Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1927 — Page 11

Second Section

TAX PROBLEM UP TO VOBS, BROWNWARNS Legislation Won’t Help If It Isn’t Right Kind, Says State Chairman. CALL ANOTHER SESSION Organizations Differ Widely on Remedy Best Suited to Indiana Needs. “Indiana’s complex tax problems will not be solved by legislation if the people send to the Legislature a house full of ‘rail-heads’ who have been there in the past,” declared John J. Brown, chairman of the Indiana State tax board, obeying the impulse to be “brutally frank.” before the tax conference at the Claypool Hotel Tuesday afternoon. Agreement of farmer, banker, lawyer, merchant, manufacturer and laboring man on legislative remedy for the State’s tax ills was the Utopia toward which fourteen State organizations were pointed at the meeting. Differing widely in opinions as to how the remedy is to be achieved, representatives of the organizations were in unanimity on one point—that a change effecting a more equitable division of the tax burden is desirable. On that basis, decision was reached to survey the tax situation from every angle and to hold another meeting in about sixty days, when sleeves will be rolled up and an effort made to work out tax legislation fairly agreeable to all. Want Equal Burden "One of the important things, as I see it,” Brown said, “and I have always believed in being brutally frank about matters of this character, is that we are confronting a situation wherein everybody desires to increase expenditures, and. as has been suggested here, wants to push tbs burden over on to somebody “The great problem is to equalize and the proper distribution of the burden of taxation is necessarily imposed upon any government. "One of the essential things that it seems to me has not been touched upon, is that you men, in your various communities, should study the personnel of the men who are going to represent you in the Legislature. “Let’s don’t have a houseful of ‘rail-heads’ who have been there in the past. “Elect men who will have at heart what is for the best interests of the most people and who will work impartially upon the subject of taxation.”

Thirty Give Views C. Oliver Holmes, Indiana Bankers’ Association president, presided at the conference, the association’s tax committee having been instrumental in arranging the meeting. Thirty representing organizations vitally concerned with taxation were called upon for flve-min-ute expressions of their views Tuesday. William C. Harrison, attorney and former Secretary of the State Tax Board, opened the conference with a review of the increasing complexity of the tax problem. Utilities Will Halt H. S. Morse, manager of the Indianapolis Water Company and chairman of the Indiana Utilities Association tax committee, said utilities would cooperate in studying the problem. G. W. Starr, head of Indiana University’s business research department, said the department gladly would make an unbiased tax survey if the organizations would get together and decide what facts they wanted. John E. Fredrick of Kokomo, State Chamber of Commerce president, warned that efforts of the organizations would be defeated if they “sat around the table and quarreled over their own private interests.” Farmers Voice Cooperation Farmers, whose interest in tax revision are regarded as paramount, spoke their willingness to Join hands in working out a solution, through L. L. Needier, representing the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, and W. H. Newsome of Columbus, Indiana State Grange. Harrison is to call the next tax conference when organizations inform him they have completed individual investigations. MRS. GOODHUE BETTER Mother of Mrs. Coolidge Has Comfortable Night. Bn United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 14. -IPurther improvement was reported today in the condition of Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, 78, mother of Mrs. Coolidge, ill with influenza at Dickinson hospital. She was reported to have passed a comfortable night. Her temperature remained normal. Hospital physicians believed the crisis was virtually past. AIR GRIND IS DELAYED Schlee and Brock to Start Test of Endurance Thursday. Bn United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.. Dec. 14. —William S- Brock and Edward, F. Schlee, Detroit fliers, postponed until tomorrow their projected endurance flight in the Pride of Detroit, when a test plane which took the air early today reported adverse wind*. ' They had planned to start at dawn today, In an attempt to set a endurance record.

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When Wichita, Kan., chose Miss Thelma Earhart, high school senior, as Wichita’s most beautiful girl, it seems no great mistake was made. Here is Thelma, one of seventy-two girls who competed in a newspaper contest which lasted twelve weeks.

