Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1932 — Page 5

JAN. 27, 1932

CITIES, STATES IN MIDDLEWEST CURB SPENDING Slash Budgets, Salaries in Desperate Attempt to Avert Tax Boosts. Whrn lb* trrt Indnutrinl plants of shat roirinn Just we*t of th* Alleghmie* started siowint down, propertr values deerta.ed, as did earninr power of taxpavers. Tax assessments went unanswered. Delinquencies mounted into the millions. State governments with enormous orojerts on their hands faced deficits. So cities have decreased their budget*, personnel has been reduced, taxpayers Tiave protested aratnst heavv taxation. rd have received reductions, thereby forcing the states further to curtail. In the following articles, third of a aeries, the United Press surveys government etonomies effected through the fireat Lakes states. BY LEO F. BARON, I Prwi* Staff Correspondent. fCopvrlßht. 1932. b? United Press) CLEVELAND, Jan. 27.—The fertile valleys and mammoth industrial section of the Great Lakes region have heeded the call for economy in government. Through the region where a vast Industrial empire has been built, a demand for governmental saving has become more and more insistent, and the. cry against increased taxation has brought governmental action. Real estate values have slumped. Taxpayers’ earnings have decreased appreciably. Tax delinquencies have mounted appallingly. Banks have failed. Farmers have held mass meetings demanding relief from taxes. City after city has reported financial worry. Cincinnati stands alone among the major cities which has escaped; there a cash balance of *4,757,192 was reported at the end of the last fiscal year and an unencumbered balance of $41,181. Detroit Taxes Slump Rut in other cities the picture differs. Detroit has slashed $22,000,000 from its operating expenses. Salaries have been cut 10 to 17 per cent and hundreds of employes have been dismissed. Tax delinquencies total about $23,000,000. Kokomo, Ind., is trying to borrow $150,000 to pay salaries. Hammond has passed an ordinance cutting salaries 10 per cent, but Mayor Charles Schoncrt claims he will veto it. Cleveland is faced with a $2,000,000 deficit. Pay reductions of i’om BVi to 15 per cent on salaries exceeding $1,200 are planned. In Louisville, property owners have inspired a tax reduction of lliii per cent and Mayor William B. Harrison has ordered drastic reductions in city expenditures. Youngstown, 0., faces a deficit and Toledo cut the salary of police and firemen SSO a month and other employes 25 per cent. School vacations were lengthened a month at Christmas in Akron and the personnel of the police and fire departments was cut. Wheeling May Close Sehools Columbus faces a deficit and Wheeling reports schools may have to be closed two months early this year. In the entire district, the United Press survey showed, every effort is being concentrated towards easing away from the threatened deficits. The state by state survey showed: Ohio—Governor George White ordered a 7 per cent cut in departmental expenditures in 1931, and 15 per cent for 1932. There have been no salary reductions, but some reductions in personnel. Michigan—Salaries in some departments have been cut and personnel dismissed in others in an attempt to avoid the threatened $lO,000,000 deficit. Road building continues to give employment to the great groups of the state's unemployed. Indiana Needs $2,000,000 Indiana—There has been no sharp curtailment of expenditures, but a movement is underway to bring about a 25 per cent cut. The state must borrow $2,000,000 to tide it over until June, when taxes come due. Tax delinquencies arc expected to exceed the $10,000,000 delinquencies of 1931. Albert T. Wedeking, chairman of the state highway commission, has recommended the state taking over 40,000 miles of country roads to reduce the obligations of local governments. Kentucky—The state is faced with a possible $3,000,000 deficit The geological survey and state attorney’s office may be abolished. A sales tax, an income tax and luxury taxes may be imposed. Teachers salaries are in arrears in some sections. West Virginia—The state must subsist solely on credit for the remainder of the year with the deficit already nearing $2,000,000. Some departments are operating on an 80 per cent personnel basis. Governor William G. Conley has refused to summon the legislature into emergency session.

ADD FOUR TO FACULTY Butler Evening: Section Ready for Second Semester Next Week. Four new members of the laculty ol the evening course section of Butler university will assume their posts Monday. Miss Anna K. Suter and H. L. Harshman will teach mathematics. Mrs. Paul Iske will teach in the zoology department, and Miss Mabel Arbuthnot in an instructor in classical languages. Twenty-one departments ot study will be offered in the next semester at the university. Classes are held from 4 to 9 p m. at the Fairview campus, the Teachers' college and Benjamin Harrison school, Walnut and Delaware streets. DRUG FIGHT' FINANCED Rockefeller Foundation Support Is Pledged for Three Years. By Tim ft t/pcvial WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The campaign against drug addiction being carried on by American sci- , entists and physicians under auspices ot the national research council will be financed for the next three years by the Rockefeller Foundation, it was announced here today. The sum granted also will provide for an Increase in the yearly budget so that the investigations can be pushed more vigorously.

