Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1933 — Page 2

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millions of new income TAXPAYERS TO ENROLL IN UNWILLING ARMY IN 1933 Lowering- of Exemptions and Boost of Rate Mean Heavier Drain on Purse Than in Years Past. ll th * flr * 4 ° f *'* * rlir,M detailing the nm federal income taxea regn--1 l at upward* of three million more citizen* must meet before March 15. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer Jan. 23.—Nearly three and a half million persons who did not have to file an income tax return last year must do so this year. That is the latest government estimate. This new return, which must be filed by midnight of March 15, covers the income for the calendar year 1932. Lowering of exemptions for both single and married persons means these new taxpayers will be gathered into the fold this year. The stifTest increase in tax rates in the peacetime history of the nation means that far. more tax must be paid on the same amount of income.

liere s what has happened: The exemption allowed married men and heads of families has been cut from $3,500 to $2,500; the exemption allowed single men has been cut from $1,500 to $1,000; the 25 per cent reduction formerly allowed on “earned incomes” has been eliminated. Rates Go Soaring The tax rate last year was l per cent on the first $4,000 in excess of exemptions; 3 per cent on the next $4,000, and 5 per cent on the remainder. This year it is 4 per cent on the first $4,000 and 8 per cent on all the rest. Surtax rates In certain brackets have more than doubled. The credit allowed for each child or other dependent stands unchanged at S4OO. Here’s how lowering of the exemptions is going to add new recruits to the army of taxpayers; SINGLE PERSONS Net Paid Must Pay Income Last Year This Year $llOO Nothing SI.OO 1200 Nothing 8.00 1500 Nothing 20.00 MARRIED PERSONS Net Paid Must Pay Income Last Year This Year $2600 Nothing $4.00 .3000 Nothing 20.00 3500 Nothing 40.00 The above examples are for married and single persons without dependents or children, and receiving no dividends or partially exempt interest. Such credits will be dis : cussed later. To every person who paid a federal income tax last year, United States collectors of internal revenue throughout the country are mailing an income tax return blank this year. Must Get Own Blanks But it will be up tp the army of new taxpayers to get their own blanks. They may be had on application to any collector’s office. These offices are now open to receive returns, all of which must be filed by midnight, March 15. The responsibility for filing rgsts entirely with the individual, and willful failure to do so Is punishable by added penalty, fine or imprisonment. In short, a return must be filed by every married person or head of a family whose net income in the calendar year of 1932 was $2,500 or more, and by every single person whose net income was SI,OOO or more, even if their exemptions and credits for dependents are sufficient to offset the necessity of paying a tax. Moreover, every person married or single—whose gross income was $5,000 or more must file a return. Total All Income Net Income is a figure arrived at by totaling income from all sources, then subtracting from that figure certain deductions specifically outlined, covering interest paid, losses by fire and storm, bad debts, and contributions to charity. Net income is an arbitrary figure which can be determined only according to the tax blanks. The bulk of income, especially in the smaller groups, represents salaries and wages. In this connection, you might as well keep In mind that Uncle Sam requires employers to report to him a complete list of all incomes-paid to employes that equal or exceed the legal exemption. This is the government's method of double-checking to see that nobody escapes tax payment. There are two kinds of forms on which personal income tax returns are made, and it is important that you U'c the proper one. Two Forms Used Form 1040-A. a single sheet blank, is for reporting net incomes of not more than $5,000. Form 1040, a larger folded blank, is for net incomes of more than $5,000. The latter form must also be used by business and professional men and farmers, regardless of the amount of income. A farmer who keeps no books or keeps his books on a cash basis also is required to fill out another form, IOiO-F. and attach it to his return. There still is another form for cor* poration returns. While all returns must be filed by midnight, March 15, and at least one-foun. of the tax paid at that time, the rest of the tax. if desired, can be paid in three equal installments on June 15, Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. This permits individuals to budget their tax payments. Early Returns Urged “Early filing is of great importance this year because of the greatjy increased number of taxpayers, says David Burnet, United States commissioner of internal revenue. “Our offices are open for the receipt of returns now. • Care in preparation of returns also is essential; thousands of taxpayers make obvious mistakes in their returns each year, many of these mistakes being in <hc- government's favor. “Last year one man actually overpaid $19,090 because of his own carelessness. He got it back.” These increased income taxes ure contained in the revenue act of U 932, passed by congress last June

