Day Enforcement Transfer to Justice Department Quietly Approved
Washington reports a near completion of the shift of prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the Department of Justice. A joint committee move and a possible summer passage of a transfer bill are anticipated, with major personnel changes likely in Washington and at district offices.
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Department OF Justice
Washington
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Treasury
House
Senate
Congressional
Congress
Secretary of Treasury
Melton
Ogden Mills
Treasury Enforcement Bureau
Justice Department
United Press
Borah
Norris
Rep
Nebraska
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mellon
President
Law Enforcement Commission
Despondent Man Swallows Poison to End Life
Glenn Lowe, 32, of 1427 St Paul Street, swallowed poisonous liquid bought to treat a blood poison from a finger infection. He told his wife and was taken to City Hospital with non fatal condition. police cite despondency over illness as motive.
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Glenn Lowe
St. Paul Street
City Hospital
Boy dies after accidental shooting by sister in Illinois
Marvin Lester aged 15 died in an Urbana hospital from a gunshot wound incurred when a gun in the hands of his 12 year old sister discharged. The bullet struck the right leg and amputation was required. He succumbed Friday night.
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Illinois
Buy
United Press
Marvin Lester
Urbana
Icicle Causes Window Break at Citizens Building
A large icicle on the Citizens Building and Loan Company structure in Newcastle Ind fell onto an awning and broke a plate glass window. No injuries are reported.
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Newcastle
Ind
Citizens Building Aod Loan Company
Chemical blamed for death of child in meningitis case
Pauline Wueliner an eight year old patient at 821 Villa Avenue died after a fever reducing prescription allegedly misfilled by a druggist. Coroner C H Keever ordered an inquest. the attending physician had prescribed medicine for fever and the chemical said to have seared the stomach may have caused or worsened death. The druggist facing inquiry had been filling two other prescriptions when the error occurred and reportedly rushed to the home after discovering it.
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Pauline Wueliner
Villa Avenue
C. H. Keever
City Hospital
O. H. Bokemeter
Keever
Wueliner
Argentina Nears $100 Million Bank Loan Agreement
United States bankers appear close to arranging a 100 million dollar loan for Argentina after government sources cited by La Razon. In Indiana, Muncie reports four year public works costs totaling 1,375,537 with extensive paving sidewalks and curbs completed.
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United Press
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
la Razon
Muncie
Ind
Paul R. White
Deer Seen on Ball State Campus After Fence Jump
A deer roams the Ball State Teachers College woods, leaping a high steel fence around the grounds. Efforts to approach it fail as authorities believe the animal escaped from a nearby city.
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Muncie
Ind
Ball State Teachers College
Geographer Dr. LeFleur to speak at AAG meeting
Dr. Albert LeFleur professor of geography and geology at Ball State Teachers College will speak at the Association of American Geographers convention in Columbus Ohio next week.
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Muncie
Ind
Albert LeFleur
Ball State Teachers College
the Association of American Geographers
Columbus
J. W. Jones
Indiana State Teachers College
Terre Haute
Jones
Indiana
The Show of Shows Serial in The Times Pink Editions
The Times runs a major new serial The Show of Shows in its Pink editions. The film adaptation opens at the Apollo today, with the third installment available this afternoon. For back numbers call Riley at the Times circulation department to catch up on this life in the big movie colony.
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Times
Apollo
Times Pink
Riley
Four More Die of Meningitis in Indianapolis Toll Rises
Four additional deaths from cerebrospinal meningitis were reported in the last twenty four hours in Indianapolis, bringing the toll to thirty four. The city health commissioner Dr Herman reported fifty three cases in three weeks, with six new cases that day among residents including Paul ine Wuellner aged eight and Irvin A Harvey aged sixty two. The report also lists Anna Alexander twenty eight, and Orville Whitney twenty four, as deceased, with new cases Norma Melton three Betty Harris seven and others across several streets.
