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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1925
Page
1
Mayor Lew returns from Cleveland praising the city manager form as efficient and economical and urges action by real estate groups Kiwanis Club and others to back petitions for Indianapolis. Captain Zener says over 20 000 signatures collected and may file soon while awaiting legislative action.
Milwaukee Feb 13 United Press reports Jack Bradley sues Emily Forster Bradley's parents for 250000 alleging alienation of affections. He vows to penalize her wealthy parents if he cannot have his bride. Emily 22 has been secluded two days after eloping with 23 year old former U S Cavalryman Bradley. They eloped to Waukegan Illinois Sunday and returned the same night.
On a Friday the Thirteenth, courthouse girls insist they are not superstitious as they walk beneath ladders. The playful stance contrasts with popular fears of the date. Local chatter centers on luck and tradition.
Two probate copy clerks Miss Mildred Barrett and Miss Kathryn Durflinger at the Courthouse joke about walking under ladders on Friday the 18th as a superstition while they focus on their work. Barrett lists Washington Street address and Durflinger Palmer Street address.
Unusual By Times Special i CERO Ind February 13 Mr and Mrs John Campbell celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Thursday with guests including the Rev Amos Carson aged 85 who united them in marriage.
Emma F. Stokes filed for divorce from Joseph T. Stokes alleging cruelty and inhuman treatment. She seeks alimony and a temporary restraining order to stop the husband from transferring funds or real estate. The couple, married Nov. 29 1923, have been separated since last week. Stokes, a drugstore owner, was sentenced Jan. 3 1924 in federal court to six months for liquor law violations.
Representative Korff's measure mandating motorists carry liability insurance was indefinitely postponed by the House on a motion to seek scot nitative. The bill, after a second reading, was amended in committee and laid aside.
Representative Hinkle of Indianapolis introduces a bill in the House to force the city school board to buy and distribute free common school textbooks and to authorize a special levy to cover the system’s costs. Other Indianapolis measures include Bebinger’s thoroughfare tax levy bill and Elliott’s streetcar paving requirement.
City Judge Pro Tem Garrett Olds dismissed blind tiger charges against William Gavin Patrick McCarty and Ralph Murphy after ruling mere possession of liquor isn’t a felony. One defendant was fined $1 and costs on a drunkenness charge from a dry saloon arrest at 818 S West St. Police testified they found fifteen half pints of white mule.
The Indiana School for the Blind relocation bill was a special order in the Statehouse. The Penrod bill on codification of fish and game laws was in the Senate. The Senate labor committee prepared a divided report on the workers compensation bill. The old age pension bill had no recommendation. The Southworth Holmes King loan regulation measure, backed by State bank commissioner Eben Wolcott, was indefinitely postponed.
Floods from melting snows recede as a cold snap hits New York State and several rivers. Damages run into thousands of dollars along the Merrimac, Connecticut, Susquehanna, Monongahela, Raritan and Delaware basins while thousands lose homes.
Reports from Ottawa Brooklyn White Cloud and Chicago describe a Friday the thirteenth jinx. A bill to tax bachelors advances in parliament while a driver and a burglar suffer injuries and arrest amid the unlucky date.
A cat stranded beneath Morris Street bridge over the White River drew William Mack and Max Stewart to the scene. They lowered meat on a rope and urged a panicked Tom to enter a bucket elevator for rescue, but Mack climbed down and brought the cat up in his shirt. A small boy later took the feline home, leaving how it became marooned unclear.
President Coolidge signed the measure authorizing a bridge across the Wabash River at Vincennes Indiana in the presence of Senator Watson and other Indiana Illinois lawmakers. The action clears the way for construction linking Indiana and Illinois.
Lawrence Davis announces a legal aid committee to assist Family Welfare Society clients in obtaining justice and fair civil suit settlements. Judson L. Starke chairs. Attorneys will donate services on request, continuing last year’s legal aid work, with a named committee of lawyers and volunteers.
