Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1932 — Page 4

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PARK PAY ROLL MUST BE CUT S4OO_A WEEK Tax Board Order Will Be Honored Until High Court Rules. City park officials today face a knotty problem in paring expenses of the department to meet their reduced 1932 budget. While the $70,000 park budget slash ordered by the state tax board, was set aside in court recently, the case has been appealed, and the park board members have decided to keep within the reduced figure, as a matter of precaution In event of reversal of the lower court decision. Weekly pay roll of the department already has been cut from $2,000 a week to $1,600, and must be pared another S4OO a week to keep within the reduced budget figure, A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, reported to the board Thursday. Cut Summer Force If the budget cut remains In effect, Sallee said, the department must cut its summer force by at least 100 men, adding to unemployment. The department is retaining only skeleton forces in the shops and nursery now, and the construction force is to be reduced soon. The board Thursday decided to dismiss the custodian of Ellenberger park, to reduce expenses. This leaves custodians at only four parks, Garfield, Riverside, Brookside and Douglass, Sallee reported. Repudiate Park Bills Asa further means of economy, It was learned today, the board has notified the Indianapolis Power and Light Company and the Indianapolis Water Company that it no longer will pay light and water bills for University park. These bills should be sent to the World war memorial commission in the future, the board wrote. Since the state took over the park as part of the World war memorial plaza, the park board has continued to pay for water and lights at the park. In preparing the 1932 budget last summer, the park board voluntarily made a $50,000 slash, including $lO,000 in pay rolls. Order Additional Cuts The state tax board later ordered an additional $60,000 pared from the labor budget and SIO,OOO from the equipment budget. The tax board order was appealed to Superior Judge John W. Kern, who enjoined county officials from enforcing the slash. An early high court ruling on the appeal is being sought by the board. One of the larger items of expense which the board is unable to reduce is that of maintaining and lighting its sixty-two miles of boulevards. Current for boulevard lights cost the department more than $60,000 a year. Under the present contract, which still has several years yet to run, the board is without authority to discontinue lighting any boulevards. Strawberry Blooms Mrs. N. Browning, Route E. Nineveh. has mailed The Times some strawberry blossoms picked in a garden at her home.

EXTRA SPECIAL SALE RECLAIMED GOODS # Prices Lower Than Ever Reclaimed goods—reconditioned—that have the appearance of the new. You’ll make no mistake—come early Saturday. Rugs, Linoleums, Congoleums Furniture of All Descriptions The Quantities Are Limited When the National Says It’s Special—lt Must Be So

Dinner Pails (granite) 15^ Dining Room Suites $39.50 up Odd Dressers $8.95 up Wood Beds $9.95 up Kitchen Tables $3.98 up Living Room Suites ...$12.50 up Lamp Shades up Electric Refrigerator ..$79.50 up

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First to announce his candidacy for the Republican nominatiorr for the United States senate against Senator George McGill of Kansas, Democrat, is Ben S. Paulen, above, former Governor and wide-ly-known banker. He entered Kansas politics in 1912, when he was elected state senator.

PUPILS IN CONTEST Manual High Students Plan Miniature Houses. Manual training pupils of Emerlch Manual Training high school are out to win the trip to Washington, D. C., offered as first prize in the miniature model house contest, conducted by The Times. A number of the pupils in the school’s manual training classes are working on plans for miniature model houses, some of the pupils already having progressed to the stage of construction work. They are being advised by G. W. Trickey, manual training instructor, an active booster of the contest each year as a means of developing the ingenuity and creative ability of his pupils, and as a means of developing in these future citizens a desire to own their homes. Work on the miniature houses similarly is in progress at other high schools of the city. In addition to the trip to Washington as first prize, a number of other valuable cash prizes will be awarded to builders of the best miniature model homes. The contest is being conducted by The Times in connection with the eleventh annual realtors’ honje complete exposition, April 2 to 10, at state fairground. INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Delaware Man’s Skull Fractured in West Side Collision. One man was injured critically today when the car in which he was riding collided with another and crashed into a utility pole at Washington street and Holmes avenue. Kenneth Bishop, 25, of Delmar, Del., was taken to the city hospital suffering from skull fracture. He was hurled through the windshield of an automobile operated by Oscar Minson, 34, of Columbus, Neb. The other car was driven by Carl ohnson, 32, R. R. 1, Danville, Ind.

Kitchen Cabinets $18.95 up Congoleum Rugs $1.50 up Gas Ranges $17.75 up Oil Stoves $12.95 up Kitchen Chairs ~ up Elec. Wash. Machines.. .$32.50 up Refrigerators $6.50 up Elec. Vacuum Cleaners.. $4.95 up

BRITAIN URGES LAUSANNE DEBT PARJIYDELAY Conference Will Achieve Nothing, Is View of Statesmen. BY HERBERT MOORE I’niUd Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 22.—Great Britain contended today that it was better to delay the Lausanne debts and reparations conference than to convene the meeting when it was doomed to failure. Although the delay was attributed officially to the French political situation, where Premier Laval was scheduled to seek a vote of confidence for his new cabinet today, the explanation cloaked British efforts to reconcile directly opposing these of France, on the one hand, and Italy and Germany on the other. This situaion was responsible for growing confusion regarding whether the conference would be merely delayed or postponed indefinitely. British statesmen believed that the conflicting views could be reconciled partly through diplomatic channels, but that chances would be slim if reconciliation efforts were delayed until the conference was actually under way. The Italo-German thesis insists on a clean sweep of reparations and a definite solution as soon as possible; France is determined not to depart from the provisions of the Young plan, which precludes any development, except an additional one-year extension of the Hoover moratorium. During this time Germany would continue the transfer of unconditional annuities to France, though they might be reloaned immediately to the German railroads. There appeared little doubt that British sentiment, official and popular, inclined toward the man view, but reasons of state, including the undoubted ability of France to exert financial pressure on Britain, prompted careful procedure not to antagonize France. For the same reason Britain was not willing to antagonize the United States through adoption of Mussolini’s suggestion of a cleansweep of war debts and reparations and an united European appeal to the United States. British officials hoped Laval’s attitude would moderate somewhat after he obtained a vote of confidence.

