Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1932 — Page 2

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VETERANS PLAN BONUS PLEA AT PARTY PARLEYS Committee May Be Sent to Chicago. Conventions by Washington ‘Army.’ BY JOHN REICHMANN United Press Stiff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 11. The bonus army today turned its eyes toward Chicago and the national conventions. Leaders of the army were considering dispatching a committee to Chicago to demand that Republicans and Democrats adopt platform planks calling for payment of the $2,000,000,000 bonus to World war veterans. Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters and Harold B. Foulkrod, the Bonus army’s legislative committee chief, tentatively approved the proposal. It was to be considered more fully by the executive committee today. The decision may depend somewhat on the outcome of Monday’s bonus vote in the house. The army as a whole apparently has no intention of abandoning its siege of the capital city, even if the house defeats the bonus. On the contrary, the 10,000 already nere are settling down to stay and the leaders are calling up more and more reinforcements. Start Enlistment Drive An enlistment drive was begun which Commander Waters claimed soon would have 50,000 more veterans on the way to Washington. Special recruiting squads were started out to concentrate new marchers in St. Louis, Camden, Philadelphia and Southern points. The ragged and weather-beaten veterans gradually arc bringing order out of chaos in the crude camp which sprawls over dusty acres of Anacostia Park, on the outskirts of the city. The men are shaping themselves into groups, improving their Shelters, fashioned from sticks, old tin, discarded canvas, packing boxes, and brushwood. They find time to pitch horseshoes and play ball and to clean the faces that accumulated a thick coating of grime on the trek across country. Company streets have been formed. Troops from the various states Jn some instances have formed a common mess. SB,OOO Added (o Fund The army’s funds had been swelled to above SB,OOO with the receipt of $5,000 from the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, head of the Little Flower Radio League. Trucks from Hoboken and Baltimore trundled up to the doors of the army’s commissary on Pennsylvania avenue and disgorged tons of food. Famine seems far away. Likewise, the problems presented by the recent “red” scare and the danger of an epidemic of disease were being ironed out. Commander Waters expressed the belief that no one should be barred from participating in the bonus demonstration because of political beliefs. Some of the incoming veterans, however, have indicated they would not abide- by camp rules and discipline. They will be given a camp of their own, two miles away, at the old Bennington race track. Camp Set Aside Camp Simms, a little farther down the Potomac, has been set aside for men not in good physical condition. There they will find shower baths and a swimming pool. If disease breaks out, infected persons will be sent to Camp Foote, far down the Potomac, overlooking Mt. Vernon. Seme wartime practices are being revived. A chain of downtown cigar stores has installed boxes accepting contributions for the purchase of tobacco for the veterans. A group of women is arranging a series of dances by which they hope to realize $1,500 for the marchers. District of .Columbia authorities, unable to persuade the army to disband, clung to a slight hope that it would dissolve slowly. Three Governors replied to telegrams asking them to discourage the marchers. Each executive claimed to have tried to discourage the bonus march from its inception/ Each reported failure. EDWARD KAHN HEADS MERCHANTS' GROUP Successor to Arthur G. Brown; Other Officers Named. Edward A. Kahn, president of the Peoples Outfitting Company and the Coionial Furniture Company, was elected president of th.? Merchants’ Association of Indianapolis, at the organization’s annual meeting Friday in the Illinois building. Kahn succeeds Arthur G. Brown of the Marott shoe shop. Albert Zoller, vice-president of the Charles Mayer & Cos., was elected vice-presi-dent, succeeding Kahn. George Vonnegut, secretary of the Vonnegut Hardware Company, was re-elected secretary. Frank D. Stalnaker, president of the Indiana National bank, was reelected treasurer, and W. E. Balch was re-elected manager. The Merchants’ Association celebrated its thirty-fourth anniversary at the Marott, May 26. Balch is entering his twenty-fifth year with the association.

Such a Life! By United Press CHICAGO, June ll.—The 435 uniformed police who will guard the Republican convention got four pages of orders today from Commissioner James P. Allman. The orders include: No time, off for lunch. No smokng or chewing tobacco or gum. Stand at aitenton when talking to any one. Don’t lay hands on any one unless absolutely necessary. Wear caps straight. No slouching; keep hands out of pockets. Polish shoes, star and capshield daily. Wear white shirt, black four-in-hand necktie, black shoes and hose, and white gloves. Salute all superior officers in military manner.