DAVIS IS HOPEFUL OF MINE WAR END

Secretary Sees Prospect of Work Resumption by Christmas. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Secretary of Labor Davis hopes to get striking soft coal miners to the mines by Christmas. He had an engagement today to meet a committee of United Mine Workers and bituminous operators, here for his conciliation conference, to work out a plan which he hoped would end the strike before the holiday. “The object of this conference is to see if it is not possible to get them together, united in fighting conditions instead of each other.” More mine operators may be present at today’s conference. Hugh L. Kerwin, department conciliation chief, said a number had advised the secretary they would reconsider their rejections of his invitation and attend, if the conference continued. Many large operators, however, reiterated yesterday their decision not to attend. Davis said attending mine operators had requested that he not disclose their names, so it could not be ascertained what districts in the striking areas of northern West Virginia, Central and western Pennsylvania and Ohio were represented.

OH, LET JOY BENAY, ROARS WRIGHT

O, water is the best of drinks That man to man can brine. But, who am I that I should nave The best of anything? Let princes revel at their pumps And kings with ponds make free. But good old bourbon, wine and beer Are good enough for me. —Ribald Rhyme. Representative Frank Wright, author of the Wright “bone-dry” law, is one legislator who actually votes as he drinks and believes water is fit to drink. As an examiner for the Indiana Securities Commission, he has lost his legislative identity somewhat, it would seem. On business in South Bend, Wright went to an attorney’s office to conduct a hearing on certain securities. He suggested to counsel that directors of the company be called in conference. Soon a quartet arrived. A ruddy faced member immediately suggested that probably Wright would like a drink, his own experience bearing testimony to the mellowing influence of liquor. Wright thought the suggestion a jest, or rather a left-handed compliment, as he takes his prohibition law seriously. Be that as it may, the ruddyfaced man left the rqpm and soon returned with a quart of “good stuff.” Glasses were produced from behind the law books and the “ele-

Strong Case Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 14.—Police here are trying to get “hot” on the trail of thieves who stole a quantity of horseradish from the store of Charles White.

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Close Pals Deputy Can‘t Get Free From His Prisoner in Court.

DEPUTY SHERIFF OLLIE MAYS was arraigned before Special Judge Freemont Alford in Criminal Court yesterday because he forgot his handcuff key. Mays had brought Louis Daley over from county jail to face manslaughter charges in the court. The prisoner was handcuffed to Mays’ left wrist. When the case was railed, Mays found that he had fergotten his key. Court attaches made efforts to pick the lock. Paper clips and hairpins were pressed into service without avail. At last Mays marched before the bar with Daley. Mays was released and Daley’s case postponed until Dec. 21, due to error in indictment. Miss Anna Barrett and Daley are alleged to have struck Gilber Connor, 3030% E. Tenth St., on the head with a pop bottle during a quarrel on the night of April 23. Conner accused the pair in a dying statement, upon which indictments were returned.

gant red likker” began to trickle into them. “Hold!” shouted the militant Wright, Anti-Saloon League knight. He then informed them who he was, and the joy left the juice. Daring, they drank the one round “like so much quinine,” as Wright described it, and the big black bottle disappeared. Smile Contest Closes Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec, 14— The “Sweetest Smile” contest conducted by the Advance, Indiana State Normal School paper here, to determine what girl in Normal has the sweetest smile, closed today. The following girls were nominated by students and organizations: Florence Dodge, Terre Haute; Lillian Maxam, Terre Haute; Gladys Carpenter, Dugger; Josephine Moon, Terre Haute, and Ruth Pursely, Marshall.

