Rains Cause Huge State Crop Losses for Indiana Farms
Heavy rains across Indiana have damaged corn and wheat, with 3.57 inches recorded in Indianapolis since July and forecasts of more thundershowers. Farm leaders warn continued wet weather could ruin thousands of acres, delaying harvests and plowing while soybeans replace flooded corn fields.
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Weather Bureau
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
J. R. Moore
Farm Bureau
Indianapolis
Wheat Swamps Kansas as Harvest Surges
Kansas farmers moved millions of bushels of wheat as an electrical storm halted harvest across the state. Railroads rushed box cars to market but were overwhelmed by grain. Elevators and yards filled. even the Sublette high school lawn held six great piles of wheat, each more than a block long.
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Dodge City
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Kansas
Sublette
Haskell County
Consolidated High School
Iris Plants In City Ravaged By Borer
Indiana state entomologist Frank Wallace warns city iris plants suffer from borers that bore inside the stalk. There is no effective poison without harming the plant, so the remedy is to cut into the stalk, remove the pest, then kill it. The borers resemble fat grubs in size.
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Indianapolis
Frank Wallace
Wallace
Statehouse
Two Flyers Injured in Lebanon Plane Crash
United Press report from Lebanon Indiana details that aviators Robert Crox and Lester Long from Terre Haute were injured when their aircraft fell from a low altitude near Lebanon. They were found by farmer Fred Cass and taken to a local hospital, after departing Dresser Field for Defiance Ohio while employed by Simplex Air Corporation. Crox sustained the more serious injuries.
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United Press
Lebanon
Ind
Robert Crox
Lester Long
Terre Haute
Fred Cass
Farmer
Dresser Field
Defiance
Simplex Air Corporation
Crox
Livingstone Seeks Theater Offers After Breach Verdict
Ann Livingston, who sued Franklin St. Hardinge for breach of promise, won 25,000 in Chicago circuit court. She has offers from theaters paying up to 3,500 a week and a major motion picture proposal under consideration. Her attorney says she will decide after rest in Tulsa.
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Ann Livingston
Franklin St. Hardinge
Benjamin H. Ehrlich
Tulsa
Ehrlich
Hardinge
Missing Henrietta Stickam Sought After Disappearance Near Bluff Road
Police search for 17 year old Henrietta Stickam who vanished after leaving Indianapolis with a man. Henry Stickam reports she intended to go to California with Leon Johnson. Henrietta boarded a bus toward Michigan City and Chicago but was not aboard by the northern Indiana stop. A second missing person, Grace Nicholson, 32, mother of eight, also remains missing after telephoning her husband that she was ill.
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Henry Stickam
Hannah Avenue
Bluff Road
Henrietta
Indianapolis
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Chicago
Indiana
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Grace Nicholson
Deloss Street
J. J. Nicholson
Body of Glacier Victim Found on Mount Rainier
After an eight hour descent, the body of Forest Greathouse former Illinois football star was recovered from a crevasse on Mount Rainier near Paradise Inn Washington. A party of six led by Charles Brown attempted the summit first climb when they were swept from a ledge. Wetzel of Milwaukee died. four others were rescued.
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Rainier Park
Wash
Forrest Greathouse
University of Illinois
Mt. Rainier
Greathouse
Charles Brown
Edwin A. Wetzel
Milwaukee
Wetzel
Officer's kiss to wife fre es Hoosier from counterfeiting case
Terre Haute Indiana July 8 Police read a dispatch from Miami Florida about the escape of Henry Davey from deputy U S marshal W F Fox Davey was en route to Louisville Kentucky to face federal charges of counterfeiting Fox kissed his wife and when he returned Davey had vanished Davey a gunman and counterfeiter from Shelburn fled three years ago during a crackdown on the Billy Evans ring He later faced a $8 000 payroll holdup in Greene county and surrendered after being found at a relative's home in Shelburn Authorities say Davey has not been seen locally in years but have reports of recent presence
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Latta Creek
Greene County
Dusty Graham
Florida City
Ship Sinks in Blast Off English Coast Report
A wireless message from a Danish steamer stated a ship sank after an explosion off the Suffolk coast with all hands lost. Northforeland radio intercepted the report early today and no survivors were found in the latest message.