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Mother’s Testimony Is Aid to Insanity Defense; jealousy Admitted. BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 27.—Winnie Ruth Judd was jealous even in her youth, her mother, Mrs. Carrie McKinnell, 66, Darlington, Ind., a preacher’s wife, admitted under cross-examination, today at Mrs. Judd’s trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi. The mother was asked if Mrs. Judd, then Winnie Ruth McKinnell, had not been extremely jealous of a youth whom she once accused of assaulting her. “Yes,” Mrs. McKinnell said gravely. ■ Jealous of Youth “Is it not true that she was jealous because he paid some attention to another girl?’’ County Attorney Lloyd Andrews asked. “Yes, that was the reason,” she answered. She told of Winnie’s “mother-* mania”—how she longed for children and pretended to have had them—only to have her dreams dissolved. She told of finding Winnie making baby clothes at the age of 17, only to learn later through a doctor that she was not to have a child. She told of Winnie’s disappearance from her—termed by the girl an abduction—and her subsequent discovery in a barn clothed only in a night dress and gunnysack, and her charge that a boy ten years her senior had contrived to kidnap her to conceal her impending motherhood. All of Winnie's “motherhood” stories, Mrs. McKinnell branded figments of the imagination. The quaint little old lady, who wore a box-hat and square rimmed spectacles, was just able to control her emotions while she related incidents of Winnie Ruth's early life. Died in Asylum The mother admitted that two of her cousins died in the insane asylum, and that her daughter, herself, was eccentric in her youth. Mrs. McKinnell will be followed by her husband, the Rev. H. J. Mckinnell, retired Methodist pastor of Darlington; her son, Burton J. former University of Southern California student, and defense attorneys state, Dr. Judd. Mr. McKinnell will substantiate the story told by his wife of the strange actions of his daughter during her early life. Burton Judd was expected to tell of her reactions when she attempted to claim in Los Angeles the trunks containing the bodies of Mrs. Leroi and Hedvig Samuclson, her alleged victims.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Wilbur Henderson, R. R. 2. Franklin, Ind.. Ford coupe, 225-325 (1931), from Franklin, Ind. Wayne Conger. 642 Biltmore avenue. Chevrolet coach, 53-259 (1931), from Ohio and West streets. Charles Jaggers. 647 East Thirty-fourth street. Essex sedan. 766-571. 1 1931. from 121 South Meridian street. Paul Whalen. Apartment 9, at 1226 North Illinois street, Chevrolet coupe. 61854 (1931). from Spring and St. Clair streets. Julius Schaller. 2300 North Emerson avenue. Hudson coach. 47-500 (1931), from Tenth street apd Drexel avenue. J. J. Klmbro, 1147 West Seventeenth street, Buick roadster, 61-764, from 2310 North Alabama street. LeMont Miley, 1430 South Belmont avenue. Ford coupe. 734-109, from Technical high school. James Briggs. 827 Sanders street. Ford coupe, 753-109, from Vermont and Pennsylvania streets.

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OWNER BATTLES STORE ROBBERS Negro Trio Escapes After Exchange of Shots. Three Negro bandits who escaped under fire after robbing a cigar store at 519 North Illinois street Tuesday night, were sought today by police. The bandits exchanged shots with Edward F. Ford, owner, who seized a revolver as the gunmen left the store with $45 from the cash register. One of the bandits returned the fire, shattering a large plate glass window in the store. Walter Whitcomb, 5329 Lawrence street, clerk, who also seized a revolver, chased the trio through an adjoining alley, but was outdistanced. Mrs. Rosa Gee, Negro, 512 Pierson street, a customer in the store, witnessed the holdup, and the shooting which attracted hundreds of persons from the downtown district. A bandit robbed Mrs. R. C. Baker, 1944 North Alabama street, of $lB, near her home, Tuesday night, police were informed. Fred Katau, 22, attendant at a filling station at English avenue and Sherman drive, was robbed of $25 by a bandit who locked him in a closet Tuesday.