‘MAMA’ DOLLS GONE; IT’S ‘SWEET DADDY’ THEY SAY

MODERN dolls must have “It.” Sophistication, invading the nursery and making the flapper call sewing “prehistoric,” is reflected in the dozens of dolls on display in Indianapolis and throughout the county. Dealers here report that never in history have dolls been more popular with the Christmas toy department shopper. More than 25,000,000 have been made in America and, judging from sales, most every little girl in Hoosierdom will awake to find one of the tiny beauties smiling from her stocking. Beauties they really are, too,

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14,1927

TERMS OF 18 OFFICIALS TO ENDDEC. 31 Nine Changes to Come'at Statehouse; Jackson Is Mum on Shifts. FOUR DUE AT CITY HALL Two on School Board and Three at Courthouse on List. Terms of eighteen State, county, city and school city officials end Dec. 31. Some of the offices are appointive and some elective. Many of the incumbents of the appointive offices will hold their posts, but some give way to successors. Nine changes come at the Statehouse. Governor Jackson has not announced reappointments or successors to the following, whose terms expire with beginning of the new year: Herbert Foltz, Indianapolis, Democrat, board of engineering registration and examination. Paul Davis, Indianapolis, Democrat, board of trustees Central State Hospital. Mrs. A. V. Kennedy, Liberty, Democrat, trustee Richmond State Hospital. Trustee Jobs to Fill Dan R. Young. Attica, Democrat, trustee Logansport State Hospital. James K. Risk, Lebanon, Democrat, trustee State School for the Deaf. Mrs. William A. Hough, Greenfield, Republican, trustee Indiana State School for the Blind. Jess C. Andres, West Point. Republican, trustee Indiana State Prison. Mrs. Fannie French, Evansville, Madison .State Hospital. Mrs. Margaret T. Hoop. Crawfordsville, whose term as director oi the women’s and children’s division of the State Industrial Board ends Jen. 1. has resigned and will be succeeded by Mrs. William Gremelspacher, Indianapolis. Changes at City Hall Four changes or reappointments are due at city hall. 3. J. T. Jeup will succeed Russell T. Mac Fall on the city sanitary board. Terms of John E. Milnor, Republican, park board president, and Gustav G. Schmidt, Republican, city plan commission president, and J. H. Atfterton, commission member, also expire. Etnsley W. Johnson, Republican, political corruption inquiry special prosecutor, is mentioned as a possible successor to Milnor. Johnson was a park board member under former Mayor Shank. There will be two changes on the city school board. Board Members Fred Bates Johnson and Charles R. Yoke will be succeeded by Lewis E. Whiteman and Fred Kepner. Two on Klan Slate Whiteman and Kepner were on the Klan slate, all five of whom were elected in the 1925 election, at which the Klan named John L. Duvall mayor of Indianapolis. The other three on the slate, Theodore F. Vonnegut, Mrs. Lillian G. Sedwick and Charles W. Kern took office Jan. 1, 1926, and continue in office four years from that date. At the courthouse, three terms expire. Clyde Robinson will succeed County Treasurer Edward A. Ramsay. Harry Dunn will begin his second four-year term as auditor, and County Commissioner Charles O. Sutton will begin his second threeyear term.

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after the manner of the mannequins. Many still say “Ma-Ma,” but the more modern ones are often silent, merely having “that meet me later look,” which says “da-da” or “sugar daddy.” Their dresses are shorter, mirroring current styles in the feminine world, and the chubby type is replaced. Waist lines also have become indefinite. a * n GROWING use to cosmetics is reflected in the rosier cheeks and redder lips of the best dressed dolls of today. “American dolls have grown more intelligent,” a local dealer declared. “The old moon-faced

Co-eds Mourn Epidemic of Whiskers

. ———■ *v :.-v ■ ( 1 jHH QH BKMBI ** i ISaP^' - \ i&j f/ ’ v - : ” ¥ f r.v'"- \ H * ~ Hi ' I Times tint rial "'’l dfcjiC' 1 DELPHI. Ind., Dec. 14 Lloyd dnble is lacing a second day s or- JH - 'W al in Carroll Circuit Court here > v acre lie is under first degree mur- .. f '. r indictment in the death of * : Wf JKi'l ges was knocked senseless by# imble and then left in lus home W h ■- . ter it was set afire. M J .’lllfe-. < * tT> The trial opened Monday and it 41 came apparent at once that the p 'JkIH •*$ wk\ \i ate will exert every means in its k ~ Afc the electric chair. Thirty-two Ll&ySl J | f j£ •ospective jurors were examined in f£ f- „ 1 |||gg§ e course of the day and not one BBS 518,.. . \ is seated, because one would say BHBB MB flgP ■ fes” to the prosecution question, )o you favor the death penalty?' |k ’ The regular venire of twelve and special of twenty were exhausted f S J|| >- id court adjourned early m the I 3ft ll|fP ternoon to permit calling of more | Ilf ■niremen who reported this morn- Jraa ? j|| . ||i§|i|| g. when effort to obtain a ™ d# iry was renewed. Mi liMft ■ ■'" '' ''''•- 'lil' ' ITY HAll P i

