Courage Endures After Severe Crash Leaves Man Amputated
Truman H. Cline of Camden lies in a Crawfordsville hospital after his legs and right arm were amputated and a skull fracture occurred. He is the sole survivor of a car crash that burned after hitting a tree ten days ago. A Purdue electrical engineering graduate he had just been offered a Pittsburgh firm post. He plans to work in executive roles or sales on recovery.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Truman H. Cline
Camden
Cline
Purdue University
Pittsburgh
Son of Peru's Ex President To Face Trial
Lima reports mass arrests of about thirty prominent figures linked to Augusto B. Leguia era as military government moves to answer charges. Leguia remains seriously ill aboard the Admiral Grau in Callao harbor, with diplomats pressing for his liberty and son Juan Leguia likely to stand trial for alleged monopolies and profiteering.
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Peru
Gesford F
United Press
Cor Iendent
Lima
Augusto B. Leguia
Leguia
Admiral Grau
Callao
Juan Leguia
Woman Sues for 20000 Over Connersville Fall
Mrs. Susan A. Claver sues the Connersville Gymnasium Association and Connersville city for 20000 in damages after a February 8 1929 fall at the high school vestibule left her with a fractured right leg. She contends poor lighting and a snowy slippery floor caused the injury.
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Times
Connersville
Ind
Susan A. Claver
Connersville Gymnasium Association
Claver
Shirley Man Killed Sullivan Contractor Faces Charge
United Press report from Newcastle Indiana notes that Perry Hochstetler a Sullivan contractor may face manslaughter charges after a two car collision in Spiceland that killed Ovie Robinette 24 of Shirley. Prosecutor Ralph Niblock said Hochstetler admitted driving about fifty mph but claimed he had the right of way on a state road.
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Sullivan
United Press
Newcastle
Ind
Perry Hochstetler
Spiceland
Ovie Robinette
Shirley
Ralph Niblock
Henry County
Hochstetler
Robinett
Niblock
G A R Post to Quit En Times Special
Hartford City officials report the disbanding Jacob Stahl post of the Grand Army of the Republic presents eight books to the city public library. The volumes include Indiana adjutant general reports listing all Civil War veterans from the state.
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En Times
Hartford City
Jacob Stahl
Grand Army of the Republic
City
Indiana
Youll Never Know What Youre Missing Pebeco Ad
A fragmented ad style piece touts Pebeco toothpaste promising extra value and teal mouth exhilaration. It urges readers to compare and act, warning that they will miss benefits until they try Pebeco.
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Pebeco
Farm Bureau on Air at Indiana State Fair
The Indiana Farm Bureau program on WLS from the state fair opens Saturday with several brief addresses by officials and department executives. Key speakers include bureau president W H Settle at 1 p m, and Otto Voyles on soil building at 1 30 p m.
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Farm Bureau
Indiana Farm Bureau
WLS
W. H. Settle
Otto Voyles
T. S. Ferris
Indiana Wool Growers’ Association
Morris Fuller
Bloomington
Ill
Insanity Plea Likely in Wife’s Death Case
Turner Huddelson, 78, held on a first degree murder affidavit in Newcastle Indiana, is alleged by his son Arthur to be mentally unsound. An effort will seek to commit him to an asylum after the burned body of Carrie Huddelson was found in the kitchen of their home west of Newcastle a week ago.
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Times
Newcastle
Ind
Indianapolis Man Loses License In Columbus Drunk Driving Case
John Choat 35 of Indianapolis had his driving license suspended for one year after pleading guilty in Columbus city court to intoxication driving and possession of liquor. He received fines totaling 140 dollars and costs of 170 dollars, plus a 30 day sentence at the penal farm suspended.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
John Choat
Indianapolis
H. Karl Volland
Choat
Boy Times Special
Anderson Indiana August 27 Ed war Nooney thirteen year old boy suffers a foot wound from a rifle accidentally discharged by his brother John Nooney in a home incident.
