Five Die as Blizzard Ravages Indiana and Midwest
A severe blizzard devastates Indiana and the Midwest with temperatures plunging to single digits. Roads are blocked and schools closed as rescue crews clear ice and snow while buses and cars crash on slick highways. Two students injured when a bus veers off a hill near Bedford. Interurbans begin restoring service and communications slowly as weather shifts toward milder days later Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Midwest
Bedford
Bessie Mosier
Judith Ray
Indianapolis
New York
Georgia
Alabama Street
Senate Avenue
J. H. Armington
U. S. Weather Bureau
Upstate
A. H. Hinkle
Highway Department
Thorntown
Lafayette
Lebanon
Crawfordsville
Morton
Putnam County
Ft. Wayne
Madison
Hinkle
Ohio River
Dansville
United States Rd. 50
Medora
United States Rd. 31
Seymour
la Porte
Michigan City
Indiana Plunged in Severe Snow Storm Delays Flood Fears
A winter storm paralyzed Indiana transportation with rail and interurban delays of hours. A Pennsylvania train derailed near Plymouth but with no injuries. Several fatalities and numerous vehicle accidents occurred as snow and ice halted buses and paralyzed roads. The Wabash River rose to 15.2 feet in Terre Haute before the cold brought some relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Indianapolis
New York
Chicago
Indiana
Pennsylvania
South Bend
Plymouth
Lafayette
Louisville
Oliver Snavely
Syracuse
Ind
Charles Keefer
Warsaw
Charles Guston
Gary
J. ©. Snyder
Marion
Peru
Fowler
Ft. Wayne
Munison
Terre Haute
Wabash
Mercury
White River
Christmas Robbery In Brookside Park Targets Taxi Driver
Consideration the Christmas spirit allegedly triggered two holdup men who robbed Wilford Clauser, 29, taxi driver of 923 Ft. Wayne Avenue Wednesday night. They took $10 and forced him from the cab in Brookside Park, then fled but gave him 50 cents for car fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilford Clauser
Wayne Avenue
Clauser
Brookside Park
Alger Seeks Judge Change On Parole Violator
Vernon Ind December 19 motion filed for a special judge to try Gene Alger parole violator and alleged bank bandit in Jennings circuit court December 26 on robbery charges. Judge Carney to name three candidates. prosecutor will contest the timing. Alger to be housed at Pendleton state reformatory until trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pu Times
Vernon
Ind
Gene Alger
Jennings
Claude McBride
John R. Carney
Alger
Earl Wolfinger
State Reformatory
Pendleton
Jury in deadlock in Connie Franklin ghost murder trial
In Mountain View Arkansas the overalled jury after thirteen hours of deliberation reported it could not reach a verdict on whether four men were guilty of Connie Franklin murder. Judge S M Bomer ordered the jurors to stay until a verdict is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Mountain View
Ark
Connie Franklin
Franklin
S. M. Bomer
Rushville Probe Hints Grand Jury Death Inquiry
Rushville officials declined to confirm a Rush County grand jury investigation into the death of Mrs. George Kolb of Mays. The coroner ruled the death due to poison after she died while visiting her mother, with no stated cause whether accidental, intentional, or foul play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Rushville
Ind
Rush County
Grand Jury
George Kolb
Mays
'KILLER' BURKE CLEWS FOUND IN MICHIGAN
Flint and Detroit area searched in a blizzard for Fred Burke the gunman. A Mrs Jarvis identified Burke from a newspaper photo, but police doubt the sighting as roads were nearly impassable. A woman companion was reported with Burke as he possibly traveled toward Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Flint
Mich
Detroit
Fred Burke
Frank Green
Burke
Genesee County
S. H. Jarvis
Michigan
Jackson
Harris seeks Senate action for prohibition report
Senator William J. Harris a leading dry urged a Senate resolution to compel a federal law enforcement commission to deliver a prohibition report to President Hoover. He said Congress will soon set funding for enforcement and needs the commission’s guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Federal Law Enforcement Commission
Senate
William J. Harris
Dem
Dry
Hoover
Harris
Congress
Commission
Two Men Held In Hijacker Killing Case In Indiana
State police turned over two men to Putnam county authorities in the slaying of William Kempe Jr the Indianapolis hijacker near Bainbridge Indiana. Morris Davis and Roscoe Pearson were arrested with Pearson to face murder charges and Davis held on liquor possession. Pearson believed driver of the rum car and both men faced bond and transfer to Greencastle for further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam County
William Kempe Jr
Indianapolis
Bainbridge
Ind
Morris (Mose) Davis
Eli Gmil
Davis
Kempe
Statehouse
Roscoe Pearson
Evansville
North Alabama
Charles Bridges
Nicholas Rawlings
Pearson
Greencastle
L. A. Bryan
Two Executions Mark Day in Texas and Indiana
Ben Aldridge aged 24 was executed in Huntsville for assaulting three Dallas high school girls and voiced a calm wish to be the last. Merriman had been executed less than a month earlier for the same crime. In Smithville Indiana Leslie Siscoe, 16, a high school basketball forward, died of spinal meningitis after playing against Greenfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Huntsville
Tex
Ben Aldridge
Dallas
Aldridge
Lee Roy Merriman
Smithville
Ind
Leslie Siscoe
Greenfield
Probe in Haiti Sidetracked by Senate Delay
President Hoover’s plan to investigate Haitian conditions hangs on political delay. A seven member commission and $50,000 funding won House approval but faces a Borah blocked Senate committee, with holiday recess and tariff deals delaying action until February or later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Hoover
House
Senate
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Haiti
Nicaragua
Impostor Poses as Times Radio Interference Rep
The Times exposes an impostor posing as a radio interference engineer. John T. Hawkins is the sole Times radio editor and representative, while residents report victims paying a man about 22 years old for bogus repairs. Citizens urged to report any similar visits to The Times or police immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
