Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 20

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HIGH COST OF LIVING PINCHES BRITAIN'S KING income Is $2,660,000 a Year, but He Gets but SIO,OOO of It, BY WALLACE CARROLL United Pr# Staff Cnrrcsnondent LONDON, March 20.—Hard times have pinched the purse of King George and Queen Mary, compelling them to resort to economy measures like the humblest of their subjects. King George has an annual income of *2.660,000. When all official expenses have been met, however, the king barely has SIO,OOO a year left for the personal use of the royal family. The king's salary, or civil list, as it is called, was fixed in 1901, when nobody foresaw a World war which would double the cost of living. In the meantime, salaries of the many royal servants and the running expenses of the king’s palaces and residences have grown enormously. Most Underpaid Monarch Persons close to the royal family assert King George is the world’s most underpaid monarch. They point out that the king of Italy receives a much larger salary —15.000.000 lire or $3,910,000. The emperor of Japan has an income of 4,500.000 yen, or $2,250,000. The late czar of Russia receiveds2o,ooo,ooo and the ex-kaiser $3,850,000 King George receives $2,350,000 from the civil list and $310,000 from the revenues of the duchy of Lancaster. From the civil list he appropriates $629,000 to pay the salaries of the royal household. Another $965,000 is set aside to pay the expenses of the royal household. A further sum of SIOO,OOO is allotted for the maintenance of the royal residences. Charitable projects known as the "royal bounty” claim $66,000, while $40,000 is “unappropriated.” Budgets Show Deficit Tins leawes only $550,000 for the king’s “privy purse” from which many heavy expenses must be met. 'Hie increase in the cost of living after the war bore heavily on the royal finances. In spite of cutting down expenses the accounts showed a deficit of $120,000 in 1919, $225,000 in 1920 and $265,000 in 1921. Up to the middle of 1921, King George met these deficits out of a reserve fund which he had created for such an emergency. After that his only recourse was to draw on his capital, since it was considered impossible to ask the hard-hit British taxpayer for a raise in ’pay,’* Accordingly, the duchy of Lancaster bill was passed by the house of commons. This enabled the duchy—in other words, the king—to realize capital to the extent of $500,000 and to use the proceeds as revenue. Cut Domestic Expenses Thereafter the king and queen made ends meet by drastic personal economies and by maintaining the royal residences as inexpensively as possible. Recently, however, they met increased difficulties in balancing their budget. Accordingly tho queen ordered further domestic economies, and contrived to reduce the running expenses of Buckingham palace by $250 a week—about $13,000 a year. King George must support a small army of relatives from his personal funds. The leading members of the royal family are provided for separately by the nation, but there are 150 other relatives who depend on the king’s generosity. NUMEROLOGY LATEST FAD OF DEBUTANTES New York Girls Fay $lO Each for Instruction in ‘Science.* B’i United Press NEW YORK. March 20.—Miss Adrienne E. Peabody, numerologist., expressed great pleasure that the upper crust is taking to her “exact science” so seriously that the gilded ladies of Park avenue are now having destiny digits with their tea and toast. Miss Peabody's class for debutantes has more than seventy-five customers, who are, paying $lO each for their numerology and 75 cents for their tea. at each session. STILL LEAD IN TIRES U. S. Continues to Keep Big Share of World Business. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 20.—The United States continued to supply a large share of the world’s automobile tires in 1930, despite a general decline in volume and value of world exports, the commerce department announced. Exports decreased only 10 per rent, from 2.979,438 casings in 1929 to 2,684,294 in 1930. There was a 59 per cent Increase in exports of truck and bus casings, the heavier type of tire. SUES FORGOLF INJURY Miniature Course Defendant in Action for $9,300. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., March 20. E. P. Hughes, an attorney, has brought suit for $9,500 damages for injuries he said he received playing miniature golf on the Roiling Green indoor course. Hughes charged that a “slippery substance** on the fourteenth fairway caused him to lose his balance and fall on the concrete floor. NEW LANGUAGE IS SEEN Poet Expects English, American to Be Different Tongues. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 20.—1n fifty years the American language will be as different from the English as modem Italian is from Latin. Louis Untermeyer, poet, told an audience here.

