Calles Spurs on Troops 10 Crush Rebels in Mexico
Mexican federal forces push toward Torreon in Coahuila while rebels move south toward Mazatlan. Government claims complete rout of rebels in Zacatecas after Canitas fell with 1,000 surrendering to the federals. Durango reports a decree restoring church laws and Catholic prelates.
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United Press
Mexico City
Torreon
Mazatlan
Simaloa
Coahuila
Plutarco Calles
Reebl
Zacatecas
Canitas
Feders
Sonora
United Press Today
Durango
Mexico
J. G. Escobar
Revolutionary Movement
Rebels mass across Baja and Pacific coast fronts
Three columns of Mexican rebels converge on Mazatlan with about 5,000 troops as General Borquez plans a surround of Mexico City. Governor Amado Aguirre joins, advancing from Baja California with 1,300 men. Additional columns move on Modesto and Tampico as revolts spread.
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Dennis Landry
United Press
Nogales
Ariz
Mazatlan
Sinaloa
Francisco Borquez
Sonora
Berquez
Jaime Carrillo
Amado Aguirre
Lower California
Gulf of California
Borquez
Ramon Iturbe
Modesto
Ricardo Topete
Battle of Statements in Mexico Press War Ahead of Torreon Clash
Frederick C. Othman reports a propaganda battle as rebels and federals mass near Torreon with Juarez and El Paso echoing claims. Rebels boast 10 000 troops and quick attack, while the Mexican consulate downplays rebel tales and calls for restraint amid preparations for a clash near Torreon.
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Frederick C. Othman
United Press
EL Paso
Tex
Torreon
Jaurez
Boarder
Mexico
Juarez
Plutarco Elias Calles
Self-Taught Crusader Senator Nejdl Champions Education
Senator James J. Nejdl of Whiting, a self educated immigrant and leader in Indiana politics, celebrates his children as seniors. Daisy Nejdl will graduate from Whiting High School while Lambert, a Purdue alumnus and Northwestern medical student, nears his M D degree. Lucille Witter accompanies Daisy as a Whiting High School senior friend. Nejdl rose from humble beginnings, learning English from a dictionary and a black book, and has become a top contractor and three times Senate president pro tem.
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Senate
James J. Nejdl
Whiting
Hoosier Commonwealth
Daisy Nejdl
Lambert
Purdue University
Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago
Lucille Witter
Whiting High School
Nejdl
Senator Nejdl
America
Bohemia
Calumet
Trains Crash Near Marshfield Station In Chicago
A Logan Square express rammed into a Hum bolt Park train at Marshfield station causing two wooden cars to wreck. Twelve people were taken to Cook County hospital and twenty others treated on site.
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United Press
Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Marshfield
Logan Square
Stabbed Husband at Hollywood Film Party
In Hollywood a party at Leonore Casnova's apartment ended with Cora Mahoney stabbing her husband Will with a bread knife. Will Mahoney was treated and returned home. his wife was released after he declined prosecution. Mahoney reportedly is the son of a New York police inspector.
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United Press
Hollywood
Cal
Leonore Casnova
Cora Mahoney
Will
Mahoney
New York
Michell Harris
Progress of Women Cheers Ganna Walska
Mme Ganna Walska wife of Harold F McCormick says she returns to Paris satisfied with her U S concert reception She notes marked progress for women since her last visit three years ago praising educational access leadership roles and preserved feminine charm.
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United Pres
Chicago
Mme
Ganna Walska
Harold F. McCormick
Paris
United States
Mme. Walska
Black man killed after crossing racial boundary in Chicago
Charles Mallor, 47, was fatally beaten after he, his wife, and a friend crossed into a white neighborhood labeled as boundary territory. Mallor collapsed after a Black assailant struck him with a blackjack and died at hospital.
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United Press
Chicago
Trish
Charles Maller
Mrs. Mallor
Mallor
The Black Pigeon Mystery Rewards Readers’ Solutions
The Indianapolis Times invites readers to submit solutions to the Anne Austin serial The Black Pigeon chapter 44 to 46. A $25 prize awaits the most logical answer to who killed Harry Borden and why, with any correct guess not needing to match the author.
