The Election - The Klan - The Future

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, November 7, 1924:  Republican Ed Jackson, Ku Klux Klan candidate for governor, has been elected and although he ran 100,000 votes behind President Coolidge in Indiana, the Klan is welcome to claim as much credit as it wishes.  With the next Indiana legislature overwhelmingly Republican, there will be little trouble in putting through regular G.O.P. measures at the next session.  Where friction may arise, however, is that the House is overwhelmingly Ku Klux Klan and the Klan strength in the Senate is unknown.  Leaders point out that Klan policies will be introduced as set out in a recent proclamation by Walter Bossert, grand dragon.  Among those measures are compulsory teaching of the Bible in public schools, abolition of private and sectarian schools, segregation of negroes, and stringent Blue laws applying to Sunday theaters and baseball.

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“Easy Path Seen for Republicans in Legislature,” The Indianapolis Times, 7 November 1924, p. 2:4

"The Election – The Klan – The Future,” The Indianapolis Times, 5 November 1924, p. p. 1:4

Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, October 30, 1924:  Indianapolis residents will be able to listen to the broadcasting of Indiana and national election returns next Tuesday evening over the new radio station WFBM.  The Merchants Heat & Light Co received a Class A broadcasting license yesterday from the U. S. Department of Commerce that provides for the operation of a 250-watt station on South Harding St which will primarily relay programs sent out by higher-powered stations such as Westinghouse station KDKA in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  WFBM was established to give the several thousand owners in Indiana of small crystal receiving sets the advantage of getting programs from larger distant stations.  C. A. Portman will operate the station.  Radio listeners in the city have been without a local broadcasting station since WHO and WLK ceased operations more than a year ago.

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“Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday,” The Indianapolis News, 30 October 1924, p. 14:1

Butler Turns Out for Home-Coming

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, October 18, 1924:  Butler College home-coming celebrations began before noon today with students and alumni on many floats created by campus and Greek-letter organizations and in three hundred autos decorated in Blue and White school colors parading from Irvington to Monument Circle where they were joined by Indianapolis citizens in an enthusiastic pep rally.  Speeches were made from the balcony of the Hotel English followed by yell leader Tommy Smith leading the crowd in a series of yells.  After the demonstration, the parade returned to Irvington where open house was observed by all Butler fraternities and sororities and following the gridiron contest with Centenary College the home-coming events concluded with a bonfire and dance at Carr’s Hall. Delta Tau Delta won the Sphinx Club cup for the most novel float patterned after the Toonerville Trolley.

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“Butler Turns Out for Home-Coming,” The Indianapolis News, 18 October 1924, p. 1:8