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$2.83 SET AS TAX RATE FOR CITY TOWNSHIP New Center Figure Fixed by Board Is Boost of 13 Cents. APPROVE 2ANITARY LEVY Friendly Suit Looms After $6,000 Slash From Salary Budget. Total tax rate for property owners of Center township. Marion county, today stood fixed at $2.83 on each SIOO worth of taxable property after the state tax board approved the 7-cent sanitary district levy. The new rate represents an increase of 13 cents over the present rate. The 1029 rates, payable in 1930, as determined finally, are: Indianapolis school city, $1.02; Marion county, 38 cents; city, $1.10; state, 29 cents; Center township, 4 cents. The 1928 rates, payable this year, were: School, $1.02; county, 31Vx cents; city, $1.10; state, 23 cents, and Center township. 3Vs cents. Other Total 'Levies Total levy figures for residents of Indianapolis in other townships are: Perry township, $2.98, increase of 13 cents; Warren township, $2.86, increase of 10 cents; Wayne township, $2.99, increase of 9 cents, and Washington township, $2.96, increase of 7 cents.

Possibility of a friendly suit to test the right of city sanitary commissioners to receive a $3,600 annual salary, loomed as the state tax commissioneers clipped $6,000 from the salary item on the sanitary budget. The board was guided by the advice of Attorney-General James M Ogden, that S6OO is the salary limit for sanitary commissioners. Reductions totaling $13,870 were made by the tax board without affecting the 7-cent levy, however The sanitary budget totals $617,730.. as approved. Attorney Fees Cut An item of So ,000 for attorneys’ fees was eliminated when it was learned it was incorporated in the budget to defray expenses of a suit that has been threatened each year, but has never materialized. Other reductions totaled $2,870, the largest item being SI,OOO for supplies. Otto C Ross, Republican board president, and B. J. T. Jeup, Democratic commissioner, are affected by the cut. City Engineer A. H. Moore, being an ex-offlcio member, receives his salary’ from the works board. Jeup said he would not resist the $3,000 reduction, but Ross declared he favored a friendly suit to get a court decision. Attorney Joseph J. Daniels advised the board that the sanitary law permitted them to receive the maximum pay as long as construction work is under way, and interpreted the Fall creek interceptor as ‘‘part of the sewage plant.” Ogden’s opinion declared the law Intended the board to receive the maximum only while the city sewage disposal plant was in construction and did not include repairs or extensions to the sewage system. FLORIDA FIGHTS FLOOD Waters From Everglades Menacing Hialeah, Race Track Town. Bu Vnitrfi PrcSj_. MIAMI. Fla.. Oct. 15.—Heavy rains in the everglades sene flood waters over Hialeah today to a depth of two feet, and inundated 6.400 square mile* of land, engineers reported. Emergency measures were taken to save the town, where a race track Is located. Damming of the Tamiami trail, west of Miami, and opening of a ditch to carry flood waters into Biscayne bay was planned. ‘GOOSIE’ LEE IN JAIL W ell-Known Negro Politician Begins Liquor Sentence. Harry (Goosiel Lee, Negro, 40, of 2857 indianapolis avenue, police character, politician and poolroom operator, today started serving a thirty-day jail sentence for violating the liquor law. He was convicted before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, Nov. 16. 1928. and the appellate court last month affirmed the judgment, which included a SIOO fine. WESTERN UNION IS SUED Mining Company Asks 5500.000 for Failure to Deliver Wire. Bv United Press BOSTON, Oct. 15/*—Because the Western Union Telegraph Company allegedly neglected to deliver a telegram, the Combination Mining and Milling Company of Denver has filed suit against Western Union seeking $500,000 damages. Four Lose Driving Licenses Driving licenses of four men today were revoked by Judge John McCord, following driving convictions. They were: Cyrus Kenite. 16 Cedar street: John Murphy, 2968 Arsenal avenue; Edward Knoerr, Jeffersonville; and John Cudlff, Memphis, tad.

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CAN’T STOP THEM

Record Booths Honey*Haven

BY ARCH STEINEL GONE are the days of one-herse shay spooning, choir-night cuddling and when sofas were in bloom. In their stead Indianapolis’ youth has the “love booth.” In tea rooms, music shops and drug stores are two-by-four compartments, where a “mugging” generation whispers of kisses and rings and many other things. And the city’s Tin-Pan Alley—the phonograph record shops—are the hardets hit. - They drip with saccharine words, “heavy” dates to be kept, while the cash‘register does a Rip Van Winkle as far as sales of black discs. Take this average day in 6ne of the downtown music stores with their try-out booths for phonograph records.

