Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 23 August 1929 — Page 2
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THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats ot Muncie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postofilce at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR. 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 GEORGE R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 23, 1929.
A Sick Horse Because of his huge and burly stature Otis Edwards was named “Big Horse.” This particular big horse, who contributed to John Hampton’s campaign in 1925 and is now one of the powerful political factors behind the Unity League slate, has been a persistent violator of the law in Muncie. ^ The state of his health did not prevent him from selling liquor and he finds himself able to drive his big car and mingle with his friends here during his technical term of imprisonment on the Indiana State Farm. After exhausting eyery known remedy to cure himself of a legal affliction fastened on him in 1925 for a violation of the liquor law, he discovers that the state of his health absolutely forbids his incarceration and he now roams at large, although he was formally committed six weeks ago to the ^tate farm by Judge Guthrie, after the supreme court had affirmed the action of the lowar court-. Although the committment directed Sheriff McAuley to take Edwards to the state farm, the sheriff decided to keep him at the jail. It is said that a doctor’s certificate figures in the case. Other liquor law victims less prominent because of their comparatively small contraband sales of intoxicating liquor and their correspondingly small political influence, are not treated so considerately. It occurs to the Post-Democrat that it might be well for somebody to find out whether the law means anything at all in Muncie and whether it is possible for a doctor’s certificate to reverse the final decision of a supreme court.
Shysters In the City Court One of the most detestable features of our local police system is the formation of a sort of a syndicate organized to extract the last measly dollar from unfortunates who are arrested daily for petty misdemeanors. Every morning one may see, hovering around the police court like a flock of buzzards, a bunch of shyster lawyers awaiting the arrival of the hurry-up wagon bringing over from the county jail the usual assortment of human derelicts that constitute the nightly grist gathered up by the pofice. These so-called lawyers have their personally employed professional bondsmen on hands, all ready to gignthe bonds for the temporary release of the prisoners. . % • The poor devils want out and fall for the coarse work of the lawyers, who supply the so-called defense and furnish the bondsmen, who collect from the defendants various sums for signing the bonds. Fines are assessed and if the defendants run out of money after paying their lawyers and the professional bondsmen, another crutch is supplied for the victim by anotla^r convemeniL p^triicssiOiial, who “stays” his fine for him, charging him ten dollars for the service. This unutterable group of vultures make their living by extracting from jail victims what little blood is left in their veins after the jail bedbugs get through with them. This practice will be broken up after the first of the year, if it has to be done by throwing the shyster bunch in jail for vagrancy.
Contractors Blacklist Muncie One night recently the editor of the Post-Democrat discussed the question of public improvements with a well known Indiana street contractor, who does honest work and who always bids on the square. Knowing that he had recently taken a large contract in another community at a price a third less than the Muncie “trust” price for work of a similar type, we asked him why he did not come here and enter into competition with the little group that invariably gets the contracts at board of works lettings. “You must think I am crazy,” was his abrupt reply. “There is too much work being done in Indiana cities where the contracts are let on the square for me to waste my time and run the risk of having my pocket picked to boot monkeying around these Muncie burglars. There are two towns in Indiana that all self-respecting contractors fight shy of, Muncie and Bloomington,” said he. “There are other cities where conditions are bad, but these two are known all over the country as the worst in the middle west. “If there ever comes a time that Muncie haS a city administration that wants honest work at the lowest possible price, I will be glad to come in and take my chances, but I am constitutionally opposed to going against somebody else’s sure thing game.” This “quarantine” against outside contractors enables the Muncie paving trust to gouge the people to its heart’s content. The people here who have paid war prices for mediocre work should vote, in an administration that will give them a square deal, and restore the competitive bidding system.
Our Soaring Taxes The disposition of the city council seems to be to approve the city budget for 1930 which calls for an increase of the city tax rate from 70 cents to $1.21 on the one hundred dollars. The democrats went out of power in the city of Muncie in 1921, its retiring act being the approval of a budget of about two hundred thousand dollars for the 1922 expenditures. The various departments of the city have proposed an expenditure of over six hundred thousand dollars for 1929. Of course it will cost more to run the city next year than it did seven years ago, but the amount proposed is entirely out of reason. It seems that our new citizens, brought in from the suburbs against their wishes, and over their violent protest, are to be handed a load that they won’t forget very soon. The present city administration has spent money like water with little or nothing to show for it. When one considers the excessive prices charged by local utilities, without any protest from the city, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars of overcharge by street contractors for public improvements, the almost universal desire here for a change in the management of the city’s affairs may well be understood. The Unity League, which is nothing lucre than the old, discredited Billy Williams organization under a ^ew name.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929.
will perpetuate the same old system if its slate should happen to be successful next November. The people should keep their eyes open and not let such a thing happen.
