Schafer
Life Long Hoosier John M. Byram Dies at 75
Funeral services are set for 2 p m Thursday at Royster Askin chapel for John M Byram 75 who died Tuesday at his home 333 Lincoln St He lived in Indianapolis about forty years and was born in Marion Ind He is survived by his widow Edna May Byram
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John M. Byram
Lincoln St
Royster & Askin
Illinois St
Byram
Indianapolis
Marion
Ind
Edna May Byram
Relative of Mayor Dies At Home in Noblesville
W R Shank 73 a distant relative of Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis died suddenly of heart trouble at his Noblesville home. He was seated at a library table while his wife read aloud.
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Noblesville
Ind
W. R. Shank
Lew Shank
Indianapolis
Here
Jumping Seeds Are Just Bugs
State entomologist Frank Wallace solved the mystery of seeds that jump, identifying the insect as cynips quercus salatrix also called jumping gall wasp. The larva, seen as a mustard seed while airborne, nests in oak leaves next year, becoming a tiny blister-like formation.
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Frank Wallace
Wallace
2 Hope
Ind
Nips
Cynips
Water wings burst claims Jasper boy in swimming tragedy
In Jasper Indiana on June 27 United Press reports the 12 year old Hilbert Eckert died when his water wings failed during a river swim across Fatoka River. His body was recovered after the device failed mid stream.
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United Press
Jasper
Ind
Hilbert Eckert
Fatoka River
Coroner Probes Death Of Henry Armsberry
Coroner Paul Robinson investigates the death of Henry Armsberry colored age unknown at 2142 Highland Place after he fell on a sidewalk at Washington and Illinois Streets late Tuesday. Passersby carried him to the curb where he died.
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Paul Robinson
Henry Armsberry
Highland PL
Washington and
Illinois Sts
Armsberry
Commission to File Suit Over Fees Owed to Indiana
The Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company faced a filed suit for more than 1200 dollars in state fees, the public service commission prepared to sue in Jackson Circuit Court at Seymour for fees from cases heard before the commission. A thief stole a silver mesh bag worth 26 dollars from Mrs. G. H. Dumas at 1116 North Pennsylvania Street Apartment 26. detectives are investigating.
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G. H. Dumas
Pennsylvania St
Fight Ends Argument Over Interurban Right Of Way
In Columbus Indiana on June 27 a dispute over railroad car right of way led to a fight between Harry Gibson night foreman and Sherman Handley a colored switchman. Gibson reportedly drew a knife and Handley struck back breaking Gibson's jaw.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
Harry Gibson
Sherman Handley
Gibson
Handley
Examination for postoffice clerks and carriers set
Henry M. Trimpe secretary of the civil service board announced today that an examination for postoffice clerks and carriers will be held here on July 21.
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Henry M. Trimpe
The
Civil Service Board
Injured Man Recovers After 50-Foot Fall From Smokestack
Orley Brazzel, 34, of 540 East Ohio Street, fell fifty feet from a smoke stack to the sidewalk behind the Shiel Apartments at 229 Indiana Avenue while preparing to paint. He sustained a broken shoulder and bruises. His father resides in Oolitic, Indiana.
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Orley Brazzel
Ohio St
Shiel Apartments
Indiana Ave
Brazzel
Oolitic
Ind
Ex Batesville Banker William Wingate Dies At 70
William C. Wingate 70 former Batesville resident and Union Army veteran banker died in Cincinnati. Funeral services will be held in Cincinnati with burial in Versailles Indiana. Wingate was considered a State pioneer and was remembered for his banking career in Batesville.
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Batesville
Ind
William C. Wingate
Cincinnati
Wingate
Versailles
Married life insight leads to assault charges in Indiana
Muncie Indiana on June 27 Mrs Elizabeth Rittenhouse told the judge she had been married three times and each husband beat her but she never remained content to stay single prompting her to file assault and battery charges against her husband.
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United Press
Muncie
Ind
Elizabeth Rittenhouse
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