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WIFE DIES AS BLIND MAN FIGHTS BLAZE Woman Coaid Not Sec Dress Fired as She Cooked Dinner. B'J Times Special PHILADELPHIA March 20.—Heroic efforts of Daniel Hoffman, 33, failed to slave the life of his wife, Martha, 28, from flames neither could Both are blind. Hoffman still is under treatment for severe burns. Mrs. Hoffman, proud of her ability to do everything for herself, was preparing dinner. She did not notice her dress brush against the het stove and she quickly became p. mass of fire. Her husband groped his way from the next room and fought unflinchingly, but without avail, until a neighbor saw the blaze and dashed in to the rescue. Mrs. HofTman died in a hospital. LIKES HOTEL DOORMAN, SHE LANDS IN COURT Taxi Driver’s Effort to Collect sll Bill Reveals Strange Story. B’j Times Special CHICAGO, March 20.—A penchant for impressing swanky hotel •doormen has brought 19-year-old Betty Jahnke into the courts. Pete Schmitz, taxi driver, complained: “She got into my cab,” said Pete. “At the Stevens she hopped out with a big smile, gave the doorman her arm like a queen and walked in. Then she walked right out again and back into my taxi. “After she had done the same thing at several other hoteis, I told her I wanted my sll.lO. She didn’t have any money.” “What’s it all about, Betty?” asked the judge. “Oh, I just wanted to meet some well-dressed men,” said Betty. The judge has the case under advisement. MAN FOLLOWS FIRE TRUCK TO OWN HOME Wife, Two Small Children Die in Blazing House. By Times Special PLEMINGTON, N. J„ MarCh 20. —“Let’s go to the fire,” said Ames Whited to a friend as he Jumped into his car when a fire wagon passed. Today Whited mourns at three new graves. The Are was at Whited’s home. His wife and two small children were burned to death. WINS HIS WAY TO TOP Ten Years Ago Ran Errands: Now Heads in Supreme Conurt. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 20—Ten years ago young Jimmy Reilly worked as a page in the United States supreme court, bringing glasses of water to thirsty justices and running errands. Now. as Mt\ James F. Reilly, a ! full-fledged lawyer, he pleads be- | fore the nation's highest tribunal. ; MORE WEALTH NEEDED i But It Should be Fairly Distributed, Says Nicholas Butler. I By United Press NEW YORK, March 20—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, believes that more wealth is needed in tljp world, for only through wealth do leisure, genuine human living and civilization become possible. It should be fairly and justly distributed, however, he said. Columbia U. Ends Class Fights By United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—50 many j bruised heads, lawsuits and other ! damages have resulted from the I celebration of “dinner weak” at- Cos lumbia university that the sophomores have voted to abandon it. It ! was the occasion for interclass batI atles between freshmen and sophomores.* T

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Thursday’s Times: The Jet of Water at Grenoble— A vertical pipe 1.600 feet long, and less than an inch in diameter, leads from a water reservoir up on a mountain to a factory near Grenoble, France. The force of the falling jet is used to drive a turbine. If this jet be allowed so escape by means of a lateral pipe, its velocity would be such that a strong man armed with a sword W’ould splinter his weapon into fragments if he attempted to hack at it. The weapon is checked as effectually as if it had struck a bar of iron, although the jet is merely the thickness of a man’s thumb. Man-O-War Won a Race by 100 Lengths—On Sept. 4, 1920, Man-o-War beat Hoodwink by 100 lengths. The race was the Lawrence Realization at Belmont Park, New York. Reference: “Daily Racing Form,” 1920. A Wasp Can Bore an Inch in an hour—The female ichneumon is capable of perforating the hardest wood with its ovipositor, a stinglike instrument which she uses to deposit her eggs within certain trees. The ovipositor is three times as long as the insect, and is furnished with serrations which make it a most effective boring apparatus. Saturday: “The Greatest imposter in History.” Boose Drinks, Wife Asks Divorce By United rress WASHINGTON, March 20.—John F. Boose lives up to his name, his wife testified in asking the District of Columbia supreme court to award her separate maintenance. He drinks much too regularly, she charged, adding that he had abandoned her and their child.

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POLITICS GREATEST FIELD, WOMEN TOLD Mrs. F. W. Wittich, Minnesota Officer, Supports Own Theory. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., March 20. Politics offers the greatest opportunities for women—be they co-eds or housewfives—Mrs. Frederick W. Wittich, first woman to hold a major state office in Minnesota, told the United Press today. ‘My advice to co-eds is that politics is an open field,” Mrs. Wittich said. Ho’isev/ives, or any one trained to manage a home, already have obtained a fairly complete education nr a political career.” Mrs. Wittich has begun active duty today as budget nnd personnel commissioner of Minnesota’s commission of administration and finance. She and her two fellow commissioners constitute an advisory board for the Governor, and are knowm as the ‘Big; Three.” One of her duties is to make up the state budget, which normally provides for expenditures of about $12,000,000. CURSED, GETS DIVORCE Wife Understands Husband’s Words in Egyptian, Tells Court. By Times (Special LOS ANGELES, , March 20. “Daughter of a dog’.” was the unloving expression Farried Simaika, former Egyptian diving champion, hissed at his wife in his native language, she testified in obtaining a divorce. The former Mrs. Simaika understood everything he said in Egyptian, and it hurt her feelings, she testified. She is the daughter of a Hollywood jeweler.

