Confessed Dr. Snook admits murder in wife case
Columbus Ohio June 21 The Snook murder case leads grand jury docket with Dr James H Snook pledges to plead guilty He describes bludgeoning Theora Hix at a rifle range to stop her threats to his wife and child The case includes a fatal attack and a buried body in New York Central range details include hammer and knife found Snook weeps as he recounts the events Also Lafayette Ind priest driver hits a crawling baby Fred Wright two is dead in accident while visiting a brother
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Presa
Columbus
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
Snook
Ohio State University
Lkely
Miss Hix
Binghamton
N. Y
Melvin T. Hix
New York Central
John Chester
Scioto
Surse
United Press Lafayette
Ind
Francis J. Quinn
Chicago
Fred Wright
Reel Hints on Beauty from Hollywood Stars
Feature in The Indianapolis Times presents close up interviews with Hollywood actresses Greta Gerbo Nancy Carroll Clare Bow Bebe Daniels Olive Borden Badanova Mary Brain and others. Each portrait reveals beauty tips from America’s beauty center aimed at guidance on lashes teeth figure hands and graceful presence. The series begins today on page 6.
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Greta Gerbo
Nancy Carroll
Clare Bow
Bebe Daniels
Olive Borden
Badanova
Mary Brain
Hollywood
Indianapolis Times
America
Beauty Center
Times
Fort Harrison recruits begin 30 day military camp
At Fort Benjamin Harrison 1,400 youths enter a Citizens Military Training Camp. Recruits undergo processing, clothing issues, and medical checks with some rejected for bad hearts or ear problems, as they prepare to endure a month of basic drill and discipline.
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Arch Steines
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Citizens
United States of America
Ft. Harrison
Carl Metz
Coshocton
Carl
Heflin Aids Son After DUI Plea Not Guilty
Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama vows to help his son Thomas Jr. after the latter pleaded not guilty in police court to charges of driving while under the influence of narcotics. Heflin expresses grief over the admission and stresses warning against such indulgence.
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United Press
Washington
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
Thomas Jr
Chain stores seek injunction over license law
Lafayette A. Jackson owner of 250 Standard groceries seeks a temporary injunction in federal court to halt enforcement of a new chain store license law effective July 1. Judge Baltzell had overruled a state motion to dismiss the suit and an order for a three judge panel to hear the case. Jackson says the $5,443 license requirement is unconstitutional and discriminates against owners of multiple stores.
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Lafayette A. Jackson
Robert C. Baltzell
Jackson
Will H. Thompson
Road bids awarded for three paving contracts in state
Three paving and grading contracts totaling about 290000 dollars were let today by the state highway commission. Dunzweiler Construction Company of Zanesville Ohio won 10.25 miles of concrete on Road 43 in the Brookston Reynolds area for 171486.23 dollars. Hodgkins Adams Company of Winchester Kentucky won 2.8 miles of grading and small structures on Road 50 from Versailles to near Elrod in Ripley county for 132602.64 dollars. Alva F Adams of Clinton won 1. miles of concrete pavement in Clinton county southeast of Antioch for 32695.65 dollars.
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State Highway Commission
Dunzweiler Construction Company
Zanesville
Brookston
Reynolds
Hodgkins & Adams Company
Winchester
Versailles
Elrod
Ripley County
Clinton County
Antioch
Alva F. Adams
Clinton
Heat wave breaks as city cools after three hot days
Temperatures fell about nine degrees from Thursday as showers cooled the city. Forecasters expect mostly fair skies tonight and Saturday with little change in the high. The warm spell peaked at 86 on Thursday afternoon, while Columbus Madison and Vincennes reached 93 degrees.
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Columbus
Madisson
Vincennes
Farm slave flogging case erupts over peonage arrest
Claude King 28 and three Black workers hold as federal witnesses against W. D. Arnold Sr. in Webster county plantation peonage probe near Americas. King says he toiled three years for Arnold with only 2.50 weekly pay and inadequate housing, and was flogged after an attempted escape.
