Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1927 — Page 9

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0. S. IS AHEAD i $650,000,000 MUST YEAR government Books Are , Closed Today for 12Month Period. IS PROSPERITY RECORD Congress Committee Will Discuss Tax Cut in Autumn. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, June 30—The Government today closed it most prosperous year in history with a surplus of about $650,000,000 in the treasury and tax reduction plans were afoot. Anticipating no extra flood relief Session of Congress next fall, Representative Green, House ways and taieans chairman, announced he ■would convene his committee Oct. kl to consider tax cuts. P“lt is likely,” he said, “that some reduction can be made, and by the time the committee meets the amount probably can be estimated jwith a reasonable degree of accuracy. No Extra Session Seen “I am not expecting an extra session of Congress, but if there is one it is not likely to make much change in> the plans for committee work.” The amount of tax cut likely next year already has been tentatively estimated at $200,000,000 by Green and Treasury officials. But, declaring the Treasury’s estimates under Secretary Mellon have always been $100,000,000 or more below the fiscal year’s actual total revenues, certain Democrats are reported planning a $400,000,000 reduction proposal. These Democrats hope to substitute a tax schedule of their own and gain credit for a sweeping reduction. Representative Garner, Texas, and Senator Simmons, North Carolina, will take the lead for the minority, the latter already having 6et forth a demand for a half billion dollar reduction. Debt Cut Billion During the fiscal year closing today the national debt was reduced more than $1,000,000,000, a Treasury t-eport-showed. epite tax reductions, internal uo collections increased during year. Income tax receipts nted to about $2,220,000,000 and miscellaneous taxes brought [around $64G,000,000 into the Federal coffers. The customs bureau had its most ptofitable year, with more than $600,000,000 collected in duties and fines. Ordinary expenses of the Government increased during the year because increased population of the country necessitated expansion of Federal activities, but Coolidge economies held down expenses. Debt payments by foreign nations and the sale of Government-held securities boosted the surplus and a large proportion of this fund will be nonrecurring, it was explained. Payments from foreign nations on war obligations will increase yearly, however, and this will pave the way for a surplus next year, Administration leaders said. Preliminary statistics from the postafcfflce Department indicated its annual deficit would be about $29,0®,000 this year, compared with $39,000,000 last year.

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like Aphrodite, caught naked in the arms of Ares, when Hephaistos, her ridiculous husband, threw a net over the lovers and called the other gods to see her shame. A second man said he felt like the other gods on that occasion, who expressed a willingness to change places any time with Ares, net and all. CHAPTER 111 Some other men, that night when Troy was sacked, showed less restraint that Menelaos. Ajax found Cassandra in Athena's temple, where she served as priestess. There, as it were in the very presence of the godess, he took his will of her. Afterward he admitted he had 'injured the woman, but asserted that he had not desecrated the temple, for Odysseus had already stolen away the sacred image, and the room, therefore, if a shrine at all, was an abandoned one. But the distinction was not likely to commend itself to the deity and Agamemnon announced at once that the fleet would delay its homeward sailing until prolonged and thorough sacrifices had been offered, lest the goddess should wash their sins away in cold water. Agamemnon was tender in the matter from the moment the prizes were distributed. Cassandra fell to him. All day he stood by the priest while the flames were fed on the altar, and Menelaos stood beside him—the two kings without a rival, now that Achilles was gone. At dusk they left the offerings burn down and smolder. “The sacrifies are well begun,” said Agamemnon. “For me,” said Menelaos, “they are ended. It wasn’t our own sins that brought us to Troy, but as you said last evening, the sins of others. As to what happened to Cassandra, I look upon it as justice, though a bit crude. Paris was her brother. The fault of Ajax was haste. He might have had her in the partition of prizes, to take home and treat as he chose, beyond the criticism of the. gods and secure from the wrath of mankind, for he has no wife waiting for him as have you. What you really fear, Agamemnon, is your wife!” "My wife,’ said Agamemnon, “has caused no scandal in the family as yet. In some respects she differs from her sister. How many men have captured Helen, or she has captured them. Our special philosophies, brother, are evolved that we may live peaceably with our own past. You are in no position to condemn the work of Ajax. Cherish your philosophy; you will need it.” Helen was sitting in the tent, motionless, by the flickering lamp. The scented flame and smoke of the tripod went up before her face, and made Menelaos think of goddesses and altar-fires. Why was she there? Out at the sacrifices he had imagined her humbled among the other captives. “Tomorrow we sail for Sparta.” “So soon? Why, there must be sacrifices, there are gods to think of, the wide dark ocean, tjie ghosts of so many dead to quiet before we go.” “The dead are at peace and the gods are satisfied,” said Menelaos; “we’ve given the whole day to sacreficing. The ocean remains wide and dark. Agamemnon will continue the sacrifices for that and for some other things prayer cannot change. He and the host will stay awhile longer, I go home tomorrow with my men and my captives.” With her, he meant. He didn’t know how to say it. Not, “with my wife and captives!” He hadn’t the courage for “you and my other captives.” “Menelaos,” she said. “You are wrong and your brother is right. Those who are conscious of wrongdoing need time for regret and for

