Chicago Sleuth Shot as Crime War Deepens
Detective Thomas Geary was shot dead in a saloon reportedly owned by Representative Lawrence C. O'Brien after a confrontation with bartender Thomas Mullarkey who grabbed a holstered gun. The same day Sicilian liquor boss Joseph Martino was killed in Chicago Heights as government cases threaten a major liquor conspiracy. Police shakeups, federal raids, and grand jury findings color a tense city crackdown on vice and crime. The new state's attorney-elect John A. Swanson declined comment while vowing action.
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United Press
Chicago
Thomas Geary
Lawrence C. O’brien
Geary
Thomas J. Mullarkey
Edward Johnson
Johnson
Mullarkey
Martino
Chicago Heights
Donald A. Kooken
Prohibition
Washington
Alexander G. Jamie
Special Agents
Jamié
George
Golding
Jamie
Police Department
Michael F. Hughes
William Hale Thompson
John A. Swanson
Hold Up Without Gun Fails In Busy Store
In Los Banos California on November 30 Andrew M Woods tried a bold bluff entering a cigar shop with his hand in his pocket and demanding $200. No weapon was found and customers ignored him as he left. He was arrested minutes later and ordered to serve thirty days in jail by Justice Thomas.
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United Press
Los Banos
Cal
Andrew M. Wood
Andrew
Justice Thomas
Woods
Luna's Time Erratic Needs Clockers Help
London, Nov 30. Astronomers seek horologists to measure moon time gains and losses. Sir Frank Dyson notes lunar clock errors since 1630, with shifts up and down over centuries. He imagines several high precision clocks in observatories to keep time to one second per year. Asthma remedy ad follows with pay later offer.
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London
Frank Dyson
Frank
Sir Frank
Pajama dinner dance stirs Indianapolis club scene
The newer younger set hosts a pajama dinner dance at an exclusive Indianapolis club. Beulah Hyde of L. S. Ayres & Co. showcases a peach satin crepe and black velvet dress as the announcer proclaims the event is for dinner wear only.
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Indianapolis
Beulah Hyde
L. S. Ayres & Co
Nevada Builds Gas House For Executions
NEVADA NEWSERVICE reports a new gas chamber is being completed at the state prison, to be used for executions by lethal gas. Prisoner Robert F White, sentenced to die January 3, 1929 for killing Elko gambler Louis Lavall, awaits possible appeals. White’s body was never found, authorities say he burned Lavall’s body. The gas house replaces an older, torn-down structure and may hold condemned prisoners and the death chamber. The state maintains the lethal gas method remains in use despite nationwide comment.
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Nevada
Nere
Robert F White
Elko
White
Gee John
Stanko Jukich
Louis Lavall
Lavall
Smith Club Resolution Aims for 1932 Alfred E. Smith Nomination
The Al Smith Democratic Club in Washington voted to foster a nation-wide movement to nominate and elect Alfred E. Smith in 1932. The preamble attacked the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan in the resolution.
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United Press
Washington
al Smith Democratic Club
Alfred E. Smith
Anti-Saloon League
Ku Klux Klan
Photoengravers Union Members Contribute To TB Relief
Photoengravers' union members contributed their annual two dollar payment to aid fellow members with tuberculosis. Beneficiaries receive fifteen dollars weekly, supporting those afflicted.
Teacher and Pupil Packet of Washington Bulletins
A listing of twenty eight authentic reference bulletins for teachers and students. The topics cover Congress operations biographies of presidents judicial system polar explorations postal history presidential elections since 1789 states of the union language of history and famous phrases with five first aid instructions and more.
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Washington Information Bureau
Congress
The
Postal Service
Parliamentary Law Limited
manwYrper
Washington
Indianapolis Times
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
United States
Revamped ship inspection may be quiz result
United States steamboat inspectors may be reorganized after the Vestris sinking inquiry. Dickerson N Hoover heads the probe and hints at strengthening the service. Attorney Charles H Tuttle notes conflicting inspector testimony and recalls witnesses as the court reviews lifeboat procedures aboard the Vestris and its sister ship Vauban.
