Jury Trial Set Over County Pay Suits
Superior Judge James M. Leathers ruled the county council lacks authority to fix salaries for county employees. The decision, repeated after two weeks, sends twenty seven employee pay suits to jury trials led by George O. Hutsel. About $10,000 in pay appropriations are at stake from December inaction. Givan seeks venue change to Marion and each case will be tried separately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Leathers
George O. Hutsell
Hutéll
Leathers
Clinton H. Givan
Punty
William H. ‘Aust
Hutsell
Man Near Death After Fasting in Denver
John Lunn aged 65 lies near death in Denver after fasting for thirty four days following six weeks in the city. He moved from Wyoming and rented a room but refused to eat soon after arriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
John Lunn
Lunn
Wyoming
Erlanger Widow Fights for Estate Share
The widow claiming to be Mrs Erlanger asserts rights to half of Abraham Lincoln Erlanger 75 million estate, challenging the will which states he was unmarried and leaves most to his brother and two sisters. The will filed without probate petition dated October 18 1927 earmarks 1000 to eleven nephews and nieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger
Erlanger
Rum Paralysis Strikes Tennessee Counties
Doctors in three east Tennessee mountain counties report more than a hundred cases of paralyzing illness linked to Jamaica ginger and moonshine. Health officials seek state aid as physicians cannot promise relief amid panic. In Oklahoma City, over four hundred victims welcome word that the illness stems from bad liquor and many show rapid recovery with crutches or crutch-assisted steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Elizabethton
Tenn
Tennessee
State Health Department
Washington
Carter
Unicoi
Oklahoma City
Aged Man Struck by Auto Injured in City Crash
Anthony Walters, 87, of 1717 East Washington, is in city hospital with a broken leg after a Monday afternoon collision at Summit and Washington. Driver H. D. Hamilton, 70, of 2003 North Pennsylvania, was not held as witnesses said he was not at fault.
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Anthony Walters
East Washington Street
City Hospital
Summit
Washington Streets
H. D. Hamilton
North
Pennsylvania Street
Health Matinee for Women at Lyric Theater
A free women only Health Talk and Demonstration by Miss Dell O'Dell at the Lyric Theater starts Wednesday at 9:45 am. The Indianapolis Times promotes exercises and demonstrations with prizes from Crown Jewelry, including a wrist watch.
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Miss Dell O’dell
RKO Vaudeville
Weather Summary From Air West Field Report
In the Air West wind at 14 miles per hour the barometric pressure is 29.58 inches at sea level. Temperature is 35 degrees with unlimited ceiling and visibility four miles. Field conditions are good.
Arrivals and Departures At Curtiss Mars Hill Airport
Curtiss Moth Earl Bryan New York to Ponca City Oklahoma time from New York to Indianapolis five hours seventeen minutes. Capitol Airport Clyde Shockley Kokomo to Capitol and Hoosier airports here and return. Waco plane Dick Knox to Dayton C and return. Ryan monoplane Hoosier Airport L Wallace Indianapolis to Detroit Travel Air.
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Curtiss
Aero Arctic plan envisions unmanned weather stations
Ten automatic weather bureaus to be scattered by airships on Arctic ice would broadcast three times daily for a year without human attendance. Dr Fridtjof Nansen described the aeroarctic plan, noting an existing automatic observatory on a balloon that reports temperature, pressure and humidity by radio.
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Science Service
Copenhagen
Arctic
International Society For Exploration
Aeroarctic
Fridtjof Nansen
Transfer Circus Fund to New Police and Firemen Emergency Fund
An unexpended balance of 5000 dollars in cash and notes raised by the annual police and firemen’s circus was turned over to the new police and firemen’s emergency fund committee today by the old committee. The new fund committee includes Mayor Reginald Sullivan, Police Chief Jeremiah Kinney, Fire Chief Harry Voshell and the board of safety members who met with L Ert Slack administration. Sullivan chairs and Charles R. Myers, board of safety president, serves as treasurer.
