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. VOLUME 50 NUMBER 12

INDEPENDENTS ~ PRIMARY PLEA

Party Fore od of Democratic County ‘Organization Launch Campaign.

r EXPECT 30,000 MEMBERS,

. Sheriff Ray, One of Sool" sors, Says Group Will. Offer No Slate.

(Another Story, Page 12; Photo, < ( Page 24)

‘Machine Busters, ters, Inc. a group of | Democrats opposed to the so-called | /Democratic- .Marion County ma--chine, announced today the opening, of headquarters at 127-129 E. Washington. ‘St., as a haven for all candidates seeking nomination without

backing of the. “organization.” : The-building has three floors, will

board and desks for all candidates. + who join. Sheriff Otto Ray is the chief incorporator. He has announced that articles -of incorporation—will be filed today. ‘Sheriff Ray, a potential candidate for -Mayor, explained that Machine Busters, Inc, will. conduct an. éxtensive campaign; set up in the most effective way possible. There will be speakers, and mare than one can- | dgidate for nomination to the same office may be members. |

| Woe Is Me!

| Self- Aine Worrier | Helps Works Board On Pigeons:

HE Works Board today had a T° volynteer, full-time, assistant worrier over the downtown pigeon situation. In fact, he does their field worrying, never showing at

the office, but just wandering ‘about town with the pigeon problem on his mind. The way this-came out was that yesterday, when he was engaged in a particularly. difficult bit “of private worrying, he bubbled over and stopped a citizen on the State House lawn. 2 From the way this Works Board assistant was dressed, it appeared he had been out of a job for some time" before he got himself to| appoint himself Works Board aid. He wore a ragged overcoat, a

an experiencell worried look. He was studying a newspaper that contained an account of the fight to de-pigeon the downtown. Looking up for a moment, he caught at the arm of the citizen who was hurrying on his bfisiness. “Look,” he said, “look, it says here in the paper that they are taking the pigeons out of} the downtown.”

Po He stopped and peered oyer the’

tate House lawn. “But there they are again. Those four pigeons. See ‘em. Now look. I've. folloWed this pigeon thing ever since it started. | And I've been down here every oy since then. “And always those four ey are on the lawn. The same four, after all this time.” . The citizen had to leave, and besides he didn't want to be deputy assistant pigeon worrier to the Works Board. He had la job.

Offers No Slate

“Machine Busters, Inc. will offer no slate,” -Sheritt Ray said. “The! organization is composed of peo-! ple in all walks of life, and all can- | didates who: joirfs will be inde= pendents. They have only the comy | mon bend of breaking up| the] machine that otherwise would con- | trol the primaries. “Everything will be done to help | independent candidates. so that those elected rey will be the! choice of the people, not the handpicked candidates of the party bosses and obligated to them.’ Machine Busters, Inc, he added will attempt to “organize the unor- ” and. “give the unorganized majority of voters the leadership’ necessary’ to become an organized | majority able to defeat the “minor- { ity of the bosses.”

Hopes for 30,000 Members

He said the group already has more "than 4000 voter-members and hopes to reach 30,000 before the primary election, May 3.

has run for office on a slate by party bosses, and has won against machine-backed candidates in f@ur primary elections. * “The issue of machine bossism is not new,” he stated. “The voters faced it and routed it in 1927, by a | 7 to t vote. Indianapoclis adopted !

- the citevy manager form of govern- |

ment. Then they had hoped that | ‘Coffinism’ and party bossism would | Je banished forever from Marion unty and Indj napolis.

efforts would be

emocratic County e had no comment to make. The Sheriffs statement attacked .the drafting of former Mayor Regz-

organization as a candidate for the Democratic mayoralty nomination. “After a long search, for a candiidate for the mayoralty who would be satisfactory to him, Clauer, a

McKinney, his ‘right! bower, decided to ‘draft’ Reginald H. Sullivan, -former Mayor,” Mr. Ray said.

. Claims Petition ‘‘Absurd” .

