Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1938 — Page 5

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COUNCIL RESTS

AFTER $138,000 CITY BUDGET CUT

Resumes Study Tomorrow; Taxpayers to Submit Petitions to Board.

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of $1934,03033 is asked for this year. If this levy is approved, it will mean an increase of 39.13 per cent property taxes since 1935.

Claims Homes Endangered

“It should be evident to your honorable body (Tax Adjustment Board) that this cannot be permitted to continue. This steady increase in costs, year after year, withj no relief, has been such a drain on the taxpayers that many persons have now reached the limit of their ability to pay and are threatened with the loss of their homes.

“The enormous increase in welfare and relief—now almost equal to the cost of all other local governmental costs—coupled with a steadily increasing percentage of these expenses being levied against real and personal property, and the continued rise of virtually all other governmental outlays, must be considered this year in connection with the ability of the taxpayers to finance the requests made in the various budgets. “We, the undersigned taxpayers of Marion County, herewith petition your honorable body to order reductions in the proposed expenditures and tax rates for 1938, to the end that we may save our homes, our personal property and our incomes from taxes that threaten to become confiscatory.”

Threatens Election Drive

“The people are getting tax conscious and they will back us 100 per cenb,” Dillon H. Miller, 408 N. Forest Ave.; said at the meeting. “The sentiment is that if we don’t succeed in this protest, we’ll succeed in the election, and well drive the tax grabbers out of office.” A tax strike as a last resort in forcing reductions was suggested by William McCann, 216 W. Ray St. “Petitions are all right,” he said, “but we need something with teeth in it, What if our protests fail? We could -elect someone else, but it would be the same old thing. The Republican and Democratic parties are just Siamese twins. “King George III of England paid no attention. when the colonists suggested a tax cut, so they threw the tea in the harbor and started the Revolution. What are we going to do? “I'll tell you what we can do. It's no crime to stay away from the Court House the first Mondays in May and November, when taxes are due. That's the way to put teeth in our protest.”

Charges Business Intimidated

Business men are afraid to raise their voices in protest against high taxes because of political intimi-

_ dation, the group was told by Jo- . seph O'Mahoney.

“The grocer and other merchants are afraid that if they demand taxes be cut, the teachers, firemen, policemen and other organized groups will say, ‘He's against us,’ and retaliate against him. “We've got to be organized. The

. average protest by a taxpayers’

group is about as valuable as a snowball in Hades. The politicians figure the people collectively are a little foolish: that they’ll blow off today but won’t carry through. We

. must carry through and make it a , year-round responsibility of scru-

tinizing every tax dollar spent.” Mr. O'Mahoney said the only pro-

- test on the part of business men is

“through Mr. Book (William H. Book) of the Chamber of Commerce, which is the place of refuge for the bigger business men.” R. S. Middelton, 5601 Lowell Ave., urged that hundreds of property

- owners voice their protests at budget

hearings. “Let's storm their doors,” he urged. “Names on petitions are all right, but your faces count more than your names.” His advice was echoed by Miss Anna Locke, 1923 N. Illinois St., who said:

Sees Strength in Numbers

“Intelligence doesn’t count. It won’t dosany good for a handful of people who understand tax matters to protest. What counts is. num-

“bers.”

Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, was named chairman of a commiitee to select additional directors for the committee. During a discussion of the advisability of using the word “protest” in

the committee's name, one speaker |:

said the committee should be permanent, and there might be no. reason for a protest “next year, or the year after.” “If there ever is a time in Indianapolis when we don’t have to protest taxes, I'll buy you a new sui, » Mr. Miesse retorted. Among others speaking at the meeting were Stuart Shell, 58 Downey Ave.; Mrs. J. W. Winget, 118 E. Ninth ’St.; Mrs. John N. Shaw, 1306 Park Ave, and Mrs. T. W. Parish. The committee has opened headquarters at. 820 Hume-Mansur Building.

SHARK LIVER USED AS NEW DELICACY

SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Sept. 1 (U. P.) ~Shark fishing has become a new industry off the Marin County Coast. Shark liver sells for 10 cents a pound and is declared to rival filet of sole for delicacy. Several firms are now engaged in thé new line of

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Ci ty Officia Is End Visit

Indianapolis City officials bid farewell to Rep. Louis Ludlow as they leave for home after conferring with PWA officials in Washington on the City’s request ror a South Side track elevation grant. Louis Brandt, Works Board

Left to right are:

300*Cakes and 2000 Cans .of Food Entered in State Fair

president; Michael B. Reddington, H. Nathan Swaim, City Controller; Lester Radcliffe, track elevation engineer; Mayor Boetcher, Mr. Ludlow, and City Engineer Henry B. Steeg. (Story, Page one.)

