Radio monopoly suit targets RCA and nine firms
The government charges a wide conspiracy to monopolize the radio industry under the Sherman act in a Delaware federal court petition. It outlines cross licensing among RCA and nine partners and seeks an injunction to halt the alleged cartel and merger plans involving Westinghouse and General Electric.
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United Press
Washington
Radio Corporation of America
Federal Court of
Westnirhouse
General Electric
Radio Corporation
Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph
Western Electric
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
RCA Photophone
RCA Radiotron
RCA Victor Company
General Motors Radio Corporation
General Motors Corporation
Michigan man dies to dodge life for a pint law
Michigan's "life for a pint" statute, though removed from active laws eight months ago, still terrifies violators. Eric Warren, 43, a repeat prohibition offender, ended his life with poison rather than risk a fourth conviction.
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United Preset
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Eric Warren
May 24 Set for Delinquent Taxes in Marion County
Marion County Treasurer’s Office to open May 24 for delinquent taxpayers. Spring tax installments plus delinquency fees may be paid then. Receipts for those who paid by mail before May 5 will be mailed within the next week.
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Marion County
C. O. Harris
Harris
Beech Grove Motorman Arrested After Collision
Brooks Baker, 26, of Beech Grove a street car motorman was arrested today for failure to stop after an accident. His street car collided with a car at Sanders and Shelby streets on Tuesday injuring passenger Estell Wagner, 63, lightly.
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Brooks Baker
Beech Grove
Sanders
Shelby
Estell Wagner
Box
Man beaten by woman in North Street incident
Police found Parrot Van, 35, with a head wound at 316 East North Street after an alleged candlestick attack by Miss Pearl Lewis, 25, of Apt 25, 220 North North Illinois Street. Lewis said Van attempted to break into her apartment.
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Miss Pearl Lewis
Apt. 25
North Street
Miss Lewis
Labour Government Defeated in Lords Again in May Vote
London May 14 The labor government faced a third successive defeat in the House of Lords over two days, as the tally reached 147 to an unspecified opposing total. The outcome signals continued friction between the government and the Lords on key policy matters.
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United Press London
Labor
House of Lords
Bakers warn white bread outvalues whole grain options
Tom Smith of Chicago told the Indiana Bakers Association convention in Lincoln that white bread provides cheaper energy and is easier to digest than whole wheat. He urged against avoiding brown bread for digestive reasons and noted the convention opened Tuesday and will close Thursday with new officers installed.
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Tom Smith
Chicago
American Bakers Association
Indiana Bakers Association
Lincoln
Smith
Mary Jane Aldridge
L. 8
Sheriff Winkler Pushes Speed Limit Law Reform
Sheriff George L. Winkler urged passage of a new speed limit statute in 1931 to curb accidents, supported by Chief Robert L. Humes of the state police. Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club opposed limits, saying enforcement and reckless driving, not speed, cause accidents. United Press figures from Michigan show no abnormal rise in fatalities after the no speed limit law took effect in 1927.
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Winkler
Stoops
Michigan
United Press Today
Marshal Dances to Quell Fight Loses Car in Cleveland
Cleveland May 14. Marshal John Zelis of Linndale village police went into a dance hall to quell a brawl. While he tried to restore order his car was stolen. The marshal returned to duty soon after, continuing his beat.
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Marshal
United Press
Cleveland
John Zelis
Linndale Village
Rudy Vallee Named Cheer Leader by University of Maine
Rudy Vallee the radio crooner receives the University of Maine cheer leader honor for popularizing the Stein Song. The award was presented at a dinner Tuesday night by the New York Alumni Association.
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United Press
New York
Rudy Vallee
University of Maine
Stein
New York Alumni Association
Dartmouth students protest with shorts on chilly campus
A mass student protest at Dartmouth in Hanover sees about 600 undergraduates wearing abbreviated pants exposing bare knees in cold weather. Walter Chrysler Jr. joined in white linen shorts despite temperatures around freezings.
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du United Press
Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth
Walter Chrysler Jr
Woman Leads Charge in India Salt Raid Inspired by Joan of Arc
Sarojini Naidu announced readiness for death or victory leading a raid on British salt deposits. She would head the operation herself as prominent nationalists were arrested and jailed in Bombay during the passive resistance campaign.
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United Press
Joan of Arc
India
Sarojini Naidu
Bombay
Faculty to rule on dormitory roof smoking at American University
Washington May 14 A group of coeds at an American university faced judgment on punishment for smoking on a dormitory roof. The Methodist institution frowns on cigarette use by women.
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Methodist
Washington
American University
University of Chicago riot over dry snooping protest escalates
About five hundred students rioted on the University of Chicago campus protesting so called dry snoopers. Police and fire crews dispersed the mob with a high pressure hose after bonfires, vandalism, and clashes with officers. Four students were arrested as ringleaders.