ADMITS MORE THEFTS Bicycle Burglar Adds to His Confession, Making it 39. Confession to seventeen additional burglaries has been obtained from Herbert Johnson, 18, 932 Fletcher avenue, detectives said today. The youth is alleged to have used a bicycle in a series of thirty-nine burglaries, loot of which ranged from $1 to $75, detectives said. He was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on a charge of grand larceny. In the purported confession, the youth said he served a one-year sentence at the state farm in 1930, for burglary and grand larceny. HARDWARE MEN MEET Retail Association Convention Is Continued at Fairground. The Indiana Retail Hardware Association convention was continued today at the industrial building of the Indiana state fairground as fifty-six exhibitors displayed their wares. I. O. Reinoehl of Kendallville, association president, opened the convention Tuesday. Irwin E. Douglas of the National Retail Hardware Association and L. S. Shelton of • Portsmouth, 0., were the principal speakers this morning. The annual dinner will be held at the Claypool Thursday night. FIND ARSENAL IN AUTO Police Hold Roachdale Man After Towing in His Car. When police towed-in an automobile of W. W. Key of Roachdale, Ind., from a bus zone early today, they said they uncovered an arsenal. Two revolvers, two shotguns and an automatic rifle were in the car, officers said. Key is held on a vagrancy count.

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BRITISH CLAMOR FOR REPUDIATED DONDPAYMENTS Investors Point Out Eight American States Owe $300,000,000. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—British holders of the repudiated bonds of eight states of the United States—aggregating approxmaitely $375,000,000 in principal and -interest —are renewing their drive for settlement. Now that Americans are demanding payment of the war debts, they declare in words that convey a welldefined jibe, it might not be en- | tirely unfitting if they took the time | to look into the matter of certain j repudiations nearer home. The eight states cited in the same category with Honduras, Mexico, Portugal, Russia and Turkey, are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina.

Interest High in Millions The face amount of the unpaid securities is said to be about $75,- ! 000,000 with interest footing up to around $300,000,000. Alabama is : charged with having repudiated in i the neighborhood of $13,000,000; Ar - kansas, $13,500,000; Florida. $8,000,000; Louisiana, $1,000,000; MississipI pi, $7,000,000; North Carolina, $12,j 600,000; South Carolina, $6,000,000, I and Georgia $13,000,000. Some of the issues go back to the 1830’s, but for the most part, they date from the reconstruction period following the Civil war. At that time, the states in question were in the hands of the notorious “carpet ! baggers,” imposed by the federal I government at Washington. Incurred for the ostensible purpose of building railways, plank roads, canals, levees and for the creation of state banks, the loans largely were floated abroad, pricipally in Great Britain. Indiana Also Caught With the exception of Florida and Mississippi, practically all repudiations came after the affairs of the southern states had been turned over to their own people following the post-war period of federal rule. These two states, along with Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland and Louisiana, were caught in the panic of 1837 and virtually bankrupt. But while the others finally settled at varying amounts on the dollar, the Civil war caught the southern states and prevented even that arrangement. As for the reconstruction period loans, some were unquestionably valid, some went into the pockets of the grafting “carpet baggers,” and some were hardly legal, having been made without due regard for the state laws or constitutions governing such matters. After the federal troops of occupation had been withdrawn and the j“carpet bag” governors had packed up and gone home, the various dulyelected legislatures or conventions refused to tax the citizens to provide the necessary funds for retirement. Up to Federal Government The prevailing sentiment of the times seems to have been that inasmuch as the federal authorities at Washington had taken over the management of the southern states, and saddled them with governments which had contracted—and largely made away with—the loans, the federal government could assume the responsibility for repayment. For nearly sixty years the British council of foreign bondholders has been trying in vain to collect. It has been stopped at every turn, for the states can not be sued without consent. Nevertheless, the council observes, the money was honestly lent and, regardless of what went with it, it should be honestly repaid. Just as American money was lent to Europe for post-war reconstruction. And, so far as the British are concerned, there is not the slightest difference between their debt to the United States and the American states’ debts to them. FAMED ATTORNEY DIES Alfred Austrian Acted for White Son, Peggy Joyce’s Husband. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—Alfred S. Austrian, 62, for forty years a prominent Chicago attorney, died Tuesday at his Division street home after Ia year’s illness. He had returned only last Sat--1 urday from Miami, Fla., where he I had gone in search of health. Austrian was attorney for James Stanley Joyce in his suit for divorce from Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the chorus girl, in 1921. He represented the White Sox management in the world series baseball | scandal in 1919. He had a part in many other legal battles of national 1 interest.

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