Escaped Convict Reunited With Sheriff Near Frankfort
Clem Holderbaum, long sought for eight years after escaping Indiana State Prison, is captured near Frankfort with Sheriff Dan Power recognizing him from a prison photo despite years under an assumed name. Holderbaum, known as a farm laborer around Thorntown, owned a small plot near Thorntown and had blended into local life until the eyewitness reunion led to his return to Michigan City. Continued on Page Four.
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Ind
Indiana
Clem Holderbaum
Dan Power
Michigan City
Holderbaum
Thorntown
Dana Power
Clem Holdennaum
Power
Clem
Elmer’ Thompson
Glem
Sheriff Power
Prison Authority
Steve Hamm ers His Typewriter in Jail Folly
Noblesville Indiana July 24 Attaches report Steve Stephenson Klinck and Gentry pass time in jail by writing at a typewriter they play cards checkers and read reporters say Stephenson writes essays on topics including how to be economical at home no action taken Wednesday defense lawyers from Indianapolis were scarce Ralph Waltz local counsel appeared only for probate matters and declined to discuss the case hoping for moves after the weekend
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Noblesville
Ind
Stephenson
Klinck
Gentry
Steve
Indianapolis
Ralph Waltz
Man Dons Dress Becomes Impersonation Bust in Indianapolis
Harry B. Wood, a Grand Rapids traveling salesman, wore a woman's dress and walked downtown Indianapolis. A policeman halted him within half a block, leading to an arrest for impersonating a woman. He said the dress was bought for a masquerade ball in Grand Rapids and he wanted to test it before returning home.
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Indianapolis
Harry B. Wood
Grand Rapids
Mich
Boone dairymen have best cows for last month
In June 296 cows were tested in East Boone and West Hamilton County Cow Testing Association. Boone county cows led in all three grading departments with 684 pounds milk and 28.1 pounds fat per cow, product at 15.39 dollars. Net income averaged 10.26 per cow after feed costs. Five cows exceeded 60 pounds fat, nine over 50, thirty eight over 40, and 119 over 30. Heat and flies reduced milk and fat. farmers urged to spray cattle and feed liberal grain, with dry cows ready two months before freshening. </s>
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East
Boone
West Hamilton County
Thomas Barclay
Boone County
Salvation Army Campaign Remains Short of Quota
The Salvation Army drive for a $600 quota is not yet near completion at noon. Tomorrow, the Girl Scouts and Mrs. Robert Crowder will sell doughnut tags with the slogan Buy a doughnut and put the Salvation Army over the top. The Dairy Cream Separator factory leads donors with every employee contributing. The Ministerial Association oversees the drive.
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Salvation Army
Girl Scouts
Robert Crowder
Ministerial Association
Twice Condemned Man Says He Is Not Unbalanced
Russell Scott, jailed in Chicago, declares he is not crazy and denies any insanity defense. He explains how a recent reprieve was secured and recalls his hope fading before facing execution, asserting his innocence amid prison delays.
Aged Carmel Man Dies Church Head In Indiana
Carmel Ind July 24 Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Jonathan Johnson 87 a prominent worker and member of the Friends church He was an active leader in Indiana's early prohibition crusade Johnson died yesterday from infirmities due to advanced age
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Carmel
Ind
Jonathan Johnson
The
Friends’ Church
Indiana
Johnson
More Men Under Golors Than In Pre War Period
London reports that eleven years after the start of World War and seven years after its end, standing armies tally 6,055,144 across 59 nations. Britain plans a 77,565,000 air budget to challenge France in the skies as European and Asian powers resume armament to avert a future war.
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Golors
Burnetts Sign Papers to Return for Murder Case
Indianapolis July 24 Governor Jackson signed extradition papers to return Lawrence Burnett 24 and his brother Joseph 30 to Illinois. They are sought in the murder of Norman Hamilton 22 near Beecher Illinois found shot near a car. The brothers claimed they saw Hamilton thrown from an auto and were later pursued by bullets.
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Indianapolis
Jackson
Illinois
Lawrence Burnett
Joseph
Norman Hamilton
Beecher
Hamilton
Burnett
Boy Scouts Prepare for Camping Period
Troop One BSA held its weekly meeting in Lockinvar Hall at 7 30 last night. Scouts packed tents and prepared for camp Monday. Roy Shaw led roll call and dues and explained Chanktunungi ranks. Scouts are urged to bring blanket rolls to Lochinvar Hall and be there by 12 30 p m Monday for first camp.