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Boy Times
Anderson
Ind
Edwar Nooney
John
Why Water Blotters Vinegar Barrels Puzzle At Bluffton
Mr and Mrs Manson Reiff of Bluffton Indiana sought authorities help after six of nine barrels of cider vinegar stored six years at their home contained only water Three barrels had been used but the fourth and the rest yielded water prompting official examination of all five remaining barrels seeking explanation for the missing vinegar contents
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Bluffton
Ind
Manson Reiff
Here
German Hop Ends New York Sea Plane Flight
Four German airmen led by Captain Wolfgang von Gronau completed a six hour flight to New York Harbor aboard the Dormier Wahl craft after a nine day Atlantic crossing from Halifax. The crew circled the Statue of Liberty before docking near the battery as thousands watched.
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United Press
New York
Atlantic
Wolfgang von Gronau
Eduard Zimmer
Franz Hack
Fritz Albrecht
Halifax
Isle of Sylt
North Sea
Iceland
Greenland
Canada
von Gronau
Europe
Slaying cases slated for Porter circuit and superior courts
Valparaiso Indiana August 27 two slaying cases will be heard in the September terms of the Porter circuit and superior courts opening Monday. Nicholas Vanderaa a farmer will be tried on a charge of slaying his employer Guy Thorpe during a quarrel over wages. The other defendant is Martin Brody whose automobile struck and killed Hans Nielsen.
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Bu Times
Spee Valparaiso
Ind
Porter Circuit
Superior Courts
Nicholas Vanderaa
Guy Thorpe
Martin Brody
Hans Nielsen
U S Exhibit Farm Display At State Fair
The Indiana State Fair will feature a United States Department of Agriculture exhibit the first time, with eight hundred pieces of art and craft by Hoosier artists and a wide range of agricultural displays. The fair will include 160 exhibitors and university shows with taxation, schools, health topics, and a daily IU band program. Grand Circuit races and expanded concessions are also announced.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Russel G. East
Shelbyville
East
Edward R. Sitzman
Frederick Polley
Indianapolis
Catskill Mountains
New York
Carl Emmerich
Indiana
Chicago
Sitzman
Indiana University
Frank R. Elliott
University
I. U
State Fair
Indiana Daily Student
I. U. Bandoliers
John R. Nash
Frank B. Walker
Dayton
A. G. Norrick
E. A. Buer
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Glen J. Gifford
A. W. Foust
Elwood
George B. Bailey
C. W. Mount
Tipton
W. M. Brerett
C. H. Taylor
Boonville
Tree Sitters Endure as Fellow Falls in Huntington
In Huntington Dick Foster remains perched up to begin the school year while Junior Glass falls from a platform after 948 hours aloft. Glass toppled while arranging bedclothing and was unhurt. Both boys, aged 12, plan to quit tree sitting next summer. In Kendall Howard Evers, on his first airplane ride, asked to circle over his farm as a fire scorched twenty acres of pasture below.
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Huntington
Ind
Dick Foster
Junior Glass
Foster
Glass
Gless
Bu United Press
Kendall
Howard Evers
Evers Farm
Evers
Johnson County Fair Attendance Drops. Receipts Seen
Fair secretary treasurer Howard P. Robinson reports 15 000 attendance at Johnson county fair last week. Receipts totaled 5000, about 1000 fewer attendees and 50 less in receipts than the previous year.
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Franklin
Ind
Johnson County
Howard P. Robinson
Severe storm drops golf ball hail in Anderson
Times Special reports from Anderson Indiana on August 27 describe a severe electrical storm that pelted the city with hail stones up to golf ball size. Several car tops were punctured though crops escaped major damage.
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Times Special
Anderson
Ind
Veterans to get talkies in hospitals nationwide
Washington Aug 27 war veterans in government hospitals will soon enjoy talking pictures instead of silent films. The first veterans hospital talkie show was at Mt Alto Diagnostic Center, with General Frank T. Hines stating all hospitals with suitable recreation halls would be equipped by Christmas and eventually all other institutions would be.
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United Press
Washington
Veterans’ Hospital
Mt. Alte Diagnostic Center
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Affairs
Seven Deaths Reported Toll in Flu Malady
Seven persons have died of encephalitis in New Albany and nearby in the last five weeks with twenty one others ill. The latest victims include George E. Steinhauer, 64, and Mrs. Mary R. Alexander. Mayor McLinn disputes the death count and says no immediate action is needed.