STATE SEEKING DEATJMN CHAIR Discloses Hand in Fire Murder Trial at Delphi. Bu Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Dec. 14.—Lloyd Kimble is facing a second day’s orreal in Carroll Circuit Court here where he is under first degree murder indictment in the death of Daniel sink, 74, whom the State alleges was knocked senseless by# Kimble and then left in his home after it was set afire. The trial opened Monday and it became apparent at once that the State will exert every means in i,ts power to send Kimble to his death in the electric chair. Thirty-two prospective jurors were examined in the course of the day and not one was seated, because one would say “Yes” to the prosecution question, “Do you favor the death penalty?’ The regular venire of twelve and a special of twenty were exhausted and court adjourned early in the afternoon to permit calling of more veniremen who reported this morning. when the effort to obtain a jury was renewed. CITY HALL PAY LATE Checks for Last Half of December Delayed. Santa Claus will be a late in delivering pay checks to city employes who receive their salaries semimonthly, Deputy Controller A. B Good said today. Employes, including 1.200 police and firemen, will receive checks covering the last twenty days in December on Dec. 31. The pay roll totals about $167,000. Good said City Controller Sterling R. Holt had hoped to advance the payment to before Christmas, but the city treasury will not permit it. About $125,000 will be paid city employes on the semi-monthly pay roll Dec. 15. Those on the weekly pay roll will receive about Si,COO the Saturday before Christmas. SLAYER OF CHILDREN TURNS QUIET PRISONER Former Local Man Changes Attitude Shown in Jail. Bu Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec .14. Walter A- Scholl, former Indianapolis resident serving a term in the Indiana State prison here for the murder of his two little children, is not the incorrigible man he was while in the Porter County jail awaiting trial, according to H. D. Claudy, deputy warden. The prison official said "we have had no trouble with him,” when asked regarding Scholl, called “the meanest man” ever held in thePorter County jail. Chloroform was used by Scholl in slaying his son, Donald, 6, and daughter, Vivian, 8, in Gary last March 10. He said he hoped the slaying would enable him to effect a reconciliation with his wife, Marguerite. After Scholl went to prison, Mrs. Scholl became the wife of a Chicago lawyer. AD CONTRACT DELAYED Approval of Mayor Holds Up City Legal Notice Award. Awarding of the city legal advertising contract for 1928 to the Indianapolis Commercial was delayed today pending approval of Mayor L. Ert Slack. Oscar F. Smith, works board president, and John W. Friday, Democratic member, signed the contract Monday over protest of Charles L. Riddle, Republican member, who asked readvertisement.

type, with 'dumb looking eyes and shapeless mouth has been replaced entirely by the sophisticated modem. “A season or two ago infant dolls rose high in popularity, modeled after children a week or two old. This season the more mature types are in greater favor.” Prolonged life, as reflected in modern insurance statistics, has also spread to the doll world. The French wax doll, which swooned like a Victorian damsel when subjected to any degree of heat, has been replaced by the hard-headed American type which thinks nothing of torrid temperatures.

