Senate split over censure of Hiram Bingham over tariff actions
Senators drift toward supporting Norris resolution censuring Hiram Bingham if the word condemn is softened to disapprove. Aimed at his tariff reporting and staff, the measure could pass by a large margin after delays and possible apologies, with many lawmakers reluctant to weigh in on a public rebuke.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Hiram Bingham
Rep
Conn
Simeon D. Fess
Bingham
Congress
House
Virginia
Norris
Senate Judiciary Committee
Charlies L. Evanson
Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association
Bham
France
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Divorce rate rises in United States in 1928 figures
United States divorce increases, part of Commerce figures for 1928 show a ratio of one divorce to six marriages. The report offers no signal of improvement in the near future.
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United Press
Washington
United States
Part — of Commerce
Stamp Clubs Meet For Luncheon and Auction
The Lincoln's Home Stamp Club of Springfield Illinois will host the Indiana Stamp Club for a Sunday luncheon and stamp auction at the Hoosier Athletic Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln's Home Stamp Club
Springfield
Indiana Stamp Club
Hoosier Athletic Club
Queen Marie Driven From Romanian Palace in Royal Discord
Bay United Press reports Dowager Queen Marie of Romania fled Balchik amid royal family strife. Rumors allege opposition to her regency role for boy king Michael and an alleged ejection after Helena urged her departure. The palace exile follows prior royal tension including a street fight involving Prince Nicholas.
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Bay United Press
Berlin
Bucharest
Marie
Rumania
Balchik
Romania
Michaal
Helena
Ferdinand
Michael
Prince Nicholas
John Damian
Prince Carol Faces Court Over Damages and Coal Bills
Paris reports former Crown Prince Carol must pay 500 for apartment damages and unpaid coal, per a justice of the peace order. He plans to appeal in court on November 7 after protesting the ruling.
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United Press
Paris
Berlin
Bucharest
Balchik
Carol
Justice of the Peace
Prince Carol
Former D A Van Nuys to Speak for Democratic Campaign on Radio
Frederick Van Nuys former United States district attorney will speak for the Democratic city campaign over WFBM radio from 6 30 to 7 tonight. At 8 p m a meeting at 2003 Southeastern avenue will feature Reid Sullivan Albert Lon James E Deery and Frank P Baker. Mayor L Ert Slack and Walter Myers speak at Sixteenth and Illinois streets at the same hour followed by Sullivan Van Nuys and Henry Winkler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick van Nuys
United States
WFBM
Southeastern Avenue
Reid Sullivan
Albert Lon
James E. Deery
Frank P. Baker
L. Ert Slack
Walter Myers
Sixteenth
Illinois
Sullivan
van Nuys
Henry Winkler
Faucet disgorges fish in Chicago kitchen tale
Mrs. Emily Hoffman swears a four inch fish leapt from her kitchen faucet today. She reports the fish shot from the faucet and now every faucet in the neighborhood is running wide open in a curious widespread episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Chicago
Emily Hoffman
Dry lawyer named attorney general in charge of prohibition
Gustav Aaron Youngquist, a non drinker and friend of Andrew Volstead, is appointed by President Hoover to succeed Mabel Willebrandt as attorney general in charge of prohibition. He says he is dry politically and personally and will not be a fanatic in enforcement. Volstead praises him as a good lawyer and worthy successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
ST. Paul
Gustav Aaron Youngquist
Hoover
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Andrew Volstead
Minnesota
Youngquist
Post
Volstead
Willebrandt
October Weather Summary From Armington Meteorologist
The October average temperature ran 2.9 degrees below normal while rainfall exceeded by .88 inches. The month peaked at 77 on October 19 and cooled to 32 on October 23. Snowfall on October 23 measured 0.4 inches.
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J. H. Armington
Lutherans to Mark Four Hundredth Anniversary in Indianapolis
United Lutherans plan a Sunday observance of the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's small catechism in Indianapolis. A service at St. Mark's English Lutheran church on Prospect and Linden streets will feature Rev. Frank A. Drossel of Richmond as speaker.
