Bus War Step in Public Transit Battle in Indianapolis
The Peoples Motor Coach Company seeks PSC authorization to run buses on Indianapolis streets with hearings continuing on merits. Indianapolis Street Railway Company rebuts legality of routes as drivers testify to attempts at segregated travel. Mrs Eliza Worley testifies buses occasionally accommodated colored passengers, morning session cut for bridge bid opening.
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Peoples Motor Coach Company
Public Service Commission
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Motor Coach Company
Elizabh Worley
Michigan St
Worley
State Highway Commission
House of Rep
Crash sinks Hoosier broker. $250000 loss feared
About 600 people in Illinois and Indiana were affected by the Jack H. Davis and Company collapse in Chicago. Loss estimated at 250000 dollars. Arthur S. Gerson detained by federal agents. Jack H. Davis, 21, sought as company president. Victims reported in Ft Wayne, East Chicago, and other towns.
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United Press
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Jack H. Davis
Hourly Temperature Readings Fragment
Readable fragments show hourly temperature readings from morning to noon with numbers and mislabeled times. Specific values and locations are unclear due to OCR damage but indicate a weather data brief segment.
Bordinos Maintain Home Base Near Speedway
Mrs Bordino runs the Bordino home in Speedway City while husband Pietro Bordino races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Turin native, who arrived six months ago, speaks little English but hosts dinners for racing crowd. They will return to Italy in June. interpreter Louis Fornaca and mechanic Frank Rosso stay with the family.
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Pietro Bordino
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
California
Bordino
Italy
Louis Fornaca
Frank Rosso
Missing Boys Prompt Police Search
Gerald Cox nine years old left his home at 1229 Nordyke Avenue. The stepfather Joe Hyer reported him missing. Al Brown aged 53 also missing from 1407 Nordyke Avenue. His son-in-law Cecil Hill says he was last seen in overalls.
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Gerald Cox
Nordyke Ave
Joe Hyer
al Brown
Cecil Hill
Firework permits loosened by safety board decision
Skinway and his gang celebrate as the board of safety votes to require permits only for large celebrations, allowing Fourth of July fireworks without red tape. The move eases restrictions on small displays and keeps permit rules for major events.
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Skinway
Board of Safety
City permits and smoker inspections total for week ending May 23
Francis F. Hamilton reports 369 building permits valued at 671164 and H. F. Templeton logs 72 smoker inspections for the week, as presented to the board of safety.
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Francis F. Hamilton
Board of Safety
H. F. Templeton
New Quake Reported in Western Japan District
A Tokyo dispatch to the Evening News says a second vertical earthquake struck the western Japan district, after last Saturday's quake. Remains of burned houses and shacks fell, but no deaths were reported.
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Jdanan
United Press London
Tokio
Evening News Today
Japan
Anniversary of Oriental Lodge Observed With Dinner
History of the Oriental Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons will be recalled at a temple dinner marking the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. Worshipful Master John Paul Ragsdale will welcome visitors. Past officers and members will attend in observance of the milestone.
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Oriental Lodge
A. M
John Paul Ragsdale
Speedway Bug Busy as Time Trials Begin
The annual battle for front row positions at the start of the 50 mile race is on as time trials begin at 1 p m. Cars qualify in rows of three with No 1 going to the speediest. Forecasts say records may fall as precision speeds push toward 100 mph or more in favorable weather. Hotels report full occupancy and fans arrive ahead of the big race weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Murphy
Ralph de Palma
Fireman Severely Injured In House Fire
Clark Hermsdorfer of Fire Company 11 was seriously hurt when knocked from a roof by hose back pressure at a home on 135 S Hawthorne Lane. He was taken to the city hospital as sparks from the furnace caused a fire damaging between 1500 and 2000 dollars. Butler students helped save interior furnishings.
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Clark Hermsdorfer
Fire Company 11
George Duffey
S. Hawthorne Lane
Butler
City council to decide police boost after double patrol rejection
Police Chief Rikhoff urged more officers to counter crime while Mayor Shank opposed a blanket double patrol. The board sent the issue to the council contingent on controller Hogue confirming funds for 30 to 40 additional officers by July 1, as vacancies persist and special details reduce force.
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Board of Safety
Herman F. Rikhoff
Shank
Rikhoff
Joseph L. Hogue
Hogue
Father Reunites With Son Ending Separation
After one and a half years apart, Mrs. Mercedes Derr regains custody of son Paul Theodore Derr Jr. from Milton Pennsylvania. Special Judge Lawrence Shaw ordered the return on May 14, placing the boy with Mrs. Derr’s mother, Emma Taggart, a police matron, as she plans to enroll in school next autumn.
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Mercedes Overr
Capitol Ave
Paul Theodore Derr, Jr
Milton
Lawrence Shaw
Superior Court
Pany
Indianapolis
Shaw
Derr
Don F. Roberts
Stephenson and two men held for trial dine in Noblesville jail
D C Stephenson Har Klinck and Earl Gentry were held for trial in Noblesville Indiana. On Monday night Mrs. Charles Gooding the sheriff's wife baked hot corn bread for the prisoners. The trio seemed to enjoy it.
