Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1930 — Page 9

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HOLDS THROAT GASHES; SAVES CRASH VICTIM Nolan Walker Plays Hero Role Until Physicians Reach Scene. BLOOD LOSS PREVENTED Cops Seek Fleeing Driver Who Left Pair Lying in Street. Life of Albert Nells, 34, of 1230 South Talbott street, was saved, city hospital doctors said, by Nolan Walker of 1306 Ruckle street, operator of WFBM radio station, Sunday afternoon when Walker held deep cuts on Nelis’ throat and face together with his fingers until physicians arrived. Thrown through the windshield of an automobile driven by Lawrence JollifTe, 17, of 21 South Tuxedo street, when it crashed into the rear of a car driven by Lowell Van Clcve Jr., 19, of Crawfordsville, Nelis was injured severely. Deep wounds in his throat and face bled profusely. Walker held the gasnes closed and checked the blood flow until physicians arrived. Nelis was taken to city hospital, where physicians said, that except for Walker’s aid, he would have died from loss of blood. Others Unhurt JollifTe, Van Cleve and Miss Alberta Hollingsworth, 15, of R. R. 6, Box 413, riding with JollifTe, escaped injury. After a hit and run driver left Charles Nichols, 69, and Mrs. Josephine Winenow, 69, both of 2225 East Washington street, injured in the street at Keystone avenue and Washington street, Sunday night, police early today found an automobile bearing marks of having been in an accident, abandoned in the street at 1600 Pierson avenue early today. The owner of the car is sought. The car struck the couple as they crossed the street. The auto skidded to a stop, the driver looked out and then sped away. Charles Gronseur of 1310 Tudexo street, gave pursuit m an automobile while Russell Bailey of 842 North East street, attempted to leap on to the running board of the fleeing driver’s car. Thrown to Street A swerve threw Bailey to the pavement. Speeding on Washington street, the driver doubled through traffic, sideswiping an automobile at Rural street, and losing his pursuer at Dearborn stret. Joseph Luscok, 50, of 971 Pearl street, was injured critically Sunday when struck by an automobile driven by Strother Martin, Cloverdale. Martin was arrested on assault and battery charges. Luscok walked into the side of the automobile, according to witnesses. Glenn Payne, 14, of 422 Harlan street, was struck by an auto driven by Lester Ritchie of 914 East Vermont street at Harlan street and English avenue Sunday. His injuries were pronounced minor at city hospital. Auto Hits Rail Pier An automobile bearing a license issued to William Haney of El wood was wrecked when it struck a railway elevation pier at South street and Capitol avenue early today. Police could not locate the driver. Frank Stonich. 48, of 912 Arnolda avenue, was arrested on charges of reckless driving and failing to stop after an accident and assault and battery, by Deputy Sheriffs Fox and Snider. Stonich is alleged to have sped away after his automobile sideswiped a car driven by Charles Alexander of Clermont. Mrs. Alexander suffered severe cuts when Alexander’s car went over an embankment near Clermont after the accident. Mrs. Eva Yeager of Bancroft was out on the head when an automobile driven by her son, R. C. Yeager, overturned near their home.

FORMER LOCAL MAN IS DEAD IN ILLINOIS Arthur Wagner, Prominent Mason, Heart Attack Victim. Word was received by friends here of the death early today of Arthur Wagner, 45, formerly of Indianapolis, at his home in Elgin. 111., following an attack of heart disease. Mr. Wagner, prominent in Majcnic orders, lived here until two years ago. He was connect'd with the Marmot Motor Car Company for eighteen years, resigning as purchasing agent to became an execu tive of an Elgin manufacturing firm. He is survived by the w dow in Elgin, and parents in Huntington, Ind. MEN’S UNION ELECTS Norman Brinsley Is New President of Butler Organization. Norman Brinsley, 3253 Ruckle street, recently was elected president of Butler university’s men’s union. Other officers are Frank Sanders, 50 South Butler avenue, vice-presi-dent; Adolph Emhardt, 3721 North Delaware street, secretary; and Hugh Rominger, 37 South Lyndhurst drive, treasurer. Thief Found in Home B* Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 10.—Edward E. Lyst, contractor, opened the front door of his home as a thief fled through a rear door. An overcoat and an empty pocketbook were missing. The pocketbook was found in an alley in the rear of the bouse.

