Death Ends Last Mile Cell Drama in Texas
Joyce Shepard, condemned for murder, was executed at the Texas state penitentiary after gouging out his own eyes in a failed reprieve bid. The unclaimed body, once a San Antonio or Arizona resident, died at 12 11 a.m. following his death sentence.
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Joyce Shepard
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Robert Blake
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Arizona
Aviatrix Reaches Ohio on Speed Record Quest
Miss Laura Ingalls, en route from California to New York in a bid to set a new west to east women’s air speed record, landed at Port Columbus at 12 10 p m today after a leg from Indianapolis.
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Cop's Child Kidnapped in Underworld Vendetta
Denver reports that Leo O'Loughlin detective’s pursuit of criminals sparked underworld enmities leading to the disappearance of his 10 year old daughter Leona since Wednesday morning.
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Denver
Leo O'Loughlin
Leona
Ron Man on Carpet Chicago Police Head Called in Capone Arrest Order
Chicago police commissioner John H. Alcock known as the iron man was summoned to aid a grand jury probing how a secret arrest order reached Al Capone gangsters during the Lingle murder turmoil and Russell's removal.
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Watson much better as speaking tour continues
Senator James E. Watson reported by telephone from Chicago as very much better and likely to press on with his speaking tour. In Indianapolis the Supreme Court heard an appeal filed by M. L. Clawson for Irving Webster, the publisher recently convicted in Marion County on blackmail charges.
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Chicago
Supreme Court
M. L. Clawson
Irving Webster
Indianapolis
Marion County
Times Twin Contest Draws Many Entrants
More than a score of twins have sent in their names for The Times big twin contest. Details will be announced early next week. Send photos if available or arrange a Times photographer to take them. Include name and address.
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Butler Bulldogs Return for Homecoming Parade
Butler university's campus hosts alumni for homecoming activities culminating in a game against St. Louis university tonight at Butler bowl. A downtown parade begins at 2 30 led by the St Louis and Butler bands and the Hilton A Brown Jr American Legion drum corps. Blue Ray prize goes to best float sponsor. Fraternity and sorority houses vie for a cup awarded by the Sphinx Club.
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St. Louis University
St. Louis
Butler
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National Honorary Fraternity
Community fund drive opens with 2500 volunteers in Indianapolis
Twenty five hundred volunteers gather for the eleventh annual Community fund campaign aiming at 865000. G M Williams of Marmon Motor Car Co will speak at the opening dinner at the Claypool. Fund president William H Insley says the goal is the minimum to meet winter needs as employment softens contributions. First worker meeting set for Monday at noon with lunch luncheons through October 27.
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Claypool
G. M. Williams
Marmon Motor Car Company
Indianapolis
William H. Insley
Two Years of Talkies series spans Hollywood progress
Dan Thomas NEA’s Hollywood representative explains in a series titled Two Years of Talkies exploring what progress the talkies have made since 1928. The Times Pink editions begin Monday with the feature designed for movie fans to follow the evolving sound era.
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Dan Thomas
NEA Service
The
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Convict Schoolboy Guilty of Banditry in City Holdups
Jesse Finke an 18 year old high school student living at 1833 North Harding Street was found guilty of banditry in criminal court and sentenced to the Indiana state reformatory for one to ten years. In a confession to detectives he admitted holding up the Tom Thumb golf course atop Circle Tower on Sept 3 escaping with $40 and five other city holdups. He did not plead guilty.
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Jesse Finke
North Harding Street
Indiana State Reformatory
Finke
Tom Thumb
Circle Tower
Navy Awards 15.56 Million Contract for Aircraft Carrier
The Navy Department awarded Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company a $15,560,000 contract to construct a new aircraft carrier. Acting Secretary of the Navy Jahncke announced the award in Washington on October 17.
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Washington
Navy Department Today
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Jahncke
Revolutionary forces repulsed on fronts near Sao Paulo
Government announces insurgents marching on Sao Paulo and Brasilia were repelled on northern and southern fronts. Rebels trying to cross from Parana into Sao Paulo were defeated at Itarere in a ministry communique. MacFadden to Berlin.
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Sao Paulo
Parana
Itarere
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Garment Capitol blast injures forty in Los Angeles
An explosion at the Garment Capitol building in Los Angeles injures at least forty people and causes about 1 million dollars in damage. Authorities attribute the blast to a Mexican boy lighting a cigarette near open gas mains, with several firms and adjacent buildings sustaining heavy damage.
