City Council Delays Daylight Saving Time Vote
Mayor Slack may veto the daylight saving ordinance after Monday night’s approval. He plans hearings and a decision by next Tuesday or Wednesday, with ten days to act and possible pocket veto. The measure drew about 200 citizens at a public hearing and a near-even poll split.
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L. Ert Slack
Slack
Indianapolis Times
Herman P. Lieber
John F. White
Earl Buchanan
Edward Harris
Albert Meurer
Meredith Nicholson
Robert E. Springsteen
Edward B. Raub
Lieber
Paul Rathert
President and Mrs Coolidge Attend Ringling Circus
President and Mrs. Coolidge accept an invitation to a matinee by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey in Washington. Mrs. Coolidge plans to watch the entire show while the president will only view the animals and fishes.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Ringling Brothers and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Lindbergh Plans Atlantic Flight and European Tour
Col Charles A Lindbergh has outlined a four hop trans Atlantic flight in a Ford tri motor all metal plane with a northern route from St Johns Newfoundland likely in early June. He will stop in Greenland Iceland and Croydon England before touring Europe and may place the Spirit of St Louis in a Smithsonian Building for posterity.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Europe
Asia
North American
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Henry Ford
Lindbergh
Greenland
Iceland
Croydon
England
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Senate Gets Tax Bill With Major Reduction
Washington May 1 The House tax reduction bill with amendments providing a 203000000 cut was reported to the Senate by Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee today. He gave notice the measure would be called up Thursday.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Stay woman's hanging delays Arizona execution
Mrs Eva Dugan, the first woman sentenced to death in Arizona, had her execution stayed when attorney Stanley Samuelson filed an appeal to the Supreme Court. She was to be hanged on June 1 for the murder of rancher A J Mathis.
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United Press
Tucson
Ariz
Eva Dugan
A. J. Mathis
Stanley Samuelson
Supreme Court
Memorial Rites For Cassius C Shirley
Memorial services for Cassius C. Shirley an Indianapolis attorney who died April 28 were held at a joint meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Howard County Bar Association in the Federal Building today.
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Cassius C. Shirley
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Bar Association
Howard County Bar Association
Indiana Spelling Bee to Crown State Champion at Caleb Mills Hall
More than thirty county spelling bee champions from across Indiana compete for the state title at Caleb Mills Hall Shortridge High School. The winner earns a five day all expenses paid trip to Washington DC to enter the national spelling contest with cash prizes totaling 2500 dollars. Event is free and open to the public at 8 15 p m Friday. Leading faculty from four Indiana colleges oversee the event.
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Indiana
Entry closes midnight for 500 mile speedway race
The sixteenth international 500 mile motor sweepstakes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 30 drew 31 entries with eight Indianapolis designed cars among 33 permitted starters. Foreign entries include Prince Ghica with a Cozette and Shorty Cantlon in a Bugatti as part of a field featuring Marmon, Stutz, Duesenberg and Marion Chevrolet specials plus drivers such as De Paolo, Bergere, Duray, Sanders, Stapp and Cantlon.
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Frank Lockhart
Metals Protection Company
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Cliff Bergere
Leon Duray
George Sanders
Fred Comer
Dave Evans
Babe Stapp
Phil Shafer
Earl de Vore
Louis F. Schneider
Lou Moore
Norman Batten
Jimmy Hill
Pete Kreis
Johnny Seymour
Tony
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Anthony Guloita
Thomas Milton
Detroit
Cliff Durant
Peter de Paolo
Flying Cloud
Miller
Elgin Piston Pin Co
Elgin
H Kohlert
William S. White
Williams
White
Boyle Valve Co
Boyle Valve
Cliff Woodbury
Billy Arnold
Metals Protection Corp
Chromilite
Sinclair Denies Slush FundPlot In Senate Testimony
Oil magnate Harry F. Sinclair explains at the Teapot Dome Committee hearing that Continental Trading Company bonds and profits were handled as ordinary business deals. He says he received 757000 from the venture and later returned his share with interest, claiming innocence about forming a secret political fund.
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United Press
Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
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Liberty Bonds
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of
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H. M. Blackmer
James E. O'Neil
Blackmer
Hays
M. T. Everhart
Continental
Walsh
Coolidge Opens Cascade Tunnel Longest in West
President Coolidge will press a button at 4 PM to open the Cascade tunnel of the Great Northern Railway. The seven mile tunnel is the longest in the western hemisphere and the fifth longest globally. A letter to Ralph Budd will be read at the ceremony.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Cascade Tunnel
Great Northern Railway Company
Hemisphere
Ralph Budd
Road
Ford Plant Opening Delayed By One Week
Ford's E Washington Street assembly plant opening is postponed another week. Manager George Steinmetz said equipment is not in shape. initial employment expected around 250 in opening week, rising to about 900 within two months after starting production.
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E. Washington St
George Steinmetz
Steinmetz
Knapp Trial Delayed to Wednesday in New York Case
The trial of Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp was adjourned until Wednesday shortly after it was called for trial today in New York. The proceedings began with Mrs. Knapp facing charges in a case involving a former New York official.
