Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1933 — Page 13

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Begging Three Billions for Public Works Idle: Retards Recovery Drive. QY KI TH FINNEY Tim.* Writ.r WASHINGTON. Sept. 21. The government's $3 300 000.000 public works fund is not being spent, and, as a consequence, success of the Roosevelt industrial recovery program is being delayed seriously. Growing concern over this situation was admitted tod tv by administration officials. States and cities have been so slow in taking advantage of the public works act that many may lose the opportunity to participate to any real extent in the fund for job-giving work. Plans for spending the rest of the government's mon*y on all-federal projects in order that it may be used as quickly as possible now are getting the administration s principal attention. For, while federal departments also have been slow in spending the money already allotted to them, the tempo there can be quickened reedily by direct orders from President Roosevelt. Reason for Delay The delay, in relation to the industrial recovery program, is for this reason: * The industries in which most unemployment exists are building construction, steel, machinery and materials. These are the so-called “producers’ goods’’ industries. Increase in wages has little effect on them until purchasing power becomes great enough to permit extensive home building, expansion of businesses, replacement of worn out machinery, extensive improvement of railroads or public structures. The NR A program calls for shorter hours and higher wages in these industries, but the industries, •without increased orders of business, have no way of meeting these increased costs. From the start of the recovery program, the governments public works expenditures were counted on to reopen the steel mills, machine tool plants and other “producers' goods'’ shops. NRA officials believe that if this is not done soon, continued loss in these groups will have an adverse effect on gains in employment made in the “consumers’ goods'' industries, such as textiles, clothing, shoes, furniture and other things bought directly by the persons receiving wages. Little Work Under Way About hall the public works, fund has been allotted, mast of it to federal departments. Very little work actually Is und*r w’ay. however. Probably less than 40.000 men are at work, though accurate figures are not available. The biggest single allotment, $400,000,000, was set aside in the act lor road building by the states. The federal public works administration had this all allotted by the middle of August and had approved 465 specific projects for expenditures by the states, but at that time only sixty-seven contracts had been let. During the last month this work has been speeded up somewhat. but th? actual number of jobs still is not more than about twenty thousand. A number of states have taken no steps to submit projects and secure the money awaiting them. The public works administration headed by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. has tak°n two recent steps to speed up public works spending by cities and states, and these have made a marked difference in tempo within the last two veks. Still more speed is necessary. officials believe, if the purposes of the general recovery program are to be served. Temporary Funds Let About a month ago the administration agreed to make temporary allotments to local governments in order that funds might be available lor preliminary surveys, on condition that details be completed and a contract offered within thirty days. More recently Deputy Administrator Henry M. Waite, with legal and financial aids, has undertaken a quick dash around the country to bring home to local officials the need for prompt action on public works and to help them meet legal requirements concerning advertising for bids, letting of contracts, posting of bonds, and in seme cases taking of a popular vote. Untti Sept. 1. no local projects were before the administration for action. Recently they have been coming, with approval from state public works boards, at the rate of about twenty-five a day. An application from Salem. Mass., was approved by the PWA two nays after it was received in Washington and 400 men were put to wont three days later, but few of the non-federal applications have been received in such form that this could be done. Resistance of contractors to minimum wage scales fixed by the PWA for all work to be done with its money is also complicating the problem. The public works board approved minimums ranging from 40 to 50 cents an hour for unskilled labor and from $1 to $1.20 for skilled labor after negotiating with the American Federation of Labor, and directed that all contracts be let on this basis. Seek Lower Scales Contractors are fighting for lower scales proposed in the master contracting industry code and sub-codes recently laid before NRA. Until this question is settled by the President, conflict between the contractors’ desire to secure public work and to keep general wage rates down will continue. Failure to complete the NRA construction code also is causing delay in awarding contract^. The public works act is far more generous to states and cities than any previous one It permits outright gift of 30 per cent of the cost of any project by the federal government and loan of the rest of the money. It greatly widens the scope of work for which money may be made available and it permits the Preside it to help communities even r htn legal restrictions on the power of local governments to borrow exist.

