Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1933 — Page 3

SEPT. 6. 1933

ADOPT BUDGET MAKING CENTER TAX RATE $3.17 County Council Eliminates Funds for Permanent Vote Registration. Entirely eliminating provision for permanent registration of voters, and reducing 1934 budget requests by $483,558.32, the Marion county council today approved a tax rate which will raise the Center township total levy to $3.17. On the basis of the $1,740,400.26 budget approved, the county tax rate probably will be divided as follows: General fund. 30.5 cents; sinking fund. 24 5 cents, and tuberculosis hospital. 3 cents, a total of 58 cents, 17 cents above 1933 rate of 41 cents. The Center township levy is compiled from this amount, plus sl3l for Indianapolis city budget, $lO2 for city schools, 15 cents for the state and an approximate 11 cents for the township, totaling $3 17, an increase of 35 cents over the 1933 levy of $2 82. Hold Public Session Decision to cut out appropriation for the permanent registration ol voters was reached today when the council went into public session. First indications had been that the orignal $104,000 appropriation requested by County Clerk Glenn B. Ralston would be approved at $50,000, the figure urged by tax reduction groups. An opinion received by the council from a prominent local jurist, whose name was not divulged, declared the registration law had not been repealedL “We were willing to grasp at any straw, and the importance of this attorney in legal circles is so great, that we decided to take his word for it.” a councilman, who asked not to be quoted, said, in explaining the decision. Rather Risk Mandate From unofficial opinions voiced by members of the council, it was gathered that the councilmen preferred to risk the possibility of being mandated to enforce the law, rather than add approximately 2 more cents to the tax rate. It is known around the courthouse that the law. which was passed at the instigation of the League of Women Voters and given the acit indorsement of the McNutt administration, is unpopular in the county as well as other sections of the state. Another $75,000 was slashed from provision to pay old age pensions, making the appropriation $200,000, just naif of the amount originally requested. Announcement was made several days ago that the request had been cut to $275,000 in an informal session. Sought only SIOO,OOO Tax reduction groups advocated appropriating only SIOO,OOO for the pensions. The council, although yielding to demand of the groups for reduction in the 76-cent rate estimated from original budget requests, held fast against any efforts to disturb the sinking fund appropriation for payment of bonded indebtedness, and followed the lead of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the city council in refusing to repudiate obligations. All attempts of officials to restore salaries to levels abit.e this year’s were blocked by the council. Salaries of court reporter and bailiffs remained at SI,BOO and $1,500, respectively. Most of the budgets remained at 1933 levels, with exception of reductions in materials and supplies. GLOVE IS DEATH CLEW Evidence Used in Questioning Suspect in State Shack Murder. A miner’s glove is the on tangible bit of evidence being used by Capt. Matt Leach of the state police today in an effort to get Fred Bollinger, 32. Jeasonville. to confess to the murder of Mrs. Mary Ellis. Mrs. Ellis, a recluse, was found murdered in her shack near Jasonville Jan. 29. The glove found at the scene belonged to a miner who was said to have left a pair of them at a mine where Bollinger was working. Leach arrested Bollinger about a month ago. He has been held in jail here since. Today Leach began a crossexamination of the suspect, which he said would continue today and tonight. JUST EMPTY SUCCESS Thieves In Hollow Victory; Get Bottles Instead of Beer. “Empty loot" was taken Tuesday from a railroad car at the plant of the Monument Bottling Company, 910 North Davidson street, according to a report to police. It is believed that thieves who stole ten cartons of empty ginger ale bottles believed they were getting beer. The bottles were valued at $lB. Held as Speeder Accused of driving seventy-five miles an hour on English avenue. E C. Mock. 5309 English avenue, was arrested Tuesday night on charges of speeding, resisting an officer, and no driver's license.

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NICHOLSON IS SWORN IN OFFICE BY MAYOR Hoosier Author Given Oath as Consul at City Hall. Meredith Nicholson, famed Indiana author, was sworn in at noon today in the office of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan as United States envoy to Paraguay. Sullivan administered the oath in the presence of members of Nicholson’s family and several city officials and friends. Present were Mrs. Merqdith Nicholson Jr. and her son. Meredith Nicholson III: Mr. and Mrs. Austin H. Brown. Nicholson’s son-in-law and daughter, and their daughter. Virginia. Henry O. Goett, city clerk, affixed

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the city seal to the oath, which gave Nicholson’s official title as “envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Paraguay.” Nicholson then made a short radio address in which he asserted that he had requested the ceremony to be performed in the mayor's office by Sullivan, whom he termed ‘his great and good friend of thirty years.” Nicholson will be honored tonight at a dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, to be attended by 250 persons. Child Killed by Auto By United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 6.—Elmer Beirs, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beirs, Schneider, was injured fatally by an automobile Tuesday night while crossing State Road 41. The car was driven by Mrs. Mabel Kirby, Sullivan.