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United Press
Athens
Claude King
Clarke County
W. D. Arnold Sr
King
Webster County
United States District Court
Americas
Arnold
John Vanover
Vanover
Two Children Die in Kerosene Blast at Pleasantpa
A kerosene explosion in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilkinson at Pleasant, Pa., fatally burned two children and severely burned the mother and three other youngsters. The children tried to start a fire in the kitchen, and the blaze spread to clothing and the house. The mother was injured while rescuing them.
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United Pri
Mt, Pleasant
Harry Wilkinson
Man Blind Himself in Attempted Sack Handling
In Centralia Washington on June 21 Orville Spencer a postal employee tore out his own eye while removing a mail sack from a truck. A forceful jerk caused his thumb to gouge the eye. surgeons later removed the damaged organ.
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United Press
Shortridge, Manual and Arsenal Teens in Edison Scholarship Finals
Three 16 year old Indianapolis youths Elbert Marlow Gordon Ward and William Winter will compete with twenty others from Indiana in final Edison scholarship exams. Twenty three of sixty candidates survived preliminaries at six colleges. The winner gets a four year Edison scholarship to a technical school of choice.
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Indianapolis
Thomas A. Edison
Elbert Marlow
Arsenal Technical High School
Ernest O. Marlowe
North Centennial Street
William Winter
Leona Winter
New Jersey
Gordon Ward
Clinton D. Ward
Central Avenue
Shortridge High School
Morton High School
Richmond
Ind
Ward
Shortridge
Edison
Pugilist Tony Phillips Convicted In Burglary Case
A jury found Tony Phillips guilty of second degree burglary and grand larceny for stealing $500 in coats and dresses from the King Outfitting Co store on East Washington Avenue last February. Special Judge Thomas Garvin to sentence Phillips Wednesday. potential term one to ten years. Epstein to be tried later.
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Tony Phillips
King Outfitting Company
East
Washington Avenue
Phillips
Max Epstein
Indianapolis
Chicago
Thomas Garvin
State Reformatory
Epstein
Tom Mix Regains Stolen $100,000 Bag
Portsmout h New Hampshire June 21 Tom Mix recovered a bag with cash and securities near $100 000 from a circus train berth A 22 year old porter Russell Everett of Peru Indiana was jailed on larceny charges after confessing to stealing the bag and hiding it in a battery box under a show car
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United Press
Portsmouth
N. H
Tom Mix
Russell Everett
Peru
Ind
Times Playground Page to Start Next Friday
The Times will publish a complete weekly playground page starting Friday June 28. It will run through summer highlighting Indianapolis playground activities supervised by the city recreation department under Jesse McClure with stories and pictures of local youths and staff.
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The
Times
Indianapolis
Jesse McClure
Lindy’s Secret Wedding Revealed in The Times
Readers share the inside story of Lindy’s secret marriage to Anne Mor row. The flier and his betrothed matched wits with the world and won. Exclusive feature on page one, section two.
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Lindy
Anne Morrow
the Times
Autos Still Traveling Record Run Endurance Streak
At Indianapolis Motor Speedway the two Marmon Roosevelt stock cars marked 218 hours of continuous running with AAA observers overseeing. The Roosevelt straight-eights surpassed the prior nonstop auto record of 50 hours 21 minutes 1 second and exceeded the air plane record of 172 hours 32 minutes as a third Roosevelt trailed twenty four hours behind after a tire blow-out necessitated a fresh start.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
American Automobile Association
Roosevelt
Gunshot Wound Fatal During Hunting Near Greencastle
Mrs. Mary Abrams of Greencastle Indiana died today at Robert Long hospital after a hunting accident June 12. A shotgun she carried discharged while she and her husband Fremda Abrams climbed a fence. She made a statement regarding the incident before death.
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Mary Abrams
R. R
Greencastle
Ind
Robert Long Hospital
Executions of Two Bandits in Cook County Jail
Two Black men Charles Swan and Napoleon Glover were electrocuted in Cook County jail for the murder during a drug store robbery a year ago. They confessed to killing a second man Peter Lucas after he rebuked them for desecrating the Sabbath during the banditry.
