Governor repudiates spokesmen in appointment scope
Governor Harry G. Leslie disavowed any unofficial spokesmen dictating state appointments. He warned department heads to rely on his own recommendations only and to avoid outside influence. The move targets Bert Fuller and Bert Morgan, seen as liaison figures in his 1928 campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Bert Fuller
Bert Morgan
Henry Marshall
Lafayette
Marshall
O. K
Public Service Commission
Highway Commission
John J. Brown
Luther Symons
Richard Lieber
Department of Conservation
Grace B. Urbahne
Fuller
Morgan
Typhoon Kills 78 in Philippine Islands Damage Report
United Press reports Manila as typhoon devastates Albay on Luzon with 78 lives lost and widespread destruction. Communications restored reveal water famine and severe impact across the region. Elsewhere in Indiana a newborn is hailed as first child in a four decade old Lafayette avenue house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Manila
P. I
Philippine Islands
Albay
Luzon Island
RE Haute
Ind
Paul M. Godwin Jr
Paul M. Godwin
Lafayette Avenue
Chief Aderholt's Plea For Mercy Amid Gun Battle Trial
Witness recounts Police Chief Aderholt begging for mercy as he lay wounded during the Gastonia union grounds gun battle on June 7. T. A. Gilbert, wounded in the clash, testifies that the chief cried out and pleaded not to be shot while shots rang out around union hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Charlotte
N. C
Aderholt
Gastonia
T. A. Gilbert
Gilbert
Roach
Ferguson
Union Headquarters
W. H. McGinnis
Union Hall
Adam Heard
Union
Hoard
Marion County Plans Appeal of 41.5 Cent Tax Levy
Marion county moves to appeal the proposed 41.5 cent tax levy for 1930 to the state board of tax commissioners. The board may cut the levy to 35–38 cents and reduce the gravel road fund by 50 percent. The council trimmed department budgets by 877,209.16, denying salary raises for county workers. The 1929 rate stood at 31.5 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Harry Miesse
Indiana Taxpayer's Association
Miesse
William H. Book
Civic Affairs Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Peace Move Made By United Srees In League Assembly
Britain renews its world peace campaign at Geneva with foreign secretary Arthur Henderson delivering his maiden speech. He seeks to harmonize the Hague conference Kellogg treaty and league covenant, proposing a revision of war-permitted articles. The resolution, backed by England France Belgium Chile Denmark and approved by Germany, aims to adapt the covenant to the Kellogg pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Srees
Geneva
Britain
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Arthur Henderson
Assembly
League
Henderson
England
France
Belgium
Chile
Denmark
Germany
Heflin Jr. case continued in Phoenix City court
J Thomas Heflin Jr son of Alabama senator was arrested Monday on drunkenness and prohibition charges. The case was continued in recorder s court until next Tuesday as Co B Gullatt Jr the defendant s attorney requested the delay. Heflin was not present in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Phoenix City
Ala
J. Thomas Heflin Jr
Alabama
Recorder’s Court
Co. B. Gullatt Jr
Heflin
Ride Witness In Lake County Murder Probe
South Bend Indiana September 6 A Leavenworth prisoner will be brought to Gary to testify before the federal grand jury on a February murder tied to a Lake county liquor conspiracy. District Attorney Loomis seeks a judge's order to release Nick Marovich from prison as a witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Leavenworth
Kan
Federal Grand Jury
Gary
Oliver M. Loomis
Lake County
Loomis
Indianapolis
United States
Robert Baltzell
Nick Marovich
Arosh Marovich
al Capone
Nick
Lie Detector Expert to Aid Hoover Probe
Washington report says August Vollmer, former Berkeley police chief, has joined the Hoover Commission as a police science expert. He predicts the lie detector will replace the third degree, cites early use of scientific methods and emergency flash systems, and envisions radios in all patrol cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Joseph
Wasney
Washington
Hoover Law Observance and Enforcement Commission
August Vollmer
United Press
Berkeley
Cal
Vollmer
Edison City Day at State Fair Highlighted
Edison City Day was celebrated at the state fair with judging concluded and auto racing slated as the feature Saturday. Horse racing events closed for the day as preparations shift to motor sports.
