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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1930
Page
6
An Osage community in Pawhuska Oklahoma holds a full-blood naming rite for Washtage a baby born to Baby Wa's family. The elaborate ceremony involves medicine chiefs sacred paint cedar fronds and symbolic gifts as the mother selects a sacred name.
Miss Gladys Allen a 26 year old teacher died in Columbia City Indiana due to a broken heart physicians say after being removed from a train en route from Columbus to North Webster Her sweetheart Robert Lee another North Webster instructor vanished after a high school basketball tourney in Indianapolis over a week ago and had not been heard from since The tragedy followed the discovery of his disappearance and her rapid decline in health after learning of it.
Sheriff George L. Winkler condemned Judge Guthrie’s order in the Harold A. Lutz case as improper. He also faulted the Muncie sheriff’s office for failing to cooperate in serving court papers. He cited a Marion county incident where deputies failed to arrest a suspect due to a misnamed defendant on a warrant.
The senate judiciary committee appointed a subcommittee to investigate Federal Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina as a nominee to the Supreme Court. The panel is led by Senator Overman with Senators Borah and Herbert as members, reflecting standard procedure.
A wrecked automobile loaded with whisky and beer is held by South Bend police. The title belongs to Miss Bess Williams of 1415 Central Avenue. Letters addressed to Garrett E. Green of 1522 North New Jersey Street were found inside. Williams had lent the car to Green for a Logansport trip. Green was seeking work there. The car was not reported stolen in South Bend.
Births include boys ee and Lille Branham at Theodore and Dorothy Peek 5627 Bonna Edward and Anna Gallagher Rex and Eileen Gray ae and Alice Hiatt Edward and Dora Metcalfe at Coleman hospital Girls Charles and Anna Bordenbecher 2722 East North Charleston and Martha Cox 32 South Meridian Harold and Catherine McClain 1534 East Raymond Shadrach and Lutelia Gill 1224 Yandes and Gladys Speark Coleman hospital Dp
A list of recent deaths with ages and residences including Harry W Brinkman 18 days 2905 Adams cerebral hemorrhage John D Heilman 7 Riley hospital pneumonia meningitis Charline V Harrison 2 434 West Merrill Brotchopecumenites Robert Gastings 60 803 North DeQuincy nephritis Fannie Josephine Emery 51 219 East Pall Creek Blvd pernicious anemia Margaret A Mahoney 85 801 Bradshaw arteriosclerosis Kas Williams 64 city hospital Ban te s disease Dililah Day Terrey 83 334 East Thirtieth cerebral hemorrhage Benjamin T Dearwin 62 city hospital cerebral hemorrhage Jennie Hines Reed 73 927 Camp myocardi tis Florence Toner 61 Methodist hospital Martha J Jane Timmons 87 2173 South Delaware uremia Walter Suitt 36 city hospital myocardi Gail Douglas Pedigo 6 days Coleman hospital nanition
Semiole Oklahoma March 24 John B Shaffer 60 an oil field worker died after paralysis caused by Jamaica ginger authorities attributed the death to the toxin Jamaica ginger the incident was reported today in Seminole.
Hollywood notes Chaplin, the leading silent film star, plans to form a new four to five star company to produce non talking films. He aims to spend 5 to 10 million dollars yearly and insists he will never make a talking picture. Other studios shift to talkies as Poverty Row clings to low cost silent offerings.
Twenty one Illinois district mine union leaders fail to appear for trial before the international executive board of the United Mine Workers of America. Formal charges of rebellion and treason filed for aiding a dual union in Springfield. Alexander Howat and Kansas district officers also ignore summonses to trial.
A long list of candidates filed at the statehouse including Albert C. Stevens Rushville for prosecuting attorney Sixty-fifth circuit Delph McKesson Plymouth Marshall county Paul K Shepard Shelbyville sixteenth circuit Charles F E Smith Anderson Fiftieth circuit Russell W Smith Laporte Walter R Arnold St Joseph county Anness G Corey Indianapolis Marion county Roy S Danner Madison joint Jefferson Scott Arthur S Wilson Princeton Gibson county William B Jones New Albany Fifty-second circuit Earl Cummings New Lebanon Fifty-second circuit William Henry Myers Connersville Sixth district James B Brewster Corydon Crawford Floyd Harrison counties George L Brubaker Crawfordsville Twenty-second district Richard Taylor Farmersburg Sullivan county Nathan C Nelson Decatur Twenty-sixth Emil J Keseric Gary Lake county Jacob D Rich Brook Newton county William E Russell Greenfield Eighteenth Harry L Meddlin Newcastle Henry county Virgil Holden Lebanon Twentieth Amos F Nelson Thorntown Boone county William A Hill Hammond Lake Porter Maude Murray Lagrange joint with Steuben Earl M Mann Terre Haute Judge Vigo Verne C Chapman Indianapolis Marion county Laurent A Douglass Jeffersonville Fourth judicial Ross W Eshelman Anderson Madison Hancock Herbert P Kenner New Albany Floyd county Samuel B Wells Scottsburg Scott Jefferson John A Posey Rockport Seventieth judicial Ira Clouser Crawfordsville Montgomery Putnam Robert Grieve Rockville Fifth district William Henry Larrabee New Palestine Sixth district Henry George Deiner Indianapolis Marion county George B McCammon Elwood Madison county.