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United Press
Chicago
Charles Swan
Napoleon Glover
Cook County
Charles Metlock
Peter Lucas
Hoover says federal government will not transgress law
International Falls residents pressed the Hoover administration after Henry Virkkula, a Big Falls confectioner, was killed by customs guards during a liquor check. The White House replied assurances and referred the matter to the treasury. Senators Schall Shipstead and Rep Pittenger also received appeals for relief. Virkkula died when he failed to stop for liquor inspection. his wife and two children were with him.
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United Press International
United States
Thomas D. Schall
Minnesota
Schall
Henrik Shipstead
Fred Pittenger
Virkkula
Here
German Cabinet Endorses Young Plan For Reparations
Berlin June 21 German cabinet approves the Young plan for settlement of the reparations problem. The decision signals a major step in postwar economic policy.
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United Press Berlin
Young Plan
Auto fumes kill two men in Oregon camp
Two men, John M. McMillan of Bly and James Parkinson of Beatty, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after napping in a closed car with the motor idling for warmth at a camp near Klamath Falls, Oregon.
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United Press
Klamath Falls
Ore
Here
John M. McMillan
Bly, Ore
James Parkinson
Beatty
Fire and explosion kill dozens at Canton hospital
A fire in an emergency military hospital at Canton caused explosions in a ammunition room. More than 100 casualties with over thirty dead reported. No foreigners involved. Cause of the pre explosion fire is not yet known.
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United Press
Hong Hong
China
Canton
Missing 9 year old James Stallings last seen Thursday
Police seek James Stallings age nine who left home at 4021 East Twenty first street Thursday morning with $5. He wore gray trousers and a light shirt. His mother Mrs. Grady Stallings identified him.
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James Stallings
East Twentyfirst Street
Grady Stallings
Anabelle West
C. West
Bloomington
Ind
Spanish aviator Franco starts Atlantic hop to New York
Commander Ramon Franco and two companions launched from Alcazares near Cartagena at 4 49 pm for New York by way of the Azores. The crew aims to beat the hydroplane distance record, plan a ten day round trip, with a 1366 mile first leg and an Azores stay of 18 hours before heading to New York.
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United Press
Madrid
Min Istry
Ramon Franco
Alcazares
Cartagena
New York
Azores
Ruiz de Alda
Gallarza
Madariaga
Franco
War Ministry
Atlantic
Palos
Spain
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Gibraltar
Cape San Vicente
Halifax
Tweny
Infanta Alfonso of Bourbon
City Man Critically Hurt In Auto Crash
W Kindalle Howard 56 of Drexel Gardens was critically injured when his car turned into the path of a second vehicle at West Washington street and Lynhurst drive. He was taken to city hospital with internal injuries. The other driver, George W. Thompson 64 of Bridgeport Ind, was unhurt and no charges were filed.
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W. Kindalle Howard
Washburn Avenue
Drexel Gardens
West Washington Street
Lynhurst Drive
Howard
City Hospital
George W. Thompson
Bridgeport
Ind
Thompson
Power firms win suit over 132000 volt line clash
The Charles B. and Charles C. Shedd of Chicago defeated the State Line Generating Company and Interstate Public Service Company as Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell dismissed the suit to block a 132000 volt steel tower line planned between Chicago and Hammond.
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Charles B
Charles C. Shedd
Chicago
State Line Generating Company
Interstate Public Service Company
Hammond
Robert C. Baltzell
Shedds
Jury hears first testimony in second trial of Dewey Brothers
Spencer Indiana June 21 United Press jurors in the second trial of Dewey Brothers heard the first testimony today in the murder case of Ralph Pogue Bloomington policeman. The prior trial ended with a hung jury.
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United Presse
Spencer
Ind
Dewey Brothers
Ralph Pogue
Bloomington
Eight Days Left to Get License and Free Notary Service
The Indianapolis Times urges readers to act within eight business days to obtain a driver’s license. It promotes free notary service on license application blanks, offering savings and a protest against high quarter fees. Eight thousand nine hundred fifty motor ists had already used Times aid by noon today.
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Indianapolis Times
Secretary of State's Office
Statehouse
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