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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1930
Page
9
French government leaders visit the Midi as floods from the Tarn and Garonne unleash destruction. Rescue teams recover bodies from Moissac and Montauban while relief funds and flags at half mast signal national mourning.
Canada seeks extradition of two former American narcotics agents charged with the murder of Canadian Amadeo Bilodeau near Hereford, Quebec, on May 29, 1926. A $65,000 Canada claim was rejected, Vaccaro extradition was approved by U S Commissioner Frank Supplee, and a release order prompted a Canadian appeal.
Two Japanese women will visit the United States to express gratitude for American aid after the 1923 earthquake and to report that earthquake ruins are cleared. The trip is sponsored by Jiji Shimpo and arranged by Japanese officials including Prince Tokugawa and others. The princess Miss Setsu Matsudaira is among them.
Pettis Dry Goods Company opened a new men and boys department today with street floor entrance. T A Regan leads the department, supported by salesmen Joseph M Callum Edward Chavers Robert Monahan and H A Rost as the stock includes suits topcoats rain coats trousers and knickers.
City officials led by Mayor Sullivan and the works board will tour streets on Wednesday to determine needed improvements. The group includes the city plan commission and City Engineer A H Moore. East New York street East Washington and Michigan street will receive special consideration.
In Fairbanks Alaska residents prepare public funeral rites for Arctic fliers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland whose flag draped bodies lie in a hangar awaiting ceremonies. The services set to honor the pioneers mark a somber tribute from the community.
Three men were missing after blasts sparked a blaze on tanker No. 5 near the Pure Oil plant in Kearny New Jersey. Louis Larsen crawled ashore through flames and shut valves to nearby tanks before more explosions sent the vessel free from the wharf.
Preliminary draft of a political program to end the U S military presence in Haiti is with the Hoover investigating commission. Opposition leaders have more time to revise demands for discussion next week as Catholic Church led by Archbishop Conan backs the reform movement with broad public support.
Prince Louis Ferdinand son of the ex crown prince of Germany earned a pilot's certificate after passing required test flights at Castelar airdrome Buenos Aires. Fire at Brown and Owens general store in Carbon Indiana caused losses over 50000 dollars with Brazil fire dept hindered by water shortages.
T Alfred Fleming of the National Board of Fire Underwriters urged city departments and residents to cooperate to reduce fire losses in Indianapolis. He called 1929 losses staggering and said sprinkling systems would have cut the three or four largest fires. He praised water supply but warned business leaders set insurance rates for years.
Edward L. Doheny arrives in Washington to face trial on a charge of giving former Secretary of the Interior Fall a $100,000 bribe. Doheny, 73, sets up hotel headquarters as legal teams plan no delay. Fall is free on appeal but ill and unable to attend.
Rome March 8 Italy's war department budget was adopted by the chamber of deputies after speakers urged cutting manpower to fund better equipment and noted the nation's peaceful intentions.
President Pascual Ortiz Rubio in Mexico City disclosed five immediate goals: justice system morality and efficiency, exploitation of natural resources, higher agricultural output, vast highway expansion, and urgent labor problem solutions aided by road projects. He seeks foreign capital and social efforts to curb alcohol and gambling, while maintaining cordial U.S. relations.
Washington March 8 fur ther prohibition legislation at this session of congress seemed unlikely today in view of the wide difference of opinion in the house over the administration's enforcement program. Only one Wickersham law enforcement proposal has been acted upon transfer of the prohibition bureau to the justice department. A bill to shift has passed the house and likely will be approved by the senate with the tariff bill.
Henri de Ziegler, professor at the University of Geneva, will lecture at Tudor Hall on Thursday night on Cities and Scenery of French Switzerland. The illustrated talk will be in French. de Ziegler is known for novels and critical studies and recently earned the Schiller prize from the Schiller Foundation.
A new sectional sena tor coalition seized control of the tariff bill in the Senate and began a full rewrite. Sugar and cement were toppled as disputed issues, with leaders eyeing lumber and oil. Some senators reversed earlier votes, fueling uncertainty about whether industrial schedules will rise or fall and whether farm relief measures survive the fight.
The item describes the Skillet Skip at Williston on Kessler Boulevard 4600 and features Miss Ruth Kennedy of Lawrence Indiana sewing a swallow-tailed dress while a sewing machine hums in a lower photo.
Edward St John 22 an alleged member of a bandit trio that robbed a filling station at 2001 Shelby street on December 1 was to be sent to Indiana state prison for a ten year term by Criminal Judge James A Collins St John faced auto banditry charges for the holdup of Glenn Kinney attendant who was robbed of 52 dollars Joe Facconi 17 of 112 South Davidson street is indicted for a similar offense Parsons 19 of 719 Lord street a co defendant in the Terre Haute holdup was killed in a gun battle with Terre Haute police Facconi is recovering from wounds sustained in the same battle
Raymond Bess, 23, of 201 North Davidson street, arrested on automobile theft charges Friday night. Half an hour later his wife Pearl Bess was taken into custody at a different stolen car scene. Police say Bess held onlookers at 46 North Hamilton avenue as officers arrived. Mrs Bess nabbed at a filling station after C E Boswell reported her stealing his car. Other crimes: Dale Thurston robbed of 27 dollars at Liberty and Court streets. three men assaulted Jack Gaynor at Twenty third and Delaware. a tamale vendor reported two men grabbing his can at Capitol avenue and Church.
Madrid reports King Alfonso XIII remains fearless and unmoved by Republican advance since Primo de Rivera’s fall. An informed statesman quotes Alfonso as saying he has met constitutional duties, accepted limits after the dictatorship, and rejected De Rivera’s plans for a one chamber legislature.
Police were alerted to two stolen vehicles, a Ford sedan owned by George Ford from 9058 Baltimore Avenue near Sherman Drive and Twenty-Eighth Street, and a Ford touring owned by Charles Miller of Greenwood Indiana, license 67 099, from Maryland and Illinois Streets.
Police recovered several stolen vehicles belonging to residents Charles Miller Theodore Fredrich C E Boswell and an unlicenced Ford Tudor. Greenwood Ford sedan found at West and Vermont Theodore Fredrichs Chevrolet coupe located at Harding and Miller C E Boswells Ford coupe found near New York and Dixon streets and a Ford Tudor with no license found at 515 Pearson Street.
Alfred Taylor Pattison former New Orleans exporter died at Dousland near Plymouth aged 67. He had traveled extensively in America China and Europe.
Dr Howard C Neffziger flew from San Francisco to Butte to operate on George M Bourquin Jr a former district judge and county attorney critically injured in a handball game The brain specialist credited with saving his life after a cranial injury
Lord Beaverbrook, founder of a new party, prepares to abandon his political infant while Lord Rothermere, backing the effort in the Daily Mail, urges the Conservatives to adopt four more objectives. Immediate import duties with farming subsidies, strict public spending, no more concessions in India, and no ties with Russia are called for despite Baldwin's stance.
Washington March 8 United Press reports senators led by Senator Harrison demand removing Senator Joseph R Grundy from his extra senate office amid accusations related to the American Tariff League News Bureau and lobbyist Doane who earned 500 dollars monthly. The lobby committee will reconvene Tuesday with attorney John Lerch expected to testify.
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