Democratic Wet Plank Debates Proposals At Platform Meeting
Indiana Democrats debate wet planks for state wide referendum on prohibition and a modified approach. Werneke Eggeman and Spencer push age pensions and registration plans while committees consider highway and tariff critiques and a broad tax relief plank.
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Richard Werneke
Terre Haute
John W. Eggeman
Fr. Wayne
Allen Circuit Court
Democratic Platform Committee
John W. Spencer
Evansville
Vanderburgh
Werneke
Indiana
Eggeman
Frank Griese
Public Service Commission
Commission
Spencer-Shively
Highway Commission
Committee On Committees
Princess Helene Parts Ways With Carol After Renunciation
Madame Magda Lupescu suffers heartbreak as Carol of Romania deserts her to reclaim his throne. An Interlaken dispatch quotes her saying their union was a true love, she is exiled and will not see him again.
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United Press Ondon
Magda Lupescu
Carol
Romania
London Sunday Chronicle
Interlaken
Switzerland
Europe
Chronicle
Alexander Hartig
United Press
Bucharest
Helene
Mme
Michael
Kisseleff Palace
Royal
Nicholas
Paris
Vienna
Madame Saveanu
France
Romania's King Carol II and Helene clash over reconciliation bid
Princess Helene refused reconciliation with Carol II and divorce restoration, blocking the dynastic plan. Michael, eight, remains under his father's custody as parliament grants him grand duke status and the crown question deepens amid cabinet reshuffles and royal family moves.
Tariff bill denounced by factory head urging bloc on exports
S Duncan Black of Black and Decker in Baltimore warns Representative Palisano that Hawley Smoot tariffs will push production overseas, threaten 8 million dollar export business, and raise unemployment. He cites reprisals in Australia and may move manufacturing to England if enacted.
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Washington
Congress
House
S. Duncan Black
Black & Decker Manufacturing Company
Baltimore
Vincent L. Palisano
Maryland
United States
Australia
England
London
Former Liquor Chief Appoints Harry M Franklin to Auto License Bureau
Secretary of State Otto G Fifield announced Harry M Franklin, longtime Indianapolis liquor activist and former captain in the police and National Guard, will head safety work in the automobile license bureau. Franklin, known as Captain Franklin, led the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment efforts in Indiana and directed the Indianapolis safety council from 1928 until this year.
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Otto G Fifield
Harry M. Franklin
Indiana
Automobile License Bureau
Franklin
Indianapolis Safety Council
Fifield
Association Against the
Indiana National Guard
Indianapolis
Safety Council
Des Moines Population Grows by 16,001 in Ten Years
Des Moines Iowa gains 16 001 residents in the decade 1920 to 1930 raising the 1930 population to 142 469 from 126 468 reported by census supervisor R W Colflesh.
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United Press
Des Moines
R. W. Colflesh
Widening Plans Set for East New York Street
City A. H. Moore announced plans to widen East New York street to a forty five foot thoroughfare. Property acquisitions will start in six weeks, but main work likely won t begin this year due to funds. First segment will run from Randolph to Belt Railroad with another east to Emerson to follow.
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New York Street
A. H. Moore
Randolph
Belt Railroad
Emerson
Michigan
Highland Avenue
Moore
Martha and Olaf Welcome Daughter in Oslo
A daughter was born today to Crown Princess Martha and Crown Prince Olaf. Both mother and baby are reported doing well. The 1929 royal marriage united Sweden’s Princess Martha with Norwegian royalty amid celebrations in Oslo and Stockholm. The couple’s country home burned May 20. the princess acted to save the baby clothes, cradle, and jewels.
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United Press
Oslo
Norway
Martha
Olaf
Sweden
Stockholm
Convict Youth Faces Gallows in Indiana Murder Case
James Anderson, 21, of Perry County Kentucky, was sentenced to death by a Franklin circuit court jury for the murder of Sheriff Herman Lange of Dearborn County. Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne set October 1 for execution at Michigan City state prison. Lange was killed December 30, 1929 near Long Neckers station, southeast of Brookville. Anderson allegedly fired as the sheriff halted his car to offer a ride. defense claimed self defense.
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United Press
Brookville
Ind
James Anderson
Perry County
Kentucky
Franklin
Herman Lange
Dearborn
Roscoe C. O'Byrne
Michigan City State Prison
Lange
Long Neckers Station
Anderson
Eleven Workmen Dead In Two Tunnel Blasts
Two tunnel explosions claim eleven lives near Detroit and San Francisco. In Detroit a blast 200 feet beneath the river killed four and injured seven as workers dug through a dynamite charge that failed to explode. Rescue was hindered by rock fall and tunnel debris. In California a gas explosion in the Alameda tunnel killed seven of eight workers eighteen miles from Sunol, forcing a grotesque gas mask funeral procession. the foreman survived.
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United Press
Detroit
San Francisco
Alameda
Calaveras
Sunol
Bay
Livermore Hills
Spring Valley Water Works
Bank Robbery at Bryant Involves Two Unmasked Men
The Farmers and Merchants bank at Bryant eight miles north of Portland was robbed of about 2500 dollars today by two unmasked men. They locked cashier John Bonifas and assistant Emma Bonham in the vault before fleeing in an automobile. The men were about 45 years old.