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927

PRIVATE AIR CRAFT TO TAX LIM FIELD Many Indianapolis Citizens Are Planning to Buy Planes Soon. INSTRUCTOR COMING Better Landing and Hangar Facilities Needed as Flying Becomes Common. The hum of private airplanes may be heard frequently in and near Indianapolis this summer. Many private citizens have expressed their desire to fly a ship according to Capt. J. N. Kelly, who with Rollin Stewart has taken the Indiana agency for the Waco plane manufactured at Troy, Ohio. Capt. Kelly, a member of the U. S. Army air reserve, is pilot of the Marmon Motor Car Company plane. Kelly expects a demonstrator to arrive at Mars Hill field next week and plansto give instruction to Indianapolis people. “Several prominent person have indicated to me that they would like to take up flying, and contemplate purchase of a ship,” said Kelly. “I believe it likely that there will be several private ships owned here yet this summer,” he said. Licenses Required Robert Gast, Louisville, United States Department of Commerce inspector and former Army pilot probably will have charge of administering the new commerce department rule in Indiana, Kelly said.

After July pilots will be required to obtain license showing their familiarity with their ship and flying in general. Planes used for commercial purposes will bear a “certificate of air worthiness.” Captain Kelly pointed out the urgent need for a hangar at the Indianapolis Airport at Mars Hill to handle civilian planes. Such a hangar should be erected and maintained by the city, or some local organization, he said. Indiana National Guardsmen accommodate civilian planes at present. Frequently ships have had to set out in the open at the field. Need Better Field “Indianapolis must have a better field before commercial aviation is developed to the state some of us would like to see it,” said Kelly. “Visiting fliers do not get a good impression of the city from the airport and the accomodations supplied there. The high tension wires and the ditch on west side of the field are a serious hazard. The field is voo small. “Lighting facilities for night flying and markers will be necessary.” Tentative arrangements have been made to lower the Central Indiana Power Company lines and to fill in the ditch. remorse, and those of us who are conscious of no wrongdoing, we most of all should offer sacrifices against our pride. If you had more vision you would be more conventional.” “If I hear you,” said Menelaos, “you are advising me not to depart from established rules of conduct?” “That Is my advice,” said Helen. ‘‘l am overtired and my head refuses to serve me,” said Menelaos. “Will you return to—whatever place you have just come from, or shall I leave this tent to you? We start early in the morning.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 4925, by the Bobbs-Merrill Company)

