Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1924 — Page 8
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mm bill EFFECTIVE TODAY WITHBIGSAVING Utilities and Luxuries Freed From Government Levy, There was a slight consolation for Indianapolis telephone users, following rate increases effective Tuesday, in that repeal of the Federal excise tax on long distance messages was effective today. This will save telephone users in Indianapolis about $4,250 a month and about $17,000 in the whole State. v officials of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company said today. The repeal bill was passed by Congress June 2. Tax on telegrams also is lifted. Western Union officials said the saving will approximate $5,500 a month. The tax has been 5 cents on messages costing 50 cents or less, and 10 cents on messages costing more. Theater Tax Off The most general effect of the repeal of war excise taxes will be felt among movie fans. The tax on theater tickets costing 50 cents or less is removed. Among other items now exempt from tax are soft drinks and candy: rugs, purses and trunks: various kinds of shows and circuses: knives, dirks and daggers: liveries: hunting, shooting and riding garments; yachts and motor boats; drafts and promissory notes. Tax on produce exchanges is cut from 2 cents a SIOO to 1 cent. Playing card tax is increased from 8 to 10 cents a pack and anew tax of 10 per cent instituted on mah jonge sets, from which the Government hopes to receive revenue of $2,000,000. Heavy Ixiss Auto trucks costing SI,OOO or less and auto bodies costing S2OO or less are exempted from the 3 per cent tax. while 5 per cent tax on auto tires, parts and accessories is cut to 24 per cent. Jewelry of certain kinds, watches, musical instruments, eye glasses, spectacles, silvier-plated flat table ware and articles used~for religious purposes are exemptThe United Stales will lose $34,000,000 annually by the repeal of the tax on telegrams and telephone messages: $10,000,000 on soft I drinks: $1,800,000 on carpets, rugs. I etc.: $1,600,000 on theater admissions. and $2,150,000 on drafts and promissory notes. MilL'on in Taxes Returned For the six months period ending June 30, $1,029,574 has been re turned to automobile owners under Court decision holding new auto license fee act invalid. - , The total fee collected was $4 Sl3.4<h).
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JTZ7TJ ALTER R. THOMAS, |\)R| Rushville mayor, Is conI. I vinced you can’t please everybody. Residents complained because street paving was being delayed. Contractors started to work on Sunday to please them. Pastors rapped the contractor and the mayor for working on Sunday. Two farm youths near Bluffton ■were victims of queer accidents. James Stodgill, 9, stepped on a loose board. He threw up both hands to ward off the blow and received fractured wrists. Richard Settle, 13, fell under a land roller when the neckyoke on the harness broke. His hip was broken-. Joan and Eleanor, young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Oris De Vol of Lebanon, were Injured when lightning struck the wooodshed where they were playing. t A | FLIVVER bearing Ohio A. license plates sped Into L- I the front yard of Theodore Minneman, Logansport, tore through a flower bed, -raced across a lawn, barked a tree, crashed into a telephone pole, breaking it in two, and continued on its merry way without stopping. Drivers are unknown. Lou Lewis, Frankfort farmer, claims to have the first tassled corn in the county. He predicts roastin' ears in a short time. Elkhart has a $1,466.50 building program under way calling for new schools, new churches, a theater, business buildings, a factory addition and apartments. William 11. Vornhecier went to a carnival at Hammond. Rode every thrill derice and made the ferris wheel revolve overtime. William is 91. Greensburg had a fire and water pressure was increased. Bursting pipes in the home of Walter Foster gave him a shower bath. Pipes also bursted in the home of Mrs. Mary Tresier. Rather than crash into another machine, Elmer Lowden of Salem wrecked his machine by driving it into a telephone pole. He was painfully injured. Louis Dishon, Lafayette, didn’t have a tire gauge when he got in at a filling station. Tire exploded and a piece of the rim inflicted a deep cut in his head. Gone, But Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong toLeonard Peppier, 15 X. Dalton St., Ford, from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. Edward Taylor, 515 W. TwentyFourth St., Ford, from Xew York and Illinois Sts. F. W. Abke. 1102 Roosevelt Ave.l Ford, from Virginia Ave. and Washington St. Mrs. Ethel Meeks. 523 W. Four teenth St.. Ford, from same address
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An automobile reported found by police belongs to: Albert Pike. Logansport, Ind.. j Overland, found at Lockerbie and ' Noble Sts. COLLECTION COST LOW State Gas Tax Law Administration Expense for Year 56.460. For the twelve months ending I June 30, the State has . collected ! 54.554.544.18 in gasoline tax to be I applied to State roads for const ruc- | tion and maintenance. Refunds for ; gasoline purchased for use in farm | machinery are $73.927.61. The total I expense of collecting the tax is j $6,460.96. Charles C. Benjamin, head of the gas tax department in the State auditor's office, said the j total exceeds the expected income by about $1,000,000. NIPPON STATESMAN DIES : Count Matsukata, Former Japanese Premier, Succumbs.
