Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1931 — Page 13
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STATE SNUB ! STIRS IRE OF !' LOCAL FIRM $64,000 Statehouse Cleaning Job Is in Charge of Cincinnati Company. BIDS WERE NOT ASKED Figure Is Branded as Far Too High by City Leader. The $64,000 statehouse outside cleaning job, which never was advertised nor for which no competitive figures were obtained, got under way today with the Cincinnati Building Cleaning Company in charge. This company was awarded the fcontract through the local agent, Edward Dux, without any figures from other cleaners having been secured. “We didn’t have the money to advertise for bids,” is the explanation of failure to invite competition given by Frank Caylor, superintendent of buildings and grounds. Criticism Is Drawn Since the work is to be paid for cut of Governor Harry G. Leslie’s emergency contingent fund it was {necessary to have it completed before balances in the fund reverted to the state on Oct. 1, he also added. Failure to advertise and give local firms a chance at the work has brought criticism from Guy Sallee, and operator of the Consolidated Spray Painting System here. Sallee says that he is ready even today to do the cleaning for $35,000, and would post a bond both for time Bnd thoroughness. To have advertised and thus given Sallee a chance to know the contract was to be awarded would have cost about $6, and resulted, possibly, in the saving of $29,000, it was pointed out. But there are no •restrictions on the Governor’s fund and he can do w r hat he likes with it. Not Signed Personally However, in this instance, the Contract had to be signed by the auditor and secretary of state as members of the building and grounds committee. Neither Frank Mayr Jr., secretary Os state, nor Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, both Democrats, signed it personally. William Cosgrove, deputy state auditor, signed for Williamson, and Robert I. Codd, deputy secretary of state, for Mayr. Mayr today declared that he didn't even favor having the building cleaned on the outside and thought that it will look less attractive when finished. But the contract was approved by the office of the attorney-general and a $57,475 bond posted to complete the work in ninety days. Called “Good Democrat” Caylor said he wrote some letters to other companies he knew was in the cleaning business, but they didn’t bids. This was approved as competitijon by the state ©oard of accounts, he asserted. Dux, a stone contractor, will ♦‘point” the stone as part of the (cleaning contract included in the $64,000, he declared. Dux is said to be a “good Democrat.” The building and grounds committee is two to one Democratic, but Caylor, a Republican, keeps his post and has made it a position of considerable power. TWELVE-INCH KEY~" USED IN JAIL LOCK Belie Presented to Historical Society of Knox County. "By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., July 2.—The key to Knox county’s first jail has been presented for display in the Harrison mansion by the relics committee of Francis Vigo chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The presentation was made by Mrs. Chester Adams, a member of the committee. Heavy in weight and twelve Inches in length, the key contrasts sharply with the small ones in use tod y. It was given to the committee by Mrs. W. J. Zellinger, who found it in household effects of her late mother, Mrs. E. McConihe, granddaughter of Dr. Hiram Decker, whose father, Luke Decker, was a Revolutionary war soldier. School Case Friday Py Times Special WARSAW, Ind., July 2.—Judge Albert Chipman of Marshall circuit court at Plymouth will preside there Friday in a suit brought by Orr Cook against George Myers, Harrison township trustee, seeking to restrain issuance of $72,000 in bonds for erection of a school building. The case was taken to Plymouth on a change of venue from Kosciusko circuit court here.
Skins ’Em Five damp bathing suits were hanging on a line. Along came perspiring Mr. B U. Urglar, who although his biceps aren’t so well developed gets along very well on what he can “lift.” “Oh, ho,” smiled B. U., “just what I’ve been looking for. The little woman and the kids need no longer keep pounding at papa because they can’t go swimming.” And that’s the likely story behind the report to police today by W. J. Harrington, 227 Grace street, that a man’s, a woman’s, a girl’s, a boy’s and a baby’s bathing suit were stolen from the rear of the Harrington home where they had been hung to dry. .
