City engineer fight folds into Indianapolis power struggle
Three factions that backed John L. Duvall for mayor now seek control of the city engineer department. The Klan allegedly backs assistant city engineer M. N. Beebe while George W. Schmidt and Frank I. Lingenfelter loom as favored rivals. Armitage and Coffin demand better share and Duvall faces Republican criticism for his secrecy. A mass meeting is planned in Tomlinson Hall Friday night.
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John L. Duvall
Indianapolis
M. N. Beebe
George W. Coffin
George W. Schmidt
William H. Armitage
Shank
Franki. Lingenfelter
Armitage
Coffin
Duvall
Tomlinson Hall
Coffin Keeps Low Profile After Election Loss
Mayor elect John L. Duvall left town as Coffin the Republican city chairman and William H. Armitage faced job seekers. Coffin avoided city headquarters while Armitage met people but offered nothing. Joe Bell, ex secretary to Indiana Klan leader Walter Bossert, waited there for Coffin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Duvall
George W. Coffin
William H. Armitage
City Hall
Coffin
Duvall
Bill Armitage
Bill
Joe Bell
Walter Bossert
Indiana
The
Blood taint admitted in Rhinelander annulment trial
Leonard Kip Rhinelander seeks an annulment from his wife, claiming his marriage was invalid after his attorney says the bride has colored blood in her veins. The admission by Mrs Rhinelander’s counsel shocked a packed court on the trial’s second day in White Plains New York.
State House Offices to Close Observing Armistice Day
Indiana officials announced most state house offices will close Wednesday for Armistice Day though no statewide proclamation has been issued. A recent governor proclamation requests a two minute pause in state activities at 11 a m.
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Statehouse
Indiana
Public Service Counsel Sues for Receiver Over Insolvent Firm
Taylor E B Groninger, counsel for the public service commission and a stockholder, filed suit in Superior Court One seeking a receiver for the Federal Finance Company, which he claims is insolvent and indebted.
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Taylor EB. Groninger
Public Service Commission
Federal Finance Company
Superior Court
Groninger
Belief Blazer Victimless Murder Charge Will Fail
AIS lawyers say Dr. Harold Blazer is a guiltless killer in a poisoning case. Defenders claim the jury sympathies favored the old country physician who cared for his mentally disabled daughter. Photographer Cyril Norred identified trial photographs, with Dr. Pershing as the last defense witness.
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United Press
Littleton
Colo
Harold BE. Blazer
Lewis Mowry
Cyril Norred
Armistice Day Observed With Quiet Plea for Peace
President Coolidge urged a brief nationwide pause tomorrow at 11 a m to observe Armistice day as Europe celebrates Locarno agreements and the League of Nations progress. Sir Eric Drummond lauded the League while Raymond Poincare urged peace and warned Germany's possible rearmament could threaten the peace.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Raymond Poincare
France
Locarno
Germany
Mayor Shank Urges Quiet Armistice Day Pause
Mayor Shank asks Indianapolis residents to observe Armistice Day with a two minute quiet at 11 am on Wednesday following President Coolidge. A mass meeting at Keith's Theater at 12:15 pm organized by the American Legion will cap the day, after a parade led by Ft. Benjamin Harrison’s 11th Infantry and band with twenty Legion posts.
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Shank
President Coolidge
Indianapolis
Keith’s
American Legion
11Th Infantry
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Legion
National Legion
Fred C. Gause
Carleton McCulloch
Dwight E. Aultman
George Allison
Francis Gavish
Meridian
New York
Circle
Market
Illinois
Washington
Keith
Deputies Arrest Several Suspects In Late Night Stops
Deputy Sheriffs Ragan and Brown arrested Marion Stucker 21 Franklin Ind for speeding Monday night. Albert Denny 27 Whitcomb St faced reckless driving charges. Lon Collins 50 627 N Illinois St John Barber 26 732 Douglass St and Isaac Moore 35 414 E Pratt St are charged with driving while intoxicated. Moore also faces failure to stop after an accident.
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Marion Stucker
Franklin
Ind
Ragan
Brown
Albert Denny
Whitcomb St
Lon Collins
Illinois St
John Barber
Douglass St
Isaac Moore
E. Pratt St
Moore
219 Building Permits Issued This Week
Building Inspector Francis F. Hamilton reported 219 permits issued during the week ending November 7. Valuation of buildings to be erected totals 1,630,310 dollars.
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Francis F. Hamilton
Bandit Attacks and Robs Woman. Youths Nabbed by Police
A colored bandit in an auto robbed and beat Miss Dora Bartlett near Thirty-Fourth and Clifton Streets at 12 30 a m. She and Miss Anna Alvin were chased by suspects, with a 17 year old arrested on a 2000 bond. Three prowlers frightened from homes and two youths arrested after a break in at Taylor Pharmacy.