“By devious means they had 111,274 signatures affixed to a ‘draft- i Sullivan’ petition, and had the! number certified by a firm of ‘accountants., But the genuineness of | a single name never was verified. | “One can realize the absurdity of | this claim when it is recalled that the vote cast for all mayoralty candidates, seven Republicans and four Democrats, in- the last primary totaled only 86,709 votes. “That Mr. Sullivan is the machine bosses’ candidate cannot be questioned. @ When he accepted these petitions, he posed with these two for a picture which was published in am dianapolis newspaper. Then, Mr. Sullivan declared he would not make an active campaign, and the party bosses’ cohorts said he would not have to as they ‘would put him over.”

IT SHINES, IT RAINS

TEMPERATURES 41 10 a. m.. 4 11am... 47 12 (Noor) 19 -. 1p. m..

50 50 48 49

April showers drenched Indianapolis ahead of time today with a .38 inch fall in two hours before noon, followed by a bright sun. . : The. Weather - Bureau predicted | more showers tonight and tomorrow | with some lightning mixed with it: A drop in temperature is forecast for | tomorrow after warmer weather to- |

So he moved on, leaving the man alternately studying the ° paper ‘and counting the pigeons. The Works Board ought to be glad to know this. ” ”n »

Helen A. Reith, 722 N. Riley Ave., will vote this year, but it was a photo finish, She will be 21 on Nor. 8, election. day. She has sregistered and is entitled to vote in primaries and the election.

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Gains 60 Pounds,

Loses Her Case

® RS. VIRGINIA BRANDLEIN told Municipal Court Judge Silas Lipman today that her hus--band, Paul, was lazy and didn’t provide for her. “Why judge,” Paul said, “I bought her a pair of socks only a month ago.” Judge Lipman looked at ‘Mrs. : Brandlein. “Do you have enough to eat?” he asked. “Well, not alwayss” she said. “Judge.” Paul said, | “she’s gained 60 pounds since 1 married her.” }

“Case {ioe " Judge Lip.

man ruled. \ 5 ” ” BOONVILLE, March 25 (U. P.).—~"There ain't no fresh pork on the Warrick County jail menu any more,” Sheriff ‘Gus Barclay anounced today. When - Sheriff Barclay started to putcher the hogs on his farm, L forgot that there were 600 unemployed persons in the county. In four weeks the sheriff had had only one prisoner, who slept it off i a couple of days. But when the word: was passed around that the sheriff was butchering on his | farm, . the jail somehow reached its full capacity of 10 within 48 hours. Mr. Barclay hereafter will do his butchering at midnight. |

HOOSIER FARMERS RECEIVE 10 MILLION

WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. P.). —Payments to farmers under ‘the 1936 agricultural conservation program, up to Nov. 30, 1937, including

national, state and county administrative costs, totaled $398,230,333, the Agricultural Adjustment —Administration anounced today. Payments were made to approxmately four million farmers. Included in the total was $2,314.1378 in‘ unpaid claims. State office | expenses were $11 829,105. and national administrative expenses totaled $5,058,540, a total of $16, 887,645.

In’ Indiana, $10,655.253 was paid |

to farmers and $320,366 spent on state office expenses.

MEXICO LOOKS FOR PURCHASERS OF OIL

MEXICO CITY, March 25 (U. P). —The Mexican Government is seeking customers for the output of the expropriated 400 million dollar forSe oil industry, it was learned toay Efforts to find an outlet were started with the realization by the Government of the need for foreign exchange to pay for wheat and maize imports, and also the fact that wells must be operhted, otherwise salt water seeps in. Exchange difficulties were foreshadowed by the continued fall’ of the peso which the Government had pegged at 3.60 to the dollar, but ¥ijeh today was nominally around

SOVIET MINERS SENTENCED MOSCOW, March 25 (U. P.).— | Five persons have been sentenced | to death arid two to prison for | wrecking activities in the Prokopievsk coal mines in Siberia, it was announced today,

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jor extravagance in its management

“| the Senate and five from the House, |

Majority Leader Barkley, was approved by a voice vote ‘and now goes

| gated, as desired by Senator

{today the Federation would prob-

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i ferring with the House Labo

SH JOINT INQUIRY OF TVA BOARD

NATIONAL AFFAIRS JOINT TVA probe. voted by - Senate after compromise. OLD 'ESTATE -TAX rate restored in Senate Committee.

