Tragedy as Philadelphia Father Kills Wife and Three Children
Peter Thomas 45 shoots wife Margaret 45 at Jewish Hospital and then kills his three children Catherine 12 Jacob 10 Helen 6 in their beds before dying of self inflicted wounds. Neighbors say health worries worsened his condition. Police find motive undetermined.
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Philadelphia
Peter Thomas
Jewish Hospital
Margaret Thomas
Catherine
Jacob
Helen
Thomas
Talley's Farewell Songs Thrill 9000 at Cleveland
An audience of 9000 thrilled as Miss Marion Talley sang her farewell in the Metropolitan Opera Company as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. Critics praised her performance and the crowd shouted for curtain calls eight times after the third act. Talley announced plans to retire to return to the farm, then left for New York with her parents and sister Florence.
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United Press
Cleveland. O
Marion Yalley
Metropolitan Opera Company
Lucia
Talley
Marion
Charles Talley
Florence
New York
Citizens Held At Bay After Crash Gun Threat
An unidentified Black man held citizens at bay with a gun after a Sunday crash in the 800 block of North Illinois Street and fled with a companion. William Duncan, of 915 North Senate Avenue, was later arrested as the companion and driver. The collision involved Luther Williams of 1150 Lexington Avenue. Williams exited his damaged car when one assailant drew the weapon and threatened to shoot.
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Illinois Street
William Duncan
Senate Avenue
Duncan
Luther Williams
Lexington Avenue
Williams
North Side Youths Confess Robberies
Police say two north side youths confessed to robbing a filling station attendant and a grocery delivery boy. Walter Eichholtz and Bernard Miller, both held on $3,000, admit stealing oil at Indian Refining Co station on East Washington Street and three dressed chickens from millard Rodgers on East Washington Street, threatening the attendant with a pistol.
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North Side
Walter E. Eichholtz
North Talbot Street
Bernard S. Miller
West Twentyfourth Street
Indian Refining Company
East Washington Street
Millard Rodgers
30 Year Term Given Killer of Girl's Betrayer
In Freehold New Jersey Joseph Farruggio of Neptune City was sentenced to thirty years in Trenton State Prison for the murder of Harold Johnston, a Neptune City high school football star. Johnston was killed October 14 after Farruggio described as a church member and family man, and the case involved testimony by Marianna Farruggio who said Johnston seduced her.
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Boll Ed Preea
Farruggio
New Jersey
Johnston
Marianna Farruggio
Marianne
Charles and
Josephine Farruggio
Police Chief Worley Receives Threatening Letters
Two threatening letters arrived at Police Chief Claude M. Worley's desk in Haughville. One warned him to stay out of certain matters and included revolver drawings, while the second referenced recent actions and questioned his posting of "for rent" signs. Both letters bore an Indianapolis postmark dated Sunday.
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Haughville
Blind Tigers
Claude M. Worley
Times
Worley
Washington Street
Claude
Tam
Indianapolis
Sundar
Youths found dead near Aldine in Houston area
A double tragedy was reported near Aldine north of Houston as the bodies of Olena Wuensche of Spring and Edward Stone, 21, of Westfield were found. The girl had a back wound from a gunshot and the youth a chest wound.
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United Pr
Houston
Tex
Aldine
Here
Olena Wuensche
Spring
Edward Stone
Westfield
Anti-Saloon League head assails wet press in Indiana meeting
Evansville May 6 E S Shumaker superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon League attacked the nation s wet press during the league s annual field day addressing dry leaders from eleven states including Dr Frank Jenner Frank E Wright and Rev B Ewing who attended the meeting and heard charges that the press hides Prohibition s success.
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United Presse
Evansville
Ind
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Frank Jenner
Frank E. Wright
Ewing
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Jury struggles to verdict in Liggett murder case
Nashville May 6. The second jury trying Walter Liggett for the murder of Turney M. Cunningham, a hotel manager, faced a difficult verdict amid testimony that Liggett admitted a six year affair with Cunningham's wife.