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Anne Austin
Indianapolis Times
Harry Borden
the Times
The
Times
English driver Segrave targets world speed record at Daytona Beach
Major H. O. D. Segrave plans to drive the Golden Arrow to challenge the 207.55 mph mark held by J. M. White with a possible 240 mph theoretical speed. White may race the Triplex as Segrave seeks a first-hour start. Segrave sees about a one in ten chance of surviving the run and calls himself a fatalist after car, wind, and beach checks.
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United Press
Daytona Beach
Fla
H. O. D. Segrave
J. M. White
Philadelphia
White
Segrave
Beach Speedway
Seize Woman and Jug Highlight Saturday Night Raid
Police tased a raid to seize a jug of alleged whisky from Mrs Florence Green a 40 year old resident of 1004 South Pennsylvania Street. She brandished a poker and held police at bay for several minutes before officers overpowered her and confiscated the liquor and weapon on a charge of operating a blind tiger.
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Florence Green
Pennsylvania Street
Pass School Bills and Senate Action on Education Funding
Senators stayed silent as two school aid bills passed the senate. One bill was amended to a 2.8 cent levy raising about 350000. the other creates a 10000 fund for state aid investigators under the superintendent of public instruction.
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House
Senate
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Accounts
Missing 3-year-old Eunice Tate Sparks Town Search
Police search for Eunice Tate a 3 year old girl from 1541 South State Street who vanished from her home shortly after today noon prompting a regional missing child inquiry and active ground and air searches.
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Eunice Tate
South State Street
Cabinet Has Young Generation of Sub Debs and College Boys
A 1929 portrait of the Hoover era White House social scene notes a "young generation" of sub debs and college boys among cabinet offspring. It highlights Mrs. Hoover as a steady, gracious first lady, and lists cabinet families: Mitchells, Good, Wilbur, Hyde, Lamont, Adams, and others with their children and grandchildren, showing a socially active Washington.
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White House
Calvin Coolidge
Washington
William DeWitt Mitchell
James Good
Iowa
Good
Congress
Evanston
Ill
Chicago
Walter Browns
Harding
Commerce
Hoover
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Interior Department
Wilburs
Leland Stanford University
Arthur M. Hyde
Agriculture
Hyde
Missouri
Caroline
New Jersey
Texan wins six hundred dollars in baccarat
Phillip Dale of Galveston Texas placed a five franc bet in Nice that yielded six hundred dollars after nine straight baccarat wins in twenty minutes reported today.
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United Press
Nice
France
Baccarat
Phillip Dale
Galveston
Tex
Senate Bill Ties Up Bootleggers On Appeals
Bootleggers jailed between convictions and appeals face detention until a final decision. The state senate passed a bill requiring release only by petition to the court where appeal lies and showing strong probability of reversal. Applies to criminal circuit juvenile appellate and supreme courts. Bill awaits the Governor's signature.
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State Senate
Milton Sills Gravely Ill in Sanitarium
Milton Sills actor is gravely ill in a sanitarium in Ossining New York. His wife Doris Kenyon is greatly concerned as friends report a recent breakdown and that his whereabouts are being kept secret.
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United Press
Scores of City Bowlers to Roll in Times Meet
Thirty six Optimists Club members join the swelling field of more than 600 entrants in The Indianapolis Times first annual bowling singles tournament. Webb Wallace reports the Indiana alleys will host group play and the March 18 start date looms as entry blanks pour in.
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Optimists Club
Indianapolis Times
Optimists
Webb Wallace
Indiana
Indiana Theater
Wallace
Times
Indianapolis Bill Clears City Right to Buy Gas Company
Governor Harry G. Leslie signed two bills authorizing Indianapolis to exercise the option to purchase Citizens Gas Company and to create a utility district to operate the gas property. The measures, passed by lawmakers with Marion County senators and representatives present, address retiring stock and assuming debt while safeguarding operation from political interference. City officials and the Citizens Gas trustees expect cooperation, though stockholders may contest in court. The bills were introduced by Lloyd D. Claycombe and James H. Lowry, signed by Claycombe and J Clyde Hoffman, with the city manager act strengthening 1921 law also filed awaiting Acts of 1929 publication.