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Times &Inca
New Albany
Ind
George E. Steinhauer
Mary R. Alexander
Frank T. Tyler
Floyd County
Charles B. McLinn
Rum runner’s luxury yacht foiled in New London seizure
Coast guard officials say they captured the 65 foot mahogany cruiser Mardelle with a crew in gold trimmed uniforms and a hold packed with a $100,000 liquor cargo. The Mardelle is a finely appointed private yacht and the first of its type seized in these waters.
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United Press
NEW
Fumes Endanger Sixty Five Patients At St Marys Hospital
Chemical fumes from a fumigator in a ward vacated for disinfection spread through St. Marys hospital Passaic New Jersey imperiling the lives of sixty five bedridden patients. All patients were moved from the gassed ward with about half placed in the hospital yard and the others in a new wing not penetrated by the gas.
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United Press
Last respects paid violinist
Throngs of mourners and world famous pupils queued at a Broadway funeral parlor for Dr. Leopold Auer. Jascha Heifetz and Mescha Elman associates paid final homage as Heifetz played Ave Maria and Joseph Hoffman performed Moonlight Sonata. Russian Orthodox chants accompanied the service despite crowd pressure and damaged floral tributes.
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New York
Broadway
Leopold Auer
Jascha Heifetz
Mescha Elman
Heifetz
Joseph Hoffman
Daisy Goins acquitted in Georgia murder case
In Thomaston Georgia on August 27 Daisy Goins a 15 year old girl was acquitted by a superior court jury of first degree murder for killing Howell Swain a middle aged admirer who tried to force her into a car. Swain was slain July 2 after he allegedly cursed at her when she refused. She said she retrieved her father’s shotgun from the house and shot him.
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United Press
Thomaston
Daisy Goins
Howell Swain
Swain
Pap
Fire at Ed Staton grocery spreads to living quarters
A blaze started at the Ed Staton grocery in Anderson Indiana and extended to living quarters used by the Staton family. Authorities feared for the family until they learned the members were spending the night with friends in another city. The interior of the store was damaged.
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Bu-Times
Anderson
Ind
Kyre
Ed Staton
Staton
Feeble Civil War Veterans Lead Small Cincinnati Parade
In Cincinnati on August 27 the Grand Army of the Republic parade drew about 1500 survivors, many too feeble to march and riding in autos. Marine band led, Simon Ross as grand marshal, with fife and drum corps and first aid stations aiding aged veterans. Only Sons of Union Veterans joined as escorts for their fathers during the event. Afterward officers were nominated, with James E. Jewell of Montgomery, O. among leading national commander candidates.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Cincinnati
Wilfred A. Wetherbee
Edwin J. Foster
D. R. Stowits
United Press
Washington
United States Marine Band
Simon Ross
Sons of Union
James E. Jewell of
Montgomery O
Sup
Lincoln's Mounted Bodyguard survivor seeks 1931 encampment
Des Moines Iowa is seeking the 1931 encampment. The encampment ends Thursday with election of officers. Harding I Merrill of Wichita Kansas and Smith Summer of Fargo North Dakota are credited as the last surviving members of President Lincoln's mounted bodyguard.
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Harding I. Merrill
Wichita
Kan
Smith Summer
Fargo
N. D
Lincoln
Des Moines
Farm inmate dies at penal farm power plant
Funeral services were held in Roanoke Ind for Garrett Hess 32 a state penal farm inmate killed by electricity at the institution power plant His head touched an unprotected 2300 volt line Hess left a widow and seven children the youngest a week old
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Times Special
Roanoke
Ind
Garrett Hess
State Penal Farm
Institution
Hess
River drag for Nettie Anthony body in Nappanee
The St Joseph river is being dragged today in an effort to locate the body of Nettie Anthony 23 missing from her Nappanee Indiana home since Sunday Relatives say she had been in a distressed mental state She is survived by her husband and two sons aged 9 months and 3 years
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Nappanee
Ind
St. Joseph
Nettie Anthony
Soviet irrigation hailed as drought cure in Russia
Indiana reporters learn from Soviet officials that irrigation ditches negate drought fears in Soviet farms and boost canneries. Am tor g Trading Corp and factories visited include Columbia Conserve and Van Camp as Langsenkamp moves to larger quarters for looming orders and new canning plants.
