Clemency Denied for Couple in 1927 Murder Case
Ada Bonner Le Bouef and Dr Henry Dreher face execution by hanging on Saturday after Governor Huey P Long refused clemency. The pair were convicted of murdering Le Bouefs husband at Morgan City in 1927, with Jim Beadle serving a life term. Long criticized the case as showing murderous intent and noted Beadle’s possible involvement. Mrs Le Bouef would be the first white woman executed in Louisiana.
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United Press
Baton Rouge
Ada Bonner le Bouef
Henry Dreher
Huey P. Long
le Bouef
Dr. Dreher
Morgan City
Jim Beadle
Long
Dreher
State Board of Pardons
Beadle
Brazil Man Uses Funeral Hoax To Borrow Money
In Brazil Indiana a man named Ralph Sampson pretended his mother Mrs Lillian Niederaner had died to raise funds. He tried to borrow 200 or 300 dollars claiming he needed cash for express charges on the body and a cemetery plot. The body never arrived for burial and Sampson disappeared after the ruse was uncovered by the undertakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Y Vimes
Ind
Lillian Niederaner
State Post Seeks Appointee For Industrial Commission
Numerous candidates seek the 4500 post to be vacated by Samuel R. Artman on the state industrial commission upon Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie’s inauguration. Artman will join James M. Ogden’s office as assistant in charge of utility cases, with the appointment by lot to fall to Leslie. James House of Vincennes John C. Chaney of Sullivan Henry Marshall Lafayette publisher and Leslie backer discussed the move with the governor-elect as Leslie’s circle gathers in the city ahead of inauguration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel R. Artman
State Industrial Commission
Harry G. Leslie
Artman
James M. Ogden
Industrial Commission
Leslie
Ed Jackson
James House
Vincennes
John C. Chaney
Sullivan
Henry Marshall
Lafayette
Leslie Backer
Claypool
Marshall
Young Accepts Post on Reparations Experts Committee
Owen D. Young of General Electric has agreed to serve as an American representative on the reparations experts committee after appeals from foreign powers. Premier Raymond Poincare announced the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Electric
Paris
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
Young
Reymond Poincare
Clark Commission Plans Feb Fort Sackville Centennial Celebration
The Clark memorial commission and the sesquicentennial commission will meet January 16 at the Columbia Club to plan events for the Feb 25 28 sesquicentennial celebration of George Rogers Clark and his men capturing Ft Sackville at Vincennes. President Coolidge is expected to speak.
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Ft. Sackville
Vincennes
George Rogers Clark
Clark Memorial Commission
Columbia Club
Coolidge
City Grocer Dead William G Griffin 64
William G Griffin a partner in Schnull and Co wholesale grocers and president of Merchants Trucking Co died at his home from heart disease. He was a pioneer Indianapolis businessman born in Madison Indiana survived by widow a daughter three sons and a stepson. Funeral will be at SS Peter and Paul cathedral Saturday at 9.
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William G. Griffin
Schnull & Co
North
Pennsylvania Street
Griffin
Merchants Trucking Company
Indianapolis
Madison
Ind
SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral
Kellogg Pact Set for Senate Debate Today
The Kellogg anti war treaty will be taken up at 2 p.m. with Borah presiding as the Senate schedules the pact before the naval cruiser bill. Reed hints at a possible delay over his Ware report while the chamber also debates state justice commerce and labor appropriations. House actions include a war department appropriation as Congress resumes after holidays.
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Senate
State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Department
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Tinkham plans probe into bank and foreign influence on policy
Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts prepared a resolution for a congressional inquiry into expenditures by international bankers and foreign interests that could sway US foreign policy and the Kellogg peace pact. He warned of an organized propaganda network seeking to influence Congress and argued the Kellogg pact contains exceptions that may nullify its aims.
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United Press
Washington
Tinkham
Rep
Massachusetts
Congress
United States
E Te Tinkham
America
League of Nations
Two Women Missing From Homes In Local Investigation
Police seek two young women missing since last Thursday. Mrs. Blanche Nolan reports her daughter Ruby Smith 22 left 613 East Norwood Street and has not been seen. Violet Williams 20 of 1220 North Illinois Street also left home. the two are not known to be acquainted.
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Blanche Nolan
East Norwood Street
Ruby Smith
Violet Williams
North Illinois Street
Prints in Snow Hint at Mystery in Decatur
Prints left by shoeless feet in snow near the Decatur courthouse lead police on a northerly path through the business district and back to the courthouse, sparking curiosity about the unknown makers.
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Times
Decatur
Ind
City to exercise option on Citizens Gas property
Board of works expected to receive a formal recommendation to serve legal notice on Citizens Gas six months before the 25 year franchise expires August 1930. Trustees, directors and city counsel held a secret meeting at the Columbia Club as talks with Holtman, Gause and Hornbrook continue on transfer to the city.
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Board of Works
Citizens Gas Company
John W. Holtzman
Fred C. Gause
Columbia Club
L. Ert Slack
Works Board
Henry H. Hornbrook
William H. Thompson
Holtman
Hack and Gause
Hornbrook
Holtzman
Ludlow Emerges as Democratic VP Hope in 1932
John Cable of Lima Ohio, a Republican electee, boosted Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis for vice president in 1932. Cable praised Ludlow as a rare Indiana Democrat winner and likened him to Thomas Marshall, noting good will from Senator Fess of Ohio and Senator Watson of Indiana.