SHE is He is bold. “Let’s try 'True Blue Lou,’ ‘Singing in the Rain,’ ‘Am I Blue?’ ’Mean to Me,’ ‘My Man’,” and thus the “lamb-chop” reels off an even dozen records and he and his "fancy baggage” would like to hear. The clerk groans inwardly. He knows what’s coming.

“npHERE have been times when X I’ve had to go in and stop the ‘loving’,” asserted one feminine arbiter of the record rooms at a Pennsylvania street music shop. “They'd crowd in one booth—two or three couples dance around and . Well we just couldn’t have it. We needed more floor space for our record rooms, so w r e moved from the basement to the first floor. The record tryout rooms were made smaller with

LAUDS SULLIVAN’S STAND ON MANAGER

City Judge Says Mayor Candidate Saw Need for Change. The record by Reginald Sullivan, Democratic candidate for mayor, in his law practice and public life was commended this afternoon by Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin at. a meeting at the home of Mrs. Edward P. Berry, 449 Arsenal avenue. Sullivan, while in the state senate, was instrumental in the passage of the corrupt practices act, under which former Mayor John L. Duvall was convicted and sentenced to jail, Judge Garvin said. On recommendation of a committee of the city manager league, Sullivan was appointed as a commissioner for the city manager election, which would have been held if the supreme court has not found the law unconstitutional. “Sullivan was in full sympathy with the city manager law and felt that it would fulfill a necessaryneed in civic affairs,” Garvin added. The statement of Clarence L. McPherson, Tenth district chairman of the Marion County Good Government Club, that he has carried a printer’s union card for twentythree years was refuted today by the Workers’ Non-Partisan Political Action League, Inc., sponsored by trade unions to defeat Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican nominee. “Records of the Typographical

IMMUNITY CLAIMED IN U. S. CASE BY MARONEY

Bv Times Special SOUTH BEND, Oct. 15.—Federal Judge Thomas Slick disqualified himself to hear the motion of John J. (Jack) Maroney, ex-prohibition agent, for abatement of a federal grand jury indictment chargirg him with conspiracy to violate the liquor laws, today. SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct. 16. John J. (Jack) Maroney of Indianapolis, former prohibition and department of justice agent, today was awaiting action on his legal efforts to dodge trial before Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick here on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Maroney Is known throughout Indiana for his political activities and his former job as Senator

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The booth’s door slams on them. The record whines and youth “pours its honey.” They dance. They “mug” in corners. “I'll meetcha at 8 tonight at the Purple Puppy,” floats through the door as the last record is played and they leave without a purchase.

more glass in them—so that they could be looked into easier.” From one of the booths near by issued the wail of “Satisfied.” A couple left the booth and placed several record on the counter muttering. “Put them away. We may come back for them.” They were smiling, looking love at each other as they walked out of the store. “Satisfied!” scratched the record through the open booth door.

New Tourney Owing to the inclement weather Saturday it was impossible to hold satisfactorily the district contests in The Times city-wide Yo Yo contest as was announced In order to permit every child under 18 in the city to compete in such a contest, there is planned a gigantic Yo Yo tournament, to be held in a centrally located spot, probably Saturday. Watch The Times Wednesday for complete details.

union discloses that McPherson is not now and has not been a member of the union since 1920. If McPherson has worked since that time as a printer he must have worked in the capacity of a nonunion man,” league officials charge. An appropriation of SSOO to be used in the campaign -.gainst Glossbrenner was made by the Central Labor Union Monday night at a meeting having the largest attendance in eight years. Speeches were made setting forth Glossbrenner’s opposition to trade unionism.. Three other meetings denouncing Glossbrenner were held Monday night under auspices of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Garment Cutters and Saw Makers unions.

i James E. Watson’s bodyguard. Maroney is the man who was admitted to the state prison cell of D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana Klan leader, when others were barred, during the state-wide political corruption probe two years ago. Maroney's attorney filed a plea in abatement before Slick here Monday afternoon. The plea alleged that when Maroney was a witness before the grand jury, which indicted him, he did not sign a waiver of immunity and is, therefore, immune from prosecution under the law. Maroney was indicted with Conrad Bivin, another former dry agent, who once was in charge of the South Bend office, and Andrew Kekko, alleged bootlegger. Slick did not indicate when he will rule on Maroney’s abatement plea.

