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R. E. Spencer “The Lady Who Came to Stay” is the first novel of R. E. Spencer and he holds the record of submitting his first manuscript to only one publisher. Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., is the publisher and it is the October choice of The Book League of America. tt tt tt BY WALTER D. HICKMAN TODAY comes off the press a book which should interest all young girls as it is the true story of the lives of ten outstanding women. “All True,” is the name of the book and the juvenile department of Brewer, Warren and Putnam is the publusher. The names of the contributors, which sounds like a blue book of worth while women, includes Delia Akclev, Amelia Earhart, Rosita Forbes, Marquerite Harrison, Dr. Marquerite Mead, Blair Niles, Marie Peary, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Armine von Tempski and Barrett Willoughby. The illustrations arc confined to (he pictures of the contributors. tt a u Have been asked to list some good non-fiction reading. Would include: “Washington Merry-Go-Round;” “Merrily I Go To Hell,” by Lady Mary Cameron; “Man’s Own Show: Civilization,” by George A. Dorsey; “Leonard Wood,” by Herman Hagedorn; “What Life Should Mean To You,” by Alfred Adler, and “Mexico,” by Stuart Chase. All of these are listed by Brentano’s as best non-fiction sellers. So you see the list is up to the minute.

Have you written your book review yet and get a chance to own anew book? Keep your reviews around 150 words or less. I will not be too severe upon the length but keep to the idea of Uie thumbnail review. R. D. Barth, 4357 North Pennsylvania street, is the winner this week and he will receive anew novel as soon as he gets in touch with me. Barth's winning review of Somerset Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence,” is as follows'. "The Moon and Sixpence.’' is a story of Charles Strickland, an English broker, who pursues closely a career resembling that of a Frenchman. In middle age he suddenly abandons his business and family tor the study of art; painting in Paris through rears of cruel poverty, until opportunity offers a voyage to the South Seas. Here he works on in solitude until his horrible death from leprosy, in a cottage whose walls he had covered with the finest. most mysterious paintings of his genius. The book is chiefly a study of temperament. Strickland is an inarticulate man who knows within himself exactly what ,Jv* wants to do. but who can not express himself in any other medium than color and line. Outwardly he is callous to an almost fiendish degree; utterly indifferent m the claims of other people, he rides them down, snarling at those who help hint and contemptuous of those who condemn him. Inwardly he is filled with a vast desire for beauty of a sort which has never been captured: this ideal he pursues to a more or less successful end. Maugham has employed all of his great intelligence, and not a little of his characteristic bitterness in the account of this man dominated by a terrible purpose. tt tt a Stanley M. Rinehart Jr., president of Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., has announced the purchase of Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. Farrar & Rinehart will immediately take over Cosmopolitan Book Corporation’s current and future publications. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation was established in 1914 as Hearst’s International Library Company, Inc. In 1919 the firm was given its present name, and Harold C. Kinsey was appointed general manager, successfully promoting a few prominent and widely selling authors such as James Oliver Curwood, Peter B. Kyne, and Harry Leon Wilson. a a Two of the editors of The Book League of America, Dr. Richard Burton and Edwin Arlington Robinson. are having volumes of verse publishedJJiis fall. “The Collected Poems of Richard Burton,” will be published on October 21 by BcbbsMerrill. Mr. Robinson's “Matthias At the Door,” will be released on September 29 by the MacMillan Company. a o a The Book League of America has just received a letter from a Methodist minister who says that he would like to get in Pouch with John Fort, author of “God in the Straw Pen,” August choice of The Book League. The minister states that the book is a long-merited revelation that should go far to help in Jhe spiritual rebirth of the church. a tt m The following new books have been added to the Business Branch library, Ohio and Meridian streets: The Century of the Reaper, Cyrus McCormick; Specialty Salesman, Casson; Practical Stock Forecasting, Dunnigan: Soviet Foreign Trade 'Menace or Promise), Budish and Shipman; Publishing and Bookselling. Mumby; Fundamentals of Auditing, Sherwood.

