Indiana colleges prepare to award over four thousand degrees
Seventeen Indiana institutions will grant more than 4,000 degrees in the next fifteen days. Purdue and Indiana University lead with about 1,667 and 450 grads respectively. Notre Dame, Manchester, Rose Polytechnic, and others will also celebrate commencements across June.
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Indiana
United Press
Purdue
Indiana University
University of of Notre Dame
Manchester College
W. G. Clippinger
Otterbein College
Westerville
O. Notre Dame
Claude G. Bowers
New York
Raymond Reardon
Waukegan
Joseph Smith
Vincennes
W. B. Dizzell
University of Oklahoma
Four-Legged Chickens Hatched In Covington
A chicken born in Covington Indiana has an extra pair of legs at the back. The four legged fowl died soon after hatching.
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Covington
Ind
Cardinal Lucon Dies After World War I Cathedral Heroism
Louis Cardinal Lucon of Rheims dies at 87 in Rheims France. Born Oct 28 1842 in Maulevrier he became cardinal priest in 1907 and led Reconstruction efforts for the cathedral after surviving its bombing during World War I.
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United Press
Rheims
France
Louis
Lucon
Cardinal Lucon
Maulevrier
Diocese of Angels
Gasparri
Lucan
Masonic Home Fire Damages Elizabeth town Building
A Tuesday night blaze in Elizabeth town destroyed the Masonic home and three business rooms after starting in a wareroom of L. T. Hammond grocery and meat market. Fire spread to a feed storage room valued at about $4,000 and damaged several residences including A. R. Anderson’s home.
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Times Specrer
Elizabethtown
Ind
L. T. Hammond
W. H. Newsom
A. R. Anderson
War Demonstration Tentatively Slated at Memorial Plaza
Chamber of Commerce military affairs committee plans a night demonstration of anti-aircraft guns and searchlights at the Indiana World War Memorial plaza during the stay of the sixty first coast anti-air artillery from June 6 to 9. Guns and lights will be shown daily with aircraft to be spotlighted over the city. The regiment will camp at Camp Gridley site along White River in Riverside park with special entertainment for officers and men.
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Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee
Indiana World War Memorial Plaza
Sixty First Coast
Camp Gridley
White River
Riverside Park
Rain Baby Case Narrated In Courtroom Testimony
In a crowded juvenile court session Mrs. Breedlove and Louis Reynolds faced neglect charges over the infant known as the rain baby. Reynolds testified about meeting Breedlove and abandoning the child with details of the Bloomington arrest and Indianapolis trip. Breedlove's supporters, including Mrs. John W. Kern, watched as motions to dismiss were denied and the trial proceeded.
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John W. Kern
Senator Kern
Fred Hoeltke
Hoeltke
Leo Brown
Foster Ragan
George Winkler
Miss Robbins
Breedlove
Frank J. Lahr
Reynolds
Vernon Lee
Bloomington
Bids On Sewer Work For Broad Ripple Interceptor
The John Dehner Company of Ft. Wayne submitted the low bid of 350000 dollars on the Broad Ripple interceptor cover. The sanitary board ordered tabulation by sewer engineer William Southerd and will award several smaller projects totaling 208000 dollars at the Thursday meeting.
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John Dehner Company
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Sanitary Board
William Southerd
Bus Petition Seeks Meridian Street Route
A petition to allow Union Traction Company buses on Meridian Street was referred to the park board by the board of safety. Traffic Captain Louis Johnson urged the safety board to grant permission for city buses on that street.
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Meridian Street
Union Traction Company
Park Board
Board of Safety
Louis Johnson
The
Safety Board
Conflicting Prison Murder Report Reaches Indiana Governor
Governor Harry G. Leslie faces conflicting statements on a May murder at Michigan City prison. A charities board report cites overcrowding and failure to separate mentally demented inmates as factors. The board notes Tom, 46, from South Bend, was involved in the fatal dispute over counting sheep.