GREEN INSISTS on wage of 30 cents an hour in bill.

' REORGANIZATION BILL vote delayed "until Monday.

RAILWAY WAGE cut -plan waits Roosevelt reaction to * report.

MERCHANT = SHIP plans rushed by Maritime Commission. \

TVA Foes and Fr Friénds

Compromise ‘on Probe ’ GTON, March 25 (U.P). —The Senate today approved a resolution calling fer a joint Congressional investigat\n of the Tennes-

see Valley Authority The resolution, offered by Senate

to the House where concurrence ap-

peared. certai i The investigation resolution rep- |

resented a compromise and authorized points of inquiry desired by both friends and foes of the muchdisputed New Deal agency. Senator Bridges (R. N. H), e of the original proponents of the investigation, won: inclusion in thi resolution of the following poin of his parallel resolution. Private | power firms were also to be investiIris (Ind. Neb), “father of the TVA.” 1. Truth of Arthur E. Morgan's

charges of fraud and secrecy.

2. Alleged TVA partiality in rate 3. Whether the TVA has fae! ‘the reports required by law. b4 Whether the Authority has in- | terfered with the Controller Gen- | eral’s audits. i off d unfair induceme nents to get tries to move.

5. Whether it has 6. Whether it has forced rural cus-

tomers to buy unnecessary equip-| ‘i ment. ;

7. Whether it is an honest “yardf rates. 8. Whether there/has been waste The resolution calls for a 10-man! investigation committee, five from

with subpena powers, and a $50,000 | authorization tQ cover expenses. The joint co ‘to inquire into charges -made by Arthur Morgan as well as into the activity of power companies in seeking to obstruct TVA operations.

Green REjects 1 20-Cent Wage -

WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. B.). | —President William ‘Green of the | American Federation of Labor said

2bly support a wage-hour ‘bill pro- |

viding a 30-cent hourly minimum | :

wage.

Mr. Green stood firm, after con- | or Subcommittee attempting to write a bill which can be enacted this session, on! the 40-hour maximum work week previously demanded in labor standards legislation by the A. F. of L. He rejected proposals for a board which .would be empowered to relax the. basic standards for certain industries and regions. The federation stand apparently junked a compromise proposal by which Chairman Robert Ramspeck (D.,, Ga.), of the Subcommittee hoped to Produce a bill which the House Rules Committee would permit to reach the House floor for debate. Rep. Ramspeck proposed a i20-cent minimum which a board fn increase as warranted by conditions. Yesterday Chairman ‘John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization told the Committee a minimum wage lower ‘than (Turn to Page Three)

Roosevelt Tells About Bank Crisis

When President Roosevelt first took office,

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

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National “Labor Counéil, rating all phases of British labor, said in a declaration of policy today that continuance in office of the present British Government is a grave menace to peace.

A. y 2 ty Man-O'-War

Son Victor in

Aintree Chase

Traffic Deaths Re Reduced 21

(Further details, Photo, Page 25)

AINTREE, England, March 25 (U. ) .—Battleship, tiny son of Man * War won the 100th running of

i Grand National Steeplechase today, becoming the first-American-

Workman third. Man O’ War's son won by 3a neck i in one of the closest finishes in the | history” of the race.

LABOR ATTACKS

BRITISH CABINET:

. THE FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON-—British Labor Council calls Cabinet threat: to ° peace; Kennedy expects no : war this, year. "HENDAY E—Spanish Rebels “drive four wedges toward Barcelona. PARIS<Cubinet tgtters as Senate rejects fiscal measures. VIENNA—Noted newspaper correspondent expelled. KAUNAS—Lithuanian Cabinet reorganized. S HAN G H A I—-Decisive battle looms in Shantung,

T O K Y O--Nine-Power Tro may be renounced.

PRAHA—Czechs pleased at Brit- : ish attitude: last German in Cabinet quits.

WARM SPRING S—Roosevelt says many nations have refugee problem for Powers. -

ROME—Italy to refuse U. S, refugee proposal.