Left to right, above: Edward Howard, Charles Merriman, M. Barrick, Francis HotUe and Fioyd Huffman. Below: Miss J. elen Phipps and M. Barrick. “Why bring that up?” peevishly ask Indiana Central College co-eds. “It won’t be long very long.” soothingly reply the men. But. anyway, the men’s haven’t shaved since Rose Poly beat I. C. C. Friday night in basketball. And they won’t shave until the school wins. Hope was blasted Tuesday night when De Pauw University took a close game. Now they are hoping the team will beat Muncil Normal Thursday night. N In the meantime, the co-eds are protesting. Beside Miss Heler. Phipps, who shudders at the “bush” of M. Barrick, Miss Nora Schmidt and Miss Mary Alice Petty head fifteen co-eds who signed this declaration: “Knowing that beards in this day and generation are a sign of physical weakness, carelessness, or lack of will power, we express our disapproval of the rash act of many of the boys of I. C. C.” “It’s a hardship,” co-eds say. “And we are the ones who suffer.”

Naughty Santa l\u l nitrd Press ROYAL OAK. Mich., Dec. 14. —Two thefts of harness have been reported to Royal Oak police this week. One thief was described as a man with long white whiskers. The police are looking for Santa Claus, believing he got anew set of traces for his reindeer.

NO PRIVATE BRIDGES State May Build Span Over Ohio at Evansville. Indication that the State highway commission has decided to build the Ohio River bridge at Evansville out of State funds was seen today in news that the commission has rejected two proposals for private financing. The commission’s sessions always are secret, the public’s only opportunity of learning what goes on in them being entirely dependent upon the humor of John D. Williams, director. Williams did not announce the fact, but it was learned today that the commission last week, on motion of Commissioner A. J. Wedeking, rejected the bridge financing proposal of P. W. Chapman & Cos. of Chicago,) and J. G. Wight of New York, the latter back by Congressman Fred Purnell, fl A third private proposal is before the commission, but fe being held up because Commissioner George Hershman has not had a chance to study it.

“1%^ ODERN civilization refuses to outlaw the doll,” one of the more philosophical dealers asserted. “Children still have a deep love for them. No longer are dolls regarded as mere objects to amuse the child and keep her from mischief, while mother is busy with the household duties. “It is realized generally that the mission of dolls is to educate and develop the budding powers of the child, as well as to entertain. The play of the child prepares her for the later functions of life. The first imprest ions of the instincts and latent powers of the child are of basic importance.”

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SANTA PRIZES AWARDED SOON Holly Berry and Party on Way Home. BY THE SANTA CLAUS EDITOR While Holly Berry and The Times party which discovered the home of Santa Claus at the North Pole are battling their way through snowdrifts and over ice mountains to get back to Indianapolis as soon as possible, children here afe waiting anxiously for Santa Claus to radio the winners of the “Why I Like Santa Claus” contest to The Times. Santa Claus sent a radiogram yesterday, informing The Times that he would be ready to pick the winners by Saturday and perhaps Friday. Meanwhile, The Times will continue to publish each day a few of the names of Indianapolis children found by Holly Berry in the books in which Santa keeps the name and fecord of every boy and girl in the world. Here is today’s list: Dolores Deitz, Mary Helen Dietz, Pauline Henninger, Herman Henninger, Paul Becker, Joanna Beth Moore, Phyllis Cooler, Jeanette Cooler, Jessie Adams, Anna Abbott, Betty Lou Atkins, Lyle Wayne Skinner, Harry Yount, James Burke, Florence Smith, Virginia Smith* Catherine Elliott, Blaire Noland, Murray Noland and Mary Campbell; “Santa Claus,” the film taken by The Times polar party is Eskimoland, shows Santa in his home. It is on tonight’s bill at the Garrick Theater, 2959 N. Illinois St., and the Garfield Theater, 2203 S. Shelby St. WHIPPED BOY, CHARGE Portland School Principal Will Fight Case. Bu Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 14.—Ralph Trotter, junior high school principal here, is preparing to fight charges of assault and battery growing out of a whipping he is alleged to have given Donald Sasser, 13-year-old student. Principal Is said to have whipped the boy because some notes had been, placed in the pockets of gir l students’ coats. The boy’s mother. Mrs. Nora Sasser, told authorities her son’s back bore black and blue marks, and that the boy said he had been whipped with a rubber hose.