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Indiana
Soviet Russia
Times
Michael Grossman
Odessa University
Odessa
Fritz Anger
Moscow
J. A. Goncharoff
Amtorg Trading Corporation
New York City
Frank H. Langenskamp
F. H. Langsenkamp Company
East
Georgia Street
Goncharoff
Grossman
Soviet
Russia
Union
California
Gonchariff
Inianapolis
Amtorg Company
Langsenkamp
Columbia Conserve Company
van Camp Company
Greenwood
Columbus
Austin
Vincennes
South Street
Skeleton Found in Crown Hill Cemetery Gravel Pit
A skeleton was found today by workmen excavating a gravel pit near Forty-second Street in the Crown Hill cemetery addition. The unregistered grave contained shoe fragments, belt pieces, and tweed cloth, but officials said no burial had occurred in that cemetery sector and the coroner and detectives will not investigate.
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Forty-second Street
New Crown Hill Cemetery
Retired grocer killed by city car near Indiana railroad
Anderson Indiana Aug 27 Grant Hamer 62 a retired grocer died four days after being struck by a city car on the double right of way of the Indiana railroad in North Anderson Motorman Alva Pettigrew said Hamer heard the gong but became confused and stepped from a different set of tracks in front of the car.
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Anderson
Ind
Grant Hamer
Indiana Railroad
North Anderson
Alva Pettigrew
Hamer
Burglar Steals $3200 In Cigarettes From Richmond Warehouse
In Richmond on August 27 a theft from the Taylor and Thompson Company warehouse saw cigars valued at 3200 dollars taken. The burglars loaded the goods into a company truck that had been stolen for the daylight heist.
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Times
Richmond
Ind
Taylor & Thompson Company
War Declared on Rats in Anderson Drive
Dr. E. M. Conrad health officer orders J. T. Strait to launch a citywide rat extermination plan. A block by block concerted drive will be implemented in Anderson starting soon.
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Times
Extortion Charges Filed Against Chicago Youth
Benjamin Markowitz a 17 year old high school student confessed to sending death threat letters to six women demanding thousands of dollars. He admitted choosing wealthy customers of his florist employer as targets while working on summer vacation. He was caught in a residence yard attempting to collect 4500 dollars from Mrs. Henry Stein and 3000 dollars from Mrs. Julian H. Manheimer.
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United Press
Chicago
Benjamin Markowitz
South Side
Henry Stein
Julian H. Manheimer
Plainfield Native Addison C. Moore Dies in London
Addison C. Moore, 68, born in Plainfield, Ind, died in London from paralysis. A DePauw University graduate and former University of Chicago professor, he was a classmate of the late Senator Albert J. Beveridge. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Maurice Pickard of Hanover N H, a son Jesse H. Moore of Detroit, and three sisters Mrs. John Vestal Plainfield, Mrs. Charles Atkinson Boswell, and Mrs. Martin Nelson Milwaukee Wis.
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Plainfield
Ind
Addison C. Moore
London
England
de Pauw University
Albert J. Beveridge
University of Chicago
Maurice Pickard
Hanover
N. H
Jesse H. Moore
Detroit
John Vestal
Plain
Baby Girl Abandoned Left With Note From Mother
A two week old baby girl was found in Kenneth Zerbe's car parked outside his home in Kokomo Indiana. A note signed by the mother asked others to care for the infant claiming she has no home or work and provided feeding instructions and eyewash details. The child is reported well clothed and healthy.
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Kokomo
Ind
Kenneth Zerbe
Horses of Harry Stamp Win Prizes and Travel State Fairs
Horses owned by Harry Stamp Democratic candidate for joint representative from Putnam and Owen counties won prizes at the Illinois state fair. They are shown this week at the Wisconsin fair and next week at the Indiana fair. Stamp is in Columbus Ohio serving as judge of Belgian horses at the Ohio state fair.
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Greencastle
Ind
Harry Stamp
Putnam
Owen Counties
Stamp
Columbus
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