Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1939 — Page 2

| PNEAR RAISES NEW ISSUE ON

Be Says City Can't Buy ~ If Bill Passes to Tax Municipal Bonds.

- If Congress should pass a proposed bill taxing future municipal - securities, the City would find it im- ‘ possjble to acquire the Indianapolis Water Co., according to a statement issued today by C. W. McNear, Chicago broker. . Mr. McNear, who is representing the C. H. Geist estate in negotiations for the sale of the company, returned to Indianapolis for conference on his plan under which he contends the City could buy the | company and pay for it in 40 years out of water revenue,

Cites Court Decision

The broker said that the Supreme Caurt’s action yesterday in upholding the Federal and State Governments’ right to tax salaries paid to 4 each other's employees ‘buoyed &. Tr hopes of Administration men that : the way was now clear for wiping 6 out immunities on the income from future issues of municipal we | securities.” 7 . Removal of the present tax- © exempt status of municipal bonds

revenue bonds issued by the City to purchase the Indianapolis Water Co. roperty would therefore be subject Federal income taxes and consequently would carry. a higher interA : est rate unless they were sold and E 3 delivered before the present law is 4 changed.” : Ho City to Avoid Haste

“Commenting on a report by the Be . City Controller showing that the a 4 City treasury balance at the end: of 3 : 1938 was about $270.000 less than at the end of 1937, Mr. McNear said his analysis of the Water Co. income for

3 transfer to the City treasury from . water revenue more than $400,000, 3 after making all necessary bond and 3 interest, operating and other ex1 S pensés, including payment of an

amount equal to the present taxes. * Mayor Sullivan, who is studying i . Mr. McNear’s plan, has said that the . 8 'g City will take no hasty action in the : 3 - matfer, and has submitted to Mr. McNear a request for additional information on the plan.

HERBERT R. HYMAN

v ~ Herbert Robert Hyman, former Indianapolis advertising and newspaperman and production manager of the Conde Nast Publications, Inc, L & died Sunday at New York City. He i was 49. He was the son of the late Max R. ‘Hyman, author of a history of Indianapolis. He was a graduate of . :Bufler University and was with the E ‘advertising deparfments of the old go Cole and tuts automobile compaof nies. At one time he was advertising o manager of the Real Silk Hosiery ~ Mills, Inc. For the last four years he was associated with Conde Nast ‘publications. He is survived by his mother,

# Mrs. Frances Hyman. : 15 SPEEDERS AMONG of : ¥ oon : - | 5 : Forty-four motorists arrested 3 33 overnight for traffic law violations 8 i today were being arraigned in Mui *% nicipal Court.

As police continued strict enforcement of traffic laws, only one person was injured in 13 overnight wip accidents. : William A. Brown Jr., 22, Park Board motorcycle patrolman, was hurt when he was thrown from his motorcycle as it was being towed to a garage. Fifteen of those arrested on traf-

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: ; fic charges were slated for speeding. . Of the 38 traffic violators appeari ing in Court, 22 paid fines totaling Fie 3 Eleven speeders were fined oi Licenses of two men were suso - pended for 30 days. Esley Etter, 1127 l Cornell Ave. and Sam Lewis, 2868 i i Highland Place, lost their licenses : after convictions on charges of Le speeding over 40 miles an hour. a Suspended for 20 days was the

. license of H. G. Thomas, 4256 Rook- | wood Ave. on the same charge.

4 CLIPPER POISED FOR | FLIGHT TO PORTUGAL

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i HORTA, Azores Islands, March 28 (U. P.)—Pan-American Airways’ giant flying boat, the Yankee Clipy per, floated on the waters of Horta : .¥ Harbor today preparatory to taking off tomorrow or Thursday on the © second leg of its 15,000-mile “shakedown” cruise. Capt. Harold E. Gray, who com- # manded the huge craft on its 2880mile flight from Baltimore to here, said preparations were being made for the hop to Lisbon, Portugal. He described the trip here which ended at 7:07 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday as “perfect.” The Clipper is carrying 21 perBons, the largest number ever to -make a trans-Atlantic trip in a _heavier-than-air craft.

