Gouge of City Market Stall Holders Aired
City market standholders raised a $750 fund to thwart House Bill 324, aiming to clear Tomlinson hall title, but officials deny risk to market operations. Bill supporters and opponents trace the move through Coffin allies and city lawyers, with the fund later reduced to 400 as awareness grew.
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Tomlinson Hall
Slack
E. E. McGriff
Portland
Ind
McGriff
Lloyd D. Claycombe
Indianapolis
Claycombe
Clinton H. Givan
Givan
George W. Coffin
City Plan Commission
Oren 8. Hack
Hack
Charles L. Riddle
Board of Works
L. Ert Slack
County balks at buying plaza site in Indiana war memorial
Marion County commissioners refused to purchase the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian church sites for the Indiana war memorial plaza. They argued the extra cost would raise the tax rate by 4 percent on every $100 of property, citing $1,374,720 already spent and a larger state project burden.
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Marion County
First Baptist
Second Presbyterian
Indiana War Memorial
George Snider
Charles Sutton
John Shearer
Clinton H. Givan
Vermont Street
Pennsylvania
Meridian Streets
Memorial Commission
Indianapolis
University Park
Asylum For the Blind
St. Clair Park
Conty
Commission
Play Tragedy in United Press NULSA
Virginia Patterson a 3 year old girl drowned after playmates confessed pushing her from a bridge on the Arkansas River. Police firemen and volunteers searched all night with boats grappling hooks and floodlights but found no trace as leads suggested the body may be submerged under water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Nulsa
Okla
Arkansas River
Virginia Patterson
Arthur Baker
Braxton
Arthur
Virginia
Fairy Tale's End Hoax Ends in Mother's Death
Robert Preiskel who fought with Pershing in France died years ago and his mother Mina died after clinging to the belief he would return. The hoax involved forged letters sent from Europe and mail forwarded to Passaic New Jersey by son in law Walter Yokel.
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York
Robert Preiskel
Pershing
France
Mina Preiskel
United States
Robert
Mrs. Preiskel
Oil test hole in Goosepond finds water pocket and extended shale
Times Special reports in Linton Indiana that drillers at a Goosepond oil test hole reaching 2000 feet encountered an unusual water pocket where Niagara rock was expected and cinnamon shale extending 200 feet instead of the typical 100 to 110 feet, signaling notable subsurface variations.
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Times
Linton
Ind
Goosepond
Niagara
Indiana
Auto Runs Into Bus In Brightwood Crash
One person was seriously injured and several passengers shaken when a Brightwood bus from the People's Motor Coach Company collided with a car driven by Lawrence Welburn at New Jersey and St. Clair streets. Welburn, 1018 High Street, was taken to the city hospital in serious condition and detained pending reckless driving charges. Witnesses said the bus, driven by James Welburn, 4610 North Illinois Street, was northbound when Welburn attempted to beat the bus across the intersection and crashed into it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brightwood
People’s Motor Coach Company
Lawrence Welburn
High Street
New Jersey
St. Clair
Welburn
James Welburn
North
Illinois Street
New Jersey Street
Monarchy Planned in China Reported by Daily Express
London dispatch says General Chang Tsung-Chang moves toward restoring a monarchy in China with Pu Yi as boy emperor. Pu Yi denies knowledge of any throne change while residing in the Japanese concession at Tientsin with two wives.
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United Press
London
Pu Yui
Chang Tsung-Chang
Siantung Province
Daily Express
Peping
Pu -Yui
Tientsin
Funeral services set for Joseph B. Andrews
Redkey Indiana February 28 funeral services will be held Friday for Joseph B. Andrews 80 a twenty seven year local manager of the Eastern Indiana Telephone Company who died Tuesday.
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Times Special
Redkey
Ind
Joseph B. Andrews
Eastern Indiana Telephone Company
Lindbergh and Morrow Fly Again After Crash in Mexico
Colonel Augustus Lindbergh and Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, his fiancée, recovered from a plane accident in Mexico City by taking a 23 minute flight in a biplane. Lindbergh landed on one wheel after the gear failed and protected Miss Morrow during the risky landing.
