Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1931 — Page 11

FEB. 20, 1931

BOARD TO RUN iSTATE COPS IS SET UP BY BILL House Measure Would Transfer Control of Indiana Force. Transfer of control of the state police department from the secretary of state to a state police board provided in a bill among the eighteen Introduced today in the house of representatives. It was introduced by Representative H. H. Evans (Rep., Henryj and Representative Delph L. McKesson (Dem., Marshall), Democratic-floor leader. Under its terms the police board would be comprised of the Governor, the secretary of state and the at-torney-general. Any officer of the state force would be required to have had at least two years police experience and any member of the department eould be discharged summarily for engaging in political activity. Penalties of up to SSOO fine and U P to six months imprisonment are provided for nonenforcement. Under terms of the penalty clause, the .Governor would be liable. Anew uniform salaries bill affecting only prosecutors and their deputies placed the annual salary °f the Marion county prosecutor at $15,000, maximum for deputy hire at $34,000, and office help expense .at $6,900. Present figures for Marion county are $7,500, $33,000 and $6,900 respectively. The measure was drawn in

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HOUSE CHANGES PROPOSED RATE OF SMOKES TAX Measure Would Put 10 Per Cent Levy on All Tobacco. Flat 10 per cent tax on the wholesale price of cigars, cigaret-s and all tcbacco products would be imposed for a proportionate reduction in state property levy under an amendment to the house tobacco tax bill adopted by the Indiana house today. As originally introduced, the bill would have taxed cigars from $1 to $lO a thousand, cigarets $1 a thousand, smoking tobacco 1 cent an ounce and chewing tobacco 6 cents a pound. But the flat 10 per cent license tax was advocated by the ways and means committee in its report today. The tax would be paid by wholesalers, unless out-state wholesalers sold to Indiana retailers, in which case the tax would fall upon the Hoosier dealers. In any event, it will be passed on to the smoker and chewer. / i effort to kill the bill by indefinite postponement was shortlived, Representative Delph L. McKesson, majority floor leader, spurring its advancement to second reading. As originally drawn, the measure would have devoted tobacco tax revenues to the state school fund, but as amended, such revenues must go to the state’s general fund, to help reduce the burdensome property levy.

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CONVICT 2 ON ASSAULT AND BATTERY CHARGES Fred Thclps, Roy Bostic Given Suspended Sentences. Two employes of a downtown store were convicted of assault and battery against a justice of the peace and his son in municipal court three today, and were fined $5 and costs each. Jail sentences of ten days were suspended. They were Fred Phelps, 38, of 332 Parker avenue, and Roy Bostic 31, R. R. 1, Box 598. Stanley and William McMahan, their victims, were discharged.

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WAR IN EUROPE FOR SUPREMACY IN RADIO POWER Governments Are Spending Millions on Stations: Ether Chaotic. Bn lulled Prcs LONDON, Feb. 20.—A war in the air for supremacy in radio bread-

casting power has begun among European nations. Millions of dollars already have beer spent and chaotic conditions in the ether are being created by the struggle. Several governments have urged an international conference foi “limitation of broadcasting power” to end the radio race, and this subject probably will be the outstanding problem before the international ra4io-telegraphic convention at Madrid in 1932. The battle for dominance in broadcasting has become of great political and diplomatic importance because supremacy in the ether will enable neighboring—and perhaps hostile—government and political organizations to speak to millions cf Europeans in their homes.

LEGISLATION DN POOR FARM IS BEFORE HOUSE legislature Is Asked to Provide Infirmary Transfer to Julietta. Legislation to relieve congestion and correct deplorable living conditions at the Marion county infirmary was introduced in the Indiana

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house today by representative Albert Walsman (Dem., Marion), research director of the Indiana Taxpayers Association. Walsmans bill author sees the Central State hospital on west Washington street to take over the infirmary after formal transfer by * the Marion county commissioners • and maintain the infirmary as an adjunct to the hospital. The sum of $72,000 would be appropriated for operation of the infirmary from Jan. 1, 1932. to Sept. 30. with $95,000 appropriated for the succeeding fiscal year. An additional appropriation of $175,000 would be for the construction of new women's building at the Central State hospital.