Plan to Equalize Election Board Representation Is Dead
City council vote would have allowed equal Republican and Democratic representation among 225 election inspectors. John E. King refused to back the measure, deflating support for the proposal backed by Ben H. Thompson. Thompson argued the change would curb ballot counting unfairness, while King affirmed his Republican loyalty. Democratic leaders accused Duvall supporters of promoting vote irregularities and police aid to influence results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben H. Thompson
John E. King
South Side
Thompson
King
Duvall
Iliam E. Claver
Coolidge May Enter Fight Over Indiana Senate Vacancy
Washington prediction centers on President Coolidge being drawn into the Indiana Senate vacancy after Senator Ralston's death. Names linked include Beveridge, Everett Sanders, Will R. Wood, Arthur Robinson, Will Hays, with Beveridge favored by Governor Jackson and Coolidge aides briefed on the matter. Indiana House members depart Friday night for the Ralston funeral.
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Times
Washington
Coolidge
Ralston
Albert J. Beveridge
Jackson
Beveridge
Massachusetts
Swampscott
Everet Sanders
Indiana
Will R. Wood
New
Arthur Robinson
Indianapolis
Will Hays
Arbuckle Stage Appearance Banned by LA Board
Los Angeles board of education bans Fatty Arbuckle from performing at a public school auditorium. The decision cites it is against the interests of the city to have Arbuckle appear on a school stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hollywood
Cal
Rosque
Fatty) Arbuckle
Los Angeles Board of Education
Arbuckle
Van Orman in Town Denies Appointment Talk
Lieutenant Governor F Harold Van Orman of Evansville said he was in town to discuss private business and not the appointment of a successor to the late Senator Samuel M Ralston. He told Governor Jackson he has until December to decide on the appointment.
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Samuel M. Ralston
F. Harold van Orman
Evansville
Jackson
van Orman
Florida Fails to Charm Hoosiers
An Indiana family, unnamed and with uncertain residence, proves resistant to Florida charms. On their car top they scrawled Florida-Weve been there and we're back and glad of it as they drove north on Capitol Ave, expressing a humorous retirement from the Sunshine State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Indiana
Capitol Ave
Maryland Boys Take Honors in Cattle Judging
The Maryland team led by Arthur Dunnigan Pylesville Ralph Walker Gaithersburg and Stanley Suttton Chestertown won the nineteenth National Dairy Exposition cattle judging contest with 3767 points. Illinois Oklahoma and Minnesota teams followed with individual honors assigned to Dunnigan and others.
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Maryland
Arthur Dunnigan
Pylesville
Ralph Walker
Gaithersburg
Stanley Suttton
Chestertown
Ivan Rumph Aurora
Ind
Indiana
Marvin Knigga
Aurora
Howard Johnson
Minnesota
Calvin Anderson
School For Women
Adria Scott
Cleveland
Ohio
Scott Meiks
County Auditor Arrest and Power Struggle in Indiana
Democrat Walter C. Hughes sits in jail after an arrest sparked by Ruth Werber who seized the auditor’s office with three aides. The Supreme Court reversed a lower ruling, confirming Werber’s election by six votes. Hughes’ salary is held in escrow as bond proceedings continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hartford City
Ind
Walter C. Hughes
Ruth Werber
Hughes
Miss Werder
Mabel McGreath
Miss Werber
Board of Election Commissioners
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Calary
Woman Killer Koval Executed in Indiana
John Koval of Gary was executed in the electric chair at Indiana State Prison for the murder of Mrs. Martha Segersky mother of six. He died at 12 03 a m three minutes after the current was turned on and gave no statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Michigan City
Ind
John Koval
Gary
Indiana State Prison
Martha Segersky
Koval
Daly
Fourth annual De Molay ceremonial at the Athenaeum
Wayne Swope master councilor of the Indianapolis chapter of De Molay will chair the fourth annual ceremonial tonight at 8 p m at the Athenaeum Horace Mitchell will be advisory council member in charge of the ritualistic work
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Wayne Swope
Indianapolis
Order of de Molay
The
Athenaeum
Horace Mitchell
Everett Watkins Operated for Appendicitis in Ill
Washington correspondent Everett Watkins of the Indianapolis Star was operated on Thursday night for appendicitis. He is the second Indianapolis newspaperman to be ill in Everett this fortnight, following Mark Thistlewaite of the Indianapolis News Bureau who is recovering from double pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snec
Washington
Everett Watkins
Indianapolis Star
Watkins
Indianapolis
Mark Thistlewaite
Indianapolis News Bureau
Peace Caucus Ends Tonight In Locarno
In Locarno Switzerland Oct 16 the peace conference advances toward a final result with plenipotentiaries to meet at 6 pm to approve negotiations. German Polish and Czecho Slovakian delegates may resolve frontier disputes and sign documents, with final London signatures planned within two weeks. Evacuation of Cologne and withdrawal of allied control in the Rhineland await full German status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Locarno
Switzerland
Europe
London
Cologne
Germany
Rhineland
Vigilance protest over patrols near Holmes and Pershing
A city vigilante group in the northwest faces a protest after a citizen told Capt. Herbert Fletcher patrols armed with shotguns roam near Tenth and Sixteenth Streets and Pershing and Holmes Avenues. The alert follows the October 11 attack on Mrs. Geneva Harris at 1445 Holmes Ave. Fletcher will bring the matter to Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva Harris
Holmes Ave
