Coffin Faces Rebellion in Party Ranks in Indianapolis
City Republican boss George W. Coffin faces internal strife as ward chairmen prepare for a Saturday GOP convention to nominate the municipal slate. Union opposition to A M Grossbrenner for mayor grows with 18 000 members of the Central Labor Union pledging to oppose him and back rival candidates.
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George W. Coffin
Roy T. Combs
Marion Good Government League
Coffin
Indianapolis Central Labor Union
A. M. Grossbrenner
Levey Printing Company
William C. Mitchell
Elmer F. Gay
Arthur R. Robinson
Indiana
Logansport
Indianapolis
Washington
Robinson
Gay
Grossbrenner
Reginald H. Sullivan
Fall Near Collapse on Bribery Trial Illness
Albert B. Fall former interior secretary slated for trial on bribery charges connected to the Teapot Dome affair was reported seriously ill at his Washington hotel. Family members said he has a severe cold and is near collapse during the onset of the trial.
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United Presse
Washington
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Lindy Loses Time As Flight Heads To Tela Honduras
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and party took off at 9 30 a m today for Tela Honduras continuing their tour of Caribbean countries sailing from Guatemala City United Press reports.
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Lindy
United Press
Girls Adopting U S and South American Students Meet
Two teenage girls Lavinia Mary Hayman of Porto Rico and Rose Lillian Montenagro of Guatemala, visiting Indianapolis to study, met for the first time. Both sopho mores, English learners, and planning to attend Butler, they aim to become interpreters. They spoke of dancing plans and the joy of conversing in Spanish with someone from their countries.
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Indianapolis
Lavinia Mary Hayman
Porto Rico
Rose Lillian Montenagro
Guatemala
Miss Hayman
Ed W. Hunter
Miss Montenagro
Don Jose Montenagro
Washington High School
Butler
America
Lavinia
Rose
Pure Oil Wins 99-Year Lease for Major City Site
Pure Oil Company secured a ninety nine year lease on a tri angular block between New York street and Indiana avenue at Capitol Avenue. Rentals total $1,254,000 and involve frontage of 190 feet on New York avenue and 176 feet on Indiana avenue. The site currently houses a Pure Oil station six storerooms a three story apartment house and an auto service station.
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New York Street
Indiana Avenue
Capitol Avenue
Pure Oil Company
Albert L. Frankel
The
State Savings and Trust Company
Logan C. Scholl
Gem Laundry Company
New York Avenue
Pure Oil
Frankel
Mrs Gene Tunney to undergo second appendix operation
Mrs Gene Tunney wife of the retired heavyweight champion will have surgery Saturday morning for appendix removal by Dr A W Mayer Berlin specialist who previously treated her abscessed appendix on Brioni island. doctors say the appendix is displaced raising risk of further inflammation.
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United Press
Berlin
Gene Tunney
A. W. Mayer
Grim funeral for Marion riot victims marked by mass turnout
About a thousand residents gathered in Marion North Carolina to bury four of the five riot victims Luther Bryson Randolph Hall George Jonas and Sam Vickers as a preacher warned of driving back the devil. Widows wailed and a choir of twenty untrained voices led Protestant hymns as crowds in denim work clothes stood solemn. Jim Roberts died that morning and will have a separate funeral.
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United Press
Marion
N. C
Cicero
Luther Bryson
Dolph Hall
George Jonas
Sam Vickers
Jim Roberts
Crack Flyer Derailed In Kentucky Wreck
Sixteen injured, none seriously, when the Flamingo flyer engine and five coaches derailed at Cedar Creek near Stanford. A broken rail was blamed as the cause. The train, heavily laden, was traveling about fifty miles per hour when it left the rails and rolled onto its sides.
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Bu United Press
Stanford
Flamingo
L. & N. Flyer
Jacksonville
Fla
Louisville
Cedar Creek
Here
MacDonald in New York Seeks World Peace Example
Premier Ramsay MacDonald arrives in New York to meet President Hoover and push a U S England naval arms curtailment. He calls for a permanent peace example by the two nations, hailed by Mayor Walker as crowds line Broadway and officials greet the pacifist leader aboard the Berengaria.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
York
Ramsay MacDonald
England
King George
MacDonald
United States
Council Board of Peace
Hoover
Atlantic
America
Stimson
Walker
Pacific
Lower Broadway
Great Britain
Hoover Charged With Grape Grower Advance Favoritism
Senator Blease accuses President Hoover of aiding a California grape grower cartel via a $9,000,000 advance from the federal farm board before wheat relief action. The clash centers on perceived improprieties in early farm program funding and executive influence.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Senator Blease
Dem
S. C
California
New
Federal Farm Board
Bucket shop case target assets of Clinton L Seeley firm
Evansville receiver seeks 4300 assets of the Clinton L Seeley Company held in an Indianapolis bank. The suit faces resistance from the Seeley creditors. Injuries suit filed for 10000 damages after a February car collision at New Augusta.
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Evansville
Clinton L. Seeley
William S. McMasters
Clinton L. Seeley Company
Indianapolis
Seeley Company
E. A. Henderson
Superior Court
Jasper O. Powell
New Augusta
Powell
Indianapolis Schools Probe Shipp Heating Deals Without Bids
State tax investigator Phil Zoercher revealed $3,355 in Shipp supplies bought for Indianapolis schools in August 1928 with small orders under the $200 bidding limit. He cited no contracts for No. 72 and similar purchases for No. 63 in July, asserting the method evades bidding rules and spirit of the law.