SEWAGE, ONLY PART TREATED, GOESTORIVER Costly Plant Is Failing to Function as City Fondly Hoped It Would. ENGINEERS DISAGREE Turbine Explosion Another, Factor in Reducing ' Efficiency. This Is the second of a series on tha situation at the city sewage disposal plant. The first article, printed Tuesday, dehit with the partially completed dehydration unit in which $207,000 is invested, which hes been permitted to stand idle for two years. Millions of gallons of sewage, only partially treated, flows past one of the chief purifying units of the city sewage disposal plant straight into White River. This, while far from the state of of affairs citizens have expected from a plant costing more than $2,000,000, is not so terrifying as it sounds. The sewage which goes into the stream largely is assimiliated by the river water and rendered harmless, and expenditure of comparatively few thousands of dollars will iron out defects and increase capacity at some “bottle necks” which would eliminate the trouble, according to Charles H. Hurd, consulting engineer, who designed and supervised construction of the disposal plant. • 50,000,000-Gallon Peak The city delivers normally to the clarification plant, the first process in sewage disposal here, from 45,000,0000 to 50,000,000 gallons of raw sewage a day. The plant originally was designed to handle a peak of 50,000,000 gallons. Tl.c ulant, however, due to the need for more capacity in one process, is not treating fully more than about 17,000,000 gallons a day. The clarification process, which separated roughly about 40 per cent of the solids from the liquids, operates successfully upon the load delivered from city sewers, according to Hurd. The solids are rendered harmless by a digesting process in Inhoff tanks. Russell T. McFall, sanitary board member, disagrees with this. At any rate the capacity of the second process, the activated sludge plant, is so reduced that from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 gallons a day can not be handled in it and hence it is diverted into a pipe which carries it on out into the river. Blast Hurts Plant Explosion of a turbine in the power plant last September, which cuts the use of about half of the aeration tanks in the activated sludge plant, is responsible for much of the loss in capacity. Even with all tanks being operated however, the capacity of the secondary settling tanks, the next step, is insufficient to megt the full load by several million gallons. This, according to Hurd, was due to a desire on the part of the sanitary board and engineers to cut costs to the bone. He says that capacity of the secondary settling tanks—called by some engineers the “bottle necks” of the plant, can be increased sufficiently for a comparatively small sum. Meanwhile, the turbine which exploded, damaged another. The city had $23,000 insurance, but no contract to replace the turbines has been let. And the extra sewage surges on past the activated sludge plant and goes, less than half purified, into the river. Two Theories Advanced Explosion of the turbine disclosed another problem which the city must meet. An inspector for the insurance company declared his investigation showed that a lack of non-return check valves, cutting out the aircompressor on one turbine from that of another, to prevent air from backing up and reversing the machine, caused the blast. Hurd says this theory is ridiculous. He says he can show any engineer that the machines do bear non-re-turn check valves, and that the backing up of compressed air did not cause the explosion. ‘ An investigation he made right after the explosion convinced him, he said, that the explosion was from steam, and not airNot Told of Needs The power plant serves both the sewage disposal and garbage disposal plant, near by. The latter demands such a heavy load of steam 'at certain hours—a load which the designers of the power plant were not advised to anticipate by the designer of the garbage plant—that sediment from boilers is sucked through the pipes and valves become clogged, according to Hurd. Both the regular and emergency valves were clogged on the turbine which exploded and employes who tried to close them when they realized the turbine was in danger could not do so, Hurd declared. Next—Hurd's suggestions as to what might be done to put the idle dehydration plant into successful operation and iron out defects in other units which he says naturally show up in any pioneering project. Sues for SIOO,OOO Bu Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 14.—A SIOO,OOO damage case in which Jesse Miles, Evansville, is suing the Indiana Bell Telephone Company as the result of injuries suffered by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Miles, has been entered on the docket of Gibson Circuit Court here on a change of venue. The child was struck by a truck belonging to the company.