Bloomington Methodist District Conference Set for June Sessions
The thirty-eighth Bloomington district conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet at the local Methodist church on Tuesday and Wednesday June 16 and 17. The 42 local preachers, one layman from each church, and retired ministers will attend. Dr C N Flynn will preach the conference sermon. The Ladies Aid and local church members will provide lodging, meals, and supper with Glenburn mission folk on Tuesday. Examinations for local preachers will be held to license or renew licenses.
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Bloomington
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. Ns. Flynn
Glenburn Mission Folk
District leaders to preside at church conference program
District superintendent Rev. Boldrey will preside at the conference with noted church leaders on the program. Dr. R. J. Wade of Chicago directs world service. A. I. Hughes of Evansville College. W. B. Farmer of Indianapolis heads Preacher's Aid. Bishop F. Db. Leete is resident bishop of Indianapolis. Mrs. Hattie Asbury leads the women’s Foreign Missionary Society program. Rev. H. H. Allen and another local pastor will also appear.
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HL. Boldrey
R. J. Wade
Chicago
World Service Program
Church
A. I. Hughes
Evansville College
W. B. Farmer
Indianapolis
Preacher's Aid Society
F. Db. Leete
Hattie Asbury
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
H. H. Allen
American gunboat Pampanga fired on near Whampoa
A U S gunboat Pampanga escorting a Christian college launch was fired on near Whampoa in Chinese waters. The ship returned fire with three pounders. no U S casualties reported. Foreigners moved to safety under British protection as Yunnanese and Cantonese clash for Canton and Honan. A Japanese night landing at Honen island is anticipated.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Honan
Frank Crampton
Montgomery Ogden
Crampton
Ilk
Christian College
Honen Island
Trial opens in Shepherd typhoid murder case in Chicago
William D. Shepherd stands trial for allegedly buying typhoid germs to kill his ward and obtain his estate. Jury selection completed after three weeks, with his wife present and prayers for acquittal. Court compares proceedings to Leopold-Loeb case. Judge Lynch presides. Shepherd shows signs of strain from pretrial confinement as he awaits verdict.
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Thomas J. Lynch
Bobby Franks
Shepherd
Crowded Court Opens in Shepherd Murder Trial
In Chicago on June 11 State's Attorney Crowe opened the murder trial of William D Shepherd charging a longstanding plot to seize the McClintock fortune amid a packed courtroom. He planned to introduce evidence of other suspected crimes and reserved the death penalty for final arguments. The first witness was set to testify in the afternoon.
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Chicago
Billy McClintock
William D. Shepherd
Criminal Court
Shepherd
United Press Dispatch
Crowe
McClintock
Shepherd lose bid to curb opening in murder trial
In Chicago on June 11 Judge Thomas J. Lynch refused to limit the state's attorney's opening remarks in the murder trial of William D. Shepherd. Shepherd's lead attorney William Scott Steward sought to bar references to Billy McClintock's mother's death, arguing prejudice. The judge allowed the opening to proceed with a warning to curb improper remarks.
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Criminal Court
Chicago
William D. Shepherd
Thomas J. Lynch
William Scott Steward
Shepherd
Billy McClintock
Billy
McClintock
Lynch
Stites
Robert £. Crowe
Scopes Leaves for Dayton as Evolution Trial Approaches
John T Scopes the country schoolteacher departs New York for Dayton Tennessee to face trial for teaching evolution. He will be defended by Dr John R Neal Bainbridge Colby Clarence Darrow Dudley Field Malone and others. A banquet honored Scopes as Darrow spoke on freedom of thought.
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United Press Dispatch
New York
John Thomas Scopes
Tennessee
Dayton
Tenn
John R. Neal
Bainbridge Colby
Clarence Darrow
Dudley Field Malone
Scopes
John T. Scopes
Knoxville, Tenn
Darlatle
The
American Civil Liberties Union
American balloons land neatly on German steamer Waterland
Akron pilots W. T. Van Orman and C. K. Vollam of Goodyear III in the Gordon Bennett Cup landed on the German steamer Waterland after evasive routing over the North Sea. They aimed for Brest but wind dictated a sea landing, while Belgian Prince Leopold won the race in roughly 800 miles.
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London
W. T. van Orman
C. K. Vollam
Akron
Vaterland
Norgmann
United States
Brest
North Sea
Leopold
Spain
Grand Army of the Republic closes state encampment in Princeton
The Indiana G A R state encampment ends in Princeton with officer elections. Fort Wayne named next year’s convention city. Veterans tour Lincoln’s grave at Lincoln City after adjournment as about two thousand attend the camp fire event. Irene Kirkman Coolidge sings patriotic Civil War era songs.
