Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1931 — Page 2

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CEILING CRASH PERILS LIVES AT YULE FETE Seven Hurt, One Seriously, in Near-Tragedy at City School. A tangled mass of steel and plaster in the primary room of William Evans school No. 2, at 2700 South Pennsylvania street, today was a grim reminder of a Christmas fete turned into panic Wednesday afternoon when the ceiling collapsed. Three of eleven children in the room were hurt and four women were injured, one seriously, In the accident, which nearly resulted in a pre-holiday tragedy. The ceiling collapsed as the children, all primary grade pupils, were being led Into the room from the second floor auditorium, where 200 persons, mostly women and children, had assembled for the annual Christmas program. Ceiling Crashes Down As the crowd left the auditorium, the plaster, laths and wire netting crashed from the ceiling on to the desks which, earlier in the day, had been occupied by children preparing for the Christmas entertainment. Mrs. E. T. Talkington, 52, of 2858 South Meridian street, incurred a broken collar bone and fractures of the right arm and Mrs. Arthur Evans, 32, of 2932 Beech street, was cut and bruised. Others hurt were Mrs. Catherine Moran, 126 West Southern avenue, shock and bruises; Miss Althea Sullivan, 22, of 2716 Madison avenue, teacher, cuts, and Robert Vallata, 6, of 512 East Troy avenue, minor bruises. Police and hospital attaches learned the six other children in the room were injured slightly, two of them suffering leg and arm cuts. Vallata, however, was the only child located by authorities and newspaper men. Panic Reigns at Scene He returned to the school after he had been taken home by a passerby, Dazed at first, Robert recovered and played wih the miniature airplane he had carried into the illfated room. He said he remembered being j knocked down as the plaster ; crashed, but said he “guessed he ! had only a couple of bruises.” Firemen and police cleared the mass of debris from the desks in j the room immediately after the i crash. Panic that reigned as ! mothers and their children fought to flee the building and persons in the vicinity, who had heard the crash, jammed exits, hampered authorities in their work. Hundreds of pounds of debris were removed by police and firemen, j and school authorities worked near- I ly all night clearing the wreckage from the structure. The crash was heard for saveral blocks and people came in automobiles and on foot, blocking traffic near the school. Janitor Halts Children George Steinecker, janitor, ran to the entrance of the room when he heard the crash and held a score of other children, led by Miss Anna Fogarty, teacher, from entering the room. Investigation into the ceiling collapse was started today by Center township authorities. Indianapolis police said ceilings of other rooms in the building are in dangerous condition and they will halt reopening of the school until all rooms are repaired. Omer Brewer, principal, said the building only was ten years old and he could give no explanation for the accident. The women were planning a NewYear’s pa eant w-hen the accident j happened. The children had com- j pleted their parts in the Christmas fete and the guests were preparing ■ to leave the auditorium w’hen the i crash occurred. MRS. FRANK ZUBER IS BURIED IN CALIFORNIA Rites Held in Los Angeles for Mother of Roy W. Howard. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Funeral services were to be held in Glendale today for Mrs. Frank Zuber, ; mother of Roy W. Howard, chair- j man of the board of the ScrippsHoward newspapers. Howard arrived here from New j York Wednesday night to attend , the funeral, which was set for 11 a. m. in the Little Church of the j Flowers in Glendale. The Rev. C. P. Dubois will con- J duct the services and Ruth Patterson Miller will be soloist. The body wall be cremated. Mrs. Zuber died Saturday after an illness of several months. Her husband, whom she married fifteen years ago, some years after the death of William A. Howard, and her son, are the only survivors. AGED MAN ACCUSED OF SLAYINGJN SHACK Pauper Attorney to Be Defense Counsel at South Bend. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 24. Patrick J. Flynn, 68, charged with manslaughter in the death of Hugh Burns, 50. in a river shack, will be defended by George Farage, pauper attorney, It was announced by Judge Dan Pyle of circuit court where Flynn was arraigned. The court would not permit a plea until a conference of the accused and his | counsel. Interested in details of the state- j ment he made to Prosecutor Samuel \ P. Schwartz was shown by Flynn while he was in the court room. "I don't like the way this sentence 1 reads,” Flynn said, pointing to a part of the statement. The sentence ; was changed. Wage Seizure Halted Vy Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 24. A finding was entered in circuit court in favor of Ralph C. Cole against i Alonzo and Edith Noland, who sought to attach his wages at a factory to satisfy a sllß judgment entered in a Pipecreek township j justice of peace court. Cole, suing j to enjom collection of the judgment, contended the original suit concerned rent owing the Nolands by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cole and that it was not indebtedness owed him.

