Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1931 — Page 5

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TOWNSHIPS IN HOT FIGHT FOR UTIUTVTAXES Perry Residents to Demand Benefit of New Power Plant’s Location. Petition carrying the names of several hundred freeholders of Perry township was being prepared today for presentation to county commissioners demanding that they rule White River as the boundary between Perry and Decatur townships. Meanwhile, George Burkhart, Perry township attorney, was advised to take all legal actions necessary in the court battle which ultimately may decide which township can collect taxes on South Harding street properties of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, assessed at $5,000,000. Farmers and other freeholders of Perry declare they will carry the fight to the supreme court, if necessary, in order that their overburdensome tax rate may be lessened. The light company would pay about $25,000 less taxes in Decatur than in Perry because of a difference in the tax rates. The rate in Perry is $2.13 as compared with '11.55 in Decatur. Taxes on the Harding street plant would reduce the Perry rate considerably, it is said. For years Perry has been paying high taxes due to the fact that for the most part it is an agricultural township, freeholders declare. First victory in the court fight *vas won Wednesday when Perry township secured an Injunction in superior court one prohibiting the board of review from placing the $5,000,000 tax assessment on the tax duplicate until the case is decided. The petition now being secured states that since in 1833 the county commissioners decided that all land east of White river should be in Perry township, that they now can rule similarly. The 1833 decision was given in answer to a petition of Decatur citizens. Although, the board of review has fixed the assessment on properties in the dispute area, it appears willing to let the two townships decide their dispute themselves. The board placed the assessment in Decatur realizing it would be contested. SCHOOL AID FUND IS GIVEN OGDEN RULING $250,000 Back Payment to Be Made After Current Sum Is Deducted. The $250,000 deduction from state school funds for back payments on State aid will be made after the 45 per cent current state aid funds have been taken out of the school fund, it has been ruled by AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden. This makes the first total state aid payment $1,105,000, and leaves $795,000 for distribution by the state to schools other than state aid. Ogden’s ruling was asked by Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. When chain store tax collections commence the money will go into the state aid fund and the result is expected to be a surplus, rather than deficit, according to George C. Cole, state superintendent. SEARCH FOR RARE FROG U. S. Scientist to Look for Toad in British Guiana. Ey Science Service WASHINGTON, July 17.—’The Surinam toad, a rare and most curious species that carries its eggs and young in pockets on its back, will be the main objective of Dr. William M. Mann, director of the United State National Zoological park, when he leaves on July 22 for an expedition into British Guiana. There are a lot of other animals in South America he would like to have, Dr. Mann told Science Service, but his heart is specially set on getting a collection of these interesting toads for the new reptile house in the Washington zoo, the newest and finest show-place for cold-blooded animals in America. He expects also to bring back many cages full of other strange animals not yet represented in the National Zoological park collection. It’s Something Anyhow WASHINGTON, July 17.—It’s an ill heat, wave that cooks up no good. The present wave, according to Health Officer W. C. Fowler, has ended the most severe epidemic of measles ever known here.

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Towering above the historic Hudson river—a mammoth link between New Jersey and New York—the George Washington Memorial bridge is naring completion. Above is a striking photo of two of the giant cables which support the great structure. Inset is a general view of the span, which is expected to carry more vehicular traffic than any other bridge in the world.

Who Wouldn’t? 30-Foot Sea Serpent in Lake Erie; the Boys Fiee for Home.

Sandusky, 0., July 17.— Lake Erie navigators today were on the lookout for a 30-foot sea serpent reported sighted by at least ten persons. H. E. Welsh, a fisherman, told of seeing the serpent while fishing from a small boat. He said he first thought the “monster” was a row of small kegs in the ■water, but discovered his mistake when it raised a huge head resembling that of an alligator. Campers near the mouth of the Portage river verified Welsh’s story. They said they saw the serpent in the river not far from Port Clinton. Jacob Teasel, Sandusky fisherman, lent further credence to the reports when he told of seeing “something like a huge limb” in the Sandusky river below Fremont. O. “The serpent must be at least thirty feet long,” Teasel said. “W e didn’t take time to haul anchor, but cut the rope and rowed ashore as fast as we could.” CAR ATTACHED, HE SUES San Diego Man Says His Auto Is Legal “Hoss-Less Carriage.” By Scripps-lloicard Newspaper Alliance SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 17.—The hoss-less carriage still is fighting for equal rights, and C. Leon De Aryan is its champion. De Aryan is publisher of a weekly newspaper and owns a S2O touring car. Under an old California law a horse-drawn vehicle is a “tool of the trade” of cartmen, draymen, hucksters, peddlers and such, and can not be attached. De Aryan says his car is a tool of his trade as a newspaper man. Judge Eugene Daney ruled otherwise. Hence, his car is subject to attachment for a doctor’s bill. De Aryan is appealing to the higher courts. Seven Held in Mill Strike PAWTUCKET, R. 1., July 17. Three young women and four men were arrested here today in connection with the Pawtucket and Central textile strikes. They were riding in an automobile in which police said they confiscated stones and circulars. „