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Indianapolis
Phil Zoercher
State Tax Board
Zoercher
Carl W. Burton
Buschman & Sons
Central Supply Company
Charles F. Miller
Charles York
Burton
Two Killed in Labor Temple Explosion in Marion Indiana
An explosion at the Labor temple in Marion Indiana killed Charles Humes 58 and William Dean 55 and left Fred Dickens 65 injured with broken ribs. The blast shattered nearby windows and wrecked the building rear while ten men fell to the basement. Initial theories cite a possible bomb but union officials deny a motive.
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Marion
Ind
Labor Temple
Alvin Barrett
Glass Workers’ Union
Baby Boy Born to Jimmy Foxx in Dover
Jimmy Foxx the Philadelphia Athletics first baseman has a baby boy born at Kent General Hospital in Dover on Thursday. Mrs. Foxx is reported resting nicely.
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United Press
Dover
Del
Jimmy Foxx
Philadelphia Athletics
Popular actress Jeanne Engels dies at 35 in Park Avenue hospital
New York actress Jeanne Engels collapsed at Park Avenue Hospital and died ten minutes later from alcoholic psychosis after a nervous disorder and recent eye surgery. Born in Boston she began on stage as a child and rose to fame in Rain. She was married to Yale football star Ted Coy in 1925 and divorced in 1928.
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Tinited Press
New York
Jeanne Engels
Park Avenue Hospital
Thomas A. Gonzales
Miss Engels
Pietro Pellegrini
Edward Spencer Cowles
Miss Eagels
Jeanne Eagles
Boston
Puck
Broadway
George Arliss
Disraeli
Ted Coy
Yale
SEEK KIDNAPED CHILD DETROIT OCT 4
Search for five year old Jackie Thompson abducted from in front of his home Monday evening continued with meager police crews. Police have no definite leads as Henry S. Thompson, a wealthy real estate dealer, hopes for a ransom before Sunday amid gunfire near the Thompson home with shooters unrecovered.
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United Press
Detroit
Jackie Thompson
Henry S. Thompson
Thompson
Capone Parole Plea Denied by Philadelphia Court
Judge E Walsh ruled he lacked jurisdiction to act on the petition and denied the parole application of Alphonse Scarface Al Capone in municipal court today. The Chicago racketeer faces ongoing legal proceedings tied to his racketeering case.
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United Press
Philadelphia
E. Walsh
Alphonse (Scarface al
Capone
Chicago
Supreme Court Affirms Rum Case Of DeLong In Indiana
Charles DeLong Indianapolis rum runner is fined 100 dollars and jailed one to two years after the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Marion county’s conviction. The case stems from 115 gallons of liquor found in 23 cans. Oral arguments set for October 10 in the Court Asher matter related to Stephen son lieutenant in Muncie.
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Charles DeLong
Indianapolis
Indiana
Marion
Wealthy broker Roy Van Gagenen freed in fatal wife case
Roy Van Gagenen a wealthy insurance broker was found not guilty by a county court jury in Allentown Pennsylvania on the murder of his wife Emilie. The jury deliberated from Thursday afternoon until 11 15 a m today and District Attorney Ethan Allen Gearhart said he was satisfied with the verdict.
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United Press
Allentown
Roy van Gagenen
Emilie
Ethan Allen Gearhart
Leonard Brown Held on Liquor Charge by U S Commissioner
Leonard Brown of Anderson appeared before U S commissioner John W. Kern and was held to the federal grand jury under a 4000 dollar bond on a liquor charge today.
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Leonard Brown
Anderson
Federal Grand Jury
John W. Kern
United States
Colorado prison siege ends as Danny Daniels commits death by own action
The Colorado state penitentiary riot ends after Danny Daniels and five followers kill seven guards and six convicts then Daniels shoots himself. Warden Crawford reports $300,000 in damage. 1,200 inmates relocated to tents with militia on duty. Josephine Roche and Father Patrick O’Neill emerge as local heroes.
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Colorado State Penitentiary
Clyde G. Byers
Canon City
Colo
No. 3
Francis Crawford
Danny Daniels
Daniels
Colorado
Danny
Cell House
Crawford
Law and Order
Josephine Roche
Patrick O'Neill
Miss Roche
Canon City High School
Colorado Springs
National Guard
Father O'Neill
National
Danny Daniel
Paty
J. J. Belles
Ishbel MacDonald Advocates Peace Message to American Women
Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of the British prime minister, landed in New York and urged women to raise children as citizens to understand war’s horrors. She said women should influence their children in the United States and Great Britain and that drinking and smoking are not wrong but unnecessary. The scene at quarantine and the Berengaria reception showed her poised amid photographers as she waved to passengers.
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Ishbel MacDonald
United Press
York
United States
White House
Indictments in Lake County Probe Ready for Judge Slick
In South Bend Indiana the second Lake County grand jury finished its five week inquiry and prepared indictments for presentation to Federal Judge Thomas W Slick this afternoon. Arthur Basey and Carl Ellis were involved in a collision at Sixteenth street and College Avenue with Basey injured.
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Lake County
Slick
United Press
South Bend
Ind
Thomas W. Slick
Arthur Basey
College Avenue
City
Carl Ellis
Langley Avenue
Sixteenth Street
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