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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1925
Page
1
Thirteen Butler University coeds were named as prom queen candidates for the junior class annual ball. Each student buys a ticket, votes for the queen, who will lead the grand march with junior class president David Kilgore.
Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois died suddenly in a Washington hotel from a gastric hemorrhage. He was born in 1877, educated at Yale, and served in the Illinois General Assembly and the U.S. Senate since 1919. His wife Mrs. McCormick and daughter-in-law were summoned from Chicago. The Senate adjourned after expressing sorrow.
Representative Kissinger announced plans to abolish the highway commission and create a Governor named utility department while Senator Cravens pushes to end the public service commission in favor of a three member utility panel. Political chatter hints probes at the reformatory may influence outcomes.
The Criminal Court jury in the Edwin A. Hunt embezzlement conspiracy trial lingered twenty one hours without verdict. Hunt is charged with conspiring with former county clerk Richard W. Ripe and attorney Will H. Latta to siphon ten thousand dollars from Marion County funds. The judge planned to reconvene at 4 p.m. if no decision was reached.
Coroner's inquest in Chicago hears testimony from Louis Kies that Billy McClintock was kept a prisoner during typhoid illness by foster parents William and Isabelle Shepherd. Witness claims doctors were blocked and Miss Isabelle Pope faced covert hostility. Eva Nelson says she signed papers at Shepherds request. Chief Justice Olson notes suspicion surrounding the youth's death.
The Indiana House today killed Senator Holmes Bill for sterilization of social defectives. Reported out of committee without recommendation, an indefinite postponement motion passed. The bill, sponsored by Senator Holmes of Gary, had previously passed the Senate.
A lurid colporteur story exposes a loophole in Indiana law allowing hit and run drivers to escape punishment. Lawyers vow to close the gap as they scrutinize the 1923 statute to prove culpability and compel drivers to stop and identify themselves after injuring pedestrians like Charles Miller junior.
A plea from Will H. Hays highlighting Sullivan's suffering after a disaster. He notes fifty one deaths and one hundred orphaned children, with many families destitute. He urges broad support for the Red Cross and local relief efforts, stressing efficient, directed use of donations.
Kansas City adopts the council-manager form by about four to one in a light turnout. The measure faced passive resistance and the vote count was incomplete on Tuesday.
The Indiana Senate adjourned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as 18 Democrats stayed away, denying a quorum to block a Republican plan to redraw Lawrence County from the Second to the Third District. Senator Cravens condemned the measure as political, while GOP leaders discussed forcing attendance or arrest.
Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bush approved the purchase of the Dusenberg Automobile and Motors Company Inc by creditors and largest preferred stockholders for 875000 from receiver William T. Rasmussen. An order for sale was entered December 1 1924 with a 375000 minimum. bid channeled through Security Trust Company. It is expected the plant will operate under the Dusenberg Motors Company name.
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Mary Claire Berry a 16 year old Georgia girl testifies in her trial for the murder of her two younger brothers Emery six and Adolphus eight. She declares she is innocent and that she cannot explain the deaths nor the prior illness and confinement at the State Sanitarium. Neighbors labeled her queer but she maintains she loved her brothers and mother and had no motive to harm them.
The Sullivan Indiana mine disaster triggers a state relief drive with Red Cross estimates at 20 000 to 25 000 dollars including a 10 600 state appropriation, as cities and telegrams flood in. The United Mine Workers pledge 1 000, while Henry Baker leads disaster relief efforts and Will Hays aids the campaign. Memorial services set for 1 p m today.
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