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LAW’S NET CLOSING ON FAG THEFT RING

Druggist Being Tried for Buying Cigarets; Two Others Convicted. By piecing together threads of evidence, deputy prosecutors in criminal court today wove a story, which they hope will clamp the lid on one of the largest alleged cigaret theft gangs operated in Marion county. The state is trying Meyer Cohen, 30, of 901 East Thirtieth street, druggist, charged with receiving 50,000 stolen cigarets. Brother Is Convicted Samuel Cohen, 42, of 726 Russell avenue, also a druggist and brother of Meyer, was convicted a few days ago of receiving 21,000 cigarets. He is in the Marion county jail until his brother’s trial ends, when he will be sentenced. Luther Higbee, 21, truck driver for the Hamilton-Harris Company, tobacco dealers, also awaits sentence. He was found guilty of grand larceny. Daily deliveries of stolen cigarets to Cohen’s stores ended when police received a telephone call, informing them of the deliveries. Prosecutor John Kelly pointed out that other druggists soon were to join the gang. Manipulated Orders, Charge “Higbee so manipulated delivery orders,” Kelly charged, “that he could deliver orders without any charges going to the bookkeeper of his company. “All pink, yellow and white*bill sheets were handled so there was no evidence of theft.” Evidence shows Higbee received 70 to 80 cents a carton for delivering cigarets valued at $1.28. Deliveries were made druing August to November, 1930, it was charged.

SUMMER SCHOOL WILL OPEN MONDAY-AT TECH Physical Education and Health Studies to Be Stressed. Summer school will open Monday at Arsenal Technical hight school under direction of A. C. Hoffman, head of the agriculture, chemistry, and zoology departments. Physical education and health studies will be stressed. Schedules of courses will be arranged so each pupil may study physical education and group games. Besides the physical education courses, studies which will be offered are general drawing, botany and plant development, chemistry, general mathematics, typewriting and business practice, sewing, and vocations. The last will be a study of industrial life and opportunities in Indianapolis. TREASURE ONLY ‘BLANK’ First of Haul From Sunken Liner Is 15,000 Worthless Rupees. By United Press BREST, June 11.—The only part of the treasure so far recovered from the sunken liner Egypt was 15,000 paper rupees of no value. They never were signed by the governor of the Bank of India, but were a great inspiration to the crew of the Artiglio II as indicating an approach to the Egypt’s treasure room. Reports were denied that $45,000 worth of bullion had been brought up. A salvage drag caught a board off a bullion case, but brought up no actual gold. LAUNCH CHICAGO RAIDS Agents Visit 15 Places In Drive for Dry Convention City. By United Press CHICAGO, June 11.—Apparent confirmation of the federal dry agents’ campaign to “dry up” Chicago for the national political conventions was seen today in a brisk series of fifteen raids Friday night on alleged saloons and speakeasies. Agents also confiscated two large stills. Seventeen persons were arrested in the raids which struck at widely scattered districts of the city and Included one in the Loop.

The Difference By United Press CHICAGO, June 11.—Colonel Ira L. Reeves of the Crusaders invited Mrs. Ella’ A. Boole, Brooklyn, world president of the w. C. T. U., to the antiprohibition mass meeting the Crusaders will hold Monday night. Mrs. Boole did not answer. Then the Loyalty League invited Colonel Reeves to the “Loyalty convention” of the drys, now going on. “By cracky, I’ll go,” said Colonel Reeves today. “I’ll make ’em a speech if they’ll let me.”

