davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-23

clad. The ear was q 1923 or 1921
model and had a large bundle OF
bedding strapped to the road deck.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-23

orc was about 80 years old and was
drvssed in blue ovcralls and brown
Jumper. The other was similarly
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-23

Merlin Harding, Salem, Oregon,
sold 60 tons of golden Hubbard
squash TO Il local canncry for ~ 4
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-23
Keys Seek Owner

Keys Seek Owner A bunch of
keys found by Bruce Kelly in front
of the post office are now at the
police station awaiting Identification
by their owner. The keys were
found on Saturday and are on a
wire, without any name tag or other
means of Identification.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
CONPLEXTIES OF PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT

Prot zhara Chahee Jr in comprehensive article Complexities of Crime
applicable
Practices
be
popularity recognized the
argument against criminal statute then national income
enactment OF
law
of
be
o
by
the law Tt the schools and pare
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
TIPSY AUTOIST BEGINS SERVING
60 DAYS IN JAIL

Joseph Kyle, wealthy real estate dealer,
yesterday began serving a sixty-day SEN
tence in the House of Correction for
driving while intoxicated. The jail term
was imposed by Municipal Judge Samuel
H. Trude after Kyle was arrested on
Memorial day after his automobile had
crashed into a milk wagon, injuring It's
driver, Michael Heber, 1860 Normandy
avenue. Kyle was riding with woman
companion and was said to have been re-
turning from a tour of roadhouses.-
cago Tribune August 81, 1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
CATCH ILLINI STUDENTS ALLEGED
BOOTT, E[SGER

Edward I. Gossard charged several years
ago by prohibition agents with being one
of the principal sources of booze supply,
to the students of the University of ILL
nos, and missed by agents when they
raided number of places just before the.
June exams two years ago, has been
caught in Cleveland, Ohio, and is being.
returned to Danville to await the Septem-.
Der term of Federal Court.-Chicago
EUening American, July 10, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
FACES JONES LAW TRIAL

Mrs. Anna F'etzzer, ii years DID, faces
the rigor of the Jones five and ten law as
the result of her arrest to-day in her
home at 166 North Thirty-fourth avenue,
MelroSe Park. Mrs. Fetzezr widow and
mother of four children, was, it is alleged,
operating a twenty-five gallon still in
her home when it was raided by John
Leeseberg, chief of police of the village.
In addition to the still, 400 bottles of beer
were found, the chief said. This was Mrs.
Fetzer's third otfense, Chief Leeseberg
added, and as result, Mrs. F'etzer will be
turned over to Federal authorities-Chi-
cago Journal, August 2, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
ILLINOIS NEWS ITEMS ACTION AGAINST LAW VOLATORS
NAME DE KING KIN IN BILL

NAME DE KING KIN IN BILL
Peter De King, brother-in-law of Mrs.
Lillian De King, who was killed by dry
agent in Aurora last March, has been
named in an indictment for violations Of
the Jones law returned before Federal
Judge Alschuler.
De King was charged with the posses
sion and sale of liquor and the main
tenance of a nuisance in the name of the
Club Restaurant" at 20 N. Broadway in
Aurora. Seven others we're named with
him.-Chicago EUening American, August
28, 1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
u. S. SEXES BEER SHIP AT
NAVY PIER

The first rum running vessel ever seized
in the Chicago harbor was pounced upon
yesterday by coast guardsmen and prohi-..
bition agents. The ship, originally laden
with 200 cases of Canadian beer, was
taken shortly after it had been whaSfed
at the north side of Navy Pier. The gov
eminent men confscated the boat, truck
which was being loaded with the contra
band and 1916 cases of the beer.-Chicago
Herald and Examiner, July 49, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
COURT OPENS WAR ON TIpSY
DRIVERS

