Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1932 — Page 7

SEPT. 27, 1932.

SCHOOL BUDGET CUTS BRANDED 'POUNDHJOLISH' Elimination of Night Classes and Repair Fund Slashing Seen Costly. ThU U the last two stories in the local school system situation under the proposed $1 SO tax law. Much of the objection to the increase of 8.7 cents in the city school levy is caused by lack of knowledge of the facts, school officials believe. "A higher levy does not necessarily mean the taxpayer will be forced to pay more taxes,” said A. B. Good, school business director. “As an example, a person whose property is assessed at SIO,OOO, would be taxed with SIOO with a levy of $1 on each SIOO, “If his property valuation should be decreased 20 per cent to SB,OOO, his taxes would be only $86.96, or $13.04 less, with levy of $1,087. ‘ The school city budget has been decreased $857,000, which, on the basis of the present valuation, would require a levy of only 88 cents. At Rock Bottom Figure However, with an 18 per cent decrease in assessed valuation, and with tax delinquency increased from 2 per cent to 6 per cent, it is necessary to set the levy at $1,087 in order to raise the budget.” Good pointed out even with a total tax rate for Indianapolis in Center township of $3.12, as it appears the rate will be set, less taxes will be collected next year than were collected under this year's $2 79 total rate. ‘‘A total levy of $2.79 on a SIO,OOO valuation would raise $279 in taxes,” he said. ‘‘But with a 20 per cent reduction in valuation, similar to that enjoyed by local real estate, a $3.12 levy would raise only $249.80 in taxes.” The school city, Good pointed out, has reduced its proposed expenditures for next year to the point where further substantial cuts would cripple the school system. Arouse Storm of Protest In order to effect an $857,000 budget reduction, it was necessary for school officials to eliminate many worth while activities, including free night schools and day vocational schools, he pointed out. Elimination of these two activities, both of which in the past have proven of inestimable benefit to the underprivileged classes, has aroused a storm of protest among taxpayers. With thousands of persons jobless, and with nothing but spare time on their hands, enrollment, particularly in the night schools, probably would have seen an unprecedented increase this year, it is felt. School officials, realizing the worth of these institutions in building better citizens, issued a statement regretting the necessity for their discontinuance. "We reluctantly have eliminated all night schools in order to effect a saving of $24,000 in salaries of night school teachers,” the board statement asserted. Called Costly Economy ‘ This is a serious step. These schools, especially during present times, are of inestimable value to the community. However, on the theory that our first duty is to the child, night schools for adults and under-privileged young people must go. We fear it is costly economy.” A spontaneous movement has sprung up for the working out of a plan whereby these night schools can be continued through public co-operation. Several other departments of the school system have been abolished, in cutting the budget. In addition, appropriations for the business and the buildings and grounds departments have been cut $206,400. This latter cut threatens the impairing of care and operation of the school city’s $22,000,000 worth of school property. Fear Cost Will Rise For the last two years, school budgets have provided inadequate amounts for maintenance and repairs of its school buildings. Only the most essential repairs could be made. The new budget provides much less for thus work, which will mean the necessity in the future of spending much larger sums to make major repairs w-hich, without neglect, could have been made at much less cost. It has been necessary to suspend the painting program, under which each building was scheduled to be painted every four years, one-fourth of the work being done each year. . Similar cuts have been made in the various other funds of the budget.

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Ambrose Small, Canadian Movie King, Lost 13 Years

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BY ROBERT TALLEY N’EA Service Writer (Copyright. 1932, NEA Service. Inc.) ON the very day that he disappeared, Ambrose Small, Toronto’s “lost millionaire,” sold his chain of Canadian theaters'for $1,750,000, deposited in his bank a check for the $1,000,000 down payment and retired from the business he had entered thirtyfive years before as a $lO-a-week ticket taker. He vanished on Dec. 2, 1919. That was nearly thirteen years ago. Though a $50,000 reward was offered by his wife and a world-wide search was conducted, no trace of the missing millionaire ever was found. Canada’s theater mogul left behind him an enigma as baffling as any shadowy mystery-drama ever enacted in any of his numerous theaters. Even today some of the Bominion’s best detectives, W'ho have worked on his case for years, do not know whether Ambrose Small was murdered and his body destroyed or whether he went away voluntarily to that Port of Missing Men which beckons invitingly ts unhappy souls. There is reason enough to believe either theory. u a tt GMALL was a tall, lean, liawklike man with a heavy black mustache. It appears that he had few enemies and, from all accounts, still fewer friends. His closest companion was John Doughty, his confidential secretary and right-hand man. who knew his employer's romantic secrets. They had been associated for nineteen years and though Small had made several million dollars, he was paying his friend only $45 a week. About noon on the.day of his disappearance, Small and his attorneys consummated the sale of his theaters to a Canadian syndicate for $1,750,000. A check for $1,000,000 was given Small as down payment, and this he deposited in the Dominion bank of Toronto. Then he had lunch downtown with his wife, visi&d a Catholic orphanage with her and returned to his office about 3 p. m„ saying he would be home for dinner at 6. Between 3 and 5, employes of the Grand theater saw theif retiring master in his private office, apparently winding up his affairs. At 5:30 he visited Lamb's hotel next door, which was his custom before going home. And then he vanished. This day he didn’t go home. BELIEVING her husband was off on another gay party with a woman friend, Mrs. Small waited two weeks before she notified police. When no word of him came, she offered a reward df SSOO which she ultimately increased to $50,000. In the meantime, Doughty had gone to Montreal, where Small had got him another theater job, at $75 a week. About the time that Mrs. Small notified police, Doughty returned to Toronto—and then sud-

