Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

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CITY EMPLOYES' 1933 PURSE IS $500,000 LESS Budget Slashed Sharply to Conform With Laws for Economy. Indianapolis city employes will have more than $500,000 less with which to pay the grocer, landlord and other creditors next year, as result of 1933 budget cuts being made by city officials to conform with legislative economy laws. This was shown in a statement issued today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, listing the total salary reductions to be made in several city departments by cutting pay and by eliminating many city jobs. Heaviest losses will be suffered by the police and fire departments, which receive about two-thirds of the total city salary item. Reductions in fire department salaries will amount to $127,974, while figure for the police department is $113,064. Reductions announced for several other departments include: Gamewell department, $12,062; building department, $8,251; street department, $37,068, and engineering department, $90,032, making a total of $388,000. SIOO,OOO Parks Cut This total figure does not include the park department, total budget of which is being reduced SIOO,OOO, sanitary, health, recreation, Barrett law and other departments. Salary cuts alone will account for more than $450,000 reduction in the budget, aside from savings effected by abolishing jobs. Graded salary cuts, ranging from 5 to 20 per cent, will effect a reduction of approximately 15 per cent in the total city pay roll, instead of 10 per cent as required by the law passed by the special session of the legislature. In addition to savings effected by salary paring, the budget, when it is submitted to city council, probably Tuesday night, will show material slashes in other items, Sullivan said May Show Increase Despite the stringent budget reductions being made, however, it appeared today that the 1933 civil city levy may show an increase over this year’s. Several factors enter into this situation. Among them are the 18 per cent reduction in assessed valuation, increase in tax delinquencies from 2 to 6 per cent, necessity of providing funds for the 1933 city primary and general election. Another reason is the fact that an additional $257,999 must be budgeted to meet bond and interest payments falling due next year. This sum is in addition to the amount ordinarily raised for such payments and is accounted for by unusually large blocks of bonds maturing next year. Balances Wiped Out Sinking fund balances, built up in last years to care for this emergency, have been wiped out in the last two years, on insistence of the state tax board, Sullivan said, in order to keep down the levy for those years. Necessity for increasing light and ■water budget items about $150,000 will help to nullify budget reductions accomplished by salary cuts. In preparing this year’s budget last year the works board’s request for an $890,000 item to pay water and light bills was reduced to about $610,000, in anticipation of rate reductions. Reductions granted by the public service commission, however, totaled only $133,000, forcing the city to increase the item about $150,000 for next year in order to meet actual bills. Can’t Observe Limit For the city to operate on its share of the $1.50 maximum levy set by the legislature would be an utter impossibility, it was pointed out. The civil city's share of this $1.50 total levy would be not more than about 55 cents, at least 31 cents of which would be required to meet bond and interest payments, which can not be evaded. The total amount raised by a 55cent levy, considering the 18 per cent reduction in assessed valuation and increase in tax delinquencies, would be less than $3,000,000. One cent in the levy has raised, for the last several years, about $68,000, but under present conditions will raise only about $52,000. Account for 32 Cents The lower valuation and increased tax delinquencies, on the basis of this year's budget, would account for a 32-cent levy hike. Some relief will be obtained from the approximately $662,000 to be received by the city from gasoline taxes and auto license fees, under the new diversion act of the special session. This is an increase of nearly $450,000. Wherever permitted by the state accounts board, these funds will be allocated to relieve the property tax. The part that can not be used to pay for street work in the budget will be used in street maintenance and construction work, providing employment for several hundred men next year, relieving pressure on poor relief agencies. MRS. DEARBORN DEAD funeral lo Be Hrld Monday for Church Leader. Mrs. Mary Avis Dearborn, 2022 North Alabama street, died Friday in St. Vincent’s hospital. Mrs. Dearborn, who was active in church and club work, was ill several months. The Rev. O. R. McKay, associate pastor of the First Baptist church, will conduct funeral services at 2 Monday in the church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Dearborn was a trustee in the First church, a former Sunday school teacher, and a trustee of the Y. W. C. A. She was a member of the Monday Club, and was a charter member and treasurer of the White Cross guild of the Methodist hospital.

