The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-30

| ClFAIdH COIlSeIFdtlOn corps camps
swallowed up more unemployed.
Sporadic labor union disputes broke
out.
National Measures Felt
Drastic reductions in the city bud
get bitterly were contested by real
/ tors and school authorities. Dupli-
cations in city Offices and padding
OF utility rates were revealed by The
Times. Utility rate skirmished
f1amed through the courts and news
papers. Municipal ownership of the
| the Citizens Gas Company and the
indianapolis Water Company was
proposed. A petition for natural gas
was denied. South side community
clubs initiated a drive for track eIe-
walton. Startling Discrepancies and
inequalities in property tax valua-
ton were revealed by The Times.
McNutt Patronage Attacked
Daring flight of ten desperate
criminals from the Indiana state
prison, Michigan City, Sept. 26, was
followed by an unbroken reign of
terror in the state for a month,
sweeping through headlines over the
nation. Attacks against the de
serving Democrat" policy that re-
placed a veteran warden with poll
tician hundred at Governor McNutt
and his patronage dispenser, Pleas
Greenlee
Staying an Ohio sheriff to free
John Dillinger, implicated in the
Massachusetts, Avenue $4,000 bank
raid, the mobsterS plundered state
banks. One convict was seized i'm
mediately following the prison
break and another was killed by
stralght-shooting Brown county
farmers. Harry Copeland, parole
violator and Dillinger lieutenant.
was returned to prison after his ar
rest in Chicago.
Tragedy marked the capture of
mobster Edward Shouse by state DO
lice as state officer Eugene league
OF indianapolis was slain by bullet
intended for Shouse.
City Policeman Shot
Bandits ruthlesSly shot city police
sergeant Lester Jones as he sur
priSed them Feb. 7. Suspects we're
held. An audacious plot to free the
suspects from Marion county iaiI
was disclosed. Two slayers pleaded
guilty and were given life sentences.
The trial of one suspect, Willie
Mason, ended with jury dismissal.
An employe was seriously wounded
in gun duel as bandits fled from
the Hamilton-Harris tobacco ware
house here. Citizens were alarmed
over furry of milk poisoning. A
city man was held in the degrading
Illinois torture murder of an old
woman.
Demure musician Rheta Wyne-
koop, indianapolis, was murdered in
the home of her eccentric mother
in-law at Chicago. Hundreds
thronged the funeral here.
State teachers we're shocked to
learn that $4,000 was stolen from
their fund. Miss Cora Steele, Terre
Haute pedagog, was held.
Dual control Of Butler university
was charged and bitter internal
Wrangles were revealed by the sud-
den resignation of DR.. Walter T
Athearn, president. De Paw uni
verSity was stirred by Investigations
OF the powerful American Associa-
ton OF University Professors.
Floods Rout Families
Families were driven out of Their
homes into zero weather March 81
as state rivers overran their banks.
spreading damage and devastation.
SIX deaths, two in indianapolis, were
reported during the White river
Hood, May Is. Mrs. Virginia
Jenckes, Indiana congresswoman.
launched a campaign in congress for
hood relief appropriations.
Russell Boardman, world famous
speed fiier, crashed to his death at
the Municipal airport July l. United
States investigators entered the
probe of the fatal airplane crash
near Chesterton in which seven
persons met terrible death. Six
farmers were killed as the truck IN
which they were returning from the
Worlds fair struck an auto near
South Bend. Razing a CraWfords-
vile downtown block, a huge fire
caused 81 900 900 damage.
indianapolis felt the loss of six of
its most prominent citizens who
passed on during the year. The Rt.
Rev. Joseph Chartrand, beloved
bishop Of the Indianapolis Catholic
diocese; Milo Stuart, assistant
school superintendent; DR.. Mary H.
Young, foundation psychiatrist: j.
P. Frenzel, civic leader and banker.
Russell Rottger, Indiana Bell TEL
ephone Company, vice president,
and Woods Caperton. former Eli
Lilly Company executive.
Meyer Wins at Speedway
Louis Meyer, west coast speed
demon, flashed across the tape at
the annual Speedway classic to set
a new winning record Martins
vile upset Greencastle to win the
state basketball crown Notre Danes
Ramblers lost their driving punch
to struggle through a depressing
season only to rise to gridiron sum-
mitS by defeating the hitherto I'M
beaten Army team. Elmer Layden,
one Of the illustrious -Four Horse
men" returned to South Bend as
athletic director and football coach.
Hunk Anderson.
Filled with hope and vague pre-
dictinns the new wear 1921 aWalls