Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1924 — Page 6

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TAX LEVY FIGURES MAY NOT INCLUDE HUGE STATE DEBT Board Will Not Consider $4,240,000 Unless Directed, Brown Says, The State tax board will give no consideration to fixing a tax levy sufficient to dissolve the $4,240,000 State debt unless the State finance board, places the matter before it and requests that something be done, according to John J. Brown, chairman. Proceedure of the tax board in fixing the State levy is merely a matter of mathematics, it was pointed out. Given a certain amount of money to raise for the State budget and special appropriations, and given the value of taxable property in the State, the commissioners through a process of division, determine how many cents on each SIOO of taxable property will raise the required amount. It was 30 cents for this year. But Brown and William A. Hough, commissioner, explained why their calculations did not bring in the required amount because of the Supreme Court decision which took the $1,000,000 annual inheritance tax out of the general fund and returned it to the highway commission, a result of the unconstitutionality of the automobile license law. The State debt was $3,390,000 Sept. 30, 1923. It is nearly a million more than that now. . CRAB INDUSTRY IN DIRE DANGER Os EXTINCTION

Govt, Takes No Action Because State Rights Are Involved, Times Washinoton Rureau, ISit Strto York Ate. WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—Suite rights or crabs, which? The choice must be made soon, or the crabs will automatically settle the question by par-sing out of the picture entirely, according to indications along Chesapeake Bay where most of the crabs eaten in the United States are caught. Crabs are getting decidedly scarce. Maryland blames Virginia. Virginia blames Maryland. The Federal Government takes no action such as it has taken to conserve the salmon in Alaska, because a question of State rights is involved. The crab's own habits have caused all the trouble. The crab insists on traveling, spending half its life in Maryland and half in Virginia. Spawning takes place in summer, in the Virginia waters. Then the young migrate northward to Maryland waters where they grow to maturity. Dredging Causes Shortage During this time of rapid growth, the crab moults or, in other words, sheds his hard shell and becomes a soft-shell crab, the delicacy for which Baltimore is famous. , Adult females who escape being served on some Marylander's table then migrate to Virginia and lie quiescent at the bottom of the bay luring the winter, waiting for sum mer to spawn. But In the # winter Virginians dredge for traits end do the major part of the nation's crab meat business: Fisheries Bureau Neutral Maryland fishermen 3ay the present shortage is caused by this dredg-. ing which gets the females before they have a chance to spawn Virginia fishermen say the Maryland soft-crab industry, which gets the

1 ‘Egoism’ Fanned by Triumphs, I Wrecked M Coy, Alienist Says

Bv Timet Special f """>O3 ANGEL.ES. Cal.. Aug f J 26.—"1s Kid McCoy crazy?' Ii Attorneys for the former pugilist, who now stands indicted for the murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors, have let it be known that insanity will be interposed. Hazzard Page, noted psychologist. who is not connected with either the prosecution or defense alienists being marshaled for the trial, says “egoism fanned by many triumphs” is the cause of the-ex-pugilist’s downfall. In other words. McCoy is the victim of complexes. "Primarily, this alleged slayer is indicated as the possessor of a distinctly dual personality," Page says. “Asa brilliant champion of his pugilistic division he was devoted to achievement of success within the squared ring. There developed his first manifestation of psychosis. that of ego-mania, a superior belief in his own abilities and possibilities. “His first marriage, which came early in his career, in view of his subsequent marital adventures, gi-es the initial manifestation of his second apparent psychosis, that of marital-paranoia. "The growth of this psychosis eventually developed the man into a sex-paranoic, in which condition his relations with women were characterized, not by love £nd tender regard, but the egomania of conquest. "Competent in the ring, his success brought him to the drawing rooms of society where his wellmodulated voice contributed to the conversations —while a laterlpour of found him with his honky-

Where Leopold and Loeb Face the Law

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COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTS AND COUNTY JAIL BUILDING. THE ARROW AT THE UPPER LEFT POINTS TO THE COURTROOM OF CHTEF JUSTICE JOHN R. CAVERLY, WHERE THE TRIAL OF NATHAN F. LEOPOLD JR. AND RICHARD A. LOEB IS IN PROGRESS.

