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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1925
Page
4
Police report a two week wave of robberies and burglaries in Indianapolis with more than $5,000 stolen. Numerous hold ups target stores stations and pedestrians daily while officials debate shifts and merit based reforms amid political pressures on the force.
About 500 federal and state jurists are to attend a reception and dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club hosted by the State and Indianapolis Bar Associations. Judge Baltzell will not attend due to tornado relief duties in Princeton, Indiana. Judge Anderson and his four circuit colleagues have accepted. District Judge Thomas Slick will also be present. Former Governor Charles E Whitman of New York will give the principal address. Ex Vice President Thomas R Marshall will be toastmaster.
Treasury officials judge early tax payments justify Coolidge's proposed tax cuts. First eighteen days of March brought 197,576,228.71 dollars in receipts versus 220,303,106.03 a year ago, supporting expectations that annual totals will align with surplus estimates.
Eight student enrollers and eight physicians will cooperate in the enrollment campaign for the citizens military training camp set to open July 1 at Camp Knox Kentucky and July 8 at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana. Marion county chairman George L. Dering announced the effort. Candidates must be between 17 and 24 years old.
Six people die and thirteen are injured when a south bound local passenger car crashes into a line repair car at Davis Siding five miles south of Carlinville Illinois. The dead include William Peele Staunton motorman and Babe Shannon Virden with unidentified man about 50 among the victims. A rigid investigation will begin immediately.
The first regular Saturday dinner dance is held tonight at the new Elks home on St. Clair and Meridian Streets. The lodge marked its forty fourth anniversary with a Friday dinner and dance. Charter members James Cook of Danville and George W. June spoke, joined by James E. Deery and A. M. Hall. Wives of members organized an auxiliary.
Austin Conley of Tampa Florida is jailed awaiting removal to Florida on a charge of possessing jewelry alleged to be kept from a trustee in bankruptcy. He was adjudged bankrupt on December 1 1924 and was arrested in Indianapolis Friday by federal agents on a warrant from U S Commissioner Howard Young.
A is a two digit number whose square is four digits. The two leading digits of A squared are both divisible by a common two-digit B and the two trailing digits are also divisible by B. Find A and B.
A deciphered text reveals the proverb The most haste the less speed with steps showing cipher solving to reach the famous line about haste and speed.
The Republican State Committee clash leads the commission to dismiss Ruby Hayes a clerk and Alpha Templeton a stenographer from payroll for alleged unfriendliness toward the body. John D. Williams the director gave no comment on the action.
Indiana Central College defeated Manchester in a Friday night debate at Kephart auditorium University Heights on the question whether Indiana should adopt in principle the Wisconsin plan of unemployment insurance. The Indiana Central team, affirmative, comprised Paul Chalfant C E Guthrie Charles Leader and Howard Ulsh as alternate.
The Rev J B Mahaffey former Princeton minister will preach at Fletcher Place M E Church Sunday morning on the tornado wrecked southern Indiana. He will speak on Contrary Jonah in the evening and has assisted relief efforts in the storm area.
A St. Louis jury returned a $35,000 verdict for Sara A Poindexter of Tad against a party identified as a bank and in a civil suit. Details of the action and defendant were not fully disclosed in the brief.
The audit of the State board of agriculture near completion covers a 155000 loan to ex Governor Warren T. McCray before his financial crash. Interest over 1000 remained unsettled and likely to determine who pays. Newt Brown then secretary treasurer and James P Goodrich led a pooling effort backed by Harry Moberly, then board president, who has recently visited the Statehouse.
Six people were injured when two Brookside Ave street cars collided at Delaware and Massachusetts. Injured include Mary Repp, A. L. Lodge, John Burrows, Jack Crosby, Albert Lovell, and Eugene Edwards. Motorman G W Jackson believed the switch was broken but it was thrown.
New York report says pianist Leopold Godowsky, famed in Indianapolis, slipped under a hot shower at the Ansonia hotel and was badly burned after turning the cold knob. He seeks $50,000 damages for contusions bruises and abrasions.
Harry W. Bassett publisher of the Union Indianapolis labor paper was chosen to succeed John Reagan as Democratic member of the United States Industrial Board. The appointment takes effect April 1 for a four year term. The board includes two Republicans and one Democrat. Senators Ralston and Watson recommended him. Bassett lives at 3813 E Washington St.
Police raid on 215 N Oriental St leads to Lee Arthur 30 being held on a blind tiger charge. Officers found twelve gallons of home brew fermenting and twelve bottles ready to drink.
B F Fallis of St Louis directed workers clearing debris at Princeton Indiana shops hit by a tornado. Officials announced immediate rebuilding with unofficial losses around 1 000 000 dollars. No tornado insurance, cleanup and security staff expanded with W C McIntosh and five guards arriving from East St Louis. ten more to join today.
Tom Moore, operator of a tailor shop at 105 W. Maryland St, was convicted in city court on a blind tiger charge. He received a $200 fine, costs, and sixty days in Indiana State Farm, with release on appeal bond after police found liquor at his shop.
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