Driving his car through the wall OF q
home at 2738 w. Forty-seventh street cost
William Witkas. of 5644 S. Kildare ave-
nue., 500 fine yesterday in Judge Fran
CHS Borrelli's court Witkas was CHARGED
with driving while intoxicated. judge
Borrelli warned that heavy penalties
woulds be imposed hereafter on drunken
drivers, as he listened to two other SINH
lar charges. He fined Fred Peterson OF
40Ol N. Menard avenue 500 and sent
him to the BrideWell for 100 days Allen
Lakes of "a w. Huron street, was fined
$500 and given a ten-day sentence-Chi-
cage Herald and Examiner, August 20,
1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01

criminals, papers have helped to defeat
justice and have made trials maW<ish
performances, which some courts have
weakly permitted; and by treating crimi-
mails as heroes instead of as low-doWn
towards, as they are in most cases, by
adopting their lingo and exploiting them
as dramatic characters, they have given
aid and comfort to criminal gangs. No
states attorney, no judge of a criminal
court, if he would speak his honest mind
but would say that one of the greatest
obstacles to-day in the proper admins
tration of criminal law is the interference,
direct and indirect, of the press.
"A like attempt is evident to dictate in
matters of local and national legislation
by suppressing or classifying news and
impunging the motives of legislators and
those interested even impersonally in
progressive laws. The individual appears
as helpless before it as victims before the
car of Juggernaut. Innocent and guilty
alike are sacrificed to feed this modern
Minotaur Is there no help?
"As lawyers, you are familiar with the
phrase, a business affected with a public
interest If a newspaper is not bust
ness affected with a public interest, what
business can be; and particularly a news
paper which has become a corporation
existing by virtue of the laws of the state
of it's incorporation.
I'm Illinois, as you know, we have two
leading cases which may have in them
the promise of a solution of the news
paper question. One is that of Mum v.
the People, reported in SO Illinois, page 80,
in which the leading counsel for the
plaintiff was the first dean of this school,
Hon. John N. JeWett. This case was later
e L.
United States, and is found in volume SO,
page 113 In upholding the constitution
atty of the act of the Illinois Legislature
in prescribing rates for public warehouses,
the court had occasion to determine what
constituted a business affected with a
public interest and held:
" Property does become clothed with a
public interest when used in manner
to make it of public consequence and af-
feet the community at large. When,
therefore, one devotes his property to
use in which the public has an interest,
he, in effect, grants to the public an in
terest in that use, and must submit to be
controlled by the public for the common
good, to the extent of the interest he has
thus created. J"
1.-The other case is that of the Inter
Ocean v. Associated Press, 1874 Illinois,
page 438, in which our own Supreme Court
also had occasion to determine what con-
stituted a business affected with the pub
lie interest," and held the Associated Press
to be such a business, saying, among
other things Tt has devoted its property
to the public use, and has, in effect,
granted to the public such an interest in
this use that it must submit to be con-
trolled by the public for the common good,
to the extent of the interest it has thus
created in the public in its private prop
erty.'"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01

Frank Smith, Al years old, 24O5 South AL
bany avenue, was charged with reckless
driving, speeding and driving while intoyi-
Gated. Judge Borrelli observed that the
defendant appeared too drunk to pro-
coed with the trial. III give you time
to cool off, the Judge said, and TX the
bond SO you can stay in Jail for while"
The bond was fixed at So, ,5OO.-Chicago
Daily NetOS August %, 1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
DRY RAIDERS HOLD TWO AFTER
EXCITING CHASE

Two men who gave their names as John
Scartino and Frank Fura, seized in raid
by prohibition officers on two adjoining
buildings at SOC and $40 South Clark
street, were to be arraigned to-day be-
fore United States Commissioner Walker.
The men were captured yesterday after
an adventurous chase by the agents
through muddy tunnel, forty feet below
the surface and after clambering down
a flight on rope ladder along a sky
light.-Chicago Daily Net0S, August %,
1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
THE FREEDOM OF The PRESS
Excerpts from Timely Address Delivered the Graduating
John Marshall Law School by Edward