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Dora Bartlett
Thirty-Fifth St
Thirty- Fourth
Harding Sts
Miss Bartlett
Thirty-fourth and
Clifton Sts
Anna Alvin
Fastern Ave
Eastern Ave
Tenth St
E. J. Sternberger
Pennsylvania St
Edward Jordan
Sugar Grove Ave
Motorpolice Chitwood and
Maas
Fifteenth
Meridian
Robert P. Osman
N. Talbott Ave
Paul Janison
Church St
Maurice McCarty
Twenty-Fifth St
Illinois St
Taylor Pharmacy
Janitor Jobs Saved and Finance Committee Opinion
Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam delivered an opinion to Henry Roberts that the State finance committee cannot directly discharge state employees. Reductions must come through expenditure limits. The committee had ordered Roberts’ janitors to drop from 32 to 29.
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Atty
Arthur L. Gilliam
Henry Roberts
Statehouse
State Finance Committee
Roberts
Hourly Temperature Readings Note
Readable OCR fragment shows noon and 1 pm temperatures 37 and 42 degrees. No clear location date or entities.
School Chief to Fight Move of Office to Courthouse
County School Superintendent Lee E. Swails vows to contest a courthouse move from the basement to the fourth floor as four municipal courts prepare to open on January 1. Swails, aided by Marie Green and Raymond Sanders, says the fourth floor will be inaccessible to teachers and students. The board of commissioners says office construction will proceed with sheriff assistance if needed.
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Omer Hawkins
Lee E. Swails
Swails
Marie Green
Raymond Sanders
Board of Review
Huge Auto Tax Cut Proposed in Revenue Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee wrote a $100 million tax reduction into the new revenue bill. Auto taxes would drop by $70.537 million, cigars by $12 million, and alcohol by $4 million. Auto truck taxes and tires would be eliminated, and the 5 percent rate on pleasure cars would fall to 4 percent. Theater taxes on legitimate drama and opera were removed, but retained on music shows, movies, circuses, baseball, prize fights, and vaudeville.
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Ways and Means Committee
Coolidge Eyes Tokio Parley On Arms Limits
President Coolidge indicated serious consideration for any official proposal through proper channels for an arms limitation conference in Tokio. The idea was reported by Scripps Howard papers and backed by the Japanese press, with White House officials speaking on the matter.
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United Press
Washington
Tokio
Scripps
Howard
Coolidge
White House
Prohibition Resolutions Target Coolidge Mellon
Anti-Saloon League leaders mailed resolutions to President Coolidge and Treasury Secretary Mellon urging strict enforcement of prohibition. The measures demand civil service for agents, harsher penalties for forged permits, deportation of violators, a tax on cereal beverages, confiscation of prewar liquor, and continued federal funding for policing posters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anti-Saloon League
League
Coolidge
Treasury
Mellon
Jmanifest
Civil Service
Fifteen Hurt in Traction Car Collision Near Plainfield
A head-on crash of two T H I E traction cars near Plainfield at 6 45 a m injures fifteen, eight treated on site. Motormen and conductors escaped injury. slippery tracks blamed. Eastbound commuter car from Plainfield and westbound from Indianapolis collided about eighteen miles west of Indianapolis. Names of the injured include Arthur Pelton Betty Brewer James Morrison Miss Hays Mrs Fred Byram Miss Greenlee E P Rivers Miss Billie Mae Krieder.
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Plainfield
Jerry Matters
Thirty-Second St
Frank Rhodes
Greencastle
John M. Snoddy
Talbott Ave
H. E. Hemphill
Indianapolis
C. H. Carter
Betty Brewer
James Morrison
Miss Hays
Fred Byram
Greenlee
E. P. Rivers
Billie Mae Krieder
Storms Ahead for His Honor Faces Duvall Fallout
Duvall returns from vacation to a Republican scene where councilmen elect fault his major appointments for not consulting them. Bill Armitage, a Duvall ally, voices sharp criticism and hints at switching support after Ruckelshaus praised Duvall. Armitage now asserts he remains for Duvall.
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Republican
Duvall
Bill Armitage
Ruckelshaus
Bill
Armitage
Denatured Alcohol Ad Ban Seeks Clarity in Ads
Deputy Prohibition Administrator Ansel R. Harris said stores and filling stations must stop advertising denatured alcohol as alcohol. He called it a violation of Section 17 of the national prohibition act to omit the word denatured in advertising for use in automobile radiators. He warned that some people might drink the sign listed as alcohol.
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Ansel R. Harris
Harris
English Ave Feeder Bus Line Opens Amid Celebration
About 200 residents of the 300 block on Christian Street and nearby areas celebrated the opening of a new feeder bus line on English Avenue. Buses carried citizens in a parade through downtown to mark the event.
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English Ave
Christian St
Sheep's Ancestor Found by Theodore and Roosevelt
SRINAGAR India Nov 10 Theodore and Kermit Roose velt return from northern India with hundreds of specimens of the sheep's ancestor. They crossed the Burzil Pass in a blizzard of zero cold and fought their way through from 3 am to 9 pm. They plan to return to America soon.