NAZIS release American cameraman after, five days in prison. (Page 7). Britain to Accept U.S. ee Plan

- LONDON, March 25 (U. P.).—The incorpo-

The declaration was -issued as

Government leaders, in possession cf secret reports speedier armament was a urgent necessity, sought to enlist the cooperation of both labor and capital in effecting virtual war-time munitions production.

indicating that

The council demanded that the

embargo on arms to the Spanish Government be raised and called for an’ immediate meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations to consider steps to be tak appeasement of Central E i Spain.

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Meanwhile, authoritative sources

indicated ‘Great ‘Britain will agree

ending and sirest-pitnding have been eliminated from enforcement of Indianapolis’ overtime parking ordinances. Patrolman Carl Kull mounts one of the ‘two new “tricycles” purchased by the Po“lic Department and wields an elongated chalk holder, resumed distribution of stickers to-violators in the downtown area.

WARNING GIVEN

_isince Jan. 1 involved pedestrians,

minor acc dents wer reported. On 7

| traffic fatalities in the city this year

Jwould have been saved if caution

: at all outlying nonposted intersec- ‘| tions, but we do ask that they slow

March 4, 1933, more than 5000 banks in the country had closed their doors. In the face of this situation he declared immediately a nationwide bank. holiday. . This. event is one of the most’ memorable of the many marking the early days of his Administration. In an article’ today on Page 19. one of the series in President Roosevelt's own story otf the New Deal, published exclusively in. this city by The Indianapolis. Times, ~ the President cites his tour reasons for the bank holiday act and remarks upon other events closely associated with ity | This series by the President consists of notes and comments to his five torthcoming books, "The Public Papers and Addresses of Frankia D. Roosevelt." \

'to the United States proposal for i setting up a special international

committee to facilitate the emigration of political refuges from Austria and Germany. It was understood that a reply to the invitation of the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking Britain’s participation would be forwarded soon. Secretary Hull in-

vited nine European Governnients,’ | Britain, Italy, France, the Scandi-'

navian | countries, Belgium, the Netherlands “ and Switzerland, to participate in the movement. Invitations also were sent to Latin American countries.

Rebels Nearing

Loyalist Base

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Ffontier, March 25 (U.P.).—Motorized columns of Moroccans under Gen. Juan Yague dreve down the Zara-

1 goza highway today on the medieval

city of Lerida, headquarters of the retreating Loyalist Aragon Army. * Aided by incessant support of air squadrons, the Moroccans swept rapidly ecross the wide Los Monegros plains in an encircling move-

ment designed to effect a junction |,

with troops driving, south from Huesca. If the pincers are closed they will trap the best’ Government defense troops.

The Rebels had an army of 100,000 2 (Turn to Page Fapse) -

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| : | FORECAST: Showers ad thunderstorms tongs and tomorrow; ‘warmer tonight; much colder tomorrow. | |

5, 1938

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T0 JAYWALKEBS

"Per Cent for State in January, February.

( Editorial, Page 20)

Citing that 10 of the 13 fatal automobile ‘accidents in Indianapolis

Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, accident | pr; evention bureau chief, today is-|

ed a new warning against. ; “jay y- | walking.” 2 : : & Meanwhile a 21.7 per cent drop in | Indiana traffic deaths during January and February as com-: pared with the same period in 1937 | ‘was reported as an Indiana Supreme | Court ruling was requested on the validity of the windshield titleholder law.

* In Municipal Court five potorists were “ordered to pay. $1. A total .of $120 was suspended. - Fines were levied as ‘only 16 cases were heard following the overnight arrest of 60 drivers, 10 of them. charged with speeding, as three

One Driver Killed

«Lieut. McCarty said that only one driver had been killed here since Jan. 1.. He added that there have been no

involving the collision of two cars. He said that none of the pedestrians killed was a school child, that the majority -were elderly persons who crossed streets between intersections. “The lives of these pedestrians

had been exercised in all but two cases,” he said. “We want people to cross at intersections and with the traffic lights. We want motorists to approach intersections’ witn care. “We don’t ask motorists to stop

down and watch for pedestrians.” Indiana traffic deaths totaled 154 during the two months against 197 for the same period last year, Don F. Stiver, State Safety Director, any nounced. ]