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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 15,1929

ACTION TO BAR CANDIDATE IS LAIDTOmS’ Wolff Sees School Ticket Threat as Move by Coffin. FILED PETITIONS TARGET Citizens’ Committee Head Says Courts interpret Law Liberally. Threatened suit to remove from the ballot the names of eight school commissioner candidates because of alleged fauity petitions was branded tod<(y by Herman C. Wolff, citizens’ school committee chairman, as another move by George V. (Boss; Coffin, city and district Republican chairman. A suit to enjoin election commissioners from printing on the ballot names of the five citizens school committee candidates and three present, board members, Mrs. Lillian V. Sedwick, Fred Kepner and Lewis Whiteman, was being prepared today. The step followed the election commissioners’ denial Monday of a petition to this effect filed by Otto Coyle, Chester W. Johnson, Pierce J. Sluder and Lloyd Harvey. The move today was interpreted in various quarters as being backed by one of several groups—Coffin, the Democratic organization and the labor organization. Wolff Not Worried “We do not fear results of any such suit,” Wolff said. “We investigated the election laws thorouhly before the citizens slate candidates circulated their petitions.” Wolff ventured the opinion, that under a literal interpretation of the law, none of the candidates who filed would be eligible, thus perpetuating the present Coffin-con-trolled board in power until the next election in four years. “However, we have ,been informed that in election cases, the courts usually interpret the laws broadly,” Wolff said. In commenting on his statement that none of the petitions filed might be legal, Wolff explained that the law requires individual notarization of each signature, whereas some of the candidates not threatened with suit had their petitions circulated by notaries public who notarized each page of signatures instead of each individual signature. If sustained, the suit would leave in the field only seven candidates, all of them filed to succeed the three present commissioners, whose terms expire Jan. 1, 1930. None Remaining Eligible None of the remaining candidates .would be eligible to succeed Whiteman and Kepner, whose terms do not expire until Jan. 1, 1932. Under the law, they would continue to hold office until the next election, thus continuing their office an extra two years, until 1534. The seven remaining candidates are: Charles K. Kern, present school board president; Mrs. Edna Mellett, Mrs. Lillian B. Moore, Mrs. J. D. Hoss, Ernest K. Marker, Mark R. Gray and Andrew J. Blueher. Attorneys said the suit, if filed, would set out that if election commissioners placed on the ballot, names of these eight candidates, the result would be productive of litigation, if any of them should be elected.

The Truth Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street,” “Babbitt” and “Arrowsmith,” has been sent to the southern textile field by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. His articles will tell the inside story of what is going on there. The first will appear in a few days in The Times.

BRIDGE BIDS TAKEN Low Figures on 35 Jobs Total $650,315.37. State highway commissioners today received 168 bids on thirty-five bridges to be constructed in eighteen counties on state and federal highways. Low bids totaled $650,314.37. The department engineer's estimate was $736,349. Four are overhead constructions crossing railroad tracks.

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MACDONALD IS SAD, QUITTING SOU Os 0. S. Canada-Bound, Regretful, but Sure of Success in Peace Mission. RADIOS HIS GOOD-BYS Trip Across New York, Is Signal for Tribute in Every City. BY JOSEPH GORDON United Prejs Staff Correspondent NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y v Oct. 15. —Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald bade farewell to the United States today and prepared to depart for Canada, carrying with him a conviction that his mission of good-will to the American people had not been in vain and that his plea for universal peace had left a lasting impression. ■The prime minister was scheduled to leave the soil of the United States for good at 12:30 p. m. today. Up to that hour, ho was the guest of the New York state reservation commissioners here. After that, however, he was to cross to the Canadian side of the border, meet Canadian officials and to lunch with them. From there, he was scheduled to entrain for Toronto for a brief stay. MacDonald said his official goodbys to the Amei’ican people in a brief radio address at a banquet here Monday night. “I leave the United Scates with deep regret in my heart,” the prime minister said, with the suspicion of a catch in his voice. The prime minister has said often he never would forget the treatment accorded him by the people of the United States since his arrival here as a preacher of Anglo-American amity, and he has given every indication that he is most sincere about it. His trip across New York state Monday from New York City to Niagara was more like that which usually is accorded a military hero rather than a messenger of peace. At all the principal cities of the state, at Utica, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and elsewhere, his train was besieged by thousands and the cheers re-echoed at all Jhe stations. Prime Minister MacDonald has fired the imagination of the American people and that thought is the fondest thing he carries away with him from the United States.