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Gatty and Post Make Jules Verne a Mere Piker
By United Press NEW YORK, July 2.—Globe circling had Its Inception 412 years ago when Ferdinand Magellan started out with a magnificent fleet from Seville, bound for death, disaster and fame. Magellan was killed before his great enterprise was completed, but his men and a few of his ships, although many were lost in storms en route, completed their cruise and the first world record for circling the globe w r as completed. That record was a few days less than three
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One of the first to welcome Harold Gatty and Wiley Post, 'round-the-world fliers, at Cleveland, was W. L. (Young) Stribling, heavyweight boxer, who had been training in his camp near the city for his bout with Max Schmeling. Stribling also is a pilot. Left to right are: Gatty, Stribling and Post. The fliers did not appear very tired, despite the strain of their long trip.
FATHER SLAIN BY YOUNG SON Elder Man Said to Have Been Drinking. By Times Special ANGOLA, Ind., July 2.—A knife in the hands of his son Oba, 21, brought death to Kelley Caskey, 40, at the family home In Jackson township. Dr. F. B. Humphreys, Steuben county coroner, said he learned the father had been drinking heavily and when his wife remonstrated, told her “it is none of your business.” Later the son upbraided the elder man and a tussle started which was broken up by Sam Caskey, father of the knife victim. However, the trouble was renewed a short time later, and the elder man was stabbed twice in the back and once in the heart, dying within ten minutes. ASKS SIO,OOO DAMAGES Woman Charges Worn Stair Mats Caused Her to Fall. Charging mats on stairs in an apartment house were so badly worn she stumbled and suffered severe personal injury, Mrs. Naomi A. Johnston today filed a SIO,OOO damage siut in superior court five. Owners of the apartment house at 2063 North Meridian street, H. Benjamin Marks and Isaac Marks, were defendants in the action.
STORES DIVIDE ON SATURDAY CLOSING
While numerous downtown stores, members of the Merchants’ Association will close Saturday afternoons during July and August, a score of others will remain open. Some of these concerns, includ-
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Eugene Lambert Standing beneath a tree when lightning struck. Eugene Lambert, 5. of 409 Regent street, was killed instantly Wednescday afternoon during a freak thunderstorm. The boy was struck while his sisters and other relatives sat on the porch within a few feet of the tree.
$425,000 FUND IS SOUGHT BY WIDOW
Mrs. Louise McConnell, widow of reputedly wealthy Edgar B. McConnell of New York, who vainly has been attempting to locate a trust fund of $425,000 supposed to have been left her by her husband in a Logansport bank, stopped in Indianapolis today on her way back to New York, where she will put matters in the hands of attorneys. McConnell was the son of the late vJudge D. B. McConnell of Pit*
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That’s Swell By United Press DUNCAN, Okla., July 2.—W. F. Post is happy that his son completed his ‘round the world flight, he said today, but he hopes Wiley doesn’t become conceited. “I’d rather this flight never had been made than have Wiley get swell-headed over it,” the 55-year-old farmer said. “I’m not taking any credit for anything Wiley does, though. There’s not much credit coming to me, considering all I did to kee~> him from flying. Since Wiley tok up flying, however, the father has lost his opposition to it. He might even take a ride in an airplane himself some time, he said.
READY FOR TAKEOFF Frenchman Hopes to Beat Post-Gatty Mark. By United Press PARIS, July 2.—Joseph Lebrix announced today that he would start at 4 a. m. Tuesday on a flight around the world, hoping to beat the Post-Gatty record. Lebrix, who attained flying fame with Dieudonne Coste in the transAtlantic plane Question Mark, and other long-distance flights, will.be accompanied by Marcel Doret. He said he hopes to makea circle of the globe in four steps—Paris to Tokio, Tokio to San Francisco, San Francisco to New York and New York to Paris.