CAT 21 YEARS OLD

CHICAGO, March 28 (U. P.).— Oatherine the Great, mascot cat of gardeners at the Garfield Park Conservatory, purred proudly today as

Jiiotographers snapped pictures of a and her 237th, 238th, 239th and | kittens. Catherine is 21 years old, her ers said. .

. ZIPPER INSTALLED IN CAT CLEVELAND, March 28 (U. P). 3 ==William McGannon showed fellow & tudents in comparative anatomy at + John Carroll University today what & } believed was the “world’s only ; 2 cat.” His idea covers all ? : es at one time and save nine,

~ WATER CO. SALE||

would mean, Mr. McNear said, “that

- 1938 shows that the City could]

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MRS. HELEN REYNOLDS

RENO, Nev., March 28 (U. P.).: —Mrs. Helen Fortescue Reynolds settled down today for a six-weeks course in mining and “a friendly little divorce” from Julian Louis Reynolds, heir to tobacco millions. “I know a girl who came out here for a divorce and took mining,” she said in the hotel suite - she occupied upon arrival from New York last night. “I think I shall. Then, too, I'll dabble a little in the arts and sciences. “We are just going to get a friendly little divorce. I shall stay at the hotel because dude ranches and horses don’t interest me.”

Busy in Reno

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chairman of the Indianapolis Branch of the American Association of University Women, said her organization “favors the merit plan in all branches of City and State

‘| government.

Mrs. Witt W. Hadley, Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations president, said: “This matter or having trustworthy employees at the playgrounds is a matter of real parent-teacher concern. The Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations will co-operate with a well-ordered

| {movement to bring about protection

to Indianaplis children.” The Park Board considered the “merit system” last fall when Mr. Sallee, in his annual report, charged that numerous complaints from park patrons had been received charging laxity and incompetence on the part

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Ties Yvonne

ALLANDER, Ont. March -

2 28 (U.. P)—A (fourpound gain in the last month brought Marie, tiniest: of the Dionne quintuplets at birth, into a tie at 48 pounds with Yvonne, formerly the heaviest, Dafoe Nursey’s chart showed today. Only . Annette grew taller, adding a half inch to her

. height to register an even 41

inches. At four years and 10 months after . birth, today’s chart showed: ;

Weight Gain Height Gain

(Lbs.) (Lbs) (In) (In.)

| charging perjury.

PROBE AT CHAMPAIGN

. CHAMPAIGN, m, March 28 (U. P) —A County Grand Jury - conducting a college-town vice investi-

against six persons. ‘Among the six named was. former

Special Prosecutor Walker Butler,

said Roth was named in three indictments charging bribery and one

- Others named were Loretta Humbracht, her husband, William Hum-| Wayne. ‘bracht, her brother-in-law, Gust Humbracht, and Irene Durham and

other four were indicted .on vice|an automobile. charges. The investigation was started by|Vounds. the fatal shooting last month of

companions allegedly sought to gain

\Four Injured in Basketball

County Sheriff Clarence W. Roth.|mob of sport fans, The unofficial welcome that greet-

|Chicago “gang-busting” attorney, leq the team resulted in injuries to missed yesterday in ‘honor of the four persons and brought official|team’s victory.

Those injured were: (Edith Baker, 16, lacerations. and geo released, most of it being in

Ben Durman. Durman was charged | Possible concussion received when brok with keeping a gambling room, The|she fell from the running board of | at windows.

Victory Riot’ at Ft. Wayne

FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 28 “. an unmanned motorcycle loose into P.)—The Fighting Irish of Central |into a crowd of celebrants.

Bishop Noll said he regretted any

gation, growing out of the fatal|Catholic High School returned home shooting of a University of Illinois|iast night bearing the National| ronrcricnce that may have been

student, has voted 17 Andiciments Catholic Basketball Championship|lested by the youths, I regret it to be met by a cheering, frenzied [Sincerely and I know the faculty

“If anyone has been mo-

members of the high school regret it more than any others.” Central Catholic classes were dis-

A group of youngsters stormed

expressions of regret from the Most |. Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of Ft. South Side High School and at 10

o’clock classes there were let out for the day. School officials said there was some damage before students

At noon classes were closed - at North Side and Central High

Francis Minick, 16, face and scalp Schools.