(Photos, Page One) By JOE COLLIER

There will be 300 cakes and 2000 cans of food in competition at the State Fair this year, and every one of them will have a history of tem-

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er 3 has too much or too little salt in it

Cakes are judged on standards set up by Purdue University. Purdue University took its standards from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Nobody in the whole Fair Grounds seemed to know who was the original prize cake-eater who had the. all-time say-so as to which cake was better and how

CALLS PRISON AIDS TO TELL OF ‘ROASTINGS

Coroner Denounces Jail Head as ‘Incompetent’ At Inquest.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1 (U. P). —Subordinate officials of the Philadelphia County Prison were sumsmoned to a Coroner's inquest today in a new effort to: determine who turned on the steam in a building in which 26 convicts were crowded in tiny cells and kept it on until four were dead and most of the others had to be revived by. physicians. A “blue ribbon” Coroner's jury already had heard a physician testify that he had been prevented from examining the prisoners being disciplinefl in the “Klondike” building during the two days and two nights the steam was pouring into the airless tier. The jury also had heard Prison Superintendent William B. Mills answer almost every question with, “I don’t know,” or “not to my knowledge.” . Superintendent Mills proved so unsatisfactory a witness that Coroner Charles H. Hersch interrupted the questioning of Assistant District Attorney John A. Boyle to denounce ‘him, loudly and at length, as incom-

petent. Spectator Interrupts

“From the testimony you've given us, the prisoners could walk away with the prison,” he shouted. At that point, a spectator leaped to his feet in the rear of Philadelphia's largest courtroom and shouted: . “They" re killers. They ought to be killed.”

four dead convicts had been “baked.” The survivors were so far

with saline and glucose injections, A convict, Patrick Dimarco, repeated his description of the torture he and others had undergone. The men allegedy were being disciplined

against prison meals. Hopes to Finish Tonight Coroner Hersch had some 29 more witnesses to testify but he hoped to conclude the hearing with a session

tonight. He announced that from six to eight men, including higherups then would be arrested. Two guards already have been charged with homicide. Mills testified that he not ‘only didn’t know the steam had been turned on, but did not know the men had been locked into the tiny cells for disciplining. He said that he understood Sergeant Hart had “without authorization,” ordered the steam turned; on, and that George S. Rieder, assistant engineer, had obeyed the order “without authority.” Deputy Warden Frank Craven ordered the stéam turned off after some 34 hours, but an hour later it was turned on again, by a person Mills could not identify, and continued 16 hours more.

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Lose Plea for Chime ‘Swing’

BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 1 (U. PJ). —If University of California students want to “swing” to their classes in the morning to the tune of “Flat Foot Floogie” or . even

“Dipsy . Doodle” they will have to

whistle their own accompaniment. . John: M. Noyes, master of the chimes on the Campus Campanile, made that very definite today when hé turned down a petition signed by several hundred students that “swing music” be played along with classical numbers during the daily concerts on the chimes. ‘The petitioners said swing music was in harmony with college life, which surprised him, Mr. Noyes

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perament and kitchen virtuosity.

To sum it all up, Everett Priddy, in charge of the Women’s Exhibits,

said:

“They are the most erratic women.”

Mr. Priddy was referring, course, to the women who today have chased their families from the house, chosen up sides with fresh eggs, flour, ovens and all sorts of cooking tackle, and are baking in big time, Next week these women, some of them having done three days and nights of expeditionary cooking without sleep, will be at the judging tables, a little flighty about the whole thing. Mrs. May Rohm, Rockville, who retired from cooking competition a few years ago and has felt better since, has charge of the exhibits. She has a good deal of sympathy for the competitors.

Baked 29 in 72 Hours

“By the time they get here,” she says, “the icing may be slipping and scooting and their nerves are on edge, and I get the result of their

over-work.” It is not unheard of, she said, for one woman to bake an entry for each of the 32 classifications of cake. One who last year baked 29 cakes for the exhibit went 72 hours without sleep, she said. “She looked it, too,” Mrs. Rohm said. “I would have said she was ready for a hospital.”

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know, how would you like to be an official cake eater, nibbling a slab of angel food, trying to keep score and defend yourself against the exhibitors for long, stuffy, gourmet hours? Take jelly, for instance, because that also is within Mrs. Rohm’s

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province. Jelly, she says, has to wiggle just right to be good jelly. Sometimes people try to fool the judges and when they take the covering off, the jelly pours like syrup, Mrs. Rohm said,

Thinks Design Should Count

Canning styles have changed, Mrs. Rohm said. It used to be that design meant something, but judges have swung away from that point of view, Mrs. Rohm said she didn’t see why it shouldn’t count for the women when they spent hours mak-

ing the vegetables and fruit look.

symmetrical in the jars. “After all,” she said, “the men spend a long time combing their pigs and brushing their cows to make them look glossy. Why shouldn’t that sort of detail work count for women?” Mrs. Rohm said that it was not infrequent, in the old days, for women to spend as high as two hours on a single jar of green beans, merely arranging them in a series of fence-like rows. 3

Sometimes cakes and cookies are |

stolen .from the exhibits by boys, and officials said the exhibitors don’t like that. One woman last year reclaimed her non-prize-winning cookies and said she would take them home, warm them up, put a sauce over them, and serve them to her boarders. Butter is judged, Mrs. Rohm said, as much as anything by whether it has “that cowy odor,” and whethe

and why.

2 SLIGHTLY HURT IN STATE PLANE CRASH

BEDFORD, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Two amateur aviators narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when their new airplane went into a spin and crashed into a tree as they were taking off. Edward Parham, the pilot, and Kenneth Ingersoll suffered only minor injuries when they were thrown ~lear of the ship.

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