SPEED MEANS’ TRIAL Swindle Charge Case Due for Jury Monday. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 11.—Gaston B. Means’ trial on charges of swindling Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McClean out of $104,000, that she gave him to bring about the return of the Lindbergh baby, approached a swift end today as neither Means himself nor any other witnesses were offered by the defense. The government closed its case Friday. T. Morris Wampler, Means’ attorney, presented no witnesses or evidence, but asked a directed verdict on the four counts of the indictment, which accuses Means of larceny and embezzlement of SIOO,OOO and $4,000. Justice Proctor overruled the motion except for the count charging Means with embezlement of the $4,000 expense money. Attorneys were to argue this motion today, with expectations of the case going to the jury Monday. AMELIA GOES TO PARIS Due in Brussels Sunday to Meet King, Get Club’s Medal. By United Press MILAN, June 11.—Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband, George Palmer Putnam, departed Friday night by train for Paris after a visit to Italy. They were scheduled to go Sunday to Brussels, where Miss Earhart will, be received by King Albert and be awarded the Aero Club’s gold medal for her trans-Atlantic flight. She will sail for New York Tuesday on the He De France from Le Havre. SCHOOL FOR JANITORS Third Annual Short Course to Open Monday at Tech. Third annual short course for janitors of city schools will open Monday at Technical high school and continue through Thursday. Approximately 300 public school janitors will attend, in adidtion to employes of private schools, public buildings and apartment houses. The first session will open at 9 Monday morning, with roll call by H. F. Osier , superintendent of school buildings and grounds. City Pastor Awarded Degree Honorary degree of doctor of divinity has been conferred on Dr. William F. Rothenburger, Third Christian church pastor of Indianapolis, at the seventeenth annual commencement exercises of Spokane university, Spokane, Wash., it was announced today. Dr. Rothenburger gave the commencement address.

Sweet Revenge By United Press CHICAGO, June 11. —The back seat driver, so often a subject of humor, is not to be laughed at, Judge Joseph Sabath has ruled. The veteran divorce court jurist granted Mrs. Eleanor M. Langlois, 22, a divorce when she testified her husband drove his automobile sixty end seventy miles an hour and guffawed heartily at her back seat protests.

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Real estate note— two new homes are being constructed on White river bank along Squatter avenue. They are to be built of tin, junk-pile metal, and ‘bummed* boards. The addition, known as Evicted Haven, has nine families on the west bank of the river and four on the east bank. The new dwellers expect to give a house-warming- Potatoes and beans will form the menue for guests.” But of course this realty “item” isn’t. It isn’t even a city brief. But it is one way the unemployed of the city have found in which to obtain free rent. Drive across the Oliver avenue bridge and look northward along the river bank and you’ll see Squatter avenue, with new excavations of homes going up weekly. Paths worn through weeds serve as sidewalks for the Pueblos of Poverty. Each tin or cast-iron dwelling has its leaning, rusty, stovepipe. # * n INSIDE the homes shiny brasspostered beds, beds of the plenty days, offset the drab gray tin walls and mouldy two-by-four stanchions. Breakfast in bed is easy for the kitchen table, stove, wash-bowl, are within arm’s length. The ventilating system of the tin house is ample- If windows do not suffice the holes in the roof permit the stars and the rain to come through. “And if it rains too hard we just go down underneath the railroad viaduct until it clears up,” one dweller explained. “Crawdaddies,” delicacy of the days when foam was foam and lunches were really free, have come back into their own as additions to the food bags provided by the township trustees. In fact the “crawdaddies” established themselves on the menu without being asked. Cliff pioneers explain this invasion thus: “The crawdads ate the fish we fished for and so there was nothing to do but eat the crawdads. You get lots of them if you like them and they do vary the meals.” an h SQUATTER avenue is just like any other avenue in the city. Some dwellers, keep their frontyards, patches slightly bigger than postage stamps and smaller than billboards, clean, while others persist in letting weeds have their own way. Baths are no problem after night falls. The river’s a good tub if you get near the rock rapids. Each new resident of the addition receives a generous quota of advice from the “oldsters” on how to be happy though evicted, the number of iron and tin cans needed to wall and roof their domicile, and the best place to put the stovepipe in case of windstormsThe worst problem confronting the “cliff-dwellers” during the hot months is how to keep the heatdrawing metal roofs from baking them into Vienna loaves. * tt ONE resident solved Sol’s rays by using the weeds in his front yard as a roof cooling device. Dogs and children are popular in the addition. Mudpie making, tossing pebbles into the river, and hunting crawfish, form the playground sports. As for philosophy or politics they blame it all, even the fisheating “crawdads,” on the Republicans, the Democrats, the welfare societies, and the township trustees. EFROYMSON TAKES POST Assumes New Duties as President of Real Silk Hosiery Firm. G. A. Efroymson, Indianapolis business man and financier, today asumed his duties as president and general manageer of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. Announcement of Efroymson’s election as president was made late Friday by J. A. Goodman, chairman of the board. Efroymson, formerly a member of Efroymson & Wolf, owners of the H. P. Wasson & Cos. and Star Store, succeeds Porter M. Farrell, who resigned Tuesday. Paul O. Farrell is vice-president of Real Silk; J. L. Mueller is secretary, and L. A. Goodman, treasurer. RESCUERS FIRED UPON Japanese Charge Soviet Attack as Ship Survivors Were Saved. By United Press LONDON, June 11. —Soviet guards were alleged to have fired on Japanese fishermen attempting to rescue survivors of the steamer Genzan Maru, wrecked off the Kamchatka coast in dense fog, dispatches today to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Tokio said. The number of casualties was not determined, but 251 survivors had been taken to Petropavlovsk and ninety more were accounted for aboard rescue steamers. COUNTY AID IS SOUGHT Health Board Asks Funds for Operation oY Hospital Ward. The health board will attempt to collect 'a proportionate share of funds from the county for operation of the city hospital psycopathic ward, board members announced today. Although the county agreed several years ago to pay expenses of patients brought to the ward from outside the city, no payment las been made for three years, board members asserted. The county's liability for maintenance ranges from $20,000 to $25,000 annuaUy.

