Rail spur survey planned to aid Boulder Dam site
Washington dispatch reports Union Pacific will survey a forty mile railroad spur from Las Vegas to the Boulder Dam site, a move seen as advancing construction pending Colorado River compact ratification. Dr Mead denies a supervising engineer has been appointed before pact approval. Invitations to the seven state Colorado compact meeting in Denver are to be issued after West's Chicago return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sanford Holmes
Washington
Boulder Dam
Colorado
Pacific Railroad
Carl Gray
Union Pacific
Elwood Mead
Black Canyon
Special Board of Engineers
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Gray
Mead
W. L. Savage
Secretary West
Chicago
Br. Mead
Denver
Inaugural Ball Cut From Leslie Inauguration
The committee decided no inaugural ball will be held for Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie's inauguration. Music will come from Indiana and Purdue university bands in the state house main corridor on Monday January 14, with a reception in the Governor's office after the oath. Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin will likely administer the oath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Leslie
Indiana and
Purdue University
Statehouse
Clarence R. Martin
Ex City Employes Sue For Salaries
Francis Hamilton former commissioner leads suit in superior court seeking back pay for fourteen workers in the building commissioner's office from 1926. Plaintiffs detail specific amounts from 59.94 to 381.65 with most at 1.66 or 77.77. They allege city council salaries rose but the increases were not paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Francis Hamilton
Hamilton
Bert J. Westover
John E. Horton
Wil- F. Hurd
Harry F
Fred Hollingsworth
F. Templeton
Carl Hays
William F. Myron
Wil F. Wilson
Herman Schulz
Verne Miller
Myron Clark
Cleon R. Day
Jorado F. Carringan
Privy Market Prices Show Little Change
Green beans held at 20 cents per 4 pound bag while green peas cost 25 cents. Hothouse tomatoes range 35 to 40 cents, shipped varieties up to 30 cents. Cauliflower 40 cents a head, home grown 70 to 75 cents. Persimmons 20 a box, head lettuce 15 to 20 cents, leaf lettuce 20 cents per pound. Celery 5 cents per stalk with four celery hearts for a quarter. Radishes 10 cents a bunch, long radishes two for 15 cents. Oranges 25 to 70 cents, apples and other fruits vary, bananas a dozen.
Sophie Tucker Wed Again Third Time
United Press reports Sophie Tucker in Chicago to confirm a third marriage to A Lackey a New York dress merchant aged 38. Tucker jokes about the wedding date December 14 while noting a flu illness and a brief face lift before continuing work on film contracts.
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United Press
Chicago
Sophie Tucker
A. Lackey
New York
Park Central Hotel
Newport
Funeral Set for Dr. Thomas C. Hood Friday
Dr. Thomas C. Hood 68 a noted ophthalmologist and former IU medical school professor emeritus died of influenza at his home 124 East Thirty second street. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 pm at the residence with Crown Hill cemetery burial. He came to Indianapolis in 1899 and was linked with Dr. Carlton J. Daniel. Survived by widow and son Thomas S. Hood secretary of the Fletcher American Company. He held several medical honors and belonged to lodge groups and city clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Hood
East Thirty-second Street
Crown Hill Cemetery
Hood
Indiana University Medical School
City Hospital
Carlton J. Daniel
Hume- Mansur
Vermillion County
Wabash College
Jefferson School of Medicine
Philadelphia
Wabash
New York
Berlin
Vienna
Indianapolis
Thomas S. Hood
Fletcher American Company
Mystic Tie Lodge
Masons
Scottish Rite
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
Indiana Medical Association
Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology
Three Holdups Staged With Minimal Police Presence
Police reported three holdups late Wednesday by two gangs of ban dits who tainted a quiet day with robbery. A trio robbed Atlantic and Pacific Grocery on West Washington Street taking 117 from the registers. They then looted Kroger on West W Street, totaling 120. A second pair robbed a Supreme Oil filling station on Troy Avenue, taking 70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic and Pacific
West Washington Street
Meat and Grocery Department
Raymond Stoneking
East Drive
Woodruff Place
Lawrence Leerkemp
Belle Vieu Place
Kroger
West W Street
Warner A. Moore
Castle Avenue
Supreme Oil Company
Troy Avenue
Bluff Road
Mrs. Julia Hood Rites Set at Daughter’s Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Hood 81 who died Wednesday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Florence Plaster 2834 East Tenth Street will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the daughter's home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. She was a native of Ft. Wayne and widow of J. W. Hood. She had lived in Indianapolis thirty years. Survived by two sons Frank and James W. Hood both of Indianapolis.
