Warrants Issued for Aimee Semple McPherson and Four Allies
District Attorney Asa Keyes issued warrants for Aimee Semple McPherson and four associates on counts of conspiring to obstruct justice and perjury. Names include Kenneth Ormiston Minnie Kennedy Lorraine Wiseman Seilaff and John Doe Mastin. McPherson vows to continue preaching from behind bars while illness delays proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeas Geles
Cal
Plen
Aimee Semple McPherson
Asa Keyes
Kenneth G. Ormiston
Angelus Temple
Minnie Kennedy
Lorraine Wiseman Seilaff
John Doe” Mastin
McPherson
Ormiston
Keyes
Smuggling Ring Busted At Detroit Air Route
Virgil Simmons, 29, former manager of Packard flying field, confessed to smuggling eighteen aliens into Michigan from Ontario by air over three months. He and two men, Josef Kenetty and Lagos Kish, were arrested after landing. Lewis Stewart denied involvement as alleged driver. Immigration authorities hold Simmons for arraignment before Federal Commissioner J Stanley Hurd.
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United Press
Detroit
Virgil Simmons
Packard Flying Field
Michigan
Ontario
Josef Kenetty
Czecho-Slovakia
Lagos Kish
Hungary
Simmons
J. Stanley Hurd
Lewis Stewart
1927 Typographical Union Diamond Jubilee in Indianapolis
More than 2,500 delegates and visitors will attend the 1927 diamond jubilee convention of the International Typographical Union in Indianapolis. A delegation from Indianapolis secured the event at Colorado Springs with Hinch leading the invite and local chamber officials assisting. Other delegation members included Betz Gilmore and Curley. Cincinnati and Charleston, S C were also contenders.
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International Typographical Union
Indianapolis
Colorado Spring
Cole Arch D. Hinch
Chamber of Commerce
Weer
Christian F. Betz
Russell A. Gilmore
Richard Curley
Cincinnati
Charleston
8. C
Bride and groom aged 78 and 84 wed at German home
Caroline Backer Feldt 78 and Carl Julius Feldt 84 married Thursday at Alchenheim German home for the aged in Indianapolis. Both had lived there nine years and say they will keep busy with lacework and knitting to stay happy as they begin life together.
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Caroline Backer Feldt
Carl Julius Feldt
Alchenheim
N. Capitol Ave
Germany
Wally Neussel
Boy 14 Escapes Detention Home Twice in 12 Hours
Police seek 14 year old John Edgell who escaped the Detention Home at 102 N Capitol Ave twice within 12 hours. He fled after being brought in by Detectives Giles and Irick, later slipping away again from a guard during intake. He previously rode in a stolen auto with 16 year old Estell Kinniman and robbed a grocery on S Union St.
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N. Capitol Ave
John Edgell
Pennsylvania
McCarthy Sts
Giles
Irick
Estell Kinniman
S. Meridian
Bloomington
Dickie Cornell
E. Morris St
Edgell
Keeley
Bootleg chase ends with liquor seized and hijackers at large
Police recover 130 gallons of Chicago sugar alcohol and a high powered rifle after a Buick pursuit through Haughville streets ends with a wreck at Belle Vieu Street. Bootlegger fled on foot, hijackers sped away. officers Higgs and Kinder search for the owner amid witness reports of a bootleg operation.
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Higgs
Kinder
Haughville
W. Tenth St
Belle Vieu Pst
Chicago
Hold-up of bus driver nets $17
Three men in a stolen car held up Peoples Motor Coach driver Frank Wilkinson at Fifty Fourth Street and Central Avenue. They stole $17 after forcing their way onto the bus and fled in the stolen car. Police traced the car to Lynn Smith. A separate report notes a burglary at Samuel Harris’s home with $75 taken.
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Fifty-Fourth St
Central Ave
Frank Wilkinson
Cornell Ave
Peoples Motor Coach Company
Lynn Smith
New Jersey St
Alabama
Ohio
Samuel Harris
Muskingum St
Ex-Policemen Charged in Attacks on Girls in Chicago
Three former Chicago policemen face charges for attacking young girls or aiding delinquency. Ex-Officer Albert Heintze allegedly assaulted a 16 year old girl after sending a boy home from a park bench. Hahn was sentenced to sixty days in the workhouse. Dehlinger is accused of taking a 20 year old woman from a dance to a forest preserve and assaulting her.
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United Press
Chicago
Albert Heintze
Heintze
John Hahn
Robert Dehlinger
Break Down of Confession Ties Hamricks to Arson Case
Defense resumes challenge to the written confession by James Ecton 19 of Indianapolis as evidence in the conspiracy to commit arson trial of Jesse D Hamrick and his wife Della M Hamrick. Ecton testified of promises and fear tactics from Hamrick and details of prior fires and calls to fire marshal Hoover.
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James Ecton
W. Twelfth St
Jesse D. Hamrick
Della M. Hamrick
Ecton
William H. Rerdy
Remy
James M. Leathers
Fyan
Charles Hoover
State Fire Marshal's Office
Hoover
Hamrick
Ben
Ick
James
Edton
Hamricks
Indianapolis
Florida
Statehouse
Kaelin
Charles T. Kaelin
Edén
WRENS QUEEN NOT A QUEEN
Officials ponder a diplomatic riddle as Queen Marie of Roumania plans a visit. If she travels as a queen, Britain would arrange trains envoys and receptions. incognito would invite only informal recognition. The vagueness lies in the requested status.
