Beer Plank Fades From Dry Probe In Wet Move
Washington reports that reformers push for repeal of the eighteenth amendment as the Dyer 2.75 per cent beer plan loses support. Wickersham signals tighter permit reporting and a possible end to hearings, shifting strategy among wets while Norris faces a stalled investigation push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission
House Judiciary Committee
House
Wets
Dyer
Norris
Federal Enforcement Service
Robinson
Rep
Ind
Congress
Enforcement Service
Runway Bid Window Set for Municipal Airport Work
Paul H. Moore reports to the city council that bids will be opened in a few weeks for hard surface runways at the municipal airport. Rotz Engineering redesigns storm drain and sewage systems for the administration building with bids due for water supply septic tank and disposal systems. Cr Underwood conducts soil tests linked to drainage and subgrade work. An area of about 3 500 square feet in the northeast field will be graded to allow early flight operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul H. Moore
Rotz Engineering Company
Cr. H. Underwood
Car Crash Injures Woman and Daughter at Parkway
Mrs Ellen Baker and her four year old daughter Norma were badly hurt Monday night when the steering knuckle on the Bakers car failed causing it to strike a lamp post at Burdsall parkway and East Riverside drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Baker
West Twenty-sixth Street
Norma
Legion leader urges growth at Ft. Benjamin Harrison meet
Forest A. Harness Kokomo state commander of the American Legion urged increased interest in membership drives during a Seventh district legion posts meeting and dance at Ft Indiana Harrison Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest A. Harness
Kokomo
American Legion
Legion
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Collision injures Miss Mildred and Miss Ada McMahon
Miss Mildred McMahon and Miss Ada McMahon, of 1512 Rembrandt street, were injured Monday night when the car they were riding collided with an auto driven by Walter Perry at the intersection of Eighteenth and Harding streets near 2016 North Harding street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred McMahon
Ada McMahon
Rembrandt Street
Walter Perry
North Harding Street
Eighteenth
Harding Streets
Black Wonder wolf captured after eight year reign
Farm mothers of the Kiamichi mountains celebrate the capture of the wolf dubbed Black Wonder. Frank Lee of Centraloma trapped the legendary predator using natural bait, earning $1.50. Federal official A. E. Gray estimated the pack caused over $10,000 in damage to livestock.
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Eid
Klahoma City
Kiamichi Mountain
State Game and Fish Commissioner’s Office
Black Wonder
Frank Lee
Centraloma
United States Biological Survey
Lee
A. E. Gray
Federal Biological Survey
White Cargo Star Sues Over Contract Cancellation
Edith Ransome seeks 150000 damages against Actors Equity Association and Theodore Hale alleging threats of strike forced the Columbia Circuit Company to cancel her forty to eighty week contract paying 500 dollars weekly for her and complicity with actor Richard Tucker in a separate 100000 damages suit for alleged eviction from a San Francisco theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Actors’ Equity Association
Edith Ransome
Tondeleyo
Miss Ransome
Richard Tucker
Equity
Theodore Hale
Columbia Circuit Company
Three Die in Auto Crash Near New Albany
A crash three miles northeast of New Albany Indiana killed Joseph Welton 51 Lillian Welton 49 and John Kinman 71. Driver William Bowen 48 and passenger Mrs George Simon 40 were treated for minor cuts. Bowen said he lost control on a curve at about 30 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ru United Prear
New Albany
Ind
Here
Joseph Welton
Lillian Welton
John Kinman
William Bowen
George Simon
Bowen
Yale students drink more as repeal support rises in survey
