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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1929
Page
1
In Michigan City Indiana a downtown street argument over waitress Mary Harvey led to the shooting death of W. L. White aged 38. Louis Maloney 43, owner of the restaurant, was arrested after White collapsed on the sidewalk and Maloney struck him with a revolver butt.
Five trusties who escaped from the state penitentiary at McAlester by digging a hole under a wall were being sought across Oklahoma. Bloodhounds tracked the fugitives and searches extended to outgoing trains. Details remained scarce as Warden John Q. Newell was absent. The loss was first noticed at Friday night dinner.
In a stock market note from New York dated December 14, analysts say administration sentiment has improved with clouds lifting and confidence returning. Investors may focus on railroad consolidation plans and merger prospects, boosting railway shares and, by extension, the general market.
In the air at 9 30 a m the north wind is five miles per hour with barometric pressure 29 32 and temperature 43 degrees. The ceiling is 500 feet and visibility is half a mile. An hourly temperature table lists 8 m 42 7 a m 42 and 8 a m 43.
James Wood, 37, a farm hand from near Albany Kentucky, confessed to killing Mr and Mrs George F Heath of a Muncie area farm. He says fear of arrest for thefts of the Heaths car and livestock drove the slaying and two men may have visited the home, suggesting an accomplice. Bodies were found beaten in their beds.
In fog near Cies island the Greek steamer Hydra collided with the Spanish vessel Antonio Garcia. The Antonio Garcia sank in seven minutes with four men lost, while Hydra rescued twenty crew members, three seriously injured.
Stock prices opened higher on Friday with gains across most groups. Major issues like Johns Manville American Telephone General Electric and Radio advanced, while Auburn Auto led motor shares and utilities and rails posted gains amid active trading.
In Chicago on December 14 a $25 000 alienation of affections case between Lena Mickenham and Louise Rutherford Mickenham is to be tried February 3 in a courtroom where all witnesses and participants are deaf and mute. The former husband Ashley Mickenham of Wichita met Rutherford at a party and wooed her in sign language, leading Lena to divorce after overheard conversations through hand signs. Two weeks later the ex-husband married Rutherford.
A T N T bomb exploded behind Felix D Allesandro’s Fieldstone Manor injuring no one as his wife and two daughters slept inside. Police blame New York ice trade racketeers tied to at least eight murders in the past year and note D Allesandro owns an ice plant.
New officers of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board for 1930 were announced after director election. T. E. Grinslade will serve as president and Paul L. McCord as vice president, with Carl G. Seytter secretary and Norris P. Shelby treasurer. Grinslade heads Grinslade Construction Co. and has prior board service and home show committee ties. McCord sits on the appraisal board. Seytter and Shelby lead social affairs work, and Seytter helped run the 1929 Marion county school mini model house contest.
Hog prices rose about 25 cents from Friday at the local stockyards with 160 to 300 pound hogs at 9.85 and one at 10. Receipts were around 5 500 with 395 holdovers. Cattle were largely steady while sheep and lambs gained up to 25 cents. Better lamb grades sold 12.50 to 13.10, small lots 13.50. Chicago hog receipts 12 000 with slow bidding and steady Tuesday prospects. Cattle 500, sheep 3 000.
More than 600 expected at the Society of Indiana Pioneers annual dinner at Claypool tonight with William H. Insley presiding. The event closes the eleventh Indiana history conference two day sessions. Mayor Elect Reginald H. Sullivan will aid in greeting out of town guests. Mrs. W. T. Lafferty of Kentucky to speak on The Romance of the Ohio. The Indiana State Teachers Association history and social science section met morning. L. A. Pittenger of Ball Teachers College spoke on Revising the Constitution. Clark Wissler praised Indiana parks and conservation work urging restoration of New Harmony. Ross F. Lockridge spoke on The Spirit of La Salle. A La Salle pageant at South Bend was presented by the Lions Club.
Columbus Indiana school superintendent Donald DuShane, named acting leader after a irregular succession, says he has not decided whether to accept. He notes time constraints and new board members take office January 1 as a factor in delay and uncertainty. The board planned a Monday decision and a regular meeting on December 31 to finalize the appointment.
Mercury fell about 20 degrees from Friday to 7 am today and will drop further tonight though not below 35. Meteorologist J H Armington predicts unsettled weather for Indianapolis and the state with a 7 am reading of 42.
Henry Kamp, 57, of Los Angeles, is hospitalized today after taking poison at a West Washington Street filling station Friday night. He told police he has no relatives or home. In Anderson Indiana, Professor G A Young of Purdue University spoke to fifty stationary engineers at a meeting of the Anderson branch of the National Association of Power Engineers.
Dr. Isidore S. Falk of the University of Chicago, who announced the isolation of influenza germs, refuses to be excited by London calls. Worn out by conferences, he went to bed at 5 a.m. and told the London Times to call tomorrow as he was too sleepy to answer.
In Evanston Illinois at 3 a.m. after a party the telephone operators found coats misassigned by number. Women retrieved wrong coats from numbers 36 50 16 and more, then discovered several numbers did not exist and some purses were missing. It took over an hour to sort the mess.
A powerful new coalition of regular Republicans and Democrats presses the administration tax reduction measure worth 160 million dollars toward passage in the Senate. Pennsylvania senators Grundy and Reed back the coalition, denouncing the farm bloc tariff coalition as blocking debate. A speedy vote is expected within hours with the tariff bill to resume Monday and a mid January enactment anticipated.
U S attorney George R. Jeffrey and deputy prohibition administrator John W. Wilkey pursue leads into what may be one of the nation’s largest liquor conspiracies after federal agents raided a giant still near Montezuma. Seven men were jailed on $10,000 bonds each as farmers described threats by gunmen. The plant produced about 880 gallons daily for two months.
Representative Miles C. Allgood of Alabama resigns from the house enrolled bills committee after Oscar De Priest the Negro Republican from Illinois is appointed to the panel. Allgood says he declined the honorary post when the committee included a Black congressman. The house accepted his resignation.
In court today Prosecutor Judson L. Stark pressed charges against Gail Alger 18 and Lowell Edwards 17 for vehicle taking. They had been given one to ten year reformatory terms weeks earlier for stealing a motorcycle and guns from a naval reserve armory, with Stark indicating the third charge would be dropped.
Rockford officials say an arrest is expected soon in the murder of 35 year old Rockford high school language teacher Cordelia Gummersheimer. A secret informant from Madison, Wis., offered crucial information while fearing for her life. A $500 reward was posted by Mayor Hallstrom and Police Chief Balgren for information leading to the killer.
The Indianapolis Real Estate Board reports a weekly rise in city permits issued by the building commissioner. Key new industrial permits include a $20,000 Truscon Steel building at Gillette and Division and a $13,000 Leader Specialty Co. site at 5321 Winthrop Ave. Additional business structures include storerooms at 1651 South Meridian and at Lexington and Emerson avenues and a Campbell Oil filling station at Nineteenth and Capitol. Ten new residential permits were also issued.
In Marion County courts, judges differ on whether an amended Indiana law banning action against common carriers is constitutional. The Sahara Grotto crossing crash victims’ relatives sue Arthur W. Brady, receiver for Union Traction, for 5 000 to 15 000 dollars.
R J Reynolds, 23 year old son of a late tobacco magnate, was secretly released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison after serving five months for manslaughter from an auto accident. He has sailed for New York.
J P Morgan bought the painting Apollo and Marsyas by Tintoretto for about 100000 dollars, a total not officially confirmed. The purchase was reported today in New York.
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