Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1931 — Page 9

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ANTI-LYNCHING BILL IS REVIVED BY DEMOCRATS Floor Leader McKesson Reverses Stand After Political Blunder. • LAUGHTER FROM G. 0. P. Chief of House Majority Heeds Colleagues and Quickly Changes Mind. Republican members of the Indiana house of representatives today were laughing in derision at the political blunder committed by the Democratic majority in killing the

anti-lynching bill Tuesday afternoon, and on Wednesday afternoon, suspending the house rules to breathe new life in the measure. R c pr esentative Delph L. McKesson, Democratic floor leader, spoke from the floor in opposition, declaring such laws are unenforcable If public temper is against them, and

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pointing out that a similar law now on the statute books was not enforced In the Marion case in which two Negro youths were hanged by nn infuriated mob for the slaying of a white youth and his fiancee on a lonely country road. McKesson’s address apparently turned the tide against the bill, for it was defeated on its second reading—53 to 41—despite bitter opposition of the Marion, Lake, Allen, Vigo and Vandcrburg delegations. Colleagues Point to Error However, other Democratic representatives, led by Jacob Weiss, Indianapolis, later pointed out to McKesson in no uncertain terms the blunder chalked up against the party and stressed the necessity of reconsideration. “Killing this bill, bearing the unanimous indorsement of Negro organizations, is going to cost the Democratic party thousands of voles,” they told him. House rules provide that no postponed bill may be reconsidered unless a two-thirds majority of the houit members vote to bring them back on the floor within twentyfour hours. Bill Promptly Revived Machinery for applying the pulmotor worked smoothly Wednesday afternoon. Representative Everett S. Priddy (Deni., Huntington), moved for suspension of rules and reconsideration. A half dozen Demoora'v were on their feet with ‘‘seer \ the motion” and the question was put immediately by Speaker Walter Myers. The vote was unanimous for reconsideration. Since this action left the bill in status quo, or on second reading. McKesson, because of his post of floor .leader, was placed in the embarrassing position of reversing himself. He accepted this role with good grace, however, and moved first to table his own motion for indefinite postponement and then to send the bill on to engrossment. A bill introduced Wednesday to amend the existing anti-lynching statute and embodying all provisions of the original Watson bill, probably will be withdrawn today in view of the house action. As it now stands, reconsidered, the bill provides for the summary dismissal of a sheriff on the occurrence of a lynching and for recovery by heirs of the lynched person or persons damages between $5,000 and SIO,OOO.

JESSE HILL DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS I uner;:l Services for Aged Farmer Will Be Friday Morning. Jesse A. Hill, 81. retired farmer, died at his home, 6140 College avenue. Wednesday after an illness of several months. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. N. G. Talbott, pastor of the Broad Ripple M. E. church, of which Mr, Hill was a member, at 10:30 Friday morning at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors are a daughter. Mrs. J. Edward Morris of Indianapolis; two sons, D. Ivan A. Hill of Knightstown and Earl B. Hill of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Pyles of New Ross and Mrs. Eliza Reagan of Clinton county. CRI mInAITbRE E dTn BAN House Adopts Sterilization Bill by 58 to 32 Vote. Necessity of curbing the perpetuation of criminal strains, together with the deterrent effect upon the criminal of the added threat of sterilization, were the principal arguments in obtaining passage in the Indiana house Wednesday of the Evans-Simpson bill, now on Its way to the senate. The bill, passed 58 to 32, provides courts may order sterilization inflicted upon any persons convicted of committing a felony in which human life has been threatened or destroyed. Possibility that innocent persons may be victimized through malice and also that the legislature “has no right to interfere with the immutable laws of God” were arguments advanced by Representative Fred A. Egan (Dem., Lake), while Edward Eikenbary (Dem., Wabash) declared that the breeding of criminal classes must be stopped. Martinsville Bonds Sold Fy T imes Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 19. The Union Trust Company of Indianapolis has bought a SIO,OOO city of Martinsville bond issue, proceeds of which will be used in extending the mm sevtf s 4

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Mrs. Dorothy Bennett of Kansas City, shown here, is due to go on trial Feb. 25, charged with the murder of her husband, John G. Bennett, whom she is accused of shooting to death in the fall of 1929 following an argument in a game of bridge. Mrs. Behnett is to be defended by former Senator James A. Reed.