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BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT NEA Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5. California’s 2,000,000 voters will find it difficult to register their approval or disapproval of prohibition, the hardest-fought issue in the 1932 political campaign. Nationally, the Democratic party is committed to repeal and the Republican party is committed to a resubmission plan. But voters of this state face the paradoxical situation raised by a Republican senatorial candidate who is a fiery champion of repeal and a Democratic candidate who has a long record as a “dry” and who has yet t declare himself on the prohibition issued in 1932. It all comes about as the result of the state’s Democrats nominating William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, as their senatorial candidate, and the choice of Tallant Tubbs, youthful San Francisco manufacturer, by the Republicans. McAdoo and Tubbs will go to the polls in November in a battle - for the senate seat now held by Senator Samuel Shortridge, whom Tubbs defeated for renomination. This race, which promises to be one of the hottest in the nation, will be between a 69-year-old political veteran who almost became his party presidential candidate in 1914 and an aggressive 34-year-old San Franciscan, whose name now is scarcely known beyond the borders of his state. a tt M’ADOO, formerly the high priest of the ration’s Demo- , cratic drys and famed for his war-

CHAPLIN WINS SUIT Court Bars His Children From Film Careers. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3.—Charlie Chaplin has won his legal battle against Lita Grey Chaplin to bar their two young sons from careers in the films. Judge H. Parker Wood decreed that both Chaplin and his divorced wife must consent in writing before the two boys, Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 7, and Sydney Earl Chaplin, 6, may “hire out” for work of any kind. The Fox Film Corporation, W’hich signed a contract with Mrs. Chaplin for the services of the boys and herself in a series of five pictures, was a loser by the decision. The studio claimed it had spent $65,000 preparing for the first picture, and thus had an actual interest in the suit. DAHLIA SHOW PLANNED Growers From AH Sections of State Enter Fair Display. Growers from all sections of the state will participate in exhibits at the first annual show of the Dahlia Society of Indiana to be held Sept. 17 and 18 at the Indiana university building at the state fairground. Ralph C. Swartz of Indianapolis, secretary, said the exhibit is one of the finest ever held in the state. Miss Jennie Tudor of Zionsville, is president. Other officers are Dr. E. A. White and Dr. W. E. Kennedy, both of Indianapolis, vice-president and treasurer, respectively and F. T. McCurdy of Kokomo, show manager. RARE FISH IS FOUND Earlham Biology Students Study Fresh Water Medusa. By United Press RICHMOND. Ind., Sept. 3.—A speciman of the rare fresh-water Medusa, found near here for the second time in two years, is being studied by the Earlham college biological department. Professors described the animal as resembling the marine jellyfish. They said its appearance had been reported only a few times in the United States.

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WILLIAM G. McADOO, California’s Democratic senatorial nominee, is shown at the left, while at the right is TALLANT TUBBS, the youthful Republican nominee, and in the center is MISS ELLEN McADOO, 17, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, who is assisting her father in his campaign. McAdoo’s private airplane, in which he frequently commutes between his Los Angeles and Washington law offices, and his home in Los Angeles also are shown.

time service in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet, is attempting a comeback after eight years’ retirement from the political arena. Tubbs, hitherto a member of California's legislature, is making his first bid for a major political office. The paradoxical situation that found each candidate at variance with his party’s national prohibition stand arose during their primary campaigns. Tubbs was an out-and-out repealist; McAdoo, long a champion of the drys, made no specific utterance. The youthful nominee who replaces the veteran Senator Shortridge in the favor of California’s Republicans is a native of California, a Yale graduate son of wealthy parents. Despite his apparent youth, he is no neophyte in affairs political. For eight years he has been a state senator and has established himself not only as a prohibition foe, but as an independent progressive. Though born to wealth, Tubbs’ legislative record has satisfied labor and his interest in veterans’ legislation has won him friends among ex-service men.

Business Then David Dugger, 307 Gerrard drive, sold liquor in the days when handling intoxicating beverages was an industry and not a racket, according to deputy sheriffs who arrested him Friday on blind tiger charges. Sent to Dugger’s home to investigate report of a brawl, the deputies arrested Dugger when they found three quarts of red liquor. According to the report of the arrest, Dugger is said to have told the deputies he had been selling liquor “for the last seventeen years,” although the Eighteenth amendment became effective in 1920, twelve years ago.

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RICH, youthful, and handsome, Tubbs was considered northern California's prize bachelor until his marriage a year ago to Olivia Pillsbury Gibson, equally prominent socially. A former war pilot who left Yale at the outbreak of hostilities in 1917 to join the army’s aviation corps, he still flies his own plane. He has an autogiro which he used quite effectively during his campaign in getting over the state to his meetings. In business, he operates a large rope factory. In sharp contrast to Tubbs is his veteran opponent, McAdoo. who has returned to the political arena for the first time since his defeat for the presidential nomination in his historic battle with A1 Smith at Madison Square Garden in 1924. He played a prominent part at the recent Democratic convention in Chicago, when he swung California's delegation to Roosevelt, thereby breaking a fastdeveloping deadlock and making Roosevelt’s nomination certain. Previously McAdoo had championed Garner for the nomination. McAdoo also has an airplane, and his pretty daughter, Ellen, 17,

