Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1931 — Page 2

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SENATE TURNS TO CAR LICENSE INCREASE BILL Income Levy Measure Goes to Joint Conference for Final Form. As fate of the personal income tax bill hinged on the ability of a conference committee to work out a compromise satisfactory to the two houses of the Indiana legislature, the senate today voted a $2,750,000-a-year increase in auto license fees. The license boost bill now goes to the house on the heels of a senate measure sent there Monday, diverting all license fee revenues from the state highway department to the state's general fund for property tax reduction. This year, auto license fees totaled approximately $6,000,000. With the increase voted by the senate, they would become around $9,000,000 in 1932, first year of their diversion. House Refuses to Concur Such a contribution to the general fund should permit a reduction of about 18 cents in the state tax levy, now 29 cents on each SIOO of taxables. As was expected, the house this morning refused to concur in senate amendments to the personal income tax bill and a conference committee of three members from each house will attempt a compromise. Consideration of the corporate income tax bill will be begun in the senate Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. as a committee of the whole. “Big business’’ of the state has the bill marked for defeat while LieutenantGovernor Edgar D. Bush is making a determined drive for its enactment. Suggested Rates Auto license rates undpr the senate bill passed, 31 to 16, today—the fourth schedule to be considered—follow: Pleasure Cars—3s cents on each 100 pounds of weight with a minimum fee of $6. Trucks —Up to 2,550 pounds, $10; 50 cents a 100 pounds for trucks weighing from 2,551 to .7,550 pounds; 75 cents a 100 pounds from 7,551 pounds to 10,050 pounds, and $1 a 100 pounds for trucks weighing more than 10,050 pounds. Trailers—Up to 1,050 pounds, 50 cents a 100 pounds; 75 cents a 100 from 1,051 to 3,050, and $1 above 3,050. Semi-Trailers —$25 flat up to 2,250 pounds; $1 a 100 pounds from 2,551 to 4,050 pounds, and $2 a 100 pounds above 3,050 pounds. An overwhelming voice vote bespoke the house rejection of senate amendments to the personal tax bill. House D( mocrats contend the levies, as amended in the upper house, impose too heavy a burden on the small salaried individual. In conference committee, it is regarded certain, the Ketchum amendment affixed to the bill Monday, to require an income tax return and $2 filing fee from every man and woman over 21 in Indiana, will be eliminated. Income Tax Rates Schedule in the individual income tax bill as it was returned to the house today follows: On the first SI,OOO of net income, 1 per cent. On second SI,OOO, 2 per cent. On the third to the tenth SI,OOO, inclusive, 3 per cent. On all net income in excess of SIO,OOO, 4 per cent. Deductions allowed are: Single persons $10; married persons, S2O; for each child or dependent, $2. The tax is to be levied, collected and paid in 1932 on 1931 income or any income year ending in 1931. As amended Monday, exemptions under the bill are limited to the Governor, supreme and appellate circuit court judges—constitutional officers. With Lieutenant-Governor Bush using every effort to get the senate to approve the 3 per cent corporate income tax, as passed by the house, opponents of the measure have dug up new data to thwart his efforts. A corporation income tax bill will wipe from the property duplicate $88,000,000 in bank assessments they contend. This contention is based on the theory that the federal government will not allow nationa] banks to be taxed both on income and assets and since such is the case the state banks will also protest and refuse to pay the property tax. Banks now pay taxes, levied by the state tax board, of approximately $2,500,000 a year. The individual and corporate income taxes are expected to yield $7,500,000. With the bank taxes deducted this would leave a net of but $5,000,000 it is pointed out.

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Gilda Gray By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 24 —Gilda Gray, who turned the shimmy dance into a major industry, anounced Monday night that she had abandoned the gyrations which made her famous in favor of anew dance she predicted would shake the country. “My dance has everything,” explained the glamorous Gilda upon her arrival here to demonstrate it for the next month. “It out-shimmies the shimmy. I can’t describe it. It must be seen to be appreciated.”

