Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1931 — Page 9

JUNE 17,1931.

SCHOOL BUDGET IS SLASHED,BUT TAX UNCHANGED Levy to Stay at $1.01: Date Set for Public Hearing, on $7,459,546 Total. Public hearing on the $7,459,546 Indianapolis school budget for 193132, tentatively adopted by the school board Tuesday afternoon, will be held June 30, it was announced today by A. B. Good, business director. The budget, a reduction of $28,746 from the previous budget, will require a sl.Ol tax levy, the same as this year’s levy. The budget reduction is more than equalized by an anticipated $48,000 decrease in 6tate aid funds distributed next year, Good said. The budget will become effective July 1. The board recently decided to change the school operating year from its former calendar year basis to a July 1-June 30 basis. Limited by New Law The board was limited in preparation of the budget to the total of the budget for this year by a law passed by the last legislature. This law prevents any increase in the aggregate amount of the budget of taxing units for the next two years. The board voluntarily reduced its tax levy 1 cent last year. In a statement issued by Russell Willson, board president, it is pointed out that while the budget does not permit of expansion, it will permit operation of schools next year without seriously impairing their efficiency. School corporations that last year voluntarily practiced economy in their budgets are finding themselves penalized for that economy, under ■ this law, he said.

Cut Bonded Debt Willson’s statement pointed out that the board in the year and a half it has been in office has constructed four new buildings and two additions at a cost of $780,944, at the same time reducing the bonded indebtedness approximately $30,000. Willson stated only emergency repairs and teaching staff additions will be made. Recently, the boarded decided to suspend the automatic salary increase schedule for teachers and refused raises to other employes. Included in the budget, Willson pointed out, is $403,335 for operation of the public library, reduction of $6,460; the sum of $61,200 for operation of free kindergartens, and $14,000 contributed to the Art association and Children’s museum, leaving a total of $6,981,011 for operation of schools. Portables Required Increase of $27,340 is shown in the budget for capital outlay at the 6ix high schools. This, Good explained, is occasioned by crowded conditions at all except Manual Training and Shortridge high schools, requiring placing of portable buildings at the other high schools. Efforts to induce move pupils to attend Manual will be made, Superintendent Paul C. Stetson said. Increase of $17,507 is included in budget for administration expenses, the largest item increased being the buildings and grounds department, hiked $12,590. Board members found it difficult to reconcile recent promises of H. F. Osier, buildings and grounds superintendent, that $9,527 would be saved the school city through certain changes he recommended, with budget figures showing a $3,000 net increase. Change Pay Basis Acting on Osier’s request a week ago, the board named nine foremen in his department “supervisors,” and placed their pay on a salary basis instead of hourly basis. In the future. these supervisors will work instead of directing, and will be paid out of administrative funds instead of their services being charged up, by the hour, to jobs they work on, it was stated. When Good explained that while the department’s administrative fund was increased $12,590 to pay the supervisors, decrease of SIO,OOO was made in the elementary school repair and maintenance fund, from which the supervisors formerly were paid, the board still was mystified and, with a “mathematical headache,” dropped the subject. Bond Fund Cut Largest Largest single decreases in the budget is that for debt service, covering bond retirement and interest. This figure is $1,093,200, a resduction Os $53,000. Heaviest increase in the budget Items is that for instruction supervisors and directors’ salaries, $116,850, a hike of $14,300. The budget by departments is: Administration $322,750, increase of $17,507; instruction $4,670,800, decrease of $502; operation, decrease of $1,781; maintenance $148,350, decrease of $7,959; auxiliary agencies $44,140, increase of $640; libraries $403,335, decrease of $6,460; coordinate activities $24,124, increase of $859; debt service $1,033,200, decrease of $53,000; fixed charges and contingencies $38,372. decrease of $5,399; capital outlay $208,315, increase Os $27,340. JUBILEE PARTY SLATED Pentalpha Lodge, F. & A. AL to Hold Afternoon, Night Celebration. An afternoon and night celebration at the Masonic temple, North and Illinois streets, Thursday, will mark the golden jubilee and tenth anniversary of the class of 1921 of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 564, Free and Accepted Masons. Commencing at 4 p. m., the ceremony will include conferring of the Master Mason degree upon one candidate. A dinner will be served at 6. Fiftieth- anniversary entertainment of the lodge will be held Friday night, in the temple auditorium. Dancing will be on the Friday night program. John G. Geiger Is worshipful 'master. Child Dies After Fall By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 17. Marian Benson, 11, died here of concussion of the brain suffered in s a fall from a 25-foot cliff. The child was unconscious forty-eight hours.