Bu United Prrgg TOKIO, July 2.—Count M. Mat sukata, one of the two surviving of the so-called “elder statesmen'' who for wears dictated the policies of Japan, died today. The count was born ir 1*35 and had a long and distinguished career, holding many political posts, including that of premier. Huge Eagle Captured Bu Timrg Special WANATAH, Ind., July 2.—Wil liarn F. Sullivan today was ex hibiting a huge black eagle which he shot and crippled jivlien it flew down and attacked children playing in his yard. The bird measures six feet from wing tip to tip. Paxton Unger Is Instructor Paxton Unger, son of S. Mahlon linger, Indianapolis attorney, has been appointed instructor in the Culver Military Academy woodcraft school for the summer. Unger was a 1923 graduate of Technical High School.
Help! Help! Bu Timrg Special GREENSBURO, Ind., July 2, —Arthur Sweczy went to a creek south of here to get a wagcnload of sand. He took off his shoes and trousers tc prevent them from getting wet. He loaxied his wagon and returned to get his pants, but found them missing. Looking around desperately, he saw the right leg of his trousers -’protuJing about eighteen inches from the mouth of a cow, in the act of enjoying a heavy meal at the expense of his modesty. Friends rescued him front a clump of trees after he had yelled for help.
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mT was time for me to go to work. Seated at my table just removed front the throngs on the sidewalk, sipping my vermouth. 1 arrived reluctantly at this conclusion. Xot that poverty' pressed me' On the contrary, front the proceeds of a certain bit of legerdemain there remained to me, after paying my passage across the Atlantic, my expenses in Paris these last three months, and restoring my wardrobe to its present satisfactory condition, some ten thousand dollars. Certainly, benefited by the exchange, I cotild hope in live decently for another six months. Xot so long ago, I would have 1• ■ 1 n on moved at assurance of financial security for six weeks, or even six days. Indeed, sufficient food in my stomach to keep hunger away for six hours was a rare condition with me. But our ideas change with our changing prosperity’. Let those who think that the mind governs material things ponder this obvious reverse. I am. I think, one who makes up his mind quickly, and acts immediately. Certainly when I had de cided hat I would rather live a thieve than starve an honest man, I had acted instantly. Let. me say, in parenthesis, that I had not yet arrived at regret for that decision. I acted, in this perhaps less impor tant matter, as suddenly as I had acted on that evening when I had passed an airy farewell to the traditions of all the Ainsley’s, of whom I. John, was the first to turn to crime. I raised my finger and an -attentive garcon leaped to my\ table. I paid him for my apertif, rose and with one stride was mingled with the crowd that surged from the Place de l'Opera up the Boulevard des Capueines. It was an observation of the individuals who made up the crowd that had brought me to decision. For it was spring time, and th world had come to Paris. From my place at the table I had seen fortunes in furs and jewels pass by.
OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN
The profiteers of ail he world were here; and their wives and daughters and mistresses flaunted the success of their males before the others of their kind. Swarthy Argentinians grown rich in beef and hides, shining eyed Span iards who had traded while Europe bled, munitions makers from England and America —they rode and walked the streets of Paris, gross vulgar rmi overfed. As, after a ter rifle stoim, strange carcasses arise from the depths and float offensively upon the-surface of the sea, so now upon the surface of society drifted weird cat rion.