MARION FACES MONEY CRISIS City Employes May Lose Month’s Pay. By United Press MARION,. Ind., Feb. 19.—Efforts of the city of Marion to help the unemployed with street repair work, and other projects, have so seriously impaired its finances that it is faced today with the likelihood of having to operate without funds for a month more prior to payment of taxes. So serious has the situation become, that a secret cpunctfl meeting has been held, it was learned, in an effort to find some means of tiding over the crisis, but the only solution offered was that of skipping the monthly pay roll. This would amount to donation of a month’s pay by every employe. Another council meeting will be held Saturday night. A plan to transfer $25,000 from the city bond and interest fund, and SII,OOO from the waterworks fund failed when City Clerk Ray Norman was informed by the state tax board that he might'incur liability. With this warning, he transferred $60,000 from time warrants to those two funds, leaving the city only $24,000 with which to operate until spring taxes are paid.

$55,194 IS IN FUND ■ —l Red Cross Donations Grow With $1,392 Boost. Donations of $1,392.95 today brought the total of the Red Cross drought relief fund in Indianapolis to $55,194.21. Among today’s contributions was one of S3OO from the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company and its Indianapolis employes, and SIOO from the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company.

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Ever since the city was founded by the French in 1699, Biloxi, Miss., has staged an annual Mardi Gras festival and chosen the prettiest available girl to reign as “Queen Ixolib.” This year the honor fell to Miss Ella Edmonds, shown above.

COUNTY POOR FARM TO BE ABANDONED

End of the existence of Marion county’s dilapidated poor farm seemed assured today under terms of an agreement reached between the county council and Dr. Max A. Bahr, superintendent of the Central State hospital By Jan. 1, 1932, under the agreement, the state will rehabilitate the infirmary as an annex to Central State hospital, and the poor farm will be located at the quarters of the present Marion county hospital for the insane &' .'ulletta. Consummatior a the exchange will mark the ud of disgraceful conditions exposed recently by The Tunes following a series of probes At the lahrma x?„

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NEW ANGERED 1 BY BLAINE’S POSTAL QUIZ Former Mail Chief Denies Putting on Pressure to Halt Lease Probe. EVIDENCE IN CONFLICT HOosier Fails to Remember Sending Letter to Late J. W. Good. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Subjected to vigorous cross-examina-tion by chairman John J. Blaine, Harry S. New, former postmastergeneral, reviewed in detail today before the special senate postoffice lease committee his part in the celebrated St. Paul lease. Asked about a “mysterious” letter sent by New to the late Secretary of War James W. Good, at Chicago, in July, 1928, the witness said he had no recollection of such a communication. Pressed by Senator Blaine, New said, however, that he would not deny he might have sent such a letter. “Mr. Good was at that time western campaign manager for the Republican party?” asked. “I do not remember just what Ills connection was,” New answered. Evidence In Conflict The letter never has been placed in evidence before committee, but John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general, testified before the committee recently that he personally had carried New’s letter to Good at Chicago. New had sealed the letter before handing it to Bartlett. At the time this letter was carried to Good, the federal grand jury was about to assemble to consider the facts surrounding the St. Paul lease. Good at the time was attorney for Jacob Kulp, holder of the St. Paul lease.