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Lockinvar Hall
Cribe Roy Shaw
Chank-tun-un-gi
Harvey
Lochinvar Hall
Rum Laden Car Seized by Police in Vincennes Ind
A rum runner's car carrying 145 gallons of liquor was seized early today in Vincennes Indiana. The driver identified himself as Ed Kelsey 20 of Indianapolis. A companion escaped. The car had an Illinois plate and a certificate belonging to George Berrick 111 Webster Street Indianapolis. The auto and liquor were turned over to federal authorities.
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Vincennes
Ind
Ed Kelsey
Indianpolis
Kelsey
Illinois
George Berrick
Webster Street
Indianapolis
Scott Given Insanity Reprieve and Cheats Gallows
Chicago July 24 Russell Scott former millionaire dodges the gallows for a second time in eight days granting an indefinite stay of execution on insanity grounds. Attorney Stewart filed a petition for a stay pending examination into Scott's sanity after Governor Len Small denied another reprieve. Judge David convened a late court to hear the petition amid a tense Loop crowd.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
Scott
Joseph B. David
Superior Court
William Scott Stewart
William D. Shepherd
Billy McClintock
Scotts Sanity
Stewart
Thomas Scott
Russell
David
Monticello trip sets golf return with country club
The Alen Country Club golfers will travel to Monticello Sunday for a return match with the Monticello club. A large delegation of members and families will join in the outing with swimming and fishing facilities available. The initial match last July was halted by rain with Lebanon leading 14 to 3. A pair of Lebanon and Anderson matches are scheduled for September 13 and September 20 respectively.
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Alen Country Club
Monticello
Lebanon
Louis J. Akerman
Anderson
Women Crazier Than Men Says Science Brief
A Science Today brief reports Dr. W J Hickson, director of the psychopathic laboratory, finds women are 20 percent crazier than men based on patients treated. He notes male patients mainly laborers, clerks, machinists while women are often house maids, waitresses, factory workers.
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Chicago
W. J. Hickson
Psychopathic Laboratory
Tyre Oats Yield 500 Bushels to the Acre
Chief of Police John Budd spends vacation with Budd threshing outfit in Boone county harvest fields. Budd brothers threshed 1,510 bushels of oats on 30 acres at the Homer Tyre farm near the city limits. The record is praised as one of the season’s best threshing yields.
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John Budd
Budd
Boone County
Budd Brothers
Homer Tyre Farm
Reprieve for Russell Scott Shocks Danville Mother
A gray haired Danville woman Mrs Rilla Scott prays in relief after a long awaited reprieve for her son Russell Scott. Springfield Ill also notes Mrs Scott's faith and bravery as she faced uncertainty awaiting Governor Small's decision and tried to contact the executive mansion before news reached her.
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Danville
Ohio
Russell Scott
Rilla Scott
Springfield
Ill
Mrs. Scott
Small
Ingersoll Letter From 1879 Found In Zionsville
Mrs Bert Mills of Zionsville found a letter by Robert G Ingersoll dated 1879 to B F Clark of Zionsville. Ingersoll regrets he cannot speak there that year. Clark ran a store and owned the Clark Opera house. Clark was an aunt of Mrs Mills.
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Vorentey
Bert Mills
Zionsville
Robert G. Ingersoll
B. F. Clark
Ingersoll
Clark Opera House
Clark
Bertills
Red Eye Costs Rise as Palmer Faces Fines
Duval Palmer of Sheridan mourns past cheaper sprees while facing two drunkenness and DUI charges. The total loss cited is 71.40 dollars as he navigates penalties and a memory of better days.
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Duval Palmer
Sheridan
Palmer
West Family Reunion Next Sunday
The West family will hold a reunion at the home of S. J. West, located one mile south and two and a half miles north of Whitestown, on Sunday.
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West
S. J. West
Whitestown
Rushville water supply infested with pin worms
Rushville Indiana on July 24 reports drastic steps to rid the city water mains of a pin worm infestation. State health officials said examinations found no disease germs and that the worms are harmless.