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SALE OF BEER FAILS TO HALT ALKY PARADE Bootleggers Claim Business Still Is Good: Would Take Jobs. HIJACKING RACKET FLOP Machine Gunners on Trucks Halt Liquor Thefts on Highways. 'Thin In thf last of a atrfta on crime in Indianapolis.) HY LOWELL NUSSBAUM Time* Staff Writer What's to become of the bootleggers, with prohibition dying out and legal beer enjoying an increasing popularity, is a question that probably could be answered best by a bootlegger. Let's interview one of the city’s leading purveyors of illicit stimulants. We will call him Mr. Lush, principally because that is not his real name and he said something about a buggy ride if we gave him any free advertising. Curious Reporter—"Mr Lush, how is the bootlegging racket coming along?’’ Mr. Lush—“Very fine. I have some of the best alcohol and whisky you ever tasted, and the price is reasonable. Business Still Good C R.—“We don't want to buy anything. What we want to know is whether or not your business has been hurt by the advent of legal 3.2 beer, and whether any of your competitors have been forced out of business by beer. Mr. L.—“My business still is good. Oh. of course. I have lost a few customers, and some others don't order as often as they used to, but 1 have gotten some new customers, too. They used to buy from some of my competitors who have quit the game and gotten into the legal beer business.” C. R. —“Are there still a lot of bootleggers operating?” Mr. L.—“ Sure there are. I haven't gotten this business all to myself yet.” C. R.—“ Well, what we are interested in is what the remaining bootleggers will do when repeal becomes effective. Do you suppose some oi them will become bank bandits, or burglars, or what?” Get Real Jobs Mr. L.—“ That's easy. Most of them will get legitimate jobs just as soon as they can. I know of some who have quit the game already and are out looking for jobs.” C. R.—“But will they be satisfied with an ordinary salary after the easy money in the bootlegging game?” Mr. L.—“ Say. they'll be tickled to death, and that goes for the highlytouted hijackers, too. There's no easy money in this game. I know every hijacker in this town and there isn't one that's made as much as $25 a week, on the average, lor the last year or two and some of the leggers have been slowly starving for years. “Liquor isn't being run through in cars. now. like it was in the past. It travels in big trucks, and the hijackers don't care much about bothering these trucks because each truck carries a couple of gorillas just waiting for a chance to play a tune on their machine puns. "I guess some of these hijackers have knocked off some cigaret trucks, but that was easy, because most of these were inside jobs, I have heard. Hijacking Doesn't Pay “There's no percentage in hijacking loads of beer, because you only get about two hundred cases at the most, and to get rid of it you have to sell it at $1 a case or less. Not much profit in that, considering the risk of lead poisoning and the bulkiness of the load. “No bootleggers are going to get in the bank stick-up game: at least, none of the boys around here. They're not tough enough. “But don't worry—there's going to be plenty of business for a lot of us for quite a while. “Some of our customers deserted us in favor of the corner drug store, where they could buy medicinai whisky, but. with medicinal whisky prices soaring until it costs about s•■> a pint, and good bootleg corn whisky selling for $5 a gallon, we're getting a lot of them back again. "And you can count on this—no matter how cheap legal liquor becomes. there always will be some bootleggers still operating. There always were even in pre-prohibition days. Well, I have to run along now and take care of my customers. If you hear of a good job. let me know. I might take it.”

