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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1930
Page
16
Veterans send in short war tales as The Times runs a weekly contest with $10 for first prize and $5 for second. The second week winners will be announced Wednesday and checks mailed for the first week prizes. A lieutenant colonel recalls a cook in France and a Wyoming cowpuncher meets King George V and Queen Mary in London.
Thomas J. McKnight, 27, held by Tulsa police for Indiana authorities in the slaying of Motor Policeman Paul Miller in Brightwood on July 17, 1928. Detective Sergeant William Miller prepared to transport extradition papers from Governor Harry G. Leslie. A second suspect is being sought. McKnight denies involvement.
United Press reports Rafaelo Fasulo was stabbed three times by a man who demanded a drink near a doorway in New York. Fasulo said he did not know where to obtain liquor and was critically wounded.
Bethlehem Steel announces that the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company and its mills will be kept intact in Youngstown if it merges with Bethlehem. Cyrus S. Eaton, head of Republic Steel, had warned Bethlehem would slash wages cut production and move the mills to Pennsylvania.
Representatives of the Pioneer Mothers Association met with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city officials to discuss plans for a memorial to the pioneer woman of Indiana. Mrs. John N. Carey was reelected president of the association. Curr Freedley, New York architect, designed the monument to stand on the north approach to the Delaware Street bridge.
Fred Stone vows to quit the stage rather than accept a change that would push his show toward risqué content after the Broadway failure of Ripples. The famed comedian, once a Gay White Way institution with long runs, faces fallout from the crash and critics while standing firm on his artistic stance.
Beaumont Texas reports June Brooks, a chorus girl, threw an inkwell at a hotel head, then was fined and released. The article notes star Stone questions Broadway shifts, plans road travels with Dillingham as audiences demand cleaner shows.
March 31 article notes Ambassador Walter Edge refused to be the advertised guest at a grand fund dinner for Frank Gould's casino. Edge said he was on a business trip and did not wish to be on exhibition, missing the announced guest of honor presentation that night. He later traveled to Grasse to see famed French perfumers.
State Senator John L. Niblack, now chair of the Citizens' Republican League speakers bureau, warned that without GOP precinct committeemen opposed to boss control and fresh party leaders, the county would swing Democratic next fall by a margin that would dwarf the Sullivan vote. Henry B. Krug of Indianapolis is named vice-chairman.
Detectives went to Bloomington Indiana to return Samuel Graves for questioning on an automobile theft. Police say Graves was arrested in possession of a car stolen from Thomas Beall of 2822 Adams Street, taken from 3547 Massachusetts Avenue.
Coroner C H Keever will investigate if Lena Webb 60 of 505 Virginia Avenue died from intentional poisoning or by accident after taking multiple pills. Webb had been ill before swallowing the tablets Sunday night and died in city hospital. Also in brief Prince Sainoji in Tokyo reported seriously ill with influenza.
A 13 year old private school pupil was suspended for a week after writing about what would happen if George Washington visited today. She dressed as a girl from demure colonial times and described a walk from Mt. Vernon toward Alexandria meeting a flapper with a cigarette.
George D. Allen, 47, is jailed in Fort Wayne Indiana in default of a $1,000 bond awaiting trial in federal court on a charge of using the mails to defraud.
The Oklahoma City gusher that sprayed $50 000 in oil daily and produced as much as 30 000 barrels with 2 000 000 cubic feet of gas was finally capped by workers using a steel collar. Four days of futile efforts ended at dawn as the collar diverted the flow into channels. Guards remain vigilant for sparks as weather officials note no storms forecast.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Schultz of Michigan City Indiana will celebrate her 103rd birthday on Tuesday. Born in Germany on April 1 1827 she came to America in 1864 with husband Ludwig Schultz. The couple settled near Westville and had four children with two dying in infancy. Her husband died 34 years ago at 80. A son Gustave and daughter Mrs Edward Gruenke are deceased. She remains alert reading widely and last summer flew to Benton Harbor Michigan for the airport dedication.
Washington report notes Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts mispelled kimono by substituting an a for an o. Ray Tucker of the Scripps Howard chain won the congressional press spelling bee at the National Press Club among twenty-one spellers including eleven congress members and ten press reps.
Theresa Jackson sues Andrew Jackson in Indiana Superior Court alleging he refused to live with her for $50 a minute. She cites a letter written while she cared for her dying father in Marianna Arkansas stating Gary is big enough to hold 75,000 more like me and you and that he would not live with her for $50 a minute.
Washington reports the capital's Japanese cherry trees around the tidal basin are in full bloom with President Hoover among the early viewers. The display was a gift from the Japanese government and situates along the basin's shores. In Muncie Indiana coroner notes the death of John S. Goodwin 65 found in his mobile home from natural causes. an ax and open stove suggest he was starting a fire when he died.
A Gary body identified by Chicago clothing labels is reported murder. other items note a continuance in a Kreig false pretenses case. Rotary Lions Kiwanis debate on Indiana constitution. Mrs. O hair dies. Mrs Windoffer injured in car crash. tuberculosis conference planned. De Kalb grand jury clears banker Seemes in a death. Earl D Dean to leave as South Bend principal. tobacco planting rises in Bartholomew. Gephart seeks help to free Merlen Pritchard. Vandalia bridge first train after burn. Noblesville to host May 30 commencement. Gary dynamite rumor debunked. Decatur bandit arrest reward. Muncie embezzlement case against Alex Bigelow.
Brooklyn on March 31 Mrs Rose Gordon hosted a bridge party that devolved when cards vanished and Mrs Mollie Katz accused her of stealing her husband. Mrs Katz was struck by a bowl of goldfish dropped by the hostess. a surgeon treated a head wound and Mrs Gordon faced felonious assault charges.
Calcutta dispatch reports massive rush to wed young Hindu and Muslim girls ahead of British law raising marriage ages to 14 for women and 18 for men. The piece notes widespread compliance, modest enforcement hopes, and historical context including 1921 census figures of child widows and young brides.
John G. Willis a Republican candidate for Marion County sheriff submitted his resignation as investigator for the county grand jury. Criminal Judge James A. Collins received the declaration citing campaign duties as the reason. Willis had served as criminal investigator under Collins until December resigning January 1 for the grand jury post when a salary bill was blocked by the county council.
Mayor Reginald H Sullivan and state and railway officials will form the reception committee for the Pennsylvania Greyhound inaugural rail bus trip. J C Millsapaugh will head the committee. The first passengers will board at Union Station at 3 25 p m after arriving by bus from St Louis and transfer to a Pennsylvania train for New York and Philadelphia. KOKOMO Ind March 31 William E Shenk Howard county commissioner died in a barn tar after being injured by a falling tree branch on his farm March 18.
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