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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1930
Page
4
Jay ant Dalal editor and publisher of the Congress Bulletin was sentenced in Bombay to two years rigorous imprisonment for publishing sedition articles tied to the home rule movement.
Six Indianapolis American Legion posts and the Seventh district Ladies auxiliary drum corps will sponsor a week of Gentry Brothers circus performances starting Monday June 23. The event runs through six city sections with matinees and shows beginning at Morris and Pennsylvania streets and North Emerson Avenue. Six parades will head through downtown and various districts, with a total of one hundred motorized trucks supporting the tour.
Three African American suspects were arrested in Scottsburg for the murder of E. D. Pierson, a Negro auditor for the National Baptist convention. A Tennessee official, A M Townsend, and two men in Indianapolis face first degree murder warrants. Police allege Townsend funded the plot to steal $62,000 from the convention loan fund and that Washington was hired to kill Pierson.
A 300 strong Indianapolis business leaders delegation toured Marion county farms on Thursday. The bankers' association and Chamber of Commerce sponsored the event, with about sixty starting from the Columbia Club and a caravan of over fifty autos joining midway. Clarence Henry, county agricultural agent, spoke on farm management during a noon lunch at the Oscar Morris farm near Acton.
Detectives George Sneed and Claude White arrested the minister on Thursday night after a secret city prison hold. Pierson's relatives had offered a $2,500 reward for the capture of his slayers.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsor a Miss Victory pageant tied to the film Siege of 1918 at the state fairgrounds July 19. Nominations close Saturday after a banquet for nominees and a Marmon Roosevelt sedan prize. Ft Benjamin Harrison nominates Dorothy Rudolph and Miss Mitzi Meredith represents Hook Drug. nominations go to 143 East Ohio Street.
Antioch Nebraska reports Sheridan county town once booming during World War I now has only 139 residents. The town's potash plants operated endlessly to meet war orders, but today the population dwindles to a fraction of its wartime peak.
In St Louis on June 13 detectives hunted a youth estimated at 13 to 16 after Miss Ella C Meyer 54 was shot through a corridor glass panel as she faced a class of about thirty pupils. The bullet hit her hip and her condition was listed as serious.
A park escapee squirrel caused traffic snarls along streets near the Queensboro bridge as four policemen and bystanders chased it. The creature was captured in a nut shop where it feasted on pecans and then returned to the park zoo.
Indianapolis naval reserves will depart at 7 a m Saturday by special buses for Michigan City with contingents from South Bend and Michigan City. They will board the U S Hawk for a weekend cruise on Lake Michigan to Chicago with Lieutenant K D Coffin as executive officer for the voyage.
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