Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1933 — Page 2

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M’CLOSKEY WILL BATTLE BOARD OF REVIEW OVER DEEP VALUATION SLASHES Assessor Appeals to State Tax Board; Charges SIO,OOO Cost of Survey Is Wasted by Action. Appeal to the state tax board to uphold approximately fifty new valua*ion> totaling SI 858.740 was announced today by John C. McCloskev, Center township assessor, as his answer to reductions made by the countyboard of review The valuations, all of buildings in Center township, were cur by the board to $1 269 880. after their increase by assessors working under Mc-

Closkey. Approximately J cents on the tax levy is represented by the decrease. McCloskev declared, opening his latest skirmish in the bat’le which he has conducted with the board for many months. Raises Are Reduced Last week the board announced that in practically all cases McCJoskey's raises in assessments were being reduced, and placed an estimate of tiie reductions a’. SBOO,OOO. Controversy between the board and the assessor arose after McCloskey completed a reappraisal of Center township property last year and in the early months of this year, as required by law under the four-year plan of reappraisal. ’ln*- v>ii>. was done at a cost of mor- than SIO,OOO for wages of assessors and other expenses. Waste. He Says ‘T certainly feel tliat the action of the board was ill-advised in Inviting protests against assessment increases through its announcement." McCloskey said. ’ The taxpayers' money was spent

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in the reappraisal ordered by the state board, but all of it is wasted when the county board overrules my decisions ” McCloskey charged that he was forced to obtain authority from the state board to enable representatives of his office to attend the county board's meetings when reductions were under discussion. ‘ I visited the state board and later a letter was written to the county board, upholding my contention that one of my men should be present." McCloskev declared. TABULATE INCOME TAX Average Payment Per Person 58.16, State Returns Show. Average tax payment under the gross receipts tax mounted to *8.16 today-, with 73.965 returns tabulated to a total of $600841. Total tabulations still are far from complete, it was reported.

KIWANIANS TO MEET State Parley To Be Held in Ci<v Sept. 13 and 14. Kiwanis clubs of the Indiana dis-! trlct will meet at the Claypool Sept, i 13 and 14. in their annual convention. according to an announcement j of Paul Brickley. of Hartford City. The Indianapolis club, acting as host to the convention, has named ' Robert Burnett as general chairman of arrangements. The annual elec- j tion of officers will be a feature of 1 the sessions.

EAST SIDE TO HOLDJESTIVAL Preparations for Annual Mardi Gras Will Be Completed Tuesday. Final preparations for the seventh annual east side Mardi Gras by the Sherman-Emerson Civic League will be made Tuesday night, when

a meeting of the general committee will be held. Tentative arrangements have been made to hold the affair at Neuerburger's nark, 4400 Eats Tenth street. Dancing every night will be held in the park pavilion to music byFred Ainslevs >and. Other bands jvill present conand a bal-

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loon ascension will be made at 7 each night and followed by a stage show.

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BADGER GAME ; FOR $25 MADE | BRAWLJXCUSE Three Held in Shooting as Police Probe Charge of Shakedown. Four persons were wounded in week-end cutting scrapes and shootings, according to police reports today. Chester Frederick. 41. of 2205 West Morris street, was wounded in the left leg Sunday by a 22-caliber rifle bullet, said to have been fired byCharles Brown. 41, of 1216 South Pershing avenue. Brown said that Frederick struck his wife. Mrs. Ollie Brown. 38. but Frederick said Brown tried to work the badger game on him for $25.) In municipal court three today Brown was sentenced 180 days on the state penal farm and fined SI and costs on an assault and battery charge conviction His wife was sentenced thirty days to the Woman's prison and fined $lO and, costs on a statutory charge. Clifton Owens, 39, Negro. 2439 Shriver avenue, was treated at city hospital for gunshot wounds in the ] back, right arm and head after he claims he was fired upon from am-i bush from a vacant lot at Twentythird street and Shriver avenue. Owens is held on a vagrancy count. Story that he was awakened early Sunday by an unknown assailant carving on him with a knife was told Dolice by Edward Hunt. 23. Negro, 518 Spring street. He was treated at city hosptial for arm and leg cuts.