‘Voices’ of Precincts Call —Another Political Campaign Nears

BY JAMES CARVIN’. Times Staff Writer NOW that cool weather is here again, and the air is tinged with fall crispness, those "voices" are being heard again. Perhaps, to the general public, the "voices" are only the gentlest of whispers, but to candidates for mayor, they have the volume of thunder. The "voices" are those of the people "who keep urging me to run for mayor." according to the aspirants for the office of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. There are a number of willing ears, owned by both Republicans and Democrats, and the messages they receive are being circulated by the rumor route through the i city. The skip-election law. passed by the 1933 legislature postponing municipal elections until 1934, i nipped many candidaciees in ..he

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OUTLAW NO. 1 WAS FARM BOY

Harvey Bailey, Bandit, Killer, Walked Crimes Road

This is thr first of two stories on the rsreer of Harvev Bailee. notorious criminal and outlaw, who faces trial for kidnaping at Oklahoma Cite on Monday. Sept. IS. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer ITS a far cry from the prosaic . life of a farm boy in the quiet hiils of northern Missouri to that of “the most dangerous criminal in the nation,” but Harvey Bailey has traveled that road and now, at 48. the law has closed in on his career of outlawry which has been the most spectacular the southwest has known since the days of Jesse James. Chained to an iron cot in a cell in Oklahoma City's jail is this super - desperado, kidnaper, jail breaker, machine gun killer and bank robber who is the prize catch in the federal government's new war on crime. He is on trial in federal court there for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire, for whose release a ransom of $200,000 is said to have been paid. Uncle Sam. warned by Bailey's recent single-handed escape from a death cell in the Dallas (Tex.) jail, is taking no chances this time. Not only is Bailey handcuffed and shackled in such a manner that he hardly can move, but guards armed with machine guns surround the jail to prevent any possibility of Bailey's escape or his rescue by members of his band. And what sort of a man is this Bailey who is accused as the “brains” of a huge kidnap ring, even suspected in the Lindbergh case, who has been identified as the ringleader in the biggest bank robbery on record and as a machine gun killer in the Kansas City Union Station massacre of four officers and who was the leader of the daring break of eleven convicts from the Kansas state penitentiary last Memorial day? n n u WHEN Harvey Bailey Is brought into court at Oklahoma City to answer for the Urschel kidnaping, spectators and jury will see a man far different from the type that w'ould be implied by his reputation as “the most dangerous criminal in the nation”—the description given him by Joseph B. Keenan, assistant attorney-general, in charge of the federal government's war on the underworld. Instead of a shifty, scowling bandit they will see a big, power-

McNutt Lauds NRA Plan; 30,000 Attend Ceremony

Five-Mile Parade Features Recovery Celebration at Newcastle. By Tim re ftperial NEWCASTLE. Ind . Sept. 21. “NRA is a denial of the old notion that war, famine and pestilence are the natural controls over the standards of living. It is a denial of the theory that panics, deflation and bankruptcy are our only remedies for overproductivity in industry. It is a statement of anew creed thaf the American people, through their self-reliance and ingenuity, can control capacity and reconstruct the purchasing power.” Governor Paul V. McNutt thus defined NRA to a large crowd following a dinner meeting here Wednesday night. The event brought to a close this city's celebration of NRA day. The afternoon program included a five-mile parade, witnessed by more than 30.000 persons. Tells of Social Control Clarence A. Jackson, director of the state gross income tax division, whose home is in Newcastle, tendered the dinner to the Governor and community leaders backing the NRA program. Pointing out that so-called “rugged individualism” turned out to be “ragged individualism” and unrestrained competition the death rather than life of trade, McNutt expounded the program of social control as provided under the recovery act. “Competition was assumed to be an inherent part of democracy,” he declared. “We thought that a noncompetitive world was an undemocratic world. It was impossible to foresee the revolutionary impact of productive forces upon the very institutions which they were expected to maintain.” Production Blamed Citing the fact that increased production, combined with decreased purchasing power, particularly for the farmers, hastened the collapse. Governor McNutt concluded : "In its effort to bring about in-

bud, but at the same time gave impetus to others who were awaiting improved conditions. * a NOW, thanks to the NRA. the "new deal." increased employment and other indications of a growing public well-being, mayoralty ambitions have revived. All. of course, are subject to the May. 1934. primary, but until party candidates are selected definitely, speculation can run rife on the chances of each individual. On the Democratic side, the name of Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson is heard most prominently. although Wilson has refused to confirm the rumors. Wilson backers are counting on the support of Sullivan and the city hall organization. In the courthouse division of the Democratic party, however, including thik leading lights of the

■INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1933

■ Oi Y' MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL 1 . < m

Harvey Bailey, America’s No. 1 “bad man,” is shown above with sketches that trace his career. Determined to thwart any attempt to escape from Oklahoma City's jail, authorities not only chained Bailey to his cot in a semi-nude condition, but also placed an rion bar between his handcuffs in such a manner that he could not get his hands together.

ful man with graying hair and a bland smile. Attired in a tuxedo, he easily would fit into any social event and make himself perfectly at home in the role; in golf togs, he would make a good companion for a foursome, for he loves the game and plays it well. Bailey's life story is another epic of the country boy who went to the city and made good in a big way—only, in this case, the country boy turned to crime instead of to legitimate pursuits. Back in Sullivan county, Mis-

dustrial recovery the administration has followed the theory that it is the business of government to make those adjustments which guarantee to every man the right to live as a normal human being. “This means reasonable hours, a saving wage and an adequate profit to all who participate. This means the beginning of anew and better day.” H. R. FULLER HEADS BANK FIELD CORPS Examiners’ Branch Office Location Chosen. H. R. Fuller, national bank examiner, will head a corps of federal field men who wall examine Indiana banks desirous of affiliation with the federal deposit guarantee corporation. it was announced today. They will establish headquarters with the state department of financial institutions at the statehouse. Permanent location of the department is to be on the fourth floor, They now are in the old banking department quarters on the main floor. Due to press of banking reorganization, the place is very crowded, with delegations waiting in the halls. HONOR CHURCH FIGURE Archbishop Chahadi Is Given Farewell by Syrians. Indianapolis Syrians held a farewell reception Tuesday night for Archbishop Germanos Chahadi of New York, metropolite of the Syrian Orthodox church of North America. Archbishop Chahadi sails Oct. 1 for Damascus, Syria. Negro Drop Dead on Lawn Marvin Gordon. Negro, 50. fell dead while cutting grass Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Russell Kehoe. 5924 Lowell avenue, apparently of heart trouble. Police could not learn his address. The body was sent to the city morgue.

Indiana Democratic Club, the name of L. Ert Slack, former mayor, is being pushed to the front. * n n SLACK had a taste of the mayor's office when he was selected by a coalition following the Republican administration of John L. Duvall, and his ouster with major department heads. Heading the Republican candidates. but likewise refusing to definitely stake his claim, is Clarence Martin, former Indiana supreme court judge. Martin proved his courage aitf strength on numerous occasions on the supreme bench when he never hesitated to take the minority side of important questions. Two other judges also have been advanced to the edge of the spotlight. James A. Collins, former criminal court judge, and Walter