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Noblesville
Ind
D. C
Earthquake Shakes Near Panama Reported in Loyola Seismograph
An intense earthquake shock lasting thirty seven minutes was recorded at Loyola University in New Orleans early today. Father O L Abell says the quake likely originated near Panama.
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United Press
New Orleans
Panama
Loyola University
O. L. Abell
Smoke Smog Violators Face Arrest Under New Code
City building commissioner Francis F. Hamilton says violators of the smoke ordinance could be jailed or hauled to the police station if the new building code is adopted. Inspector Herbert F. Templeton notes cooperation has ended and compulsion is needed after the three notice system proved impractical.
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Francis F. Hamilton
Hamilton
Herbert F. Templeton
Harry Thaw Returns to Broadway Nightlife After Prison
Harry F Thaw, famed for killing Stanford White in 1906, surfaces in Tex Guinans night club on Broadway after nineteen years in prison and asylum. He appears with a brunette as patrons recall his lavish youth while he enjoys champagne and old connections.
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Frank Getty
United Presse
New York
Tex Guinans
Broadway
Harry F. Thaw
Joe Rothschild
Bill Boyd
Mets
Pittsburgh
Harry In
Stanford White
Madison Square Garden
Harry
Gayety
Tex Guinan
Shim
Ike
Thaw
Tex
Beads Explode Inflicting Severe Injury To Child
In Ind a 10 year old girl Thelma Logan lost her thumb and three fingers on her right hand when a dynamite cap exploded as she and her 18 month old brother played with caps found in an abandoned house. The father gave the caps to the children, thinking them harmless, as the girl threaded them on a cord for beads. The younger child escaped serious harm.
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United Presa Feta Ore
Ind
Thelma Logan
Edward Logan
Here
Coolidge Supports Airship Use for Arctic Relief Trip
White House says President Coolidge favors potential use of the Shenandoah or the Los Angeles for Arctic relief if needed. Secretary Wilbur notes no official plans yet but he is giving the idea serious thought.
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United Press
Washington
United States Naval
Los Angeles
Arctic
Amundsen
White House
Coolidge
Wilbur
Naval Aeronautics
Norw Capital Grips for News on Polar Flight
Oslo anxious as Captain Roald Amundsen Lincoln Ellsworth and crew fail to send word. No weather data from Spitzbergen and a brewing Arctic storm heighten fear the air expedition failed and may force a ski ascent to Greenland hundreds of miles away.
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United Preas
Oslo
Roald Amundsen
Lincoln Ellsworth
Spitebergen
Arctic Circle
North Pole
Greeland Point
Pole
Polar dirigible expedition leader bets on Amundsen crash
Grettir Al garsson of Vancouver. B C. now fitting out a polar dirigible expedition theorized that both Amundsen planes had crashed and proposed to fly his craft in search of the expedition. He feared one plane's difficulties caused a forced landing and the rescuers' craft may have crashed into it. If no news soon he will attempt search with his dirigible.
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United Preas
Liverpool
Grettir Algarsson
Vancouver
B. C
Amundsen
Shaw on Stand as State Rested in Whelchel Murder Trial
John Thomas Shaw, 23, Indianapolis, testifies in his own defense in Martinsville Circuit Court. He denies killing Helen Hager Whelchel, 22, claiming only possession of her watch and ring. The case follows a reversed Marion County death sentence and a heated cross examination over testimony procedure.
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Martinsville
Ind
John Thomas Shaw
Indianapolis
Helen Hager Whelehel
Shaw
Marion County Criminal Court
John Shaw
Helen Hager Whelchel
Silas C. Kivett
Kivett
William H. Remy
Marion
Remy
Joseph H. Williams
Hunky John
Maryland St
Auto Driver Killed in Train Crossing Crash
Oliver Perry Thomasson 46 of Williams Indiana drove into a fast eastbound Pennsylvanian at Harding Street at 7 am and was killed instantly. The roadster was demolished and Thomasson’s body was thrown fifty feet along the track. Coroner found 575 dollars and two watches. police assess possible car theft.
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Oliver Perry Thomasson
Williams
Ind
Pennsylvania
Harding St
F. C. Aitken
N. Olney St
Edward Carter
Terre Haute
Joseph Klaiber
Stanzy
Thomasson
Francis M. Randall
Lexington Ave
Lagman
Lawrence County
Indiana
Paul F. Robinson
Big Gem Hold-Up Shocks Chicago Diamonds Looted
In Chicago an armed gang robbed Adolph Gastman's jewelry store at dawn, escaping with $150,000 in diamonds and jewelry plus $3,839 cash. The men bound three employees and fled into Dearborn Street after looting safes unlocked for the day. A worker freed himself and fired four shots but the bandits vanished into the busy crowd.
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United Press
Chicago
Adolph Gaatman
Gastman
Dearborn Street
Rotary luncheon at Claypool hosts Myers and Hannagan
Theodore BE. Myers secretary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and publicist Steve Hannagan speak at an Ada Rotary Club luncheon at Claypool, sharing updates and insights.
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Theodore BE. Myers
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Steve Hannagan
Ada Rotary Club
Claypool
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Myers
Battle Crime Wave
Duvall
Rikho
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Harry K. Thaw
U. S
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Times
Remy Objects
Michigan City
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Hunky
Tennessee
Kingan & Co
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Bandits
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