Renew Study of Downtown Traffic Needs
The city council special traffic committee began a further study of downtown bus and streetcar congestion. Led by Robert E. Springsteen, the panel aims to remove right turns, reroute street cars, and eliminate pedestrian three way signals at three Washington corners while keeping crossing pedestrians safe. A. H. Moore proposed through cross town streetcar lines to avoid looping, with experts to be consulted and funded by the city plan commission fund.
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City Council
F. White
Robert E. Springsteen
Washington
Delaware Street
Capitol Avenue
Washington Corners
Springsteen
A. H. Moore
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
City Plan Commission Fund
Rule limits release of prisoner for trial in Randolph court
Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam directs Warden Walter Daly that prisoner Arzo E. Key may appear as a defendant in Randolph circuit court only with a court order and payment of transportation costs. Key is due to face an automobile accident case at Winchester on January 14 with co-defendant Sam O. White.
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Arthur L. Gilliam
Walter H. Daly
Randolph Circuit Court
Arzo E. Key
Winchester
Sam O. White
Chance Rites Held For Frank S Chance Ad Agency Leader
Funeral services were held for Frank S. Chance head of the Frank S. Chance advertising agency who died Saturday at his home on North Illinois Street. The service at Flanner Buchanan mortuary was led by Dr F S C Wicks of All Souls Unitarian Church with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Frank S. Chance
North Illinois Street
Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary
F. S. C. Wicks
All Souls Unitarian Church
Crown Hill Cemery
Wanted Man Surrenders After Ho ldup Slaying Near Paoli
Garris Lockenbour, 22, surrendered to Bedford police and became a prisoner in Orange county jail. He admits involvement in a holdup attempt at the Thomas Wininger grocery near Paoli which led to the death of John Currie of Bloomington. He said hiding day and night was irksome.
Santa Steeds Reindeer Used Ages Ago as Horse and Cow
Science Service reports that reindeer were used as working animals by ancient northern peoples and that depictions of reindeer appear in southern European Stone Age caves. It notes reindeer as a long-utilized, early domesticable resource prior to Santa Claus legends.
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Science
Ashington
Santa Claus
Lapps
Lapland
Europe
France
Death by ice pick slaying trial opens in Muncie
Harry Garvin faces first degree murder charges in Delaware circuit court for the August 12 slaying of Jay Creek at a Dunkirk roadhouse. The alleged motive arose from a quarrel over a card game.
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Buy Times
Muncie
Ind
Harry Garvin
Delaware
Jay Creek
Dunkirk
Garvin
Funeral Rites For Mrs. Mary E. Cable
Mrs. Mary E. Cable of Bloomington, aged 69, died Sunday after a yearlong illness. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today at her daughter Mrs. Jesse E. Hanft’s home, 816 East Forty-Second street, with Rev. E. H. Kistler officiating. Burial will be in Bloomington, Illinois, on Wednesday.
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Mary E. Cable
Jesse E. Hanft
East Forty-Second Street
Bloomington
E. H. Kistler
Fairview Presbyterian Church
Pageant director named for Clark anniversary in Vincennes
Thomas Wood Stevens of Chicago was chosen to direct the pageant for the 150th anniversary of George Rogers Clark s capture of Fort Sackville at Vincennes on February 25. Christopher B Coleman of the state historical bureau announced the decision. In Shoals Indiana a court suit seeks $300 in due bills from the Shoals Pearl Button Company, alleged by Miss Ruby Savage to reflect wages and insolvency.
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Thomas Wood Stevens
Chicago
George Rogers Clark
Ft. Sackville
Vincennes
Christopher B. Coleman
State Historical Bureau
Times Special Shoals
Ind
The
Shoals Pearl Button Company
Indiana
Martin Circuit Court
Ruby Savage
Gone but Not Forgotten Automobiles Stolen Report
Police report lists four vehicles as stolen. Ford coupe with license 29-890 taken from Walnut and Pennsylvania. Buick coach license 618-092 reported missing from Alabama and Walnut. Nash touring license 641-113 stolen from West and Ohio. Ford tudor license 629-335 taken from 1300 Beechzer Street.
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Earl A. Wetherald
Gladstone Avenue
Walnut
Pennsylvania
Will Worth
Alabama Street
Buick Coach
Alabama
Kenneth Bramkamp
Dawson Street
Nash Touring
West
Ohio
Lemuel Hughes
Alvord
Ford Tudor
Beechzer Street
Stolen Cars Recovered by Police In City Sweep
James Byers of 1332 North West street has a Studebaker touring found at the intersection of California and Vermont streets. Clint Thompson of Bloomington Indiana reports a Ford coupe recovered in Garfield Park. John Herbert Hunt of 812 Prospect street had a Ford roadster found behind 815 Prospect street. vehicles were wrecked.
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James Byers
North West Street
Studebaker Touring
California
Vermont
Clint Thompson
Bloomington
Ind
Garfield Park
John Herbert Hunt
Prospect Street
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Paoli
City Trust Co
Dick Miller
E. Washington St
Santa Steeds
Clark
America
CIA
Wiota
Washington St
Dres Rae
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