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United Press
London
Suffolk
Northforeland
Eleven Dead As Toll Of Violence In Indiana Weekend
Eleven known dead and possibly two more feared after a violent weekend in Indiana. Names include Al len C Yeager Evansville business man and Russell Morris 13 missing after a boat test. others drownings suicides and a fatal train crash across multiple counties.
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Evansville
Russell Morris
Ohio River
Yeager
John Edward Filer, Jr
Hoyt Avenue
Indianapolis
Sugar Creek
Edinburg
Julius Samuels
Chicago
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Knox
Adolph Ostergreen
Fishtrap Lake
Laporte
Albert Kohn
Kokomo
Lovell J. Lehman
H. M. Tyler
Lafayette
Orva Roberts
Montpelier
Don Chapman
Sparrows
James T. Howell Jr
Allison Engineering expansion plans seen in Speedway City
The tearing down of several old plant buildings today signals a major expansion of the Allison Engineering Company in Speedway City. N H Gilman president said old structures are being removed to clear space for expansion but gave no start date. The firm was purchased by General Motors Corporation with plans for a large enlargement for aviation work.
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Speedway City
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Allison Company
General Motors Corporation
General Coxey to lead 3000 mile auto caravan for unemployment plan
Massillon Ohio July coverage details General Jacob S Coxey plans a 3000 mile automobile tour to sell a new plan to reduce unemployment and finance public works without interest charges. The campaign includes a car caravan 5,000 audience seats and a steam calliope. Coxey will visit twelve congressional districts to press his bill and rally voters.
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Death by own action named in fraud suit
South Bend July 8. Charges in a land fraud suit involving the late Edward J. Fogarty, former Indiana prison warden, who committed suicide here a month ago, are without basis say Sgt. Edward Keller. The suit in federal court of southern Georgia names Fogarty executors and Hoboken Land and Development Co. as defendants. Mrs. Lydia Norman of Chicago alleges she was defrauded of 80 000. Her attorney says she is now penniless after having once been worth 100 000. The suit claims threats by Norman led Fogarty to kill himself at Keller’s home. He was warden of the Cook County jail, Chicago.
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Times Special
South Bend
Ind
Edward J. Fogarty
Indiana
Edward Keller
Fogarty
Lydia Norman
Chicago
Federal Court of
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Hoboken Land and Development Company
Georgia
Keller
Cook County
Lang considers retirement from Oberammergau Christ role
Bavarian star Anton Lang, veteran Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play, says the role is a physical strain and may retire after the 1930 casting. He notes weather, endurance, and a younger man’s suitability, while suggesting the prologue speaker duty may pass to the retiring actor.
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Anton Lang
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Herr Lang
Hijackers stop auto near Flackville
L. L. Jackson of Louisville Kentucky was halted by four young men in a Ford sedan early Sunday near Flackville. They fired several shots and claimed to be officers before searching his car and stealing nothing. Police suspect the men were watching for a liquor car.
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L. L. Jackson
Louisville
Flackville
Jackson
New Man Says Ex Football Star After Operation
Howard Buck former Chicago university quarterback and reformatory inmate speaks from Robert W Long hospital claiming a skull operation cured his war with crime. He credits Governor Leslie and doctors for the chance to reform and vows to make good while the reformer and chaplain describe his renewed fight.
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Robert W. Long Hospital
Leslie
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State Reformatory
Pendleton
Purdue
Chicago University
Reformatory
Sor
Government Eyes Turn on Huge Mergers
Federal officials and Congress study unprecedented mergers spanning banking power, radio, shipping, auto manufacturing, hotels and more. More than sixty deals are under antitrust scrutiny amid talks of a new regulatory agency and potential inquiries.
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Department of Justice
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