Fiend slays girl and hides body in sacks in Minneapolis
Police launch intensive manhunt after 12 year old Dorothy Anne is found dead on Hiawatha avenue. The alleged attack described by sisters, with the body bound in twine and wire and the mouth stuffed, prompts a citywide search for a bald man about 40 driving a grey coach car.
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United Press Neapolis
Dorothy Anne
Minneapolis
Hiawatha Avenue
William Stoakes
W. ©. Hoag
Dorothy
Andrew W. Anne
Roosevelt
Sylvia Anne
C. A. Hobbs
Sylvania Anne
Sylvia
Eilif
Aune
Fate of Dr James H Snook Hinges on Jury Verdict Today
In Columbus Aug 14 the fate of former Ohio State professor Dr James H Snook charged with murdering Theora Hix rests with a jury to decide this afternoon. Prosecutors demand the electric chair while defense argues self defense and questions motive and methods. The courtroom listens as final pleas are made and Judge Scarlett’s admonitions are awaited.
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Morris DE Haven Tracy
United Press
Columbus, CO
James H. Snook
Ohio State University
Theora Hix
Snook
Harry T. Paul
Max Seyfert
John F. Seidel
Myron T. Gesseman
John J. Chester Jr
Scarlett
Paul C. Hicks
Meyers
Seyfert
Miss Hix
Theora
Chester
Columbus
Gessman
Prowler Shot At Beliefs Triggers Homeowner Defense
Frederick Meyers of 5011 East Twenty-second Street told police he feared to leave his house after a prowler fired at a rear door and entered the night, prompting him to shoot through a door jamb in what he described as an attempted burglary.
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Frederick Meyers
East Twenty-second Street
Meyers
Jad
Noua
Indianapolis Girl Wins Flight Essay Contest In New York
Miss Marion Edwards 16, Arsenal Tech senior and daughter of Captain L M Edwards, won Film Fun magazine contest on Why I Want to Fly. She travels to New York for a ten day visit and ten hours of flight lessons despite defective vision that bars a student license. She hopes sight can be corrected and longs to hold the controls while airborne.
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Indianapolis
New York City
Marion Edwards
New York
Fun Magazine
Arsenal Technical High School
L. M. Edwards
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Miss Edwards
Amelia, Earhart
School Salary Boost Opposed as Budget Voted Soon
County councilmen plan to review a $1,200 pay increase for Fred T. Gladden, county school superintendent-elect, as part of the new budget on September 3. Councilman Paul Dunn said he opposes the increase approved by five trustees and will seek to turn it down. Gladden succeeds Lee Swails, who held the post for eighteen years at $3,600 annually. Gladden will earn $4,800.
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Fred T. Gladden
Paul
Dunn
Gladden
Lee Swails
83 Year Old Crusader Chased To Cops Shelter
83 year old Myra McHenry, former hatchet wielding reformer to Carrie Nation, chased a Colorado woman Mrs. Pearl Wallace for bare legs in Wichita. Wallace fled to the police station as McHenry pursued shouting for decency and clothing. City officials warned on an anti bare leg ordinance while McHenry vowed to continue her crusade.
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United Press
Wichita
Kan
Myra McHenry
Carrie Nation
Pearl Wallace
Las Animas
Colo
Wallace
Colorado
Myra
Bert Wells
Mrs. McHenry
Transfer Girls Case Goes to Appellate Court
The forgery case against Daisy Sullivan of Bloomfield Indiana moves from the supreme court to the appellate court two years after a Greene County circuit court conviction by Judge Thomas Van Buskirk. The transfer follows a finding the supreme court lacked jurisdiction.
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Daisy Sullivan
Bloomfield
Ind
Supreme
Appellate Court
Thomas van Buskirk
Greene County Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Pilots Launch Endurance Flight To Break World Record
Jack Reed of Emsco Aircraft and Emory Bronte began a nonrefueling endurance attempt from Long Beach at 6:04 a m Pacific time flying a single motor plane with a Wright J 6 engine. The craft carries 830 gallons of gasoline and 30 gallons of oil as they seek to surpass the German pair's 65 hour 25 minute record.
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United Press
Long Beach
Cal
Jack Reed
Emsco Aircraft Corporation
Emory Bronte
Hawaii
Ernie Smith
Wife sues for divorce alleging husband tried to ax her
Mrs. Alice Evans of 421 Tibbs Avenue filed for divorce in circuit court from David Evans alleging he attempted to kill her with an ax while she slept. They married April 4, 1920 and separated August 9 192%
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Alice Evans
Tibbs Avenue
David Evans
Calumet Day Cleanup Leads to 124 Arrests in Raids
Federal liquor raids across East Chicago and Indiana Harbor net 124 arrests including Lake County lieutenant Nick Sudovich known as Al Capone's man, East Chicago Mayor R P Hale and Police Chief James Regan. Agents seized equipment to fill a railroad car, 115 five gallon cans of whisky, a large still at Louis Ferrini's home, and 61 locations were raided with 56 operating. Bond set high for Sudovich at $10,000 as jails fill in Crown Point and Hammond.
