Alleged Gas Tax Bribe Scandal Unfolds In Indiana
Michigan City man Louis Joers refuses to divulge details in a gas tax bribery case involving Bruce Cooper and Poole Harrison. Attorney General Ogden says the matter will go before Porter or Lake county grand juries after meetings with Cooper and Harrison’s party. Fate's $2500 profit links to oil stations. officials deny a larger northern Indiana racket.
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Louis Hooers
Michigan City
James M. Ogden
Bruce E. Cooper
Joers
Cooper
Columbia Club
Ogden
First District
Poole Harrison
Chicago
J. T. Conner
B. C. Jenkins
James H. Parker
Gary
Harrison
Doers
Porter
Lake County
Clarence P. Fate
Secretary of State
Malcolm Clark
Indiana
State Auditor's Office
Peru
Otto G. Pifield
Archie Bobbitt
Fifield
Bobbitt
France refuses all on Marne memorial
Paris July 24 United Press The French Beaux Arts body reviewing multiple sculptor proposals has concluded no living artist can carve a fitting monument to the first Battle of the Marne. Plans are postponed to avoid an artistic eye sore and to better capture the battle’s spirit for future generations.
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United Press
Paris
Beaux Arts
The
Marne
Marne Banks
Woman Stabbed. Marie Warfield Arrested in City Hospital Incident
Reese Bowling, 32, Negro, sustained a chest gash requiring forty stitches at city hospital on Wednesday night. Marie Warfield, 23, Negro, 2424 Parker avenue, was arrested on a knife wielding charge. Ba Times Special N, Ind. July 4. Madison County 4 H Club to tour leading cattle farms to study calf raising. Summitville is the starting point.
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Reese Bowling
Indiana Avenue
City Hospital
Marie Warfield
Parker Avenue
Ind
Madison County
4-H Club
Summitville
Ba Times
KO Ikomo
Charles King
King
Air Stowaway Billy Jeavons Hopes a Detroit Ride Home
Eleven year old Billy Jeavons of Cleveland stowed away on a Thompson Aeronautical plane and rode to Detroit in the tail. After the pilot noticed extra weight the craft landed on Lake Erie to check. He rode back home with a new aviator outfit and a promise from the airline to return him safely.
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Etroit
Billy Jeavons
Cleveland
Thompson Aeronautical Line
Detroit
Billy
Thompson Line
School Board Member Whiteman Resigns Amid Drunken Driving Case
Lewis E. Whiteman 40 of 801 Yoke avenue resigns from the school board effective immediately while awaiting trial July 29 in municipal court on three drunken driving charges. Merle Sidener, member elect, to take his place. Whiteman cites personal and business reasons. Sidener expected to accept.
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Lewis E. Whiteman
Yoke Avenue
Merle Sidener
Whiteman
Sidener
Washington
Illinois
Theodore F. Vonnegut
Charles W. Kern
Palmer McCloskey Sets High Tree Sit Record
Palmer McCloskey, 14, of 328 North Temple Avenue, neared a 250 hour tree sit today after reaching 237 hours by 9 AM. Close behind were Warren Winzenread, 12, at 3123 North Sherman Drive, and David Smith Beech, each about 32 hours behind.
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Palmer McCloskey
North Temple Avenue
Warren Winzenread
North Sherman Drive
David Smith
Beech
Showers Promised in Indianapolis and Southern Indiana
Thundershowers were forecast for Indianapolis and southern Indiana this afternoon or tonight by the U S weather bureau. Temperatures likely to remain steady tonight and Friday. Average Wednesday was 76, with 69 at 6 am and 85 at 3 pm. Nurse Shot Keeps Silence July 24. Helen Toth, 20, a student nurse, worked through pain with a bullet wound, and has refused to explain how she was shot since being hospitalized a week ago.
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Indiaapolis
Indiana
United States Weather Bureau
Helen Toth
Tragic death of Frances Thompson on lonely road note left
Miss Frances M. Thompson twenty six, of 309 North Mount street, was found dead in a light sedan on a secluded road five miles west of Maywood. A note left at her home mentioned elopement. authorities question whether death was self-inflicted or coerced. The car doors were locked, a poison bottle found nearby, and a search for her male companion continues.
