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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
13
John Hunt and Horace Jones, medical students and sons of Anderson physicians, are recovering at St. John's hospital after appendicitis operations performed the same day in Anderson Indiana.
Democratic leaders in the House plan to oppose President Hoover s commission form of government after the holiday recess arguing commissions usurp legislative and administrative functions. They aim to create three new joint committees to study public lands, military pay, and consolidation of prohibition enforcement agencies.
West Plains Mo December 26 Flying a plane while intoxicated was blamed for the deaths of Sam Bartel World War stunt pilot from Springfield and W B Allen Mountain Grove Mo student aviator. The crash occurred near Cabool after a midair fight for control of the American Eagle dual control biplane as they sought passengers. They died at hospital and en route respectively.
American Photo phone company, a Radio Corporation of America unit, negotiates a multi million dollar deal with the Soviet government. The agreement would import Photophone talking picture equipment and provide RCA engineers technical aid. Soviet technicians would visit the United States to study the talking picture business.
In Jerome Arizona a father gave a son a shotgun for Christmas. The gun discharged when a sister Vivian Smith aged 14 reached for it, fatally wounding her. The incident follows a strained family dynamic revealed in the aftermath.
The Rev John A. McEwen resigns his post at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond Indiana after five years in the pastorate. He will rejoin the denominational field service and has been active in scout work and civic projects while in town.
Mr and Mrs Horace P Cook with students from Anderson college and Anderson high school led the annual Madison county bird survey for the National Audubon Society.
A Chicago baby born on Christmas was named Chris after a public appeal by Father Rasgaitis. Coroner Bundeson suggested Hale Fellow Well Met, Elmer Rice cited Noel, and Judge Sullivan noted Peter the saint before the father chose Chris.
Two convicts, Charles Sirico and Harry De Stefano, were recaptured at New York after a decoy letter purportedly from a fellow East View prisoner invited Sirico to a Christmas eve party. Warden Romanus Fellman supervised the ruse, sending the pair to punishment cells for their holiday return. In Greencastle, Professor Waldo F Mitchell will discuss The Federal Reserve Board Its Problems and Policies at the American Economics Association meeting in Washington.
Tom McGee, a nonreader, received a court order from Judge John D. Humphries granting him Christmas at the local prison camp to feed the hogs, fulfilling his lifelong wish after a spree of minor crimes and repeated requests to return to the camp.
Marion county commissioners consider appointments for 1930 with no actions yet taken. Reappointments likely, amid fighting for key posts such as bridge inspector Wayne Emmellman and county attorney Clinton Givan. The county plans nine institution heads to be reappointed, while many offices await New Year action.
In Indiana thirty eight travelers marooned between Kendallville and Ligonier for two days survived on doughnuts and sausages after their cars were trapped in snow. Peter Eckrich of Ft. Wayne said he had two barrels of sausages in his truck and a South Bend baker carried several bushels of doughnuts.
MINNEAPOLIS Dec 26 The J J Rileys will remember Christmas day 1929 for Santa Claus bringing them triplets all girls at General hospital.
The Hanukkah celebration begins tonight in Indianapolis with orthodox and reform participation. Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht preaches on secular versus saintly culture, and a Hanukkah play by Myra Auerbach will feature Sunday. Bet El temple hosts services with Rabbi Milton Steinberg addressing current topics.
Fragmentary text recalls Jerusalem purifying the temple and rededication to one God. It notes centuries of Jewish commemorations lighting candles at home and in synagogues and recounting the deeds of a brave group.
A stunt attempt by an unlicensed amateur pilot in an old plane ended in a fatal crash near Dunn North Carolina. Pilot Worth Stephenson of Angier and passengers Stewart Curtis of Raleigh and Ales Blealock of Angier died when the aircraft dived to the ground from several hundred feet. Curtis was an instructor at the Curtiss flying school in Raleigh.
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