Murder Mansion era returns to light in Hillcrest invitation
In the New Rhodes House, Mrs. Caroline Rhodes and detective-in-training Bonnie Dundee discuss Abbie Berkeley and Letitia Lambert amid rumors of high society scheming. Abbie hosts a grand invitation with Mr. Crosby, while the so-called murder mansion history hangs over the scene.
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Abbie
Abbie Berkeley
Abbie Smith
George Berkeley
Europe
Clorinda
New York
Hamilton
Mother Rhodes
Dundee
Morning News
Mr. Dundee
Abbia Berkeley
Mrs. Lambert
Mr. Crosby
Letitia Lambert
Lambert
Mrs. Rhodes
Society
Angel on Honeymoon after SF weather delays wedding
Rheba Crawford known as Angel of Broadway and Ray Splivalo of San Francisco wed in a suburban Congregational church. Their plans to marry Monday were postponed as San Francisco endured its wettest, windiest weather in years, forcing indoor gatherings. They left Monday night by car for southern California.
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Ryu
United Press
San Francisco
Rheba Crawford
Angel
Broadway
Ray Splivalo
California
Pennsylvania adopts six day week for railway shopmen
Pennsylvania railway officials announced the adoption of a six day working week for hourly paid shopmen, adding twenty men to the payroll after workers urged a weekly day of rest. The change reduces weekly pay to six days while maintaining rate schedules.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railway
Hoover urges restraint on federal spending during downturn
President Hoover urged the nation to back Congress in limiting federal expenditures to the national income. He called the current push for new laws and nationwide projects unprecedented and said now is not the time for broad expansion of public outlays.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Chautemps seeks confidence vote in new left wing cabinet
In Paris on February 25 Premier Camille Chautemps faced a tense chamber to secure a confidence vote for his left wing concentration government. He outlined a program similar to the Tardieu era, prompting questions about the cabinet shift amid London conference negotiations. The chamber showed hostile right and center blocs, signaling a slim majority reliance on the left.
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United Press
Paris
Camille Chautemps
Chamber
Chautemps
Andre Tardieu
London
Chamber of Deputies
Indiana Ponzi Dream Trial in Indianapolis Crump Faces Stocks Charge
The Indianapolis trial of Chicago resident Carollyn E Crump president of the Indiana Real Estate Securities Corp unfolds with five prosecuting witnesses led by Mark Bemis to portray a $10 million finance scheme. Witnesses assert Crump orchestrated a nationwide effort to draw eastern capital into Indiana while assets of the insolvent firm were valued at under $500. Prosecutors say only $3,300 in stock was sold locally over two months as Crump toured the Midwest by air seeking investors.
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Carollyn E. Crump
Chicago
Defunt
Indiana Real Estate Securities Corporation
James A. Collins
Mark W. Bemis
Crump
Bemis
Indianapolis
Indiana
Securities Corporation
Mark Rhoades
Earl Cobb
Indiana Securities Commission
William H. Faust
Joseph M. Milner
Faust
Continental Bank
Arthur Eberlin
Evansville
Securities Commission
Statehouse
New York socialite ends quarrel by leaping to death
Richard H. Jones, wealthy society figure and Tidewater Oil executive, killed himself from his eighth floor Park Avenue apartment after a violent dispute with his wife. Police reported no foul play and noted the couple’s quarrel during the early dawn hours.
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N. Y
Park Avenue
United Preas
New York
Richard H. Jones
Social
Taft Losing Ground in Fight for Life
Washington Feb 25 Physicians treating former Chief Justice Taft said he has lost ground and shown no improvement for several days in a bulletin signed by Drs Thomas A. Claytor and Francis R. Hagner.
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United Press
Washington
Taft
Thomas A. Claytor
Francis R. Hagner
Senator Glass Attacks Hoover Over Budget Speech
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia denounced President Hoover's economy blast as a cheap partisan display in a Senate speech. He argued Congress is not spending unwisely and noted appropriation bills are 28 million dollars below budget bureau recommendations. Glass said Hoover aims to arouse public hostility toward Congress.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Carter Glass
Dem
White House
Glass
Budget Bureau
Dollar wheat hits $1 on Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago prices briefly touched the dollar level as March wheat near noon moved to 99x cents with other deliveries down. Reports from Kansas City and Duluth supported the coinage rumors of fixed prices, while farm-board aid appeared likely in Congress to speed any needed appropriations.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Farm Board
Co-Operative
Kansas City
Duluth
Washington
Congressional
Federal Farm Board
Mine Union Heads Hold War Council
John L. Lewis heads a council at the union’s national HQ to address threats of a receiver and a looming international convention urged by an Illinois faction. The Illinois Miner cites an Illinois gathering as backing a March 10 convention in Springfield, with Illinois Kansas and Ohio miners supporting reorganization.
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Council of War
Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
National Headquarters
Merchants Bank Building
John L. Lewis
Frank Farrington
United Mine Workers Journal
Illinois Miner
Springfield
Lewis
Two Fliers Killed and Search for Mail Pilots
Tragedy unfolds across western skies as two sets of pilots perish and a broader search raids the Sierra Nevada and Arizona desert. Henry C. Lorentz and Edward C. Smith died when their plane crashed near Stanford Montana, found by rancher George McKenna who also located a nearby injured cow. James E. Doles and Albert W. Beiber remain missing after departing Kingman Arizona, with Western Air Express wary after an emergency field report at Miller ranch east of Tejon Pass.
