Ford Pledge Suit Revived In $6 Million Lincoln Case
United Press reports Henry Leland’s long dormant $6 million suit against Henry Ford to reimburse Lincoln Motor stockholders has been revived by a 360 page deposition from Rev. John H. Bourne. Bourne says Ford promised full payment to Lincoln stockholders before the company’s bankruptcy and that letters telling stockholders their holdings were worthless were signed in his name without consent. The amended suit names 2,400 former Lincoln stockholders as per a state supreme court directive.
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United Press
Pontiac
Mich
Henry Leland
Henry Ford
Ford
Lincoln Motor Company
John H. Bourne
Leland
Lincoln Company
Bourne
Lincoln
Henry
Wilfred C. Leland
Harold H. Emmons
State Supreme Court
Oakland County
Shawl Theft Probe Lands Man in Jail on Vagrancy Charge
Ted Le Fever of 254 Dorman street was jailed on vagrancy charges after offering a rare shawl at Rink's cloak house in exchange for money. C. M. Smith, store manager, identified the shawl as like one recently reported stolen, noting only three others exist in the city.
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Ted le Fever
Dorman Street
C. M. Smith
Woman Takes Poison in Apparent Attempted Suicide
Anna Becker 34 of 412 East Market Street Apt 1 attempted suicide by swallowing poison tablets. Police and city hospital staff report she is in serious condition and offered no reason. husband Chester Becker said he does not know why she took the action.
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Anna Becker
East Market Street
Apt. 1
City Hospital
Chester Becker
Italian hydroplane Lost Over Dardanelles With Nine Aboard
Lloyds correspondent reports an Italian hydroplane missing south of Strait Island while en route from Brindisi to Constantinople. Steamers searched the area but found no trace of the aircraft or the nine passengers aboard.
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United Preas
London
Lloyd's
Dardanelles
Brindisi
Constantinople
Strait Island
Mrs Oliver Locker-Lampson Dies After Operation
United Press reports Mrs Oliver Locker-Lampson wife of the Conservative MP and former undersecretary for foreign affairs died Thursday following an operation. She was born Jacqueline Bianca Paget and was the daughter of Arthur Paget of Pasadena California.
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United Press
London
Oliver Locker-Lampson
Conservative Party
M. P
Foreign Affairs
Jacqueline Bianca Paget
Arthur Paget
Pasadena
Cal
Durant List of 27 Essential Books for Education
The passage reviews Will Durant's The Road to Freedom, praising his twelve historical groups and a core nucleus of 27 books worth owning. It lists titles such as Outline of History, Plutarch's Lives, Don Quixote, Shakespeare, The Bible, Leaves of Grass, and Decline of the West, noting a $90 cost for the set and library access for the rest.
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Will Durant
Durant
J. H. Kellogg
H. G. Wells
Breasted and Robinson
Elie Faure
Plutarch
Jowett
Boswell
Gulliver
Swift
Faust
Goethe
Keats
Shelly
Byron
Flaubert
Mme. Bovary
Salammbo
Charles and
Mary Beard
Walt Whitman
Henry Adams
Oswald Spengler
Stolen Automobiles Reported to Police
Several vehicles reported missing include a Ford coupe belonging to M. R. Thompson of Hendricks place and from New York street and Capitol avenue. A Graham-Paige coupe for Joe Sheridan of 432 East Market street is from 318 East North street. A Willys-Knight sedan owned by Arthur H. Webber of 3957 Guilford avenue is from Georgia street and McCrea place. A Chevrolet coupe of J. L. Jones from 1240 Central avenue and North Pennsylv ania street listing a Ford coupe for John Frazee of 133 North Noble street from 132 North Noble street. Arthur Lyke of 1530 North Illinois street and Earl Phillips of 461 North State street report vehicles from Meridian and Georgia streets and from Sixteenth and Bellefontaine streets respectively.
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M. R. Thompson
Hendricks Place
New York Street
Capitol Avenue
Joe Sheridan
East Market Street
East North Street
Arthur H. Webber
Guilford Avenue
Willys-Knight
Georgia Street
McCrea Place
J. L. Jones
Pennsylvania Street
Central Avenue
John Frazee
North Noble Street
Noble Street
Arthur Lyke
Illinois Street
Meridian
Georgia
Earl Phillips
State Street
Sixteenth
Bellefontaine Streets
Stolen cars recovered belonging to local residents
Police found vehicles reported stolen from W. 3 B. Worl at 3330 Carrollton Avenue, Herbert Todd at 3608 East Tenth Street, George McMarth at 1608 East Tenth Street, and others. Cars include a Chevrolet coach, Essex sedan, Ford roadster, Ford Tudor, and Buick sedan, with locations at 2420 Cornell Avenue, 415 East North Street, 1233 Newman Street, Ray mond and Shelby streets, and Plaza garage.