Police Were Indifferent Theron Hawley, a presser employed at the French Steam Dye Works, driving Sunday evening with his wife and two small children, had his car completely wrecked by a rattle trap car driven and occupied by boys and girls under age. Mr. Hawley’s car, which was a new one he had driven but a few days, was on the right side of the road when the boys drove into him, head on. They had neither driver’s license nor certificate of ownership and their car displayed but one license tag, yet when Mr. Hawkley reported the accident to the police station in person, he was informed that it was none of the police department’s business unless somebody was hurt or killed. His statement that the driver of the car that wrecked his had no driver’s license was met by no response whatever. Since Mr. Hawley had no insurance on his car, the indifference of the police to his complaint causes him to wonder what the new license law really means and whether such a thing can really happen without redress of any kind. If the police are without power to protect the public from reckless drivers who endanger the lives and property of others, they should resign in a body and turn the policing job over to the Boy Scouts.
a petition therefor with the County Auditor not later than the fourth l Monday of September, and the State Board will fix a dat® of hearing
in this county.
Dated Aug. 22 1929.
(Aug. 23&30)
IRVIN V. THORNBURG, Trustee Perry Township.
BUDGET ESTIMATE-
-LIBERTV TOWNSHIP
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES THE MATER OF DETERMINING THE TAX RATES FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BY LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE CO. INDIANA, BEFORE THE TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD
Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Liberty Township, Delaware county, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place, on the 3rd day of September, 1929, will consider the following budget:
900.00
BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR TOWNSHIPS
Township Fund
Salary of Trustee $ Office rent 120.00 Trustee’s expense—a. Traveling 150.00 b. Office 2 Clerk hire ,
[gone aide by side with capital I with equal responsibility in the great progress of our common-
DERBY IS DENIED entirely fitting that a day
should be set apart for commemorating the aclrfevements of labor and the vital part it plays in our social an economic life. By custom and statute the first Monday in September has been designated as
Labor day,
“Now, therefore, I. Harry G.
San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 22.— Leslie, Governor of Indiana by
1 virtue of the authority vested m
me by the constitution and laws
SABOTAGE IN AIR
Officials At Los Angeles, Cal
Say Nothing Proven
In Investigation.
Supplies and Salary for Justice of Peace
40.00 100.00 25.00
Records and Advertising 500.00
The Home Brewers Have It The Post-Democrat asks you, rhan to man, which would you rather drink, home brew or Muncie watqr? Correct, so would we. Seventy-five employes of a local factory became deathly sick drinking the chloride-treated water that gushes playfully from Muncie faucets. Good water is the first essential requisite. Pollywog cocktails pumped from the oozy depths of White River should not be tolerated any longer than possible. The Post-Democrat promises a campaign for city-ownership of the waterworks after the first of the year.
Notice To Taxpayers of Tax Levies
IN THE MATTER CF DETERMINING THE TAX RATES FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BY PERRY TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA—BEFORE THE TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD
Notijce is given the taxpayers of Perry Township, Delaware county, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting plac^, on the 3rd day of September, 1929, will consider the following budget: BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR TOWNSHIPS. Township Fund. Salary of trustee —— ■ •- —3 720.00 Office rent ' 60.(10 Trustees expense ;__1 t 150.00 Records and advertising 300.00 Public ditches 215.00 Pay of Advisory Board 30.00 Examination of records 25.00 Miscellaneous: 1. Attorney fees 50.0(1 2. Miscellaneous L 25 Total Township Fund _$ 1,625.00
Public Ditches ' f 300.00 Pay of Advisory Board 15.00 Miscellaneous: 1. Legal Services 100.00 2. Cemeteries 200 00 Total Township (Fund 2450.00
Poor Fund
To reimburse County i 670.00
Road Fund
Labor 1000.00 Bridges and culverts 100.00 Gravel, stone and other material 500.00 Total Road Fund 1600.00
Tuition Fund
Pay of Teachers 22500.00 Total Tuition Ftind , 22500.00
Library Fund
Library Tax 635.00 Special School Fund Purchase of Ground 1000.00 Repair of buildings and grounds __ 500.00 Repair of equipment 500.00 School Furniture and equipment 300.00 School supplies 1000.00 Janitor supplies 250.00 Fuel for schools 1500.00 Loans, Interest and Insurance 1200.00 School transfers r 300.00 Teachers Institute , 150.00 Janitor service 1680.00 Transportation of children 11880.00 Light and Power 1000.00 Miscellaneous 260.00 Total Special School Fund 21520.00
Bond Fund '
Bonds 5000.00 Interest • 3000.00 Total Bond Fund i, 8000.00
Declaring that an investigation failed to disclose any foundation for charges of sabotage tyi the womens Santa Monica-Cleveland air derby, Deputy Disrtict Attorney, C. O. Thompson announced Wednesday that he had issued subpenas for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Fahy of Los Angeles, Cal., requiring them to appear today to explain their assertions to this effect. Mrs. Fahy, one of the contestants in the derby, came down at Calexico, Cal., with broken wing
struts.
