Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 August 1929 — Page 3

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FIlIMY, AUGUST 2, 1929.

ST. LOUIS ROBIN 'SERVICE MEN PAY

LANDS AFTER 420 HOURS OF FLIGHT

Every Endurance Record Is Broken By Two Aviators Jackson and O’Brine.

St. Louis, Mo., July 31-.The end of the record-smashing endurance flight of the St. Louis Robin came at 7:38:30 o’clock (central standard time) last night when its pilots, Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O’Brine descended from the sky, which had been their home for 420 hours 21 minutes. They exceeded the record of the Angeleno by» seven full days at 2:01 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The plane made a perfect landing in the middle of the field with about fifteen thousand spectators watching them. The crowd rushed on the field but a guard of employes from the Curtiss-Robertson Company, sponsors of the flight, protected Jackson and O’Brine. The St. Louis Robin was towed into a space beside the hangar. The field was muddy from a rain storm that began late yesterday, where during the long flight in the air the dust was inches thick. Land Under Flood Lights The plane landed in the glare of flood lights around the field. Flight officials and members of the ground crew assisted the fliers from the plane and with the assistance of guards made a lane through the crowd to a hangar. A few moments later O’Brine and Jackson were examined by physicians and entered an automobile which took them to a downtown hotel, where they were to rest last night after speaking over the radio in a nation-wide hookup. Both men were pronounced in excellent physical condition. O’Brine had gained two pounds since he and Jackson went up July 13, scaling 140 pounds last night against 138 pounds when the flight began. Jackson’s weight was the same as it was when he went aloft, 154 pounds. The heart action of both men was pronounced normal and physicians said their hearing was normal. They convSrsed easily with reporters and friends in the hangar. Came Down for Funeral The fliers said they were influenced to change their plans about remaining aloft 50(1 hours and decided to land last night because of the tragic death Monday of their friend, George Lea Lambert, who was killed in an airplane crash near Lambert-St. Louis field. Both fliers said they desired to attend his funeral this afternoon. JURY SELECTED INDOOR CASE Veterinarian To Go On Trial for Murder of Theora Hix.

RAISE PROPOSED

Recommendations Made As Army Budget Cut Survey Is Started. Washington, July 31.—The interdepartmental pay board Tuesday recommended substantial pay increased all along the line for commissioned and enlisted men in the service. The announcement came as the general staff of the army, acting under orders of President Hoover and Secretary Grood, began its survey of army expenditures with the aim of elimination all unnecessary items, if any, from the War Department. budget. First responsibility for curtailing the military expenses has been placed upon the army itself. After a study by general staff officers of their own divisions, the full information will be laid before a board to be set up within the general staff which will report to the President. Other Branches Included. The navy, marine corps, coast guard, coast and geodetic survey and the public health service also were included in the recommendations of the interdepartmental pay board, which is made up of officers of the various branches. The proposals will be embodied in legislation now being prepared. The pay board in its report used as its base the value of the dollar in 1908 when the last general pay scale was adopted, and said the cost of living had increased 104 per cent since that .time. A summary of salaries for all Federal office holders and employes, showing gains ranging from 25 to 175 per cent during the period, compared with a decrease of 3 per cent for army and navy pay, was included. —o : DIPLOMA MAKES VERY POOR FOOD College Graduate Is Nearly Starved to Death While Looking for Work.

HIGHWAY BUDGE! IS INCREASED TO SUM OF $50,000

Committee Grants Increase After Chief Engineer Says Total Will Not Be Spent.

Columbus, O., July 31.—(UP) — Twelve jurors to decide the guilt or innocence of Dr. ames Snook, accused of the murder of Theora Hix, have been accepted. The jury includes Oleven men and one woman. A thirteOnth juror wijll be chosen before any evidence is taken to act as alternate should any of the twelve become incapaci-

tated.