Blain also developed that Federal Judge Sandborn at St. Paul, on June 18, 1928, had ordered tht grand jury to assemble for the lease case on Aug. 7. The alleged letter from New to Good was said by Blaine to have been dated July 26, about two weeks before the date on which the grand jury was to assemble. Denies Using Pressure New also reiterated his emphatic denial that he ever had sought to bring about the removal of Assistant District Attorney John K. Fessler at St. Paul, when Fessler vigorously was prosecuting the lease investigation. Blaine then read a department of justice report which challenged the methods of the postal inspectors sent to St. Paul by New. This report said the postal inspectors criticised witnesses and testimony before the grand jury. “Were these inspectors sent to St. Paul to investigate the grand jury or the postoffice lease?” Blaine asked sharply. “They were sent to get to the truth about this lease,” New replied. Statement Held Insulting / New characterized as “absurdly insulting” Blaine’s question whether the postal inspectors had not, in fact, been sent to St. Paul after the 1928 grand jury investigation, not to investigate circumstances surrounding the lease, but rather to discredit the grand jury. “It is unworthy of an answer,” the witness shouted idignantly, “but I will answer# it.” He then repeated that nis only interest in the case was to “get at the truth.” Senator Hastings of Delaware, an administration Republican, agreed that Blaine’s question was “insulting.” “No one ever acted in f better faith,” New offered after the interruption. At the conclusion of the session, Hastings complained that two hours had been occupied today with an inquiry which developed material which might have been obtained from three questions. New will resume the stand at 10 o’clock Friday. AUTO INJURY FATAL Crashes Cause 8 Deaths in Week. The eighth victim of auto crashes fln the county since early Monday died in city hospital today, and police authorities appealed to motorists to curb recklessness to reduce the high toll. He was Jesse Bratcher, 63, Negro, 619 North Senate avenue, the second person to die from injuries received in a crash at the railroad abutment, National road and Creston drive, Tuesday night. Bratcher die# about 2 a. m. Mrs. Nina Curl, 38, Negro, 231 West Fourteenth street, succumbed soon after the crash.

Conference Wednesday afternoon between councilmen, commissioners, Dr. Bahr and John A. Brown, member of the state board of charities, ended a ten-year fight by the county to force the state to care for the county’s insane. Marion county is the only county in the state which has been forced to maintain an institution for the insane. Under the agreement. Dr. Bahr said, the state institution’s budget will be increased to permit rehabilitating the infirmary, the latter to be used as a colony for the incurable insane not regarded as dangerous. Inmates will “farm” the 230 the annex will be

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1931

Ah, Wah! Judge Finds Both Klaxon and Choir Tunes Are Horrible Things.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—The similarity, or difference, of a choir singer s voice and a klaxon horn were discussed at length before Magistrate Curtis in Brooklyn Wednesday. Herman G. Roeper, 58, was brought into court on a charge of making a “diabolical noise” in his apartment, which is directly above the rooms occupied by Leo Franken, the choir singer. Roeper explained to the magistrate that he has a klaxon horn in his apartment and that he sounds it only when Franken starts singing downstairs. “What does he sing, and how?” asked the court. Roeper screwed up his face, took a deep breath and let forth a wail that would put a Colorado coyote to shame. “That’ll be enough evidence,” frowned the magistrate. “You men see if you can't settle it out of court.” x n a Long Hike to Trial By United Press WICHITA, Kan.. Feb. 19.—When Don Preston, charged with a liquor law violation, is called to trial today in federal court here, he will answer “present.” Preston arrived here Wednesday after hitch-hiking more than 1,500 miles from San Diego. “I promised my attorneys and bondsmen I’d be here for my trial,” Preston said. “It was a long walk, but here I am.” XXX Hong to Fight Bulls

