Indiana Senate Passes 66 Bills In Overnight Session
In a marathon session that crossed midnight, Indiana lawmakers approved sixty six bills while killing four. Key actions include penalties for drunken driving alignment, bank banditry definitions, life imprisonment minimums, and tail light requirements for horse drawn vehicles.
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Indiana
Barrett
Marion County
Clyde Robinam
Arthur Dinsmore
Indianapolis
Wright
Late
Highway Commission
Council acts to close College Ave bridge over Fall Creek
The council voted unanimously to support immediate closing of the College Ave bridge over Fall Creek. Engineer C Oberlens opposed, arguing safety in high water. A bid/replacement option was also proposed by 9 Ray Albertson.
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Fall Creek
C. Oberleas
Otis E. Bartholomew
Oberlens
Yola
Bartholomew
Board of Works
Ray Albertson
Sheriff and two others held in editor flogging case
A Georgia sheriff W L Thig ee Treutlen County and two men Joe , Henry McLendon were arrested under $3 000 bond in Sopherton for participating in the flogging of H M Ligiders editor of the Sopherton News on February 25. Ligiders was beaten into insensibility by hooded men and Landers remains bedridden from injuries and would not speak about the arrests.
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United Press
Sopherton
H. M. Ligiders
Ie Sheriff
Landers
Two Men Denied F-2d Tried to Kill Gui
In Redding California two men bound a 14 year old girl named Elizabeth Ames to a chair and left her in front of a gas jet. They stated they were hungry and they planned revenge. A brother found her unconscious and she revived when removed outside. Sheriff Sublett led the search for the suspects.
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Redding
Cal
Elizabeth Ames
Sheriff Sublett
Duvall Civil Service Plan Faces City Council Probe
The old city council majority seeks an investigation of the civil service commission established by Mayor Duvall. They cite irregularities in promotions, including Sgt. George E. Cox to lieutenant, while commission chair John F. White denies any improper acts and cites adherence to the law.
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Civil Service Commission
George E. Cox
Walter R. Dorsett
Otis E. Bartholomew
Board of Safety
Public Safety Committee
Claude E. Negley
John F. White
Cox
Two Thousand Expected At Communion Service
More than 2,000 members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the women and boys auxiliaries are expected for a 9 a.m. Sunday Holy Communion at St. John’s Church, announced by Dr. Michael J. McGinty. Plans for St Patrick’s Day events were finalized at a meeting in the hall at 39½ S. Delaware Street. Tomlinson Hall will host an elaborate musical program on March 17. P J Kelleher discussed the Irish Free State, with Thomas O Connell presiding.
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Michael J. McGinty
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Former Chicago Judge Stelk Linked to $500000 Real Estate Fraud
Chicago on March 8 a former judge John J Stelk was arrested on forgery charges linked to a plan to seize $500000 in Chicago area real estate. Authorities say he forged deed names to intimidation rackets and would file fake judgments to transfer properties to be sold by the sheriff.
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United Press
John J. Stelk
Stelk
Well known insurance man regains health with Todd's Tonic
A. J. Crane of Indianapolis testifies that after four bottles of Todd's Tonic his appetite returned and he gained thirty pounds. The tonic, described as a reconstructive wine tonic, claims longer lasting results and is sold at Hage Drug Store and other outlets.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Todd
California
Indiana House Approves Large Budget and Reforms
The Indiana House passed the $49,000,000 biennial budget with Senate amendments and added about $850,000 to the bill. It approved raises for city officials, defined machine gun possession as a crime, and sent the sterilization bill for mental defectives by court order to the Governor. A late-night session featured gifts and vigorous debate, ending with a failed gun licensing repeal attempt.
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Indiana
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Evansville
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Girl Ends Life in Fear of Low Grades
In Muskogee Oklahoma a 13 year old girl Lillian Collins reportedly killed herself fearing she would receive poor grades today. Classmates said she feared being returned to the orphanage from which she came. Her body was found by foster parents in their home.
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United Press
Muskogee
Okla
Lillian Collins
Lillian
Council Probes Hospital Needs Before Funding
A four doctor committee will study the city hospital’s needs before any action on a 1.7 million dollar loan for a new unit. The old main building is condemned as a fire trap. Doctors F. E. Jackson J W Sluss T Victor Keene and Edmund D Clark named to survey. An ordinance was referred to a special committee including Boynton Moore Dorsett Ferguson Todd and Bartholomew.
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F. E. Jackson
Board of Health
J W. Sluss
T. Victor Keene
Edmund D. Clark
Boynton
J. Moore
Walter 8. Dorsett
Millard W. Ferguson
Austin H. Todd
Otis E. Bartholomew
Dallas Flood Isolates 300 Homes Along Trinity River
Torrential rains swelled the Trinity River near Dallas causing more than a mile of floodwater and making South Dallas streets impassable. Three hundred homes and several small businesses were flooded while police and firemen rescued families. no fatalities reported.
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United Press
Adllas
Texas
Trinity River
Dallas
Science to Take Stand in Croarkin Murder Trial
Chicago March 8 The scientific diagnosis of Harold J Croarkin mental activity on trial for the murder of 6 year old Walter Schmith Jr probably will start today. Both State and defense in the trial of the 26 year old son of a wealthy manufacturer are expected to introduce several alienists as final testimony of the case. State alienists have declared from the start that Croarkin was mentally screen.