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PAY ROIL CUT IDEA ANGERS CITY OFFICIALS _____ Center Township Trustee i Joins Mayor in Attack on Tax Group’s Plan. AUDITOR ALSO IS IRKED Would Make Paupers of Many Now Employed, Leaders Assert. Cries that “any policy slashing $200,000 for common laborers from the city's pay roll would make paupers out of scores of present city employes” arose today from the Center township trustee’s office. County officials united to Join with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city officials in their fight to block Indiana Taxpayers’ Association’s proposal to the state tax commission to reduce the city tax rate by placing all public common labor under the emergency made-work program carried out through the township trustee. Walter Clark, attorney for Miss Hannah Noone, Center township trustee, started the rebellion at the courthouse against the proposal to let persons receiving poor relief perform all labor for the park and street departments. Sullivan Assails Move Through this program the laborers would receive pay only in the form of baskets of food instead of money. The association demanded that the state tax board eliminate the $200,000 labor item from the city budget at a hearing Thursday. Sullivan branded it as an effort to swell the ranks of the unemployed and throw men, now working, on the township poor relief lists. “The trustee's office is opposed to any plan whereby any man now employed in a public or private capacity should lose his job and thus be thrown on poor relief,” it was stated at the trustee’s office today. Dunn Joins in Battle It was pointed out it would be about as fair a policy as for private concerns of the city to discharge their workers and let the trustee’s office keep them In food. County Auditor Harry Dunn said: “I’m absolutely opposed to such a plan as proposed by the Taxpayers’ Association. It merely would create paupers and throw a large poor relief burden on the taxpayers.” “It also will kill the buying power of men now employed on city projects,” Dunn contended. Vorhies Agrees With Mayor Dow Vorhies, county commissioner, agreed with Mayor Sullivan and declared: “When you eliminate wages to save taxes, you are robbing the community of buying power.” Alfred F. Walsman, tax expert for the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, contended that township trustees will expend $1,000,000 for poor relief. The township trustee’s office contends that “Center township is handling all the poor relief cases at present that it can provide for.” GUNMEN STAGE DUEL; CHILDREN SHOT DOWN Family of Five, Bystanders, Caught in Cross-Fire. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., Oct. 2 Four gunmen, two on each side, carried on a ten-minute warfare here today, wounding each other and five members of a family, caught in the cross-fire. The five bystanders, Mr. and Mrs. Vito Rossina and their three children, were the most seriously injured. The shooting occurred in the foreign section of Niagara Falls and after police arrived residents shut themselves indoors and were uncommunicative. It was learned, however, that Stanley Kenno, 45, and Vito Perri, 45, started to leave their homes as usual this morning. Louis Gatti. 45, and Vito Depaucchio came from another house and opened fire. The five members of the Rossina family and the four gunmen were removed to the hospital.

FRESHMEN GET SPONSOR Merwyn G. Bridenstinc to Aid New Butler Fraternity. Selection of Merwyn G. Bridenstine, assistant professor of economics at Butler university, as faculty sponsor of Phi Eta Sigma, na-

tional honorary fraternity for firstyear men, was announced today. Butler chapter of the organization was installed May 7. Officers of the group are Elbert Gilliom, president; Pearce McClelland,

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vice-president: Herbert Egbert, secretary, and William Rasmussen, treasurer.

TWO STOICS WIGGLE TOES AND EARS, UNHEEDING ATTORNEY’S FERVID ELOQUENCE

By 7'imcs Special Lebanon, ind., oct. 2.— a fevered courtroom crowd, hanging on edges of seats, leaning on wnidow sills, “gobbled” the words of Charles L. Tindall, defense attorney, as he made his opening statement in the trial of his client, Mrs. Carrie Simmons, for poisoning her daughter. Cries outside the Boone circuit court of ’’Extry piper, all about the world series.” went unheard. * Every one, everybody—bailiffs,

