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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1929
Page
1
Bernard Sturgis selects Edison as successor to Wizard to work in the family store owned by Dad. Edison assumes role at the Bernard Sturgis shop with duties in groceries and customer service. Dallas papers note the transition in local trade circles.
State officials opened a case after a Dana mine clash as a delegation of nonunion workers asked Governor Leslie for protection. They accuse Sheriff Newland of inaction during a mob attack and seek state aid amid pay disputes with union miners, with injuries reported and plans for further talks.
New Orleans July 2 A walkout by more than 2000 New Orleans Public Service Company workers left transport at a standstill. Union officials rejected the contract offer in a unanimous vote leaving bus and streetcar service disrupted all day.
About 90 000 gallons of oil with an asphalt base were used by the state highway department to oil the road from Columbus to Nashville. The work has been completed.
Mary Elizabeth York, 2, of Albany, N Y, visited Northampton on July 2 and walked to Massasoit street to meet former President Calvin Coolidge. On the porch she greeted the couple and replied when Coolidge asked how she was after she said she was all right before leaving.
John Passwater and Carl Schaefer were charged with operating a gambling house after a raid at Passwater's soft drink parlor at 228 Indiana avenue. The men faced bonds and jail, amid allegations a young man mortgaged his home after losing about $1,000 in baseball pool bets.
Police received numerous calls from across the city about children using fire crackers before the permitted Thursday window. Most complaints came from ill residents, and the youths typically fled before officers could reach the scene.
Richard Lowther 17 was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Julius and Mrs Underwood after an automobile crash on Jan. 7 at Fifty second Street and Central Avenue. A disease argument and expert testimony raised doubt of guilt. prosecutor Stark declined to appeal.
President Hoover announces Alexander Legge of Chicago to chair the federal farm board for the first year, with J. C. Stone as vice chairman. Legge leaves a $100,000 income for a $12,000 salary, while C. C. Teague of California joins the board amid similar sacrifices.
Theodore Glenn, 19 months old son of Dr. Chester L. Glenn of Quincy, died after a peanut lodged in his lung. Surgeons had removed the nut in Philadelphia earlier, but the child relapsed at Boston's Children’s Hospital despite initial recovery. The loss comes weeks after Dr. Glenn’s 3-day-old daughter also died.
Ten year old Sanges Lupe escaped from a third floor apartment and fell when a flower box collapsed. Parents Peter and Petra Lupe had locked her in while they went to work. The tragedy occurred Monday in Chicago.
Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a Delaware circuit court ruling that Taylor must serve a life sentence for the murder of Earl Cook in Muncie on August 1, 1928. Cook was shot while waving a putty knife as he was partially drunk. Taylor had pleaded self defense.
Dr. Paul A. Lewis, pathologist and bacteriologist, who went to Bahia, Brazil to study yellow fever prevention, died there Sunday of the disease. Announcement made by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell battled a near-crash over Cleveland when a food bag snagged the City of Cleveland’s tail during a 5000 foot refueling, forcing an emergency recovery by refueling pilot Ernie Basham. The pair had logged 90 hours 22 minutes seeking a new endurance record, while both men suffered colds.
United Press reports Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison, attempting a sustained flight record in a Cessna monoplane, landed at Metropolitan airport after 42 hours aloft since Sunday morning. Motor failure forced a pancake landing through dense ground fog. both pilots unharmed. In Culver City Lorren Mendell and Peter Reinhart flew a Buhl air sedan from the airport at 7 29 30 a m aiming to break the world sustained flight record.
Washington July 2 Rear Admiral Bradley A Fiske retired won a $198000 judgment in district supreme court against Rear Admiral William Moffett head of the naval bureau of aeronautics for alleged disregard of patent rights on torpedo planes.
Small boys near a city hospital watched Patrolmen Norval Bennett and Ben Gaither display a combined mace and tear gas gun. The weapon discharged accidentally sending gas into the air while the two officers dodged, and Bennett retrieved the weapon after several minutes.
Professor Charles C. Peters of Pennsylvania State College presents a blueprint for the model husband. It lists duties including solving family economic problems, repairing home items, managing clothing care, handling a checking account, guiding children, and maintaining home harmony.
Senate finance chairman Reed Smoot says farmers and producers have received the best of it in the tariff bill so far. He accuses Democrats of politicking and cites gestures by Ways and Means and Finance committees as favorable to farmers.
A dependent wife and four children cannot secure Bernard S. Reiss release as Federal Judge George Faris questions the claim he lost 27 345 in a gambling game before bankruptcy. Reiss has been jailed six months and was not allowed to testify on his family’s dependency.
In Americus Georgia on July 2 the first peonage trial in years began in federal court. Defendant W D Arnold Sr a Webster county planter is accused by Claude King and another man of keeping them in servitude for two years. King says Arnold ordered him whipped when he tried to escape with his wife and four children.
In 1922 at Chicago hospital a skull injury threatens to turn Howard Buck from an athlete to a lifetime criminal. Governors and surgeons debate surgery to erase criminal tendencies as Buck, an ex Purdue Cedar Rapids athlete and Indiana reformatory inmate, pursues a new life after the operation at Long hospital.
New York 6 12 1 defeats Boston 3 8 1 in a nine inning National League first game with Fitzsimmons Hogan Seibold Spohrer and Hadley Ruel Walberg Cochrane. Washington 4 7 1 Philadelphia 7 9 2 as Hadley Ruel Walberg Cochrane.
In Atlanta on July 2 two National Education Association presidential candidates stated positions on using public schools for propaganda. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln Nebraska opposes commercial school propaganda but supports temperance education. Effie McGregor of Minneapolis agrees with Vel Lamkin that a plan to distribute prohibition pamphlets in schools should be discarded.
In Valparaiso Indiana Circuit Judge Grant Crumpacker hears defense for Mrs Catherine Cassler and her adopted son Edward on first degree murder charges They challenge the coroner inquest evidence saying grand jury indictments were tainted and witnesses did not sign statements. counsel Ira C Tilton argues for abatement and irregularities in the case.
Consolidation of ten public utility subsidiaries of Cities Service Company into one firm named Tennessee Central Service Company. The new company unites electric light power gas traction units in upper east Tennessee Virginia and North Carolina with a capital of 10 million dollars.
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