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REPEAL PUTS NEW KINKS IN TAX PROBLEM Complication Arises Over Whether Added Levies Will Be Needed. BEER OFFERS REVENUE Impost on Brew Could Be Ordered at Once, If Senate Acted. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Timet Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.—Although repeal when ratified may j settle the federal budget problem, the immediate effect of the amendment is to complicate the United States tax issue. Eventually, repeal of the eighteenth amendment will mean from nine hundred million to upward of a billion and a quarter dollars in annual federal revenue; but meanwhile the treasury faces a growing! deficit. Thus the pressing fiscal issue before the special session of congress this spring will be whether to await ratification before levying new) taxes. The answer will depend upon | how quickly the state ratification j conventions are called and act fa- j vorably. May Not Need New Taxes If good progress is shown within, say, the next six months, Repre- j sentative Henry Rainey (Dem., 111.), I who may be the Speaker of the next house, believes that new taxation will not be necessary. He foresees difficulty in getting the next congress to levy new taxes while ratification is in prospect. But this does not take into consideration the beer bill, to legalize and tax this nonintoxicating beverage at once. The senate's beer bill has not been called up for action, although the house has passed a similar measure. I f the senate does not act within the few days remaining of this session. the passage of a beer bill will be demanded at the outset of the special session. As much as $225.000,000 to $300,000,000 annually would result. What the house did in effect Monday in approving the senate repeal resolution was to make the most important federal revenue revision since prohibition went into effect. Y'ield Far Over Billion Dr. Clark Warburton in his book, “The Economic Results of Prohibition,'’ estimates that if spirits are taxed at $4 a gallon, beer at $lO a barrel, with corresponding rates on wine, the yield now, based on the rate of consumption during 1911-14. would be $1,650,000,000 a year, and at the rate of consumption during the last two pre-prohibition years, the revenue would total $930,000,000. These sums compare favorably with the yield from our three pressent principal sources of federal revenue—income taxes, corporation taxes and customs and nuisance taxes—and they would bite very deeply into the current treasury deficit of about one and one-third billion dollars. The internal revenue rate on spirits imposed in 1919 and still in effect is $6.40 a gallon; the beer tax is $6 a barrel; and wines are taxed at rates ranging from 16 cents to $1 a gallon, depending upon alcoholic content. Doctor Warburton's figures show that in 1919 government revenues from alcoholic beverages were divided as follows: Distilled spirits, 365 milions; fermented liquors, 118 millions; customs, 2.5 millions; total. 483 millions. In the same year, States realized more than 14 million dollars from tfrxeS on alcoholic beverages, and cities more than 32 million. REFUSE TO SELL LAND City Council Turns Down Purchase Request of Company. Anticipating return of the time when real esiate will be appraised at a "fair valuation," members of the city council Monday night re- ! fused to sell a tract ofr city real estate at White river and Washington street, which had been appraised at “too low a figure.” The tract now is under lease to the Shell Petroleum Corporation. Officials of the corporation had petitioned the works board to sell, as- ■ serting lease terms were too high ! because earning power of the land has declined.

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PRIMARY OPTION PLAN DRAFTED Election Could Be Called by Petition of 20 Per Cent of Voters. Establishment of a system making the holding of primary elections optional is the object of a bill scheduled for introduction today in tthe Indiana senate. Permanent registration of voters also is up in the senate for consideration, along with several other bills referring to elections, many of which are described as “economy” measures. Under terms of the optional primary bill, 20 per cent of the voters of each party, by petition, can call a primary election. When no primary is held, the bill provides that precinct conventions and county convention systems also are covered in the measure. Authors of the bill claim safeguards against “boss control,” are included. Delegates to district conventions, they explain, will be selected by county conventions on the basis of one delegate to each iOO votes cast in the district for secretary of state, thus avoiding control by the larger counties. Delegates to county conventions would select delegates to the state convention on a basis of one delegate for each 400 votes cast for secretary of state. This is in accordance with the present plan. Provision also is made for holding judicial district conventions and for legislative conventions. No predictions were forthcoming this morning from leading senators on the probable success the measure will meet when it is brought out on the senate floor for discussion. PAIR IS BADLY BEATEN Refuse to Name Assailants; .Slated on Two Charges. Refusing to name their assailants, two men found bi aten badly in a poolroom at Agnes and New York streets late Monday night are being held on charges of assault and battery and drunkenness. Police sent to the poolroom on report of a fight found the proprietor, Solly Dowling, 32, of 925 West New York street, and Robert Ewing. 25, of 1217 Herbert street, lying in the room. They denied fighting one another, but refused to tell police of any occurrences. Officers reported the lights in the room were out and the door was locked when they arrived.

