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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
1
The government plans a 270000 square foot facility at Washington barracks to store ten million WWI draft questionnaires. Access will be restricted, with only authorized officials able to examine the documents if needed.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon proposed a bill to grant the president authority to appoint to the regular army certain generals who held rank during World War I. Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey argued the rank has been conferred only four times in U.S. history for outstanding service and cited Washington Grant Sherman and Sheridan, noting such honors are rarely bestowed and usually given after reflection rather than wartime clamor.
Leander Herron of Saint Paul Nebraska has earned a congressional gold medal for bravery in 1868. While transporting dispatches from Fort Dodge to Fort Larned Herron and Trooper Paddy Boyle aided a wagon train under attack by Indians. They broke through a surprise assault and helped repulse the attackers as dawn revealed a band dressed in white.
National Geographic from Washington reports on the Princes' Islands in the Marmora Sea and their use as retreats for fallen royals. The bulletin details Proti and Prinkipo where emperors and empresses such as Romanus IV and Irene I endured imprisonment, exile, or captivity amid Byzantine power struggles.
Indiana's seventy first general assembly closes after weeks of迅 intense work as lawmakers rush committees and seek to finish administration measures. Some bills fail to gain attention while others, including anti anarchism and highway funding reforms, move toward the governor and potential adjournment or an extra session.
Federal road building aid totals 574 million over three years with a 269 million post office appropriation. Indiana’s share under the act plus the extra provides 1.621 million for the year, 2.565 million in 1920, and 2.700 million in 1921, totaling 6.886 million. The state must appropriate an equal amount from its treasury to participate.
Jay county circuit court judge Curtiss Scholfield died at his Brazil home after several days of illness from plural pneumonia and complications. The forty year old scholastic graduate of the Indiana Law school was a respected jurist in the community.
Oliver Saylor of Huntington left for Washington after receipt of a summons from the senate propaganda committee to appear before the panel. The committee has continued its investigation since the Sixty-fifth Congress adjourned. Saylor had traveled to Russia for literary work, arrived before the second Russian revolution, returned in July, and has written on the Russian situation since. He testified before the senate committee Friday.
Governor Goodrich signed house bill 200 enabling a petition driven special election to decide moving the Vermilion county seat from Newport to Clinton under certain conditions. The long political fight over the move has featured elections and partisan activity.
George W. Spencer chief deputy collector estimates Indiana Seventh District revenue will reach about 22 million in 1918, up from 18 million in 1917. Industrial income tax returns rise from 25 000 to 50 000, totaling about 75 000 reports for the Terre Haute office including Evansville and Terre Haute.
The Calumet Manufacturers association navigation committee champions a twenty year dredge and straighten project for the Calumet river from Hammond to South Chicago. It seeks deeds for a navigable belt forming a circuit with outlets at Indiana Harbor and South Chicago. The group also backs a North Harvey road linking Hammond with Hegewisch Riverdale Dalton and Blue Island affecting over 400 industries on both sides of the state line.
The senate passed a bill raising the industrial board members salaries to 4000 a year by a 42 to 1 vote under suspension of the rules. An amendment delayed coal miners coverage to April 1 1920 but was rejected on a Negley motion. The bill now requires all coal operators to adopt the state compensation system.
The piece portrays prosperity among tobacco farmers in southern Indiana, Ohio and northern Kentucky. Growers buy two automobiles, modern furnaces and electric lighting, signaling a boom likened to Western mining bonanzas and the era of newly profitable crops.
During debate in the Indiana House Representative Gordon's measure to amend the divorce law was called out as inviting fraud and shame. The bill sought to allow divorce for ten years of incurable chronic mania. Several speakers argued unavoidable misfortune to a spouse should not justify divorce, and the enacting clause was struck out.
A roundup of Indiana reports: a Poland China boar sold for 1275 dollars and six sows at 254.50 each. New Albany records multiple influenza deaths in one family. Adams County wheat stands undamaged with 27500 acres. Union Traction in Anderson reports a 98542.94 deficit for 1918.
Eighteen year old Stephen Leyser known as Yellow Spot pleads guilty to stealing an overcoat from a tailor shop in Long Island City. Judge Humphrey sentences him to the state reformatory after years of burglary and prompting notes blaming police. Leyser, who left cards and taunting remarks at crimes, vows to reform and watch his record.
In St Louis Judge Hogan refused to fine Mary Bertha Schmidt alias Mr Schmidt for two years posing as a man and marrying cousin Anna Assade. Schmidt wore trousers and a coat claiming earnings as a man. The court commented I think you look very nice and Schmidt left smiling.
San Bernardino report details "John Bauer" a twenty four year old who lived eight years as a man and fled to Death Valley to avoid military registration after the draft law exposed her secret. She had worked around San Bernardino for seven years with no one suspecting her gender before her capture.
Davenport case reports Ward Turner accused of evading draft by marriage. Turner says Dennis Flynn painted his barn bright yellow. A quarrel followed, Flynn was fatally wounded and died from injuries.
In Lebanon Pennsylvania Charles Blatt was caught in a gasoline engine flywheel and whirled four times. He was buried under the machine but escaped injury aside from clothing loss, only underwear and shoes remaining.
Two Italian men, Mike Smith and Dominick Giganti, fought with iron bars and a hydrant key in a small rail tower at Erie and Kingsbury. The clash, witnessed by a crowd growing to thousands, left both men maimed with shredded clothing. Police and medical staff found gruesome injuries and four children affected by the tragedy.
Miss Anna Innes 67 prepared for her death by gas in Easton Pennsylvania. She arranged her burial clothing, stuffed paper in windows and doors, wrote letters to nieces, and fixed a gas tube to her mouth with a linen holder she made.
Grassgreen, described as the most unpolite man, was riding when a police officer’s streetcar passed. He alighted and picked up a dropped revolver from his holster, triggering a discharge that wounded Grassgreen in the right hand.
Chicago house of A F L Smith found stripped of furniture tapestries linens silver and rugs while family away at theater. burglars armed with a moving van operated during the missing hours.
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