BANK MAY REOPEN Postal Savings Institution Depends on Collections. Reopening of the Postal Savings State bank, declared insolvent Oct. 23, is being considered by Raymond D. Brown, receiver, it was announced today following a receivership hearing before Judge Clarence E. Weir in superior court five. Brown said, however, that reorganization will depend largely upon the collection of important obligations due the bank. Postal bank was a subsidiary of the City Trust Company, and was closed by the state banking commissioner along with the parent institution. “I am certain that stockholders will. realize more under reopening of the bank than they would through liquidation,” Brown said. He indicated dividends will total between 85 and 95 per cent if the bank is not reopened. BAR HAS MEMORIAL Service Is Dedicated to James M. Leathers. Indianapolis Bar Association memorial services for James M. Leathers, former judge, who died Sunday, were conducted at 2 today in superior court one. Funeral services were held at 1:30 today at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial was in Crown hill cemetery. Mr. Leathers, who occupied benches in Marion county for twenty years, had left the bench in superior court one Dec. 31 and was engaged in the private practice of law when claimed by death. John W. Holtzman, former law partner of Leathers, will preside at memorial services, with Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, M. E. Foley, Charles S. Wiltsie and William L. Taylor as speakers. BEAUTY COMES BEFORE DEPRESSION, IT SEEMS Specialists in Dressing Up Fair Sex Say Business Is Fine. The male half of the nation may complain cf financial depression, but apparently the fair sex hasn’t learned of it. At least, that is the impression gained by members of the State Society of Cosmetologists and Hairdressers, in session at the Severin. Beauty specialists reported no decrease in business in the last year, although a trend toward cheaper forms of beauty treatment and hairdressing was noticeable. Officers are: Mrs. Evelyn Tobias. South Bend, president: Mrs. Betty Jean. Ft. Wayne, first vice-president: Mrs. Lucille Lapham, Laporte, second vice-president: Mrs. Mabel Alvis. Evansville, third vice-president: Mrs. Blanche Brown. Indianapolis, fourth vicepresident: Mrs. Orie Mitchell, Columbus, secretary, and Mrs. Francis Dltler, Ft. Wayne, treasurer. The session will close late today with a directors’ meeting. mor! police” favored House Votes 27 to 12 for Larger State Organization. With a single Democratic senator talking against it, the Lochard bill to increase the state police force passed the senate Monday afternoon, 27 to 12. Under provisions of the measure the state police are given power to weigh trucks and busses and Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., may increase the force to whatever proportions he deems necessary. Senator Ira Clouser (Dem., Montgomery and Putnam), asserted he would rather favor a measure to abolish the state police and save the money. He at one time had an amendment made to the bill limiting the force, but this was jockeyed out by the author, Senator J. Francis Lochard (Dem., Dearborni Jennings and Ripley),

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Bills Signed, Feb. 33 H. B. 25 (Bold) —Provides for trial of indirect contempt cases before a special judge In all courts except the supreme and appellate, which would appoint a commissioner to hear the case and file a report recommending disposition of the case. Bills Signed Feb. 24. S. B. 27 (Miller-Perkins)—Granting authority to pay bonds of city employes out of city funds In Indianapolis. S. B. 116 (Kehoel —Permits cities to issue bonds for payment of certificates of indebtedness for street improvements. Betting Measure Expected to Get Little Attention Prediction that the pari-mutual betting bill, which has progressed to third re? ding In the house, will receive scant consideration in the senate was made by Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake) at the Irvington Republican Club Monday night. Holmes and Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush addressed the club on problems of the present legislative session. The question regarding hope of passage of the parimutuel betting law was put to Holmes following his address. ‘‘l would be surprised if the parimutuel betting bill gets more than a gesture in the senate,” the Gary senator declared. “The Kentucky political situation is dominated and determined by a vicious gambling situations It is getting to be a menace to that state. It is worse than the saloons in Indiana ever were.” The bill creating a boxing commission will be given consideration, he predicted. Bush declared the session is progressing nicely in the solution of tax problems if the Republicans just don’t hit a snag and not pass the corporate income tax. This would be political suicide, he asserted. dinner Tobe given FOR HOOSIER ARTISTS Interested Citizens May Attend, C. of C. Chief Announces. Dinner for the Hoosier artists exhibiting at the Herron art institute in March will be given Saturday night by the art institute and the fine arts committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Chamber of Commerce, announced that Indianapolis citizens interested in art or in meeting the artists of the state, are invited to attend the dinner. A private preshowing of the exhibit will follow the dinner. A jury composed of Walter Siple, director of the Cincinnati art museum; James Chapin, artist, New York, and Louis Pitman, artist, Chicago, will judge entries. LOAN BILL ADVANCES Measure Reducing Interest Rate Passing Second Reading in House. Legislation designed to curb extortionate small loan interest was a step nearer passage today as the Indiana house of representatives passed on second reading the Karrer bill reducing the petty loan legal rate from 31a per cent a month to 21a per cent. As originally drawn, the measure provided for a reduction to 1 per cent, but this figure was changed by Judiciary B committee after a public hearing attracted scores of persons and heated debate both from opponents and proponents of the bill. The house also advanced to third reading the Galloway-Black malt bill which in its amended form places a 2-cent a pound tax on malt and a 6-cent a gallon privilege tax on wort. Scout Leaders to Be Trained Enrollment of forty scout leaders in the scoutmasters training course which started Monday night at the Central Christian church was announced today. S. L. Norton, assistant scout executive, is in charge of the course. r