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United Press
Chicago
Harold J. Croarkin
Walter Schmith Jr
Croarkin
Council factions clash as women police salaries approved
The old majority faction passed a $28,000 transfer from Board of Works funds to the police department to pay fifteen policewomen who had served without pay since January 1. Mayor Duvall vetoed the ordinance, and City Controller Buser refused to recognize it. Bartholemew predicted the measure would be tested in court to reveal bureaucratic red tape.
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Boynton J. Moore
Duvall
Board of Works
Police Department
W. C. Buser
Otis E. Bartholomew
Girl, 8, Seeks Mother Amid Illness at Home
Myrtle Marie Woolbright, age eight, of 1224 Udell Street, has been seriously ill since her mother Flossie Woolbright left seven weeks ago. Father John Woolbright asked police for help locating his wife but has had no success. He hopes to send his daughter to a hospital soon and pleads for the mother to return.
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Myrtle Marie Woolbright
Udell St
John Woolbright
Flossie Woolbright
Woolbright
Myrtle Marie
Marie Woolbright
Ransom Parley Opens for Aviator Release
Negotiations began today in Cape Juby Morocco for the release of four Uruguayan aviators held by Moorish tribesmen after their plane wrecked seventy five miles from Cape Juby during a trans Atlantic attempt. A letter from Maj Laure Borges to the Spanish high commissioner confirmed the aviators' safety.
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Laure Borges
Cape Juby
Gas station hold up ends in car chase with accomplice woman
Police seek a male bandit and a female accomplice after a Monday night armed robbery spree at two filling stations. Victims Baldwin and Shipley described a fleeing vehicle with a woman driving. A third victim Dyer reported $26 taken and $27 check returned.
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Fletcher Ave
Shelby St
Theodore Baldwin
Leeds Ave
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E. Pratt Sr
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McCarty
East Sts
Paul Shipley
Laurel St
Western Oil Station
New York Sts
Shipley
Fred Dyer
Tenth St
Stutz Motor Car Company
Alabama St
Downtown Club Rooms Raided on Commission Row
Police raided the Market Masters Social Club at 216 E. Maryland St in Commission Row on Monday night. no gambling found. Three men Ray Partlow Lee Hall and Harry Ishenbaugh were held on vagrancy charges.
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Commission Row
Fred Winkler
Sergis
Pettit
Small
Ray Partlow
South St
Lee Hall
Spring St
Harry Ishenbaugh
Alabama
Washington seal impression displayed at Sulgrave Manor
Horace Lee Washington the American consul general presented Sulgrave Manor Board with an impression of Washingtons seal. The display will be shown at Sulgrave Manor House home of the Washingtons before their emigration to America welcoming visitors and American tourists each year.
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London
March
Horace Lee Washington
George Washington
Sulgrave Manor
Washington
Washingtons
America
Indiana Legislature Concludes Its 75th Session
The Indiana Legislature adjourned at 2:50 AM after a $49 million appropriation bill passed. The session created two new boards for barbers and beauty operators, reformed farm property valuations, and extended farm relief. Tax and road provisions included highway funding and a bridge bill for Evansville, with notable salary increases for judges and lawmakers.
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American Legion
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Evansville
Stereoscopic camera promises quicker posing in sculpture
Chicago inventors C. L. Parish and William Englemann unveil a stereoscopic motion picture camera that revolves around the subject's head and in thirty seconds takes 460 pictures. The device provides angles from every side, enabling sculptors to work without long hours of posing.
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United Presse
Chicago
Ruling on Texas Law Invoked in Smith Ware Case
A March 8 report notes a movement to use a Supreme Court decision validating Texas Negro primary law in the Smith and Ware battles to challenge Senate seats for William Ware of Pennsylvania and Frank Smith. Debate centers on whether the primary is part of election machinery under congressional control and if Texas may redraw the law.
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United Press
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Frank Smith
Smith
Vare
Texas
Newberry
Supreme Court
Temple Oranges Debut At City Market This Season
Temple oranges arrive at the city market for the first time this season. The fruit, a cross between tangerines and King oranges, sells at 74 cents to $1 per dozen and 5 to 10 cents each at some stands. Other prices include stringless beans 35 cents per pound, strawberries up 5 cents to 60 cents a quart, egg plants 30 to 40 cents, mushrooms 70 cents per pound, hothouse cucumbers 25 cents each, asparagus 20 cents or $1 per bunch, parsley 5 to 10 cents per bunch, eggs about 30 cents a dozen, and butter at 60 to 64 cents per pound.
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Temple
Coast Guard launches spring drive against rum runners
The United States plans a major new anti rum running campaign this spring with 33 faster cutters armed with three inch cannons and machine guns. The effort includes 26 destroyers 6 airplanes 16 revenue cutters 350 patrol boats and about 10 000 personnel led by Lieutenant Commander Stephen Yeandle and Admiral Billard.
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Washington
United States
Coast Guard
America
Stephen Yeandle
Billard
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