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Upper—When the ceiling on the first floor of the William Evans school, No. 2, at 2700 South Pennsylvania street, collapsed Wednesday afternoon, desks ordinarily occupied by 6 and 7-year-old pupils, were covered with debris. Plaster, steel lathes and wire netting crashed on the desks. Lower Lest —Robert Vallata, 6,

PLAN FOR TAX RELIEF PUSHED Meeting Called for Jan. 2 to Draft Program. Actual work of preparing a program providing for equalization of the tax burden, as demanded by the Indiana Farm Bureau, through a special session of the general assembly, was two steps nearer completion today. First of these was the joint pledge of State Chairman R. Earl Peters (Democrat) and Elza O. Rogers (Republican) that if a special session is called there would be no political jockeying and declaring for a moratorium on partisan politics. The second step was announcement by Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush and Walter Myers, Speaker of the house of representatives, that they would confer on Jan. 2 and select a committee representing agriculture, labor, industrial, legislative and other groups to meet and plan the necessary tax equalizing legislation. Every group in the state will be given a voice in the discussion and in the framing of the program, they pledged, although an effort will be made to keep the committee from becoming too large and too unwieldy. FORMER SLAVE ENDS LIFE IN TENEMENTS Aged Negro Plunges to Death From Window in New York. By United Press J NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Uncle Daniel Hill, born a slave in 1844, down near Rocky Mount, N. C., blind in one eye and feeble, “here of late has been thinking he was a boy again back on Cool plantation in Edgecombe county.” “Tuesday.” according to his daughter, Miss Georgiana Hill, “he cut up papers and threw them into a corner; said he was a'fixin’ feed for the livestock.’ “And, yesterday, I had to go away a few hours to wash windows and couldn’t watch Uncle Dan.” When she returned, the old-time slave was dead. He had jumped out of a third-floor tenement window. “Just reckon he climbed through the window, thinking he was crawling into Cap’n Battle’s silo,” Georgiana said. Uncle Daniel was the last of the slaves owned by the family of George Gordon Battle, 37 Wall street. CHRISTMAS GREETING SEVEN YEARS LATE Mysterious Old Man” Delivers Card Mailed in 1924. A Yuletide mystery, involving a Christmas greeting delivered seven years late and a tottering old man, confronted police today. It was discovered Wednesday night by Mrs. Nettis Rusie, a widow, 2419 Park avenue, apartment 4, when she found the Christmas greeting, mailed in 1924, in the mail box at her home. It had been mailed by Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher, then living at 846 Middle drive Woodruff Place, and was addressed to the Rusie home, then in the 2300 block Park avenue. Mystified, Mrs. Rusie displayed the greeting to other persons in the apartment. She was informed by an occupant that the greeting had been “delivered” Wednesday night by an old man who lit a match in the apartment hallway to find Mrs. Rusie’s mailbox. Cooler Case Deferred By Times Special NOBLE3VILLE, Ind., Dec. 24. Trial of a case in which Harry Cooler, Indianapolis billiard expert, seeks $5,000 damages from the Hook Drug Company, has been postponed in Hamilton circuit Court here, where it was brought on a change of venue from Marion county. The trial had been set for Wednesday, but unable to attend.

of 513 East Troy avenue, one of the seven pupils trapped in the room, yas knocked to the floor by falling plaster and carried out by a passerby. Lower Right—Robert Johnston, 118 Albany street, lost his hat in the debris and spent the remainder of the afternoon searching for it.

