Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1923 — Page 2
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G. 0. P. ADMINISTRATION TO RECOMMEND TAX REDUCTIONS
RILEY HOSPITAL DRIVE SHOWING RAPIDPROGRESS Pledges in County Total More .Than $500,000, Committee Reports, With many organizations and individual workers yet to be heard from, Marion County pledges to the building fund of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Children total more than SSOO 000. it was announced today by the committee in charge ot the canvass of the city and county. Many more pledges will, it is believed, be reported and obtained by workers over the week-end. A number of factory meetings were held today and the employes are re sponding generously. A novel plan of aiding the hospital movement has been developed by Carl F.’ Matzke, 3055 Ruckle St. He has taken out. In addition to a pledge of S2O. a SI,OOO endowment life insurance policy with the Riley Hospital named beneficiary. Thousands are expected to visit the hospital site Sunday, where construction work on the first $500,000 building is well under way. The various features will be explained to the visitors by_ persons well acquainted with the development plans. SEEK RELATIVES OF DEAD AVIATOR
Officials Continue Search for Flier’s Kin, Efforts to find relatives of Capt. Benjamin R. Jacobi, 29, of the 113th Indiana Observation Squadron, Kokomo, who was killed in an automobile accident near Brooks Field, Texas Friday were unsuccessful today. Adjt. Gen. Harr:’ B. Smith was seeking instructions for disposing of the body. Jacobi was unmarried. His ; father is supposed to be a mail clerk j employed either in North Dakota or j South Dakota. Smith Is being assissted In his search j for relatives by Capt. William F. Donnelly, government aviation instructor ! at Kokomo -COURT ACTS QUESTIONED Lesh Gives Informal Opinion That! Power Is Exceeded. Informal opinion to the effect that | circuit courts are exceeding their i powers in ordering at will the release I or commitment of children to the Sol- I diers and Sailors Orphans’ Heme at Knightstown, ffe contained in a letter sent out today by Attorney General U. S. Lesh to W. B. Gemmill, Marlon attorney. The letter said power to release and commit should be confined to the board of trustees of the school. DELEGATES ARE NAMFD Board of Trade Will Be Represented in Convention. L. L. Fellows, vice president; Wil Jiam H. Howard, secretary; Edgar H. Evans and Edward B. Raub will represent the Indianapolis Board of Trade at the annual convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce. starting next Monday, in New York City. Fellows and Howard will leave for New York tonight, while Evans will leave tomorrow and Raub. who Is now In Baltimore, will join the other delegates m New York. Evans is going as an alternate delegate In the place of Harvey Mullins, president of the Board of Trade, who has Just recovered from Illness. $20,404.91 DAMAGE ASKED Judgment of $20,404.91 was asked by the Globe Stove and Range Company of Kokomo in a suit filed against the General Motors Corporation, a Delaware corporation with a plant at Muncie. The complaint charged that In 1920 the defendant placed an order for 40,000 transmission cases and after 4,523 had been delivered, cancelled the order for the remainder. Hoosier Briefs ANDERSON —During the three years it took Miss Winifred Stillwell, 16, daughter of Thomas N. Stillwell, to complete her high school course, she received an unbroken record of A’s. She leads the honor roll. RICHMOND American Friends board of home missions will meet May 15-16. BLOOMINGTON —William Conner. Herrodsburg, has asked police to aid In search for his son, Lawrence, 20, who disappeared two weeks ago. LAPORTE—A. J. Hickey, representative of the Thirteenth District, will speak at the reunion of the 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry at Culver May 10. FRANKLIN —Delegates from the American Legion and auxiliary posts of the Fourth District are holding their annual meeting. Perry Faulkner, State commander, will address the convention Sunday. MARION —Flames of mysterious origin razed the Kelter Chapel Church, nine miles east of here. UPLAND —June 14 Is set for opening activities of Taylor commencement exercises. Bishop Oldham of South America has been invited to deliver the address. GREENCASTLE— Commencement exercises at De Pauw will begin June 6. Dtr. Glenn Frank, -editor of the J
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LEFT TO RIGHT, TED NICHOLAS. ANNA LOUISE WERNER,. RAYMOND DRAKE, MARY L. BLACK AND STANTON GREEN.
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS ASKS CHILDREN’S RELEASE Father Alleges Mother Imprisoned Two Young Girls Here. The two children of Grant Wortham, colored, of F*t. Worth, Texas, were forcibly removed from Texas and confined at the home of their mother, Lillian Wortham, 431 N. Blackford St., Wortham alleges in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus tiled today in Superior Court The petition says that Wortham and his wife were divorced in Ft. Worth in 1919 and that each of the parents was to have the children, Ella, 10, and Lillian. 8, for six months each year. Wortham asks that the children be delivered to him. Song Service Marks Meeting Lied by Homer Hammontree, 250 men and women participated in an old-fashioned song service at the Mel Trotter evangelistic meeting at the Park Theater Friday night. Hymns composed during the Civil War and the World War were sung. Tonight will end Mel Trotter's third week in Indianapolis.