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United Press
Ashington
Marie of
Roumania
Marie
Prince of Wales
Moans on Death Bed for Lover in Ohio Theater Poisoning
Pauline Pritz er, 19, of city hospital after drinking poison in the Ohio Theater rest room. Wylie Campbell found her unconscious and she whispered Lee before slipping into a critical condition. Identification by a purse slip. she had worked for Morton Sternfels at 4404 Park Ave. family says no known love affair.
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Ohio Theater
Wylie Campbell
W. St. Clair St
Morton Sternfels
Park Ave
Vestryman Grilled As Hall Mills Case Proceeds
In Somerville New Jersey Frances Stevens Hall and three relatives prepared to plead not guilty to the Hall Mills murders. Ralph Gorsline the vestryman at the scene faced further questioning under a new round of interrogation while a grand jury was set to reconvene for possible perjury indictments. A Cincinnati woman was slated for questioning as investigators seek more corroboration.
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Bu_United Press
Somerville
N. J
Frances Stevens Hall
Hall-Mills
Ralph V. Gorsline
Simpson
Gorsline
Hall-Mils
Underwood
Jersey City
de Russey's Lane
Phillips Farm
Catherine Rastall
Henry Stevens
Supreme Court
Rif ford Release After Pardon Board Action
Governor Jackson commuted Frank J. Rif ford of Evansville from ninety to thirty days at the Indiana State Farm upon the state pardons board recommendation. Rif ford had been sentenced in Vanderburgh Criminal Court for drawing a deadly weapon and was released immediately after serving the lesser term. The pardon board members differed with Chaney on a full pardon.
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State Board of Pardons
Jackson
Frank J. Rifford
Evansville
Indiana State Farm
Rifford
Vanderburgh Criminal Court
Pardon Board
George S. Henninger
Charles C. York
John C. Chaney
Mixed Daytime Temperatures With Rising Heat
Morning readings start at 66 degrees at 6 am and climb to 82 by noon. The trend shows steady warming with 77 at 10 am and 80 at 11 am, peaking around midday.
Young Indianapolis athlete flies to Swarthmore for college
Maxwell 20 of Millersville Road left in a friend's airplane to return to Swarthmore College near Philadelphia where he is a junior. A track and football star, he played half back on the Swarthmore varsity last year and is a Phi Kappa Psi member. He and two brothers are air reserve members at St. Benjamin Harrison.
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Indianapolis
Theburn Maxwell
Millersville Rd
Swarthmore College
Philadelphia
Maxwell
Eastern College Fnn
Swartmore
Phi Kapna Psi Fraternity
Bruce Maxwell
Bruce Jr
Howard Maxwell
Air Reserve
St. Benjamin Harrison
Promoter to Profit From Police and Firemen's Field Day
Claude E. Penrod, a professional promoter, is slated to receive about $5,000 profit from the Police and Firemen's Field Day events held in August 2021. The total meet profit is estimated at $20,000, with Penrod earning 25 percent under a contract signed by O D Haskett Police Chief Claude F Johnson and Fire Chief Jesse A Hutsell.
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Claude E. Penrod
Penrod
O. D. Haskett
Board of Safety
Claude F. Johnson
Jesse A. Hutsell
Hutsell
Times
Community Fund Speakers Meet for 1927 Campaign
Rev. Floyd Van Keuren of Christ Church accepts the chairmanship of the 1927 Community Fund campaign bureau and urges broad hearings in churches and clubs. Homer W. Borst presents enlarged photos and charts to help visualize the fund’s thirty six agencies and their social work.
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Floyd van Keuren
Christ Church
Community Fund
Claypool
van Keuren
Homer W. Borst
Life term given in Lake County
William A. Donaldson was sentenced to life in Indiana State Prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering Joseph Mullins, a Gary steel mill worker slain in a Gary park last spring. The state had sought the electric chair. Mullins’s wife, Virgie Mullins, is to face trial for her role, having confessed that Donaldson was her lover and that they plotted the murder.
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United Press
Crown Point
Ind
William A. Donaldson
Lake County
Indiana State Prison
Donaldson
Joseph Mullins
Gary
Virgie Mullins
Mullins
Asiatic concept of losing with honor analyzed by professor
Torio reports Prof. Fr. J. Wilden-Hart of the Imperial University explains that many Asians struggle with the idea of losing with honor. He contrasts modern views with the old fatalistic, feudal attitude of win or die.
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Torio
FR. J. Wilden-Hart
Imperial University
Gilliam Attacks Shumaker in Bar Association Letters
Indiana Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam accuses E. B. Shumaker of using churches to influence judicial elections and attacks the Indiana Supreme Court. Gilliam cites Evansville remarks and urges lawyers to consider candidates and uphold judicial independence amid prohibition politics.
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Shumaker
Indiana
Supreme Court
Arthur L. Gilliam
Gilliam
Anti-Saloon League
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Weer
Evansville
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Ben Wheat
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