Mayor fears Capone gang invasion in Youngstown Ohio
Mayor Joseph Heffernan of Youngstown warns of Capone gang footholds in the city and pleads for federal aid. He accuses much of the police force of taking underworld money, cites bribes and graft, and threatens Washington intervention to root out organized crime. He notes reports of Chicago and Detroit gangs aiming at Akron and Cleveland.
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United Press
Youngstown
Joseph Heffernan
Capone Gang
Detroit
Chicago
al Capone Gang
Capone
Jake Lingle
Gerald Buckley
Washington
Akron
Illegitimate Son Sues for Hennings Estate in Indiana
Courtley E. Hennings of Antioch Illinois claims he is an illegitimate son of late Joseph Hennings a wealthy Anderson banker. He seeks a share of an estate valued over 200000, alleging a prior agreement to payments of 40 dollars monthly to his mother Lilla Hathorn and a 3000 dollar bequest after the father’s death. The widow Mrs Josephine Hennings administers the estate as the presumed sole heir.
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Times Special
Anderson
Ind
Courtley E. Hennings
Antioch County
Illinois
Joseph Hennings
Hennings
Lilla Hathorn
Greenville
Antioch, Ill
Josephine Hennings
Doctors face suit over boy's death after anesthesia
Lee P Holbrook of Laotto sues Dr M E Clinger and Dr C P Fox of Garrett for 10000 damages in De Kalb circuit court over Ellsworth Holbrook age 11 who died December 27 at a Garrett clinic following anesthesia for a tooth extraction. The suit claims negligence. Also, Howardoo and Roy Davin of Muncie are held in Des Moines for alleged robbery of bus driver Roy Hurst and will be returned for trial.
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Times Special
Auburn
Ind
Lee P. Holbrook
Laotto
Dekalb
M. E. Clinger
C. P. Fox
Garrett
Ellsworth
Timea Special Uncie
Howard Oo
Roy Davin
Muncie
Des Moines
Roy Hurst
Mysterious Fifth Avenue House Still Tied to Wendels
An 84 year old woman, Miss Ella Wendel, remains the sole living family member at the 442 Fifth Avenue mansion as the long isolated Wendel estate persists. The 1856 brick house and adjacent lot, valued about 1.8 million, have never been sold, and the family clings to four guiding rules of real estate while defying progress in manners and technology.
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United Press
York
Fifth Avenue
March of Progress
Elia Wencel
Wendel
Rebecca Wendel Swope
John
Thirtyninth Street
Ella
Mrs. Swope
Miss Ella
John Gottlieb Wendel
Broadway
Hoosier Holds Camp Command at Camp Knox
Camp Knox hosts a two week reserve officers training camp with about 500 civilians and 900 reserve officers from ten states including Indiana Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia. Colonel A J Dougherty leads the camp with Captain William L Brown as supply officer and Bowman Elder among officers reporting for duties. In Anderson Indiana nineteen heirs of Arthur C Bryant face a small share from a Pendleton death with debts to settle before distribution.
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Knox
United States Army
Camp Knox
Fifth Corps
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri
Kansas
North Dakota
Arkansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
A. J. Dougherty
Indianapolis
Organized Reserves
Dougherty
William L. Brown
Muncie
Bowman Elder
The
American Legion
Elder
Coast Artillery
Times Special
Divorcee Frances Thompson Found Dead In Car Near Maywood
Miss Frances M. Thompson aged 26 of 309 North Mount Street was found dead in her automobile on Seerly Road five miles west of Maywood this morning. The text notes a divorcee identity and the location of the death.
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Frances M. Thompson
North Mount Street
Seerly Road
Maywood
Death by own action in Lyford wheat field mystery
A coroner ruled death was by the deceased's own hand after a decomposed body with a bullet wound was found east of Lyford. The unidentified man, about 60, had a .32 revolver beside him and no identity marks on his clothing.
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United Preas
Negro Raider Held On Attack Charge
William Gibbs, 32, of 325 Ellsworth Street, charged with assault and battery and other offenses after allegedly beating his wife and later attacking police, involved in a liquor raid claim at Carl Mack’s home on 1119 Churchman Avenue where a still and mash were found. Gibbs claimed to be a raider seeking a still and tied Mack with curtains and cord, while police said no one was tied and Gibbs was not identified as an officer.
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William Gibbs
Ellsworth Street
Clifton Cameron
Carl
Connie) Mack
Churchman Avenue
Jerry Kinney
Gibbs
Mack
Indiana
Michigan
Huber
Walter White
Man Faces Choice of Prison or Support Money in Noblesville
Norman Irwin, who pleaded guilty to failure to support his family, must raise 150 dollars to avoid a sentence of one to seven years in the Indiana reformatory. He came from Indianapolis to enter the plea and provide for his wife and children.
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Noblesville
Ind
Norman Irwin
Indiana Reformatory
Irwin
Indianapolis
Delaware and Blackford Counties Agree on Joint Road
Blackford and Delaware counties will share a cost of about $105 165 for a county line road. The project starts at Dunkirk and runs five miles to connect with a state road between Muncie and Hartford City, per a joint commissioners meeting.
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Delaware
Blackford
Bu Times
Muncie
Ind
Dunkirk
Hartford City
Crime Commission to Probe Prohibition Not Planned
A state crime commission plans to act on Saturday regarding a Rappaport resolution calling for prohibition to be investigated. The move aims to curb crime with new legislation and faster Supreme Court action while proposing the state police serve as a public service rather than a political tool.
