Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1924 — Page 12

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RAY OBJECTS TO MAYOR’S SLASHES IN MIDGET Councilman to Ask Probe — Talks of Poor Management —Plan Protest. Investigation of Mayor Shank’s wholesale reduction of the 1925 budget will be demanded in city council tonight by Councilman Otto Ray. "The council is for tax reduction, but the business of cutting various departments without regard to what they need is another case of poor management,” said Ray. “Some departments need the money they asked for, and at the same time other officials can be eliminated." The conucil has the power to cut the tax levy, but not increase it. A resolution demanding that the investigation committee probe the reductions made probably will be introduced by Ray. Attacks Perk Removal The removal of Benjamin Perk, city utility expert, from the 1925 pay roll drew the attack of Ray, who said he beiieved Perk was too valuable a man for the city to drop. “Why doesn’t the mayor cut out some of the policemen he keeps around him all the time?” asked Ray. "People don’t object to taxes when they are getting value received, but they object to overhead and higher taxes when it goes to a mismanaged hap-hazard administration.” The mayor cut the budget $1,197,000 below what department heads asked for in an ax swinging drive Saturday morning, bringing the tax levy to $1,045, compared to a rate of $1.0875 this year. Offices and salaries fell in the mayor's onslaught. South Side Protesting A delegation of citizens from the south side will appear before the council tonight protesting against inactivity of the park board in developing the Pleasant Run Blvd. They point out that property has been appraised, and in some casts assessment money rolls have been paid to the city without any action. Ray said the matter would be put before the council investigation committee, if charges warranted it. The ccuncil also will receive an ordinance providing for a $500,000 temporary loan to carry the city over until fall installment of taxe3. The budget will not reach the council until the next meeting, Joseph L. Hogue, cfty controller, said. ‘HEIR’ DENIES REPORT Miss Dasher Not Expecting Money From Hoyt Estate; Settled. Miss Grace Dasher, 1621 Broadway, emphatically denied today she is expecting to receive large sums of money from the estate of Charles A. Hoyt, former New York playwright, as reported in a morning paper. “I have no Information regarding the report of McKee, administrator of Hoyt's estate,” she said today. "The Hoyt estate was settled a long time ago. My brother, Elwood. who died eighteen years ago, had leceived bis share of the, Hoyt estate," Miss Dasher said. Hoyt’s estate amounted to SIOO,OOO, and royalties on his plays amounted to $18,612. HOLTON RITES TUESDAY Retired Attorney Survived by Widow and Three Daughters. Funeral services for John B. Holton, 78. retired attorney, who died Sunday at his home, 1218 Centra! Ave., will be held 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the residence. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Holton had lived thirty-seven years- in Indianapolis. He was born in M;ison county, Ky., Jan. 31, 1848. He attended Transylvania university at Lexington, Ky., and a law school at Lotiisville, Ky. He was formerly connected with the western division of the old Bee Line railroad as real estate and claim agent. Besides the widow he is survived by three daughters. Mrs. Helen H. Wills, Midway, Ky.: Mrs. Mary W Crawley, New York, and Mrs. Harold R. Cummings of Indianapolis. Three grandchildren also survive.

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HUNT FOB OWNER OF BANDIT CAR Citizens Catch Alleged Robber —One Escapes, By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 21. Search was being continued today for Fred Steffler, 29, who eluded a posse of city and couhty offi cials all day Sunday, following the ; robbery of the postoffice and general I store of J. M* Allen of Willow Branch, Hancock County. Dick Tracy. alias Thomas Kelly of Chicago is held in the county jail on a grand larceny charge, following h,s capture Sunday morning by the posse of Willow Branch citizens who chased him and Steffler here follow ing the robbery. Steffler’s car, containing SBO and a number of burglars’ tools, was abandoned during the chase, which covered the territory between Willow Branch and Anderson. Steffler. police said, is at present dut on bond on charges of lar-ceny,-and robbery. He was arrested a month ago. following a filling station hold-up. He recently gained his liberty after serving a five-year term in the Illinois State Prison. WELLS COUNTY IS AHEAD Moe Than 250 Utters Are Nominated for Medals. By Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 21More than 250 litters have been nominated for the Hoosier Ton Litter Club awards by members of the club, according to James R. Wiley of Purdue, who has charge of the club. “Approximately one-third of the members who enrolled in the club last winter have saved litters large enough to nominate,” said Mr. V iley. "This is an unusually good showing, considering the rainy weather and the general lack of interest in hogs, due to low prices." Wells County leads the State in the number of men nominating, with eleven members who nominated nineteen litters. The Studebaker National Bank of Bluffton is offering prizes. CANNING SEASON, TOO Columbus Police Say Man \\ as Selling Tops and Rubbers By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. July 21—Bruce A. Scott, 21, employe of the Ball Brothers’ Manufacturing Cos. at Muncie, was held here pending the arrival of Muncie officers for the alleged theft of between thirty and fourty cases of can tops and rubbers from the Ball plant. Police arrested him. they say, tryink to dispose of them “at any price” to grocers.

