Wife testifies in Mishawaka murder case recalling $50 payment
Mrs. Janie Reyher admits hiring detective Harvey L. Smith to shadow her husband Charles Reyher and to scare Genevieve Stults out of town. She says she cannot remember many details while detailing payments and meetings at URLs and home.
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Arch Steines
Times
Elkhart
Ind
Janie Reyher
Charles Reyher
South Bend
Harvey L. Smith
Genevieve Stults
Smith
Gladstone
Reyher
Stults
Keith
Christmas Clearing House Prevents Duplication in Giving
The annual report led by Herbert S. King shows the Christmas Clearing House saved 768 duplication cases and assisted 3,185 families. Examples include multiple listings per family and forty-seven organizations using the service to coordinate donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert S. King
Budget Committee Hears Budget Cut Proposals
Members of the state budget committee and Lawrence Orr conferred today with Governor Ed Jackson on proposed cuts in departmental and institutional budgets. Similar conferences will occur with Governor Harry G. Leslie after his inauguration before final draft submission to the legislature.
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State Budget Committee
Lawrence Orr
State Board of Accounts
Ed Jackson
Harry G. Leslie
Orr
Breakin Cold Predicted With Temps Ranging Zero to 20
The weather bureau predicted a short break in the cold wave with rising temperatures today and tomorrow. Lows tonight around zero to 4 degrees above, Wednesday near freezing. Ft. Wayne hit 2 below, Chicago reported subzero to 10 below.
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Weather Bureau
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Armington
Ft. Wayne
United Press
Chicago
Northwest
Canadian Northwest
Moorehead
Minn
Duluth
Green Bay
WAKES TO FIND BED IN FLAMES
Walter Hudson 50 woke at 2 30 am to find his bedclothes on fire in his two room frame home. He ran barefoot to a neighbor’s, losing most clothes as smoke and flames consumed furnishings. Damage estimated at 1200 dollars. Fire blamed on an overheated stove in the bedroom.
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Walter Hudson
South State Avenue
Hudson
Jess Miller
Quill Street
Sofia Jaegers
le Grande Avenue
Anna Longer
North
Delaware Street
Indianapolis Fire Losses Hit 1.28 Million in 1928
Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell announced Indianapolis sustained 1 275 000 in fire losses for 1928 up 462 000 from 1927 driven by three major blazes at Bethard War Paper Edward Traugott and Emroé Sporting Goods and a Roesner storage house. The city logged 4047 fire calls in 1928 versus 4127 in 1927 with December losses totaling about 300 000 from 445 fires.
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Indianapolis
Harry E. Voshell
Voshell
Bethard War Paper Company
Edward Traugott
Emroé Sporting Goods Company
Roesner
Humane Society Opposes Dogs on Car Running Boards
The Indianapolis Humane Society urged passage of laws banning dogs riding on running boards of automobiles. The group filed a resolution condemning the practice and calling for legal penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humane Society
Indianapolis Humane Society
Houdini code message repeats in trance séance
A trance séance with Arthur Ford, a spiritualist minister, relays Houdini's code message to his wife. Ford, speaking through a control named Fletcher, says the words There is no death and ties immortality to the coded note Houdini left with his wife before he died.
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Harry R. Zander
United Press
New York
Harry Houdini
Arthur Ford
Spiritualist
Houdini
Lagoon Lures Skaters at South Gove Lagoon
Photographs show youngsters skating on a historic frozen lagoon with coal heater warmth provided by the park board. The scene captures long lasting ice fun during near zero weather and classic skating stunts.
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South Gove Lagoon
Park Board
Houdini's Wife Responds to Mind Reading Claim
In a tense exchange, Houdini asks to repeat his mind reading code. He calls Mrs Houdini by his pet name Bess and murmurs Rosabelle. She answers softly in acknowledgment.
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Fello
Bess
Houdini
Rosabelle
Mrs. Houdini
Rhapsody in shoe chic shocks Chicago shows
Rhapsody crepe in lavender hieroglyphics headlines spring fare as new materials appear for ladies footwear. Joseph Urban designed the rhapsody shoe while linen silk crepe spun straw and lizard skin replace leather in vivid spring models shown at the National Shoe Retailers Association convention.
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United Press
Chicago
National ‘Shoe Retailers Association
Joseph Urban
Poison liquor bill introduced in New York Legislature
The poison liquor bill was introduced in the New York Legislature today making it a crime to sell liquor containing any poison. The measure, carried by Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, previously failed last year.
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New York
United
Alb. N. Y
Louis A. Cuvillier
Two Witnesses Missing as Probe Advances in Angola
In Steuben county crime ring probe, two witnesses Nellie Coleman and Berdino Dando were reported missing with the grand jury convened. State Police Lt Charles Bridges declined to reveal their whereabouts but promised they will appear when the jury is ready.
