G O P Faces Rout in House Over Tariff Debate
In Washington on May 11, House leaders let general tariff debate continue into its third day as Senate adjourned for a farm relief vote. Farm bloc dissatis faction grows over sugar and machinery duties while Michigan and Pennsylvania delegations waver. Senate salary limit vote on the federal farm board triggers friction with Hoover, and Brookhart planned to address the pseudo-Republicans amid tense politics.
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United Press
Washington
House
Senate
Farm Bloc
Michigan
Tilson
Snell
Rules Committee
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Brookhart
Iowa
Awent
Fess
Ohio
Borah
County Fights Daylight Time Again
County commissioners declared they will not set the courthouse clock back to daylight saving time, defying city council plans. Citizens angry over last year’s double time changes flood the Times with votes in the daylight saving poll, while officials insist on following state law.
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Indianapolis
George Snider
Commissioners
Times Daylight Saving
Indianapolis Times
Dem
Coffin
Coffinites
L. Slack
Denied Auto Provokes Poignant Poison Escape
Daniel Godsey refused to let his son use the car prompting Robert Godsey to swallow chloroform liniment and flee via a rear door. Police tracked him as he returned home, a Marine on furlough with swollen lips today. In Chicago, Walter Smith won the University of Chicago mustache cup in a dark horse upset.
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Daniel Godsey
Adams Street
Robert Godsey
United States Marine Corps
Chicago
University of Chicago
Walter Smith
Gene Alger Paroled to Return Home on Mother's Day
Gene Alger, 21, granted parole from a two to twenty one year manslaughter sentence by Indiana state prison trustees on Governor Leslie plea. He may live at 409 North Walcott street with his mother Mrs Mina Alger, signing papers at Pendleton reform school with his father G E Alger to secure freedom. He was jailed for the July 9 1926 killing of Trafficman John Buchanan during an attempted auto theft.
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Gene Alger
Indiana State Prison
Harry G. Leslie
North Walcott Street
Mina Alger
John Buchanan
Alger
G. E. Alger
Pendleton
Gene
Cyclist Frank Fink Killed in Harmon Street Crash
Frank Fink aged 20 of 428 Warsaw street died after his bicycle collided with a westbound car on Empire street at 6 30 p m. He was thrown into the car’s glass door, suffered a severe head wound, and died two hours later at City Hospital. Driver Edward Bastian, 23, of 606 Broadway, was involved.
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Frank Fink
Warsaw Street
Harmon Street
Edward Bastian
Broadway
Empire Street
Fink
City Hospital
Hearts Flutter as Gilbert Weds Ina Claire in Desert Setting
Hollywood hears that John Gilbert and Ina Claire wed in Las Vegas New Mexico ending a 21 day romance amid rumors of romantic complications for Claire. Gene Markey dismisses wedding rumors and laments over Claire Gilbert union while a Los Angeles report notes a suicide attempt by an extra linked to the wedding.
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Cal
John Gilbert
Ina Claire
Hollywood
Miss Claire
Las Vegas
N. M
Gilbert
Greta Garbo
Gene Markey
Markey
New York
Los Angeles
Marie Stanley
United Press
Evanston
Iaa Claire
Federal probe asked into Wild & Co securities sales
Federal authorities may investigate the sale of second mortgage bonds by J. F. Wild & Co State Bank before its July 1927 closing. The case involves unregistered securities, mailed bonds across Kansas, and potential mail fraud under federal law. Officials allegedly sold about $62,000 in bonds on bank statements.
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J. F. Wild & Co. State Bank
State Securities Commission
Ingerrose Investment Company
Kansas City
Haag Drug Company auction bids opened for stores and warehouses
Ten Haag Drug Company stores and two warehouses went on the auction block under Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bush. Bids were sealed and turned over to Indiana Trust Company, guardian for Elnora C. Haag. The $227000 appraisal and open court bidding plan were announced as national chains and local druggists eyed the property. Six stores lie in the mile square, the rest on the north side.
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Haag Drug Company
Mahlon E. Bush
Indiana Trust Company
Guardian
Elnora C. Haag
Bash
Bush
Mile Square
Hog Market Mixed Movements In Local Stockyards
The hog market showed a two way move with light hogs down 3 to 35 cents and other weights steady to 10 cents lower. The bulk of 160 to 300 pound hogs sold at 11.25 dollars. Receipts totaled about 2,500 with 1,812 hardovers from Friday. Cattle were steady with few head here. Wealers fluctuated 3.50 dollars lower. Sheep and lambs held steady.
