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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1924
Page
1
A weather notice states more rain expected today and Friday with colder temperatures. Drizzle continued through Wednesday. total precipitation rose to just over a fifth of an inch as temperatures remained moderate.
In Chicago federal court Colonel Charles R. Forbes head of the Veterans Bureau allegedly agreed to take 50000 for three hospital contracts for Hurley-Mason on the Pacific Coast. Witness Elias Mortimer testified about conversations and a proposed 50-50 split of profits and a coded telegram system. The defense objected to a prosecutor's remark, and the judge struck it from the record.
Patrolmen James Franks and Charles Brumfield escaped injury when their car hit a cattle truck driven by Kenneth Robbins of Bud, Indiana, at Bluff Road and Troy Avenue and plunged into a ditch. No arrests were made.
Elmer Dill aged 42 of 918 Lexington Ave was arrested after Kenneth Lewis of 730 Madison Ave reported Dill peeped into his window Wednesday night. Lewis chased him to Dill's home where officers took him into custody.
The Senate opens debate on the Muscle Shoals project while a citizens committee continues its investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau. An Interior Department appropriation bill is under consideration and committees hear the Johnson bill for deportation of aliens convicted under prohibition narcotic and white slave laws.
The Rt. Rev. Herman Joseph Alerding, 79, bishop of the Fort Wayne Catholic Diocese for 24 years, received last rites at St. Joseph's Hospital after injuries from an auto accident. He was formerly pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Indianapolis.
Clarence Boyd of 427 N Capitol Ave proved an alibi on a habeas corpus hearing before Superior Judge James M Leathers. Requisition papers from Wisconsin were honored by Governor Branch, delaying transfer to Milwaukee for July 24 theft charges. Witnesses testified Boyd was on a farm near Columbus Indiana on July 24, leading to his release from jail.
Petitions requesting extension of the S Meridian Street car line to Troy Avenue will be presented to the board of works and street car company by the Thirteenth Ward Civic League. They cite the need for service south of Pleasant Run Boulevard and ask the city park board to improve the playground at School 22 Meridian and Kansas Streets.
A 30 member delegation asks Governor Emmett F. Branch to push a proposal to move the Indiana State Women's Prison from its current Randolph and Michigan Streets site. They cite age, surrounding development, nearby schools and churches, and view of inmates as factors influencing youth. The group notes a 1916 Senate bill for removal but says it failed in the House.
One heavy speed court in the wake of a holiday fined eighty motorists. Most cases were continued or dismissed, with Clifford Tolan, 22, of 1261 S State St, fined 315 and costs and given a thirty day sentence on a second conviction at Indiana State Farm. Three arrests for speeding occurred Wednesday including William Batley 23 Leslie Spaulding 22 Elmer Staub 24. Sam Meko 36 charged with driving while intoxicated.
Clifford L Symons of 4110 Michigan St wins the $50 first prize for Limerick No 4 in a Family Limerick Party. He is a silk buyer for H Wasson & Co and credits business training with his success.
President Coolidge urged sympathetic cooperation with other nations as the basis for U S well being at a Chicago Commercial Club luncheon. He said prosperity depends on mutual relations and warned that peace requires allied effort, avoiding mention of specific international bodies.
The Times offers daily $100 prizes for best Lost-line limericks with $50 for the top entry. Readers are urged to submit clever lines concluding Limerick No. 10 on page 2 and also to try Limerick No. 9 from the previous day. Daily cash awards reward creativity.
The mental detention ward for thirty patients at the city hospital is near completion with fixtures the last step. Dr. Herman G. Morgan says the ward will treat sight mental and nervous disorders, diagnose cases, and hold patients until state institutions admit them. Other hospital work totaling $28,600 is nearly done, including corridors, a new heating plant, and nurses' quarters.
Fifty six men indicted by the Federal grand jury will be arraigned before Judge A B Anderson Friday. Among them four postmasters Lester J Taylor William C Clark Walter Kleckner and James W Hughes are to be arraigned. Orlando J Horton of Chicago may plead guilty to narcotic trafficking. Seizure of 4500 gallons of grain alcohol near Hammond with 155 barrels seized Tuesday and 82 barrels Wednesday valued at about 750000. Alcohol likely from a Government warehouse. Liquor stored in Federal Building vaults at Hammond.