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MAP RECEPTION FOR GRAY ARMY Confederate Veterans to Meet in Richmond. By United Press RICHMOND, Va„ June 11.—Elaborate plans are being made for the reception and entertainment of the last survivor of Lee’s “thin line of gray,” when they meet here for the forty-second annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, June 21 to 24. The reunion will run concurrent with the thirty-seventh convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the thirty-third annual gathering of the Confederate Southern Memorial Association- The committee expects at least 30,000 visitors. Preliminary to the four-day session of the veterans, June 20 will be given over to special honor to be ac<j corded General C .A. De-Saussure, of Memphis, commander-in-chief of the organization. In addition to high military honors, General De Saussure will be made an honorary Boy Scout. A picked guard of Eagle Scouts is to act as his escort and induct him into membership. Outstanding events scheduled are a memorial service, presentation of the anchor of the “Virginia-Merri-mac” to the Confederate Museum and dedication of a tablet on the portico of the Capitol building on the spot where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated. PUBLIC SERVICE GROUP ABOLITION DEMANDED Suit to Collect $2,000,000 From Water Company Starts. Abolition of the public service commission was demanded Friday at a hearing before Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams by attorneys who launched an attack against the commission for its regulation of the Indianapolis Water Company. On the theory that the law creating the commission is contrary to the state Constitution, attorneys for Mrs. Margaret C. Hoffman argued the city and public were injured by water rate increases, allowed by the commission. In her suit, Mrs. Hofmann seeks to collect more than $2,000,000, which she alleges the water company has collected Illegally over a period of years, for furnishing water to the city. UPHOLD GOLD STANDARD League Advisory Group Also Urges Trade Bars Removal. By United Press GENEVA, June 11. Maintenance of the gold standard and removal of international obstructions to world trade were among reebmmendations In the report of the League of Nations gold delegation intended to aid world economic recovery. The recommendations were expected to influence the diclsions of forthcoming important international conferences, including the Lausanne reparations conference, the imperial economic conference at Ottawa, and the international economic conference which may be a second part of Lausanne.

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BOOST TRAYLOR AS ROOSEVELT MATE Move to Draft Financier for Race Gains Momentum. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Preis Stiff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 11. A movement is under way today to select Melvin Alvah Traylor, Chicago banker and one-time city clerk of Hillsboro. Tex., as running mate for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, if the latter is nominated for President at the Democratic national convention. Word has reached Washington that Roosevelt would welcome Traylor’s nomination. Considerable momentum is said to have developed behind the "draft Traylor” movement. There are circumstances suggesting that some of the impetus is coming from Albany, N. Y., where Roosevelt is devising convention strategy. Named as Dark Horse Traylor has a dark horse presidential status in his own right. Since 1925 he has been president of the First National bank in Chicago. He is well and favorably known in the east. During this winter of continued emergency financial legislation he has appeared frequently before senate committees. Governor Roosevelt is said to feel that Traylor’s nomination for vicepresident would considerably strengthen the Democratic ticket In the east. All concerned admit that Roosevelt Is weak In the eastern part of the country. His campaign managers openly discuss the possibility of electing him without carrying his own state, New York. If Roosevelt and Traylor were nominated, there would be considerable emphasis, the United Press is informed, on the latter’s financial genius. Active in Power Firms Capital Democrats have been told Roosevelt if elected would invite Traylor to participate even more fully than his predecessors in cabinet meetings and there would be an implication that a Roosevelt-Tray-lor administration would be rather largely guided in fiscal affairs by the advice of the latter. Whether and how much Traylor’s nomination would relieve Roosevelt of opposition on the issue of electric power is not evident. In some quarters it is reported here that Traylor would embrace the power policies of Roosevelt. The power industry generally considers Roosevelt somewhat radical on this issue, in comparison with its own philosophy of the relationship between power and government. Traylor Is a director of General Electric and the National Broadeating companies and through that latter directorship is in contact with the Radio Corporation of America group.

