Views Expressed on Race Problem

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, January 1, 1924:  Equality of opportunity for all races and opposition to war as a denial of Christian principles was the general feeling among the more than 7,000 Christian students from the major American educational institutions attending the ninth quadrennial convention of the Student Volunteer Movement at the Cadle Tabernacle.  The race problem and war were the two questions discussed more generally in the forty-nine discussion groups which met during the convention.  The third question receiving the most consideration was whether Western civilizations have any right to impose their type of life and thought on foreign peoples, but no summary of this question was presented.  The five student speakers who summarized the views of the discussion groups were men because it was impossible to find women students whose voices could be heard throughout the auditorium.

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“Views Expressed on Race Problem,” The Indianapolis News, 1 January 1924, p. 1:4 

McCray is Named in 8 Indictments

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, November 30, 1923: Gov. Warren McCray was accused of embezzlement, grand larceny, forgery, false statements, obtaining money under false pretenses, and issuing fraudulent checks in an eight-count indictment issued today by the Marion County grand jury. McCray is charged with embezzling $10,000 (2022: $176,658) of state money, $155,000 (2022: $2,738,192) from the Indiana state board of agriculture, and $25,000 (2022: $441,644) from the Discount & Deposit State Bank in Kentland, Indiana. He also is accused of writing checks totaling $6,665.38 (2022: $117,742) on the Kentland bank when he had no funds in the bank. The investigation began with a request from the Marion National Bank, one of McCray’s creditors. A special prosecutor started the inquiry October 5, 1923 after Marion County prosecutor, William P. Evans, recused himself because he is a son-in-law of the governor.

“McCray is Named in 8 Indictments,” The Indianapolis Times, 30 November 1923, p. 1:2

Full Benefits of Sewage Plant Will Cost $560,000 More

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, November 22, 1923:  Plans have been made for interceptor sewer extensions on Fall Creek and Pleasant Run.  Under present conditions only 80 percent of the daily sewage flow will be drained into the disposal plant with the remainder continuing to pour into White River without the interceptors.  The interceptors will collect sanitary sewage while storm water is permitted to overflow into outfalls reaching the water courses.  Unless heavily loaded with sanitary sewage, storm water is practically innocuous, and during heavy rainfall the sewage in the streams is greatly diluted so it does not become either a nuisance or a menace to health, although it is not potable.    Irvington taxpayers are eager to assume the cost of the Pleasant Run interceptor sewer extension because it will relieve an unsanitary condition that has existed there for years.

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“Full Benefits of Sewage Plant Will Cost $560,000 More,” The Indianapolis Star, 22 November 1923, p. 1:1