Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 316, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1927 — Page 5

APRIL 12, 1927

BANDIT REFUSES , PERSONAL FUNDS Gunman Takes Company Money Only in Hold-up. .-V bandit with desire to rob only an oil company and not the attendant, held up Western Oil Station, 3432 W. Washington St., late Monday. When John Boyce, 3252 W. Washington St., manager, walked out to serve a driver he believed to be a prospective customer, the motorist jumped from the automobile and, flashing a revolver, ordered Boyce into the station. He forced Boyce to hand over S6O of company money. He refused to take the personal funds of Boyce and F. A. Boyce, 1509 Reisener St., who was with the manager. Congress Will Get Tax Cut Request B WASHINGTON, April 12.—The treasury is certain to ask Congress next December to authorize a tax cut of more than $200,000,000 it was learned authoritatively today. A surplus of more than $500,000,- ! 000 is predicted for the current fiscal I year and Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills estimated a surplus ' of at least $175,000,000 for 1928. Joseph McCoy, actuary of the \ Treasury, is preparing tables show- ' ing what taxes can be reduced withl out serious loss of revenue. He be- ! lieves the so-called nuisance war I taxes, such as taxes on admissions r to amusement places, on club dues, ! and the automobile excise taxes could i be repealed. PLAN M’CLURE FUNERAL Body io B eTaken to Anderson, S. C., Tonight for Burial. Funeral services for Janies F. McClure Jr., 52, who died of heart attack, Monday, at Ft. Wayne, will be held Thursday at Anderson, S. C. Mr. McClure was Indiana manager for the Trailsmobilc Company, Cincinnati. Ohio. He had lived here ten years. The funeral party will leave Indianapolis tonight. The widow and daughter Catherine survive.

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TO WELCOME BRITONS Chamber of Commerce Completes Plans for Greeting Visitors May 31. Arrangements for entertaining British commerce officials when they stop in Indianapolis May 31 on a western tour were completed at a conference today, William H. Arnett, State Chamber of Commerce manager, announced. Gilbert C. Vyle, president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, and Sir Thomas Lipton will head a party of twenty business men as guests of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Maj. Leroy Hodges of the Virginia Chamber is here planning the tour. Closer business relationship between Britain and the United States is the goal of the visit. The Englishmen will tour industrial plants here and confer with business executives. WINKLER FUNERAL HELD Police Honor Lieutenant as Body Passes Headquarters. Police Lieut. Fred Winkler, 918 S. East St., was buried Monday at Crown Hill cemetery after services at the home. Services were conducted by U. S. Johnson, pastor of the Fountain Square Christian Church and the Logan Lodge 675 F. and A. M. Members of the police department acted as pallbearers and the police band and quartet rendered music. High police and fire department officials attended the rites. A daughter, Helen, who has been ill, w'as carried from her room to the bier of her father. The funeral procession, a mile long, passed through a double line of police, heads bared and bowed, as the body was taken past headquarters. SHANK FAVORS MAYOR Engineering Society to Hear Talk Against “Manager.” Former Mayor Lew Shank w ill address the Indianapolis Engineering Society at Thursday luncheon, at the Board of Trade Restaurant, Board of Trade Bldg. ' Shank will argue against the city manager form of government.

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BAPTISTS PLAN TO RAISE FUND $25,000 Would Further i Work in Indianapolis Area. Plans for the creation of a permanent Indianapolis Baptist fund of $25,000 were proposed by the Rev. F. A. Hayward, Indianapolis Federated Baptist churches’ secretary, at the annual meeting of the College Avenue Baptist Church Monday night. The assembly ratified the proposals. Three trustees will be elected and $2,500 raised annually for ten years. Only the interest will be available out of the general fund, but provision will be made for special gifts to be administered as donors direct. The plan will provide a permanent fund for furthering the Baptist program in the Indianapolis area. The following Fqdera.tl-on officers

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were elected: Leon Joyce, Woodruff Place Baptist Church, president; Mrs. C. S. Dearborn, First Baptist Church, vice president; Mrs. J. J. Gilchrist. College Avenue Baptist Church, secretary; Charles O. Lawler, Emerson Avenue Baptist Church, treasurer, and Mr. Hayward, executive secretary. FLAME TOLL $569,273 January Figures for Indiana Announced by Stale Fire Marshal. Four hundred and ninety-six fires destroyed Indiana property valued at $509,273 during January according to State Fire Marshal's statistics published in the department bulletin for March. Most of the losses were in dwellings and school houses. Defective flues, wiring, stoves or grates were the major causes. Fliers at San Juan B’l United Press SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 12. —The United States Pan-American flight squadron commanded “by Major Dargue arrived at 10:35 a. m. today from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. The squadron left St. Thomas at 9:40 a. m.

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