Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1933 — Page 5

MARCH 7, 1933.

IMPOSING LIST OF MAJOR MEASURES ARE PASSED BY ; DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS State History Made By rnprecedented Speed With Which Program Goes Through; Closing Xight Liquor Is Scarce. Indiana taxpayers today scrutinized an imposing list of accomplishments of the legislature which adjourned Monday night. Moving with unprecedent speed from the first to the last hours of the session, senators and representatives enacted laws which may make st ato history. Those who waned closely the activities of the general assembly under the administration rule of Governor Paul V. McNutt, found that the Democrats "do thing- differently."

Even the last night of the sessi on was. different. It was all over before midnight. At, the seventyseventh session the clock was stopped at midnight and the legislators still were in session after noon next day. Little Liquor in Evidence Another thing was noted at the final session Monday night. Here was a group who voted wet, —decidedly wet and yet there was less liquor in evidence than any last night in years, and no drunkenness on the floor of either house. Previous sessions voted dry and drank wet. There were flowers and music and saying farewells, but all was very decorous Monday night. Never, in this generation, has a last night of the session been so tame, nor closed before dawn. Nor have all major measures been disposed of before the last day. Under the militant leadership of McNutt the largr> Democratic majorities in both houses worked with precision on administration bill passage. Many Major Bills Enacted That ther" were many major measures enacted is show'n by this list of accomplishments: Reorganized the entire state government, centralizing power w'ith the Governor. Revamped the entire state banking code in line w'ith researches of the study commission, giving the state increased control. Passed appropriations of more Ilian $45,000,000. Adopted uniform fees and salaries bills for cities, counties and towns. Passed a uniform* salary bill for prosecutors. Abolished the municipal elections this year, postponing them until 1914. The state took over S6OO teacher payments for all common and high schools throughout the state. Income and Sales Taxes Modified the teacher tenure law so that it does not apply to township schools. Passed a $15,000,000 gross income and sales tax. Made drivers' licenses an annual fee of 50 cents. Passed an intangibles tax. Abolished the old setup of highway and public service commissions and established new ones. Rewrote the Spencer-Shiveley public utilities regulation law. Licensed barbers. Established an old-a'je pension system with joint county and state payments. Repeal Bone-Dry Law Repealed Wright bone-dry law and set up beer control under an excise director. Made amending the Constitution easier, by a majority vote on the amendment. Transferred the state police to the chief executive and gave the officers full police powers. Changed the fiscal year from Oct. I to July 1. Set up a ten-year installment plan for delinquent tax payments. Prohibited sale of property for tax delinquencies until February, 1934. Amended the $1.50 property tax limitation law to permit interest payments and reduced the maximum to $1 in townships. Changed the setup of the state board of agriculture Put petty loan rates under the banking commission. Bans Yellow Dog Contracts Legalized the borrowing of R. F. C. funds by governmental units on deposits in closed banks. Repealed the horse thief detective law. Provided for permanent registration of voters. Made the Lieutenant-Governor a full-time administrative officer of the state with a $6,000 salary, a raise of $5,000 a year. Extended salary reductions enacted by the 1932 special session to 1936. Passed an anti-injunction and "vcllow dog” contract prohibition bill. Created an unemployment relief commission with a $1,000,000 appropriation. Gave the state board of finance

LADIES FREE TONITE CHATTERBOX BALLROOM Fountain Square Theater Building; Bent Ifinrn 10c Before 8:45 1933 State Championship Waltz Contest. Eliminations Thursday night.

