Foster parents keep boy 11 in chains at home
Raymond Stratton, 11, told Racine police he was chained to a bed with padlocks and left for days while his foster parents Ernest Johnson and his wife worked. Found in a vacant house cellar, the boy said repeated escape attempts led to increasing maltreatment. The couple face court Friday amid child torture charges.
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Chains
Whited Press
Racine
Wis
Raymond Stratton
Raymond
Ernest Johnson
Ethe
Johnsons
Johnson
Victims of Ponzi get final dividend in 1920 case
Boston December 20 United Press Henry V Cunningham trustee of the Ponzi estate has mailed checks totaling 75 000 to 77 000 to hundreds of Ponzi creditors in the United States. This fifth and final dividend raises total disbursements to creditors to about 1 500 000. Ponzi, who served five years in Plymouth Jail, is now in Charlestown state prison after larceny convictions.
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Bu United Press
Boston
Charles Ponzi
Santa Claus
Henry V. Cunningham
Ponzi
Penzi
Plymouth
Charlestown
Store Brings Baby Flames Bring Sorrow
Milwaukee family suffers a kitchen stove explosion that destroyed the home. A newborn daughter arrived days earlier as the mother rescued her son from a closet fire while being burned but expected to recover. Suszek family faced loss as the Christmas home burned.
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United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Bernard Suszek
Fire truck collision leads to charges against driver
Albert Merriweather, 23, of 2233 Pleasant Street, faces failure to yield to a fire truck after a Meridian fire at Merrill Moores residence at Meridian and Michigan. A pumper from Engine House 1 hit his car, which struck J. B. Poindexter’s vehicle at 826 North New Jersey Street. The blaze caused only minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Merriweather
Pleasant Street
Merrill Moores
Meridian Apartments
Meridian
Michigan Streets
Merriweather
J. B. Poindexter
New Jersey
Holy Name Society Turkey and Card Party at Beech Grove
The Holy Name Society of Holy Name church Beech Grove will host a turkey and card party Friday at 8 o clock in the school auditorium A turkey door prize will be awarded and lunch will be served by parish women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Name Church
Beech Grove
Holy Name Society of Holy Name
Stark Names Nine Deputies in County Prosecutor Office
Prosecutor-Elect Judson L. Stark announced the appointment of nine deputy prosecutors to serve in criminal and other county courts. Appointees include William R. Ringer for criminal court, George W. Eggleston succeeding John L. Niblack as deputy and investigator, and circuit, superior, probate, and justice of the peace court deputies Volney M. Brown Don French Harry F. Rust Donald Ream Ford Montani and Frank Sisson. Royse declined the criminal post and became county pauper attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judson L. Stark
William R. Ringer
North Talbott Street
Matson, Carter, Ross and
MAIL PEAK REACHED AS CHRISTMAS MAIL VOLUME RISES
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said the Christmas mail load would be reached today two days earlier than last year as the mail early campaign succeeded. The office reported no congestion at the building or union station though about 15,000 cards faced correction for incomplete addresses and a small number of parcels were misaddressed. Bryson noted an 16 percent increase in mail handled on Wednesday versus December 19, 1927, with inbound mail up 88 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Bryson
Union Station
Bryson
Jackie Smith
Chelsea Street
Brycon
Sleuth Fires on Holdup Suspect In Bartram Hotel
Philadelphia report says Detective James Malone halted a hotel holdup alone and fatally wounded the son of his close friend. The wounded suspect Joseph Hefferman, 22, was later identified after arrival at a city hospital. Hefferman allegedly admitted not recognizing Malone and expressed relief the gun jammed as Malone spoke softly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Philadelphia
James Malone
Bartram Hotel
Joseph Hefferman
Hefferman
Indianapolis Manufacturers Plan World Trade Club Meeting
Indianapolis manufacturers will meet Friday at noon at the Chamber of Commerce to organize a world trade club sponsored by the chamber wholesale trade department. Round table discussion will be led by Charles Lemuel De Vault United States consul to Japan. The club aims to assist local manufacturers increase foreign trade with help from the district bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Wholesale Trade Department
Charles Lemuel de Vault
United States Counsul
Japan
District Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Green Heads Auditors Association Leader Elected
Arthur Green as Grant county auditor was chosen president of the County Auditors State Association to succeed Floyd Wicker of Hendricks county at Claypool on Wednesday. Alva Eller of Monroe county was elected secretary treasurer.
