Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1933 — Page 2

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INEQUALITIES IN! CITY TJX SETUP ARE LAID BARE McCloskey Shows Figures to Board to Prove Need for Reappraisal. Highest lot assessment in the Golden Hill district, one of Indianapolis’ most exclusive residential sections, is S4OO for taxation purposes. In more modest residential districts, such as Morton place, the! assessment runs to S7O a front foot. I These facts were presented toj the state tax board today in sup-! port of a petition of John McClos- J key, center township assessor,' ask- i ing that reappraisal be permitted | this year outside the -mile square, j Appraisal of real estate is supposed to be made every four years, j but McCloskey’s men devoted most J of their time to the mile square; (downtown district) last year, when; appraisals were to be made. He asked in the petition that the re-1 mainder of Center township be com-

pleted. Plant Heads Appear In other than regular appraisal years, permission must be secured for such work from the state tax board. A dozen manufacturers appeared to plead that no increase be made on industrial plants. Among them was G. L. Miller, secretary of the Real Silk Company, argued that taxes, already being burdensome, the 3.000 employes of his company would suffer if assessments were increased. The company assessment was reduced $150,000 last year, according to McCloskey, who said “equalization" and not increases was the purpose of new appraisal. M. M. Miller, real estate man wao aided .McCloskey, cited the Golden Hill “inequalities’’ v/here $40,000 homes are on lots assessed as low as $l5O. Charges Records Touched He also charged that records of assessments had been tampered with In the courthouse and one $500,000 property changed to $50,000 by rubbing out on cipher. Gavin L. Payne, real estate broker, urged both publicity and grand jury action to stop such cheating. Indorsement of the new appraisal was voiced by William H. Book, chairman of the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce, provided it is for “equalization" and not increases. Phil Zoercher, tax board chairman, took the case under advisement. It was considered likely that the appraisal will be made. ASPHALT BUMP SHAVER PURCHASE IS APPROVED Council Puts O. K „n Buy of Machine to Keep Avenues Smooth. Purchase by the works board of a machine for removing bumps from asphaltic pavement was approved by city council Monday night. Successful bidder was the Peny & Wilson Equipment Company, With a bid of $3,697.37. This figure allowed credit of $1,400 for rental paid on the machine last summer. The purchase was protested by the J. D. Adams Company, which objected that it had not bad an opportunity to demonstrate a similar machine which it offered for $5,020 for a light type and $5,778 for a heavier machine. Another ordinance passed provided for equalization of salaries for first and second grade patrolmen to give a. general average salary of $1,750.72 a year for all patrolmen. Chief Mike Morrissey said the radio has brought about a similarity in duties of the two grades. The ordinance will not increase the total police pay roll.

M'NUTT GIVES TWO JOBS Democratic Representatives Named; Three Republicans Fired. Two more members of the 1933 i house of representatives were rewarded with appointments today; by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Raymond C. Wickersham. Logans- j port, succeeds E. V. Krause as chief ; of the bus inspection bureau of the ; public service commission, and Ray Gilbert, Seymour, was named chief ■ of the commission's railway insnee- ! tion bureau, replacing Charles ; Michaels, Logansport. Harold A. < Thomas, Krause's assistant, also | was dismissed. All of the three dismissed are Republicans. The appointments bring to six the number of representatives rewarded by McNutt. BROTHERS’ FIGHT FATAL Pekin Man Is Seriously Wounded; Assailant Ends Life. By t'n it id I'rcss PEKIN. Ind.. March 21. —A quarrel between two brothers had resulted today in the serious wounding of one and suicide of the other. The shooting occurrred on Main street here. Clyde Sanders. 45, was shot once by his brother Emory, 49, Martinsburg. Then Emory shot himself through the heart. Clyde was taken to a New Albany hospital, where his condition was reported critical. The brothers had quarreled and parted a year ago, police were told. DAMAGES ARE SOUGHT Injuries in Automobile Accidents Basis for Suits for 525.000. Injuries in automobile accidents were made the basis of two damage suits seeking a total of $25,000, on file in superior courts today. Injuries to Ernest Haupt. including a broken leg and arm, were named in a $15,000 damage suit filed against James E. Pickard. Ray Demaree and William R. Bristow filed suit for SIO,OOO damages for personal injuries and $550 for automobile damage against Emil Rahke and his wife, Mrs. Rose Rahke.

