Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1934 — Page 2

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DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME TAX IS CHARGED UNFAIR

Marion County Is Carrying Burden for Others, Book Claims. Unfair distribution of gros.' income tax receipts from Marion county has resulted in the taxpayers here providing tax relief for many communities whose citizens are no more tax-burdenrd than air the citizens of Indianapolis, according to William H. Book executive vice-president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Book, speaking before the Kiwanis Club yesterday, said that, under the present setup, only about 30 per of the total gross income taxes paid here in this coun-* ty return to the county to assist in financing city and county schools This, he said meant a contribution of almost *2.000.000 annually by Indianapolis taxpayers to carrying the expense of other counties' schools. 'There is good logic in the idea that the stronger communities — those with larger proportionate taxing values—should help the weaker communities obtain minimum standard schools, - ' Mr. Book said. •‘Distribution of the gross income tax. however, has resulted in manv communities, whose citizens are no more burdened with taxes than are those of Indianapolis, receiving tax relief at the expense of Indianapolis taxpayers. •’What is urgently needed in the name of justice is a fairer distribution of the revenues derived from the gross income tax so that this community may have a tax reduction at least proportionately equal to other communities similarly .situated.- ’ Mr. Book, placing the Chamber of Commerce on record as favoring support for actually weak communities. said that it. nevertheless, would take up with legislative candidates in the immediate future the ques- j tion of a fairer distribution of gross | income tax receipts. The chamber official's speech j dealt also with reduction of the j total property tax rate here since I 1932 and with the work of the j chamber's newly formed govern- l mental research bureau, headed by Virgil Sheppard, government expert, j The net result of tax reduction: moves since 1932 has been a reduc- ! tion of only about *2 000.000 for 1935. Mr. Book said, though the property taxes actually are about *6.000 000 less. New forms of taxation have added $4,000,000 to the tax bill, he declared. The governmental research bureau will seek to make Indianapolis the best governed city in the United States. Mr. Book said. and. in connection with this endeavor, would study carefully present tax assessment and collection machinery as It effects the city's life. BANKERS TO DISCUSS HOUSING DRIVE HERE Advisory Committee to Meet With State. City Officials. The newjy formed banker's adisory committee of the better housing program will meet officials of the state and Indianapolis housing campaigns soon to discuss further bank co-operation. Announcement of the approaching meeting was made today by Walter B Harding, campaign chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Housing drive.

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STRIKER FALLS BEFORE STATE TROOPER

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Not only strikers but state troops suffered injury in the forty-hour no 1 '’aced by textile null workers at Savlesville, R. I. Above a soldier is shown, club in hand, standing o\cr a fallen picket who seeks to protect his ncad from blows. More than a hundred persons were injured in the battle.

Modernize Your Home BY ROGER B. WHITMAN

This is (hr second fa serif* of farlve arliflf* by Ro*er B. Whitman, famous hnusint expert, on the repair and moderniration of the home. These artirles are intended as a guide In connection with the Federal Housine Administration's home renovizing cam- ! paign. Once or twice a year a heavy southeast storm drives rain through I some crack in one of my walls and wets a patch *of plaster in a down- | stairs room. I have been hunting for that | crack for three years. It may be anywhere in the two-story-and-a-haif wall, from the joint between wall and roof to one of the window frames, for water may travel long distances in a wall before showing itself. I have patched all of these suspected places, but have not yet found it. Blisters Tell Tale I shall keep on experimenting, for water in a wall is not good for a house. In my case it damages the decorations. It may lead to rotting, although with me the wetting does not happen often enough for that to be feared; water from a storm dries out before the next storm occurs. Drying may be through either the inside or the outside walls. ■ When blisters appear in paint on an outside wall, always in about the same places, this is the cause. Water gets into the wall and collects on a part of the framing that brings it against the inside of the clapboards. The water soaks in and is drawn through to the outside by warmth and dry air. Leaks in a brick or masonry wall usually are through the cracks at the mortar joints, while stucco may leak through cracks or where the waterproofing has deteriorated. Remedy for Leaks One remedy for leaky mortar : joints is to rake them out for an j inch and point up with mortar j containing one part cement, one