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Los Angeles
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Garment Workers’ Union
Beverly Hills
Phil Handman
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Schulman
Handman
Wreck Ends Life of Dance Instructor Peggy Lott
Detroit October 17 Peggy Lott twenty three a dance instructor died after she drank poison following a car wreck involving her brother's automobile.
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Detroit
Peggy Lott
Doctor Abandons Practice Over Dog Execution
In Washington on October 17, Dr. Charles J. Mooney quit his medical practice to avoid turning over Fritz the dog for execution after Fritz was found guilty of biting a mailman. The doctor escorted the animal out of the city.
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Washington
Fritz
Charles J. Mooney
Girl 14 Ends Life After School Expulsion
Dorothy Berger a 14 year old girl terminated her life by jumping into the Detroit river after being expelled from school for smoking. The tragedy occurred in Detroit on October 17 as authorities investigated the case and notified her family.
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Police lynching case linked to Marion mob incitement
Attorney General James M. Ogden announces a new inquiry into a Marion police officer alleged to have displayed a blood soaked shirt at the station to inflame a mob that lynched two Black men. He seeks charges of incitement and riot and aims to bring Sheriff Jacob Campbell and seven mob leaders to trial. one suspect, Robert Beshire, poolroom owner, is jailed on $2,000 bond.
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Claude Deeter
Ind
James M. Ogden
Ogden
Jacob Campbell
Deeter
Fairmount
Grant Circuit Court
Robert Beshire
O. D. Clawson
Rioters clash with police in Berlin metal workers riot
In Berlin on October 17 street fighting erupted between Communists and police in the metal workers district and in the Reichstag. Police used truncheons against strikers as 120000 workers strike and milk доставers join protests over wage cuts. eight arrests reported.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Heinrich Bruening
Gregor Strasser
Earthquake Hits Valparaiso Causes Minor Damage
A dawn tremor in Valparaiso Chile injured several people slightly and caused minor damage citywide, with no reported fatalities. City officials advised caution as aftershocks were possible and emergency services responded quickly.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Deputies raid Denver Ferguson printing shop on pool ticket charge
Deputy Prosecutor George Eggleston led a raid on Denver Ferguson's printing office at 322 North Senate Avenue. Ferguson was arrested on a capias for selling and operating a pool lottery. Deputies found several hundred pool tickets hidden in a wastebasket after a brief search. Eggleston said the shop appeared cleaned up hastily and hinted a tip may have alerted Ferguson.
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George Eggleston
Denver
Coffin Aids Decry Poor Farm Bond Vote Delayed
Marion county council delays action on a 198 000 bond for poor farm relief. An emergency ordinance cites infirmary improvements as necessary while a fire marshal order labels the living quarters a firetrap. Council debate centers on legality and the response to Times disclosures.
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Harry Dunn
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Alfred M. Hogston
Houston
Frank Cones
John E. Shearer
Coffin
Shearer
Radium Treatment Praised Over Surgery by Surgeon
On October 17 in Philadelphia Dr George Gray Ward of the Woman s Hospital of New York told the American College of Surgeons clinical congress that radium therapy surpasses surgery for cancer and will grow more useful in the future.
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Philadelphia
American College of Surgeons
George Gray Ward
Woman's Hospital of
New York
Slayer Suspect Held After Nightgown Stabbing
Detroit October 17 Mrs Helen Jaeck 23 of Toledo was taken into custody after a taxi driver captured her fleeing scene following an alleged stabbing of her sweetheart with a bread knife. She faces a murder charge.
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Detroit
Helen Jaeck
Toledo
Hoover law enforcement commission adjourns to November fifth
The Hoover law enforcement commission, due to report its finding on prohibition within sixty days, adjourned today until November 5 the day after the elections.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
Song Writer Lew Brown Sued Over Cream in Coffee Claim
Los Angeles reports Sylvia Brown sues Lew Brown for divorce claiming the song You're the Cream in My Coffee was not written as an ode to her. She accuses Brown of writing many tunes away from home and curses when confronted. She states Brown's income with Ray Henderson and Buddy DeSylva exceeds 500000 dollars annually and seeks division of up to 1000000 in community property, custody of two children Nomi nine and Arlene four, and a 5000 dollar monthly allowance.