Alky-haul . By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 There’s a lot of wailing in some of the larger government departments, and a shortage of Christmas liquor. A suave salesman, driving a car with New York license plates, canvassed the departments recently taking orders for “pure grain alcohol” at S2O for five gallons delivered. Cash must be paid with order. He is said to have taken orders for as much as $3,300 worth in one department, and to have been given the cash. The alcohol has not been delivered and the salesman seems to have been called away on business or something.

GIRL RONS INTO GAR Three Hurt in Traffic Accidents Reported to Police. Running into an automobile Wednesday afternoon, Norma Bradshaw, 6, of 1712 Massachusetts avenue, suffered a broken collar bone, head and hip injuries. The accident occurred at Commerce and Massachusetts avehues. Russell J. Harding, 3437 Graceland avenue, driver of the car, and witnesses, told police the girl ran from behind a parked car. She was taken to the city hospital. Struck by an auto as she crossed Massachusetts avenue at East street, Mr. Faye Deßose, of 450 East Vermest street, was injured on the head and hands Wednesday night. The car was driven by Russell H. Dalbey, 29, of 910 East Twenty-second street. Ralph E. Bogert, 2924 North Capitol avenue, is recovering today from injuries incurred Tuesday when he was struck by a taxi at Twentyninth and Illinois streets. MRS. INEZ B. PIERCY IS GRANTED DIVORCE Awarded Custody of Children and Alimony in Jlisconduct Suit. Mrs. Inez B. Piercy, 4166 Guilford avenue, today was granted a divorce by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams on tjie grounds of cruelty and inhuman treatment. Under the decree, Mrs. Piercy was given custody of her two daughters, and her husband, Edward C. Piercy, Indianapolis business man, was directed to pay $4,000 alimony and $l3O a month for support of the children. Piercy sought divorce in a crosscomplaint. He asked custody of the children, Norma, 10, and Mildred, 9. Mrs. Piercy sought $35,000 alimony. Testimony of Piercy’s alleged conduct with a woman in a Bloomington (Ind.) hotel, this fall was given Wednesday by Mrs. Piercy. Mrs. Goldie Vanhorn, 2022 Sugar Grove avenue, was named corespondent. SET RITES FOR VETERAN Funeral to be Held Saturday for Amos Haines, 84. Funeral services for Amos Haines, 84, Civil war veteran, will be held at the home. 620 North Rural street, at 2 Saturday afternoon. Burial will be *in Crown Hill cemetery. Before his retirement eight years ago Mr. Haines was an employe of a planing mill. ’LEGGER ASKS LIMIT Bedford Man Brings Liquor Into Court and Surrenders. By I'nited Press BEDFORD, Ind.. Dec. 24.—Edward Glover, 48. decided the liquor business was unprofitable, and, carrying a sack of bottled whisky, he surrendered to Justice of the Peace J. V. Stapp here. Glover explained that family difficulties contributed to his decision to give himself up. “Every time I give them a dollar they want two,” he said. “I don’t deny I’ve been bootlegging and I want the limit. |