AMUSEMENTS

Greater titan "Birth of a Nation" A tremendous drama of life / . '-V • V portrayed on the grandest scale ;' s • / ~' f - : / ever attempted. The story of '/ v - ■///"/■' ■ \ a love that held, with faith ' // > and courage, in defiance of the v . v'*. rushing Cavalcade called V*f- r^r t( j t r , Pic‘ u,e o( ‘-seats 1 1 Mod tov ' 3 now on sale I , Br S- Thursday Ere. March 9th l"ice Daily Thereafter I ji b Ki mi I si, lo Evenings ft.v. Rite. Sl. to, $1.65 All Prices Include Tax

complete control over general fund and tax levies. Organized a state purchasing department for all supplies. Increased tax on chain stores in groups of more than twenty, from $25 ot $l5O. Provided for an interstate port authority between Indiana and Illinois along the Calumet district shore of Lake Michigan. Permitted installment payment of taxes by checks on funds in closed banks. The record, in both volume and importance, exceeds that of nearly all previous legislatures held in Indiana since the present constitution was adopted in 1851. McNutt and the Democratic party are staking their future on the results. FAIL TO LINK PAIR TO KILLING Police Murder Suspects Are Viewed by Witnesses: Heads Shaken. Efforts of detectives to link two alleged gangsters with murder of Sergeant Lester Jones Feb. 7. in an attempted robberv of the Peoples Motor Coach Company, failed today when witnesses cf the shooting could not identify one of the suspects or a photo of the second. The suspects w-ere Thomas Howard, 28, of 341 North Holmes avenue, and Harold Keil, 18, of 1201 Park avenue. Detectives said, however, that Howard, and Keil will be questioned in connection with attempted robbery Jan. 7 of a bank at Kcmpton in whi'a one of the bandits was shot, and wounded by George J. Richman, cashier. Howard, charged with vagrancy and reckless driving, obtained release Monday night under bond of $5,000 and Keil is held in default of $15,000 bond. They w r ere arrested Monday morning. Howard and Keil are at liberty under bond of $5,000 each in connection with a previous arrest Dec. 18, when they were found in an alleged stolen auto. Habeas corpus proceedings are pending in superior court three in behalf of Keil. An Indianapolis physician is said to have reported that he treated Howard for a gunshot wound in the aarm following the Kempton robbery. RAILROAD CLERK DEAD John W. Dugan Taken After Illness of Five. Months. Following an illness of five months, John W. Dugan, 48. a clerk with the New York Central railroad for several years, died Monday in the St. Vincent's hospital. Funeral services will be held in St. Patricks Catholic church Thursday morning. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery.

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‘Jazz Age ’ Girl Killer Is Held on Charge of Theft

BY DAN BOWERMAN I nitcd Press Staff Correspor.dent SAN FRANCISCO, March 7. Dorothy Ellingson’s year of effort to rebuild ruined life to a normal plane has collapsed. Monday, tne woman, w'ho killed her mother during America's “jazz age’’ eight years ago. sat silent and red-eyed from weeping in municipal court. She was accused of grand theft. The girlhood crime of 16-year-old Dorothy Ellingson shocked a calloused nation. A headstrong product of a mad age, she shot hpr mother to death—and then went dancing. The present charge is one Municipal Judge Sylvain Lazarus has come to consmer commonplace. Dorothy was accused by Miss Mary Ellis of taking her clothing and jewels. Police said the property was found beneath the mattress of Miss Ellingson's bed. It w'as the circumstances that made the case unusual. For seven years. Dorothy Ellingson expatiated her crime behind the rock w'alls of San Quentin penitentiary. Uncomplaining, she served her sentence to the last full day, without parole or commutation. A year ago she walked to freedom, to begin another life.

MOTION PICTURES 25c till 6 p. tn. Eve. Main FI. <& T.ogc 40c. Balcony 25c Anytime Shmet' IMHVSV IpNOW PLAYING ! ! On the Stage ®| BOSWELL | SISTE R S ji Radio's Favorite Harmony Trio IN PERSON On Ihe Screen I "KingoftheJungle” j! with BUSTER CRABBE ! (The Lion Mam FRANCES DEE j Tamer of the Lion £ 111 Man's Savage Soul . . JjM Jjl Ed Reseller ana a/^F Jjjj the Indiana i j® my Concert Orchestra m Any Time.