female before it grows up at all, is to blame. The United States Bureau of Fisheries is neutral in the controversy and takes no part beyond making studies of conditions in both States. According to Deputy Commissioner Lewis Kadcliffe, no adequate protection can be assured until the States involved realize that one set of laws I to apply to all the crab States will pot solve the problem, but that special legislation to meet the different phases of the crab's 11?* history must be agreed to. The annual catch of crabs in Chesapeake Bay is valued at more than a million dollars and provides employment for approximately 10,000 persons. Between twenty and fifty million pounds of crab meat is consumed annually in the United States. KING OF BRITAIN IS HUGE HELP Aids Man to Find Bookie at Races, By Time * Special LONDON, Aug. 26.—The King and Queen of England are accustomed to go to the races ten or flf teen times a year. On such an occasion the newspapers publish the intention, and as their arrival is heralded and the royal pair take their seats, the custom is for the betting to cease and gentlemen remain uncovered until they are seated. One day the King was not expected at Epsom Downs, but the word was passed that he was coming by a small, middle-aged man with spectacles, long ulster and arctics. just after the first race. He ran along the line shouting: “Hats off. gentlemen:. Hats off.’’ Immediately all betting ceased and headgear was doffed. After several minutes no one could see the King, and the word was passed that he was at Buckingham and would not be to the races that day. Several indignant bookies grabbed the little man who had brought the word to doff hats and demanded an explanation. "No harm, gents: no harm at all,” he stated. "I wanted to find my bookie. He's got a bald head, so I had to get all hats off to find him.”

KID M'COT tonk companions of the red light district. "The Kid did not artificially assume the character he manifested, but in the urge and impulse of egomania he actually became the various characters he placed. His consciousness has been driven by his imagination to piay a part and he has lived . in' dreams until his destiny has overtaken him in its most sinister aspect. “An ego-maniac, a self-paranoiac and finally a homicidal maniac, he is utterly irresponsible, victim of psychic characterization. “He is a remarkable and tragically pathetic example of both physical and mental deterioration and decay.”

NORTHERN ILLINOIS PENITENTIARY AT JOLIET.' IF GIVEN LIFE IMPRISONMENT. LEOPOLD AND LOEB WILL SPEND THE REMAINDER OF THEIR DAYS HERE. A NEW PRISON IS BEING ERECTED AT JOLIET NOW. BUT MOST OF THE CONVICTS STILL ARE CONFINED IN THE OLD ONE, OF WHICH THE BUILDING ABOVE IS PART.

W .H. EVANS DIES AFTER LONG LIFE Seven Months’ Illness Fatal to Native Hoosier, Funeral arrangements for William H. Evans. 80, of Center Township, who died Monday night at the Methodist Hospital, were being made today. Mr. Evans, for many wears ac tive in Republican politics, was ill seven months. He was born on a farm near the old Woollen Rd., near the present site of Broad Ripple. He attended the old Northwestern College, now Butler University. At the outbreak of the Civil War he left school to enter the Army. When he returned he was granted a diploma. He was a farmer and later a road contractor. He served as street commissioner and as bailiff in Marion Circuit Court. He was serving his second term as trustee of Center township at the time of death. He is survived by a son. Carlton N. Evans, Springfield. Ohio; a daughter. Mrs W. H. Hollar. Philadelphia, and a sister, Mrs. William W. Woollen of Indianapolis. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: William Staleup, 117 Parker Av., Roamer, from in front of home: Wlßys.-Overln nd Company, Capitol Ave. and Michigan St., WlllysKnight, from Twenty-Fifth St. and Sherman Dr.. A. B. Weatherford. 4161 Keystone Ave., Chevrolet, from in front of Manual Training High School; W. O. Thomas. 46 Schiller St., Chevorlet, from Maryland and Meridian Sts.; Paul Pierce, 812 Bancroft St., Oldsmobile, from Delaware and Court Sts.; Paul Lucas,... 2038 Ashland Ave., Chevorlet, from Meridian and Michigan Sts.: P. H. Flaherty, 408 Mozart St., Overland, from Pennsylvania and South Sts,; Elmer Devall, R R. 2, box 379, Ford, from Georgia and Delaware Sts.; Dowell Davis, 430 Terrace Ave., Chevrolet, from Illinois and Vermont Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN A. D. Shepherd, 4316 Guilford Ave., Oakland, found at Centerville, Ind.; Morris Huffman, 6219 Ellenberger Ave., Oldsmobile, brought back home; Herbert Schull, 1219 Naoinl St., Oakland, at 63 W. Thirty-Second St.; James Stinnett. 315 Oxford St., Chevrolet, at Chicago; Charles Herrin, 4040 Ruckle St., Oakland, at 53 W. Thirty-Second St., and Dee Wise, Carmel, Ind., Ford, Yandes and Twenty-Fifth Sts.