Happy Bride , 18, Forgets Beans; Dies by Gas Fumes

I'n United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct, 15.—'Mrs. Ora .Lee Dues, 18 and newlywed dried her hands on her gingham apron and put a pot of beans on the gas range to boil. Then she* sat down to write a letter to her sister. She told of her great happiness in her new home, even though the home was only a share in trie small apartment of her father. She outlined the plans of her husband Duke to save enough

P,-T. MEETING IS UNDER WAY Order Called Safeguard to Child Interest. • “The Parent-Teacher movement plays a large part, in development of public opinion to safeguard children’s interests,” Miss Frances S. Hays, extension secretary of the national congress of Parent-Teachers, told delegates to the Indiana Par-ent-Teacher convention at the Severin today. Speaking on “Nation-Wide Organization in the Interest of Children,” she stressed, importance of home education of (Children. ’ “Wise organization offers opportunity for building better homes, better schools and better communities for boys and girls,” she said. Mrs. Homer J. Miller, South Bend, state president, reported a gain of 5,333 members last year, raising state membership to 30,730. High Paris Official Is Dead PARIS, Oct. 15.—Rodger Nepety, 54, director of the public hygiene department of the ministry of labor, died here Monday night of a heart attack. He was an officer of the Legion of Honor and had been a high government official for many years.

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ATTACK SLAYER MAY PLEAD TO ESCAPE CHAIR

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Above are three of the principal figures in the roadside assault murder near Chicago, in which John Preston, 32-year-old Chicago decorator, described by his wife as “a model husband,” has confessed. Preston, shown below at right with Sheriff Lawrence Hattendorf of Dupage county, who arrested him, admitted he attacked and then strangled pretty Agnes Johnson (above), 26-year-old stenographer. # tt nun Bjl United Press CIHCAGO, Oct. 15.—“ Morning after” remorse that followed the last spree of John E. Preston, “model husband,” who confessed he strangled a pretty stenographer, likely will en dinp rison rather than in the electric chair, it appeared today.

money to buy her a bungalow in the suburbs. She was .just starting anew paragraph. “Duke is—” when her head fell forward, on the kitchen table, and her pen trailed off into a scrawl. The pot of beans had boiled over and put out the flame of the gas stove. Hours later* her father, Ora Barrow, found her, dead, with the pot of beans cold and the gas hissing from the jets:

BABY CHOKES TO DEATH Two Operations Fail to Dislodge Bread From Windpipe. An 8-month-old bapy died late Monday in Riley hospital after two operations failed to locate a piece of bread, lodged in his windpipe. The child, Charles Miller, Anderson, was brought to the hospital Sunday. An emergency operation failed to dislodge the particle of bread, and another atempt Monday failed. Coroner C. H. Keever will hold an autopsy today.

GOVERNMENT FINISHES EVIDENCE AGAINST FALL

B” T'nitcf] Pram WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. The government rested its case in the bribery trial of former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall shortly before noon today, after presenting evidence that Harry F. Sinclair, oil millionaire, had paid Fall $269,100 in a New Mexico ranch deal. The government offered the story of Fall’s receipt of $230,500 in Liberty bonds from Sinclair and of Sinclair obtaining an oil lease from Fall and collateral evidence, showing guilty knowledge and intent of Fall in his dealings .with E. L. Doheny. * Fall got SIOO,OOO in cash from Doheny, which the government contends was a bribe for the Elks Hill, (Cal.), naval oil reserve leases.

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After narrating Monday how he killed Miss Agnes Johnson, 26. after a brutal attack in a lane near West Chicago Saturday night, Preston offered to plead guilty to escape the electric chair. It was indicated intoxication will be his only defense. Fear of vengeance at the hands of Thomas Johnson, brother of the murdered girl, prompted his confession, police officials said. The wife he had told he was tfworidng late at the office” stood 1* freston today, as she has since String of the crime.

