Optimism in Indiana Business for Coming Year
Statewide outlook for 1929 shows stronger activity with large cities like Anderson Kokomo Fort Wayne South Bend Muncie Evansville and Marion posting gains. Building in 1928 likely above 1927, November up 80 000 from a year earlier as eight of twenty-two cities report higher funding.
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Indiana
Anderson
Kokomo
Ft. Wayne
South Bend
Muncie
Evansville
Marion
LaPorte
Elkhart
Peru
Bluffton
Hartford City
Kendallville
Bloomington
Rushville
Columbus
Connersville
Greensburg
Wabash
Indianapolis
East Chicago
Huntington
Lafayette
Logansport
Richmond
Calumet
Hammond
Gary
Bart
Chicago
Continental Steel Corporation
Jeffersonville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Petersburg
Pike
Daviess
Gibson Counties
Texanna Oil Company
Indiana Oil and Gas Corporation
Roxanna Oil Company
Anderson Stove Foundry
Nicholson Fire Company
Lynch Glass Machine Company
England
France
Pacific Electric Manufacturing Company
Indiana Harbor
Inland Steel Company
L. E. Block
Star Urges Music Study in America
Nea service reports Frieda Hempel, a Leipzig native and former Berlin Royal Opera star, advises American singers not to rush Europe training. She says top teachers are in America and Europeans inspire via short visits, urging preparation to avoid European dominance of the training view.
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NEA
York
Leipzig
Europe
Berlin
Miss Hempel
Wagner
Richard Strauss
Metropolitan
Arms meeting set by League of Nations
Geneva December 28 United Press says President J Loudon of the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission announced the panel would convene on April 15.
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United Press
Geneva
J. Loudon
League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission
Marie to Visit England Plans and Health Retreat
United Press reports Queen Marie will visit the London royal family for New Year then proceed to a health resort. In Muncie Indiana a 12 year old boy John Brumback died from injuries after falling from a grape arbor on Christmas Day. believed to have caused a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Queen
Royalty
London
United Press
Bucharest
Romania
Marie
Boy Muncie
Ind
John Brumback
Teamster Patrick Conley Retires After 56 Years Service
CHICAGO December 28 United Press Patrick Conley a teamster for Joseph Stockton Transfer Company for 56 years retires at 83 with wife six children and 30000 in savings. The firm hosts a farewell dinner in his honor.
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United Press
Chicago
Patrick Conley
Joseph Stockton Transfer Company
Santa Gave 10 Year Old Air Rifle Police Confiscate
In Cambridge Massachusetts on December 28 police seized a Christmas air rifle from George Frazier ten after he accidentally shot his friend George Reynolds also ten. The incident involved a holiday gift and prompted police action.
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Chum
United Press
Cambridge
Mass
Santa
George Frazier
George
George Reynolds
Hot Car Convicts Face New News Inquiry
Twelve defendants in the interstate motor car theft case, serving federal prison terms, will be interviewed by a Justice Department agent at Leavenworth to gain statements aiding the investigation. U S District Attorney Albert Ward may join the visit and seek a grand jury session in late January or February for additional indictments. The inquiry, sparked by the Aug 16 blast at Edward Traugott & Co, continues with the Indianapolis Justice Department bureau tracing stolen cars in Chicago and elsewhere.
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Department of Justice
Federal
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Albert Ward
United States
Ward
Federal Grand Jury
Indianapolis Bureau of Investigation
Chicago
Edward Traugott & Co
West Washington Street
Street Car Employees Form Twenty Year Club at Athenaeum
Indianapolis Street Railway Company workers and officials met at the Athenaeum as the Twenty Year Club was formed for employees with at least twenty years of service. Ed Noone and Ed Ayres were among honored guests. seven directors were elected to lead the social club that will name officers soon.
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Jim Runyan
Twenty Year Club
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Te Athenaeum
Illinois Street
Maud
Mollie
Athenaeum
Mhen
Ed Noone
Ed Ayres
Joe Arnold
George Miller
James P. Tretton
Joseph A. McGowan
Henry Thomson
Michael Foley
Will
R. S. Ludlow
Plan board studies new street idea to ease downtown traffic
The city plan commission weighs cross town routes and special streets for interstate tourists to view scenic areas. They study widening Sixteenth street to eighty six feet, removing the jog at Illinois. Assessments and costs are reviewed under the thoroughfare law as plans, including widening Michigan and opening Tenth street, move forward to relieve downtown congestion.