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Frances M. Thompson
North Mount Street
Seerly Road
Maywood
George Winkler
Bakemeier
O. H. Bakemeier
Miss Thompson
Bessie Thompson
W. T. Thompson
Harry Thompson
Sheriff Winkler
John Berne
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Noble Brewster
Brewster
James Pierson
Robert Harvey
Bridgeport
Winkler
Pierson
Paul Koolman
MacDonald in Hiding After Testimony in Mooney Case
John MacDonald a key witness in the Mooney and Billings bombing trial left San Francisco for Los Angeles after admitting his identity, exhausted by the uproar. He travels with attorneys Hilary Gans and Charles Ruzicka. He will return Thursday for a California Supreme Court hearing into claims of false testimony and police coercion.
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United Press
San Francisco
John MacDonald
Thomas Mooney
Warren K. Billings
MacDonald
Mooney and Billings
Los Angeles
Hilary Gans
Charles Ruzicka
Baltimore
Supreme Court of California
Editors Called In Racketeering Probe at Cook County Grand Jury
July 24 Chicago reports the Cook County grand jury pursuing the gang murder of Tribune reporter Alfred J. Lingle charged racketeering and summoned ten newspaper officials and two police officers as witnesses. Brundidge testified naming several editors and others, with further witnesses planned Friday including Russell Stege Tod Ettelson Strong Reese Finnegan Burke Cornell.
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Bohigago
Cook County
Grand Jury
Alfred J. Lingle
Tribune
Harry T. Brundidge
St. Louis Star
Brundidge
Robert M. Lee
the Tribune
Harry Read
Evening American
Harry Reutlinger
the American
John A. Swanson
William F. Russell
Lingle
John Stege
Russell
Ted Tod
Herald and Examiner
William Stewart
Samuel Ettelson
Corporation
Walter Strong
Daily News
Leland Reese
Richard Finnegan
Daily Illustrated Times
Jimmy Burke
Times
Roscoe (Duffy) Cornell
Herald-Examiner
Memories By Times Special
Ben Meeker aged 93 half brother of Ezra Meeker heard the Batesville American Legion drum and bugle corps serenade him from a sick bed in Greensburg Indiana He sat up to hear better and tapped the rhythm with his fingers The concert occurred during the legion program at New Point with the corps in attendance.
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Times
Greensburg
Ind
Ben Meeker
Ezra Meeker
Batesville American Legion
Boy purchases rum charged to 34 year old man
Liquor sold to a 16 year old boy leads to charges against Nathan Benson of 1633 Holliday street. He faces counts of operating a blind tiger and contributing to delinquency of a minor after arrest by Sergeant O Brien. A small liquor seizure is reported. In Hagerstown Indiana Lawrence Macy 45 dies after an operation leaving a wife and several brothers.
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Nathan Benson
Holliday Street
O’brien
Times
Hagerstown
Ind
Lawrence G. Macy
Lulu Macy
Harry
Cambridge City
Byron
Frank
Pittsburgh
Forest
Dublin
Funeral services for Hugh Smock held in Greencastle
Funeral services were held here for Hugh Smock a 42 year old Madison township farmer. He leaves his widow three children and three stepchildren.
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Greencastle
Ind
Hugh Smock
Madison Township
Hospital Heads to Keep Posts in City Health Board
Reappointment of Dr William A Deeppers city hospital superintendent and board secretary Dr Herman G Morgan plus Business Manager Clarence Hess is planned for the Friday reorganization meeting. Dr Frederick E Jackson is expected to be elected board president succeeding Dr Henry S Leonard. Evans Woollen Jr is discussed for presidency but a Democratic physician may be preferred. Dr Morgan begins his nineteenth year as city sanitarian. Hourly temperatures show a cooler morning with readings from 88 to 78.