j in its frantic, and unsuccessful, atj tempt to balance the federal budget. These taxes represent the greatI est increase in rates since the wartime peak. The new rates were ! made retroactive to Jan. 1, 1932. When the law was passed, March 15 was a long way off, and there was little public realization then as to what these increases meant, not only to persons who last year paid no tax at all, but also to those who ! had been paying. But—with an army of new taxpayers added to the rolls and many of the old taxpayers having to pay, | in some instances, five or six times as much tax on the same income | last year—the nation soon will understand what "the greatest tax increase in the peace-time history of the country” really means. NEXT: How income taxes paid by married persons are going up. POLICE QUELL ONE-MAN RIOT Shotgun-Wielder Captured After Running Amuck in Neighborhood. After running amuck with a shotgun at the climax of five-man drinking bout in a speakeasy at Henry and Birch streets late Saturday, shooting two men and terrorizing the neighborhood, George Crider, 38, of 511 Drover street, was trapped by police. He is charged with shooting with intent to kill a policeman. Residents in the vicinity darkened their homes and fled to basements when Crider riddled windows with shotgun blasts, then shot and wounded slightly two soldiers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison. They are David Burger, 32, and Albert Ketner, members of Battery B, who were passing the scene as Crider began firing. Crider is said to have become enraged after a fist fight with four armed men in rear of the speakeasy, according to police. Crider is said to have gone to his home, seized his shotgun and returned to the scene. His combatants were gone when he returned. Crider then dashed into Birch street, firing wildly. Police squads under Sergeant Rcnforth converged on the scene in response to a series of calls at police headquarters. Crider fled to the Pennsylvania railroad bridge over White river. Rcnforth and patrolman Albert Branham dashed after Crider, exchanging shots before the fleeing man tossed his weapon into the stream. He then attempted to overpower both policemen, but was pinned to the floor of the bridge. Police said they found a bloodcovered knife in the prisoner’s pocket.

Confession Is Claimed , Clearing City Robberies

Paroled Convict Is Caught, Admits Crimes, Say City Detectives. Solution of fifteen robberies here within recent months was claimed today by police and detectives with arrest and alleged confession Sunday of Sam Miles, 23, paroled convict, in a north side rooming house. Miles, who had boasted he would shoot on sight any policeman who attempted to arrest him, was cap-

tured without a struggle when cornered by a squad of detectives armed mith sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Paroled From Pendleton Since June 16. 1932, when he was paroled from the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton after serving a three-year term for second degree burglary, Miles obtained hundreds of dollars in loot in the robberies here, exclusive of SI,OOO in a Louisville (Ky.) pay roll holdup, according to his confession. Two other men, who were said to have formed a bandit trio with Miles, have been arrested and convicted in connection with most of the crimes in the same series of robberies. They are George Thompson and Elvin Sandefur. both of Indianapolis. They are serving prison term§. Robberies Are Listed List of robberies which, detectives said. Miles included in his conlession, with dates and amount of loot: Grocery at 601 Stevens street. Sept. 18, $25; Stevens drug store. 3365 Central avenue. Sept, 24. $100; Standard grocery at 1901 Lexington avenue. Sept: 24. loot unknown; drug store. Eleventh and Alabama streets. Sept. 29. $32: drug store at 4402 East Washington street. Oct. 3. SSO: National Casket Company, Louisville, Ky., Oct. 10, $1,000; grocery at West F'y street, date

