Architects Selected to Plan News Homes

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, June 24, 1925:  Indianapolis architects Pierre & Wright have been selected to design five homes for the great $200,000 (2024:  $3,653,142) home building project sponsored by The Indianapolis News.  The purpose of this undertaking is to acquaint the public with harmonious and satisfactory modern and artistic residences. Homes representing French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Colonial styles have been selected to demonstrate the discernment of combining beauty and useful art with sturdy utility in building that ideal of every true American – a real home.  Working with a landscape architect, Pierre & Wright will select the five home-sites from land under consideration by the News that provides natural beauty – wooded terraces and a restful vista for tired eyes – and accessibility.  Every step of development from groundbreaking to final landscaping details will be closely followed by the News.

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“Architects Selected to Plan News Homes,” The Indianapolis News, 24 June 1925, p. 1:6

Stephenson Wins State Evidence

From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, June 16, 1925:  A copy of the dying declaration of Madge Oberholtzer, for whose murder former Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson and his co-defendants Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry are charged, was given to the defense at today’s bail hearing for the defendants.  The dying declaration was made available to the defense by Marion County prosecutor William Remy with the condition that the defense would agree to introduce it in evidence.  After introducing the statement as evidence, the defense made a motion to strike out its vital points which was overruled by Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Fred E. Hines and the dying declaration stood as originally signed by Madge Oberholtzer.  Later, Judge Hines denied bail for Stephenson and his co-defendants, and they will continue to remain in jail pending their trial.

"Stephenson Wins State Evidence," The Indianapolis Times, 16 June 1925, p. 1:7

Police With Sawed-Off Shotguns for City

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, June 11, 1925: “Bullets for Bandits” will be the slogan of the proposed crusade to confront the growing menace of bank banditry in Indianapolis.  With 24 bank holdups in the city in the last two weeks, a special meeting of the city’s safety board met this afternoon and Mayor Lew Shank issued orders for police officers, armed with sawed-off shotguns, to be stationed in each bank of the city for the protection of the banks until some other arrangements for protection can be made.  Officers will be ordered to shoot to kill when bandits attempt to hold up a bank.  “They will be told not to try to capture the bandits, but to shoot at once to kill,” the Mayor said motorcycle police will keep watch in the vicinity of banks in the residential districts.   

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“Police With Sawed-Off Shotguns for City,” The Indianapolis News, 11 June 1925, p. 1:1