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RADIO EDICT PENDING R. C. A.’s World-Wide System in the Balance. By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 17.—The federal radio commission’s decision on whether or not the great communications and broadcasting systef of the Radio Corporation of America should be barred from the air will be rendered early next week, it was announced today at the commission’s offices. A decision against R. C. A. would precipitate months and possibly years of litigation in which the corporation would be fighting for the very existence of its wireless system that now extends around the world and into nearly every American home. A decision in favor of the corporation would mean automatic renewal of the hundreds of licenses which have been held up temporarily pending a commission ruling, and would assure the National Broadcasting Company and other R. C. A. subsidiaries a continued undisturbed place on the air. ‘GOOD CHILDREN’ TO GET MOVIE REWARD Those from No-Accident Playground to be Guests at Lyric. “Being good” paid 1,600 school children during the past few weeks at city playgrounds. For Friday at 9 a. m., children of several playgrounds have been invited to pay court homage to Jean Darling, juvenile movie star, when she holds audience at the Lyric theater. The award for “being good” was made by Lieutenant Frank Owens, of the accident prevention bureau to playgrounds that had no accidents or disorders. Following the visit with Jean Darling, the children will attend the free showing of “Black Camel,” anew Chariie Chang mystery talkie. WEIGHTS INSPECTORS TO HOLD CONVENTION Nearly 150 state, county and city weights and measures inspectors of Indiana are expected to convene June 24 to 26 at the Lincoln for the twentieth annual conference of the Indiana association. Grover C. Parr, Indianapolis sealer of weights and measures, will be among speakers on the program. Other speakers will include I. L. Miller, state commissioner of weights and measures; John J. Brown, state highway commission director; Dr. W. H. King, state health board secretary, and Ralph Smith of the United States bureau of standards, Washington, D. C. TRIP FATIGUES EDISON Famed Inventor to Rest for Several Days at New Jersey Home. By United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J„ June 17. 1 —Thomas A. Edison, who returned ■ from his home at Ft. Myers, Fla., i Tuesday night, did not appear at his laboratory today and was said j to be resting from the fatigue of the ! long trip north. The inventor’s son, Charles Edi- j son, said his father will probably 1 spend several days resting from the ] trip. TOW-IN LAW VOTE DUE City Council to Act Tonight on Ordinance Revision. City council will meet in special session at 6 tonight to act on a revision in the new traffic ordinance, in which a flaw preventing impounding of cars parked downtown in violation of the 7 to 9:15 a. m. ban. recently was found. Action on this and several other I ordinances to be voted on tonight j was delayed Monday night when I two co>tncilmen were hot present.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared Tuesday in The Times: Samuel Cooper—Robert E. Lee not only was not the ranking officer of the Confederate army, but was outranked by two other generals. They were Samuel Cooper, and Albert Sydney Johnston, in the order named. General Samuel Cooper, a native of Hackensack, N. J. (1738-1876), in 1861 resigned his high post in the Army of the United States and joined the Confederacy, where Jefferson Davis made him a full general, with the highest army rank of the forces of the Confederacy. See: Fitz Lee’s “Biography of Samuel Cooper” in the “Southern Historical Society’s Papers,” Volume 3, page 273. Thursday:- “The famous Writer About Success Who Died a Failure.

MORE POLICE URGED Safety Committee to Hold Dinner at Club. Efforts of the citizens’ safety committee to interest the city council in the hiring of twenty-five additional motorcycle patrolmen to prevent traffic accidents, will be furthered at a monthly dinner to be given by the committee Thursday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. City councilmen, the members of the board of safety, Michael F. Morrissey, new police chief, and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will be guests. It is the belief of persons close to the committee that Judge Clifton H. Cameron of the municipal court and member of the committee will protest the council’s action in authorizing $60,000 in new fire department equipment and buildings and not taking action to alleviate traffic conditions in the city.

HOSPITALS TRAINING VALUE INCREASING Indispensable in Education, Dr. Doeppers Tells Rotary. Increase of the value of hospitals as centers of medical education was outlined in an address Tuesday noon by Dr. William A. Doeppers, superintendent of the city hospital, before members of the Rotary Club. “The hospital already has become an essential and indispensable part of a medical education,” he said. “Changed living conditions have removed the community from caring for sick in homes and increased the value and activities of hospitals.” Dr. Doeppers urged that residents of Indianapolis “take seriously the problems of your city hospital.” He said co-operation by the citizens and their interest in the institution will help achieve its purposes. CLUBMAN GIVES BAIL New York Lawyer Bound Over In Sale of Stolen Securities. By United Press NEW YORK, June 17.—Franklin P. Ferguson, well-known clubman and lawyer, was free today on $5,000 bail to await action of the grand jury on charges of receiving and attempting to sell blocks of $1,250,000 worth of securities stolen from the Lincoln, Neb., National Bank & Trust Cos., last September. Ferguson, who was arrested last November, waived examination when he appeared in Tombs court.

