KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE DISASTER DEATH TOLL RISES TO 107
Washington reports 107 dead after the Knickerbocker theatre roof collapse during a Saturday showing. Emergency teams recover bodies from the ruins and 134 are injured, with 14 seriously hurt. search efforts continue into the second day amid debris and rescue operations near upper Connecticut Avenue.
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Washington
Knickerbocker Theatre
Fort Myer
Tt Wns
Knickerbocker
Motion Picture Houses
Upper Connecticut Avenue
Federal migratory bird license proposal surfaces in Anthony bill
The New Anthony bill would require a federal license for hunting migratory birds at $1 per season and establish migratory refuges and public shooting grounds. About 5 million sportsmen would be affected, with 45 percent of revenues for refuges, 45 percent for enforcement, and 10 percent for licensing costs. The bill moves through Senate committees and awaits House action.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
United Department of Agriculture
Senate Committee On Public Lands
House
Committee On Agriculture
United States
Migratory Bird Refuge Commission
Secretary of Agriculture
Proposed refuges to be administered by Secretary of Agriculture
The administration of the proposed refuges would be placed in the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture. The measure does not remove the need for a state hunting license.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Fillmore Varsity Faces Cloverdale In County Clash
Fillmore basketball teams meets Cloverdale in the Cloverdale gym Tuesday at 7 30 PM for a highly anticipated county game. Both squads have shown a fast tempo in recent weeks and are among the county's top teams beside Greencastle.
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Greencastle
Cloverdale Gymnasium
Fillmore
Cloverdale
Watch Returned Request After Ice Rescue on White River
John E. Frazeur recounted skating with Roy Mitchel when a man fell through the ice near Riverside Park. Frazeur slipped in saving the unconscious drowning victim and handed his watch to a bystander. he now seeks its return and to learn the rescued man’s condition. Frazeur is a World War I veteran and DePauw graduate who taught overseas.
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White River
Riverside Park
John E. Frazeur
West Fight
Tenth Street
Frazeur
Roy Mitchel
Rembrandt Street
Mr. Frazeur
Mr Frazier
National Guard
Phillippine Islands
DePauw University
Philippines
Porto Rico
Coffin Announces Candidacy for Sheriff Nomination
Claude R. Coffin, former deputy sheriff to Sheriff Lawrence Sears, announced his bid for the Republican nomination for sheriff in Marion County. The move signals opposition to incumbent Sears in the upcoming primary. Coffin is a Marion Township farmer with deep Republican roots and broad local contacts.
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ClauDe R. Coffin
Lawrence Sears
Coffin
Claude Coffin
Marion Township
Woman's Auxiliary Clears 40 From Doughnut Market
The Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion held a doughnut market in the Putnam Electric Company office on Saturday. They cleared about forty dollars to fund purchases for the Legion Club Rooms and other necessities.
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The
American Legion
Putnam Electric Company
Legion Club
Sheriff Buys White Mule of a Bootlegger
Clarence T. Stigler of West Washington township near the Clay county line agreed to a liquor sale with Sheriff Lawrence Sears and Ralph Donnahue after a tip led to a warrant raid. Stigler supplied a gallon for $10 claiming it was buried in a garden and said the liquor was made in Brazil and brought at night by automobile. He was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days on the State Farm after pleading leniency from neighbors.
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Clarence T
Taz) Stigler
Washington Township
Clay County
Lawrence Sears
Ralph Donnahue
Stigler
Donnahue
Sears
Brazil
Greencastle
Zeis
Lewis Sentenced to Penal Farm for Intoxication
Jacob Lewis of Bainbridge was fined five dollars and costs and ordered to serve 30 days at the Penal Farm by Mayor Zeis on a second intoxication charge. He had been jailed for drunkenness earlier, released on bail, and re-arrested after a second intoxication on Franklin street.
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Jacob Lewis
Bainbridge
Zeis
Lewis
Franklin Street
Marshall O’hair
Miss Virginia Ruth Cooper Dies in Greencastle
Miss Virginia Ruth Cooper age 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs M E Cooper east Anderson street died Saturday afternoon about 245 from heart leakage due to inflammatory rheumatism She had been ill since September She was a Greencastle High School sophomore and Girls Reserve member Funeral Monday at 230 in home with Rev H C Clippinger in charge Family and friends attended Burial at Forest Hill Cemetery Survived by brother Marion at Purdue University and sister Mary Francis a Greencastle High School senior
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Virginia Ruth Cooper
M. E. Cooper
East Anderson Street
Miss Cooper
Greencastle High School
H. C. Clippinger
Locust Street
M. E
John Young
Ben Riley
Marguerite Fox
LaVerne Courtney
Blanche Haltom
Imogene Mullins
Zelma Robards
Eunice Misner
Helen Hester
Wilma
Indiana cities split over merger plan and PSC abolition
Spec ial dispatches indicate in six Indiana cities excluding Indianapolis that stance on the merger of seven concerns and abolishing the public service commission varies. Kokomo will not send a protest delegation, Elkhart opposes the plan, Martinsville vigorously protests, Greencastle is undecided but opposed by many, Valparaiso protests, Shelbyville objects while Miss Wampler travels to Greencastle to visit an aunt.
