Indianapolis Trolley Plan Approved and To Be Fast-Tracked
The Indianapolis Street Railway Company adopts a new reorganization plan via the stockholders committee. Eastern signatures are awaited within a week followed by a sixty day grace period before a foreclosure petition in circuit court. The plan cuts stocks and bonds from over 18.8 million to about 10.1 million, issues 1.25 million in new money, and uses 2 million of 5 percent bonds for expansion under Fletcher American Company as organizer.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Gavin L. Payne
General Mortgage
Fletcher American Company
Traction Terminal Corporation
Payne
Pacific Coast
Montana
North Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Arkansas
New Orleans
Springfield
Ill
Police officer to face murder trial in Los Angeles
Detective Lieutenant Edward P. Nolan will be charged with murdering his sweetheart Mrs Grace Murphy Duncan 36 after a coroner's inquest in Los Angeles He allegedly beat her with his fists and the butt of a revolver in a drunken rage at the Lankershim hotel where she was found dancing with Robert V Williams a traveling salesman
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United Press
LOS Angeles
Edward P. Nolan
Grace Murphy Duncan
Nolan
Duncan
Lankershim
Robert V. Williams
Judge Rules Seizure Of Sacramental Wine Illegal
Federal Judge Frank J. Colman ruled the 500 gallons of sacramental wine seized last April from Fruit Industries Limited in the Bronx were taken illegally and must be returned. Fruit Industries operates with permits and sells grape concentrate and sacramental wine. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former A G A general, did not appear but retained Sanford R. Cohen and Frank Aranow to lead the defense.
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United Press
New York
Frank J. Colman
Fruit Industries Limited
Bronx
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States Attorney General
Fruit Industries
Sanford R. Cohen
United States
Frank Aranow
Mauna Loa Eruption Warned by Volcanologist
Honolulu reports that volcanologist Dr. T A Jaggar warned Hawaii’s officials and business leaders of a potential Mauna Loa eruption likely to trigger a disaster. He urged preparations against a catastrophe.
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Mauna Loa
United Press
Honolulu
T. A. Jaggar
Natives Send $3.77 to Aid Starving Americans
The Batanga West Africa mission community contributed a 3.77 dollar check to the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. A missionary noted the act followed a Bulu News Sheet item about hardship in the United States and hunger.
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New York
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian Church
Batanga
West Africa
America
Eduma Musambi
Police Chief Mike Morrissey Receives Unwanted Fan Letter
A 33 year old Police Chief named Mike Morrissey faces a peculiar incident after opening morning mail. A 25 year old woman, unspecified by name, congratulates him and hints at shared faith while proposing acquaintance. She offers to reveal her name if the story appears in The Times.
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Mike
Times
Cops to War on Gun-Toters Anew
Judge Frank P. Baker revived a long unused statute empowering police to arrest felony offenders found in possession of a deadly weapon. Police Chief Mike Morrissey and Sheriff Buck Sumner were told to launch aggressive campaigns against professional gunmen. The first arrest under the statute followed Baker’s release of Floyd Board for robbery and wounding Earl Hendricks at Standard grocery store.
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Frank P. Baker
Baker
Mike Morrissey
Charles (Buck) Sumner
Criminal Court
Floyd Board
Earl Hendricks
North Gate Street
Standard Grocery
Bernie Faces $5,000 Suit in Dance Hall Clash
Ben Bernie, famed dance orchestra conductor, is named defendant in a $5,000 damage suit filed by Clarence Kirk a Monroe dance hall proprietor. Kirk says Bernie struck him after ending a performance early and remonstrating. Bernie contradicts claiming he punched Kirk in the jaw with his fist after the dispute over a guaranteed payment.
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Monroe, Mich
Clarence Kirk
Ben Bernie
Kirk
Bernie
Dorothy Dwan to Become Mother This Fall
Dorothy Dwan motion picture actress announced she expects to become a mother early this fall. She is married to Paul N Boggs Jr son of the Union Oil Company vice president.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Dorothy Dwan
Miss Dwan
Paul N. Boggs Jr
Union Oil Company
Mystery of Starr Faithfull death narrows in on suspect
New York reports detective claim a breakthrough may solve the Starr Faithfull case. Inspector Harold R. King cites a possible suspect and notes telegrams and a hoax bottle note as factors. Authorities seek more evidence while tracing Starr's movements before her death near Long Beach assailants. Kentucky appeals court upholds gross retail sales tax for chain stores with graduated rates.
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United Press
New York
Beatiful Starr Faithfull
H. R. King
Nassau County
King
Elizabeth Tucker Faithfull
Tucker
Providence
Harold R. King
J.” King
Wading River
L. I
Starr
Faithfulls
Jack Barr
Larchmouth
N. Y
Maniac Freed by Clerk Error in Chicago
Michael O Neill a 44 year old man once branded a dangerous lunatic was released from county jail due to a clerk error. Police hunted him while guards protected his wife and home after his brutal attack two months earlier and a jury ordered asylum.
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United Press
Chicago
Michael O'Neill
O’neill
New “Behavior Clinic
Dan
Gerous
O'Neill
Back to First Love in Death Starr Faithfull on the Beach
A forces image sequence traces Starr Faithfull from a four year old playing on a Boston beach to a fifteen year old winning swimming prizes at Rogers Hall. The clipping hints at a diary entry and the sea's mystery as a backdrop to her life and early death.