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Indianapolis
Herman
Pauline Wuellner
Villa Avenue
Irvin A. Harvey
Kenwood Avenue
Anna Alexander
Market Opens Mixed After Irregular Preceding Session
New York stocks opened unevenly with light trading. Fox Film A hit a new low at 20% on a block of 3 000 shares. short interest neared half the outstanding. United States Steel dipped fractionally, General Electric rose to 23 2, Radio American Telephone and General Motors slipped slightly while rails utilities and oils eased.
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United Press
NEW York
Stock Exchange
Fox Film A
Fox
United States Steel
Radio Corporation
American Telephone
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
General Electric
Allied Chemical
Westinghouse Electric
Columbia Graphophone
Southern Indiana teachers press for immediate state aid relief
Five school teachers representing over a thousand in the bankrupt southern Indiana state-aid system planned to petition Governor Harry G. Leslie for immediate relief. They warned southern Indiana could lose teachers without prompt aid, and urged the commission studying aid to act without delay.
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Ben Stern
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Statehouse
Bloomington
D. L. Mayle
Stinesville High School
Harry Hayes
Smithville High School
L. D. Miller
Unionville High School
O. M. Shekell
Plainville High School
E. C. Dilley
Solsberry High School
First Love Draws Wills Moody To Tennis Match
In San Diego the world tennis champion Mrs. Frederick S. Moody Jr. formerly Helen Wills rushed from her honeymoon on the yacht Galatea to the San Diego Yacht Club. She borrowed a tennis racquet and arranged with the naval hospital superintendent to play.
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United Press
San Diego
Cal
Frederick S. Moody Jr
Helen Wills
San Diego Yacht Club
Drunken hit and run driver held after fatal downtown crash
An alleged drunken motorist is held on manslaughter and related charges after striking Joseph Vespe 41 and dragging his body seven blocks under a street car at Missouri and Washington. Police say Harlin Hogue 37 was with the driver, who fled. Vespe’s body was later recovered. coroner orders an inquest.
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Missouri
Washington Streets
Joseph Vespe
West North Street
Washington Street
Carl Losey
Delaware Street
Samuel Schuch
North Mount Street
James Hunter
New Street
Schuch
Harlin Hogue
North Rural Street
Vespa
Hunter
C. H. Keever
Henry Burke
North Kealing Avenue
Losey
George McHie
Nick Rawlings
Pantages Denied Bail Despite Illness Plea
Millionaire theater boss Alexander Pantages remains jailed after Judge Fricke refused bail pending appeal of his conviction for assaulting dancer Eunice Pringle. He argued illness endangers his life, but must receive treatment in prison with on-site physicians and nurses if needed.
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United Press
LOS Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Charles W. Fricke
Eunice Pringle
Pantages
Secretary Revokes 37 Foreign Corporations for Report Delays
Secretary Otto G. Fifield revokes licenses of thirty seven foreign corporations for failure to file annual reports under the new law. One hundred others are cited to show cause why they have not filed.
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Otto G. Fifield
Fifield
Possum Hunters Avoid Baboon After Surprising Escape
A baboon named Rollo escaped from Marsalis Park Zoo in Dallas Texas and fled during a night hunting party of African American possum hunters. The incident left the hunters startled as Rollo swung from a tree prompting quick shinnings and a cautious search.
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United Press
Dallas
Tex
Rollo
Marsalis Park Zoo
Child Suffers Burns After Liniment Ignites From Stove
A three year old boy Orville Miller of 541 Arnolda Street was severely burned when inflammable liniment placed on his hand by his mother Mrs Pearl Miller ignited from a nearby stove in the early hours. The child approached the stove after treatment and flames caught the liquid.
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Orville Miller
Pearl Miller
Arnolda Street
City approves Holt entrance sign at airport site
Mayor Slack proposed naming Banner avenue entrance to Indianapolis municipal airport the Holt entrance in honor of City Controller Sterling R Holt. The board of public works approved the proposal and will seek formal acceptance of a donated electric sign from General Outdoor Advertising Company marking the north entrance.
