Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1930 — Page 2

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STUDY PLAN TO RELIEVE BURDEN OF REALTY TAX State Survey Group Maps Income and Sales Fee Law Proposal. Enactment of both income and sales tax laws to lift the entire burden of state taxation from real estate will be recommended by the Indiana tax survey commission, Governor Harry G. Leslie has been informed. Formal announcement of the recommendations is to be made early next month. State Senator Joe Rand Beckett •Rep., Indianapolis) who, with State Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, (Rep., Indianapolis) chairman of the commission, were pioneers in the survey work, conferred with the Governor last week in regard to putting the finishing touches on the report. Present state tax levy is 29 cents on each SIOO worth of taxable property. which raises approximately 514,500.000. It is estimated that each cent brings in $500,000. Two Plans Proposed No high rate on incomes or sales would be required to raise this sum and wipe out the state levy, but another commission may ask that the state levy be increased 40 cents or more, which would present a Vastly different problem. This is the state aid school commission which is considering two plans, one of which would have the state raise all minimum school taxes tor distribution to the local units. Called the Jones plan, it is based on the theory that with minimum school expenditures being state financed, corresponding reductions in local levies would result. The Wimmer plan, also being considered, would require local units to make a $1.50 school levy before coming under the present state aid. Reductions Pointed Out Should the state be required to raise what would amount to a 60cent minimum levy 'as required by a 40-cent school rate), it would mean $30,000,000 would have to be collected through income and sales taxes. The consequence would be a considerably greater sales and income tax rate than if the present state revenues are retained. Proponents of the Jones plan point out that this would mean drastic reductions in the property levies, however, which admittedly are overburdened notv. Recently Governor Leslie pointed Out differences between public and private business methods which may be raised in the discussion of these tax problems in the legislature. More Taxes to Be Paid ‘ When private industry sets up now machinery, the old machinery and tools are discarded,” Leslie said. *'But in government, when new machinery is set up, the old is also retained.” Applying this to the proposed tax sot-up of the state taking over the school levies, it merely would mean additional expenditures by the local units, with more taxes to be paid by the citizenry. Success of the plan lies in actually cutting out local levies, rather than merely duplicating them, it has been pointed out. DEFERS BIENZ ACTION Sentencing of Aged Primary Worker Held Up Until Saturday, Special Judge Henry M. Dowling in criminal court today deferred un- ! til Saturday passing sentence on John L. Bienz, 78, Coffin precinct worker, convicted by a jury recently on a charge of illegally marking ballets in the last primary election. The conviction carries a five-year sentence. Bienz was an election official In the Ninth precinct of the Fourth ward. DIES IN HOTEL ROOM Jv Godman, 62, Heart Disease Victim, Is Found by Operator. Jay Godman, 62. address unknown. was found dead in his room at, the Sexton hotel, 371 South Illinais street, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Alta Starbuek. hotel operator, said j she had not seen Godman since Saturday, and, entering his room, found him dead. Coroner Charles H. Keever said death was due to heart disease. Disabled Veteran Gets $2,400 P</ Times Special HAMMOND, Ind.. Nov. 24.—Roy Baulin, disabled World war veteran, whos • $9 a week compensation was stoppt ,4 two and one-half years ago, has recovered $2,400 in back payments through efforts of the local American Legion post. Haulin sup-1 posed payment was stopped because j he obtained employment. He has a wife and one child. Stabbed With Ice Pick Roycc Wharton, 26, Negro, was in serious condition at city hospital j today, after having been stabbed j three times with an ice pick Sunday. | Wharton named Henry Vauix. Ne- I gro, 1015 North Illinois street, as j the man who stabbed him. Al- ! though wounded seriously Wharton j drove his own auto to the hospital.'

Notre Dame vs. Army Football Special Train Saturday, November 29 Leave Indianapolis 8:00 A. M. Arrive Chicago 12:00 Noon ’6.62 Round Trip Tickets will be (food going on sleeping car trains Friday night, November 28, and on Special Train Saturday morning, November 29, and will be good returning on all trains leaving Chicago before midnight Sunday, November 30. We also have on sale to those using our train sen-ice to the game FOOTBALL TICKETS FOR THE GAME Tickets and reservations at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle. Phone RUev 3322, or Union Station, phone RHey 3355. BIG FOUR ROUTE

