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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1929
Page
1
John Finchon 21 carried his wife Mamie to safety from a blaze at their home 1002 North Illinois Street Friday night. The fire started at the foot of the stairway at midnight, filling the house with smoke. Mrs Tibbs occupied the house. Mrs Finchon was slightly burned. Total damage reached $60.
United States Steel and General Motors led early gains while Willys-Overland dropped after a large sale. Rails showed modest strength on an Interstate Commerce Commission consolidation plan, with Missouri-Kansas-Texas and Erie among movers. Aviation slid as Curtiss Wright hit a new low. amusement stocks inched higher with Fox and Warner Brothers.
Winter blankets the central states with heavy snow and cold. Fifty lives were attributed to the blizzard, with flood hazards rising as streams swell and ice forms on rivers. Ice blocks ferry service on the Ohio and a coffin is carried by bobsled after a funeral is stalled.
Snow and icebound conditions persist across Indiana with zero to ten degree highs while floods threaten southern highways. Indianapolis crews extend sidewalk and street clearing efforts as accidents remain few. Two deaths blamed on the cold wave raise Indiana’s toll to eight. Sunday forecast calls for fair weather and continued cold with light winds. lake ice disruptions ease but rural northern areas stay isolated amid drifts up to fifteen feet.
A baby named Elevated Adams Wabash Transfer made a Christmas entrance at the Adams Wabash station in Chicago. Attendants assisted his mother Mrs Anna Morris 25 who is identified as Black as she boarded an ambulance. The guard noted the name as the official record.
In Port au Prince on December 21 rumors spread that President Louis Borno plans to resign immediately. He has served two terms and allegedly backs Leo de Jean as his successor while opposition leaders push for elections supervised by U.S. Marines.
Three city firefighters were treated at City Hospital after inhaling smoke fumes while battling a $13,000 blaze that gutted the Foguence of Mrs. Jennifer and Leone Os borne at 1528 College Avenue. Firemen Harvey Golder William Anderson and Earl Snyder were in a smoke filled building when water pipes exploded. their conditions are serious but not critical.
Hogs at the Union Stockyards opened 25 cents lower than Friday with most 160 to 300 pound hogs at 9.50 and some heavy butchers at 9.60. Receipts around 3,000 with holds 192. Cattle slow and scarce with wealers near 16. Sheep and lambs steady with good lambs 12.50 to 13.50. Chicago hogs 17,000 total receipts. 13,000 direct. hogs 190 to 260 pounds at 9.25.
In Elkhorn Wisconsin a Christmas party night blaze at the Carey farm killed three relatives. James Carey his wife and two other children survived as neighbors removed the charred bodies of Henry Stowenberg 65 Patsy Carey 3 and Mabel Carey 17 months from the ashes.
Indiana Governor Harry G. Leslie will not grant Christmas pardons or paroles this year. Secretary Gaylord Morton notes the request flood from relatives and friends of inmates, but no clemency action will be taken.
Washington December 20 Congress ends its session with only two of 1200 tariff bill paragraphs acted on since three weeks of regular session. Leaders agree to keep the tariff before both houses when reconvened January 6, delaying all other business to finish the tariff early next year.
Shanghai dispatches report Chino Russian talks at Harbarovsk stalled by Mongolian interests. Soviet traders consolidate hide and wool commerce and push Barga district Mongolians toward autonomy. China seeks Japanese backing to keep northwest Manchurian border.
The steamer Santa Ana is leaking badly and in distress 130 miles south of the Isle of Pines south of Cuba. An 8 8 relay from the Tropical Radio Company reported the situation today. Hourly temperatures were listed from 6 a.m. onward.
In Paris during the holiday season a new fad arrives: talkie post cards using a small phonograph disc to record Yuletide greetings. Buyers can have messages like Merry Christmas, read in a familiar voice, with returns available for New Year’s Day. Priced at 600 francs about 24 dollars, cheaper than a trans Atlantic call.