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MADRID, Feb. 19.—Ignornig with blind oriental fatalism the prediction that bullring fans will heave the Spanish equivalent of pop-bot-tles at him if he ever enters the sanded arena again, Vincent Hong, the would-be Chinese matador, intends to brave both bulls and public again this year. Hong, who burst upon the Catalonian horizon last summer with fantastic tales of an apprenticeship in Mexico, made his debut last June in Gerona. The Corrida fans decided, after one performance, that Hong would do better to take up some other activity, perhaps laundry work. Nevertheless, the attraction of a Chinese name in the amphitheater was too great to be ignored by some of the lesser impressarios, who sought to bolster receipts by billing the far-easterner in ten more productions. One performance in each place was sufficient. He never was invited to repeat. x * st A Real Gent Wanted By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—The idea! „ average American tailored man will be 5 feet 8 inches in height and he’ll “act like a gentleman,” American clothing designers have agreed. Their specifications were made known when they announced they wanted a model before Feb. 27, so he may appear at the annual style show of the clothing designers executives’ association at Hotel Astor, Feb. 28. Other specifications are: Weight, 138 to 149 pounds; waist, 30 to 31 inches; hips, 37 inches. And he must “have poise and good man-* ners and speak intelligently.”

Machine vs. Brains By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—A phrenology machine with “a human mind” was challenged today to meet the best brains of the University of Minnesota psychology department in an intelligence test. The proving ground in the contest between man and machine would be the gray matter of 100 students with the object of recording the intelligence ratings and emotional status of the students. Promoters of the machine, which resembles a hair marceling outfit, argue that it can read intelligence and emotions through an intricate system of levers which feel the bumps on the subject’s head. University professors charge the process is worthless and have challenged the promoters to make the tests on 100 students. xxx Pigeons Get Potted By United Press DENVER, Feb. 19.—Members ot Colorado’s house of representatives, many of them from famous towns of the old west where history was made with six shooters, held their collective breaths Wednesday while a Capitol electrician picked off pigeons, flying about the roof of their August chamber, with an air rifle. Tt all started when somebody left a window open. The pigeons flew in, and couldn’t find their way out. The electrician was called. He sought points of vantage and sniped at the pigeons. All pretense of work stopped in the house. A pigeon fell and house members buzzed with acclaim for the marksmanship of the electrician. Finally all the panic-stricken birds fell before his trusty rifle. The house members sighed, and went back to work. 1 xxx __ Pying Is Cheaper By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 19. The old-fashioned undertaker who decorated the windows of his “shop” with potted ferns, can’t compete against the modem funeral director who outfits his establishment with oriental rugs and indirect lighting, a business methods conference of funeral directors revealed today. Depression has made funerals cheaper than they have been for years, the conference showed. An average funeral costs $125, Larson said. For S4OO a burial with the finest in coffins, flowers and appointments can be purchased. “The depression,” Larson said, “has hit the funeral directors hard. And, of course, a humeral directoiAtm HP.

BILL TO REMAP STATE IS ONLY TRIAL BALLOON Neither Core Bill in House Nor Adams Bill in Senate to Become Law. PUT UP FOR TRADING Gerrymander Efforts by Either Party Will Be Losing Ventures. Passage of the Core reapportion- ; ment bill by the house of represen- | tatives today will be attended by no debate or discussion, it was anI nounced when the measure was sent on to engrossment Wednesday afternoon. Decision reached at the Republican caucus a week ago to oppose all

reap portionment efforts were repudiated by Representative James M. Knapp (Wayne) Republican floor leader, who explained the stand of the twenty-five members of the minority. It is understood by all that neither the Core bill, which is to-be passed by the house, nor the Adams bills, slated to sail through the

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senate, wil be the accepted redistricting measure. Trading to Follow They simply will be used as a means of discussion and trading at a conference committee to be selected following passage. The usual custom of appointing two members of each house to the conference committee to iron out differences in similar measures will be abandoned, it was indicated today and the house may appoint five and the senate a similar number. Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush (Rep.), has indicated that he would like to attend the sessions of the conference committee and in that event Speaker Myers (Dem.), ’also will be present. Marion county representatives continue adamant in their refusal to permit the partition of this county and insist that it be left one district, although many members of the house declared that it should be whittled down to about 300,000 and the remainder placed in other districts. Agreement Appears Unlikely So far there seems to be no likeli- ; hood that a gerrymander proposed by either party will succeed. \ Knapp’s statement made Wednesday afternoon was: “We want to go on record as being in favor of some kind of reapportionment bill. But we twenty-five members of the minority party are not yet agreed on ; the Core bill anti neither do I bei lieve are the members of the Demo- | cratic majority. We realize, how- ' ever, there must be a starting point; ! and something for a W’orking basis | and so to properly put the minority j on record I wish to say we will offer ! no amendments or obstruct the pas- | sage of the Cope bill out of the house.” City Gives Work to 200 CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. —Approximately 200 men are being given employment by the city of Crawfordsville, wages being paid from a SIO,OOO fund voted by the city council.

