Bliss critiques the League of Nations in new plan
General Tasker H. Bliss argues against dissolving the human factor in any international alliance. He discusses Mr Blumenfeld’s call for a six power league led by Britain and the United States, noting American antipathy to withdrawal from the current structure and stressing a peace aligned with both small and large states.
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The
Times
Ralph Blumenfeld
London Express
League of Nations
Tasker H. Bliss
United States Army
Supreme War Council
France
American Commission
Tasker Howard Bliss
Colorado Springs
Scripps-Howard Press
Blumenfeld
United States
League
Liberia
Nicaragua
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Japan
Blumfeld
Mellon "died" twice rumors plague nation
Washington dispatch reports rumors that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon died twice on Friday with claims of death in his office and later self harm followed by denials of illness. Mellon remained at work and said he felt well. Indiana Smelting and Refining buys land in Bloomington area due to expansion, purchasing a tract at the northeast corner of Bloyd and Winter avenues from Boyer Oil.
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United Press
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon
Mellon
Indiana Smelting and Refining Company
Bloyd and
Winter Avenues
Boyer Oil Company
East
Sixteenth Street
Edinburg preacher-marshal calls for town cleaning
Edinburg, Ind. preacher-marshal W. C. Milburn, who says he fears God only, urges good citizens to aid in cleaning up the town after firing five shots at Franklin college freshman George Myers. He defends his action, warns speeders, and condemns opponents circulating petitions against him.
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Bet Times
Specia
Edinburg
Ind
W. C. Milburn
Old Town
George Myers
Franklin College
Myers
Lively Corner Business Men End Two Day Celebration
The Lively Corner Business Men's two day celebration concludes tonight at Bellefontaine and Thirtieth streets with various contests staged by the association. Eugene D. Kirklin directed the ceremonies.
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Bellefontaine
Thirtieth Streets
Eugene D. Kirklin
Jury Awards $30,000 for Loss of Leg in Porter County
In Valparaiso on October 27 a Porter County jury awarded Gus Jungerman $30,000 for the loss of his leg after a motorcycle collision with a Zwieg Roofing Co truck from Gary. The injury led to amputation at the hip and a fourteen month hospital stay.
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Times
Valparaiso
Ind
Porter County
Gus Jungerman
Zwieg Roofing Company
Gary
Jungerman
Farm values drop claim shocks Indiana politics
Berne Indiana October 27 Democratic Senate nominee Albert Stump said Indiana farm values fell by about a billion dollars in 1925 versus World War I, calling farm prosperity a myth. He cited twenty thousand farm abandonments in five years and urged equal economic opportunity to boost overall prosperity.
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Berne
Ind
Indiana
Albert Stump
United States
Stump
Oklahoma Doctor Claims Mars Visions Against London Researcher
Oklahoma City physician Dr. E G Ringland, age 83, says he has visions of Mars and will compare reports on earth to Mars communication with Dr. Mansfield Robinson of London. Robinson explains Martian wireless messages and his wife’s opposition to Mars research, offering $1,000 to publish his Mars book.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
Mars
E. G. Ringland
Mansfield Robinson
London
Earth
Ringland
Oklahoma
Hugh Mansfield Robinson
Robinson
Oomaruru
Dr. Robinson
Alfred H. Johnson Completes 36 Years in Government Service
Alfred H. Johnson 77 of 644 East Thirteenth street completes 36 years in U S government service as deputy customs collector. His career began at Indianapolis post office money order division for 3 1/2 years, later joining the customs department under multiple collectors. Born in Hillsdale Michigan, he attended Hillsdale college graduating in 1873. He serves as Delta Tau Delta alumni delegate for 12 years and is active in the Mystic Tie lodge. He helped found the alumni association and has long held secretary treasurer roles at the Indianapol is Country Club and University Club secretary.
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Alfred H. Johnson
East Thirteenth Street
Indianapolis
Post Office
Customs Department
George G. Tanner
Arch A. H. Young
Baron Rothchild
T. E. Stuckey
John A. Royse
George M. Foland
Hillsdale
Mich
Hillsdale College
Delta Tau Delta
Alumni Association
Mystic Tie Lodge
University Club
Indianapolis Country Club
Capitol Avenue Widening Contracts Awarded
Indiana Asphalt Paying Company and Marion County Construction Company win contracts to widen Capitol avenue to sixty feet from Washington to Sixteenth streets. Indiana firm gets $26,769 for the Washington to New York segment and Marion County firm $64,000 for the other sections. City Engineer A M Moore says work may be postponed until spring due to winter asphalt challenges.