The mob, swelled by persons from

William Felber, police officer, leg |outside of Ft. Wayne, raided downWilliam Spurrier, 20, of Toledo, O.,}injuries suffered when he ype, wa a sophomore, injured as he and five|struck by an autofhobile. Dorothy Disler, 14, fractured an-|lice guards were called to stem the

was | town stores, looting several of candy and other merchandise. Extra po-

7 (WITNESS DESCRIBES

SLAYING GETAWAY -

Speaking in’ Cantonese through an interpreter, Gong Yin Lum, Chinese laundry worker, testified before a Criminal Court jury today that he heard a shot and witnessed the getaway of the slayer of Tom Lee nearly five years ago. Mr. Lum was the fifth witness to testify today at the trial of George F. Mathews, former carpenter, former carpenter, charged with the fatal shooting of the aged Chinese behind the counter of his laundry at 430 E. Washington St. Two laundry workers who said they witnessed the shooting July 2, 1934, failed to positively identily Mathews as the slayer. The laundry workers, who testi fied they were present at the time of the shooting, also failed to identify positively a laundry ticket over

which deputy prosecutors said an argument arose which led to the

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NEW CHAIRMAN WILL BE NAMED

Governor Says Successor to Jackson Will Be Chosen Within 3 Weeks.

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procedure because people are never prepared for it, but we may go back and collect taxes for 1938 if the Federal Government does that in its tax collections,” he said. Discussing his recent veto of the State Health Department Reorganization Bill, the Governor said, “I think the Medical Association was a little too optimistic n thinkng that t should control a great department of government; however, I think the

Association was in good faith about

He said he intends to confer with Republican Secretary of State James M. Tucker late today on the latter's demand for the dismissal of Securities Commissioner Chester Montgomery, Meanwhile, pointed seven members of the New Harmony Memorial Commission which was created by the Legisla~ture.

McMurray Deplores Cut

They are Cliston Couch of New Harmony; Mrs. Lewis Taylor of Newburg, representing the Indiana ‘Farm Bureau; Carl H. Mullen, Indianapolis and Frederick G. Balz, 32 Hampton Drive, representing the State Federation of Labor; Mrs. Bertha Crosley Ball, Muncie, representing the State at large; Ross PF. Lockridge, Bloom-

ington, and Miss Helen Elliott of |

New Harmony. The Commission is authorized by law to sponsor memorial projects in New Harmony to commemorate that settlement as the first center of culture in the Midwest. The Rappite and Owen families started the first white settlement in Indiana early in the 19th Century at New Harmony. The Governor conferred with Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and other department heads today and yesterday.

Highway Department Hit

A reduction of about $70,000 in the State Public Instruction Department’s personnel budget “will materially curtail our services and is certain to prove far more expensive than the amount of the cut,” Mr. McMurray said. He declined ' to estimate how many employees would be affected by the reduction. Among other departments hard hit by budget cuts made by the Legislature is the State Welfare Department which must pare down its personne! to the tune of about $40,000 annually, beginning July 1, The Public Service Commission must dismiss some statisticians and engineers to meet a $30,000 slash in its personnel budget. At least 200 are expected to lose their jobs in the Highway Department and the Division of State Institutions will have to meet a $26,000 slash in its payroll. Reduction in the number of guards at institutions may be necessary, state officials said.

1 More Ring And You Get Busy Signal

- At Arthur Benn’s store, 1640 Northwestern Ave. they are ready to give a persistent burglar the busy signal. Sunday night he broke into the store and escaped with $25 in cash and merchandise valued at $49. He also took a coinbox telephone, after pry« ing it loose from the wall. Last night he returned, took $12 worth of merchandise and a new coinbox telephone, ine stalled only yesterday.

A. P. FACHIRI DEAD LONDON, March 28 (U. P.).— Alexander Pandelli Fachiri, 52, authority on international law and secretary to Sir Wilfrid Greene, Master of the Rolls, died yesterday. He was a native of New York,

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fatal shooting.

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