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Polce and Firemen’s
Reginald Sullivan
Jeremiah Kinney
Harry Voshell
Board of Safety
L. Ert Slack
Sullivan
Charles R. Myers
Police Strikers Fight Rioting In Northeast Philadelphia
Four score persons including 22 women were arrested after a six hour clash between mill workers, strikers, strike breakers and police in Philadelphia. Stones were thrown through windows and several people were trampled before order was restored. The unrest began at homes of workers who refused to join the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Philadelphia
Tweny
Man Confesses Fatal Attack On Claimed Common-Law Wife
Tom Hopkins 46 of 2329 Fairview Avenue fatally injured his claimed common-law wife Mrs Artibell King 36 after she said she no longer loved him. Police found Hopkins in the house and say he confessed. He faces first degree serious case charges.
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Artibell King
Tom Hopkins
Fairview Avenue
Civic leaders to discuss feeder bus retention
A meeting of the Fairview-Butler Civic Association committee and Indianapolis Street Railway Company representatives will discuss keeping the feeder bus from Illinois and Thirty-fourth streets. The Indianapolis Times said the conference was set for next Monday night.
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Fairview-Butler
Open house at Chicago police chief sheds light on gang fortunes
Chicago gang chiefs including George Bugs Moran Polack Joe Saltis and Julian Potatoes Kaufman attended an open house by Chief of Detectives John Stege. Moran reportedly invested 125000 in a north side dyeing plant Saltis retired with a beer fortune Kaufman claimed 600000 to 700000. Saltis attended the funeral of John Dingbat Oberta while Moran and Kaufman were arrested again. Stege noted gangster Dave Earsman died naturally after surgery and dismissed the gathering.
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United Press
Chicago
John Stege
George
Bugs) Moran
Polack
Joe Saltis
Julian
Potatoes) Kaufman
Moran
North Side
Saltis
South Side
Kaufman
Barker Lake
Wis
John
Dingbat) Oberta
Stege
Big Dave Earsman
SEEK COUNTY POSTS Filing of candidates for nomina tions to various county offices
May primaries drew 26 candidates with George O. Hutsell as county clerk. Fifteen Republicans and eleven Democrats filed for county offices and precinct committeemen. Notable Republican filings include Mahlon E. Bush for probate court, Claude H. Anderson for supreme court five, and Roland L. Fields for Decatur township assessor. John F. Mannings was the sole Democrat seeking major office as Center township justice of the peace.
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George O. Hutsell
Mahlon E. Bush
Claude H. Anderson
Supreme Court Five
Roland L. Fields
Decatur Township
John F. Mannings
Center Township
Justice of Peace
Detectives Field and Feeney Nab Suspect in Hallway Standoff
Detectives Fields and Feeney arrest Herschel Sullivan, 32, on a child neglect charge in court. The judge dismisses so he can be handed to Ft. Wayne authorities. Sullivan pauses in the hallway, McDonald orders him to stay seated, then yields and Sullivan is arrested for transfer to Ft. Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fields and Feeney
Paul Wetter
Herschel Sullivan
North East Street
Ft. Wayne
Sullivan
Vetter
James McDonald
Feeney
McDonald
Fields
Clemency Opposed In Indiana Executions Case
Mrs. Sam Goldberg of East Chicago widow of a grand jury witness urged Governor Leslie to oppose clemency for James Britt Negro who faces execution for the Goldberg murder at Indiana State Prison on March 21 Petitions ask to spare him from the electric chair Goldberg reportedly was killed after Britt confronted him about his federal grand jury testimony on vice booze and political corruption in the Calumet district
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Sam Goldberg
Chicago
Harry G. Leslie
James Britt
Britt
Goldberg
Indiana State Prison
Leslie
Grand Jury
Calumet
State Contracts Let For Bridges And Paving
The state highway commission let four bridge and one paving contract today. Harold Exline of Sullivan received 11338.93 for two bridges on State Road 67 in Green County. Fred Campbell of Bloomington got 27417.05 for two bridges on State Road 29 in Clinton County. J. I. Ransom of Palestine Illinois won paving 9.1 miles on State Road 54 between Dugger and Sullivan for 163195.03.
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State Highway Commission
Harold Exline
Sullivan
Green County
Fred Campbell
Bloomington
Clinton County
Dugger and
J. I. Ransom
Palestine
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