Roosevelt seeks renomination amid Tammany clash in New York
At the New York Democratic state convention in Syracuse Franklin D. Roosevelt is set for re nomination. He pressures Tammany Hall to waive immunity and testify before a grand jury as he criticizes the anti reform stance of the party. Governor Alfred E. Smith attends and Wagner garners support while condemning corruption and prohibition failure.
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Thomas G. Ford
United Press
Syracuse
N. Y
New York Democratic State Convention
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Robert F. Wagner
John F. Curry
Tammany Jeader
Caroline P. O'Day
State Committee
William H. Kelley
Onondaga County
Democratic Party
New York
Wagner
Hoover
United Press York
Tammany Hall
James J. Walker
Ewald-Healy
Roosevelt
Tammany
Walker
Dominions Fight Move At League Of Nations Meeting
British dominions oppose inter European preferential tariffs as they challenge a report urging all league members to sign a convention for concerted action and a conference in November.
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United Press
Geneva
Economic Committee
League of Nations
League
Man makes miniature golf pay big from accidental idea
Garnet Carter of Chattanooga the creator of Fairyland golf on Lookout Mountain built a miniature golf course in 1928 that grew into a national phenomenon. He earned about half a million dollars selling Tom Thumb and related assets and patents to W H Robinson of Philadelphia.
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Garnet Carter
Chattanooga
W. H. Robinson
Philadelphia
Carter
Fairyland Golf Course
Lookout Moutain
United States
United States Department, of Commerce
Carr
Fairyland Inn
Lookout Mountain
Martinsville Mystery Death Probe Focuses on Pryor Motive
In Martinsville Indiana the grand jury nears verdicts in the Pryor death case. Investigators press Ernest Pryor for a confession amid claims he sought a $3000 life policy on his wife Carrie Thelma Pryor taken eleven days before her Aug 19 death. Miss Elsie Ham, Pryor’s cousin, testifies she will help solve the death.
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Times Special
Martinsville
Ind
Grand Jury
Carrie Thelma Pryor
Ernest Pryor
Pryor
Elsie Ham
Brazil
Piano tuning art lost in modern noise says veteran tuner
Memphis Sept 29 United Press reports piano tuning is a lost art as John Clark a 63 year old tuner laments that modern jazz and demand for loud noise have reduced interest in keeping pianos in tune.
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Bu United Press
Memphis
Tenn
John Clark
Accidents Challenge Nation Says Hoover Opens Safety Congress
President Hoover called the yearly U S death toll from accidents almost 100000 a challenge to the country to improve safety. His message was read by Charles E Pettibone at the National Safety Congress opening in Pittsburgh with delegates from across the nation.
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Bu United Press
Pittsburgh
Hoover
National Safety Congress
Charles E. Pettibone
National Safety Council
United States
Forty Changes in House and Eleven in Senate Mark Congress
Washington Sept 29 The election year has produced forty changes in the house of representatives and eleven in the senate, per William Tyler Page clerk. Combined 51 changes exceed 10 percent of Congress with 24 retirements or withdrawals and 14 primary defeats. two deaths also noted.
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United Press
Washington
House of Representatives
William Tyler Page
House
Senate
Congress
Gas Contracts Discussed for City Airport Fuel
The board of works met with big gasoline firms to discuss contracts for supplying fuel to the municipal airport set to open in October. An air circus is planned for the port opening. Board members attended Lunken airport’s opening in Cincinnati on Sunday.
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Board of Works
Lunken
Cincinnati
State highway officials to address Bloomfield Rotary Club
Director John J. Brown and Chief Engineer William H. Titus of the State highway department will address the Bloomfield Rotary Club at Bloomfield Tuesday noon.
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John J. Brown
William H. Titus
State Highway Department
Bloomfield Rotary Club
Bloomfield
Carter builds baby golf course to draw guests into business
The story follows Carter who expanded a hotel guest activity into an eighteen hole baby golf course. Word spread, generating inquiries on cost and attracting the attention of bond expert Warren T. Godfrey. A deal with Robinson followed, after a rapid private buyout.