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B. Worl
Carrollton Avenue
Cornell Avenue
Herbert Todd
East Tenth Street
East North Street
George McMarth
Newman Street
Raymond
Shelby
John F. Schmitt
Harlan Street
Shelby Streets
E. C. Lory
Picadilla
Pennsylvania
Sixteenth Street
Plaza Garage
Slayer Face Mob Threats Over Montana Killing
William Hogue an 18 year old ranch hand was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder after admitting to fatally shooting Albert Cowan in Hamilton on Christmas Day. Mob threats and guards surrounded his cell in Deer Lodge as authorities cited fear of vigilante violence tied to Hogue’s alleged romance with Cowan’s wife.
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United Press
Deer Lodge
Mont
William Hogue
Albert Cowan
State
Hogue
Hamilton
Cowan
Second Mutiny Quelled in Macao as Loyal Troops Fire
A second military mutiny within a week in Macao on the Canton River was put down when loyal troops opened fire on rebels. Insurgents, mainly artillerymen, were imprisoned in the fortress and on a gunboat, according to reports to Governor Benjamin Barbosa.
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Macao
Canton
China
Benjamin Barbosa
Soviet Lead Arctic Rescue Team for Italia Relatives
Boris Chuknovsky leads a Russian rescue expedition to find Captain Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Dorland missing in the Arctic between Siberia and Alaska. The ice breaker Krassin assists as the arctic commission directs the effort with plan details pending. George King seeks to join Berlin to New York flight via Siberia and Alaska.
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Italia
Carl Ben Eielson
Earl Dorland
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Siberia
Alaska
America
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New York
Chuknovsky
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Krassin
Umberto Nobile
Kraisin
Arctic Commission
Sergei Kameneff
Siberian
George King
Berlin
Canada
King
Junkers Corporation
Karl Schnebler
Indiana historians to attend 44th American Historical Society
Indiana will be represented at the forty fourth annual meeting by Dr Christopher B Cole man state historian and Professor James A Woodburn of Indiana University The three day meeting open at Duke University Durham North Carolina Monday James Harvey Robinson serves as president of the society The last national meeting was held here last year.
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The
American Historical Society
Christopher B. Coleman
James A. Woodburn
Indiana University
Duke University
Durham
N. C
James Harvey Robinson
Boy Stabs 12 Year Old Over Sled Race Dispute
United Press reports Bertel Cedermark aged 12 was seriously wounded when a younger boy stabbed him during a quarrel about which could coast farther on a new Christmas sled.
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Ly United Press
New York
Bertel Cedermark
City reader profile in The Indianapolis Times era
A brief note highlights readers and city life as covered by The Indianapolis Times, reflecting local concerns, everyday events, and community voices in the newspaper’s early reporting style.
Science Parley Reveals Amazing Facts at AAAS Meet
Des Moines December 27 2500 delegates attend the twenty sixth annual AAAS convention with sub group reports from zoology meteorology psychology sociology phytopathology ecology and parasitology. Dr Ernest Horn Iowa State University cites 396000000 spellings for circumference and 21 letter combos for ir with myrrh among examples. Rosamond Cook Cincinnati finds cheaper silk stockings wear as well as pricey ones and Margaret Nice Columbus overturns the notion most songbirds mate for life.
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Des Moines
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Ernest Horn
Iowa State University
Rosamond Cook
Cincinnati
Margaret Nice
Columbus
Boy Hero Saves Dog as House Burns Down
In Dyersburg Tennessee on December 27 Little Douglas Brewer crawled under a burning porch to rescue his dog while his home burned to the ground He suffered burns to his hands neck and arms but his pet survived.
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United Press
Dyersburg
Tenn
Douglas Brewer
Gale Lands Fatal Ship Wrecks Across Great Britain
A holiday gale in Britain wrecked three ships, caused four deaths, and disrupted telephone and telegraph networks nationwide. The French steamer Tchad abandoned in Morecambe Bay, the Todhead run ashore at Peterhead with crew rescued by breeches buoy, and the Recommender wrecked in Kilbrannan Sound with crew swimming ashore. Deaths reported at Hull Peterhead Thornley and Barrow.
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London
Great Britain
Tchad
Morecambe Bay
Irish Sea
Todhead
Peterhead
Scotland
Recommender
Kilbrannon Sound
Hull
Thornley
Barrow
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