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Harry G. Leslie
Indiana State
Michigan City
John A. Brown
State Board of Charities
Leslie
Tom
South Bend
Brown
W. H. Eichhorn
Een
Ofvestigated Charities Board
Bluffton, In
Beautiful I. U. Co-Eds Grace Year Book By Times Special
Bloomington Ind May 28 In the 1930 Arbutus Indiana university annual which was made public Tuesday are the pictures of the six most beautiful co-eds as judged by Don Herold New York and John Mellett Indianapolis. The beauty winners are Harriet Gragg Chi Omega Lowell Virginia Sharp Delta Gamma Evansville Judith Maury Kappa Alpha Theta Rushville Bery Ryan Kappa Kappa Gamma Chicago Lucille Hirsch Pi Beta Phi Attica and Margaret O'Hair Alpha Delta Pi Greencastle.
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Times
Bloomington
Ind
Arbutus
Indiana University
Don Herold
New York
John Mellett
Indianapolis
Harriet Gragg
Chi Omega
Lowell
Virginia Sharp
Delta Gamma
Evansville
Judith Maury
Kappa Alpha
Theta
Rushville
Bery Ryan
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Chicago
Lucille Hirsch
Pi Beta Phi
Attica
Margaret O’hair
Alpha Delta Pi
Greencastle
Secret witness names kept in Marion County grand jury probe
For the first time in twelve years witnesses before the Marion County grand jury are being kept secret as the election fraud probe continues. Special prosecutor Earl R. Cox led about ten witnesses, mostly poll workers, in hearings while subpoenas bypass regular sheriff's office channels. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and deputy George W. Eggleston attended. Eggleston investigated vote stealing and ballot tampering across precincts. Indictments against poll officials are rumored as four have been arrested in connection with ballot tampering.
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Marion County Grand Jury
Earl R. Cox
Grand Jury
Judson L. Stark
George W. Eggleston
Eggleston
Two Held Suspects In Big Mail Robbery
Postal inspectors in Cleveland report they have two suspects linked to the Asbury Park post office robbery of July 6 last year. James O’Neill, 48, and Frank Grabowski alias Robert Metzler were taken into custody, with Grabowski already in jail for dynamite possession since April 27.
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Cleveland
Asbury Park
N. J
James
Tip) O’neill
Frank Grabowski
Robert Metzler
O'Neill
Grabowski
Debts of Defunct Hoosier Club Paid in Full
Hoosier Athletic Club members revived activity after receiver John W. Twitty announced all debts were settled and creditors were paid dollar for dollar. The club, which closed last December, had its Pratt and Meridian streets building sold to George J. Marott who returned it to the members.
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Hoosier Athletic Club
City battles to preserve corner against business encroachment
The City Plan Commission ordered a new trial and potential appeal against Ostrom Realty Company over a disputed corner at Forty sixth Street and Boulevard Place. Plan attorney Albert Stump argues the building permit is invalid due to residential zoning though rezoning had been recommended. A rival plan praised the commission for resisting benches and ad posters on city property, with a decision delayed two weeks awaiting a larger vote.
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Forty Sixth Street
Boulevard Place
City Plan Commission
Albert Stump
Plan
Ostrom Realty Company
Harry O. Chamberlin
Duvall
Stump
Plan Commission
Forty-Sixth Street
George O’conner
Plan Body
J. H. Atherton
Plan Memr
Carl H. Bauer
Works Board
Bauer
St Vincent's to Graduate 34 Nurses at Commencement
Thirty four student nurses will graduate from St. Vincent's hospital training school at a 7 30 p m commencement in the nurses home auditorium. Rt Rev Joseph M Chart rand mand bishop of the Indianapolis diocese will deliver the address and present diplomas. Class of 1929 members will host a reception at the home after graduation. Debated vote cancellation noted in Decatur Ind with arrangements for a Saturday and Monday vote canceled.
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Indiana State Teacher's College
Terre Haute
Raymond Sparks
Norman Allan Imrie
Culver Military
Grees
Hanover College
Hanover
Stanley Coulter
Wabash College
Crawfordsville
Byron K. Trippet
Merle L. Shanklin
Ball State Teachers College
Charles Whitney Gilkey
School of Divinity
University of Chicago
de Pauw
Angus Coy Indianapolis
Edwin Holt Hughes
A. A. Shaw
Denison University
Franklin College
William Johnson
Franklin
St. Vincent's Hospital
Joseph M. Chartrand
Indianapolis
Duck with four legs trains with motor for marathon swim
Greensburg Indiana May 28 a local duck named Nancy added to William Lane’s flock has four legs with two extra ones well developed. The owner suggests an outboard motor if the fowl is to compete in marathon swimming against Nancy.