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Ripley swears ice is hot. Icemen attending the thirty-seventh annual convention of the Indiana Ice Dealers Association in the Severin today will swear it’s chilly, But Miss Mildred Wilson, 222 Nowland avenue, employe of the E. E. Bums Employment Bureau, greets the icemen of the state in the above photo with, “Oh! for the life of an iceman this July.”

FAVOR SALARIES BILL Measure Would Reduce Revenues of County Officials. The uniform salaries bill, pledged by the Democratic state platform to end exorbitant revenues to county officials, particularly in Lake county, advanced a step nearer enactment today. The house of representatives adopted without comment the report of its committee on fees and salaries, recommending passage, and the bill was advanced to second reading. Shake Up of Police ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 19. Homer Bruner, who has had twelve years experience as a member of the Anderson police department, has been appointed night captain to succeed Madison C. Kershner. The change, ordered by the board of public safety, came as a surprise. Kershner was relegated to the rank Ol pftLpolaaa to a beat,

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“Mister” Hammel, city’s oldest grocer, weighing out sugar behind his counter on his forty-five-year-old scales. BY ARCH STEINEL GEORGE J. HAMMEL has had & grocery in Indianapolis for the last fifty-eight years. He’s been operating a store at 410 Massachusetts avenue for better than a „ half century. But that’s not the real Mister Hammel. And he must be called “Mister” if you want the feel of him behind his counter and his weighing of sugar with scales almost as old as his store. You even can go on statistically and cite: That in all the fiftyeight years his store never has been held up; that he’s missed but eleven weeks because of sickness away from his shelves and butcher blocks. m

But still that isn’t Mister Hammel or the fifty-eight years he’s catered to a neighborhood’s meal times, or his eighty-four years of living. Just ‘ w r atch him a moment weigh out a pound of sugar. Watch him fondle the steel weights he loves to use in pref erence to the automatic scales and you picture him. xxx HE was a grocer in the heyday of real grandmothers. You know the kind of a grocer that when “Granny” sent you to pay the store bill he’d look over his glasses at you, frown maybe as you lingered on first one toe and then on another, and say “Well, what do you want now?” He knew what you wanted. A stick of candy for paying the bill. He’d give it to you. They don’t give stick candy now for paying bills. “Those were the days when a grocer knew his customers. You’d know when Mrs. So-and-So’s youngest had the colic or when Mrs. Blank’s daughter ran off with that Blankety-Blank boy,” mused Mister Hammel. “Now, you hardly know your customers. There’s so many new ones all the time. But I’ve got customers, two sisters down on East Vermont street, who have been with me for fifty-eight years. Their parents traded and they trade now.” He tells of the foibles of folk and how on Sabbath days—he lives at 408 North Alabama street—they’d slip over to his back door and say, “Mister Hammel I plumb forgot to get bread yesterday. Would you mind unlocking long enough to get me a loaf.” “I’ve never violated the Sabbath. I just told them I couldn’t do it,” he explained. x a x AND if Mister Hammel is partial to the days when milk was 5 cents a quart, potatoes 50 cents a bushel and eggs sold three dozen for a quarter at Eastertide, it can be put to a distaste for the present delicatessen era of living out of cans. “But would you belieev it, and I’ve got some bills here dated

