Mass Meeting Staged by Reds in City
About 800 people, including state officials, attended a May Day red rally on the east steps of the Indiana statehouse. Chicago Communist Joe Dallet spoke as banners demanded work or wages seven hour day and unemployment insurance. A committee sought Tomlinson Hall for continued meetings. Street procession followed toward the hall.
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Indianapolis
Statehouse
Joe Dallet
Chicago
Russia
Tomlinson Hall
Red Organization
Board of Public Works
Market Street
International Labor Day Observances Across Cities
Demonstrations marked May Day from London to New York to Shanghai with heavy police presence and no major violence. In the United States, 93 arrests were reported, including 56 in New York and others in New Britain, Stamford, Akron, Philadelphia, Schenectady, and Detroit as Communists sought to agitate amid the business downturn. In Moscow, thousands paraded as leaders reviewed the display, while in New York the Veterans of Foreign Wars held a two hour Union Square march where Rep. Hamilton Fish urged deportation of aliens allied with the Third Internationale.
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London
New York
Shanghai
United States
New Britain
Conn
Stamford Conn
Akron
Philadelphia
Schenectady
N. Y
Detroit
Berlin
Paris
Tokio
Moscow
Stalin
Voroshiloff
Kalinin
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Union Square
Hamilton Fish
Congress
Frank Eckert Dies Sudden at Home
Frank Eckert 77 of 2926 Bellefontaine Street Indianapolis star building superintendent dropped dead in his garden early today. Death due to heart disease per Coroner C H Keever. Survived by wife Beatrice Eckert and son George Eckert of Alexandria Ind. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Frank Eckert
Bellefontaine Street
Indianapolis Star
C. H. Keever
Eckert
Beatrice Eckert
George Eckert
Alexangeria
Ind
Capone and guards sailing for Gotham
Al Capone, retired Chicago gangster, departed Havana aboard the SS Tola for New York. He remained in his cabin guarded by four bodyguards and declined contact with callers. The Havana police had questioned him the day before about his plans.
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Edress
SS. Tola
United Press
al Capone
Chicago
Havana
Cuba
New K
Capone
Times Installs Citys Largest High Speed Press
The Times of Indianapolis launches a $125000 expansion with a six unit Hoe press delivering up to 160000 copies hourly. The upgrade retires two older cider mills and boosts circulation, news delivery, and ad quality for the 1929 era paper.
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Times
the Times
Indianapolis
New Times
Return to Indianapolis Reveals Home Burglary
Mrs. Lula Essex reports her Indianapolis residence at 725 Sanders Street broken into after a two week absence. Burglars ransacked the home and stole clothing.
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Indianapolis
Lula Essex
Sanders Stret
Three Alleged Hijackers Caught After Speed Chase
Deputies captured three alleged hijackers after a ninety mile an hour pursuit on West Washington street. A loaded coupe yielded fifty five gallons of alcohol. weapons were discarded as they were stopped. Mrs Ruth Davy 39 Virgil Moore 23 and William Brock 22 face charges of transportation possession of liquor and speeding.
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West
Rockville Road
Indianapolis
Ruth Davy
South Pennsylvania Street
Fox
Harry Bendel
William Cramus
Virgil Moore
Kentucky Avenue
William Brock
Blast Damages Kendallville Laundry Plant
An explosion in Kendallville Indiana blew out every window of a laundry plant Wednesday night. Owner C H Kimmel said matches in clothes in a dryer ignited the blast. The 3500 dollar machine was badly damaged. Forty workers left the room minutes before. flames were put out and the plant reopened the next day.
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United Press
Kendallville
Ind
Beliff
C. H. Kimmel
Six in Cabinet Slap Dry Law Probers Told
W H Stayton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, told the Senate lobby committee that President Hoover may doubt enforcement of prohibition. He cited remarks from cabinet members and a commission report suggesting doubt and possible substitutes.
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Probers
United Press
Washington
W. H. Stayton
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Senate Lobby Committee
Slayton
Stayton
Stimson
Labor
Davis
Commerce Lamont
Treasury
Mellon
Brown
Navy
Adams
Secretary of
Commerce
Lamont
Caraway
Congress
Wickersham Commission
Judge Kenyon
Dean Pound
Colonel Anderson
John R. Frost
Philadelphia
Unclear OCR Time Marks From Unknown Event
Fragmentary OCR data shows times and scores scattered like 6 a m 63 108 75 77 68 78 73. No clear entities or event context to identify persons teams places or outcomes. Further readable text needed for a proper headline and summary.
Attempted chloroform attack on sleeping couple shocks city
Mr and Mrs Ridlen at 2181 North Temple avenue narrowly escaped when intruders sprayed chloroform on blankets as they slept. No loot found and police note possible neighborhood tensions. A bottle of chloroform and disturbed footprints were found, with a prior claim of dog poisoning by the same suspects.