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Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: • West wind, sixteen miles an hour; ' barometric pressure, 29.61 at sea ; level; temperature, 37; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, eight miles; field, j good. Arrivals and Departures T. A. T.—Mrs. L. L. Miller, from ! Kansas City to Cleveland. Curtiss Paying Field —Gene Lawrence to Salina, Kan. Hcosier Airport—Dr. L. H. Dunhan, in Robin, from Danville, 111.; Donald Beyer, in Waco, from Danville, 111. Both returned in Waco. Capitol Airport—Lieutenant Commander H. R. Boesch, in naval plane, from Dayton to Detroit. Begins Hop for Record By Tailed Tress NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Hoping to set anew record for women in a round-trip transcontinental flight. Miss Ruth Nichols, aviatrix, started from Roosevelt field today for Burbank, Cal., in her Lockheed-Vega cabin monoplane. The takeoff was at 8:16 a. m., and Miss Nichols planned to stop either at Columbus or St. Louis to refuel, and at Wichita, Kan., or Albuquerque, N. M., on the westward flight. Mrs. Keith Miller holds the present record for women for a roundtrip cross-continent flight. Her time was 47 hours and 30 minutes, which Miss Nichols topes to better. She said she would make the return flight eastward almost immediately after reaching the Pacific coast. Sets Record to Cuba By United Tress HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 24.—A round : of receptions was in store today for I Mrs. J. M. Keith Miller, British i flier, who established anew aviation ! record by completing a solo flight j from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Havana in ; 12 hours and 8 minutes flying time. She landed her low-winged | “bullet” monoplane at General ! Machado airport at 4:47 p. m., Sunday. Mrs. Miller is the first woman ever to fly solo from Pittsburgh to the Cuban capital. Steam Cooling Used 7? ii X T A Service LONDON, Nov. 24.—Steam generally is hot, but it’s used to cool the engine of anew type of aircraft developed in England. Advantages credited to the steam cooling system over the water-cool-ing system include less weight, elimination of air resistance, and the reduction of chances of damage due to the piercing of the cooling system. Club to Hold Dinner K. A. Kennedy of Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland, Cal., will address a dinner of the Hoosier Flying Club at 7 tonight at the administration building at Hoosier airport. Air School to Open Ground and flying instruction in aeronautics will be given beginning about Dec. 1 by the Coats Flying school, recently moved to this city from Borden. All ground instruction will be given at night. Temporary offices have been established at 317 North Pennsylvania street.

o*i Indiana Boy is Brightest FROM three to twelve. That’s the period which is most important to your child’s development. And that’s the time many are retarded mentally and physically by constipation. Watch your child, mother! At the first sign of bad breath, coated tongue, headache, biliousness, lack of energy or appetite, give a little California Fig Syrup. This pure vegetable product cleanses, regulates a child’s bowels without discomfort. No danger of forming the laxative habit when California Fig Syrup is used. For it tones and strengthens weak bowels. In colds or children’s diseases, employ its gentle aid to keep the system from becoming clogged yith germs or w r aste. Mothers everywhere are eager to tell of the benefits secured for their children. Mrs. J. Clark Hale, of 3935 Broadway. Indianapolis, says: “I have used California Fig Syrup with Clark, Jr., for three years in cases of upsets, bad breath, coated tongue or constipation. It keeps him the brightest, happiest four-year-old I know!” Look for the name California when buying. That is on every’ carton of the genuine, for your protection. LAXATIVE-TONIC for CHILDREN

WORKERS’RULE WINS FAVOR IN INDUSTRIAL CITY Socialists Carry Election at • Reading, Pa., After Three-Year Test. By Scrippi-Uotc.rd X etc spay rr Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Out of the ruck of belated campaign news ccmes the story of Reading, Pa., and its all-workingmen’s government. Reading has not gone red. Although an industrial city, it is one of the most conservative communities in upper Pennsylvania, where dwell the descendants of William Penn, alongside Germans, Quakers and south Europeans. But since 1923 it has been ruled by a Socialist mayor and a council majority, and it liked it so much that it just has filled up the council with two more Socialist members and elected two Socialists to seats in the Pennsylvania legislature. Reading's political transformation dates back to 1910 -when a group of cigarmakers, ironworkers and other workingmen began a campaign for lower taxes. Among this group were Harry Stump, cigar worker; George Snyder, a p ano tuner, and Jim Maurer, middle-aged plumber. Stump and his followers pamphleteered and argued on street corners. They organized a Socialist local and bought a hall for meetings. The result war; that Maurer was sent to Harrisburg as a legislator. Sought Labor Reforms There he led a movement for the state’s first woikir.en’s compensation law and agitated for other labor reforms. Reading had adopted the commission form of government, and Maurer and his fellows decided to concentrate on city politics. The morning after election day in 1927 the Reading folks awoke to find they had turned their city over to three Socialists. Stump, Maurer and Snyder had been elected and, forming a majority, they named Stump mayor. The Stump majority hired an able expert to reappraise the city’s property. He found the downtown property under-assessed and the little home owners footing the bill. Today 75 per cent cf the homes are paying less than they did and the general tax rate is $1.52 per SIOO, one of the lowest in the state. Ousted Old Members The people had voted $750,000 for anew city hall. In the middle ! of the city, however, stood a big high school about to be torn down. The Stump council got to work to remodel the high school into a city hall. Maurer volunteered as supervising mechanic. The old building was made into anew and magni- j ficent city hall for $240,000 and with j $510,000 left they built two new j schools. I

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You’d never guess that, for a time, Carol Lombart, stage and screen star, feared life disfigurement. Her face badly scarred in an automobile accident, Miss Lombard disappeared from the public eye. But a plastic surgery expert was called in and—well, see for yourself. So, Card just has finished a talkie in New York, on the strength of which she is about to be sent to Hollywood to co-star with William Powell.