Woodin Looms as Choice for Treasury Secretary

Industrial Leader. Little Publicized, Viewed as Cabinet Prospect. Hii Scrippg-H award Xrwspapcr Allinnrc WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—A report that William Hartman Woodin was being considered for secretary of treasury by President-Elect Roosevelt drew interest today to the career and business connections of this little-publicized Pennsylvanian, who is among the nation's industrial giants. Woodin is executive head of two of America's largest corporations. American Car and Foundry and American Locomotive. He is a director of Remington Arms, the New’ York federal reserve bank, and of large corporations with sugar and railroad interests in Cuba. Labor men assert that his bestknown connection, the American Car and Foundry Company, long has been an open shop factory. Woodin also is the head of several other large corporations, a director in many more, a collector of rare coins, and a member of the stalwart Republican Union League club. He supported Governor Smith for President in 1928, and contributed $25,000 to that campaign. He was New York state fuel administrator during the war. It was Woodin who stated publicly last March, immediately after Wall Street began to see Mr. Roosevelt as a strong contender, that it was unfair'' to regard him ?s being "inimical to bui'ntss, sc-cpl cd." "By tradition and training,’’

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TENURE LAW FOR TEACHERS IS MODIFIED House Accepts Committee Majority Report; Repeal Ordered in Townships. RETIREMENT AGE AT 66 Superintendents May Be Demoted Under New School Lineup. The house of representatives today accepted a majority education committee report for mod fled repeal of the teacher tenure law. The controversial tenure bill, introduced in the senate by Senator Henry F. Schricker (Dem.. Knox), as amended by the majority of the house committee.- repeals teacher tenure in townships and communities below' cities of the fifth class. Practically rewriting the Shrickcr bill, and a compromise as the result of several public hearings and conferences, the new version provides : Retirement of teachers at 66. Repeal of tenure insofar as it affects city, town and county superintendents. Training Is Required Requires tenure teachers take at least five semester hours of teacher training or instruction applicable to their profession every five years. Superintendents who have served five years can not claim tenure as jto their positions, but can be demoted to the rank of teacher. They can, however retain positions as tenure teachers with the years spent as superintendent applicable to qualification as tenure teachers. Representative Wilfred H. Jessup (Dem., Centerville), explaining the majority report, which was adopted, said the amended bill is a compromise, plus restrictions calculated to elevate tenure. Tow'nship teachers now under tenure will continue. Bucks Majority Report Representative J. Clayton Hughes (Dem., Goshen), urged substitution of a minority report which followed the lines of the original Schricker bill. He pointed out the present tenure law has been tested in the courts and that rewriting the measure is dangerous from a constitutionality stand, because of discrimination between rural and city schools. He was supported by Representative John F. White (Dem., Indianapolis), w'ho declared he signed the minority report as “the lesser of tw'o evils.” Effort to substitute the minority report lost by a standing vote of 46-42, and a motion of Representative Fred Galloway (Dem., Indianapolis), to kill the bill, lost by an overv,'helming voice vote. 33 ESCAPE DEATH IN FLAMING SCHOOL Pupils Calmly March Out as Fire Sweeps Building. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Feb. 21.—Thirtythree pupils of Lodi school, seven miles north of here, narrowdy escaped injury Monday when fire destroyed their building. The entire roof was in flames before the fire was discovered, but the children marched to safety. They were unable to save many books and a considerable amount of clothing. Loss was estimated at $2,000. YOUNG WOMAN IS DEAD Miss Marguerite Cox. 24, Is Taken at Home Here. following an illness of three months. Miss Marguerite Cox, 24, employe of the State Life Insurance Company for six years, died Sunday at her home, 2536 Ashland avenue. Funeral services will be held in the home at 7:30 tonight. Burial will be in Chestnut Ridge cemetery, four miles south of Seymour, Wednesday.