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City Plan Commission
Sixteenth
Delaware Street
Northwestern Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Macklin Mack
Illinois
Board of Works
Plan Commission
Northwestern
Delaware
Washington
Herman P. Lieber
Lieber
Michigan
New York
Tenth Street
Chicago dog pound debate prompts reform push
Chicago animal welfare advocates led by Mrs. Frederick W. McLaughlin demand changes to the city dog pound, which critics call cramped and mismanaged. Officials defend conditions, noting 100,000 strays yearly and a $38,000 annual dog budget with limited funds for care.
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United Press
Hicago
Chicago
Humane Education Society
Frederick W. McLaughlin
Irene Castle
McLaughlin
North Shore
Hoff
Stuart
Talkies Suit Any Actor Say It With Proper Breathing
University of Southern California professor W R McDonald says talking pictures suit all actors regardless of lisp or doubt. He notes scientific breathing trains the voice and that Norma Shearer and Anita Page show strong charts for talkie readiness, with Anita credited for inflection and audibility despite youth.
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United
Ent
Chicago
W. R. McDonald
University of Southern California
Teachers of
California Institution
McDonald
Norma Shearer
Anita Page
Norma
Anita
Ohio Northern University Names Acting President
Bishop Theodore S. Henderson announces Dean Robert Williams of Albion College Albion Mich will serve as acting president of Ohio Northern University Ada. Williams will lead the college as it continues its academic programs and campus operations.
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Dean Robert Williams
Ohio Northern
Bu United Press
Columbus
Theodore S. Henderson
Cincinnati
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Robert Williams
Albion College
Albion, Mich
Ohio Northern University
Ada
Bandit King Maximiliano Vigueras Put to Death
Mexico City December 28 Maximiliano Vigueras once feared bandit king was shot at 5 15 am after a military court martial lasting most of the night. Captured yesterday near Ayotzingo he was tried on banditry charges and executed at the barracks known as the School of Fire. His raids on the Cuernavaca and Puebla highways and attacks on travelers spread terror across the hill districts.
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United Press
Mexico City
Maximiliano Vigueras
Mexico
Vigueras
Ayotzingo
Cuernavaca
Puebla
Johnson Named Works Board Member In City Appointment
Mayor L. Ert Slack announced Republican attorney Emsley W. Johnson will join the works board, replacing ousted Charles L. Riddle. Johnson, once a special prosecutor in the corruption probe, will serve alongside Theodore Dammeyer and John C. McCloskey after next Tuesday. Oren S. Hack will resign as president to become corporation counsel. Buy United Press. London dispatch reports three RAF officers killed in a bombing plane crash near Khartum, Egypt.
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Emsley W. Johnson
Works Board
L. Ert Slack
Johnson
Charles L. Riddle
Slack
Riddle
Theodore Dammeyer
John C. McCloskey
Oren
Hack
Congress to act on gem smuggling
The article notes a $200,000,000 annual diamond smuggling racket heading for congressional action in coming weeks. American jewelers press hearings on a tariff bill to cut or end the 20 percent import duty, arguing the high tariff fuels smuggling and threatens legitimate trade. Norfolk raids are cited as evidence of ongoing illegal activity.
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Bay United Preas
Washington
Congress
Ways and Means
Norfolk
Belgium
Holland
Nation of farms becomes city within generation say scientists
United States shifts from farming to urban life as children are born in hospitals and grow in cities. Dr William G Vinal warns city upbringing erodes educational heritage while R Harold D Larsen reports tuberculosis deaths at 129000 yearly with economic losses near 179 million dollars.
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H. R. Ekins
United Yor
Weore
United States
American Association For
William G. Vinal
Western Reserve University
Vinal
Larsen
E. G. Misner
Cornell
Water Company Granted Time to Fight Back at Hearing
Officials and attorneys of the Indianapolis Water company were given until Jan. 7 to prepare their defense against the attack on their motorization program. The hearing before the public service commission featured denunciations from water consumers and a commission-driven factual attack.
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Inedianapolis Water Company
Public Service Commission
House of Representatives
William Edwards
Commission Service Department
Muncie
Terre Haute
Wenger
Commission
Extortion Charge Involving Stuttering Vampire Plot
Chicago December report says 68 year old L Frauenreder accused Mrs Alden Vaulman and her husband of orchestrating a scheme to photograph him in his undergarments and steal his diamond after a gun was pointed at him. Authorities arrested the Vaulmans.
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United Press
Chicago
L. Frauenreder
Frauenreder
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America
Frieda Hempel
League Commission
Fortune
Plan Board
RS. Maryhoff
Chicago Humane Education Society
Tlliam
William Martin
Altus
Okla
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W. F. Sullivan
Bandit
City Board of Works
Arnold Ricks
James Doyle
Charles Long
Royal Air Force
Khartum
Egypt
R. Harold D. Larsen
University of Wisconsin
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K. H. Rushton Fairclough
Stanford University
Edward A. Lincoln
Harvard University
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