Terre Hautes Mammoth Power Plant Moves Forward
Terre Haute Ind June 28 with a large work crew on site and heavy paraphernalia scattered awaiting actual construction the mammoth power plant four miles southwest of the city starts to take shape Eleven foot concrete piers reach bedrock to support massive machinery A flood gate will allow river water under the plant to prevent coal combustion Stone Webster Boston holds the general contract in excess of 5 million dollars A W Clark oversees construction The building will be 275 feet high 150 feet wide and protected by a seawall about 1 000 workers will join the effort when the Pennsylvania railroad switch is completed to the site }}
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Timea
Terre Haute
Ind
Mammoth
Indiana
Pennsylvania Railroad
National Road
Stone & Webster
Boston
A. W. Clark
Alleged Hold Up Leads to Arrest of 3 Men
Three colored men were arrested and another to be arrested, police say, after Thomas Samuels of 817 Adelaide Street reported being held up and robbed at Meridian and St Joseph Streets. Samuels claimed $18.65 was taken, and identified Walter Grimes of 944 Fayette Street as the another robber. Grimes said Samuels lost the money in a craps game. Samuels and Grimes were charged with visiting and gaming. Turner Tucker, janitor of an apartment, was charged with keeping a gambling house.
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Thomas Samuels
Adelaide St
Meridian
St. Joseph Sts
Samuels
Walter Grimes
Fayette St
Grimes
Turner Tucker
Cooper Heads Church Endeavor Union in White River Conference
The Rev. L. P. Cooper of Indianapolis was elected president of the Christian Endeavor Union of the White River Conference of the United Brethren Church at a Wednesday meeting held at Indiana Central College University Heights. Also chosen were officers including Prof. Sibyl Weaver as vice president and Miss Irene Roberts as secretary with several department chairs and cabinet members. Principal speakers included the Rev. C. C. Gohn and Bishop H. H. Fout.
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L. P. Cooper
Indianapolis
Christian Endeavor Union
White River
United Brethern Church
Indiana Central College
University Heights
Cooper
Sibyl Weaver
Irene Roberts
Marguerite Parsons
Quiet Hour
Henry Hunt
Gertrude Hutton
Life Work
Local men arrested after Mt Etna crash near Huntington
Earl Van Pelt and William Elder, both listed as Indianapol is, and James Spaulding of Fort Wayne, were arrested at Mt Etna following an automobile crash. They face assault and battery charges and liquor impairment. Robert Breece of Huntington sustained injuries in the collision with Elder’s car. Marshall Woolery of Bedford is named prosecuting attorney for the Jackson Law rence Circuit Court replacing Merlin Co Roach.
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Earl van Pelt
William Elder
Indianapolis
James Spaulding
Ft. Wayne
Mt. Etna
Huntington
Elder
Robert Breece
Breece
Marshall Woolery
Bedford
Jackson-Lawrence
McCray
Merlin Co. Roach
Wooldery
Paperhanger reports tool theft from new Woodruff place
Frank Mitchell of 329 N. Illinois Street told police tools valued at 80 dollars were stolen from a new apartment under construction at the intersection of West Drive Woodruff Place and Michigan Street.
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Frank Mitchell
Paperhanger
Illinois St
West Dr
Woodruff Pl
Michigan St
Truck Overturns. Man Trapped Beneath Dump Wagon
Workman Charles K. Kempton, 22, was injured when a dump wagon overturned at a work site in Nea Special, Indiana on June 28. Authorities reported he was trapped beneath the vehicle but later freed with minor injuries. The incident prompted a brief investigation by local police.
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Nea Special
Ind
Charles K
Kempton
Most Perfect Babies of East Side Honored
Lennel Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Royer of 520 Eastern Ave., won first prize in the 1-to-2-year class. LeRoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Haskett Hull of 554 Parker Ave., was named best baby under 1 year despite illness this year.
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East Side
Lennel Lee
L. O. Royer
Eastern Ave
East Side Commercial Association
LeRoy
Haskett Hull
Parker Ave
45 000 Britons Flock to Seek Jobs in U S
About 45 000 Britons prepared to sail for the United States as a new immigration year opens on July 1. American consulate estimates predict a labor relief pinch with 77 000 workers arriving in five months, led by iron and steel workers motor mechanics and building trades artisans from British manufacturing centers.
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Ralph H. Turner
United News
United States
America
London
United Kingdom
British Isles
Oppose Dance Ordinance Suit Filed by Riverside Park Owners
George W. Sinclair and John B. Ballard, operators of the Riverside Park dance pavilion, sue in Superior Court to block enforcement of a city rule requiring daily dance permits. They object to no Sunday dancing and to a police officer stationed in the hall.