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Woodin said of Mr. Roosevelt, “he is antagonistic neither to the rights of invested capital nor to the rights of those whose capital is their industry. self-respect and ability to produce. "To any one who knows Roosevelt as I know him. the suggestion is absurd, unless big business is meant bad business. In him. bad business, whether big or li.tie. wifi find a relentless and dauntless enemy.”

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933

MURDER IN THE FAR NORTH

Body Burned in Furnace; Slayer Found Dead in Cabin

This is the last of a series of stories based on information from the flies of the United States Bureau of Investieation and other sources telline for the first time the bureau's agents' Dart in famous mysteries. BY LOU WEDEMAR Times Staff Writer THE office of the United States bureau of investigation at Seattle received the following telegram from one of its special agents at Fairbanks, Alaska, Sept. 12, 1927: “Interview Captain Howell, S. S. Victoria, due Seattle tomorrow, Search ship for Charles Lindfors, quicksilver miner his partner, Arthur Kirk, and Harry Stevens, a neighbor, who have disappeared. Also search S. S. Tupper, slower boat from Bethel. Alaska.” Captain Howell was troubled when Agent J-43 interviewed him. “Charles Lindfors is my father-in-law,” he said. “I usually bring a letter from him to the General Electric Company, telling them how much quicksilver has been shipped. But there was no letter when we sailed this time.” The quicksilver, sixty flasks of it worth SB,OOO, arrived on the Tupper. Captain Langley, in charge of that ship, knew nothing of the missing men, and there was no passenger answering Lindfors’ description—middls-aged, smoothshaven, bow-legged, reddish complexioned, large-headed. At Fairbanks, Alaska, the bureau agent conferred with Lynn Smith, United States marshal, in charge of law enforcement in the territory. Smith handed him the following telegram: “Flat, Alaska. June 3. A1 Welch reports Charles Lindfors and Arthur Kirk crossing Crooked creek on May 19 when raft sank and Kirk was drowned. Lindfors reported this to Barney Welch's camp and then disappeared. Harry Stevens, who has camp nearby, also still missing. Kincaid.” tt n tt SPECIAL AGENT J-43 found the marshal willing to co-operate, and on his trip to Crooked Creek and in his subsequent discoveries the marshal was his constant companion. But neither of them, wise though they were in the ways of the North, realized at the beginning where the trail would lead. The Lindfors and Kirk camp, near their mine at the head of Crooked Creek, was deserted as they approached. Joe Konechney, one of Linfors’ employes, was their guide. He appeared uneasy, but J-43 delayed questioning him. Konechney showed them the smelting plant, in which the quicksilver was refined. One brick wall inclosing the retorts had been torn away and only a small amount of fuel wood was piled inside, J-43 noted. In the cabin was a note reading:— “Kirk—l am awful sick. I started out for Stevens’ camp, but I got only to the summit. I had to turn back. I was all in. Took me all day to come home. “I haven’t much use of my left side, my left leg is almost paralyzed, I haven’t got a fire so I can’t cook and can’t eat. I believe it is the mercury fumes. I have an awful headache. I can’t stand it much longer. Lindfors.” The note was dated May 12, which, J-43 decided, might have been meant to indicate that Kirk had been missing several days and that Lindfors had been unable to search for him. The marshal found a watch in the cabin and Konechney identified it as Kirk’s. n a a “ r F>iEY had a quarrel of some -I- kind.” Konechney said. “When they took the quicksilver down the river the* couldn’t agree about it. The’ didn’t even write the usual letter Some trouble was brewing, I guess.” The searching party went on to the cabin of Harry Stevens. There was a note of quite a different character. •Stevens—l am going down to the cabin to get my pack and see if I can cross. If I can, I will not meet you. I will be back in four or five days with grub. Thought I might cross down near the raft. Lindfors.” A note signed by Stevens also was found in Stevens’ camp: "Have gone down to look for Kirk. I will not be back for some time. Stevens.” The tragedy of the frozen country unfolded rapidly at this juncture. for Barney Welch had a story to tell. “On May 22 Lindfors came in looking worn out from lack of sleep.” Welch said. “He told ms Kirk had been drowned while crossing Crooked creek on a raft.” “Where did Lindfors say he was going when he left you?” ‘•He said he was going down to look for Kirk’s body. I never saw him again.” “What do you think happened to these missing men?” We.ch hesitated. “I’d rather not say.” u a ROUTINE steps were taken by the bureau. J-43 wired that Lindfors had money deposited in a Seattle bank, and suggested that the bank be watched in case Lindfors appeared to get money and that a wealthy New York