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Harry Ferguson
United Press
New York
United States
Steamboat Inspector Service
Lamport & Holt
Vestris
Dickerson N. Hoover
Charles H. Tuttle
Francis A. O'Neill
Tuttle
Great Britain
Thanksgiving Market Finds Fresh Produce and Turkeys
After the holiday rush Turks remained plentiful in markets with turkeys at 25 cents a pound. Oranges, bananas, apples, cabbage, celery, and parsley were sold at varied prices. Bakery stalls offered fresh cakes, cookies, tea rings, bread, nut bread and rolls.
John Buehler Rites Set At Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary
Funeral services for John Buehler 78 of 2106 North New Jersey street director of H Lieber Company were held today at 2 p m at Flanner Buchanan mortuary officiated by Rev Frank C Wicks. He died in St Vincent hospital after a heart attack at his desk. He came to America from Heckingen Hohenzollern Germany in 1864. Two rabbits in Mrs Hesper Richardson cellar were killed by rifle shots. she is a marksman and cousin of Sergeant Earl Halstead a flying cop of the Indianapolis police.
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John Buehler
North
New Jersey Street
H. Lieber Company
Flanner & Buchanan
Frank 8. C. Wicks
All Souls Unitarian Church
Buehler
St. Vincent Hospital
America
Heckingen
Hohenzollern
Germany
All Times
Trafalgar, Ind
Hesper Richardson
Congressmen Assemble for Short Session
Congress opens a three month session with 530 members in Washington. Major items include tariff revision farm relief Boulder dam Muscle Shoals naval cruiser bill and Kellogg anti war treaty. New members will fill four senate and seven house vacancies. rest unchanged.
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Kenneth G. Crawford
United Press
Washington
Congress
Boulder Dam
Muscle Shoals
Hoover
Coolidge
Capitol
Johnson Boulder Dam
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Agriculture Committee
McNary
Oregon
Senate Republicans
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Gold Prospects to Trek Northward
Toronto, Nov 30. Pickle Lake near Lake St. Joseph promises a spring rush of gold prospectors. C Price-Green of CN Railway cites a major 1928 season discovery with a five mile break area. A second copper zinc and precious metals find near Mace in Steel township forms the Marbano mines project.
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Timea
Toronto
Pickle Lake
Sioux Lookout
Ontario
Lake St. Joseph
C. Price-Green
Natural Resources
Canadian National Railways
Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration Company
Mace
Steel
Quebec
Price- Green
Marbano Mines
Burglary Report Includes Stolen Battery and Tools
Thieves took a battery tire and bag of tools from the garage of Harry Shannon at 4930 Brookville road on Friday night police were told today. R M Ragsdale of Golden Hill reported a title card stolen from his car parked downtown. Edwin Stephenson of 3520 East Fall Creek boulevard reported missing license plates No 48 414 when police recovered his car which had been stolen.
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Harry Shannon
Brookville Road
R. M. Ragsdale
Golden Hill
Edwin Stephenson
East Fall Creek Boulevard
Burned at Play Girl Dies in Kitchen Fire
Harriet Annabelle Abraham two died at 9 30 pm in city hospital six hours after her clothing caught fire from a celluloid comb on a gas stove The mother rushed to smother the flames with an old coat while the 4 year old sister Ida May cried out The family recently moved from Seneca Illinois to Indianapolis Funeral services were planned for Sunday at a grandmother's home and burial scheduled for Pittsburg Indiana The paragraph ends with a note about Turkish horsemen of southern Siberia keeping on their clothes until they fall off.
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Harriet Annabelle Abraham
Norval H. Abraham
East Terrace Avenue
City Hospital
Annabelle
Ida May
Indianapolis
Seneca
Ill
Ida Abraham
Siberia
Air mail robbery near St Louis nets mostly valueless loot
In a Dec 1 heist two bandits hijacked a mail truck near Lambert field forcing driver Harry C. Graham and his wife to surrender five air mail pouches. The pouches contained about 1 million dollars in checks being mailed to New York. most value is deemed negligible by postal authorities and bank officials.
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ST. Louis
Harry C. Graham
Lambert
St. Louis Flying Field
Graham
New York
Calls Criminal Boob by Times Special
Evansville Ind Dec 1 Any young fellow who has seen what has happened to me and still thinks crime pays is a big boob says Dreyfus Rhoades, sentenced to die in the electric chair March 6. He was convicted of slaying Simon Caine Vincennes police officer, and he began his crime career at age 13 breaking into a store with another boy.
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Evansville
Ind
Dreyfus Rhoades
Rhoades
Simon Caine
Vincennes
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