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Os Angeles
Lew Brown
Sylvia Brown
Texas
Public service board orders 168 miles of interurban lines abandoned
State public service commissioners ordered the abandonment of 168 miles of Terre Haute Indiana and Eastern interurban branches from Indianapolis to Martinsville and the routes linking Indianapolis with Lafayette Lebanon and Crawfordsville. The Indianapolis Danville branch had already been ordered. All lines will cease at midnight October 31 as receivers stated ongoing losses.
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Martinsville
Lafayette
Lebanon
Crawfordsville
Danville
Gangster Abducts and Kills Man in Chicago Alley
A 28 year old foreign man was forced into a "ride" by gangsters in Chicago. He was shot through the mouth and dumped in an alley off a street named Crooked. The crime adds to a string of brutal violence in the city.
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United Press
Chicago
Hoover to consult business leaders on revival plans
President Hoover will privately meet with national business leaders to learn of developments toward economic revival, an announcement from the White House said. The talks will occur as he seeks input on strategies to stimulate business activity.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
First Killing Frost Expected Tonight For Indiana Football
The weather forecast from the United States Weather Bureau predicts the season's first killing frosts tonight across most of Indiana. Senior meteorologist J. H. Armington says temperatures may drop to 33 degrees, with heavy frosts expected in open areas and lighter frosts along the Ohio River front, favoring weekend football conditions.
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Bureau
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Armington
AFL backs Volstead act tweak to allow 2.75 percent beer
The American Federation of Labor at its fiftieth annual convention closed with a vote in favor of modifying the Volstead act to permit the manufacture of beer with 2.75 percent alcohol content. The executive council report was adopted without argument.
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United Press
Boston
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Winter Moves East Drives Chicago Toward Freeze
Swirling southeastward from central Canada and the Rockies, winter’s first blast pushes into Chicago. Government meteorologist W. P. Stewart warns the three day cold spell will drop temperatures to about 34 with a near freezing point before daybreak. Snow continues last night at Cheyenne and heavy snowfall blankets central North Dakota and the Canadian border.
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Car Crashes on Burdsal Parkway After High Speed Party
A beer party ends in tragedy when a car driven by Oscar Essick 31 of 614 Somerset avenue overturns three times on Burdsal parkway near Northwestern avenue. Essick dies from skull fracture. Dewey Noe 27 of Detroit and Alma Dicer 22 of 2235 Roosevelt avenue injured and held on $5,000 vagrancy bonds each. Vera Thurston 19 of 1122 Sheffield avenue arrested for contributing to delinquency. LeFevre 35 of 2332 West Michigan street arrested after admitting supplying the party. seven quarts of home brew found. Edna Wicks 19 of 1814 West New York street held on vagrancy charge. Essick employed by Texaco Oil. funeral at 2 p.m. Monday with Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Oscar Essick
Somerset Avenue
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Essick
C. H. Keever
Dewey Noe
Detroit
Alma Dicer
Roosevelt Avenue
Dicer
Noe
Vera Thurston
Sheffield Avenue
Charles
LeFevre
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Michigan Street
Thurston
Frank Owen
Timothy McMahon
Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Edna Wicks
New York Street
Texaco Oil Company
Tetanus Fatality in Indiana Resident
Sip McClaud aged 58 of Stilesville Indiana died from a tetanus infection contracted from a rusty nail. He was admitted to a Christian hospital today and reportedly treated after admission on Tuesday.
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Stilesville
Indiana Christian Hospital
Milo Stuart Elected President of Indiana Teachers
Milo H. Stuart principal of Arsenal Technical High School was elected president of the Indiana State Teachers Association at Cable Tabernacle. W. A. Schanlaub Newton county superintendent was named vice president. The nominating committee report passed without dissent, contrasting with earlier factional tensions over resolutions and magazine control. The convention endorsed education reform ideas, tax revisions, and continued support for state school relief while maintaining the association’s governance.
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Arsenal- Technical High School
Cable Tabernacle
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Newton
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Anderson
Stuart
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Indianapolis
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United States
Harry G. Leslie
State Crime Commission
Charles O. Williams
Donald DuShane
Columbus
Ralph W. Lockman
New York
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