City Deaths Reduced

Indianapolis, with 12 deaths during January and February, compared with 28 for the same period in 1937, showed a 57 per cent reduction. In Marion County, traffic deaths dropped to 17 this year from 35 a year ago in the two-month period. Mr. Stiver's report revealed that traffic deaths dropped in the larger cities and tows, but increased sharply in the smaller communities Cities of more: than 70,000 population, including Indianapolis, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Gary and South Bend, cut their traffic death toll an average of 88.8 per cent. Supreme Court action on the constitutionality of the windshield sticker law was asked in an appeal from the St. Jon Circuit . Court ed by Charles H . Kryder, South end. Mr. Kryder was "arrested Feb. 7 for failure to have a . windshield titleholder on" his car and subsequently was convicted and fined $25, according to the brief in the case. In his appeal, Mr. Kryder charged the law is invalid because _he title of the act does not include. any provision for display of certificates of registration in any specific con(Turn to Page Three)

NARROWING OF BUSINESS DIP1S | SEEN IN STATE, *

INVENTORI S

| Farmers in 5-State “Area,

year-ago volumes. Li report added that a less than |

{was considerabiy less in February

‘ployment and payrolls showed a

Entered 8s Second-Class Mane at Foon! ce. Indisnanelis,

Entire 7th Federal District | Showing Upturn, Says Chicago Banker.

REDUCED

Plan fo Curtailment

Of 'Acreage. 3

; aa 3 Several factors point to a nafrow: ing of the rate of business recession in the Seyenth Federal Reserye District comprising, Indiana’ and four other states, George J. Schaller, Federal Reserve Bank of “Chicago | president, said in a report ‘issued today. His report on conditions in Indiana, Illinois, (Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan covered February in all branches of |industry, trade. and agriculture and credit conditions for the period from Fe] . 16 toyMarch 16. The report | said “A slight Apter in activity has taken place in a few instances. In the heavy goods industries, margins of decline from a year ago remain large; but the fact that.output was then at a high level should be taken into account. v

Inventories Reduced * «Merchandising groups have con-

tinved to effect a reduction in ex- | cessive inventories, even though sales declines from the corresponding 1937 | volume have betome perceptibly greater.” 3) ; Farmers in thie five-state area are pléhning to reduce their acerage : this year. The reduction is to be 3 per cent below 1937 for corn and a 2 per cent for barley. Acreage is to be reduced by 6, 8 and 10 per cent, respectively, for potdtoes, soybeans and spring wheat. The’ hay and Begced, acreage is ‘expected to be t 10 per cent larger and that of tobacco may be 16 per ceft greater. Packing house production, according to the summary; fell off sharply last month. The sales tonnage also declined, but showed an improvyement in ratio to production. Both items were above February, 1937, but below the February average from 1928 to 1937. Because of price differences, however, the .dollar value of sales totaled less than for February, 1937. .

*3 Butter Shows Decline : "Manufacture and distribution: of |O creamery butter in the district declined last month, in accordance

THIEVES’ LOOT TOTALS $1600

with seasonal trend, jut exveeded

asonal decrease took! place tries)

February in inventories of butter

iand cheese and holdings of meat : products

rose. There was a continuante of good export volumes in principal” grains, - but the interior | primary movement was ‘small in comparison with that of January. “Among manufacturing phases to show increased output in recent weeks were steel, stoves and furnaces and furniture. At casting foundries, curtailment of activity

than in January and the building construction decrease was less than seasonal. : While production of automobiles ‘was light, distribution improved. fAlthough in mid-February em- |

small counter-seasonal decline from the preceding month, they gave evidence of a cessation of the. sharply downward trend in industrial output..“Most wholesale trade groups had a'lighter dollar volume in February than in January. Department store trade also was slightly less. Inventories at the end of February were below those of a year ago.

