Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1927 — Page 14

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CLUB SUPPORTS NIGH TAXATION FORM GOOD If We Have Improvements, We Must Pay, View of Scientech. Members of the Indianapolis Scientech Club today were preparing to support higher tax levies, to obtain various civic improvements they believe needed in this city. That the organization would take euch a stand was Indicated at the tneeting Monday at the Chamber of Commerce. William H. Book, Chamber civic affairs department head, spoke on the tax problems and the new governmental budgets with the possible $4.03 to $4.13 levy that may face Center Township taxpayers. Following this, club members made comments on the general situation. “If we are going to have community improvement we must pay for it,” Daniel B. Luten, club secretary said. “Wages are going up and some prices are going down. The cost of government is rising. Raps Tax Board "I hope no one will hold down the tax rates just for the purpose of doing it. That is what the State tax board seems to do. “As to the horizontal tax refund, If some other way can be devised to hande the situation, that would be commendable. The tax board has made this mistake and the Supreme Court says it must be paid. Joseph Hayes, former county commissioner, declared the taxpayers' money is being wasted in public buildings that are ne t properly maintained. “They build public buildings like tombs,” he said. “They never take care of them.” He declared there is a waste of money in building and maintenance of roads by the county, which “could be corrected by employing competent officials.” Hayes suggested placing the tax rebate on a two or three-year basis in order to lesson the burden. Attorneys Disagree Book pointed out that a committee of attorneys considering the suit that will be filed soon to attempt halting the tax refund, had split over the possibilities of this action. “We, speaking for the budget committee, think it should be understood that if the suit is unsuccessful its being filed will mean an additional amount of interest to be paid on the principal of the refunds,” Book said. “With regard to the general 1928 levies, I may say we are hopeful that several cents may be taken from the civil city's proposed levy and some reduction may be’made in the other levies without harm to government in 1928, and I assure you we shall not recommend elimination of items merely for the purpose of brining about reductions in the levies, but otlr recommendations will be made entirely upon our Judgment that the Items may be safely reduced without injury to efficiency of government.”

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY VERA VICTORIA CAMERON, efficient secretary, allows JERRY MACKLYN. advertising manager of the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company, to transform her Into a beauty through the use of the company cosmetics a 7 ter she falls suddenly in love with a man who Ignores her. In transforming her, the beauty specialist copies a picture Jerry finds In his desk. Jerry falls In love with Vera, also called Vee-Vee, and his love persists even after he learns she wants to be beautiful so she can spend her vacation at Lake Minnetonka and meet the u >.n she loves, SCHUYLER SMYTHE. At the lake hotel, Smythe and other guests mistake Vee-Vee for the exprincess, VIVIAN CRANDALL, who. after a Paris divorce, is In hiding. Vera tries to convince people of her true Identity, but Is not believed. Vera opens a letter Jerry gave her before her departure and learns he unknowingly used the Crandall heiress' picture In refashioning her and warns her not to pose as the notorious Vivian should she be mistaken for her. NAN FOSDICK, unattractive, but wealthy, leaves the hotel In anger because she believes Vera has taken Schuyler’s affection from her. Nan’s mother tells Vera that she has learned Schuyler Is a salaried secretary, fourflusher and fortune-hunter, but Vera refushes to believe It. THURSTON, hotel manager, has Vera and Schuyler watched. They go to the pier at midnight for a few minutes alone and there Schuyler confesses his love. She and Schuyler leave in a car. Schuyler Insisting they must marry that night. Vera, hoping he loves her for herself alone, tells him the truth, showing him Jerry’s letter to prove she is not the heiress. Schuyler Is Insane with anger; then It occurs to him she may be testing his love and he tries to retrieve, but too late, for Vera has seen through his scheme. She orders him to take her to the nearest town and on the wav they are stopped by a car and two masked men. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOBY CHAPTER XXIX MASKED man sprang upon each of the running boards -of the roadstfir which Schuyler Smythe had stolen for his otopment with the girl he believed to be Vivtaft Crandall. In the dim light their eyes glinted weirdly through the holes in their black masks. “What does this mean?” Schuyler Smythe quavered. “A hold-up?” His teeth chattered on the words. “Hold-up is right, buddy,” the man who was crouching over Schuyler laughed shortly. “Give me the keys to that car—and make it snapup! Climb out, lady! We’re not going to hurt you if you do as you’re told. Vee-Vee felt more like laughing than screaming obediently climbed out of the roadster. “I’ve never been in a hold-up before,” she beamed. “It is a thrilling experience, and I am only sorry that I am wearing no jewels with which to pay for my entertainment. These Jade earrings are worth not more than $25, unfortunately—” “That’ll do!” snapped the man who was standing guard over Schuyler Smythe. “You can cut the comedy, miss, and run along to that car of ours. And no monkey business, either. You escort the lady, pardner,” he motioned toward the other man with his drawn pistol. “Vivian!” Schuyler Symthe called in an agonized voice. “Run for your life! They won’t dare shoot!” “Oh, won’t we?” the man by his side chuckled. “Where are you taking Miss Cran—Miss Cameron?” Schuyler spluttered, but he made no effort to get out of the car and follow her. “Don’t you wish you knew?” the masked man mocked him. “Don’t worry about her, buddy. Your sweetie’s going to be safe enough, if she behaves like a good girl. Somebody’ll come along after a while and rescue you, sheik. But don’t make the mistake of giving a passing car the high sign for at least’half an hour, see? Not that we’ll need that long, my partner and me, but we don’t like to*be hurried, especially when we’re out driving with a pretty girl.” As Vee-Vee took her seat in the tonneau of the sedan, closely guarded, she still felt strangely free of fear. It was certain that they would not take her back to the Minnetonka or anywhere near it. If they were merely highway robbers they would turn her loose when they had satisfied themselves that she had only $lO in her vanity case and no jewels of value on her person. But—if they were bandits, why hadn’t they go through Schuyler Smythe’s pockets? He certainly looked like a gentleman of means, and they undoubtedly knew that he was a guest of the fashionable Minnetonka Hotel. A sudden thought made her turn faint, wiped the mocking, uncon-