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BANKERS BOSS U. S„ COUZENS CHARGES

Law of Jungle Used to Dominate Working Man , He Asserts

Senator James Couiens. Michigan Republican, one-time associate of Henry Ford, and the senate’s wealthiest member, long has been at loggerheads with the country's "big business ’’ In an exclusive Interview with the United Press he expresses his views on wage cuts, employers’ obligations and the suffering likely to ensue this winter nnless the wealthy aidi with their resources. Today’s interview treats with the wage situation. The second, to be published Saturday will deal with unemployment. BY JOSEPH F. HEARST United Press Staff Correspondent , (Copyright. 1931. by The Times) Birmingham, Mich., oct. 2. A group of bankers in tne United States wields almo c t the same dictatorial authority as Stalin of Russia, workers are free in theory only, and the law of the jungle rules our laborers. Senator James Couzens of Michigan asserted today in a bristling denunciation of wage reductions. The gray-haired millionaire, who has given millions to charity, and who severed alll connection with industry when elected a senator, charged New York bankers with responsibility for wage and salary reductions. “One banker who sits at the head of the executive committee of one of our great industries, has issued an order for wage cuts which will affect one million people,” the senator said. “These people are at the absolute mercy of this one banker, whose mandate also is affecting the economic security of other industries. We have not reached the same position Russia has, but we have in this country several men with almost the same dicta-

POVERTY TIGHTENS GRIP And Park Idlers See an Empty Future

BY CARLOS LANE HE sat on a bench, immobile as a wooden Indian, staring into a future where there was * nothing to see. But there was a glimmer, perhaps of Erin, in the blue of his eyes, and the corners of his mouth winked .at his ears in an habitual half-grin. Burst blood vessels showed red and purple in the skin of his cheeks and jowls. A misty memory of the old country clung to his speech as he answered the man who wanted a match. “Maybe it’s another of them ye’d be havin’?” he asked, tendering the match. They puffed their cigarets together a minute. “Winter soon,” the older man opined. “Yeah. Where you gonna sleep when it gets cold?” “Dunno. Jail, maybe, if I can

Baby Climbs in Can of Water; Almost Drowns Only a year old, Thomas Gilbert Padgett has learned the trick of pulling himself to his feet if he can find an object that suits his height. He discovered one today. It was the five-gallon lard can which his mother, Mrs. Lydia Padgett, 2929 Schofield avenue, was using to hold water for mopping the kitchen floor. Thomas dipped a rag in the water. His mother went into another room. There was a splash and the sound of the baby’s feet beating against the tin of the lard can. Rushing into the kitchen, she found the baby head down in the can. His face and upper part of his body were submerged. Seizing the child, Mrs. Padgett ran screaming from the house. Halted by the child’s grandfather, George Padgett, Mrs. Padgett became hysterical while he worked with the baby. Police said that through his efforts the baby’s life was saved. At city hospital, further medical treatment was administered.

SIXTEENTH STREET PAVING IS BLOCKED

Paving and widening of Sixteenth street from Capitol to Northwestern avenues today was blocked until next year. The delay adds several months more to the nearly seventeen years CONDITIONS IMPROVING, ROBINSON DECLARES Tells Real Estate Board That Grip of Depression Is Weakening. From sources close to the government comes word that the nation- wide economic depression is improving,” declared Senator Arthur R. Robinson at the meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday noon. “I know times are bad and the economic depression hangs like a pall over the country and the world,” he declared. “I hear that conditions in other parts of the country are much worse than in Indiana. I’m sure, however, that the general tone throughout the country is better than it has been for some time.” Senator Robinson also discussed impressions obtained on his trip in the Orient. Train Victim Identified By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 2. The body of a boy killed by a Monon freight train here Sept. 16 has been tentatively identified today as Lee Oldfield, whose home was near Ottawa, 111. The identification was made by Maurice Hart, Ottawa police chief, who examined pictures of the dead youth.

jurors were palmed by Tindall's words. Every one but the Two Stoics. And as Tindall held Mrs. Simmons’ character as being “pure as the driven snow,” “their case is wholly circumstantial,” or told how impossible it would be for a crime like the one charged to have been committed, “for these children nursed at nature’s fountain, that mother’s breast” the Two Stoics sat blocking the doorway to the courtroom.

