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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1928
Page
10
The Times reports widespread radio interference linked to city trolley lines. A survey shows AC power lines along tracks worsen 60 cycle noise, drowning local broadcasts. Local residents and radio owners petition the paper for investigation and relief.
A 12 year old boy is sought by police after he robbed Mary Comer ford a five year old girl at 636 Virginia Ave. He took a chipped diamond ring valued at ten dollars from the child in the front yard of her grandmother Mrs. Margaret Brady. The youngster fled on a bicycle after the holdup.
Cuba ranks first worldwide for the 1927 28 fiscal year with a death rate of 12.03 per thousand surpassing Australia 13.23. The year records include 17 469 marriages 58 387 births and 41 751 deaths across the nation.
Times Special reports Roosevelt's planned address for Herbert Hoover in Newcastle Ind was canceled due to scheduling conflicts with train connections to Tennessee. In Clinton Ind on Monday Charles Boyles 42 shot himself in the forehead and died. relatives offered no reason for the action.
The Bestor Victor recording orchestra under ON BESTOR will air from the William Penn Hotel Pittsburg via Station KDKA with a schedule including Sundays Thursdays Mondays Fridays Tuesdays Wednesdays and Saturdays. The NBC and CBS networks carry Handel Messiah and Long Long Ago concerts and other musical programs with a large slate of soloists and ensembles.
Tonight's political radio slate is light with Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen speaking for the Democrats and two Republican workers giving talks. WJZ New York and WHAM Rochester will air Allen at 7 p.m. ET as networks line up, while Mrs. Alvin T. Hert and Mrs. Silas Strawn speak 8:30 to 9 p.m. ET on the Columbia network with WABC airing from Washington.
Hickman profiles the Lydell Higgins duo as a sharp old soldier versus sailor act with a witty foil and notes strong performances from Higgins and a new partner Riggins. He also praises George Graff in French Models at the Mutual, with Edythe Bates and Viola Elliott in standout dance and song, plus solid comedy from Hart Burns. Other theaters show Sunrise Circle and Our Dancing Daughters Loews Palace.
Program lineup from noon to eight in the evening covers time signals, weather, livestock and market reports, farm flashes, cooking and home economics, Bible readings, organ and orchestra performances, news, theater features, boxing bouts, and library bite of history. Includes station promos for Julius Walk & Son and Hoagy Carmichael.
Gary Indiana speaker J N Firth of Indianapolis addressed the eighteenth annual Indiana Chiropractors Association. The convention opened Sunday and closed today with a tour of Gary steel mills as the final program item.
OPPOSE CITY SMOKE leaders from the Indianapolis Council of Women met Mayor L Ert Slack to urge an intensive smoke abatement campaign. The group offered educational cooperation while Slack noted the 1929 budget funds a competent combustion engineer and said the department would start after Jan 1 with the position filled by competitive examination.
George Terrell must face trial in VerMillion Circuit Court on a first degree murder charge in the stabbing death of Hoke Spurgeon. The defense failed to bar the trial after contesting the grand jury process. Terrell admits the stabbing but says it was in defense of his wife, and both parties lived at Centennary.
The 45 minute service, begun by Rev. Richard Evans, is praised by him and his congregation. He schedules 20 minutes for the sermon and 25 minutes for music, claiming the shorter format suits participants well.
Thomas C. Howe ex president of Butler University was chosen president of the trustees of the pension fund created to absorb the ministerial relief board in the Disciples of Christ Church. The plan sets a pension to replace half of average salaries and starts with an $8 million fund to cover current beneficiaries and aging workers. More than 4,000 church workers would become eligible.
The county board has not moved to acquire First Baptist Church Meridian and Vermont streets and Second Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania and Vermont streets to clear the War Memorial site. Expected action is deferred until after the November election under a 1925 statute allowing the churches to stay for 25 years unless bought. Church officials say they will relocate to protect the plaza’s beauty, though building programs are paused.
Ramsay MacDonald former prime minister urged the Labour party to push disarmament with a resolution. It calls for a general act for disarmament, abandonment of the Anglo French naval pact, and withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine valley. He said Labour will seek white paper on the Anglo French naval agreement and related notes when the Commons meets in November.
Virgil Smart a 16 year old telegraph messenger was killed instantly when struck by a cut of cars at a Nickel Plate Railroad crossing as he returned home from work in Muncie Indiana on October 2.
Central time daylight includes WLW Cincinnati 8:30 women's hour and Dr. Copeland hour. WMAQ Chicago 10:00 overture hour 10:15 household institute. WSB Atlanta 1:00 University of Georgia program. WLS Chicago 2:30 Homemakers hour. WBAL Baltimore 3:00 salon music. NBC system 3:00 U S Navy band to WJZ WHO WBZ 9:00 Dr. Copeland hour 10:30 Democratic campaign speech. NBC system WBAF 11:00 Republican campaign speech 1:45 Musical Potpourri.
The eighth annual meeting of the Synod of the Mid-West Reformed Church in the United States began in Terre Haute Ind and will continue through Saturday. Officials say more than 200 attendees are expected.
The review lauds LYRIC Lydell and Higgins as outstanding hits on the program. Mutuals French Models earns strong praise for its publicity and quality, signaling a top billing tonight.
The International Mercantile Marine Company plans to bid on the Leviathan and other United States lines when their sale opens next month. Auditors have reviewed U S lines books, signaling possible bids. A past bid was halted by an injunction alleging foreign control, and Leviathan must be sold to American registry with the sale now set for November 15.
Berne Indiana October 2 a town council resolution provides for a new ornamental lighting system to be installed and in operation before winter.
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