Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

MARCH 12,1932.

CONGRESS‘AT BAY' ON BOOZE, BONOSJAXES Politicians Fear Wrath of Voters If They Guess Wrong on Issues. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Prei Staff Correanondent (Coovriaht. 1932. bv United Press! WASHINGTON, March 12.—Bewildered In the face of three grave decisions which aim straight at the stomachs and pocketbooks of practically every one, congress is listening almost frantically just now for the voice of the people. As luck would have it, these critical votes come just about the time the voters are beginning to think seriously whether they want to make a change in their congressmen. The house will take a test vote Monday involving the question of submitting federal prohibition to the country for rejudgment. A few days later the house will ■vote on the biggest peace-time tax Increase in history, including the revolutionary sales tax, which would place all except the smallest manufacturers under federal license and levy 214 per cent on most manufactured articles.

Bonus Again to Fore Following that, the soldier bonus Issue will come up again in a proposal to pay off in full the veterans’ adjusted compensation certificates at a cost of $2,000,000,000. All these questions drill down to the most sensitive nerves of tpe voters. The congressman who guesses wrong may find himself in the army of unemployed next November. It is one of those great political emergencies when, as they say around here, statesmen must rise above principle. Now in the time for those who think they know what this country needs to speak up. Professional politicians have many ■ways of running public affairs to suit themselves, regardless of popular wishes, but in this situation, if congress can fini out what the country wants, it will be only too glad to provide it. Tribute Paid Crisp There is nothing cynical about this picture. It is accepted so commonly as to cause little comment here, where congress is regarded as a body of men which enacts laws and hopes to be re-elected. When the tax bill came before the house this week, the Republican and Democratic members rose and applauded in an unusual tribute to a hard working, conscientious, plain looking man of medium build— Representative Crisp (Dem., Ga.) The reason for this exceptional honor was the exceptional willingness of Crisp to champion a drastic tax bill, some parts of which he recognized would be unpopular. He was obliged, through the illness of a colleague, to assume the role in somewhat the same spirit that a dentist undertakes to chisel out a wisdom tooth in a way that will make his writhing patient come back again. The house instantly recognized such exceptional courage and paid its tribute of respect. Listen for Voters’ Reaction Every member of the house recognizes the country is falling far behind in operating funds. The money—more than $1,000,000,000 has to come out of somebody’s pocket. The fight is over whose pocket. The sales tax would go on every manufactured article except certain foodstuffs and a few other exempted articles. It would compel every manufacturer doing more than $20,000 worth of business a year to take out a federal license. Opponents say it would dispropor--tipnately tax the little fellow—doWn to the baby’s shoes. Many who seek defects in the plan are unable to find a satisfactory alternative. Outcome of the fight probably will depend on reaction from the country in the next few days. On the prohibition vote, many members are trying to fathom the feeling of their constituents, particularly in hitherto dry districts which are showing strong repeal majorities in the Literary Digest poll. The grip of the organized dry forces has been so strong that only now some members are beginning to wonder whether a shift has set in which they would do well to anticipate. Veterans Demand Bonus In spite of economoic issues, prohibition has pushed its way down •front in the 1932 political picture, land Monday’s roll call will provide ft he text for many a political stump [ speech before November, j In the background, but advancing grimly, is the full soldier bonus ■payment bill by Representative PatIman (Dem., Tex.). The house ways and means committee will hold hearings on it as soon as the tax bill is passed. The American Legion has refused to indorse it, but countless individual legion posts have, as have the Veterans of Foreign Wars and several other service groups. Proponents estimated at 10,000,000 voters are affected through veterans and their relatives.

MORTGAGE EXEMPTION ' ERRORS BRING WARNING Fifth of Aplications Filed Are Faulty, Auditor Asserts. Frequency of mistakes in applications for mortgage exemptions today caused County Auditor Charles A. Grossart to point out the correct form for preparing papers. He said that about 20 per cent of 5.000 exemptions requested were faulty because of mistakes in filing. Property owners have until May 2 to file exemptions. A reasonable description of the real estate must be given in the application. Grossart warned on necessity of giving book and page number of the mortgage, as listed in the county recorder’s office. An exemption not to exceed SI,OOO is allowed each property owner paying taxes on property under mortgage. The United Kingdom produces •bout two-fifths of the world output of marine engines.