STOCKS BREAK TO NEW LOWS SINCE ’35

i TT 3 NEW YORK, March 25 (U. P.. —Stocks broke to new lows since 1935 in accelerated afternoon trading today. Losses ranged to 4 points and were widest in leading issues. Steel common sold down to 45%, off 314: inghouse Electric 73, off 4, and Du Pont 10412, off 4. i

Bethlehem 48, off ‘37:; West-

HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

‘NUMBERS DRIVE

Ohioans Fel Behind

Bheroaching Racket

Project Spawned in Crime, Deceit and Impoverishment of Sues,

VICTIMS LURED BY 600- 10-1 MIRAGE

Prosecutor's Office Gives Attention to Chain Letters and Bingo Games’ Protested , By Boirer Business Bureau.

ANS

> BULLETIN . City police this afternoon raided a’ Northwestern Ave. residence, said to be’ headquarters of ‘the “numbers. racket” here. They held two men incommunicado and waited at the house for the possible arrival of other persons. =

pennies and nickels of the POL

or, was being investigated in

Indianapolis today by the, Marion Colinty Prosecuter’s office.

Evidence has been \u

covered made to establish the racket on a fi

t an attempt is being ‘basis here, according

to Al Lynch, investigator for Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer. :

The investigation so far

is in preliminary stage, Mr.

Two North Side Apartments

And One Downtown Art Burglarized. =

Thieves entered two North Side apartments today and another

downtown, taking loot valued at!

$1600, of which $700 wis in tash. Edward Geis told police someone took $700 cash from his apartment at 320 N. Alabama St., the ‘receipts from his tavern. He said the theft occurred probably after 6:30 a. m. Mrs. C. A. Myers, of 3736 N. Pehnsylvania St. reported a diamohd ring, valued at $200," stolen from her apartment. )

Two magazine solitons were sotgljies suspects in the burglary f The apartment of Mrs. C. W. Stinger, of 3736 IN. Meridian St., where jewelry and $8.50 in cash were taken. oe

Mrs. Stinger reported {wo sub-

scription salesmen had attempted toy

force their, way into the apartment last night. ’ .

Purse Snatcher Foiled

A Negro youth fled after an attempt to snatch the. purse of Mrs. Frances Sachalski. of 2618 - way, walking’ near her home. ran when she screamed. Later apparently the same youth | failed in an attempt to snatch the purse of Mrs. Mary ‘Guynn, of: 2264. N. New Jersey St., walking on Central Ave., ‘near 23d St. | Two.youths, 16 and 17, were held today as suspected ' car burglars. They were arrested when they leaped from a machine, parked dn the 700 block E. Morris ‘St. Police found a fog light under one boy’s ow a set of wrenches in the other's possesion. The boys were said to have confessed taking them from machines. : Tools valued at. $80 were stolen from the Thomas & Perry Garage, 1232 N. Capitol Ave. Frank: R. Thomas, part owner, reported today. wo men and a. woman, were held today as suspected car burglars. In their parked car police found several auto batteries and tires. They were held on vagrancy charges pending investigation. John Leatherman, office manager, told police today that yeggs made an unsuccessful attempt to batter open a safe in the office of the Fruehauf Trailer Co., 828 E. Washington St.

BOB BURNS FATHER OF GIRL (Burns’ Column, Page Three):

HOLLYWOOD, March\25 (U. B.). —A daughter was born to the wife of Bob Burns, the Arkansas humor-

v He

List of screen and radio, in Cedars

of Lebanon Hospital today.

Ti ownsend Asks Truck Tax Inquiry | To Determine Whether I t's ‘Fair to All’

‘While interstate truckers charged in court here that the Indiana Weight Tax Law was a “detriment

" |to the highway safety,” Governor

Townsend today ordered an investigation by the State Tax Study Commission to determine if it is fair to “all those taxed.” In a hearing on the Foster Trucking Co. suit attacking constitu-

tionality of the tax before Superior.

Judge Joseph T. Markey, witnesses for the truckers charged the ‘law has led companies to equip their trucks with smaller tires and to overload them.

hazardous in traffic and has increased the damage they do to streets and highways, Fenton Auckly, Trans-American Freight Lines district manager, told Judge Markey. ¥ i in a letter to J. E.. McCarthy,

This has made. the trucks more.