Herbert Fletcher
Tenth and Sixteenth Sts
Pershing
Holmes Aves
Harris
Fletcher
Herman F. Rikhoff
Hotsy Totsy Set For Times Night Radio Program
The Times radio program airs tonight at 9 p m over WFBM from The Times studio Severin. Reginald Duvalle conducts his hot syncopated orchestra in Hotsy Totsy and other numbers arranged by Indianapolis promoters. Soloists include Wallace Woolfolk Mercy Woolfolk Lucertia Lawson Mitchell and Hazel B Johnson with Mae Clements and Dr Theodore Cabel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
WFBM
Merchants Heat and Light Company
the Severin
Reginald Duvalle
DuValle
Indianapolis
Lillian M. LeMon
Wallace Woolfolk
Mercy Woolfolk
Lucretia Lawson Mitchell
Mitchell
Walter Price
Hazel B. Johnson
Mae Clements
Thedore Cabel
Miss LeMon
Baldwin
Love as the cause of a girl's fatal act
Miss Mildred Bunch, 20, of 1845 S East St, reportedly killed herself by poison after expressing unrequited love. She went to the home of Mrs. T Tyner at 1850 E East St, threw an empty bottle in the yard and collapsed en route to city hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Bunch
S. East St
City Hospital
Mary Lang
East St
French Approve Locarno Pact Text Unanimously
Paris cabinet under President Doumergue unanimously approves the Locarno pact text read by Premier Painleve. The session follows a special cabinet meeting and marks a decisive step in the pact’s ratification process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Paris
Doumergue
Painleve
Ralston Lying in State at Country Home North of City
Indiana citizens view the body of Senator Samuel M. Ralston in a glass encased bier at his country home four miles north of the city. Police guards and floral tributes mark the scene as rain confines visitors indoors. The casket will lie in state at Lebanon Presbyterian Church before the funeral journey home to Lebanon.
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Ralston
City
Samuel M. Ralston
Indiana
Hoosier
Michigan Rd
J. J. Klaiber
Ed Wise
Joe Wilson
Frank Fagan
William Albers
Hugh McK. Landon
Evans Woollen
Lebanon
Police hunt for George Anderson linked to Chapman band
Astoria Oregon October 16 police and sheriffs search for George Dutch Anderson, associate of Gerald Chapman, wanted in Indiana for murder. Tips from South Bend Washington authorities indicate Anderson headed toward this district, with sightings in South Bend and Ilwaco before moving toward the lower Columbia river area.
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United Press
Astoria
Ore
George
Dutch) Anderson
Gerald Chapman
Indiana
South Bend
Wash
Anderson
Ilwaco
Columbia River District
Temperature Reading Fragments From Morning The Weather Log
A fragmented weather entry shows hourly temperature figures with unclear times and a moon phase note. The readable values include 53 and 54 degrees for early morning and a 61 at one point, indicating a cold start with slight warming.
Auto Crash at Stop 22 Injures Two Men
Two men from Morristown suffer cuts and bruises when a T. H. I. E. traction car plows into a auto on the National Rd near Cumberland. The car halves the auto, hurls the occupants aside, and leaves tracks lifted fifteen feet. Passengers unhurt as line delays traffic two hundred feet after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
National Rd
W. H. Sutherland
Morristown
F. P. Ryerson
R. R
Ryerson
Sutherland
H. M. Prusler
Two New Roads Remonstrated Over $67,300 Bonds
Remonstrances were filed with the State tax board today against bonds for Ed A. Miller and I. V. Davidson roads totaling 67 300 dollars. Signers include 125 taxpayers for Miller and 112 for Davidson from the northern city part. The Miller road would pave Forty-Sixth Street from Monon Railroad to Keystone Avenue, while Davidson runs on Forty-Ninth Street. Proposals call for rock asphalt paving and a stone base. objectors say neither road is a main arterial highway, making the cost unjustified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Tax Board
Ed A. Miller
I. V. Davidson
Forty-Sixth St
Monon Railroad
Keystone Ave
Davidson
Forty-Ninth St
Inman Infers Propaganda Targeting Prosecution in Hamilton County
Readers see a claim that those backing prosecutions have flooded Hamilton County with propaganda against defendants. The article cites local figures and groups involved in disseminating political messaging surrounding court actions and criminal cases.
Court Adjourns In D. C. Stephenson Trial After Mail Warning
Special Judge Will M. Sparks adjourned Noblesville circuit court until Monday after warnings to Jurors not to read mail in the D. C. Stephenson Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry case. Defense attorney Eph Inman alleged prosecution propaganda. State attorney Ralph Kane accused grandstanding as the court urged jurors to ignore letters and focus on justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparks
Times
Noblesville
Ind
Will M. Sparks
Rushville
D. C. Stephenson
Earl Klinck
Earl Gentry
Eph Inman
Hamilton County
Inman
Lotus Spaugh
Spaugh
Ralph Kane
Kane
Early Decay Threatening Florida Homes
A Indianapolis Times report by Harold Keats warns that many Florida homes with stucco facades over green timber are built with flimsy frames. The stuccoed exteriors crack as warped timbers bend, turning decorative shells into eyesores.
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Florida
Arthem
Indianapolis
Harold Keats
America
Walla
Che Kiang Troops Occupy Shanghai Without Bloodshed
Ten thousand Che Kiang forces entered Shanghai today, occupying Kai while Feng Tien troops withdrew toward Soo Chow amid reports of looting. The move could trigger a fresh phase in the ongoing Chinese civil conflict with potential regional tensions.
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Bu United Press
Shanghai
Feng Tien
Soo Chow
Che Kiang
Kai
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