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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1928
Page
7
Duane Dungan of the Hoosier Motor Club denounces unwarranted automatic signals in small towns and suburbs. He cites wasted funds, delays, and nuisance where traffic is light, urging elimination except in heavy or congested areas.
A Chicago described plan by W J Sylvester to form a large propaganda agency aims to defend business from government control. It seeks corporate support, subsidized media and schools, radio, and a magazines program with a one mill per hundred net income quota, promising profits to promoters.
Mexico City readers protested news of bandits hanged along the Mexico City Puebla highway. The Excelsior report notes three road agents captured on Christmas are displayed by trees, a sight deemed disgusting to tourists.
A Seattle report notes crop estimates for the northwest apples at 3 450 000 apples or 40 000 carloads with a humorous comparison to stretch from Seattle to New York and leftovers for many stomachs.
Berlin dispatch reports Dr. Bischoff a German engineer may prove practical a gigantic desert liner to supplant camels. The 130 foot long craft stands 42 feet high and 26 feet wide with four wheels and two 450 horsepower Diesel engines. It features four decks and can travel 12,000 miles without resupply.
William Hale, charged with robbery, is back in Uniontown jail after escaping from prison weeks ago. Hale reached his home in Alton Illinois where his mother ordered him to return and take his medicine.
Atlantic City December 27 report says Joseph T. Bucci a local tailor found $1,400 in a Kansas City man Lee Schiff's suit and promptly returned it. Bucci was given a $200 reward for his honesty.
John J. White age 82, the last Civil War veteran of Washington township Shelby county, died. He had lived in the county fifty years.
Mrs Florence Montgomery and Eugene Gable, both 24, were involved in a deadly episode in Detroit as Montgomery attacked Gable with a hatchet and ingested poison after fracturing his skull. Montgomery, hospitalized and dying, claimed she intended to kill Gable who slept. Gable described meeting her in Portsmouth and moving to Detroit. Montgomery admitted ongoing marriage ties and abandonment by Gable.
Detroit authorities report a seven pound girl born Christmas night to Mrs. Elsie Holmes 20 serving a shoplifting sentence in Detroit. The governor ordered the parole commission to investigate her case as she has eight months of a two and a half to five year term. Her husband 21 also faces a similar sentence in the Michigan reformatory.
Milton L. Munger of 117 Good avenue will play thirty opponents simultaneously in the annual chess and checker tournament at the Y M C A New Year’s day event. Daniel B. Luten, a chess expert of 3357 Buckle street, will meet all comers.
In Nashua New Hampshire on December 27 a burglar entered Patrolman John Miller's home and took the officer's badge police pants and several Christmas jewelry presents.
Glyndon Macy, a police emergency car driver, endured a cold ride after his overcoat was stolen from headquarters as the emergency bell rang, leaving him to make the trip without it.
Gordon Stewart Northcott in jail awaiting trial on murder charges met with his lawyers Norbert Savay and A H Detre mandan under a writ of habeas corpus. They argued guards and deputies refused entry and secured a Superior Court order to see the accused youth.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand bishop of Indianapolis will preside at a public mass meeting for visitors to the American Catholic Historical association gatherings Sunday night at the Knights of Columbus auditorium. Sessions begin Friday at the Claypool with Catholic historians meeting alongside. Reverend Peter Guilday of Catholic University Washington will speak on The Catholic Chapter in American History.
The Nanking government orders a nationwide halt on fortune telling within two months. After the mayor of Nanking outlawed it locally, the ban now covers all of China, affecting hundreds to thousands who earn livelihoods by predicting the future.
Representative Sol Bloom denounces George Eastman proposed 13 month 364 day calendar as dangerous to Sabbath and religious observance. He notes chaos from a previous 1600s trial and cites support from Adventists Baptists and Orthodox Jews while Catholic opposition remains. Bloom may back a conference on calendar reform ideas.
New York police commissioner Grover Whalen moves to finish department reorganization and coordinate with District Attorney Joab Banton on the Arnold Rothstein murder case. Banton delays McManus trial until one of three other indicted men is arrested. Whalen revives the strongarm squad and boosts 125 policewomen to monitor dance halls and cabarets.
Paris reports claim a brilliant comet guided the biblical three wise men to Bethlehem. French astronomers Ballaud and Joseph doubt the Star of Bethlehem ever existed as a real star and suggest Venus or a temporary comet could explain the legend.
Nathan Frye 43 of Utica died of a heart attack while driving a car along Front Street in Philadelphia after leaving the Pennsylvania railroad station. The vehicle struck a patrolman’s parked motorcycle. Frye’s companion, Miss Virginia Morris of Staunton, Va., unaware of the fatal collapse.
A committee of railroad executives asked the interstate commerce commission for authority to acquire the American Railway Express Company properties at 35 million dollars. The plan calls for a March 1 1929 takeover and operation by a new jointly owned entity named Railway Express Agency Inc.
Chicago reports Professor Samuel J. Record of the Field Museum has milked a tree and produced a quart of tree milk with wood fragments. He says half a liter of the Guatemalan tree milk taken straight has the effect of a square meal, though the liquid resembles cow’s milk and sours quickly.
The Indianapolis Flower Mission Society will host a dinner on Jan 15 at the Columbia Club to review the past year. Speakers include Mrs Harry New Mgr Francis H Gavish Arthur V Brown Dr William Wishard and others as a campaign to raise about 300000 for a Flower Mission unit at city hospital begins after a committee is named. Officers are Mrs Stowell C Watson president Mrs Robert Geddes secretary and Mrs James H Lowes treasurer.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick hosted a grand musicale and ball at the Drake hotel in Chicago to honor her god-child Florence Crane. She displayed a unique solid gold luncheon set and welcomed guests bringing laurel from Tennessee and cars from California to the festive event.
In Toronto on December 27, 1930, eight year old John Williamson Jr and six year old Alex Williamson walked to a police station to report their mother and father shot in bed. The five year old Isaac stayed home and guarded the bodies as the story emerged.
Green beans dropped to 20 cents a pound while green peas cost 25 cents. Oranges ranged 25 to 70 cents a dozen and apples stayed at six pounds for a quarter. Bananas 20 to 30 cents a dozen, grapefruit 3 for a quarter to 10 cents each. Head lettuce 10 to 15 cents, leaf lettuce 15 cents a pound, celery 5 cents a stalk, celery hearts 3 to 4 for a quarter.
Hoyt McMurray a Black man employed as a barber shop porter in Washington Indiana was held in Carmi Illinois on murder charges in the death of schoolteacher Miss Anna Preher. He had arrived in town less than a year before and had been detained as a robbery suspect before an alibi cleared him.
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