Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1931 — Page 3

STARCH 10. 1931.

[STATE SCHOOL 1 AID BILLS PASS IN FINAL RUSH 45 Per Cent of Education Tax to Be Continued for Tax. State aid will be kept at 45 per cent of the 7-cent state levy for common schools, instead of reverting to 30 per cent, by final action on the bill which now awaits the Governor’s signature. Senate adjnendments giving the state board of accounts supervision over state a'l claims. Jointly with the superintendent of public in- ■ traction, were approved by a conference committee Monday night. The state aid has been 45 per cent ince 1929, but was to have reverted to 30 per cent unless this measure "as passed. Another bill takes $500,000 a year out of the 7-cent revenues to make ip deficits in teachers’ salaries and other state aid expenditures for the ears 1926-27-28-29. Memorial Levies Pour mills special levy for the Indiana World War Memorial finally was approved by both houses of the legislature and was awaiting the Governor’s signature today. , It was estimated this will give 4n additional SBOO,OOO to complete the structure. The tax holds for the next two years. A mill levy was voted for the tioorge Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes, to cover a similar period. This was also said to be sufficient to complete the work there. Banks to Be Probed “What’s wrong with banking in Indiana?” will be the subject of a probe by a special commission of eleven to be appointed by the Governor and report their findings to the general assembly of 1933. Concurrent resolution providing tor this commission was passed by the legislature at the closing session. It provides that experts in economics may be employed, but uo provision is made to pay them. No building and loan receiver may be appointed by a court except on written recommendation of the state banking commissioner under another measure passed.

Submit Amendments Hoosier voters at last will have a hance to vote for constitutional amendments legalizing income tax measures and permitting the legislature to prescribe qualifications for candidates for admission to the bar. These proposed amendments were to have been on the ballot at the last general election, but were ruled off, due to technical errors, by the itate election commissioners. A senate bill providing their submission now is ready for the Governor to sign. They will be placed on the ballot in the general election of 1932. Fire Corps Affected Salvage corps of the Indianapolis lire department will be put on a platoon system with twenty-four-hour shifts under provisions of a bill now awaiting signing by the Governor. The bill was included in the last minute action of the legislature Monday night. GRABS YEGG SUSPECTS Negroes Caught in Act of Battering at Safe Door by Policeman. Two Negroes captured by a merchant policeman in the act of battering a safe door, today faced charges of burglary and entering a house to commit a felony. The two, George Clege, alias Clarence Smith, 24, of 1029 North Illinois street, and Oliver Shelton, 16, who said he lived at 932 Superior street, were discovered in the Motor Tool Specialty Company, 932 North Illinois street, by Claude R. Davis, Southport, merchant policeman, as he patrolled the alley Monday night. Veteran Buried Today iiy United Press NEW LISBON, Ind., March 10.— Funeral services were held today (or James M. Mercer, 87, Civil war veteran, who died near here on Sunday. He served in Company A, Fifty-fourth Indiana volunteers. Itching Skin Banished By Antiseptic Zemo If itching, burning skin makes life unbearable, quickly apply Zemo, the soothing, cooling, invisible family antiseptic. Thousands find that Zemo brings swift relief from Itching, helps to draw out local infection and restore the skin to normal. For 20 yean Zemo has been clearing up skin, relieving pimples, rash and other skin irritations. Never be without it. Sold everywhere—3sc, 60c and SI.OO. —Advertisement.

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Two nonstop air Journeys—one of them over the Atlantic—are on their spring flying schedule. Planning to be the first to fly to Europe this year, Otto Hillig (left) and Holger Hoiriis (right) are shown In the upper photo at Roosevelt field, Long Island, where they are grooming their cabin plane Liberty, seen b£uw, for a hop from Newfoundland to Copenhagen, Denmark, in MB Asa "practical test” of the ship, they expect soon to fly without stopping from New York to Miami, Fla., and then on to Havana. The plane, powered by a 300-horse power engine, has a top speed of 145 miles an hour.

EMBRY-RIDDLE STARTS MOVING City Offices to Be Placed at Municipal Field. Embry-Riddle air mail and passenger line officials today made ready for removal of their local offices from Mars Hill to municipal airport following receipt of orders from S. C. Huffman, Cincinnati, operations manager of the EmbryRiddle division, American Airways, Inc. D. A. McConnell, Indianapolis field manager for the company, visited municipal airport this morning to arrange the transfer and said removal awaited favorable weather conditions. The Embry-Riddle company operated the first transport line through Indianapolis and was the first to enter commercial aviation at Mars Hill. With four planes operating daily between Cincinnati, • 0., and Chicago, through Indianapolis, company officials indicated today they expect to increase the service with the advent of warmer weather. Two of the planes, carrying only more drastic proration, stopping Chicago at 4:15 a. m. and for Cincinnati at 10:45 p. m. Passenger planes leave for Chicago at 5:15 p. m. and for Cincinnati at 10:15 a. m. McConnell will supervise new offices at municipal airport, assisted by Robert H. Giil, night operations manager. FIND ARTEMIS’ TEMPLE JERUSALEM, March 10.—The temple of Artemis, forerunners of all the nimrods in the world, has been unearthed at, Herash the anc' nt Greek city of Gerasa, in Transjordania, by a joint expedition of Yale university and the American school of oriental research here. Artemis was the virgin huntress and goddess of wild nature.

