Fickert Row Behind Billings Hanging Verdict Revealed
In San Francisco a pardon rehearing exposes tension between James Brennan and Charles Fickert over Brennan's refusal to seek a hanging verdict for Warren Billings. Brennan reportedly doubted Billings' guilt, while editor Edgar Gleason recounted Brennan's admission of such doubts and alleged perjury by witnesses.
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Max Stern
Times
San Francisco
James Brennan
Charles Fickert
Warren Billings
Edgar T. Gleason
Billings
Brennan
Fickert
Gleason
Cornborer Infests Three New Townships In Indiana
Three new townships Wayne and Spiceland in Henry county and La fayette in Madison county were added to the corn borer infested list by the state department of entomology. The total rises to 307 townships in 33 counties as state entomologist Frank Wallace announced.
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Wayne
Spiceland
Henry County
Lafayette
Madison County
State Department of Entomology
Frank Wallace
Bankruptcy Petitions Filed by Bard and Beck in Federal Court
Calvin Bard of 5136 Kenwood Avenue and Arthur Beck, a farmer from R. R. 16 Lebanon, filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions. Bard lists $62,514 liabilities and $300 assets, while Beck lists $24,420 liabilities and $785 assets.
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Calvin Bard
Kenwood Avenue
Arthur Beck
R. R. 16
Lebanon
Confidence in Future Held by Noted Financier on Brief Visit Here
A. P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy, arrived by air en route to San Francisco and expressed optimism that business will improve and trade revive by October. The San Francisco financier, who once led the Trans-American Corporation, discussed drought impacts in the Midwest and noted the soundness of business from a financial perspective.
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A. P. Giannini
San Francisco
Bank of Italy
Mars Hill
Cherbourg
France
America
Giannini
Middle West
Trans-American Corporation
American Bank of New York
Auto crashes fatal to two in Indianapolis
Two men died in separate traffic accidents in Indiana. Howard Murley, 28, of 662 Birch Avenue, died of a skull fracture after a crash involving William Simpson, 39, who is held in connection with Murley’s death. Perry Batts, 48, of Hall, died after injuries from a crash near Monrovia earlier last Friday, developing pneumonia while receiving oxygen.
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Indianapolis
Howard Murley
Birch Avenue
City Hospital
Perry Batts
Hall, Ind
Methodist Hospital
Murley
William Simpson
Warren Avenue
Simpson
Batts
Monrovia
French endurance craze prompts wheelbarrow trek by Reynaud
In Paris a young Frenchman Reynaud of Havre wheels a wheelbarrow across the country as part of the endurance fad. Meanwhile dancer Mile Adrienne Flau ris, a Viennese star, asserts the world record for standing on tiptoe for fourteen and a half hours.
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United Press
Paris
Reynaud
Havre
Mile
Adrienne Flauris
American wins battle to escape spy death
Charles Hartman of Hollister California faced a military tribunal in Paris as he sought to clear himself of World War espionage charges and avoid execution. American officials supplied affidavits proving he did not enter France during 1914 to 1918, and he was detained briefly upon returning to Nordheim before his release.
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United PF
Paris
Ministry of War
Charles Hartman
Hollister
Cal
France
Hartman
Alsace
United States
Strasbourg
San Francisco
Switzerland
Nordheim
Bomb U S Mission Compound Near Kweilin
Advices report Chinese tab i airplanes bombed the American Baptist mission compound at Kweilin in Kwangsi province. No foreigners were injured.
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Ous Peiping
China
American Baptist
Kweilin
Kwangsi Province
Murder ruling upheld in Bartholomew County case
United States circuit court of appeals sustained a federal ruling denying the estate of Hubert S. Taylor compensation insurance of 5050 dollars for a murder while working in Bartholomew county last year.
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Hubert S. Taylor
Bartholomew County
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Joffre Challenges Coolidge With Twenty Word History
Paris August 20 Marshal Joffre addressed a Catalonian delegation and recited a twenty word history of the World War claiming the Marne as the defining moment. He declared a people once dreamed of establishing a world hegemony in twenty words.
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Marshal Joffre
Coolidge
United Press
Paris
Joseph Joffre
Calvin Coolidge
Dope
Marne
Watkins Bambergers clash over swapped babies after ballgame trade
In a Chicago suburb case the Watkins and Bamberger families clash over a baby swap made while William Watkins was at a 16 inning Cubs game. Both infants were christened in different churches and the parents threaten lawsuits while lawyers may decide custody.
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United Press Cago
Watkins-Bamberger
William Watkins
Charles Bamberger
Watkins
Cubs
Bambergers
Charles Edward Bamberger
Charles Evans Watkins
Bamberger
Bank HoldUp in Fort Wayne Wounds Two Customers
Two bandits robbed the Broadway State Bank in Fort Wayne Indiana near noon. They wounded two customers and fled in a maroon coach type car with Indiana plate 2565 the last two digits missing. Police issued the alert for the vehicle.
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United Press
FT. Wayne
Ind
Broadway State Bank
Indiana
Toy Golf Semi-Finals Set For Tonight In City Tourney
The Times city-wide toy golf tournament runs tonight with semi finals in both women and men flights across four courses. Matches start at 8, 36 holes, leading to finals Thursday and Friday nights and a champion playoff Saturday.