Saturday Auto Race Day at the Grandstand Carnival
Auto races are held in front of the grandstand with carnival shows and a band concert scheduled for an afternoon program.
Indiana Edison Day Highlighted at Seventy Seventh State Fair
Indianapolis observances mark the seventy seventh state fair with Edison day celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent light bulb. Final grand circuit racing events occur this afternoon along with live stock judging. Thursday admissions reached 40,047 and a $2,500 auto race purse is set for Saturday with 35 entries and elimination trials. Society night closes the horse show with Governor and Mayor stakes worth $1,000. Quartets finals unfold in the state fair home economics and school divisions with Stark and Kosciusko counties already noted. Radio and auto shows in the Manufacturers building attract crowds as entertainment is planned today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
Fair Board
State Fair Home Economics
Indiana State Fair Bureau
Stark
Kosciusko
Manufacturers
Tragedy Follows California Woman Struck by Vienna Tram
Mrs. Jenny Lohmann of California died last night at the Loew Sanatorium in Vienna after being struck by a tram car. The incident occurred recently in Vienna, with authorities continuing investigations into the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Vienna
Austria
Jenny Lohmann
California
Loew Sanatorium
Teacher Builds Summer Roofs While Teaching Theater
Miss Leora Weimar, a teacher actress, hammered and nailed to roof her summer house at 4017 South State avenue, proving a woman can drive a nail straight. She will teach public speaking and drama at Indiana Central College next week after earning her MA at Northwestern University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leora Weimar
South State Avenue
Indiana Central College
Indiana Central
Indianapolis Stock Company
Little Theater Society
Northwestern University
Northwestern Repertoire Company
Weimer
Suesman Patient for Breach of Promise in Chicago Suit
Dr. Lucy Gilbert an Chicago osteopath filed a 250000 breach of promise suit against Francis Becker of Enid Oklahoma a patient who read in a matrimonial magazine that she needed a husband Becker claims he was unaware she was married and says he will produce a letter alleging she expressed love for his little finger The suit reverses a recent Chicago action where Miss Ann Livingston of Tulsa sued Franklin S Hardinge for 250000 and was awarded 25000 by the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Lucy Gilbert
Gilbert
Gilbert-Becker
Order of
Ann Livingston
Tulsa
Okla
Franklin S. Hardinge
Four Horsemen Die In Gangland Court Verdict
Chicago police describe the gangland trial of the Four Horsemen as ordering executions of Frank Cawley Edward Westcott Michael Reilly and William Clifford who led the Midwest Garage Owners Association and extended terror into the west side beer trade. Clifford and Reilly were killed earlier with bodies found at a Scarface Capone resort. Cawley and Westcott were executed by firing squad near Riis park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Four Horsemen
West Side
Frank Cawley
Edward Westcott
Michael Reilly
William Clifford
Midwest Garage Owners’ Association
Klondike O'Donnell
Clifford
Reilly
Scarface al Capone
Cicero
Cawley
Westcott
Riis Park
Rabbit hero at Nebraska state fair outsmarts snakes
In Lincoln on September 6 a white rabbit was placed in a pen with rattlesnakes and a fifteen-foot python by mistake. The rabbit first intimidated the rattlers and then bit the python, which ignored the insult after the rabbit had dined, and the rabbit escaped into the keeper’s hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Lincoln
Neb
Sunnyside Heating Bids Submitted for Sanatorium Project
County commissioners received fourteen bids today for installing steam heating and power equipment at the Marion county tuberculosis sanatorium in Sunnyside. A fund of 26000 dollars was appropriated and awards are to be made Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Sunnyside
Radio Store Looted in City Break-In at Pearson Store No 4
Police report two loudspeakers and three radios stolen from Pearson Radio Company's Store No 4 at 3201 East Tenth Street. Entrance gained via rear window. Store manager H. H. Graham states merchandise valued at 400 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson Radio Company
East Tenth Street
H. H. Graham
Aged man kills girl in Petersbug case near Forthill