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Richard Grace Knows He’s Lucky, Else He Would Be Dead. BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer LOS ANGELES, June 30.—Flying alone across the Pacific from Honolulu to San Francisco is a dangerous, nerve-trying stunt. But to Richard Grace it was only the latest in a long successipn of hazardous enterprises. He has risked his neck so often—in fact, he broke it once—that a mere 2,000-mile flight over the ocean couldn’t daunt him. Grace is 29. Ever since he was 16 he has earned his living by risking his life. He has been a “stunt flier” of the most reckless variety. In 1915, while making a forced landing, Grace learned that he could put a gliding plane on the ground just about where he chose. Since then he has crashed twenty-two planes, fourteen of them deliberately. Nothing Too Risky Most of this has been done for the movies. The Hollywood studios have known Grace as the one aviator for whom too risky a job could not be found. The climax of his long succession of escapades came last fall. Grace had a part in the war movie, “Wings.” He crashed a plane from a height of 2,000 feet—and broke his neck. A more thorough examination disclosed that he had merely dislocated two vertebrae. He recovered and did some more stunts. Tom Mix’s Double For a time he doubled for Tom Mix. performing the dangerous maneuvers that are not permitted to a high-priced star. Four different times, performing for the movies, he wrecked automobiles. Grace realized full well that he had taken his life in his hands in situations where it seemed like an incredibly foolish venture. Sure of Sell “If any one can make the Jump from the Hawaiians to America, I can,” he said just before he sailed for Honolulu. “I seem to have some sort of a good luck charm—or else I would have been killed long ago. If the ship comes down —well, I am a pretty good swimmer.” Other aviators on the west coast have long known Grace as a highly skilled aviator. (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) 508 URGE TAX CUT Bartholomew County Land Owners File Petition. Bu Timet Special COLUMBUS, Ind., June 30. Names of 508 Bartholomew county land owners appear on a petition for tax reduction on file today. The petition was presented to Henry Lutherbeck, state tax board representative, and the county board of review, by John M. Thompson, who has large land holdings in the county and is chairman of a committee appointed by the Bartholomew farm bureau to wage a fight for lower taxes. Thompson declares 31 land sales in the county in the last two years show assessments for taxation 13 per cent above sales prices. PROMOTE NOTED GUARD White House Secret Service Man Gets New Job. BU United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., June 30. James Haley, debonair secret service man who has been at Mrs. Coolidge’s elbow for six years, will no longer appear with her in movies and photographs. Haley was notified Wednesday that he had been promoted to new detail in Washington and he is leaving here tonight. He will be replaced by John J. Fitzgerald, who is a match for Haley in the extraordinarily fine dressed and good looking secret service detail at the White House. Haley is from St Louis, and Fitzgerald from New York. OPEN RESEARCH OFFICE Indiana University Will Conduct Business Bureau. The new branch office of business research, operated by Indiana University, opened here today with a very satisfactory enrollment, according to Charles F. Benzel, director. The bureau is a department of the university’s school of commerce. D. D. Edie, former director, who resigned to become professor of money and banking at Chicago University, will be succeeded in September by George W. Starr, assistant director of a similar bureau at Ohio University. The local division was established to make possible closer cooperation with business men and furnish statistical material with particular reference to business conditions in Indiana, Benzel said. EXPLOSION PREMATURE Fireworks in Window Work and Pedestrians Scurry. Bu Times Special GREENTOWN, Ind., June 30.—1 t was every man for himself when a supply of fireworks in a drug store window exploded, cause undetermined. The window glass was shattered and persons on the street scurried to shelter as spit devils spat, roman candles roamed, and sky rockets rocked.