City’s Oldest Fire Stations Are Doomed; 60-Year-Old Structures May Be Replaced

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DEATH CLAIMS MRS.ROSEGEE Lifelong City Resident Had Been 111 Ten Days. Ten days’ illness resulted in the death of Mrs. Rose Gee Friday at her home, 1058 West Fifty-ninth street. She had lived in Indianapolis all her life. She was a member of Rebekah lodge No. 702. Funeral services will be held at 2 Monday at St. Paul M. E. church. The Rebekahs will be in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Funeral services for Carl Frederick Pohlman, outside plant engineer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, who died Friday at his home, 5514 North Delaware street, will be held at 2 Monday in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Mary A. Whitehead died Friday at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. J. Helm, 3030 East Washington street. She had lived in Indianapolis thirty years. Funeral services will be held at the Helm residence at 2 Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Emma Waterman, 32, died Friday in her home in New Bethel. She had lived there all her life. She was a member of the St. John’s Evangelical church of Five Points. FIRE FIGHTERS WILL CARRY RADIO OUTFITS Sets Will Be Carried on Backs by Federal Rangers. By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 12.—Fire fighters in national forests will go into the field this summer to try out, for the first time, radio sets they can carry on their backs. Each set, consisting of transmitting and receiving units, weighs but ten pounds, officials of the United States forest service here have revealed, and will enable the forest personnel to keep in constant touch by signal code. The approaching fire season also will see the introduction of the improved radio outfit which permits transmission not only of code, but of voice as well. These sets, greatly simplified and extremely reliable, weigh but twenty-five pounds and can be transported on horseback. If funds are available, several hundred of them will be purchased and put into use. The twenty-five-pound set is a refinement of the seventy-eight-pound outfit experimented with in Columbia national forest during the summer of 1930. Strenuous tests, forest service officials said, have shown the lighter set to be “almost too good to be true.” It permits I the broadcast of the voice up to a distance of 100 miles.

ASPIRANT FOR SHERIFF NOMINATION ARRESTED Carl J. Parham is Charged With Impersonating an Officer. Charged with impersonating an officer, Carl J. Parham. 30, of 846 Fletcher avenue, candidate for nomination as sheriff, on the Democratic ticket, and Ted H. Lefever, 25, 322 North Oriental street, are held by police today. They were identified, police say, by Mrs. Mary Traylor, 2434 West Walnut street, as two men who came to her home seeking her daughter, Mrs. Minnie Rogers. She said they tried to force their way into the house and replied “detectives” when asked who they were. Mrs. Traylor said she believed the men were trying to collect an account from her daughter. Parham, a former policeman, and Lefever were driving an old automobile formerly in police service and still bearing the letters, “L P. D.” They told police they are in the employ of a collection agency.

SIXTY years ago Indianapolis firemen looked with pride on four new fire stations, the latest word in fire houses. They were built to endure, and they did endure, for all four still are standing today, two of them in use as fire stations, and a third having been abandoned only a few weeks ago. But the march of time can not be halted, and the remaining two soon may make way for more modern structures. Members of the safety board are considering recommendation of Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell, that station No. 1, on Indiana avenue, be replaced by anew station on another site. STATION No. 1, oldest firehouse in use here, was placed in use Dec. 28, 1871. Five days later three more stations were completed. They were numbered 2,3 and 4. No. 2, at 748 Massachusetts avenue, later known as No. 8, just has been abandoned with completion of new No. 8 station on Eleventh street, at Broadway. Station No. 4, still in use and now known as No. 10, is located at Russell avenue and Merrill street.

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Upper Left—Engine house No. 1 and firemen, and, right, one of the first fire companies at No. 6. Lower Left—Fire company at old No. 10, and, right, No. l’s first supply wagon.

No. 3 station, on Virginia avenue, south of Fletcher place, was abandoned a few years ago and now is occupied by a laundry. The fifth oldest station still in use, No. 6, at 533 West Washington street, also is doomed to be abandoned and razed, if recommendations of Voshell are adopted. tt tt tt VOSHELL plans to replace old Nos. 1 and 6 stations, built to house hrrse-drawn apparatus before modern automotive fire apparatus was dreamed of, with one modern bungalow-type station. This would leave an extra company which could be located in the vicinity of East Tenth street and Emerson avenue, he said. The first organized fire department here was formed in June, 1821, shortly after the city’s birth. The volunteer firemen operated with leather buckets and ladders, until 1835, when a hand engine was purchased and the Marion Engine, Hose and Protection Company was formed. Boys and young men took over the bucket company. The first paid fire department was organized in 1859, the city’s first steam engine being purchased a few months later.