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Mildred Mannon of Columbia City, Ind., is leading the Sunshine Girl Contest, which is a part of every show at the Indiana theater this week. She plays an accordion and has accumulated 51 points m three days to put her ahead of the other four girls. Dorothy Wiltshire, 624 East Miami street, is in second place, with 49 points. Constance Kinnaman, singer, 4948 West Fifteenth

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Winter Slips By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 10.— A sign of spring more impressive than the first robbin is evident here. At the next session of the city council to be held Feb. 17. a petition will be presented asking that an ordinance establishing daylight saving time be adopted. The petition is approved by the Retail Merchants Association, the Foreman’s Club and other organizations.

WINDERS MAY RULEDRY BODY Likely to Be Chief Minus Title, Is Prediction. Possibility of the Rev. C. H. Winders remaining as superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, “without portfolio,” was reported from dry sources today. This program, together with the 1930 league campaign, will be taken up at a meeting of headquarters committee of the league in offices at the Roosevelt building Tuesday, it was said. Winders, acting-superintendent of the Indiana league, since the death of Dr. E. S. Shumaker, was to have been replaced by Sam McNaught, superintendent in lowa. McNaught refused the post. Nomination is made of P. Scott Mcßride, national league head, and approved by the state organization trustees. It was reported Mcßride will make no recommendations at this time and Winders will continue as acting superintendent. Reports persist that since the loss of Shumaker leadership, league activities have been curtailed and the organization impaired by internal dissension. STORE BANDIT SLAIN Companion Wounded by Grocer at Gary. Bv United Press GARY, Ind., Feb. 10.—William Salzman, grocer, killed one bandit and wounded another as they attempted to hold him up in his store. Stanley Antchek, 21, was shot through the side and died when he attempted to escape. Stanley Zielinski, 20, was arrested when he appeared at a hospital to have a facial wound dressed. acceptsTevT POSITION Miss Madeline Berry Resigns Prom City Community Fund. Miss Madeline Berry, assistant to David Liggett, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund, has resigned to accept a position in the department of sociology at Ohio State university Feb. 17. Miss Berry will direct laboratory work and field work for students in social statistics. Miss Berry was graduated from Shortridge high school and holds a B. S. degree at Ohio State. She has been connected with the Community Fund for eight years in charge of statistical work.

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street, is third, with 43 points. Alma Monninger, 330 West Maple street, has 23 points, which puts her in fourth place, and Carla Locke, 2640 College avenue, is fifth with 16. This contest is being sponsored by The Indianapolis Times in conjunction with the Indiana theater. Cash prizes are being awarded, with each girl in the contest assured of a prize. First prize is $75; second, SSO; third, S3O; fourth, $25, and fifth, S2O.

Beauty Authority to Tell City Women About Art of Makeup. Can you apply cosmetics in the morning and have them last all day, or are you constantly searching for a mirror, that you may repair your makeup? V. E. Meadows, international authority on beauty, who is coming to Indianapolis Feb. 24 under auspices of The Indianapolis Times, says you should be able to powder your face in the morning so that it will stay powdered all day. Moreover, he will show you how to do it at The Times Beauty Show, in the travertine room of the Lincoln hotel. “There is no more excuse for a woman making her toilet in public than there would be for a man to haul out his shaving brush at the theater,” Meadows asserts. He will prove this by his lectures and demonstrations, twice daily, for five days. Cosmetics, according to Mr. Meadows, aren’t to help make a picture that doesn't exist, but rather should be used to bring out the best points and protect the beauty that already lies in the face. Women Are Heedless Women don’t pay enough attention to the beauty nature has given them, he says. They don’t try to protect it or help it along by accentuating their best features and toning down the less desirable ones. Women will go to great lengths to recapture lost beauty, but they are indifferent about taking care of it while they have it. “A little common sense applied in a practical manner would lengthen the bloom of beauty for many years,” Meadows declares. “Just as the protected skin of the body remains smooth and soft ,and unlined, a sensible protection with carefully chosen cosmetics owudl keep the skin of the face in a similar condition.” Meadows Is of the opinion that no woman is so beautiful that she can afford to neglect her appearance, nor is any woman too plain to enhance her charms by a careful study of her type and her best features. So there you are. Taught Famed Beauties Meadows has taught famous beauties in America and Europe how to retain their charms, and he will teach you how to make the most of yours, as every woman in Indianapolis is invited to attend The Times beauty show. For five days he will lecture twice a day to women. He also will analyze each woman in the audience if she desires. There will be no charge for the lecture or the analysis. Meadows’ time will be at the disposal of the women readers of The Times while he is here. Lifelong Resident Dies Bv Timet Special SPARTANSBURG, Ind., Feb. 10. —Pierce Stewart, 74, a lifelong resident of Spartansburg, is dead. He leaves his widow, Emma, and a son, Finley.