GARY DEATH TRIAL TO START MONDAY

By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 19. With a special venire of fifty talesmen ordered for trial Monday of Virgil Kirkland, 20, Gary, charged with the murder of Miss Arlene Draves, on a gin party in Gary, Nov. 29, preparations for the trial in Porter circuit court here virtually were complete. Judge Mark B. Rockwell will preside over the trial, and Howard D. Clark, Porter county prosecutor, will aid John Underwood, Gary, chief deputy prosecutor of Lake county, in the case. w. Kirkland is the first of five youths charged with the crime to come to trial, and state alleges,

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1875 to show you, that canned goods was much higher then than now,” and he produced a yellowed ledger with the vegetable kingdom in time twice today’s prices. He has seen Massachusetts avenue as a boulder thoroughfare, with mule-drawn cars. He remembers when the orchard that stood opposite the present site of the city hall. He recollects the time his wife’s father—Mrs. Hammel is dead—bought a lot on the site of the Washington hotel for S6OO and sold it at a pittance profit compared to its worth today He has seen growth of a city, new customers come for old, the competition of the chain store, the change from credit to cash business. But from 6 at morning until 6 at night he’s behind his counter. “Yes, I’ll be 84 on Feb. 20. I’ll be What did you want, little girl? A bottle of milk. Excuse me a minute, will you?” and he left to wait on a customer, as he’ll be doing the rest of his life until the day when he waits on Some One higher than the shelves of his grocery.

MILK MARKET CONTROL URGED Dump Product to Bring .Up Prices, Producers Told. Producers should control the milk market even to dumping milk on the ground by the truck-load when the market presages oversupply Don Geyer, general manager of the Chicago Pure Milk Association, told 2,000 members of the Indianapolis District Dairy Producers’ Exchange in Cadle tabernacle Wednesday. “Clean up your dairies, supply clean milk, meet prices of wildcat companies and when you ultimately become victor, control the market,” Geyer advised, declaring producers should be able to hpld a 12 and 14 cents a quart level on the local market. “Don’t oversupply the market. Don’t haul thousands of gallons of milk in here, dump It at your managers and tell them to sell it. when the market already is supplied. “Dump the loads out on the grass, it will make good fertilizer,” Geyer said. Car! Hedges, manager of the local exchange, intimated a price war with a fight to the finish might develop here soon, but refused to name the probable date. He accused the Indianapolis health board of laxity In inspection, and said the exchange would ask for an ordinance appropriating money to employ additional milk inspectors. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health officer, admitted today he had no abundance of inspectors, but cited the fact that there were only two typhoid deaths in the city last year as an indication that the health board is active in sscuring pure milk for Indianapolis. Condemnation Suit Filed ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 19.—Suit filed in Madison circuit court by the state highway commission seeks condemnation of one-half acre of farm land owned by Ora Martin and his wife, Cleo. The state seeks possession of the land in connection with paving of State Road 28, and having failed to agree on a price to be paid for the real estate, asks the court to appoint appraisers to fix a price.

the porch of the home in which the party was held. Then, the prosecution will seek to prove, the other four attacked her, and death from cerebral hemorrhage and shock resulted. The others, held in jail , here awaiting trial later, are: Paul Barton, 21; Leon Stanford, 21; Harry Shirk, 24, and David Thompson, in whose home the party was held. ‘•Prohibition booze, not the boys, should be blamed for this,” defense attorneys have asserted, indicating an indictment-of liquor laws will contained in the defense with which they hope to save the youths from the electric chair. Death is the mandatory penalty for the degth of a victim of a criminal assault nnrior Tnf’fann. Statutes,