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<320 MILES OF INDIANA ROADS EAVEDJN YEAR Other Work During 1931 Included Completion of 92 Bridges. The Indiana highway department completed 320 miles of concrete pavement in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, and because some of this is 30 and 40 feet wide, is the equivalent to 353 miles of standard twolane pavement, according to a review of the yea* announced today. On the same date the department had completed sixteenth miles of bituminous pavement, and made dustless with oil mat top £tnd oil treated surface, 850 miles. During the calendar year of 1931 the department will complete 350 miles of cement pavement or thp equivalent to 383 miles of two, three and four lane highway, accorc ing to John J. Brown, department director, in advance analysis of the commission’s annual report. Total department receipts for the fiscal year of 1931, including a balance of $1,528,862.92 carried over from the preceding year, were $27,673,214.24. Total disbursements were $20,771,731.17, leaving a balance on hand Sept. 30 of $6,367,762.98, of which $5,100,000 was held in reserve to pay for work under construction, according to Ralph E. Simpson, assistant director. Ninety-Two Bridges Built During the fiscal year the bridge department completed ninety-two bridges, and structural work was outstanding in view of progress made on the erection of three of the largest bridges ever undertaken on Indiana highways, namely the Ohio river bridge at Evansville, and bridges across the Wabash river at Vincennes and west of Princeton connecting with Mt. Carmel, 111. The Vincennes bridge is a memorial to George Rogers Clark. Among the bridges were five grade separations carrying highways over railroads. Indiana collected, according to Brown, nearly one and one-half million dollars more federal money for state highway work completed during the fiscal year than in any year since the department was created in 1919. Total federal money collected amounted to $5,153,380.39. The largest sum collected in any previous year, records show, was $3,704,939.89 in 1924. For the first time in the department’s history application was made for nearly $200,000 more federal money than had so far been allocated to this state. Recapitulation of the financial report shows $15,204,963 spent for pavement and bridges; $2,877,969 for maintenance; $519,105 for equipment and repairs, and $69,333 for the administration office, the latter figure including salaries of the director and assistant director, their traveling expenses, commissioners’ per diem and traveling expenses, office clerical help and supplies. Wide Highways Completed The forthcoming annual report of William J. Titus, chief engineer, will show considerable three and four-lane pavement built this year, chief of which projects are the Dunes relief road between Gary and the Michigan state line via Michigan City, with a width of forty feet, and widening standard pavement to thirty feet or three" traffic lanes on two federal routes out of Ft. Wayne. Nearly fifty miles of heavy and expensive grading on several roads, particularly U. S. Road'so in southern Indiana, preparatory to paving in 1932, was completed. At this time, according to compilations in the maintenance division, there are 6,964.08 miles in the state road system, exclusive of 417 miles through cities of 3,500 population or more which, under the highway laws, the commission does not maintain. Os this mileage, 3,583 miles are paved, of which 2,883 miles are concrete. Counting high and lesser type pavement, surfaces made dustless by oil mat, oil treatment and retread, there are 5,276 miles of dustless roads in the system. State System Expanded A total of 963 miles were taken into the state system during the fiscal year, more than 500 miles for the major purpose of spreading re- | lief by creating work, although these roads fit into the continuity of state road service, and are located in districts where unemployment was acute. For several months during the year and continuing as long this winter as practical, the department is investing approximately $125,000 a month in labor for secondary maintenance, on roads which, were it not for the relief program, would be held in abeyance until spring. SEARCH IS PUSHED FOR NEBASKAN’S SLAYER Omaha Police Question Artist on Reported Vengeance Threat. By United Press OWAHA, Dec. 24.—Search continued today for the slayer or slayers of Harry Lapidus, 49, wealthy political leader, who was shot to death in his automobile in a “typical gangland killing.” Police advanced three possible motives today—underworld politics, kidnaping, a private grudge. A young Jewish Brokolyn artist was questioned by police Wednesday. He was drawn into the case j through his courtship with Bess Nepomnick. 20, stenographer in Lapidus’ office. The girl’s father had asked Lapidus to break up the | affair between the two, police said. The artist, his name withheld by police, was quoted by the girl as I saying he would kill Harry Lapidus j if it was the last thing he did. CHARGE OF TRAMEUP’ Discharged Police Employe Accuses Mayor of Gary. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec.*24. Paul C. Roberts, police department clerk until dismissed by Mayor Roswell O. Johnson, charges the mayor caused his arrest on an intoxication | charge so that he could not attend a city council meeting at which he asserts he intended to make written j accusations and demand impeachment of Johnson. Police say they found Roberts lying drunk on a bench in the city j hall shortly before the council ses- ■ sion opened. He was taken into custody and held four hours.