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January seniors of Technical High School have elected three boys and two girls as class officers. Ted Nicholas, 49 Pinex Court, Is president; Anna Louise Werner, 3812 N. Capitol Ave., vice president; Mary DEATH BREAKS MARRIED LIFE OF SIXTY-TWO YEARS Mrs. Kliza Dunlop Funeral Will lie Held Monday. Married life or sixty-two years was broken today with the death of Mrs. Eliza Dunlop, 85. at the home of her son, Frank A. Dunlop, 4572 Guilford Ave., Friday. She had been in ill health more than three years. On Jan. 9. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop celebrated their sixty-first wedding anr.iversary. They were married in Alfont, Ind., the birthplace of Mrs. Dunlop, and came to Indianapolis over fifty years ago. Funeral services will be held at the home of the son Monday at 2:30 p. m. Burial will be In Crown Hill. Surviving are the husband, two sons, William and Frank Dunlop, three daughters, Anna Littler. and -Mrs. Sidney Miller of Indianapolis and Mary J. Cottrell of Alfont.
1923 ’s Real Estate Sensation FOREST MANOR
Low Prices Continued A Few of the Many Bargains v LOT NO. 881 Is a beautiful bungalow site 50x134 feet. First lot South of 34th. a 90 ft. wide paved thoroughfare. High, level, semi-improved street. Sale Price $385. $lO cash, $1 weekly. V LOT NO. 837 is in the woods, beautiful surroundings. Fine site for colonial home. 55x133. Sale Price only 8750. $25 down, $2 weekly. V LOTS NO. 936 AND NO. 903. Large area for garden, chickens, fruit, etc. Each lot 55x131. Sale price only $250 each. $lO each down, $1 each weekly. V LOT NO. 859. Business Corner. Only 4 business lots in entire Addition. Fronts on paved street, 90 ft. wide, 63x150 feet. Splendid investment. Sale Price only $1,005. SSO cash, $2.75 weekly. Stop That Everlasting and Ever-Increas-ing Rent
HOW TO RF.ACH By Auto —Drive out E. 38th Street Bi rd. to School Street, South to 34th and east to Addition. By City Car —Go to 80th and Sherman Drive, end of Brightwood line, walk north to 34th and east to Addition. By Ft. Harrison Line —Get off at School St.
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Black, 313 N. East St., secretary; Raymond Drake, 330 Bosart Ave., j treasurer and Stanton Green, 3041 | N. Capitol Ave., sergeant-at-arms. Besides being popular in school ‘‘politics,'* Ted Nicholas Is out for the track team. ARGUMENTS IN REFUND CASE HEARD BY COURT Five Taxpayers Are Asking for Money 1 Back. Arguments on a demurrer filed by Marlon County to demands for refund I of taxes claimed to have been illegual- 1 ly assessed in 1919 under a 50 per cent I horizontal increase in assessments ; were heard today in .Circuit Court. Five local taxpayers, Including Kingan St Cos., the National Biscuit I Company and the Western lectrlo ! Company filed the claims In 1919. I L. C. Nusbaum, representing the : State tax board, argued that the claims should be thrown out of court because he said a Supremo Court decision won by William Bosson on the same question, was merely on a demurrer to his case In Superior Court, ; and that his case would be tried there soon.
Section a C" Indianapolis’ Prize Subdivision — A Brand New Member of the —Famous FOREST MANOR Group
STEEL COMPANY TO RECEIVE STATE LAND Indiana Receives Large Hum for Lake County Tract. That the East Chicago realty company, payers to the .State of a draft for $119,765.25 for a 319-acre tract of submerged Lake County land, will convoy the property to the Jones & Laughlin steel interests as soon as practicable was the opinion of representatives of both firms today. Sale of the land was effected at a public auction In the office of Robert Bracken, State auditor, Friday. The realty company payed the State $375 an acre for the territory, which was $25 an acre more than the appraised value. The Jones & Laughlin Company will erect one of the largest industrial plants in the world on this and adjacent land, it Is understood. Ann Broken In Accident John Ixjokebill, 10, suffered a broken arm today when struck by an automobile driven by Otto Williams. 2401 Burford St. He was taken to the city hospital. Police arrested Williams on a charge of assault and battery.
In a Class By Itself Section “C,” the New Forest Manor Addition, absolutely stands alone as to character and distinction. It is the poor of all new subdivisions in and around the city. A look will convince you. Come and see this magnificent Addition. Many Delighted Buyers Scores and scores of lots were sold last Saturday and Sunday. Sightseers are immediately converted into enthusiastic purchasers when they behold Beautiful New Section “C.” A Wonderful Development Sixteen massive brick, stone and cement entrances. Addition divided by E. 34th Street, just East of School Street, a 90 foot wide paved major thoroughfare. Wide swinging boulevards 86 and 70 feel wide with parkways, set in evergreens and ornamental shrubs, traverse addition both lengthwise and crosswise. A half mile of beautiful boulevard lights, semi-improved streets, acres of stately forest trees, car lines, schools, churches and a wonderfully developing home section near. Prices —While They Last $295, $395. $495. $550, $750 and up. No interest or taxes for one year. No payments while sick or unemployed. Lots sold to white and desirable persons only. DOWN PAYMENTS DOUBLED UP TO $25 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Come! Be an original buyer here. Let the other fellow pay you a handsome profit later, as many original Forest Manor Buyers have already done. Don’t be sidetracked until you have secured that lot in the New Forest Manor, Section “C.”