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Indiana Asphalt Paying Company
Marion County Construction Company
Capitol Avenue
Washington
Sixteenth Streets
Indiana
New York
Marion County Company
A. M. Moore
Monte Cristo finds refuge in Venezuelan port town
Dr. Pierce Bougrat once sentenced to life at Devil's Island has found asylum in Irapa Venezuela after escaping the penal colony. Paris dispatches say France has not extradited due to lack of a Venezuela France extradition treaty. Bougrat arrived Sept 26 after escaping Sept 5 and won local acceptance in Irapa despite initial suspicion.
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United Prene
Caracas
Venezuela
Pierce Bougrat
Devil's Island
French Guiana
Irapa
Venezuelan
Paris
Bougrat
France
Marseilles
Devil’s Island
Cayenne
Mothers and babies rescued as Lincoln hospital fire blazes
In Detroit on October 27 thirteen patients were carried from Lincoln hospital by improvised stretchers after a fire damaged the building. Mrs. Helen Hansel and her day old daughter along with Mrs. Helen Blake and her six day old daughter were unharmed after the evacuation.
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United Press
Detroit
Lincoln Hospital
Helen Hansel
Helen Blake
Truck executives form national association at Midwest congress
W H Brearly of Philadelphia chairs the Truck Association Executives of America formed at the Midwest Motor Truck Transportation congress in the Manufacturers building. Nineteen state association officers, including Indiana’s Tom Synder, join as members to share ideas for improving motor truck transportation. In Berne Indiana, a diphtheria scare prompts health officer D D Jones to order school children kept home if throat symptoms appear. five homes quarantined and more cases watched.
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W. H. Brearly
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Truck Association
Truck Association Executives of America
Mid- West Motor Truck Transportation Congress
State Fairground
Tom Synder
Motor Truck Association of Indiana
Y United Press
Berne
Ind
D. D. Jones
Sixty Die In Wreck Near Recca Romania
The latest death toll from the Recca Romania passenger train wreck on Friday reached sixty. Forty seven people are seriously injured. Twenty seven of the dead have been identified as Rumanians.
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United Press London
Recca
Rumania
Daily O News
Vienna
War Hero to Be Reburied in Private Mausoleum
Evansville officials announce James Bethel Gresham will be moved from a local cemetery to a privately built mausoleum funded by the Gresham memorial committee of the American Legion. He was the first American soldier to die in action in the World War.
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Times
Evansville
Ind
James Bethel Gresham
Gresham
Republican nominee Leslie chosen by Indiana GOP crowd
In Connersville Indiana Harry G Leslie was named the Republican governor nominee by the party that elected Governor Ed Jackson. Democratic candidate Curtis Shae charged the move did not reflect rank and file Republicans. Meanwhile a French seaplane flying from Algiers to Marseilles made a forced landing in the Mediterranean fifty miles off Algiers and the four crew were rescued.
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Connersville
Ind
Harry G. Leslie
Ed Jackson
Crutis Shake
Leslie
United Press
Paris
Algiers
Marseilles
Mediterranean Sea
Welfare Groups Spend $91 441 54 by Indianapolis Foundation
Eugene C. Foster reports at the Columbia Club directors meeting that the Indianapolis Foundation spent 91441 54 for welfare work from January 1 to October 1. The funds were granted as gold scholarships to various organizations and hospitals.
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Indianapolis Foundation
Eugene C. Foster
Columbia Club
Belgian Textile Workers Strike for Higher Wages
Two thousand textile workers in Brussels began a strike for higher wages. The piece notes long winter evenings and urges readers to check tonight's radio equipment want ads for more information.
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United Press Brussels
Arkansas protest picket leads to arrest of Mrs Haldemann-Julius
In Little Rock on Friday, Mrs. Marcel Haldemann-Julius was arrested for advertising without a permit during a picket in support of Charles Smith, the New York atheist on hunger strike after his trial for literature aiding disorder. She was released minutes later and continued her protest with a banner questioning Arkansas free speech limits and Smith’s right to express anti religious views.