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torial power as Stalin of Russia.” Whether other companies will follow the lead of the several big corporations in cutting wages, Senator Couzens was not prepared to say. He expressed the belief that many smaller concerns already have reduced wages without attracting publicity. "1\T OTE the * act these In business leaders have picked out the start of cold weather to issue their wage cutting orders,” he said. “It would appear they

get there,” he said. “But it’s none o’ th’ farm I'm wantin’, y'understand. Too much work they’d give a man out there. , “Now, if I could think o’ som’thin’ easy like, maybe with two thousand bucks in it, why, I’d be takin’ the chanct in a minute. “Maybe get caught, well, the big house fer the winter. An’ if I did get away with it, man, it’s me and the two thousand fer the south. New Orleans, Jacksonville, Birmingham . . . there’s a town for the likes of ye.” a a a BUT apparently he wasn’t thinking very hard about where the two grand lay in its nest. He only looked, without saying anything more for the time, out over the park, where men sat singly and in pairs on the benches, or lay in knots of four or five beneath the trees.

during which the street improvement has been planned, but never undertaken. The works board today decided not to act on bids for ten days which automatically sets them aside. The board then will be faced with readvertising for bids for the fourth time in the last few weeks. Decision against action was made by the board after a fight between asphalt and cement interests. A cement contractor alleged asphalt interests had “bought” signatures of persons who signed petitions for the street to be paved with the material. Widening and paving of the remainder of the street east of Capitol avenue, already let to contractors, will be continued. BUTLER TO SHARE ITS GRID GAME RECEIPTS Huge Crowd Expected to Se e Elks’ Charity Project. Butler university will share the proceeds of the Butler-Ball State Teachers’ football game, Oct. 9, with the Indianapolis lodge of Elks for the benefit of the Elks’ charity fund, it was announced today. Elks throughout the state are expected to send delegations to the game, which will be played at night. Muncie lodge members will be here in a body to root for Ball State, one of the five state of Indiana. Tickets for the game will be on sale at all Walgreen drug stores, Gray, Gribben and Gray and Spalding’s.

TINDALL’S fervent verbiage grew louder. He halfstaggered as if in pain to demonstrate how Mrs. Simirlons felt after she'd tasted the poison capsules. “’For God's sake, can’t you do something?’ cried Mrs. Simmons as she saw her two daughters suffering from the poison and nurses and doctors working to save their lives.” Tindall related to the jury, in refutation of the state's charges that Mrs. Simmons

awaited the psychological moment. With winter coming on, resources low and jobs hard to find, the men have no alternative but to accept. “You will notice no such cuts have been ordered by the railroads. because they first must negotiate with well-organized brotherhoods before changing a wage scale.” Some employers, Couzens said, point out that this is a free country and that men may quit their jobs if they object to working conditions. “Such talk simply depicts a theoretical picture because we have had circumstantial evidence in the last two years that men in this country are not free,” he said. ,4‘They have been hired and fired at will, required to work such hours as their employers dictated, and accept such wages as their employers offered—this all on the assumption that labor is a commodity and subject to the law of supply and demand, which is the theory of the jungle.” The theory that the wage scale should come down because the cost of living has been reduced was declared unsound and unfair by Senator Couzens. a u “T do not admit of the principle JL that wage earners are entitled to a living wage only, and that when costs drop, wages should

