Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1936 — Page 1

REDUCTION IN SCHOOL LEVY 1S INDICATED

State Board Hints That It May Curtail Funds for Building.

$2.78 LEVY IS ASKED

Taxpayers Declare Increase Would Retard Growth < ‘of Indianapolis.

BY TOM OCHILTREE

The State Tax Board is expected to make its major tax slashing effort on the school city budget, which accounts for 21 cents of the 23cent tax rate increase for Indianapolis residents of ‘Center Township, it was indicated today. 'Purther hearings on the Marion County budget are to be held tomorrow morning in the State Tax Board office. The Civil City budget is to be discussed tomorrow. afternoon and the School City budget Friday’ rhorning. “We realize that a building pro--gram {is needed . for Indianapolis gchools,” one board member said, “but we intend to see -that the school i board receives the greatest possible value out of the money appropriated.” Citizens Are Commended

Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce issued a statement commending citizens for their interest in determining tax rates before they are fixed rather than coniplaining after rates were determined and bills issued. The statement said in part: “Indianapolis made an excellent start in the right direction yesterday when many of the larger organizations representing taxpayers of the city made themselves forcefully heard before the State Tax Board, and the smaller taxpayer jumped into the fight also and made himself heard. “It is hoped that the keen interest sh*/n in this hearing will continue to bring to the attention of the public office holder the downright demand for relief. Likewise, tax-reviewing boards, in making reductions, will understand they have public support. “No. matter what action the tax ard takes — and there certainly

5 1 e Gvidehoe thal reductions | jmssssii : N56 were possible -— the demonstration _ YORK. Oct. 14. selective buying in railroad and special issues |

before the tax board was a splendid start in the right direction and, representing one body in the city, we sincérely hope the interest will be continued. : It promises excellent results.” The school city rate, as approvad by the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board, is $1.10, compared wit A current levy of 89 cents. School ‘authorities explained the increase is due largely to a proposed $875,000 building program.

Buildings Planned If their budget is approved by the state board, school officials have promised to erect an Irvington High School and build additions to Washington High School and Public ‘School 26. They told the state board yesterday at a public hearing in Circuit Court that they plan to ask for Federal funds to augment their construction program. A school Hiding committee estimated at least $2,000,000 eventually must be spent here to relieve overcrowded conditions in Indianapolis schools. The county levy of 44 cents fis an increase of 6 cents over the current rate, and the civil city levy of * $1.14 is 3 cents higher than this year. Salary increases for lower brackst workers account largely for the civil city increase, while a major share of the county boost goes to the newly established Welfare Department. The Center Township levy has been reduced from 25 cents to 18 cents. Sees City Growth Retarded

Warning that increased taxes would retard the city’s growth and keep industries away, taxpayers yesterday asked the board to bring the total levies at least down to the current rate of $2.78. The total In- * dianapolis-Center Township rate approved by the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board is $3.01. “I think the time has come for the taxpayers to strike,” Joseph J. Schmid, 2111 N. Pennsylvania-st, a real estate dealer, told the board. Other delegations defended the levies, and declared reductions seriously would hamper governmental functions in this county. The school city budget had the largest number of advocates.

CHINA AND HAWAII CLIPPERS MEET AT GUAM

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 186

Hot Argument

Cold Sandwich Complaint Bolstered by Gun Fire, Waitress Says.

LITTLE matter of two allegedly cold hot dogs precipitated a shooting scrape at a restaurant at 521.Indiana-av, Miss Lucille Nance, 24, of 818 W. Wal-nut-st, waitress, told police last night. Two men, she said, entered the restaurant and ordered wieiner sandwiches. When they were delivered the customers complained that they weren't hot enough,

. officers were told.

In fact, one of them was so perturbed that he drew a revolver and. shot out a glass window, ac--cording to Miss Nance. The men then fled, she said.