Honeymoon In Jail After Elopement
May 11. Mr. and Mrs. John Drolshagen aged 18 and 153 are in police custody after eloping Friday to Bowling Green Ohio. Drolshagen felled his prospective father in law with a jaw blow when remonstrance over the marriage occurred.
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United Press
Detroit
John Drolshagen
Bowling Green
Grandfather Drowns Trying to Save Grandchild on Bridge
Harold Lawrence, three, fell twenty feet into Conestoga creek after Jacob Lawrence pushed him from a narrow bridge to shield him from an oncoming automobile. The boy drowned. the grandfather was struck and injured by the car.
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Lancaster
Harold Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence
Conestoga Creek
Jewelry theft at Robie residence valued at three thousand
Mrs. G. F. Robie found two diamond rings missing after a thief unlocked a side door while she tended flowers Friday. Police searched for the robber. no trace found. Other incidents include a burglary at Rollie Middleton’s home with no items reported missing and Otto Scherer robbed of $70 by a woman at Vermont and West streets. A prowling woman allegedly targeted Prince Vladimir Eristayi and Princess Diana Tchitcherine at the Rockwood home, entering the second floor before maids spotted her.
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G. F. Robie
Central Avenue
Rollie Middleton
Eugene Street
Otto Scherer
West Morris Street
Vermont
West Streets
Vladimir Eristayi
Diana Tchitcherine
George O. Rockwood
North
Delaware Street
Rockwood
Defense presses appeal after jury verdict motions in interstate car theft case
After Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick refused to order acquittal for three of the four defendants in the interstate motor theft ring trial, defense lawyers moved to ac quit certain defendants. The government rested after more than eighty witnesses, with motions targeting L. A. Wilkerson Vincennes Joseph M Huffington and Sheldon L Beanblossom. Leo Baldwin was not included in the motions.
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Thomas W. Slick
L. A
Evansville
Leo Baldwin
Wilkerson
Huffington
Beaublossom
James Bruck, Labor Editor, Dies in Chicago
James Bruck editor of the Federation News and labor figure who organized the Postal Clerks Union and founded its publication Union Postal Clerk died in Chicago after a long illness.
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Chicago
James Bruck
Federation News
Postal Clerks’ Union
The
Union Postal Clerk
Operation Saves Mrs Gene Tunney in Italy
On Brioni island Pola May 11 two Berlin specialists Dr A V Meyer and Dr Fritz Meyer operated to remove an abscessed appendix on MrsGene Tunney hospital authorities reported the operation successful and she was on the way to recovery today.
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United Press Pola
Italy
Gene Tunney
Berlin
Brioni Island
A. V. Meyer
Fritz Meyer
Tunney
Opening Markets Show Gains on New York Exchange
Opening prices on the New York Stock Exchange were higher with gains up to over a point and active trading for a Saturday. Paramount Pictures rose after its first sale. United Corporation and several utilities posted advances while carriers and industrials led the session.
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Elmer C. Walzer
United Press
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Paramount Famouse Lasky
North American
Atlantic Refining
Hudson Motors
Westinghouse Electric
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
United Corporation
Consolidated Gas
van Sweringen
Erie
New York Central
General Motors
United States Steel
American
Montgomery Ward
International Nickel
Interna
Indianapolis City Manager Law Suit Faces Postponement
Hearing on an injunction to block city election commissioners from Indianapolis election this year was postponed as defense teams seek more time to respond to an amended complaint adding constitutional challenges to the 1929 amendments. Judge Dunlavy took the case under advisement and may require the amended filing after those amendments take effect.
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Supreme Court
Election Commissioners
City
Indianapolis
Superior J
Ira M. Holmes
Holmes
Clifford Kane
Fede
Keane W
George W. Coffin
Dtrict
Feder
Freight Rates Cut By Indianapo and Southeastern Railroad
The Indianapolis and Southeastern railroad announced a noon freight rate reduction effective Monday May 13 with about a ten percent cut in livestock rates. Increased business on the lines between Indianapolis Connersville and Green made the expansion of service possible and the livestock cut is about 2 cents per hundredweight.
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Indianapo & Southeastern Railroad
Pany
Indianapo
Connersville
Gree
Mighty Graf Zeppelin Sets Sail for Second Atlantic Voyage
The Graf Zeppelin is slated to depart Friedrichshafen on May 15 with mail, express and passengers for a second trans Atlantic crossing. It is expected to reach Lakehurst by May 17 or 18, then depart four days later for the return voyage to Germany with mail and passengers.
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Mighty Graf Zeppelin
Atlantic
Friedrichshaven
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Lakehurst
Ceremany
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