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Nashville
Tenn
Walter Liggett
Turney M. Cunningham
Hourly Temperatures Snapshot
Readable fragment shows an hourly temperature sequence with times from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and associated readings. The text is incomplete but indicates a weather data capture for a single day.
Senate May Pass Farm Bounty Plan
United Press reports the Senate may approve the farm debenture plan by a narrow margin after debate limits set for Thursday. Absent pairing could shift the vote to a 46 46 tie, with Vice President Curtis ready to break or sustain the tie depending on final totals.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Senate
Hoover
David T. Walsh
Dem
Mass
Hendrick Shipstead
Minnesota
Baltimore
Walsh
B. Kendrick
Woo
EF. S. Broussard
Dem. la
Charles Curtis
Curtis
Sailor Paul Muller Completes Atlantic Crossing Start to Havana
Advices say Paul Muller, a German, left Gibara for Havana in a small sail and row boat after crossing the Atlantic from Hamburg on July 6, 1928. He plans to continue to New York, with Havana as the current destination.
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Atlantic
New York
United Pree
Havana
Paul Muller
Atlantic Ocean
Gibara
Muller
Hamburg
Germany
Depositors to Inspect Bank Holdings in Florida Trip
A committee from the Depositors' Protective League of J. F. Wild & Co. State Bank will travel to Florida with Indianapolis bankers to inspect the bank's mortgaged properties. Joseph R. Williams said a league member will be chosen to conduct the survey, with local banks providing the financing. Names of the bankers and the league representative will be disclosed after travel plans are finalized.
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Depositors’ Protective League
J. F. Wild & Co. State Bank
Florida
Indianapolis
Joseph R. Williams
League
Bankers’ Group
Jail Order Issued for Harry F Sinclair contempt sentence
Final papers ordering oil magnate Harry F Sinclair to serve a ninety day contempt sentence in Washington jail were issued by Justice Hitz in the District of Columbia supreme court. Sinclair is expected to begin his term Tuesday or Wednesday.
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United Press
Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
Justice Hitz
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Sinclair
Vestris Disaster Probe Reopens With Testimony
Leslie Watson, second officer, testified at the board of trade inquiry into the Vestris sinking. He denied that an SOS should have been sent earlier, citing overloading and other factors in the disaster.
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London
Vestris
Leslie Watson
Board of Trade
Watson
Michaelson Faces Liquor Smuggling Charge in Key West
Michaelson, a Illinois congressman, faces liquor law violation charges stemming from illegal transport of liquor from Cuba. Trial set to begin Tuesday in federal court in Jacksonville with Judge Hasted Ritters presiding at the May term opening in Key West.
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United Preac
Key West
Fla
M. Alfred Michaelson
Chicago
Hasted Ritters
Tlinois
Jacksonville
Cuba
Escaped Plot Aimed at Freeing Indiana Klansman
Chicago Tribune reports a sensational Indiana prison plot to free D. S Stephenson life sentence for the Madge Oberholtzer murder. Plan involved drug induced feigned death and exodus from prison with a physician change. Story notes light tone and comparisons to Monte Cristo.
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Chicago
Stephenson
Indiana State Prison
Madge Oberholtzer
Chicago Tribune Today
Indianapolis
the Tribune
Indiana Ku Klux Klan
Tribune
Dumas
Monte Cristo
Hughes Jr. Honored. Named Solicitor General of U S
Charles Evans Hughes Jr. was appointed solicitor general of the United States in a White House announcement. The son of the former secretary of state is a law partner in his father's firm and will fill the post vacated when William D. Mitchell joined the cabinet.
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United Prep
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes Jr
United States
White House
Hughes
William D. Mitchell
Perkins Gets Support for State Industrial Board Reappointment
Indianapolis Typographical Union No 1 endorsed Edgar A Perkins former printer for the state industrial board and urged Governor Harry G Leslie to reappoint him when his term ends May 25 Friends of William Mitch Terre Haute secretary District 11 United Mine Workers of America back Mitch as Perkins successor.