The Broadway branch library at 615 East Forty-second Street is nicknamed the bower of blood curdlers by its detective and mystery readers. Acting librarian Marian Sayler says professional men and adult patrons dominate the shelves with 10 700 volumes and about 110 000 annual loans.
Ernest Kellogg the mayor of Lynhurst and his attorney Leslie Swails have split over representation in court battles tied to Kellogg’s mayoralty. Kellogg plans to resign at a town board meeting on April 1, while Swails escaped contempt charges as the case was dismissed. Kellogg and town clerk Edith Roberts face later contempt actions. The dispute stems from Kellogg’s failure to obey a court order in a land annexation case.
Jupiter Pluvius halted the marble tournament opener sponsored by the city recreation department and The Indianapolis Times. Schools’ games move to Tuesday weather permitting and the schedule shifts by one day. Kilgore announced a marble grab event by Smith Hassler Sturm Co on Monday at 219 Massachusetts Ave for city boys, offering a barrel of marbles.
Police arrested Jake Wilson 32 of Morristown Tennessee and Frank Converse 27 of Birmingham Alabama near Senate and Kentucky avenues after they attempted to break into Evans Electric Company. Skeleton keys and files found. They confessed to trying to enter to seek shelter from rain. Both charged with vagrancy.
Conditions report shows a southwest wind at 7 mph with a sea level pressure of 29.61 inches and a temperature of 50 degrees. Ceiling is 1 000 feet and visibility is 2 miles indicating fair field conditions.
Washington March 24. Chairman Wickersham told the senate judiciary committee that prohibition can be measurably enforced and the commission’s eight month inquiry shows a very improved enforcement situation. He said public support grows as attention remains on enforcing the law and noted surprise at obtaining capable prohibition administrators despite social ostracism.
Butler University officials announced after a Saturday meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club that the athletic committee will take any steps necessary for reinstatement in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The association expelled Butler last week for over-emphasis on athletics, citing excess spending on coaches and an athletic plant valued at $750,000 as not in proper ratio.
Chi Theta Chi sorority and Kappa Delta Rho fraternity topped Butler University for last semester in scholarship per registrar Miss Sarah Cotton. Sorority average 1.805 (85) and fraternity 1.424 (81) with sorority lead by .4924.
York March 24 Marilyn Miller film and stage star is engaged again to Michael Farmer a Paris and London resident and Dublin native who became a widow after Franks Carter death ten years ago and later divorced Jack Pickford abroad
Newcastle Pa March 24 W Glenn Dague a former choir singer salesman and gunman pleaded not guilty at the opening of his murder trial tied to the December death of Brady Paul highway patrol corporal Marilyn Miller involved as the companion in the case background notes describe the defendants and charges.
Berkeley March 24 Science may realize its dream of creating life in the lab. Dr Charles B Lipman of the University of California reports artificial bacteria resembling cells may form from agar made with Japanese seaweed. He found crystallized agar rods mimicking bacilli after extensive heating.
Five motorists—Charles Lane 33 Benjamin Fox 56 Henry Cave 35 Howard Maynard 29 and Harold Hunter 33—were arrested on drunken driving charges after pursuit and weekend crashes. No injuries were reported. Police nabbed them following a chase.
Multiple notices list petitions by F C Tucker Company to vary zoning at Wichigan Street and White River Parkway West Drive and at E Washington Street Hawthorne Lane. Public hearing set April 1 1930 at 2 30 PM in City Hall Room 104. RO. OCONNOR HB. STEEG. Also Samuel L Trotcky seeks a super service station at 1121 No Meridian Street with hearing same day and time. Also Clara B Allum porch modification at 5946 Baltimore Avenue and C D Peck family apartment at 2521-27 E Minnesota Street with hearings April 1 1930. Also state highway equipment bids notice due April 2 1930.
Property of George Grisby and Mrs. C Mullery lists a 1920 Ford truck with engine 4164187 four cylinders 22 hp offered for 20 dollars storage. Legal notices cover hospital supplies bids zoning requests for gasoline stations and a bond issue for Wayne School Township building projects.
Funeral notices list deaths at 4344 Carrollton Ave and residences in Indiana and Ohio. Entries include Fannie Coyle, Henry Cox, Laura Elizabeth Edwards, George Herman, Louisa J O'Connor, and others with funeral details at Crown Hill and various addresses. Several obituaries name survivors and indicate services March 25 and 28. Local funeral homes Moore & Kirk, Wald and others are listed with addresses.
An advertisement from Hoosier Tarpaulin and Canvas Goods Co lists floor cloths for painters in all sizes and weights. The firm is located at 1302 West Region Street with a thoroughly cleaned 9x12 rug priced at $1.75.
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