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Starr Faithfull
Boston
Little Starr Faithfull
Rogers Hall
All-But-One Jailed Over Threat Against Witness
Arthur Bryant a 26 year old from 1039 Holbrook street was jailed on a vagrancy charge after threatening to beat Mrs. Anna Noland who would testify in a case against his brother Hershel Bryant. The incident occurred in the municipal court corridors with Bryant boasting of police connections. Police Chief Morrisey warned Bryant must seek a new Morrissey lineage to bolster his claims.
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Arthur Bryant
Holbrook Street
Arthur
Municipal Court
Anna Noland
North Liberty Street
Hershel Bryant
Virginia Avenue
Mike Morrissey
Harry Smith
Otto Ray
Fred Hague
Bonds
Michael Morrissey
Bryant
Morrissey
Bravest Farmer? Fire Rescues Man Clinging to Window
Chicago June 19 Walter H Brandenburg 40 clung to a sixteen floor window ledge for twenty minutes as flames swept through his north side apartment. His fingers were paralyzed and one side scorched before firefighters rescued him. He said he could not have lasted another minute.
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United Press
Chicago
Walter H. Brandenburg
North Side
Brandenburg
Jimmy Walker Turns 50 Acknowledges Fast World
New York June 19 Mayor James J Walker marks his 50th birthday while declaring he feels fine but may worsen tomorrow The jazz mayor and former school board member offered self deprecating quotes about age and public image During an apartment fire Brandenburgs nine room flat suffered about 70000 in damage Fire Chief A G Brandt estimated the loss and rescue crews saved him from flames
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Gotham
United Press
NEW York
James J. Walker
Walker
Road Bond Petition Rejected by State Tax Board
The state tax board denied Perry township Lawrence county a petition to issue bonds totaling 9800 for the School House road construction. The board held the current tax rate is already sufficiently high.
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State
Perry Township
Lawrence County
Paving Projects Update on College Twelfth and Station Streets
The works board announced completion of concrete paving on College avenue from 63rd to 71st street and filed a completion certificate for Twelfth street paving from West to Oregon streets. Indiana Asphalt Paving Company won the Station street widening contract from Roosevelt to 25th street for 1682 dollars.
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College Avenue
Sixty Third Street
Seventy-first Street
Works Board
Twelfth Street
Oregon Streets
Indiana Asphalt Paving Company
Station Street
Roosevelt Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Catholic Leader Seipel Named to Form Austrian Cabinet
Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, former chancellor and Catholic leader, was commissioned in Vienna to form a new cabinet after Otto Ender failed to reconstitute the government. Seipel, like Ender, heads the Christian Social party.
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Vienna
Austria
Ignaz Seipel
Otto Ender
Ender
Seipel
Christian Social Party
Record Heat Sweeps Nation Amid Severe Summer Blues
The nation faced a brutal heat wave with temperatures reaching 90 to 110 degrees across many states. Prostrations and deaths were reported, while cities opened hydrants and staffed lifeguards to cope with the emergency.
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United Press
Chicago
United States Weather Bureau
Midwest
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
Winnipeg
Memphis
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Peoria
John J. Gaffney
Phoenix
Amarillo
Cairo
Springfield
Ill
Davenport
St. Louis
Sioux City
el Paso
Pueblo
Kansas City
Little Rock
Seague Sues Over Golf Course Blasting Chickens
Arthur H. Seague claims blasting at a nearby golf course site injured his poultry farm causing eggs to die in the shell. He seeks $20.70 in damages in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lynn
Mass
Arthur H. Seague
Jackson Killers Trail Grows Hot in Slaying Case
Indianapolis police hold an east side man on a 3000 dollar vagrancy bond as a suspect in the Lafayette A. Jackson murder. Detectives say the case may be solved soon. Chester Jackson, son of the slain grocer, identified the suspect as resembling one gunman. Police search adjoining states for an escaped convict linked to the gunmen. Chicago arrests factor into the probe.
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East Side
Lafayette A. Jackson
Indianapolis
Chester Jackson
Standard Groceries
Jackson
Herbert Fletcher
Chicago
Charles Bauer
East Washington
Ruth Nichols plane damaged in landing at Floyd Bennett
Ruth Nichols started a flight for Harbor Grace in a Lockheed monoplane but damage to the tail skid and a V-strut after a landing at Floyd Bennett airport Barren Island may delay her solo Atlantic crossing. She had flown from Jersey City to the airfield in heavy fuel load. Mechanics worked on the ship today.
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United Press
New York
Ruth Nichols
Harbor Grace
N. F
Atlantic
Floyd Bennett Airport
Barren Island
Vanderbilt Sues Wife Over Divorce After Chase Scene
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., noted author, filed a divorce suit in Reno against Mary V. Vanderbilt for extreme cruelty. The action follows his pursuit of New York artist Peter Arno with an empty pistol, drawing national attention. Sam Platt represents Vanderbilt and will meet with Mrs. Vanderbilt’s attorney William Woodburn to work out a property settlement.
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Chase
United Press
Reno
Nev
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Peter Arno
New York
Mary V. Vanderbilt
Sam Platt
Vanderbilt
Platt
William Woodburn
Mike City Issues First Dog License No 1
Mayor Reginald H Sullivan’s collie Mike received the 1931 32 dog license No 1 from Captain Otto Ray city license inspector. Ray announced the deadline to obtain dog licenses is June 30.
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Mike
Reginald H. Sullivan
Otto Ray
Ray
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