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woman, who owned the mine, be communicated with. “Suggest you extend search for Harry Stevens,” he added. "Contradictory evidence here indicates Lindfors killed Kirk and then reported he had drowned,” J-43 wired. Although that message was succinct enough, J-43 w T as far from satisfied with the case. Strange things happen in desolate regions and suspicion among miners and other Alaska veterans was pointed at Stevens more than at Lindfors. Welch said he could not understand how a raft could overturn, as Lindfors described it. “And,” he concluded, “there was no reason for them to be crossing the creek unless they were returning from mailing a letter and you say the letter never was mailed.” Joe Konechney came to J-43 and Marshal Kincaid one day and drew them aside. “There’s something peculiar about the ore smelter,” he said. “Why don’t you examine it carefully?” As J-43 had noted the walls had been torn down at one side. Why was vhis done, he asked Konechney. “Might have been because some one had a very hot fire and wanted the furnace to cool off quick.’” "How much firewood was piled here before they disappeared?” “Cords of it. Must have had

You’d Be Surprised, Kid! Clara Was! Why, Europe’s Civilized

BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent VIEW YORK. Feb. 21.—Clara Bow met a lot of counts and dukes on her first visit to Europe, she disclosed today, but she can’t remember offhand any of their names. Interviewed in her suit at the Plaza, Miss Bow admitted that the war debt situation seems to be very serious. “The French,” she explained blithely, “have their ideas about the war debts and we have ours. So really, there's no use of our talking about it. “The government fell while we were in Paris. No, it didn't make any noise when it fell. It didn't actually fall down, you know. It lost the election. That's what they say—they say it fell, see?” The red-headed screen star and her cowboy husband. Rex Bell, were immensely impressed by the Tower of London. “The guide,” said Miss Bow, “knows the history of everything by heart. Os course, he makes you sleepy now and then, but you wake up when he shows you the chair where the kings of England have been crowned for quite some

a fire going day and night to burn as much is gone.” o a a J-43 and the marshal opened the furnace door and looked inside the ashes had been drawn. So, with a sieve, they began to examine the ashes. Suddenly Kincaid muttered something. “This looks like a human bone,” he said. Several other fragments were found in the ashes. The investigators took them to Dr. De La Virgue at Fairbanks, who studied them. "I think this is important,” he said. “But I would rather have an anatomist look at them.” The fragments were rushed by airplane to Seattle, where Dr. J. L. Worcester of the University of Washington examined them. They are pieces of a skull,” he said. “Possibly there are fragments of other human bones, too.” At this time, up on the Nushhagak river, Harry Stevens and “Klondike” Johnson were participating in one of the territory’s periodic gold rushes. A tattered newspaper came to their attention and Stevens saw on the first page his own name. A few days later he walked in upon J-43 and the United States marshal. “I hear you’re looking for me,” he said. “What do you want to know?” They wanted to know a lot.

