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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1929
Page
1
Louise In Wonderland story follows a modern Alice who spends a $20 gift on a single night at a stylish hotel. The narrative frames the act as a whimsical turn of luck shaping a curious stay in town.
Louise Rose 13 of 566 South Warman avenue disappeared after receiving $20 from her father to pay bills. She spent the money on clothes then stayed all night at the Claypool hotel and later visited police headquarters before being identified as Louise Rose, missing girl found.
In Cremona Italy Giuseppe Cigolani a cabinetmaker who foretold his death forty years ago carved a coffin for himself now buried in it at age 105 His self crafted burial coffin reflects a life marked by longevity and unusual foresight.
Two Japanese soldiers on duty at Tsinan Fu Shantung were seriously wounded when fired on by Chinese. The Japanese school in the city was closed for a week as a precaution.
A fire in the Cole building at 4216 College Avenue caused an estimated 8000 dollars in losses. The fire started early today from spontaneous combustion at Dudley Lee's photographic studio, destroying fixtures worth 2000 dollars and causing 3000 dollars in building damage.
The senate judiciary committee ended its sixth day session without agreement in the Mellon case. Friends of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Mellon argued that nearly every treasury secretary since Hamilton held corporate stocks, suggesting no cause to proceed under the old statute banning treasury secretaries from direct or indirect financial interests.
Two committees of the Chicago city council will hold public hearings to inspect examples of modern bathing suits worn by girls as a basis for new regulations. The 1917 bathing suit ordinance is described as antiquated and impossible to enforce.
A severe tornado outbreak across Virginia Florida Georgia Alabama Arkansas and Tennessee raises the death toll to 35 with 150 injured. At Gate City Virginia fifteen students and a teacher died in a schoolhouse collapse and other states report multiple fatalities as cold air pours in and crops face frost damage.
Frigid winds and heavy snows cripple rail and lake traffic across the Great Lakes states. A Columbus jail wind storm killed two prisoners and injured three. Central Illinois recorded its heaviest May snowfall, four to six inches, threatening fruit crops while Valparaiso rescue crews cleared cyclone wreckage.
Seventy one defendants will be arraigned Monday at the opening of the May term in criminal court. The docket includes charges of vehicle taking embezzlement burglary statutory offenses and grand and petit larceny.
A county grand jury voted true bills charging fifteen former Chicago sanitary district officials and employees with illegal expenditure of a quarter million dollars for liquor parties including a Waldorf Astoria event in 1927. Indictments follow a month of hearings led by Frank J. Loesch, detailing lavish entertainments, hotel rentals, and expensive transport using public funds.
Eight former border customs patrolmen pled guilty and were sentenced in federal court for roles in a Detroit river liquor conspiracy. Sentences ranged from six months and $1,000 fine to one year and a day. two were placed on probation.
Police search for two bandits in a stolen car after they robbed two stations Thursday night. They got $23 in total from attendants Earl Thayer and Edward Jones and a money changer. An accomplice drove the getaway car.
Frank Rosner of 75072 Virginia Avenue was arrested today by a deputy U S marshal on a federal liquor conspiracy charge. He was to have a hearing before U S Commissioner John W Kern at 4 p m. Rosner is charged with conspiring with Don White of 1699 East Minnesota Street who was fined $500 Wednesday on a liquor charge. Rosner operates a garage at 749 Virginia Avenue.
Paul Morley of Flint mailed a check to Circuit Judge J. H. Collins for his ex wife’s hospital bill. The check bounced and Morley remains jailed in county custody.
Five year old Jo Ellen Fields died in city hospital after a bonfire incident at 422 Division Street. She was burned while playing with neighbor children Mary Blanche Anderson Richard Buddy Parker and Frank Wallace. Mrs. Horner warned them and tried to reach Jo Ellen who switched her coat into the flames. Survived by parents Virginia 6 sister and policeman uncle J B Thompson funeral at home Monday 10 am Floral Park cemetery.
A blaze originating from defective wiring destroyed the G. M. Patterson Radio Shop and E. M. Goodwin News Agency in Kendallville Indiana. Strong winds drove the fire through the district causing about 10000 dollars in damages. Goodwin was inside and fled as falling timbers narrowly missed him.
Readable fragments show times around 11 a.m. and noon with numbers 45 and 46. No full details or context provided.
In South Paris Maine on May 3 Mrs Anna Merrill Welch 26 appeared in court with her two young children to face a murder charge in the death of Elihu H Turner 75 of Hartford. Trial justice Albert D Park found probable cause and ordered her held for the county grand jury. Turner’s charred headless body was found in his barn after a fire last week. The state says she killed Turner in a jealous rage over his friendship with a former housekeeper, then dragged the body to the barn and set the blaze to conceal the crime. Welch showed distress as the decision was announced.
W. E. Jackson manager of the J. and TI coal yards on 2042 Massachusetts Avenue told police he shot a man Thursday night while the thief was stealing. Jackson fired a shotgun when he confronted the intruder and later found blood at the scene.
Eyewitness A S Noblin recalls a tornado that struck the eight room Rye Cove school on May 3 killing fourteen pupils and a teacher and injuring more than 100. J M Johnson and Henry Mitchell provide accounts of the destruction and a boy saves a girl. At least six more may die.
Fatal rioting erupted in southeast Berlin amid a state of siege with police and airplanes deployed. Two women were shot and killed on their balcony as snipers fired from rooftops while subway workers were wounded and protests spread.
Joseph B. Gonterman known as cap’n and skipper of the Cornell avenue Toonerville trolley died at 64 from cerebral apoplexy. He had just taken his family to a circus and was found dead at home on East Pratt street. Burial Sunday at Crown Hill after services.
Times Special reports in Camden Indiana on May 3 that burglars blew the State Bank safe and escaped with less than 100 dollars after tear gas was released when the safe opened.
Police search for Willard Carson after an unidentified assailant killed 50 year old Alonzo Whalen by shooting through his door in Kokomo Indiana. Carson, wanted for slaying his father and tied to a 4000 dollar reward, fled after a prior gun battle and is suspected in the Whalen case amid earlier Indianapolis police killings.
The state budget committee approved salary increases for State Police Chief Robert T. Humes, two captains and ten lieutenants. Chief pay rises from 3600 to 4000 dollars annually, captains from 1920 to 2400, and lieutenants from 1800 to 2100.
President Hoover signed an emergency measure diverting 4.25 million dollars to combat a Mediterranean fruit fly outbreak in Florida. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida witnessed the signing at the White House after learning the president had already affixed his signature.
A U S navy tug Iuka towing a scow of navy yard refuse ran aground on mud flats off Ft. Lafayette near Ft. Hamilton in Brooklyn. Thirty men aboard. vessel not in danger.
Chicago Coroner Herman N. Bundesen reports improved liquor quality and reduced acute alcoholic deaths since last year. Poison deaths linked to Peoria incidents are cited as a factor, with deaths dropping from 119 in the first quarter of 1928 to 56 this year.
The United States navy tug Ruha No. 37 carrying sixty men struck rocks near Ft. Lafayette in the narrows by Ft. Hamilton section of Brooklyn today. A police launch went to assist.
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