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KLAN DEMANDS RADIOJERMIT Government Not Likely to Grant Wave Length. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 30.—The Ku-Klux Klan, helc up in its desire to broadcast its beliefs from Washington, says it will fight for the privilege. Officials of the National Klan Weekly here, which has been building a radio station near Mount Vernon, were notified by Radio Commissioner Caldwell that there were nearly 300 stations waiting for wave lengths, and that the application probably would be useless. Caldwell reminded the klansmen That the law demands that building permits be obtained before construction is begun. The Klan station is nearly completed. Klan officials, in return, said that the backers of the station were proceeding in an orderly way and that the radio commission woulcl be shown that the “application filed represents the wishes of millions of Americans.” The Klan application for a building permit shows that a station of 5,000 watts power is desired. This would be one of the most powerful in the East. Money is being raised by subscription. 700-POUND TUNA FISH PUTS UP LONG FIGHT Crew Lands Whopper After Battling Hour and Half. MANASQUAN, N. J., June 30. A tuna fish weighing 700 pounds was caught off here today by the crew of the Manasquan Fish Company under Capt. Hilding Swenssen after a battle which lasted an hour and a half. The flsh, the first large one taken in local waters this season, was in the pound nets when the fishermen went to sea to make their daily haul. Capt. Swenssen said he sold the flsh for SIOO in a New York market shortly after it was landed. TWO GIVE BOYS LIQUOR Court Imposes 120-Day Sentences, SIOO Fines. Special Municipal Judge W. H. Faust today gave 120-day State Farm sentences and SIOO fines to each of two men charged with giving liquor to boys. Leonard Robeson, 1825 Broadview Terrace, was charged with giving liquor to two 16-year-old boys June 23. A woman saw him treat the boys, and called police. Pearl Shew, 55, of 837 S. Tremont Ave., was sentenced and fined this morning for giving a 14-year-old boy a half pint of mule. Borer Near Noblesville Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 30. A species of borer, not yet identified as the European, has infested a field of corn near here, belonging to Walter Heiny. This is the first appearance of borers in this part of the State. 325 Boys to Hold Rally Bu Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 30. Members of the Boys’ Civic League, numbering 325, will hold a rally Friday In the city park.

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ACCIDENTS END LIVESJIFTHREE Five Others Hurt in Indiana in 24 Hours. Accidents brought death to three persons in Indiana and caused injury to five others in the twentyfour hours ended at midnight last night. The dead: James Howell, 6, struck by automobile at Valparaiso. Alexander Rowland, 76, farmer near Kokomo, fell from tree while picking cherries. Kazuo Takimori, 22, Ft. Wayne, automobile struck tree. The injured: Two girl companions of Takimori, slightly hurt. Raymond Doll, 32, Vincennes, fractured arm and brain concussion; struck by automobile. Agnes Miller, 10, Vincennes, struck by automobile. Elmer Gwynn, Anderson, bicyclist, fractured left leg; struck by automobile. PERCHES ON FLAGPOLE TO MAKE NEW RECORD Braves 94-Degree Heat on First of 15-Day Vigil. Bv United Press CHICAGO, June 30.—Just sittin’ around, Joe Powers was perched atop the flagpole on the Morrison Hotel today attempting to establish anew endurance record. He plans to remain aloft—Just sittin’—for at' least flfteeen days in order to break the record established by “Shipwreck” Kelly in Newark, N. J. He said this morning he enjoyed the view, but didn’t care much for the 94-degree heat of yesterday. His first meal last night was a club sandwich, which he munched away leisurely as hundreds stood on the streeet below to match him. PRESS AWARDS DELAYED High i School Editors Must Walt Until Sept 1. Bu United Press FRANKLIN. Ind., June 30—Results of the all-state contest for Indiana High School newspapers and yearbooks will not be announced until Sept. 1, according to the central office of the Indiana High School Press Association. Awards were to be made July 1, but adoption of anew judging system involving more detailed consideration by the judges necessitated the postponement. There are approximately 100 high school publications entered in the all-state competition, Dan A. Edkins of Frank College, executive secretary of the I. H. S. P. A., said today. SHADES OF FOOTRAILS! • ♦ - Gary Judge Orders Saloon Fixture Destroyed. Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., June 30.—Saloon fixtures In soft drink parlors have been ordered destroyed by City Judge C. M. Greenlee, whether or not raiders fl’id intoxicants. In instructing police, Judge Greenlee said "saloons are outlawed now and there is no excuse for saloon fixture*."