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Bu Times
Greensburg
Ind
Nancy
William Lane
Funds Recovered as Waggoner Settles Shortages
Former Washington township trustee John F Waggoner had charges dismissed after bond insurer United States Fidelity and Guaranty paid 12000 to settle shortages in township funds. Lawrence F Orr accepted the payment on behalf of the state board of accounts. Waggoner is serving a one to five year term in Michigan City for misusing public funds. In Vincennes a five year old girl died from burns after her dress caught fire from matches and paper.
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John F. Waggoner
Washington Township
Daviess County
Waggoner
Lawrence F. Orr
State Board of Accounts
Charles Edwards
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
William C. Hyatt
Truste
Michigan City
United Press
Vincennes
Ind
George Frances Murphy
King's Ransom in Gems Seized in New York
Police uncovered a vast stash of stolen jewels linked to a east coast gang. Robert C. Nelson of Sheepshead Bay was jailed on suspicion of buying stolen property as investigators announced more than a million dollars in gems seized from bank deposits in his name and that of Elizabeth Keating. Five accomplices were held without bail after a hotel room quarrel over a $300,000 jewel division.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Florida
Robert C. Nelson
Sheepshead Bay
L. I
Mulrooney
Nelson
George Simpson
Elizabeth Keating
Gray
Cathedral Student Injured by Iron Shot at School
John Cummins a Cathedral high school student and son of Mrs. Catherine Cummins of 850 North Oakland Avenue was struck on the head by an iron shot used in shot putting during a school yard incident Tuesday afternoon. He was unconscious but reported not in serious condition after admission to St Vincent's Hospital.
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John Cummins
Cathedral High School
Catherine Cummins
Oakland Avenue
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Cummins
Mayor Pled Guilty In Muncie Court
Mayor George R. Dale appeared in the courtroom of City Judge Frank Mann and pled guilty to a charge of violating motor laws. He paid an $11 fine and criticized local officials for crackdown actions, saying police promised cooperation but acted like Hessians, arresting over a hundred people.
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United Press
Dry Senators Face Ballot Test On Prohibition Referendums
UPI report notes bone dry senators debate state laws on repealing or modifying the eighteenth amendment. Senator Jones of Washington proposes a referendum path, while Senator Walsh signals possible support if voters demand it. Attorney General Mitchell shifts enforcement plans to the justice department starting July 1.
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Washington
Justice Department
Walsh
Mont
Jones
Rep
Wash
Tex
Texas
Mitchell
Hoover
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Montana
Tydings
Sheppard
City men among fliers graduated at Kelly Field
Two Indianapolis men and two Indiana natives are among 97 graduates of the United States advanced flying school at Kelly Field Texas set for June 21. Charles T. Maxwell and William R. White are the Indianapolis youths winning their wings. Robert P. Dooittle of South Bend and Robert J. Hixon of Smeet are listed as graduates.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
United States Advanced Flying School
Kelly Field
Texas
Washington, D. C
Charles T. Maxwell
William R. White
Robert P. Doo-ittle
South Bend
Robert J. Hixon
Smeet
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Homer P. Rainery
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Benjamin Vanpel
Mt. Vernon
St. Mary's-of-the- Woods
Marcella Suelzer
Wayne
James K. Ryan
Catholic University of America
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame
Charles L. Odonnell
University of Notre Dame
Goshen College
Albert C. Wieand
Bethany Bible School of Chicago
John F. Kanagy
Cable
Butler University
Cardinal Lucan
Masonic Temple
Ft. Wayne Firm Law
Broad Ripple
Board
Union Traction
Moorman
Charities Board
Beautiful
I. U
Grace
Judith Mauzy
Earl Cox
Hoosier
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Decatur
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Daviess Trustee
Jewel Gang
Cathedral High
Muncie
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