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United Press Chicago
University of Chicago
Federal Prohibition Department
Black Friars Dramatic Club
Botany Pond
Arguments on Bank Liability Scheduled
Lawyers from across the state will attend an oral argument before the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday to test the state law on bank stockholder liability. The case asks whether stockholders suffer double indemnity when a bank fails, reviewing a Wells circuit ruling in the Studebaker bank failure of Bluffton that they do not.
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State Supreme Court
Indiana
Wells Circuit
Studebaker
Bluffton
Death by Leap From Union League Club Chicago
W. W. Harrison, 50, Columbus, Ohio, manager of the Redpath Lyceum and Chautauqua Bureau, leaped to his death from the fourteenth story of Chicago’s Union League Club. The incident occurred May 14 and is treated as a fatal fall.
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Chicago
Lyceum Bureau
United Press
W. W. Harrison
Columbus
Redpath Lyceum
Chautauqua Bureau
State to Buy 87 Trucks for 105 363 Dollars
The state highway commission purchased eighty seven one and a half ton trucks for 105 363 24 dollars. A total of one hundred bids were received for the fleet. Indiana trucks dominate the state highway fleet with seventeen four cylinder and forty three six cylinder machines from Indiana Truck Company sold by Homer K York.
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State Highway Commission
A. H. Hinkle
Fisher Armstrong Auto Company, Inc
Princeton
Goodwin Brothers
Newcastle
Indiana
Indiana Truck Company
Homer K. York
Indiana State Reformatory Board of Trustees
Sam J. Farrell
Hartford City
State Budget Committee
York
How to Shop A New Bald win Article
Expert shopping guidance by William H. Baldwin appears in The Times through NEA Service. Baldwin, a New York department store official, draws on extensive buyer experience to advise prudent purchasing.
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William H. Baldwin
Times
W.H. Baldwin
NEA Service
New York
Baldwin
Paving Funds Approved for East Thirty-eighth and Keystone Roads
The Indiana state tax board approved two bond issues to finish resurfacing East Thirty-eighth Street from Eastern Avenue to Emerson Avenue and Keystone Avenue from Millersville Road to Sixty-fifth Street. East Thirty-eighth Street will receive 38,800 with J. W. Morgan & Son awarded a 36,600 contract. Keystone Avenue gets 51,200 for a project bid by Indiana Asphalt Paving Company at 57,935, with initial bond requests higher.
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Eastern Avenue
Emerson Avenue
Keystone Avenue
Millersville Road
Sixty-fifth Street
Indianapolis
J. W. Morgan & Son
Indiana Asphalt Paving Company
Contract Awarded for New Central Life Office Building
The American Central Life Insurance Company awards a roughly 500000 dollar contract to Hankin Conkey Construction Company of Cleveland as the low bidder in a field of fourteen. The building will sit on Fall Creek boulevard extending to Meridian Illinois and Twenty sixth streets, with a three to four story fireproof steel reinforced concrete structure.
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Hankin-Conkey Construction Company
Cleveland
Cleveland Company
Fall Creek Boulevard
Meridian
Illinois
Twenty-sixth
Meridian Street
Twenty-sixth Street
Surrender by Slaver: Man Who Killed at River Camp
Cade Brummett surrendered to Sullivan County authorities after fatally shooting William A. White at Elmer Bledsoe’s fishing camp on the Wabash river. Brummett said he used a shotgun but offered no clear motive, and investigators gathered details from other campers. White had previously served a federal prison term and dodged liquor-charges officers.
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River Camp
United Press
Sullivan
Ind
Cade Brummett
William A. White
Riverton
Elmer Bledsoe
Wabash River
Sullivan County
Brummett
White
Senate to test Hawley Smoot tariff Friday vote
Conferees decide to return the Hawley Smoot tariff bill to the senate Friday for a crucial vote on export debentures and flexible tariff provisions. Foreign governments tighten plans to shut out American goods as the tariff barrier grows and Argentina and Canada move to retaliate against U.S. trade. Trade with Argentina slumped from $58 million in early 1929 to $36 million in the first quarter of the current year.
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United
Washington
Senate
William Philip Simms Scripps-Howard
Congress
Hoover
Canada
Argentina
South America
United States
Department of Commerce
Leaps From Ferry Skirts Form Buoy
Mrs. Hanna Phelan a 50 year old Staten Island resident stood on a Ferry deck drained a small bottle of poison and leaped into the water. Her skirts billowed like a balloon forming a buoy that kept her afloat until deckhands rescued her. The poison failed and she lives today.