Testimony before Coroner Paul F. Robinson concluded that clamps used to hold a cable supporting a scaffold were considered safe by experienced workers. Cecil Hurst, 20, Fillmore Ind, and Guy Armand, 31, 2268 Parker Ave, fell from the eighth story at Circle Inn when a clamp slipped, killing them.
After a long debate the House adopted a Judiciary A committee report recommending indefinite postponement of further consideration of the bill. The author’s plea to pass to second reading was overridden, ending the effort to strengthen public service commission control.
The Indiana House on second reading indefinitely postponed the Bar lerow cosmetology licensing bill after barbers and supporters clashed over the measure.
Charles Ford, a prominent figure in a sect predicting the world's end, waited a week for the foretold doom and hanged himself from a rafter in his Cleveland home on Friday the 13th.
State Senator Dickerman's bill provides life insurance policies shall be incontestable during the life of the insured. The measure passed the Senate and aims to strengthen policy guarantees and protect beneficiaries over the policy term.
George Mulholland of Butler University runs three unattended apple stands with a nickel in the tin box and reports about 95 percent of apples sold. He says the honor system works and cites Tim University as the idea source while noting a boxing champion in the background.
Two men sentenced to death in Illinois for separate murders. John Kammerer, 47, Bavarian waiter, hanged at Wheaton for a debt related family killing. Kammerer maintained composure and gave thanks to kind observers. Sheriff Hesermann oversaw the execution with limited witnesses. In Decatur, John Stacey, 54, was executed for a store hold‑up murder, dying calmly at the gallows.
The English bill to raise salaries of Marion County deputy, recorder, auditor, and sheriff from 2400 to 8000 failed to pass for constitutional majority. Only 24 ayes to 17 noes sparked heated debate with Senator Cann opposing any raise and Senator Batt citing a constitutional amendment English introduced banning raises during a term.
Mayor Shank arrived from Cleveland where the City Manager form operates and voices support for a City Manager in Indianapolis. He has also shown openness to the Commission form and indicated willingness to work with opponents seeking the Commission.
Morning to noon readings show Key West 60 clear, Brownsville 58 cloudy, Williston 2 clear, Bismarck 2 clear. Temperatures range from 30s to low 30s by noon with a 31 at 6 am and 32 at 1 pm.
Miss Rhoda M Welding head of the Muhojp Social Service Bureau named executive secretary of the Family Welfare Society at today’s Lincoln luncheon. She succeeds Paul L Benjamin who resigned in December and will assume duties March 1. Welding has led girls at Julia E Work Training School and served as Red Cross and charitable groups’ officer during the war. Leo Rappaport chaired the executive committee that chose her.
Land owners may request tile draining in sub-laterals when a ditch runs through their land under a bill before the State Senate by Senator King Sweetser. The measure allows tiling costs to be included in the main ditch bond issue and assessed against land. Senator Perkins also has a bill to halve re registering fees for professional engineers and land surveyors from ten to five dollars. Senator Harmes introduces a new measure under the Ame rett law.
The State Senate advanced ninety one bills in a day session as leaders touted progress on a broad legislative agenda. Lawmakers stated several measures target economic recovery and public safety, with votes recorded on key proposals before adjournment.
United Press reports from Land Cave Kentucky on February 13 as rescue crews dig toward Floyd Collins. A sixteen inch crevice prompts hope of release while engineers plan a horizontal tunnel from the shaft. Military officials Red Cross nurses and doctors monitor dangers as miners cope with cave-ins and heavy muck.
Unconfirmed dispatches from Salonika claim Premier Patchitch of Jugoslavia was assassinated by an unidentified Croat. Rioting and arrests followed recent elections where his followers narrowly defeated the opposition. A Belgrade dispatch later discounting the claim noted no confirmation of the assassination.
Fred C. Gause is chosen to try the Thomas O Reilly case as Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court sustains a motion for a change of judge in the case.
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