Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1927 — Page 12

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STATE IS ONE OF FEW FREE FROMJEBTS Cities, Counties Continue Large Issues of Bonds. Indiana holds the unique position of being one of the few States to be completely free from debt, according to J. J. Brown, State tax board chairman. Commenting upon a statement of George Lord, chairman of the Michigan tax commission, that government expenditures in that State, both State and municipal, are tending to increase faster than increase in wealth justifies, Brown admitted that the general trend all over the United States is in that direction. “Even in Indiana, all subdivisions of government, including cities, counties and towns, are piling up bond issues at a rate which is appalling,” the chairman pointed out. “At the present time, the indebtedness of such subdivisions in Indiana stands at $182,000,000 and Hs mounting rapidly.” “Even in Indiana, all subdivisions government, including cities, Munties and towns, are piling up issues at a rate which is Kpalling,” the chairman pointed ■t. “At the present time, the indebtedness of such subdivisions in ■diana stands at $182,000,000 and is Mounting rapidly.” Mrhese figures have no connection Mith Federal expenditures, Brown Mkplained, being merely amounts government are spending, outMide of the billions of United States Kebts. Make Comparisons I Citing figures to prove his conF tentions, the chairman made the following comparisons: In 1903 current requirements for all state and local governments of the United States were $900,000,000; in 1913 this had mounted to $1,500,000,000, and in 1925, the last-year for which complete figures are available, the total was $5,100,000,000 he said. Asa further evidence of the inclination of people generally to spend faster than they earn, Brown produced statistics to show that in August 1919, total indebtedness of all state and local governments were $6,700,000,000, while latest figures complied on November 1926, show a $12,200,000,000 total. Cities Spend Too Fast The Indiana chairman heartily indorsed several of the theories of Lord. “I agree with the Michigan commission,” he said, “that instead of making arbitrary guesses, local and ''-State governments should employ men charged with the sole duty of looking after their budgets and of keeping them within the ability of their respective communities to pay the bills.” “The whole trouble,” Brown admitted, “is that local governments, just like private citizens, are spending faster than their wealth is increasing. If any private corporation followed that plan for long it would inevitably reach bankruptcy. The citizenry is demanding greater civic improvements than they really can afford to finance. “It is true,” he pointed out, “that as long as the present wave of prosperity continues, the increased burden of debts will not be greatly noticed. It will work out like the ‘ten-pay’ plan which is being advocated by merchants, and will be offset in large measure by increased turnover of money—but if a stringent monetary condition should develop from any cause, the results are liable to be very serious, to the people unless something is done soon to stop this piling up of indebtedness.” FLIER’S RITES TUESDAY Bu United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 27. Funeral services are to be held here tomorrow for James Theodore Walker, 21-year-old millionaire, who was killed near Pottsville, Pa., when the airplane in which he was riding with his cousin, George L. Lambert, crashed. Classmates of young Walker, who graduated this spring from Princeton, will act as pallbearers. Walker will be buried beside his mother, the late Mrs. Lily Lambert Walker Clopton, from whom he inherited a $6,000,000 estate. Stomach Made Life Miserable Had Constant Back-ache, too. Tells how she regained health. “It’s wonderful to be well again,” writes Mrs. N. 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M.R.TOOMER, EDITOR, DEAD Scripps-Howard Newspaper Executive Succumbs. Bu United Press FT. WORTH, Texas, June 27. Morrison R. Toomer, editor of the Ft. Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, died here Sunday morning. Toomer was one of the most effective editors in the Southwest. He edited the Oklahoma News, in Oklahoma City, before going to Ft. Worth. Educated at the University of Oklahoma, he began newspaper work in 1914, shortly after leaving college. Cub reporter, reporter, political editor, and managing editor, he rose rapidly until, in 1922 when he became editor. Meantime he had served in the A. E. F. overseas. In 1917 Toomer tried repeatedly to have himself accepted among the volunteers, but his physique told against him. Later he was accepted in the draft and in a short time rose from private to first lieutenant. He saw service in France. Returning to his newspaper, his health, never any too robust, gave way in 1923, and he was obliged to rest. Back in harness again, he kept at his post until stricken a few weeks ago. The body will be sent today to his old home at Ardmore, Okla., for burial.

