Indianapolis Lungs Found Color of Fog

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, October 20, 1922: Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the Indianapolis board of health, is convinced that enough impurities reach the lungs of the city’s citizens from smoky air to have some effect on the public’s health. He said that all autopsies performed in the city show that instead of the lungs being a light pink, the normal color, they are a sort of murky hue, a shade similar to the smoky fog that hangs over Indianapolis. Because of this smoky atmosphere, if a person has lived here six months the lungs will not be a normal color but will be discolored. “Regulations to reduce this smoke nuisance to a minimum should be enforced rigidly. Efficient smoke consuming devices are on the market, and they have been used successfully in other cities,” Dr. Morgan said.

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“Indianapolis Lungs Found Color of Fog,” The Indianapolis News, 20 October 1922, p. 1:5

No More Women to Get on Police Force

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, October 11, 1922: No more women will be appointed to the Indianapolis police department during his administration, Mayor Lew Shank announced today. “The police department is no place for a woman. We can’t use them in patrolling districts and there are more of them in juvenile court now than are needed,” he said. In his campaign last year, Shank criticized the work of the women’s division of the police department. There are now twenty-three policewomen, and Herman Rikhoff, chief of police, announced the system of assigning policewomen to patrolling districts will be abolished tomorrow, and all women will be removed from duty at police headquarters with the exceptions of two teams of women detectives, the prison matrons, and an information clerk. In the future, men will be named to fill vacancies in the women’s division.

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“No More Women to Get on Police Force,” The Indianapolis News, 11 October 1922, p. 1:2

Prepare City as Mail Center

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, August 30, 1922: As a strategic point in the Mid-West in event of a nation-wide railroad strike that interrupts the mail, the United States Post Office is making Indianapolis a distribution center for a large number of postal trucks. Over three hundred three-quarter ton army truck chassis, which may be used in hauling mail in the event of a strike, have been moved from storage at Ft. Harrison to post office shops at Beech Grove where they are being covered with a coating of grease to prevent rust. More than 1,000 trucks have been stored in the former American Radiator Co shops during the last year. As demand for trucks come into the shops, standard bodies required by the postal department are fitted to the chassis and the new bodies are painted an olive green.

“Prepare City as Mail Center,” The Indianapolis Star, 30 August 1922, p. 3:2