Hope for renewed anthracite peace talks in Atlantic City
A conciliatory letter from Samuel D. Warriner, head of anthracite operators, raises hopes for resuming wage negotiations with John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Both sides seek to avert a September 1 strike by 158,000 workers as Warriner promises to seek means to resolve production disruptions. Lewis plans to respond after reviewing the letter and cautions that Warriner may have shifted on minor issues.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Samuel D. Warriner
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Warriner
Lettter
Lewis
Indianapolis Tax Talk Sparks Heaven Comment
Fred Bauss Johnson a school board member says some Indianapolis taxpayers are against everything. He quips that even a ten cent tax raise to fund city programs would be opposed by certain elements opposing any measure.
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Indianapolis
Fred Bauss Johnson
Klan Parade Plans Stir Dwindling Hopes in Washington
United Press dispatch from Washington notes thousands of Ku Klux Klan members and families converge on the capital by motor caravan and rail for a planned parade. Officials report little public excitement and revised parade estimates shrinking from 150000 to around 5000 participants.
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United Press: Dispatch
Washington
National Capital
Alleged liquor camp raided in Westphalia and Edwardsport
Federal prohibition officers with Sheriff Roy Chambers and Special Deputy Harvey Smith conducted raids in Knox County last night and today arresting four men Ogle Booher Donald Banks William Fordyce of Westphalia and George Hudson of Edwardsport on liquor violation charges. A quantity of white mule and home brew was seized as raids dismantled interiors and officials took suspects to jail for federal court arraignment. Earl Booher remained sick in bed in jail awaiting transfer to Terre Haute.
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Daily Citizen
Vincennes
Roy Chambers
Harvey Smith
Knox County
Ogle Booher
Donald Banks
William Fordyce
Westphalia
George Hudson
Edwardsport
Booher
Banks
Fordyce
Earl Booher
Ogle
Bookers
Terre Haute
Earl Booker
Bill Hayes
Walter Wills
Julian Bryan
Roy Wright
William Crowe
Drowned Boy Former Resident of Linton
Harry Lee Stewart thirteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Stewart of Terre Haute drowned while wading in a creek near Shepherdsville during a visit to an aunt. His mother and others attempted rescue. the body was recovered and taken to Terre Haute. He leaves a brother Jack.
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Harry Lee Stewart
Harry A. Stewart
Terre Haute
Shepherdsville
Jack
Family Notified After Tragic City Death
Mrs Stewart formerly Miss Alma Miller of 3840 Fourth Street Miles and 340 Fourth Street NW were named in the notice. Mr Miller the grandfather was informed of the tragedy yesterday.
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Stewart
Alma Miller
Fourth Street
Miller
Ohio man electrocuted for 1924 robbery murder
Lonzy Taylor, 21, of Portsmouth Ohio was electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Columbus for the murder of Edward Funk, a Lehighville filling station proprietor, during a robbery on October 2, 1924. He confessed and implicated Jason Adkins, who had been electrocuted in May.
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State Penitentiary
Columbus
Lonzy 'l'Taylor
Portmouth
Ohio
Edward Funk
Leiorville
Jason Adkins
States Await Executions After Noted Insanity Verdicts
United Press survey shows 90 inmates in 40 states face execution including six women. Methods include gallows electric chair lethal gas chamber and firing squad. Some states ban capital punishment and a few allow options like hanging or firing squad in Utah.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
United Press
Utah
Nevada
Indiana Republicans oppose publishing income tax returns at meeting
Editors and politicians gathered in Michigan City pledge against printing income tax figures calling publicity a personal intrusion. resolutions praise Senator Watson Coolidge and Mellon program. Governor Jackson notes debt payoff progress and tax reduction plan.
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United Press Dispatch
Michigan City
Ind
Indiana
Indiana Republicandritorial Association
A. K. Remmel
Fort Wayns News-Sentinel
Resolutions
Association
Watson
Coolidge
Jackson
Miss Laffoon Hosts Morning Breakfast At City Park
Miss Beulah Laffoon hosted a 6 o’clock breakfast at City park for guest Miss May Shirley of Franklin Indiana. The group of young women cooked the meal themselves and enjoyed park facilities afterward. Attending were Mrs Roy House and Misses Winogene Hawlett May Shirley Jean Laffoon Catherine Jewlett Juanice Lash and the hostess with regrets from Mrs Clarence Goodwin and Misses Nellie Cox Chloe Bechtel.
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Beulah Laffoon
City Park
May Shirley
Franklin
Ind
Roy House
Winogene Hawlett
Jean Laffoon
Catherine Jewlett
Juanice Lash
Miss Laffoon
Clarence Goodwin
Nellie Cox
Chloe Bechtel
Public Takes Heed 10 0 Appeals for Justice
The public shows growing interest in Tyre Clark's case. The Vicksburg-Midland youth sits in Little Rock awaiting execution for a bank robbery in which one person died. His family seeks a new trial with public aid, aided by miners and churches from nearby areas and the Daily Citizen coordinating contributions.