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time. And. my dear, the plush is entirely worn off.” a e a THEN they tell you a story about the changing of the guards. Os course that is quite an old custom and it seems they had anew guard there and when they change the guards one guard delivers the keys and the other guard says, 'Who goes there?’ And the guard says, ‘The king's keys,’ and the other guard says, ’What king?’ and the first guard says, King George,’ and the other guard says, ‘Amen.’ “So the new guard, instead of saying amen, says, ‘Sez you.’ I thought it was a scream. But of course it sounds better in English accent.” Miss Bow believes that it is quite educational to travel. It's broadening, she explained, especially when you meet the right people. Most Americans who travel in

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T>UT Stevens couldn’t help very much. “I found a note stuck in mj door,” he said, “signed by Lindfors, and saying Kirk had been drowned on Crooked Creek, while they were crossing near the mine. Lindfors said he swam ashore, and tried to locate Kirk, but couldn’t. “The note said, ‘I am going to get the Indians to help me search for the body.’ I looked for Kirk’s body, but I couldn’t find it. and as I had planned to ’go outside’ anyway, I packed up and beat it.” Was his story true? J-43 believed him, and so did the others. The search had narrowed to Lindfors. During open weather that year J-43 and Marshal Smith, with Deputies Kincaid and Wiseman, hunted through the Alaskan-wild-erness for indfors and the solution to one of the territory’s strangest mysteries. It was weeks later when a miner came to him and told of finding a rifle on an unused trail along the upper reaches of Crooked Creek. The investigators went at once to the trail. After two days’ search through the underbrush they came to an abandoned cabin. The door was locked on the inside. • Shoulders to the door, the investigators racked it open. The body of Charles Lindfors hung there, suspended from a rafter. The coroner listed it as suicide.

Europe, she said, just don’t seem to meet the right people. When she left, the movie star weighed 118 pounds, but now she scales at 135. She intends to go in training and work it off, she said, so she can make anew picture. o a tt “'T'HAT German food,” she said, “was just fatal! And the blinis! Those are Russian pancakes, full of sour cream and caviar. The Italian food was very good, too, but I did not care for the French cooking. The French cook everything in wine. I don't like wine. I like kummel.” Os all the places she visited, Miss How said she likes St. Moritz the best. “The French and the Germans." she explained, “are practically civilized. so it’s not much fun traveling there. I want to go to Egypt some time to see the pyramids and the natives. They say the architecture is marvelous.”

Andy Diehard Volstead Unchanged on Modification of 18th Amendment.

By United Press ■JV/JTNNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Feb. 21. —Andrew Volstead said today he was “just as opposed to modification of the eighteenth amendment” as he ever was. “I am a dry,” said Volstead in commenting upon Monday’s repeal vote by congress. “My position regarding the eighteenth amendment still is well known,” he added. “I am opposed to any modification as would be provided by repeal or modification of the amendment as at present constituted.”