the Times
John T. Hawkins
Roosevelt
R. O. Jackson
Carrollton Avenue
Ray Cheney
Hawkins
Times Radio Department
Police Department
Times Radio
Death pact ends life of Edith Stewart and lover in Rhode Island
Edith Stewart 35 died in a death by own action pact with George Shippee of Pawtucket as four children slept nearby. Police found a Farewell note signed by both, revealing a months long affair following Stewart's husband Harry's death. Shippee had recent sanitarium confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Westerly
R. I
Edith Stewart
George Shippee
Pawtucket
Shipp Faces Domination Charge Amid Roomer Incident
Mrs. Mary Stewart 50 jumped from an upstairs window to escape Glenn Walton a roomer armed with a shotgun Walton angered by finding another roomer in his bed fled. Stewart suffered a broken right leg and was taken to city hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Stewart
West
Vermont Street
City Hospital
Glenn Walton
Stewart
Nancy Astor Injured After Hunting Horse Fall
Nancy Phyllis Astor daughter of Lord and Lady Astor sustained a spinal injury when her horse fell at a fence during a hunt with the Pytchley hounds in Guilsborough park. An X-ray showed the condition more serious than first thought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United P
London
Nancy Phyllis Astor
Lord
Lady Astor
Pytchley
Guilsborough Park
Boy Scout Runs to Help Motorist Hit by Blizzard
Alfred Van Steenberg an 18 year old Boy Scout was attempting a good turn during a blizzard when he was struck by Stanley Anderson a chauffeur blinded by snow while aiding a stalled motorist in Chicago on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alfred van Steenberg
Steenberg
Stanley Anderson
Governor appoints Indiana state library commission for $1 million project
Governor Harry G. Leslie appoints a five member state library commission to locate and build the new $1,000,000 library funded by a 1929 special levy. Four members come from the Indiana Library and Historical Board. Louis J. Bailey serves as secretary ex officio. The group will meet within sixty days, select site and plans, and oversee contracts until completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Leslie
State Library Commission
Indiana Library and Historical Board
William M. Taylor
Charles N. Thompson
Indianapolis
Elizabeth Claypool Earl
Muncie
Bess M. Sheehan
Gary
William P. Dearing
Oakland City
Commission
C. Herman
Rep
Expert shoplifters target fur coats in Indianapolis
Police seek a woman and a girl about 16 after two stores report fur losses totaling 1790. A mink coat worth 1495 was stolen from William H. Block Company and a Hudson Seal coat worth 295 from the New York store. The pair also visited H. P. Wason Co. and L. Ayes stores, with nothing missing. The woman wore a mink coat and the girl a brown pony coat with beaver trimming as they tried on items and then fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
William H. Block Company
New York
H. P. Wasson & Co
L. 8
King to Open Parley at Five Power Naval Conference
London reports King George will personally open the five power naval conference next month as Premier Ramsay MacDonald announces. The note confirms the royal participation and timing for the international talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
United Preas
London
King George
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Allegations Link Shipp to State Boards in Bond Hearing
Albert Yeager, Decatur township trustee, charged that C. C. Shipp controls the state board of accounts and health department. Frank Copeland, once Shipp employee, admitted employment and circulating a petition to block a $175 000 Decatur township school under a holding company plan. Hearing on the bond issue was continued pending supreme court ruling on holding company constitutionality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Shipp
State Board of Accounts
State Health Department
Albert Yeager
Decatur Township
State
Yeager
Frank Copeland
Shipp
Copeland
Marion County
Supreme Court
Health Board
Board of Accounts
C. C. Shipp
Board of Ae
Bias Brothers Escape From Charleston Prison
Dana and Adrian Bias, Charleston robbers, escaped by sawing through cell bars at the state penitentiary. A third prisoner, Basil Childers, also fled. The men had previously led police on a cross country chase last spring.
Flier Hunt Renews for Missing Eielson and Borland
Juneau reports a renewed air search over the north cape region for missing Alaska Airlines pilot Carl Ben Eielson and co pilot Borland. Dispatches from Teller say pilots Crosson Young and Gilman ready to join the search into the area abandoned since mid November.
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Eielson
Borland
Juneau
Alaska
Carl Ben Eielson
Alaska Airways
North Cape
Teller
Joe Crosson
Young and
Gilman
Ee Se
Ie Refi Borland
Arigothe Rele
Te Sacound
Safety Board Appointed by Mayor Sullivan
Mayor-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan names three experienced officials to the new safety board to serve beginning January 6. Charles R. Myers, Frank C. Dailey, and Donald S. Morris will oversee police fire and public safety matters while chiefs are appointed. Each member will earn a 1200 dollar annual salary and work full time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Board of Safety
Police
Fire
Reginald H. Sullivan
Charles R. Myers
Donald S. Morris
Frank C. Dailey
Morris
Board of Public Safety
Safety Board
College Avenue
Big Four Railroad
Buckingham Drive
The
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
Sullivan
Board of Safety
Claude M. Worley
Harry E. Voshell
Ross McKinney
Jerry Kinney
Fred Simon
Charles
Buck) Sumner
Shank
Ira P. Haymaker
Democratic Safety Board
Frank Dailey
United States
Meyers
Myers
Er Safety Board
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Middle West
Bluff
Death Probe
Senator Harris
Morris Davis
Crir
Donald
Negress
Nancy Astor
Boy Scout
Library Commission
Bias Brothers
Charleston
Personnel OF Safety Board
Myers, Dailey and
Kinney
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