Revenue burden lifted by new plan
The post office department will use a new accounting system that removes free service and public welfare expenses from postal revenue and pays them from the treasury. Implementing before the next fiscal year, the move follows pressure from Clyde Kelly who argues no extra legislation is needed. The change targets subsidies for aviation and maritime development and wipes out charges for free-to-the-blind mail, county second class free mail, religious rate losses, foreign mail carriage losses, rural free delivery and franking losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ru Serippas
Howard Newapaner
Alianer
Washington
Post Office Department
United States Treasury
Walter Brown
Clyde Kelly
Pennsylvania
Brown
Kelly
Postmaster General
House
American Register
Indianapolis men sentenced for burglary in Rush County
By Timese Sneed Rushville Ind Oct 15 Lee Karney 39 Indianapolis was sentenced to ten to twenty years in Rush Circuit court on a burglary conviction. Co defendant Vinton Murphy also received a similar sentence for breaking into the home of Charles Jones here.
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Timese Sneed
Rushville
Ind
Lee Karney
Indianapolis
Rush
Vinton Murphy
Karney
Charles Jones
American Telephone Company Accused of Monopolistic Control
Pacific coast officials plan to present a draft bill to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to curb American Telephone and Telegraph Company. They assert AT and T dominates telephone service in most states and through Western Electric fixes instrument prices, seeking federal or state rate regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripns-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
American Telephone
Union
The
Western Electric Company
The Shark Sucker Remora and Its Sea Ride
The remora or shark sucker is a lazy hitchhiker of the sea. It attaches to larger fish, especially sharks, and travels along as a parasite without its own propulsion.
Democracy Ridiculed by Bernard Shaw in Plymouth Broadcast
Times Special reports from London on October 15 describe George Bernard Shaw denouncing democracy as unsuitable for modern civilization. He called it a wind bag form of government and urged socialism as the remedy, citing past elections and the need to repair war ravages.
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Times Special
London
George Bernard Shaw
Plymouth
Shaw
Baldwin
Rooms Sought for Indiana State Teachers Association Visitors
Indianapolis convention bureau seeks private homes to house about 15009 out of town delegates during the 1929 October 17 to 19 convention. A mailed coupon offers room listings with price per night address phone room counts and transit lines for housing the attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Convention Bureau
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Indiana State Teachers Association
Shaw lauds Soviet youth education and warns on parliament
The speaker contrasts parliamentary systems with modern needs and praises the Soviet experiment for its focus on youth, arguing Russia trains citizens to be better than their leaders. He urges listeners to reflect on the idea and return home to ponder its implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Russia
Gunshot Fatal in Lafayette Teen Died From Accident
In Lafayette on October 15 Charles Thelen aged 18 died from loss of blood after a shotgun accidentally discharged in a friend’s hands striking his left leg.
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Times Special Lafayette
Ind
Charles Thelen
Gas Victim Gaining on Times Special
Anderson Indiana October 15 Floyd Bean age sixteen slowly recovers after monoxide gas from a water heater in the bathroom of his home. A pulmator was used to restore consciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Ind
Floyd Bean
Club Indorses G O P Ticket in Marion County Meeting
The Marion County Good Government Club voted to endorse the entire Republican municipal ticket at Lincoln. Alfred M. Grossbrenner was endorsed for mayor. Five of fifteen school trustee candidates will be approved at a Nov. 1 Lincoln meeting. Fred Kepner and Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore seek school board seats and Kepner rail against opponents and the press calling them yellow handbills.
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Marion County Good Government Club
Lincoln
Alfred M. Grossbrenner
Glossbrenner
Clarence McPherson
Fred Kepner
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Ripley
Patent Office
Marquette
North Dakot
Irvin Langhoff
Marquette University
William Meniff
of Lynn, Mass
Ummer Plant
Rothby- Coney Island
American Telephone Company
Senate
Bernard Shaw
America
Price
W. Wash. ST
HAAG
Michelin Tires
Public Service Tire
New York St
South America
Africa
Round Africa
Mediterranean
Egypt
Holy Land
West Indies
Caribbean Sea
Richard A. Kurtz
Travel Bureau
Eunion Trust
East Market St
Riley
Indorses G, O. P
Fready
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