LOYAL FORCES START ATTACK

Rebel Gains Threatened in Fighting on Madrid and Toledo Fronts.

By United Press _ ‘GIBRALTAR, Oct. 14—Spanish loyalists, who two days ago were retreating on Madrid from the front west of the capital, fought on the offensive today. Reports indicated that the insurgents may have extended their long lines too far for safety. The loyalists -seemed to have made some gains and jubilantly predicted that the insurgents must abandon all their gains of the last few days or be smashed on the entire west of Madrid front. Also, loyalists opened an attack in the Toledo area which, if it met with any success, would be carried into Toledo itself. Ferocidus fighting was in progress at Oviedo where for nearly 13 weeks Asturian miners have been besieging an insurgent ‘garrison. - A relief column of Moors and foreign legionnaires reached the city and was

fighting, its way in against strong

resistance.

SELECTIVE BUYING - ARRES STOCKS UF

carried stock market prices irregularly higher in moderate trading today. ; ‘Several new _highs were made in the rails, jenluding. Great Northern preferred at 46%, up 1. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe gained 1% to 83; Union Pacific gained 2 points to 143; Chesapeake & Ohio gained 1% to 76%, and Missouri-Kansas-Texas preferred A gained 1% to 32%.

MRS. SIMPSON AGAIN TO BE KING'S GUEST

(Another Story, Page 13)

By United Press LONDON, Oct. 14—Mrs. Ernest Simpson, American friend of King Edward VIII, will be a member of a party of “a few intimate friends,” which will visit Sandringham next week, it was understood today. The forthcoming visit to the King's Norfolk estate will add another royal residence to the three Mrs. Simpson has visited as King Edward's guest.

CLAIM CONFESSION IN THEFTS AT LU,

By United Press. BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 14— Robert D. Forrester, 17, _ Clintan, Okla., student in a police training

course at Indiana University, has

confessed robbery of more than 15 homes in Bloomington during the last two weeks, police claimed today. Forrester enrolled for the course after being paroled from the Indiana Boys School where he had

. served 15 months of a sentence for

a theft at Monticello, according to Walter Peterson, campus policeman.

OVERCOME BY FUMES].

George Muench, 36, of 3226 Col-lege-av, was overcome by carbon monoxide gas while working on his automobile in a closed garage in the rear of his home today, police

reported. He was taken to Methodist

Hospital for treatment.

Ra - i ="

FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; not miueh change in temperature.

EXINS REACHES GUA ISLAND;

Times Writer Is Greeted by Reporters Manila-Bound on China Clipper.

FLIES THROUGH STORM

‘Excited as ‘a Boy,” He Wires; Lauds Skill of Giant Plane’s Pilot.

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" BY H. R. EKINS Times. Specials Writer APRA, HARBOR, GUAM (Thursday), Oct. 15—With never a skip in the beat of her mighty engines, the big Hawaii Clipper roared through slashing rain and heavy fog to bring me at last to this speck of an island in the Pacific, where, at 5:20 p. m. (1:20 a. m. Wednesday, Indianapolis time), I found myself = 1600 miles closer ‘to the ‘end of this round-the-world race. g It. was .a masterful performance that Capt. E. A. Laporte gave us on

the Clipper, stepping up her speed |»

sometimes to 173 miles an hour, and covering the 10 and one-half hours of flying at an average speed of 152. Awaiting me here at Guam were people from home—the group of newspaper men who flew westward from California with the China Clipper, which will fly on to Manila, where my two rivals in the race will be waiting to get aboard. With .the flight from Manila to Guam ‘behind me, and the utter sense of security that accompanied

it, I' now feel fairly safe with my

lead ‘over Dorothy Kilgallen, of the International . News, and Leo Kie-

ran, of the North American News-

paper Alliance, my opposition. As I send this cable from Guam they still -are aboard the liner President Pierce bound for Manila. Resumes Flight Today The ‘Clipper, on which they will travel to San Francisco, swings at anchor here in the harbor, and tomorrow- morning (this afternoon, in Indianapolis) we'll be off again,

winging + with the. precision of

modern aeronautical navigation, toward “another Pacific speck—Midway Island. Then on to Wake and Honolulu, and San Francisco, and