‘REEL’ TIN BOX THRILLS COME BEFORE ‘THE RESCUE’

“TTTELCOME DANGER,” was VV the sign on tin cans at the side of Clarence Jenkins, 22, of 729 Park avenue, collector of films for a motion picture distributor. as he entered his car in front of the Bandbox theater Sunday midnight with “The

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930

HIGHWAY BOSS WINS BACKING OF GOVERNOR Leslie’s Approval Is Given Brown Overdrafts for Road Work. ADMITS ACTS ILLEGAL Chief Executive Is Against Giving Publicity to Examiner Reports. Governor Harry G. Leslie today placed the official stamp of his approval on the conduct of Director John J. Brown of the state highway department. In addressing a conference of field examiners of the state board of accounts in the house of representatives he urged adoption of the Brown program of giving no publicity to examiners’ reports until public officials in the office examined have had a chance to square themselves. Later, in talking to newspaper men, he went farther and approved Brown’s $400,000 overdrafts in highway department funds, although admitting they were illegal. “They were to save discounts on bills,” he declared, “and the public has been benefited.” ’fi’ints at Politics Talking to the examiners, he hinted that reports, such as made recently regarding Brown and the highway department, might be of a political character. This was taken to mean that, in the Governor’s interpretation, Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the accounts board, was trying to advance his own political fortunes at the expense of Brown. Both Brown and Orr are credited with gubernatorial aspirations. The highway report, however, had been discussed with Brown and the nighway commissioners many times before being made public. It finally was filed with a letter from Field Examiner Ross Teckemeyer, pointing out that these conferences never had resulted in action and the deficiences pointed out remained to be corrected. “I believe that publicity should come from the board of accounts,” Governor Leslie told the field men. “But I think officials examined should have their day in court and be given opportunity to explain any overdrafts oi shortages before the reports are made public through the newspapers. That is the intent of the law.” Denies Own Aspirations The Governor repeated that he personally is without political aspirations and urged the examiners to do their duty and play no favorites. In discussing the highway overdrafts, he said he was not in favor of shielding any wrongdoer, but that when the public best had. been sured by a technical illegality, he felt that the department head should not be put into the limelight as being a crook. Informed of the Governor’s defense of his position, Brown expressed gratitude and said that he is going to have a written explanation of the overdrafts, proving that it was to force construction and get more accomplished. The overdrafts, declared illegal by both the state auditor and the state treasurer, were in October, November and December and were largely for cement to finish summer construction work.

ADVERTISEMENT AIDS IN STOPPING RUN ON BANK Unique Action at Kokomo Halts Two Days of Withdrawals. Bv United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 10.—The Howard National bank of Kokomo was “open as usual” today, after one of the most extraordinary experiences in the history of a national depository. Heavy withdrawals, said to have been caused by “poison conversation” during the week led to a fullfledged run on the bank by Friday. Saturday morning officers of the bank placed an advertisement in a Kokomo newspaper regarding the run and that all depositors would be accommodated —a step unique in the history of banking. The bank remained open two hours overtime Friday to accommodate patrons. By Saturday afternoon all excitement had apparently died down, and when the bank closed its doors twenty minutes had passed since the last patron left, and a man who deposited money withdrawn earlier in the day. PAJAMAS CAUSE STRIKE Co-Eds’ Appearance in Night Garb Too Much for Collegians. Bv United Press SIOUX CITY, la., Feb. 10.—When co-eds at Momings’lde college appeared at breakfast in their pajamas, college men waiting tables in the residence halls went on strike. An edict was issued that the girls would serve themselves or dress before dining. The girls decided to dress.

Racketeer” under his arm. From the back seat a “racketeer,” in guise of a bandit, emerged. “Drive on,” was his first command from beside tin boxes containing the film “His First Command,” which Jenkins already had collected.

