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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1928
Page
6
Nine farm leaders from the Mid West confer with Governor Alfred E. Smith as he seeks a farm policy stance for his August 22 acceptance speech. Hoover banners farm relief and tariff while Smith weighs a replacement for the McNary Haugen plan.
The Rothschild heir, Baron Aron Albert de Rothschild, seen in Vienna during a stroll. ORD WHITE, a small boy, is at Washington Hospital where Patrolman Ford and White found him on a doorstep in the capital’s residence district.
The two youths Naditza and Paul Raditch are pictured with their father Paul Raditch who was shot and killed in the Jugoslav Parliament. King Alexander of Jugoslavia announced he would adopt the children and ensure they receive a good start in life.
An Oslo dispatch reported the Russian ice breaker Krassin arrived at Stavanger and resumed the search for Roald Amundsen and Italia expedition members missing in the Arctic.
A Genoa to Buenos Aires voyage saw two year old Maria Gravoni carried overboard by a wave but later thrown back aboard by a second wave. She sustained bruises and was unconscious briefly before recovering.
John Devine swam fourteen miles from League Island Navy Yard Philadelphia to Chester Pennsylvania in four hours proving his remarkable skill. The feat highlights a young swimmer known as a swimming wiz E S who trained near the Navy Yard and displayed unlikely endurance.
Lieut. Col. Roberto Fierro arrived in Havana from Mexico City and planned to stay three to four days awaiting further advices from Mexican authorities on the war situation.
A city-wide series of crashes leaves multiple injured including Clarence Cary 24 and Naomi Falkerson 18. Ed Ewing 32 faces assault and reckless driving charges after a front-end collision at Dakota and Morris.
George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, will repeat warnings against unnecessary display and use of firearms to Indiana dry agents on Tuesday. Agents will review reporting procedures and then discuss proper firearm use. optional target practice is available. William N. Woodruff, acting Ohio Indian administrator, is expected Tuesday. The firearm discussion follows a recent New Albany shooting but is not tied to it.
The cornerstone ceremony for the new $40,000 Riverside Park M E Church on Edgemont Avenue and Harding Street featured Rev A T Briggs of the Greencastle Methodist Episcopal district and speakers John Hobbing Mrs Floyd Knight Robert Richardson Mrs L E Hobson Lewis E Franzeur and Rev Robert M Selle the church pastor.
Petitions opposing Continental Stages seeking a certificate of necessity to run Indianapolis to Detroit lines have been filed with the Public Service Commission by Union Traction Company and Indiana Safety Coach Corp. The filings claim a foreign corporation cannot operate from an Indiana city under the Shively Spencer utility act.
Henry M. Blackmer the American oil man denies hiding as extradition proceedings proceed he rejects La Presse reports of a kidnapping attempt aboard a yacht. His lawyer says he will face justice and knows nothing of the alleged plan.
Dr. Ellice McDonald, cancer research director, told a Northwestern University meeting that cancer susceptibility can be deter mined in advance and cured if treatment starts in time. He said the cure works by raising blood calcium with a thyroid gland extract.
Ford Motor Company will discontinue its service and sales department at the Green Island plant on August 20 and focus on production. The change is seen as the first step in an expansion outlined by Henry Ford during a recent visit.
The city airport committee led by Mayor L. Ert Slack seeks taxpayer sentiment to finance a municipal airport estimated at 400 000 to 500 000 dollars. Councilman Herman P. Lieber says strong public support could unlock legal authority and funding via taxes or bonds. The panel considers 282 acres near the current Indianapolis airport and awaits Transcontinental Air Transport’s plans to make Indianapolis a primary stop for a coast to coast route.
A United Press report describes the Johanna Smith gambling ship anchored near Long Beach, operating 24 hours with 13 gambling tables and 38 slot machines. The float reportedly takes in large sums, draws varied crowds, and avoids liquor on board through policy.
Herman Lovelace age 27 of 632 Alabama Street attacked his wife and brother in law after a quarrel over two broken bottles of white mule. He allegedly stabbed Sherman Nelson three times with a fork and threatened the piano with an ax before police arrests for assault and battery and drunkenness.
Rev W C Meinzen ordained Theodore Charles Moeller into the ministry at Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church. The ordination was assisted by Rev Henry Scheperle city missionary Rev Werner Knutz Grace English Lutheran and Rev C Eisele of Canada brother in law of the candidate.
In Gary Indiana Ensign Thomas V Gates of the Salvation Army refused to aid a man whose car needed repairs. The motorist asked for charity and was told no assistance would be given as no program allowed such aid.
Eight hundred passengers were rescued from ladders after a collision on the Fulton line of the Brooklyn Manhatten Transit system near Lefferts Ave station in Brooklyn. Ten were injured in the panic as a fire broke out in one car and the trestle ignited. Firemen halted the blaze and prevented a larger disaster.
The city plan commission said widening Sixteenth Street from Delaware to the canal should begin by January 1. A committee will meet to approve engineering details and cost estimates. The project includes an 84 foot width except near the Methodist Hospital with a 10 foot curve, and removal of the jog in Illinois Street.
Detroit police and private detectives hold four men and two women on charges tied to a bond theft scheme totaling about $500,000 from a New York brokerage. An undercover sale attempt by Moe Rasken led to the arrest, but his $20,000 bond offer was not part of the New York robbery.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary A Thompson 83 of 226 E Eleventh St will be held at 3 pm Tuesday in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church She died Saturday after a four year illness Surviving are nephew Irving Williams a niece Anna May Coe of Lake City Fla and three nephews Ellsworth Dwight and Robert K Coe of Whitewater Mich
The pope, greatly affected by the heat wave, has stopped his daily Vatican garden walks and stays in cooler private apartments. His sprained foot from late July still trouble him as reported by the press today.
County commissioners will open bids Wednesday for a $30,000 bond project to add a new well to the Sunnyside water plant. The well is expected to end recurring water shortages that have troubled the sanatorium area for over a year.
The Times and United Press probe the South’s stance on Smith and Hoover, noting the region's Democratic legacy, white voter predominance, and key issues of prohibition and religion. Republicans plan a southern campaign while Democrats organize from state and local leaders, wary of shifting allegiances.
Marion County plans its seventh annual county picnic at Broad Ripple Park with Luther E. Tex as general chairman and Commissioners Sutton Snider and Hogle assisting. The event continues the road department picnic tradition begun by Tex’s division with a day of usual amusements. Forest fire at Yosemite National Park remains out of control on the outer edge as 200 rangers fight the blaze.
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