VISCOUNT IS DIVORCED BY U. S. WOMAN

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Viscountess Furness with her haby son, Anthony William, and (inset) Viscount Furness, English shipping magnate. ' By L nilcrl Pms LONDON. Jan. 23.—The Viscountess Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt of New York, was granted a divorce decree nisi today from Viscount Furness, British shipbuilding magnate, on charges of misconduct. Viscount Furness did not defend the action. The decree was granted on grounds of*adultery with a woman named Helene Griselain at the Hotel Westminster, in Paris, in October, 1932. The viscountess also is the sister of Mrs. Benjamin Thaw Jr., Pittsburgh. Lady Furness was granted the costs of the action and the custody of an only child, a boy born in 1929. Her lawyers said she had not lived with her husband since May. 1932. Lady Furness and her sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, were known as the “beautiful Morgan twins.” They are the daughters of Harry Hays Morgan of New Orleans and New York, retired consular official.

Borah Turns Heavy Guns on. National Sales Tax

Cruel Levy, Declares Idaho Senator; ‘America Travels in Vicious Circle.’ (Continued from Fage One) Farms and important lines of industry also are suffering. Borah at this time did not advocate any specific means of cheapening the currency, or “reflating” it, as he prefers to say. Measures introduced for this purpose include proposals for issuance of additional paper currency, remonetization of silver, and reduction of the gold content of the dollar. Regafding the sales tax, repeatedly advocated by President Hoover since last June, Borah said: “That is a cruel proposal in the light of diminishing profits, falling prices and decrease of purchasing power. At a time when under-con-sumption is a malady which menaces our whole social structure, there can be no justification for aggravating the* malady. “If we can not Stabilize prices, to lay on a sales tax which strikes at those least able to pay, is to accentuate the fall in prices and discourage and decrease purchasing power. We' are traveling a vicious circle toward economic collapse. “In 1929 the national income was about $85,200,000,000; in 1932, about $37,500,000,000. Our national income now is about equal to the taxes of the people, city, state and national together with the interest falling due on private indebtedness. “We already have reached the point when measured against interest and taxes, income of the nation is about zero.” Merchants Fight Tax With merchants throughout the state marshalling forces opposing sales and privilege taxation embodied in bills before the legislature with administration approval, i members of the Indiana Real Es-

uncertain, $55; drug store at 1855 North Alabama street and 2161 East New York street, Nov. 19. S7O; Hook drug store, Senate avenue and Washington street, Nov. 22, $100; Standard grocery at 1901 Lexington avenue, Nov. 26, S6O; grocery at 224 West Ray street, Nov. 26. S6O; Kroger store, 2304 Central avenue, Dec. 11, S6O; poolroom.at 540 West Maryland street, Dec. 12. SIOO, and a poolroom at 2631 West Michigan street, date uncertain, no loot.

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tate association, meeting here today, approved sales and income levies if not applicable to realty. Meeting of the Indiana Council of Retail Merchants, of which the Merchants’ Association of this city, is a part, will be held in the Travertine room of the Lincoln Thursday morning at 10, when it is planned to organize opposition to sales taxation. Merchants assert the added burden which would be imposed by the levies would force many retailers out of business. Following the meeting, merchants are expected to confer with legislators from their respective sections to voice their opposition. Legislative committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is to meet in advance of the Thursday conference, to take a satnd on the tax program. Allied Florists of Indianapolis already have announced their opposition. A similar stand has been taken by John E. Fredrick, president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, and he has called a general sales tax protest meeting to be held in Indianapolis next week. Albert Uhl, president of the state real estate association, and chairman of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board’s taxation committee, presided at two meetings today of several members of the state organization. One was in the Fletcher Trust building and the other in the office of the Indianapolis board in the Lcmcke building. Uhl declared he and the other conferees are determined on tax relief for owners of both farm and city property. Provisions in both sales tax and income tax bills affecting sales and income from real etsate are targets for opposition. Uhl said, because they place additional burdens on property owners. Although supuporting some provisions of the sales and income tax bills. Uhl declared. “We favor broadening the tax base to give relief to property owners who heretofore always have carried the tax burdens, but certain provisions of the sales and income tax bills will meet with opposition from our groups.’’ SHOOTS SELF: SEEKS AID Railway 'Engineer Dies Twelve Hours After Inflicting Wound. By l nitrd Press NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 23. After firing a shotgun charge into his chest Sunday night, Otto Stoner, 44, railway engineer and Democratic commtiteeman, drove nearly two miles to summon aid. He died here twelve hours later. Stoner blamed “troubles” for his act.

