Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1936 — Page 3
ERY SUSPECT
DEATH PROBE
jon Centers Suspicion on!
Himself in Murder of His Mother.
ty United Press CHICAGO, July 1. — Jimmy pmpson, 7, stood before a lineup suspects in the murder of his ; , Mrs, Florence Thompson mstle, thrice-divorced night club pstess, today and eliminated them
: act served to lift suspicion rom every one in the case but him—for Police Capt. William en insisted police have not yet carded the possibility that the vie-wise youngster sought to lidate a difficult home situation 8 building brick. ate today Jimmy was to face her questioning regarding his . Story that he awoke in his mothers hotel room to see a “big, dark man” bludgeoning his mother, that he 58 imly questioned the man, then . back to sleep. Police have ght the assistance of psychia8 to explain how Jimmy dressed sare] fully. brushed his black hair, and washed his chubby face before he flied downstairs to give the
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| Further Details « Sought
Ji my will be asked further de- | of his reactions to the life his | . mother led. The boy came Sunday i to spend the summer with Mrs. Castle, although he preferred to remain| with his paternal grandpart Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Shortly after midnight Monday 4 ther was killed by a blow with
faced head.
atten ance at gangster movies, uspects and shook his
of ceremonies. Jimmy said wasn't the “big, dark man.” ce virtually abandoned any g interest they may have had e possible connection of {two Colorado convicts with the case.
EDGEWOOD BUS LINE
REROUTING IS ASKED :
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Petition Seeks Permission ||
~ to| Use S. Meridian-St.
A eating ‘on a petition filed by the Soi Transit Lines, Inc. bus line operator, asking permission to ‘ reroute Edgewood busses down S. Meridian-st, was held this morning | by the Works and Sanitation Board. | * The requested change was opposed by the Indianapolis Street RAllways, which: operates trackless trolleys on S. Meridian-st. Harry Harmon, bus company,
representative, told board members the Meridian-st route was desired for convenience and speed. At present Edgewood lines use Madison-ayv. Arthur Gilliom, representing the Indianapolis Street Railways. filed
a list of written objections to the tron change. The objections set forth that an- | other id line operating on S. Meri- | dian-st would increase congestion | and thal trackless trolleys would be | unable to meet their schedule. The board is to consult the police traffic department before acting.
SPANISH NOBLEMAN TO SEEK ANNULMENT
Count, ‘Countess Want Marriage
Ended by Courts. By United Press N YORK, July 1.—Count Alfonso Covadonga, eldest son of the deposed King of Spain, announced today that he would file an annulment suit against his wife, a Cuban commoner for whom he renounced “his rights to the throne. The Countess cabled yesterday from Havana that she was instituting divorcee proceedings, an action that shocked the titled automobile salesman. But today he told the press in the offices of his attorney that he had been contemplating the annulment for some time.
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SAFETY BOARD BUYS SUB-MACHINE GUNS
Fulicemen, Baer Barracks to Get | New Equipment,
The Indiana State Safety Board oday ordered purchase of nine fhompson sub-machine guns and -gas guns for State Police d police barracks. Donald F. Stiver, state safety sctor, said each state policeman . equipped with a teareach barrack is to get
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Rays invisible to the naked eye picture. It was taken from the chants Bank Building,
photographer using infra-red plates. ‘with the infra-red process has been going on for the last decade and infra-red photography is being Infra-red filters and
looking east, by a Times
helped make this top of the Mer-
Research work
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plates pick up only reflected rays and it is possible with the process to take a picture in total darkness. It has been used in stratosphere flights and pictures showing as much as 50 miles of territory produced. Notice the distance taken in by the photograph. The railway bridge three-quarters of a mile away is dis=-
used for limited purposes.
Fireworks Makers Lead in Drive to Eliminate Dangers
Back Nation-Wide = Survey
Seeking Causes of 7000
Accidents in 1935; “Flash” Crackers Held Unsafe.
(This is the second of three articles on Fourth of July hazards.)