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APPROVE BILL SLASHING DRYS’ TRIAL ’BONUSES’ House Votes for Majority Committee Report by 52-44 Vote. Prefaced by demands that “wetdrinking, dry-voting legislators come out in the open and show themselves not tied by Anti-Saloon League apron strings,’’ the Grimm bill reducing prosecutor fees in liquor cases today huidled its first obstacle in the Indiana house. Bitter and personal debate preceded the vote on the public morals committee, divided report, a majority favoring passage and a minority favoring indefinite postponement. Only five vote changes before the final tally was announced let the majority recommendation win, 52 to 44. Repreesntative John D. T. Bold (Dem., Vanderburg), consistent foe of the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. in previous liquor legislation debates, was the author of the “wet-drinking” remark and immediately was challenged by Representative H. H. Evans (Rep., Henry). Jeers Great Remark “I object to that ‘wet-drinking’ crack,” shouted Evans vehemently. “This measure, reducing prosecutor fees from $25 to $5, is ‘wet as a sponge’ and I think it’s high time we quit fooling around with liquor bills. We’ve got the serious matter of taxation before us and it’s high time we got down to business.” Representative Miles J. Furnas, Republican caucus chairman, at once chimed in with: “I don’t think there’s a man in this house who will plead guilty to taking a drink since the session began.” His remark was greeted with loud laughter and a few jeers. Charges that the present provision of the law allowing a $25 prosecutor fee is “not honest and sincere, and we have no business commercializing liquor prosecutions,” were made by Representative John F. White (Dem., Marion). Representative Howard S. Grimm (Rep., Dekalb), took up defense of his measure with the accusation that “Evans is ‘all wet’ when he calls this a wet measure. The fact of the matter is that prosecutor fees are not consistent and it’s the height of injustice to let a prosecutor get $25 for a drunk conviction when in the serious matter of a bad check case, he gets only $5. Replies to Questioning Grimm replied to questioning by Representative Edward E. Eikenbary (Dem., Wabash) that he would not have introduced his measure if he thought the uniform salaries bill for county officials “had a chance to pass.” Enlarging on his “wet-drinking” remark, Bold pointed out that only a provision that prosecutors sign search warrants prevented passage of the Egan-Monnig measure, a similar bill, last week. “If that was all these “wet-drink-ing, dry-voting gentlemen objected to, they surely can’t vote against this bill because it doesn’t contain that provision,” asserted Bold. Because of the heated fight on the prosecutor fee bill, the public morals committee divided reports on the two Galloway liquor bills were held up until Wednesday. One of these would repeal the Wright bonedry act and the other set up a state Volstead law. Majority reports on each bill are to be for indefinite postponement. SHORTENING TEACHER TRAINING WINS, 58-31 House Measure Makes Reduction From 72 to 36 Weeks. After failing last week to gain a constitutional majority, the Benz bill reducing from seventy-two to thirty-six weeks the elementary teacher training requirements passed by Indiana house of representatives Monday by a vote of 58-31. Arguments last week that the measure would be a step backward in the Indiana school system were repeated today, Representative Delph L. McKesson, Democratic floor leader, leading the attack. McKesson asserted the duty of the legislature was to protect teaching standards in the interest of the children of the state rather than to pave the way for a few more teachers to obtain jobs. However, Representative Sam Benz (Dem., Crawford and Harrison), carried his bill through by pleading that' thirty-six weeks are enough training for elementary teaching and that many poor young men and women thereby would be enabled to finance their continued education by teaching soon after they are graduated from high school. T HRtE ARE INJURED^ IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Mat; Is Hurt When Car Overturns on Road Near Royal ton. Three persons were injured in auto accidents reported to police Monday night, records showed today. Claude C. Stone, 53, of 3745 North Capitol avenue, was hurt when he lost control of his car and it overturned in a ditch on State Road 52, near Royalton. Mrs. Raymond Jones, 32, of 2936 School street, was hurt in a collision at Park avenue and Twentyfourth street, and William J. Holtzman, 1422 Sturm avenue, was struck by an auto at Nobie and New York streets, Monday.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Phillip Coyle. 1932 College avenue. Pontiac coach, from College avenue and Nineteenth street. Richard C. Wagner. 2610 North Alabama street. Ford roadster. 132-544. from Twen-ty-ninth street and Park avenue. A. W. Bowen. 945 Wayne avenue. Chevrolet coupe. M-586. from New York and Meridian streets. Frank J. Niedenthal. 1923 Ashland avenue. Ford coupe, from Oriental and Washington streets. J. M. KeUer. 4501 English avenue. Hudson coach, from Virginia avenue and Washington Street. E. B. Asch. Indianapolis Athletic Club Pontiac coupe. 525-005. from Plaza Motor Inn. Stolen by two bandits.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong 40: C. K. DelzaL 5541 East Washington street, found at Emerson and English avenues. Oakland sedan. 56-511. found at Morris and Halt wad.

