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Newspaper

Indianapolis Times

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1928

Page

9

Black Magic Really Kills Says Expert

United Press reports expert W B Seabrook argues black magic can harm or kill, citing his travels in Haiti and Kurdistan. He discusses two forms imitative and sympathetic magic, using hair or discarded items to cast death charms, linking them to the Rehmeyer murder near York, Pennsylvania.

New York United Press Nelson D. Rehmeyer York W. B. Seabrook Haiti Arabia Kurdistan France Pennsylvania Reymeyer Seabrook Fifth Avenue New York Public Library Literary Guild Rehmeyer John Blymyre Hesses Blymyre John Curry Wilbert Hess Reh

State urged to create Indiana psychiatric hospital

The Indiana State Conference on Social Work calls for a state psychiatric hospital to treat the insane feeble minded and epileptic. Monsignore Gavish proposes legislation at the next session to fund erection and a statewide clinical service with a stronger psychiatric social work unit. Dr Herman H Adler speaks on preventing crime through psychiatry.

Indiana State Conference On Social Work Francis H. Gavish Indiana Society For Mental Hygiene Claypool The Mental Hygiene Society Amos W. Butler Herman H. Adler Institute For Juvenile Research Chicago

Hollywood Fashion Reforms Prompt Stockings and Surges

Hollywood shifts dress norms as stockings return and galoshes hats and coats gain demand. Star power from Broadway New York and Europe drives 1929 fashion trends with more talkies and new personalities entering studios.

Camilla Horn United Artists Lupe Velez Hollywood Broadway New York

Black magic debate on death and belief

A speaker questions whether black magic can kill or harm a person who fully disbelieves in it. He suggests it may be auto suggestion or technique used by a practitioner to focus power, but admits uncertainty about disbelief negating effects.

Primrose Path

Two Youths Held For Auto Theft

Police held two young men on motor theft charges after they were captured in stolen vehicles Sunday night. Glenn Hultz, 22, of Toledo, was found in a car he and another youth allegedly stole in Dayton on East Fall Creek boulevard, as police pursued his companion. Sam Graves, 27, of Brightwood Y M C A, was apprehended as he tried to drive away in a stolen car with two friends of the owner, Harry W. Munn of 2741 Stuart Street, observing.

Glenn Hultz Toledo East Fall Creek Boulevard Dayton Sam Graves Brightwood Y. M. C. A Harry W. Munn Stuart Street

Capture Boy Looters At Stout Hardware

Four 11 year old boys are in juvenile custody facing charges of petit larceny and delinquency after a passerby captured them looting Stout hardware at 1701 Howard Street on Sunday. Police report each youth had cartridges knives and small merchandise in pockets.

Stout Hardware Howard Street

Dokkies Initiate Class at South Bend Meeting

A large class of candidates was initiated Saturday in South Bend by northern Indiana Dokkies. Several officers from the Shambah temple of Indianapolis attended the ceremony. The northern Indiana group will become its own temple once a membership quota is met.

Shambah Temple Indianapolis South Bend Ind Indiana Dokkies Shambah Temple of Northern Indiana

Gilliam Rules PSC Jurisdiction Over State Line Financing

Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam ruled the public service commission has jurisdiction in State Line Generating Company's petition for temporary financing. He notes the commission could set rate terms if fifty year contracts for wholesale electricity distribution to Indiana and Illinois firms are approved. The ruling addresses the commission's power to approve contracts and potential retail level regulation in Indiana.

Arthur L. Gilliam Public Service Commission State Line Generating Company Commission Indiana Illinois Harvey Harmon Gilliam

Sherman Emerson Civic League Talk by City Engineer

City Engineer A. H. Moore will speak Tuesday night before the Sherman-Emerson Civic League at School 62 Wallace and East Tenth streets. The meeting will discuss annexation of territory between Michigan and Sixteenth and Emerson and Arlington.