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Gesford F. Fine
United Press
Mexico City
Augustus Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Morrow
Lindbergh
Miss Morrow
Valbuena Field
Four Held in Loganport Slayings at Soft Drink Parlor
In Loganport Indiana authorities questioned three men Tom Deering George Hiles and John Begley and Jessie Penny 25 in the killings of Earl Armstrong 36 and Jack Williams 23 at Armstrongs soft drink parlor. The victims were shot during a robbery tied to a $45 cash register and two revolvers stolen from the shack near the Wa bash river six miles from town.
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United Press
Logansport
Ind
Earl Armstrong
Jack Williams
Jessie Penny
John J. Crockett
Tom Deering
George Hiles
John Begley
Hiles
Crockett
Armstrong
Williams
Wabash River
Quietcost Forces Man to Pay Wife for Peace
Peter Fitzpatrick, 63, who left his large noisy family, found quiet at a Hartford deaf and dumb infirmary but was reassigned as night watchman. A judge ordered him to return to that job and pay his wife $2.50 weekly, framing the quiet as a shared burden.
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Fitzpatrick
Hartford
Conn
Martin
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Legion to Plant 4100 Trees in Soldier Memorial Park
Hamon Gray of the American Legion secured 4100 small trees from the state forestry department for planting in Soldier Memorial park La Porte Indiana. Trees will be set eight feet apart on a checker pattern across the park's ninety acres.
Black man confesses attempting to burn woman alive in Atchison
Louis Glover confessed to trying to burn Mrs. C. V. Jacobs age 56 of Atchison by stuffing paper in her clothes and igniting them. Shawnee county undersheriff Everett Probasco said Glover faces criminal incident and attempted serious case charges. He denies forcing her into the furnace and says the confrontation occurred while aiding with the washing.
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United Press
Topeka
Kan
Louis Glover
C. V. Jacobs
Atchison
Everett Probasco
Shawnee County
Glover
Butler coeds shrink in size across years forecast smaller future
Butler University records show 1926 average student at five feet three inches and 115 pounds dropping to 1929 figures of about five foot two and 108 pounds. Waist, chest and hip measurements also declined, while experts say despite smaller stature women show better coordination and development.
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Butler University
Louise M. Schulmeyer
Departeent of Physical Education
University
Yesteryear
Butler
Chaplin Improves After Illness in Hollywood
Charles Chaplin, the screen comedian, endured a bout of stomach poisoning and intestinal influenza. He spent a restful night and showed marked improvement, though a studio official cautioned the condition remains serious but hopeful for recovery early next week.
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United Press
Hollywood
Cal
Charles Chaplin
Carlyle Robinson
Chaplin
William Frantz Leads Pest Campaign Team With 500 Points
SWEETSER Ind Feb 28 William Frantz captain of a high school pest extermination campaign leads with 500 points in the local event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times Special
Embezzling Charge Tangles Sullivan Bank Crash Case
Richard G. Kirk, cashier of the defunct State Bank of Sullivan, is jailed on bank embezzlement charges amid a Sullivan county grand jury probe into forged notes and possible wider embezzlement tied to the Shelburn bank crash and the death of Edgar D. Maple. The probe may implicate others as the grand jury investigates forged paper and related crimes.
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Sullivan
Ind
Sullievan County
Richard G. Kirk
State Bank of Sullivan
Kirk
Shelburn
Edgar D. Maple
Peoples National Bank and Trust Company
Jessup F. Bolinger
Sullivan Bank
Sullivan County Grand Jury
Bolinger
Sullivan and Shelburn
Maple
Citizens’Trust Company of
Suden
James A. Lang
Bollinger
Rural Routes In Indianapolis Shift From Letters To Numbers
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced that all Indianapolis rural routes will be numbered, converting the current letter designations. Eleven of eighteen routes change. C becomes 3 on March 16, with broader nationwide moves to remove letter confusion. Changes include O to 7 P to 8 G to 10 H to 11 J to 12 K to 13 L to 14 M to 16 A to 17 and B to 18 effective April 1.
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Indianapolis
Robert H. Bryson
Radio Group Defies WGY License Ruling
The Federal Radio Commission outlined a theory that WGY Schenectady has no property rights in the air despite a district court of appeals order to continue the station’s full-time license. The advisory statement was issued in Washington on February 28.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Radio Commission
WGY
General Electric Company Broadcasting
Schenectady
District Court of Appeals
Commission
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Peter Fitzpatrick
Pest
Holly
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Walter C. Treichler
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Reichler
Spade
Ellis H. Parker
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