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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1928
Page
8
La Patria reports 3500 Bolivian troops including 3000 infantry and 500 cavalry advancing on Bahia Negra. The clash could derail Pan American arbitration efforts, as Bahia Negra sits in disputed terrain near the Paraguayan Bolivian boundary with both nations claiming the area.
Asuncion reports troops leaving for the Paraguayan Bolivian frontier by river boats. Despite ban on women with armies, several vessels carrying women camp followers departed for frontier duty. City remains tranquil amid ongoing government activity after a Pan American conference outcome. James Tharp, a Portland bachelor, will host a Christmas dinner for local children, continuing a multi year charitable act with 157 guests last year.
Times Special reports in Anderson Indiana Mrs Rebecca Huffman aged 52 died from influenza the twenty fifth death since December 1 marking a rising epidemic.
Akron Ohio December 22 1920 The Ford of the air may be a small monoplane by W C Babcock of Akron on trial flights here. Weighing about 600 pounds the plane can take off in 100 feet reach 100 mph and use three and a half gallons per hour giving a 25 to 30 mile per gallon touring range.
Thieves broke into J. E. Davis meat market at 2806 Capitol Avenue Friday night and carried away dressed chickens hams bacon beef pork butter eggs peaches apricots and other items valued at about 150 dollars. Scientists warn the earth cools at two degrees every sixteen million years.
In New Guinea at Hetan Brigadier General Wisdom watches natives reveal kite fishing using pandanus leaf kites flown from canoes with spider web entanglements to trap gars. The method catches up to fifty fish per kite per day and the natives also stupefy fish with drugs.
Public health officials convene with experts to curb radium poisoning among watch dial painters. Surgeons general and state officials discuss protective measures after seven men and thirteen women died and twenty three crippled from exposure.
In Rome on December 22 Signor Gian Gaetano Fogaccio a senior of the blackshirt militia received one month in a fortress for disobeying traffic rules. He refused to follow the new pedestrian rule to keep to the left and move along the main streets in two streams. His disciplinary breach was treated as a military offense.
The Liverpool Open-Air Hospital for Children installs radio phones in bed pillows so patients can hear music while resting. The novelty aims to comfort young patients during treatment.
Washington dispatch reports Congress bragged about a record for legislative accomplishments after three weeks of its short session. The Boulder Dam bill became law and the convict labor bill passed. Government supply bills totaling 2.9 billion moved toward final enactment while treasury, post office, and interior measures totaling nearly 2 billion were sent to the President.
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