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Luther
United Lutherans
Indianapolis
St. Mark's English Lutheran Church
Prospect
Linden Streets
Frank A. Dressel
First English Lutheran Church
Richmond
Nationalists win petition drive to force Young Plan referendum
Berlin reports Nationalist party gains a slim margin in collecting 4.1 million signatures to compel a referendum on Germany's acceptance of the Young plan. With about 99 percent counted, 10.16 percent of the electorate backed the petition, but victory does not guarantee rejection of ratification. The referendum requires roughly 20.5 million votes to swing the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Berlin
Nationalist
Germany
East Prussia
Reichstag
Charge Booze Deliver by 1026 West Thirty-fifth Street
Othelo Lefty Armstrong was charged with operating a blind tiger illegal sale and transportation of liquor after allegedly delivering two pints of bonded whisky to federal dry agents in a downtown hotel room.
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Othelo
Lefty) Armstrong
West Thirty-fifth Street
Armstrong
Hourly Temperatures Reported for Morning Hours
The record lists temperatures at 6 am 44 and 9 am 45 with the 10 am reading showing 8 am 44 and a note of the weather conditions. Readings indicate a cool start to the day with steady temperatures around mid forties.
Dry agent found guilty of murder
Chandler Oklahoma November 2 Jeff Harris a 65 year old undercover prohibition agent was found guilty of first degree manslaughter for the July 4 fatal shooting of farmer Oscar Lowery in a dry raid. Sentencing left to the court. Davis and James Harris were cited as having fired on him before he killed Lowery.
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Chandler
Okla
Jeff Harris
Harris
Oscar Lowery
Davis
Lowery
James Harris
Tragedy at Osceola Crossing: Nine Die in Train Collision
Nine members of the Flatt and Brannon families die when their car stalls on a railroad crossing in Osceola and is struck by a New York Central train. Betty Belle Vaughn, 5, is injured. Witnesses report the crossing bell rang and the whistle blew as the accident occurred Friday night near Newcastle and Osceola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Osceola
Ind
New York Central
John Flatt
Mary
Dewey Brannon
Virgie
Florence
Robert
Newcastle
Richard Allen Vaughn
Raymond Vaughn
Betty Belle Vaughn
Kathryn Minnegar
Lucille Davis
Advertising spree blamed for Foshay collapse in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis experts blamed a $500,000 advertising campaign and celebration marking the thirty two story building for the Foshay Company bankruptcy. The collapse, called a major regional disaster, was not blamed on the stock market. no criminal action was planned pending an official statement on the firm’s finances.
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United Press
Minneapolis
Minn
W. B. Foshay Company
Middle West
Twin City
The
Northwest
Foshay
Verbal clash over city purchases drags council talks
Council President Raub vows to call a special meeting before the election if Charles W. Jewett presents charges. Councilmen Meurer and Rathert postpone city purchasing inquiry until the Nov 11 meeting after the election. Observers say the push is campaign politics aimed at Coffin.
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Charles W. Jewett
Jewett
Edward B. Raub Sr
Raub
Albert Meurer
Paul Rathert
Meurer
George W. Coffin
Carnegie fund honors 51 hero acts with medals and grants
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission recognizes 51 acts of heroism in Pittsburgh. Two silver and 49 bronze medals awarded. dead heroes’ dependents receive pensions totaling 12,600. eight deaths receive 4,800. Grants for education and worthy purposes totaling 32,900 allocated. Walter Hess to receive bronze medal for drowning rescue attempt involving Robert Hannah in Rising Sun Indiana.
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Tnited
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Carnegie Fund
Walter Edward Hess
Rising Sun
Robert M. Hannah
Robert
Ohio River
Pedestrian Hurt by Taxicab and Car Collision
A pedestrian was struck by a taxicab driven by Fred Heyer at Ohio street and Indiana avenue Friday night and sustained minor head injuries. Another driver, T. Stuart, was bruised when his car collided with Kenneth Chappell at Twenty-ninth and Clifton streets Friday.