EXPERTS URGE NEW DEAL ON REPARATIONS % Complete Revision of War Debt Plan Is Needed, Committee Says. By United Prtrs BASLE, Switzerland, Dec. 24.—An immediate and complete new deal on war debts and reparations, to avert “new disasters’’ is called for in the report of the international experts who have been studying Germany’s “capacity to pay.” Germany’s inability to resume payments after the expiration of the present Hoover moratorium and economic conditions prevailing throughout the entire world make such international action necessary, the advisory committee of the Young plan reported. Despite the seriousness of the situation as outlined in the report, it suggested; “The assumption that equlibrium will not be regained after the present crisis would be to counsel despair.’ It observed that a period of prosperity had followed every previous world crisis. Important Conclusions Cited “Although it is Impossible to fix a date, it is none the less certain that equilibrium ultimately will be reached with the assistance of measures suggested in the conclusion of the committee’s reoprt,” the report said, in holding out the promise of prosperity in return foi' war debt revision. The committee’s report, which will be referred to the interested governments, which include Germany’s principal creditors, called the government’s attention to the following important conclusions: Germany is justified in declaring her inability to resume payment on some $268,000,000 conditional reparations in the year following the Hoover debt holiday. The committee would not have considered that it had accomplished its task fully if it had not called attention of the interested governments “to the unprecedented gravity of the crisis, the magnitude of which undoubtedly exceeds the ‘relatively short depression’ which the Young plan envisaged.” Would Increase prisis Transfer of payments from one country to another on the present scale only can accentuate the financial crisis. Release of a debtor country from a burden it is unable to pay merely may transfer the burden to the creditor country, which, in turn, may be unable to bear it. Adjustment of all reparations and war debt settlements to harmonize with the present troubled world situation is the only lasting step toward world confidence. Linking of war debts and reparations definitely raised the question of the policy of the United States government, which has regarded the two issues as separate. The committee pointed out that the Young plan contemplated a steady expansion of world trade, whereas a shrinking volume of trade, and the exceptional fall of the gold value of commodities had added greatly to the burdens of commerce, not only to the German annuities, but to all payments fixed in gold. . -as No Parallel , The problem assumed world-wide proportions without a peace-time parallel, the committee said, and the present dislocation “well may involve profound changes in the economic relations of nations. “Action is most urgently needed in a much wider field than Germany alone,” the report stated. The committee doubted Germany’s ability to continue a surplus of exports at her recent level, pointing out that Germany’s industrial production fell one-third between 1928 and 1931. The committee believed that the burden of taxation had become so high that there might be no margin for further increase. It expressed the opinion that when normalcy returns to Germany, her railroads should yield an operating surplus comparable to that of every big foreign railway company.

SCHOOLS SHOW MORE INTEREST IN LIBRARY Book Circulation Gain Is 78 Per Cent for "Three Months. Circulation of library books in the schools during the months of September, October, and November showed an increase of 78 per cent over circulation during the same three months in 1930, according to a report, issued today by Miss Evelyn R. SicKles, head of the school libraries division of the public libraries. Total books circulated in the schools was 123,122, as against 68,946 last year. More than 10,000 school children were in the 442 classes which made visits to the library during the period, Os this number, 2,229 children received instructions in the use of the library, the report states. librarians from the branches, the school libraries division, and the Riley room, made 197 visits to schools in the three months. Stimulation of interest in books and reading was the object of these visits. The librarians visited 668 class rooms to talk to the pupils. PRISONERS GET HOLIDAY Federal, State Institutions to Observe Christmas Day. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 24. —Christmas will be observed at the federal and Kansas state penitentiaries here in “holiday fashion,” despite the escape attempts made at both institutions this month. Officials at the prisons said the day would be set aside for recreation and only necessary work will be done. Federal prisoners will have on their Christmas menu fried rabbit, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, scalloped tomatoes, cranberry pie, bread, butter and coffee. Inmates at the state penitentiary will have baked ham, gravy, creamed peas, mashed potatoes, preserves, hot. biscuits, bread, buffer, fruit, synto and coffee.

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. Buck Is Saved Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner opened a Christmas package today and found A police dog a few weeks old. “Well, that might take the place of my road patrol the county council’s taking away from me the first of the year,” Sumner mused.

