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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1922
Page
1
A round robin of officials and prominent locals lists each person’s New Year wish. Highlights include Judge Collins on venue changes, Sheriff Snider on a jail empty by prohibition, Auditor Fesler on fair taxes, and Gov McCray noting coal strike resolution, among others.
City brims with Yuletide charity as Goodfellow Club funds food and clothing for 3000 through baskets and coal deliveries. Klan messages appear in kindness drives while city stations host parties for destitute families, veterans, and children with gifts, meals, and trees.
Indianapolis police rounded up 38 men and 5 women for drunkenness and 27 men and 2 women for operating blind tigers during Christmas celebrations. Agents raided Melden home on Renna Street finding a 15 gallon whisky still, four gallons of whisky and 150 gallons of mash. Additional suspects include Isadore Peterllican Raymond Street James Phillips 81 colored 1425 Alvord Street Henry Garland 63 116 S Noble Street Joseph Burnett 22 6511 W Ray Street Ed Miller 46 622 E Court Street and others. Nine gallons of white mule were found at Timothy Shaughnessy North Talbot Avenue. Wilkogich Speedway Avenue faced charges after a raid found 1.5 gallons. Solomon Tolack arrested for whiskey possession. Multiple others cited for Christmas related prohibition violations.
In Indianapolis drinkers described a test to detect poison in moonshine. They advise rubbing a few drops on the hands to create an odor, which supposedly helps distinguish poison from real liquor before consumption.
On Christmas morning at 7 a.m. two Illinois St. residents heard trumpets and mistaken carols from street brass players. One citizen hoped to call the police, thinking a group of drunks were on the corner.
Clifford Eley of 114 N Senate Ave had his overcoat valued at 20 dollars stolen during his Christmas breakfast at Laughner's restaurant located at Washington St and Senate Ave. A thief took the garment and left with its value.
A twenty five foot high cross wrapped in burlap and soaked in fuel oil was burned by Ku Klux Klan members around midnight near Thirty Eighth Street and Keystone Avenue marking Christmas Day. Hundreds watched as flames spread across the structure in the night.
Paris dispatch reports the famed actress Sarah Bernhardt critically ill with a severe chill and grave condition after a serious relapse. Attendants say she remains determined to recover enough to return to the stage and fears not finishing her current role in a new play by Sadig Guitry.
Detroit sleight-of-hand artist Nate Leipsig will entertain Rotary Club members at Tuesday noon luncheon in the Riley room Claypool Hotel. Talks on Rotary objects by Frank S. C. Wicks Walter E. Pitts ford and Frederick H. Matson precede the event. Rotarians and guests plan a theater party at the Shubert-Murat Monday night January 8 featuring Al Jolson in Bombo.
S D Murphy of 2129 North Alabama Street reported a collision when another car crashed into his parked vehicle at Fall Creek Boulevard and Northwestern Avenue. Murphy fired three shots after the hit and then chased the fleeing car in a second vehicle but could not catch up.
Herman Fritz was assaulted by two bandits at his Brookside Avenue and Tenth Street drug store. They robbed the register of 106 dollars, demanded morphine, learned he was not a registered pharmacist, then beat him with a stove poker and a gun. He lies in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital.
Washington December 25 The first serious rift in the Harding Cabinet centers on a plan to move the bureau of forestry from Agriculture to Interior. Albert B Fall President Harding Wallace Pinchot and Gifford Pinchot clash over the transfer and Fall threatens to resign unless the President maintains his course. Harding reportedly sides with Wallace Pinchot.
Four people were hospitalized after explosions from attempts to start stove fires with coal oil. Harriet Leeper, 40, of 1657 South Delaware Street, was seriously burned Saturday afternoon. Martha Young, 2, and Jewell Moore, aunt of Myrtle Young, both were burned. Myrtle Young died at the residence. Lester Leeper, 15, also burned but not seriously injured.
Paris dispatch reports Premier Poincare's cabinet abandons occupation of the Ruhr and proposes a Rhineland Ruhr customs barrier. Military intervention would guard customs controllers. France aims to collect duties on German Rhineland revenues while awaiting allied and American participation.
Death of a woman and a girl and injuries to four others last week from explosions after attempting to start fires with kerosene or matches spurs a city wide educational drive. Frank C. Jordan pledges an aggressive campaign to warn against unsafe kerosene use and urges proper fire starting methods.
A Christmas message extols Jesus as the royal Child born in a manger winter, teaching humility and universal kinship. It urges readers to welcome Him into their hearts, share with the needy, and carry His spirit through gifts to the least of these across the world.
Elizabeth Robinson, 80, was struck and killed at Virginia Ave and Grove St on Saturday night. The driver stopped briefly then fled. police have no identified driver or vehicle at this time.
Frank Karst of 910 Park Ave. was arrested late Saturday on a charge of stealing a glass of peanut butter from a grocery at the intersection of Ohio and Delaware Streets.
Mrs. Anna Wooten found a sleeping stranger in her home at 316 Arch St. The man identified as Andrew McNarvey of 963 N New Jersey St was charged with drunkenness after police were called.
Bert Young and Ben Irvin, both residents of 835 Economy Street, are noted in a police report after Young allegedly struck Irvin on the head with a poker. Irvin sustained a head cut. Young fled before officers arrived. Both men are described as colored.
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