Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1926 — Page 2

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NEARING DAK ON LEW INDEFINITE Board Can Not Stop to Ponder Sanitary Tax. “We cannot stop wfiat w are doing now to hold a hearing on the disputed tax levy of the city sanitary board, so it probably will be some time until we can get to the matter.” This was the assertion of John J. Brown, member of the State tax board, today when asked when 1 the board would hold a hearing on the $0,065 levy for the sanitary ; board, as ordered by the Supreme Court in renderine a decision on the appeal of the city council. The confusion arose from a dispute between members of the city council and Ifayor Shank as to who had the power to fix levy. .Shank decreed that the sanitary board was entitled to only a $0,055 levy whereas the couricil raised him a cent and was upheld by the Supreme Court. The State board at present is reviewing the assessed valuation of personal property in various counties and making adjustments wherever figures.of county assessors appear so be wrong. According to William A. Hough of 1 the tax board, southern counties have suffered heavy losses in taxable property wheras northern counties show an appreciable gain.

HURRICANE IS MOVING NORTH (Continued From Page 1) crippling telephone and telegraph service, unroofing houses and' battering dangerously such shipping as remains upon the seas off the Florida coast. ' Fate of the Italian steamer Ansaldo San Giorgio Secundo was still in doubt this'morning. The freighter, with a crew of thirty on board, drifted rudderless before the storm all day Tuesday, while two other ships stood by. Tuesday night, as the storm increased, the rescue ships lost sight of the disabled vessel, but whether it sank or was hlown farther out to sea Is not yet known. A coast guard cutter is hunting for it, The Dutch steamer Wilhelm A. Reidemann is in distress near Jupiter Inlet,' north of Palm Beach, according to radio reports. Fear for 25 PorsoYis The sixty-foot motorboat Zulieta, Brunswick, Ga„ carrying twentyfive excursionists, is .missing. The Clyde liner Seminole, endangered Tuesday by the storm, turned about and made port here without damage. No word has been heard from the Gulf Refining Company tanker, J. M. Guffey, due here today. Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, where the storm did $1,000,000 damage, are the hardest hit of the southern Florida cities, over which the hurricane already has passed. Fofty small yachts arid houseboats in Lake Worth, between those two cities, were sunk and a wooden bridge over the lake was washed away. One Head at Miami In Miami, damage was estimated at SIOO,OOO, according to reports which came over crippled wires during the few hours that city was in ■ communication with the, rest of the country. Then the wires failed again and tip to an early hdur this morn ing communication was undependable. One man, a lineman working on stornvtorn wires, was killed in Miami. . • Damage to Nassau, in the Bahamas. was placed at five million dollars in garbled estimates. It may have been much higher, according to shipping men here. Loss in small communities along the east Florida bring the total damage in Florida to well over $1,500,000. “Winds whipping Jacksonville are growing more severe hourly and the -•full force of the storm is expected to reach here today, according to weather bureau reports. Every possible precaution to prevent dteMage to shipping in the harbor has been taken, but heavy damage is feared.

GEORGIA IS NERVOUS Hdrrlrane Expected to Strike at Savannah—Troops Ready. Bu United PreDX ' SAVANNAH. C tf „ July 28.—A1l summer residents on Tybee Island have been brought here for protec tion from the tropical hurricane which wrought havoc Florida east coast and is expected to strike here today. 'Hurricane ( warnings have been hoisted and vessels have been secured to theif moorings. Rain was falling here this morn ing and a rising wind was noted. Soldiers at the State military camp at Tybee Island were being held in readiness for emergencies. ‘JUST KIDDING,’ SAYS BOY % * , Policeman’s Son, 3, Wanders Mile , and Half From Home. “I wasn’t going to run away, ma, I was just kidding ,yuh,” said little Robert Francis Higgs, 3, son of Motorpoliceman Earl Higgs, 233 N. Tremont Ave. when he was placed back in his mother's arms after the wanderlust took him a mile and a half from his home Wednesday evening. * 0 Higgs and Motorpoliceman Hinder were assigned to search for the boy when neighbors failed to find him in the neighborhood after he had been missing some -time. A woman who did not give her name turned the boy over to police at the W. Washington St. car barns. She said she had found him in her front yard. ! PANAMA CANAL PROSPERS Bu United Pre/ii> WASHINGTON, July 28.—The Panama Canal has just ended its most prosperous year—except the record year of 1924—according to statistics pubpstlt'd by the War Department today. In the year ending June 30, 24.774.591 tons of shipping passed through theycanal. compared to 22.865,151 tons tne" previous year.