ing William H. Block Company and Pettis Dry Goods Company, will give their employes half-day holidays on other days of the week. Stores that will remain open Saturday afternoons include: Baldwin Piano Company, Banner Furniture Company, BradshawKornblum Company, E. J. Gausepohl & Cos., Goldstein Brothers, Hartman Furniture Company, Kahn Tailoring Company, Paul H. Krauss Company, E. O. Langen Company, Marott Shoe Shop, W. H. Messenger Company, L. E. Morrison & Cos., People’s Outfitting Company, Rost Jewelry Company, the Star Store, L. Strauss & Cos., Taylor Carpet Company, Morrison’s, Inc., and the Store Without a Name. Practically all stores in the downtown district will close at 5 p. m. the first five days of the week during the summer. All stores will be closed all day on July 4. Those stores remaining open Saturday afternoon will close at their usual daily closing times. The following stores will observe half holidays on Saturdays: L. S. Ayres & Cos., H. Lieber Company, Charles Mayer & Cos., Sander & Recker Furniture Company, Selig Dry Goods Company. W. K. Stew-art Company, oVnnegut Hardware Col* pany, Julius C. Walk & Sons, Inc., and H. P. Wasson & Cos. All of these except Sander & Recker and Walk & Son will close at 1 p. m. on Saturdays. The other two will close at 12:30 p. m.
Climaxing four weeks’ efforts to locate the fund which is disclaimed by the Logansport bank, Mrs. McConnell and her chauffeur were placed in jail at Logansport Wednesday by Cass county sheriff. Mrs. McConnell claims there were no charges made against her. She was released an hour later after signing papers clearing local authorities of any connection with alleged bribery in the case, and Jels the city, J
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years, the boats having started on Sept. 20, 1519, and the few which survived, arrived back in Seville, Sept. 8, 1522. In the four centuries intervening have come the. marvels of science and industry. Steam craft supplanted the sail boats. Steam craft speeded. The steam engine came into being on land, bringing about fast trains. Automobiles were created. Then came aircraft. And alhcf these have been used in cutting down the time differentiation until Wednesday evening when Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
MOTHER LOSES SON’SCUSTODY Enacts Hysterical Scene in Court at Vincennes. By Times Special VINCENNES; Ind., July 2.—Cries of Mrs. Opal Scott rang through the Knox circuit courtroom here when Judge W. F. Calverley awarded custody of her Robert, 9, to Edward Marvin, St. Louis, an uncle of her divorced husband. The court said the custody was so arranged in the best interests of the boy, who had been with the uncle two years and a half.
Recently the mother brought him here from St. Louis and placed him with Jones Myers. It was shown that she was not as able financially to care for the boy as Marvin; that she had once ben with a carnival and that Myers intended to tram the boy as a musician. For nearly an hour Mrs. Scott was in an hysterical condition and asserted, “I would rather be dead.” 42,724 VISIT CITY IN FIRST SIX MONTHS 170 Conventions Reported by Bureau; Speedway Not Included. A city of 42,724 visitors moved in and out of Indianapolis during the first six months of this year attending conventions, according to a semi-annual report of the Indianapolis convention bureau today. The bureau’s records include 170 conventions, leaving but six events, including the Speedway, that introduced 250,000 visitors to Indianapolis. Those 42,000 attending convention spent $2,381,863 in Indianapolis hotels and business places, the average expenditure of the individual estimated at $55.75 LABORITE ‘KICKED OUT House of Commons Adjourned After Member Is Carried Away. By United Press LONDON, July 2.