E. O. Ricketts, defense counsel, offered evidence showing that due to publicity given the case, it was impossible for a prospective juror to be without knowledge or opinipn in the case. Judge Scarlett overruled the challenge saying he was satisfied the jury secured would give Snook a fair trial. — o Lindy and Bride Escape Accident Columbus, O., July 31.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh narrowly averted a serious accident at Port Columbus late yesterday when a tire of their plane blew ont in landing. The plane started to ground loop but the colonel was able to right it after scraping a wing oh the runWay. The occupants escaped uninjured and the plane rvas but slightly damaged. The plane skidded halfway around When the tire blew out. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh were landing after a flight from St. Louis and intended continuing on to fJOAV York last night. Col. Lindbergh directed mechanics to replace the tire and straighten the tail ski, which was bent in the accident. The Lindberghs were flying In the colonel’s Curfiss-Falcon, a high-speed two-passenger, open cockpit plane. — oDeposed Consul Held By Police San Francisco, Cal., July 31. — Francisco Perez, dismissed three days ago from his post as Guatemalan consul-general in San Francisco, was arrested here yesterday by police after he was alleged to have shot and wounded Celso De Leon, member of a prominent family in Guatemala. Witnesses who captured, Perez after the shooting said he fired three shots at DeLeon, who was sitting in a street car . Perez recently reported to police that unnamed “enemies” had ransacked the Guatemala, consulate.

Lumber Dealers Protest Rates

Chicago, July 31.—Lumber dealers in Illinois and elsewhere in the Central Freight Association territory, embracing the states of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, are unable to compete with dealers in adjoining states, perhaps only a few miles away, because of a 10-cent differential in lumber freight rates from West coast points, effective at the Illinois line, witnesses at the interstate commerce commission hearing at the Edgewater Beach hotel declared today. The hearing is being conducted by O. L. Mohundro, examiner for the commission, with more than eighty counsel, representing shippers, lumber dealers and thb railroads in attendance.

Indianapolis, July 31.—A $500,000 increase in the maximum allowance for salaries in the construction division of the state high way commission was authorized

HOOVER ASSURES M’NUTT DEFENSE IS NAVAL OBJECT

Legion Head Is Misinformed, President Says in Reply To Criticism.

Washington, July 31.—President Hoover said yesterday in a letter to Paul V. McNutt, ,national commander of the American Legion, that parity with Great Britain “is enunciated l>;. our naval aiilhori-

for the fiscal year 1929-1930 by the I ties as a complete defense of the state budget committee yesterday. I United States in any contingency.”

The action followed an all-day conference of the committee during which members of the highway commission were called in to explain the proposed budget. Governor Harry G. Leslie sat with the committee during part of

its deliberations.

Boosts Total of $1,120,720 The increased allowance for salaries brings the total maximum which the^congtruction department may spend annually to $1,120,720. The department had asked an increase of approximately $600,000 bringing its total permitted expenditure for salaries to $1,218,560. Under the new schedule the construction division can increase its force from 256 employes to 559. William J. Titus, chief engineer, and John J. Brown, commission director, explained that the maximum asked would be spent, but that a flexible budget was sought for the department. Mr. Titus said that the work being seasonal, a larger force is required duriijg the construction period than during the remainder of the year. To Keep Under Budget.

Defense, the President added, is all that America is seeking. Mr. Hoover’s letter was in reply to a communication from the legion commander in which the letter criticized the chief executive’s action in postponing the building of three cruisers as tending toward disparity with England. At the same time McNutt suggested that, instead of deferring cruiser construction, America should build up its fleet of vessels of this kind until it is equivalent to that of Great

Britain.

Follows Situation Closely That the President is following the naval developments and the conversations in London between Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister MacDonald closely was signalized yesterday in a visit to the White House by Secretary of Slate Stimson and Joseph P. Gotten. assistant secretary of state. The State Department officials took with them a copy of a telegram from London reporting on the conference yesterday, in which Hugh S. Gibson, American ambasjsador io Belgium and head of the American delegations of the

During the morning Mr. Titus i League of Nations preparatory pledged the budget committee that j Disarmament commission, also he would not expend more than I participated. AfteV meeting with $550,000 for salaries during the! the Presi Dent, neither Mr. Stimson fiscal year, if the larger amount lior Mr. Cotton would comment.

were allowed, thus keeping under

the budget.

At the same time Mr. Titus said the salary expenditures for the fiscal year 1930-1931 would not exceed $950,000. The budget committee, however, did not take any action for the second fiscal year

of the biennium.

Mr. Titus and Mr. Brown told the committee that the department has less than 14 per cfent of its em-

ployes on maximum salaries and j ; niDOrtaT1( -. e . J sought, under the proposed new |

budget, to give competent employes increases “so the department

can keep them.”

Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne Democratic member of the commit-

Mr. Hoover said in his letter to Mr. McNutt that he was glad to have the assurance that the American Legion supports the policy of parity and went on to say that “the first step of the renewed consideration of reduction of the excessive world naval armament has been acceptance of that principle as a preliminary to discussion between Great Britain and the United States.” The chief executive termed this “a forward step of the first

New York, July 31.—New York crowd gathered. He was heard to They could walk the streets for a year and never get as much as

a friendly glance. , A young man collapsed at Broad- ttee, expressed doubt of the wisdom

way and 88th street last night. A crow dgathered. He was heard to mutter something about being

hungry.

Someone in the crowd slipped away and reappeared with coffee and sandwiches from a restaurant. The young man ate and collapsed again. An ambulance arrived, and the doctor announced the young man was starving. There was a movement in the crowd, a hat was passed and in a few minutes a purse of $100 was collected. A woman who had stopped her car at the scene took the young man away, promising him a night's lodging and train fare home. The young man was Ernest Barber, 23, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, who had come here with his diploma and high hopes to make his fortune, but had been unable to find work. When he collapsed he had not eaten in three days.

Better Wages Are Ford’s Prediction

Refuse Jobs As License Judges Indianapolis, July 31.—Two members of the Indiana Legislature, recently hamed special driver’s license judges, yesterday notified Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, that they would not accept the appointments. * They are William Bosson, Jr. of ludianapodis, member of the House of Representatives, and State Senator Roscoe Martin of Logansport. Neither of the appointees had formally accepted the posts. In a letter to Mr. Fifield, Mr. Bossom stated that he did not wish to resign as a member of the House, an action which would be necessary had We accepted the post under the secretary of state. Mr. Martin called upon the secretary of state yesterday to convey world that he would not accept the appointment. He stated that his business in Logansport, where he is engaged , in the insurance field and practice of law, was such that, he could not afford to abandon it for a state position.

of authorizing the department to spend more than was required. Under the new policy of the department, as outlined by Mr. Titus the maintenance budget wll be cut from $4,00,000 to $1,500,000. The maintenance division will deal exclusively with keeping up the roads. Under the old method of operation that division was largely engaged in laying asphalt and asphalt, cement roadways .especially

in resurfacing roads.

The department expects to increase its pavement program about 36 per cent next year, according to Mr. Titus. This increased program, made possible by the 1-cent increase in the state gasoline tax, requires additional men and larger outlays for salaries, he explained.

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FRANCE IS GIVEN TIME BY MELLON Secretary Postpones Collection of $400,000,000 Until Congress Acts on Pact.

Washington, July 31.—Secretary Mellon yesterday made public notes exchanged with Ambassador Claudbl of France, constituting the agreement between the United States and France for postponing the maturity date of the $400,000,000 war supplies debt to this

country.

In advising the ambassador of the postponement, Secretary Mellon called attention to the reconvening of Congress next month and expressed the opinion that “the Mellon Berenger agreement will receive consideration at an early date.” The agreement was reached after ratification by France of the war debt amounting to $4,025,000,000. Mr. Mellon told the ambassador that collection of the war supply debt maturing August 1, would be postponed until the agreement has been approved or disapproved by Congress, but “in no event shall the date be postponed beyond May

1, 1930.”

France to Pay Interest He said it was understood that the French republic agreed to pay interest on the obligation until the agreement is acted upon by Congress. It is provided, however, that if the settlement is approved, the amount paid as interest will be credited to annuities specified in the Melkm-Berenger agreement. It is further specified that it Congress gives approval to the plan, France, within a reasonable time thereafter, will pay to the United States such additional amounts as might be necessary to bring to a current basis the payments due up to that time under the terms of the agreement. o ^ Choral music composed by Robert White, organist at, Westminster Abbey from 1579 t«o 1574, was sung at the abbey by a choir of 300

Detroit, Mich., July 31.— ‘Wages are bound to become better in this country,” Henry Ford,: one of the greatest industrial figures of modern civilization, asserted today on the occasion of his 66th birthday. “No one can say what, the limit of wages will be. Look to a day, when there will he exact equality between income and outgo— all that comes into a business will flow out again. Business in that day is not going to work for profits but for the satisfaction of keeping the machinery of social supply in good workingorder. “For the end of life is not business but what business can do for the people. Don’t get the idea that business without profits is visionary. The margin of profits grows narrower and narrower all the time. When a balance is struck the world will be in a position to make a new discovery in the economics of human service.” o 2 APOLIGIZING BANDITS TAKE $50 AT GUN POINT