She said some one had meddled with her ship. Tiny? allegation and the death of Miss Marvel Crosson, another contestant, who crashed in her plane near Wellton, Ariz., Monday, caused the investigation of the sabotage charges. Witnesses Called. Eleven witnesses have been questioned by deputy district attorneys regarding the inspection and guarding of planes during the Sunday night stopover here. Those
of the state of Indiana, do hereby designate and proclaim Monday, Sept. 2, 1929, as Labor day and urge that all unnecessary labor be dispensed with and that the day be spent in such manner as shall most impress us with the dignity and value of all honest
labor.”
YOUTHS GAVE GIRL LIQUOR
Versailles.—Two men, Everett Risk, 21, and Erby Witham, 20, are being held in jail here awaiting trial after they were charged Avith administering whiskey to Virginia O’Neal, 15. The girl has been unconscious in a hospital here sixteen days and the youths are being held pending the outcome of her condition.
JUDSON BAPTISTS MEET
Frankfort.—The 81st annual session of the Judson Baptist associatioon is in session here. Speakers
interviewed were mechanics at the include Mrs. E. A. Rainey, LebaFederal airport, race officials and]non; Gladys Riggs, missionary to members of the San Bernardino! Burma; the Rev. Barney A. Antro-
Exchange Club, which entertained
the fliers.
While our investigation is not completed, said a statement from .the district attorneys office, “we have not been able to find a single instance of sabotage. We are told the field was guarded adequately and that mechanics of the varipus oil companies interested
in the race w'ere with the planes municipal playground, to be used
1.
ESTIMATE OF FUND TO BE RAISED Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund Township Road Tuition Sp.Sehl Library Bond Poor. Total budget es-
TUITION FUND
Pay of teachers $11,200.00
Total tuition fund $11,200.00
LIBRARY FUND
Library Tax
.$100
SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND.
Repair of buildings and grounds $1,000.00 Repair of equipment 500.00 School turn it nte and equipment 1,200.00 School supplies 500.00 Janitor supplies 100.00 Fuel for schools 800.00 Loans, interest and insurance •: 400.00 Janitor service 700.00 Transportation of children 4,800.00 Light and power : 400.00 Miscellaneous ^ 975.00
Total Special school fund , $11,375.00 BOND FUND Bonds ____$5,000.00 Interest ___\ 600.00 Total Bond Fund $5,600.00 ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED.
Township Fund
Tuition Sp. Schl. Library Bond Fund Fund Fund Fund
timate for in-
coming year _$2,450 2. Deduct Misc Rev
venue incoming
yr, estimated on t , former yr Mis Rev 1 2 from 1 l-_ 2,450“ 4. Unexpended appropriations July 31 of present yr 860 5 All additional ap-
propriations be-
tween July 31 and
December 31
6.Temporary loans to he paid out before close of present yr
$1,600 $22,500 $21,520 $635 $8,000 $670
1,600
2,700 21,520 635 .8,000
850 11,000 10,500
Total of lines 3, 4,
5 and 6) 3,310
Actual bal July
2,450
30,750
32,020
705
8,000
670
31 of pres yr 1,510
1,800
15,500
14,000
370
Tax to be ‘ollected present year
De<' settlement 950 Misc Rev. to be
750
9,200
9,850
160
collected pres yr (1-3 of line 2) Total (of lines 8,
\
600
9 and 10) __ 2,460 Subtract line 11
2,550
25,300
23,850
530
from line 7)-_ 850 Est Working Bal
450
5,450
8,170
175
for 6 month after
/
close of next yr '• (not greater than 1-2 of line 3) 1,200 Amt to be raised
800
11,250
10,260
170
by tax levy (add lines 12 and 13)2,050
650
16,)00
18,4*30
345
8,000
670
♦Surplus deducted.