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FIFTEEN ALLEGED SPEEDERS GIVEN RIDE JN WAGON Several Motorists Charged With Driving While Intoxicated, Fifteen alleged speeders were slated at the city prison after motorcycle officers who caused their arrests ordered them out of their cars and stated they had driven in excess of twenty-eight miles an hour. They were all taken to headquarters in the patrol wagon. Fred Waltman, 21, of 2101 Brookside Ave.; Albert Crump. 21. of Mt. Comfort. Ind.; Cletus Williams. 19, of 2519 N. New Jersey St.; J C. Sanford, £B, ofi 1730 E. Twelfth St.; Carl Blackburn, 22, colored, 822 Athon St.; Harry Kramp, 22, of 241 E. Minnesota St.; Frank Farlow. 21. of 331S Wilcox St., and Earl Thompson, 29. of 2538 N. Gale St., is also charged with assault and battery. Fails to Show Title Robert Homsher. 24, of 128 Richland St.; Clarence Schultzheir, 23, of 1201 Wright St.; F. R. Alley, 24, of 18 N. Sherman Dr.; John Willis, 19. colored. 2701 Boulevard PI., whfl is also charged with assault and battery and failure to display title; Floyd Thompson, 23. of 1356 Harding St.; E. L. Woods, 34. of 1219 S. Meridian St., and Hubert Kentworthy, 26, of 2126 Bloyd Ave. Miss Alice Ferdinand, 23, of A723 N. Meridan St., is charged with failure to stop after an accident. Mrs. Laura Rohr, 42, of 2785 N. Meridian St., is charged with driving while Intoxicated, resisting an officer and driving on the left side of the street. Three Alleged Intoxicated Charles Blake, 49, of 349 E. Thirtieth St.; Edward H. .Brow*. 31. of 431 N. California St., and William Dukes, 38, colored, of 34 Monument PI., are charged with driving while intoxicated. Edward Bell. 40. of 1827 N. Tal bott Ave., is charged with driving on the left side of the street. ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT Test Made Between Merchants and Traction Lines. Power from the Dresser (Ind.) su-per-plant of the Indiana Electric Corporation flowed into the Indianapolis Street Railway and Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company lines for a brief period Saturday, it was learned today. Robert I. Todd, president of the traction tompanies. said the trans- | ter was an experiment. For several I years the traction companies and the j Merchants Heat and Light Company i have protected each other in breakdowns. The Merchants recently began receiving power from the electric corporation, its parent. The experiment was to determine whether it was possible to operate the traction equipment with the Dresser plant current, involving a frequency change of from sixty to j twenty-five cycles. COMING OUT PARTY I Mayflies Swarm Boulevards Along Fall C’reelv—Die in 24 Hours. The Evanescent Order rnerida had a coming out party along Fail Creek Blvd., Sunday night. The Ephemerida, alias Mayfly, alias bug, whose life span is measured by two rounds of the clock, swarmed over the boulevard from the warters of Fall Creek and made motorists think they were bursting in on an international bug convention. Harry Dietz, assistant State entomologist, says the insects grow in water and leave it after it has become sufficiently warmed. Having no way of feeding themselves, they die in twenty-four hours, he said.

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$900,000 BOND ISSUE City Council to Vote on Fund for Two River Bridges. An ordinance providing for a bond issue of $900,000 to build the new Kentucky and Oliver Ave. bridges over White River and acquire necessary ground will be introduced in the city council tonight. The proposed work is the first step in the flood prevention program outlined recently by the board of works. Dredging and widening of the river will be started later. The bonds mature in thirty years and bear 4Vi per cent interest. FORMER RESIDENT DIES Horace F. Hill, Telephone Official, Succumbs at Marshfield, Mass. W r ord has been received of the death at Marshfield, Mass,, of Hprace F. HIJI, 64, former vice president of the old Central Union Telephone Company, here. He had also been an executive of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. From Indianapolis he moved to Chicago and later to Boston. Besides the widow, following children survive: Horace F. Hill, Jr.; Miss Catherine Hill, Russell Hill and Mrs. Louis Layton, all of Boston.

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BIDS UNSATISFACTORY Only $135,000 Offered for SBOO,OOO Honyny Plant. Bids for the Indianapolis plant of the American Hominy Company, received at a sale under order of the northern district of Illinois of the Federal Court, will be presented in Federal Court at Chicago soon. The bids were unsatisfactory, according to George B. Jack, custodian for the Indiana property of the company. Although the property was appraised at SBOO,OOO the highest bid received was $135,000, Jack said. SCHOOL HEAD MAY QUIT County Superintendent at Ft. Wayne Reported Dissatisfied. Bu Vnitrd Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 21.—That the resignation of D. O. McComb, county superintendent of schools, now ser .ing his third term, will be tendered this week was reported here today. A proposal to increase the superintendent’s salary was voted down I Saturday. McComb admitted that | lie had an attractive offer from a I Chicago map making company and I might accept it. * /

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resign and would not accept a transfer,” Morgan said. It is understood Haynes told Morgan he understood the situation thoroughly and that "Watson had demanded Morgan's removal transfer. Meantime, the affair has assumed proportions far greater than the mere retention of removal of Morgan. It has come down, political observers say, to a test of strength between the Harry S. New and Watson factions of the Republican party. Slowly but surely Federal appointees of Harry S. New, postmaster general, formerly United States Senator, are being ousted from the jobs. Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, will retire Sept. 1, and with Morgan out oi' the way, Watson’s grip on Federal appointments will be stronger than ever. French Fete Closes. A French fete, in celebration ot Bastille day, given by Irvington post No. 32, American Legion, closed Saturday night. Frederick E. Shortemeier, Republican candidate for Secretary of State, and secretary to Governor Emmett F. Branch, spoke on behalf of Branch. Proceeds will be used to aid disabled soldiers and their families.

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