Indianapolis, July 31.—Out of work and broke! This was the excuse given by two men Monday for becoming bandits. After apologizing courteously and telling their victim “not to be afraid” they forced a filling station attendant at the point of pistols to turn over approximately $50. They departed whistling. : o LINCOLN DEATH WITNESS, 89, DIES AT BLOOMINGTON

Bloomington, Ind., July 31. — With the death here of Mrs. Emma Claybrook, 89 years old, Monroe county lost its only witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Claybrook was in the Ford theater in Washington when Lincoln was shot. — o Mrs. E. C. Marmon Is Accident Victim Rochester, Ind., Aug. 1—Mrs. Elizabeth C. Marmon, 80, of Indianapolis, widow of Daniel W. Mhrmon, pioneer Indianapolis manufacturer, was perhaps fatally injured yesterday and R. C. Finneychaffeur, also was seriously injured, when her automobile crashed into a heavy gravel truck, three miles north of here on Federal Road 31. Mrs. Marmon and Finney were brought to the Woodlawn Hospital here, where it is said Mrs. Marmon’s injuries might prove fatal. She suffered scalp wounds and is believed to have been internallly in jo red. Finney suffered several fractured ribs and possible internal injuries. o As a rseult of a new air mail schedule, letters mailed in New York at 6 o’clock in the evening are delivered in San Francisco

Notice To Taxpayers Of Tax Levies In the Matter of Determining the Tax Rates for Certain Purposes by thtf City of Muncitf, Indiana. Before the Common Council of The City of Muncie, Indiana. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of the City of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality, at their regular meeting place in The Council Chamber, in the City Hall, Muncie, Indiana, on the 19th day of August, 1929, will consider the following budget:

BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR CITIES. GENERAL FUND

3,000.00

175.00 200.00

3,375.00

Mayor’s Office

Personal service $ Contractual service ___ Supplies

Total Controller’s Office

Personal service 7,600.00 Contractual service 600.00 Supplies LOUO.OO Current charges 12.50 Properties 890.00 Total 10,102.50

City Clerk’s Office

Personal service Contractual service __ Supplies Current Charges Propetties

Total . City Treasurer’s

Personal service Supplies -- Current charges Total

City Judge’s Office

Personal service 3,600.00

3.000. 00 126.00 200.00

9.00

325.00

3.660.00

Office

2.000. 00

200.00 150.00

2.350.00

Total 10,100.00 Department of Law

Contractual service Supplies __ Current charges — il Properties Total

Common Council

Personal service —

Contractual service

Current charges - 2,230.00

Personal service 3,000.00 Contractual service 1,105.00 Supplies 100.00 Current charges 12.50 Properties _ 100.00 Total —_ 4,317.50

Auditor’s Office

Personal service 500.00 Sinking Fund Commission Personal service 100.00 Current charges 37.50 Total ________________ 137.50 Department of Public Works Personal service 67,350.00 Contractual service 138,275.00 Supplies 16,775.00 Materials 11,000.00 Current charges 3,500.00 Properties 29,700.00 Special Board of works item, paving and curb and gutter on Nichols Avenue from Kilgore Avenud to Godman Avenue: Personal service, contractual service and materials 22,650.00

Engineer’s Office

Personal service 13,720.00 Contractual service 230.00 Supplies 960 00

3,900.00 Current charges 15.00

Total Engineer’s office 14,925.00 j Commissioner of Building’s Office

175.00

200.00

12.50

100.DO 4087.50

3,970.00

Personal service —

Contractual service _.

Supplies Materials

Current charges Properties _j_.

Total Commissioner Buildings’ Office Total Department Public Works DEPARTMENT of

SAFETY

Board of Public Safety

5,460.00 Personal service 1,960.00

194.00

890.00 200.00 50.00

9.00

__ 6,743.00

of

__ 304.918.60

PUBLIC

1,200.00

160.00 600.00 22.50

4,000.00 5,982.50

Personal service

Contractual service Supplies Current charges Properties Total

Police Department

Personal service 96,870.00 Contractual service 1,585.00 Supplies 5,000.00 Materials-^ 700.00 Current charges 350.00

Properties

total

service

4,700.00

450.00 168.45 750.00

Contractual

Supplies Current charges Properties Personal and contractual service, supplies, materials and properties expense of quarantine, upkeep and maintenance isolation hospital

etc. 4,000.00 Total Board of Health 12,028.45 Total general fund __ 600,304.95 BUDGET CLASSIFICATION