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Nick Sudovich
al Capone
Lake County
East Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Indiana
Illinois
R P. Hale
James Regan
Lester Ottenheimer
Oliver M. Loomis
E. H. Hall
United States
South Bend
Regan
Washington
Crown Point
Hammond
Louis Ferrini
Chicago
Ringgold Wins City Kitten Ball Championship in 12 Innings
One thousand children from city playgrounds gathered at Willard Park for the city finals in Kitten ball and track contests. Ringgold defeated Rhodius 11 to 6 in a 12 inning title game. Richard Dininger received the gold medal for sportsmanship. Track events for boys and girls from 55 playgrounds were slated, with a volleyball contest to end the day.
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Willard Park
Ringgold
Rhodius
Richard Dininger
Rush School Budget to be Submitted for 1930 Year
A tentative budget for the 1930 school year will be submitted to school commissioners Monday. C. C. York, school business director, announced today. The city has only two weeks left to finalize the budget for advertising.
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C. C. York
Ore On Free List Moves Senate Vote Split
Washington Aug 14 Republican members of the senate finance committee voted 6 to 5 to place manganese ore on the free list in a surprise victory for the steel industry.
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United Press Ashington
Senate Finance Committee
Divorce suit cites wife’s public smoking as fault
John Steddenbent alleges in superior court four that his wife Evelyn, whom he married August 19 1927 and separated May 1 1929, smoked cigarettes in public and that this conduct justified the divorce filing today.
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John Steddenbent
Evelyn
Superior Court
Plane Falls in Lake Erie near Cleveland
Four aboard the Thompson Amphibian Miss Detroit crash off Southeast shoals near Cleveland. Co pilot John Kasper remains missing after fog and misjudged water landing. Pilot Cy Caldwell and engineer C. A. Supole plus Mrs. Robert Little were rescued. Search by air and sea continues with coast guard cutters and passing steamers aiding.
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United Press
Cleveland
John Kasper
Thompson Aeronautical Corporation
Detroit
Lake Erie
Southeast Shoals
Kasper
Cy Caldwell
C. A. Supole
Wright Aeronautical Association
Paterson
N. J
Robert Little
Cedar Rapids
Thompson
Ralph Devore
Otis Beard
Coast Guard
Point Pelee
Caldwell
Lupole
Denmark
State Head Resigns Director of Statistics
Resignation of Eugene B. Butler, director of statistics in the state department of public instruction, to take effect Sept. 1, announced by Roy J. Wisehart. Friction with Roy Roudebush, assistant superintendent and a competing candidate to succeed Wisehart, is said to have driven his action.
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Eugene B. Butler
State Department of Public Instruction
Roy J. Wisehart
Butler
Roy Roudebush
Wisehart
Goucher Student Ends Life in Maryland Cottage
Miss Elinor Bickford twenty a Goucher college student died in Braddock Heights Maryland after taking poison Magistrate Sherman P Bowers said a farewell note found among her effects at the Valley View cottage advised her parents not to worry She apparently died in her sleep without pain Parents named Mr and Mrs G P Bickford of Berwin Md
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United Press
Braddock Heights
Mada
Elinor Bickford
Goucher College
Sherman P. Bowers
Valley View Cottage
G. P. Bickford
Berwin, Md
Prohibition series on anti saloon league fight in Missouri
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt details in The Times how the Anti-Saloon League waged a bitter campaign to shield the state labor commissioner of Missouri aiding floods of high powered beer. She also weighs politics against education as enforcement aid.
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Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States
the Times
Anti-Saloon League
Missouri
Figures prepared for governor on Indiana highway fleet costs
Prepared for Governor Harry G. Leslie, the figures detail a year of maintenance and repair costs for state owned automobiles, trucks, and tractors. The data suggest waste and mismanagement in the motor transport division led by Omer S. Manlove, with costs for Ford cars and heavy equipment reaching thousands. The report was not shared with highway officials or the legislature and is expected to trigger further inquiry and personnel actions.
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Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Highway Department
Motor Transport
Omer S. Manlove
Highway Director
Highway Commission
Board of Accounts
Legislative
Manlove
John J. Brown
the Times
Brown
Charles H. Parrish
Department of ‘Conservation
West Market Street
Fred R. Huddleston
East Twenty-fifth Street
Harry A. Hitzelberger
Huddleston
John D
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