DENY MINE REVOLT Officials Say Confidence Vote for Lewis Likely. By United Press TERRE HAUE, Ind., Sept. 3.—A vote of confidence will be given John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, and the mine workers organization by the reconvened session of the District 11 convention here Sept. 9, district officials believed today. An attempt to recall Lewis and other officials was started in Illinois a few days ago. Denial was made by Ame Vales, district president, and other union leaders today that a delegation of Indiana miners attended a meeting in Gillespie, 111., Thursday at which a movement to organize anew mine union was started. ASKS $25,000 DAMAGES Herbert Hiners Charges Loss of Arm in Truck Crash. A $25,000 damage suit filed in superior court two Friday by Herbert Hiners named Alfred Jackson, operator of an Ohio freight trucking line, and Milton Stroud, an employe, as defendants. The suit alleges that Hiners lost his left arm and suffered other permanent injuries when his automobile was struck by one of the company’s trucks driven by Stroud.

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who used to toddle around Grandfather Woodrow Wilson’s knees in the White House—often accompanies him on his aerial journeys. She acompanied her father to the Chicago convention and is becoming quite an experienced politician. He has a palatial home at Los Angeles, but likes to spend his leisure hours on his small ranch near Santa Barbara. * tt n AT 69, McAdoo does more flying than any other “passenger” in the United States. He commutes between his Los Angeles and Washington law ofoffices in his four-passenger cabin monoplane, often being accompanied by Mrs. McAdoo. Captain Harry Ashe, former army flier, is his pilot. Mrs. McAdoo is the former Eleanor Wilson, youngest daughter of the wartime President, whom McAdoo wed in a brilliant ceremony in the Blue room of the White House in 1914. In addition to Ellen, they have another daughter, Mary Faith, now 12. McAdoo’s life story is the typically American narrative of a poor boy who worked his way up to position and wealth. Born in Marietta, Ga., in 1863, the seventh son of an old southern family, his first job was as a newsboy. u tt tt AT 18, he became a deputy federal court clerk at Chattanooga, Tenn., and later was admitted to the bar. Several years later he moved to New York to practice law and later won fame and fortune as president of the company which drilled the first railroad tunnels under the Hudson river. His first wife, Sarah Hazelhurst Fleming, whom he married in Chattanooga in 1885, died in 1912. She left six children, all now married. A delegate to the Baltimore convention that nominated Wilson in 1912, McAdoo was an active worker in Wilson’s behalf during the campaign of that year. When Wilson was elected, McAdoo was made secretary of the treasury. He held that office during the war, floating the gigantic Liberty bond issues, raising billions in taxes for the army and navy and. eventually, serving as director of the nation’s railroads when they were under government operation.

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ADOPT SCHOOL BUDGET AFTER $857425 CUT Nullifies $1.50 Minimum Levy Unless Board Makes Operation Impossible. Slashing operating expenses and salaries $857,425, the school board late Friday adopted its 1932-33 budget of $6,535,481, requiring a $1,087 tax levy’, compared with the present $1 levy. The budget, the first formally adopted in the county, would require only an 88-cent levy, were it not for 18 per cent assessed valuation decrease cutting down the revenue, and heavily increased tax delinquencies, officials said. Unless the levy is slashed by the new county adjustment board to a point where it will be impossible to operate the schools, the new $1.50 minimum levy law passed by the present legislative special session, will be nullified completely. Decreased valuation and increased delinquencies affect all other taxing units in the county, including the civil city, county and township, threatening a total Indianapolis levy in Center township of more than $3, in comparison with the present $2.79. Os the $6,535,481 school budget, only $5,068,413 actually goes for operation of the schools. The remaining $1,467,468, accounting for 28 cents in the levy, must be used to pay fixed charges, such as bonds and interest charges of $1,106,149, fund transfers and operation of public libraries, contributions to the free kindergartens, the Art institute and Children’s museum. The board is required by law to collect funds in its budget for the kindergartens.