New York where I Axpect we walk |

legr . The i that. has gone petind organization of this skyway Clipper line is nothing short of amazing, and 1 can assure you .that, flying high over the almost limitless Pacific, 3 passenger: entertains not the slightest fear of mishap. I even slept for a time during the 10 hours we were racing toward Guam. Tht chief “hazards” in circling the world, in fact, have little to do with aviation. They are stamp collectors, autograph hounds, and old newspaper friends with bottles and a chronic tendency to keep saying, “Come on, now, just one more.” Flown 16,295 Miles I've still got that quarter pint flask which Nellie Bly carried around the world in 1839-90. It has been filled and drained several times on this long journey, and it is full now—this time with 110-year-old rum -made by Spanish friars and given to me in Manila by Arthur Fischer, director of the Philippines Bureau of Forestry. My log shows today that I have flown ' 16,295 miles since leaving |: Lakehurst in the Zeppelin Hindenburg. I have been in the air 134 hours and ‘my average speed has been 121 miles an hour.

WILL DIVIDES ROGERS’ $100,000,000 ESTATE o

By United Press = : SALINAS, Cal, Oct. 14.—The will of Henry Huddleston Rogers, former Standard Oil executive, was filed for probate here today directing disposal of a fortune estimated at more than $100,000,000. Mrs.: Pauline Rogers, his third wife, was bequeathed $100,000, all equipment on the various estates,” and the Southampton (N. Y.) estate known as the “Port of Missing Men.” Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr. was left a $500,000 trust fund. Peter Salm, Rogers’ grandson, was left $100,000 in trust. An additional "$100,000 was left to young Salm’ mother, Millicent Rogers.

Four columns of letters from readers, Pages 14 and 15.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1936

Board Orders Paving Work on 2 Streets |

The Works Board today ap-" proved resolutions provi Tor College-av perme and 14th-st from West to Collins-st with reinforced concrete. The Indianapolis Railways has completed its portion’ of paving between tracks. The combined cost of the Collegée-av paving is $67,038.50 and total cost of the 14th-st improve=ment $8669.15. : Under terms of the resolu= tions property owners are to'pay one-fourth of the assessment. The board approved a resolution of City Engineer Henry -Steeg ordering the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. to instail five overhead lights on W. 16thst from West-st to Fall Creekblvd. The utility also was ordéred to install 29 new-design street lights on West-st between Indiana-av and 16th-st.

BAKER KILLED IN GAR GRASH

Arthur Young, 27, Dies After Car Strikes Sanitation Wagon.

Arthur Young, 27, of 825 Gray-st, Bond Baking Co. employe, died in the City Hospital today, from injuries received when the car he was driving crashed into the rear of a city sanitation wagon. Mr. Young's death brought Marion County's 1936 traffic death toll to 122. ® The garbage wagon was driven by Arthur Calvin, 56, of 3701 South-eastern-av, who suffered serious in-

juries to the head and chest. There were no witnesses to the accident, which occurred at Southeastern-av and Sherman-dr. Young was taken from his car unconscious and ‘died 20 minutes later, ]

ONE-MAN TERROR REIGN SEI SEEN OVER

# ow» wa RE TOWN, Pa, Oct. 14—A

“reign of tefror” ‘which has. gripped. the tiny mining’ settlement of Puri<

vt Se

tan for six toda; bali tn fo sx years ocay was Enened| PREDICTS FAIR AND claimed a confession to the com-{

munity’s latest slaying. A cache of newspaper clippings, telling of murders and allied crime, 500 or more obituary notices and 30 letters addressed to residents of Puritan helped police = obtain the confession, officers said. Cambria County detectives and state police uncovered the odd clews. in the home of Albert Geoglick, 50, of Puritan, a next door neighbor of Stanley Soolarczyk, who was beaten to death last week. The “reign of terror” was carried on among the foreigners in Puritan, police said. Threats were made verbally and by letter.

