Citizens' Help Sought in Hunt for Fire Bug
Fire Chief John J. O'Brien appealed to citizens and police to aid in catching a arsonist active over weeks. Eleven incendiary fires reported in two weeks, mainly in the northwest. Vacant homes at 339 Minerva Street 606 Ogden Street and a barn at 418 North Delaware Street rear were set ablaze. A tar kettle on top of the new Illinois building sparked a small blaze and a $30 fire occurred at 21 West Thirteenth Street.
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Delaware St
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Market
Illinois Sts
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W. Thirteenth, St
United Press to Use Radio for Emergency News Reports
United Press announced Indiana’s first radio use plan to broadcast regu lar news to newspapers when wire service stalls. The Times in Indianapolis will relay from Severin studio via WFBM for fifteen minutes at 11 am and 1 pm until wires restore. Only United Press client papers may publish these dispatches.
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United Press Association
Indianapolis
Hooier
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Times
Severin
WFBM
Merchants Heat and Light Company
the Times
Martinville Ex-Judge Nathan A. Whitaker Dies After Illness
Nathan A. Whitaker, 66, former judge of Morgan County Circuit Court, dies at his Martinsville home after a brief illness.
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United Press
Martinsville
Ind
Nathan A. Whitaker
Morgan County Circuit Court
James M Johnson Bites Dog After Dog Bites Him
James M. Johnson of Los Angeles faced an unusual incident where his dog bit his hands and he restrained the animal by the throat until it died. The case unusual enough to be noted in a local column.
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James M. Johnson
Los Angeles
Johnson
Wife Remus Defends Innocence In Distillery Case
Mrs. Remus recounts fleeing with her child from St Louis to Cincinnati to escape George Remus. She claims she knew nothing of the Jack Daniel distillery ring and says she faced pressure to sign a bond, denies criminal connections, and asserts the indictment targeted the wrong Remus.
London's First Lady Excavators Find 20,000-Year-Old Skull
At a Zoological Society meeting it was announced that the earliest Londoner in history is a woman. A skull estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 years old, found during city excavations, confirms the identification.
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NEA Service
London
The
Zoological Society
Speed record set as mail express hits pace of 102.3 miles
London note reports the highest speed on record for an express train in England, reached May 9, 1904, when a Great Western Railway mail train from Plymouth to Bristol achieved a recorded pace of 102.3 miles per hour.
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Bao Ner
London
England
Great Western Railway
Plymouth
Bristol
Spiritualist Congress weighs device to contact the departed
The International Spiritualist Congress in Paris on December 16 proposed a competition to build an instrument to simplify communication with the unseen world. The plan aims to enable the departed to reach the living more easily.
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NDA
Paris
International Spiritualist Congress
Massacre at Tantah as police clear passage during fair
Fifty four killed and forty three injured in Tantah on the Nile Delta when mounted police charged to clear a passage for Mohammed Tewflik Rifatt Pasha. A large religious fair was underway at the time.
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NEA
Cairo
Tantah
Nile Delta
Mohammed Tewflik Rifatt Pasha
Hearing Set On Beer Legalization By Edge Bill
In Washington the Senate Judiciary chair announces open public hearings on the Edge bill to legalize 2.75 cent beer. A sub committee will conduct hearings, with testimony from all sides. Cummins notes uncertainty over how long hearings will last and cautions Congress must stay within the eighteenth amendment.
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United Press
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Senate
Cummins
Iowa
Senate Judiciary Committee
Guamine
Congress
Wabash Athlete Wins Thomas Day Oratorical Prize
Bates Robinson of Wabash College earns the Thomas Day oratorical prize for his address The Eleventh Commandment. The victory makes him eligible for Tau Kappa Alpha honorary debating fraternity, adding to his feats in football basketball track and tennis.
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Bu United
Cravex KE
Ind
Bates
Numbers Hard to Get Their Numbers
R. J. Dearborn and Russell Sullivan claim a severance case shows it is hard to obtain numbers from both the telephone company and the State. Dearborn cites Drexel 4100 and Indiana 4100 car tags while Sullivan uses Lincoln 1431 and the same auto tag. It wasn't an accident.
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R. J. Dearborn
Otterbein Ave
Russell Sullivan
Meridian St
Dearborn
Drexel
Indiana
Sullivan
Lincoln
Eight Are Indicted In Chicago Bootleg Conspiracy Case
Sheriff Peter Hoffman Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan known as bootleg twins along with five Hoffman's aides face federal indictments for conspiracy to obstruct justice bribery and acceptance of bribes. Indictments stem from admissions made in a contempt proceeding after the twins testified they spent about 75000 for favors while prisoners in Cook County jail.
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United Press
Chicago
Peter Hoffman
Frankie Lake
Terry Druggan
Hoffman
Aids
Wilkerson
Cook County
Driver Freed by Jury in Involuntary Manslaughter Case
Fred McNimery 37 of 306 Indiana Ave was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a criminal court verdict. He had been charged in the death of Aloysius Hallemeyer 35 who rode in a truck with him when it collided with an auto driven by Maurice Rush 411 De Quincy St at Traders Point last August. Judge James A Collins directed the jury to acquit on the defense motion.
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Fred McNimery
Indiana Ave
McNimery
Aloysius Hallemeyer
Maurice Rush
de Quincy St
Traders’ Point
James A. Collins
T. Ernest Malcolm
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertised by Mrs Marquart
Brooklyn reader Mrs F G Marquart reports indigestion relief after taking Carter's Little Liver Pills, claiming they aid digestion and allow her to eat foods she avoided. The ad touts the pills as a gentle vegetable laxative sold by druggists for 25 cents.
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F. G. Marquart
Brooklyn
Carter
State rests as defense challenges indictment claims
The State rested its case arguing the evidence supported the charges while the defense contended the state's evidence contradicted the indictment.
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State
Malcolm
Banker Defends Federal Reserve System At Rotary
Elmer W. Stout president of the Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis spoke to the Rotary Club in Seymour Indiana on Tuesday defending the Federal Reserve system.
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United Press
Seymour
Ind
Elmer W. Stout
Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis
Rotary Club
Sniff Clears Catarrh Says Left Nostril Free
Grant Lucas of Indianapolis and wife report relief from catarrh after four months using Sniff antiseptic powder. They describe stopping discharges, easing headaches, and restoring easy breathing. Available at local druggists for one dollar with refund if not satisfied.
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Grant Lucas
Mois
Indianapolis
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Kresge Bldg
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