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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1925
Page
5
Francis F. Hamilton building commissioner warned that petty politics may doom the new building code now before the city council. He said some politicians oppose the ordinance because it would require inspectors to prove their qualifications, potentially adding five inspectors atop the seven currently employed.
Edmond Kerlin spoke at First Evangelical Church on The Simplicity of Christ. He argued true wisdom and knowledge reveal themselves in simple living and cited John the Baptist pointing to Jesus as the Lamb of God.
Indications that county council members will approve requests totaling more than $100000 for courthouse and county institution improvements were voiced after a special meeting. Ordinances for appropriations were read by Harry Dunn. Council will act on the requests at 9 am Tuesday. An ordinance seeks a $25000 bond for a Meridian canal bridge to be paid by city and county. Of $190000, $50000 funds construction of new court rooms at the Courthouse.
Five year old Roscoe Canaday was seized by a woman while playing on a lawn near his paternal grandmother’s Forest Hills residence in New York. His parents are separated and the child had recently been abducted from the mother in Texas.
The notice lists numerous couples filing for marriage licenses including Virgil E. Ross and Gladys Cook in Garfield Place and Lionel Winbey and Helen Chan in Singerly. Other pairs include Bessie Oloff and Vausha Bramel in Northwestern and Walter Shaw and Mildred Cohn in Birch. Additional entries cover Alma Grater, Edmund Dehoney, Lucille Bay, Presley Lauder, Leona Smith, and J Shields among various occupations and addresses.
Murray Snider owner of a poolroom and bar at 3713 Massachusetts Ave reports $46.51 stolen. Police identify three suspects in the case.
A citizen complains of a misfitting manhole lid on 856 N Dearborn St prompting Mr Fixit to seek repair. Street officials investigate lettering on a W Washington St bridge post but find only a circus image.
A taxpayer asks The Times to publish a column on a health concern and urges officials to require precise street addresses in complaints. The board of health will investigate the situation, and police will look into conditions described at the apartment building site.
James Grimes a 16 year old colored boy from Guthrie Kentucky died after a hike to visit a sister on Indiana Avenue. A gunshot lodged in his shoulder while he slept with two other colored boys and a white boy from Terre Haute behind a sign board at Six Points Indiana. He died at the city hospital and the Hendricks County sheriff has not identified the shooter.
Morton S Hawkins condemned in Federal Court for using the mails to defraud and sentenced to fifteen years at Leavenworth Kansas was to be examined at 2 pm today on his wealth. He sought a pauper appeal with part of expenses borne by the government and was denied bond relief by the Chicago circuit court. Special assistant attorney general Homer Elliott was ordered to appraise Hawkins assets.
Marion County Young Peoples Council plans a July 25 picnic eight miles northwest of Indianapolis on Crawfordsville Road. Several hundred youths expected to attend. Tropical fruits may soon be shipped in a thin rubber coating to allow ripe picking and prevent decomposition.
Mrs. Alice Kessler recreation director and four sectional supervisors planned the remaining schedule for the Girls Kitten Ball League and an exhibit of products by girls classes at playgrounds. She said interest is higher this year. The Indianapolis Times will award medals to all players on city championship teams in both boys and girls leagues.
Federal Narcotic Agent L J Ulmer said a narcotic ring operates in Indianapolis selling narcotics and paregoric as two local druggists are held on bond to the federal grand jury Charles A Eltel 67 of 1309 Wright St is on a 1000 bond after last weeks arrest for unlawful possession and illegal sale Bert H Frink owner of Frink s Pharmacy 449 FE South St on 2000 bond for selling paregoric to addicts Eltel allegedly confessed to stealing morphine from bottles at three stores and substituting with strychnine and calomel soda tablets. He was taken into custody while employed at Helder s drug store 1227 N Illinois 81 and admitted stealing morphine from stores at 1219 Kens
Charges filed against Norma Kanouse aged 14 and Bart Aldridge aged 17 were dismissed today by Squire Clarence Thompson. Eunice McKay sought equal rights for women at the old swimming hole, and the row began when Kanouse and Aldridge hung clothes on a limb and refused to leave as McKay and two other girls arrived, ending with a safer pool for birthday salta.
British miners refused to participate in the government court of inquiry on the coal crisis. They notified the court they would not arbitrate disputes with owners, a move that could threaten a general strike. Transport workers met to decide whether to join the miners if they walk out.
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