Callao Bound Hoover Party Heads South by Maryland
United Press reports on December 3 as the Hoover goodwill tour aboard the U S S Maryland sails toward Callao Peru. Hoover bids farewell to Ecuadorian President Ayora with a Spanish abrazo ceremony. Discussions cover Ecuadorian economic plans including a potential 6 million dollar public improvements loan.
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Thomas Stokes
United Press
Maryland
Callao
Peru
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Lima
Ayora
Ecuador
Cleveland
Caayas
Guayaquil
Five escape from federal reformatory in hail of bullets
United Press reports five prisoners fled the federal reformatory at Chillicothe during a Sunday night breakout. Guards fired as the escapees bolted past outposts, names listed include William J. Martinck Harry Zolent C W Stewart Charles Crook William Cantor with Cantor escaping while help was given to captors pursuing the others.
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United Press Chillicothe
Federal Reformatory
William J. Martinck
Barber
Charleston
W. Va
Harry Zolent
Chicago
C. W. Stewart
S. C
Charles Crook
City C. of C. Praised for Taxation Study
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce earns national praise for its civic affairs department budget study of 1929 local taxation and suggested cuts. John Jay O’Connor of the U S Chamber of Commerce finance division commends the work in a letter to William Fortune and requests permission to circulate the studies to other business groups. permission is granted.
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Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
Civic Affairs Department
John Jay O'Connor
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
William Fortune
Civic Affairs Committee
Hospital Plan Study In Rochester By City Officials
Dr. Christopher W. Parnell of Rochester consulting on city hospital building program with health board president Dr. Frederick E. Jackson. Parnell to study needs and work with architects and engineers. Power plant location likely first task as other units depend on it.
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Christopher W. Parnell
Rochester
N. Y
Frederick E. Jackson
Health Board
Parnell
Truck Tax Suit Challenge City Fee on Indirect Tax
The Motor Truck Association of Indiana plans to sue Indianapolis to block collection of the city truck license fee. Proceedings likely in superior court argue the fee is discriminatory against pleasure vehicles and doubles taxes by sharing street costs with gasoline tax. The city collects about 45000 dollars annually.
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Motor Truck Association of Indiana, Inc
Indianapolis
Mrs. T. R. White Dies At 61 In Meridian Heights
Mrs. Emily 8. White, wife of Rev. Thomas R. White pastor at Meridian Heights Presbyterian church, died Sunday night at 4720 Park Avenue. Pneumonia caused death after eight years of paralysis. Funeral is at 2 Wednesday at Meridian Heights church with Mr. White delivering the sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily
Metropolitan Star Nanette Guilford Weds Violinist Max Rosen
Nanette Guilford a Metropolitan Opera performer, once called a baby star, has announced a secret marriage to Max Rosen the Romanian violinist. Guilford began in musical comedies and debuted with the Met in New York at eighteen.
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Nanette Guilford
Metropolitan Opera Company
Max Rosen
Nanette
Metropolitan
New York
Report Two Holdups Across City This Weekend
Detectives investigated two early hold ups and a Saturday night attempt. Ivan Durham, 21, was robbed of $2 and a valuable watch at Illinois and Twenty-eighth streets near 1 a.m. J. W. Hammons, a Black man, reported $40 taken in the 700 block West Fourteenth Street at midnight. Barney Jelgenhois, 1112 Harlan, faced two youths, one armed with a toy revolver. a shot struck his stomach but did not break the skin.
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Ivan Durham
North
Illinois Street
Illinois
Twenty-eighth Streets
J. W. Hammons
Fourteenth Street
Barney Jelgenhois
Harlan Street
Jelgenhois
Evans Opens Speakership Tour Across Indiana
Representative-elect Herbert H. Evans launched a northern Indiana tour as he camps for the speakership of the house. Evans plans to cover twenty one counties and will visit southern Indiana next week.