Engineer Robert White completed a Chicago & Great Western train run through a blizzard then died as the train halted. Physicians attributed the fatal event to aggravated heart disease caused by extreme cold during the run.
In Burnsville North Carolina on December 21 eight McDowell County officers were acquitted of second degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of six textile strikers at Marion on October 2.
Judge James A. Collins fines five defendants $25 and costs and orders confiscation of ten slot machines. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark leads a drive against public patronage of gaming devices. Thirteen people now penalized for ownership after seven additional owners were convicted. owners named include Charles McKinney Alonzo E. Walker Mike Haney William J. Wallace and Ora R. Christian.
Matthew Koerney age 63 of 837 Parker avenue was fatally struck early this morning at Tenth street and Parker avenue by an outbound street car. He died two hours later at St. Vincent's hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries after attempting to cross to board a car. Motorman James McUne of 953 Dormer street operated the outbound car and Walter Plumber of 1650 Ashland avenue the inbound. Plumber stopped the car within a foot of Koerner's body.
William Combe, 30, a Moorestown farm broker, held on to the tail of a Curtiss-Wright plane for ten minutes as it warmed up for takeoff on a sister’s farm near Vineland New Jersey. Pilot Don Darby unaware of the passenger circled the field before landing and Combe released just before touchdown, landing in sand and suffering only severe cold.
A Carmel protest meeting claimed the planned relocation of United States Road 31 will cost about 1 million dollars and mainly benefit Washington Bank and Trust Company. Speakers warned the new parallel route would waste taxpayers money and harm commerce in Nora, Carmel, and Indianapolis areas.
Captain Leon Challe and Lieutenant Colonel Tadeo Larre Borges, both injured in the Seville-Brazil trans Atlantic wreck, are completely recovered and will depart Natal for Pernambuco today.
Orville C. Lowry formerly of Indianapolis died in Reynosa Mexico from a self inflicted gunshot amid grief over the death of his brother Colonel Robert C. Lowry a former local newspaper man killed recently in an airplane crash Both were Shortridge high school athletes.
Three boys taken in Nashville Tenn by city detectives were brought to Indianapolis today and held on delinquency charges. Albert Hayse 17 of 1114 English avenue Paul Coffman 17 of 1128 Stein avenue and the 14 year old son of Everett Arbuckle owner of the machine at 608 East Georgia street were returned to their father.
Havana on December 21 reports the destruction of opium and other narcotics valued at over $10,000 by order of the secretary of sanita. The action reflects strict enforcement of drug-control measures in Cuba.
E. O. Snethen, chairman of the Y M C A boys department, hosts a Christmas party for 350 underprivileged boys in the business boys section tonight. The program opens at 6 45 with carols led by Walter White, Grace Givens piano, Snethen speaks on The Christmas Spirit, readings by Mrs. David Chapman, and musical numbers by Hugh Scudder, Taylor Roberts, and Harvey Wright. Santa Claus will attend.
William B. Guthrie will assume control of all concessions at Turkey Run state park. Mrs. Della Luke will shift to the Clifty Falls inn in Madison, with plans to enlarge the Turkey Run building. Attendance under Guthrie rose to 116,306 this year, up 22,000 from 1928.
John George, 38, of 318 South West street was arrested on vagrancy charges after an alleged attempt to sell 100 chickens at the Harry Smith poultry house on East Wabash street. He claimed the birds came from Mrs. George Turner of West Morris street, a claim police dispute. A companion left the scene before officers arrived and did not return.
Walter Beplay, 43, of Chicago, received a $55 000 damages award for injuries from a June 29 1928 Big Four railroad accident in Cook County Illinois. He lost both legs when a freight car coupling failed to open.
A Boston area couple who filed marriage intention No 13 saw their wedding collapse when the groom was arrested on Friday night as he prepared to wed Elizabeth E Coolidge an 18 year old stenographer at St Aidan s church Brookline The incident halted the ceremony and left the bride-to-be disappointed.
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