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Arthur Green
Grant County
County Auditors’ State Association
Floyd Wicker
Hendricks County
Claypool
Alva Eller
Monroe County
Fifty-Eight Guests at Yuletide Luncheon for Boys Clubs
About 58 children from English Avenue and Lauter Memorial Boy's Clubs enjoyed a Christmas luncheon in the Riley room of the Claypool. Asa Fr. Chambers told stories, Wood Anger engaged youngsters with jokes, and Elmer Steffen performed piano numbers. Shoes were provided by the Frank Horuff Shoe Company after the event, with organizers including Mrs. Edna E. Swift and Will Wertz assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa E. Chambers
Laurate
Kiwanis Club
Wood Unger
Riley
Claypool
English Avenue Boy's Club
Lauter Memorial Boy's Club
Asa Fr. Chambers
Wood Anger
Edna E. Swift
Will Wertz
Boy's Club Association
Frank Horuff
Tilden Going South to Act in Play Dracula
Philadelphia December 20 William T. Tilden II tennis star said he would return to the south to perform in the drama Dracula next week. He stressed his lay-off was unrelated to his tennis career and declined to discuss any tennis plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Philadelphia
William T. Tilden, II
The
United Press Today
South
Tilden
Railroads obtain restraining order against uniform scrap iron rates
A temporary restraining order blocked the public service commission from enforcing uniform intra state freight rates on scrap iron. Judge James A. Leathers issued the order in favor of twenty three railroads that sued the commission for the Sept. 14 rate scale. A hearing on a permanent injunction was set for Jan. 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Superior Court
James A. Leathers
Award Contracts For County Provisions At Three Month Span
Indianapolis contracts awarded for three months starting January 1 to supply county institutions. About $100,000 in annual provisions used. firms include Taggart Baking Company, Red Star Company, Sanitary Products Company, Noblesville Milling Company, Garten Feed Company, Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, Efroymson & Wolf, The Wadley Company, Ideal Foods Product Company, Clover Farms Dairy, Kuehn Bros., M. O'Connor & Co., and others for bread, yeast, hospital supplies, paper goods, flour, feed, hardware, tobacco, fish and eggs, milk, meat, soaps, oleomargarine, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Harry Dunn
Dunn
Taggart Baking Company
Negro Orphan's Home
Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium
John B. Bright
Coffer
Red Star Company
William H. Armstrong
Sanitary Products Company
Noblesville Milling Company
Garten Feed Company
van Camp Hardware and Iron Company
Alfred A. Reger
Willis Fish Company
The
Wadley Company
Efroymson & Wolf
Benjamin Frey
Great Western Oil Company Oil and Gasoline
Ideal Foods Product Company
Clover Farms Dairy
Kuehn Bros
M. O'Connor & Co
Vanities Star to Wed Emerson Kin in Greenwich Wedding
Richard Bold, great grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a tenor in Earl Carroll's Vanities, will marry Rae Gardner of Albany, New York, in Greenwich Connecticut on December 23. Bold is the son of the late Judge John Bold, former county judge of Cleveland, with Emerson lineage through Bold's grandmother Lucy Emerson.
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Emerson
Albany
United Press
New York
Richard Bold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earl Carroll
Rae Gardner
N. Y
Greenwich
Conn
Bold
John Bold
Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Lucy Emerson
SEEK MISSING MAN POWELL, 68 FROM ROCKVILLE ROAD
Police search for John Powell, 68, carpenter, missing since Wednesday morning. He left his sister’s home at 1941 South State Street at 9 am to collect $100 from the Railroadmen's Building and Loan Association and may have money on him. Relatives fear harm due to the cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Powell
Rockville Road
Powell
Ollie Hart
South State Street
Railroadmen’s Building and Loan Association
Afghan insurgents fail attack on Kabul at night
Afghan insurgents marching from Jalalabad direction attacked Kabul at 11 p m Wednesday. Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan Leo Nid Stark reported the attempt by wireless to the foreign office today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Moscow
Jalalabad
Kabul
Leonid Stark
Afghanistan
Foreign Office
Donation drive boosts Bicknell Christmas Cheer fund
Indianapolis citizens rushed to support 2500 Bicknell children for Christmas with gifts and money. The fundraiser headquarters at 137 North Meridian reported 496.50 in cash by noon, plus numerous toy, food, and candy contributions from individuals and local businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Bicknell
Ernest N. Evans
Bicknell Christmas Cheer Fund Committee
North Meridian Street
R. C
R. C. Ogsre Vueees 3 2.09 A. Priend
B. Clifte
Biss
Katherine Lewis
Johnnie Lewis
Peter H. Rogers
Priend
W. T. Brown
Allan Gilmore
Elbert Shuetz
Jack Maroney
Karl Kistner
Alva Sta
Anonymous
Times Pressroom
The
Indianapolis Times
Trene H. We Mer
Oscar Best
John Reinhardt
W. J. Casserly
Katherine McCarty
Simon Cook
Mas Machinery Co
Charles Senehenbere
Meredith Nicholson
Charles L. Nicholson
Preenie Nicholson
Ee A Cnesnnes Eee
Edward _L. yhew
James
Whiteside
Newtown
A. W. Eubank
Cc Reece
David Ross
William Ross Teel
Fred Sims
Advance Paint Co
Rachel G. Taylor
Harry A. Little
Seth C. Klein
William F Lenders Jr
Henry F. Heyward
Ee Thompson
P. F. Wright
Hayward, Rich Grain Co
H. D. Skiles
Hudgins
Baby and Trask
Amarante Busdode
R. Williams
Tigload
Frank H. Handrey
Ed Jackson
Thomas Spencer
Seonemods A
Setsaedte
Bee Cummings
Eaheine
Paris Hattabaugh
Frances and
Sarah Bernard
Henry Moots
Cas Wrieg
W. Dodson
Tom L. Dillon
Dooley
Three Friends
Sa Sy
Paul Stahner
Lewis Nichols
Remister
Marion County Building’ Council Vex
BOD Ours Sprue
Hp Hin Weee Lodc
Relings Silk Hosiery Mills
W. J. McKnight
Scientit Trl
Fuer
Rv Mode Brothers
Meee Ad
Schweitzer
O'Harete Bans Athletic Club
Local Student to Be Orator at Indiana University
Bloomington dispatch reports Indiana University will name Carl Winter of Indianapolis as class orator for the hundredth commencement set for June. Public committees include Invitations, Senior Memorial, Senior Siwash, Senior Breakfast, Peace Pipe, and Tree and Ivy Planting with devoted members from Indianapolis, Bloomington, Fort Wayne, and other cities.