Notre Dame University School of Commerce dean and Tax Study Commission . chairman, Governor Townsend said: <The weight tax dow was designed to have the trucks pay their share: of the upkeep and maintenance of our highways in proportion to their use of the roads and the ‘damage truck traffic does to roads. “The 1937 General Assembly enacted a general weight tax law to equalize’ this form of taxation by including private as well as forhire trucks in its provisions.

‘law, I should like to khow whether the tax as it operates is fair to all those taxed.” Next meeting of the Comission. appointed to make. recommenda- | tions to the 1939 legislature. scheduled for next Friday at 141 S. Meridian Sp

“In your study of the weight tax’

The Foster Co., in the suit filed in its own behalf and that of other truckers, presented evidence tended to show that the tak is discriminatory. Attorneys said that all taxes per-

taining to roads brought in more than $33,000,000 ‘revenue last year, of which the truckers paid $13,379,929. They also claimed that only | $24,000,000 actually was spent on the roads.

Frank H. Evans, la tire salesman, |

testified that when the 1933 /law taxing trucks on gross weight was passed that the | overloading of trucks decreased materially. Overloading has increased, however, since passage of the 1937 law x. ing trucks on the tire size, he said. The. State was ta call three High-

is | way Commission engineers to the

stand later today after gompletion of the truckers’ evidently

Broad- ||

in- |.

h said, but is being™ fd sed to “prevent the rack- . ‘et from gaining a strong foot-

hold in the city.”

| The local system. he said. uses . | the «New .York stock and bond | quotations He said that heade ! quarters is in the 2700 block Northe | western Ave.

Profitable Crime Project 5

Ri numbers racket is the most || profitable of any post-repeal crime,

project. a recent nation-wide sur vey. showed. Fabulously rich oper« ators, who give the bettor only one chance. in 1000 to win, but pay | only 600 to one if he does win, re~ | sort to violence, deceit and official corruption-to maintain their power, officials charged.” : . The national survey showed that the daily income, on a nation-wide basis, is abqut $1,000,000: that of is sum, at |least~$500,000 is profit. No estimate {has been made of the daily play | {in Indianapolis, Mr, Lynch said. So far, he ok the racket promoters .have met difficulties in nz ere, withhmost of the play made id residents © of ihe poorer secti Bingo an Salk Jette S, which also are ing investigatéd, have prevented wide acceptance in other parts of the city, Mr. Lynch said. He added that evidence tncovered in a 1ecent chain ®ktter ‘probe is to be turned over to Val Nolan, U. 5. District Attorney. Chain letters and bingo games have been pro- | tested by | | the Better , Business | Bureau. v

Pay Usual Petcentage

.. The usual percentage of 600 to 1 is being: paid in the local numbers ‘play, Mr. Lynch said. He explained

that the bettors’ may piay any amount from 1 cent to .a dollar. There has been no indication that the payoff is “honest,” he said, but pointed out that in other cities operators have “welched” ‘or “doctored” the statistics when the pley has been too heavy on any particu lar number. Indication that an Ohio syndicate _, thay be attempting to take root here has been found, Mr. Lynch hinted. - Copies of a numbers magazine, which appeals to the superstitious, have been seized here: The magazine, printed in Youngs~ town, O,, is reported to have a wide circulation in| the Midwest. The latest issue reported circulated here : carried a story that the Indianapolis play is growing, and praising the manner in which it was conducted.

Offers to Analvie Dreams

It is ‘an eight-page publication. printed on green pulp paper. It ‘gives tips to bettors, and plays on their superstitions with advertisements for books “guaranteed” to interpret ‘dreams into terms of numbers play. Copies of a four-page yellow mimeograph tip sheet, ‘listing several “lucky” n bers, also have been seized here,| Mr. Lynch said, This publication evidently was ise sued in Columbus, O. -Both, papers gave tips on “boxed” as well as straight numbers. In’ “boxed” play, the bettor wins on any one of six combinations possible from the three digits’ chosen, but he must wager his penny or nickel on each combination. 4

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