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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1929
Page
4
Buick officials reveal the 1930 Buick models are approved and nearing production in Flint Michigan. The plant shows intense activity as the new line rolls off the assembly line, with details kept under wraps. Public introduction is expected around August first, with the car touted as a major step forward.
Five people died in a large fire that ripped through a section of Angora now Ankara in Turkey. President Mustapha Kemal Pasha personally directed firemen in battling the flames and containment efforts.
Bloomington city school board announced Pete Phillips as the new basketball coach succeeding Glen Johnson. Phillips previously led Rushville high school for three years, taking teams to the state finals in 1928 and 1929, and earlier coached at Angola and Wiley. He is a 1920 Indiana University graduate and was a three year varsity player captain in his junior year.
Catherine Crawford, 13, shot and killed her father George H. Crawford 40 a Monmouth County constable in Keyport New Jersey. She said he knocked her down in his bedroom and the revolver lay on the bureau. she grabbed it and fired.
Results show St Paul defeating Indianapolis 4 to 2 while Columbus beat Milwaukee 7 to 0. Toledo won 5 to 2 against Kansas City, Louisville outscored Minneapolis 4 to 2 in 12 innings, Chicago beat Boston 2 to 1, Philadelphia swept Detroit 4 to 2, St Louis defeated Washington 7 to 3, New York 7-5 over Cleveland, plus NL matches Pittsburgh at New York and Chicago at Brooklyn with several games listed as wet grounds.
Pitcher George Earnshaw anchors the Athletics who hold a nine game AL lead. Ruth’s injury looms as he may sit from two days to a month, while Babe Ruth’s next game remains uncertain.
Springfield July 20 The state plans to convert jails to mixed schooling and work centers for inmates with an eight hour day split between classes and labor. Rodney Brandon head of public welfare envisions reading and writing as a condition of release and urges first offender segregation and reform overseen by trained teachers at Joliet and women's prisons.
ANDERSON, Ind., July 19. John Phillipps, 44, farmer, received three to ten years in state prison and his stepson Harold Julian, 22, was sent to the state reformatory for one to ten years after pleading before Judge Carl Morrow to stealing chickens from Ava Wolfe near Lapel.
The Indiana State Fair runs August 31 to September 7 and offers grand champion royal purple rosettes as top prizes. Livestock exhibitors in our county are urged to enter, as ribbons with various colors symbolize premiums and honors.
Tommy Loughran, who defended his title against James J. Braddock last night, renounces the light heavyweight crown due to health risks from severe weight cutting. He plans to petition the New York boxing commission to be recognized as a leading heavyweight contender.
Boston reports J Pierpont Morgan is constructing a 2 000 000 yacht in Bath Missouri. The private craft will be 343 feet long with steel compartments for unsinkable design and twin turbo electric engines. A crew of 44 will operate the vessel.
Ross A. Cole of North Texas National Bank in Dallas outlines a three year project to create a model airplane with vertically rotating wings that catch air currents to stay aloft. He aims to prove safer air travel and plans a full scale craft funded by friends.
A mad mongrel dog feared by South Bend and Mishawaka police ran through the city for a day and night, biting seven people five dogs and one horse. Police order strict quarantine and will shoot any dog not leashed or tied on the owner's premises.
Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell denied parole for Horace Messenger, aIllinois youth jailed on Dyer anti motor theft charges, after his attorney argued for release to permit brain operation. Dr J B Stalker reported Messenger’s injuries from a car crash appear not to affect his condition. Gov Harry G Leslie previously paroled Howard Buck for brain surgery following football injuries.
Clinton Indiana federal agents and local police arrested Ernest Fotfi and his son Pete after raiding a building that had been raided nineteen times. They seized two stills with capacities of 150 and 120 gallons and 6000 gallons of mash plus 145 gallons of finished liquor. The raid expanded to Terre Haute for additional action.
The Herald in Greencastle Indiana lists the Star and Democrat legacy from 1868. Publication info includes Charles J. Arnold as owner LeRoy Bee, city editor OE MTR and manager, daily except Sunday, address 17-19 South Jackson Street, phone 66. Subscriptions: Putnam County 3.00 yearly, outside Putnam 2.50, Greencastle carrier 10 cents weekly. ads on application.
Granada screens Come Across a Universal Jewel comedy drama Sunday featuring Lina Basquette Reed Howes and Flora Finch. On Saturday Ken Maynard stars in Cheyenne plus a Buster Brown cartoon. Scarlet Seas plays at Voncastle Theatre with Richard Barthelmess and Betty Compson in a tale of danger adventure and redemption.
A youthful Richard Barthelmess and a bluntly sentimental girl drift through a bleak story set "somewhere Fast of Suez." The film traces their meet and descent into a cess pool of existence as life’s stream carries them toward a desolate sea.
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