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Cumberland Ridlen
North Temple Avenue
Ridlen
Twenty-third
Bellefontaine Streets
Otto Raash
Roy Reeves
William Miller
Star Sprinter Paddock Served in Breach Suit
Charles Paddock, famed New York sprinter and ex Olympic star, faces a $100,000 breach of promise suit by Madeline Luberty. She alleges he announced their Cleveland engagement to reporters, urged a visit to his California-based parents, and broke off the engagement by departing Pasadena in September 1929, derailing a late October marriage planned for 1929.
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United Press
New York
Charles Paddock
Madeline Luberty
Cleveland
Luberty
Paddock
California
Pasadena
Bondsmen deny league sold influence in race
John Walker and other bondsmen deny Citizens Republican League could back a candidate for cash. Harry Rodman contends a talk at the New Marion Club included requests for payments to be slated. Dr Claude Hadden and Joe Foppiano are cited in denials and rebuttals.
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Citizens Republican League
John
Bull Moose) Walker
Walker
Harry Rodman
D. C
Rodman
Claude H. Hadden
The
Times
Joe Foppiano
Bondsmen
Seventh Ward
League
Hadden
Model Plane Event Arranged by Indianapolis Optimists Club
Plans for a competitive model airplane flight for boys are being organized by the Indianapolis Optimists Club. Carl W. Steeg reports the club’s officers Cy Gooding Everett Irish and Ed Manough have been installed. The group will attend a national Optimists convention May 9 and 10 at West Baden.
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Indianapolis Optimists Club
Carl W. Steeg
Steeg
Cy Gooding
Everett Irish
Ed Manough
Indianapolis
Optimists
West Baden
Hoover to Address Chamber of Commerce Opening Session
President Hoover will speak tonight at 8:30 Central Time to the nation via the National and Columbia Broadcasting networks opening the eighteenth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
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United Press
Washington
National
Columbia Broadcasting Organizations
President Hoover
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Lindbergh Lands In Nicaragua On Schedule Flight
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Nicaragua aboard a north bound mail flight from Panama and reported he landed at noon at Puerto Cabezas on schedule. He relayed the update by radio to Pan American Airways.
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United Press
Miami
Charles A. Lindbergh
Panama
Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua
Pan-American Airways
Hoover submits London naval treaty to Senate for ratification
President Hoover sent the London naval treaty to the Senate for rapid ratification. The document arrived twenty four hours after Secretary of State Stimson delivered it from the American delegation.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Senate
Stimson
Henderson Indorsed for Prosecutor by Local Republicans
Laurens L. Henderson was endorsed unanimously by the Third Ward Republican Club at a meeting on Twenty first street and Central avenue. He said he entered the campaign independently and without influence from any person, faction, or clique.
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Laurens L. Henderson
Third Ward
Republican Club
Twentyfirst Street
Central Avenue
Henderson
Elizabeth Evans Engaged to William Gossett of New York
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announces the engagement of his daughter Elizabeth Evans to William Thomas Gossett of New York, son of Mr and Mrs J T Gossett of Salt Lake City.
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New York
United Press
Charles Evans Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Realty expert imagines 2000 foot city blocks for cheaper streets
Leonard Reaume of the National Association of Real Estate Boards told an Indianapolis luncheon that wider thoroughfares and fewer cross streets could cut city maintenance costs. He cited a Detroit survey showing 15 per cent of street funds saved by fewer cross streets and argued current taxation penalizes homeowners. He noted renters face higher costs and rents rise with damaged rentals when walls are removed or neglected.
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Leonard Reaume
Detroit
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Indianapolis
Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick Vast Personal Campaign Expenditures
Ruth Hanna McCormick testified at the senate primary campaign inquiry that she spent about a quarter of a million dollars of her own money to win the Illinois GOP senatorial nomination over Charles Deneen. Deneen listed roughly $24,493 in expenses since filing. McCormick described a broad personal organization, extensive printing and county budgets, and urged a law defining when campaigns begin to curb such spending.
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Bu United Press
Washington
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Illinois
Charles Deneen
Senate
Deneen
McCormick
Truman H. Newberry
Mich
Comedy Star Weds Rich New England Paper Manufacturer
Musical comedy star Marion Crosby marries Otis Angier a wealthy New England paper mill heir. The couple wed Wednesday night and left on a shipboard bridal trip off the west coast of Mexico. Crosby Angier met years ago in New England where Angier’s family runs mills for over a century.
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Marion Crosby
New England
United Arena
Pasadena
Cal
Mexico
Otis Angier
Angier
Bicycle collision injures two youths in city
Frances Layman aged 14 and Robert Britton also 14 were riding a bicycle that struck an automobile driven by 20 year old Donald at 1627 Hoyt Avenue. Layman suffered a fractured leg and Britton was slightly hurt in the crash at Dawson Street area.
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Frances Layman
Esther Trefe
Dawson Street
Robert Britton
Bolton Avenue
Donald
Hoyt Avenue
Syenuas
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John Rusie
Fred C. Kinley
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LINDY
Miss Hughes
Reaume
Yjons of
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