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State Crime Commission
Rappaport
Leo M. Rappaport
Indianapolis Family Welfare Society
Crime Commission
Michael E. Foley
Traction Terminal
General Commission
Statehouse
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
Spurn Court Order Opens North Pennsylvnia Miniature Golf
A court order by Superior Judge Milner was ignored as the Meridian Park Golf and Athletic Club opened its miniature golf course at the northwest corner of Thirtieth and Pennsylvania streets. The operators faced contempt allegations from Edward Knight, the corporation counsel, who investigated the zoning law evasion.
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Joseph M. Milner
Thirtieth
Pennsylvania
Meridian Park Golf and Athletic Club, Inc
Edward H. Knight
Detective shot in Marion while pursuing train riders
Robert White, a Peru C and O railroad detective, was wounded by buckshot after pursuing Ernest Parks and other men who allegedly rode freight cars. Parks, 35, a World War veteran, is jailed in Grant county awaiting charges.
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United Press
Marion
White
Parks
Grant County
Dewar Sentenced to Sixty Days in Jail in Drunken Driving Case
Du gald B. Dewar, Portland investment broker and wet Republican senatorial candidate, received a sixty day jail term in South Portland municipal court after a judge found probable cause. He appealed posting $1,000 bail. Police charged him with failing to stop on signal during the arrest.
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United Press
Portland
Dugald B. Dewar
United States
Maine
South Portland
Stephen W. Hughes
Dewar
Ralph O. Price
Man in White Falls Into Trance at West McCarty Church
Edgar K. Wheatley 54 lies semicoma in the Church of God at 311 West McCarty as paralyzed watchers tend him. Four parishioners remain at his cot with rules enforced including milk feeds and white attire while visitors hear Biblical quotes from the stricken man. Wheatley is a William H. Block Company maintenance man and his job awaits him according to officials.
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Man
West McCarty Street
Church of God
Edgar K. Wheatley
M. C. Harvey
Coma
Wheatley
Little Frame
Harvey
Board of Trade
Holy
William H. Block Company
Trail of Bandit Stirs Marion After Thefts
Grant county authorities search for the Paramount theater bandit who stole more than 900 dollars. Miss Helen Etter the 18 year old cashier and theater officials gave officers a description but could not identify any photograph on file.
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Times
Marion
Ind
Grant County
Paramount Theater
Helen Etter
W. F. Bails
G. F. Nail
State's honey crop in peril in Indiana
Indiana apiary officials warn the honey crop will drop from about 8 million pounds to roughly 1 million pounds this year due to dry weather and parched lands. Bees are starving in some areas and need immediate feeding with syrup. unless aided, up to 75 percent may perish. The state entomologist's office has inspected 42,000 colonies, most free of disease but threatened by starvation.
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Indiana
Charles O. Yost
Apiary Inspection Service
State Conservation Department
Yost
State Entomologist’s
Curtiss Rites Set in Hammondport
The body of Glenn H. Curtiss, pioneer aircraft builder, rests at his birth home in Hammondport New York. He died after an operation for appendicitis at Buffalo General Hospital. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday at 4 after burial rites led by Reverend G P Summerville at St James Episcopal Church.
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United Press
Hammondsport
N. Y
Glenn H. Curtiss
Curtiss
General Hospital
Buffalo
Glenn H. Curtiss Jr
G. Carl Adams
G. P. Summerville
St. James Episcopal Church
Seek sales swindles in ladies undergarments case
The Better Business bureau seeks suspected solicitors who take orders from employees of business houses for ladies undergarments, collect deposits of 1.25 dollars, and fail to deliver. The form is headed Inter state Knitting Mills New York City, though the New York firm manufactures only tie cloth.
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Better Business Bureau
Interstate Knitting Mills
New York City
New York
Canary thief returns for bird seed in Cleveland
In Cleveland on a Wednesday night a thief entered Sidney Stewan's home and stole a canary. He later returned to collect a box of bird seed to feed the canary, illustrating a peculiar interest in birds.
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United Press
Cleveland
Sidney Stewans
Stewan
Renewal Effort To Donate $60,000 TB Hospital Unit
Indianapolis Flower Mission Society plans to renew a request to donate a $60,000 tuberculosis unit for advanced cases at city hospital. The health board weighs placing the ward in the main building versus a separate unit and will meet Friday to discuss site options along Fall Creek.
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City Hospital
Indianapolis Flower Mission Society
City Health Board
Society
Fall Creek
New City Hospital
Coe Street
Flower Mission
Health Board
Eugene C. Foster
Indianapolis Foundation
Herman G. Morgan
City Sanitarian
Sunnyside
Flower Mission Society
Columbia Club
James D. Ermston
Ross
J. H. Lowes
Ermston
William
Victory Foreseen for Senator Morris Sheppard
Washington dispatch notes Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas is favored to win renomination in the Democratic primary despite limited campaign presence. He remains in Washington for a special treaty session and will visit Texas briefly before the election. Opponents include R L Henry of Houston and C A Mitchner, who proposes a government cow grant to farmers without cattle.
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Servins-Howard Neastover
Washington
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Sheppard
R.L. Henry
Houston
C. A. Mitchner
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Ted B. Madden
Brightwood
Madden
Youngstown Executive
Mystery House
Hoosier
A. T. Dougherty
Rockville
Raccoon
Fincastle
Barnnar
General Baking Company
Kinney
Senate
Riverside
Riverside Amusement Park
Ernest
Arch Steines
Trail OF Bandit
Marion Theater
Tan ” Deagiame
Angeles
San Francisco
Tilinele
Machteen
Air Pioneer
T. B. Hospital
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