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43 COUNTRIES IN PARLEY ON WQRLDTRADE Discuss Economic, Financial Problems at 6-Day Convention. Bn United Press June 27.—A1l the world’s major economic problems will be discussed by the fourth Biennial congress of the International Chamber of Commerce which opened here today. The sessions of the congress will be held in the Parliament Bldg, and more than 700 delegates from fortythree countries will attend the sessions during the next six days. Among the more technical subjects which the congress will discuss are: Uniform laws governing checks and bills of exchange, double taxation, the enforcement of foreign judgments in bankruptcy proceedings, the protection of foreignowned industrial property, commercial aviation, the standardization of commercial letter of credit regulations problems of sea, rail and highway transportation, international telephony, cable and radio rates and revised rules of conciliation and arbitration. Discuss Trade Barriers The principal general topic - for discussion, however, will center on the question of economic restoration and in this field the delegates will be called upon to consider the work of the committee on international settlements ond of the committee on trade barriers. The subject of trade barriers Is expected to afford an even more extended and important topic of discussion. Following the Brussels Congress of the Chamber in 1925 a central trade barriers committee was appointed to study the entire problem of trade barriers and their relation to international commerce and industry. The results of this committee’s work will be utilized as far as possible during the present sessions of the congress. For clearer presentation at the meeting, the work of the committee was divided into six subjects, each of which has been studied by an international sub-committee. Confine Discussions It is understood that the congress will endeavor to confine the discussions at the meeting this year to purely economic problems, avoiding, if possible, the entry of international political controversies. The congress will also probably carry its discussions mainly into a more detailed consideration of the problems which were taken up at the international economic conference of the League of Nations of the material which had already been submitted at Geneva. PLANE DESERTS PILOT Craft Crashes Into Fence With Woman Passenger. Bu United Press GALESBURG, 111., June 27.—A pilotless airplane suddenly shot down the airfield here Sunday, crashed into a fence and was partly destroyed. A woman passenger, Mrs. Zelma Turney, was uninjured. Ned Hatch, the pilot, had just helped the woman into the airplane and was turning to aid another passenger when the plane started taxi-ing down the field. It ran about 200 yards before hitting the fence.

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter of ROOER BROOKS, owner and publisher of the Catawba City Timeu and a chain of nine other newspapers, had been kidnaped and in a few days released. Her father Is engaged In a persistent fight against the corrupt administration of Catawba City and through the medium of the Times redoubles his scathing attacks on politicians and the underworld. , t Brooks himself Is kidnaped, but in five days he reappears to find that his newspaper stock is being manipulated. He suspects JOHN W. WALDEN and undertakes to fight him. Brooks’ closest friend Is x young DONALD KEENE, his literary editor and guardian of TEDDY FARRELL, reporter and Sob Sister. Teddy Is In love with Don, who. not knowing which one he really prefers, makes love to three girls; his ward, Diana and LOLA MANTELL, Diana’s cousin. .. . Teddy and Don Install a dictagraph in Walden’s office. They then take the instrument to the Times and find that it has recorded parts of conversation between Walden and his soft that are conclusive evidence against them. NOW READ ON CHAPTER XLII “That all?” Young Walden’s voice came sharply from the machine. “No, not altogether, not by a damn sight. I’m afraid of that damned Copley. I know he’s a rat, a squealer. If they ever get to him with a little jack, he’ll cough up all he knows. I wish you’d pay him off—settle his hash.” “I tell you that’s all paid for, the Brooks job. One grand. The killing of Valetti saved us two grand. The other—” Teddy nudged her companion. “That’s the part I heard, remember?” Don nodded and held up a finger. The machine grounded on. “The other job ain’t finished yet. Diana Brooks won’t marry me—so I’m going to get her the\other way! Next time she disappears she’ll stay put!” There was vindictiveness in the tones that registered plainly on the record. Teddy shuddered. “Don’t be a fool, boy. Women always get you into trouble. Better leave her alone!” “Like hell I will! That jane is due for something for what she handed me. I don’t forget so easy!” "Well, it’s Brooks that worries me. It’s been hell ever since you, like a fool, got scared the morning after that damn sob sister made her get-away and you told Tony Mascal to let Brooks go. He’ll get my hide if I don’t get his first. I’d have him bumped off any minute if I could just get control of that damn Times once.” A long silence followed, broken occasionally by a brief question or some remark relating to matters of business. Don and Teddy waited impatiently while the cylinder kept on turning, turning, slowly, steadily, then again came that hoarse voice, harshly drawling, long-toned like its owner. “I think that fellow Keene is too busy for his owp good. It may be necessary—” “I’d like to take that job myself,” cut in the voice of the younger Walden. "He’s the one Diana is bugs over. Whn> ’n ’ell the women all see in him beats me. But they do. At the couiitry club dance I noticed a lot of things. Even that vamp, the Mantell woman, seems to have a case on him. I’d bump him off with good grace!” Don flashed a look at the girl by his side. Her face had gone chalk white. In her eyes was a look of terror. The voice of the record went on: “You talk like a fool. What have we the Valetti gang hired for? No sense in taking personal chances.” “For my own satisfaction. But I’ll take no chances.” Again silence held while the cylinder kept on steadily turning.

