Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1932 — Page 8

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TAX BOARD HIT ON 'FAVORITISM SHOVmjTILITY' County Assessor Threatens Suit to Hike Valuation of Harding Plant. Charging favoritism is being shown utilities by the state tax board, county officials today prepared to file suit against the tax board to raise the assessment on the Harding street plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Instructions, as given assessors, to assess property at its “true cash value” were hurled at tax board members at a meeting in the criminal courtroom Wednesday night. James A. Showalter, tax board president, and Pliny Wolfard, member, became the target of an attack from County Asessor Robert Sloan and several hundred deputy assessors, who attended the meeting, called by the tax board. Quizzed on Valuation Tax board members addressed meeting. Then Walter C. Rothermel, South Side Civic League’s utility committee chairman, asked how the board fixed $1,150,000 as the Harding street plant assessment. "Your board assessed that property for $250,000 less than the light company’s sworn statement, now in your office, said it was worth,” Sloan said, joining the argument. Sloan cited the $5,000,000 which the county board of review had fixed as the plant’s assessment. Admits Value Affidavit Explanations by Wolfard that the board assessed the “utility as a whole for $35,178,000 and that is its true cash value,” only embittered the attack. Board members admitted they had an affidavit saying the property was worth $1,400,000. Sloan then told Showalter: “I will sue your board and raise that assessment.” One assessor charged the light company is advertising the property as valued at $12,000,000. Further explanations by Showalter that the tax board must consider “going values of utility concerns” did not appease the aroused county officials. Flay Tax Dodgers Tn their addresses, Sloan and tax board members flayed tax dodgers, urging assessors to assess all taxable property this year. “Marion county can expect a lowered rate when all property is assessed. Millions of dollars in Marion county are escaping taxation,” Wolfard said. Showalter declared: “Statistics show that six-sevenths of the people in Indiana do not pay their share per capita tax.” Advocating “assessments at their true cash value,” Sloan said he was “aware that such appraisal at true cash value will result in material reduction in the total assessed value of property.” CAST IS ANNOUNCED Christian Park School Mothers to Present Playlet. A playlet, “Spinsters’Convention,” will be given by the mothers’ chorus of Christian Park school No. 82, 4700 English avenue, at 7:30 Friday night in the school auditorium. The play will be presented following a musical program. Those in the cast are: Mrs. Glatiys Williamson. Mrs. Goldie Tice, Mrs. Edna Koop, Mrs. Marcella Thompson. Mrs. Lela Christie, Mrs. Mrvtle Mines. Mrs. Nellie Branam, Mrs. Edith Gilliam. Mrs. Juanita Bovden, Mrs. Mildred Mayer, Mrs. Olia Graber, Mrs. Alta Boling, Mrs. Ona Demaree. Mrs. Alice Anthony, Mrs. Clara Southers, Mrs. Eva Dickson, Mrs. Mabel Johnson, Mrs. Nona Darmstandler. Mrs. Hettie Da rinser. Mrs. Irene Coleman. Miss Vondalc Darinoer Miss Finetta Christie and Miss Mary Mines. Judge Appoints sVlf-Defense Aid By United Press DETROIT, March 3.—Judge Edward Jeffries appointed himself defense attorney when Wilbur May was haled into court on a concealed weapon charge without benefit of legal advice. He descended from the bench to grant his own motion.

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SANDERS CONDUCTS ‘GIRL CRAZY’ BAND Frances Upton, Bert Gordon, Patricia Garrity Top Cast of George Gershwin’s Comedy Due at Indiana Friday. CRAZY,” contributed to the musical comedy stage by AmerVJ ica's distinguished young composer, George Gershwin, will open a special one-week engagement Friday on the Indiana theater stage. The huge company will arrive in Indianapolis for this history-making run early Friday morning for a rehearsal of music and lighting cues. In “Girl Crazy,” Gershwin has incorporated some of his best melodies. Immediately after the Broadway opening of the production, “I Got Rhythm” became a national hit and several other song numbers, particularly “Embraceable You,” “Bidin' My Time,” and “Sam and Delilah,” soon became almost as popular.