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Little Rock
Ark
Marcel Haldemann-Julius
Kansas
Charles Smith
New York
Smith
Torial
Haldemann-Julius
State of
Arkansas
Alleged Slayer to Go On Trial Monday
Charles Beasley of Terre Haute will stand trial in Henry circuit court on first degree murder charges in the slaying of Mrs Myrtle Miller of Muncie. The victim’s battered body was found beside a road near Newcastle on Sept 1 during an auto ride. Investigators cite robbery as the motive. other occupants in the car were Mrs Irene Moyer and Homer Patterson. Patterson is missing, Moyer is jailed as a witness.
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Newcastle
Ind
Charles Beasley
Terre Haute
Henry
Myrtle Miller
Muncie
Miller
National Education Association to Fight Textbook Bias
The National Education Association will launch a campaign next week to prevent public schools and colleges from being used by utilities interests through doctored textbooks. Dr Vel W Lamkin and Dr J W Crabtree will lead a conference in Washington to form a ten member committee to craft policy guarding schools from propaganda material. The decision follows last spring's convention in Minneapolis.
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Hington
National Education Association
Vel W. Lamkin
J. W. Crabtree
Crabtree
Minneapolis
Plans for Lawyers Home and Clubhouse in Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Bar Association held a special meeting in circuit court to start plans for erecting a lawyers home and downtown clubhouse. It noted a $35 000 bequest from the late Alpheus W Shaw to be invested until funds for a downtown building are raised. Redrafted court rules to replace 1917 edition were read to promote uniformity. copies of the 1917 rules are exhausted and the proposed rules will be sent to judges for comment before printing.
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Indianapolis Bar Association
Circuit Court
Alpheus W. Shaw
Hoosier Celebrates 92nd Birthday With Wood Chops
At Thorntown Indiana on October 27 friends visiting Leander M Crist found him busy chopping wood to celebrate his ninety second birthday. He declared he never felt better in his younger days.
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Thorntown
Ind
Leander M. Crist
Chamber Tests Plane Motors Innovation at Altitude
The U S Bureau of Standards will have the world’s only aviation motor testing chamber capable of reproducing seven miles up for lab tests. It regulates temperature density and air pressure to simulate high altitude conditions aiding motor development and approval under Department of Commerce rules.
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Science Service
Washington
United States Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Air Commerce
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Standards Engineers
Love price suit cripples romance in Evansville
Miss Larue Smith 23 sues Western Union for 10000 damages claiming telegraph messages wrecked her engagement to Floyd Brown. She says employees showed Brown two telegrams one from another man and her reply. The other man is named Bonnie Lanier described as an old friend.
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Py Times
Evansville
Ind
Larue Smith
Western Union Telegraph Company
Floyd Brown
Brown
Winkler and Robinson Rally Republicans in Fourteenth Ward
George L. Winkler Republican sheriff candidate pledged cooperation with police and prosecutor while addressing Fourteenth ward Republicans at 1142 River Avenue Friday night. Clyde E. Robinson, nominee for county treasurer, joined Winkler seeking support for the Republican ticket state and national.
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George L. Winkler
Fourteenth Ward
River Avenue
Clyde E. Robinson
Winkler i
Myers Attacks Republicans Over Prohibition and Religion
Walter Myers, Indianapolis attorney and Democratic senatorial candidate, denounces Republican virtue policing and prohibition rhetoric in South Bend. He accuses leaders of graft and gone eight years of failed enforcement, blasts church politics, and warns against mixing church and state in campaigns.
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South Bend
Ind
Walter Myers
Indianapolis
Myers
United States
Governor Smith
Frank C. Dailey
Daugherty
Denby
Forbes
Sinclair
Doheny
Hays
Miller
Ware
Smith
Willebrandt
Hoover
Taft
Hubert Work
National Republican
Dailey
God
Arrests of Finnish Communists by United Preas
Helsingfors reports several communists arrested today in Vibor and other parts of Finland on suspicion of espionage as police claim.
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Preas Helsingfors
Vibor
Finland
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