A coroner's report lists murder and suicide in the deaths of Scott Hall 61 and Miss Adolphus Turner 16. Police theorize Hall shot Turner as she prepared to marry, then killed himself in a gully near Petersbug Forthill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
W. Va
Scott Hall
Adolphus Turner
Forthill
Hall
Vast Air Search Rushes For Vanished T A T Liner City of San Francisco
A massive air hunt unfolds across Arizona and New Mexico for the T A T liner City of San Francisco and its eight aboard. Some 45 planes operate from Winslow with Army Navy and commercial crews joining, as officials chart a desert-wide salvage plan and shift search zones toward Sunrise Springs Keams Canyon and the Zuni mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oon
George H
Grand Canyon
Army
Winslow
el Paso
San Diego
San Francisco
Houck
Zuni Mountains
Planes Pass Schneider Cup Navigability Tests in Calshot
Calshot England Sept 6 the first phase of the 1929 Schneider cup showed all machines from Britain and Italy clear navigability tests. Italian Macchi 67s impressed though Cadrringher’s Cadrringher flight was the best of six. The Prince of Wales observed from Hendon and Ramsay MacDonald was set to attend the finals Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Calshot
England
Remo Cadrringher
Cadrringher
Prince of Wales
Hendon
Ramsay MacDonald
Snow Falls in West From Wyoming to Dakotas
United Press reports snow in Wyoming and the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Temperatures ran 10 to 20 degrees below normal across the region between Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and the Canadian frontier. Heavy frosts appeared in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Havre Montana recorded 24 degrees.
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Unitced Press
Washington
Wyoming
Black Hills
South Dakota
Weather Bureau
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Canadian Frontier
North Dakota
Minnesota
Havre
Mont
Liner American Legion Strikes Breakwater at Montevideo Harbor
The liner American Legion ran onto the breakwater in Montevideo Uruguay during today’s harbor approach and became wedged in an angle. Tugs attempted rescue but were hindered by the ebb tide. Authorities believed the pilot mistook the harbor entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Montevideo
Uruguay
American Legion
Identity Doubt Ends In Reevaluation Of Icebox Death
Morris Illinois September reports reveal the slain unidentified woman found in a roadside sack near Morris is not Lily Shea of Chicago as previously believed. Police continue probing a motorist party sighting and a sedan description from two boys who spoke with them. The body shows she had been dead about a month and was refrigerated until hours before disposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Morris, Ill
Here
Lily Shea
Richard Shea
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Joe Schock
Scoop Hutchison
Morris
Wells rescue in quicksand as William Priest clings to life
In Iowa Tumwa firefighters battled quicksand to free 55 year old William Priest from a thirty five foot well. Priest directed the effort and shouted encouragement while bracing the walls and awaiting air as rescuers shifted to a side ditch. Ed Kirkland was injured by a brick during a collapse.
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Tumwa
William Priest
Priest
Ed Kirkland
Lindbergh to Join Southwest Search for Missing Airliner
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh will join the search for five passengers and three crew believed lost in the desert Southwest while flying a T. A. T. liner. He will depart Seavert Field for Winslow Arizona, base of the operation, in a high speed plane this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Sevelt Field
L. L
Charles A. Lindbergh
Winslow
Ariz
Boy 15 Sentenced to Ten Years for Playmate Killing
Louis Torzella, 15, was sentenced in Paterson New Jersey to ten years in prison for fatally kicking his playmate John Nolan, 14, who died July 4 after taunts over a wrist watch received as a graduation present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Paterson
N. J
Louis Torzella
John Nolan
Nolan
Widow Durbin Donates 5000 For Stained Glass Windows
Mrs Winfield T Durbin of Anderson widow of a former Indiana governor gave 5000 to the Scottish Rite Cathedral fund for new stained glass windows. Secretary Fred R Willis confirmed the donation at Anderson today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield T. Durbin
Anderson
Indiana
Fred R. Willis
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