Public Hearing to Be Held The board will conduct a public hearing on the budge and levy at noon, Sept. 15. Action of school officials in cutting the budget was praised today by William Fortune, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee. Careful analysis of the reduced budget will be made by a subcommittee, Fortune said, upon results of which recommendations may be submitted to school officials. Heaviest slash is in the salary item, the total pay roll being reduced $623,450 under the 1931-32 apppropriation. The other reductions have been obtained by curtailing and discontinuing activities, including discontinuance of the publication, research and curriculum departments. Supervisors Are Transferred Twenty assistant supervisors of art, music and physical education have been transferred to teaching positions, saving $46,000. All adult day vocational classes have been dropped, saving $15,175; appropriation for necessary school supplies has been reduced, night schools have been discontinued, saving $24,000, the library budget has been reduced $42,416 in the face of increased patronage, and the business and buildings and grounds departments appropriations have been slashed by $206,400. Children Must Suffer This latter cut, school commissioners point out, will impair care and operation of the $22,000,000 worth of school property, but it can not be avoided. “We would not have the parents and citizens of Indianapolis believe that these economies are being effected with no lessening of efficiency, no curtailment of the curriculum and with no disadvantage

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Policewoman Yields Badge After Clash Mrs. Mary Moore Charged With Covering Beat by Auto. Mrs. Mary Moore, policewoman, today threw* her badge on the desk of Captain Jesse McMurtry and walked out of his office, the aftermath of a clash with Lieutenant Ralph Dean, who reported she was covering her north side district in

an automobile, which is against department regulations. Dean said he found Mrs. Moore at Thirtyfourth and Illinois streets shortly after she pulled a box four blocks south on Illinois street. She was standing at the corner w’ith her husband Edward Moore, patrolman assigned to office duty. “What are you doing?” Dean says he asked the woman officer. “ Working,” was the reply. Dean then questioned her about covering her beat by auto. He asked Mrs. Moore to enter the police car he was using and “go down and see the captain.”

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She refused, declaring. ‘‘l have my own transportation.” Later at McMurtry’s office, she surrendered her badge. Chief Mike Morrissey suspended Mrs. Moore, pending safety board trial on charges of insubordination and conduct unbecoming an officer. Mrs. Moore said she had been distributing notices to merchants in her district that a permit is required for electric signs which hang over sidewalks, as other patrolmen have been doing the last few days. Women officers are not popular with the present police department administration. Two were dismissed recently. BONUS MARCHERS DUE 125 Californians Coming to City to See State Fair. By United Press NOBLESVILLE. Ind„ Sept. 3. One hundred and twenty-five California bonus marchers, en route from Washington, D. C., to thenhomes, left here today for Indianapolis where they expected to attend the state fair. The marchers were under command of J. F. McDeavett and said they had left California July 1.

to the child,” a board statement asserted. “Such is not possible. Despite the necessity for an increased levy, the budget shows an 11.6 per cent reduction. The commissioners feel they were elected to operate the schools with the highest possible efficiency. “There can be no moratorium in education. Indianapolis must educate today’s children today, or deny to them forever their opportunities. If our children’s educational opportunities are to be curtailed further, or stultified, it must be done by some agency other than this board.” The budget, as it stands, shows a decrease of $238,736 under the budget tentatively adopted by the board last spring.

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HOOVER ORDERS! U. S. CLERKS' ‘GAG4EMOVED President Intervenes in Case of Gary Federal Employe: Man Is Reinstated. By Scripps-Hoicard Keicspapcr Allianea WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The blanket gag on federal employes’ discussion of the bonus and other governmental questions imposed by departmental heads and the civil service commission was removed today through the action of President Herbert Hoover. Reversing his earlier decision, Thomas E. Campbell, chairman of the civil service commission, said that each case of a federal workers’ discussion of the bonus and other public matters would be investigated and judged on its merits. He took this step after receiving a sharp letter from Hoover asking whether the bonus had been included among the subjects which 1,000.000 employes and their families could not discuss publicly. The President intervened after disclosure in the Scripps-Howard newspapers that a Gary <lnd.) postoffice clerk had been dismissed, partly because he sponsored a bonus resolution at a meeting of his local American Legion post. Following a conference with Hoover, Postmaster-General Walter F. Brown announced that Ben H. Kerr, the Gary employee, would be reinstated. In a letter to Brown, Hoover said he never had ‘‘made any suggestion as to this or any other public question in its relation to the conduct of government employes. The President referred to the second item in the indictment against Kerr, which charged him with introducing “a bonus resolution at a meeting of the American Legion, Crown Point. Ind., contrary to the expressed wishes of the President, who has declared such legislation harmful to the country at this time.” Although Kerr also had been found guilty of “repeated delinquencies,” according to Brown, his reinstatement was ordered to show that the administration does not intend to restrict freedom of thought or speech. a goodYusiness school Strong business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses: Individual instruction in major subjects, large faculty of specialists tn their respective lines. Free Employment Service. Fred W Case. Principal CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North Y W. C. A. Indianapolis. Ind.

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