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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1924
Page
1
Councilmen urge state board of accounts to probe municipal finances amid push for a new $130,000 edifice at the Poor Farm, recommending its razing and reconstruction to replace aging buildings.
Marion County council inspected Julietta asylum and nearby poor farm buildings after reports of sagging cross beams and cracked cement floors. They urged State examiner Lawrence Orr to inspect and consider razing and reconstruction due to imminent collapse risk and fire hazards.
Former Vice President Thomas R. Marshall opened the 107th annual meeting of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Masons at Masonic Temple. Grand Master Charles A. Lip pincott presided. A special train will take the lodge to visit the Masonic Home at Frankin Ind Wednesday morning.
Police hunted four convicts believed to be escaped from Jackson Michigan after a vehicle theft in Detroit. The men, seen near Pennsylvania and Washington Streets, sped away at a traffic signal as squads scoured the east city area. A telegram said they were headed toward Indianapolis.
Edward O. Snethen president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs announced the federation regular meeting scheduled for Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce has been changed to Friday June 3.
The housing bureau of the Chamber of Commerce with 1500 rooms listed warns of heavy demand from strangers Wednesday and Thursday. It asks hosts to have someone at home to receive callers and notes calls by phone won’t be possible before 9 p m due to last minute demand. Headquarters are set in its Illinois and Washington Street booth.
Horace Horne aged six crossed the ocean solo from Margate England to Canada. He traveled by train and the Minnesota steamer, proving fearless at sea while admitting nerves about unfamiliar streets in Toronto. He says he came to find his father and will stay near him until grown.
Washington May 27 sources say President Coolidge will sign the new tax bill. House and Senate passage plus a Mellon office statement bolster expectations. Treasury will report on revenue impact. he must act by June 7 or risk a pocket veto if Congress adjourns.
Bishop William Montgomery Brown of Gallion Ohio faces a Protestant Episcopal tribunal in Cleveland on charges of heresy over his book Communism and Christianity. He says he has wired noted scientists to judge his case and will accept their findings if the church ousts him. He plans to press his virgin birth and miracle questions before the bishops.
Governor Emmett Branch calls Adjutant General Harry Smith and three Army officers to observe the Carpentier Gibbons bout in Michigan City to advise civil authorities on its status as a boxing contest. The observers include Gen. L. R. Gignilliatt Culver Military Academy Capt. B. B. Latamore and Maj. Albert H. Whitcomb.
E Howard Cadle says he will seek court action to stop the Sahara Grotto Speedfest if the Cadle Tabernacle contract is violated. He has not asked for the show but expects no breach. Cadle warned the event could be halted Friday and Saturday if not approved.
At a noon Chamber of Commerce meeting Frank B. Flanner announced $1,500 more was raised toward the Salvation Army fresh air camp. The drive will continue until the quota is met and total gifts now stand at $6,500. New workers listed include Rev. Leroy James H C Mitchell C B E Clift Lee Bishop George M Spiegel W R Kemper Clem C Voorhis A P Stephenson Mervin Hammel Harry Shapiro E L Barr A H Adams W A Jones W R Hancock J G Thomas and K M Mosiman.
Paroled by ex Governor McCray from a state prison where he was held for life for habitual crime, Howard Cerf committed suicide in Topeka Kansas after arrest by Kansas police. Prison reform worker Lesli Lee Sanders said Cerf wrote of being hounded and playing the game against odds.
Ellsworth Maine May 27 Ronald MacDonald 15 held after confessing to the brutal murder of teacher Louise Gerrish 19. The boy shot her with buckshot took rings and watch and buried the body in a shallow grave. His 13 year old brother is held as a material witness.
World War veteran Wilfred Riley aged 30 will receive funeral services Wednesday morning at the National Sanitarium in Marion Indiana where he died Monday. He served in the aviation corps in France and was gassed and shell shocked. He is survived by sisters and a brother in Indianapolis.