Yale Daily News reports 2,648 students from Yale and Sheffield Scientific School participated, with 84.6 percent of enrollments. Of respondents 1,874 drink in college and 2,113 favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment while 426 favor enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Yale Daily News
Sheffield Scientific School
Missing Boy Found in Edinburg After Missing Sunday
Chester Nine, 12, of 937 Laurel Street, was found at relatives in Edinburg after a search since he disappeared Sunday while delivering papers. Traction car ride Sunday night led to Edinburg stop. grandmother Emma Thacker was visiting. Edinburg Marshal George Snider located him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Laurel Street
Edinburg
Pleasant Run Creek
Barth Avenue Bridge
Emma Thacker
George Snider
Pike Candidate for Superior Judge in May Primary
Former Pauper Attorney H B Pike announces Republican bid for judge of the superior court two in the May primary. Born 1881 on a Morgan county farm, educated in Indiana, he served as deputy prosecutor of Vermillion and Park counties, first city judge of Clinton, and has lived in the city since 1922. He lists offices at 700 Fletcher Savings and Trust building and memberships in multiple legal and civic groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Pike
Buckle Street
Superior Court
Pike
Morgan County
Plainfield
Ind
Hendricks County
Indiana University
Vermillion
Park Counties
Clinton
Fletcher Savings and ‘Trust Building
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
Knights of Phythias
American Legion
40 And 8
Century Club
Nature Study Club
Phi Epsilon Kappa to Hold Tenth Grand Chapter Meet
Four officers pictured will headline the March 20 to 22 grand chapter meeting of Phi Epsilon Kappa at the Athenaeum. William Gerber Ernest A. Lenkowitz Arch McCartney and Dr C B South lead the organization founded in 1913 at the Normal College. About twenty active and eleven alumni delegates are expected with many visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phi Epsilon Kappa Fraternity
Athenaeum
William Gerber
Ernest A. Lenkowitz
Indianapolis
Arch McCartney
Cincinnati
C. B. South
Central Avenue
Phi Epsilon Kappa
Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union
Ind I Briefs Share Local News From Rumor to Court
Eleanor Wildman of Selma Ohio named president of Earlham College Y W C A and Dorothy Rush of Fairmount named vice president. Other notes cover a cabinet training conference at DePauw University, a student fall injuring Thelma Walkup in Richmond, and a judge dismissing arrears in a divorce case in Columbus. Additional items report a train fatality in Elwood, a moonlight funeral in Vincennes, a death from cancer in Cannelton, a barber’s death in Muncie, an execution in Michigan City, a prison killing admission, a brakeman killed near Bedford, and a revival show at Indiana University. Local oddities include twin lambs Amos and Mandy and a long-distance walking wager in Peru.
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Richmond
Ind
Eleanor Wildman
Selma
Earlham College
Dorothy Rush
Fairmount
Rebecca Smith
Lincoln
Miriam Evans
Moorestown
N. J
Sarah Holmes
de Pauw University
Pair Charged in Bloomington Highway Fraud Plot
Earl Stroup and Ed Funk, deputies to the attorney general, announce charges against Ralph Rogers and William Sayer for conspiring to defraud the state of about 100000 on a crushed stone deal for State Road 37 between Martinsville and Bloomington. Indictments cite bribery and overstatement of load weights by Rogers, with affidavits from John J. Asher and Watson Moore supporting the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Bloomington
Ind
Earl Stroup
Ed Funk
Ralph Rogers
William Sayer
State Highway Commission
Monroe County
Rogers
Sayer
Martinsville
Stroup
Funk
John J. Asher
Terre Haute
Asher
Watson Moore
Los Angeles
Highway Department
Moore
Bombing suspect cleared in probe at Newcastle
In Newcastle Indiana March 18 sheriff reports John Pugsley 58 a Middletown farmer killed himself after the bombing of Mrs Brattain home injuring her and her sister Miss Mundell. Riley Pugsley 25 son was cleared of assault charges after witnesses. Investigators found dynamite fuse in wreckage and two letters on John Pugsleys body.