OCT. 23 IS CHOSEN FOR ‘SAFETY DAY’

“Safety Day” is to be observed in Indianapolis Oct. 23, Junior Chamber o Commerce officials announced

Louis Meyer, three- “time winner of the 500-mile automobile race, and Col. Roscoe Turner, famous speed flier, are scheduled pl speak, according to preliminary plans.

SOCIALISTS. SUPPRESSED By United Press ~~ BERLIN, Oct." 14—Police of the Free City of Danzig suppressed the Socialist party today, a dispatch to

Jcity ‘and county authorities within

the official news bureau said.

RAID BY BRADY |

City and County Officials Notified to Guard Arsenals.

HUNT TURNS TO OHIO

State Police Continue Hunt in Section Around West Lafayette.

Indiana state police today warned

a wide area to take évery precaution against possible raids on their

arsenals by Alfred Brady and his ||

two henchmen who escaped from the Greenfield jail Sunday. This warning was issued to prevent a repetition of the Warsaw arsenal seizure accomplished by the gang of John Dillinger following hus escape from the Crown Point ail. At the same time it was understood that the Indiana Bankers’ Association was considering drafting a. formal warning to all member banks to take added ‘precautions against possible forays by the trio of alleged ‘murderers and bandits believed desperate in their need of immediate cash. Trail Leads to Toledo The trail of Brady and his henchmen today led from central Indiana to Toledo. A report that three men resem--bling the escaped trio of the selfstyled “new Dillinger” gang stopped at an inn and filling station near that city caused authorities here to appeal to Toledo police to search that sector. At the same time Indiana State Police continued to search the section around West Lafayette and Brady's former home. Sheriff Collins of Lucas County, Ohio, notified police here that an attendant and six patrons at an inn and filling station seven miles west of Toledo reported seeing three men they identified from pictures of the gangsters printed in a Toledo newspaper.

The sheriff said each of the wit- | porte nesses ‘informed him they were posi~ | ris

tive that the men were Brady, James

Dolhover and Clarence Lee Schaf- 4

fer Jr.

According to the Ohio sheriff's : : fire. the > headed | west toward Detroit “on|

U.S. Route 24 when i left the filling station.

WARM TOMORROW

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 55 10a.m.... 68 7a.m.... 55 1la.m.... 72 +61 12 (Neon). 73 65 3 pm, 8

Continued. fair we weather and Indian summer temperatures were predicted for Indianapolis. today and tomorrow by {he We S. Weather | Buréau, The ‘weather progmusticator said the sun will shine brightly as the mercury hovers between 65 and 70.

BAKERS ASSOCIATION IN SESSION HERE|

PERKINS JURY GETS CASE By United Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 14—A jury in St. Joseph Circuit Court today deliberated the fate of Jack

ard Wagner during a bank robbery June 30, 1934.

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BACKS LANDON -.

Fntered as Second-Class Maii¥e "at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Girl Student Loses Tooth Over Politics

“By United Press

NORTHHAMPTON, Mass., Oct. 14—Officials of exclusive Smith College investigated today a campus political riot in which two girls were injured and pictures of President Roosevelt were torn. Nearly 400 girls, many from wealthy = socially: prominent families, engaged in a free-for-all on the campus last night when rival Republican and Democratic student factions clashegl following a street parade. During the melee, one young woman had a tooth knocked out. Another was kicked in the stomach. College authorities withheld: their names. An elderly woman who joined the fray on the side of the Republican group retired on the verge of collapse.

