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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
1
Indiana farmers face about 1 million dollars daily in wheat oats and hay losses due to drought since June 1. Purdue says frost damage reached 10 million dollars. Wheat and hay are in critical condition and could yield poorly with heads shriveling in the heat.
A lone thief entered a store in Twelve Mile and confronted the cashier who drew a gun. The robber fled without taking any loot as authorities pursue the suspect. Local lawmen tighten the chase, urging anyone with information to come forward.
Fourteen of seventeen miners trapped by Monday’s blast at West Kentucky Coal Mine No. 9 were recovered by rescuers. The victims include seven white men and ten Black workers. Rescuers say the remaining three bodies have not yet been reached as of early today.
Peace between state and city police returns after a traffic incident on Canal Road near College Avenue. Traffic Inspector Michael Glenn, stopped by State Policeman Clarke for speeding, defends himself saying he was not over twenty miles per hour and that the matter was adjusted with the State office.
Rome dispatch reports poet Gabriele D Annunzio ill at his villa on Lake Garda. The ailing writer's condition was noted from the Gardone estate.
Secretary of War John W. Weeks is recovering rapidly, a physician's bulletin issued at noon in Boston reports. Weeks has been ill and is on the way to health.
Robert Snyder of Pumper Company 14 was promoted from fireman to chauffeur. William Swan was reduced from chauffeur to fireman. Ralph Aldrich, former chauffeur for Mayor Shank, was appointed a substitute fireman.
J Jordan of 2348 N Sherman Dr was fined 200 dollars and costs and sentenced to thirty days in the Indiana State Farm today by Special Judge Frank A Symmes in Criminal Court for selling liquor to Chester Toliver of 3736 E M Twenty Eighth St.
James A. Crain announced that Nebraska has exceeded its $5,000,000 national Endowment Fund quota for World War orphans and disabled veterans. Nebraska becomes the eleventh state to reach its goal in the Legion relief movement.
Zachariah T. Dungan, clerk of the State Supreme and Appellate Courts, reports the death of his niece Estelle Weichman in Chicago after being crushed by a motor truck. This marks the third violent family death in two years.
The board of safety ruled that charges of police discrimination against the Peoples Motor Coach Company were untrue regarding arrests of unlicensed bus drivers heading to the Speedway on May 30. President A Smith Bowman protested in writing. Police Chief Herman Rikhoff said arrests were ordered for drivers without operating permits.
James Kent barricaded in a room with a rifle two revolvers knives and poison. He refused contact with others to protect his money until his daughter persuaded him to come out. Four officers booked him in the city prison awaiting transfer to the psychiatric ward. He handed over 580 dollars in cash and a 600 dollar check.
Fire Chief John J. O'Brien seeks to rebalance a 610 member force to reflect political parity, appointing Democrats when factors are equal. He names John Zener and John King among leading figures who pressed for appointments and hints at adding 30 to 35 police officers around July 1 when county funds arrive.
Fire in Helmsburg Indiana today caused 27000 worth of damage across the business district. Nashville Bloomington and Morgantown sent aid. Buildings burned include Baughman Brothers general store eight thousand dollars William Hughes general store six thousand J Stout general store eight thousand Red Men's hall three thousand Oak Grove Cream station two thousand origin not known.
More than 100 residents of Camden in Carroll County petition the public service commission to investigate the Monon Railroad crossing on the Camden Delphi Road. They claim the crossing is obscured and used daily by school buses, and ask for a grade separation.
At a city cabinet meeting Mayor Shank orders wholesale staff reductions effective Oct 1 to bolster finances. He accuses the school board of extravagance in high school building plans and calls for lower architect fees and revised project costs. School Manager William H. Book defends the board and negotiates revised legal actions.
Early risers in Evansville Wisconsin saw President Coolidge wave a flapjack from his diner breakfast as his train paused for water. A child in a mother's arms offered a cracker to the president, who responded with a smile and waved the wheat cake.
Mayor Shank today warned that the municipal coliseum project at Washington Davidson Pine and Market Streets faces defeat with about a thousand remonstrators likely against a proposed 465000 bond issue. The question of bond legality is now before Charles Remsier, a bond expert.
Hearings on petitions by Peoples Motor Coach Co and Indianapolis Street Railway Co to run motor bus lines in the city resume Wednesday before Clyde H. Jones of the public service commission. The motor coach seeks Park Carrollton Capitol Ave Meridian Broad Ripple Meridian Kenwood Churchman Madison routes. The railway seeks Riverside E New York and Central routes parallel to existing bus lines.
Gus Rini forty head of Rini Realty Company and Italian political leader was shot to death today in front of his offices in Cleveland. Three youths confronted him as he stepped from his car firing six shots and fleeing. Police suspect a political plot.
Mike Bernanio 19 of Alabama Street drove at sixty mph near the Danville Road Stop 1 crash site. Miss Bertha Wright 21 of Mars Hill died the night of June 5. Miss Bertie Campbell 18 of Danville was injured. Bernanio faces manslaughter charges and testified at the coroner inquest led by Harry T. Boyer.
The will of former Vice President Thomas R. Marshall filed in Probate Court allocates $35,000 personal and $4,000 real estate to his widow, names William L. Elder administrator, and provides specific legacies to friends, Kinsey family, college, church trustees, and the Odd Fellows cemetery, with the remainder to Wabash College for religious instruction and republican life preservation.
June 9 report from Chicago quotes Matt J. Kennedy of the National Association of Music Merchants blaming kitchenette apartments for jazz influence. He says jazz is America's national style aided by modern life and small instruments. others at the Music Trades of America convention dispute the decline of jazz and see a revival of classical music.
A wave of robberies including a Twelve-Mile hold up rattles Logansport area as bandits steal from Bank of Carbon, totaling about 50 000 dollars in a little over one month. The State Bankers Association calls for armed guards in all Indiana banks while Governor Jackson urges heightened police vigilance statewide.
O R Pickering cashier of the Twelve Mile State Bank near Logansport single handed drove away a bank robber who demanded money. No loot stolen though keys to lock boxes were taken. The incident spurred Indiana bankers to consider armed guards and vigilance committees to curb a wave of bank robberies statewide. local police vigilance urged by Governor Jackson as ties between officers and possible vigilante groups are explored.
Jerome Mattillo of Indianapolis, subpoenaed to testify in the William D. Shepherd case, received expense money from the State. Crowe, the State’s Attorney, indicated a full jury panel may be seated soon and issued subpoenas to three banks for Shepherd accounts to show prior financial strain and alleged dependence on the McClintocks.
A coroner's inquest opened into nine year old William Roller Jr.'s death after he was found with a bullet wound in his head in the family basement. His brother Lawrence, six, said he did not touch the gun. The pistol lay near the body with an empty shell, and investigators consider the discharge may have occurred when a child reached for the weapon.
Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell travels from Indianapolis to Princeton Indiana his former home while the forty fifth annual encampment of the G A R is in session He will return to the federal bench Friday morning.
Police announced charges against Baskerville 27 of 1511 Wynne Street and William Ma 61 of 622 EB Miami Street in a case alleging illegal liquor sales and operation of a blind tiger.
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