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Indianapolis
City Manager Suit Seeks Temporary Restraining Order
Lawyers for rival parties in the city manager suit before Superior Judge William O. Dunlavy set 9 a m Saturday for argument on the petition for a temporary restraining order. Clifford Keane, a Coffin candidate for city council, seeks to block the city clerk and others from advancing plans for the November city commissioner election amid the manager government move.
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William O. Dunlavy
Clifford Keane
George W. Coffin
Kiss In High School Play Sparks Town Morals Row
In Toms River New Jersey residents formed a makeshift jury to judge whether fifty boys kissing fifty girls in the high school play Miss Cherry Blossom is immoral. Clergy oppose the show calling it heathen and indecent while producer Harris defends it as harmless and old.
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Harry Ferguson
United Press
Toms River
N. J
Sidney R. Harris
Ira E. Hicks
George Washington Hanner
Gordon Ham
Hanner
Harris
Miss Cherry Blossom
Pastor Everison Is Nominated for Militia Bureau Chief
Washington May 6 Rev W G Everson pastor of First Baptist Church Muncie Ind and brigadier general in command of the Seventy sixth brigade organized reserves has been recommended for chief of the United States militia bureau by Senator James E Watson. The recommendation followed a personal interview with War Secretary J W Good.
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Times Special
Washington
First Baptist Church of
Muncie
Ind
W. G. Everson
United States Militia Bureau
James E. Watson
Everson
Watson
J. W. Good
2000 Killed by Quakes in Persia on Turkestan Frontier
Ad vices reached Teheran report 2000 deaths in Korassan Persia from earthquakes along the Tursian frontier. Villages Kushan Shirvan Kifan and Bojuvan near the border were wiped out. Meshed escaped major damage though a large fissure appeared. Additional quakes were reported in Turkosan Turkestan last Thursday.
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United Press
Teheran
Persia
Korassan
Kushan
Shirvan
Kifan
Bojuvan
Turkestan
Meshed
Turkosan
Turkoman
School department heads gain hiring powers in city
Indiana attorney general James M. Ogden says city school department heads may hire and direct department staff with school board approval. The opinion follows a dispute between Charles F. Miller, the city school superintendent, and former business director Albert F. Walsman over reporting on employee absences and hours.
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James M. Ogden
Indiana
Lawrence F. Orr
Accounts Board
Charles F. Miller
Orr
Ogden
Miller
Albert F. Walsman
Salvation Army Worker Dies After Public Statement
Walter Glass age 47 a Salvation Army worker collapsed and died on a Philadelphia street after declaring he was ready for the summons of the Lord. The incident occurred under a flickering arc light during a public gathering.
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Philadelphia
Walter Glass
Salvation Army
Balloons Reported Landing From National Elimination Race
Reports from ten of twelve balloons that left the University of Pittsburgh stadium in the national elimination balloon race described landings and experiences. The Detroit Times and Navy No. 1 remained unreported, while Goodyear VII, piloted by Ward T. Van Orman and Ala T. MacCracken, landed near Keeseville New York, about 456 miles from Pittsburgh.
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United Prose
Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Detroit Times
H. J. Hill
A. G. Schlosser
Navy No. 1
T. G. W. Settle
Wilfred Bushnell
Ward T. van Orman
Ala T. MacCracken
Keeseville
N. Y
Edison Seeks Successor to Genius From 48 Youth Nominees
Thomas A Edison invites 48 scholastic science leaders nominated by governors to his laboratory for the famed Edison questionnaire. A winner will receive a scholarship. Six leading psychologists have been asked to comment on genius and selection methods. Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale writes first for The Times.