$ 1 II N °™ iv a Lot *l2 WEEKLY $ | I®® Pays for A a Lot
Treasury Surplus Instead of! Deficit Prompts Action of Congress. By United Preen WASHINGTON, May s.—The Administration is preparing to recommend moderate tax reductions to the next Congress. The recommendation will include reductions of the income tax in the “middle brackets” of incomes of $5,000 a year and beiow $5,000. The normal rate affecting Incomes below $5,000 probably will not be reduced. Some means will be sought of shaving the taxes now imposed on business. Just how this will be worked out, has not been decided as administration leaders say it will have to be handled carefully because of the drive that will be made for reenactment of the excess profits tax. The way was paved for the tax reduction program by the statement issued today by General Lord, director of the budget. Lord, in predicting a $60,000,000 government surplus this year in place of the $200,000,000 deficit which the country should be led to expect, opened the door to a demand for tax reduction. Anticipating that demand. Admin istration officers were ready to promise “serious consideration'* of tax reduction next winter. Lord's statement at once became the battle ground of party politicians. Democrats were preparing today, within an hour of its publication to challenge It on the ground that the surplus would be entirely a book-keep-ing surplus and not a real one. They will point out that "surplus” was made possible only by the treasury's failure to pay off war savings certificates and Victory bonds maturing this year. LONG LINE PAYS TAXES Women With Babies, and Old Men With Canes Join in Rush Down a long double line stretching along the corridor of the courthouse from the treasurer’s office today, sighs of weariness were heard. Women shifted market baskets or babies from one tired arm to the other. Old men hobbled along on canes. It was the next-to-laxt day to pay the second Installment of taxes. Persons not paying by Monday will be declared delinquent.
The KINNEAR CO., Realtors 607 Fletcher Trust Bldg. Main 1409 The Aetna Trust and Savings Cos., Trustee This strong financial institution signs all contracts and deeds.
FIRE DAMAGE SUIT IN SUPERIOR COURT Plaintiff Charges City Is Responsible for Loss. Because Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson decided that no Federal question was involved -as yet the lawsuit filed by Otto P. Larrimore, living near the edge of the city on E. ThirtyFourth St., for *IO,OOO damages against the city and the Indianapolis Water Company was sent back to Superior Court today. Larrimore claimed that unless he could recover for the loss of his house due to burning down because the city had failed to iocate a fire plug closer than 3,000 feet, he would be deprived of property "without due process of law.’’ Man Hurt in Fall Roscoe Meno, 11 N. California St., W’as injured about the head today when h.e fell from a street car at Meridian and Maryland Sts. He was taken to the city hospital In an ambulance. Meno, who was shell shocked in the World War service, says he was pushed from the car.
THE INDIANA TRUST COMPANY FOR SAVINGS SURPLUS $2,000,000 This Strong Company Will pay interest from May Ist on all savings deposited up to and including MAY 10th Open Saturday Evenings 6.t0 8 O’Clock Bring in Your Victory Bonds Due May 20.
Remember —We help Jinance those who wish to build now. —Section "C” is a brand new subdivision. —Section “C” has been e 1 a b o r ately developed under the supervision of a high grade landscape architect. —Remember there are only 359 lots in this Addition and scores of them have already been sold. —History will repeat itself —in 1921 and 1922 the original Forest Manor and Forest Manor Extension sold out quickly. Lots in this new Section “C” are going with a mighty rush. —Don’t be too late. Reach out and grasp this shining opportunity. Be independent stop paying rent. Start With a Lot Here —End With a Home
SATURDAY, MAY 5,192d
ROAD COMMISSION BUYS OILJD GAS Standard Company Is Given $350,000 Contract, The State highway commission today let a contract to the Standard Oil Company for $350,000 worth of gasoline, kerosene and lubricating oils to be used by the maintenance division of the highway department this year. The Standard Oil company was the lowest bidder out of fifteen. It agreed to deliver the materials at any point In the State where road construction is going on. Most of the other bidders, % according to highway officials, wanted to make delivery in Indianapolis and let the State pay the expente of distribution. The contract calls for 1,500,000 gallons of gasoline and kerosene at 3 cents under the retail price, 100,000 gallons of lubricating oil at from 38 4-10 cents to 48 4-10 cents a gallon, and 70,000 pounds of grease at 6 to 8 cents a pound.
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