CHICAGO BANK QUITSBUSINESS Tells Depositors to Come and Get Money. By United Press CHICAGO, June 11.—The Peoples Trust and Savings bank, a twenty-five-million-dollar Michigan avenue institution, Friday became the fourth Chicago bank to quit business and tell depositors to come and take their money away. Directors of the large downtown bank said they had decided operations were no longer profitable and there was no reason for continuing business under prsent conditions. The three other banks in the Chicago area to take similar action were all small neighborhood affairs. Banking officers said there had been a constant shrinkage of deposits and that low interest rates prevented profitable operation. Deposits now total about $17,000,000, a shrinkage of more than $5,000,000 since March 30. Total resources at the last available statement were $27,108,437. GROCERY IS ROBBED Two youthful bandits who warned Ernie Knodel, 49, of 704 East New York street, that they would “get him” if he reported to police, refused to take $3 he offered them early Friday and, using a door in his room, broke into a Standard grocery next door at 702. The store was ransacked. Goods were removed from shelves, evidently in a search for money, but only a small quantity of candy was stolen. “We know where you live and we will come back and get you if you tell police,” was the parting warning given Knodel. Trapped on Roof; Arrested Trapped by police while hiding on the roof of a building at Thirtyfourth and Hlinois streets early today, Harry Hart, 18, of 3446 Graceland avenue, and Harold Walton, 18, of 344 West Thirty-first street, were charged with vagrancy when they could give no explanation of his actions.

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Arthur B. Raitano After serving eight years in the publicity department of the Claypool hotel, Arthur B. Raitano leaves Sunday for Hollywood to take movie tests at Warner Brothers. He has been connected with the acting groups of the Civic Theater for four years.

JOHN FREDRICK JOINS DRY ACT REPEJkFORCES Candidate for Governor Says Prohibition Law Failed. Ranks of the advocates of dry law repeal has been joined by John E. Fredrick of Kokomo, president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and candidatee for the Democratic Governorship nomination. Always an advocate of prohibition and total abstinence, Fredrick in a prepareed statement today declared for dry law repeal and government control of liquor. “Failure to enforce prohibihas brought about conditions that threaten foundations of government, if not the social order, itself, he said. “If we can not enforce the eighteenth amendment—and we have not—we ought to repeal it and substitute some form of government control and method of distribution, thereby letting the government have the profit instead of the underworld. “If we can stop the sale and consumption of liquor—and we have not—we can take the enormous profit of its sale and thereby destroy the underworld’s chief source of revenue, rendering it powerless to further injure us. Sale Held Profitable “The illicit sale of liquor has been profitable to the lawless element engaged in its traffic and so powerful and organized have these groups become that they wield a tremendous influence politically and successfully divert the processes of government from their true and just course,” Fredrick said. “At this time the underworld is armed so thoroughly and organized that it bids not only defiance to our government’s edicts, but often it is successful in forcing its own terms and decrees.”