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This Ought to Get the Dirt Farmer Vote

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PRESIDENT COODIDGE, VACATIONING ON HIS FATHER'S FARM IN VERMONT. USED TWO NEW WOODEN RAKES, PRESENTED BY AN ADMIRER. TO PROVE HE HASN'T DOST THE ART OF FARMING. DEFT TO RIGHT: CONGRESSMAN ADDAN T. TREADWAY, PRESIDENT COODIDGE. MRS. COODIDGE, MRS TREADWAY AND C. BASCOM SDEMP, SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT.

GERMANY BOASTS TEAPOT SCANDAL This Time They Are China, Not Oil. By C. D. BROAT United Prese Corretvondent BERLIN, Aug. 26.—The Prussian state is now experiencing a violet tempest In, or rsther over, a teapot. In this case the tempest centers not around a teapot dome, but around china teapots and other porcelain products of the former royal porcelain factory. The Nationalist party members of the Prussian diet claim that the factory sold some of its previous wares to state and central government ministers at speciaj prices, hinting at graft. Their original accusation named Reichsmlnisters Gessler and Hoefie afe beneficiors of the reduced prices, while a second attack centered against the Prussian State Commerce Minister Siering. The nationalists accused him of appointing as head of the factory a Dr. Schneider, who, they said, not only made special prices but was not expert in conducting the business. It was explained that special prices were offered some tme ago to all permanent customers of the factory and that the ministers benefited in this bargain sale, without, however, transgressing any state or moral laws. The Nationalists' onslaught is in-

FALSE ALARM AT L. S. AYRES & CD. Police Fail to Find Mysterious Automobile. L. S. Ayres & Cos., Meridian and Washington Sts., was surrounded by police early today after a report that a large touring car was parked near the rear door. Extensive search failed to reveal any trace of the car. Burglars obtained sll9 in household goods at the homg~ of Frank McClellan, 1640 W. Ohio St., Monday. A girl Mrs. Thelma North, colored, 519 N. California St., befriended stole $34 from her, Mrs. North reported to police. These persons reported that after they recovered their stolen cars they discovered accessories were gone: T. J. Hughes, Brooklyn, Ind., S6O worth; Clement Zerr, R. R. E, Box 205, S4O worth; William Doll, 3332 N. Sherman Dr., SSO worth, and Ernest. Martin of Westfield, Ind., sls worth. Dr. A. J. Willey, of Marion, Ohio, reported two suit cases, containing clothing valued at $345, stolen from his machine Monday. Burglars obtained automobile accessories valued at SIOO from the garage of J. J. Hasley, 3827 Central Ave. Two traveling bags, containing clothing valued at $76, were stolen from V. D. Stuart and George Tarbles, both of Paris, 111., at the Union Station, Monday, police said.

tended to disrupt the existing Prussian state government so that the Nationalists can come into power in the state again, as they have long desired to do. From Far and Near Will Allen, railroad station master at Orange. N. J., had almost finished counting $2,000 in fares when two banflits entered, making him lose count. He threw a chair at them and they fled without the $2,000. Secretary' of the Treasury Mellon, who has been abroad for several months, Is scheduled to sail for home Wednesday on the steamer Majestic. Nick Yonkich, Chicago steel mill wdrker, evidently didn’t believe in the old saying, "better late than never.” His landlady was ten minutes late in awakening him, so he slammed her over the head with a milk bottle and cut her throat with a knife. He’s in jail and she’s in the hospital. The Cnuard line steamer Mauretania set anew record for an eastbound passage of the Atlantic when she crossed from New York to Cherbourg France, in five days, one hour and forty-nine minutes. Her average speed was 26.25 knots an hour. Maj. William Hensley of Mitchell Field, D. 1., will do a modern Paul Revere tonight when he will fly over Nassau County broadcasting a radio call to citizens below to participate in Defense day exercises.