PROPOSED LEVIES
1 Tot. bdgt. est. incom. yr 2 Deduct mis. rev. incom yr. est. on for. yr. mijs. rev_ 3 Sub. line 2 from line 1 4 Unexp. app. July 31 of present year 7 Tot. (of lines 3, 4, 5, 6 8 Act. bal. July 31, pres, yr. 9 Tax to bo col. pres. yr. Dec. settlement 10 Mis. rev. to be cellected present year (1-3 line 2) _ Tot. (of lines 8, 9, 10
$1,625 $11,200 $11,375
$5,600
_ 1,625
571 2,195
1,600 9,600 7,613 17,213
571 7,613 16,109
11.
12 13
Est. work. bal. for six months after closeof next year (not
518
2,731
500
1,089
10,844
1,107
6,369
518
3,381
Amt. to be raised by tax levy (add lines 12 and 13) 1,625
9J50 11,375
100
5,600
PROPOSED LEVIES
Net taxable property $2,031,655 Number of Taxable Polls 155
FUNDS
Township Tuition
Levy on Levy on Amt. to Polls Property be raised
Library Bond
.08
$ 1,625
.25
.48
9,750
.75
.56
11,375
.003
_ 5,100
.275
5,600
1.00
1.40
28,450
Net taxable property _— $3,340,390 Number of taxable polls 205
Levy on Levy on Funds Polls Property Township $ .25 $ .06 Road .02 Tuition * .25 .50 Special school 1.00 .55 Library .01 Bond .24 Poor —to reimburse county .02 Total $1.40
Amount to be raised $ 2,050
650
16,700 18,420
245
8,000
670
$46,845
COLLECTED AND TO
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED.
To be
Collected 1929 Levy
$ 1,625
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES
BE COLLECTED
Collected Collected
Name of fund __ __1926 1927 Township $ 2,640.30 $ 2,060 Road —___L 4,297.88 3,500 Tuition 19,757.58 21,000 Special School 29,927.00 21,380 Library —— 350 Bond 8,750.00 8,250 Poor 260.68 350 Total $65,633.44 $56,890
Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to he heard
After the tax levies have been determined, ten or more taxpayers feel-
ing themselves aggreived by such levies! may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final action thereon, by filing a petition therefor with the County Auditor not later than the
fourth Monday of Septejmber, and the State Board will fix a date of
hearing in this county. Dated August, 1929. D. E. HAUSKNECHT,
Trustee Liberty Township.
Aug. 23 and 30.
■ v
Collected
1928
$ 1,925
1,670
18,200 20,420
335
8,250
325
$51,125
bus, Crawfordsville; Prof R. H. Kent, Franklin college, and the Rev, O. R. McCay, Indianapolis.
—— o Plan Swimming Pool
Jeffersonville.— Charles Mather city engineer,) has been instructed by the city council to prepare estimates of the cost of building a pool 75x200 feet in Jeffersonville’s
all night. No suspicious characters were seen on the field, nor was any one seen tampering with
the planes.’
o MISHAP DELAYS GIANT AIRSHIP: STARTS TODAY
Graf Zep Hits Hangar" and Motor Gondola Slightly Damaged.
Kasumiguara Air Station, Japan Aug. 22.—The third leg of the Hearst-Zeppelin round world flight 670 was delayed for tweiiTy-fcmr"houtS when the Graf Zeppelin’s rear motor gondola was struck when the craft was being maneuvered from
the hangar here.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander, disappointed because, the mishap delayed the scheduled start, said the start would be made tomorrow morning, after repairs. Previous to the mishap the passengers and the crew had all been aboard the ‘giant craft when at 4:10 o’clock this morning (3:10 o’clock - Wednesday afternoon, Central standard time) the dirigible was being taken from the
hangar.
Gondola Scrapes Ground Although there is a spare motor here, brought to Tokio by Karl Beurle, Zeppelin company engineer, Dr. Eckener said he believed repairs could be made on the motor in the injured gondola. The ground crew, hampered by the small landing space and crowds which beset the police, walked the Zeppelin from the hangar, and pulled it down, fearful lest it scrape the hangar roof. As a consequence, the rear gondola and the engine were both damaged. It was explained that the ground crew did not notice the left trolley jamming on the tracks over the door jamb, against , which the rear motor of the Zeppeln sagged. Capt. Hans Flemming, who saw the trolley jamming, tried to run out to give warning, but was not able to atteact attention since the Japanese naval officers thought he was waving his farewells. o —
for swimming, according to Mayor
Harry C. Pointdexter.
WIU NOT ASK FOR DEATH PENALTY
Prosecutor At South Bend Changes Plan In Trial of Pansy Funk.