RUSSIA RISING FROM PIT

Miseries of Serfdom Are Vanishing :

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THREE BANK BILLS KILLED BY HOUSE

Two Others Adopted and Two Advanced to Sec - ond Reading. Three bank bills killed today in the Indiana house of representatives counter-balanced legislation passed Monday afternoon when two measures were adopted and two advanced to second reading. Legislation killed today would permit banks in Boone county to open branches in towns where no banks now exist. Cither measures would prohibit banks from lending money on bank-owned stock as collateral or on more than 10 per cent of another bans as collateral; permit a bank to invest its funds, not exceeding’l> per cent of paid up capital stock, to insure persons holding places of public or private trust. Most important of the lot up Monday was the Miller senate bill, designed, its proponents claim, to insure greater protection for depositors and passed unanimously, 93-0. Its provisions make shareholders of banks individually responsible for all contracts and debts, each to the amount of his stock in the bank at par value in addition to the amount invested in stock. Stockholders who transferred or sold their stock six months prior to the bank’s failure to meet its obligations would be equally liable. Other bank bills passed were the Stein bill making trust funds by a bank a prior lien on all assets and requiring separate designation on statements of “first lien trust funds; another Stein bill requiring banks to include in their published statements of condition only assets available for the payment of deposits, guaranties, borrowings, rediscounts and other liabilities. Killed by a vote of 55-34 was the Webb bill prohibiting the opening of branch banks in cities of more than 100,000 population without consent of the state banking department. Measures passed on second reading include another Webb bill providing that banks in cities with 60,000 to 100,000 population may not .open branches without banking department approval, and the Karrer bill that banks or trust companies serving in the capacity of executors, administrators or trustees give bond in the sameamount as that required of a natural person.

G. 0. P. Reported Fearful Income Tax 111 Advised Willy, nilly Senator James E. Watson, United States senate major’ty leader has been accorded the same post in the Indiana state senate. Although no caucus of the senate Republicans selected him, a purported telegram from Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush was the commission, it was said. This telegram is an S. O. S. and its thought, according to those supposed to know, is: “Help us save the Republican ship in Indiana from being scuttled by those insurgent Republican senators who, anxious to cater to big business, will vote against the corporation income tax bill.” The message, it is said, also points to the desire results which will result in 1932 if the personal income tax, which was passed late Monday by the senate with lowered exemptions, goes into effect on the small wage earner and farmer, while the corporations escape. Wholesale desertion of the G. O. P. ranks by farmers and wage earners is predicted by members of the farm-labor blocs. “Killing the corporation tax will be fatal to the Republican party,” the telegram is said to set out, “and we must avert this action if we expect to have a fighting chance in 1952.” Perhaps Jim Watson, the Hoosier senate leader, will show more stuff than Jim Watson the United States senate leader, the “boys” say. $382,647 IN STATE AID BEING GIVEN SCHOOLS Checks Sent to 230 Institutions; All Claims Are Paid in Full. Checks totaling $382,647.97 are being sent to 230 schools for state aid and all claims are being paid in full, it was announced today by Harry Kirk, state aid auditor in the office of Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent of public instruction. A balance of SIOO,OOO will be left in the state aid fund when George C. Cole takes over the superintendency in March, Wisehart said. The house is considering $1,000,000 appropriation to make up state aid defiicits for 1926-29. JEWELERS END MEETING Election of Officers Closes State Association Convention. Convention of the Indiana Retail Jewelers’ Association was to end today with election of officers. Merchandising problems confronting the trade were discussed by speakers at the convention Monday. Seventy-five jewelers are attending Site meetings,