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Mary Jane Meyers
Myrtle Banta
Amos and Andy
Keystone Avenue
Allisonville Road
Miss Myers
Aimee McPherson Denies Striking Mother in Tantrum
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson tells reporters she did not punch her mother Minnie Kennedy, who says she was struck during a heated argument. Kennedy recounts a nose injury and a hospital visit while McPherson cites a tantrum by her mother. Medical staff expect two weeks of rest for McPherson as she recovers.
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Mother
Evangelist
United Press
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Minnie Kennedy
Mrs. Kennedy
Mrs. McPherson
Angelus Temple
Dr. Williams
Sister
Olympia
Wash
Drought Aid Loan Plans Plotted By Indiana Officials
Governor Harry G. Leslie explores plans to raise 1,000,000 for drought relief without state finance board approval. He may seek a loan on the general fund and transfer to the highway department, despite Attorney General Ogden’s legality concerns. Purdue Dean Skinner chairs the relief commission and asks banks to cooperate for local financing while urging farmers to contact the Intermediate Credit Bank in Louisville.
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State Finance Board
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Drought Commission
Archie Bobbitt
Bobbitt
James M. Ogden
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Finance Board
Stout
Ogden
General Fund
Elmer Stout
Indiana Bankers’ Association
Fletcher American National Bank
Indianapolis
Purdue Dean
Relief Commission
Dean J. H. Skinner
Purdue University
Indiana Bankers Association
Louisville
A. C. Brown
Srna Ore
Indiana State
City native Dr George T Moore to be honored at 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
Dr George T Moore born in this city in 1871 and formerly a resident of Indianapolis will be honored at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The discoverer of a 1904 method to prevent water pollution by pathogenic bacteria is to be mentioned in a chronological exhibit on the American chemical industry's development. He is now director of the Missouri botanical gardens in St Louis.
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George T. Moore
Indianapolis
American Chemical Industry
Moore
Missouri Bootanical Gardens
St. Louis
Deny Wilkerson Plea In Interstate Motor Theft Case
A federal warrant for Louis A. Wilkerson of Vincennes was issued after the U S circuit court of appeals denied his rehearing in the interstate motor theft conspiracy case. Wilkerson, sentenced to a year and one day in Leavenworth and fined 300 dollars, must surrender when notified by deputy marshal Harry Wertz.
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Louis A. Wilkerson
Vincennes
Albert C. Segemeier
United States
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Wilkerson
Harry Wertz
Leavenworth
Prohibition Agents to Flash Identification Shields
Washington Aug 20 Amos W Woodcock federal prohibition administrator ordered that dry agents must display a large black and white shield when stopping cars suspected of carrying liquor The shield measures seventeen by twenty inches branded Stop and U S with the department seal It can be detached and lit by hand flashlights at night to curb abuses cited after incidents of agents stopping innocent motorists and in some cases firing
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Woodcock
U. S
Bureau of Prohibition
Justice Department
Prohibition
Girl flier injured in Dixie air derby crash near Greenwood
Mae Haislip, an entrant in the women's Dixie air derby, crashed seven miles east of Greenwood, South Carolina. Attendants said injuries were not serious and she was flown to a local hospital by Miss Vera Dawn Walker, who aided her and continued her flight. The pilot blamed a motor failure.
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United Press
Greenwood
S. C
Mae Haislip
Here
Seek Aid for Jobless Washington Flood Control Plan
Mayor Watkins Overton of Memphis and George Morris of the Commercial Appeal urged the Hoover administration to accelerate Mississippi valley flood control expenditures this year to relieve unemployment caused by the drought. They called on the President during a Washington visit.
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United Press
Washington
Mississippi Valley
Hoover
Watkins Overton
Memphis, Tenn
George Morris
The
Commercial Appeal
Dust blast fatal in Port Covington grain elevator
A dust explosion ripped through a twelve story grain elevator at Port Covington Maryland near Baltimore just before noon injuring many and killing three men. Rescue and investigation teams cordon the port area as damaged walls and debris raise fears of further casualties.
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United Press
Baltimore
Maryland
Port Covington
Gas tax evasion probe targets Greyhound bus lines
Indiana state tax investigators examine whether Greyhound bus lines bought gasoline through Chicago firms without paying the four cent state gas tax. The probe centers on 2,000,000 gallons used since February and questions payments via Soreco Service and North American Petroleum.
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Greyhound Bus Lines
Indiana
Leland K. Fishback
Fishback
The
Times
Greyhound Lines, Inc
Pennsylvania Railroad
Standard Oil Company of
Greyhound
North American Petroleum Company
Addison Street
Chicago
Christie
Greyhound Lines
North American Petroleum
Soreco Companies
Greyhound Company
Soreco Company
Soreco
Suit to stop city from destroying six inch base on Drake Street
Elizabeth V. Pierce files suit in superior court to enjoin the city from destroying a six inch concrete base during resurfacing of Drake Street between West and Brooks. Mead Construction Company and city officials named as defendants. Plaintiff alleges resurfacing can proceed without new base.
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Drake Street
West
Brooks Streets
Superior Court
Elizabeth V. Pierce
North
Meridian Street
Works Board
City Engineer
Mead Construction Company
Flies of Locust-like Size Plague Chinese War Zone
Reports from Haifeng in Henan say a pestilence of giant flies the size of locusts or bees has appeared along the Lungnai railway. The insects sting powerfully and keep people indoors. Temperatures are listed from 6 a.m. to noon with readings around 58 to 75 degrees.
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United Press
Peiping
Lungnai
Henan
Haifeng
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