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Newspaper

Indianapolis Times

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 23, 1930

Page

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Stimson Urges Global Navy Reductions At London Meet

At the London naval conference Secretary of State Stimson proposed not just limits but a general reduction of navies, saying U S needs are relative and parity with Britain is understood. He indicated the United States would cut its navy if others do.

London Henry L. Stimson United States St. James Palace Stimson Great Britain MacDonald Maurice Haney

American Delegation Attends Cenotaph Tribute in London

United Press reports on January 23 that American delegates to the five power naval conference paid tribute to Britain's war dead at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson led the group, with other delegates, advisers, and British officials present.

United Press London Britain Whitehall Henry L. Stimgon

Grocery Robbery Report at Standard Store

Burglars stole 18 dollars worth of groceries from a Standard grocery on 04 Roosevelt Avenue during Wednesday night.

Roosevelt Avenue

Vincennes Base for Concentrated Flood Relief Effort

Vincennes, Indiana becomes the central hub for flood relief across Indiana and Illinois as Red Cross teams, planes, and emergency stations coordinate air and ground aid to isolated towns. Sickness, pneumonia, and smallpox threaten victims amidst ice jams on the Wabash, with 2,265 families reported in need of assistance.

Bay Times Vincennes Indiana Illinois Red Cross Decker Lawrence Genaro Walter Peck Orrville H. B. Williamson National Red Cross

Byrd Seeks Aid for Antarctic Expedition Short on Provisions

Backers of Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd urge the State Department to seek Norwegian whalers help as several crew members face starvation and a winter spent on the barrier. The department requests aid within 15 days to ensure a safe passage.

United Press Washington Richard E. Byrd State Department Byrd Cotton Oslo Norway

Vast flood this aerial view shows ice engulfing Indiana

From the air the flood zone in southwestern Indiana and parts of Illinois appears as vast plains of ice. Lieutenant Paul Zartman of the Indiana National Guard surveys the marooned farms near the Wabash river and coordinates relief from Vincennes. The Indianapolis plane is to deliver supplies and medicine to flooded sections.

Paul Zartman National Guard Vincennes Manford G. Henley Zartman Carlos Lane the Times Indiana National Guard Indiana Ilinois Wabash River Palestine Princeton Indianapolis

Coal Mines Bill Aims to Regulate Production and Prices

London reports that amid disarmament talks the coal question dominates domestic politics. A new coal mines bill would create a central coordinating scheme to regulate supply and sale across Britain, with district plans for colliery regions.

United Press London Great Britain

Lincoln Bishop Beckman Named Archbishop of Dubuque

Bishop FP J Beckman of Lincoln Nebraska was named archbishop of Dubuque Iowa. The decision announced today by Vatican officials marks a major clerical appointment with Beckman succeeding the current archbishop.

United Press Vatican City FP. J. Beckman Lincoln, Neb Dubuque, Ia

Monte Cervantes Crew and Passengers Safe After Grounding

Intercepted radio report from Ushuaia says all 1200 passengers were removed safely from the steamship Monte Cervantes which went aground near Tierra del Fuego. Passengers, vacationists who sailed January 11 for a two week tour, were ashore as anxious relatives gathered at Hamburg-South America line offices. The vessel reportedly deserted on the barren coast near Ushuaia’s penal colony.

United Preas Buenos Aires Ushuaia Monte Cervantes South America Hamburg-South America Line Argentina Tierra del Fuego

Riots Tighten Guard in Watsonville Cal as Fears Rise

An extra force of deputy sheriffs was sent from Salinas to Watsonville Monterey county to prevent a renewal of race violence between whites and Filipinos. The unrest began Wednesday night with forty people beaten and heightened by the presence of white girls at a Filipino club.

United Press Watsonville Cal Salinas Monterey County

Fox Film Company trustees proposed to oversee

Samuel Untermeyer proposed a board of trustees to run Fox Film Company. The panel would include Charles Evans Hughes, John W. Davis, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1920, and an unnamed large financial house representative. The proposal emerged at a January 23 meeting in Judge Frank Coleman’s chambers amid two equity receivership actions against Fox within the past week.