BRIDAL PAIR DIE IN -FALL CREEKJRASH Auto Hurtles Into Stream; Newlyweds Perish but Two Escape. (Continued from Page One) ficials indicated that solution of the problem lay in erection of substantial safety guards sufficiently strong to hold the weight of an automobile. “Lack of funds” was given by Sullivan as possible handicap to erection of safety guards. Assurance was given by the mayor, however, i that “we will do whatever we can.” Thousands of persons thronged! the banks of the creek Saturday i night while the bodies were being j removed from the automobile by Sergeant Frank Owen, and patrolmen Everett Steele and James Senteney. Throughout Sunday passing motorists kept nearby streets congested as they paused to watch attempts to r,emove the automobile. .According to stories told police by Swisher, Mrs. Higgs and Earl (Ted) Keisken, former prosecutor of Wayne county and friend of the Evanses, the wedding took place at about 4:30 Saturday afternoon at the home of the Rev. Frederick R. Daries of 3610 Guilford avenue, pastor of the Zion Evangelical church. Mrs. Evans had been married twice previously and Evans once. License Issued Saturday License for the wedding had been obtained in Greenfield, tnd the j marriage was to have taUen place j Friday, but had been postponed by the participants, police were told. According to Marshall Winslow. Hancock county clerk, the marriage license was obtained after noon Saturday. Evans’ address was given as 803 Broadway, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Evans had signed the application as Nellie A. Dormer, Columbia hotel, Greenfield. The marriage certificate signed by the minister was received at the clerk’s office this morning, Winslow said, showing that Evans had given his address as Wayne countyfi Indiana. No request was made to keep issuance of the license secret, Winslow said. Mr. Daries said that request had been made to keep the marriage secret. Atfer leaving the pastor’s home, the party drove to a ft near-down-town hotel, where Keisker said he left the car. Swisher told police that Evans then drove through the northern section of the city for some time before turning south on Talbot street. En Route to Party Plans for a dinner party celebrating the event had been made at the Sheffield Inn, where Dan Geddon, friend of the couple, was to be host. It is believed the party was en route to the dinner engagement when the car plunged over the bank. Accounts of events immediately prior to the accident, as told to police, conflicted. One report was that the car continued south on Talbot street without hesitating at the creek bank. Later, Swisher told police that the car was halted because of the red light marking the edge of the bank, in the belief that it was a traffic light. Rolled Down Window “Why doesn’t it turn green?” Mrs. Evans was quoted as saying. Evans, evidently believing the light was out of order, started up and drove into the creek. Swisher said he had no remembrance of the plunge until he felt the water entering the car. As soon as he realized what had happened, he attempted to open a door, but was prevented because of the pressure of the water. Next attempt at escape was by rolling down a side window, through which Swisher said he finally was able to crawl, followed by Mrs. Higgs. Reaching the surface, he started to swim. The right rear door was open when the car was taken from the creek today. The rear widows were closed. Passersby and neighbors, attracted by the sound of the crash, directed the efforts of Swisher and Mrs. Higgs toward the south bank and assisted them to safety. Rescue Crew Handicapped They were taken into the home of Major Warner W. Carr, at 131 East Fall Creek boulevard, where first aid and blankets were provided. After arrival of police, Mrs. Higgs was sent to city hospital suffering from shock and exposure, but later in the night was taken home by friends. Swollen condition of the creek and a rapid current handicapped efforts of police to remove the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Evans from

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Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Miller Fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Miller of 359 North Oxford street was observed today. The couple was married Jan. 23. 1883. They have two children, a daughter, Clara, Los Angeles, and a son, Robert, New York.

the car. The rescue boat, containing Owen and Steele, was over- j turned and the officers worked for more than an hour in drenched j clothes.