—The speaker adjourned the house of commons today when disorder broke out and a labor member was ejected by force. John McGovern, Glasgow Laborite, refused to leave when he was suspended for refusing to resume his seat w’hen reqeusted to do so by the speaker. Attendants tried to remove him forcibly and he resisted, several members coming to his aid. Attendants carried McGovern out by the hands and feet, while conservatives shouted, “Wring his neck.” PREPARE FOR SESSION State Chiropractors to Attend Louisville Convention. Indiana and Indianapolis chiropractors will attend the International Congress of Chiropractic Examining Boards and the National Chiropractic Association convention opening July 6 for a week, at Louisville. Indiana association members who will attend. Drs. O. G. McKeever; C. J. Van Tilburg. Wilbur H. Gwynn. Harry E. Vedder, Harry K. Mcllroy and C. L. Rowe, of Indianapolis and H. V. McCully of Rushville. POPE’S NOTE IS ‘FIRM’ Fifth Message to Vatican Insists on Apology From Fascists. By United Press ROME, July 2.—The government today studied the fifth—and purportedly “final”—note from the Vatican on the crisis arising from the dispute which threatened to cause a break in relations between the Holy See and the Fascist organization. It was understood the pope's note was “firmly worded” and insisted that the government formally “deplore” the recent insults among young Fascists to tha. pope. Reopening of the Catholic young igyyj’g clubs w&i / IftTn? r id^
Happy Landing The complete around-the-world log of the Winnie Mae, all Indianapolis time given, follows: TUESDAY. JUNE 23. 2:56 A. M—Left Roosevelt Field N. Y. 10:45 A. M.—Arrived' Harbor Grace, NFD.— I.ISO miles. 1:27 P. M.—Left Harbor Grace. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24. 6:00 A. M.—Landed Chester. England —2.250 miles. 7:05 A. M —Left Chester. 11:40 A. M.—Landed Hanover. Germany— 600 miles. 12:20 P. M.— Left Hanover. 1:30 P. M.—Landed Berlin —150 miles. THURSDAY. JUNE 25. 12:38 A. M.—Left Berlin. 8:48 A. M.—Landed Moscow miles. 8:00 P. M.—Left Moscow. FRIDAY. JUNE 26. 7:30 A. M.—Landed Novo-Slblrsk. Siberia—l.7oo miles. 2:45 P. M —Left Novo-Slblrsk. 9:55 P. M.—Landed Irkutsk miles. SATURDAY. JUNE 27. 12:10 A. M. —Left Irkutsk. 7:00 A. M.—Landed Blagovestschensk —1.050 miles. 8:30 P. M.—Left Blagovestschensk. SUNDAY. JUNE 28. 11:30 A. M.—Arrived Khabarovsk—3so miles. MONDAY. JUNE 29. 3:00 A. M.—Left Khabarovsk for Nome. Alaska. 8:00 P. M.—Landed Nome miles. 10:45 P. M.—Left Nome. TUESDAY, JUNE 30. 1:25 A. M.—Arrived Fairbanks—s2o miles. ' 30 A. M.—Left Fairbanks. 5:87 P. M.—Arrived Edmonton, Alberta. Canada—l.4so miles. WEDNESDAY. JULY 1. 4:39 A. M.—Left Edmonton. 3:15 P. M.—Landed Cleveland, O.— 1.600 miles. 3:44 P. M.—Left Cleveland. 7:47 P. M.—Landed at Roosevelt Field. N. Y.—340 Miles. Distance of flight—ls. 474 miles. Average Speed—l4s.B miles per hour. Total Time—B days. 15 hours, 51 minutes. Total Flying Time—4 days, ten hours. 8 minutes. All distances and times are unofficial.
I’m Shot! By United Press DENVER, July 2.—Luis Lazaroff, 23, wearied of life after his separation from his wife and child, wrote a tw'enty-page death note and went to a vacant lot to kill himself. He placed a pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger. A few minutes later passersby found his body sprawled in the lot, the pistol beside him. Police w’ere called. When they arrived Laxaroff just was sitting up. The pistol had failed to fire; but Lazaroff had fainted at the click which came when he pulled the trigger.
1931 ACTS IN EFFECT Leslie’s Official Decree Is Issued. Official proclamation declaring the acts of 1931 in effect was issued from the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie late Wednesday. Effective time set out in the proclamation iff* 11:30 a. m., June 30, when the last receipt was signed by the Lake county clerk. This official receipt arrived at the office of the secretary of state Wednesday afternoon. Tombstone Injures Child By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., July 2. Norma Jean, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bowlby, this city, suffered a dislocation of a knee and bruised when a tombstone fell on her in the Thom cemetery.