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United Press
Los Angeles
America
Henry C. Lorentz
Edward C. Smith
Stanford
Mont
George McKenna
Sierra Nevada Range
Arizona Desert
James E. Doles
Albert W. Beiber
Western Air Express
Miller Ranch
Tejon Pass
Kingman, Ariz
Hat cleaning loss nets $20 found by amnesic owner
C H Sheets of 2832 North Delaware street reported to police that he forgot a $20 bill in the hatband when sending the hat to a cleaner on Monday. The bill was missing this morning when he remembered it and notified authorities.
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C. H. Sheets
North
Delaware Street
Standardized power rates debated in Insull merger hearing
L B Andrus vice president of Central Indiana Power Company testifies that standardized rate changes require revaluation of all properties in the power pool. Opponents warn of loss of local rate relief, while Andrus argues the plan prevents discrimination. Regular hearings resume March 17 as a Martinsville case is reviewed.
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Public Service Commission
Insull
L. B. Andrus
Central Indiana Power Company
Harvey Horman
Princeton
Andrus
Commission
Kokomo
Harmon
Martinsville
Wabash Valley Electric Company
Stalin Stands Unchanged in Drive on Religion
United Press reports Stalin, in a letter to the Evening World, reaffirmed Soviet policy on religion. He said the Communist Party guarantees religious freedom but also permits anti religious propaganda to defend science. He cited cases like Darwinian prosecutions in America as not occurring in the USSR due to the party's stance.
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United Pres
New York
Soviet Russia
Josef Stalin
Evening World
Stalin
Communist Party
Communist
America
Rum boat is captured by coast guard patrol
A coast guard patrol boat captured a rum runner after a chase from Gould Island in Narragansett Bay to Fore River Massachusetts. The pursuit involved many rounds of ammunition fired. Commander L T Chal ker, commandant, announced.
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United Press
New London
Receiver Ouster Battled In Indiana Court
In a bitter hearing Judge William S. McMaster heard Charles E. Smith seek to dismiss the Federal Automobile Insurance Company receivership. Garrett W. Olds, attorney for the receiver, opposed the ouster while Patrick accused intervenors of misleading statements. The case affects about 85,000 Indiana residents and 250,000 others, with $3,000,000 in assessments levied on former policyholders.
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Federal Automobile Insurance Company
Superior Court Four
Fae W. Patrick
Garrett W. Olds
William S. McMaster
Charles E. Smith
Indiana
Olds
Patrick
Byron K. Elliott
Trial Testimony Tells Wheelus Shot At Wiggins Truck
Julius Fowler of Gastonia testified in the Ella May Wiggins murder trial that Horace Wheelus fired into a struck cotton mill workers truck on the Gastonia Bessemer highway. Fowler said Wheelus steadied the pistol on his left arm and later shot at occupants as they fled. He described Wheelus as part of an anti communist mob that halted the truck and forced Fowler back to Gastonia.
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Vilt Talimolig
Gps
Vessween Save
Tidewater Oil Export Company
Jones
United States Naval Academy
Eighty-seventh Street
Mrs. Richards
United Preas
Fowler
Wiggins
Wheelus
Gastonia
Fred Morrow
George Lingerfelt
W. A. Bradley
Bessemer City
Marion A C charts city for better lighting plan
Marion Indiana February 25 The Association of Commerce has hired engineers to create a city light map as the basis for recommendations to install additional street lights and improve illumination across Marion.
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Marion
Ind
Indiana
The
Association of Commerce
Beauty expert revisits grandma style at Lincoln Times Show
Beauty specialist W. E. Meadows demonstrated makeup and coiffure tips for about 400 Indianapolis women in the Travertine room at the Lincoln. He urged women to return to grandmotherly routines, offered live hair styling, and gave daily beauty advice with sessions at 2:30 pm and 8 pm under The Times auspices.
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Randma
Grandma
Indianapolis
Lincoln
W. E. Meadows
Times
Meadows
The
Indiana University Battle Over Military Training
Governor Harry G. Leslie condemns compulsory ROTC training at Indiana University amid attacks by the Indiana Daily Student editors. He invokes Purdue and the World War draft, arguing pacifist propaganda seeks to wreck ROTC. He defends rudimentary defense education as prudent in a globally armed era.
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Indiana Daily Student
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Purdue University
Indiana University
James W. Fesler
I. U. Trustees
Purdue
Frederick Libby
Russia
I. U
United States
Wilson
Congress
Pantages Watched Amid Illness While Appeal Pending
Alexander Pantages, jailed while appealing a conviction for attacking Eunice Pringle, remains under medical watch after a purported heart attack. County physician Dr. Benjamin Blank reports he is very sick as lawyers press three times for bond release, all denied while the appeal proceeds.
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United Po Cae
Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Benjamin Blank
Standard Oil to Award $250,000 for Bayway Blast Deaths
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey will pay about $250,000 in compensation for the thirteen deaths and more than fifty injuries caused by the explosion at its Bayway refinery plant.
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Standard Oil
Unite Tes
New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jeresey
Bayway
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