BY JAMES 1936. by Science
(Copyright,
STAFFORD
Service)
WASHINGTON, July 1.—Paradoxical though it may seem, manufac-
| tures of fireworks are engaged actively in a drive to eliminate the dangers of July Fourth celebrations.
Substantial funds for a nation-
wide study of Fourth of July accidents, undertaken by the American Museum of Safety, were provided by these manufacturers. Of the more than 7000 accidents reported last year, 3000 have been investigated in
detail. Firecrackers, this study shows, are the most dangerous fireworks, numerically speaking. They caused over 2000 of the accidents last year. is not the firecrackers but the flash cracker which is dangerous, C. H. Fleming, Pyrotechnic Industries, Inc., executive secretary, explains. In his opinion, the flash cracker was responsible for most of the accidents attributed to firecrackers. The committee which made the study did not differentiate between the two kinds.
Easy, Cheap to Make | The flash cracker has taken the
| place of the giant cracker, the old-
time July Fourth villain, The reason is that the American boy wants the loudest piece of fireworks he can get. Flash crackers, easy and
cheap to make and easy to sell, are the answer. | Reputable manufacturers do not make this type of fireworks and have tried unsuccessfully to stop its manufacture in this country and its importation,- Mr. Fleming said. i These manufacturers agree with safety directors that the place to. check fireworks accidents is at their source—the manufacture of dangerpus fireworks. They hope that further study of dangerous items of fireworks will show them how they ican supply the American public with safe fireworks. Education of the public as to the
works, rather than prohibition of them, is considered the best method of ‘reducing July Fourth accidents and deaths.
Ask Federal Supervision . As a further protective measure, the fireworks manufacturers would like the establishment of a Federal bureau to examine and approve all
| OFFICIAL WEATHER
Leee=United States Weather Bureau... ..J
Sunrise ....... 4: 20 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE July 1, 1935
So «eo. 29.91 1p. m. Precipitation 24 hrs. ending. 7 a. m.. Total] precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan.
MIDWEST WEATHER x
TANA — Local thundershowers tonian or tomorrow: somewhat warmer north tonight; cooler extreme northwest tomorrow.
thundershowers probable extreme south tonight and tomorrow and.in central and north this afternoon or tonight: somewkat warmer extreme northeast tonight: cooler extreme north tomorrow LOWER MICHIGAN—Increasing cloudiness. local thundershowers tonight and tomorrow excepting extreme southeast tonight: somewhat warmer southeast tonight: Soojer sxireme west and extreme north to10rT0
OHIO—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, skowers tomorrow and in south portion tonight; slightly warmer in ‘north portion tonight. KENTUCKY—Showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
* The following table shows the Sate of weather in other citeis at 7 a.
Station. Weather, Amarillo, Tex. 29.86 Bismarck, N. D Boston Chicago Cinciinatt Cleveland, enver Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont, Jacksonville, ‘an Kansas City, Mo. Cloudy Little Rock, Ark. Los Angel Miami, Fla. Minneapol Mobile, A New Orleans New Yor Okla. City, Okla. Omaha, Neb. Pittsburgh
fireworks items before they can be |st. Louis
offered for sale to the public. Canada has such an arrangement with the division of explosives of the Department of Mines. | “Under this form of regulation,” Mr. Fleming says, “the Canadian public has its fireworks and fires them and the resulting accidents are nil.” : The United States has a similar agency, the Bureau of Explosives under the Interstate Commerce Commission, which is well equipped and staffed for such work. At present, the Bureau's efforts are aevoted entirely to examining fireworks for safety in transportation, which, Mr. Fleming points out, has no definite relation to safety in use.
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GASOLINE REVENUE
y ..Cloudy
Marion County Gets $34,678; Bulk Goes to State Highways.
Distribution of $5,897,423 in gasoline taxes collected during April, May and June was announced today by Laurence Sullivan, state auditor. One-half of the amount, $2,948,711, went to the State Highway Department. The other half was split between counties, cities and towns. Marion County's share was $34,678.