Takes Active Part at Fairground

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Because she Is content to remain in the background, few people have known of the varied activities of Mrs. Forest NeaJ. wife and assistant to Forest Neal, general superintendent of the Indiana State fairground. For several years, previous to the opening of the fair, Mrs. Neal hac supervised a corps POSTOFFICE WILL CLOSE No Delivery of .Mail on I-abor Day, Potmaetwr Announces. All departments of the Indianapolis postoffice will be closed Monday. Sept. 1, in observance of Labor day, according to Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. There will be no deliv ery of mail by carriers. Collections and evening deliveries to hotels and dispatches of outgoing mail will be made as on Sunday. Bryson said. Sal hi and Crepe Satin-backed crepe Is now being made up with the satin rather than the crepe side to the fore, and is used for street or for more ejaborate wear.

Good Reason Ezra Pingle of Clover Leaf Farm, who keeps summer boarders, was loaning on the front fence talking to anew arrival the other day, when out in the meadow near the river a young man clad in a bathing suit leaped high in the air and detoured to the ground, his outstretched arms lending considerable grace to, his movements. When he touched earth again his rebound was magnificent. Then, like an excited fawn, he leaped and ran across the meadow, where he ended his exhibition with a most beautiful dive over the alder bushes into the river. "Interpretative dancer?” asked the new boarder. “Nope, bumble bees," said Ezra. — Kansas City Star.

Man-Eating Mosquitoes Swarm on Chicago

Ry United Press , HICAGO, Aug. 26—Relief from the swarm of maneating mosquitoes which has practically destroyed outdoor life in Chicago and its suburbs during the last few weeks cannot be expected before the first frost, Dr. Herman Bundeson, city commissioner of health, announced today. Driven frantic by the blood thirsty pests, residents, particularly In the outlying districts, have almost swamped the commissioner’s office with requests for advice on how to deal with the insects and their bites. More than 400 calls were received Monday. ?

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of workers in the preparation of the buildings so that on the opening day everything will be In readiness not only for the exhibitors but for the visitors. In addition she has made up the weekly pay rolj for help about the fairground which runs into thousands of dollars each year, and has looked after the employment of all labor. MODERN STAND TO REPLACE OLD AT FAIRGROUND Race Fans This Year Will Occupy Wooden Struc- - ture for Last Time. Race fans at, the State fair will occupy the old wooden grand stand for the last time this year, according to an annonucement today by William M. Jones, secretary of the Indiana board of agriculture. If this year's fair is a success, and Jones says all indications are it will be one- of the most successful in history, a modern, permanent stand of greatly increased seating capacity next year will replace the thirty-year-old wooden structure now in use. Bigger Exhibits Scores of workmen were busy today preparing grounds and buildings for the opening day, Monday, Sept. 1. There will be 950 exhibits in livestock. agriculture and art departments alone, an increase of 25 per cent over last year, according to fig ures compiled by Jones. This does not take into account industrial or automobile exhibits. Total number of entries in all departments will run between 17,000 and 18,000. Enormous Premiums The premium list, which aggregates $106,000, is said to be the largest of any of the corn belt States. Os this amount $28,000 will go to the harness races. Nineteen States and three Canadian provinces, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta will be represented among the exhibitors and in addition the Canadian government will make an exhibit. In the livestock department the following entries have been received: Horses, 1,800; cattle. 2.500; hogs, 2,400; sheep. 2.000; poultry, 5,000.

WASMAN NAMED CENTER TRUSTEE Albert F. Walsman. 2916 N. Illinois St., superintendent of the Capital Paper Company, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for county sheriff at the last primary, today was appointed trustee Lor Center Township, to < succeed William H. Evans, who died at the Methodist Hospital, Monday. Appointment of Walsmffn was made by County Commissioners John Kitley and John McCloskey, Democrats. Marion County now has six Democratic trustees and three Republicans.

