Stutz Motor merger near official says plans near completion
Three suits filed against Stutz Motor Car Company in state and federal courts seek receivership. Reorganization plans likely to be announced Tuesday morning as E S Gorrell returns to Indianapolis. Creditors claim liabilities exceed 1.4 million dollars with 500 thousand borrowed from stockholders.
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Stutz Motor Car Company of America
M. E. Hamilton
Stutz Company
Stutz
E. S. Gorrell
Indianapolis
Treauher Hamilton
Hamilton
Gorrell
Marion County Superior Court
Hoover To Act In Day Battle
President Hoover will submit the law enforcement commission's prohibition recommendations to Congress within ten days while adopting a hands-off stance in the Washington dry laws fight. The plan calls for clearing crowded courts codifying dry laws transferring prosecution from treasury to justice and unifying the board of control forces. White House officials monitor the controversy as bootlegging pressure rises during New Year festivities.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Congress
Treasury
Justice Department
Board of Control
White House
Justice Departments
Tickets on sale for 500 mile sweepstakes opener
Advance sale for the eighteenth annual 500 mile international sweepstakes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens Friday May 30. Mail orders start January 10 and counter sales begin January 13 at 444 North Capitol Avenue.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
North Capitol Avenue
Alfred E. Smith Turns 56 and Keeps Busy
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith marks his 56th birthday in New York by toiling at the County Trust Company as he says he is happy to be alive. He plans a family dinner and theater that evening continuing his march toward old age.
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United Preen New York
Alfred E. Smith
County Trust Company
Prison Break at Missouri State Penitentiary Fails
In Jefferson City Missouri a prison break ends with guard John T Bradley stabbed in the abdomen and near the heart and two convicts Virgil Davis and Clarence Hansen involved. Davis was shot during the wall vault and Hansen captured by a local citizen after escape.
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United Press
Jefferson City
Missouri State Penitentiary
Virgil Davis
Clarence Hansen
John T. Bradley
Bradley
Davis
Hansen
Sackett Named Envoy to Germany by Hoover
President Hoover selects Senator Frederic M. Sackett of Kentucky to replace Jacob Gould Schurman as ambassador to Germany after Schurman’s resignation. Sackett’s Senate term would have expired March 4, 1931. Governor Sampson plans to appoint Representative John M. Robison to succeed Sackett.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Frederic M. Sackett
Rep
Jacob Gould Schurman
Germany
Schurman
Berlin
Sackett
Senate
Flem Sampson
Kentucky
John M. Robison
Missing Indianapolis businessman Otis F. Calvin sighted in town
Police emergency squad investigated reports that Otis F. Calvin, 65, president of the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company, was seen at Southport today. Mrs. R. R. Hartman reported a man matching Calvin’s description sought work and received 10 cents. Calvin has been missing thirteen days.
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Otis F. Calvin
Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company
Southport
R. R. Hartman
Calvin
Sheriff Weniger Among 24 Guilty in Prohibition Conspiracy
In Coeur d Alene Idaho Sheriff R E Weniger of Shoshone County and twenty three others were found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. They face sentencing on Tuesday.
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United Press
Grayson Pals Believed in City as Bank Robbery Slaying Ties Travel
Authorities pursue Richard McNeese and Ben Orville, accomplices of Elmer Grayson in a Kentucky bank holdup and a posse shooting. Bowling Green detectives and Indianapolis officers coordinate searches in Indianapolis after reports a trio passed through North Vernon. Grayson, en route from Nashville to Bowling Green, is jailed for bank robbery and murder with Grayson’s fiancee visiting jail.
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Indianapolis
Richard McNeese
Ben Orville
Bowling Green
North Vernon
Elmer Grayson
Oakland
Smith’s Grove
Grayson
Nashville
Louisville
John Redes
Jean Harney
Union Street
Tenn
Miss Harney
McNeese
Orville
Hays
J. Robert Kirby
Smith's Grove
Kentucky
Slow Bullet Found After Apparent Shooting in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri on December 30 detectives and patrolmen rushed with an ambulance to a call of a man shot. They found 70 year old William L. Allen bleary eyed with a leg scar he said dated back seventeen years and claimed he was shot.
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United Press
Kansas City
William L. Allen
Snook convicts seek reversal on death ruling
Attorneys for Dr. James Howard Snook former University professor condemned to die January 31 for the murder of his co education Theora Hix filed a motion in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking a reversal of the decision refusing to review Snook’s appeal.
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United Press
Columbus
James Howard Snook
Theora Hix
State Supreme Court Today
Snook
Three Die In Rum Row War Off Newport Coast
Coast Guard pursuit of the Black Duck and two other smuggling craft ends with three dead crewmen, a wounded captain, and $600,000 in liquor seized. The wrecks are at New London base. victims Jacke Weiseman of Providence Dudley Brandt of Boston and John Goulat of Fairhaven were found in the pilot house after machine gun fire.
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United Press
Newport
R. I
Black Duck
Tamrow
Coast Guard
New London
Ft. Adams
Narragansett Bay
Jacke Weiseman
Providence
Dudley Brandt
Boston
John Goulart
Fairhaven
Mass
Coast guardsman Seizes 100000 Dollar Whisky Haul
City Md December 30 A lone coast guardsman stopped eight men loading 1009 cases of liquor from two small boats to three beach trucks. The cargo valued at 100000 dollars, one of the era’s largest one man interceptions, ended without resistance.