Senteney chopped through the | roof of the car and just had re- J turned to the bank when the boat; overturned. After removal of the 1 bodies, requiring two hours, attempt at resuscitation was made by police and firemen, but both finally were pronounced dead by physicians. The bodies were removed to city morgue, but later were released to Hisey & Titus funeral home. The body of Evans was returned to Richmond Sunday, where funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon. He was operator of the Evans & Evans garage there. He was 39 and had a married daughter, Mrs. Sherman Marshall. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Evans, and a sistef, Mrs. Nettie McGuire, survive. He was divorced from Mrs. Treva Evans. 39, on Feb. 13, 1932, it was learned. Mrs. Evans’ body was released to her brother, who said it would be taken to Richmond this afternoon. Tentative plans for the funeral are for Wednesday, pending arrival of Mrs. Evans’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams of Sbltville, Va. Besides the parents and William Williams, Mrs. Evans is survived by four other brothers, George Williams, Indianapolis; Marion, who lives in Tennessee, and Wiley and Jesse of Saltville. A sister, Mrs. Minnie Muskett, lives in Roanoke, Va. According to the marriage license, Mrs. Evans was born May 17, 1899, although her brother said insurance papers gave her age as 35. Mrs. Evans’ first marriage was to Leslie Dormer and she was divorced from Carl Veregge in December, 1932. A son, Wilbur Dormer, 17 a student in Morton high school, Richmond, survives,

MILK FUND DRIVE TO BEMADE HERE Music Week to Be Set for Civic Campaign. Music festival week will be conducted in March by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic clubs as a means of raising funds to provide milk and crackers lunches to more undernourished chfidren in public schools. School officials, who are handicapped by a reduced budget, estimate that the 4,000 children now receiving the lunches represent only half those not receiving sufficient nourishment in impoverished homes. Services of local musical organizations and individual artists will be sought in making the festival, to be held at Cadle tabernacle, a success, according to E. O. Snethen, federation president. HAPGOOD “GOES HOME Socialist Leader Is Taken From Hospital to His Residence. Powers Hapgood, Socialist leader, who was shot accidentally several weeks ago, was taken from St. Vincent’s hospital Saturday to his home near Southport. Hapgood was forced to cancel a national lecture tour for the League of Industrial Democracy, which was to have started in the south the week of Jan. 10. Children’s Coughs Need Creomulsion Always get the best, fastest and surest treatment for your child's cough or cold. Prudent mothers more and more are turning to Creomulsion for any cough or cold that starts. Creomulsion emulsifies creosote whh six other important medicinal elements which soothe and heal the inflamed membranes and check germ growth. It is not a cheap remedy, but contains no narcotics and is certain relief. Get a bottle from your druggist right now and have it rady for instant use, (adr.)

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HIGHWAY BILL AWAITSACTION Senate Slated to Pass Ripper Measure in Quick Order. Prompt passage of the new highway commission bill, advocated by the administration, was slated when the senate convened this afternoon. Companion bills relating to control of county roads also were up for passage. Measures concerning consolidation of counties and townships and for separation of state and national ballots likewise were expected to receive quick approval. .Three full-time highway commissioners, to be appointed by tne Governor and removed at will, are provided for in the “ripper” bill, abolishing the present highway commission and setting up a state roads commission in its place.

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NEW CHIEF OF DRY AGENTS IS ON DUTY HERE — * Basil Minnich Assumes Post. Succeeding J. W. Morrill. Basil H. Minnich. new deputy dry administrator for this district, today assumed his duties, succeeding John W. Morrill, who was transferred to Scranton. Pa . in a similar capacity. Minnich came here from Harrisburg. Pa., where he was investigator in charge. Georgia leads the country’ in watermelon growing.

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