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FLEET NEGRO ARRESTED Man, Who Escaped From Police Squad on Foot, Is Captured. Wilbur Shacklett, 34, Negro, of 630 E. Wabash St., was charged with speeding, transporting liquor and operating a blind tiger, Tuesday night. Sergeant Reily and squad said they sighted Shacklett speeding last week, and that he drove into a blind alley, when they gave chase, leaped from the car, and escaped on foot. They confiscated his machine and said they found fifty-five gallons of alcohol. Sergeant Barge and squad made sixteen arrests in raids Tuesday night at 621 W, North St., and 306 •N. Senate Ave. Henry Jones, 22, Negro, of 221 W. North St., Herman Davis, 4 A, Negro, of 526 W. North St., and Mrs, Mary Stigger, 23, Negro, of 522 W. St. Clair St., were arrested on blind tiger charges. CITY TO FIRE POLICE Warren, Ohio, City of 40*000, “Broke”—Graft Is Rumored. Rti United Prexx WARREN, Ohio, July 28.—This city of 40,000 population prepared today to pay off and fire its entire police force. Tuesday night the city council voted to abolish the department ostensibly because there are no funds with which to pay officers’ salaries, already $5,780 in arrears. The back pay will be raised by popular subscription. Charges of graft and corruption in the force, unmehtiohed by the council when its vote was taken, were reported to be underlying reason for its action. The sheriff’s force will take qver city law enforcement duties. WCAP TO BE DISCONTINUED R>’ United Prexx WASHINGTON. July 28.—WCAP, Chesapeakf and Potomac Telephone Company broadcasting station here, has been acquired by the Radio Corporation of America and will be discontinued.

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MEXICANS JAIL RICH SENORITA iC-Pti tinned From Page 1) opinion is based on the fact that the church discourages use of force, and no unity exists among the individuals most strenuously opposing the change. Well Equipped Army Furthermore, any elements of the population attempting .to instigate serious disorders would face the best equipped and disciplined army in the history of Mexico. If trouble does come, it is expeted to be in the interior where the Indian population predominates, rather than in the large cities. -** .Churchmen say that if the Govern ment takes over all churches in Mexico it will constitute a seizure.of properties of an approximate value of $300,000,000. Mayor Lynched Dispatches from Aguas Calientes, published in the Graphico here, state that a group of citizens of the town of Nochistan in the State of Zacatecas killed the mayor of their city because of his Imprisoning a local priest, Humberto Cervantes. Another account, also published in the Graphico, stated that the mayor shot and killed the priest and that the lynching was due to this act. If the reports are confirmed it is the first bloodshed - in Mexico's religious controversy. The Church's Weapons v Against the government’s might, the.church is wielding two weapons: 1. Withdrawal of priests from the exercise of their various functions at. the direction of Pope Pius. 2. The program of economic boycott for the purpose of producin'- a social crisis, which is sponsored not by the church hut by the League for the Defense of Religious Liberty. Among the factors making general disorders unlikely is the average layman’s inability clearly to define the issues involved, despite the publica-

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tion and distribution of various brochures, signed and unsigned, terming the law a persecution of the church, i Although no papal edict of excommunication has ome from Rome, churchmen here say that many former members of the church already have been automatically excommunicated Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco was asked whether, in view of the actual conditions in Mexjco.l he considered the religious law unjust. Disturbs Peace "The law,” replied the bishop, "is contrary to natural rights which sanction religious liberty as a human postulate to these rights. The law appears also to contravene Mexican constitutional rights which, accord ing to the opinions of emient jur ists. Catholic and non-Catholic, have been nullified by many clauses of the law which the president dictated. “Furthermore, the law is Inopportune and disturbs public peace. For a long time there have existed in Mexico irreligious laws, but relative peace has been preserved among us. thanks to noncompliance with these laws. Immediately after the government of General Oalles attempted to enforce them, the nations expressed its discontent in every way. This discontent is actually intense and universal, despite the efforts of the Mexican minister in the United States to make the American people think to the contrary. “In the joint pastoral letter of April 21, the Mexican episcopate, seeking accord, asked the government to hold the application of these laws in abeyance pending a national plebiscite, but' the government, instead of accepting this recourse, made the vexations more severe because the government knew that if it called upon the popular opinion it would he conquered.” /Vsked whether he expected serious disorders to result from the situation, the bishop replied: “Serioifs disorders are not impossible, but whether or not they come, it is not our intention^ o incite the people against the government, hut only to fulfill the sacred duty of our conscience th&t commands us to defend fo r the church the religious liberty that is enjoyed among all cultured people.”

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SEWAGE PLANT TOPIC! Engineers to Discuss City Plant at Thursday Meeting. Purification of only two-thirds of the city’s sewage at the sewage disposal plant will be discussed by the Indianapolis Engineering Society Thursday noon at the Board of Trade. The technical experts will consider thoroughly the drastic report of Russell T. Mac Fall at last week’s meeting in which he took to task C. K. Calvert, present engineer in charge, and outlined specifically his views irr regard to alleged mismanagement at the plant. ‘DREAM BABY r ~HIS~SON Bitisli Judge Declares Master Rus sell Is Legitimate. Bu United Prexx July 28. —Master Geof- j ffry Russell, the cejgbrated "dream baby,” regarding whose paternity' there raged the hardest fought and j perhaps the most unusual divorce case in the history of British courts, today was pronounced the legitimate son of the Hon. John Russell and thereby put in line to succeed his doubting father in the barony of Ampthill. Justice Swift, in the divorce division of the law courts, today granted Master Geoffrey's petition for a declaration of legitimacy, and th* strange details of the "Russell mvorce case” again in the public prints. IT WILL BE DRY PARTY Sergeant Reilly and squad believed they spoiled someone's plans for a party when they seized 100 bottles of beer in a vacant house at 1014 Columbia Ave. The beer was destroyed. JUDGE'S FATHER DEAD Pv United Prexi EL WOOD, Ind.. July 28.—Funeral j services will be held here tomorrow for Aaron White, 81, Civil War veteran. The widow, three sisters and : one son, Daniel White of the Indianapolis municipal court, survive.

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