Four New Air Routes to Be Started Here
Capitol Airways plans four new routes with two daily round trips on existing lines and five new planes including two eight passenger ships. Detroit to Evansville extends January 15, and three additional lines Indianapolis to Cleveland via Dayton and Columbus, Terre Haute to St Louis, and Indianapolis to Cincinnati begin March 15.
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E. H. Jose
Capitol Airways, Inc
South Bend
Chicago
Ft. Wayne
Detroit
West Baden
Louisville
Evansville
Chrysler
Graham-Paige Automobile Companies
Jose
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Dayton
Columbus
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New Broughams
117-Year-Old Chief Joseph Moby Dies of Illness
Joseph Moby aged 117 near Phelps Wisconsin is seriously ill with a likely status as the oldest man in the northwest. His family includes three children aged 60 to 70. Moby’s wife died at 96.
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United Press
Rhinelander
Wis
Joseph Moby
Phelps
Northwest
Moby
Worley Delivers Christmas Gifts to Police Traffic Unit
Police Chief Claude M Worley presented Christmas presents to officers of the police traffic department on behalf of traffic force members and office employes. Captain Lester Jones received a diamond stick pin while Sergeants Marian Van Sickle Eugene Shine and Earl Halstead were given leather cigarette lighters and cases.
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Claude M. Worley
Police Traffic Department
Lester Jones
Marian van Sickle
Eugene Shine
Earl Halstead
Gilda Gray Hosts Charity Christmas Party
Gilda Gray played Santa to the neighborhood band of children in Milwaukee as she neared divorce from Gil Boag. She handed out sacks of candy from under a Christmas tree and gave the mayor 100 dollars for a Christmas fund for the poor.
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United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Gilda Gray
Gil Boag
Woman Earns Phi Beta Kappa Key After Thirty Years
Pauline Downing, nearly 50, receives the Phi Beta Kappa key at the University of Chicago after thirty years of effort. She faced financial reverses, war service as a censor, malaria in Cuba, a ruined inheritance, and years of work while attending classes.
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United Press Chicago
Pauline Downing
Phi Beta Kappa
University of Chicago
Middleport
Downing
Chicago
Miss Downing
Post Office
New York
Cuba
Georgia
University
Georgia Bank
Texas
City sanitation workers to get Christmas holiday
For the first time in ten years the 200 sanitation department employees will have a Christmas holiday. No ash or garbage collections will be made Tuesday, but crews will resume Wednesday and the time lost will be made up by week’s end. Some districts may run a day late until makeup time is completed.
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City Sanitation Department
W. Nolen
Nolen
Starving Baby Faces Frightful Toll of Toy Throat
Eighteen month old Frankie Brooks has lived nine days with a toy motorcycle lodged in his throat. Physicians at Mithoefer hospital in Cincinnati report he is starving to death as milk is his only sustenance. Dr Haggert long dives to remove the obstruction, hoping for recovery but warning death if strength fails.
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United Press
Cincinnati
Frankie Brooks
Paby Frank
Asco
W. Va
Charles Brooks
H. H. Haggert
Mithoefer Hospital
Frankie
Doctor’s Lodged Card Used for Jewelry Theft
A well dressed man in Milwaukee used a stolen lodge card to obtain two $500 diamond rings on credit at a jewelry store. He claimed to be a doctor and left with the rings after the store granted a brief credit period. The ruse was later discovered.
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United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Coolidge Jr to Work Keeps Christmas at Desk
John Coolidge son of the President will not spend Christmas at the White House this year as he must work today with other New Haven railroad clerks. Temperatures show 32 at 6 am rising to 48 by 1 pm and a gray winter day across New Haven.
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John
White House
United Press
New Haven
Conn
John Coolidge
New Haven Railroad
Christmas Clearing House
Monument Circle
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Salvation Army
Tomlinson’s Hall
Salvttion Army Industrial Home
West Georgia Street
Last minute Christmas rush aids Indianapolis families
City charity groups rushed to aid nearly 4 000 needy families with Christmas baskets and gifts. Volunteers are sought to handle emergency cases while Santa, hospital staff, and local organizations coordinate events across Marion County for prisoners, tubercular patients, and foster children.
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Indianapolis
Santa Claus
Christmas Clearing House
Winifred Brown
Clearing House
Marion County
Wheeler City
Orin W. Fifer
County Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Sunnyside
St. Vincent's Hospital
Sinterklaas Visits New York Narrates Santa's Change Through Ages
United Press reports Santa Claus as Sinterklass in New Amsterdam, recounting Dutch roots in New York. The story traces changes from bishop robes to modern dress, New Year’s Eve visits, and the shift from shoes to stockings, with reindeer and Christmas trees appearing as the city modernizes.
