Unwasked Bandits Hold Up Southport Bank at Dawn
Two unmasked bandits robbed Citizens Bank of Southport just after opening hours, threatening cashier Sid E. Wight and bookkeeper Margaret Hendricks and escaping in a Hudson sedan with about 2300 dollars. They smeared their faces with mud to hide identity, left a stolen car, and abandoned a second vehicle with a roll of coins found by a 15 year old, police pursued leads toward Indianapolis.
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Southport Bank
Citizens Bank of
Southport
Sid E. Wight
Margaret Hendricks
Union Street
Buck Creek Road
Wright
Hendricks
Madison Road
Epler Avenue
Edgewood
Dewey W. Palmage
Guilford Avenue
Frank Miller
John Hardy
Dudley Avenue
Market Street
Capitol
Illinois Streets
Girl wins balm suit against former partner of Ford
Bertha Cleavenger received 450000 dollars of the 750000 she sought in a breach of promise case in Detroit. Judge Homer Ferguson granted a twenty day stay of judgment as John Castle's attorney Ralph B. Clark contemplates a new trial. Castle, a former partner of John Ford, is said to have a 2500000 fortune.
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Detroit
Bertha Cleavenger
John Castle
Homer Ferguson
Ralph B. Clark
Castle
Clark
Ferguson
John Ford
Henry Ford
Seevers Guilty of First Degree Murder in Wife Slaying
In New Castle Pennsylvania on December 20 a jury found John Dewey Seevers guilty of first degree murder in the July 25 slaying of his wife Estella. The panel deliberated five hours before recommending life imprisonment. City officials paused work to attend a high school chorus concert in City Hall.
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New Castle
John Dewey Seevers
Cleveland
Emmerich High School
City Hall
Missing Indianapolis executive Calvin sighted in city areas
Otis F. Calvin 65 president of the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Co. remains missing after a nervous breakdown. Police and public aid search for him after reports he was seen in the Traction Terminal lunch room and at Wheeler City Rescue Mission. Earlier he visited Marguerite Beauty shop seeking work to buy a meal.
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Otis F. Calvin
Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company
Ade Berek
Traction Terminal
Wheeler City
Calvin
Sheriff's Office
Public Aid
Marguerite
Thirteenth
Pennsylvania Streets
West Washington Street
McNaught Acknowledges Indiana League Appointment
Samuel P. McNaught of Iowa Anti Saloon League informs Dr C H Winders that he has not yet decided on accepting the Indiana superintendency after league trustees elected him. He cites injuries to two Iowa league officials in a recent automobile crash as the reason for his delay.
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C. H. Winders
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
Samuel P. McNaught
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
League
McNaught
Iowa League
Air searchers launch rescue flight for missing aviators
Pilots Joe Crosson and Charley Gillam left Teller Alaska to cross the Bering Strait toward Siberia in search of Captain Ben Eielson and Elmer Borland who have been missing for over a month. The mission faces extreme hazards with poor visibility over the route.
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Alaska
Joe Crosson
Charley Gillam
Teller
Bering Straits
Siberia
Ben Eielson
Elmer Borland
Just a Rum Go The law and his conscience told Ford
Bee Ford, 29, of 1008 West Michigan, says a bootlegger backed by a gun urged him to keep drinking. Five shots were fired at him near 651 Blake Street. one hit his knee. Ford is in City Hospital and charged with vagrancy. Clemon Taylor denies firing.
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Bee Ford
West
Michigan Street
Ford
Clemon Taylor
Blake Street
City Hospital
Taylor
Blind Tiger
Seek Woman In Chase Of Killer Burke
In Michigan authorities hunt fugitive Fred R. Burke a bank bandit and crime figure said to be traveling with a woman posing as his wife. A key witness from Flint identified Burke’s likeness as detectives warn of his use of “honey trap” crime methods amid blizzard conditions.