MARK TIME IN VEHLING PROBE Jury Quits for Christmas; to Resume Monday. BY DICK MILLER With 100 witnesses having testified in the investigation into the administration of Coroner Fred W. Vehling, grand jurors today adjourned for the week-end. Oscar Hagemeier, deputy prosecutor, said the quiz will be resumed Monday when evidence in the various cases will be reviewed by jurors. The jury is scheduled to return its findings to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker at the close of the session Jan. 4. Elbert Colvin, brother of Dillard Colvin, railroad switchman, injured fatally in an accident several months ago, will testify Monday. Colvin has charged he learned shortly before the burial, an autopsy was performed on the body of Dillard Colvin. He said an attache of the J. C. Wilson undertaking establishment, said it was impossible to embalm the body properly because several organs had been removed during 1 the coroner’s secret post mortem. ‘TEN GRAND OR RIDE/ THREAT TO BANKER Police Hold Chicagoan Who Tried to Recover Loss From Bain. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—A novel plan for obtaining money from large creditors of the defunct chain of banks established by John Bain, was revealed by police today. They arrested Joseph De Bartolo, 38, who said he had writen letters to W. Merle Fisher, Bain’s son-in-law, and Dr. Walter Buhlig, Bain’s physician, demanding that they turn over SIO,OOO under threat of being taken for a “ride.” “I’ve been reading how the courts were trying to get the Bains to pay up,” Bartolo was quoted by police as saying, “and I figure they weren’t using the right method. I figured these fellows would kick in if I went after them the right way.”

FARMER SHOT THREE TIMES BY BANDITS Leap on Side of Car; Bullet Cuts Wire, Firing Auto. B’J United Press BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 24.—Mike Russell, 62, Washington county farmer, was shot three times as he resisted two bandits near here at midnight. His condition is not serious. Russell was returning from a visit in Illinois. Two men, walking along the highway, leaped on the side of his auto and ordered him to stop. When Russell attempted to force them off his auto, both opened fire. Russell was shot in a leg, a hand and body. The auto crashed into a ditch while Russell battled the bandits. A fourth shot fired by the bandits cut a wire, setting the auto on fire. Both the bandits escaped. SHELIT CO. AIDS NEEDY Distributes Food, Clothing to 35 Families in City. Employes of the Shell Petroleum Corporation today distributed baskets of food to thirty-five needy families in the city. In addition to food, some of the baskets contained renovated dresses and overcoats provided by the Peerless American Cleaners. Veteran Teacher Dies By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24. Funeral services were held today for Miss Eva May Jones, a teacher in the Shelbyville schools thirty-six years, who died following two weeks’ illness of pneumonia. Her teaching career started in Decatur county in 1883. She became a teacher here In 1896, and had been employed continuously since until two weeks ago when she became HL

lof the troop brought Sullivan a huge holly wreath for the door of his office. Presentation of the wreath was made by Betty Garst. Mrs. Paul Meyer is #leader of the troop and Mrs. C. E. Williamson, lieutenant.