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Board of Public Safety
George W. Sinclair
John B. Ballard
New Dance Pavillion
Riverside Park
From Far and Near World News Briefs and Incidents
Summary of diverse items: Nelson S. Murray suspended from New York curb market for trading rule violations. Maryland shatters Navy records by completing Hampden Roads to San Pedro in twelve days. Altamaha grounded ashore near Pensacola in fog. A school outing capsized near a New York public school. one girl drowned and five escaped. Homeric to carry liquor to three mile limit and return dry. King and Queen of England touring incognito. Thompson accused of murder in Chicago hold-up. coroner’s jury deliberates. London Labor Party conference foresees RAF and France competition. Baldwin fears German reparations delay. Ruhr set of German casualties by Belgian troops. Earl of Northesk treated for appendicitis in Buffalo. Debs to lead mass meetings in Chicago. Green urges miners no wage cuts. Lansing recovers from diabetes. insulin new Canadian remedy. Whitfield returns to Cleveland after arrest in Detroit. Couzens predicts 5 percent beer in Next Congress. Woman aids two bandits in $60,000 jeweler holdup. Karshner dies from injuries at Lancaster Boys’ Industrial School.
Pope pleads for Germany in war debt tangle
Pope Pius writes Cardinal Gasparri urging fair reparations and feared social unrest from excessive demands. He favors impartial judges to set sums and questions costly territorial occupations, suggesting gradual, peaceful terms to aid Europe’s economic reconstruction and pacification.
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Pope
Germany
United News
Rome
Pope Pius I
Cardinal Gasparri
Ruhr
Pope Plus
Europe
Mother Suspected of Kidnapping Marion Boy
Marion Indiana June 28 police sought to locate Leroy Bone four year old son of John Bone taken from his grandmother Mrs Nancy Bone home. authorities believe the boy’s mother living in Hannibal Missouri and separated from her husband may be involved in the disappearance. the child was abducted previously by the father.
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Times
Marion
Ind
Leroy Bone
John Bone
Nancy Bone
Hannibal
Second cashier cheated at Hook Drug Store
A short-change incident at Hook Drug Store on 378 Massachusetts Ave. led police to investigate a man linked to a similar cash skimming at another drug store. Coroner investigated a fatal accident involving Elmer Hartnett after a beam strike at Delaware and Wabash.
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Hook
Massachusetts Ave
Nettie Cole
Alabama Sr
Elmer Whitinger Funeral Arranged
The Rev. Clay Trusty will conduct the funeral of Elmer Whitinger 57 at Seventh Christian Church Friday afternoon with burial in Crown Hill. Survivors include his widow four daughters three sons his parents a brother and a sister.
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Clay Trusty
Elmer Whitinger
W. Twenty-Ninth St
Seventh Christian Church
Crown Hill
Whitinger
Better Business Men's League of North
Indianapolis
Rea Men's Lodge
Carrie Whitinger
Hazel McCormick
Gladys Kitzmiller
Elizabeth Kroetz
Margaret Ebelling
Donald
Harold
Emile
Riceville
Iowa
Albert
Mary Whitinger
Albert Whitinger, Jr
Margaret Sellers
Zionsville
Ind
Grain dealer J. C. Valentine dies at 64 in Franklin
Funeral services for J. C. Valentine 64 grain dealer will be held Friday. He came to Franklin in 1889 to run a starch plant and spent years in elevator work. Surviving are his widow two children Mrs Raymond Sellers and Ira Valentine both of Franklin two brothers T. E. Valentine and Hosford Valentine of Centerville Iowa and a sister Mrs Robert Ward Kansas City Missouri.
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Franklin
Ind
J. C. Valentine
Valentine
Raymond Sellers
Ira Valentine
T. E. Valentine
Hosford Valentine
Centerville
Iowa
Robert Ward
Kansas City
Carelessness Blamed for Downtown Clothing Fire
An electric iron left on started a fire at 1 a.m. in Menter Clothing Company store at 14 E. Washington St. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with slight damage reported.
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Tron
Menter Clothing Company
Washington St
Boys from Y M C A depart for Camp Bedford
Forty boys from the Y M C A Boy's Department leave for Camp Bedford near Bedford Indiana for a week long session. R J Dake of Indianapolis directs the camp with another group slated to depart Monday and enrollment available until Saturday night with several parents planning to visit.
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Camp
Bedford
Ind
R. J. Dake
Indianapolis
Year’s Toll Mounts as Autos Claim Victims
Nine accidents across the city late Wednesday and early today injured seven people, led to three arrests, and damaged fifteen cars. Listed injured include Miss Hazel Malone 21 of 2915 N Capitol Ave head injury minor. Mrs Iva Newton 1719 Kentucky Ave head and back injury. Miss Mabel Allen 33 726 N East St scalp wounds bruised. Miss Myrtle Platt 34 18 E Thirty-Second St bruised shaken. George Katanich 46 N West St bruised. Theodore Shouse Terminal Hotel broken nose head cuts. J W Long 60 622 E New York St slight injuries. Malone and Newton hurt at Speedway Ave and Belle Vue Pl. Keith Heiss 23 1717 Kentucky Ave driving south on Belle Vue struck by westbound accident by Barney Browning 32 3607 W Michigan St. Browning and Heiss’s cars wrecked with Malone as a passenger in Browning’s car. Roy Fowler 130 Her was driver of another involved vehicle.