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Carter
Obedient Wife Follows Man’s Go Jump in the Lake
Chicago couple Louise Loach, 29, and Thomas Loach, 42, argued on the Lake Michigan drive. He ordered her to go jump in the lake and she did, prompting stopping the car and a rescue before park police cited them for possessing gin.
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Chicago
United Press
Louise Loach
Banking conditions called for banks as of Sept 24
The Comptroller of Currency issued a national banks condition call for Sept 24. Indiana state banking department issued a state banks condition notice for Sept 24.
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United Press
Washington
Comptroller of Currency
Indiana State Banking Department
Fragmentary time notes from Ca M. report
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered times and initials Ca M 60 10 8 m S hy Oe Mees Oe TS mm. 8 a m 54 12 noon am Wee ER OL aT.
Cops Bonus to Capone Gang Draws Chicago Attention
Chicago Herald and Examiner reports Capone syndicate plans to pay about $100000 in graft to police officials legislators and public figures next Wednesday. Fear and threats follow as officers resist bribes with patrolman Jac Kratzmeyer named as a target in a broader crackdown through the near north side.
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United Press Chicago
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Scarface al Capone
Near North Side
Battle Ground of
Capone
George
Bugs” Moran
Underworld
Chicago Avenue
Examiner
Jac Kratzmeyer
Kratzmeyer
Fire Caused by Cigaret Kills Man in North West Street Rooming House
A cigarette dropped in bed started a deadly fire at 56 North West street early today. Lazo Manoff, 48, a Corner restaurant cook, died of suffocation. Fire chief and coroner rule accidental death with liquor influence. a nephew survives.
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North West Street
Lazo Manoff
West
Pearl Streets
Manoff
Lula Lair
Corwin Lair
Young
O. H. Bakemeier
Bakemeier
Pete Chrispees
Milburn Street
Veteran City Teacher Dead in Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary Bell Noel aged 70 of 2432 North New Jersey street died at Methodist hospital Sunday night from heart disease after a brief illness. She taught in Indianapolis public schools for forty years, last at School 61 1223 Shelby street, and retired more than a year ago. Survived by four brothers and four sisters. Funeral arrangements not completed.
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Mary Bell Noel
New Jersey Street
Indianapolis
Methodist Hospital
Noel
Shelby Street
Work on Playlot A Recreation Center Planned
Hawthorne Community Center to establish a recreation area between Mount street and Belle View place and between Ohio and New York streets. Rev Clarence G Baker announces park board granted access to a ground strip for the center. Parents cleaned the site and a tennis court and playground will be built this week.
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Mount Street
Belle View Place
Ohio
New York Streets
Clarence G. Baker
Hawthorne Community Center
Rate cuts seen as Indiana board weighs utility valuations
Public service commissioners signaled possible rate reductions for Miami-Wabash County Telephone Co by favoring valuations based on fair value over reproduction cost. Commissioner Singleton noted the order may trigger court disputes as utilities push to protect securities while new theory of value enters debate. The company operates properties at Roan Twelve-Mile Mexico Denver and Lafontaine owned by former Governor James P. Goodrich.
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Indiana
Public Service
Miami- Wabash County Telephone Company, Inc
Miami-Wabash Telephone Company
Commission
Frank Singleton
New Telephone Company
Roan
Twelve-Mile
Mexico
Denver
Lafontaine
James P. Goodrich
Frost Misses City as Northern State Sees Light Frost
Scattered frost on Saturday and Sunday nights affected the northern half of the state with no damage. Indianapolis saw no frost, while Terre Haute and Cambridge City reported frost this morning. Forecast calls for light frost on low ground tonight in Indianapolis area with frost probable northward, followed by generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday.
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Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Cambridge City
Forty Thousand Reds Parade in Berlin Demonstration
Berlin September 29. About 40 000 Communists staged an anti Fascist parade. They marched to the old imperial palace where leaders spoke. Police arrested fifty in minor clashes during the event.
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United Press
Berlin
Old Imperial Palace
Babe Ruth Returns to Hurl for Yankees in Boston
In Boston on a September Sunday Babe Ruth, the retired pitchers turned slugger, pitched against his former team the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The Yankees won 9 to 3 as Ruth limited walks to Rabbit Warstler and allowed a triple by the rookie. Old fans cheered as Ruth reminded all of his durable curve and power.