souri, Bailey’s father and mother still till the small farm on which he was born and where he grew up as a big, good-natured boy who always did well in school and made friends with everybody. He left home at an early age to take a fireman's job on a railroad. The World war came along and Bailey joined the army and went to the front. That's where he learned to play the machine gun—and there he met some young recruits from Chicago who were to play a big part in his life later on. With them, he formed some fast friendships. * n # T TOME from the war Bailey came, no longer a farmer boy or a young railroad fireman, but a six-foot man weighing more than 200 pounds and well seasoned for whatever the world had to offer. After a time on the farm. Bailey developed a desire to see some of his war-time buddies. So he bought a one-way ticket for Chicago and at this point his whole career turned. In Chicago, Bailey found his former army acquaintances engaged in underworld pursuits and through them began his criminal career. He became a liquor runner for a “syndicate,” smuggling whisky from Canada by auto, and made money fast. His inherent traits of leadership soon manifested themselves and he rose rapidly to a position of power among Chicago's gangsters. Though a member of the underworld, Bailey liked to play the part of a gentleman. His excellent English—which he seldom drops for underworld slang—stood him in good stead when he donned his golf knickers and appeared at some of the most exclusive courses in the city. He liked to live at good hotels and put on all the outer appearances of wealth and refinement. By 1929, Bailey was deep in the secrets of Chicago's gang leaders and in February of that year came the St. Valentine day massacre in which seven gangsters were lined up against a garage 'wall and mowed down by a machine gun. A short time after this crime, Bailey returned to his rural Missouri community with a man whom he introduced as “Mr. White.” The latter, Bailey said, was a real estate man “who was seeking a quiet place in the country to recuperate from a nervous breakdown.” Bailey went back to Chicago and soon thereafter “Mr. White” was identified as Fred Burke, notorious killer and alleged operator of the machine gun in the St. Valentine day massacre. Officers were tipped off by an amateur sleuth who ran a filling station and had recognized Burke from a picture in a detective magazine. o n n WHEN the officers surprised Burke as he slept in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo., they

Pritchard. former city judge, have supporters. In fact it is rumored that Collins was ready to file for the office when the skip-election law was passed. nun PERSISTENTLY, the rumor is heard that the Coffin Republican group will stage a comeback with former mayor. Charles Jewett, as the spear-head. Jewett led the party in the halcyon days of predepression and “Charlie” remains a threat not to be ignored, just as all Coffin candidates never have been men to laugh awayi \ Boynton J. Moore, who led a losing fight against the skip-election law after announcing his candidacy in preparation for a primary in May of this year, has remained silent, although it is known that a nucleus for an organization was created then. . ,

found a machine gun and two automatics at his bedside, ready for instant use. Later, Burke was convicted of the murder of a St. Joseph (Mich. policeman and sentenced to life in prison. By this time Bailey had quit Chicago's gangs, organized an outlaw band of his own and turned bunk robber on a big scale. In September. 1930 —according to witnesses who have since identified him—he was the ringleader in the $2,000,000 robbery of the Lincoln National bank of Lincoln, Neb., the largest on record. He also was accused of a string of other bank robberies. In July, 1932, Bgiley w r as surprised by detectives while playing golf on a Kansas City course and arrested. A short time lator he was sentenced to ten to fifty years in the- Kansas penitentiary for the $32,000 robbery of the Citizens bank at Ft. Dodge, Kan. At that time he was identified in court as the leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln bank robbery. The day before Bailey was sentenced to prison, one of his attorneys, J. Earl Smith of Tulsa, Okla., was lured to a lonely road by a fake telephone call, beaten and murdered. The crime has never been cleared up. On Memorial day, 1933. Bailey led ten other desperate convicts in a daring escape from the Kansas penitentiary, kidnaping the warden and two guards and holding .them as hostages until they were released in the Oklahoma hills several days later. With Bailey at liberty again, things began to happen. There was a string of bank robberies throughout the southwest, then the machine gun murder of four officers at Kansas City when desperadoes attempted to effect the release of a captured pal and, finally, the daring kidnaping of Urschel from his palatial Oklahoma City home. Next—Harvey Bailey's two most daring crimes .. . the Kansas City machine gun massacre and the kidnaping of an Oklahoma oil millionaire.