"Our Constitution provides that Con-
gress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of the press. Our State Consti-
tuition provides that persons may freely
speak, write or publish on all subjects,
being responsible only for the abuse of
that liberty. It is to be noted that this
privilege was granted and was intended
for natural persons who were all prac-
tically on the same footing, but by aid of
legal fictions leading to unfortunate in
depreciation and construction of the law,
our courts have held the word person to
include that creature of the law known as
a corporation, so that to-day about the
only person that avails itself or can avail
itself of this privilege on large scale is
the corporate, constituencies, soulless per-
son.
How well the press has availed itself
OF its legal rights and privileges and how
successfully it has enlarged them by its
dWarfing power and political influence,
can be seen on all sides. Legislation look
ing to the proper curtailment of these
rights and privileges meets with unani-
NOUS denunciation as an attempt to gag
the press Legislators would prefer to
handle scorpions than the newspapers of
their states Even the judiciary, especial
ly if elective, is loath to incur the VEN
omous hostility of the press. Meticulous
regard for the defendants rights charac-
terizes the record of libel suits against
newspapers which may account for the
small amount of damage awarded to
plaintiffs in recent years.
True, the press of to-day, largely be-
cause of its business instinct has gotten
away from some of its former evils Tt
would not be true to say of the press that
it is entirely evil or corrupt, although it
undoubtedly has corrupting and evil
influence in many of its publications.
It's intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, and
ignorant assertion of superior knowledge,
wisdom and patriotism, its readiness to
run with the hare and follow with the
hounds, it's quickneSs TO capitalize both
the vices and virtues of poor humanity,
its philanthropic and altruistic pretense,
its blind leadership of the blind its lack
of courageous, moral leadership regard
less of financial loss, its falsifying of
news to bolster up its policies, its catering
to tickle populace and melting the weak
and vicious into defiance of the law, it's
parrot repetition in it's editorial columns,
help to make the modern metropolitan
newspaper at best necessary evil.
1.-The big newspaper is our great busy
body There is no function of society
which is not, in its own estimation, better
able to perform than are those charged
with the performance of that function.
1t is never troubled with beam in it's
own eye. 1t is now bent, in some states,
upon taking over the administration of
the criminal law from the police and the
courts and instituting trial by newspaper.
Criminals have been dragged to news
paper Offices and have had their pictures
taken before they were booked for any
offense. BY assisting in the defense of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
DRY RAIDERS SEIZE THREE NAVY
PIER POP DEALERS

Navy pier soft drink stand owners who
sell innocent looking pop bottles contain
ing hard liquor received the attention of
dry squad from Prohibition Commits
sioner Yellowleys office to-day Three
men were arrested in two stands after the
agents had purchased liquid which they
10, 1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
DRYS SEIZE BIG SHOT" OF. EAST
CHICAGO RESORT

Gary, Ind, August 19-Grace Chandler,
alleged big shot" of the underworld in
East Chicago, was arrested to-day by the
hopping up squad of Federal dry agents
who continued the raids started last
Tuesday night, when more than hun
dred were arrested.-Chicago Journal,
August 10, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
DRY PADLOCKs FOR 90 PLACES IN
CHICAGO AREA

Federal Judge Wilkerson to-day issued
twenty-nine temporary injunctions against
places in and about Chicago restraining
them from further violation of the ma
tional prohibition law pending an appli-
cation for permanent orders.-Chicago
Journal, August 20, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
"637-PINT" MOTORIST HELD FOR
UNITED STATES JURY

William Courtoy, who was arrested in
Evanston when policemen found 637 pints
of bonded whisky in the rear of his road
ster, was held to the Federal grand jury
to-day by United States Commissioner
Walker on charges of possessing and
transporting liquor BOND was set at
7,500-Chicago Journal, August 7, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
ALKY CARGO CONSIGNEES SOUGHT
RY.DRY AGENTS

Federal agents to-day sought the con-
signees of $4,000 worth of alcohol seized
yesterday from a Nickel Plate railroad
freight car, parked on the Illinois Central
tracks at 91st street and Cottage Grove
avenue-C Chicago Daily NeaUS, July 10,
1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
VALIDITY TEST ON JONES LAW