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Vincennes
Ind
Cora Malott
Honolulu
T. H
Newton M. Male
Bedford
United Press
Newcastle
Cannon
John Pugsley
Middletown
Blanche Brattain
Pugsley
Riley Pugsley
Brattain
Muncie
Niblock
Doheny Grilled On Note To Fall In Bribery Trial
Washington March 18 Edward L Doheny faced severe cross examination by the prosecution in his bribery trial involving former interior secretary Albert B Fall. Investigators pressed questions about a $100000 payment and Doheny's handling of contracts at Pearl Harbor amid references to his murdered son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Edward L. Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Owen J. Roberts
Edward Jr
Roberts
Doheny
Fall
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
J. K. Robison
Blair & Co
New York
Senate
Open Wax Paper Plant Established in Zimmer Town Indiana
The Zimmer Paper Products factory at 1450 East Nineteenth Street announces waxed paper production including bread wrappers and preservative wrappers. Karl B. Zimmer, owner and manager, states it is the only plant of its kind in Indiana. he formerly led the Ostego Waxed Paper Company in Ostego Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zimmer, Paper Products
East Nineteenth Street
Indiana
Karl B. Zimmer
Ostego Waxed Paper Company
Ostego
Mich
Indiana Rexall convention opens with 500 druggists
Five hundred Indiana druggists meet in Indianapolis for the Indiana Rexall convention opening session. G A Triplett Os ford state president and Joseph B Wade Indianapolis Rexall Club president led the program. Speakers include F Russell Simpson Boston Mass H B Storm Chicago lovers Meyer Brothers Walter Ehrhardt Ft Wayne and George Frolich Boston among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Indiana Rexall
G. A. Triplett
Osford
Joseph B. Wade
Indianapolis Rexall Club
F. Russell Simpson
Boston
Mass
Simpson
United Drug Company
H. B. Storm
Chicago
Kiefer Elliott
Sheridan
George A. Wilson
International Association
Walter Ehrhardt
Ft. Wayne
Meyer Brothers Company
George C. Frolich
Three youths charged in White River boathouse theft
Three youths aged 15 and 17 were held on theft charges after police linked them to a boathouse robbery at Twenty sixth Street and White River. Officers recovered a canoe and various items in a shack at Sixteenth Street and Sugar Grove Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White River
Twenty Sixth Street
Sixteenth Street
Sugar Grove Avenue
Democrats in Five Way Bid for Control
Washington dispatch notes Democrats plan to campaign for Congress on five issues including lobbying tariffs trusts prohibition and unemployment. The split on prohibition spans regions and the unemployment question dominates as hearings begin on Wagner bills and law enforcement probe debates intensify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scrippa-Howard
Washington
Congress
Northeast
Middle West
Senate
Grundy
Claudius H. Huston
Owen D. Young
Senate Commerce Committee
Wagner
Johnson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Norris
Mitchell
George W. Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission
Borah
Reach Freight Pact on Overcharges Reached in Attica Case
Attorneys for Harrison Steel Castings Company of Attica and four railroads told Federal Judge Robert O C Baltzell an agreement was reached in the reparations suit over freight rate overcharges. The interstate commerce commission previously ordered the railroads to refund several thousand dollars to the Attica firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Steel Castings Company
Attica
Robert OC. Baltzell
Interstate Commerce Co
Attica Company
Daguerre Club of Indiana Holds Closing Session
Photograph enthusiasts gathered at the Lincoln for the Daguerre Club of Indiana semi annual meeting. Portrait lighting and darkroom problems were discussed as officers W J Sprauer president C L Helbert vice president and John Ryan secretary treasurer were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daguerre Club of
Indiana
Lincoln
Club
W. J. Sprauer
C. L. Helbert
John Ryan
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White Cargo’ Star
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Clayton Walkup
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Julian Sharpnack
Wayne
Pennsylvania Railroad
Samuel Mohler
Elmer C. Mohler
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Elwood
Mary E. Balser
George Balser
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Elmer
Ralph
Nellie Warner
Cannelton
Cora Walters
Perry
Ardix Ewing
Marie Walters
William Copeland
Copeland
Michigan City
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James Britt
Britt
Sam Goldberg
Harry Stepp
Barber
Harry Crumpacker
la Porte Superior Court
Edward Spann
Orval Hill
M. & St. Paul
LA Porte
L. H. Blake
Amos and Mandy
Peru
W. H. Chapman
Edinburg, Ind
Ernest Patrick
Edinburg High School
Covington
Olive E. Coffeen
Speedy
Martha Novelius
Wirt A. McAllister
Joseph Wright Jr
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
McAllister
Rexall Group
Mexico City
Vera Cruz State
South Side Band
Father and Sons
Second Reformed Church
Shelby and
Pleasant Streets
Bird Caplinger
Effie Tucker
Floyd Caplinger
Lee Bryan
Ray Rucker
Elmer Vogel
Paul Goodie
Earl Jordan
Daguerre Club
Shortridge Commercial Pupils
Shortridge High School
Caleb Millshall Frieday
Catherine Heath
Angelina Shaneff
Gwennedolyn Prange
Leah Tavel
Tuck
Phyllis Sharpe
Mildred Peascock
Lischke
Irene Gumm
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