Coast Guard Says Cutters Fail to Get Trace of Little Vessel. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 24. i Mountainous seas and raging winds j today held secret the fate of eleven members of the crew of ihe tug Roosevelt, famous as the' craft in which Admiral Robert E. Peary made his successful expedition to the North Pole. Her radio sputtered out a final SOS picked up by the coast guard here. Since then all has been silence—a silence that coast guardsI men said probably meant disaster ! for the crew and the sturdy tug, about fifteen miles off Cape Beale, Vancouver island. The cutters, Snohomish and Chelan were scheduled to reach the scene early today, but no word had been received from them, indicating, coast guard headquarters said, that they had been unable to find the distressed craft. The British coast guard cutter, Givenchy, also radioed that she arrived shortly after the Roosevelt sent her position last night but was unable to find trace of the tug. The Roosevelt pitched like a cork after she set out to meet the schooner Vigilant, which had been far outdistanced by the schooner Commodore in a. race from Honolulu to Tatoosh Island. The tug Goliath tied to the Commodore off Cape Flattery but her hauser repeatedly snapped in the angry seas. She sought shelter, and the Roosevelt attempted to tie to the Commodore when it learned that the Vigilant was many hundred miles at sea. The Roosevelt got a line on the Commodore, but it snapped and the heavy seas poured over her. The tug became distressed and the schooner floated away. The schooner was reported today riding out the storm about forty miles off the northern part of Vancouver Island. The Roosevelt was in charge of Captain Russell Davis of Seattle, and was owned by the Washington Tug and Barge Company. PARKED AUTOS YIELD S2OO WORTH OF LOOT Sample Cases, Bakery Products Stolen From Cars. Loot, valued at nearly S2OO, was stolen from automobiles and trucks parked on city streets Wednesday ' night and early today. J. H. Hedges, 538 East Maple road, reported theft of ten sample cases, valued at SSO, from his car. The automobile was parked at Six- . teenth street and Park avenue. Four men who smashed their j way into a truck at Pearl and New I Jersey streets fled with bakery products before police arrived. The truck and merchandise were owned by Walter G. Woods of Battle Creek, Mich. Other car thefts reported: J; Nathan, 1924 North Talbot street, clothing, $35; Guy Danner, 251 South Meridian street, merchandise, $7.50; Denzel Tirey, 849 North East street, shotgun and clothes, S4O; Arthur Bandy, 3115 Phipps street, clothing and tools, $lO, and C. A. Jaqua, 3534 College avenue, clothing, S4O. SENATE PAGES FETED Vice-President Is Host as Boys Consume Five Turkeys. By United Prtss WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—VicePresident Curtis presided today over a little senate where five big turkeys were the unfinished business—for a short time. It was the annual Vice-Presi-dent’s dinner to twenty-two pages. ' They are boys ranging from 10 to i 15 who run errands for the senators, j It took the boys less than half an | hour to complete the business at hand. Usually the pages arrange a few stums and speeches for the dinner. This year congress has been keeping Them so busy they were unable to prepare anything except their thanks to the Vice-President.

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PROPOSED TAX MISCONSTRUED, TREASURY SAYS Officials Deny Burden Will Fall Primarily on ‘Little Man.’ By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—Argui ment that the burden of tax inj creases proposed by the adminis- : tration would fall primarily on individuals of small means was said today by treasury officials to be based upon an erroneous interpre- | tation of the proposals. The proposed tax increase would amount to $920,000,000 for the next j fiscal year, of which $220,000,000 ‘ would oe from income taxes, and the remainder from estate and miscellaneous taxes. Treasury officials said that, taking the 1930 statistics, individuals with $5,000 incomes would pay only $27,000,000 of the increased revenue from income taxes. Bigger Incomes Shrank Persons with incomes of SIO,OOO or more would contribute $182,000,000 of the additional tax, it was said. Os the revenue from higher incomes, those getting $50,000 or more, would pay $155,000,000 according to this computation. It is out of the. question to obtain the additional revenue needed from taxation of larger incomes alone, the treasury holds. Asa reason for this, it was recalled that the number of incomes of SIOO,OOO fell from about 16,000 in 1928 to about 6,200 in 1930, while the reported tax on such incomes fell from about $700,000,000 to less than $240,000,000. Under the new treasury proposals, the rates applicable to higher incomes are increased much more than generally is understood, treasury officials hold. Under the present law, the maximum normal and surtax rates on incomes of $48,000 is 17 per cent. 22 Per Cent Maximum Under the proposed rates, the maximum would be 22 per cent. For incomes of SIOO,OOO, the present maximum is 24 per cent while the proposed maximum would be 42 per cent. The present maximum tax On incomes in excess of SIOO,OOO is 25 per cent while - the treasury proposes to increase it to 43 per cent. Treasury officials said that under the treasury proposals, a married man with one dependent having an income of $5,000 would pay $31.50, which it contends is not unreasonable. BULLET KILLS WOMAN Husband Missing Since Tragedy in Ripley County. By Times Special yERSAILLIES, Ind., Dec. 24. Authorities are seeking John D. Holliday as a suspect in the slaying of his 28-year-old wife who died of a bullet wound. Mrs. Holliday suffered the wound in her home in northern Ripley county. She was shot in the neck.

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