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United Press
Portland
Ind
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Bryant
John Bonifas
Emma Bonham
Chicago newspaper investigator slain in subway attack
Chicago June 9. Jake Lengel an investigator for a Chicago newspaper was murdered in the subway toward the Randolph street Illinois Central suburban station this afternoon. The assassin, a man about 30, escaped unseen.
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United Press
Chicago
Jake Lengel
Randolph Street
Illinois Central
T Ce
Wife takes rap to clear husband in fraud plot
Frances E. Boyd testified in Marion county court that she served a two to fourteen year sentence for forgery to cover a scheme hatched by her husband Clarence A. Boyd of Boyd Radio Shop to defraud the Commercial Credit Company of more than 7000 dollars. He was arrested on conspiracy charges and jailed on 5000 dollars bond.
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Marion County
Frances E. Boyd
Indiana Woman’s Prison
Clarence A. Boyd
Boyd Radio Shop
East Twenty-second Street
Boyd
Harry O. Chamberlin
Chamberlin
Church Federation
D. Tripp
Harry Gause
Unemployed Report in Woodstock and Gardiner New York
Census takers found Woodstock and Gardiner near Highland New York free of unemployed people. Woodstock hosts a colony of artists. In Indiana West Terre Haute James A. Sheeks, 23, died from a knife stab wound in a drunken brawl. William Foster, 22, confessed wielding the knife.
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United Press Highland
N. Y
Woodstock
Gardiner
Bul Are Haute
Ind
James A. Sheeks
West Terre Haute
William Foster
Weilding
Gangland killings leave Chicago in shock as mob war escalates
Dozens of hours after a tenth gangland slaying in as many days, Chicago’s famed mob foes face a widening shakeup. Moran Capone feud deepens with missing leaders and a dying arms dealer in Rockford hospital. A stray shooting on the West Side leaves Aloysius Kearney dead, while Frank Thompson and Eugene Mc Laughlin’s deaths fuel police fears of a broader purge.
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United Press
Chicago
Gangland
Rockford
Far West
Aloysius Kearney
George
Bugs) Moran
Scarface
al Capone
Leo Mongoven
Moran
Willie Higgins
Bennie Bennett
Robert Dutch Schmidt
Ted Newberry
Capone
Frank R. Thompson
Radio SOS Interrupts Reed Speech Denounces Radio Trust
Federal probe ordered into an unidentified SOS that interrupted former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri during a Sedalia broadcast from station WABC. Investigations by the FCC division, Columbia, and RCA aim to locate the signal source amid other reports of interference and reception issues in New York and Chicago.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Radio Commission Today
Radio Division
Commerce Department
James A. Reed
Missouri
New York
WABC
Reed
Radio Trust
Sedalia
Ww. B. Terrell
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Marine Corporation
Senate
Dill
Dem
Wash
Radio Corporation
Tuckerton
N. J
Chicago
Coat in fire death to be identified by tests
Indiana University toxicologist Dr. R N Harger will test two pieces of clothing, a suit coat found near a burning car and a portion of trousers from the burned body, to determine if the victim is Harold Herbert Schroeder of Mobile. Detective Chief Fred Simon said the analysis seeks a definite link.
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R. N. Harger
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis
Harold Herbert Schroeder
Schroeder
Harger
Fred Simon
Investigates
Free Checking Service At City Market
The Indianapolis Market Association offers free checking for patrons. J F O Mahoney serves as president and Harry Springsteen, marketmaster, designates four stands in the north east corner for parcel check at no charge.
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City Market
Indianapolis Market Association
J. F. O'Mahoney
Presient
Harry Springsteen
Pettis Co Is Sold New President Named for Pettis Co
The Pettis Dry Goods store closed for a reorganization sale to begin Tuesday at 9 am. The $1.5 million stock will be sold as extensive alterations are planned. George A. Gay sold his 35 year stake to H. G. Munro who becomes Pettis president. H C Annable of New York is vice president and secretary treasurer. The store remains linked with Syndicate Trading Co of New York. Pettis was founded in 1853 by Glenn Brothers.
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Highway Commission
Wabash Valley
George Cole
Dearborn County
Governor's Commission
Pettis Dry Goods Company
George A. Gay
H. G. Munro
Pettis
Bellefontaine Street
H. C. Annable
New York
Syndicate Trading Company of
Annable
Pettis Concern
Glenn Brothers
Bates House
Washington and
Illinois Streets
Spanking Epidemic in Prospect as School Year Closes
Indianapolis reports rising juvenile delinquency as school ends and truant officers intensify rounds. Clyde White of Indiana University notes fall increases with October surges and blue Mondays amid crowded playgrounds in business districts.
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Clyde White
Indiana University of Bureau of Social Research
Professor White
Anrgue
Reed Proposes 1932 Presidential Bid Amid Radio Interruption
Former Senator James A. Reed hints at a 1932 Democratic presidential bid while denouncing a 26 minute radio interruption he blames on the interests not a mere SOS. He calls the broadcast disruption a nationally significant issue and vows an investigation as he attacks Hoover era naval policy.
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United Press
Kansas City
James A. Reed
Atlantic
Reed
Radio Trust
Columbia
Radio Corporation
Hoover
Great Britain
United States
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