WOMAN IS SENTENCED FOR COURT BATTLE Mrs. Underwood Ordered Jailed After Attacking Witnesses. Convicted of assault and battery for attacking two witnesses during a rial Friday before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, Mrs. Eva Underwood, 24, of 4<6 Prunk street, w r as sentenced to serve sixty days in the Indiana woman’s prison and was fined $1 and costs. The court session was thrown into an uproar during trial of George Lyree of the Prunk street address, on a charge of assault and battery, when Mrs. Underwood attacked two witnesses in the case, pounding them with her fists and pulling their hair. She finally was quieted by a bailiff and led to the turnkey's office, where assault charges were filed against her. She was tried immediately. Lyree, arrested as result of a quarrel of neighbors, over cleaning of a back yard, was given a thirtyday jail term and was fined $1 and costs. ASK $27,500 DAMAGES Family Sues for Injpries Received in Accident. Three damagee suits, totaling $27,500, were filed Friday in circuit court by Grover Haris. 441 South Rural street, his wife, Delia, and his son Frank, 12. The suits name Ora Lathouse, defendant. They charge that the i Harris family received injuries in an automobile accident which occurred June 5 at East Washington! street and Sherman drive. Lathouse, the suit asserts, drove through the traffic light forty-five miles an hour. The suits further claim that Lathouse - was driving carelessly and recklessley.

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WOMEN DRYS AFFIRM FAITH IN PROHBITION Small but Undaunted Band Launch Campaign as Convention Nears. by ray black United Pres* Stiff Correspondent CHICAGO. June 11.—A band of earnest women, undaunted by the tide of sentiment against prohibition, launched a counter attack today in the name of “heme, church and our boys and girls." There was something Spartan in their bearing as they met in Third Presbyterian church, only a few blocks from the Chicago stadium where the Republican national convention opens Tuesday. They came to what had been advertised as a “great loyalty convention.’’ But where advance publicity predicted there would be hundreds there were only scores. What they • lacked in numbers, they made up for in steadfastness of their stand. Recite Statistics National leaders in the dry causa sounded war cries against the wets, recited statistics and urged a bone dry plank in the national party platforms. But it was the women in the rank and file, the mothers, wives and widows from the middle west who revealed just how millions of other w'omen in the country feel about the prohibition issue and why they feel as they do. There was Mrs. W. W. Iliffe, Beverly Hills, 111., the mother of three sons and a daughter. She said: “Liquor hasn’t ruined my children; they have so far escaped. I think prohibition has protected them. That is why I lie awake nights in dread that the law will be repealed.” Only a Sober Nation Mrs. William Harrison Cade, chairman of the Illinois committee for law enforcement: “If there is anything worth believing in and fighting for. it is the American Consitution. The American flag can fly only over a sober nation.” Mrs. K. G. Norberg, Chicago: “I hope we never go back to the old saloon days.” Miss Elizabeth Smith, Oak Park? “If prohibition is repealed, it wall be a terrible thing for youth—and for older folk, too., Things would be worse than they were before the law was -enacted.” Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, in his keynote speech, “A call to arms,” declared a repeal plank in the Republican platform would be a “colossal blunder” and that “conditions in these times of depression would be much worse if drunkenness and rioting were added to unemployment and poverty through legal sale of liquor.”

BOARD OF REVIEW TO ' SCAN ASSESSMENTS Hearing of Property Valuations Complaints to Last Summer. Hearings on thousands of complaints against real estate assessments will be heard by the Marion county board of review which started work this week and expects to continue in session throughout the summer. Complaints against real estate assessments have increased materially since 1928, when last real estate assessments were made, according to Frank Brattaln, board clerk. Downtown property owners will present requests today and Saturday for decreases in their assessments. The mile-square real estate was reassessed by Joljn C. McCloskey, Center township assessor, and exceeded an appraisal of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. GET $200,000 BY RUSH Clever Thieves Fake Phone Call to Rob Trust Company. By United Fre** PHILADELPHIA, June 11.—Two thieves and a clever trick robbed the Girard Trust Company of. $200,000 in negotiable bonds FYlday, The bonds, received from th* Pennsylvania company for insuring lives and granting of annuities, had been turned over to Erwin Siero, administrative clerk, for checking. His phone rang and an excited voice screamed that $50,000 in bonds had been left on a counter In another room. Siero dashed out to 3ee, and 1 when he returned the bonds wer gone. LEGISLATORS WARNED They Must Lighten Tax Burden or Face Defeat, Rays Payne. Legisators will be given a chanda to demonstrate their ability to deal wtih the tax problem at the special session of the legislature July 7, and, if they fail, the people will defeat them at the polls in the fall, Gavin L. Payne, broker, told Optimist Club members Friday. He declared that the tax burden must be lightened on real estate or the whole form of the American government will be changed to something like that of Russia.