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ROOMER LOOTS LODGING HOUSE Leaves With Jewelry in Landlady’s Absence. Mrs. Fred Stephenson, 1421 South Meridian street, had anew roomer Thursday afternoon, but he only stayed a short time. Today she told police that he had taken a room, but left while she was at a store. He took jewelry valued at S9B with him, she reported. Theft of a watch valued at S2O from his home was reported to police today by Clifford Bauer, 3826 Kenwood avenue. Breaking into the lunch car at 347 West Maryland street, operated by Mrs. Nellie Miller, thieves stole food and candy valued at sls, BULL-LIFTER DESERTS HIS ‘PET’ ON TOUR ‘Haven’t Anything to Hoist Now,’ Says H. E. Mann. By Bcripps-Haward Newspaper Alliance MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 17. H. E. Mann (He) Mann, the bull lifter, is back in Memphis after a barnstorming tour to the Pacific coast. He left his bull at Tucson, Ariz., because “it was too hot to take him across the desert.’’ “I miss the old bull because I don’t have anything to lift now,” he said. “I’m going back in about a month and get him.” Mann left here about a month ago for Los Angeles, Cal., stopping off along the way to demonstrate his strength by lifting the bull, which weighs more than 600 pounds. MAYOR IS UNDER FIRE John Porter’s Recall Asked by Los Angeles Taxpayers. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Mayor John C. Porter of Los Angeles, he who refused to drink liquor while touring France with a party of American mayors, was under fire today in recall proceedings. Petitions for his recall were circulated by the Los Angeles Taxpayers’ Association. He is charged with “failure to carry out his pledges and promises.”

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JUDGE BLAMES ‘LURID GRIME’ ON PROHIBITION Al Capone’s Reputation Is Legendary, Says Chicago Jurist. MONTREAL, Quebec, July 17. — Sensational crime in Chicago is due to prohibition and Al Capone’s reputation is chiefly legendary, Chief Justice Harry M. Fisher, newly elected head of the Cook county criminal courts, declared here today. Justice Fisher is accompanying the Illinois state commission on prisons, parole and probation which is to sail today from Quebec on the Empress of Britain to study prison and parole methods in France, England and Germany. “Sensational crime in Chicago undoubtedly is due to prohibition,” he said. “Prohibition tends to corrup- , tion of police and other enforce- j

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ment authorities and thus the morale of an entire city is lowered. “It is, however, impossible to gauge exactly how far prohibition is ; responsible for crime.” Fisher smilingly declared that : much of Capone’s reputation was I legendary. | “Yet,” he continued, “what can | you expect when the law prohibits 1 a great business, but can not enforce its prohibition? Liquor trading is being carried on and many millions a week are spent on it. The bootleggers operate outside the law and without legal protection. They have to enforce their contracts in their own way—either by violence and guns, or through bribery.” NABS SUSPECTED THIEF Cop Arrests Youth, Seizes Cigars, Cigarets and Candy. Pursuing four youths across va- j cant lots in the 100 block Fulton street early today, Patrolman Harry W. Canterbury arrested Glendia Doane, 19, of 537 East New York j street. Canterbury said as they i fled they dropped a large quantity : of cigars, cigarets and candy. Doane is charged with vagrancy | and police confiscated a car in which the youths were riding. 1

WOMAN HELD IN DEATHOF MATE Insists Husband Shot Self as He Played Hoax. By United Press CHICAGO, July 17.—Unshaken in the story that Harold Scott, 37, committed suicide duripg a quarrel over her “free and easy” conduct,

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! Mrs. Hazel Scott, 33, was in jail today on a charge of manslaughter. The charge was filed against Mrs. Scott after the puzzled coroner and police continued the inquest until July 23. She was held under $lO,000 bond.. “I was bom and reared in Montana, where women lead a free and easy life,” the widow told authorities. “My husband was jealous, so I thought I would scare him I wrote a note saying I was going to kill myself and fired a shot into the ceiling. “When my husband discovered the hoax he took the gun, shouted that “Two can play at this game,’

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then shot himself through th 4 heart.” Urges Contributions to Church tBy Scripps-Hotrard Newspaper Alliance PITTSBURGH, July 17.—“ Wage earners and stylishly gowned women. who think nothing of spending $25 for hats and large sums for beauty preparations.” should contribute at least $1 weekly to church, in the opinion of Father Thomas F. Coakley, pastor of the Sacred Heart church.

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