BOOSTED AUTO FEES COUNTER INCOME TAXES Industrial Interests Fighting Levy Would Increase Cost of License Plates. AID TO GENERAL FUND Nearly $10,000,000 Would Be Added, Advocates of Raise Assert. " Auto license plates today had chased income tax blanks from the tax revision spotlight on Indiana ? legislative stage. Shoved from the wings by industrial interests strongly opposed to personal and corporate income tax measures passed by the house license plates would be counted upon to contribute nearly $lO,000.000 annually to the state s general fund under two bills introduced in the senate late Wednesday. Increases Proposed Os this sum, approximately $3,000000 would come from auto fee increases, while approximately $6,500,000 would be diverted from the highway commission to the general fund. The highway commission new receives all revenues from auto license fees. These amounted to $6,019,183.42 for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1930. The senate’s special tax committee, which received the two measures raising the fees and diverting the revenues to the general fund, considered them again today. The committee decided to favor the bills with an amendment to mandate a decrease in the state property tax rate commensurate with revenues raised by the license plate bills. Meantime the house bills to tax personal incomes from 1 to 6 per cent and corporate incomes 3 per cent await the senate’s consideration as a committee of the whole at 10:30 Friday morning. Charges of Lobbying They were to have been considered In that fashion by the senate Wednesday, and the delay, on motion of Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep., Allen and Noble), majority floor leader, brought the charge from Senator Walter S. Chambers (Dem., Hancock, Henry and Madison), that the delay was for the purpose of “permitting lobbyists to work against the income tax measures.” The special tax committee members hold the opinion the license fees should be supplemental to the income tax measures. But income tax opponents are bringing strong pressure to bear in favor of substituting the fee bills for the income measure. 1 Enactment of the auto bills, introduced jointly by Republican and Democratic senators, would reduce highway department road building funds to revenues from the gasoline tax and federal aid funds, totaling about $16,000,000 a year. Fees on Weight Basis Under the new scale of fees, passenger automobiles would be charged at the rate of 50 cents a hundred pounds. Fees for commercial vehicles would be graduated according to weight on the following basis: For tractors, motor trucks and deliver? cars weiKhlmr up to 2.500 pounds. 60 cents per 100 pounds; 2,500 to 4.000 pounds, 75 cents per 100 pounds; 4.000 to 6.000 pounds. 90 cents: above 6.000 pounds. sl.lO per 100 pounds. For trailers welsrhln* up to 1.000 pounds. 50 cents per 100 pounds; above 1.000 pounds. $1; for semi-trailers, double the rate t or trailers. For motorcycles, $3 each. For each auto bus operated for hire over any of the public highways on a regular schedule of time and rates. S3 a year for each rated passenger carrying capacity, exclusive of the driver. In addition to the rates on weight. For busses operating on an Interstate schedule. $9 for each person a year at the rated carrying capacity, exclusive of the driver. In addition to the weight rate; to the bus rate is to be added 25 per cent for vehicles having solid tires. The fee for motor busses operating wholly within the corporate limits of a city would be onethird of the regular motor bus fee. and school busses owned by school corporations would be exempt from the license fee. The fee for registration or reregistration of each manufacturer or dealer would be fixed at S3O. entitling the registrant to tw.v pairs of plates, and the fee for duplicate dealers’ licenses would be fixed a; $5. and for owner's duplicate plates. Si a plate. HINTS HOOVER WOULD ' ‘GO’ QUICK IN BRITAIN Couldn’t Last Long Under English System, Sir John Simon Indicates. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 19.—1f the Hoover administration were in authority in the United States under the British system of government, it wouldn’t last long, Sir John Simon indicated in his address at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce. He said: “If the British system of government were introduced in the United States today, I know one government which would not last long.” He obviously was referring to the Hoover administration and its set backs as administered in congress. Such reversals under the British system would be considered votes Os misconfldence and would bo followed by resignation o i the government. BUILDERS TAME~~HEAD Car! W. Lindeman Is President ot New Organization. Carl W. Lindeman has been named president of the newly organized Indianapolis Contractors and Builders’ Association, it was announced. Other officers: G. G Bertels, vice-president; Nick Kirch treasurer, and Charles M. Snyder, secretary. Directors named are: Julius Seele, William Piel Edward Kirch, Joseph Kirch, M. P, Linder flnri Paul 1-inrtgman