basjs ingredient of the Russian population, still was a half-serf. A dark fellow, living in the same, vermin-infested hut with his cows and swine, prostrating himself before his priest and his overlord—this was the Russian when the cataclysmic revolution came upon him. a b b IN the cities things were little better. Russia was only just emerging from the shadow of feudalism. Industrial production was something new and exploitation of half-serfs brought from the villages proceeded without any official curb. For tens of thousands of families, home meant only those barn-like “night lodgings,” inde-

BURGLARS GET DRUGS Narcotics and Merchandise Stolen From City Store. Thieves who jimmied a rear door of a pharmacy operated by R. M. Manring at 2541 West Washington street, early today stole merchandise valued at $127, and a quantity of narcotics, value undetermined, police were told.

ROWLEY SAVES LESLIES VETO Senator Again Prevents Action on ‘Yellow Dog’ Bill. Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., Laporte and Starke), was being rated today as the administration spokesman by his second success in keeping Governor Harry G. Leslie’s veto of the “Anti-yellow dog labor contract” bill from being overridden in the senate Monday afternoon. Last week the bill failed of a constitutional majority to over-ride the

veto by a single vote after Rowley got Senator Lonzo L. Shull (Rep., Boone, Hamilton and Tipton), to change his vote from “aye to “no.” Senator Roscoe Martin (Rep., Cass and Fulton),moved Monday that the senate rules be suspended and the bill reconsidered for passage. Rowley took the floor to defend the

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Governor’s veto and demanded a roll call vote on the rules suspension. This proved to be effective in thwarting further action on the measure. The vote to suspend the rules was 23 ayes and 21 noes. After much looking in the rule book, senate journal and listening to advice from the senate floor, Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush ruled that a constitutional majority of twenty-six is required to suspend the rules. NEW JUDGE FOR ART SHOW IS SELECTED Ohio Painting Teacher Is Third Critic for Hoosier Exhibit. Robert O. Chadeayne, Columbus, 0., today was named one of three judges for the collection of work of Indiana artists and craftsmen to be exhibited throughout March at the John Herron Art institute. Chadeayne was named by the Art Association of Indianapolis executive committee to succeed James Chapin, New York artist, who resigned because of illness. Chadeayne is painting instructor in the Columbus art school. Other judges are Louis Ritman, Chicago artist, and Walter Siple, Cincinnati art museum director. Preview and gala opening for exhibitors and friends has been set for Saturday night. seek”to issue~b6nds Citizens Gas Company Files Petition With Service Commission. Citizlns Gas Company has petitioned the public service commission for permission to issue $33,000 in 5 per cent improvement bonds to be sold at not less than 90 per cent of face value. Revenues from the sale will reimburse the expenditures made in 1930, the petition states.