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denly followed his former employer into the ranks of mystery men. It now became a search for two men instead of one. In November, 1920, eleven months later, detectives found Doughty working in a lumber camp in Oregon City, Ore., under an assumed name. A local constable had recognized him from a circular broadcast by Toronto police. During Doughty’s absence, strange things had happened. Detectives found that Doughty twice had visited Small’s bank vault on the day the millionaire disappeared, and that $150,000 in bonds had vanished. tt tt St BROUGHT back to Toronto, Doughty led police to the home of his sister and there, from a hiding place in the attic, produced the $150,000 in bonds. His explanation was this: He had taken the bonds from his employer’s vault with the intention of going to Small and suggesting that the $150,000 would be a suitable reward for his long service. But, he added, Small disappeared before he could do this and he (Doughty) then had decided to keep the money, feeling that it was due him. Doughty was tried, convicted of larceny and sentenced to six years. A second indictment

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charging him with complicity in the kidnaping of Ambrose Small was held over him by police, but not pressed. All mention of kidnaping was omitted at his trial for larceny. He was freed from prison in February, 1926. Though they believed Small murdered, police never were able to find the body. On the theory that the remains had been burned, the theater furnace was searched and the ashes of the city dump sifted. But the furnace had been cleaned long before the search was made and the at ,v, es of the city dump yielded only nones that could not be identifed as those of a human being. tt tt it AND now for more chapters in this strange drama of mystery, which seem to indicate that Small never was killed at all: Eighteen days aftef Small’s disappearance a Toronto newsboy, who had a stand half a block from the theater, reported that Small had purchased a paper from him the previous evening between 7 and 7:15 p. m. The man halted a minute under an arc light, scanned the headlines and then moved on. The newsboy said that, he was sure; that he could not be mistaken, that Small had been one of his regular customers.

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And, four years afterward when relatives were fighting in court over the Small estate, Mrs. Small explained why she had waited two weeks after her husband’s disappearance before she notified police. They had quarreled before over another woman, she testified, and shortly after Small’s disappearance on Dec. 2 she had found love letters among her husband’s effects. A paragraph in one of these letters, from a married woman, read: “I am the most unhappy girl in the world. I want you. Can’t you suggest something after the first of December? You will be free, practically. Let’s beat it away from our troubles.” Mrs. Small said it was the discovery of these letters immediately after her husband disappeared that kept her from notifying police at once. Was Toronto’s “lost millionaire” murdered, or did he run away? What is your answer to the riddle? Next—The strange disappearance of Dorothy Arnold, the “lost heiress,” who vanished on crowded Fifth avenue in busy New York on her way to keep a luncheon engagement with her mother ....A mystery that twenty-two years only has deepened.

RURAL CHILD CHARITY PROBLEM CONSIDERED Catholic Group Making Plans at Meeting in Omaha. By United Press OMAHA, Sept. 27.—The problem of children in rural communities was taken up by the National Conference of Catholic Charities meeting here today. The Rev. James R. Mulroy, Denver, Colo., attacked the problem from the standpoint of the smaller cities and towns, while Miss Leslie M. Foy of Philadelphia discussed it from the rural and farm angles. There also were sectional meetings of committees on neighborhood and community activities, social and economic problems and additional meetings of the St. Vincent de Paul and religious group® attending the conference. CHECK TRAFFIC BURDEN State Survey Will Show Which Highways Should Get Best Paving. Conjecture as to which roads bear the burden of automotive traffic will be ended by the traffic census now in progress in eleven Indiana counties by the Indiana state highway commission and the bureau of public roads, according to John J. Brown, commission director. The survey will reveal, he said, that some roads need not be developed with the highest type pavement, and that less expensive types will serve for some years.

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HELD ON U. S. BLACKMAIL LAW Seymour Man First Hoosierj Charged With Violation. Dubious distinction of being the first Indiana resident to be charged with violation of the new federal blackmail law, passed as result of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, today was held by Arch D. Millson, Seymour. Ind. Millson was held to the federal grand jury by Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner, under $2,500 bond on a charge of sending threatening letters to Mrs. Carrie Myers, Seymour. Coffee imports of the United States last year totaled more than 1,741,536,000 pounds.