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Marion County
Harry G. Leslie
Citizens’ Gas Company
Attorney General
L. Ert Slack
City Legal Department
Citizens Gas Company
Lloyd D. Claycombe
James H. Lowry
Indianapolis
Claycombe
J. Clyde Hoffman
Secretary of State
Hines Reappointed as Veterans Bureau Director
General Frank T. Hines of Utah was reappointed today as director of the veterans bureau. Along with other department heads he had submitted his resignation to President Hoover, but it was announced at the White House that Hines would remain at his post permanently.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Utah
Veterans’ Bureau
Hines
Hoover
White House
Death Comes at 109 Believed Oldest Woman in New England
Mrs Angeline Willette age 107 or 108 dies at her Burlington Vermont home. The death marks the passing of a longtime resident reputed as the region's oldest woman. Her era spanned multiple local histories and she witnessed numerous state events.
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New England
Vermont
United Press
Burlington, Vt
Angeline Willette
Boxing Ordinance Approved by Slack and Commission Reappointed
Mayor L Ert Slack signed the new boxing ordinance and reappointed Kenneth Woolling Gideon W Blaine and David Jennings to the old commission. The measure imposes a $50 fee replacing a 5 percent tax protested by American Legion boxing promoters and allows council to approve commission regulations per Superior Judge Byron K Elliott. The ordinance takes effect in ten days.
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L. Ert Slack
Kenneth Woolling
Gideon W. Blaine
David Jennings
American Legion
Byron K. Elliott
FLEES DURING FIRE Posse Seeks Prisoner at Kendallville
Kendallville Indiana March 11 Posses searched the area for Ray Coffelt 40 of Kendallville who escaped from Sheriff John Singleton Albion during a fire at the officer home. William Kennison Kalkaska Michigan who escaped with Coffelt was recaptured Coffelt was to be taken to Pendleton penitentiary today to begin a sentence for non support of his family.
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United Press
Kendallville
Ind
Indiana
Ray Coffelt
John Singleton
Albion
William Kennison
Kalkaska
Mich
Coffelt
Pendleton
Fireman Loses Leg After Crash In City
Emil O. Butzke, 2164 North Harding, a city fireman, had his left leg amputated after two fire trucks collided at Saturday's Market and Pennsylvania streets. The operation occurred Sunday in a city hospital. Butzke was riding on the rear of one truck when he was pinned between the two machines.
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Emil O. Butzke
North Harding Street
Market
Pennsylvania
Butzke
Woman Routs Attack With Hand Bag
Mrs. Elizabeth Glass a deputy tax assessor living at 1905 North Talbott avenue repelled a purse snatcher at Twenty fourth and Delaware streets by striking with her hand bag. The assailant fell and fled, getting up only to flee again.
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Twenty-fourth
Delaware
Elizabeth Glass
North Talbott Avenue
Indiana Legislature Near End Of Session With 34 Bills Passed
As the seventy sixth Indiana legislature neared adjournment, 34 bills cleared the houses with 113 left for third reading. The key items were a $55,000,090 appropriation and a state licensing bill, with potential tax and fee changes including a proposed 50 cent tax on foreign finance corporations and higher store license fees.
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Indiana
Senate
House of Representatives
Joint Committee
House
Price to face murder charge after wife slain in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati Ohio David Price 27 to be charged with first degree murder for the Sunday shooting death of his 19 year old wife Olla in their apartment. Neighbors said Price shouted I ought to shoot you during a bitter quarrel.
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United Press
Cincinnati
David Price
Olla
Price
Amherst Alumni Note Reports Coolidge Return Home
Amherst Mass March 11 under alumni notes for the class of 1895 the Amherst Student notes Calvin Coolidge has returned to his home at Northampton after an extended stay in Washington.
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United Press
Amherst
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Northampton
Washington
Opera bouffe twist in Mexican revolution telegram
A telegram from Erie, Pennsylvania to the El Paso Post reports a humorous line about selling five thousand old Knights Pythias uniforms to rebel generals. The message adds a satirical note to the day's Mexican revolution coverage.
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United Press
EL Paso Tex
el Paso Post
Erie
Knights Pythias
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