A. H. Moore Sherman-Emerson Civic League Wallace East Tenth Streets Michigan Sixteenth Emerson Arlington

Trial Nears End In Cafe Robbery Case

A jury is to decide if John L. Smith 33 of Grand hotel is guilty of robbing Charles Diner operator of a restaurant at 109 Kentuck avenue of 875 last Monday morning Witnesses testified Diner and manager Edward C Hill were forced into a rear room and tied Smith claims he gambled with Diner and two others and cleared him out Monday morning He says he walked away counting money when police halted him and that he only recently moved to town.

John L. Smith Grand Hotel Charles Kentuck Avenue James A. Collins Dinet’s Smith Edward C. Hill South Belmont Avenue Hill John Madden Madden Pete Concillo Concillo Edward Traugott & Co William H. Remy

Stop Globe Trotters Runaway Boys From Muncie

Two Muncie boys Emil and Bernard Reiselman ages 8 and 12 ran away to see the world. They travelled to Indianapolis and were found hiding in a weed patch at Raymond and Meridian streets and taken to police headquarters.

Muncie Emil Bernard Reiselman Indianapolis Raymond Meridian Streets

Hold Funfest Tonight by Steel Treating Society

The Indianapolis chapter of the American Society of Steel Treating will stage a Christmas funfest at the Chamber of Commerce. Metallurgist H. B. Knowlton of International Harvester Co in Ft Wayne will speak. A dance follows the address.

American Society of Steel C. of C

Professor Weidler to Lead Indiana Central Education Dept

Professor D. E. Weidler of Columbia University will assume as education department head at Indiana Central College on January 1, succeeding Dr. H. W. Marshall who moves to head the psychology department at the State Normal University of New Mexico. Announcement comes from President I. J. Good.

D. E. Weidler Columbia University Indiana Central College H. W. Marshall State Normal University of New Mexico I. J. Good

Red Saturday Night and Necking in Indiana Dairies Pace

A vivid scene of urban nightlife and youth strain, detailing a Saturday night in Indiana with dancing, courting, and risky behavior. Characters include a Chi glue salesman, a clerk with bold ties, Indiana coeds, and a Scratches worker, as dim lighting and phonograph music frame intimate moments and public decorum.

Summer White House Urged by Coolidge Note

President Coolidge urges a summer White House in the hills near Washington for rest and health. He praises the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on its anniversary and discusses his own health habits and the need for atmospheric change away from humid, sea level Washington. He mentions the navy boat Mayflower as a limited escape, noting it travels down the Potomac with little altitude relief.

Bay United Press ST. Louis White House Washington Coolidge Joseph Pulitzer St. Louis Post-Dispatch Potomac

Sheep Accused Of Stealing Money Orders in Texas Post Office

Postmaster W. L. Clemmons reports eleven money orders missing from under his mattress at Temo Texas post office. Inspectors are advised that a flock of sheep faces accusations of stealing and eating the orders. Clemmons says he slept in the sheep lot in warm weather and the animals pulled the orders from under the mattress.

United Preas Washington W. L. Clemmons Temo Tex Clemmons

Celtic Liner Aground Off Roches Point Ireland

The White Star liner Celtic with 255 passengers from New York to Liverpool ran aground near Roches Point outside Queenstown Ireland. Sailors landed 29 Vestris survivors. 412 crew remain to be rescued as tugboats standby for a planned re float at 5 p m when tides rise.

United Press Queenstown Ireland White Star Celtic New York Liverpool Roches Point Vestris Virginia Capes Gelzee Morsecock

Burglar Slashed Enters Filling Station for Loot

A burglar severely cut after crashing through a plate glass window to enter a Shelby street filling station ransacked the place and found 42 dollars in a hiding spot. Blood soaked rags indicate his injuries as the thief fled. Separately a barber shop on North East street reported two slot machines stolen Sunday night. At East Eighteenth street A P grocery was entered Sunday night with candy and cookies taken, proprietor W H Young reports.

Shelby Morris Streets E. A. Stockdale North East Street Eighteenth Street W. H. Young

Stubborn cough eased by fame Pinex remedy

Old advertisement touts a home cough syrup made with Pinex and sugar syrup or honey. The ad claims fast relief from lingering coughs after flu and bronchial troubles, with Pinex described as Norway pine resin concentrate and guaranteed to work.

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