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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1929
Page
1
The Stratford widow of Oliver Beardslee, 54, testifies that he shot himself after a quarrel. She described him as an old crab who married for money. A coroner ruled Beardslee died from a self-inflicted wound and the widow was released.
Hogs fell 15 to 31 cents with 160 to 300 pound stock around 11.50 to 11.60. Receipts about 4,599 plus 996 holdovers. Cattle and vealers weak with week’s price trends continuing. Chicago market opened slow with 190 to 220 pound hogs at 11.50, 25 cents under best Friday prices. 2,000 directs among 4,000 receipts and 8,000 holdovers. Cattle 300, sheep 7,000. Menoush sheep not testing prices. A separate item notes Lynn Massachusetts court where Louis Franischi, 35, of San Francisco, fined 25 dollars then reduced to 15 on wedding night. temperatures shown for Mt. G. area around 9 a.m. 47, 10 a.m. 46.
Theater managers across Marion county and the state join a three day run of The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club film The Penalty beginning Sunday at Bair's Ritz Thirty fourth and Illinois. The Terror will also show at Carey and Alexander's Colonial Lebanon with Golden Rule membership cards and Driver stickers available.
A New England village was wiped out by floods caused by two dam failures in New Hampshire while rivers rose in Maine and Vermont. Across seven southern states east of the Mississippi the toll reached 38 dead with nearly 200 injured and widespread crop and property damage. One man disappeared after phoning a warning as the storm’s impact shifted south and midwest conditions improved.
Floods from two dam bursts in northern New Hampshire imperiled hundreds and caused over a million dollars in damage. The Belmont and Dixville Notch breaks sent wall clouds of water through the Mohawk river valley wiping out Kidderville and destroying thirty buildings in Colebrook. One man, Patrick Washburn, is missing after warning others. Emma Wiswell died earlier and was to be buried today as rivers rise across Maine Vermont and New Hampshire.
United Press reports wind storms across seven southern states east of the Mississippi killed thirty eight people. Virginia suffered twenty seven fatalities including a tornado that destroyed Rye Cove school. Red Cross workers remained at Rye Cove as several children died or were missing. Georgia peach crops sustained heavy damage.
In Cleveland Miss Marion Talley, Metropolitan Opera's youngest prima donna, will sing Luci di Lammermoor as her swan song. She plans to retire to a large scale chicken farm in the Midwest, denies any love affair prompting the decision, and will continue recording with two years left on her contract.
Twelve balloons rise from University of Pittsburgh stadium at 4 PM for the 1929 national elimination balloon races. Fair weather returns after two days of wind rain and cold, as three Goodyear baby blimps travel from Akron to participate in the aero program before the start.
In Washington on May 4 the administration majority in the Senate shifted as doubtful Republicans from farming regions swung to support the debenture proposal led by Senator Joseph Robinson. Leaders planned to delay a vote next week to build a more decisive majority. The plan would pay a bounty equal to half the tariff on exports, aiming to guarantee farmers a price at world level plus half the tariff.
Bootlegger George Sluder and his wife Violet Sluder were killed in a drunken incident that left four children orphaned. The 32 year old Sluder shot Violet then killed himself in the Stevens Street residence as a terrified 3 year old watched. Neighbors and relatives recalled years of fear and abuse before the fatal act. Funeral services were planned for Monday at Beck & Speaks chapel with burial in Floral Park cemetery.
Indianapolis officials settled the water bill promptly, with City Controller Sterling R. Holt depositing $110,000 for the first quarter of 1929. Holt cited past failures to collect and pay city bills, promising timely payments going forward, per J. F. O'Donnell of the Indianapolis Water Company.
Eugene Bussey, a Johns Hopkins student, was arrested in New York and held as a material witness in the Dorothy Peacock case. Prosecutors say Bussey may shed light on Peacock’s knowledge of his bride’s past love ventures and possible jealousy. They seek other witnesses including a Baltimore medical student connected to a car seen near Peacock’s Newark rooming house.
South side residents circulate petitions asking the state highway department to widen State Road 31 from Indianapolis city limits to Greenwood. They plan to present the petitions to Highway Director John J. Brown next week. Additional petitions request extending the widening to Franklin, about twenty miles in total.
George W Coffin and Republican allies file a suit in superior court to halt the city manager election set for November and seek a ruling that the city manager act is unconstitutional. The complaint targets election officials and requests injunctions against spending, notices, petitions, and ballots under the manager form.
Three people a man a woman and a small child drowned when their car plunged through a railing on the Harahan viaduct into fifteen feet of back water across the Mississippi river from Memphis. Divers were called to recover the bodies as the driver apparently lost control while attempting to pass another car.
Police chief Claude Worley launches a drive against bootleggers in Haughville Indianapolis assigning Captain Jesse McMurtry fourteen men with broad powers to quiet the wet district. Raids Friday yielded six arrests including a former policeman, with a juvenile case referred to custody and parents involved in the crackdown.
Margaret Furman a four year old Negro girl and her two year old brother Daniel of 711 Ogden street were burned Friday after obtaining a bottle of carbolic acid from a drawer and smearing it on their faces. They received treatment at the city hospital.
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