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A ROOM AND BATH HAD BEEN SURRENDERED. i The sight of them, obese and opulent, made me realize that it was time for me to set about the acquisi tion of some of their more merchantable gauds. Not that I Intended to prey directly upon these nouveaux riches! But where the carrion lies, the vulture flies. It was toward the vulture, his talons gripping choice morsels, that I would bend my
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: energies, I would let the vulture do ill the unpleasant work, and I would reap h>'s profit. For do not think that I had spent these months in Paris in mere stupid gratification of appetities that had been balked so long by poverty. It .s frue tnat. 1 had indulged in sundry luxuries that I had lived once more as a gentleman should live, unharassed by soiling economies; but 1 had devoted myself studiously to thought of the future. That that future must be outside :he law l had determined. My first venture into crime had yielded me a profit so great, for such slight effort and risk, that I never for a moment considered anything but continuing upon the career that the needs of existence had made me choose. For understand that these are not. the penitent confessions of a paltry pickpocket; they are the narratives of an artist. In the apartment which I had rented, on the Rue Daunou, I had deliberately studied my problem. I had acquired all the literature dealing with criminals that l could find. And I came to the inevitable conclusion that the so-called supercriminal existed. For always the histories of these persons ended with the accounts of their arrests and convictions to punishments too unpleasant to contemplate. A supercrimin i! should be one who escaped the law completely, who died, when his time came, full of riches as well as sin. Yet some of these men had shown a talent for%crime that approached genius. I asked myself why they
had finally failed, why, at the end, in the dock, they had heard the judgment of society* The answer was obvious; no man can be stronger or cleverer than all the forces of all society. The man, then, who antagonizes these forces is a fool. A fool must fail in whatever he attempts. But the man who recognizes the difficulties before him, and takes precautions that will minimize these difficulties, increases his chance of success. I had seen one sample of the species termed supercrook, and I knew myself to be, in every possible way, more capable of success In his profession than he. If. then, I had more ability than he, and if I so directed my energies and efforts that I would run the least risk of antagonizing the police, it seemed to me that, with a bit of luck, there, was no reason why I should not prove the exception to the rule, and forever avoid exposure. (Study, in the seclusion of my Paris apartment, informed me that
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while T could hardly hope to improve upon the methods of some of the more famous of the historical supercrooks. 1 could, by- applying their methods in a different fashion, avoid their errors. For the crook has no friends; neither has he any of the ordinary resources if the law-abiding citizen. If your reputable merchant is robbed, lie can comp ain to the nearest authority, and immediately all of society’s complicated legal machinery is set to work in his behalf. But if the thief is robbed, where may he look for redress? To prey upon thieves; that should be my career. To wait until the vulture rose from the carrion and then to take from him his tidbits; that was my plan. 1 would work alone, having neither confederates nor confidants. Aiuj, now the sight of all this wealth paraded before me spurred me to action. Crooks were fattening upon these parvenus. Every day the Paris papers told of robberies. The New York papers, which I received regularly, told of the continuance of the crime-wave there. Everywhere in the world thieves were plying their trade. I had mapped out my course of action; good living had restored my muscles and nerves to their former vigor; it was time for me to go to work. I walked across the Place de l'Opera and entered a steamship agency. By great fortune a room and bath had been surrendered half an hour ago, and it was possible for me to obtain it. So I left there In twenty minutes, the possessor of a ticket which entitled me to sail three days later from Cherbourg on the Alt aria.
For of course it was necessary for me to ply my trade in my own country. It is true that I had a smattering of French, but I did not converse easily in that language. I would be handicapped at the outset, if I dealt with French criminals. There was, it is true," a certain risk in returning to New York. My first venture into theft had been at the expense of Dargon, the Fifth Ave. jeweler. But it was not a certainty that Dargon knew who had robbed him. Moreover, looking at myself in the gilt-bordered mirror in my bedroom on the Rue Daunou, I seriously doubted if Daragon would be able to recognize me. On the evening that I had abstracted from his pocket the ring which had brought me funds wherewith once again to live like a gentleman, my hair had been long and unkempt, my cheeks sunken and ghastly white. Now there were no hollows under my eyes; my flesh was firm, and my skin was red with health. Then I had looked like a consumptive; now
OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS
T looked like an athlete. I could discount any fears of recognition by the jeweler. And there were just as many persons of ill-gotten wealth in New York as there were in Paris. I was not narrowing my opportunities by returning to a country with which I was famliar. Indeed, as I contemplated my return, I wished that I had never left New York. For now that I jilanned activity, it did not seem as feasible, as simple as it had seemed when I was merely studying the careers of masters of crime. I suddenly wondered, as I sat in my window, just when, where and how I would begin my operations. For it is easy enough to speculate idly, to ascertain the weaknesses whereby others have failed, to survey eth future, to state that one will do this and avoid that; but actuality differs from speculation. After all, a client must come to a lawyer before the attorney can demonstrate that other lawyers err in their handling of cases the patient must come to the doctor before the physician can prove his new theory of diagnosis, and opportunity must come to me before I
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could begin the practice of my new profession. Up to now, living comfortably and lazily. I had not given much thought to practice; I had devoted myself to theory. But the sight of all th wealth exhibited in the Place de l’Opera this spring afternoon had given a fillip to ambition. I had acted immediately. But having acted, to the extent of purchasing transports* tion to New Y*ork, I began to wondas to what purpose. (Continued in Our Next Issue) HOME-COMING PLANNED Thom town Invites Old Residents t<j Partake of Cheese and Crackers. Bu l 7 nitrd Prrgg THORNTOWN, Ind., July 7*~ Fourth of July will be home com®* day. Preparations are being! rflH! to entertain hundreds of former residents. . “There'll be plenty of cheese and crackers, not to mention the old town pump,” says the letter mailed to former residents, inviting them back “home” for a day.
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