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GERMAN JDHIEF WINS Bruening Threat Counts and Socialists Quiet Down. By United Press BERLIN, June 17.—Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, iron-willed leader of the republic, again has survived a crisis which threatened to overthrow his government on its financial program. He defeated the foes of his drastic economy plan, who backed down when Bruening threatened to resign and summon new elections if the opposition insisted on a special session of the Reichstag, as proposed by the powerful Socialist party. The Socialists feared new elections would mean increased gains in the Reichstag for the Fascists, and the chancellor’s threat forced them to accede to his desires. Bruening promised to begin negotiations with the various political parties for revision of the economy decree, instead of waiting until autumn.

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GRADE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS GET ASSIGNMENTS Most of 15 Changes Are Transfers ; Staff Is Nearly Complete. With the naming of principals for ninety-one city elementary public schools, practically all school appointments for the 1931-32 school year have been made by the school board today. Majority of principals at the elementary buildings were reappointed, only fifteen changes being made, most of these being transfers. On recommendation of Superintendent Paul C. Stetson, eleven buildings will be headed by assistant principals, who are teachers, instead of by principals. These buildings have four rooms or less. Those appointed were: School 1. Laura Hayes, assistant; 2. Mary McGee; 3. Cecelia Galvin; 4. Mary E. Cable; 5. Mabel Schmidt: 6. Elizabetn O’Mara; 7, Lola S. Eller: 8. Mildred Weld; 9. Henrietta Waters; 10. Geraldine Eppart; 12. E. J. Black; 13, John W. Tornburgh: 14. Ruby Lee; 15. Anna Ra&e; 16. L. E. Hall; 17. Matthias Nolccx: 13. Corinne RSelag; 19. Harriet Kelley; 20. Charles E. Sunthimer; 21. Flora E. Drake; 22, Ella Pedlow; 23. W. E. Eaugh; 24. W. E. Grubbs; 25. Louise Bonar; 26. G. L. Hayes; 27. Laura Hanna: 28. Jane Gray don: 29. Eva y. Wiles: 30. Jeannette Knowles. School 31. Mary Connor: 32. E. L. Norris: 33. Georgia Lacey: 34. H. G. Knight; 35. Martha Fich; 36. Mary E. Buckley; 37. Karel Hendricks: 38. Huldah Kern; 39, Lena D. Swope; 40. Olio Kurtz; 41. Anna Reade; 41, Freda Popp, assistant; 42. E. W. Diggs; 43. Nell V. Green; 44. Elizabeth Kirby; 45. Olive Funk; 4S. Grace Granger; 47, Grace Kirrber: 48. Wanda Johnson, assistant; 43. Dorothy Pennington; 50. Mary MacArdle; 51. Charlotte Carter: 52, J. L. Duunn: 53. Fay Bantas. assistant 54. Grace M. Black: 55. F, W. Sumner: 56. W. A. Thomas: 57. Helen Loeper: 58. Maude Moudy; 59. not named; 60. Mary S. Ray. School 61. Gertrude Thatcher: 62. Elizabeth Witt; 63. Jeannette Cary; 64. H. M. Riley, assistant: 66. Nellie Chapman; 67. Dorothy Wenner: 68. Mary E. Morgan, assistant: 69. Maude Price: 70, Mabel Keller; 71, Ruth Leedy. assistant; 72. Ida Helphinstine: 73. Frances Newton: 74, Jeannette Williams: 75. M. B. Stump; 76. Belle Ramey; 78. Verena Denzler; 79. Rosa Jones, assistant: SO. Edith Hall: 31. Adelaide McCarty: 82. Frank Echolds; 83. Rose Thompson. assistant; 84. Elizabeth Scott; 85. Anna P. Bedford: 86. Anna Torrence, assistant: 87. Vivian W. Marbury: 90. Jessie C. Russell, assistant; 91. Gertrude Buscher. Changes ir.. priciDals were: Frank Beholds. School 1 to 82: Marv Buckley. 7 to 36: Corinne Rlelag. 13 to 18: John W. Thornburgh. 18 to 13; Julian Coleman. 26 to head of Crispus Attucks history department: C. L. Hayes. L. A- to 26; Adda Wyrick. 33 to elementary teacher; Georgia Lacey. 36 to 33; H. M. Riley. 40 to 64: Ivory Johnson. 59 to elementary teacher: Clio Kurtz. 64 to 40; May Hubbard. 74 to elementary teacher: Jeannette Williams, exceptional children school to 74; Laura Hayes. 77 to 1: Lola Eller. 82 to 7. Negro Gets Life Term By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 17.~ Life imprisonment was given Annise Hugley, Negro, when he was found guilty in Vigo circuit court on a charge of criminal attack upon a 10-year-old Negro girl. Hitch-Hiker Robs Woman By United Press x RICHMOND, Ind., June 17. A hitch-hiker to whom Mrs. L. G. Leonard, Columbus, 0., offered a ride, stole jewelry valued at $250 and cash from her pocketbook, she i reported to Richmond police.