BOY HANGS HIMSELF Dies Dangling to Bedpost While Brother Lies Sleeping. By United Tress CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Thirteen-year-old John Simner hanged himself to a bedpost in his home Sunday while his younger brother, Lowell, lay asleep in the bed. The youth’s body, dangling from a belt which he had fastened to the bedpost by looping the ends, was found by his father. The father said he believed the boy hanged himself, accidentally, while at play. Lecture Series to Start “The Sacred Story of the Mass” will be the subject of the first of a series of lectures to be given by the Rev. George A. Keith, S. J. Creighton university, starting Nov. 30 in Assumption hall, 1127 Blaine avenue, it was announced today.

GUNMEN HOLD UP QOLLECTOR; TWO ROBBERIES FAIL i Money Bags Containing $350 Taken; One Victim Beaten by Thugs. Forcing the car of Herry Pegg, collector of the Producers’ Oil Company to the curb on Washington street, three gunmen Sunday night robbed him of $350, police were told. Two other robbery attempts failed and thugs severely beat one i of their victims. Pegg said he had obtained receipts from a station at Davidson and Washington streets. The gunmen demanded a second money bag from him after he had offered them one of the two he carried, he told police. Two masked bandits attacked Harvey Orr. 60, of 1449 King avenue, operator of a theater at Tenth street and Holmes avenue, in the rear of his home Sunday night. Both men were armed, Orr told police, and fled after he had resisted them. In the fight, the thugs struck . im over the head with a revo.ver ind he was cut on the left hand and his face beaten. No loot was obtained. Hesitancy of W. F. Reynolds, operator of a drug store at Tenth and West streets, Sunday night averted robbery by a Negro bandit. The robber tried to open a safe but Reynolds told him there was no money in it and ordered him out of the store.” The bandit fled when several customers entered. Thaddeus Carman, 16, Negro, 2224 Martindale avenue, faced charges of auto banditry and vehicle taking today after a filling station attendant wrested a revolver from him Saturday night and held him for police. Joseph Earker, 2904 Meredith street, oil station attendant at Tenth street and Senate avenue, permitted the youth to enter the station when the Negro said he had lost his m'oney. Barker was searching the floor when the Negro drew a revolver. Barker wrested the weapon from the bandit and held him at bay until police arrived. The auto was stolen from T. E. O’Hara, 201 Empire Life building, early Saturday night. Other robbery victims: Clifton Chandler. 24. of 5376 Guilford avenue, taxi driver. $6; James Knetzer, 1406 North Holmes avenue. sl3; W. F. Heterman, 226 Kansas street, laundry driver. S6O; T. T. Frakes. 1711 South Emerson avenue, laundry driver. SSO; Floyd Nelson, 1727 Blaine avenue. $29, and Ray Plummer. 1407 Blaine avenue, cab driver. $1.75. Anderson Man Dies B.’J Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 24. Charles Miller, 78, native of Madison county, is dead at his home here.

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Installation services for Major James Murphy, new divisional commander of the Salvation Army in Indiana, will be held at 7:45 Tuesday night in the army citadel, 24 South Capitol avenue. Major Murphy comas here Tuesday morning from Chicago accompanied by Mrs. Murphy. Colonel A. T. Brewer, chief secretary, will be in charge of the installation with Frederick Schortemeier, president of the advisory board, as chairman. Other members of the new staff are: Adjutant and Mrs. Arthur Cass, divisional secretaries, and Lieutenant Railton Genge, cashier and bookkeeper. 93 and 75 Fight Battle WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Forgetting their years in the heat of anger, two aged friends engaged in a battle which sent Henry Myer, 93, to the hospital and William S. Walker, 75, to jail on an assault charge.

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U. S. LEADERS ASK ENTRY IN WORLD COURT 100 Foremost Citizens Sign Letter to Hoover for Protocol Signing. By Tailed Tress WASHINGTON. Nov. 24.—A letter signed by 100 foremost American citizens petitions president Hoover to take early action to make the Unite. States a member of the w.*d court. Among the signers are General John J. Pershing, Admiral William S. Sims, Newton D. Baker, Thomas W. Lamont, John W. Davis, Nicholas Murray Butler, Roy W. Howard. Matthew Woll, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Everett Colby, C. W. Proctor, John Grier Hibben, Nor-' man Thomas, Julius Rosenwald and William Allen White. “We believe,” said the letter, “that the rights and safety of the United States amply are protected in tile protocols of adherence which have been signed by your direction and* which conform to policies which have been signed by your direction and wblich conform to the policies of

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your predecessors. Presidents McKinley. Rocsevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge, in furthering a world court for the settlement of legal disputes between nations. “We pledge you our support If you will submit the protocols to the senate asking for prompt ratification. We believe that such action taken by the United States during the coming winter, will be of great influence in building up good will and confidence among all nations.” SUICIDE VICTIM CRITICAL William Turner Is in City Hospital After Drinking Poison. William Turner, 1125 Church street, was taken to city hospital early today, in a critical condition after he took a deadly poison in a suicide attempt. No motive was given for his act.

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