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Bloomington
Ind
Carl Winter
Indianapolis
Indiana University
Allen Bailey
Lewis
Martha Covert
Evanaville
Kenneth Coyle
Warsaw
James Abramson
Portland
Lois Porter
Wabash
John Leonard
Rochester
Oweetah Thompson
Heltonville
Claude Rich
Ruasiaville
Dona R. Biddle
Howard Batman
Marengo
Douglas Schied
Vincennes
Siwash
Gilbert Alsop
John Cooper
North Vernon
Orah Cole Briscor
Alexander Campbell
Ft. Wayne
Ruth Kirby
Alvin — Zeplowitz
Hammond
Frances Craig
Charleston
Kathryn McDavid
Hillsboro
Gretchen Smith
Jean Green
Pekin
Helen Benton
Christine P’simer
Anderson
June Jackson
Greenfield
Martha Coombs
Peace Pipe
Joseph DeLo
Korkomo
Charles Bennett
Linton
Fred Tangeman
Bluffton
Joseph Stipp
Michigan City
Karl Thornburg
Muncie
Clarence Forkner
Terre Haute
Joseph Carpeten
Angela
Aub Harrell
Dianapolis
Wiliam Hugo
Gary
Ernestine Metzner
Bryant
Itt Kelsay
Shelbyville
Ruth’ Fries
Plymouth
Fred Sanders
Newcastle
Strangest Bird Seen At Princeton Post Office
Brenited Presa reports a worker and Chaunty Superintendent A. B. Abbott captured a tall legged bird on the rear steps of the Princeton post office. Locals cannot identify the mysterious fowl and describe its crane like features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Ind
Abbott
Party for Orphans at Sahara Grotto Christmas Night
Indianapolis Orphans Home hosts a 7 pm Christmas party by the Sahara Grotto at 4107 East Washington Street. Gifts of candy and oranges are provided. Santa arrives followed by dances by the Karstadt Four Leaf Clover and others, with readings, carol singing, and a talk. Fred H. Knodel chairs the Grotto entertainment committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
East
Washington Street
Grotto
Ladies Auxiliary
Santa Claus
Karstadt
Mary Elizabeth
Betty Jean
Paula
Dorothy Claire Karstadt
Theo Hewes
Clara Jane
Joan Hickman
Norma J. Antibus
Metropolitan School of Music
Charles G. Walsh
Fred H. Knodel
Grotto Entertainment Committee
Hoover Plans Return From Brazil To Begin U S Home Affairs
President-elect Herbert Hoover, exhausted from a rapid South American tour, nears Rio de Janeiro as he foregoes a Santo Domingo and Mexico stop. He will likely base in Miami for winter as the Utah heads toward Florida, with rest on deck and invitations from Brazil pouring in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Utah
Herbert Hoover
South America
Rio de Janeiro
Hoover
Santo Domingo
Mexico
Brazil
Morida
Mr. Hoover
Miami
Bny
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Guardian sought for Graf Zeppelin stowaway Terhune
Clarence Terhune seventeen year old Graf Zeppelin stowaway petitions probate court in St. Louis to remove his sister Edna Hall as guardian alleging mismanagement and an excessive contract. Attorney James A Waehter asks for a substitute guardian as Terhune returns from a theater engagement paying him 2750 dollars weekly to settle his affairs.
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Gu United Press
St, Louis
Clarence Terhune
Edna Hall
James A. Waehter
Erhune
Terhune
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W. R. Ringer
Rouse
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Star
Jeanette Loff
Portlayd
Ore
Hollywood
Rod la Rocque
I. U
Party For Orphans
Cuba
Hulrry
Florida
Zep Stowaway
Sister
Sussman's
Illinois
Hamilton
Elgin
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West
Statehouse
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