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Timee Special
Angola
Ind
Steuben County
Charles Bridges
Nellie Coleman
Berdino Dando
South Bend
Bridges
George McHie
Ray Dunlap
Forrest Huntington
State Bureau of ‘Criminal Investigation and Identification
Emory Powers
Frank Garman
Will Purdy
Warren Purdy
Five Dead In Calbuco Volcano Eruption
Five people are confirmed dead after Sundays Calbuco volcano eruption near Santiago Chile. Several towns report residents missing as authorities assess damage and locate others.
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Chile
Santiago
Calabuco
Apparition at St Anne’s Draws Nightly Crowds in Keansburg
In Keansburg New Jersey the St Anne's Church congregation seeks a better explanation for a luminous figure seen on the church door each night. The rector Rev Thomas A Kearney suggests a tree reflection but the figure remains when lights are off. Crowds gather nightly in front of the church hoping to witness the apparition.
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United Press
Blimp joins hunt for missing Melvin Horst in Ohio
The Good year dirigible Puritan joined the search for Melvin Horst a 4yearold Orrville boy missing ten days from home. Piloted by Jack Boettner the balloon took off at noon from Akron Ohio as part of the hunt.
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Ohio
United Press
Akron
Goodyear
Mrs Vanderbilt Jr. Wife of Publisher Confined in Reno Hospital
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., wife of the former newspaper publisher, was confined to Reno General Hospital today with pneumonia.
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Vanderbilt Ti
Reparations sought in major Indianapolis hearing
One of the largest reparations cases in Indianapolis will be heard at the Federal Building Friday by the interstate commerce commission and the Indiana public service commission. Fertilizer firms including Swift and Armour of Chicago seek about 500000 over two years for alleged excessive freight rates. The case rests on a 30 percent rate cut ordered October 5, 1928, with a hearing expected to run three to four days.
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Indianapolis
Federal Building
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission of Indiana
Swift and Armour
Chicago
House Appropriates 150000 for Marion Veterans Building
The House approved an additional 150000 to fund a new fifty bed unit at the Marion Indiana veterans psychiatric hospital. This brings the total appropriation to 250000 for the project.
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United Press
Washington
Veterans Psychiatric Hospital of
Marion
Ind
Tobacco Magnate Dead in New York
Benjamin Newton Duke brother of the late James P. Duke of the Duke Tobacco Company died today at his New York residence. He was a member of the tobacco company.
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New York
Benjamin Newton Duke
James P. Duke
The
Duke Tobacco Company
Tobacco Company
Bank Robbery at Irvington State Bank by Four Men
Four young bandits raided the Irvington State Bank on Ritter avenue at 9 30 am taking between 10 000 and 12 000 while forcing employees and customers into the vault. They used sawed off shotguns and revolvers, left a flour sack loot bag, and fled in a dark blue or green sedan toward downtown. No customers' cash was taken. Local police and deputies swarmed the area with many cars chasing leads.
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Irvington State Bank
Ritter Avenue
East Washington Street
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
W. B. Gates
Verna C. Zander
Butler Avenue
Zander
Ted M. Campbell
North Layman Avenue
Margaret Askren
Campbell
Gale Eaton
Oakland Avenue
Teller
Miss Merl Davis
Downing Avenue
Joseph McClanahan
North Rural Street
Ed Mulvaney
North Walcott Street
Moffett
R. C. Wright
Beech Grove
Shelbyville
Tex Rickard Lays In State At Madison Square Garden
Tex Rickard lies in a bronze casket at Madison Square Garden in New York as crowds, friends, and longtime staff pay tribute. Dempsey heads arrangements with Miami Beach officials, and the Garden opens to the public 6 to 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. to funeral time.
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United Press
NEW York
Tex Rickard
Madison Square Garden
Rickard
Tex
New York City
Miami Beach
Steve Hannagan
Dempsey
Auto clamp urged in Colorado to curb wrecks
Governor W H Adams from his sick bed urged drastic steps to reduce automobile accidents in Colorado. He warned reckless driving endangers pedestrians and children and called for legislative action to address the growing problem. In another item, Clem Foley a 54 year old grocery clerk was shot during a $200 robbery by three bandits in Fort Wayne Indiana.
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United Press
D . Colo
W. H. Adams
Colorado
FY. Wayne
Ind
Clem Foley
Inauguration Plans Omit Governor Jackson Verse Indiana
Indiana prepares for Governor-Elect Leslie with Edgar D. Bush as lieutenant and Genevieve Brown taking oath as supreme court reporter. Charles L. Biederwolf says Jackson will not speak and may receive a seat if available. Purdue will preside as the 139th Field Artillery Band from Lebanon provides music. Seats for 150 legislators and 500 public seats arranged.
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Leslie
Edgar D. Bush
Genevieve Brown
Supreme Court
Statehouse
Purdue University
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State Committee
Mid-West
Satur
New Jersey City
Blimp
Bandit
James Moffett
Irvington Avenue
Jackson
Indiana
Charles L. Biederwolf
Archie Bobbitt
Biederwolf
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