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LISTS ROBINSON AMONG ’PUBLIC GOOD’ SENATORS Magazine Ranks Hoosier in 10 Having 100 Per Cent Voting Records. Senator Arthur R. Robinson is one of eight members of the United States senate listed by Plain Talk Magazine, as voting 100 per cent in public interest at the last session of congress. Accompanying an article written by Robert Morris, the magazine published a chart giving the rating deserved in its opinion. Senator Frederick Van Nuys was scored at 62.5 per cent in the public interest voting. Long Among Them Other 100 per centers, beside Robinson, were Senators Cutting, New Mexico; Frazier, North Dakota; La Follette, Wisconsin; Long, Louisiana; Nye, North Dakota; Shipstead, Minnesota, and Wheeler, Montana. Action on ten measures is used in scoring, with PI registering “public interest” and WS as being against public interest and for “special privilege.” WS stands for “Wall Street,” one of Robinson’s favorite campaign arraignments. To rate a perfect PI, as Robinson did, a senator must have supported the thirty-hour week, taxation of light and power companies, taxation of tax exempt securities, publicity for income tax returns and guarantee of cost of production for farmers. Pension One Angle The senator must have opposed any attempt to cut veterans’ pensions or privileges, legalization of company unions, salary reductions for federal employes earning less than SI,OOO a year, the sales tax, and taxation of municipal lighting plants. Van Nuys is listed as voting “against the public interest” on federal salary reductions, taxation of light and power companies and taxation of tax exempt securities. He is given a 25 per cent record on veterans’ measures, as opposed to Robinson’s 100 per cent. GOLF PLAYOFF IS SET Lions State Championship to Be Decided at Martinsville. Playoff of the championship tie ir the Lions state golf tournament will be held at Martinsville, Sunday afternoon, Sept. 17, it has been announced by C. E. Ehlers, of Indianapolis, association secretary. Tied for the championship are E. E. Krutsinger, Indianapolis; M D. Schlosser. Jeffersonville; Charles Nahand, Jeffersonville, and G. H Norris, Fortville. The quartet tiec in the tourney at the South Grove course two weeks ago. Grocery Bandit Gets S3O A bandit returned this afternoon to a Kroger grocery. 2956 College avenue, to obtain S3O, after holding two employes at bay. The gunman staged a similar job three weeks ago.

INDIANA STATE BANKS CASH RESERVE GAINS Increase of 2 Per Cent Reported in Last Three Months. Cash reserve ratio of Indiana state banks increased from 19.8 per cent Dec. 31 to 21. 9 per cent June 30, according to a six-month tabulation released today by the state department of financial institutions. Cash on hand and due from banks increased from $54,976,557 to $59,465,610. although deposits decreased from $277,283,737 to $271,817996. Richard A. McKinley director of the department, termed the deposit decrease "seasonal,” and pointed out that it amounted to 6 per cent the previous three years for a similar period, while this year it was but 2 per cent. HIGH GAS TAXES ARE SUBJECT OF PARLEY Standard Oil Counsel. Collector Stage Verbal Tilt. Kid Oil Company and Battle Tax Collector met in a one-round drawtoday at the North American Gasoline Tax Conference in the Severin, and before the bell tolled both had swung several solar plexus punches of the verbal variety with no fouls. “You're killing the goose that laid the golden egg," declared Frank E. Packard, general tax counsel of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, j in a plaint against high motor fuel taxes and the diversion of gasoline taxes. “It’s time the oil industry took a tumble to itself and cleaned its own house,” retorted James Duce, state oil inspector of Colorado and president of the conference, in a goodnatured combat with Packard. FISH MARKET TO OPEN Jacob Seessel, Manager, Has Been in Business Here 15 Years. Jacob Seessel, opening the Merchants Fish and Oyster Company at 34 West Georgia street, Thursday, will give a free souvenir to every one attending. Seessel was for fifteen years the manager of the Booth Fisheries Company, here. He has installed up-to-date equipment for handling fish and sea-foods. CERTIFY CITY BUDGET 1934 Tax Rate Basis Placed in County Auditor’s Hands. Two certified copies of the city budget for 1934, fixing the tax rate at $1.31, were transmitted today to Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, by Evans Woollen Jr., city controller. The copies are for consideration by the county tax adjustment board. The budget was adopted at a meeting of the city council Monday night. Attempt at Murder Charged Accused by his wife of an attempt to kill her, Clyde Frakes, 42, of 617 North New Jersey street, Apartment 2, was arrested by police Tesday night on charges of assault and battery, drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy.

CITY GROUP TO BE NAMED FOR NRA INQUIRY Committee to Investigate Complaints and Act on ‘Chiseling.’ A committee to hear complaints: of alleged violations of the NRA by Indianapolis employers will be named today at a meeting of the local recovery board at the Cham- j ber of Commerce. Charles W. Chase, “general” of the local recovery army, said that while he had no “radical plans for en- j forcement of the Indianapolis NRA j program.” following his recent trip I to Washington, a policy of “persuasion and education” wall be pro-1 mulgated here to gain 100 per cent compliance of city employers. A slightly different interpretation of the national policy of the NRA in regard to enforcement was announced by Francis Wells, Indiana representative of the United States department of commerce following receipt of a dispatch from Washington definitely outlining the policy to be pursued in code compliances. Chiselers to Suffer The dispatch from Thomas S.! Hammond, executive director of the j Blue Eagle division of the President's re-employment agreement,, announced that “every effort to adjust complaints should be made through local boards of mediation, but in the event that definite cases of “chiseling” are proved—the government will act. The dispatch bore a footnote stating that more specific details of a future policy with regard to violations of the NRA. would be forwarded from Washington in a few days. The Hammond dispatch did not say in what manner the government will act against “chiselers.” Members of the Indiana district board, of which Wells is secretary, discussed plans to divide the state into nine districts at a meeting Tuesday. Each of the nine members of the board will be in charge of one district of the state, to supervise the NRA program. Status Is in Doubt While “inside” salespeople were puzzled by rulings and counter-rul-ings from Washington regarding their status under NRA, Washington announced Tuesday, in response to an urgent request from Indianapolis NRA officials, that these workers be given minimum wages and shorter hours under the blanket code, that the retailers’ code “probably would consider the Indianapolis suggestion when it is adopted.” Washington NRA headquarters also announced that employers of

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apolis firms have added 6.207 em* ployes and $121,330.18 to weekly pay rolls. NRA workers also announced that 10,448 consumer cards had been signed and 14.337 men and 6.214 women had been found unemployed.