'worn MEN MUST FIGHT with DIANA WIN YARD Lewis Phillips STONE HOLMES ! Kobt. Young—Ruth Selwyn gfs JOHN—ETHEL—LIONEL I f-iotf BARRYMORE together in the MGM hit j "Rasputin and the Empress”)

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Her father, since remarried, offered her a home in Washington. She believed her presence was a constant reminder to him of tragedy and sought employment elsewhere. There w r ere lean and discouraging days, but a few' months ago she w'as employed as a stenographer by Alexander Mooslin, who had defended her. Monday she was taken before Judge Lazarus—the same magistrate who had arraigned her for killing her mother. Attorney Joseph Brown defended her today. “I’ll walk out of the case if she says one word,” he said. Dorothy remained silent. The case w'as continued until Saturday

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FINANCE COMES TO LIFE FROM ! BARTER START Crude Method of Payment Outgrown and Modern System Develops. This i Ihf first of three daily stories on rurrent banking problems BY HARRY ELMER BARNES Since the days of savagery, man nas exchanged goods and services with his fellow-men. In this way i only has he been able to take advantage of the division of labor, cooperative endeavor, and other manifestations of civilization and social progress. Man, left to his own productive ingenuity, must live a crude and handicapped existence. The first mode of exchange was through direct barter —the trading of flint weapons for skins of wild animals or of rawhide thongs for bone awls. But barter greatly restricts trading facilities. Many commodities are too bulky or perishable to serve w'ell in direct exchange. Therefore, it was necessary to find some acceptable medium of exchange which would be welcomed by all and would obtain in return stone hatchets, skins, or implements of any kind. This general medium of exchange we call money. Takes Many Forms Money has taken the form of beads, shells, crude copper castings, chunks of iron ore and, last of all, silver and gold. In the sixth century before Christ, the Lydians of Asia Minor began to cast gold and silver in a definite form with a uniform stamp. The government established a monopoly on coining money and public minting arose. Even before coined money became usual, advanced commercial peoples understood that exchange was bound to be cramped and inadequate if money was the sole medium of exchange. The ancient Babylonians, therefore. invented promissory notes, crude bills of exchange, and the like —our modern commercial paper. Rudimentary banks arose- which handled those notes and bills. Among the Greeks and Romans banking never reached any very high development. The Greeks advanced little beyond “napkin economy’’ and regarded every considerable sum of money which came into their hands as a windfall to be spent quickly. Goes Back to Middle Ages Theirs was a consumer’s rather than a productive capitalist's economy. The Romans always regarded real estate investment as the respectable use of reserves and there was no great monetary turnover in a rural economy. The Roman banking went little further than I strong-box methods, though there was considerable activity in financ-

Rural Air Theater Lands on Stage of the Lyric Arkansas Woodchopper and Other Radio Favorites Fiddle and Dance for Friends Here. z BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IN considering barn dance entertainers, one must consider them only as such. I. for one, have not gone in strong for this type of music or dance, but judging the WLS barn dance company in their own class. I must state that they are very “barney." They are using on the stage of the Lyric very little set routine. It impressed me yesterday afternoon when I saw the show that here was just a gathering with all present ready to do something One drop is used, and that fits into the rural atmosphere.

These entertainers make up the entire show this week on the stage. The instrumental work of what I understood to be the Happv-Go-Luckv Boys from Indiana had a comfortable swing or tempo which

puts one into a happy mood. The audience recognized the Arkansas woodchopper and he became neighborly and pleased, although his comedy foil was rather pointless at times. Th Three Little Harmony Maids harmonize in a pleasing manner and to to me from an ability standpoint

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they stand out from the others. I am no judge of the old-fash-ioned square dances, but I learned much from the audience. The Rangers, a quartet, have a good

ing public contracts of one sort or another. Our modern banking goes back to the middle ages. At first, the dealings were chiefly in cash. Bankers were mainly money-changing adjuncts of goldsmiths. Then loans were made on the basis of a, secured pledge, the rough beginnings of our checking system. Commercial paper came into being, especially due to the greater needs following the expansion of Europe overseas after 1492. Even though enormous increase of precious metals after 1500 did not keep pace with the expansion of commerce. There grew up slowly the practice of payment in checks, based upon definite deposits of cash in a given bank. These checks had value, because they could be turned into cash upon demand at the bank upon which they were drawn. As the banking machinery developed, checks on one bank were accepted by other banks for collection, thus making them acceptable to a far wider group of individuals and communities. To facilitate matters still further, clearing-houses were developed in large metropolitan centers. At the end of a day, a bank could balance the checks drawn upon it against the checks it had received drawn upon other banks. No cash had to be transferred,