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tinct and apparently but a short distance off.
RAIL WORKERS’ PENSIONS VALID
Only Right to Collect Tax Unconstitutional, Rules D. of C. Court.
By United Press WASHINGTON, July 1. — The Federal government found itself to= day with the right to pay retirement pensions to the nation’s 1,000,000 railroad workers: but with no legal right to collect taxes with which to finance the payments.
A clarifying decree by Justice Jennings Bailey of District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the 1935 railroad retirement act, setting
% | up methods and regulations for pay-
ing the pensions, was constitutional. It declared invalid, however, the tax law passed in connection with the retirement act, designed to replenish the Treasury for sums paid out as pensions. The tax law provided a 3% per cent income tax on workers’ wages, and a 3% per cent excise tax on rail companies’ pay
4 | rolls.
Justice Bailey’s decree was de-
45 signed to clarify a misconception of
a previous written opinion which attorneys for both sides believed had declared both acts unconstitutional: Under the decree, the government may pay pensions to. railroagl employes who reach the age of .65 or who have served 40 years. The money must be taken from the general treasury fund. Approximately 25 workers, whose retirement and pay roll records have been . completely checked, were to have received their first pension today.
FEDERAL LEVY
8 CONTESTED
Breweries Question State's Authority in Suit Filed Here.
Authority of the State of Indiana to assess a tax under the gross income tax law on a tax paid to the Federal government is contested in a suit on file today in Superior Filed by 15 Indiana breweries, the action names the gross income tax division of the Department of Treasury, Clarence A. Jackson, ‘department director; Gov. McNutt, Peter F. Hein, treasurer of state,
.| and Laurence F. Sullivan, auditor
of state, as defendants. Contending that the Indiana authorities are attempting to collect
gross income tax from the plaintiffs on a tax of $5 a barrel the plaintiffs |’
pay to the Federal government for all beer withdrawn from storage, the suit further alleges that the tax division refused to accept tax reports filed by the plaintiffs with the amounts paid to the Federal government deducted.
Brewer Is Held Agent
“There is no authority anywhere in the gross income tax act for the State of Indiana to levy a tax upon a tax,” the complaint says in setting
out that the plaintiffs in 1934 paid more than $100,000 in Federal tax upon which the state is attempting to collect the gross income tax. Other contentions in the .complaint are that “the $5 tax imposed by the Federal law upon the brewer must be held and considered a tox upon the purchaser thereof and that the brewer is merely an agent of the Federal government in the collection of the said tax; this tax is similar to the gasoline tax imposed by the State of Indiana which has: been held and declared to be exempt
by the defendant from the st-te
gross income tax, and that said Federal tax of $5 a barrel laid, upon beer manufactured by said plaintiffs can not be classified as income of the plaintiffs upon which the defendants can levy and collect a tax under and by the provisions of said act.” Filed by the law firm of McHale, Arthur & Myers, of which Frank McHale, an adviser of Gov. McNutt is a member, the suit asks the court to determine the meaning and effect of the gross income tax as to the assessment of tax upon the Federal tax. Called “Friendly Suit”
Mr. Jackson, head of the income tax division, describes the action as a “friendly suit” involving about
$20,000. Prainiint Maye the Indianapolis Brewing Co., Inc., Sterling Brewers of Evansville, the Terre Haute Brewing Co., Lafayette Brewery, Inc., the FW. Cook Co. of Evansville, Kamm & Schellinger Co. of Mishawaka, the Centlivre Brewing Corp. of Fort Wayne, the Kiley Brewing Co. of Marion, the Hoff-brau Brewing Co. of Jort Wayne, the Lieber Brewing Corp. of Indianapolis, the R. G. Schmidt Brewing Co. Inc. of Logansport; the Muessel Brewing Co. of South Bend, the T. M. Norton Brewing Co. of Anderson, the Berghoff Brewing Corp. of Fort Wayne and the South Bend Beverage and Ice Association.
