28 Jun 1930
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1930
Page
1
Investigators believe the torch car victim was slain at or near the burning site. Harold Schroeder to be taken to the High School road scene and then west of Terre Haute to identify the supposed crash spot.
Grace Barnes a Terre Haute teacher filed suit in Vigo superior court to test the validity of the state teachers tenure law naming Terre Haute as defendant after her dismissal. William C. Kisley, 46, is held in the county jail on a warrant from unspecified source.
Thomas Toohey Chicago gangster once jailed for the L. S. Ayres robbery in Indianapolis was paroled at Michigan City Indiana trustees voting Friday night He was reported in poor health and has served over two years past his minimum His case drew major party politicians and high priced lawyers amid a costly effort. Also parole granted to William Adams for heroism in an Ohio penitentiary fire after previous sick parole violation.
New York stocks opened quiet and narrow with fractional losses for Packard International Telephone Westinghouse Electric National Power and Light Chrysler United States Steel below prior close Southern Railway fell 1% near 91% while Radio Keith Orpheum Kennecott Vanadium Atlantic Refining and Fox Films gained small amounts Texas Corporation American Telephone and Lorillard held steady Utilities fell but volume remained light Rails drifted lower on May net decline General Electric rose to 66 Bethlehem Steel up 79. General Motors held at 38 with steel easing.
Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers were married Friday night at Baker's ranch, a rodeo famous site. Miss Carmen Pantages served as maid of honor with bridesmaids Marion Nixon Mae Sunday and Marie Prevost. best man was William Collier. The couple headed north for a Canada honeymoon after the ceremony.
Mrs. Nell Key, 41, of 825 Birch Street, reports four men in an automobile abducted her at 11 Friday night. She says they took her to the country, stripped her, and assaulted her, leaving a black eye after she tried to read the license. Held until 2 am she was returned to near her home and she can identify all four suspects.
Decided strength held hogs to an upward trend at the union stock yards this morning. Hogs rose about 25 cents with most 160 to 300 pounds selling at 9.35 to 9.40. top price 9.50. Receipts 2,500. holdovers 950. Cattle steady. welers 10.50 down. calves and sheep steady with 150 receipts. Chicago hogs 9,500 with 8,000 direct. few loads 9.15 to 9.20 for 170 to 220 pounds.
In a Michigan City prison visit, D. C. Stephenson, once a Ku Klux Klan leader, watched as Indiana Republicans and their families passed by without greeting. Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush spoke to him briefly, while Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson avoided Stephenson amid the tense atmosphere.
Woo Dak San, a Chinese slayer at Culver City New Mexico, weighs electrocution or injecting him with trachoma germs to test the disease. Doctors say inoculation could avert death, may not blind him, and could yield a life sentence if commuted. He is to be resentenced to death by electrocution next week in Grant County.
In a rapidly reported action from Buenos Aires the Oruro military government seized La Paz at 4 30 p m Friday. General Blanco Galino led troops into the city after a brief clash with police. The capture confirms a wider advance including Potosi and Cochabamba as supporters claim a nationwide spread.
Harry Sellers aged 49 of 2210 Central Avenue died at 130 West Twentieth street after becoming ill on a cab call from Mrs. Harriett Milroy. Police believe heart disease caused the death.
Shots blasted from two fast cars on Ohio Street early today as occupants fired at each other while the vehicles ran side by side. Patrolman E A Landis reported seven shots seen at Ohio and East streets, with the chase continuing past the Monon tracks. No injuries reported. police call it a possible hijacking or rum running rivalry.
Army aviation officials announced the transfer of Lieutenant Walter R. Peck from Schoenfield Ft Harrison to Montgomery Alabama effective July 1. Peck has led the fort’s organized reserve squadron noted as the most competent in the United States air corps. Announcement came from Captain R. E. Whitehead of the air corps reserve.
President Hoover began quiet efforts to raise a 100000 unofficial fund to replace congressional cuts to the Wickersham Commission. He hopes to enlist wealthy donors while the commission retains about 120000 from prior and pending appropriations. The body continues work with social workers and crime experts, running a nationwide crime condition survey and employing over fifty staff across twelve subcommittees.
Three bodies found in a Terre Haute apartment above a grocery store including Wesley Oakley and his housekeeper Clara Raney with her 6-year-old son Carl. Raney held a .32 caliber revolver and is suspected to have killed Oakley before taking her own life and that of her child. Oakley’s daughter Alice, 15, discovered her father’s body.
A sensational fragment notes a pastor murdered while preaching. The text mocks travel and a fictional figure Major Amos Hoople, and advertises newspaper delivery, with unclear local context or date.
Frank Ross 37 surrendered after shooting Rev. Edgar Wood 37 dead at the Tenth Street Mission Niagara Falls. He wounded his estranged wife Mildred Ross and bystander Leonard Towe 27 who tried to intervene. Ross cited long quarrels over his wife attending church services.
Adolph Wooster 55 of 624 Linden Street sustained internal injuries and serious burns when his car crashed near Oaklandon on road 67 and caught fire. He was hospitalized at Methodist with his condition listed as serious.
Mrs. Clara Junker, 48, of A. A. 9 Box 386, placed 150 dollars in bills on her bed and took poison Friday night. She had separated from her husband Charlies Junker three weeks earlier. Found unconscious by Opal Reed with whom she lived since the separation, she died at city hospital shortly after. The couple had no children.
A railway train carrying fifty people was buried by a landslide near Yamaguchi Japan. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Tokyo said the fate of the passengers was unknown and about 800 workers immediately toiled to dig the train out.
Four policemen and four firemen were appointed by the safety board in Friday night sessions. Patrolmen named Walter Baase Donald S Milburn Edward F Griffin and George Rusler join the force along with firemen John W Hahn Charles H Ogle Edgehill E Thompson and John F O'Brien. George McCloskey a fireman at No 26 engine house was suspended for thirty days without pay for reporting late.
Paris June 28 a German republican eagle was erected at the Rhineland end of the bridge between Strasbourg and Kehl. It marks the departure of the last occupying German soldiers from German soil and signals the end of occupation.
Northwest wind at eight miles per hour. Temperature around m1 with barometric pressure 30 at sea level. Ceiling unlimited, visibility five miles, field conditions, Td.
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