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part lime and five parts sand. Another is a colorless waterproofing mixture, best applied by a concern in the business with machines for forcing the liquid in under pressure. A clear waterproofing to be put on with a brush, and that should make a wall tight for two or three years at least, can be made in the proportion of one pound of paraffin disolved in a gallon of benzine or pure gasoline. Mixing should be on a hot day. with the solvent at air temperature. Stucco also can be waterproofed with paint. New: stucco should have a soaking with a solution in the proportion of three pounds zinc sulphate to a gallon of water, to destroy the free lime. With stucco a year or more old, this is not needed. Any good house paint can be used. The first coat, applied when the stucco is thoroughly dry, should be one-third paint, one-third high quality spar varnish, one-third turpentine. This treatment also can be aplied to brickwork. Next—Clean hot water, always.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BOARD DIRECTS DOG QUARANTINE IN 4 TOWNSHIPS

Attacks by Rabid Animal in Beech Grove Bring Drastic Order. A 120-day quarantine against all dogs and cats in Center, Perry. Warren and Franklin townships has been declared by the state health board upon the request of H. C. Terrell, Beech Grove marshal. Mr. Terrell said that the order applied specifically to Beech Grove, which lies in the four townships, because five persons had been exposed to rabies in that vicinity. One rapid dog bit several other dogs in the southeast section of the city, he said. The order declares that any dog or cat not under leash, direct control of the owner or penned up may be destroyed by proper authorities. Thirty days after the issuance of the order, antmals inoculated against rabies may be allowed freedom. • Mr. Terrell obtained the order today. It is signed by A. L. Axbv, state veterinarian; Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state health director; Dr. O. D. Ludwig, county health commissioner, and Mr. Terrell.

LOUISE BARTH IS FOUND DEAD Wife of Times’ Advertising Staff Member Victim of Heart Disease. Mrs. Louise Mayhew Barth, 27, of 3606 Balsam avenue, died yesterday of heart Her body was discovered slumped in a chair by her husband, Richard Barth, when he returned home early last night. She had been dead about three hours. Mrs. Barth was born in Scottsville. Ky., and was educated in Kansas City, Mo. She came with her family to Indianapolis six years ago, and was married three years ago to Mr. Barth. Survivors are the widower, a member of The Times advertisingstaff; her mother, Mrs. M. E. Mathew, and a brother, O. B. Mayhew, both of Indianapolis; a brother, Al, Dayton, and a brother Lester Kansas City. ROBBERY VICTIM ABLE TO RECALL ASSAILANT Employe Says Bandit Took $76 of Blind School Funds. Regaining consciousness yesterday i the city hospital, Carl Ax, an employe of the Indiana state school for the blind, told police that he had been robbed of $76 of the school's funds by an armed man wearing a blue sweater Monday. Mr. Ax was found in a dazed condition from heavy blows on the head in his automobile parked west of the city Monday. He told police that his assailant jumped on the running board at Senate avenue and Ohio street, forced him to drive out in the country and then slugged him.

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U, S. TO BARE TRUE STORY OF DILLINGER GANG

Closely-Guarded Record to Figure in Hearing for Attorney. jf>jr l nit> and Press CHICAGO. Sept. 13 —The federal department of justice today opened its closely-guarded records and prepared to reveal in court the true story of John Dilingers crimepacked career. The saga of the Dillinger gang, woven into terse reports of government agents whose guns finally ended the outlaw's life, was called for by Federal Judge John P. Barnes when an alleged “master mind” of the gang was brought before him. Louis P. Piquett, bushy-haired criminal lawyer under indictment on charges of harboring Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, sought a writ of habeas corpus to obtain his release from the Cook county jail. His attorney, Benjamin Landis, claimed the $50,000 bond set for Piquett was exhorbitant in view of the fact that the government had only one crime charged to Dillinger —interstate transportation of a stolen car after his “toy pistol” escape from an Indiana jail. Assistant United States Attorney Harry N. Connaughton. opposing the habeas corpus petition, recited a long list of Dillinger's crimes. Landis met each statement with a demand for proof. Judge Barnes, complaining that the proceedings were a “fencing match.” ordered the government's records of the gangs misdeeds brought into court today for another hearing.

WOUNDED SUSPECT'S IDENTITY DISCLOSED

Supposed Kentucky Hoodlum Is Newcastle Man. Aji alleged slot machine racketeer shot during an attempted holdup in Whiteland, Aug. 29, was identified last night as John Hibbard. 27, Newcastle. He previously had given his name as Fred Matson and was believed to be a Kentucky hoodlum. He is being held in the city hospital detention ward recovering from serious wounds. So far as police could learn Hibbard has no previous criminal record. Detectives expressed the opinion that Hibbard was a member of a gang that had been stealing slot machines.

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