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CARS CRASH HEAD-ON J Passengers Shaken as Tram, Interurban Collide. Collision of an Indiana railroad interurban car and a city street car at Brookside avenue and Hazel street Friday afternoon resulted in passengers being severely shaken. Nemer Meeks, 2322 Valley avenue, city car motorman, saved himself from injury by leaping to the ground just before the cars crashed headon. The city car was damaged. Meeks told police a block signal device did not show the traction car was on the tracks. A. E. Poe, 416 West Thirtieth street, was motorman and Albert Leard of Eaton, conductor of the interurban. Poe said he operated the signal shortly before the collision.

LET HOSPITAL WORK Cottage to Be Erected at State Asylum. Service Construction Company has been awarded a $115,254 general contract for construction of a men’s cottage at Central State hospital, it was announced today by Dr. Max A. Bahr, superintendent. Heating and ventilating contract was awarded Hayes Brothers for $10,681, electric wiring to C. L. Smith Electric Company for $3,290 and plumbing to Strong Brothers for $10,847. The building is to be of fireproof reinforced concrete construction. It will house fifty-two patients in single rooms and forty-eight in four dormitories of twelve beds each. There will be patients’ dayrooms, recreation and sitting rooms and ample porches. Contracts were awarded by the board of trustees. McGuire & Shook are the architects and Bevington & Williams, consulting engineers. Crooner Play to Be Filmed By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 12.—Paramount today announced purchase of William Ford Manley’s stage hit, “wild waves,” which will be filmed under the title of “The Crooners.” The play concerns the behind-the-michrophone adventures of radio artists.

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CASES OF VAST IMPORTANCE TO FACE JJARDOZO New Justice of Supreme Court Will Assume Duties Monday. By Scripps-llotcard \ctcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 12.—Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo of New York on Monday noon will become associate justice of the nation’s highest court. Work for the new justice already awaits. After his appointment, the supreme court reassigned some, nine cases for argument, five of which already had been argued before the court. Among those assigned, but not argued, is the packers’ case, involving the famous consent decree, under attack by the “Big Five’’ packers.

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0. K. RAIL ABANDONMENT Insull Unit Shows Loss at Kokomo; Street Cars, Busses Doomed. Public service commission approval has been given to the Northern Indiana Power Company (Insull) to abandon street car and bus service in Kokomo, April 16. An operating deficit of $135,581 was shown, Commissioner Howell Ellis, who heard the case, said. Emergency freight rate increases for electric lines, similar to those effective on the steam roads, was ordered by the commission until March 31, 1933.

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APPEALS VOICED FOR HINDENRURG ON BALLOT EVE German Election Will Be Sunday; Hitler Is Fascist Candidate. BY ERIC KEYSER United Press Stiff Correspondent BERLIN, March 12.—The big guns in Germany’s exciting presidential campaign roared their final challenges today, insisting on a vote for Von Hindenburg so Germany may “live,’’ as 44,000,000 prepared to go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Heinrich Bruening brought the support of President Von Hindenburg to a climax in an address at Berlin's huge sports palace, packed by a crowd of 15,000 persons, while thousands stood around loud speakers in the cold outside the hall and millions heard the chancellor’s appeal in a nationwide radio broadcast. The chancellor was tired and hoarse from his campaign tour. But he spoke sharply in an attack on the Fascists (Nazis) supporting Adolph Hitler for the presidency. “If the Nazis live up to all their promises, Germany will be in the throes of inflation forty-eight hours after they ascend to power,” Bruening said. The chancellor demanded that the Nazis reveal their program, especially as to whether they stand for stable currency or inflation. He accused the Nazis of demagoguery by “promising everything to everybody” to get control of the government. Meamvhile, Hitler and the best of the Nazi orators addressed large meetings throughout the country. “The vital decision hinges on whether we stamp out internationalism. democracy, and pacifism in Germany,” the fiery Hitler shouted at Dortmund. Minor outbreaks of violence occurred during the closing stages of the campaign.