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United Apress
New York
Hanna Phelan
Staten Island
Fire blasts in furnace injures city woman at home
Gas formed by coal in a furnace exploded when Mrs. Nona McMillan, 36, owner of a rooming house at 1336 North Illinois street, thrust a lighted match in the firepit. A sheet of flame burned her face neck and hands and she was taken to City Hospital after calling police.
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Nona McMillan
North
Illinois Street
Police probe signed note from claimed mother of rain baby
Police Chief Jerry Kinney ordered an inquiry into a letter from a woman claiming to be the mother of Indianapolis rain baby found abandoned at Stump and Bluff roads. The note says she is the baby's lawful mother and asks for him to be found a good home, naming Rupert and signed June Deupree with an address.
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Jerry Kinney
Indianapolis
Stump and
Bluff Roads
Kinney
Rupert
June Deupree
Chicago man shot by hitchhiker recounts attack on road
Irwin H. Baker said a pedestrian he offered a ride on a country road fired a bullet into his head and fled after injuring him. Baker told police today he had regained consciousness and that the man he picked up shot him.
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United Press
Chicago
Irwin H. Baker
Opera King’s Widow Free After $500 Bail Posted
Emma Hammerstein, widow of Oscar Hammerstein, was released after bail posted by a Second Avenue radio dealer. She protested the charge of misconduct and announced she would fight it, citing past hardships and enmity from unknown enemies. Saul Birns posted the bail, with M A Lesser offering defense if needed, as the case set for May 20.
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York
Second Avenue
Oscar Hammerstein
Jefferson Market Court
Saul Birns
Holt and Butler Convicted in Federal Booze Conspiracy
Ora Butler former Howard county sheriff and Olin R. Holt Kokomo attorney were found guilty by a federal court jury of conspiracy to violate prohibition law. Jury verdict followed hour and forty minutes of deliberation with sentencing set for May 24 before Judge Robert C. Baltzell.
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Butler
Howard County
Kokomo
Baltzell
Ora Butler
Olin R. Holt
Robert C. Baltzell
Capone Arrested Again Amid Court Bid and Writ Plots
Scarface Al Capone was arrested again with three companions while watching a boxing match at the American Legion arena in Miami. Police chief Guy C. Reeves had warned Capone would not be arrested without a warrant, and Capone’s lawyers sought a habeas corpus writ to free him, failing to locate Judge A. C. Thompson.
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United Press
Miami
Fla
Scarface
al Capone
Capone
American Legion
Chicago
A. C. Thompson
Man Found Guilty Of Assault In Indianapolis Case
Robert L. Doser of 5853 Broadway was found guilty of assault and battery by Municipal Judge Cameron. He was fined $10 and costs after testimony that he knocked staff photographer Joe Cravens down and kicked him when Cravens tried to photograph Doser outside his home. The incident occurred amid a wider custody dispute involving Doser’s four children and a habeas corpus case in Marion superior court.
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Joe Cravens
Indianapolis Star
Robert L. Doser
Broadway
Chifton R. Cameron
Doser
Cravens
Marion
Tulsa
Okla
Baby in Newark Arrested in Domestic Relations Case
In Newark New Jersey on May 14 two policewomen arrested a six month old baby to bring it into court for a domestic relations case involving its father. Mrs Margaret Borgese sought the child in the legal matter.
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United Press
Newark
N. J
Margaret Borgese
Boy Dies During Morristown Baseball Game
In Morristown New Jersey Edward Johnson aged 16 collapsed and died while waiting to bat in a local baseball game. Doctors determined the cause as an infection of the thymus gland.
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United Press
Morristown
N. J
Edward Johnson
Wor offers sports announcer post to Army star Chris Cagle
W J Slasker of Radio Station WOR said he offered Army football star Chris Cagle, who left West Point after a secret marriage, a sports announcer position for the station this summer.
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United Press
New York
W. J.slasker
WOR
Chris Cagle
Army
West Point
Telegraph Operator Alvin Maddux Dies After Long Illness
United Press telegraph operator Alvin Theodore Maddux aged 58 or 59 died in Nashville Tennessee after a long illness. He served twelve years with United Press and was a member of the general executive board of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of North America.
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United Preae
Nashville
Tenn
Alvin Theodore Maddux
United Press
Commercial Telegraphers Union of North America
Funeral Plans Trail a Tragic Husband in Cleveland
Fred Edwards, husband of a woman who died on Monday, remained near death in a hospital after a gasoline flame ignited while he attempted to clean clothes for her funeral. The blast caused severe burns and injuries.
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United Press
Cleveland
Fred Edwards
Relief for Poor Papa in National Dry Goods Meet
Chicago May 14. Papa the great American pack horse will receive relief on shopping trips as the National Dry Goods Association meets to standardize package sizes and shapes for easier handling.
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United Preas
Chicago
Papa
National Dry Goods Association
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