RILEY ONCE SUED FOR DEBT EVASION

Poet Claimed He Paid Note With Reading Before Friend’s Guests. Before he gained fame, James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, was morose and blue on occasions because he could not pay his debts. This was revealed in Marion county court records found today in the “bum” room at the courthouse by Charles Ettinger, deputy county clerk. Records disclose that Riley won a suit, brought by a friend, upon a lost note.

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MAYOR, CHIEF OBJECT TO MISUSE OF NAMES Not Connected With Organization of Careful Driver Group. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Chief Mike Morrissey today denied they were sponsoring membership drive activities of the Careful Drivers Association, recently organized with offiices in the Inland bank building. Both officials said they had given their names in connection with the policy of safety, but stated they had no connection with reported efforts of the organization to gain members. Captain Lewis Johnson, traffic department head, today was to order officials of the association to stop statements that either Morrissey or Sullivan is supporting the group. T. M. Overley, Better Business Bureau head, said the organization did not have the approval of his organization.

The suit was filed June 22, 1892, by Luther Benson, whose son, Paul Benson, a Newcastle attorney, asked that Ettinger look for the papers. Riley testified that he had paid the SBO note by giving readings after dinner one night at his friend’s home. Benson said he had given Riley a receipt “merely to relieve him of mental trouble.’’ The poet’s signature appears upon the papers. Riley’s testimony was: “On Jan. 4, 1888, I was by invitation at the plaintiff’s home and gave readings to an assembled company, and, thereupon, the plaintiff on account of said entertainment wanted to surrender the note . . . and did so.” Benson filed this answer: “After a dinner party at my home, Riley and myself went into the library and Riley complained of being blue and said that the debt troubled him, as he had said many times before. “I made the receipt and Riley put his hands behind him and refused to take it except upon the condition that he would pay it when he got the money.” Charles Smith was selected as special judge to try the case in superior court three. The note was supposed to have been dated Oct. 17, 1884. Lucius B. Swift was Riley’s attorney, and Halstead L. Ritter, now a federal judge in Florida, was attorney for the plaintiff. Pliny W. Bartholomew, who died last year, was judge of the court.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: 1801 Shelby street. Ford Keystone Zvenue T * nth stleet and BACK HOME AGAIN befonj? el to . automobiles recovered by police 235 , South Bradley avenue, Sanders* street?*’ f ° Und in rear of 821

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HAWAIIAN 6RAND JURORS PGNDER MURDERCHARGE Circumstantial Evidence Is < Offered Against Four Americans. By United Brest HONOLULU, Territory Hawaii, Jan, 22.—The Oahu grand jury today considered evidence against four Americans charged with murder while the territorial legislature was on record as overwhelmingly in favor of suggested police reforms for the islands. The grand jury session was secret, but it was believed that only circumstantial evidence was offered. Police had admitted they had no eye witnesses. The Americans held are Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue; her son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, and two naval enlisted men. The Hawaiian killed, Joe Kahahawai, was one of five men accused of attacking Mrs. Massie. Witnesses who appeared before the grand jury included Dr. R. B. Faus, city physician who conducted the autopsy; Miss Yoshige Adachi, Japanese maid of Mrs. Fortescue; T. Omura, owner of the automobile rental agency where the automobile was rented in which Kahahawai’s body was found, and Lono McCullough, police detective. The senate approved a measure for creation of a police commission and an appointive police chief, on second reading, 14 to 1. The third and final reading was expected today. The house passed the third reading of the bill by a vote of 25 to 4. A band which serenaded the legislators during their special session played “Dixie.” The selection caused considerable laughter. The law makers had been making oratorical attacks against Kentucky and other southern states because the Kentucky legislature memorialized President Hoover asking release of the American defendants. MRS. EDNA HORNUNG, SOCIAL WORKER, DIES Leader Here in Work at Community Centers; Funeral to Be Saturday. Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Hornung, 49, prominent social service worker and leader in religious work who died Wednesday night of pneumonia, will be held at 1:30 Saturday in her home, 1203 East Southern avetfue, and in the Fiftyfirst Street Methodist Episcopal church at 2:30. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Hornung was president of the Women’s United Foreign Missionary Society for three years. She was known for her social service work at Hall place and Fletcher place community centers. Mrs. Hornung was president for seven years of the Hall Place Calendar Club. She was a leader in women’s work at the Fifty-first Street M E church. ASKS TRACTION LINE’S ASIDE Castleton Realty Company Asserts Price “Grossly Inadequate.” Petition to set aside the sale to Insull interests of the Indianapolis & Northwestern traction lines was filed today before Superior Judge Russell Ryan by the Castleton (Ind.) Realty Company, owners of $33,000 bonds of the line. . The petition avers that the sale price of $75,000 is ‘‘grossly inadequate and low” and seeks to have the sale set aside. Judge Ryan recently ordered the receiver of the line to sell. Market value of the line is $225,000, the petition alleges. The Indianapolis & Northwestern line was sold to Bernard P. Sheron, Insull representative, together with the Indianapolis &; Martinsville Rapid Transt Company and the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville & Danville Electric Railway Company.

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