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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1928
Page
6
United Press reports Henry M. Blackmer avoids photographers by disguises and new hotel, while awaiting extradition on perjury and income tax charges. He continues to travel Paris to Deauville as U S efforts slow.
Mrs Pearl Sommer a former Indianapolis woman had bigamy charges pressed against William J Nunnery New York board of transportation inspector dismissed as a shakedown and blackmail by Magistrate Hyman Bushel in Tombs Court The case involved Sommer claiming to be Nunnerys common law wife after divorcing Allen Sommer of Indianapolis in January and marrying Nunnery in 1925
Evanston police hold a confession from David Shanks. He killed Miss Jennie Constance, 42, Northwestern postgraduate, to steal tips from his shine stand. A wrist watch ribbon clue helped link him to the crime and a jewelry switch led to his arrest. Rewards totaling $2,000 were offered.
County commissioners announce a half holiday for county workers this Wednesday to attend the seventh annual Broad Ripple Park picnic. Office closings begin at noon CST as officials remain at the Courthouse until after noon and a program of contests is planned under Road Superintendent Luther E. Tex.
Word reached Bedford Indiana of the accidental electrocution death of Wayne Lackey age 36 in Texas. Former resident of Lawrence County his father Eldridge Lackey now in Green County will travel to Texas to bring the body back to Indiana for burial.
Dr John Roach Straton who challenged Governor Smith to a debate on morality seeks to enforce prohibition on church property. He learned a bottle of whisky was sold at Sterling Forest Hotel on the Greenwood Lake Christian Assembly site and urged hotel lessee William Hecht to ban liquor and card playing. Local authorities said the hotel lies outside jurisdiction. a Warwick justice was needed. Straton vowed to take action despite inaction overnight.
Albert Anderson, 54, is being sought in Northern Indiana after escaping the State Hospital for the Insane at Logansport. He was committed following a letter threatening President Coolidge, and escaped from the institution Saturday.
In Elwood Indiana August 14 five boys aged 15 to 18 used hoes to weed a farm owned by Lige Chaplin after a police sentence. They damaged property while hunting honey tearing weatherboarding drowning bees and trampling corn. Chaplin accepted work with hoes in lieu of charges.
Nineteen special committees were formed in Indianapolis on Monday to canvass business groups for the $12,500 budget for the twenty ninth national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars set for August 26 to September 1. A noon Chamber of Commerce luncheon heard reports of progress led by Robert H. Bryson and C. E. Darnell. Governor Ed Jackson contributed $3,000 from his contingent fund. The drive also received $1,350 from women's auxiliaries and local posts, plus contributions from Republican State committee $200 Irving W. Lemaux $100 mail gifts $230 Hook Drug Company $100 George J. Marott $500 Louis Borinstein $100 Jacob Wolf $100 and $350 from theaters.
Five liquor padlock suits were filed in Superior Court today seeking a year long ban. Plaintiffs Paul E. Rhoadarmer and Will S. Sparks demand $200 in attorneys’ fees per case from defendants Mrs Benny Roland Finis Wagner Prudie Moore Ed Early and Clifford Jackson at various city addresses.
Chester Peale paid five dollars in damages after throwing a tomato at an auto with Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Bowers of Sharpsville. Mrs Bowers' dress was spattered by the tomato.
Federal officials warn the government may run five years short of medicinal whisky and seek authority to distill more for aging before sale. In East Chicago, Phillip Zieliski, 23, died after being thrown from a car driven by Vincent Rafalski, who was arrested.
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