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Two of the central figures in Chicago’s financial plight—which reminds one of the fable of Old Mother Hubbard and the empty cupboard—are pictured here. At the left is Governor Louis L. Emmerson of Illinois, who is working: to have the tax reassessment, expected to remedy the situation, completed by June 1. At the right is Chicago’s mayor, “Big Bill” Thompson, shown on the day he entered office with the famous brooms with which, he announced, he was going to “clean out the city hall.”

106 PRISONERS GIVEN PAROLES Trustees of Reformatory Refuse Many. By United Press PENDLETON, Ind., Feb. 10.—State reformatory trustees, meeting here Saturday as a parole board, granted 106 paroles. Many prisoners convicted of major crimes made pleas for freedom before the board, but were ordered back to their cells. Rollin Stewart, Indianapolis aviator, serving a term of one to two years for transporting liquor, was granted a parole, having served his minimum sentence. The board recommended a parole for Gilbert Evans, convicted in Wayne county for forgery in December, 1929. The parole was granted because the man has only a short time to live, it was said. He has been receiving hospital treatment since October. The board concurred in paroles for four men sentenced to the reformatory, but who were transferred to the state prison. The men were Roy White, convicted of robbery, from Marion county in October, 1921; Tilford M. Hoy, robbery, Cass county, June, 1922; William Matz, robbery, Lake county, March, 1922. and Fate Moore, in Vigo county, October, 1921. All were serving ten to twenty-one-year sentences. A number of prisoners in the reformatory were eligible for parole, but can not be released until jobs are found tor them. Harold Thompson, Lake county, convicted of participating in a $65 grocery store robbery, was given an additional year to serve. He had completed one year of a one to tenyear sentence.

APARTMENTS SOLO Real Estate Dealer Buys Two-Story Building. The Crest Shire apartments, 3239 North Illinois street, erected in October by Philip Yant, have been sold to George Q. Bruce, real estate dealer, associated with H. C. Tuttle & Brother. The deal was negotiated by Earl R. Lee of the real estate department of the MeyerKiser bank. Although figures involved have not been made public, it was announced that Yant acquired as part of the transaction the large brick home at 4144 Central avenue belonging to Bruce. The Crest Shire is a two-story brick structure with twelve modern apartments and a twelve-car garage. DRIVE HEADS MEET Chamber Fund Campaign to Start Wednesday. Division colonels of the forward Indianapolis sales army, and their teams will be called together for instructions at 4 today and Tuesday, Felix H. McWhirter, chairman of the movement, said today. The drive for a $170,000 Chamber of Commerce fund will be launched Wednesday following an “early bird” breakfast at 7:45. Today Colonels R. C. Rottger, J. J. Fitzgerald, George T. Whelden and Karl C. Wolfe, will meet with their captains and team members. Tuesday Colonels Hugh J. Baker, Briant Sando, Ancll T. Brown and Theodore E. Root will confer with their workers. Stove Gas Causes Deaths Bv Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Feb. 10.— While funeral services were being held for Mrs. O. L. Bundy, 74, her husband was fighting death, both having been affected by gas which escaped from a hard coal burning stove in their home. A severe case of pneumonia developing after inhaling the fumes, was fatal to Mrs, Bundy. Some hope is held for recovery of the husband.

The film “Isle of Lost Ships,” in the rear of his car, offered no refuge, so Jenkins ignored “His First Command” and leaped from the automobile and fled on foot. The nearest refuge was the Alamo theater at 152 North Illinois street, where “The Night

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Trouble Crop B,u Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 10.— Trouble is accumulating rapidly tor Oliver Fickle, grocer. His attorneys were at the Madison county courthouse filing an appeal from a conviction in city court on a liquor charge when an attorney representing his wife, Mrs. Charles Fickle, arrived to file a suit for divorce and SI,OOO alimony. Mrs. Fickel alleges her husband is habitually under the influence of liquor and brings persons to their home for carousals. Po.lice raided the Fickel residence two weeks ago and confiscated a quantity of alcohol. He was found guilty by City Judge Jesse Shuman, fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to ninety days on the state farm.