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William A. Deeppers
Clarence Hess
Herman G. Morgan
City Health Board
City Hall
Frederick E. Jackson
Henry S. Leonard
Leonard
L. Ert Slack
Jackson
Evans Woollen Jr
Reginald H. Sullivan
Morgan
Health
Fire Flier Warns of Blaze Near Clintonville
A New York Cleveland air mail pilot directed his plane over Clintonville to warn residents after spotting a fire a mile east of town. The unoccupied house owned by Mack McCurdy burned to the ground.
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United Press
Franklin
New York-Cleveland
Knockout Series for Tom Thumb Golfers
Indianapolis readers embrace Tom Thumb golf as a new pastime and seek to improve. Denny Shute will write six Times articles guiding beginners on putting stance stroke and temperament to raise overall play and consistency. First article arrives in Friday's issue.
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Indianapolis
Tom Thumb
The
Times
Denny Shute
Shute
Young Wife Slain and Jewel Heist in Hartford and Cleveland
Irene Diamond, a young Hartford housewife, was beaten to death today. Detectives questioned her husband Nathan Diamond, a taxi driver, after the body was found. In Cleveland, three bandits robbed Rothart Brothers Jewelry Store, escaping with jewels and about $10,000, binding three employees and locking them in the basement.
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United Press
Hartford
Conn
Irene Diamond
Nathan Diamond
Bu United Press
Cleveland
Rothart Brothers
Arrested Mayor Kellogg Reveals Many Occupations in Pocket Stash
Ernest Kellogg described as the gun trotting mayor of Lynhurst Indianapolis suburb was arrested in Crawfordsville on suspicion. Police found in his pockets wallets check books catalogs tools and assorted items. He claimed the glass cutter was for a mirror and the screwdriver for a porch swing.
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Rawfordsville
Ind
Ernest Kellogg
Lynhurst
Indianapolis
Kellogg
Earthquake Slams Southern Italy Leaving Towns in Rubble
BENEVENTO Italy July 24 One million people homeless and about 3700 dead in unofficial counts after a powerful quake. Five provinces crushed as towns like Ariano Melfi Villanova Montecalvo and others suffer near total destruction. Two aftershocks struck at 9 15 am and 1 15 pm adding to fear and damage. The king plans to visit to console sufferers.
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Thomas B. Morgan
Benevento
Italy
Piedmont
Arrest Trio Held in Detroit Killing of Radio Critic
Three Italian suspects Frank Lipore Frank Forestieri and Anthony Musnesski were arrested near Ann Arbor and returned to Detroit in the murder of Gerald W. Buckley a caustic Detroit radio critic shot in a hotel lobby after the recall results. Police held twenty nine others tied to a Detroit gang sweep and guards were placed on Mayor Bowles and Robert Okaman amid threats.
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United Pres
Gerald W. Buckley
Detroit
Ann Arbor
Buckley
Charles Bowles
Frank Lipore
Riverside, Mich
Frank Forestieri
Anthony Musnesski
Benton Harbor
Mich
Robert Okaman
Bowles
Tiling May End Odors From Brook In New Castle
City plans tiling of the Bowery brook to cut odors along its banks. Preliminary steps by the council expect final action at the August meeting. Six and nine foot tiles estimated to cost 58340 funded by a citywide bond issue rather than assessments.
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Newcastle
Bowery Brook
Melfi Struck by Earthquake Kills and Damages Town
United Press reports Melfi Italy with 12 000 residents on Mt Vulture severely damaged by quake. Prefect lists 180 dead 100 seriously injured 200 lightly injured as blocks lie in ruins. Evacuations, outdoor living and fear of aftershocks prevail amid millions needed for reconstruction. In Rapella 20 dead and 19 injured as bodies lie unburied near a wash house. Mrs Mary Larue of Putnam County is named among the survivors.
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Ariano
Melfi
Villanova
Montecalvo
Zungoli
Sansossio
Edward Storer
United Press
Italy
Mt. Vulture
Potenza
Foggia
Rapella
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Deeppers
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North Randall Village
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Villanova del Battista
Giovanni Venturi
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