One, on whom the dust of the roads still was caked, shared a luncheon of cold, unbuttered and unsweetened pancakes with another hungry man. There was a group of Mexicans, one slumbering on the edge of a bench, from which it seemed he must fall any minute. He was sleeping off a marihuana jag. At their feet a stranger had dropped a short time before, as usual bumming a match. They chattered in native Mex. Was it true, they were asked, this marihuana—loco weed from which flying smokes are rolled—could be bought here? That was a rumor “No, senor. Yo no se. No tengo ...” shrugging a shoulder. ANOTHER of their nationality joined them. The chatter was rapid. He had been sent for a bottle of liquor, but could not locate one. “But, surely, senor. . . “Well, go back, and look again.” “Who was the stranger? a colloquial idiom here described him) . . . .” “Oh, muy bien.” Satisfied. No marihuana. But as the stranger strolled across the park, a swarthy young fellow intercepted him in a more secluded spot. Dizzy dreams at two for a quarter, he offered. The old Irishman nudged his new-found friend as a girl walked through the park en route downtown. If y had only the do-re-mi.” he sighed, and followed her path until his eyes rested beyond her, on a dilapidated structure across the street. >* tt u „ back in the old days, there was a saloon,” he said. “I can remember back, I guess it were about in seven, they had an election and th’ place was open as wide as y’ll ever see Whisky free, and five bucks fer yer vote. I guess I voted a dozen times.” “Yeah, but there ain’t no election now. What are you going to do for the dough?” “Lissen,” he muttered confidentially. “Jes go down to the Circle tonight. ’Bout the time the shows is all out. Hit ’em fer a dime, a quarter, anything they’ll be givin’ ye. Four or five smackers a night y’ can make. The town’s easy. Bulls lay off, and the gents have got it.” “Ain’t got a stake now, have you?” he asked. “I know where we kin git a drink, but it’s four bits. Good stuff, though.” Assured that the other half of the crowd was as penniless as himself, he sighed again, and returned to his eternal staring. a- - pop,” his younger friend >3 wanted to know. “How’s a man gonna sleep this winter, get in jail, I mean, and still take no chance of getting stuck in the farm?” “Hit the poorhouses. But the grub, it’s loflsy. Me fer the jail.. Bootleggin’s as good as anything, I guess.” It was an idea, but not a good one, even at the time, the younger man thought, as he rose to leave, to go back from the indolent watches of the park where met sit all day watching blackbirds and sparrows pecking for crumbs, even as they peck for bread crusts and handouts. “No,” agreed the old man. “You’re right. I wouldn't be bootleggin’ long. If I had any liquor, 111 be damned if sellin’ it I’d be. I’d drink it meself. S’long.”

acted “cold-blooded” at the time of the tragedy. The Two Stoics clasped hands around akimbo knees. They were unconcerned. They measured shoe sizes, slapped at each other, permitted any one who so desired to walk over them in making a courtroom exit. a tt tt TINDALL’S voice drowned the cries of “extra papers.” It reverberated in the court room. Then it changed to a soft hiss.

be lowered correspondingly. If we pay but a living wage how can the great majority of our 45,000.000 workers ever hope ,to prepare for times of stress? “If it takes all they make in order to live, there can be no provision for the future. A more equitable division between capital and labor of the fruits of industry is in order, but it can't be brought about when our so-called great leaders arbitrarily tell their employes what portion they may or may not have. “Our government has provided an army and a navy to protect

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Lena Malena. the German actress who captivated Hollywood with her scintillant eyes, is the bride of Wilmer Anderson, a banker. They announced their wedding and declared they’d go to Lake Tahoe. Cal., for a honeymoon, and then would live in Beverly Hills. Her marriage license said her real name was Eleanore Ereth and that she was 42.