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Srinagar
India
Theodore
Kermit Roosevelt
Globe
Asia
Burzil
America
State to Ask Wolfe's Death for Hance Murders
In Muncie Indiana state attorneys seek to impanel a jury to try Charles One Arm Wolfe on murder charges for killing Mr and Mrs Ben Hance. They indicate they will ask for the death penalty if convicted and questioned jurors about opposition to capital punishment. Wolfe is linked to George Dutch Anderson, a noted desperado, who was killed days earlier by a Muskegon detective. both men were indicted for the Hances’ slaying.
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United Press
Electric Shock Fatal to Man
George Fry, 36, foreman at the Vonnegut Machine Company, was electrocuted while preparing a new machine for shipment after he failed to disconnect two high tension switches. A witness saw a flash and Fry collapse. he died minutes later. He leaves a widow and a four month old child. The body was taken to the morgue.
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W. South St
E. H. Bradley
Shank Predicts Duvall Grief and Political Spats
Mayor candidate Duvall faces skeptical forecast from Mayor Shank who vows appointments may not stick. Shank cites Coffin Worley and McCoy as Coffin allies and notes Worley was Coffin’s favored pick for police chief amid party tensions.
Debt commissions resume talks on Italian war debt
Sub committees of the American and Italian debt commission plan to resume negotiations at 8 p.m. to reach a mutual understanding that will lead to funding Italy's 2.138 billion dollar wartime debt.
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United Press
Washington
American and
Italian Debt Commission
Italy
Inmans Sudden Announcement Shocks State Court
The court recessed after Inman announced a surprise move prompting a chance for Remy to gather rebuttal witnesses. The pause allows both sides to organize further testimony and respond to the unexpected development affecting the case.
Death by own action theory clouds Oberholtzer case
In Noblesville Indiana on November 10 the defense rested without calling witnesses in the Stephenson Gentry and Klinek murder case. Medical testimony tied Madge Oberholtzer’s death to bichloride of mercury while the defense argues death resulted from a drunken act. The judge denied a motion to take jurors to Indianapolis Union Station for a site inspection.
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Times Star Correa Circuit
Noblesville
Ind
D. C. Stephenson
Earl Klinek
Earl Gentry
Madge Oberholtzer
Irvington
Eph Inman
Miss Oberholtzer
Madge
Hammond
Pullman
Stephenson
Gentry
Sparks
Indianapolis Union Station
Inman
Body Identified in Train Car Pilot Passenger Death
The headless and legless body found on a Pennsylvania passenger train pilot was identified by Mrs. Nestor of Six Points as Herman Boerders, about 55, a former Six Points resident. He visited Mrs. Nestor Thursday evening. his hearing was impaired and he had worked as a blacksmith months ago.
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Pennsylvania
Nestor
Six Points
Herman Boerders
Rushton
Plainfield
Boerders
Larger Gifts Reported In Fund Effort At Noon Luncheon
Donations for the Community Fund drive total 224 421 87 with 82 407 87 in subscriptions reported at a noon luncheon at the Claypool. Dick Miller reported 61 170 to the special gifts total and Arthur P Stephenson listed 6 581 for his division bringing its total to 18 166. Major gifts included 12 000 from L S Ayres and Co and 7 200 from William H Block Co. Other gifts ranged from 100 to 4 200 from multiple firms and individuals. Alfred Kauffmann chaired the campaign executive committee.
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Claypool
Dick Miller
Arthur P. Stephenson
L.S. Ayres and Company
William H. Block Company
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Lan J
Plum Falling
Duvall Watch
City Engineer
Board of Works
Little
Little Bird
AIS
Blazer
Mayor Asks
Bandit
Gilliam Rules Budget Committee
Mrs
House
Tokio Parley
United Presse
Chicago
Arthur Pelton
Parts
Wolfe
George Fry
R. R. D. Box
Vonnegut Machine
Florence Peckman
John Duvall
George Snider
Claude Worley
Claude McCoy
George Hutsell
Worley
Remy
Union Station
John L. Niblack
William L. Toms
William H. Remy
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Miller
Banner Furniture Company
Central Supply Company
Louis C. Huesmann
Carl Fisher
Port Washington
L. L
Indianapolis Drop
Indianapolis Glove Company
Edward A. Kahn
Pettis Dry Gooda Company
Rockwood Manufacturing Company
Traugott Brothers, Inc
the Fair
Western Ol Refining Company
L. 8. Ayres & Company
William H. Block & Company
Goldstein Brothers
William Laurie Company
H. P. Wasser, Company
Btar
Holcomb & Hoke Mfg. Company
Crane Company
Robert A. McGill
Kroger Grocery and Baking Company
John Deere Plow Company
Moline
Otto A. Gumberts
Federal Foundry Company
Ford Motor Company
Martin-Parry Corporation
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Pure Oil Company
Prest-O-Lite Company
Rink Cloak House
Sherwin- Williams Company
International Harvester Company of America
American Car and Foundry Company
Alfred Kauffmann
Riley Room
Flapper
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