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Fred Heyer
North
Grant Street
Ohio Street
Indiana Avenue
F. W. Suhr
West Sixteenth Street
T. §. Stuart
Roache Street
Kenneth Chappell
West Thirty Third Street
Twenty-ninth
Clifton Streets
Hold Wilkinson Rites Panera Services for Philip Wilkinson
Philip Wilkinson 62 of 3457 North Ilinos street died Saturday at Methodist hospital. Services at Hisey and Titus mortuary 951 North Delaware street at 3 p m Sunday. Trial set at Peru Monday. Wilkinson was president of the Co-Operative Savings and Loan Association and a member of Indianapolis and Indiana Bar Associations. Born Peru October 21 1857 he came to City in 1891 to practice law after graduating from the University of Michigan. No immediate relatives survive.
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Panera
Philip Wilkinson
North
Ilinos Street
Methodist Hospital
Hisey & Titus Mortuary
Delaware Street
Peru
Mr. Wilkinson
Co-Operative Savings and Loan Association
Indianapolis
Indiana
University of Michigan
Three Pullmans derailed in Illinois Central wreck near Litchfield
A broken rail derailed seven cars of the Illinois Central Diamond Special ten miles north of Litchfield Illinois injuring seven people two seriously. A relief train with doctors and nurses rushed from Springfield. Mrs Ida Judd and a Negro chef were taken from the train and hospitalized while the remaining injured continued to Chicago.
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United Press
Litchfield
Ill
Illinois Central
Here
Springfield
Ida Judd
Chicago
Pork 15 Cents Higher at City Stockyards
Hog prices rose about 15 cents at the local stockyards with most sales in the 160 to 325 pound range around 9.60 and a few at 9.65. Cattle were steady but weekly activity was sharply weaker. weaners about 14.50 with lambs steady around 12 to 12.50 and best lambs near 11.50 down. Chicago hogs held at 9.30 to 9.35 for 190 to 240 pounds. receipts included 1,000 local and 5,000 direct hogs with holdovers about 3,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Meteor halts Belgrade wedding as meteor strikes guests
A wedding procession near Everman, Belgrade, Jugo Slavia, was disrupted when a meteor eighteen inches in diameter fell among guests. One man was killed and a woman injured as guests fled. The ceremony was postponed.
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United Press Belgrade
Jugo-Slavia
Everman
Republican Leaders Admit Municipal Election Is A Horse Race
Republican and Democratic leaders in Indianapolis call the Tuesday election a horse race with both sides claiming potential 6,000 vote margins. Labor and Ku Klux Klan dynamics, Coffinism opposition, and ward by ward results shape the contest as independents rise and the Fourth and First wards flip expectations.
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Ben Stern
Hoover
Smith
Marion County
Leslie and
Updike
Gloss
Brenner
Coffin
Grossbrenner
Citizens School
Fourth Ward
Duvall
Myers
Robinson
Stump
Leslie
Dailey
Ups Dike
Ludlow
Indianapolis
Jackson
Pest
Irvington
Truces Declared Between Chicago Board of Trade and Exchange
The Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Stock Exchange reach a peace pact to end their months long quarrel. The board will drop dual stock listings and the exchange will receive fifty issues as part of the compromise to resume trading on the board.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Stock Exchange
Grain Mart
Exchange
Board of Trade
Hope for Hunter Wane Winslow Hunt Extends Search
In Winslow Arizona on November 2, search efforts for W S Stanley a veteran Santa Fe locomotive engineer feared dead continue into day four. Rangers mountaineers and volunteers retrace canyons and snowbound ridges after he disappeared from a hunting party on Wednesday near the blue ridge mountains.
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United Press
Winslow
Ariz
Blue Ridge
Arizona
W. S. Stanley
Stanley
Santa Fe
Four of a Kind Born in Iowa and Texas
HARLES CITY Iowa Nov 2 triplets two girls and a boy arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs Leon Clark near Orchard. Mrs Clark previously bore a daughter and twins and then the triplets. Beaumont Texas Nov 2 Mr and Mrs Herbert Perricone welcomed quadruplets making eight children total all boys the mother 33 and in good health. Perricone a farmer.
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Harles City
Leon Clark
Orchard
United Preag Baumont
Tex
Herbert Perricone
Beaumont
Perricone
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Winkler
Sumner
Alfred M. Grossbrenner
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