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Killer Burke
United Press
ST. Joseph
Mich
Michigan
Fred R. Burke
Lake County
Ind
Canada
Ednes
Lodevnd House
Flint
Jarvis
Burke
Charles Skelly
Chicago
Payroll Robbery Suspect Denies Charges in Marion Court
Joe White alias Joe Taylor pleaded not guilty at arraignment in Marion circuit court on two counts linked to the Gas City payroll robbery on July 12 1929 that netted 10000. He was extradited from St Clairesville Ohio and faces auto banditry and deadly weapon charges. No trial date or bond set though sheriff said bond may reach 40000. A Marion attorney represents White. William King expected to be arraigned later this afternoon.
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United Press
Marion
Ind
Joe White
Joe Taylor
White
St. Clairesville
Jacob Campbell
William King
Fire destroys Victor Michaelis skating rink on Madison
A Thursday night blaze at the Victor Michaelis skating rink in the 3500 block on Madison road caused $4,000 in damage and $500 to an adjacent cider plant owned by William Cotten. An unoccupied residence at 3949 Bartlett avenue, owned by Security Trust Company, suffered $500 damage from a furnace kept heated to prevent freezing.
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Victor Michaelis
Madison Road
William Cotten
Bartlett Avenue
Security Trust Company
Blizzard Locks Northern Indiana Massively Heavy Snow Drifts
Northern Indiana endures fierce winds and massive drifts after the blizzard. Monticello remains isolated as highways are redrifted, roads blocked by floods and ice, and travel nearly impossible. Six deaths reported with widespread outages and strained services as crews work to reopen routes.
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Indiana
Midwest
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Monticello
Delphi
John J. Brown
State Highway Commission
Porte
Michael Engel
Committed to Asylum After Confessing Child Theft
Mrs Marion Izzett 40 confessed to tossing her five week old child from a forty foot cliff into a furnace pit near Lonaconing Maryland. A coroner jury ruled the infant died from bruises malnutrition and exposure. doctors cited despair since the birth.
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Cliff
United Press
Lonaconing
Marion Izzett
Blizzard Claims Five in Plane Crash Near Coffin Course
Congressmen among the dead as an airplane tumbles into a nose dive during a swift ride at Coffin golf course. The snowy scene shows the long steps by the course with Harold McClure, Coffin course manager, finishing a putt on the eighteenth despite winter’s heavy handicap.
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Coffin Golf Course
Coffin Course
Harold McClure
Subway Panic Breaks Out In Bridge Plaza Train
A short circuit sparked a smoke filled panic on an inbound Bridge Plaza train of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company. About fifty passengers were treated at Queensborough Plaza first aid, with sixteen hospitalized at St John’s in LIC in non critical condition. Motorman John Corbey said the train entered the tunnel and a flash triggered the rush as passengers forced their way to the rear, shattering windows amid flying glass.
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United Press
New York
Bridge Plaza
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company
East River
Transit Company
Queensborough Plaza
St. John’s Hospital
Long Island City
John Corbey
Manhattan
Corbey
Girl Is Fire Victim Sarah Ann Winburn
Sarah Ann Winburn two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Winburn died in city hospital from burns suffered December 2 in her home at 3411 Carson avenue. While playing in the kitchen she climbed a chair with clothing hung on it and clothing caught fire from a red hot stove. Mrs Winburn and a neighbor carried Sarah Ann and her three brothers from the blaze. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Sarah Ann Winburn
Herbert Winburn
City Hospital
Carson Avenue
Hourly Temperatures at 6a.m to 1p.m
Weather log shows temperatures at 6a.m 8 then 8 at 8a.m 10a.m and 12 noon 9. The record also notes 2 dollars for something and 1p as time marker.
Audubon Society Appeals for Bird Food at Christmas
The Audubon Society urged residents to feed birds during snow cover. The plea said many birds are starving as ground remains white and food is scarce.
