Man Shot Near Home Involving Local Families
Marshall Callahan 23 suffered a chest wound in an on road shooting near his Callahan farm between Early and Maumee Sunday afternoon. Ford Wray faces possible charges in Brownstown Jackson Circuit Court as investigation notes a family feud motive. Callahan remains in serious condition at Sehneck Memorial Hospital.
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Marshall Callahan
Callahay
Maumee
Jackson
Brownstown
Ford Wray
Callahan
Ora Callahan
Sehneck Memorial Hospital
Marshall
Carrie Cheek
Wray
Guinnup Named Superintendent at Seymour Plant
Guinnup of Arkansas has been appointed superintendent of the Seymour plant of the Vincennes Packing Corporation and assumed duties late last week. He succeeds Max Tinch, who remains with the Vincennes company. Guinnup formerly worked for Welch Grace Juice Company and plans to move his family here soon.
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BE. Guinnup
Arkansas
Seymour
Vincennes Packing Corporation
Mr. Guinnup
Max Tinch
Vincennes Company
Guinnup
Welch Grace Juice Company
Children Wander, Return Home After Short Stray
Two young siblings a four year old boy and a three year old girl wandered from their home at 517 East Second Street dragging a small chair. Seymour police found them near Second and Broadway and returned them Sunday morning. Their mother had been searching for them.
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Seymour
East Second Street
Second and
Broadway
License Deadline Looms as Certificates Sell Fast
With the license deadline set for Wednesday, a large number of driving certificates were sold at the local license bureau managed by Mrs. Margaret Burton. Officials warned that those without licenses after Wednesday will face arrest.
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Margaret Burton
Four-area schools enter 47 in sectional meet at Emerson Field
Forty seven men from Seymour Bloomington Bedford and Mitchell will compete in the Indiana high school sectional track meet at Emerson Field Saturday. Shields High School sent its entrants under coach Noble Lyons with Walter L Surface of Paoli as meet starter. Six qualifiers will advance from trials in each event with pole vault heights starting at ten feet and high jump trials at five feet.
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Indiana High School Athletic Association
Emerson Field
Shields High School
Arthur L. Trester
Indianapolis
Seymour
Bloomington
Bedford High School
Mitchell
Indiana
Shields
Noble Lyons
Ackerman
Bell
Fleetwood
Rkensmeyer
Gill
Hunter
Larabee
Lynch
Manning
Moritz
Roscoe
Stewart
Tower
Vance
Vince
Walter L
Bud
Paoli
Trester
B and C Employes Rally At North Vernon
The St. Louis division rally of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad under the Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary will be at North Vernon High School at 8 15 p m Wednesday May 10 W C Baker division superintendent will chair The program features vocal and piano solos talks on freight and passenger business cooperation in business and labor organizations and a talk on railroad taxes to the community
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St. Louis
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Veterans and Ladies’ Auxiliary
North Vernon High School
C. W. Frey
BL & O. Veterans
W. C. Baker
di Vision
North Vernon
C. J. Roessel
F. J. Parmalee
Lucile Bender
CC. W. Long
J. B. Hudson
Clara Kelly
James Gabriel
Seymour
Walter Hill
Frank J. Goebel
Public Bingo Party This Thursday May 11 at K of C Home
A public bingo party is scheduled for Thursday May 11 at 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Home. Organizers invite local residents to join for an evening of games and prizes.
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C. Home
Mila
Exhibits by city schools to be held this week
A citywide series of student exhibits runs this week with visitors night at Shields High School Thursday. Regular classes occur 7 30 to 8 30 with a style show, PE program, and displays from English Biology Science Foreign Language and other departments. School groups from Lincoln Washington Emerson Riley and others host.
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City
Shields
Shields High School
Pearl Shaffer
Geneva Risk
Aare
Biology
Science
Foreign Language
General Science Department
United States
Lincoln School
Washington School
Emerson
Riley
Francis Murray
BE. A. Asbell
Grace Anderson
H. R. Noe
Rose Hamilton
Elizabeth Feaster
Glenn Keach
Sunshine Society
Miss Feaster
Lindberghs Ride Out Texas Sandstorm On Flight Home
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh endured a severe Texas sandstorm forcing an overnight land in an isolated panhandle area. They continued toward Washington from Port Columbus after a brief Kansas City stop, expressing reassurance to worried friends. The trial of Means and Whitaker in Washington ties to a $35,000 kidnap plot involving Evalyn Walsh McLean.
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Columbus
Texas Panhandle
Charles A. Lindbergh
Washington
Kansas City
Port Columbus
Lindbergh
Texas
Lindberghs
Albuquerque
N. M
Amarillo
Incendiary Fire Ravages Elsworth Maine
A fire in Elsworth Maine on May 8 destroyed about 175 business and residential buildings with losses estimated at 1.5 million dollars. Hundreds were left homeless as Red Cross chapters moved in to aid evacuees while Bar Harbor gun men and 100 special policemen were deployed to guard the wrecked area. The blaze began in a frame storehouse near Main Street and spread rapidly across the street. Police suspect arson with two men seen fleeing the scene. The incident continues as investigators probe the motive and origins.