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scribably horrible “flop-houses,” a few of which still were extant when I arrived. The rest crowded into horrible holes, which gradually, because of lack of means, now are being replaced by modern living quarters. They were worked inhuman hours, underpaid, beaten and deliberately kem in ignorance. S B tt THE, outside world was aware of Russia only through its highly developed class of cultured writers, musicians, artists. It could have no real conception of how primitive were Russia’s teeming millions of people. In areas as large as France or Germany, millions lived as in the middle ages, scratching the ground with sticks, dimly if at all aware of such things as newspapers, locomotives, iron plows; millions who did not dare to aspire to a pair of real boots. As late as 1917 peasants were won and lost by their landlords in card games. And above this mass was a ruling class whose chief concern was to prevent it from stirring into revolt. The nagaika, a whipu the strands of which are weighted with lead, was the symbol of government. B B tt THE contrasts between spendthrift luxury and the misery below were more startling than anywhere in the world. One still hears tales of orgies in Moscow and St. Petersburg which sound like inventions of Edgar Allan Poe. Such is the primordial state from which Russia seeks to lift itself. Such is the human material upon which advanced economic and social ideas are being tested. * This is the background of the five-year plan, which, contrary to popular supposition, is not merely an economic project. It envisions changes in people’s ways of life, in literacy, housing, education, as far-reaching as in industry. The past still is to be met with everywhere. But there isa tremendous amount that is new. Village libraries, hospitals, schools, clubs, radios, workers’ recreation centers and night schools, are not calculated to impress an American. Only when - considered against the background or Russia’s past do they seem like miracles. a tt n TO construct a vast industry in a backward feudal land, and to do so with little or no foreign capital, would seem in itself a task to frighten any government. The Soviets in addition must teach millions to read and write and live in approximately civilized fashion. They must modernize and socialize a gigantic agriculture. In brief, they must crowd into a few decades changes which in other countries were spread over centuries. To measure Russian with west European or American yardsticks is, therefore, futile. Without an appreciation of its heritage from czardom, any judgment on what is transpiring here becomes mere gibberish. B tt B FROM the standpoint of the Communists the backwardness of the population is not entirely a negative factor. It has provided them with human material that is cheap, plentiful, meek, childishly credulous, with a profound fear of the class which holds the whip. But in the practical jobs of building industry, of regimenting labor forces and organizing new social institutions, the new regime struggles against inertia and ignorance carried over from the past. To any one who knows the typical Russian of the prerevolutionary epoch, oxlike, but slow and dawdling in his labor, with a tendency to postpone and shrug his shoulders, it is a constant marvel that so much is being accomplished. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: East wind, 12 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.09 at sea level; temperature, 37; ceiling, 500 feet; visibility, 1 mile; field, good. Arrivals and Departures Mars Hill Airport—West-bound T. and W. A. passengers from Indianapolis included J. R. Fletcher; Em-bry-Riddle passengers to Cincinnati included E. S. O’Neill of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills. Hoosier Airport—Joseph Shumate, department of commerce inspector, from Detroit to Indianapolis, Stinson.

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CHICAGO POLLS ORDERLY, WITH VOTING HEAVY Watchers, Flying Squadrons Investigate Reported Irregularities. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 24—A maximum of voting and a minimum of violence marked the municipal primary today as Chicagoans cast their ballots under the watchful eyes of 70,000 guards and the muzzles of the police department’s riot guns. By 11 a. m. the election board estimated that almost 500,000 of the 1,340,566 registered citizens had voted for or against Mayor William Hale Thompson, who today threw his political fortunes in the balance for the fourth time in a mayoralty race. Several instances of irregularity in polling places were reported to the election board, and all were investigated by flying squadrons touring the 2,987 precincts. Ralph Hanna, a state’s attorney s investigator, was beaten Monday night in a pre-election altercation. Hanna was assigned to Judge John H. Lyle’s Forty-third ward headquarters. Four men entered and ordered a loiterer in the headquarters to accompany them. Hanna, suspecting a kidnaping, intervened and was beaten. The loiterer was led away. The “bloody twentieth” ward, where four years ago Octavus Granady, a Negro poll worker, was murdered by election hoodlums, was reported quiet. Police squad cars with riot guns carried at “ready” toured the district, bossed by Morris Eller, henchman of Thompson. In the home wards of Thompson's chief opponents, Judge John H. Lyle and Alderman Arthur Albert, the vote up to noon was reported fight. In the loop and river wards, where Thompson was believed strongest and backed by “Scarface Al” Capone and his bands of hoodlums, voting was heavy, with a minimum of complaints. LIQUOR BLINDS MAN: WOMAN IS ARRESTED Alleged Bootlegger Recently Served Term; Sight to Be Regained. Identified as the woman who sold liquor which partially blinded Clay Hudgnall, 27, of 1431 Jonas street. Mrs. Lena Aldio, 46, of 1024 West Moms street, was held today by police on a blind tiger charge. Hudgnall, who, physicians said, probably was not permanently blinded, told officers Mrs. Aldio sold him a half pint of alcohol for 75 cents Monday. Mrs. Aldio recently served a thirty-day liquor violation sentence.

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