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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1929
Page
3
Fritz von Opel and Wilhelm Sander achieved a motorless rocket propelled flight in Frankfurt, lifting a tailless monoplane to about eighty yards before landing. The 500 pound craft, with 100 pounds of rockets, rode rails and used a cannon-like start. Von Opel aims to cross the English Channel next.
Funeral services for Russell Bowlin 54 of R R 14 Box 207 Indianapolis will be held Wednesday at Shirley Brothers funeral chapel Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery Bowlin died when the truck he rode in overturned on state road No 31 and struck a barn Survivors include wife Mary Alice Bowlin two sons Russell Jr and Donald Bowlin a daughter Myrtle Delamore all of Indianapolis He was employed by the Iron Fireman Company of Indianapolis.
The opening session of the Institute of Public Affairs will be conducted at the Columbia Club on Oct 16 by Mrs W W Ramsey Chicago fifth vice president. Ramsey, a longtime suffrage worker, is active with Illinois and Chicago Leagues of Women Voters since 1920. Our Government in Action is the opening topic for the institute open to the public. Course tickets are at the Indiana league headquarters Illinois building.
Burglars strike a tailor shop on West Michigan street stealing two suits and three overcoats valued at 200 dollars. A home on English avenue is entered with a skeleton key. four dresses and a coat valued at 150 dollars are taken.
Anderson Ind Oct 1 Daniel W Black 81 former Madison County recorder from 1890 to 1894 died at his home He was born near Alexandria and had lived in the county all his life He leaves three daughters and three sons all residents here.
George Miller a 24 year old Frontier National bank clerk nearly lost his life when a vault time-lock failed after daylight saving ended. The lock snapped at 9 30 while the bank was supposed to close at 10 30 and police could not release him until a bank official arrived.
Dr E S Shumaker superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon League is bedridden after strenuous work since returning from Battle Creek sanitarium Jaundice has weakened his strength His physician Dr Charles R Sowder ordered rest Mrs Lois Morrison of Plainfield a daughter and Wayne Shumaker from De Pauw University rushed to his bedside over the weekend The illness follows a sixty day sentence completed at the Indiana state farm for contempt of the state supreme court
Criminal Judge James A. Collins imposes a $1 fine for each stitch needed to mend wounds in a cutting scrape. Defendant Lee Thornton, jailed, faces trial for assault with intent to murder after allegedly slashing a friend's arm. Twenty three stitches were required. Thornton quotes the count as the judge sets the fine and six months on the state farm.
Ambassador Charles C. Dawes was presented with the freedom of Sudbury, England, a Suffolk town with historic ties to his ancestors. He and Mrs. Dawes, and their son Henry, were escorted through the town to the town hall past matting and brick works and cobbled streets shaded by parish churches.
Times Special reports in Obseville Indiana that T. L. Collins clothing store lost twenty suits Saturday night in a third break in eighteen months. The three raids total four thousand dollars in stolen clothing.
Wilfred G. Moore of Inland Aviation Corporation is congratulated as holder of the unofficial world altitude record for a two place light airplane. Barographs recorded 20 800 and 20 100 feet on the flight Monday and will be sent to Washington for official check. The current record is 19 862 feet by Captain G De Haviland in England.
Petition filed in superior court asks to padlock John Matau residence at 428 West Pearl Street for one year due to alleged public nuisance and sale of intoxicating liquor. filed by William R. Ringer and deputy prosecutor George W. Eggleston. Bedf ord Ind Oct 1 jury selection underway in murder trial of James Brannon Cincinnati charged with killing his stepson Edward Lucas near Mitchell Ind May 8. Brannon claims Lucas fell beneath freight train. state alleges head wound from railroad pin.
An American Mohawk Malayan Expedition team uses short wave radio to connect Borneo jungle researchers with Washington and Chicago. Anthropologist John Provinse reports to Fay Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago while detailing Siang Dyaks study and a feast where many drank tainted tuak.
Consul M G Kummer acting head of the American Bemberg and American Glanzstaff Corporations was found dead at his home in Elizabethton Tennessee. Both wrists were slashed near a bloody razor. Sheriff J M Moreland began an inquiry and suspected suicide though not confirmed. Kummer formerly served as German consul to Portugal and retained that title.
Mrs Tillie Hart blocks $25,000,000 hotel project on West Twenty third Street as steam shovels tear up the block. Despossession actions filed against her loom, but she vows to hold firm despite the one building left in the block and the noisy excavation.
Indiana tax commissioners reject a $10,000 allocation for riot guns in Sheriff George L. Winkler’s budget. The board also trims election expense funding and adjusts county levies while approving court and institutional budgets. Personal service rises with deputy raises. jail improvements move to a bond issue. motor equipment and tear gas funds are slashed.
Whiting Indiana October 1. Joseph Simko was sentenced in city court to six months at the penal farm and fines totaling 55 dollars for assault and battery on his wife. He struck her with a chair as she failed to supply pickles he demanded while intoxicated. The blow caused a head wound requiring nine stitches.
In Rome on October 1 Crown Prince Humbert of Italy was seen purchasing several pieces of jewelry at a top Rome shop fueling rumors of an engagement to Princess Marie Jose of Belgium. The shop owner said none appeared to be an engagement ring.
Adolphe Menjou has been offered the leading speaking role in a French comedy adapted by Sacha Guitry. The offer came from a manager of a prominent theater near the Madeleine in Paris. Menjou speaks perfect French and so does his wife Kathryn Carver who learned the language in three months.
A pageant titled The Evolution of the American Home will be staged in Greencastle Putnam County on November 15 by club women from the county.
Fifty thousand World War I veterans, part of the 11th American Legion convention parade in Louisville, march past 250000 spectators. Delegates arrived by train, car, van, and plane as cities lobby for future conventions and candidates campaign for commandership. The evening features a Forty and Eight wreck and a street dance amid jubilant crowds.
Sheriff George Winkler reports forty six deaths from motor vehicle accidents in Marion County during the first nine months of 1929 outside Indianapolis city limits. Reckless speed and drunk driving blamed. extra patrols sworn in to curb fatalities as county records show September the deadliest month.
A fire of suspected incendiary origin damaged three residences near 712 North Senate Avenue. Mrs. G A Blackenship’s garage rear caught fire, while Mrs. Brackenship’s home sustained $1,000 damage. Miss Matilda Burrow’s home at 711 Lafayette Street and a vacant house at 719 Lafayette Street also burned, with damages $500 and $200 respectively.
President Hoover announced a program to centralize enforcement agencies. John McNabb of San Francisco was chosen with joint approval to study and draft improvements for enforcement with Mellon Mitchell and Wickersham.
Great Britain and Soviet Russia reached an agreement toward resuming relations after a two hour meeting between British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson and Soviet ambassador Valerien Dovgalevsky in Paris.
W. J. Sherwood Jr., a Wabash College student and station attendant, was held up and robbed of $20 at a Crawfordsville filling station. He gave police a good description of the robber.
Col Lindbergh and Dr Oliver Ricketson of the Carnegie Institution will fly over northern Central America and Mexico seeking unmapped Maya cities. Their Belize base will allow air surveys to locate ruins, guide ground parties, and map sites for excavation as in England where air photography revealed hidden towns.
The Rev Guy L Hoover general secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Association was elected president of Bethany Assembly at the annual meeting Monday. F E Smith of Indianapolis was named vice president and other officers and directors were chosen. Bethany Assembly lies twenty two miles west of Indianapolis. Bloodshed case also reported where Wayne Lucas held on killing Delmar Oliphant after a mob fight.
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