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Rushville
Ind
State Board of Health
Venice Finchum Sentenced to Reformatory Terms
Venice Finchum, 19, longtime Lebanon grocery manager, was ordered by Morgan circuit court Judge Williams to serve two to fourteen years in the state reformatory, already set when he pled guilty to attempting to rob a bank in Monrovia. He also must pay a $100 fine. Finchum had been arrested here on Morgan court orders after local officers learned of trouble with several young girls. He was briefly held in Martinsville, released on bond, then re-arrested and sent back after Williams returned and revoked the Martinsville sentence.
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Lebanon
Sooe County
Venice
Finchum
Willams
Morgan Circuit Court
State Reformatory
Monrovia
Morgan Court
Martinsville
Williams
Venice Finchum
Indian Bloody Girl's Nemesis Eloise Adams
Eloise Adams an 11 year old Cree granddaughter in Indiana was placed in a girls' hospital in Indianapolis after juvenile court judge Hastings ordered her to stay in school following ten runaway episodes. Her father Louis Adams is the Cree chief's son from Yuma Arizona.
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Washington
Ind
Eloise Adams
Indiana
Haheal
Indianapolis
Peg the Humper Gets Eighty-Five Days to Mend Leg
Ivan Bissel known as Pep the Humper stumped into the county jail after a crash that left him with a broken leg. He pleaded guilty to drunk driving but denied bootleg liquor use. Unable to pay his fine he received 85 days in jail and asked to display his detective badge for clemency.
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South Bend
Ind
Ivan Bissel
Pep the Humper
Bissel
Ku Klux Klan
Pigs Feet Abnormal Freak Shoot At Terhune Farm
Travis Stowers near Terhune reports a pig with an unusual deformity: one foot has five toes while another has two. The animal was furrowed in April and otherwise normal. the remaining feet are properly formed.
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Travis Stowers
Terhune
CORRUPT PRO MEN REASON FOR CHANGE CHARGE
Ocean City Maryland July 24 res organization of the federal prohibition forces was conceived to save this country from a national scandal scope of which has been divulged by a secret administration investigation representative John Phinp Hill Republican and steader of the votes in Congress charged here today Hill made the accusation in an interview with United Press upon the recent announcement of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes that all city agents would be dismissed from the service sometime after August 1 in an effort to weed out those unacceptable to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews new dry czar He linked this action with Mabel Walker Wilde s randl assistant attorney general who admitted last week that she had evidence from forty district attorneys throughout the country showing general corruption in the present prohibition enforcement service In proceeding to clean house in this fashion dill ee al roundabout course is being ue su unas ine airty Linen will not have to be washed in public It is being done this way to avoid a national scandal Corruption among prohibition agents has lately increased to such a degree that apparently is necessary to dismiss the whole prohibition personnel and start over again Enforcement of the Volstead act under Haynes administration Hill further charged has been an abject failure A new and honest attempt is about to be made to enforce prohibition and cheap propaganda methods Haynes and the Hill said the Volstead act was the greatest breeder of cotton in the entire history of federal government While it remains on the statute books Hill said it would cause a definite handicap on the whole judicial system The whole system of has broken down under pi rContinued On Page Four
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Res
Gederal Prohibition Forces
Secret Administration
John Phinp Hill
Maryland
Rrepublican
Steader
Congress
Hill
United Press
Prohibition
Haynes
the Hill
Melbourne Theatre Veranda Collapse Hurts Hundreds
In Melbourne on July 24 a grand parade for 2,000 American sailors was halted when a theatre veranda collapsed. Hundreds of spectators, mainly girls and women, were hurled into the street. at least one hundred injured and several reported fatally. Sailors aided the victims as the procession paused and rescue began.
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Melbourne
Youth Drowns as Companion Makes Rescue Attempts
Crawfordsville Indiana July 24 Frantic attempts by Lodell Fritz to save Lawrence Pett 18 failed as Pett drowned in Sugar Creek near here yesterday Pett was not an expert swimmer and stepped into about feet of water The father A Pett recovered the body
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Lodell Fritz
Lawrence Pett
Sugar Creek
Here
Pett
A. Pett
Auto Driver Freed of Killer Charges Evansville Tragedy
Evansville Indiana July 4 Birkhead 50 today was cleared of blame for the death of Louis Hevey 73. Hevey died in a hospital from injuries after being struck by Birkhead s auto. Witnesses said the aged man started across the street became confused and stepped back in front of the machine.
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Evansville
Ind
Birkhead
Louis Hevey
Arvey
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