CRIME IS EASY, ASSERTSLESLIE Views Efforts to Reach Solution Futile. “There never was a time when it was so easy to commit crime and escape detection as it is today,” Governor Harry G. Leslie said Sunday night in a lecture at Roberts Park M. E. church on “Democracy and Crime.’” There is no solution to the crime problem, and if one were evolved, it would become obsolete in a short time, he declared. The Governor said efforts should be made to determine whether the state should seek good in inmates of penal institutions, or render vindictive justice. Seeking to remove blame for crime waves from courts, Fred C. Gause attorney, said: “The law can not be enforced against the majority of the people The biggest problem confronting this country is to change the attitude of the people toward the law.” PENSION GIVEN HORSE AFTER 16 YEARS’ WORK Days of Pulling Bakery Wagon End at Evansville. Bv Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10.— Ray, a horse that has drawn Fred Schlueter’s bakery wagon over the streets of Evansville for sixteen years, has been retired on a pension. Working days for the horse, now 20 years old, have ended, and daily he will receive choice food and in the summer will continue his rest on a farm. Every resident along the route traveled oy the wagon knew Ray. He was fed apples and other dainties a horse is fond of, and since he has retired. Schlueter says he has been kept busy answering queries as to his condition. Ray’s appetite was his only fault, Schlueter says. If he stopped in front of a grocery where any goods were displayed on the sidewalk he would eat them. Once Schlueter had to pay for several brooms the horse damaged with his teeth. I. u7~to SEEK FUNDS Memorial Campaign Cleanup to Be Conducted. Bv Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 10 A final cleanup drive to collect pledges to the Memorial fund of Indiana university will be conducted under the direction of Mrs. Mary Morgan Brewer, New York, graduated from the university in 1895. Mrs. Brewer was given details of the campaign at a meeting today in the office of President William Lowe Bryan of the university. She has been engaged in promotion work for several national organizations, including the suffrage movement headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, and the League of Women Voters. Deer Roams in City By Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 10.—A deer, the first seen in this vicinity in many years, is roaming streets here frequently.

Ride” was shown as the feature picture Sunday When officers arrived they found Jenkins ready to leave to pick up the film “The Rescue,” shown at another theater Sunday He did not take “The Night Ride,” as it is scheduled for reshowing today.

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MILITARY HEADS TO RE GUESTS Naval Reserve Dinner Will Be Given at Club. High naval and military officers of the state and city will be guests at the second annual naval reserve and militia’ officers dinner Tuesday night at the Columbia Club. The dinner will follow a convention program, and will precede a dance sponsored by the Fourth battalion of United States naval reserves, at the Indiana ballroom. Rear Admiral W. S. Crosley, commandant of the Ninth naval district, Great Lakes, and Brigadier-General George H. Jamerson, Ft. Benjamin Harrison commandant, will be guests.' Governor Harry G. Leslie, Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley, Colonel A. J. Dougherty, chief of staff, Eighty-fourth division; Lieutenant F. F. Ferris, navy recruiting officer; Lieutenant E. P. Kunkle, navy medical officer, Captain D. W. Bagley, United States navy; Lieutenant-Commander Frank Huntoon, United States naval reserves, and Captain John Tebbs, United States marine corps, also are invited.

COURT ACTION READY Overcharge Suits Will Be Filed in Lake County. Attorney-General James M. Ogden declared today that the Lake county recovery suits may be filed in Lake circuit court before they are taken into the Hammond federal court. The charges were drafted today and will be sent tonight to Oliver Starr, Lake county prosecutor, Ogden said. First suit will be to recover from Lake county commissioners $137,000 in alleged overcharges paid for Tuf Tread paving materials. Federal and state court suits will be identical. Criminal action may follow. Representative Glenn Harris of Lake county called on the Governor and secretary of state today and said he also was going to call on Ogden. FATAL FIRE QUIZ ASKED State to Be Asked for Probe in Blaze Which Killed Four. Bv United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Feb. 10. St. Joseph county authorities will ask the state fire marshal to investigate the fire at the home of William J. Hoover, in which four small children were burned to death last week. A series of fires in the vicinity of the Hoover home in a settlement east of Notre Dame, has led to the belief that a firebug may be active. William H. Rolif, brother of the children’s mother, will join county officers in asking an investigation. ASHES OVER GRAVES Son’s Request in Will Carried Out Near Hagerstown. Bv Times Special HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Feb. 10.— Ashes of the cremated body of Benjamin W. Eilar, found dead a week ago at his home in Newcastle, have been strewn over the graves of his parents in the Brick church cemetery near here, under instructions given in his will. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Detailed instructions in the will include a request for a sard stone grave marker five feet six inches high with an inscription, “He was honest to the cent.” BOY SCOUTS RULE CITY Noblesville Hag Youthful Officials as Program of Week Opens. Bv I'imes Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10.— Keys to the city of Noblesville were turned over to the Boy Scouts, Saturday. in’ commemoration of the anniversary of the organization. Junior Campbell officiated as mayor; Harrell Sapper, city clerk; James Jump, fire chief, and Robert Teter, as city engineer. Other Scouts were firemen and boys also served as policemen. Business houses are decorated In honor of the Scouts and the boys have camp equipment and their handicraft on display in many places. The program will continue through this week. Special services were held in all churches of the city Sunday.