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The
Audubon Society
Slayer Confesses in Roanoke Log Tomb Killing
Baren Harmon led police to a log tomb where the body of his sweetheart Freeda Bolt was found with a rope around her neck. Harmon, sullen and nervous, admitted I guess she is dead as authorities moved logs revealing the 18 year old schoolgirl. Bolt had left her Willis boarding house a week earlier saying she was going away to be married.
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United Press
Roanoke
Baren Harmon
Freeda Bolt
Miss Bolt
Willis
Here
KIZER NAMED Purdue COACH TO REPLACE PHELAN
Noble Kizer becomes Purdue University head football coach succeeding James Phelan who left for Washington. Kizer, former Notre Dame star and longtime Purdue assistant, helped develop the Boilermakers line that won the Western Conference title. Richard Evans, veteran drummer for General Sam Houston, dies in Chicago at 92.
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Special Lafayette
Ind
Noble Kizer
Purdue University
James Phelan
University of Washington
Seattle
Kizer
Phelan
Boilermakers
Notre Dame
Knute Rockne
Purdue
Lafayette
Houston
Chicago
Richard Evans
Sam Houston
Mexico
Ozark verdict frees four in Connie Franklin murder case
In Ozark Mountain View Arkansas a jury acquits four men of murdering Connie Franklin after a 20 hour deliberation. The case hinges on belief the alleged victim was not murdered and the men face later assault charges involving Tiller Rumier.
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Mountain View
Ark
Connie Franklin
Ozark
Hill Country
S. M. Bones
Hubert Hester
Herman Greenway
Tiller Rumier
Franklin
Connie
Tiller
Tiller Ruminer
Three Die In Fog Crash Near Bakersfield Cal
Three people were killed and five injured in a multi vehicle crash on the Golden State highway twenty miles south of Bakersfield during dense fog. The dead include Mrs. N. S. Osborne of Los Angeles wife of X ray specialist N. S. Osborne and two young women Maxine Osborne age 18 and Edna Mitchell age 18 from Brawley California.
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United Press
Bakersfield
Cal
Golden State Highway
Here
N. S. Osborne
Los Angeles
Maxine Osborne
Edna Mitchell
Brawley
Blonde Stage Beauty Returns to Negro Husband in Black Belt
Helen Lee Worthing, former Broadway and Ziegfeld Follies star, goes back to husband Dr. Eugene C. Nelson a Negro physician in Los Angeles, saying love transcends race. The couple earlier contemplated divorce after a split, but reconciliation followed after she visited him in his attorney’s office and decided to stay.
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Ollywood
Cal
Helen Lee Worthing
Broadway
Eugene C. Nelson
Miss Worthing
Los Angeles
Tragic Plane Crash Kills Rep Kaynor and Aide
A Bolling field crash kills Representative Kaynor of Massachusetts, his secretary Stanley B. Lowe, Captain Harry A. Dinger, Private Vladimir Kuwma, Arthur A. McGill, and causes national mourning. The Fokker took off, then one motor failed and the craft plunged to the ground within moments injuring none on the ground.
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United Preas
GTON
Bollingfield
Kaynor
Rep
Mass
Stanley B. Lowe
William K. Kaynor
Springfield
House
Harry A. Dinger
Vladimir Kuwma
Army Air Corps
Arthur A. McGill
Raynor
Lowe
Washington
National Guard
Hartford
Rollins Field
Fokker
Cuddihy
Tce Navy
Hoover
Hurley
Summerall
Dinger
McGill
Sullivan Burgess
Scarsdale
N. Y
Davison
Massachusetts
Captain Dinger
Byrd Bill Passed to Promote Explorer to Rear Admiral
The Swanson bill to raise Commander Richard Byrd to rear admiral on the retired list was approved in the Senate without debate and now goes to the House.
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United Press
Washington
Swanson
Richard Byrd
Senate
House
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James Duvall
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Richard Small
Charles Payne
Russell Menhennett
Robert Laycock
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