Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1928 — Page 3
DEC. 18,1928.
STATE TO SIFT HUGE COST OF ‘POORJELIEF’ Hammond Trustee Records $234, 288 Expense in 22 Months. How $234,288 could be spent legitimately for poor relief in one township of the city of Hammond, Ind., in twenty-two months, is the question Erick Lund, trustee, must explain to the state board qf accounts, it was disclosed today. Lawrence B. Orr, chief examiner, has requested Lund,' trustee of North township, Lake county, to appear before him Thursday to discuss the report of examiners showing startling drafts on the poor relief fund. Lund’s expenditure for poor relief in only one township of Hammond, a city of 53,000 population, averaged $10,649 a month. In Center township of Indianapolis, a city of more than 400,000 population, an average of about SB,OOO was spent last year. Far Less in Indianapolis Total expenditure for poor relief in Center township in 1927 was less than SIOO,OOO, Mrs. Amelia Harding, trustee, said. Center township is one of the most populous in Indiana, comprising the central portion of Indianapolis, in which the poorer districts of the south, east and Negro sections are located. The accountants report shows that from Jan. 1, 1927, to Oct. 31, 1928, Lund spent $83,072 for “medical service,’’ $50,291 for hospital service and $16,905 for dental service, as compared with only $38,000 for food. Food, coal and clothing ordinarily are by far the heaviest items of expense on trustees reports. The examiners particularly will ask Lund as to the expenditures for “medical service” as the result of several affidavits they obtained from doctors and nurses indicating that Lund and certain doctors were splitting fees. Lund and the doctors already have denied this. Collusion Is Charged “During the period covered by this investigation, rumors of col' lusion were presented to us by different individuals,” reported Examiners Charles Wolf and Vaughan Wise. They presented affidavits, including one from Dr. E. M. Shanklin of Hammond, alleging that Dr. William E. Nichols, Hammond, admitted to him that he gave the trustee 20 per cent of all he received for medical work on the poor. The affidavit declared that Dr. Niche’s said that if he did not split im mediately with Lund, Lund would ask what was the matter. Lund took the “rebates” in cash, refusing checks, the affidavit quote.: Dr. Nichols as having told Dr Shanklin. Dr. Nichols denied these allegations in detail in another affidavit. Other affidavits indicated that Dr. H. Kuhn of Hammond had operated upon patients entirely able to pay and then collected from the poor fund. This was denied by the doctor. The examiners found that Dr. Kuhn had received $5,675 for medical service; Dr. E. L. Dewey, $14,345; Dr. Leo Goodman, $3,340; Dr. W. E. Nichols, $18,612, and Dr. C C Robinson, $21,084,. and Dr Sam Bell, for dental service $16,465. BITES OFF EAR; JAILED Gets 20 Days for ‘Nibble’ During Drunken Brawl. Bii I nih il Press ELLINGTON, Conn., Dec. 18.— When Paul Skripel ar.d Adam Medikowski engaged in an argument recently, Skripel nibbled off Medikowski’s ear. Both were arrested. The judge decided they were both intoxicated and gave Paul twenty days in jail and Adam, ten.
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Dancing Star Yearns for Public' Plaudits, Not One Man’s. Bit United Prise PARIS, DEC. 18.—The runaway marriage last year ( Roszika Dolly and young Mortimer Davis, son of the Montreal tobacco millionaire, is about to end in the divorce court, it was rqmored in Paris theatrical circles today. Persistent reports have been circulated of an estrangement. Davis refused to discuss .the subject of a divorce today but Miss Doily said. “It could come to that.” The reason for the breach was said to be Miss Dolly's desire to return to the stage with her sister, Yanci, other half of the famous dancing team. Miss Dolly’s friends said she was “pining away” to re sume her career, but that her hus - band refused to permit her to return to the stage. Since the return of the couple from Deauville last summer they have lived apart. Miss Dolly has been spending most of her time on the Riviera, where she stayed for several weeks with Norma Talmadge. The Dolly sisters wanted to open a cabaret near the Champs Elysees, where the sisters would be headlined, but Davis again objected. The sisters are now completing their joint memoirs, covering many interesting incidents of thfe last decade of the stage and social life of the United States and the conti nent. The marriage of Miss Dolly to Davis caused an estrangement between him and his father, Sir Mortimer Davis. Sir Mortimer died soon after the marriage. His will, disposing of an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, was so arranged that his son’s wife could not share in the estate. EXAMPLE FOR PEACE Visitors to Children’s Museum Shown Confederate Letter. Children visiting the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis are being shown anew addition to the documentary collection which stresses the desirability of peace. It is a letter written in 1884 by a confederate captain to a G. A. R. correspondent in Indianapolis, in which the former declares: “I believe the only contention in arms that ever can again occur between the north, and south v/ill be that of noble contention, or rather emulation, as to which can do the most gallant service in defense of our common country in case any unfortunate circumstance should bring about a war with some foreign nation.”
FOUNDRY FACES FIGHT Columbus Citizens Near Plant Assert Health Menaced. PM Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 18.—Hope that suits seeking to force the Golden Foundry Company to close its plant would be compromised apparently is ended. Charles H. Wagner, one of six persons who declare the plant is harmful to their health and property, announces that the court action will be pressed. The Chamber of Commerce called a meeting to confer on a compromise, but Wagner announces none of the property owners attended. One plaintiff, Mrs. Mary L. Reeves, Indianapolis, has withdrawn from the case. Wagner announces that he and the other four are determined on a finish fight.