CHICAGO GRIEF DUE ENTIRELY TO POLITICS Astounding Story of Tax Crookedness Is Bared by Crash. CITY MILLIONS IN HOLE Assessments on Property Depended Wholly on ‘Pull’ of Owner. This is the first of three articles which throw li;ht on Chicago's amaiing financial crisis, which has aroused op-tion-wide interest. BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—“ Keep t&xa* tion and your real property assessments entirely out of politics unless you want to follow Chicago to financial chaos.” If any other city, looking on Chicago’s bankruptcy in awed wonder, would like to know how to avoid a repetition of Chicago’s fate, there’s the answer. It comes from John O. Rees, director of the joint commission on real estate valuation, a Chicago citizens’ organization that has been trying for months to get Chicago and Cook county back to some sort cf financial stability. Rees knows the subject from end to end. More than a year ago he was employed as an expert by the joint legislative revenue committee of the Illinois legislature, which studied the situation here thoroughly; and the one word with which he sums up Chicago’s present difficulties is —“Politics!” Chicago and Cook county, between them, are more than $275,000,000 in the hole. Bills are going unpaid, employes aren’t getting their salaries, essential services are being endangered. How Come? Asks Visitor The visitor from the outside, naturally, has two questions. First he wants to know “How come?” And second, he wants to know, “What can my city do to avoid getting in a similar fix?” Three specific causes stand out of the tangled political web in which Chicago now finds itself: 1. For many years, the Chicago tax lists were secret, thus offering wonderful opportunities to grafting politicians to get assessments reduced without public knowledge. 2. Two taxation boards assumed equal powers and threw the entire system of taxation into one grand mess. 3. To gain political advantages, representtaives of the urban district—the rich “loop”—and of the suburbs have been endeavoring to get taxes for their constituents below fair levels. “The job of assessing real estate here has been a political plaything, or tool, for years,” Mr. Rees explains.

Two Groups of Assessors “Cook county has two assessing bodies. There’s the board of assessors, with five members, and the board of review, with three. In theory, the assessors make the original assessments and the other board reviews them to see that they're equitable. “But in practice the boards have equal power. Each one does what the other is supposed to do. Each one makes and reviews assessments without consulting the other. “In most states, property assessments are supposed to bear some definite relation to market value. In Chicago they don’t. One piece of property will be assessed at 80 per cent of market value and an adjacent piece will be assessed at 20 per cent. Political pull has been the big thing." This inequality went unnoticed for a long time because of the policy of secrecy. Many property owners paying high taxes were led to believe their taxes were low and didn’t try to find out what their neighbors were paying. Politicians Happy Big Bill Thompson, the builder, was mayor, his henchmen and friends filled the other jobs, the party war chests were full and the politicians were happy. Now this was all right, so long as nobody knew what his neighbor’s assessment was. But early in 1928 the state tax commission ordered the county to publish the new 1927 asssessments lists, in toto. Then the storm broke. The incredible favoritism that had prevailed was open for every one to see. More than 20,000 citizens filed, suit in the courts in protest. Accordingly, in May, 1928, the tax commission ordered a complete reassessment of all Cook county real estate. And right there was where the trouble began. For it developed that this order automatically canceled the 1927 assessment. Just completed; and the 1927 assessment, in turn, automatically canceled the preceding assessment; so that Cook county found itself without any assessesd valuation for any of its property. No Taxes Collected This, in turn, meant that no taxes could be collected until a new assessment had been completed. The reassessment hasn't been finished yet. It is reported here that I it may be finished by the first of | June, but few believe it. Next. “Big Business” comes to i the rescue .. . and an interview with Silas Strawn, chairman of tho citizens’ relief committee trying to poll Chicago out of the bote