South Bend, Ind., Aug. 22. -(U. P.)—Although at first Miss Pansy Funk, 20-year-old expectant mother who killed her lover, said she would plead guilty to first degree murder charges, and prosecuting attorney Harry Taylor, said he would ask the death penalty, both -have dTrrmgedFormal charges of murdering Jesse Madqr, 23, were expected to be filed by Taylor early next week. It was reported he intends to keep the girl in custody until the next county grand jury has considered her case. In announcing his change of plans regarding the punishment to be asked Taylor said: “I expect to ask for life imprisonment. A case like this founded on an illicit love affar, is one for which it is almost impossible, to find a jury that would stand for the electric chair as punishment. For that reason, I am not going to ask for the death penalty. lEdwn W. Hunter, employed a", counsel for the girl by her motner, Mrs. Bessie Troyer, North Judson, has not decided what plei tlie defense will present but it was reported here it would either he the “unwritten law” or insan-
ity.
After her arrest, the girl, signing a confession, said: “i want te die now ,since Jesse is dead. I am ready to die.”
SEPTEMBER 2 IS
To be Collected
1929
$ 2,050
650
16,700 13,430
345
8,000
670
$46,845 thereon
Collected
Collected
Collected
1926 Levy
1927 Levy
1928 Levy
$ 1,250
$ 445
$ 859
4,948
4.800
2,897
9,850
3,230
5,162
14,720
15,343
14,370
247
243
306
6,350
6,200
5,900
. 140
114
102
$32,285 $30,375
$29,299
Road 4,948 4,800 2,897 Bloomington.—In suit filed in Tuition 9,850 3,230 5,162 9,750 Monroe county circuit court here,
11,375 Mrs. Nancy Spires, alleged unless
Library 247 243 306 100 her son pays her $700 borrowed Bond 6,350 6,200 5,900 5,600 money, she will be forced to bePoor , 140 114 102 come a poorhouse inmate. The
$28,450 mother said she loaned a woman $500 on the word of her son that
Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After he would pay and that he also borthe tax levies have been d termined, ten or more axpayers feeling rowed $200 on his own account, tbemselves aggrieved by such .ovi,es, may appeal to the State Board Now, she charged, he refused to of Tax Commissioners for forther -'T final action thereon, by filing pay either.
LOOMIS PROMISED U. S. HELP IN VICE CLEANUP
Washington. D. C., Aug. 22»— Vigorous continuation of the government’s cleanup of rice conditions in Lake county, Ind., was promised yesterday following a conference between Oliver M. Loomis United States attorney for the northern Indiana district, and officials of the department of justice.
BIGHORSE (Continued from Page One) committed him to the penal farm for three months. This impudent defiance of the law is another demonstration of the manner in which the political gangsters here care for their own. The law means nothing, the verdict of the jury that convicted Edwards means nothing, the finding of the supreme court means noth-
ing.
Big Horse, being one of the protected law breakers who have flourished here like the green bay NAMED LABOR DAY
HV F 1 AIT I PCI II? Ciil macllllle > therefore the big horse H* S InllV 9 r.Nl.lr. becam e a sick horse and the livU 1 T . LiiiUUiU ing an8Wer to the question “when
is a jail not a jail?”
During the seven weeks that he should have been doing his stretch at the penal farm, and when he was supposed to be locked up in jail he has not spent a single whole
day in confinement.
Hundreds of humble laborers who buy hootch from the big peddlers and hundreds of petty bootleggers who have no political pull, have been fed to the bedbugs and wh,en the commitments in their cases read “Indiana State Farm,” it really meant that and we don’t
mean perhaps.
If one of these humble victims should have the temerity to complain of being ill and ask to be let off he would be speaking in a foreign language. Equal protection of the laws, guaranteed by the constitution, means nothing here. By these observations the Post-
Proclamation Calls Upon Peo-
ple of State To Ob-
serve Occasion.
Indianapolis, Aug. 22.—A proclamation setting Sept. 2 as Labor day has been issued by Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
The proclamation follows: “By the sweat of his brow” is
the decree by which man has preserved his existence from the beginning of time until now. Labor is the greatest blessing bestowed upon humanity »by an all-wise, omnipotent Creator. The greatest achievements of earth are hut monuments to the patient, enduring toil of the great race of man-
kind.
not In
Especiallj is this tiue of our j that would like to see Big Hoss
we Edwards go te the vile prison farm, but it does mean to say that the law will be a joke here as long as
state and nation. Whether think of boundless fields of waving grain, or bands of steel bind-
ing our cities together, or great its administrators and executors
siab^ of Concrete making one of the finest of highway systems in the world, or any line of great in-
dustrial achievement, labor has,go.
disregard it in such a flagrant manner and continue to punish the little fellows and let the big offenders
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