$12,300,000 TO BE COSTOF ADS Tobacco Company Budget Mostly for Newspapers. Bu Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—One of the largest newspaper advertising appropriations ever devoted to a single product will be spent by the American Tobacco Company in 1929 to promote the sale of Lucky Strike cigarets, George W. Hill, president of the company, announced today that next year’s direct advertising budget for its principal brand of cigarets will total $12,300,000. This sum does not include sales or trade expenses. More than half of this entire appropriation will be allotted* to newspapers. It will include practically every daily in the United States. The newspaper appropriation will be mom than double the next largest allotment, which is for outdoor advertising, and more than ten times as great as the amount that will be spent for radio broadcasting, in which the company is a pioneer. The $12,300,000 appropriation will include: Daily newspapers $6,500,000 Magazines 1,200,000 Billboards 3.000.000 Store helps 1,000,000 Radio 600,000 $12^300,000 “This division of our advertising oudget,” Hill said today, “is based on the continued experience of the American Tobacco Company with large scale advertising ,which has satisfactorily demonstrated that newspapers offer the most effective medium of appeal.” ALLEGED SLAYER~HELD Jeffersonville Woman Returns from * Missouri to Jail. 81l United Press JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 18. —Mrs. Rena Barrickman, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of her husband, has returned here after being arrested in St. Joseph, Mo. The accused came back of her own accord after being released by St. Joseph authorities upon her promise to do so. Mrs. Barrickman has denied that she killed her husband, saying she was automobile riding when the slaying occurred. O’NEILL IN MANILA Dramatist on Way Home After Nervous Breakdown. Bii United Press MANILA, P. 1., Dec. 18.—Traveling incognito to avoid over-enthus-iastic hospitality of the Orient. Eugene O’Neill, American dramatist, arrived today aboard the German liner Coblenz. O’Neil is suffering from a physi cal and nervous breakdown which started with a sunstroke at Colombo. He was compelled to go to a hospital in Shanghai. He now' is en route to New York via Europe WEDS, OUSTED BY YALE Bii United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 18.—A Christmas vacation-honeymoon held more allure for Thomas L. Wheeler, 21-year-old St. Paul (Minn.) Yale student, than a college degree. Wheeler was secretly married to Miss Emily Brest, pretty physical instruction student, and automatically expelled Monday from the university. Yale undergraduates may have neither wives nor automobiles.
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ACTION TAKEN TO SPEED TAX REFUND CASE Evidence Waived in Atkins Suit, Decision Left to Baltzell. Decision as to whether Marion county taxpayers will receive the $8,000,000 refund for payments in 1919-20 on the horizontal tax increase order of the state tax board came a step nearer today when attorneys waived introduction of evidence and agreed to facts in the E. C. Atkins & Cos. injunction suit in federal court. The Atkins company, backed by Indiana Taxpayers Association and the Chamber of Commerce, seeks, to prohibit county, school, city and township officials from paying the refund. The case was set for trial before Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. At-
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torneys for both sides agreed to admit the facts set out in the Atkins company complaint and in the pleadings in the case and to await decision of Judge Baltzell on the legal question involved. Judge Baltzell set Jan. 15 as last date for filing of a brief by the Atkins company on legal points and Jan. 25 as last date for filing of briefs by the defense. Oral arguments were set for Feb. 8. The Atkins company is contending that it and 600 other corporations of the county were not affected by the horizontal tax increase and therefore would obtain no refund. It would be unjust, therefore, to tax the corporations to make the refund possible, the suit contends. The tax increase has been held unconstitutional by the state supreme court and officials are prepared to make the refund unless a court decree giving legal grounds for not making the refunds is found. REMEMBERS CHILDREN Bii United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Frieda Hempel, opera singer, entertained fifteen children of seven New York patrolmen who were killed last year at a Christmas party at her home.
* Kellogg Treaty Is Held Practical Way to Peace
Friends Pay Tribute to William Fortune at Dinner. The Kellogg pact was hailed as a practical method for promoting world peace at a dinner Monday night at the Marott, where William Fortune was felicitated by friends on accepting the presidency of the American Peace Society. Practical methods to further the aims of the society were pledged by Fortune in responding to laudatory remarks by earner speakers. The Kellogg pact is practical, because it recognizes the heart of the peace problem and pledges nations to lawful arbitration of disputes, Dr. A. D. Call secretary of the society declared. The Kellogg pact is practical because there is nothing in it inconsistent with a strong navy and army. Fortune indicated. “Patriotic peace” will be the battle cry of all
hard-headed men, he urged, for it is the peace of strength. The aims of the American Peace Society are practical, Dr. Call asserted. War is indicted because it falls to settle disputes with justice. The federal convention of, 1787 isacclaimed the world’s greatest peace cnoference since it established the United States of America. The society hopes to extend the principles that govern the lawful living-to-
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gether of forty-eight states to the entire world. ’Tribute was paid Fortune by Thomas C. Day and Hilton U. Brown. Letters -of congratulation and regret from a number of prominent persons unable to attend were read. Felix M. McWhirter presided at the dinner at which he was host to more than fifty men, including members of the state and city committee of the peace society. Under the new criminal code of Czechoslovakia, provision will be made for painless death for persons suffering from incurable diseases.