A PAIR

A gasp from the white-lipped girl struck Don’s ear. He reached over and took her hand in his. “You’re as white as a sheet,” he said with a forced lightness of tone. “You mustn’t let their talk frighten you. ‘Barking dogs seldom bite.’ ” “Yes they do, Don!” came Teddy’s quick contradiction and he felt his fingers clutched in a spasmodic grip. “Such dogs as this Walden. Oh, dear, you must be careful!” she cried and with a swift, impulsive movement pressed his fingers against her lips. He drew her gently close where for a moment she clung, trembling. Then she drew back, a deep flush staining her cheeks and forehead. “You mustn’t worry, Ted,” he said, his voice choked. He turned away. She was crying softly Roger Brooks’ battered straw hat was tilted far back on his white head. Pop was concentrating. Dinny and Bill Canfield sat expectantly waiting for him to speak. The ancient hat shifted to the left and then back again over the right ear. Teddy, sitting absolutely still for once, near Pop, dilated her eyes and nostrils. To the little sob sister this was drama, the enviable reality of a big event that outsiders got only in fiction or on the stage. The four were congregated in Brooks’ office to perfect a plan. It was nearing 5 o’clock and the clicking of a battery of telegraph instruments drifted in through the transom. Somewhere out in the editorial room sounded the staccatto operation of the automatic typewriters. The old hat was shifted once again. The publisher cleared his throat. His eyes wandered slowly over each of his employes, lingering with a swift gleam of admiration on the rapt face of the little sob sister. “Closin’ in, eh—so Walden said his father was closin’ in!” Roger Brooks’ fist came crashing down on his desk, jarring the inkwell and the telephone. Jane Dexter, standing before a filing cabinet with a sheaf of letters in her hand, gave a start. Pop’s voice had exploded the silence like the boom of a miniature cannon. There was an unaccustomed ferocity and exultation in the strong lines of the old man’s face. His mustache bristled. “Well. Pop, it looks as if we had

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the means at hand to relieve the Waldens of the formality of closing in,” Cartfield ventured with an ironical smile. * “Beyond my fondest hopes,” nodded Pop and a relentless spark glinted in his still youthfully bright eyes. “We’ve got enough to hang them on,” he continued, “and as rotten as the administration is, they won’t dare ignore the evidence. “I called you all in to work out a plan of procedure. The fact is, we must figure out a way to get the evidence before the grand jury.” Teddy leaned forward. The halo of anticipation surrounding her seemed to elevate the diminutive figure to an immense height. She raised her head and expanded her chest, gripping the arms of her chair with tense fingers. “Then we’ve got everything? The main source of the plot to wreck the Times, all of it? And there’s absolutely no loop-hole?” asked Dinny Morrison, speaking with a rising inflection. “Absolutely perfect!” replied the publisher grimly. “The regular stockholders’ meeting doesn’t come off for nearly two weeks yet, does it?” asked Bill Canfield. “No—and that’s too long to wait. By George, that gives me an idea!” exclaimed Brooks, enthusiastically, “we might as well do this thing right. Spectacularly, if you will, but Walden—” the publisher clenched his fists—“he didn’t spare us in creating sensation and spectacles. Thought he was going to break the old man—eh? Make the Brooks breed grovel—” Jane Dexter winced at the harshness of her employer’s intonation. "We’ll call a special meeting,” resumed Pop, “hold it right in the editorial room. Bill, you arrange to get,the Waldens here—let’s see, today is Wednesday. We’ll have them here next Teusday. I’ll fix things to have Judge Wharton of the Superior Court, you know, present. Also District Attorney Bolton We’ve got to have the evidence for the judge to submit to the grand jury before they’ll issue an indictment.” Brooks hesitated. Then continued: “Make it say, 2 o’clock sharp. In the editorial room. We’ll stage this little scene with all the trappings the Waldens have invited! They’ll find out who’s going to grovel! And Teddy—” turning to the little reporter who. by this time was almost bursting with excitement, “I want you there as well as Don and Diana.

It’ll be quite a re-union,” Pop concluded with a sardonic grin. It is characteristic of all morning newspapers that the bulk of activity is carried on at night. Usually there is a comparative lull in any metropolitan newspaper plant throughout the morning. In the late afternoon tension begins to gain momentum and a feverish bustle prevails from that tipie until long past midnight. For the TimeS 2 a. m. was designated as the final deadline. At this hour the presses flung out the last news of the day and then ceased their thunderous functions. It was early afternoon of the first week in September, approximately six months after Pop’s sensational disappearance, that Don sat idly in his office, abstractedly contemplating the panorama of Catawba City visible from his window. The literary editor had finished his quota of work for the day and waited for sounds that would tell him that Diana and Lola had arrived. The cousins had called him that morning, announcing that they wanted to be taken for a long-de-ferred trip throughout the plant. This had been a portentious summer and a turbulent one, Don reflected. And his soul-interests had strangely been interwoven with the business fate of his paper. He could not think of Teddy, for example, without instantly associating her with his beloved Times. And Diana and Lola, both were drawn witht increasing frequency to the big plant. His meditations were broken by the appearance of the two girls themselves. (TO BE CONTINUED) What do Diana and Lola discover? Read the next chapter.

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