—Doug and Man/ — No. 1 Perfect Love Match Lasts 13 Years; Doug and Mary at Palling, of U \lys

BY ALANSOX EDWARDS I'nitcd frm Staff Corraapnndrnt Hollywood. July 24. -a slight blond woman of 40 sat in a mansion atop Hollywood s highest knoll today, reliving a thousand and one memories of a broken "perfect romance" that in its heyday was the most publicized in America. The love of Mary- Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is ended. Only a divorce decree remains to separate even farther the lives of these two famed cinema stars, who for a decade were regarded as the nation's ideal of a perfect love match. Fairbanks. middle-aged and restless, is roaming Europe with his friends of nobility and society. "America's Sweetheart"—“the only Mary-"—remains here amid the surroundings that mean more to her, now, than anything else in the world. Probably- never before had two persons in the public eye loved each other so fervently and unashamedly. Their love survived for a decade of almost unbelievable devotion. In Hollywood, a land of jealousy and envy, this romance of the moody, tempestuous Irish-Cana-dian girl and her acrobatic American husband was selfishness personified. The horseshoe nail that decided a kingdom’s fate had its counterpart, for them, in the World war that resulted in iheir marriage. Liberty loan authorities needed to focus public attention on their drives, and as the reigning trio of the movies. Mary Pick-

ford. Doug Fairbanks ind Charlie Chaplin were recruited for the job. a o a T^f" ARY and Doug had worked together on the FamousPlayers lot for some time, she as the $lO 000 a week darling, he as the athletic, jovial idol of millions. They were "box office,” and producers profited no less than the stars. But their work always wan in different sections of the studio. It was not until they began traveling about the country that they learned to know each other. The former S4O a week Biograph girl found a strong attraction for the boyish actor who scaled walls and turned hand-springs to express his emotions. For two years more, while their stars continued in the ascendency, their friendship blossomed. In 1918 Fairbanks was divorced from Anna Beth Sully, daughter of a Southern “cotton king." and mother of his only child. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In 1920, Mary won a Nevada divorce from Owen Moore, the actor. Mary and Doug secretly were married in Los Angeles. March 28, 1920. They were supremely happy. At the top of their profession and deeply in love, they were on the crest of a wave that carried them along together for the ten best years of their lives. They returned to the Laskv lot to complete the pictures interrupted by- their wedding. Both agreed to keep the ceremony a secret, but word leaked out and even Fairbanks' agility could maintain the silence no longer.

/"VNCE they were chased through the streets by reporters trying to find where they were going. Their sets were closed to every one until a girl reporter, miffed by an invitation to depart, walked across the street and told their publicity- man that Miss Pirkford wanted her to have a picture of Mary and Doug together. The press agent handed it over, it promptly was published nnd thereafter a cheering nation learned officially that filmdom's two most famous performers were one. Doug finished "The Mollycoddle. Mary shot the last scenes of "Through the Back Door. ' and they went on a honeymoon to the Painted Desert of Arizona and New Mexico. The bridegroom showered all his tenderness and devotion on the beautiful little bride, who braved the journey despite a severe attack of indigestion, coupled with nervousness from overwork. She was practically on a milk diet; only Douglas could prepare the milk. They stopped at Indian reservations to be greeted by braves and squaws At a Hopi village they discovered the existenre of a matriarchy wherein the women were bosses When they grew tired of their men., the men were put out. "Douglas, that's what will happen to you if you aren't kind to me." laughed Mary gaylv. Thirteen years later, she wonders. Next: The biggest business romance in Hollywood's history.

JULY 24, 1933

DIGNITY FLEES AS GEN,BALBO AND POST MEET Four Fights Take Place as Ceremony Is Going on in New York. • Continued From Page One* heard and the Klieg lights were causing every one to perspire profusely. General Balbo rattled off about five minute* of Italian, his spade beard making large chopping gestures toward the cameras Post had no idea what the Italian air minister was saying, except that occasionally he could distinguish the words "Wil-eee Post." Suddenly, in the middle of General Balbo's congratulatory disclosure, there occurred a series of explosions. They came from a balcony. where the still camera men had gathered, determined to have vengeance upon the movie men and spoil all their efforts The movie had to be started over again. General Balbo mopped his grow and gave his speech. Post replied in kind Tost and General Balbo walked away, into the crowd. Both were surrounded by newspaper men. Then Lee Trenholm. personal manager for Post, came into the picture. "Wiley! Good God Wiley!" he shouted “Don't talk to those newspaper men! You know better than that! You're under contract! Don t talk to them!" Post stared at him a moment, then raising his voice for the first time during the show, exclaimed: "Well, how the hell come I'm in here?"