Tinted Press New York Charles Evans Hughes John W. Davis Fox Film Company Samuel Untermeyer William Fox Untermeyer Frank Coleman

Doran Called to Explain Industrial Alcohol Permits

The House Expenditures Committee demanded Do ran supply data on industrial alcohol permits issued in the Chicago district over the prior two years. Doran had refused to disclose the information when pressed by Rep. Schaeffer a Wisconsin wet.

United Press Washington House Expenditures Committee Prohibition Doran Chicago Schaeffer Rep Wis

Relief From Zero Cold Predicted For Tonight

The article reports Indianapolis enduring a severe cold wave with temperatures near minus 4 to minus 7. The U S Weather Bureau forecast relief for tonight and Friday with a rise to 5 to 10 degrees above zero. The coldest early Wednesday reached 4 below zero.

Indianapolis United States Weather Bureau

Mine union victory curbs Lewis in Illinois court ruling

Illinois United Mine Workers executives won a permanent injunction against John L. Lewis, barring him from revoking the state charter or setting up a provisional district government. The court dissolution of Lewis’s motion ends the case, restraining him from interfering with district leaders Harry L. Fishwick, Walter D. Nesbit, and the group.

United Press Springfield Ill Illinois United Mine Workers of America John L. Lewis National Organization Lewis Harry L. Fishwick Walter D. Nesbit District Union

Five bodies remain after midair crash over Pacific near Santa Monica

A sea off Santa Monica continues to hold the bodies of five of ten men who perished when two flying movie planes collided and fell into the Pacific. Rescue efforts, halted earlier, were suspended after days of unsuccessful searches.

United Press Santa Monica Cal Pacific

Refuses to Allow Pain to Stop Son's Wedding

Hollywood California January 23 1930 Dr Violetta G Shelton plastic surgeon of Cincinnati was seriously injured in an auto crash while en route to Hollywood with her son Gilman 19 and his fiancee Ethel Raney 18 Norwood Ohio Doctors said she would need three months in hospital Yet she urged the ceremony proceed at her bedside The couple spoke their vows as she lay with head and neck in a cast allowing the wedding to go forward despite her injuries

United Pross Ethel Raney Norwood Shelton Gilman

Hoover Meets Trade Chiefs in White House Session

President Hoover hosted leaders of about a dozen national corporations in a White House briefing after a Chamber of Commerce meeting. The executives, members of the executive committee from the national business survey conference, discussed the business situation caused by the stock market crash and planned steps to sustain normal business flow.

United Press Washington Hoover White House United States Chamber of Commerce National Business Survey Conference

Robbed and bound cabbie left in icy snow

George Allen, 35, of 914 East Twenty fifth street, was bound with insulated wire by two men who forced him into his taxi at 1001 North Delaware. They robbed him of $16 and dumped him on Allisonville road in subzero weather, later fleeing as police found the cab at Eleventh and Alabama streets. Allen freed himself and reached W. E. Miller’s home on Allisonville road.

George Allen East Twenty-fifth Street Allisonville Road Allen W. E. Miller North Delaware Street Keystone Avenue Forty-sixth Street Fifty Second Street Eleventh Alabama Streets

Evidence Outlined in Alger Banditry Trial

Defense and state outline upcoming testimony in the Lafontaine State Bank robbery case involving Gene Alger and his wife Josephine Alger. The state will link Josephine to driving and aiding the bandit, while defense contends she did not drive the car. Jury seated. courtroom scenes show family tension as Josephine faces prison prospects.

Alger Wabash Ind Josephine Alger Gene Alger Lafontaine State Bank D. F. Broks Claude McBride Jeffersonville Frank ©. Switzer Clared Alger Brooks Charles Hawer North Manchester Clyde Ogan Don Hecathorne Charles Heilman Preston Peebles Frank Maurer Fred Pries Jacob Diehl Elva Unger Charles Ebblinghouse Mont Ridenour Sam Pillett

Meningitis Toll Rises to Fifty Eight in City

Meningitis deaths climbed to 58 in six weeks with Lawrence Bell 17 dying at city hospital. New cases include Mary McDaniel 6 and Lois Scotten 18 months, totaling 86 in city and vicinity. Dr E T Thompson of Long hospital says admission may begin Monday if no germ carriers found after 500 cultures. A nurse died Tuesday.

