City Council forms efficiency study from 1929 budget
Councilman John F White heads a committee preparing recommendations to the mayor to boost efficiency and economy in city government. The 1929 budget, adopted Monday night, sets a tax rate of 1.10 up 7.5 cents from 1928 and a total levy of about 9.373 million on 676 million assessable property.
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John F. White
Edward W. Harris
Council
Earl Buchanan
White
Chamber of Commerce
William H. Book
Councilment
State Tax Board
Board of Health
Park Board
Park King
Zee
Andndan
Pksteins
Russia Accepts Chance to Sign Anti War Pact
Moscow reports Russia accepts France invitation to sign the anti war pact with reservations. Litvinoff notes lack of disarmament terms and calls for clearer definitions while opposing British restrictions on action abroad and asserting the pact could become imperialistic policy.
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Russia
Eugene Lyons
United Press
Moscow
France
M. M. Litvinoff
Herbette
Litvinoff
Prisoner Confesses to Unremembered Robberies
Henry Rumpf 48 of South Bend confessed to more robberies than he could recall citing De Pauw University and a 17 year teaching career. Police found loot including women's clothing jewelry and small items at his South Bend home after his transfer from Elkhart.
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United Press
Elkhart
Ind
Henry Rumpf
South Bend
Rumpf
de Pauw University
Goshen
Mishawaka
Mother's Medicine Fatal to Two Children
Faith Taylor age 3 died from excess acid in the blood after her mother gave medicine from a bottle. Vernon Taylor 18 months drank the same medicine, choking on it and dying later the same day. Authorities report the infants died in Alexandria Virginia while under care.
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United Press
Alexandria
Faith Taylor
Ballston
Vernon Taylor
Faith
Vernon
Boxer Beats Wife in Newport Arrest For Assault
Mrs. Chick Suggs accuses featherweight champion of abuse during a family quarrel in Newport. The boxer was released on 300 dollar bond.
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United Press
Newport
R. I
Self Made Men Rise From Egypt's Pyramids Race
Excavations near Gizeh reveal Seneb, a dwarf who began as a wardrobe servant and rose to multiple royal offices in ancient Egypt. He learned rivals’ jobs, outworked peers, and married a royal princess, leaving statues of his family in his tomb.
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Old
Egypt
Science Service
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Iowa
Albert E Smith
New York
America
Pyramids
Gizeh
Hermenn Junker
University of
Vienna
Nile
Seneb
Seneb’s
Hoover Opens Indiana Campaign Headquarters at Circle
Indiana Hoover Club headquar ters will be opened Tuesday at 106 Monument Circle to wage a daily speaking campaign for Herbert Hoover until the election. Oscar G. Foellinger of Ft. Wayne, Hoover's Indiana primary campaign manager, will chair. Dr. Harry E. Bernard of Indianapolis will be secretary in charge. Miss Dorothy Cunningham of Martinsville will be vice chair.
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Indiana
Hoover Club
Monument Circle
Herbert Hoover
Oscar G. Foellinger
Ft. Wayne
Hoover
Foellinger
Harry E. Bernard
Indianapolis
Circle
Dorothy Cunningham
Martinsville
National Committee
State
Republican Committee
Plot Against Thaw Aimed at Harry Thaw Mother
Pittsburgh police said William Beatty, 42, was arrested on a suspected extortion plot against Mrs. William Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw. A letter demanded $5,000 and threatened her son's life if not paid, with Beatty denying ties to the letter. Similar threats were reported by other wealthy Pittsburgh residents.
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Litvinoff
Russia
Geneva
China
United Press
Pittsburgh
William Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
William Beatty
Bus drivers hold safety convention after fatal train crash
In Rochester Indiana on September 1 Times Special reports a spring accident that killed one child and injured twelve when a school bus was hit by a train led to a bus drivers convention. County School Superintendent Roy Jones organized the event during the annual teachers institute to discuss safety measures.
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Rochester
Ind
Teachers’ Institute
Roy Jones
Veterans to Meet Thursday in Wabash County Reunion
Wabash Indiana September 1 The Wabash County Veterans Association Civil War survivors will hold its thirty seventh annual reunion here Thursday. Frederick Landis Lozsapsort will speak.