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Paul Fredrix
United Press
York
Sinterklass
New York
Times Square
Santa Claus
St. Nicholas
New Amsterdam
Old Holland
City
Interior Secretary Roy West Confined by Cold in Chicago
Roy O. West secretary of the interior was confined to bed in Chicago with a severe cold. He arrived in the city Saturday feeling well but soon developed a cold likely to keep him in bed for the rest of the week.
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Roy O. West
Chicago
United Press Chicago
Secretary of the Interior
Bethlehem Witnesses Midnight Mass at Church of the Nativity
Christmas Eve pilgrims gather in Bethlehem for the traditional midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity. Bishops in ceremonial garb attend as a marble manger and silver star symbolize the nativity. Empress routes and Haifa as gateway see heavy pilgrim traffic heading toward Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
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Gershon Agronsky
United Press
Bethlehem
Christendom
Church of the Nativity
Helene
Constantine
Palestine
Empress
Australia
Haifa
Nazareth
Sachem
Jerusalem
Joseph
Mary
Rival for Rickard and Mary Garden plan new champ
Chicago star Mary Garden announces a prize fight club in France to find a heavy weight leather pusher who can win a title. She compares boxing brutality to sport and plans a new slashing Jack Dempsey style champion to challenge Tex Rickard.
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United Press
Chicago
Mary Garden
Tex Rickard
Jack Dempsey
Mary
France
Ayres Girls Aid Needy With Dinners Toys and Clothes
The staff of the tea room at L. S. Ayres & Co. distributed baskets of chicken dinners toys and clothing to five needy families today.
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Tea Room
L. S. Ayres & Co
Santa to Carry Heavy Pack on Visit to Bicknell
The Bicknell Christmas Cheer Fund nears its $3,000 goal with cash totaling about 2,680.75 and three truckloads of toys and food. Indianapolis and Indiana donors fueled a week of giving, including major support from Rushville American Legion post 150 and three aviation centers offering last-minute air delivery.
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Santa
Bicknell
Legion
Rushville Aids
Indianapolis
Indiana
Santa Claus
Dynes
Fund Committee
North Meridian Street
Rush Post No. 150
American Legion of
Rushville
Ind
Morris Howell
Rushville Telegram
Hoosier
Capitol
Curtiss Flying Service
Miners’ Union
Bicknell Committee
Joe Cargal
Smile Dividend Helps Slain Patrolman Family In Kansas City
The family of James H. Happy Smith, slain traffic patrolman, received a $9,000 home and a $25,000 trust fund dinner from a citywide aid effort. Builders donated materials, volunteers pitched in, and a lot was donated for the new house while the four-member family celebrated the Christmas gift and turkey meal.
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United Press
Ansas City
James H
Happy) Smith
Eleventh
Walnut Streets
Kansas City
Happy
Walnut
Rockefeller Christmas Party at The Casements
John D Rockefeller will host the annual Christmas party for Ormond Beach residents at The Casements on Thursday. The event features decorated rooms and Rockefeller leading guests in carols after golf, motoring chats, and memories with old friends.
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United Press
Skiles Test Gives $700 to Cops for Christmas
Indianapolis businessman Skiles E. Test donated $700 to the police today. Five hundred funds go to the police pension and $200 will buy more bullet-proof vests for officers. Test praised Chief Claude M. Worley and the department in his letter.
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Indianapolis
Skiles E. Test
Circle Motor Inn
Test Realty Corporation
Motor Inn
Test
Claude M. Worley
Font Department
Italian Adventurer Endures Epic Global Trek for Bet
Captain Antonio Zetto of Trieste walked from 1918 across thirty to forty miles daily through deserts, mountains, and nations from Europe to Asia, then Americas and Australia. He faced starvation, imprisonment, nomad attacks, and a rhinoceros encounter while pursuing a ten year cross world wager.
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United Press
Angkor
Siam
Indo- China
China
Antonio Zetto
Trieste
Zetto
Sahara
Snake flu epidemic prompts cod liver oil at State College
Scientists at State College are feeding their snakes cod liver oil hoping to combat a suspected flu like epidemic. One rattler has died and others have reduced eating, possibly due to illness or grief.
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State College
Denver
Colo
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