Lawrence Bell North Elder Avenue City Hospital Mary McDaniel Bright Street Lois Scotten Whitcomb Place E. T. Thompson Long Hospital

Poison Taken by Woman Prompts Police Report

Mrs. Alice Mitchell of 21 West Tenth Street was taken to City Hospital today after friends informed police she took poison Wednesday night. She had been released earlier after no poison was found, then returned to the hospital later. She was slated to be tried in Judge Dan V. White's court today on a charge filed after her car struck a traffic signal at Tenth Street and Capitol Avenue.

Mrs. Alger Michigan City Walter Daly Gene Reformatory Alice Mitchell West Tenth Street City Hospital

Fugitive Sentenced in Putnam Court

George Howard, a penal farm fugitive from Kentucky, received a sentence of one to five years in the Indiana state penitentiary by Judge James P. Hughes in Putnam circuit court. After serving, he will be extradited to South Carolina for a forgery charge.

Greencastle Ind George Howard Kentucky Indiana State Penitentiary James P. Hughes Putnam South Carolina

Fatal Meal at United Arena In Cambridge City

An unidentified man died of heart disease after a meal donated by a local restaurant owner in Cambridge City. A tattoo on his arm read E. D. Jones born Oct 30 1855, serving as the sole identifying mark. He had been making wire and bead trinkets and planned to head to Kentucky, claiming Maryland as his birthplace.

United Arena Cambridge City Ind E. D. Jones Newcastle Kentucky Maryland

Two Franklin Men Drowned in Sugar Creek Boat Accident

Two Franklin business men Clark Prather a 42 year old druggist and Amador Wyrick a 50 year old dry goods merchant drowned when their rowboat capsized at a four foot dam on Sugar creek six miles south of Franklin Indiana. Three others Floyd Owens Ray Sellers and Arthur McDaniels escaped but suffered exposure. Prather's body was recovered 200 yards below the dam as Indianapolis police assisted with grappling hooks and drag.

Bv Times Franklin Ind Franklin Business Sugar Creek Here Clark Prather Amador Wyrick Floyd Owens Franklin Township Ray Sellers The Franklin Star Arthur McDaniels Statehouse Prather Indianapolis Pekus Club Wyrick Owens Sellers S. E. Vandivier L. Ert Slack

Wood to be tried for double murder in Indiana

Judge Guthrie presides as state and defense accept a jury for the trial of Kentucky mountaineer James E. S. Wood charged with the killings of George and Elizabeth Heath, an aged Indiana farm couple. The jury was chosen after three days of veniremen questions. Prosecutor Joe H. Davis opposes the defense insanity plea.

Science Service Muncie Ind L. A. Guthrie James E. S. Wood Kentucky Mountaineer George Elizabeth Heath Veniremen Joe H. Davis

Circus Leader Mugivan Dies in Detroit Hospital

Jerry Mugivan 60, prominent circus executive and former president of the American Circus Corporation, died after an operation at Harper Hospital in Detroit. He had once controlled more than a dozen circus properties and last summer sold much of the group to the Brothers.

Peru Ind Jerry Mugivan Harper Hospital Detroit Mugivan American Circus Corporation

Clothing plea issued by Volunteers of America

Volunteers of America at 320 North Illinois Street appeals for serviceable clothing including overcoats shoes and warm underwear to aid needy men and boys. Earle T. Hites oversees the mission noting hundreds seeking work are inadequately clothed and that the organization will collect donated articles.

Volunteers of America North Illinois Street Earle T. Hites

Fire damages School No 49 and garage in Mars area

A fire caused an estimated 50 damage at School No 49 on Mars Rise and Kappes streets. The blaze, started by a defective heating pipe as custodian G T Hodges built a fire, was confined to the basement. A separate fire destroyed a garage at 237 North Richland Street owned by P R Pfisterer.

Mars Ris Kappes G. T. Hodges Lambert PR. Pfisterer North Richland Street

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