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Newcastle
Ind
Herbert H. Evans
Indiana
House of Representatives
Evans
Traction auto crash injures four in Indianapolis weekend toll
A Sunday 3400 West Washington Street collision between a car driven by Hershel Dowty and an inbound traction car left Dowty with minor injuries while his wife Lula and their two children Hazel and Pearl suffered critical skull fractures and internal injuries. Several others, including a five year old, were hurt in weekend incidents across the city. A hit and run struck John Harris, a 34 year old Negro, and Albert Elf was seriously hurt stepping into traffic. Local victims include Hazel Hughes and others. police detain Walter H Rhoades on DWI charges after his car struck a parked vehicle. A vacant Deptford building has no owner.
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Indianapolis
West
Washington Street
Hershel E. Dowty
King Avenue
Dowty
Lula Dowty
Hazel
Pearl
City Hospital
Walter Rhoads
Walter H. Rhoades
South Rybolt Avenue
West Washington Street
John Harris
North
Missouri Street
Senate Avenue
Albert Elf
West Thirteenth Street
East Washington Street
Hazel Hughes
South Grace Street
Gerald
Philip Harris
Church Street
Albert Huddleston
Roosevelt Avenue
Georgia Martin
Geneva
Ind
Cornia Gregory
East Twenty-second Street
Blaine Willis
Noblesville
Newman Davis
Tacoma Avenue
Mary Clark
Jackson Street
Ivan Hager
Mary Hager
Beauty Avenue
Law plans drive to oust witches in York County
YORK Pa Dec 3 as the Salem witchcraft practice was ended by violence so may western Pennsylvania witchcraft be ended by violence murder Nelson D Rehmeyer was killed after refusing a lock of hair to break a hex John Curry 14 Wilbert Hess 18 confessed naming John Blymyre 28 a witch doctor as accomplice Blymyre confessed Amos Herrmann district attorney plans a campaign to educate believers and drive out pow wow doctors Many believers remain in the county largely of German and Dutch descent An 80 year old pow wow doctor woman is described as slight bent and eerie eyed
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United Press
York
Salem
Pennsylvania
Nelson D. Rehmeyer
John Curry
Wilbert Hess
John Blymyre
Blymyre
Amos Herrmann
York County
Christmas crooks face crackdown by Indianapolis police
Police Chief Claude M. Worley ordered a special anti theft drive targeting shoplifters pickpockets purse snatchers and short change artists during the holiday shopping season a restricted district bounded by Missouri New York East and Georgia streets will see arrests on sight an unusually large police detail aided by special operatives will patrol until shopping season ends.
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Indianapolis
Claude M. Worley
Missouri
New York
East
Georgia
GOP Leader Dies in Gary Indiana
John Killigrew, 35, Tenth district Republican chairman and prominent Indiana GOP figure, died after weeks of illness following appendicitis operations. His last wish urged his wife be appointed to complete his four year term. Finland noted within an archipelago of 10,000 islands.
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United Press
Gary
Ind
John Killigrew
Finland
Night Fire Sweeps Tiffany Laundry Building
A spectacular blaze on North Illinois Street Sunday night caused about 40000 dollars of damage to the Tiffany laundry at 27 McLean Place. The fire started in the marking room on the second floor, rapidly reaching the rear of the two story brick structure as downtown units fought the blaze. Several cars were moved from the building and much machinery saved with tarpaulins. H H Pointer of 4420 North Meridian estimated the damage.
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North Illinois Street
Tiffany Laundry
McLean Place
H. H. Pointer
North
Meridian Street
Blond Beauty Title Given To Pearl Eaton
The artist Ernc Bakes crowned Pearl Eaton as Blond Beauty, the most beautiful blond in America, after her divorce from Harry Levant, musical director of Manhattan Mary.
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America
Ernc Bakes
Pearl Eaton
Harry Levant
Manhattan Mary
Robber chokes resident during 5 am break in
Miss Sarah Stewart awoke at 5 am to a Black intruder bending over her bed. He seized her throat choking her until police noted visible fingerprints. He fled through the window after taking $6 from her purse. a bridge lamp burned as she described the assailant to detectives.
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Sarah Stewart
New Jersey Street
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