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Hazel. Malone
Capitol Ave
Iva Newton
Kentucky Ave
Mabel Allen
East St
Methodist Hospital
Myrtle Platt
E. Thirty-Second St
George Katanich
N. West St
Theodore Sho
Miss Malone
Newton
Speedway Ave
Belle Vieu
Keith Heiss
Barney Browning
Michigan St
Browning
Joe Newton
Heiss
Roy Fowler
Geisendorff St
Bud Conlin
Bright St
Katanich
Fkatanich
Ray Brown
Fred St. Clair
Theodore Shouse
Meridian St
S. Meridian
Shouse
Norman Jobe
Traction Terminal
Harold Buckley
McKim S&j
J. F. Carmody Candy Company
S. Meridian St
J. Hornberger
Union St
N. Capitol Ave
Lawrence Bornman
N. Tuxedo St
Frank Smith
Ewing St
Robert S. Bailey Jr
W. Forty-Second St
North
Meridian Sts
Bailey
W. S. Bain
Ingram St
Carl Pratt
Guilford Ave
John Hook
Thirty-Third St
New York St
Elmer Davis
Fletcher Ave
Hook
J. W. Long
Market and
Pennsylvania Sts
Long
Pennsylvania St
Market St
Mary E. Dougherty
Auto collisions kill and injure in Marion County this year
The report lists multiple traffic crashes with injuries and property damage across Marion County. Names and addresses appear for drivers and victims, including Allen Pratt and Lewis Lowe, with several incidents on Meridian, Washington, Geisendorff, and New York streets.
Cars Stolen in Acton Area Recovered Nearby
Two automobiles were stolen late Wednesday with one recovered early today. Leonard Patterson of Acton parked at Delaware and Wabash Streets. police later found his car at Washington Street and Belmonte Avenue. Elling Well, 420 West South Street, reported his vehicle stolen from Illinois and Maryland Streets.
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Leonard Patterson
Acton
Ind
Delaware and Wabash Sts
Washington St
Belmont Ave
Elling Well
W. South St
Illinois
Maryland Sts
Arbitration board mourns death of ITU leader John McParland
The American Newspaper Publishers Association and the International Typographical Union issued a resolution expressing sympathy to the family of John McParland, president of the ITU, who died recently and praising him as an able leader.
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Arbitration Board
The
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
International Typographical Union Today
John McParland
International Typography Union
West Side Boys Push Park Pool Plan
Three youths lead a petition for a West Side swimming pool with lifeguards at a park board meeting. George Lupear 16, his cousin Rank Judd 15, and Charles McEifresh 15 secured 37 signatures amid fears after a boy’s drowning and river pollution near White River.
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West Side
Park Board
George Lupear
Hanson Ave
A. J. Lupear
George Andrank Judd
Charles McEifresh
Hiawatha St
White River
George
Suspected burglar held in Chicago area burglary case
Suspected burglar Harry Williams, 30, of 512 West Michigan Street, was arrested on burglary and grand larceny charges by Detectives Walker and Thomas Wednesday night. He allegedly entered the home of Mrs. Lydia Whitcomb at 1105 North Pennsylvania Street and stole rugs valued at 800 dollars.
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Harry Williams
Michigan St
Walker
Thomas
Williams
Lydia Whitcomb
Pennsylvania St
Rail Board asks Congress for aid in Pennsylvani a row
The United States Railroad Labor Board seeks congressional power to compel the Pennsylvania Railroad to obey a board order. It holds the carrier violated the order by resisting a voting rule for clerks and freight handlers to choose a representative, risking contempt of the Supreme Court. The board petitions Congress on behalf of the clerks brotherhood.
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United Press
Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Congress
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brotherhood of
United States Supreme Court
Clerks’ Brotherhood
Bobbed Hair Trend Returns With Comfort And Style
A 1920s survey reports salons and barbers noting bobbed hair’s comeback driven by comfort, swimming ease, and style. Beauty parlors cite health claims and practicality, while some barbers see little change and caution against overstating a revival.
Lewallen Rites Held Civil War Vet John T Lewallen
Funeral for 84 year old Civil War veteran John T Lewallen was held at Hall Christian Church with burial at Hall Cemetery. He died at his daughter Mrs John Routon’s home Monday. Born in Montgomery County he served in Company D 117th Indiana Infantry. Surviving are daughter Mrs Routon and four Marion County grandchildren.
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John T. Lewallen
Marion County
Hall Christian Church
Hall Cemetery
Lewallen
John Routon
Montgomery County
117Th Indiana Infantry
Routon
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Leroy Hulm
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New York
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Cal
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Pensacola
Fla
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England
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France
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Socialist Party
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International
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U.S
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Dennis Griffin
Cleveland
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James Couzens
Michigan
John H. Karshner
Boys’ Industrial School
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Father
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Elmer Hartnett
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Candaa
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Man St
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Miss Allen
Miss Pratt
Lewis Lowe
McParland
Frank Judd
Charles M’elfresh
Rail Board
R. W. Close
Fowler & Stewart Beauty Parlor
Blue Bell Beauty Shop
L. Casey
North End
Tischmaker Shop
Ohio St
Dr. Caldwell
NHK
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Monticello
Ag Dean
Rochester
Alice Corbbrey
Haskell
Okla
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