LADIES FREE TONIGHT CHATTERBOX BALLROOM Fountain Square Theatre Hldg. City ( hamnlnnlii|) Walt/ Conte*.! Finals TliUrt. Nite. %ae 1H to 34.

DEPRESSION PROBLEM IS SOLVED BY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS

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When membership of the Fidelis Sunday school class of the Seventh Christian church, CJdell and ...... . Annette streets, decreased recently, leaders wanted to know why. And the answer was “Our clothes aren’t good enough to w’ear to church.”

Minstrel Show Will Be Leisure Program Feature

Oak Hill Presentation to Be Given Tonight at Tomlinson Hall. LEISURE HOUR CLUB TONIGHT Brookside Tark community house. .1. T. V. Hilt community house. Rhodius Park community house. THURSDAY Crispus Attucks hi;h school. FRIDAY Christian Park community house. Fletcher Place community house. Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club. Munic'ual Gardens community house. Nebrasiia Cropsey Club, School 22. at Ji.'il South Illinois street. Oak Hill Club. School 38. at 2030 Winter avenue. School 5, at 612 West Washington street. School 16, at 1402 West Market street. School 26, at 1301 East Sixteenth street. School 34, Kelly and Boyd streets. Michigan and Noble Club. The Oak Hill Minstrels, an original production by members of the Oak Hill Club, wall be presented for the second time tonight, at the special Leisure Hour program at Tomlinson hall. The program will be under direction of Sergeants Frank Owen and Timothy McMahon. Members of the minstrel troupe are E. R. Marriotte, director; George Schuyler, interlocutor; Dick French, Jesse Merchant, Norman Flashkamp, Orvil Garrity, Harold Schmink and George Durham, end men, and Johnny Flashkamp, Albert Yeager, Harold Stevens, Harold Perry, Tommy Speece, Creighton Cole, Wayne Maple, Hays Ogden and John Allen Lay. Costumes lor the minstrel were made by members of the sewing division of the club. Others on the program will be Lydia and Irwin McCray, Robert Rothman. Hubert Collins, Charlotte Marie Grosskupf, Billy Schrolucke, Noble Pearcy, Joan Ludwig, Dorothy and Esta Buchanan, Catherine Meunch, Johnny Schultz, Thomas Moriarty, Vera Nicholi, Margaret Scott and Margaret Ellen Wilson, and members of the jug band from School 37. Three one-act plays, under the direction of Harold Love, will be given tonight by members of the Dramatic Club df St. Paul M. E. church at the Mt. Jackson Club, in its new r location at the M. E. church at the corner of Harvest and Fleming streets. Appearing in the plays will be Eulalia Battman, Margaret Todd, George Russell, Joe Nesbit,’ Amelia Woerner, Ethel Mae Miller, Clarence Russell, Irvin Giezendanner, Alice Atherton, and Paul Freunt. “The Daughter of the Duke of Ballyhoo,” will be given tonight at the Garfield park community house by the Garfield Dramatic Club, under the direction of Arthur D. Barnett. Members of the cast are William Spacke, Ruth Klinge. Marjorie Williams, Rudolph Klinge, Merle Williams, Kenneth Click, Eva Fields, | Charlotte Barnett, and Dorothy Wallace. Games and stunts will be featured tonight at the meeting of the Girls Club of the Michigan and Noble club. TEST FACES CHAIN TAX j Constiutionality of New Indiana Law to Be Put Under Fire. Robert W. Lyons, former Indiana ! attorney and now executve vicej president of the Natonal Chain ! Store Association, is quoted in New | York papers as saying that constitu- | tionality of the new high rate cha-in ! store tax in Indiana will be tested in ; court. The legislature raised the tax from $25 to $l5O on all chains of ! more than twenty stores.

MOTION riCTIRES

Special Return Showing JEAN HARLOW CLARK GABLE In Metro-Goldicyn-ilaycr’t ®“RED DUST” With Mary A.tor

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So the problem was solved Sunday when male class members, following the edict of the leaders, appeared in overalls, sweaters and old trousers, with the women garbed in house dresses. The photo shows early arrivals ascending the church steps.