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(Continued from Page One) talk to Jean so she would swallow the tube of the stomach pump. “My wife was frantic. She pleaded with us and asked ‘My God, can’t you help her.’ ” Returning to the picnic scene story, Simmons told how he had warned the group not to the sandwiches. Collapses in Seat “After I ate some of mine I said, ‘Folks, don’t eat those sandwiches,’ ” he said. “My eyes burned, I was dizzy and I felt like my knees were going to give away.” * “What was done in reference to you and your Wife after Jean’s death?” W. H. Parr Jr., defense attorney asked. Simmorfs studied a minute, and collapsed. Mrs. Simmons broke out in tears during the testimony and whimpered when Simmons told of stopping near Indianapolis en route to Lebanon to look at bird baths. The court room was packed by early risers who were thronged in front of the county building before 6 in the morning. Many couldn't get. seats. The majority of those who were seated refused to leave the court during the noon recess. News Vendors Barred Standing room value increased by leaps and bounds after part of the room was roped off to prevent too many from lining the walls and disturbing the hearing. The court and attaches had difficulty with newsboys who broke into the courtroom during the trial to sell an Indianapolis paper. The news vendors were ordered to remain away from the courtroom. Simmons, called as the first state witness Thursday afternoon, set the festive board—that ended in murder—for all the world to see. Simmons repudiated from the witness box statements he had made earlier to Coroner Owsley. “I didn’t shave in the kitchen, as the coroner’s investigation said I did,” he declared in speaking of his own whereahputs in his home while Mrs. Simmons was making the sandwiches. He declared his wife became ill from tasting one of the poison capsules, but admitted he did not see her taste the strychnine. Sweeping a hand across his brow,

He told of the family life of Mrs. Simmons. His kerchief flashed from a pocket to wipe his brow. He dipped into the well of pathos and wrote words for • all to hear. Simmons cried. Mrs. Simmons dipped a handkerchief tp an eye. Dale—a son—clucked his head. Elizabeth, a daughter, lifted a bit of linen to her eyes. Court room women rubbed wet eyes. But the Two Stoics kept on with their shoe-measuring game. Tindall’s speech swung to high-

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the people; we have state police organizations and some phoney commissions Ho protect investors, and an elaborate school system in which to train the young, but I will be damned if I have found any organization to care for the stomachs and physical well-being of the youth of the nation. “We have believed that our government ‘is for the people and by the people,’ and is maintained for their welfare, but our vaunted civilization has not yet progressed sufficiently far to see that the government has a responsibility in securing a man’s job or his age.”

shifting in his chair, or drumming his fingers on the arm of a witness box, he betrayed his nervousness to court and jury. At times his voice became guttural in tone as he eyed first Roy Adney, special prosecutor, and then the jury that sat in front of him. Mrs. Simmons seemed tuned to every word of her husband’s plea in her behalf. The care in her eyes shifted for a gleam of interest as he spoke. He even plucked a toothpick for a bit of evidence in his wife’s favor, by declaring that the toothpicks she placed in her sandwiches and took to the picnic were “round and smooth,” while the three that he found on his bun at the Lebanon picnic ground were “square and rough.” He was called as the first state witness because of the refusal of Judge John W. Hornaday to sustain a motion of the state to exclude all witnesses from the courtroom. # Saturday the curious can go back to their crops and football scores, forjudge Hornaday has decreed a reress of the trial from tonight until Monday morning at 9 o’clock. MRS. MICHELSON DIES Physicist’s Widow Succumbs Following Serious Operation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Mrs. Albert Michelson, widow of the noted physicist, died today in Emergency hospital. Mrs. Michelson underwent an operation last week for gall stones, and her condition soon after was considered grave. She had been visiting her daughter,. Mrs. Festus Foster. FINANCE BILL PASSES Commons Approves Measure Sends It to Lords. By United Press LONDON, Oct. 2.—The house of commons approved without a vote today the third reading of the finance bill, making the budget effective. The bill was sent at once to the house of lords, where it was read for the first time. The lords then arose. Passage was scheduled for completion Monday, after which it will be approved by the klng. v "

er keys and more impassioned words. The handkerchiefs were lifted tp eyes by the Simmons family. - Every one, everybody, caught at his every phrase except the Two Stoics and they—well, they— Buddy Richardson, 4, and Jimmy Small, 3, the sheriff’s son—they had quit their shoe-measuring gama for the little friendly byplay of stuffing their fingers in their ears and wiggling their outstretched hands at each other, “donkey fashion.'