routine, spoiled only lor a second by certain alleged cleverness on the part of one of the men which was just plain bad taste. The "orchestral'’ background is furnished when necessary by Rube Tronson and his cowboy band. The feature movie is Jack Oakie. Vivienne Osborne and George Stone in "Sailor. Be Good." I am going to recommend the news weekly this time for its excellent and human shots of the inauguration of President Roosevelt, the farewell to the Hoovers and the paradd itself. These scenes, especially those showing and giving the President's voice as he delivered his message, are historymaking. Now at the Lyric. Other trieaters today offer: “Men Must Fight." at the Palace: "42nd. Streeft." at the Circle; Boswell Sisters and “King of the Jungle," at the Indiana: “Topaze." at the Apollo, and. two separate stage shows at the Rialto.

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save enough to balance the account of each bank against all others in the clearing-house association. In this way the exchange media have been expanded enormously, compared to what would be required if cash payments were everywhere required. A bank can do tens of thousands of dollars' worth of business in a day without involving the transfer of more than a few thousand—or. in some cases, a few hundred—dollars in actual cash. Our actual day-by-day system of exchange is based rather more on checks than on currency. But checks normally are good only when banks are open and cash can be collected, if there is a demand for it. (To Be Continued) H. W. HASKETT DEAD Long-Time Reformatory Officer Taken After Ten-Month Illness. Following an illnes sos ten months, Harry VV. Haskett, an officer at the Indiana State reformatory twentyone years, died Monday in his home, 424 East Nineteenth street. Funeral services will be held in the home at 2 Wednesday. Burial will be n Noblesville. Mr. Haskett was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge in Cicero and the First English Lutheran church.

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POLICE SHOTS BRING END TO AUTO CHASES Theft Suspect Rescued From Flaming Wreck: Bullets Halt Second Car. Police bullets brought to a sudden close two automobile chases Monday night, resulting in injury of a theft suspect, and arrest of an alleged liquor law violator. At the finish of on? of the chases, Wyatt Jeffries. 27, of Newcastle was dragged by police from wreckage of a flaming auto after it crashed into a crossing signal at Southeastern avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad and overturned. The chase began at Southeastern and Emerson avenues as patrolmen Otto Murphy and Thomas Kegrris sighted a stolen car being driven toward the city. Their car reached a speed of seventy miles an hour before it finally drew near its quarry. Jeffries, riding alone, refused to obey a command to halt and a volley of shots peppered the rear of his car. At the railroad crossing. Jeffries lost control as the auto struck the signal, causing it to skid sideways in the street, overturning and striking another car being driven by Edward S. Kahle, 33, New Bethel. The stolen car burst into flames. Jeffries, unconscious from a possible skull fracture, was pulled to safety by his captors. He is held in city hospital on charges of vagrancy and being a fugitive. Police said they found several pieces of jewelry in the car. The second chase, occurring on South Meridian street, terminated after bullets from revolvers of patrolmen Theodore McNeil and John Koeley. pierced tires of an auto driven by Frank Long. 40. of 715 Russell avenue, who was arrested on charges of drunkenness, driving while drunk, speeding and resisting arrest. Called to investigate reports o' “trouble" at 243 West Merrill street, the officers said they saw Long leap into his car and speed away. Mrs. Bessie Kellams. 715 Russell avenue, sister of the suspect, shouted, “there he goes; he threatened to kill me." The chase continued south to the 2600 block. South Meridian street, where Long W'as forced to halt after bullets pierced three tires on the car. Long was subdued after a battle with both officers. Mrs. Kellams later said she called for help -when threatened by her brother following a quarrel. A government scientist has discovered that grapes may be made shatter-proof—so that they do not drop from the stem in shipping—by applying carbon dioxide gas.