Ten Die In Pacific Plane Crash Aboard Film Crew
Kenneth Hawks and nine others perished when two camera planes collided and exploded during a film shoot off Santa Monica. Rescue efforts and a broad search continued for the missing crew as the coast guard and allies scoured the area. Mary Astor awaited news as her husband Hawks lay among the fallen.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Alfred Lowenstein
Pacific Ocean
Lowensten
English Channel
Kenneth Hawks
Mary Astor
Coast Guard
Becomes Movie Star Francis Dade Heads to Hollywood
Miss Francis P. Dade 21 leaves for Hollywood to become the leading lady for actor Ronald Colman in his next film Raffles. She has signed a five year contract and never before acted in a motion picture.
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United Press Philad
Francis P. Dade
Hollywood
Ronald Colman
Raffles
Cheese Loving Mouse Traps Airmail Plane
A flying mouse stowed aboard the Prest-O-Lite monoplane after nibbling a candy gift in the office of J. H. McDuffee at Capitol airport. For ten days the rodent hid in the craft while McDuffee and pilot Dick Knox traveled to multiple cities before finally succumbing to a cheese lure that lured the intruder away.
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Prest-O-Lite
J. H. McDuffee
Capitol Airport
McDuffee
Dick Knox
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Knox
Indiana Weather Warning For Shippers As Temperatures Drop
Warnings to shippers and motorists in Indiana to brace for night temperatures around 15 degrees above zero and a rise by Saturday night were issued by U S weather bureau meteorologist J H Armington. Flood risks persist along the Wabash and White rivers with rising levels near Terre Haute and Decker. abnormal warmth has marked December with 55 degree readings and a blizzard on Dec 18.
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Indiana
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Wabash
White
Terre Haute
Lagro
Decker
White River
Loogootee
Armington
Indianapolis
Hunt for Witness in Taylor Murder Hinges on Heffner
Police pursue Otis Heffner alias Arthur Nelson, ex convict and murder witness, at his parents home in a California town and in Texas birthplace. Authorities hope locating Heffner will enable finding Edward Sands, Taylor's former valet, believed to be in Mexico.
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United Press
San Francisco
William Desmond Taylor
Hollywood
Otis Heffner
Heffner
Arthur Nelson
California
Texas
Edward Sands
Flames Rout Ill Man In Duplex Fire On Broadway
Forest Hyten left a sick bed to escape a fire at dawn in the duplex at 2211 Broadway where his family and that of O N Pruitt lived. The blaze drove residents into the street as flames swept the structure.
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Forest Hyten
Broadway
O. N. Pruitt
Dinner with Arthur Knight in a New York hotel
Judith Cameron a reserved, sought after office girl in a New York publishing house accepts a dinner invitation from Arthur Knight head of her department. She arrives at a drab Fifth Avenue hotel with Knight and they are seated at a rose shaded table for a meal, beginning an evening of unease and anticipation.
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Judith Cameron
New York
Judith
Kathryn Tupper
Carla Morrison
Arthur Knight
Knight
Mr. Knight
Fifth Avenue
Will
Ventilation in Schools Prompts Health Official Urge
Dr. Herman G. Morgan city health commissioner urged the new school board to survey heating, ventilation and humidity in all city schools. He cited room temperature disparities from 56 to 85 degrees and warned of winter illnesses, calling for hourly charts and designated in-building supervisors.
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Herman G. Morgan
New School Board
Morgan
Health Board
Fred Kepner
City to delay school opening over spinal meningitis outbreak
The city school board, with Health Commissioner Dr Herman Morgan, ordered postponement of public school openings to Jan 13 as a precaution against spinal meningitis. Private and parochial schools will remain closed until the epidemic abates, despite public demand to keep schools open.
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Herman G. Morgan
Louis Kepner
Julian Wetzel
Dr. Morgan
City Health Board
Morgan
Health Board
Public night school No 8 to reopen for winter term
Public night school No 8 at Lexington and Virginia avenues will reopen for the second winter term on Monday night.
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Lexington and
Virginia Avenues
McGraw Launches Daily World Series Essays in Times
John J. McGraw longtime Giants manager writes a daily series for The Indianapolis Times. The first piece appears in the Pink edition Saturday, analyzing the 1929 World Series plays between the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago Cubs with diagrams.
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John J. McGraw
New York Giants
Indianapolis Times
Times
McGraw
Little Napoleon
Diamond
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago Cubs
The
Ashes to Four Lands From Mayes Cremation Request
International tennis figure Colonel H C Mayes asked his ashes be divided into four equal parts and scattered in Leicester Canada South Africa and Greece. The first portion was placed on his father's grave at Gilroes Cemetery after his death in December. Police reported 1797 arrests in 1929, up from 1395 in 1928 in Richmond Indiana.
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Leicester
England
H. C. Mayes
Canada
South Africa
Greece
Mayes
Gilroes
Arthur Crosfield
Cape Mounted Rifles
Silence on Marion County Appointments in 1930
Marion county commissioners again delayed naming 119 appointive officers for 1930. The split board considered whether to officially designate the appointments, with Auditor Harry Dunn and Sheriff George Winkler present. Dunn urged keeping current office holders pending competency review, while others offered no final decision.
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Marion County
John Shearer
George Snider
Harry Dunn
George L. Winkler
Dunn
Mellon Defends Slaying of Three Booze Runners
Boston crowd tears down and tramples Coast Guard recruiting posters on the common in protest over the Newport killings. Officials call the act an insult to the flag as police stand by without arrests. Mellon says coast guard acted within the law and justified in firing on the rum runners.
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Coast Guard
United Press
Boston
Boston Common
Beacon Hill
Coast Guards
Newport
R. I
George Briggs
United States
Old Faneuil Hall
Hoover
Faneuil Hall
William H. Mitchell
Crispus Attucks
Liberal Civic League
John J. Douglass
John F. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Coast
Washington
R. 1
West Indies
Treasury
Prohibition
Bank call issued as of December 31 by Comptroller of Currency
Washington January 3 The Comptroller of the Currency today issued a bank call as of December 31 outlining financial data and compliance expectations for banks under supervision. The notice directs banks to report assets liabilities and earnings for the year ending December 31 and to meet regulatory requirements.
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United Press
Washington
Comptroller of Currency
Pole Today
Detroit faces boldest opposition to law in history
On January 3 1930 Detroit endured three major blows to police and prosecution as a police inspector survived an assassination attempt and a prosecutor faced hush attempts while three state witnesses vanished before the manslaughter trial of Marty Cohn linked to the Study Club cabaret fire where twenty two people died.
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United Press
Detroit
Henry J. Garvin
Marty Cohn
Study Club
Intrastate Coal Rate Session Yields Compromise In House
A joint hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission and Public Service Commission in the House of Representatives produced a compromise on intrastate coal rates after months of dispute. Leading operators shippers consumers and railroad representatives attended. The plan, approved by all but Southern Railway, follows rates set by a 1924 Public Service Commission order and subsequent court losses for the railroads.
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House of Representatives
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission
Southern Railway Company
French rivers rise as floods threaten Chalons Sur Marne
The Seine and Marne rivers surged today after heavy weeklong rains. Officials report widespread flooding around Chalons Sur Marne with embankments inspected for damage and no casualties recorded so far.
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United Press
Paris
Seine
Marne
Chalons-Sur-Marne
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