Graf Zeppelin Sets Course for Atlantic Ocean Return
Graf Zeppelin sails swiftly eastward toward Friedrichshafen on a pioneering commercial flight around the world. Weather projections favor favorable winds to Grand Banks and across to the British Isles as the giant airship carries passengers and mail, with planned layovers in Tokio and Los Angeles before Lakehurst return.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Arsrr
N.sarg
Graf Zeppelin
Atlantic
Fredrichshafen
Rochambreau
Roosevelt
Europe
Lakehurst
Hugo Eckener
United States Weather Bureau
Grand Banks
British Isles
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Tokio
Pacific
Los Angeles
Seaplane to be tested by United P
Lieutenant Alvard J Williams a crack navy flier will make a preliminary test of the secret mercury racer in an early flight from a seaplane base.
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United P
Washington
Alvard J. Williams
Navy Fiier
Hourly Temperatures Reported for Local Area
A brief hourly temperature update lists readings from early morning to midday including 65, 80, 67, 82, and 81 degrees with notes on time marks. No further weather conditions are specified.
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Tees
State 4-H Health Champion entrant in 1929 race
Miss Dorothy McNeff of Brooklyn Indiana, 16, has filed as entrant in the Physical Culture contest. The Times notes her health prize winning measurements and places her among many entrants in the state 4-H Club health competition.
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Dorothy McNeff
Brooklyn
Ind
Miss McNeff
Contes
Lyric Theater
Indianapolis
New York City
Ree
New Orleans Aids Strikers Plan Bus Operation Trial
The New Orleans city commission tentatively backs using striking transit workers to run a bus fleet with 150 to 500 double deck buses at 10 cents fare under a twenty year permit. The plan aims to end the streetcar strike amid questions on its impact and while Public Service Inc comments are awaited.
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United Press
New Orleans
Public Service, Inc
Woman on Hunger Strike Refuses Food Amid Pet Starvation Plea
Suzanne Krause, 3145 North Illinois, continues a hunger strike in the county jail after municipal court fines for no dog license and nuisance. Her five dogs and ten cats go unfed as officials search for legal means to enter her property. Neighbors, police, and humane officials press for relief while Krause resists aid, stating she will sue if anyone enters without permission.
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Suzanne Krause
North
Illinois Street
The
Humane Society
Mannon
Bledsoe
Judson L. Stark
Police Sergeant Morrissey in Critical Condition After Operation
Police Sergeant Michael Morrissey of the motor police remains in critical condition at City Hospital after an operation for stomach ulcers. Dr. T B Noble said Morrissey shows limited likelihood of recovery.
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Michael Morrissey
Motor Police
Morrissey
T. B. Noble
Cultists End 90 Day Fast in Chicago Truth Seeker Rally
Dr George Huntley Aron and his Chicago truth seekers ended a ninety day fast with a feast in Perearea. The group reportedly moved from Camp Dix to the town and rushed restaurants. Aron missed the three month mark by about seventy five days and no official reason was given.
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Perearae Bu Vons
Golo
George Huntley Aron
Chicago
Dix
Aron
Indiana pulling record falls at Muncie fair
The Indiana pulling record was broken at the Muncie fair as Irwin Tomlinson of Alexandria led a 3,970 pound team that pulled the equivalent of about twenty tons of granite the full 27 percent distance. Tomlinson's team pulled a red 0 of 3,050 pounds on a Purdue operated testing machine.
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Rai Times
Muncie
Ind
Indiana
Irwin Tomlinson
Alexandria
Tomlinson
Purdue
Prohibition Agent Cleared in Texas Killing of Tom Chandler
Washington reports that a final Prohibition Bureau inquiry found the shooting of Tom Chandler at Poteet Texas by Prohibition Agent Charles Stevens accidental. The account notes corroboration by a town marshal and a constable and states Stevens would face no indictment unless moved to federal court.
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United Press
Washington
Doran
Jackson
Tom Chandler
Poteet
Tex
Charles Stevens
Stevens
Chandler
City Woman Burned In Naphtha Cleaning Blast
Mrs. Shelby Wyly, 49, of 68 South Audubon, was enveloped in flames by an explosion of fumes from cleaning naphtha in her basement today. She had been wiping curtains, went upstairs, and returned to light the water heater when the match ignited the fumes.
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Shelby Wyly
South Audubon
Parole Board to Meet at Indiana Reformatory
Gaylord Morton assistant secretary to Governor Harry G Leslie will represent the governor at the monthly parole board meeting at Indiana State Reformatory Pendleton Friday. The board will consider only prisoners who have served minimum sentences with a few executive clemency petitions previously heard but not yet acted upon.
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Gaylord Morton
Harry G. Leslie
Indiana State Reformatory
Pendleton
Morton
City Hospital Power Plant Funding Ordinance Advertised
The city advertised a new 532000 appropriation ordinance for the hospital power plant today. It will run for ten days before being called up for final passage by the council.
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New City Hospital
Lands Times Commends Times for Inside Prohibition Stories
At the Wayinger chapter of the W C T U meeting held at Mrs. M D Willey’s home readers praised The Times for publishing Mable Walker Willebrandt’s inside stories on federal prohibition enforcement. The president noted members are reading and discussing the series and the paper is commended for providing an insider view of enforcement difficulties.
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the Times
Mable Walker Willebrandt
Wayinger
W. C
Bids Rejected as Indianapolis School Plans Under Fire
Indiana tax board rejected all bids for Irvington high school and additions to two other schools. Officials warned that closed bidding and inflated specifications favored a single supplier, calling for new bonds and redrafted plans to ensure fair competition and reasonable costs.
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C. C. Shipp
Indianapolis School Board
Indianapolis
Irvington High School
State Tax Board
Irvington
Tax Board
Carl Burton
W. A. Breining
Self-defense claim in Dr. Snook murder trial
Dr. James Howard Snook testified he struck Theora Hix with a mechanic's hammer in self-defense after she cursed his mother and threatened his wife. He described a violent, emotional encounter in a car near the New York Central rifle range and said memory fades after the third blow. He alleged she provided ecstasy laced sandwiches and recounted events from that night and earlier drug sessions.
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Theora Hix
Snook
Morris DE Haven Tracy
United Press
Columbus
James Howard Snook
Miss Hix
Theora
David S. White
Veterinary Department
Ohio State University
Cope
Scioto Country Club
Lebanon
Dry law killing toll deplored by Willebrandt
Attorney General Damen Willebrandt argues prohibition enforcement has caused widespread violence and questions whether abstinence from alcohol is worth the human cost. She condemns some killings by agents while noting gangster attacks on officials and shares a widow’s plea after her husband’s murder tied to bootleg liquor.
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Willebrandt
Prohibition Unit
Federal Coast Guard
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