For the first time since the enactment
of the Jones five and ten" act, its con-
stitutionality to-day was attacked in the
Federal courts when Attorney Bernard
Kelly filed with Federal Judge Wood
ward a petition for a writ of habeaS
corpus to release a client from the Kane
county jail-Chicago Journal, July 10.
1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
COPS SEE TWO CRAWL FROM BASE
MENT. DISCOVER STILLS

Ruggiero Romero, 351 West Grand ave-
nue., and Joseph Luppino, SIG North Ada
street, crawled out of basement window
at 1141 Austin avenue yesterday. Detec-
tives Martin Boyle and Daniel Madigan
OF the states attorneys Office saw them
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01

and took them before Lieut.. William v.
Blaul who sent a squad back to the base
ment to investigate. The squad found
two new 75-gallon stills ready for opera
ton, and $50 barrels of mash, which they
ontiscated-Chicago Tribune, July 20,
1929
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01

Another intoxicated automobile driver
faced Judge Francis Borrelli in the Speed
erS' court this morning. The motOrist,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
AGENTS ARREST Is IN DR.
RAIDS AT JOLIET

Fifteen men were arrested by Chicago
prohibition agents last night in six raids
on Joliet poolrooms, saloons and speak
easies.-Chicago Tribune, August 81, 1929.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-09-01
TWO DRUNKEN DRIVERS GUILTY

Continuing his announced program OF
severe sentences for drunken drivers,
Judge Francis Borrelli imposed Jail terms
and 500 fines upon two defendants-Chf-
cago Daily NeaDS, August %, 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
CONFER ON GAS
BILL PROPOSAL
Attorneys Discuss Draft to
Be Asked.

Citizens Gas Company attorneys
and special counsel for the city met
today to discuss the proposal legisla-
ton to be asked of the 1929 legis-
lature.
John w. Hoffman and Fred G.
Cause attorneys for the city, and
William H. Thompson and Henry
Hornbrook, gas lawyers, met at
Hornbrook's office.
Attorneys for the city sought
suggestions of the gas lawyers on
the proposed bill, creating special
utility unit to enable the
municipality to, operate the gas
plant.
There was to be no discussion as
to whether the city or gas company
will take steps to redeem 100000
stock which would be necessary be-
fore the city took over management.
Hoffman and Cause gave the
opinion that the first step is to
obtain the necessary legislation.
Gas trustees are scheduled to
elect nine directors at the annual
meeting Monday. Since the directors
advised trustees that they agreed
on the matter of turning the $20,-
100000 property over to the city as
originally intended under the 1905
franchise it is expected that the
present directors will be reelected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
BANK CASHIER
BEING SOUGHT
Disappears as Probe Opens
at MiIrOy.
By United Press


RUSHVILLE, Ind, Jan. 12.-
Search is being made today for
Lloyd Nelson, IS, deposed cashier of
the First National bank of Milroy,
who has been missing from his home
here since Monday, the day examin-
ers started an investigation of the
banks ledgers.
The former cashiers disappear
ance was revealed Friday when it
was learned that his wife knew
nothing of his whereabouts.
Officials of the bank, when ques-
toned regarding an alleged short
age in Nelson's accounts, said the
only statement they cared to make
was that if a shortage is discovered,
will not lose a cent. 2
Russell Ellsworth, Rush county
prosecutor, said grand jury in
of the banks affairs had
not been requested, but that if an
inquiry was deemed necessary he
would call a session.
1t is believed that Nelson disap-
peared soon after the arrival of the
bank examiners, as he was seen at
the institution prior to their ar
rival.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
LOVERS GIVEN
15-DAY STAY
TO FIGHT MOOSE.
Second Reprieve RenewS
Hopes of Doomed Pair;
Both in CoIIapSeS.