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swung their plane down on Roosevelt field in the most remarkable exhibition of combined speed and endurance ever established. a a a a a a JULES VERNE used his imagination to send Phineas Fogg around the world in eighty days. People were incredulous. They read Jules Verne's book with interest and scoffed at such a ridiculous idea of speed. But there were some who refused to scoff. In 18S9, almost twenty years after Jules Verne's book was written. Nelly Bly started out to find out whether' Jules Verne’s imagination could be duplicated by fact. She completed her world cruise in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. Since then records have fallen regularly. World records since then: 1890—George Francis Train, 67 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes. —Charles Fitzmorris, 60 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes. 1903 —Henry Frederick, 54 days, 7 hours, 20 minutes. 1907—Colonel Burnley Campbell, 40 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes. 1911—Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, 39 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes. 1913—John Henry Mears, 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes. 192o—Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells, 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes. 1928-—Mears and C. B. Collyer—23 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes. 1930—Graf Zeppelin, 20 days, 4 hours. 1931—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.
DRASTIC CHANGE AT POOR FARM MAY BE JURY’S DEMAND Final Report to Be Handed Criminal Judge Frank Baker; Removal of Institution Authorities May Be Urged. Drastic changes for betterment of conditions in at least two county institutions, with possible demands for removal of institution authorities, may be proposed by the Marion county grand jury in its final report today to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. The grand jury has made a thorough investigation of charges, presented in The Times, that inmates at the county poor farm have been mistreated and forced to live amid surroundings almost unbearable.
A recommendation for a sweeping rehabilitation of the county’s hospital for the insane at Julietta may be included in the report. Twenty-eight grand juries over a period of fourteen years have failed to move county commissioners to action on poor farm improvements. Check on Charges It is known the present jury has spent several days visiting county institutions and checking charges of mismanagement. Less than two weeks ago George C. Handlon, 50, inmate suffering from a severe case of tuberculosis, was turned over to police by poor farm authorities after he had complained to the grand jury that John C. Carter, farm superintendent, had beaten him. Handlon was sentenced to serve 180 days on the state farm when he w r as convicted in municipal court of drawing a deadly weapon on Howard Wiseman, a poor farm attendant. Among charges believed investigated by the grand jury is that poor farm inmates are crowded into uncomfortable quarters dangerous to health. Live in One Building Almost a year ago, The Times investigated and disclosed that the county’s aged and infirm, denied everything but the barest necessities, are existing in a single building which has been condemned several times as a fire trap. Other disclosures have pleaded for relief for at least a dozen inmates in the men’s quarters who were sleeping on straw beds on the floor and in narrow hallways. County commissioners winked at these investigations and conditions remain the same today, it is said. The Times recently has received numerous complaints from citizens about conditions at the poor farm, demanding that something be done. 25 Die of Violence By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 2.—Automobiles and suicide led all other causes of the twenty-five violent deaths in Allen county during June, according to a report of Dr. L. S. McKeeman v coroner. There were four automobile fatalities, and a like number of suicidal deaths. Drownings were next, with three.
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Not for Ladies Judge Frees Two Gotham Girls, but Tells ’Em to Wear Skirts.
By United Press NEW YORK, July 2.—Magistrate George M. Curtis Jr. today ruled that “shirts and shorts are not for the ladies,” and then dismissed charges against Miss Estelle Katzkin, 18, a telephone operator, and Miss Hannah Marcus, 17, student, both of Brooklyn. Patrolman Salvador Argano arrested the pair Tuesday, when he saw them strolling along the boardwalk wearing shorts and shirts. Today the magistrate turned over his chambers to the girls, who donned their shorts and shirts so the magistrate and newspaper men could look them over. “Those things aren’t bathing suits,” Magistrate Curtis told the patrolman. “Well, they look like them,” the patrolman answered. “They’re immodest, anyhow.” “But they’re not,” Miss Katzkin protested. “Why, we couldn’t go into the water with these. We’ve even got underwear on under them.” She displayed a bit of lace below the running pants. “Then again, men wear shorts, and our limbs certainly are more beautiful than those of men.” “That may be,” said the magistrate, “but you’d better not wear them any more on the boardwalk.” Thrifty Trip by Plane By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 2.—Clarence F. Cornish, manager and chief pilot of the Aeroco Flying Service, with headquarters at the Guy Means airport, flew from here to St. Louis, a distance of 350 miles, at a total expense of $4.55 for gasoline and oil. The plane had a 35-horse power motor.