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Times
Washington
Louis Ludlow
Indianapolis
John Cable
Lima
O. Cable
Ludlow
Indiana
Thomas Riley Marshall
Senator Fess
Ohio
Watson
Ogden Opposes Outside Aid In Shumaker Suit
Indiana Attorney General James M. Ogden filed to dismiss a motion for special counsel in the Shumaker habeas corpus case. Ogden said all cases will be handled by his office with his staff, sending appearances for himself and the office to the federal and state courts.
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James M. Ogden
Arthur L. Gilliam
William H. Thompson
Solon Carter
Shumaker
Supreme Court
Ogden
Joseph W. Hutchinson
Gilliam
Thompson
Carter
Robert C. Baltzell
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
Indiana State Farm
Flood curb easy says Jadwin on Mississippi control
Major General Edgar Jadwin told the House Appropriations Committee that flood control on the Mississippi River is a simple engineering problem and the work can be finished within ten years. He asked for 30 million dollars for 1930, with 800 thousand dollars extra for emergency flood control in the coming year.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Congress
Edgar Jadwin
Army Engineers
House Appropriations Committee
Jadwin
War Department
House
Loucks Ousted Miami County Highway Chief Fights Stay
Charles S. Loucks ousted as Miami county highway superintendent by county commissioners for malfeasance in office. He found his office door lock changed when he tried to return to work. His counsel says the fight will go to court to keep the post.
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S. Loucks
Miami County
Loucks
Fisk Negro who left million wills fortune to Fisk University
James Dallas Burros, 82, died alone on a Nashville streetcar and left about 1 million dollars to Fisk University. A Fisk graduate and the first Black BA south of the Mason Dixon line, he later earned a master of arts and built a drug business that made his fortune.
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United Press
Nashville
Tenn
Fisk Negro University
James Dallas Burros
Burros
Fisk
Mason and Dixon Line
America
Dartmouth
Fisk University
County Council Delays Special Session After Vacancy
County officials defer a mandatory special meeting to fill a vacancy amid factional balance. Councilman John E. Shearer resigned January 1 to become county commissioner. Auditor Harry Dunn and President George Montgomery will not call a session, while attorney Clinton Givan says the ten day rule is not mandatory. A session may occur January 15 to February 1 to address finances and possibly the successor. Meanwhile William C. Adamson, longtime Georgia congressman and former customs court judge, lies critically ill with lobar pneumonia in New York.
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John E. Shearer
Harry Dunn
George N. Montgomery
Clinton H. Givan
Council
George W. Coffin
C. Otis Dodson
United Press
New York
William C. Adamson
Georgia
United States Customs Court
Presbyterian Hospital
Immediate House reapportionment urged in 1930 census bill
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan introduced an amendment to the pending 1930 census bill calling for immediate reapportionment of representatives in the house. The measure was submitted in the form of this amendment.
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House
United Press
Washington
Representatives
Vandenberg
Mich
Paraguay and Bolivia Ready to Arbitrate Border Row
The Bolivian government accepts arbitration and conciliation of the border dispute with Paraguay, joining Paraguay which had already accepted. Signing will occur in Washington during the Pan American conference with a five nation commission including the United States Cuba Brazil Uruguay and Argentina. The Gran Chaco boundary has long been in dispute with prior unratified agreements and recent Bolivian troop moves raising war fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Paz
Bolivia
Paraguay
Washington
United States
Cuba
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Gran Chato
League of Nations
Argentina Declines to Join Gran Chaco Arbitration
High government sources say Argentina will not participate in the Gran Chaco boundary arbitration between Bolivia and Paraguay. Argentina was to be one of five nations on the arbitration board and had offered services with the League of Nations and the Pan American conference. The reason for the decision is not learned.
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United Press
Buenos Aires
United Press Today
Argentina
Gran Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Board of Arbitration and Conciliation
League of Nations
Pan- American Conference
Delegates Named for Bolivian Paraguayan Border Dispute
The government announced that Uruguay will name Eduardo Rodrigues Larreta Pedro Menini Rios and Juan Jose Amazaga as the country's representatives on the commission to arbitrate the Bolivia Paraguay border dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Montevideo
Uruguary
Uruguyan
Eduardo Rodrigues Larreta
Pedro Menini Rios
Juan Jose Amazaga
Tivoli theater in Spencer opens with new $45,000 building
Spencer Indiana observes opening week of the Tivoli moving picture theater built by E. M. Viguesney the sculptor of the American Doughboy.
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United Press
Spencer
Ind
E. M. Viguesney
American Doughboy
Hamburg Tea Claim Breaks Cold Fast
An ad claims Hamburg Breast Tea cures colds and grip by steaming pores and loosening bowels. It advises a tablespoon in boiling water, strained, as a tea to drink any time. It promotes it as inexpensive, vegetable, and harmless.
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Louisiana
Koenig & Friedrichs
Meridian Street
Edward Hopkins
Jefferson Avenue
Industrial Board
Lanited Press
William G. Griffith
Strauss
Saus
Buits
L. Strauss &G0
West
Washington Street
Kellogg
Vare
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Hale
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval
City Trust Co
Dick Mil
E. W.oo
Times Special
Peru
Charles
County Council
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