Lon Chaney Life of Mystery Revealed in First Feature
Hollywood correspondent Dan Thomas chronicles Lon Chaney’s private nature and artful craft. The piece notes Chaney’s dislike of publicity, his commitment to disguise in makeup, his early life in Colorado Springs, and his beginnings in pantomime before shaping his famed grotesque roles.
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Lon Chaney
Dan Thomas
Hollywood
The
Times
NEA Service
Thomas
Ollywood
Chaney
Dae Ohanaw Fnuma Araatar Alsac
Lindy Escapes Fire Hazard On City Stop
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh narrowly escaped a gasoline spill hazard at Stoutfield Mars Hill airport in Indianapolis. A faulty valve release dumped about a hundred gallons beneath their Lockheed seaplane just before takeoff, triggering fire department action before they proceeded to Chicago.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Lucky Lindy
Stoutfield
Mars Hill
Lindbergh
Lindy
Columbus
Will Benefits Homes For Orphans And Aged Women
The will filed in probate court awards large portions of Mrs. Inez Hamilton Howe estate to the Indianapolis Orphan's Home and the Home for Aged Women. After relatives receive their shares, the residue of about 50 000 dollars in personal property and 30 000 dollars in real estate will be split equally between the two institutions. Beneficiaries named include a daughter Miss Sue Howe and a grandson Hamilton H. Howe.
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Orphans, Aged Women
Indianapolis
Home For
Aged Women
Inez Hamilton Howe
Miss Sue Howe
Hamilton H. Howe
Accused Counterfeiter Faces Divorce Suit in Columbus
Mrs Alta Brumfield sues Harold Brumfield for divorce in Columbus Ind alleging cruelty. The suit cites a federal counterfeiting arrest a year earlier after information from the wife led to a garage raid and seizure of counterfeiting equipment.
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Columbus
Gu United Press
Ind
Alta Brumfield
Harold Brumfield
Brumfield
Accused in Auto Theft After Freight-Train Claim
George Graves 25 of West Point Kentucky was charged with automobile theft after being caught stealing a car here Wednesday night. He told police he had been kicked off a freight train and needed a ride back to Kentucky.
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George Graves
West Point
Kentucky
Dancer Rex Lease in Hollywood Beating Incident
Rex Lease was fined for striking Vivian Duncan, part of the Duncan sisters, and was attacked by Hal Duncan, Vivian’s brother, in a Hollywood cafe. A police report described a gun battle as onlookers watched the melee amid film colony tensions. Lease later avoided court by paying a $50 battery fine and went into seclusion.
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United Press Hollywood
Cal
Rex Lease
Vivian Duncan
Hal‘Duncan
Duncan
Lease
Charles Eaton
Rosetta
Nils Asther
Reno
Nev
Malibu
Warn Raging Fliers At Chicago Air Races
Air races continue amid safety warnings after the death of Lieutenant J P De Shazo. Louis Weiner a concessionist was struck by landing gear as a navy plane crashed in flames. Twelve others injured. Colonel Arthur Goebel joined the Pacific air derby leaders. Wiley Post won.
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United Press
Chicago
J. P. (Duke) de Shazo
Naval
Louis Weiner
Navy
Arthur Goebel
Wiley Post
Oklahoma City
Bandits Take Cash From Several Local Stations
Police records show two gunmen held up J. H. Taylor pharmacy at 2060 North Illinois, grabbing 125 dollars. Attendant William Huston at a Phoenix oil station on Kentucky avenue reports losing 20 dollars. Howard Rogers at a Great Western Oil station on Twenty-fifth Street lost 20 dollars, and Thomas Sells of a National Refining station on Madison avenue was robbed of 20 dollars.
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J. H. Taylor
North
Illinois Street
William Huston
Phoenix Oil
Kentucky Avenue
Howard Rogers
Great Western Oil Company
Illinois Streets
Thomas Sells
National Refining Company
Madison Avenue
PLAN JOBLESS MEETING TO PUSH UNEMPLOYMENT BILL
The Unemployed Council of the Trade Union Unity League plans a Labor Day demonstration on the statehouse steps at 2 p.m. Monday. A bill seeking unemployment insurance with a $25 weekly minimum per family will be urged before state lawmakers and Congress. Willis W. Caffrey and Dorothy Cruickshank Snyder wed in Reno during a Paris divorce from a Serbian prince.
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The
Trade Union Unity League
Statehouse
Congress
Preas
Reno
Nev
Willis W. Caffrey
Dorothy Cruickshank Snyder
Paris
Icholas Georgevitch
Much Married Eugenia Asks For Annulment
Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butler Lee daughter of Alabama congressman seeks annulment from her fifth husband Howard Lee aviator and sportsman in Los Angeles court She testified he misrepresented his social standing and earned 24000 a year as an aviation company official She vowed this will be her last marriage if the annulment is granted.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Eugenia Bankhead - Hoyt - Butt - Lee
W. B. Bankhead
Alabama
Howard Lee
Lee
Babson predicts general business upturn this fall and winter
Roger W. Babson, noted business statistician, said business conditions nationwide should improve in the coming months. He declined to forecast for 1931 after a 10,000 mile west tour. Frank Brubeck of 1004 North Bancroft Street was named deputy city controller in charge of school funds, succeeding Arthur C. Thomas.