Aged War Veterans Tramp Proudly in G.A.R. Parade

Union Army Survivors With Faltering Feet March at St. Paul. By United Free* ST. PAUL. Sept. 21.—T0 the brave music of their own fife and drum corps, a few hundred survivors of the Union armies of the Civil war marched through downtown streets here Wednesday in the traditional parade of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was a deliberate cadence, suited to the pace of the proud, whitehaired old men, trudging a mile-

J. Ed Burk, south side civic leader, also announced his candidacy on a platform which offered an entirely “new deck ’ in contrast to anew deal, but has not sat at the table since the skipelection raid. Returning to the Democrats, consideration has been given to Mark Gray, editor of the Indianapolis Commercial. Gray has been a wheel-horse for the party. He is advanced as under-study for Slack by the courthouse group. a a e STRANGE as it may seem, an appointive post is playing an important part in mayoralty calculations. With the term of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron nearing expiration, with the place to be filled by Governor Paul V. McNutts appointment, two mayoralty candidates have been mentioned for the post.

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Entered as S*>rnnd-CtM Matter at Fnsfriflicc, t4ianapoli*

COUNTY TAX BOARD DELVES : INTO SCHOOL EXPENDITURES; TEACHERS’ PAY IS PROBLEM Error in State Aid Figures Would Result in Closing Buildings and Default of Debts. Willson Says. * CITIZENS HURL STRIKE DEMANDS Educational Budget Does Not Carry ‘Hidden Assets or Padded Costs,’ Claim; Attendance Checked. Study of the 1934 city school budget, in the presence of members of the school board and A. B. Cood, business director, is the program set today by the Marion county tax adjustment hoard. More than four hours were devoted Wednesday afternoon to the school funds, with a large part of the discussion hinging on the doubtful amount of state aid for teachers’ salaries. If the school budget is finished in time, the city park department appropriation, the only one remaining in the

HUNT IS STAGED FOR DOG KILLER Probe of Pharmacies Made in Poisoner Search: Five Pets Die. Checkup of poison sales by pharmacies in the southeast section of the city was being made today by dog lovers seeking to apprehend and punish a poisoner responsible for rleaths of at least eight pet dogs. Co-operation of police in halting the wholesale slaughter of valuable pets has been enlisted by residents in the vicinity of the 1500 block, East Minnesota street. Latest reported victim of the heartless poisoner was a fox terrier owned by B. E. Martin. 1505 Linden street. The animal was poisoned during the owner’s absence from home, efforts of neighbors to save it proving futile. Four dogs died from poisoning Tuesday and several others prior to that. M. E. MISSION GROUP TO HOLD RALLY DINNER 36 Societies to Attend Annual Event j • at Broadway Church. Members of the thirty-six societies of the foreign missionary department of the Indianapolis district Methodist Episcopal churches will hold their annual rally dinner in the Broadway M. E. church Friday night. Mrs. M. O. Robbins, conference secretary of young people, will install district officers. Dr. E. R. Moon, present pastor of a Disciples, church in Greensburg, and Miss Helen Fehr will relate missionary experiences. Miss Fehr is a Methodist missionary at Jubbulpore, India. The program will close ”’ith a farewell demonstration for Miss Helen Buss, who will sail Sept. 27, to begin her second missionary term at Meerut, U. P., India. CITY MAN, 83, IS DEAD Heart Disease Fatal to Edward Lamasters at West Ohio Street Home. Edward Lamasters. 83, of 142 West Ohio street, died of heart disease Wednesday night in his home. He had been ill for some time and under the care of a trained nurse. Lamasters is survived by William Lamasters, 113 Larch street, a nephew, and Miss Clara Wright, 87 North Warman avenue, a niece.

long course from their headquarters ; at the municipal auditorium to the. I reviewing stand on the esplanade at Kellogg boulevard. Few of the veterans consented to ride in the parade, for the annual tradition demands that a soldier walk as long as his faltering feet will carry him. In the line of march. Colonel F. G. Stutz. commander of the Two hundred fifth infantry of the United States army, served as grand marshal of the parade. Behind the infantry came a guard l of honor for the commander-in- ■ chief of the G. A. R., Colonel RusI sell C. Martin of Los Angeles.

