G O P Chief Urges Orr to Permit Bookkeeping Violations
Elza O. Rogers Republican state chairman leads pressure to let Gary city treasurer Herman H. Werber keep books as is despite 1929 statute and attorney general ruling demanding separation of waivered and unwaivered Barrett funds. Senator C Oliver Holmes and Orr are drawn into the push while Field Examiners report the issue to Orr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel M. Kidney
Elza O. Rogers
Lawrence JF. Orr
State Board of Accounts
Gary
Wimes
Rogers
Orr
Herman H. Werber
Board of Accounts
C. Oliver Holmes
Rep
Seng
Holmes
Werber
Werri
Faw
The
Times
James M. Ogden
Ogden
Barrett Funds
John C. Thurman
Hugh D. Studabaker
G. O. P. State
the Severin
Lake County
Highway Board Debates Loan to Meet Construction Costs
The state highway commission and Governor Harry L. Leslie discuss borrowing funds from other departments to cover current obligations caused by rapid season construction. With only 797,766.28 in treasury, the commission seeks 1,357,264.32 from counties cities and towns division of the state gas tax, distributed annually on March 1. Ample funds are expected by season end to satisfy this year's claims, but paving may be curtailed if fast payments cannot be secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
State Highway Commission
Yee
Harry G. Leslie
Highway Commission
Patients to Be Ousted From Quarters for Tuberculosis Care
Condemnation forces removal of twenty advanced tubercular patients from current quarters. Local authorities plan temporary housing arrangements as hospital capacity is reallocated. The move aims to secure safer facilities while awaiting new accommodations.
Lindys May Go West to Tulsa Home
Officials say Lindbergh family plans to relocate to Tulsa establishing a western home. Headlines note weather readings with temperatures from 6am to noon, showing 69 to 82 degrees across the morning.
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Lindys
Tulsa
Lindbergh
Metropolitan
Prisoners Held After Stolen Potatoes Found
Nine potatoes were found in the possession of John Klinger and John Washburn in Knox county jail at Vincennes Indiana. Farmer Joseph Donnersberger reported the tubers were dug from his field and alerted the sheriff. Deputy Lester Robbins arrested the men as one prepared to fry the spuds and the other peeled them. Klinger claimed Pennsylvania as his home while Washburn said he was from New York.
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Times
Vincennes
Ind
John Klinger
John Washburn
Knox County
Joseph Donnersberger
Sheriff's Office
Lester Robbins
Klinger
Washburn
Pennsylvania
New York
Suit Over Whisper Claims Tonsil Operation Faults
William Dale files in Hamilton circuit court against Dr. Herman Deck seeking 25000 for negligence unskilled surgery and lack of attention. Dale says tonsil removal left him unable to speak above a whisper due to alleged tissue and organ damage. Also notes infirmary inmate Thomas Neal dies at 69 in Randolph county infirmary with surviving son and daughters.
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Nee Or
Swioblesville
Ind
Hamilton Circuit Court
William Dale
Herman Deck
Dale
Winchester
Thomas Neal
Randolph County Infirmary
Everett
Mancie
Michigan
Elizabeth Chamness
Farmland
Anna Stegall
Williamsburg
Jonathan Davis
Orphans of the Sun Hatch In Heat Wave Chicks
A heat wave spawns newborn chicks after farmers gathered eggs from nests in Jackson county Indiana. E R Weekly turned in thirty egg cases to Kingan and Co. on Monday and Norman Dunn reported twenty nine more cases and one batch of chicks on Tuesday. The orphan chicks linked to eggs bought for 15 cents a dozen now fetch 1 50 a dozen at market. The birds will be showcased at Purdue University led Indiana poultry tour visiting the Kingan plant Thursday.
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E. R
Columbus
Ind
Kingan & Co. Poultry Division
South Kentucky Avenue
Jackson County
Norman Dunn
Dunn
Indiana
Purdue University
Kingan Plant
Murder shocks Detroit after recall election ends Bowles era
Gerald W. Buckley attorney and radio commentator was shot in the La Salle hotel two hours after Detroit voters recalled Mayor Charles Bowles. Governor Green ordered state police to aid the investigation as police tied the slaying to gambling interests and underworld foes Buckley had attacked. A suspect, Angelo Livecchi, 29, was named. Buckley had received threats and carried a permit to bear a revolver.
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United Press
Detroit
Gerald W. Buckley
Charles Bowles
Fred Green
Holland
Mich
Aiport
Green
Buckley
Thomas C. Wilcox
Angelo Livecchi
Wilcox
la Salle
WMBC
Bowles
Auttomobile
Paul Buckley
McSwiggin
Lingle
Chicago
St. Mary’s
Kan
Ford Motor Company
Michigan
Norman Smith
Detroit News
Owles
Boy Climbs Tree Sitters Endurance Record
Palmer McCloskey, 14, of 328 North Temple Street, holds a 216th hour aloft in a nondrop tree sit. Fellow competitors Warren Wintenread and David Smith remain a day behind him, with more than a dozen others in the contest.