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Ocean
City
Coast
Here
Magnate Wilfred Gerry Found Dead In Chicago Hotel
The 52 year old pen manufacturer Wilfred E Gerry was found dead in an Embassy hotel room early today by his 44 year old sweetheart Mary Lou Arndt. A poison bottle lay nearby and the son in law ruled it self inflicted. Gerry and Miss Arndt dined at his apartment Sunday night and she slept, later discovering the body fully dressed with poison beside him.
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Chicago
Wilfred E. Gerry
Embassy Hotel
Mary Lou Arndt
Gerry
Miss Arndt
Northside
Revolver Misfire Endangers Man During New Year Prep
Chicago man John Draka, 60, shown a revolver by his nephew Alex Nastanski, looked into the muzzle and pulled the trigger. The weapon fired, wounding Draka who doctors say may die. Separately in Philadelphia, Labor Secretary James J. Davis weighs a bid for U S Senate over governor of Pennsylvania.
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United Press
Chicago
John Draka
Alex Nastanski
Draka
Philadelphia
James J. Davis
United States
Pennsylvania
Health chief urges continued precautions as meningitis cases rise
Dr. Herman G. Morgan city health commissioner warns against laxity despite a lull in deaths and cases. Fifty six total cases including fatalities, with Carolin Dugan 6 as the latest, and George Parkinson 4 among the dead. Police and health staff deploy antiseptic measures. Mercurophen distributed, Eli Lilly officials lauded for cooperation. throat cultures pursued to map carriers and spread.
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Herman G. Morgan
Carolin Dugan
Lawrence E. Dugan
South West Street
George Parkinson
North Adams Street
Edward Roesch
Hook Drug Company
Lincoln Hotel
Ilinois Street
Kentucky Avenue
Morgan
L. G. Zerfas
Eli Lilly & Co. Laboratory
W. A. Jamieson
Lilly Biological
City Hospital
City Health
Young Billy Russell Howard to quit daily pipe on New Year
Billy Russell Howard, three, plans to give up his daily pipe of tobacco New Year's Day. His doctor prescribed the pipe to cure insomnia, but his father Lee Howard doubts the lasting resolve of young smokers.
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Bu United Press
Denver
Billy Russell Howard
Billy
Lee Howard
Nasal Solution Administered Daily for Sinus Treatment
The prescribed method requires two to three daily administrations per nostril. The patient lies on his back with head bent back to allow sinus penetration. Five drops are placed in each nostril and the head remains tilted back for at least two minutes.
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Morgan
German author Remarque injured in car crash
Berlin reports Erich Maria Remarque 34 author of All Quiet on the Western Front seriously injured in a Christmas Eve automobile accident. He was hospitalized after his car overturned on a suburban highway and was reported improving today.
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Berlin
Erich Maria Remarque
Remarque
Kinney Named Police Chief as Sullivan Inaugurates
Jeremiah E. Kinney 65, chief of detectives, is chosen as police chief in the Sullivan administration to take office January 6. Fred Simon is promoted from detective sergeant to detective chief, succeeding Kinney, while Harry Springsteen is reappointed city market master. Kinney’s decades long service and elevated rank are noted, with board president Charles R. Myers calling the choice mutually agreed and based on integrity and efficiency.
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Claude M. Worley
Jerry Kinney
Fred Simon
Sullivan
Safety Board
Kinney
Worley
Simon
Jeremiah E. Kinney
Charles R. Myers
Police Department
Duvall
Myers
Reginald H. Sullivan
Harry Springsteen
Robert E. Springsteen
George W. Coffin
Charles W. Jewett
Bertillon
Force
Kinney and
The
Friends of the Administration
South East Street
Harry E. Voshell
Voshell
Louis Johnson
Lester E. Jones
Herbert Fletcher
Big Cities Band in Racket War
New York Police Commissioner Grover Whalen returned from Chicago after an agreement with William F. Russell to wage a finish against racketeer activity. Police raided the Bugs Moran gang headquarters in Chicago unlocking files and detaining eight men while three alleged extortionists were killed in a prelude to a broader operation.
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United Press
New York
Grover Whalen
Chicago
Russell
Whalen
Times Special
William F. Russell
Bugs Moran
China ends foreign extra-territorial privileges
Nationalist China announced that foreign extra-territorial privileges will be abolished on January 1. Foreign Minister C. T. Wang sent the official text to Howard Bucknell Jr., who forwarded it to Washington. The document says foreigners in China must now be subject to Chinese laws and courts.
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Washington
China
State Department
C. T. Wang
Howard Bucknell Jr
Legation
Bucknell
City Enforces New Year Eve Dry Campaign Across Indianapolis
Police Chief Worley deputies and federal agents form a three layer dry ring around Indianapolis on New Year Eve. They vow twelve hour shifts guard cafes theaters and clubs while suburban deputies watch roads and roadhouses for bootleg activity.
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Prohibition
Indianapolis
Claude M. Worley
John W. Wilkey
Indiana
George L. Winkler
Worley
Ciry
Winkler
Wilkey
Dis
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