Nightmare Terror of Quake Told City Woman by Her Sister in West. FIRST-HAND account of the Long Beach earthquake has been received by Mrs. Florence Shelby, juvenile court probation officer, from her sister, Mrs. Pat Patterson, formerly of this city and now a resident there. “I spent about four hours in a hospital, where they had taken the man who lived in a wing of our apartment,” Mrs. Patterson wrote. “He died as a result of Injuries received when a downtown building collapsed. “The hospital was a madhouse and it was an experience I never will forget. I went there with his wife and we searched for him all through the building, so I was in the midst of the nightmare. Mrs. Patterson’s dog, Nicky, a Boston bull, which she had raised on a bottle, disappeared during the quake and has not been found. “Nicky shot from the house when the quake started and disappeared,” Mrs. Patterson said. “He has not come back home and I am afraid he was killed.” Mrs. Patterson’s husband is stationed on the U. S. S. Chicago of the Pacific fleet.

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NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS NORTH SIDE —an>PW Talhnt at ?3nd ■ ■AlSfl| Family Nite HiaiiH “MEN ARE SUCH FOOLS” ■■■■Hmmhu Noble at Mas*. r int'i.v Mi, IMSAimMI Reais Tomney “STRANGE ADVENTURE” WEST SIDE Wash Belmont |;]S| ’ [•]J ha Famil> Nite HmSoMMOIbMI C. ~ smith “MONKEY S PAW” npaapwi - :,vjii w Mich stT “MY PAL, THE KING” |v 6 r M IMLl.ilM.il Market BJ Ruth Chatterton in J “FRISCO JENNY” Lj R 15e Till fPnrfTTISI nunols at Ld ■ r n r M. Mohi6 M HU O BtO lyoretta Voung "They^t^ Hit.l (all it <in. Rex BeilWl yflin “Diamond Trail.’’ W

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2 SONS LOST, LOVEUVES ON Only a Verse Between Two Pictures Left to Mother of Taylor Boys. (Continued From Page One) Sunday morning, blood streaming from his nose and ears. He died Sunday night at City hospital without regaining consciousness. However, Dr. Wyttenbach is doubtful that Taylor’s injuries could have been caused by a fall and said a bruise on the side of Taylor’s head appeared to have been caused by a blow 7 . A post-mortem show's a fracture of the skull, but X-ray photographs fail to reveal such an injury. Taylor played basketball and football at Central high school, Ft. Wayne, and was graduated from Armour Tech, Chicago, in 1925. He was a member of Sigma Kappa Delta fraternity and won his monogram at Armour. Funeral sendees for Taylor will be held at 2 Wednesday at the Wallace Street Presbyterian church, Tenth and Wallace streets. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery.

jraf JiiLa;.... > : Pill ii jJuHfeJ| on a table in the center of the stage. He open' out the 1 * ,e-"y/ sides to show that this container is empty. Closing it up, he places a screen between it and the audience. After a short period of magic incantations he removes M ___ „ _ _ , _ _ M, the screen. The astounded audience sees a beautiful MV r F* MJgTTKj yYI A 7 Mr ft ft f T M 1 girl, covered to the shoulders in lovely flowers, rising ML, ML 4 J MI C s *Lv Mi \M MMMIt ML. +-M IJjJj / M from the “empty” container. Where did she come from ? MU *. drape W .He ra,„e. .. . ITS MORE FUN TO There is a trap door in the bottom of the flower pot, with a hole large enough to allow her to crawl through. The flowers, called “magicians’feather flowers,” are A trick frequently worked in cigarette sive treatment i than choice, ripe to advertising is the illusion that mildness baeeos. flowers compressed into small space. She slides the in a cigarette comes from mysterious The real difference comes In the totunic do vn and the flowers expand when she emerges. processes of manufacture. baccos that are used. The better the EXPLANATION: All popular ciga- tobacco, the milder it is. rettes today are made in modern saniJ tary factories with up-to-date machin- * s ° * ac *' W ®H known by leaf -®ggse ery. All are heat treated —some more tobacco experts, that Camels (^^lll®^. :0? ||||| intensively than others, because raw, r-e.made from finer, MORE Wr inferior tobaccos require more inten- EXPENSIVE tobaccos than any other \ / C* lif popular brand. That is why Camels are so mild. That W<L- ' is why Camels have given more pleas|pll|. j, Wk ure to more people than any other cig- ■ arette ever made. LLm* V % ''' = | Give your taste a chance to approf H ciate the greater pleasure and satisfact*°n more ex P ens ‘ ve tobaccos. Copjright, 1333, E. J. Be;iolda Tobacco CocpiiJ ■s■ J[ (. ’jf " J®J J 1 WM j jSjMK/usT COSTLIER %f ipl fIU 'VI TO BA CCOS IN A MATCHLESS BLE ND X * *

GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO; INJURIES CAUSEJEATH 19-Year-Old lowa Miss. Here for Schooling, Killed by Home State Car. Miss Florence Ragsdale, 19, Sumner, la., died in city hospital today of injuries incurred Monday night when she was struck by an automobile in the 7900 block, East Washington street. Her skull was fractured. The girl had been living lately in the home of her grandfather, Frank

C. Lemasters, R. R. 10, Box 314, while taking a beauty culture course. Her death was the twenty-eighth traffic fatality in Marion

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county thus far in 1933. Driver of the death car was F. L. Maugar, 42, Des Moines, la., who was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Daisy Maugar, 41, and their daughter, Donavin, 3. They were en route home after attending the funeral of Mrs. Maugar’s mother in Columbus, O. Stepping from a bus, Miss Ragsdale walked directly in front of the automobile, according to statements of witnesses to deputy sheriffs. The officers exonerated Maugar of blame. Raymond Theobald, 22, of 1927 North Adams street, incurred a severe gash on the head when his automobile collided with one driven by Fred Truitt, 25, United States Veterans hospital, at Vermont and Delaware streets.

Trust Fails Woman Suffers SSOO Loss When Stranger Guards Her Suitcase. ‘‘XT THEN I came back, both the Wman and the suitcase were gone,” was the report made to polce Monday by Mrs. Dan O’Connor of North Vernon. The suit case contained clothing valued at SSOO. Mrs. O’Connor said she was in the lobby of the Traction terminal with the suit case, and left it in the care of a strange man while she w'ent to another part of the building. Mothers’ Chorus in Services The mothers’ chorus of School 44 assisted in religious services conducted Monday at the United States Veterans’ hospital by the Rev. Otis Jones, chaplain. Students from Technical high school will present a musical program tonight at the hospital.

Radio Once Pet Peeve of

Likely Commission Chief

Sykes Refused to Let Set Be Placed in His Home. BY NED BROOKS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 21.—A Mississippi judge, who once refused to allow a radio set in his home, is expected soon to become chairman of the federal radio commission. He is Eugene O. Sykes, the only remaining member of the original commission organized in 1927. He was appointed first by President

Coolidge, was reappointed in 1930 by President Hoover, and was named again recently for another six-year term by President Roosevelt. Six years ago, before his appointment, radio w ? as his pet peeve. A friend finally persuaded him to listen to an evening’s broadcast, and he sw'ore afterward he’d never listen to

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another or have a radio in his home. “It was just a terribie combination of several programs all going at once, distortion and local interference,” he recalled. “I made up my mind that if radio wasn’t any better than that, I didn’t want to have anything to do with it.” That, of course, was before he went to work for the radio listeners, and before the commission had set about the work, of untangling the air channels. Judge Sykes takes his radio nowadays like most of the millions of other listeners. He sets the dials for one station and hears the varieties

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that the evening's entertainment offers. He rarely visits the studio to watch the artists at work. Radio, he believes, has been the greatest boon to the entertainment of an impoverished nation during the last three years. He has no fault to find with the type of programs being offered by broadcasters but believes the next few years will see great strides in radio's technical side, chiefly in the improvement of tonal qualities of receivers and the commercial development of television. 62-YEAR RESIDENT OF INDIANAPOLIS IS DEAD Funeral of Mrs. Christiana Roesener Will Be Held Wednesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Christiana Roesener. 62. of 2738 Sutherland avenue, who died Monday in Methodist hospital, from injuries received in a fall three months ago. will be held at 1 Wednesday in the Planner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Roesener was born in Indianapolis. She was a member of the Second Reformed church.

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.MARCH 21, 1933

M'NUTT FIRES 31 REPUBLICANS 27 Democrats Given Jobs as Oil Inspectors for State. Thirty-one part-time Republican oil inspectors have been replaced by twenty-seven full-time Democrats under the McNutt governmental reorganization plan. Inspection still remains under the state food and drug inspection division of the board of health, of which Martin L. Lang. Eiwood, is the new Democratic head. James I. Eniow, chief of the oil inspection, was succeeded by Lytle Friehofer. Huntington, in Marion county, inspectors William Kaigh and Harry G. Willitta were replaced by Robert Kelleher. Governor Paul V. McNutt reappointed Rush G. Budd. Newcastle, trustee of the Indiana village for epileptics. He has been a board member for eighteen years. Budd is a Democrat. McNutt announced that he will have both Democrats and Republicans on the institution boards, but may shift from four to three members.