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BALTZELL CURBS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS MEN Federal Judge Joins Attack on Activities of Organization. Reprimand of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell against promoters of the Indiana Business Men’s Association today curbed activities of the group which has been the target of business men, attorneys and the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau for several months, Baltzell rebuked Edwin C. Boswell, attorney, and counsel for the organization and as a result of the conference, Boswell has resigned the post. The organization cropped up in Indianapolis in October and complaints from small business men led The Times to expose activities Qf the group. Solicitors, it was charged, were using the names of judges to obtain advertisements for the “Commercial Guide and Reference Manual,” and hinted that, as a member of the association, advertisers would receive immunity in courts. Grand Jury to Investigate Baltzell and George R. Jeffrey, district attorney, opened an investigation of the association after several calls had been received in Baltzell’s office from persons who wanted to know when Baltzell w'as “coming over for that advertising.” It is understood that solicitors, in phone conversations, had slurred their pronunciation of Boswell’s name and had called him judge. Prospective advertisers apparently had understood the name to be “Judge Baltzell.” Meanwhile, steps axe being taken that may place the information before the Marion county grand jury for investigation. A previous effort to interest county officials failed. Collins Involved In his conference with Baltzell, Boswell denied any knowledge of the alleged soliciting under his name. T. M. Overly, manager of the Better Business Bureau, who attended the conference, has numerous complaints from persons ivho said they were solicited. In several instances, bared previously by The Times, solicitors were said to have stated that Boswell had been a county judge for twenty years. Former Judge James A. Collins became involved in the association’s solicitations shortly before he retired from the criminal court bench. He was informed that his name had been used and was prepared to take action at the time he left office. Presidents Resign Thomas C. Whallon was first president of the association, but resigned when The Times revealed alleged activities of A. C. and Henry Fryer, promoting the proposition. James D. Ermston then took over the presidency, but resigned shortly afterward and Boswell, as legal counsel, became acting head of the association. Boswell, fallowing his resignation, said he had withdrawn immediately after he “learned my connection with the association had caused Judge Baltzell embarrassment and annoyance.” He stated his belief that the organization is “worthwhile” and he “has no knowledge of high pressure tactics by solicitors.” He said, however, he will continue as counsel for members of the association who call upon him.

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Judge Decides Against Man’s Claim as Hdr to Estate. By United Press CHICAGO, March 20.—Mendel’s laws of inheritance, introduced in an effort to prove blue-eyed parents could not have brown-eyed children suffered a legal, if not theoretical, death today after Judge Michael Feinberg ruled that Mendelian law might hold in the study of plants, but never in the case of humans. The controversial question which recently moved blue-eyed parents throughout the country to defend their brown-eyed children against the stigma of Illegitimacy was settled by Judge Feinberg in his ruling that brown-eyed George Adair Longley of Janesville; Wis., is not the son of blue-eyed George W. Longley, late Chicago hat manufacturer, who left a $1,000,000 estate. Discards Mendel’s Theory Judge Feinberg, although his ruling seemed to favor the Mendelian theory that “like begets like,” emphasized that he had discarded the findings of Mendel, Austrian monk, before making the decision which eliminated the younger Longley as an heir to the estate. “I am surprised,” Judge Feinberg said, “to find that men of high scientific standing would appear in my courtroom and expound such a theory. “In my opinion there is no certain characteristic in heredity, and nothing whatsoever to the eye theory. Mendel’s laws have not been scientifically established and never could apply to the human race.” It was pointed out that the Austrian scientist had evolved his theories of inheritance from studies of plants, and that none of his observations were made from studies of human beings. Loses Suit for Million George Adair Longley had con-, tended that he was the son of the Elder Longley by his first wife. This was denied by Mrs. Mary - Caroline Longley, third wife of the manufacturer and present beneficiary of the estate, who claimed th younger Longley was the brother of her husband’s first wife. Judge Feinberg, in his decision, said he was satisfied that the younger man was the son of the first Mrs. Longley, but that the evidence did not show the manufacturer was his father. WORLDS FAIR ROAD SURVEY IS ORDERED Highway Commission Orders Information and Proposed Route. William J. Titus, chief engineer of the state highway department, was ordered by the commissioners today to survey the proposed route of the 200 foot World's Fair highway through northern Indian?. The wide highway plan, to be completed by the time the World's Fair is held in Chicago in 1933, was brought to the attention of the state highway commission by a large delegation from northern Indiana cities Wednesday. Routing will be around Lake Michigan, joining a similar superhighway in Illionis, Michigan and Wisconsin. Total population of the world now is estimated at 1,550,000,000; at the beginning of the eighteenth century the estimate was 600,000,000.

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LAUNCH FIGHT i ON DRAIN COSTS IN WAYNE TWP, Residents Are Prepared to Carry Legal Action to. Supreme Court. Wayne tow nship residents ate prepared to carry legal action against assessments for drains to the supreme court if it Should prove necessary to obtain relief. General mass meetings are being held at School 14 and and the schoolhouse in Mars Hill Committees in both districts are obtaining information for use In a contemplated suit, purpose of which i w-ili be to vacate proceedings in a Marion circuit court case decided last December. A judgment was rendered in that case favorable to the Indiana Development Company without, it is said, any knowledge on the part of a large number of the 3,034 property owners assessed for a sewer. <ii the meeting held Thursday nignt the statement was made that “at the meetings which have been held only four or five persons out of as many as 400 have ever known that such a suit existed until they received notice that they had been assessed for what had been called in the assessment notices a ditch.’ ”