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United Press
Albany
N. Y
Roger W. Babson
Babson
Jealous Wife Slain by Mate in Brooklyn Tragedy
New York Aug 28 Mrs Frances Van Clief who stabbed her first husband two years earlier in a jealous rage was killed Wednesday in a Brooklyn rooming house. Beside her body lay her husband Eugene Van Clief 35 who died of a near heart wound investigators say he killed his bride and then killed himself. Neighbors report an all night quarrel over jealousy followed by shots.
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United Press
NEW York
Frances Kirkwood van Clief
Brooklyn
Eugene van Clief
van Clief
Glenn Kirkwood
Sunnyside
L. I
Bank Bandit Caldwell Shot While Attempting Escape
Barney Caldwell a 33 year old Posey county criminal was shot and killed by a posse in White county Illinois on Wednesday while fleeing after robbing a bank at Omaha Illinois. He died with a woman identified as Mabel Patrick of Mt Vernon Illinois.
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United Press
MT. Vernon
Ind
Barney Caldwell
Posey County
White County
Illinois
Omaha
Ill
Caldwell
Mabel Patrick
Leslie's plan abandoned on drought loan
Plans by Governor Harry G Leslie and Highway Director John J Brown to obtain a $1,000,000 federal drought relief loan for southern Indiana were dropped after a telegram from Elmer Stout of Fletcher American National Bank. The highway commission will have about $1.1 million from gas tax available Sept 1 to pay completed road work and southern Indiana projects, with a shift to scarce manual labor costs.
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Harry G. Leslie
John J. Brown
Indiana
Elmer Stout
Fletcher American National Bank
State Drought Relief Committee
Arthur Hyde
Washington
Brown
Leslie
James M. Ogden
Stout
Highway Commission
Commission
Highway Department
Gary Gangster Ride Victim Found Shot
The body of a man about 30 was found early today in an isolated Gary area. Sixteen bullet holes were in the corpse and twelve cents were in his pockets. Initial ID as Shorty Vernon, East Chicago hoodlum, was ruled out by fingerprint evidence.
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Bald P
Gary
Shorty
Vernon
Chicago
Hurley Plans Mississippi River Inspection Tour
Secretary of War Hurley will lead a three week inspection from source to mouth of the Mississippi. He will fly to Dayton Ohio, stay overnight, then travel to Minneapolis to board a riverboat for the voyage.
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United Press
Washington
Hurley
Mississippi River
War Secretary
Dayton
Minneapolis
War Department
Widow Jumps From Airplane Bound for Husband's Funeral
Berlin reports the death of 22 year old Mrs Elfriede Amlinger near Frankfurt as she leaped from an aircraft at 3000 feet while en route to attend the funeral of her husband, a German army aviator killed in a recent crash.
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United Press
Berlin
Frankfurt
Elfriede Amlinger
Rebel rules Peru as junta names new government
Lieutenant Colonel Luis F. Sanchez Cerro arrives in Lima from Arequipa to lead a new military junta charged with governing Peru. He instigated the revolt at the Arequipa garrison that toppled the previous regime.
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United Press
Lima
Peru
Arequipa
Luis F. Sanchez Cerro
Sanchez Cerro
Missing Patrolman Joseph Wilson and son
Police and deputy sheriffs search for Patrolman Joseph Wilson and his son Joseph Jr. who left their home at 4323 English Avenue on Wednesday at 10 am and had not returned. Wilson has been ill for several weeks.
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Joseph Wilson
Joseph Jr
English Avenue
Wilson
Be Polite Key Advice From Mencken on Happy Marriage
Henry L. Mencken, famed for sharp remarks on marriage, marries Sara Powell Haardt in Baltimore. He states the guideline for married life is politeness, noting his bride is very polite and predicting a harmonious household.
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Mencken
Herbert Little
United Press
Baltimore
Henry L. Mencken
Sara Powell Haardt
Montgomery
Ala
Refusi of Italians Without Passports at French Frontier
French frontier towns turn back Italians arriving without passports under a government aid order. The League of the Rights of Man protests to the interior minister, calling the measure an anti-refugee barrier against anti-Fascist refugees.
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France
Presa
League of the Rights of Man
Interior
Boy Chases Poodle. Pedestrian Fractures Leg
George Bell twenty four of 26 West Pratt street ran in front of a car driven by Andy Pierson forty of 2041 Singleton street in the 900 block North Meridian street. Bell sustained a fractured right leg at city hospital.