LET CONTRACT FOR SEWER TO CHICAGO FIRM Property Owners Rejoice at Award of Pleasant Rim Job. ENDS 15-YEAR FIGHT Work to Begin as Soon as Material Arrives; Hire Local Laborers. More than 10,000 interested oroperty owners breathed easier today, because the contract had been let to the low bidder on the proposed Pleasant Run main interceptor sewer. Awarding of the $637,725 contract to the Krenn Dato Construction Company, Chicago, by the board of works Wednesday, climaxed the fight of more than fifteen yearn for relief from contaminated waters in Pleasant Run. The Chicago firm, backed by Edith Rockefeller McCormick, underbid a local firm $120,000. Mayor Duvall and the board of works delayed the award two weeks “until the reliability of the company could be investigated,” according to Virgil Vandagrifft, board president. Engineer Favored It City Engineer Frank C. Llngenfelter recommended the Krenn firm. The interceptor sewer will contain 34,469 lineal feet, extending from Arlington Ave., to Garfield Park, where it will join the Bean Creek Pleasant Run sewer. Corporation Counsel Schuyler Haas and Frederick E. Matson, contractor’s attorney, were authorized to draw up a contract. A. S. Holway, Krenn Dato engineer, said work will begin as soon as materials can be procured. It will take about three weeks to get sewer materials and equipment on the ground. Jobs for 300 Men The contract will result In the indirect employment of about 300 persons, it was said. Holway said the company would employ as much local labor as possible, bringing ia only skilled labor. Only about thirty workmen will be employed directly by the contractor, the remainder receiving work through sub-contracts. The Independent Concrete Pipe Company, Seventeenth St. and Sherman Dr., will furnish the pipe. H. R. Duckwall, chairman of directors, said work would be rushed on the local contract. Nearly 100 laborers will be employed by the concrete firm. Other materials will be bought here. Holway said he hoped to complete the Job in less tfian the fourteen months specified by contract. Residents of Irvington, east and southeast Indianapolis, along the valley of Pleasant Run, will be benefited by the project. The new main sewer will be intercepted by seventeen existing sewers and many others to be built. Sewer Engineer Charles Culley said. It will replace the present main Irvington sewer at Washington St. and Pleasant Run. Nearly All In City All the sewer will be in the city except a small strip east of Arlington, which is city property. Oost of the project will be born by assessment of benefited property owners and bond issue to cover assessments levied, but not collected, from property owners not served by city sewers at present. Under the sewer law, the city has authority to extend the sewer beyond city corporate limits. Krenn and Dato, engineers, will confer with city sewer engineers on working plans. LINCOLN STATUE TO BE UNVEILED SUNDAY Urbana-Champ&ign Will Have Effigy Near Court House. Bv United Press URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 111, Jilne 30.—Abraham Lincoln is to fcm remembered here by the erection of a bronze effigy. His figure, standing as he is believed to have stood while pleading at the bar, will occupy a prominent place in the city, near the site of the court house he practiced as a young lawyer. At the University of Illinois today, plans for the unveiling and dedication of the statue were announced. The dedicatory exercises will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday, July 3, Dr. William E. Barton of Boston, author of "The Life of Lincoln” will deliver the principal address. KODAK PAYS DIVIDEND Employes of Eastman Company Get $2,947,410 Tomorrow. Bu United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 30. The Eastman- Kodak Company will pay to 15,279 employes at noon tomorrow, $2,947,410.08 in cash wage dividends. Employes also will receive dividends on the 175,078 shares of common stock which they own, making the total distribution to Kodak employes, $3,297,666.08, the largest In the history of the company. INJURED BY OLD SHELL Cartridge in Trash Fire Explodes and Wounds Seymour Mat*. Bu Times Special /' SEYMOUR., Ind., June 3b. -Explosion of a shotgun shell In a>trash fire Inflicted wounds on the chest, arms and chest of Las) CM