Maypole Dance and Golden Rule Club Highlight Indianapol is Times
The Indianapolis Times reports a Maypole dance at Butler university with a novel sophomore Dutch Dance and a city wide Golden Rule Safety Club drive. Civic groups and Nickel Plate Railroad employees back the program while theaters join in showing The Penalty and The Coquette.
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Indiana to Make Its Own Auto Plates at State Prison
A conference with Governor Harry G. Leslie finalized plans to manufacture automobile license plates and road signs at the Indiana state prison. First state-made plates will be used in 1931, with a projected plant cost around 40 thousand dollars and employment for about seventy five prisoners.
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Otto G. Fifield
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Marquette to Honor Howard and Bickel
Karl A. Bickel president of United Press Associations and Roy W. Howard chairman of Scripps Howard will be honorary members of Marquette university's Sigma Delta Chi chapter in Milwaukee in May. They accepted the invitation to join and plan to attend the induction ceremony.
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Poison kills four in Hudson family funeral today
In Hudson Wyoming on May 2 four members of Rudolph Vasco's family died from food poisoning while a serum believed to save them was en route from Denver. Mrs Vasco 32 and children Thomas 7 Fannie Frances 7 and Mary Violet 6 are to be buried together. Delays due to storm damaged lines and a dark airport prevented faster delivery by train or air.
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Publication plans for The Sex Side of Life pamphlet
The May issue of the New Republic will reprint the major portion of Mrs Mary Ware Den nett s pamphlet The Sex Side of Life which was ruled obscene by a federal court jury and barred from mailing The publishers say the goal is not to test the ruling but to let readers judge the material s character for themselves
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Negro Pythians Entertained At Local Club Reception
A reception at the Walker Coffer Pvt and Woman's Club home hosted visiting Negro Pythians of the supreme entertaining committee. William H. Porter led the hosts with staff, welcoming Major R. R. Jackson and Gener Charles Redd. Final plans for the supreme national encampment in August at the state fairground were announced.
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Wife Smuggles Liquor in Slippers for Husband in Jail
Clotilde Armenta, 24, wife of Francisco Armenta, was arrested in Phoenix while attempting to smuggle two pints of liquor to her husband in the county jail. She said the liquor was a tonic for his nerves to help him endure prison routine.
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Killing of August Bruck Spurs Two Murder Warrants
Warrants charging murder were sworn in Cincinnati Ohio in connection with the death of August Bruck 34 a former lieutenant of the ex king George Remus. The warrants name Joseph Plunkett and Edward D Hall with hall as suspects in the killing in a Gib son hotel room. Bruck was killed in a room rented Monday by Plunkett and the trio were known to have held a conference there hours before the murder.
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Faith healer hurls dynamite at courthouse in Michigan City
Harry Mays, a faith healer, threw a stick of dynamite in front of the Superior Court building to attract customers. The blast drew a crowd in blue suits carrying clubs who arrested him, ending his stunt.
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Slack Ousts Elephant From Mayor’s Office Comedy Ad
Mayor L Ert Slack rejects a circus elephant on his desk after a blanket ad for the Police and Firemen’s circus at the state fairground. Circus manager Edward V Richardson reports promising a donkey emblem for Slack as a Democratic counterpoint.
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Kellogg Sails for United States from Europe
Former U S Secretary of State Frank Kellogg booked for passage aboard the liner Majestic sailing for New York today. He left Europe after handing office to Henry L. Stimson following his tenure.
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Writer to Visit Africa to Study Cannibals
William Seabrook sails for a protracted stay in a cannibal village between Timbuctoo and Lake Chad to study rites of central voodooism for a forthcoming book.
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Bed Press
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Terror Ring Broken by Mussolini Crackdown in Sicily
In Palermo on May 2, the mafia crackdown ends with 148 members sentenced to over seven centuries in prison after a trial of 161 defendants at Termini Imerese. The convictions, concluded April 29 and announced Tuesday night, cap a campaign led by Premier Benito Mussolini and Cesare Mori to eradicate the gang.
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Arms Parley Split At Disarmament Conference
At Geneva May 2 the preparatory disarmament conference revealed sharp splits over how to limit war material stocks. The United States called for full publicity, while Germany Russia and Sweden pushed for direct caps on guns tanks and cannons. A majority led by Japan Italy and France favored indirect limits by restricting each nation's war budget.
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Harvard novel blamed for death of bond salesman
Vernon T. Peters, a bond salesman, was found dead in his Chicago home after apparently shooting himself. Police believe he killed himself fearing he resembled a character in a Harvard written novel "Beyond the Jordan." A torn page from the book and whisky bottles were found near the body.
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Monon Tests Safety Brake On Indianapolis Line
An eight coach Monon train with an eight year old girl as engineer attempted to crash into another train Wednesday but failed due to a new automatic stop system. Officials including Governor Harry G. Leslie and Monon president Harry R. Kurrie witnessed the test along the Indianapolis to Chicago route with Laverne Baus at the throttle reaching 60 mph as the block signal stayed danger.
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