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Palmer McCloskey
North Temple Street
Warren Wintenread
Brightwood
David Smith
Beech Grove
Palmer
Billings to Face California Supreme Court Retrial
Warren K. Billings, convicted of murder in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, will be retried before the California Supreme Court starting July 29. The case could also affect Thomas J. Mooney, who was convicted in the same crime. Witness John MacDonald, who recanted his 1921 affidavit, will testify for Mooney and Billings. The decision follows Governor Young’s refusal to hear MacDonald’s testimony and ties to California’s rule requiring a favorable court recommendation for pardons.
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United Press
San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
California
California Supreme Court
C. C. Young
John MacDonald
Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
MacDonald
Baltimore
Mooney
McDonald
Supreme Je Che Yore Aestray
Young
Supreme Court
Killer Burke Suspect Taken In Police Net
Police capture a man matching the Chicago gunman Fred Burke alias Fred Dane near Sixteenth Street and Road 52 after a reported meetup with two young women. Authorities detain Clifford Burke of Chicago for questioning as the search continues for Burke, tied to the St. Valentine’s Day massacre and notorious machine gun killings.
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State Road 52
America
Fred
Sixteenth Street
Road 52
Illinois
Quake Devastates Southern Italy. Hundreds Dead Across Regions
An earthquake spanning from Naples to Foggia devastates multiple provinces. Reports show hundreds killed, thousands injured, with cities like Melfi and Villanova severely damaged. Vesuvius activity rises briefly as refugees flee and relief efforts begin.
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Naples
Italy
Mediterranean
Foggia
Adriatic
Villanova
Montecalvo
Avellino
Venosa
Potenza
Melfi
Mt. Vesuvius
Vesuvius
United Press
Rome
Napoli
Benevento
Montecalvo Irpino
Compotasso
Matna
Bari
Negro in raid on home but not arrested by police
A man who claimed to be a police officer raided the home of Carl Mack at 1119 Churchman avenue with a makeshift ambush claiming to search for a still. Police say no evidence he bound Mack or acted as an officer and he was not arrested on charges listed.
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Arthur Huber
Carl
Connie) Mack
Churchman Avenue
Mack
Ralph Chambers
Chambers
Huber
Air race pilot Hosler injured in takeoff accident
Detroit aviator R. A. Hosler, contestant in the all American air derby, was injured when his Simplex nosed over on takeoff at Lunken Airport Cincinnati as the field of twelve ships started a fourth lap toward Little Rock. He escaped the wreck, was shaken, and taken to a hospital.
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Cincinnati
United Press
Lunken
R. A. Hosler
Detroit
Little Rock
Ark
Hosler
Indian Relics Found By Smithsonian Archaeology Team
An archaeological survey in Delaware County conducted for the Smithsonian Institution by F. M. Seltzer of the University of Chicago reports seven Indian mounds and two authentic village sites. Three main Indian trails cross the county, all in different directions, with hundreds of skeletons found in gravel pits and two unearthed by Seltzer to be stored in the institution files.
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Ind
Delaware County
Smithsonian Institution
F. M. Setzler
University of Chicago
Seltzer
Jury Deliberating Kolb Poison Murder Verdict in Indiana
In Greenfield Indiana a Hancock circuit jury of ten farmers and two teachers deliberates since Tuesday evening on whether Rushville farmer George Kolb murdered his third wife Edna Dagler Kolb and faces possible death penalty. Appeals about a potential second murder indictment regarding his second wife Mattie Laramore Kolb shape expectations as spectators brace for a possible disagreement.
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George Kolb
Rushville
Hancock Circuit
Kolb
Edna Dagler Kolb
Mattie Laramore Kolb
Death Takes Glenn Curtiss Air Pioneerin Buffalo
Glenn Curtiss pioneer of aviation dies at Buffalo hospital from a blood clot after an appendicitis operation. Born in Hammondsport May 21 1878 he built a bicycle shop into a major aircraft company and world famous flights including Albany to New York City in 1910.
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United Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Glenn Curtiss
Albany
New York City
Curtiss
Naational Aerial Experiment Association
France
Europe
New York World
Governor's Island
Shortage paid in full for former city clerk Dalby
Discrepancies totaling 5926 were repaid by Maynel Dalby the former Muncie city clerk who retired in January after eight years of service examiners from the state board of accounts found the errors and expect no charges to be filed Dalby blamed a jumble of books due to his many interests.
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Bytuncie
Ind
State Board of Accounts
Maynel Dalby
Muncie
Dalby
City Treasury
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Sarah Bowers
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