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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1930
Page
27
Attorney General Mitchell plans to target manufacturers of sugar yeast molasses and other raw materials supplying bootleggers after July 1 under the dry law enforcement push. He favors indicting suppliers over pursuing thousands of stills and will review agents records with dismissal for habitual drinkers.
A letter from Columbus Ohio signed by J A Colescott imperial representative asks all klan ranks to study the November statewide convention proposal. It invites input from hydras titans furies giants exalted cyclops terrors and klansmen to help the organization decide its policy.
Camel named Volstead, age 14, housed at Central Park Zoo, died after illness described as stomach trouble. Keepers noted he refused food since Monday and water offered had little effect.
Lord Strickland, Malta's prime minister, dodged three shots fired at him by a man believed to be Miller during a violent incident in Malta on May 23. No further details of motive or injury are provided.
State health board ordered the prevention of further pollution of White river and the Indianapolis sanitary district agreed. Raw sewage should be collected and sent to an enlarged sewage disposal plant to use the activated sludge process. Industries are to curb pollution. Thirteen rural schools were closed for unsanitary conditions across Lawrence Fayette Harmony Union Pleasant and Liberty townships in several counties.
W B Nichols of Clinton was elected president of the Indiana Association of Personal Finance Committee at closing sessions in Lincoln. Roy F Hartz of Indianapolis was named first vice president, Joseph P Stratton of Sullivan second vice president, C E Darnell of Indianapolis treasurer, and Paul A Hancock of Indianapolis secretary. The group adopted a new name, previously the Industrial Leaders' Association of Indiana.
Bert S. Gadd of Indianapolis was chosen as president of the Indiana Directors Association succeeding James A. Coffing of Attica. The fiftieth annual convention closed Thursday at the Manufacturers' building on the state fairgrounds. Other officers include Homer E. Hoover of Wabash as first vice president Claude F. Fix of Shelbyville as second vice president John Paul Ragsdale as secretary-treasurer and John S. McGraw of Indiana Harbor as sergeant at arms.
United Press report from Budapest says sixteen people were arrested on charges of secretly organizing a communist movement among agricultural workers. Egypt holds the oldest court records in the world.
Vithalbhai Patel, former president of the Indian legislative assembly, warns in Bombay that violence may replace passive resistance. He plans to seek a Rawal Pindi inquiry into the Peshawar outbreak, warns that nonviolence faith is weakening and extremist elements may seize control, strengthening calls for complete separation from Britain.
Cigarettes and candy served as stakes in late night card games aboard the Byrd south pole expedition. Forty two members received fixed tobacco and candy allowances to substitute for money, while the group kept radio contact with the outside world throughout the Antarctic winter.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt wife of the Porto Rico governor sailed for New York on Thursday departing San Juan May 23 aboard a government vessel accompanying her husband during his term in San Juan and return.
Eric Lund, former North township trustee in Lake County, won a Supreme Court appeal and was admitted to bail set at $15,000. He remains in process of appealing a Lake criminal court sentence of two to fourteen years for misappropriation of poor funds, awaiting perfection of the appeal.
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