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Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Edison
America
The
Times and Science Service
Arnold Gesell
Yale
the Times
Indiana
Times
Coffin fires three ward chairmen in GOP leadership purge
County Republican charges shift as George O Hutsell deserts Coffin. Oscar Smith and Harmon Campbell take over Fourth ward east and west sections. Joseph Shinn named Seventh district chairman replacing Todd Young. Earl Garrett replaced by Clarence McPherson in Tenth ward as Coffin moves to redraw precincts and expand control. Hutsell aims to build a stronger party apparatus among precinct and vice committee members amid 1928 voting provisions for women.
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George O. Hutsell
George V. Coffin
Coffin
Hutsell
Fourth Ward
Oscar Smith
Harmon Campbell
Smith
Campbell
Todd Young
Joseph Shinn
Statehouse
Young
Seventh District
Earl Garrett
Tenth Ward
Clarence McPherson
Boy Airplane Builders, Here Is Your Chance
Indianapolis boys under 18 may win one of four silver cups at Curtiss field in a model airplane contest next Saturday. Judge Richard James and H. Weir Cook will evaluate entries based on height, duration, acrobatic stunts, and overall appearance and design.
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Indianapolis
Curtiss Field
H. Weir Cook
Curtiss Flying Service
Indiana
Richard James
San Francisco
New York
Bus Merger Hinted Involving Pickwick Yelloway Greyhound
Tentative plans for a 35 million dollar merger of major U S bus lines are under way in San Francisco. Charles F. Wren president of Pickwick Stages Inc says negotiations are premature for a formal announcement. The deal would affect Pickwick Yelloway and Greyhound forming a national system.
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United Press
San Francisco
United States
Charles F. Wren
Pickwick Stages, Inc
Pickwick
Yelloway
Greyhound Lines
City Council to repeal Indianapolis daylight saving ordinance
City council tonight expected to repeal the daylight saving time ordinance in Indianapolis. The measure last year would clash with a new state law prohibiting daylight saving in the city. If not repealed the prior time would run from the second Sunday of May until new statutes take effect. Council also considers a $550 000 bond for a new hospital power plant.
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Indianapolis
City Hospital
Judge slays secretly wed son in law in office shooting
Amarillo Texas May 6 Judge R H Hamilton killed John Walton 21 University of Texas student who had married Hamiltons daughter Theresa Walton had urged her son to reveal the marriage to the judge and the act was defended as defending home Walton died en route to a hospital. Hamilton claims exemption under unwritten law and vows authorities will see justification.
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Amarillo
Tex
Outhwest
R. H. Hameilton
John Walton
University of Texas
Hamilton
Texas
State Supreme Court
Liberty
Walton
Jurist
Theresa
Tom Walton
Lloyd Fletcher
Austin
University
John
Young Walton
H. G. Hendricks
Florence Hendricks
Ex-Woman Evangelist Daisy Barr Hurt in Kentucky Crash
Mrs Daisy Barr former evangelist wife of Thomas Barr 1134 Ashland Ave assistant state bank examiner suffered serious injuries to legs and head when her automobile collided with a gravel truck near Scottsville Kentucky. She was returning from Florida with her niece Ruth Ellen Brushwiller and was taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis after Mr Barr traveled from Scottsville.
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Daisy Douglas Barr
Thomas Barr
Ashland Avenue
State Bank
Scottsville
Barr
Florida
Ruth Ellen Brushwiller
Indianapolis
Methodist Hospital
McGuffeyites to Hold Memory Contest at Central Library
McGuffeyites of Indianapolis plan a memory contest quoting poems from the old McGuffey readers. The resident remembering the most selections wins Milton’s Paradise Lost. The next meeting is at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Central library.
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McGuffeyites
Indianapolis
Central Library
Statehouse to Close for Indiana Municipal Voting
Governor Harry G. Leslie ordered the statehouse closed all day Tuesday so state employees statewide may return home to vote in municipal elections.
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Harry G. Leslie
Indiana
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