SHUMAKER WEAKER Dry Chief Rests Well, However, Officials Announce. Although visibly weaker, Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, rested quietly Monday night, league officials announced today. Shumaker is suffering from a liver disease and has been confined to bed for two weeks at his home, 2232 Broadway. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 48 10 a. m 60 7a. m 48 11 a. m 64 Ba. m 52 12 (noon).. 67 9 a m 56 1 p. m 70

rail appeared to be in good health despite the attack of bronchial pneumonia, from which he has been suffering. He braved a particularly cold day to come to court. Mahlon T. Everhart, Fall’s son-in-law, testified to the Sinclair transaction. The evidence has no direct bearing on the indictment under which the former cabinet member is being tried. The specific charge is that he received a SIOO,OOO bribe from E. L. Doheny. Fall’s lawyers immediately moved to dismiss the case. The motion was denied and Igano.Dunn, a New York engineer, was called to open the defense case. Defensq lawyers expect to take three or four days.

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WOMAN TRIES TO END LIFE UNDER TRAIN Horrified Crew Witnesses Sudden Suicide Attempt at Belt Railroad. INJURIES MAY BE FATAL Sits on Switch Block and Plunges Under Fourth Freight Car. Before a horrified train crew, Mrs. Winford Tuohy, 525 Denny street, plunged beneath a moving freight car on the Belt railroad at Twentyfirst street and Sherman drive, shortly before noon today. Probably fatally injured in her suicide attempt, the woman was rushed to the city hospital in an urn* conscious condition. Touhy and Mrs. C. R. Swain, 519 North Denny street, a neighbor, who saw Mrs. Touhy leave the house at 9 a. m. today and walk north, went to the hospital in an effort to identify the woman. Touhy began a search for her shortly after noon after he awoke from a nap. Both Touhy and Mrs. Swain said the police description of the woman who made the suicide attempt tallied with Mrs. Touhy. Sat on Switch Block Touhy told police that his wife has been suffering from a nervous breakdown for ten days. William McMahon, her father, at city hospital this afternoon identified the girl as Mrs. Winifred Touhy. Two men, Elliott Gill, 958 North Tuxedo street, and Delbert Gray, R. R. 7, Box 589, engineer of the Belt railroad transfer train, under which the woman dived, witnessed the suicide attempt. Gray told Sergeant Walter Cole4| man of the police emergency squarf he saw the woman sitting on M switch block when the locomotive l was a few hundred feet from Sherman drive. He said as the fourth car approached the block she jumped to | her feet, ran and dived beneath the i car. Gray stopped the train and rushed to the woman as she lay moaning under the coal car. Apparently she ; sturck her head against an underj part of the car and her left hand was crushed beneath one of the wheels. Gray said the wheels did not run over any other part of her body and she was shoved against the rear trucks of the car. Clothing Water Soaked Dragging her from the tracks, Gray asked the woman her name. “Please, oh, please, let me die,” Gray said she moaned, and then lapsed into unconsciousness. Gill said he saw the woman walking toward the tracks several minutes before she atempted the, sui- ! cide and said her dress and stockj ings were water soaked. He also j gave a description similar to Gray’s | of her suicide attempt. The police described the woman 1 ,4s being between 25 and 30 with j dark brown hair; wearing a blue I apron with black designs and about | 5 feet 4 iches tall. 3hc wore no hat.

ACCUSES U. S. PATROL Congressman Demands Probe of “Shoot First” Policies. Hu United. Press DETROIT, Oct. 15.—Government investigation of coast guard and border patrol forces charged with “shooting first and Investigating later” was demanded today by Representative Robert H. Clancy. Clancy’s latest protest followed complaints by occupants of three pleasure boats, who charged their boats were fired on while cruising in nearby rivers and lakes. Representative Clancy recently protesftd the alleged firing by coast guardsmen on the private boat of Lawrence P. Fisher, wealthy body builder. BELGIAN BANKER DIES Former Premier Expires Suddenly at Baden Baden of Heart Disease. Hu United Press BADEN BADEJT, Oct. 15. Leon Delacroix, noted Belgian banker and delegate to the committee organizing the international bank, died suddenly today of heart diseaseDelacroix was former Belgian premier. He served as delegate on the reparation commission and was trustee for the German railway bonds which were held as security against reparation debts. - GAS STATION ROBBED Attendant Is Held Up During Tally of Day’s Receipt*. As Jess Finke, 18, of 1835 North Harding strete, Standard Oil Company filling station attendant at Twenty-first and Harding streets, counted the day’s receipts Monday night, a banoit held him up and robbed him of $35. The bandit escaped on foot. Clothing valued at more than $450 was missing from the room of Otto Acres and Earl Sutherland, 533 Division street, today.

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