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cerned smile off her beautiful mouth. “Are you detectives?” she asked. “Detectives? Hey, pard, that’s good! She wants to know If we’re detectives!” the man she had addressed sang out to the one at the wheel. “Sorry, miss, but we ain’t detectives—that is, if you’d like to meet up with a detective or two.” ‘No,” Vee-Vee laughed with relief, “ I much prefer bandits .to detectives.. But don’t you think it would be wiser to take off your masks? If a passing car flashes its headlights at you. you’ll be in rather a nasts situation, unless you can, convince the occupants that you are protecting yourselves against influenza germs. You know,” she added, in a cheerful, conversational voice, “I’ve always believed bandits wore masks only in detective novels. It’s a pleasure to find out I’m’ wrong. I never expected such an exciting end to a perfect day.” “You’re a good sport, miss,” the man beside her laughed, as he raised his hands to unknot the black handkerchief. “Me and my pardner ain’t much on looks, nothing to compare with that sheik of yours, but I’m afraid you’ve got to take us, since you can’t leave us alone.” Vee-Vee laughed politely as she studied the face which the man %- side her revealed with the removal of his mask. In the faint light it was hard to distinguish his features clearly, but she saw that he had a face as round as a full moon, with little eyes twinkling beneath whitish eyebrows. His mouth was wide and thick beneath a fat blob of a nose. , “The little lady’s been giving me the once over, pardner,” the owner of the face sang out in his hoarse, nasal voice, a voice that suggested New York’s lower East Side.i “Now you turn around and let her vote on which of us is the handsomest.” The driver, who had gotten the car under way and was driving at a furious clip, pivoted his bare head sharply on his neck and grinned at her for an instant. It was by far the more evil face of the two—gauntly thin, swart, with a hooked nose pointing scornfully at a nar-row-lipped, tight mouth, like a thin, red gash across his face. His chin was so pointed and so prominent as to make his face look deformed, a gargoyle of cruelty. The girl shuddered Involuntarily and the man beside her laughed hoarsely. “She don’t like your mug, pardner,” he chuckled. “Why, lady, he’s the boogy man that mamas scare their kids with.” “Shut your trap!” the driver snarled, as if his vanity were hurt. “Is this the right road, Useless? Better pay more attention to business and less to kidding.” The car was hesitating at a crossroads. “Yep, turn to the left,” the moonfaced man directed rather sulkily. “ ’Bout tliree miles along this dirt road.” “Where are you taking me?” Vee-Vee demanded, fear pimpling her body with gooseflesh. “This has gone far enough—” “Oh, not half far enough,” the moon-faced man chuckled. “You'll be surprised, lady. But don’t you worry. Nobody’s going to hurt you, unloss you try to get away.” “Are you kidnaping me?” she shrilled. “How’d you guess It?” the man

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beside her chuckled wickedly. “Mfe seen you at the Minnetonka, and we says to ourselves, ‘Lord, what a pretty girl to take on a Joy ride,’ didn’t we pardner?” he appealed to the man on the front seat. “Aw, shut up!” the driver growled. “Would you know that field in the dark? It was hard to tell just how far it was, with us walking before,” he added cryptically. “Sure. It was one of them snake fences, the first one you come to on this road. “Listen, boys,” Vee-Vee began Ingratiatingly. “Why are you kidnaping me? Who do you think I am?” It had come to her, in a flash, that this was but another amazing denouement of her innocent impersonation of the Crandall heiress. With the papers full of Vivian Crandall’s disappearance and of the unsuccessful search that private detectives and police were miking for her, there was small room for wonder that crooks had taken advantage of the situation. But—how had they known where she was? Then she remembered the anonymous letter which she had found under her door early that evening, demanding a hundred doli! rS for silence - She had not paid the blackmail, and now she was being kidnaped. Os course they would hold her for ransom—- “ Who do we think you are?” the arvier flung at her contemptuously. “Lady, we know who you are. We was hiding under the pitr while you and that coliar-ad sheik was billing and cocing. We sure got a earful of mush. Thought you two’d never break away. But you played right in our hands. Your sheik steals a car to elope with you, and we swipe another to follow you in.” “Me and my pardner here feel awful bad ’cause we ain’t got our swaller-tail coats on,” the moonfaced man mourned mockingly, “seeing as how we’re going joy riding in the evening with a princess—” “I’m not a princess, I never have been a princess!” Vee-Vee cried out, leaning forward to shake the shoulder of the driver of the car. She recognized that he was the leader. ‘‘Sit down and keep quiet! How am I going to keep my mind on my business with you howling in my ear?” the driver snarled at her. “I tell you I’ra not Vivian Crandall, if that is who you think I am!” Vee-Vee protested shrilly. “Please let me out!” “Say, lady, dc you chink we pulled this stunt before we was sure of the lay of the land? We had a picture of you and a complete description. You fit it to the last detail, and we Just been telling you we heard you talking to that sheik of yours on

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