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Wabash, Ind
Wabash County
Veterans’ Association
Frederick Landis
Lozsapsort
Last Preliminary Races Complete in Scooter Derby District 5
The Times-Capitol Dairy Scooter Derby semi finals concluded at Riley playground with junior boys winners Harold Frye Wayne Campbell and Robert Sanford. Senior boys winner Jack McMahon Slobodan Yovanovich Floyd Skiles and girls winner Ferne Watson claimed top three spots. Several youth racers named. finals set for Monday at Circle at 10 am with all prizes.
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Times-Capitol
Greer St. Playground
Monument Circle
Riley Playground
Jesse P. McClure
Lewis Skinner
Henry Long
Harold Frye
River Ave
Wayne Campbell
W.wilkins St
Robert Sanford
S. Richland Ave
Rhodius
Lettitia Lupear
W. Washington St
Kingan
Ewel Farley
Kenneth Oliver
Margaret Lucas
Harriett Mitchell
Helen Mitchell
Paul Revere
Robert Chance
James Neese
Joseph Kelly
Thomas Elkins
Beulah Huber
Hazel Englert
Mary Maria
John Pappas
Francis Stefanko
Daniel Davis
Cornell Lupear
Alexander Yovanovich
Victoria Marsykscu
Donald Ash
Harley Francis
Christ Krethiotis
Arthur Francis
Alexander Tudor
Ferne Watson
Julia Sarvich
Louise Green
Marjorie Wiemann
Mary Sanford
Toledo prisoner confesses to old Michigan murder
A county jail inmate in Toledo admits to killing Mrs. Clara Banneke of Swartz Creek five years ago and concealing the body. Detectives from Flint, Mich., were to arrive as the suspect, held since July 27 on weapon charges, made the voluntary confession Thursday night.
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United Press
Toledo
Ohio
Clara Banneke
Swartz Creek
Mich
Flint
Judge Condemns 2000 Executions in One Year
Pekin dispatch reports a Chinese judge Hsing Cheng-Chang in Kweiteh Honan under Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang ordered the execution of 2000 men and women in the past year chiefly for banditry. A spy implicated in a $50 theft was shot by the judge.
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United Press
PEKIN
Kweiteh
Honan
Feng Yu- Hsiang
Hsing Cheng-Chang
Cold Speeds Ripening of Oats Experiments Show
Laborious Russian tests by Prof. N Maximow reveal oats ripen earlier when sprouted at low temperatures around 42°F. Short early chilling periods accelerated heading across all late ripening plants and reinforce old Russian advice to sow oats in muddy fields. Studies also show light duration during seedling stages strongly affects ripening timing even if light cues are later removed.
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Leningrad
North
N. Maximow
Maximow
Maximov
Town Almost Taxless Armagh Borough Col No Tax Collector Since 1926
Armagh in Indiana County has not levied taxes since 1926 with five mill levy first set. Last tax payment recorded in 1926 amounted to 394.12 dollars, enough to run borough services through 1927 and beyond. In Columbus Indiana Miss Marjorie Hook and Miss Elizabeth Westerfield win Indiana University scholarships for high grades at local high school.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Internal Affairs
Armagh
Indiana County
Times Special
Columbus
Ind
Marjorie Hook
Elizabeth Westerfield
Indiana University
Three Die as Auto Hits Freight Train at Crossing
Three people were killed and three others injured when a car struck a Pennsylvania freight train at a crossing near Atlantic City New Jersey today.
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United Preas
Atlantic City
N. J
Pennsylvania
Here
Hoover Denies 10 Check on New York Day Raid
President candidate Herbert Hoover denies interfering with prohibition enforcement in New York or nationwide. Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willebrandt defends the conduct of officials and rejects claims Hoover sought to influence enforcement. He plans a quiet Labor Day in Washington and a fishing cruise next week.
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Hoover
N.Y
Times
Washington
Herbert Hoover
New York
United States
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Broadway
Willebrandt
H. Edmund Machold
New York State
William H. Hill
New
Babe Ruth
New York Yankees
Washington Senators
Chesapeake Bay
Dog catcher refuses net in modernizing duties
Odessa Texas reports city dog catcher Tom Fifer refusing to use a net citing fear of mockery from old cow punchers. In other Indiana items Brown County old settlers hold their 53rd reunion at Hartman’s Grove with Morgantown band and contests. A Jasper County fair displays a 120 pound pumpkin grown by John Collins near Tefft winning blue ribbon.
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United Press
Odessa
Texas
Tom Fifer
Georgetown
Ind
Brown County
Hartman's Grove
Morgantown
Rensselaer
Jasper County
Tefft
John Collins
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