EXCURSIONS March 14 and 15 CINCINNATI (to AC Round 7C Round 90*90 Trip / O Trip Children, Half Fare Children, Half-Fare Good on all trains. March 14 and Leave Indianapolis 7:45 a. m., March IS Tickofc It, „„ 1 15 : returning: leave Cincinnati -.70 Tickets Rood in sleeping anil p . m . or 10;05 p> m _ f same date parlor cars—Pullman fares extra. Tickets good in coaches only. ExRETURN LIMIT, MARCH 16 so Grcet)sbu e rg, t SI.S elbyVllle, *°' 7s: VISIT THE NATIONAL FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW, MUSIC HALL, CINCINNATI, MARCH 7 TO 15 Tickets at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle, Phone Riley 3322, and Union Station. '• BIG FOUR ROUTE

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PHI DELTA THETA TO HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET Founders’ Day Celebration to Be Put On at Athenaeum. Annual Founders’ day banquet of the Indianapolis Alumni Club of Phi Delta Theta will be held Saturday at the Athenaeum. The state chapter having the best scholastic record will be awarded a trophy. Purdue university was last year’s winner. Active chapters from Indiana, Wabash, Butler, Franklin, Hanover, De Pauw and Purdue are expected to attend. Jack Harding is president of the alumni club and in charge of plans for the celebration. U. UPPROVES HIGHWAY PLANS Half Emergency Fund Has Been Appropriated. By Scrippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 10.—Contracts for road construction totaling more than half of the $80,000,000 emergency fund appropriated by congress in December already have been approved, Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States bureau of public roads, announced before leaving for Panama to attend sessions of the Inter-American highway commission. MacDonald said that only three states, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Hampshire, have failed so far to present specifications on new construction for governmental approval. "Up to March 1 the bureau had approved plans and specifications for $40,569,000 worth of road construction, and if the present rate of approval Is continued the entire $80,000,000 fund will have been allocated by April 25,” MacDonald said.

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SCOTTISH RITE WILL CONDUCT MEYER FUNERAL Business Man’s Body Will Lie in State at Cathedral. Scottish Rite members will conduct funeral services for Charles F. Meyer Sr., 78, thirty-third degree Mason and retired business man, who died Monday at his home. 4320 Washington boulevard, at the Rite cathedral at 2 p. m. Wednesday. Mystic Tie lodge, F. & A. M., will have charge of services at Crown Hill cemetery. Meyer, who died following a fall ten days ago, In which he suffered a fractured hip, was active in Masonic circles, having become an honorary supreme council member, thirty-third degree of Masonry, in 1902. He served as treasurer of the Rite thirty years and forty-seven years as treasurer of Murat temple of the Mystic Shrine. Ritualistic ceremonies at the cathedral will be conducted by Dr. Lewis Brown, Marshall T. Levy, Brandt C. Downey and Logan C. Scholl. The body will lie in state

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in the main lobby at the cathedral from 1 until 2 p. m. Wednesday. Born in Indianaoolis, son of George Frederick Meyer, pioneer Scottish Rite worker hi Indianapolis, and Catherine Meyer, Mr. Meyer attended the public schools here and at Cincinnati and sold cigars and candy to soldiers at Camp Morton during the Civil war. Later he entered the tobacco business and finally became associated with his brothers in the A. B. Meyer <fc Cos., coal and material dealers. Besides numerous club memberships, he belonged to the York Rite and various affiliated bodies in the city. are the widow, Mrs. Pauline L. Dietz Meyer; a son, Charles F. Meyer Jr., and three grandsons, Charles, Frederick and John Meyer, all of Indianapolis.

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SPRING FISHING NOT TO BE CUT FOR PRESIDENT Water in Rapidan Is Low, but Other Camps Are Offered. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—Fishermen and some others who may be less disinterested in their sorrow are shedding useless tears for President Herbert Hoover. Despite the drought and reports to the contrary, Mr. Hoover's dry files need not remain dry this spring. But hopeful invitations to here and there continue to reach the White House in every mail. The Rapidan river continues to gurgle by the presidential camp in Virginia, although its waters are low. But some rain in the next three weeks easily could repair that lack. Somg of the trout succumbed to the drought. Lawrence Richey, presidential secretary, was more fortunate than his Catoctin (Md.) camp. He recently transferred to the Rapidan some hundreds of brook trout, many of which were twelve-inch beauties fit to be caught, cooked and eaten April 1 when the season opens. Next week, Richey may visit the

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