MAYOR FIGHTS MOVE TO KILL UTILITIES TAX Efforts to Hamstring City in Regulation Program Are Opposed. PLEADS FOR AIRPORT Sullivan Sees Serious Loss in Progress If Levy Is Eliminated. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Charging that Indianapolis utilities rates are excessive, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan pleaded with the state tax board to retain the 2-mill utilities district tax in the city budget and “not cripple our chances for relief.” The plea was made Thursday afternoon, when elimination of the levy was asked by the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, which, in part, is utility supported. Hearing on the city budget was resumed before the board today. Commissioners indicated at the hearing Thursday that they are out to make a cut. ' Budget slashes were advocated by Albert F. Walsman for the taxpayers’ association, in the absence of Harry Miesse, who had gone home ill. Urges Levy Elimination He urged that both the 3-mill mimicipal airport and utilities district levies be eliminated. "We need experts to carry on our utilities fight and it takes money to employ them,” Mayor Sullivan defended. “The 2-mill levy gives us an opportunity to put forth a program for a utility district, free from politics. “Our utilities bills are too big and we are going to try to get relief. In addition to attorneys, we will need to emp'oy engineers and accountants to testify as witnesses. “I am sure that the state tax board will not cripple us in the fight to make the gas company a municipal property and to lower utility rates here.” Pleads for .Airport The mayor pointed out that the airport had been inherited by his administration and must be maintained. It is one of the finest in the country and factory sites there will be used to bring new industries when times return to normal, he declared. Philip Zoercher of the tax board asserted that he saw no more reason for the city to finance an airport than a railway station. Walsman launched his attack by requesting elimination of $200,000 from the park board and street department appropriations, used largely for employment of common labor. The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association idea is to replace the paid labor by persons on poor relief and make the latter work for their baskets of food. Shows Plan Is Futile Jackiel Joseph, park board member, was on hand to explain futility of such plan. He pointed out that men working just for their food need “a foreman to at least .every ten,” and that to turn off lowpaid workers merely adds to the poor relief burden. Nearly an hour was consumed -n wrangling over whether the gasoline tax revenues should have been published with the budget, James E. Deery, city attorney, explained that all street repairs are financed by the gasoline tax fund, that this item is not in the regular budget and the gas tax being in or out has absolutely no effect on the SI.OB rate. Besides, its disposition is all prescribed by law. But members of the tax board like to see the figures in print and the mayor agreed to accommodate them. Would Cut Hospital Budget Effort to cut the city hospital budget also was made by Walsman. It is estimated that the patients will increase 25 per cent there this year. Following Walsman’s assault, Wil- ! ham Book, Chamber of Commerce tax trimmer, took up the cudgels for the small change slices which he hopes will take $112,000 from the city’s general fund. Francis M. Coleman, chief deputy city controller, is defending the budget against Book today. It was explained at the outset that the SI.OB rate is based on the idea that $50,000 will oe saved on the items listed. If this saving was not anticipated, the rate would have to be Sl.Ofi. it was asserted. N. Y. LAND IS ON BLOCK Sale of 523,000,000 in Real Estate Ordered in Foreclosure. Bli United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—More than $28,000,000 worth of real estate along Broadway, including the thirty-four story Benenson building, long a landmark in New York City’s business canyons, will go under the auctioneer's hammer, Oct. 23. It will mark the largest sale of real estate at auction following foreclosure of mortgage, ever held here. Foreclosure auction against the Benenson City Terminal Corporation, owners of the real estate, was brought by the Manufacturers’ Trust Company when the Benenson concern failed to pay interest on bonds held by the trust company. ENDS - 42-YEAR - SERVICE John Ferris, Former B. O. Agent. Retired by Road. Forty-two years of service with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad had ended today for John S. Ferris. 2209 North Delaware street, who was retired Thursday. Ferris served as passenger agent of the road in Decatur, 111., for several years and was transferred to Indianapolis four years ago.