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Negro
Meridian Street
George Bell
Pratt Street
Andy Pierson
Singleton Street
City Hospital
Bell
Mercury Tops 90 Degrees Amid Heat Wave
Temperatures near July records were expected as the mercury hit 90 degrees at noon with 2 p m and 3 p m readings. Showers forecast tonight by the weather bureau followed by cooler weather Friday after a long drought and heat wave.
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United States Weather Bureau
Jewell Elected Commander in G A R Encampment
James E. Jewell of Ft. Morgan Colorado was chosen commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the 64th annual encampment in Cincinnati. Jacob Secrest of Cincinnati was elected senior vice commander and the 1931 encampment will be held in Des Moines Iowa.
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United Press
Cincinnati
James E. Jewell
Ft. Morgan
Colo
Grand Army of the Republic
Des Moines
Jacob Secrest
City Without Bank In Rich Hill Sees Two Banks Close
In Rich Hill Missouri population about 5000 merchants conducted business without a bank as within the same hour Farmers and Merchants Bank and Peoples Bank the towns only two banks were closed leaving residents to await reopening or transfer of funds.
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Missouri
United Press
Rich Hill
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Peoples Bank
Elsie West Quits Channel Swim After 12 Hours
Miss Elsie West abandoned her English Channel attempt from Cape Gris Nez France after twelve hours in the water with poor progress.
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Elsie West
England
English Channel
Cape Gris Nez
France
Trolley Run Ends in Collision on Washington Street
A West Tenth Street trolley ran into the rear of a Garfield park car at Meridian and Washington, injuring motorman Ed Farah of 742 North Warman and passenger Frances Sperlin of 556 Traub. The crash occurred after brake failure on the Tenth street car and demolished the Garfield car vestibule.
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Washington Street
West Tenth Street
Garfield Park
Meridian
Washington Streets
Frances Sperlin
Traub Avenue
Garfield
Ed Farah
Warman Avenue
Westeens Feed &Ain
Illinois Street
Imeson Elected Exchange Clubs Chief at Convention
Thomas Imeson of Jacksonville was elected national president of Exchange Clubs at the closing session in Claypool. Bert Beasley of Indianapolis became national sentry while officers include A A Jenkins Cleveland first vice president and J H Awtry Dallas second vice president. Beasley in hospital after an auto accident.
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Thomas ©. Imeson
Jacksonville
Fla
Claypool
J. P. Muller
New York City
Bert Beasley
Indianapolis
Methodist Hospital
A. A. Jenkins
Cleveland
John H. Awtry
Dallas
Texas
Walter Hinton
Washington, D. C
Robert F. Nitsche
Terre Haute
Harold M. Harter
Toledo
William H. Beck Jr
Griffin
Officials to Discuss City Sewage Plant Additions
City officials will discuss additions to the sewage disposal plant next Thursday. B J T Jeup president of the sanitary board announced the meeting will review uncompleted phases. Attending are Mayor Reginald Sullivan state health board member Dr William H King city health board secretary Dr Herman Morgan City Controller William L Elder and sanitary commissioners.
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B. J. T. Jeup
Sanitary Board
Reginald H. Sullivan
William H. King
State Health Board
Herman Morgan
City Health Board
William L. Elder
Indiana student tops Culver Academy summer grads
Hoosier John T. Hays Sullivan led 134 Culver military academy summer graduates with highest honors. Other Indiana recipients included Gordon L. Krauss South Bend William S. O'Donnell Gary Edmund H. Davis Ladoga Earl G. Triplett Osgood Edward L. Springer Indianapolis Franklin L. Hascall Goshen Robert C. Drewes Elkhart James L. Embrey New Albany Richard H. Blacklidge Kokomo John C. Ertel Indianapolis
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Culver
Ind
Indiana
John T. Hays
Sullivan
Culver Military Academy
Gordon L. Krauss
South Bend
William S. O'Donnell
Gary
Edmund H. Davis
Ladoga
Earl G. Triplett
Osgood
Edward L. Springer
Indianapolis
Franklin L. Has< Call
Goshen
Robert C. Drewes
Elkhart
James L
Animal attacks boy on farm near Noblesville
Frank Tomlinson 11 was attacked by an unidentified animal while driving cows from a woods on Rolla Hobbs farm in northern Hamilton county. He suffered a broken collar bone and multiple scratches and bruises as his dog battled the attacker. The animal torn off most of his clothes and vanished after the struggle. His father Harrison Tomlinson was the tenant.
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Noblesville
Ind
Frank Tomlinson
Rolla Hobbs
Hamilton County
Harrison Tomlinson
White River Conference Holds 85th Annual Meeting
In Muncie Indiana the White River conference of the United Brethren church gathers at Riverside U B Church for its eighty fifth annual meeting with about three hundred delegates from 150 churches attending.
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Bu Times
Muncie
Ind
White River
United Brethren Church
Riverside U. B
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