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Associated Press
Elsworth
Maine
Red Cross
Mangor
Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Arti Shon
John A. Stuart
Main Street
Hancock Hall
Dayton council drops plan to cut city salaries
Dayton Ky May 8 The city council abandoned a plan to reduce salaries of fifteen appointive city employees after a delegation of citizens argued they were already underpaid. The citizens said the workers were not being paid enough as it is.
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Dayton
Girl forced to kill slayer of her father in Illinois
Loretta Schmitz, seventeen, is accused of acting as executioner when Oliver Day, a 48-year-old farmhand, shot her father John Schmitz after a struggle in their Plato Center home. Day was mortally wounded during the confrontation with Mrs Schmitz and Loretta. The state's attorney seeks a coroner's jury verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Associated Press
Elgin
Loretta Schmitz
Oliver Day
John Schmitz
Day
Schmitz
Plato Center Township
EuDaly's Confectionery Opens in New Location
EuDaly's Confectionery moves to 106 North Chestnut Street in the Heins building. Mr and Mrs Marcus EuDaly own the shop which features green decor low back booths a modern lighting system an alcove fountain and a balcony office with a back kitchen and storage revealing a newly remodeled space.
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EuDaly
North Chestnut Street
West Second Street
Heins
Marcus EuDaly
Fubaly
Gandhi Begins Fast to Protest Untouchability
Poona May 8 Mahatma Gandhi began at noon a three weeks unconditional fast in protest against untouchability and the caste system. Doctors warned it may mean his death though he is 63 and has slight weight gain. Yerwada prison held him since January 4 with crowds outside and Sarojini Naidu arriving with water for Gandhi.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Yerada
Gandhi
Yeroda
Sarojini Naidu
Congress
France Opposes Lump Sum War Debt Payment Plan
Paris reports the French cabinet rejected a US demand for a default interest payment without a moratorium. A threepart plan would pay one third in gold, one third in negotiable bonds, and one third in bonds for international settlements, with some silver possible.
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Paris
France
United States
Washington
Edouard Herriet
Excelsior
Merton Mitchell Drowns in St Joseph River Near St Joseph
Mrs Alfred L Blevins reports the drowning of her brother Merton Mitchell age twenty one in the St Joseph River near St Joseph Michigan over the weekend. Telegrams say the body had not been recovered and no details are known. He is survived by a widow and a two year old son. Blevins plans to travel to St Joseph soon.
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Alfred L Blevins
West Fifth Street
Two Austin Men Injured In Elevator Accident
Two Austin men, Virgil Worley and Claude Hardesty, were seriously hurt when an elevator at the Morgan Packing Company plant in Austin broke and fell Saturday afternoon. They were brought to the city around 6 o'clock for treatment. Worley sustained fractures to both heels, and Hardesty suffered a broken left heel.
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Austin
Morgan Packing Company
Virgil Worley
Claude Hardesty
Mother's Day Tribute at Shields High School Convocation
A solemn Mother's Day program for Shields High School boys is set for 2:30 P M Tuesday in the high school assembly room. DeWitte Ogan will preside, Louis Innis will recount Mother's Day history, and the faculty quartet will sing. Robert Mitchell will read a poem, Joe Black will speak on great mothers, Ben Yount will sing two solos, and C R Jackson will deliver the address introduced by J R Mitchell.
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Shields High School
DeWitte Ogan
Louis Innis
Robert Mitchell
Joe Black
Ben Yount
C. R. Jackson
J. R. Mitchell
Roosevelt outlines partnership with industry for recovery
President Roosevelt signals a government partnership with industry to raise wages shorten hours and curb surplus, using relaxed anti trust laws and inflation powers to stimulate credit and bond purchases. An unofficial Wagner committee is near completion on a self regulation plan to put millions back to work.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Wagner
J. H. Rand, Jr
Wagner Committee
Brothers Plead Not Guilty to Kidnap Charges
Provincetown Mass May 8 Kenneth and Cyril Buck brothers pleaded not guilty today to the kidnaping of ten year old Margaret McMath. Each was held on $100000 bail and their cases were continued to May 22. Father Neil C McMath expressed sympathy for Cyril while hoping for a severe sentence for Kenneth. District Attorney William Crossley said a grand jury session may be sought and arraignments set for 11 a m before Judge Robert A Welch.
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Provincetown
Mass
Kenneth
Cyril Buck
Margaret McMath
Cyril
Provincetown District Court
Massachusetts
Neil C. McMath
Margaret
Kenneth Buek
McMath
William ©. Crossley
Pall River
Robert A. Welch
Crossley
Barnstable
Littl
Weather Outlook for Week Across Ohio Valley and Tennessee
Occasional showers persist through Thursday night with a general cool down into Friday. Warmer conditions expected in the Ohio Valley Monday and in the upper Ohio Valley Tuesday.
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Ohio Valley
Tennesseer
Upper
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Blaze
Ellsworth
Tribune
Pay
Man
Nook
North Chestnut
Merton Mitchell
Alfred L. Blevins
Michigan
Morgan Plant
Nation
The
Seymour Water Co
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