IPHILIPPINE TOLL

IS NEARLY 500

100 Miners Drown When Homes Are Swept Away, Paper Reports.

By United Press MANILA, P. I, Oct. 14.. — More than 100 miners were drowned when floods in the Zombales region swept their homes into the sea near Subic Bay, the Manila Herald reported today. The mass drowning was believed to have brought the death toll in Philippine floods and typhoons during the past week to nearly 500. Customs officials reported three dead, six missing and four survivors of the motorship Taliba, which sank off Mindora yesterday in heavy seas. Commonwealth officials estimated that 30,000 persons were homeless as the result of 'inundations which swept through northern provinces ‘of Luzon. New perils added to the suffering of the flood and typhoon refugees. Cholera and dysentery were reported: Spreading and vaccines were hward by plane from event ‘epidemics.

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Everett Sanders, former Republcan national chairman, returned to his native state today with the prediction that his party would win in both Indiana and the nation. “In the last week or two in Washington, there has been an exceedingly optimistic feeling, which I find reflected here in Indiana, presaging success of the Republican ticket,” Mr. Sanders said. “Evidences of heavy registration mean that the independent and usual stay-at-home vote will be heard from in November. The vote will be heavily Republican.” ‘Mr. Sanders is to speak in Fort Wayne Oct. 26.

(MILLERS TO RETURN

MILLIONS IN TAXES

By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 14—Jobbers

{and distributors will receive millions

of dollars in impounded processing taxes as result of action taken or announced today by several of the world’s largest milling companies. The announcement of General Mills, Inc., that it would return

more than $11,000,000 to customers

was followed by similar announcements from the Pillsbury mills and Russell Miller Co. Other major mill-

i Sompanies are expected to follow

The taxes, collected under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, never were turned in to the government because of the Supreme Court decision which invalidated the act.

/ { APPEAL IS DENIED ‘The Court of Appeals today de‘nied a petition of the Jasper County Farm Bureau Co-operative for a rehearing on a ruling of Superior Court that it is not exempt from

payment of gross income tax assessments.

RIVAL IN

Landon Is Is Enthused by - Ford -Indorsement After - Detroit Speech.

SEEKS LABOR SUPPORT

Pleads for Protection of Democracy in Address at Flint.

LLINOIS VOTE:

MICHIGA

President Fels Sure of Missouri After Ovation, Friends Say.

CHICAGO TALK TONIGHT

Dedicates War Memorial in St. Louis, Speaking on ‘Good Neighbor.”

Landon Detroit Text, Page 9

By United Press

ABOARD LANDON TRAIN, in Michigan, Oct. 14, —Gov. Alfred M. Landon bearing the warm indorsement of Henry Ford, camMpaigned into Michigan industrial centers today with a plea for protection of democracy because ‘‘we are Americans

before we are anything else.” “The union is the tie that binds us,” he said. The Republican nominee, who assailed the New Deal in Detroit last night for taking the “first steps” toward dictatorship, made his first rear platform speech of the day at Flint, where Michigan party leaders, including Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, accompanied him. It was considered significant that Mr. Ford's statement, coming as the nominee campaigned through a huge and vitally important industrial area, laid special emphasis on the position of labor in the campaign. The Republican nominee earlier appealed to labor at Toledo to avoid mixing in politics, saying that would create the danger of work-

ingmen becoming “serfs of the state” as in some foreign nations.

Visits Indian a Tomorrew . a

Gov. Landon’s speech in. Detroit, on a night when wintry winds swept the baseball stadium where he spoke, was devoted largely to an appeal for freedom of American initiative and competition in industry and farming and a challenge to the President to say whether he sought to “change our form of governnient.” Gov. Landon swung from Detroit on a six-stop schedule carrying him through Michigan industrial and rural territory to Grand Rapids, where he will be the overnight guest of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. He also will speak from the rear platform of his train at Lansing (12:20 Pp. m.); Jacksun (2:05 p. m.): Battle Creek ‘3: 3p m.), and Kalamazoo (4:15 p. m.). At Grand Rapids, whefe arrival is scheduled “for 7:15 p. m., the nominee will make a short speech at a public auditorium. Tomorrow he will complete his bid for Michigan votes and start for Topeks by way of Indiana.

