Posted inDaily News Sports

Corum’s Race Car Wreck

Picture of 1925 Indianapolis 500 winner Pete De Paolo, sitting in his car (Duesenberg, number 12). 5 men stand behind the car.

News of First Serious Accident of Speedway Season

Thrill for Throngs Arriving Early for 500-Mile Race—Driver Uninjured.

DURAY’S SPEED BURST STANDS AS RECORD

Noted Personages Here to Witness World’s Greatest Motor Classic

Bricks Cool and Experts Predict New Mark.

By Blythe Q. Hendricks

First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.

Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.

News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.

The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.

Posted inUS Civil War

May 24, 1862 – An Omen

We are informed that a full-grown American Engle was observed sitting on the top of the Crescent City Hotel yesterday, remaining near an hour. This is said to signify that…
Posted inDaily News Local Histories Politics

No Secret Order Shall Rule Indiana!

THAT THE TIMES is Catholic—that it is fighting not the Ku-Klux Klan, but the Protestants—is the declaration from Klan quarters as a result of the attack being made by The Indianapolis Times against the Klan.

It is the same declaration that always comes when the Klan is under fire.

Now—

Just as a matter of information:

It so happens that every stock-holder (and there are no bond-holders) in The Times is Protestant.

It further happens that at the present time every corporate official and every operating manager of The Times is a Protestant.

Posted inDaily News Local Histories True Crime

Reformatory Life Has Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley

Photo of Opal Isley

Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls’ School.

REFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for thrills in Opal Isley, 17.

The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert W. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground.

The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her as a tool.