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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1928
Page
3
An amateur astrologer predicted December luck for the narrator, who remains skeptical after stalled romance and few wins. A seance with a medium prompts cautious notes on spirits, with Granny Campbell misidentified as the speaker’s grandmother. The piece weighs belief against rationalism and outlines a desire for a convincing sign.
A narrator recalls an evening with guests at UT where the ghost of actress Clara Bloodgood, who killed herself a decade earlier, is questioned by a critic. The critic insists on identifying her final play and its author Clyde Fitch, but the specter cannot recall. The piece ends with wary doubt about telepathy and pulp superstition.
Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana will manage passenger care, reservations, and administration for the 48hour air-rail Transcontinental service starting April 1 with Indianapolis as a junction. J A Perry serves as president. Curtiss officers include James A Ferry and H Weir Cook. operations center at 646 Illinois Building.
Times Special reports in Fort Wayne Indiana that Floyd Overmeyer is charged with liquor selling. Attorney A Pursley argues the indictment should be quashed since Congress may lack authority to omit the name of the person alleged to have been sold to. Judge defers ruling to the April term.
City council plans to act on purchasing a municipal airport site south of Ben Davis. Mayor L Ert Slack backs a 1000 acre tract at about 300000 with a 675000 bond for land and improvements. Several councilmen seek to speed the airport plan and will press for action at tonight’s dinner gathering with Edward B Rauh Sr at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
James T. Mateer, 73, who cut an oak tree on his Colvin Run homestead to fashion a coffin, opened it after death Saturday night and found a note with burial instructions and preferred shroud color in the wooden casket.
United Press reports Dr Hugh Mansfield Robinson’s attempt to reach his Martian telepathic partner Oomaruru with a radio message from Septiba station in Rio de Janeiro. Despite a declared “God is love earth to Mars” transmission engineers waited in London and Septiba, but no reply came.
New York crowds packed Madison Square Garden as the Rangers topped the Detroit Cougars 3 0 to extend their lead in the American division. The Americans defeated the Black Hawks 1 0 in Chicago to seize undisputed first in the International division.
Folk songs and popular melodies were presented by local artists in the sixth annual Knights of Columbus benefit for the orphans Christmas fund. A turkey dinner is scheduled tonight at the auditorium on Thirteenth and Delaware streets to aid the fund.
A People's Motor Coach Company bus crashed into an East Michigan street car on Fulton Street injuring eight aboard. Driver Leonard Du Pont was charged with assault and reckless driving after claiming wet pavement caused the crash. Motorman Ray Purdue said the bus struck as he started to move. Several other weekend injuries included a fatality when Mrs. Lola B. Parks was struck by a streetcar. Police hunt for assailant of 14 year old Paul Odell in Anderson.
The document records major powers including Germany United States Belgium France Britain India Italy Japan Poland and Czecho Slovakia pledging to renounce war as national policy. It stipulates settlements by pacific means and outlines ratification and entry into force procedures with deposits at Washington.
Bandits held up J A Turner at 1211 Polk street taking 4.90 saved to buy coal while stealing from his pocket an application for his 11 year old daughter’s entrance to the State School for the Deaf. Other thefts included 25 from a Sinclair station attendant and 2 from another man. Three men were arrested on blind tiger charges after liquor was found.
The E. C. Atkins and Company tax refund case, valued at about $8 million, will begin trial Tuesday in federal court after being remanded here for circuit court of appeals review following a dismissal for want of jurisdiction by Judge Robert C. Baltzell in September.
An editorial in the Mitchell Tribune criticizes a proposed city council plan to limit parking around Bedford’s Lawrence county courthouse square to one hour. It argues the square belongs to the people and recounts a bygone era when long parking was tolerated, claiming such ordinances may be unconstitutional and infringe rights.
Washington December 17 the house rules committee agreed to seek suspension of the rules to bring the Porto Rican hurricane relief bill up for immediate consideration this afternoon. A two thirds vote of the house is required to suspend the rules.
Carl Williams a 15 year old youth riding with Paul Pulliam Bair theater manager when bandits killed Pulliam a month ago viewed two suspects held by police today but failed to identify either.
Charles Stewart of Buffalo was arrested as immigration authorities believe they have captured the leader of an alien smuggling ring operating along the Niagara frontier for the past year.
Across the Hudson in Orange New Jersey five young women doomed by radium exposure received $10,000 each to live for a year. The Cosmopolitan article traces how Katherine Schaub Edna Hussman Albina Larice Quinta McDonald and Grace Fryer used the money to pursue personal ambitions while facing a tragic countdown.
Fred A. Sims, president of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, forecasts the largest Christmas seal sale in the county’s history and a substantial drop in the tubercular death rate from 90.9 per 100 000. In 1927 total deaths were 37 and 433 in 1926, with 637 in 1914 when the drive began.
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, cousin of the late Czar, landed in New York after arriving on the Paris. She dismissed the Anastasia claim as false, saying she came to America to satisfy a longheld wish and planned a cross country trip to California to visit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst at her ranch.
Elinor Wylie a 42 year old poet and novelist died at her New York home after a paralytic stroke. She was wife of critic William Rose Benet and mother to a noted literary family. Her novels include Orphan Angel the Venetian Glass Nephew Jennifer Lorn and Mr Hodge and Mr Hazard. Her verse books Nets to Catch the Wind and Black Armour were best known. She was working on Angel and Earthly Creatures set for spring publication.
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