Hoosiers to Board

Landon’s Special Train.

A large delegation of Hoosier Republicans will board the special train of Gov. Alfred M. Landon, G. O. P. presidential nominee, when it crosses northern Indiana tomorrow. : The delegation is to include Raymond S. Springer, G. O. P. nominee for Governor; Ivan C. Morgan, Republican state chairman; Mrs. Beryl Holland, state vice chairman: Arthur Gilliom, former attorney general and state director of the Lan-don-Knox Club; Judge Travis B. Williams, Evansville, nominee for Supreme Court judge; David Hogg, Fort Wayne, Fourth District nominee for Congress; Benjamin Brown. Fifth District nominee for Congress: Mrs. Charles Halleck, wife of the

ry W. Marshall, Lafayette, and Noble Johnson, Sixth District nominee for Congress. The train is to stop in Kendallville at 11:29 a. m.; Huntington, at 1:51 p. m; Wabash, 2:20 P- m.; Peru, 2:56 p. m.; Logansport, 3:28 p. m.; Lafayette, 4:43 p. m. and in’ Attica at 5:16 p. m.

Second District congressman: Hen- fied.

“Why We Are for Roosevelt,” An Editorial, Page 14.

By United Press

ABOARD ROOSEVELT ; SPECIAL, Oct. 14.—Presi= dent Roosevelt moved across the Mississippi River today to barnstorm for Illinois’ 29 electoral votes, confident, ace cording to friends, that his receptions in Missouri pors tended success in the state.

Mr. Roosevelt reached St. Louis al 9:35 a. m. from Kansas City and received an enthusiastic ovation. Thousands lined the streets, ticker tape was showered upon him from office building windows, cannons boomed, salutes and the whistles of railroad engines, tugs and river steamers added to the general din. It was with difficulty that police, firemen and troops held back the lines at some quarters, particula at the St. Louis War Memorial site that the President dedicated in & brief speech extolling the good neighbor policy and his broad pro= gram of security for all. Across the river .in Hlinols, route took him toward C where tonight he will deliver his Second major speech of the present P. ‘Invades ‘Michigan Tomorrow

On the run to Chicago, the dent will make rear tion ol pearances and speeches in at 2% five places, including East St. Springfield, Ill; Bloomington, Pontiac, III, and Joliet. When Mr. Roosevelt leaves cago at midnight, his schedule es for a campaign invasion of M gan. He will visit Lansing, Pontia Flint and Detroit. In Detroit will deliver an afternoon address. Mr. Roosevelt entered Missourf late yesterday at Kansas City. was estimated that a total of 250.0 persons saw and heard him af he detrained at Kansas City, Kas., and motored to the Missouri city for a speech in which he emphasized a special type of conservation—cons= servation of the youth of the na tion. Observers said his address, des livered before 35,000. persons as dedication of Kansas City’s new municipal auditorium, was meant to emphasize his determination point ahead in promise rather: than look backward in defense during remainder of his campaign utters ances. In the address; too, he delivered an implied attack on Gov. Landon, which followed campaign charges that the Governor economized in Kansas to the .detriment of Kansas schools.

Roosevelt St. Louis Text, Page 22; Kansas City Text, Page 12.

LABOR PEACE TALK DECLINED BY LEWIS

By United Press HE WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—John Is Lewis, rebel C. I. O. leader, today refused to consider any peace meet ing with the American Fedetatie of Labor until the attitude Federation on revoking suspension of the ten Committee for Induse trial Organization -unions is clarie

WOMAN LOST IN SEA By United Press

who boarded the ship at San cisco, was lost overboard today the steamship Dorothy off the Carolina coast.

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