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She’s going to start life all over again in her old home town of St. Louis, Mo., said Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger. who here is shown wtih her two children, Fred and Charlotte, as they arrived in New York from Europe. While on trial recently in Nice, France, for the slaying of her husband, an American theaver magnate, she heard herself described as “too beautiful to be bad’’ and was speedily acquitted by a jury.

By Times Special ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 17. —Mrs. Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nird-linger having spent two busy days in Philadelphia conferring with her attorneys over the will of her husband and considering moving picture and vaudeville offers, was in Atlantic City today for a rest.

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Gain Entrance by Ruse, Bind Servants; Force Woman to Open Safe, By United Press NEW YORK, June 17.—Three gunmen raided the home of S. Stanwood Menken, prominent lawyer, civic leader and advocate of heavy armament, today, forced Mrs. Menken to get out of bed and open j a small wall safe, and escaped with jewelry worth more than SIOO,OOO. Menken had left for his office, when the robbery occurred. A man appeared at the front door of the private home shortly before 10 a. m. and said he had a box of flowers to

Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger, who was acquitted last month of charges of murdering her husband, Fred G. Nixcn-Nirdlinger, in France, has received a number of offers to go on the stage and into moving picture work, but as yet none has been accepted, her attorneys said.

deliver. He asked a servant to sign for them. The servant opened the door and started to sign the paper offered. Two other men rushed up from the sidewalk, joined their confederate and forced their way inside, displaying pistols. They trussed three servants and an upholsterer, who was at work in the house and went upstairs to Mrs. Menken’s bedroom. Mrs. Menken still was asleep. The bandits awakened her, ordered her to get out of bed and open the wall safe in which she kept her jewels. They then scooped up the gems and ran. The jewels were insured, it was reported, for $150,000.

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STATE AIR TOUR IS WINGING ITS WAYJTO GARY Flying Delegation to Land at Lafayette En Route Today. BY CARLOS LANE Times Staff Correspondent TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 17. Midway between here and Lafayette early today more than thirty commercial and military airplanes winged into the third day of the third annual all-Indiana air tour. A night of gayety as guests of the Terre Haute Aero Club refreshed the fliers and passenger tourists after a long day's flight Tuesday over southern Indiana under a sweltering sun. The only stop Tuesday was at Bloomington, where more than four thousand persons perspired through a four-hour program of military formation and passenger flying over Bloomington, where such an array of airplanes never had been seen before. The trip to Terre Haute took on military airs surpassing previous tours Tuesday when seven of Uncle Sam’s planes were in the flight, and almost twice that number of uniformed officers mingled with other pilots. Flying Technique Shown A flight of three ships from the One hundred thirteenth observation squadron of the Indiana national guard, a similar number of training ships from Schoen field, Ft Benjamin Harrison, and one observation plane from the fort made up the military units. Most spectacular of these and of the entire tour w*ere the national guard planes The trio of blue and gold biplanes flew constantly in close formation above Bloomington and Terre Haute, displaying the superfine technique of flying that Uncle Sam demands of his defenders of the air. In No. l position, at the head, was Major Richard F. Taylor, squadron commander, and In the cockpit behind him was Lieutenant Emory Byran, who, in time of national emergency, would chuck a peaceable instructorship at Tech high school to man a machine gun in Indiana’s only military air force Give 'Wing Tip’ Exhibition In number two position was Lieutenant Matt G. Carpenter, with the writer as observer. Lieutenant Howard Maxwell and Lieutenant Russell long were in number three plane. Sensational acrobatics may provide a breathless thrill but the nicety of control these pilots exhibited in flying wing-tip to wingtip, with only a few feet intervening between success and disaster provided a constant astonishment Hand signals from the major brought the planes, at 120 miles an hour, from 7 formation to three abreast, sent them into an echelon and brought them back without a slip to a “V” in which they landed. The only woman pilot on the tour, Miss Thelma Kennedy, of Knightstown, flew her Waco OX-5 with guidance of Mike Murphy, Newcastle pilot. From Lafayette, after detouring o circle Crawfordsville, the tour will proceed to Wolcott and then o Gary for the night.