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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1929
Page
1
Mabel Willebrandt argues that liquor is widely available under prohibition but draws a cautious line on its consumption. She contrasts past norms with present trends, noting increased public discussion yet possible overstatement of drinking levels.
Sheriff George L. Winkler, who underwent an operation for a ruptured appendix a month ago, will resume his duties in two weeks, physicians said today. He was moved to his home Tuesday from St. Vincent's hospital.
Millersburg State bank, Millersburg in Elkhart county about ten miles east of Goshen, closes and will pay off all obligations per state bank commissioner Luther F. Symonds. Merger of Provident Trust Company and Columbia State Bank creates a new Columbia State Bank with $100000 capital.
Officials at the Kansas state penitentiary investigated the source of guns used by six convicts in a Tuesday breakout that left two dead and a guard and another convict wounded. Four prisoners were captured after a four hour chase near Lansing. three others escaped, and one man killed himself after being wounded.
East wind eight mph, temperature 76, pressure 30.15 at sea level. Ceiling unlimited, visibility two and a half miles. Local smoke and field reported good.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, a technical advisor to the Commerce Department's aeronautics branch, has not received any pay though eligible for 25 dollars daily for days served. Major Clarence M. Young says Lindbergh has not counted his services as actual work, despite offering regulations input and surveying two emergency landing fields.
In twenty four hours five South Bend residents died by violence. Mrs D M Steinhager 37 committed suicide by gas in her kitchen after a note to her children. Thomas F Parsons 31 a prisoner hanged himself in his jail cell. John Dietsch 17 was crushed when earth buried him in a gravel pit. Parsons awaited transfer to state hospital at Logansport. Steinhager buried in Huntington.
A search party found 46 year old farmer John W Dunham dead by suicide in a vacant Union county farmhouse after a long family quarrel centered on a stepdaughter who lived with them. A coroner's jury ruled death by own action.
Eleven year old Harold Hasenmeyer of Garfield Oklahoma was killed at a playmate's home in Rockport Indiana when a rope suspending a pitchfork caused the tool to pierce his body after he jerked the rope. The fork struck his shoulder and penetrated downward.
Eight people were injured in Michigan City when a truck driven by Clarence Sievert of Stevensville Michigan rammed into the side of a Cincinnati to Chicago bus. Sievert said he fell asleep at the wheel.
Mrs. Suzanne Krause of 3145 North Illinois Street began a hunger strike while jailed for failing to pay a dog license and maintaining a nuisance. She is serving a $25 fine and a $10 nuisance fee after a municipal court verdict by Special Judge William Faust. She refused jail food, declaring they cannot force her to eat.
Graf Zeppelin motors roar at Lakehurst as weather data is gathered for an eastward 21000 mile round trip. Dr Eckener aims to depart at midnight with passengers mail and freight aboard and return by early September.
London reports the Cunard liner Mauretania, 22, expected to reach New York tomorrow morning, just two and a half hours behind the Bremen’s east to west Atlantic crossing record. Captain McNeil notes their average speed of 27 knots while acknowledging the Bremen’s edge.
Dr. James H. Snook takes the stand to defend against murder charges in the death of Theora Hix. He is examined about his relationship with Hix, her role as a stenographer, and their conversations about work and finances at Ohio State University.
In court testimony, a man described ongoing intimate meetings with Miss Hix beginning about four weeks after they met, detailing discussions on companionate marriage, weapon training, and his role as her tutor in firearms. He recalled meeting Marion T. Meyers in September 1928 and claimed to have taught Miss Hix to shoot.
Mrs. Annabelle Young of New Haven urges the city to ban bare legs among girls and women over 12, arguing Yale students face threats to virtue. She seeks an aldermanic ordinance to curb street exposure and protect “our country’s” moral standards amid the Yale crowd.
Five Indianapolis men join 103 engineer reserve officers in a fourteen day training camp at Ft Benjamin Harrison. The group, part of the Fifth corps area, comes from Ohio Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia. Key Indianapolis officers include Captains Denzil Doggett John L Niesse Lloyd W Warner and Lieutenants Warren E Cleveland and P M Fifer.
Police traffic safety campaign in Indianapolis reports arrests totaling sixty seven on Tuesday and today. Four arrestees were women. Sixteen face speeding charges, ten disobeying traffic signals, the rest for miscellaneous offenses.
Edward King, arrested at Tipton, returned to face Glen Sanders assault charges in city court. Sanders, with a fractured skull, left St Johns Hospital after release and could not be found to testify. King received an $11 fine on a plea.
Anderson Indiana August 7 John Jones 30 will be laid up at his home five miles north of the city for the next few weeks from injuries sustained when he was kicked by a ct
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