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New York
United Press
Florence E. S. Knapp
May Day Gifts Bring Health Week Cheer to Indianapolis Shut-Ins
The Public Health Nursing Association Girl Scouts and the American Red Cross motor corps distributed flowers to hundreds of sick children in city hospitals and many homes. Six welfare agencies planned activities for National Child Health Week with programs at Riley Hospital and other homes led by staff and volunteers.
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Girl Souts
American Red Cross Motor Corps
Mary A. Meyers
Marion County Tuberculosis Association
Riley Hospital
City Hospital
Glen Hoover
Social Service Department
Rainie Miller
St. Margaret's Guild
Mile
Theo Hewes
Leota Trook
Board of Children's Guardians Home
Witness airs Klan demands in Indiana deposition
Highway Director John D Williams testified in a deposition at the attorney general s office that the Ku Klux Klan sought to control all state purchases including highway funds. He recalled a 1926 conversation with Walter Bossert who said the Klan spent 80000 in 1924 elections and should dictate state procurement. Williams said he was not a Klansman and would resist such demands. Attorney Fred Gause led the deposition with more to come, including one from D C Stephenson.
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John D. Williams
Attorney General's Office
Arthur L. Gilliam
Indiana
William
L. S. Bowman
Walter Bossert
Williams
Fred Gause
Supreme Court
D. C
Public Service Head to Be Elected Soon
The public service commission will hold the annual election of chairman this week, announced by Chairman Frank T. Singleton. The term expires July 1 and a possible reappointment by Governor Jackson is in doubt amid reports Jackson may name his secretary Pliny Wolfard to succeed Singleton. delay occurred due to the absence of Commissioner Calvin McIntosh.
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Jackson
Calvin McIntosh
Pliny Wolfard
Wolfard
Judge Orders Mines Near Bicknell Opened
Superior Judge Linn D. Hay ordered three Knox Consolidated Coal Company mines near Bicknell reopened as.receiver Edwin D. Logsdon receives the order. Wages will mirror the November 1917 scale with inside workers at not less than $5 daily, loaders and machine operators earning $7 to $12, outside workers from $4.35 for top men to $160 monthly for first engineers.
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Bicknell
Linn D. Hay
Edwin D. Logsdon
Shumaker Surrenders in South Bend Bond Posts in Alleged Corrupt Practices Case
Rev. E S Shumaker superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon League surrendered in South Bend posted a 1000 bond to await trial on a corrupt practices charge alleging he listed US Senate candidate Arthur L Gilliam as wet in the American Issue The move followed sharp public rebuttals including a letter from Sullivan County deputy sheriff Baxter Plew and a detailed public records rebuttal of Luther Keene and Newman Guy liquor arrest figures The case moves toward a Friday arraignment and trial with Gilliam canceling campaign events if needed
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Indiana Anti-Saloon League
QO. C. Phillips
Kokomo
Howard County
Shumaker
United Press
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Phillips
Baxter Plew
Sullivan County
Indiana Sheriffs’ Association
Plew
Luther Keene
Shelburn (Ind
Methodist Church
Keene
Newman Guy
Guy
Edward 8S. Shumaker
South Bend
Ind
James Bingham
Gilliam
United States
Byron Pattee
United Press Dispatch
Bingham
Albert E. Monger
M. W. Sunderman
Earl Elsworth
Mervin Campbell
D. D. Bowsher
W. B. Schaefer
Indianapolis
Shumakeer
Omer Hawkins
Bernard Keltner
Arthur Gilliam
Supreme Court
Elevated rapid transit plan backed by Indianapolis mayor
Mayor L Ert Slack endorses an elevated rapid transit system to loop around the business district. He calls for study of routing and property acquisition to build a Monon Railroad aligned line from the fairground to Broad Ripple with feeders, aiming to relieve bus and streetcar congestion on Delaware and Washington streets.
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Indianapolis
Slack
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Delaware Sts
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Washington St
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Broad Ripple
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Riverside
Ministers Back Hoover in Local Straw Vote
Seventeen of twenty Indianapolis ministers at a Ministerial Association meeting voted for Herbert Hoover in a presidential straw poll at the YMCA. None backed Watson. two abstained as Democrats and one was noncommittal. If Al Smith is the Democratic nominee they will support Hoover.
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Indianapolis
Magnetic compass sense may guide animals say researchers
Dr Frederick Tilney of Columbia University reports experiments hinting at a magnetic sense in animals that guides homing instincts. He proposes the retina could be the organ for this sense, an discovery that could add a ninth sense alongside sight hearing touch taste and smell.
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Frederick Tilney
Columbia University
Dr. Tilney
Indiana Be Yourself series opens by Will Irwin at Indiana
The Times begins a three part series by Will Irwin titled Indiana Be Yourself. Irwin, renowned as the greatest living reporter and a former World War correspondent, analyzes the current political situation in Indiana in his distinctive style.
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