Dr. Bundeson has given them nothing more than the cheerful inforrpation that there is little danger disease will he spread by mosquito bites, as the swarm which has made its appearance apparently is of a non-dartgerous variety. In the meantime, he advised irascible sufferers that the best they can do is to remain indoors behind screens and depend on right hand swings to eliminate such blood-suckers as are particularly vicious. Dfastic measures are being taken to prevent further increase in the swarm. Oil is being poured

TUESDAY, AUG. 26, 1924

‘REGULAR FELLOW’ TO SUCCEED GEN. JOHN iPERSHING Maj. Gen. Hines' Hobbies Are Dancing and Riding Horse-Back, By NEA Service, WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, who Is to succeed General Pershing as chief of staff, is a “regular fellow.” While a tireless worker and leader, General Hines has other accomplishments. And one of them is dancing! He rarely ever misses a military dance. His tall, wiry figure is always sure to be seen on the ball room floor. With him dancing is a ' recreation and a pleasure. General Hines’ family is well represented in the army. His wife was Miss Rita Wherry, daughter of Gen. William Wherry. His only daughter married Capt. John R. D. Cleland. And his only son. John L. Hines Jr., is now at West Point. Riding a Hobby The general’s chief hobby is horseback riding. Every morning he rides before coming to his office, and on Sunday he takes his staff officers for a long, cross-country ride. General Hines is a commanding fiatt ure. Well over six feet, he Is and wiry. One would describe him as the "rawbone” type. During his West Point days ha was a football player, and It is said he played on the first football team the military academy ever had. Maj. Gen. Hines —he will keep the same rank on becoming chief of staff —was born on May 21, 1868, in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He i was appointed to West Point In 1887. 1 He graduated in 1891 and was commissioned a lieutenant In the Second Infantry of the Regular Army. • Among the campaigns he served In were the Santiago. Cienfuegos iCuba) and the Philippine insurrection of. 1901. In 1916-17 he served as adjutant general of the punitive expedition into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa. For a time he acted as chief of staff of that expedition. Was in World War General Hines sailed for France, in May, 1917, and served as assistant j adjutant general of the A. E. F. until -October, 1917. Having been pro- | rnoted to the rank of colonel, he was i given command of the 16tli Infantry !of the First Division. In May, 1918, | he became a brigadier general His last rise in ramk came in j August. 1918, when he was made a : major general and assigned to the j command of the Fourth Division, which he commanded in the battle ! ...f St. Millie: and during the early ! stages of the Argonne-Meuse offeni sive. | General Hines has received many 9, the most in-m portant being the Service Cross for extraordinailH heroism in action near Berzy-le-Sec, France, on July 21. 1918. His record shows h° personally went into the I front lines and advanced with his ! men in order to restore a broken I liaison. WOOLWORTHPAYS RECORD RENTAL

$33,333 a Month for New York Location, By Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—What is said to be the highest rental ever paid by a retail store in America, and probably in the world, Is to be paid by the Woolworth five and tencent stores for the Aeolian Bldg., on Forty-Second St., New York. The Woolworth store will pay $33,333 a month rent, $27,600,000 in all for sixty-three years and will also pay ! the taxes and the carrying charges, amounting to several thousand dollars more a month. A good many 5 and 10-cent pieces will have to be taken in each day to pay that rent. Still, the Woolworth Company been amazingly successful in igj| high rent location stores. When the firm took a long lease of their Fifth Avenue store, real estate men felt the company was letting itself in for a big loss, the rent was terrific. Even the company officials felt the store probably would not pay. but that the advertisement of a '‘store on Fifth Avenue" would help the other stores. However, in spite of the enormous rent, the Fifth Avenue store was a success from the start, and is now considered the best paying unit of the Woolworth chain. S There’s a Difference Reb Russell, former White Sox and Pittsburgh star* is playing a good game with Columbus. Russell, for some reason or other, rates as a stellar performer in Double A com petition but falters when up against big league pitching.

freely on the stagnant waters to kill off the “wiggletails," from which mosquitoes develop. As the average life of a mosquito is 120 days however, little hope for immediate relief is held forth. Only an early frost which the insects cannot survive, will completely eliminate the nuisance. Fiesort keepers have been particularly hard hit by the pest. Beaches have been practically deserted. camping and picnic grounds have gone unvisited and golf links have had almost no players except hardy fans with leather skins or adequate prtection from netting.