SENATE VOTE, 37-11, PASSES SUPPLY BILL Total of $45,500,000 for Biennial Appropriation Measure Assailed. DENIES COST IS CUT Schricker of Knox Voices Doubt of Honest Thrift Effort. Acting with unprecedented swiftness. the Indiana senate passed the biennial appropriation measure late Monday afternoon, after adding i 551.764.50 to bring the total to 545.500.000. i Parliamentary tangles, which have characterized this session of j the senate almost daily, forced a j second vote on passage of the supply bill after it had been approved once by a vote of 37 to 11, with two senators absent. The second vole was the same. Democratic senators voting against the measure were Senators Albright, Anderson. Ballard, Brandon, Cunningham, Schricker and Swi- ; hart. They were joined by Sen- ; ators Schuler, Shull. Tormohlen and Trent, all Republicans. Doubts Economy Effected Democrats opposing the bill in each case explained that failure to | reduce the cost of government and to eliminate offices and officials caused their negative votes. ”1 am voting against this bill because I doubt whether an lionest effort has been made to reduce the i cost of government,” Senator Henry ;F. Schricker (Dem., Knox), said, j "Don't we realize that thousands I are losing their homes while busi- | ness is being crushed?, If we don't realize these conditions now. we certainly shall at taxpaying times." Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Greensburg), majority floor leader, defended the appropriations and declared the totals represented a savings of from $4,000,000 to $5.000.000 under the previous two years. Increases Are Given Principal increases provided by senate amendment are $30,000 for county agents; SIO,OOO for national guard aviation, $7,000 for milk and f dairy products inspection service by | the health board, $2,800 for the deep j waterways commission; $2,800 for ! the Lieutenant-Governor’s office, | and amounts averaging about S2OO for various boards. Republican members, led by Senator L. L. Shull (Rep., Sharpsville), made ineffectual attempts to amend the measure by reducing appropriations for the Governor’s office, historical bureau, battle flag commission, Indiana university and Indiana State Teachers college, Terre Haute, and a flat reduction of 20 per cent on all salaries. Economy Is Demanded “Now is the time for the assembly to be in earnest about reducing the cost of government,” Shull said. “Drastic reductions were promised the people, and the mi- , nority members of the senate are giving the majority an opportunity to accomplish what the people are demanding.” Shull, at one time in his attempted argument for a minority amendment, was cut off sharply by the gavel in the hands of Senator Ketchum, acting as chairman of the committee of the whole. Shull’s protest went unheeded. Indications early today pointed to tl\e appropriation bill being enj rolled formally and sent to the Govj ernor late today or Wednesday. M’NUTT RULE IS VALID. POLITICAL FOES ADMIT 1 Reorganization Constitutional, Says Orbison at G. O. P. Session. Governor Paul V. McNutt’s reor- ■ ganization of the state government is constitutional, even his political opponents admit. Speaking at a meeting of the Irvington Republican Club Monday night, Telford B. Orbison, assistant district attorney, discussing constij tutionality of the law under which McNutt is acting, expressed a view ; that the statute is valid. However, he said, the program disturbs the "checks and balances” theory of government. Pliny H. Wolfard, former state tax commissioner, said he doubted the program will effect economies claimed for it. The law will permit injection of politics in conduct of state institutions, Edward J. Hecker Sr., club president, asserted. Other speakers were Bert C. Morgan, Lewis S. Bowman, former auditor of state, and Roy Lewis. LOITERERS ARE HELD Negroes Tried to Entice Pupils, Is Charge of Police. Two Negroes, identified by children at School 18, Palmer and Barth avenue, as the men who are alleged to have loitered in the vicinity of the school for the last two weeks attempting to entice pupils to accompany them, were arrested by police today on charges of vagrancy and disorderly conduct. The men, William and Addison Jackson, brothers, of 1253 Calhoun street, were found under a bridge at Pleasant Run. William gave his age as 30 and Addison, 25. ROBBERS~ ARE BALKED Attempted Burglary of Pharmacy Is Foiled by Clerk. Attempted robbery of the pharmacy of Cleo Bash at 6001 East Tenth street early today was frustrated by Cecil Fritz, a clerk, who sleeps in the store. Fritz told police he was awakened by the noise of glass breaking in a window directly over his cot. He said he seized a shotgun, but was unable to see the prowlers. The noise of a starting automobile was heard shortly afterward, Fritz said.