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Winning freedom by agreeing to return to his home at Seattle, Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck is pictured above (center) as he prepared to depart by train from Washington. He was refused passage on a plane at Chicago and continued his journey by train.
School Budget Is Increased; Text-Renal Plan Extended
Include Four More Grades; Big Savings Predicted.
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Estimate Adopted! by Board Is $1,096,412 Higher Thans This Year.
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the plan has been in operation a few years, arithmetic and English work books can be included in the rental fee. The rental fee in the junior high school grades has been 50 ‘cents for each semester, but in the future it will be 75 cents. Science work books will be included. Until now, junior high school pupils have been required to buy work books at a cost of 39 cents each. Adjustments in the fees charged are to be made in classes where pupils have purchased some books which they will be able to use during the first semester. If the pupil has the necessary books, no fee is to be charged. E Parents who wish to buy books outright, as they did under the old plan, may continue to do-so. , The textbook rental plan hag been in use for several years in Gdry and Richmond and is to be introduced at South Bend and many smaller cities this year. The law authorizing school boards to rent books was passed during the 1935 session of the ‘State Legislature. ~
of badly needed school buildings. It is absolutely necessary, if our high standards are to be maintained, that we begin at once to carry cut the recommendations of the building committee. “Because of the limited bonding power due to reduced real estate valuations, the school city is unable to borrow to a considerable extent, even if the board desired to pursue this method which has proved costly in the past. “If the building needs are to be met, the only way to meet them is by increasing the tax levy, and this method eventually will prove more advantageous to the taxpayers.”
Expenditures Are Classified
The proposed expenditures for the various functions of the school city are classified as follows:
2 propriations Funds 1935 | 936-3 Administration ....$164, Ry : Instruction ....... 3,798, Operation Maintenance Auxiliar
"oe 377.50 4,040,821.00 560.0:
8 Capital Outlay
Fund Transfers ... . 561 465.00 557, 771.00
‘TIPPER’ DRINK
Finds Two Converts on Train Who Agree on Quality of Concaoction.
By United Press 5 MINNEAPOLIS, July 1.—Boasting two converts, acquired in a crowded Pullman-car washroom, Marion A. Zioncheck, playboy congressman from Seattle, Wash.,, was en route home today to spread the fame of the Zioncheck zipper. In addition to promoting the drink, he made famous and which did an equal turn for him, the con. gressman will look into the Zione check political affairs and spread word to constituents that the stories of his mental state “have been grossly exaggerated.” os Zioncheck outlined these plans while smoothing his face with a safety razor, as fellow occupants of the washroom, less used to flashlight bulbs, nicked their chins and cursed. ¥ Zioncheck confided to the press th€t he found rest and a good night's sleep after imbibing one of his potent zippers. “That drink,” he said, “has everything. It sends you to bed feeling fine and you get up feeling even better.”
Agrees Drink Is Fine
“You're right,” a fellow-passenger volunteered. = “The drink is all right,” nt washroom companion gressman said as he sought vainly o reach his chin with “but this jam is terrible. going to hold court for the at every stop we make?” “Why don’t you put your state
one
ments on a dictaphone and hand 3
out a record,” another irate passenger proposed as he, jumped and
nicked his chin gs a photographer's
flash bulb flared. The indorsers of the vipper became converts, they said, after joine ing the congressman in his “nighte cap’ as his train left Chicago after hectic and futile efforts to arrange passage to Seattle by plane. . “One of my first interests after I find out how my mother is will be to assure my friends that this mental hospital episode was all a mise take,” Zioncheck said.
HOOSIER NAMED EDITOR
Greensburg Man . Appointed by Capital Magazine, Timea Special ’ GREENSBURG, Ind. July 1.— Raymond Willoughby, former resie dent of this city, has been appointed managing editor of The Nation's’
7| Business, a magazine at Washinge
ton, D. C., according to -word ree ceived here. 2 Mrs. Wiloughby is the son of the late Andrew M. Willoughby, Greens
burg Review editor.
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