Joseph Markey, former criminal court judge, has been advocated openly for Cameron’s bench, in conflict with what are said to be his own personal mayoralty ambitions. His supporters charge the bench plum is being dangled in an effort to shelve him. Young, ambitious and capable. City Clerk Henry O. Goett. who got his political start as Slack's secretary in the mayor’s office, is receiving strong backing for both the mayoralty candidacy and the municipal bench. Regarded by many old party leaders as too young for the city hall. Goett is believed to be the leading candidate for seasoning on the bench. With Markey. Goett's opposition is in Dewey E. Myers, who has held the bench in Cameron's illness, and has the advantage of that niiie-pomts possession.

I city budget, will receive the ! board’s attention, John New- , house, president, said. The board resumed private sessions Wednesday afternoon after a hectic public hearing in the morning when a crowd estimated at 1.500 ' taxpayers served notice of a tax strike in which no levy higher j than $1.50 would be paid. Call for Tax Strike While leaders of the meeting insisted that the $1.50 law would be observed rigidly, the audience inter- ! jected shouts of “strike” and greet--1 ed each mention of the limitation law with wild applause. Following adoption of a resolution pledging the audience to "abide only by the $1.50 law," Albert Uhl, president of the property owners’ division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, outlined the battle plans of the tax reduction advocates. “If the tax adjustment board does not heed our appeal, we’ll go before the state tax board. And if we get no relief there ” “We ll strike.” a taxpayer shouted. “We’ll appeal to the courts,” Uhl continued, and ended his statement with an invitation to the audience to send donations to real estate headquarters to defray litigation costs. Discuss School Aid Considerable discussion developed in the private board session over the amount of aid local schools will receive from the state, with two estimates of varying amounts complicating the situation. The school board, in its budget requests. figured an expectancy of $324,000 from the state for the 1933-34 school term, basing the estimate on S2OO a teacher. Newhouse raised the question of S6OO state aid, declaring it was his understanding that such a sum could be expected, and pointed out that figures issued by the state showed a sum of $379,000 for local schools. “We will receive $324,000 in January, according to our expectations, based on 1,624 teaching units of thirty-five pupils each,” Good explained. Schools May Close “The state has estimated you will receive $379,000,” Russell Willson, school board member of the adjustment board, pointed out. There is a difference there that should be reconciled. If we should accept the state's estimate and find that it is wrong, we might have to close the schools.” After a long discussion, it was decided to make an investigation today on the source of the attendance figures supplied the state by Fred T. Gladden, former county school superintendent, who estimated daily average attendance at 46,000 pupils. Good declared that, actually, the average daily attendance was approximately 37.000 only, accounting in the variance on state aid estimates. “We are presenting to you an honest budget,” asserted Julian Wetzel, school beard president, in opening the hearing on the school budget. ’ No Padded Costs “There are no hidden assets and no padded expenditures. It is our judgment, after a careful and prolonged study, that this budget requests the minimum amount of money upon which the public schools and the libraries can operate in the school year 1933-34." Wetzel desired that if the school budget had been fixed on the 1932 property valuation, the rate would be 88 cents instead of the 99 cents requested. The school budget totals $5,771,000. which, according to Wetzel, is $2,196,147 less than in 1930 and $1,738,888 less than was collected in the school year 1931-32.” “We are custodians of $22,000,000 worth of property,” Wetzel asserted. “Failure to make adequate appropriation for the maintenance and upkeep of this property is not an economy, but an extravagnee.”

FIFI D’ORSAY MAY WAIT TO BE STUDENT’S BRIDE Marriage of Film Actress and Chicago Man to Follow Graduation. By l nitrd Preen HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 21—Vivacious Fifi D Orsay admitted Wednesday she is contemplating matrimony. but her marriage to Maurice Hill, son of a wealthy Chijngo manufacturer, may wait until he completes his medical education. The dafk-halred motion picture actress said she met Hill, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, when she played in Chicago recently. “He is so terribly handsome,” Fifl said, dimpling. •*