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Tyre Clark
Vicksburg-Midland
Little Rock
Ark
Clark
Cat
Vicksburg
Dugger
Sulivan
Jasonville
Citizen
Daily Citizen
William Slinkard
Brakeman Saves Boy Near Moving Train
Walter Young a railroad brakeman leaped from a car ahead of a moving train and knocked seven year old Raymond Akrons from the path of the train then jumped aside. Both escaped injury.
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Gary
Ind
Raymond Akrons
Griffith
Walter Young
County Teachers Meet in Bloomfield Institute
Eleven staff members from the state department of public instruction are assigned as county institute speakers. The institutes run statewide from August 17 to September 4 with Greene county hosting Bloomfield from August 31 to September 4.
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Indianapolis
State Department of Public Instruction
Greene County Institute
Bloomfield
New Suits Filed This Week in Circuit Court
Bloomfield reports a list of new cases filed with Circuit Clerk Bland. The docket includes civil actions such as accounts, notes, mortgages, divorces, ejectment, quiet title, and a receiver appointment, naming parties like Virgil Isenogle, Frank Brinson, Ceciel Woodward, Elmer Gilligan, Jacob Landis, Israel Drake, Nicholson & Co., Maggie Rector Crance, William Zink, and others.
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Worthington Exchange State Bank
Ross Rhodes
Clifford B. Green
John T. Davis
Maggie Rector Crance
Minnie Rector Bartley
William B. Stalcup
William Brewer
Arthur Banfield
Charles Letsinger
Jack Sherrard
George Drennen
Sallie A. Sarver
Ada Defore Estate
William Zink
Cleveland Mitchell
Cecile Woodward
Kate O'Hern
Kenneth Richardson
Same
Charles Krug
John MacLaurhiln
James Kesler
Nicholson & Co
Ebert Ragles
Gilbert Mayfiedl
Joseph and
Lillie Halderman
Abraham Shoemaker
Ella Skaggs
William Skaggs
Estimated Value of Linton Property for 1925 Taxation
City Clerk Cletus Gill received from County Auditor W. L. Herrington the estimated valuation for 1925. Total city valuation is 3,440,090 dollars, up from 3,418,770 dollars in 1924, an increase of 21,320 dollars. Vacant lots for street and alley intersection purposes are valued at 490,905 dollars, down from 503,140 dollars in 1924.
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Cletus Gill
W. L. Herrington
Linton
Same Airplane Kills Two Other Aviators
The same plane that claimed a private two days earlier killed two more aviators, Lieut. James F. Tilton of Pershing, Indiana, and Leo L. Burt of Toledo, Ohio, when it plunged into a nose dive from 1,000 feet at Osborn, Ohio during stunt work.
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Dayton, CO
James F. Tilton
Pershing
Ind
Leo L. Burt
Toledo
Ohio
Osborn
Methodist Preacher Shot by Demented Son in Iowa
United Press dispatch reports Rev. R. J. Vandervoort pastor of the Methodist church in Parkersburg Iowa was shot and killed while his wife was seriously wounded when their nineteen year old son who was demented over study opened fire on them today.
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Parkersburg
Iowa
R. J. Vandervoort
Attorney to appeal order on seized Remus liquor
Indianapolis Aug 7. Thomas Slattery Cincinnati attorney serves notice to federal authorities he will appeal Judge Baltzell’s destruction order of two hundred thousand dollars worth of liquor once owned by George Remus.
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Indianapolis
Thomas Slattery
Cincinnati
Baltzell
George Remus
Commissioners Approve Road Deals and Bids in August Session
In August term the commissioners ordered extra allowance for Truman Stringfellow and Henry Clark. Ferguson road bridge bid from Vincennes Bridge Co. at 794 was accepted. Bledsoe road Wright township bid 4100 to Dilon & Beck. Oliver Beasley road plans amended and construction ordered. Bond issue 1812.06 authorized for Samuel Landis road. Newsom road contract awarded to William Hayes. Bloomfield Owensburg road survey to reduce rail crossings.
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Oliver Beasley
Stockton Township
County Superintendent of Roads
Samuel Landis
Scott Saved From Gallows By Insanity Verdict
Chicago dispatch reports Russell Scott, once a millionaire, was found insane by a jury and ordered confined to the Chester asylum until recovery. If sanity returns, he faces potential execution, a fate never set by precedent amid eight months of peril and repeated reprieves.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
Joseph B. David
Chester
Scott
Catherine
Russell
District Attorney mum on state highway probe outcome
Albert Ward United States district attorney will not say if he will present Indiana state highway commission affairs to the federal grand jury. The probe reviews disposal of surplus war materials by the highway body to determine possible federal law violations.
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Indianapolis
Albert Ward
United States
Indiana State Highway Commission
Grand Jury
Ward
Linton Sheiks Roll Socks In Potent July Fashion
In Muncie on August 7 youths keep pace with trends as a local habitue at a drug store wears a shirt of flowered cretonne once favored by girls for coats, showing informal style suggests no male ahead of others in the scene.
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Muncie
Punishment Teacher Chides Sleeping Student in Class
A teacher scolds a sleeping pupil named Dupri and orders him to sit with the classmate instead of his seat, delivering a stern reprimand during the period. The exchange reflects discipline practices in the classroom setting.
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Dupri
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