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L. Ert Slack
Banner Avenue
Indianapolis Municipal Airport
Holt
Sterling R. Holt
Board of Public Works
Theodore Dammeyer
Works Board
General Outdoor Advertising Company
Slack
General Outdoor Company
Cleaners and Dyers Union feud linked to shooting attempt
In St Louis three gunmen tried to kill Edward Clark, former agent for the Cleaners and Dyers Union. Clark, wounded twice, staggered into a police station after being fired on as he drove away. The incident is blamed on the ongoing cleaners feud.
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United Press
ST. Louis
Cleaners
Dyers
Edward Clark
Dyers’ Union
Clark
Count Karolyi Sails For U S Lecture Tour
Count Michael Karolyi former Hungarian leader and recent four year legal winner of a U S passport sailed today on the George Washington for New York. He plans lectures in several American cities after visiting the United States in 1925.
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United Press
Paris
Michael Karoyli
United States
New York
Karolyi
America
Wil
Boy Receives Baby Brother After Santa Letter
Bobby Hubbard six of Oolitic Indiana proved Santa Claus exists by receiving a baby brother as a Christmas gift after writing to Santa last week asking for a sibling.
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Ind
Bobby Hubbard
Santa Claus
Bobby
Bandit Described as Oakland Ky Bank Robber Spirited From Jail
Elmer Grayson of Indianapolis, a confessed member of the Oakland Kentucky bank trio, named two Indianapolis youths as companions. He was moved from a Nashville jail to avert a lynching as a nationwide manhunt continued for the other two suspects.
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Kentucky
United Press
Nashville
Tenn
Elmer Grayson
Oakland
Indianapolis
Grayson
Richard McNeese
McCarty Street
Ben Orville
Meridian Street
Bowling Green
J. Robert Kirby
Smith’s Grove
Kirby
Hays
Here
T. C. Ferguson
Warner Elrod
Fred Elrod
Blaide Duff
Sheriff Ferguson
Red
Indiana
Madison Avenue
Mother Kills Children and Herself in Goshen Home
Coroners verdict awaited as formality in Goshen Indiana. Mrs Helen Robinson 34 and her three children Philip 11 David 8 and John 5 found dead with gas jet open in kitchen. Father Harlan Robinson discovered bodies at midday.
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United Press
Goshen
Ind
Helen Robinson
Harlan E. Robinson
Philip
David
John
Porker Prices Down Five Cents at Local Pens
Hog prices slipped five cents from Friday's average at the city stockyards with 160 to 300 pound hogs at 9.85. Butchers held steady while receipts reached about 6,000 and holdovers 338. Cattle and sheep markets were mixed with steers steady, heifers down 50 cents, lambs at 12.50 to 13.25. Chicago hog receipts totaled 8,000 with a market steady to strong, shippers seeing 9.75 to 9.80 for 200 to 220 pounds.
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Chicago
Stock Market Outlook Sparks Cautious Optimism
In New York on December 28, trade reports show a sharp drop in business mortality last week with no materialized rumors. Analysts expect a turn for the better after year end as large corporations maintain extra dividend policies and repurchase activities rise amid renewed confidence in the market.
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Thomson & McKinnon
New York
White House
Hourly Temperatures Report for Morning Hours
The schedule lists temperatures at 6 am 31 degrees 8 am 31 degrees 9 am 31 degrees. The figures indicate a steady morning reading with no rise in temperature across the period.
Hospital Contracts Topic At Conference
City health officials and councilmen will discuss awarding about 875000 in hospital improvement contracts including the outpatient and laboratory building a new laundry and other upgrades. The council has already appropriated funds. The health board appointed 180 physicians to the city hospital staff, including Dr. T L Sullivan brother of Mayor Elect Reginald H Sullivan to the gynecology unit.
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Board of Public Health
Health Board
T. L. Sullivan
Reginald H. Sullivan
Weather Brief: Light Snow and Calm Southwest Breeze
At 9:30 a.m. winds from the southwest at six mph, sea level pressure 30.10 inches, temperature 31 degrees, visibility four miles with light snow. Elevation 1,200 feet reports frozen conditions.
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