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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
5
A deadly riot at the Missouri state prison on the Mississippi river led to a strict policy shift as guards and National Guardsmen subdued inmates. Dozens were wounded, hundreds confined, and leaders placed in solitary cells amid a declared end to Sunday school style governance.
Funeral services are set for H. J. Root 32 of 3060 North Meridian street head of Ideal Furniture Company who died Thursday in South Bend from a heart attack while on a business trip. Services will be at 2 30 p m Saturday at Hisey Titus funeral parlors 915 North Delaware with burial in Crown Hill. Root long led Indiana furniture manufacturing and ran stores in Indianapolis South Bend and Terre Haute.
Compact roundup from Indiana towns reports retirements crimes and local happenings. Notable items include Charles Gray’s retirement in Jonesboro after 41 years at the Evening Dispatch and a demand for a full probe into the Newcastle police killing. The column notes a skeleton case in Warsaw and a large Quaker missionary gathering in Noblesville. Several other local scenes cover a Texas killing of a Tipton resident, a prison liquor case leniency in Hammond, a World War grave visit request from Elwood, and fires and robberies across the state.
United Press reports the Literary Digest prohibition straw vote showing strong support for repeal after 1,244,483 ballots. Enforce ment gains in nine states including Georgia and Indiana. Kansas notes 17,957 for enforcement versus 11,723 for modification and repeal. Complete weekly tabulation follows.
Eureka, March 28 sheriff's officers continued a new search for a companion body in the Scotia redwoods murder case. Construction worker Charles Tracy said he heard six shots on the night the girl's body was found. A letter signed Gertrude Lawrence hinted at the killer, while a dental chart obscured a possible match to Violet Pullen Thompson, deepening uncertainty.
Miss Ercil Askren of 725 Berkley Road will head the annual Butler University women's tennis tournament to be staged soon in the university gymnasium. The contest is open to all women students. Last year’s winner was Miss Muriel Adams, state champion of West Virginia and Indiana ranking player.
John W. Kern filed for the Democratic nomination for judge of Marion superior court one. He has served as United States commissioner for seven years and is secretary of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
C M Anderson a Wichita chemist drank six ounces of Jamaica ginger samples from local drug stores to prove the drink did not cause the paralysis epidemic. Under health department supervision no arrest was made for drunkenness. He found no poison in the samples and concluded another cause is responsible.
Beech Grove school board, by a 2 to 1 vote, renewed Lloyd B Mann’s contract for a sixth year granting life tenure if he so chooses. The Beech Grove school returned to the state commission list after a new unit was added and other requirements met, clearing the way for Mann’s continued leadership amid P T A opposition to life tenure.
The board of public safety authorized a direct by mail subscription campaign to raise funds for the police and firemen emergency fund after talks with business groups who opposed the circus. The committee said businesses favored raising the full fund rather than endorsing the circus with 75 percent for promotion and expenses.
In Princeton Indiana on March 28 a baby girl named Jeanette Rose Mounts born to Mr and Mrs Edgar Mounts astonished doctors by arriving with a perfectly formed front upper tooth. Both mother and infant are doing nicely.
Mrs. Lucia Johnson Bing of Ohio outlines equal opportunity and government responsibility for child health education and care at the Ohio Valley regional child welfare conference opening at Claypool. She critiques civil service laws while Judge Frank J. Lahr of Marion juvenile court speaks at the session.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Oaklandon Universalist church for Charles E. Warren 73 of 419 East Forty-eighth Street who died Thursday at Methodist Hospital. Burial in Oaklandon cemetery. Survived by widow and son Clarence N. Warren. Warren born in Williamsville Ohio. long connected with traction and railway business. member of Order of Railway Conductors and Knights of Pythias.
Pupils from School 2 at Delaware and Walnut streets dash into streets for a week of spring vacation. Lieutenant Owen warns motorists to watch for youngsters as warnings from parents police and officials go unheeded.
State wide business survey notes improved conditions in Newcastle Kokomo Columbus South Bend Evansville with plant startups expansions and new units. Newcastle adds 500 workers this March and Thomas Manufacturing opens a new plant while Bendix Brake reports 7.4 million earnings with 17 subsidiaries and a 2 million hydraulic brake unit in Los Angeles.
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