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United Press Dispatch
Princeton
Ind
Fort Wayne
Lincoln City
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Irene Kirkman Coolidge
Indiana
Indiana Crop Prospects Drought Shrinks Yields Across Grains
U S crop report for June 1 shows drought continuing through May lowering wheat to 64 percent of normal and reducing corn and oats output. Oats acreage up 16 percent with 68 percent crop condition. barley up 15 percent. rye fared better. Hay and pastures deteriorated with tame hay down 27 points and wild hay 19 points. fruit conditions mixed with apples variable. Corn planted forecast awaited until July 1.
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Indiana
U. S
Dreuth
Oklahoma troops called out in mine riot at Henrie tta
In Henrie tta Oklahoma two national guard companies arrived to preserve order amid union and non-union miner friction. A third company was en route as trouble since last week escalated when an open shop mine faced union miners attacking non union workers.
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Oklahoma
United Press Dispatch
Henrietta
Okla
National Guard
Siece
Jacksonville wage pact stands as 1924 scale
In Athens Ohio on June 11 United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis declared the Jacksonville scale agreement of 1924 must be carried to its expiration. He defended the current wage scale as not causing coal downturns and blamed the 1923 coal commission for the industry’s decline.
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Athens
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Jacksonville
John L. Lewis
International
Lewis
United States Coal Commission
Murderer’s Neck Saved by Illinois High Court Writ
Emil Fricker, condemned to die for killing John Nungesser, won a writ of error and supersedeas from the Illinois Supreme Court, delaying the Edwardsville gallows set for Saturday.
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Springfield
Emil Fricker
Edwardsville
Lllinois Supreme Court
Fricker
John Nungesser
Judge Limits Talks in Ex-Dragon's Case
Noblesville Indiana June 11 Judge Fred E Hines limited oral argument to about two hours tomorrow on a motion to require the state to turn over evidence in the Stephenson Klewelk and Gentry murder case of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Defense seeks Oberholtzer dying statement and Hammond hotel register page with the girl's and defendants names.
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United Press Dispatch
Noblesville
Ind
Fred E. Hines
D. C. Stephenson
Kael Klewelk
Earl Gentry
Madge Oberholtzer
Indianapolis
William H. Remy
Miss Oberholtzer
Tragedy at St. Bernice junction claims rail worker Paul Judy
Paul Judy a section hand for the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul railroad was instantly killed when struck by a locomotive at the St. Bernice junction Clinton Indiana dispatch reports.
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Clinton
Ind
St. Bernice Junction
Paul Judy
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Branchs Sister Dead in Indiana Funeral Planned
Martinsville Indiana June 11 funeral arrangements were set for Miss Leavy Dell Branch 58 sister of Emmett F Branch former Indiana governor. She died at her home yesterday after a lengthy illness.
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Martinsville
Ind
Leavy Dell Branch
Emmett F. Branch
Indiana
Branch
French Forced to Retire in Morocco Clash
French forces in the Auduer and Achirkanen region were compelled to retire before a Ruthian tribal drive, according to advices received this afternoon at Laracne Morocco.
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Laracne
Morocco
Auduer
Achirkanen
Bank Bandits Hit City Bank for 4300 Loot
Two youths under 21 robbed Fletcher Savings and Trust Co at Sixteenth and Illinois in Indianapolis, escaping with 4300 after a gun battle with motorcycle officer Hiram Fisher. Mitchell, cashier, and four employees hid as the bandits fled in a car, leaving the desk revolver. Police pursued. Indiana guards planned to bolster bank protection amid a week of rising robberies totaling over 550000 in losses.
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Indianapolis
Fletcher Savings and Trust Co
Sixteenth
Illinois
Hiram Fisher
Sixteenth Street
Broadway
Fisher
C. F
Mitchell
Bank
Indiana
Illinois Legislature Adjourning After Long Session
Springfield June 11 The Illinois House will adjourn sine die next Thursday after an extended session. An all day session tomorrow will call all third reading bills. Speaker Scholle warned bills lacking sponsor presence would be killed. Reed Sutter motion to kill unreported bills passes.
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Springfield
House of Representatives
Scholle
Reed Sutter
Lewiston
House
Tragic end after liquor raid linked to Darrington case
In Mt. Vernon Indiana on June 11 John Darrington a garage owner used a sawed off shotgun to shoot and wound J W Moses chief of police yesterday and killed himself today The shooting followed a liquor raid on Darringtons home authorities said
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MT. Vernon
Ind
J. W. Moses
John Darrington
Darrington
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