BU JhHeu FFfSS
FRANKLIN, La, Jan. IA Sec
ond supreme court stay of execution,
delaying their scheduled hanging
for at least fifteen more days,
brought new hope today to Mrs. Ada
Bonner lie Boeuf and DR.. Thomas
E. Dreher, condemned slaSers of
Mrs. LIE Boeuf'S husband.
Mrs. LIE Boeuf and her illicit low
er, who were to have hanged to-
day. saw in the latest ruling pos
sibility that they still might escape
the gallows through plea of in
sanity.
The new stay of execution was
granted Friday after it had denied
defense counsel's petition for writ
OF mandamus compelling lower
courts to appoint sanity commits
sion to examine the condemned
pair.
The stay became automatic when
the supreme court granted the de-
Tense rehearing of the decision
denying the writ of nandamuS.
The next move by the defense will
be filing of briefs in support of its
appeal for rehearing of the petit
ton for writ of mandamuS.
Governor Huey P. Long, who has
refused repeatedly to commute
sentence for the pair, announced he
would issue a reprieye making the
court stay a legal order
The strani of the last two weeks
has brought Mrs. LIE Boeuf near
collapse. Physicians reported today
that she was in state of hysteria.
Dreher was in similar condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
STOMACH UPSET

Get at the real cause. That's what
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
HURL BOMB IN
CHICAGO LOOP
Cigar Store Wrecked and
Hotel Damaged.

BH United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. IA dynamite
bomb, tossed from a speeding auto
mobile, wrecked a cigar store and
damaged the Martin hotel in Chi
cago's loop today.
The explosion shattered windows
in three hotels within a radius of
two blocks and brought hundreds of
panic-stricken hotel guests to the
streets. Scores of patrons rushed
to hotel lobbies in nightclothes.
The cigar store was owndr by
Samuel Wolff, boxing promoter, who
left Monday to attend the funeral
of TEX" Rickard in New York. The
front part of the establishment was
completely destroyed.
The front of the Martin hotel,
adjoining the cigar store, was blown
in and the lobby damaged.
Police said the rear of VOLTS
store had been operated as a
gambling establishment and it was
believed the bomb was bombing was
the outgroWth of a war for gambling
concessions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-12
PLAY PETER PIPER,
PICK OFF A PRIZE
There's Fun in This Contest
and a Chance for
Reward, Too.
Lily Damita
BY ALLITERATIvE AL

Indiana certainly is living up to
its reputation for being the Home
of Authors"
Hundreds of letters in the Peter
Piper Contest have poured in to my
desk. And more are sure to come,
because everyone likes to have fun.
And that is just what you can
have in the famous Peter Piper con-
test. But along with the fun, you
can get cash prizes and other
awards.
Here is what it is all about.
Select one story from today'S
Times. Just any news story or
feature.
Make 1t Alliterative
Then you write another story with
the same theme, but make it al
lucrative that is, of words which
begin with the same letter.
Send your story to Alternative Al
at The Indianapolis Times before
midnight Monday. Be sure to
mark the story with your name
and the date of The Times from
which you selected it.
From the stories based on Satur-
days story. The Times will pay 81
for the best and 81 for the next
best.
The three stories after that will
receive a pair of tickets each to
the Apollo theater where 'Riley the
Cop" is showing. It's a Fox pic.
ture, and one of the best.
The contest started Friday and
lasts for ten days. At the close, two
grand prizes will be awarded. And
of course, prizes will be awarded
each day.
Hurry Them Up
The stories selected from Fridays
Times must be in the mail before
midnight tonight. Results of Fri
days contest will be announced
Tuesday.
Here is an example of what 1
want:
From story on the weather, one
contestant wrote, wild, wailing,
wanton winds whip waits and weary
widows without wooden wrappers,
wanting warmer weather. But
weather wizards wouldn't waver
when weedled. Wherefore worthy
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would welcome wearables worn by
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off white. whitening, wolflsh winter
wretchedneSS.
And now here are the rules:
Your story must be at least forty
words long and not more than 200
words in length.
The non-alliterative words will
not be counted against you unless
an average of more than four are
used in each twenty words.
The Peter Piper piece must tell
a story, based on the news.
Dust off your dictionary and see
what you can do.
Mail entries to Alternative Al at
The Times.