Jimmy Murphy wins pole as Miller cars dominate the front rows for the Indianapolis 500 with 108.04 mph four lap pace. Harry Hartz, Tommy Milton, Joe Boyer, Bennie Hill, Karl Cooper and others line up in a Miller strong field amid record early qualifying speeds and a crowd swelling toward Drivers Day.
Corporation Counsel Taylor Groninger was four days late with his protest against the taxation valuation of the Indianapolis Water Company. John J. Brown, chairman of the State tax board, noted the $17,500,000 valuation, an increase of $5,414,300 over last year, to offset possible court rulings on rate making. Brown stated final protest day was Monday and explained the valuation strategy tied to court outcomes. Hoosier business leaders praised Music Week success and outlined plans for 1925 observances by the Chamber of Commerce arts committee chair.
A. B. Crampton, former Indiana G A R commander and Marion Soldiers Home governor, predicts Memorial Day marches will continue as long as veterans remain. He cites Arthur Coffin of Newcastle as the youngest Indiana boy in the ranks, a drummer who joined at 14.
A reporter counted 123 women and 234 men passing in ten minutes. Twenty two women wore cotton hose while three had dresses hiding stockings. Five straw hats were seen among 234 men. Thirteen of 122 passenger cars were driven by women, showing women drivers rare but present.
Delegates to the Minnesota Democratic State convention will be chosen via county conventions across the state. The meeting in St Paul will endorse a State ticket for the June 16 primaries, adopt a platform, and select delegates to the National convention in New York. A McAdoo supporters vs opponents struggle is anticipated.
Hammond Indiana police detained Daniel Lesager 34 after discovering the body of a woman believed to be Edna Gregory of Bedford in a hotel room. Authorities think the woman killed herself.
The Edge bill raising salaries for 300000 postal service employees passed the Senate 73 to 3 and goes to the House. Estimated cost ranges from 60 million to 85 million dollars with clerks and carriers receiving about 300 dollars yearly.
Arthur J. Jones of White & Jones, acting as administrator for three estates in sixty days, handles a Chinese burial costed at 265.02 and six cats two parrots one aged 28 and a horse, plus a laundry business stake and bank funds. He questions when funeral duties end as rites continue and bones are buried years later.
Cyclones devastate Mississippi and Alabama for the second time this month. Authorities report 30 believed dead, with scores injured and extensive property damage across affected counties.
A powerful storm system swept Mississippi and Alabama killing between twenty five and thirty people and injuring about forty. It struck near Jackson Mississippi first, then Creelton Alabama where a family of eight died. The same gale damaged Elkmont and Gadsden Georgia and caused telegraph and telephone outages as Atlanta streetcar service paused during morning peak hours. Weather rain followed the winds with widespread destruction.
Twenty nine known dead in dispatches from Alabama and Mississippi. Two storms struck the region, one in the south central area causing the greatest loss, the other in the north. Casualties by town include Creelton Alabama ten dead and six injured. Johnson Station Mississippi one dead and five injured. Carminchel Mississippi seven dead. Bay Springs Mississippi one dead and one injured. Waynesboro Mississippi two dead. Elkmont Alabama eight killed. Gasden Alabama eight injured.
A night tornado swept Mississippi causing widespread damage and loss. Brookhaven area fatalities loom, Collins reports two dead with several injured, Rollins damaged with twelve hurt, a plantation near Greenville claims three Black victims, Jones County hospitals overwhelmed with injured.
Benjamin Batchfield told police he saw a man steal his car from parking at Vermont and Alabama Streets, pursue him by following to a second vehicle, and call police. the thief had fled before officers arrived.
Adolph Popritz a waiter answering the Johnson description was arrested on the Chicago south side in the kidnapping and murder case of 14 year old Robert Franks. Police seized a matching gray car and a typewriter tied to a ransom note as diggings began to recover clothing and locate the boy.
Two masked men entered the home of Raymond Mills in Noblesville Indiana on Monday night while Mills was away bound and gagged Mrs Mills and drove off in an automobile. Mrs Mills was not injured and a king was stolen from the house. Police search for suspects.
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