The trial of John L. Partlow of the Partlow-Jenkins Motor Car Co began before a Criminal Court jury on charges of receiving stolen autos. It is Partlow's second trial after a 1919 conviction overturned on appeal. His attorney Floyd Christian of Noblesville previously defended him. Partlow faces reimposition of a sentence if convicted again.
In Crawfordsville Indiana Pearl McIntyre died when his car struck a telephone pole near Ladoga. Police ruled out earlier reports of liquor in the vehicle and found no alcohol at the scene after arriving several hours later.
Six boys aged 11 to 15 were found guilty in juvenile court of burglary at the Em Roe Sporting Goods Company on Washington Street last August. They were sentenced to White's Institute for Boys in Wabash Indiana and then turned over to their parents for another chance. The theft totaled about $300 across two raids.
John Reese twenty four of 1529 Spann Ave was arraigned in speed court on a robbery charge with police alleging he was a bandit suspect. He faced a driving thirty two miles an hour on Fletcher Ave and Spruce St. Reese claimed he was on his way to church when arrested. His case was continued.
C. C. Reeder, former head of the First Voters of Republican State committee, is named as a field man for the State tax board with a $4 000 yearly salary. Governor-elect Ed Jackson will withhold appointments until after the Legislature adjourns.
An unidentified about 45 year old man was found floating in the canal at West Street. Police recovered the body and sent it to the city morgue. It was seen from the bridge by Bennett McKibbons and Wilbourne Cox. The man wore a dark blue suit and overcoat, weighed about 165 pounds, and had likely been in the water three or four days. He had an old scar over the right ear.
The State Securities Commission approved H. C. S. Taxicab company to issue 100000 in common stock. The firm, once H. C. S. Motor Car Company, has just begun operations. The commission fixed Tuggday and Friday as regular meeting days.
Two men burglarized the home of George Stratton at 1521 W Vermont St on Wednesday. They stole jewelry silverware and clothing totaling 424 dollars after accosting the couple at White River Blvd and New York St and driving them to Thirteenth St and College Ave before fleeing.
Traffic officer Milton Hyde spotted suspicious fashion during a routine stop at Delaware and E New York Streets. He left a package containing his blue trousers in a cigar store and returned to find the item missing.
In Calumet City at a street crossing a Michigan Central passenger train struck a car carrying Rose Asquino 17 and her sister Thersa 20. The car occupants Robert Papno 24 and Albert Rinkach 21 were severely injured and hospitalized in Hammond.
Police say clues from shoe tracks at the home of Mrs. Maude Maze at 913 North Randolph Street point to a female suspect in the robbery in which five dollars was stolen.
Nine people die and about forty are injured when two commuter trains collide near Oakland California as workers travel to San Francisco. Confusion follows the wreck with passengers trapped and rescue efforts underway.
Two commuter trains near Fortieth and Hollis streets in Oakland collided on the Key Route system. early reports estimate ten to twenty dead and thirty to forty injured as rescuers work amid confusion. Eyewitness E W Ewing recounts a rear collision when a San Francisco Sacramento Short Line train failed to stop on a wet track, striking the Twelfth Street train and causing multiple fatalities.
In Mount Vernon Ohio a jury selection for former pastor Lawrence M. Hight and Elsie Sweetin in the Wilford Sweetin murder case resumes. A 30 man venire was exhausted and 100 more summoned amid questions on capital punishment. Hight stays composed while Mrs. Sweetin weeps as her 12 year old son comforts her.
The disposition of 3647 E Washington St puzzles Mayor Shank who plans to move to a Golden Hill home next week. He may rent the old house as a police sub station if a sale fails to materialize. Offers have been refused. Mr and Mrs Harry Peckman will move to their own home in a few days. Mrs Peckman is a niece of the late Mrs Shank.
City controller Joseph L. Hogue told a Women’s Department Club committee that the budget cannot cover more smoke inspectors next year. Mayor Shank favored a $10,000 appropriation for two inspectors and two draftsmen, while Templeton urged four inspectors. Hogue doubted immediate enforcement and warned of court risks, arguing education may be required.
Mrs Mildred Heavrin aged 25 of 1116 Madison Avenue was fined ten dollars and costs in speed court today after arrest at Belle Vue Place and Washington Street while with a sick baby.
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