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Indiana
Public Service Commission of
Star
Indianapolis
Kokomo
Mercer
Shank
Elkhart
Mildred Hurst Weds Lawrence Ellis in Indianapolis Church
Miss Mildred Hurst daughter of Mr and Mrs A R Hurst and Lawrence Nicholas Ellis son of Mr and Mrs Frank O Ellis of Beatrice Nebraska married at St Pauls Episcopal Church Indianapolis on December 22. Both are DePauw sophomores and will resume studies this year. The bride belongs to Delta Theta Tau and several city social clubs. They will live with the bride's parents on East Poplar Street until returning to DePauw next fall.
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Mildred Hurst
A. R. Hurst
City
Lawrence Nicholas Ellis
Frank O. Ellis
Beatrice
Nebraska
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Indianapolis
Lewis Brown
DePauw
Delta Theta Tau Sorority
the Croam
University of Michigan
Ellis
NePauw
East Poplar Street
Death of Mrs Robert Day in Fillmore
Mrs. Robert Day of Fillmore died Saturday afternoon at 4 o clock at her home from bronchial pneumonia. She was prominent in church and social circles as a member of Beechwood Pleasant Circle Club. Survived by widower and one daughter Mrs Ray Smith of this city. Funeral held at the home Monday at 2 in charge by Rev C L Airhart Crawfordsville Burial in Fillmore Cemetery. Robert Graham ill at home. report of paralysis false.
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Robert Day
South Fillmore
C. L. Airhart
Crawfordsville
Fillmore Cemetery
Watch for trains rule upheld by Indiana Supreme Court
LaPorte Indiana January 29 The Indiana Supreme Court reversed a $14000 verdict against the Lake Erie Western railroad in a collision north of the city finding an automobile driver must watch for trains at unguarded crossings. The court held the railroad need not provide a watchman or signal unless ordered and cannot be negligent if whistle blowing and other laws are followed.
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Laporte
Ind
Indiana Supreme Court
Clyde Johnson
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Johnson
Supreme Court
Flock of Geese Seen Foretells Early Spring
TERRE HAUTE Ind Jan 29 a flock of about fifty wild geese was observed flying northward historians of bird movement say this signals a shorter winter. Earlier a robin perched on a church on a main street attracted notable interest in town.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indianapolis Protest Parade Over Utilities Merger
About 2000 people lined up to protest Mayor Shank and his followers as they urged dismissal of the public service commission over the Indiana Electric Corporation merger. Governor McCray planned to receive delegations and review the commission’s records after discussions with city and state officials.
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Indianapolis
Action OF Utilities Commission
Giant Electric Corporation
Ind
Shank
State Utilities Commission
Indiana Electric Corporation
Indiana
State House
West Indianapolis
Oliver Ave Duire
Lew Stank
Public Service Commission
McCray
John W. McCardle
Commission
Miss Branham Pictures Russia Horrors for Relief Work
Lucy Branham, history instructor at Columbia University Extension, spoke in Greencastle about the famine in the Volga basin. She recounted Russian mothers' despair and overcrowded orphanages, urging support for the Indiana Russian Famine Relief Fund to provide food, clothing, and medical care.
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Lucy Branham
Columbia University Extension Department
Volga River Basin
Russia
Miss Branham
Greencastle
Indiana
America
Columbia University
John Hopkins University
Chicago University
Volga
Ural
Americans Friends Service Committee
United States
Volga River
Friends Service Committee
Illness of Fnes Stroube at Jackson Street
Fnes Stroube the young son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Stroube on Jackson Street is ill with pneumonia. The brief item notes his illness and residence without further details.
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Fnes Stroube
Herbert Stroube
Jackson Street
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Cloverdale Lads
Indianapolis Star
West Washington Township
Valparaiso
Meyer
Tadiananolis
Shelbyville
Frank Wampler
H. C. Lewis
Lawrence Ellis
Robert
Robert Graham
Mc Graham
Panade
Horrors
Indiana Relief Fund
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