SPECIAL FUNDS City Plan Commission

Personal service 2,000.00 Contractual sefvice 800.UU Supplies 400 U0 Total 3,20(J.U0

Department of Aviation

Personal service 10,560.00 Contractual service 2,675.00 Supplies 3,497.00 3,650.00 J Materials ____ 200.00

_ 108,155.00 j Current charges _______ 2,250.00

Fird Departfne'rtt | Total 19,182.00 Personal service 106,215.00 Department of Public Parks Contractual service 4,071.001 Personal service 20,591.00

Supplies 4,005.00 j Contractual service

Properties 16,300.00 Total 130,591.00

Total Department Public

Safety 244,728.50

Department of Ptrblic Health

„ ^ - 9,635.00 Supplies 2,740.00 Materials _____________ 2,775.00 Current charges 535 no Properties 5,091.50 Total _______ 41,367.50

Complete detail estimate may be seen in the offree of City Controller. ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAfSED.

Sinking

Fnnft

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Deduct Misc. Revenue incoming year Subtract line 2 from line 1 Unexpended App. July 31st Of present

Temporary loans to be paid by Dec. 31, 1929 Total (lines 3, 4, 5 and 6)

Tax to be collected present year (Dec. Misc. Rev. to be collected present year

Subtract line 11 from line 7 Est. working bal. for six months after close of next year Amt. to be raised-by tax levy (add lines 12 and 13)

Corporation

Park

Aviation

Fund

Fund

Fund

__ $600,304.95

$41,367.50

$19,182.00

___ 12,000.00

1,200.00

588,304.95

40,167.50

19,182.00

210,919.25

25,628.66

___ 50,000.00

12,500.00

___ 849,224.20

78,296.16

___ 42,916.81

32,914.75

225,523.07

20,224.22

4,000.00

400.00

272,439.88

53,538.97

19,182.00

___» 576,784.32

24,757.19

.___ 100,000.00

22,000.00

9,596.00

___ .676,784.32

46,757.19

28,778.00

City Plan Fund

$62,687.68 $3,200.00

Firemen’s Pension Fund $6,268.76

Police Pension Fund $6,268.76

62,687.68 3,200.00 6,268.76 6,268.76

above budget items, by addition or deduction, but taken in account in makinfg estimate of budget items,

r ' • * - PROPOSED LEVIES . , .

COMPARATfVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED

AND TO BE COLLECTED.

Number of Taxable Polls

Name of Fund

Net Taxable Property $62,687,680.00

6,320Levy Oh Amount to Property Be Raised $ .94 $676,784.32 .10 46,757.19 .05 28.778.00 .10 62,687.68 .005 v 3,200.p0 .01 6,268.76 .01 6,268.76 $1,215 $830,744.71

Levy On

Polls

Corporation $ .50 Park Fhnd Aviation Sinking ; City Plan Firemen Pension Police Pensihn Tol til $ .50

Name of Fund Collected Collecfed 1926 Levy 19‘27 Levy 1. Corporation $300,788.08 $336,575.21 2. Park Fund 36,412.52 37,490.32 3. Aviation 4. Sinking 60,542.91 59,159.54 5. City Plait 2,994.61 2,957.54 6. Firemen Pension _ 6,054.28 5,915.04 7. Police Pension ___ 6,05‘4.2S 5,915.04 Total —__-$442,8'46.68 $448,003.69

Collected 1928 Levy $435,703.96 42,449.72 60,788.31 3,030.41 6,078.83 6,078.83 $554,139.06

To Be Colletited 1929 Levy $676,784.32 46,757.19 28,778.00 62,687.68 3,200.00 6,268.76 6,268.76 $830,744.71

Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. After the levies have been determined, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggreived by such levies, may appeal to the state Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final action thereon, by filling a petition therefor with the County Auditor not later than the Fourth Monday of September, and the State Board AVill fix a date of hearing in this county. 1 Dated at the City of Muncie, Indiana, this 22nd day of July, 1929. Cofnmon Council of City of Muncie, Indiana. Herbert S. Wallace, President of Council. George H. Koons, City Attorney. . . Maynel W. Dalby, City Clerk.

Wash Day The most dreaded day of the week during the hot season. Let us call for and deliver Tour fatmily washings and make this day a pleasant one. Where the Good Work Comes From. Service and Satisfaction. We Wash With Soft Water. SUPERIOR WET WASH LAUNDRY

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Phone 911

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