The story of this stage production has to do with an eastern youth who i is sent to a ranch to be cured of an affliction known as ‘Girl Crazy.” He ! falls in love with a pretty western school-mistress. Trouble begins to appear when he starts a "dude ranch.” His eastern friends travel to the ranch, among them being a former sweetheart as well as a rival. “Girl Crazy” is in two acts and six ! scenes, with the stage production running one hour and a half in length. An orchestra of fifteen men and an additional stage crew of at least ten men above the normal force are to be utilized in presenting this production on the Indiana stage. Sig Sanders, who travels with the company, will conduct the orchestra. The company that enacted “Girl Crazy” for fifty-one weeks in New York and Chicago on the legitimate stage, has had no more replacements in its cast than do the majority of shows which go on the “road” after their metropolitan runs, it is claimed. Principals include Frances Upton, Bert Gordon, Vivian Janis, Hal Thompson, Floria West, Patricia Garrity, Carlton Macy, Lew Parker, Donald Parker, Chief Rivers, the Vitaphone Four, and others. In addition to the presentation of “Girl Crazy” on the stage, the Indiana will present a Paramount talking picture entitled “Strangers in Love,” starring Fredric March and Kay Francis. Performances will be continuous, with four complete stage shows daily. an tt “ARROWSMITH” TO OPEN AT THE PALACE “Arrowsmith,” Samuel Goldwyn’s picturization of Sinclaire Lewis’ novel, starring Ronald Colman, which comes to the Palace on Friday, records the thrilling, tragic story of what fearless scientists have done to stamp out the great plagues which have always been the worst enemies of mankind. In the role of its crusading doctorhero, Ronald Colman goes down to a savage island in the West Indies to risk his life against bubonic plague, the historic Black Death, in hopes of proving that he has discovered its cure. The novel of “Arrowsmith,” acknowledged to be Sinclair Lewis’ masterpiece, is, of course, fiction. But neither the ravages of the Black Death nor the perils of the men who have sought to stamp out such scourges are fictitious. Nowadays, the civilized world pays little attention to bubonic plague because it is no longer a threat. But until a few years ago it was not even known that it was rats which, travelling from one continent to another on ships, carried the terrible disease from its breeding places in the east to Europe and AmericaTime and time again, both in mediaeval and modern times, the Black Death came out of the east and exterminated whole cities and countries. When congress recently awarded

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PRODUCERS MAY HAVE TO SLASH PRICEJF MILK Reduction Seen Necessary to Meet Competition of Independents. Reduction in milk prices may be necessary here to meet competition of unorganized milk producers, Carl L. Hedges, Central Indiana Dairymen’s Association manager, declared Wednesday at a meeting of 150 milk producers in Cadle Tabernacle. “You can’t call it a milk war if we reduce prices to njieet cutthroat competition from’“unorganized producers,” he said. Hedges declared low prices received by dairymen in this vicinity has resulted because three or four times as much milk as is needed is produced in the area. Urges Elimination Admitting many producers find the milk business unprofitable now, Hedges declared if producers would eliminate from their herds, cows producing less than 300 pounds of butterfat a year, they not only would reduce the surplus, but would make profits at present low prices through lowered costs. Successful fight of the milk pool for control of the Cincinnati market was described by Henry Hartke, Cincinnati, National Co-Operative Milk Producers’ Federal president. Hartke urged producers in the pool to help themselves by prevailing upon their city acquaintances to buy milk only from distributors buying through the pool. Price Causes Surplus Milk is the only rarm commodity which has remained above pre-war price levels and this partly accounts for the present surplus as many farmers dropped less profitable work to produce milk, he said. Answering complaint of a member of the audience who said producers are losing money at 10 cents a gallon for their milk, Hartke replied that for pool producers to go on strike would harm, rather than help them, as the huge surplus here would make it easy for distributors to buy enough milk from other producers. Even if the pool controlled all the milk in this area, the present eco-

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