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Julia Hood
Florence Plaster
East Tenth Street
Crown Hill
Hood
J. W. Hood
Ft. Wayne
Indianapolis
Frank
James W. Hood
Doctor Reed Dies Suddenly in Battle Creek Visit
Dr. Charles E. Reed, 59, medical officer at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., died suddenly in Battle Creek on Wednesday while accompanying his wife Mrs. Reed to settle her father Charles Robinson's estate, leaving a widow and five children in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Battle Creek Mich
Charles E. Reed
Culver Military Academy
Culver
Ind
Special train to Newton and Milwaukee for National EquipmentSalesmen
The second session of a two day conference involving about 125 National Equipment Corporation salesmen continued at the Insley Manufacturing plant. Tonight they dine at the Indianapolis Athletic Club before boarding a special train for Newton Iowa and Milwaukee Wisconsin to visit other company plants.
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National Equipment Corporation
Insley Manufacturing Company
Olney and
St. Clair Streets
Indianapolis Athletic Club
Newton
Milwaukee
Wis
City upheld in gas case court backs city buyout plan
Russell T. MacFall told Indianap lis Engineering Society that the city should assume ownership of Citizens Gas Company and carry out the original contract. He urged trustees and officials to act in good faith to protect residents from rate hikes and noted stock buyers aimed to build affordable gas for Indianapolis. LeGrande Marvin became president and Daniel B. Luten secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Gas Company
Russell T. MacFall
Indianapolis Engineering Society
Spink- Arms
MacFall
Indianapolis
LeGrande Marvin
Daniel B. Luten
Bell Telephone honors W F Johnson with 30 year service medal
W F Johnson of 3413 North Capitol Avenue receives a thirty year gold service emblem from C R Woods of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Johnson began in 1899 as a Cleveland switchboard repairman and rose to traffic manager, chief clerk, supervisor of traffic methods, and in 1927 division traffic superintendent for out state divisions in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Johnson
North Capitol Avenue
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
C. R. Woods
Johnson
Cleveland
Indianapolis
Ogden Names Aid George W. Hufsmith Appointed Deputy
Plymouth resident George W. Hufsmith is named by Attorney General James M. Ogden as deputy in charge of criminal cases. He formerly prosecuted Marshall County and was active in local Republican circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Hufsmith
Plymouth
James M. Ogden
Marshall County
Peters Urges Fight on Primary Reform in Indiana
Democratic State Chairman R Earl Peters urged opposition to Republican primary change proposals in a Claypool conference with 12 Senate and 20 House Democrats. He outlined five conclusions on education funding election machinery and spending and said Democrats would not be obstructionists. Leadership bids surfaced for both chambers as Peters promised a vigorous fight for control of committee spoils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Earl Peters
Claypool
Indiana
Peters
Fabius Gwin
Shoals
Delph L. McKeeson
Plymouth
George L. Saunders
Bluffton
Joseph M. Cravens
Madison
Andrew E. Durham
Greencastle
Senate
Cravens
Thurman A. Gottschalk
Berne
Senate Finance Committee
Robbery gang tied to Kentucky holdup and arrests
Indianapolis police held Jack London alias Benny London on a vagrancy charge as Louisville authorities push a grand jury indictment for participation in a $5000 roadhouse holdup and machine gun battle that wounded four. Also linked, Benjamin Franklin Whittington alias James Carroll identified as a holdup bandit killed in the siege near Lebanon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Jack London
Benny London
Louisville
Benjamin Franklin Whittington
James Carroll
Lebanon
Leonard
Harris Creek
Whittington
Dago Frank
Louden
North Side
City Council Eyes Site to Build Municipal Air Port
The council will likely adopt a resolution to acquire site 8 south of Ben Davis for a municipal air port. Following Wednesday board approval, the 1000 acre tract would be bought as the first legal step toward a city flying field with a $692000 bond issue likely to pass. plans include two hangars an administration building two smaller structures and two oil gravel runways costing about $230000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Davis
Board of Works
Parker Gilbert Home Reparations Kept Mum on German Economy
S Parker Gilbert agent general of reparations arrived in New York from Germany aboard the Berengaria and declined to discuss his official report on the German economic situation in detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
S. Parker Gilbert
Germany
Cunard
Berengaria
Serum Flier Forced Down North of Edmonton
An Edmonton story reports Captain Woo May forced to land at McLennan Alberta with 500000 units of antitoxin. He planned to resume flight to Ft Vermillion and Little Red River amid a diphtheria outbreak. A. Logan of Hudson Bay Company at Ft Vermillion died of the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Edmonton
Alberta
McLennan
Woo May
May
Ft. Vermillion
Little Red River
Peace River
H. A. Hamman
A. Logan
Hudson Bay Company
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House of Representatives
Herbert Hoover
Frederick E. Schortemeier
William W. Spencer
State Election Commission
Leslie
iResinoh
Merchant
Singer
Mrs. Hood
Insley Corporation
Engineer
OGDEN
Gottschalk
Kentucky
Edward G. Plum
Central Avenue
City
Parker
Gilbert Home
Raith
Washington Street
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