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Oston
Boston Red Sox
Babe Ruth
Boston
Big Bam
New York Y
Ber
Ruth
Warstler
Red Sox
Indianapolis
Babe
Fenway Park
Mystery cloud over death of high Marine leader
Washington police pursue a theory that Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bennet Creecy killed his wife with a hatchet at the Mayflower hotel and then shot himself. Mrs Creecy, 46, remained in critical condition. Creecy, 49, died from a self-inflicted gunshot. The couple had been on leave and planned to sail to Haiti from New York.
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United Press
Washington
Richard Bennet Creecy
Marine Corps
Creecy
Donald B. Creecy
Baltimore
Mayflower Hotel
Ben H. Fuller
Louise Reiss
Marine Guard
Haiti
Maren Corps
New York
Joseph D. Rogers
Marine Barracks
Wright Brothers
Ft. Myer
Selfridge
Orville Wright
Man Dies After Grasping High Tension Wire While Mushrooming
In Chicago on September 20 Joseph Rinero a 32 year old printer and electricity student died when he touched a live high tension line while mushrooming with his wife and three children. He climbed a steel pole to prove the wire could be touched safely one by one but a ground current completed the circuit and his death followed.
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United Press
Chicago
Joseph Rinero
Rinero
Loud Singing Masks Jail Break Attempt
Police Captain hears a jailbreak attempt in the jail yard as fugitives Joseph Zitto and Haden Hale hammer at the wall while singing. Walter Brown, the night captain, confiscates the hammers but praises the song as they plan escape.
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United Press Council
Writeup of 19 Million Appears in Carolina Power Book Value
Expert accountant Carl M. DePue testified before the Federal Trade Commission that a write-up of 19 million dollars was added to the book value of Carolina Power and Light Company after its 1926 merger with Pigeon River Power. He said the firm increased its facilities by over 20 million dollars in the two years after the merger, with total book value near 85 million dollars in December 1928.
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Washington
Carolina Power and Light Company
Raleigh
N. C
Pigeon River Power Company
Carl M. DePue
Federal Trade Commission
DePue
Death blast from doorbell spark in Chicago apartment
A spark from an electric doorbell set off a gas explosion in a north side Chicago apartment killing 45 year old Mrs. Nancy Perry. Neighbour Mrs. Gertrude Penzin, 35, was seriously injured after going to warn Perry and ringing the bell. Walls were torn out by the blast.
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United Press
Chicago
Nancy Perry
North Side
Gertrude Penzin
Perry
New York Stock Exchange Seat Sells for 265000
Unite reas Buen reports arrangements for sale of a New York stock exchange seat at 265000 dollars, down one thousand dollars from the prior sale. The event took place in Oakland on September 29.
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New York Stock Exchange
Unite Reas Buen “Oak
Anti-Saloon League Sues Lawrence Couple to Padlock Home
Indiana Anti-Saloon League lawyers filed a superior court suit to padlock the residence of William C. and Edna Witten in Lawrence. The complaint charges the couple with manufacturing and selling liquor.
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William C
Edna Witten
Lawrence
Superior Court
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
English Novelist William Pett Ridge Dies in England
English novelist William Pett Ridge died in Chislehurst England today at the age of.
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William Pett Ridge
Chislehurst
Preas Chislehurst
England
Five Democratic Rallies Planned Across Five City Venues
Five Democratic rallies will be held tonight at 2446 Cornell Avenue 1002 North Missouri Street 427 West Twenty Fifth Street 715 Edgemont Street and 750 Reach Street. La Crosse Indiana reports a hotel fire destroyed two hostelries leaving the town without lodging. Fire started at Frank Medved’s hotel and spread to Mrs Bertha Mahler’s hotel. Samuel Campbell 65 died after being struck by an automobile at a street crossing in Greenfield Indiana.
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Cornell Avenue
North
Missouri Street
West Twenty-fifth Street
Edgemont Street
Reache Street
United Press Lacrosse
Ind
Lacrosse
Frank Medved
Bertha Mahler
Greenfield
Samuel Campbell
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Warren T. Godfrey
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