Linton Boy Scout Camp to be Dedicated Sunday
The new Linton Scout Camp north of the city will be formally dedicated Sunday afternoon with Paul V. McNutt delivering the dedicatory address. Scouts from Linton and Bloomfield will attend, and the grounds host tennis drills, water games, life saving demos, and a campfire program after a basket supper.
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Linton
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana University Law School
American Legion
Bloomfield
Schioot
Linton Scouts
Bloomfield Band
Scout Rally Plans Evening Schedule and Campfire Award
A public Boy Scouts event features a Tescue race and a first-aid race with a 6:00 basket supper and 7:30 campfire program awarding badges. The public is invited to attend all exercises and asked to bring a basket supper or lunch.
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Boy Scouts
Another Oil Well Struck in Sullivan County
Sullivan Ind June 27 The Sullivan oil field received a boost with a paying well four miles west of Sullivan drilled on the GC L Davis estate by the Sam Henry Oil company. The well reached 775 feet with producing sand 12 to 1 1 inches thick. Production is conservatively about 25 barrels per day once flow stabilizes.
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Sullivan
Ind
GC. L. Davis
Sam Henry Oil Company
Big Tim Murphy 13 Victim of Deadly Machine Gun Fire
United Press dispatch from Chicago reports the gangland bloodbath after the murder of Timothy D. Murphy known as Big Tim. Police issued warrants for several suspects as five more shootings followed the slaying including the killing of Nicholas Hanes, manager of the Metropolitan hotel and rival to Capone.
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Big Tim’ Murphy
United Press Dispatch
Chicago
Big Tim” Murphy
Big Tim
Murphy
Nicholas Hanes
Metropolitan
Scarface A
Capone
Buchanan Confesses Partial Murder Charge In Wires Killing
Robert Buchanan is jailed in Bloomington without bail after confessing a portion of the Wires murder in Monroe County. He says the shooting at the Gosport road home occurred accidentally during a masked entry after a poker game.
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Robert Buchanan
Wires
Bloomfield
Monroe County
Orville Wires
Gosport Road
Bloomington
Buchanan
Vincennes
Jean Steele
Steele
Brazil
Donald A. Rogers
Gasoline Theft Fire At Sawmill Claims $2700 Loss
Earl Pittman and Emmett Lester were arrested in Nashville Indiana after officials said they confessed to stealing gasoline at a Brown County sawmill where a lantern ignited the fluid, burning the mill and causing a $2700 loss.
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United Press Dispatch
Nashville
Ind
Earl
Pittman
Emmett Lester
D. S. Wilkerson
Brown County
Mantell Dies After Illness at Brucewood Home
Shakespearian actor Robert B. Mantell died at his country home Brucewood in Atlantic Highlands New Jersey after several weeks of illness. The actor was a prominent stage figure known for his interpretations of dramatic works and his career spanned decades across major theaters.
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Atlantic Highlands
N. Js
Robert B. Mantell
Brucewood
Arctic search launched for Roald Amundsen and party
Oslo reports June 27 government orders thirty Arctic ships between Vromsoe and Spitzbergen to begin an immediate hunt for the French seaplane carrying Roald Amundsen and his five companions missing since June 18.
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Oslo
Norway
Vromsoe
Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Illinois Central Rail Income Shows Decline
Chicago June 27 The Trinvis system reports a drop in net railway operating income for the first five months of 1928 by 229 563 and a May decline of 188 088. May operating revenues fell to 14 380 065 down 428 769 while five month revenues reached 78 774 119 down 1 239 710. Five month net income totaled 11 168 929 with May at 1 719 631.
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Chicago
Wheat Strength in Chicago Market Outlook
Scattered rains in the southwest nudged the wheat market higher on the Board of Trade while corn and oats edged up fractionally. Wheat opened unchanged to one cent higher, corn up to three eighths, and oats up to one eighth. Provisions rose sharply as weather improves in the northwest and wheat belt. Export demand remains unusually small and rain is forecast for tomorrow. Canadian oats were noted for export recently.
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Unpehd Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Pig crop drops seven percent from 1927 levels
Washington reports the spring pig crop for this year declined about 7 percent from 1927 in Agriculture Department figures. The drop amounts to about four million pigs with an 8 million head decrease in the corn belt states.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
General Nobile reports fatality in Italia crash
General Umberto Nobile said today that Vincenzo Punnello engine man was killed when the Italia dirigible crashed on May 25. He added that the forward engine turret struck ice and those who floated away with the air bag likely perished from exposure and hunger.
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United Press Dispatch
Rome
Italia
Umberto Nobile
Vincenzo Punnello
Nobile
Indian Creek Coal Co. seeks tax refund in federal suit
In Indianapolis on June 27 the Indian Creek Coal Mining Co. argued before Judge Robert C. Baltzell for a refund of about 132000 dollars plus interest totaling around 175000 dollars. Edward Loge don, president, said no better mine exists in Indiana. Experts from the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association and others testified on property valuation and the excess profits tax.
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Indianapolis
Indian Creek Coal Mining Company
Robert C. Baltzell
Edward D. Logedon
Indiana
Phil Penna
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
John Templeton
Terre Haute
C. M. Byers
Vincennes
James L. Darnell
Eniineer
Illinois Mine Situation Near Peak Amid UMW Discontent
In St Louis on June 27 reports say Illinois mine affairs may reach a crisis within a week. Northern locals form a separate body, a radial save-the-union faction renames as United Mine Workers of Illinois, and Southern locals push for separate operator negotiations. John Lewis faces renewed Illinois demands for wage talks as district officials press for action. Harry Fishwick and Walter Nesbit downplay a split while Nesbit signals a wage conference push.
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ST. Louis
United Mine Workers of
Hlinoig
United Mine Workers of Tinos
Lewis
Illinois
Harry Fishwick
Walter Nesbit
International
Nesbit Sec
Earhart and companions return home from England
Miss Amelia Earhart and companions Wikner Stultz and Lou Gordon left by automobile for Southampton to sail tomorrow on the President Roosevelt for New York. Earhart had attended the all England tennis matches at Wimbledon before departing.
New Albany Defeats City Manager Plan Referendum
New Albany Ind June 27 voters rejected the city manager form of government in a referendum. An unofficial Tribune tabulation shows 6,812 against and 4,860 for, with the total vote the largest ever cast in the city.
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New Albany
Ind
New Albany Tribune
Illinois town marshal dies after Chrisman gunfight
Terre Haute June 27 Sylvester Sienty town marshal of Chrisman Illinois died in Lake View hospital Danville after being shot during a burglary attempt by three bandits. Two suspects John Birosko and John Clarkson both 28 from Universal Indiana confessed and named Wallace Phillips who was wounded and in Union hospital. The marshal was struck by a bullet entering the chin passing the neck and exiting the shoulder during a confrontation at a store entrance. He died hours after being found and rushed to a hospital.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Sylvester Sienty
Chrisman
Lake View
Danville
John Birosko
John Clarkson
Universal
Wallace’ Phillips
Union Hospital
Lients
Marshal
Nominations Advance Ahead of Platform Report at Democratic Convention
United Press dispatch from Houston reports the third session of the Democratic national convention adjourned peacefully as delegates planned to reconvene for a long-night session. Officials expect a potential late-night executive discussion led by Senator Key Pittman amid an otherwise calm, unified gathering with little infighting.
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United Press Dispatch
Houston
Democr Tic i. al
Irom
United
Pruse di Bureau Federation
Key Pittman
Nevada
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