From neat homes across the street, residents in the 1900 block Southeastern avenue must sit on porches these warm nights and look at this lot, rank with weeds, and jumbled with derelict autos and other junk. The top photograph shows the lot, while the lower photo is, by contrast, one of the spick and span bungalow's with a trim hedge, directly across the street from the rubbish heap.
CITY-UTILITY ’ RULING UPSETS STATEjMY Logansport Decision Will Change Whole Conduct of Commission. ENTITLED TO PROFIT Supreme Court Asserts, However, Board Does Have Jurisdiction. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Decision of the Indiana supreme court upholding the right of gov-ernment-owned utilities to make a profit on investment has served to dramatize this matter of municipal ownership. For the plant involved in the suit is the Logansport. Electric Light and Power plant, which is an outstanding example of .the possibilities of municipal powder. Although the plant is not a great power loop, so popular with the big utilities of today, its rate is one of the lowest in the state. Yet its profits have been sufficient to build municipal buildings unequaled in any other city of its size in Hoosierdom. Refused New Schedule Its day in court was brought about when the public service commission sought to still further reduce the rates back in 1926. The city refused the new schedule and took the matter into Cass circuit court. Here Judge Jere West, who now is a member of the public service commission, held that a municipal utility must operate at cost and was not entitled to a profit. Logansport appealed to the supreme court and held in addition to its right of profit-making that municipal utilities are not within public service jurisdiction. Wednesday the court held the public service commission does have jurisdiction, but must permit the municipal utility to make a profit which amounts to a fair interest on investment. To Change Conduct This ruling will change the whole conduct of the commission in municipal utility cases. Heretofore they examined only operating costs and made no plant appraisal whatever. This was the procedure being followed in the Richmond rate case, but now an appraisal will be made. Meanwhile, Logansport continues to build and beautify its town from its electric revenues with a rate far below that which customers pay in the high-powered privately owned districts, such as Indianapolis. Buildings built from these revenues, before the suit was launched, include a $257,836.37 municipal office building, a $52,195.13 central fire station, street department headquarters and garage and a factory building leased by the Muelhausen Spring Company, which operates on municipal power. In addition to this building program the revenues have financed construction of an up-to-date sewage system and created and cared for a system of municipal parks. During all this time the rate has been kept at a low figure, compared with Indianapolis prices, and the power and light has beesg extended outside the city to the rural district at the same rates. Prevailing Logansport rates are 5 cents for the first 80 k. w. h. and 2 cents for all over that amount for residence lighting and power. Business and factory power rates are 5 cents for the first 500 k. w. h., 4.5 cents for the second 500, 4 cents over 2,000 and 2 cents over 3,000. Two Residential Rates There is no service or minimum charges, but a .01 cent k . w. h. charge is added for bills not paid before the 10th of the month. In Indianapolis there are two residential rates on file by the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. The lighting rate is 6.5 cents for the first 50 k. w. h.; 6 cents for the second 50, 5 cents over 100 and 4 cents over 200. A combination light and power residential rate is filed at 7 cents for the first 50 k. w. h., 5.5 for 150, 4.5 for 800 and 3.4 over 1,000. Municipal rates generally are below those of the privately owned concerns, despite the fact that the small municipal plant has none of the advantage of the low production costs of the great power plants. Not Reflected in Rates Thus far these vaunted advantages of big development have not been reflected in reduced rates to the consumers. One of the big anti-municipal ownership arguments is that the municipal plant doesn’t pay taxes. But in Logansport all the projects financed from the plant revenues would have otherwise appeared on the tax duplicate. Washington, Ind., has a municipal plant operated at a profit for many years under Mayor John McCarthy which entirely has wiped out the city tax levy.
Too Sane Du United Preet NEW YORK, July 2.—John R. Voorhis, 101-year-old grand sachem of Tammany hall, said today that the idea of a safe and sane Fourth of July was being carried too far. “Nowadays,” he said, “people seem to think that setting off a few rockets or watching others set them off is a celebration. That, however, is only an imitation.” Voorhis said that when he was a boy the one with the biggest firecracker was the real big man of the neighborhood. He looks forward to the time when those days will return and we will have American fireworks instead of having to shoot off “Chinese popguns.”