Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1939 — Page 2

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SCHOOL COSTS DROP $600,000 OVER 10 YEARS

Lessen Despite Enrollment Gains and New Buildings, Good Reports.

Hey, Mr. Mars, We're Watching You

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| The cost of operating the Indian-! apelis public schools has decreased more than $600.00) during the last 10 years while enrollment has increased 7 per cent, A. B. Good, school business director, said today | In a review of budgets. The budget for 1929-30 was $7 .481.293, he said. The proposed budget for 1839-40 is $6.781.318. or $603.975 less The enrollment at the end of the 1829-30 school vear was 59.050. Last June 30 it was 63.215 The property tax levy for schools has decreased from $1.02 to 96 cents during the 10 years, Mr. Good said Property taxes collected for schools during the period decreased $1.888.346 to $4.953.030.

Income Taxes

If total assessed valuations were | as high now as 10 vears ago. ‘he! revenue to be obtained for schools from property tax could be raised | from a levy of 71%; cents instead of | ho the 96-cent levy fixed bv the School

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With a telescope and two astronomers to aid her, | Emsley W. Johnson (left). 3447 Washington Blvd. Miss Katherine Durham, 3345 Washington Blvd. has | Indiana Astronomical Society president, and Walter no trouble in locating Mars. Her planetary guides are | Wilkins, 6124 N. Dewey Ave,

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Penaranda; Evacuation Ordered by Army.

BURGOS, Spain, July 10 (U.P).

The amount received from these ness of the School Citv has been evenings, is practically within commuting distance this month. Good said Thirteen elementary | i re > ; ; Rain Washes Out Party {plete evacuation of Penaranda de

other sources for the last school vear reduced from $11.521.000 to $8.104.-! On July 27 it will be within 36 million miles of the earth, which is school buildings or additions aave : | been erected. One junior high| Rain washed out the first sched- | |Bracamonte today after an exploschool and a high school building{uled open-house on Wednesday. | |sion which killed an estimated 100 g Pp |

Board, Mr. Good contended i of oh | While propertv tax revenues have St 011011¢E1 S ere can was $1882834 or $1.2494%3 more 781. or about 30 per cent just a wild pitch as astronomical distances go. have been erected and additions past night, however, approximately | { people, injured between 1000 and

decreased, schools have obtained increased revenues from other sources, 6 74 °, 0 ’ particulariy the gross income tax anet ISitting 1 art 7’ fo 29.3 than for 1929-30 By JAMES THRASHER Between Jan. 1. 1930. and Dec.! : : ¢ tn ch 31, 1938 the net bonded indebted-! Mars. which is looking like the amber light in a traffic signal these Despite the reduction in revenues. Since the planet hasn't brushed so close in some 15 vears. the Indiana the School Board has carried on an Astronomical Society is holding public watch parties on Sunday and! ctensiv uildin Wednesday nights at its open air observatory. 72d St. and Crooked Creek. ! 53 ; extensive building program. Mr. 2 —Military authorities ordered com1ade to three high schools : ! : res whi B mn STR Yeh! jos persons had gathered at 8:30] STRIKE IN 6 M oy flares nies which nearly lo clock to await the planet's arrival | i 1 It : i ; ¢ teh Ww A without confirmaChildren remain in school longer Mars, which has a cruising speed ot | ST —, | tion a ra which than they did 10 vears ago, Mr./15 miles a second, didnt show upj ‘was approaching Penaranda station

Good said, citing that all but ninson the eastern horizon until around Terms ‘Back-to-Work’ Move when the explosion occurred had pupils who finished the eighth grade 9 v'clock. ‘ : i disappeared with its passengers and Complete Failure’; 50

School Year Longer

ast month plan to enter high school! The Sey hey Be Bogs wool crew and the station personnel. Aho ~ 3 & es ’ : : : in September members and 3 elescopes, 24 The sun's heat ignited a big gun “Rapidiy changing economic con- home-made. PEmsier W. Johnson)

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SPANISH BLAST

1500 Hurt as Fire Wrecks

SMITH'S STORY OF L.S. U, CASE MAY BE ISSUED

Federal and State Officials Continue Probe Into Market ‘Flyer.

Byrd Planning

BATON ROUGE, La, July 10 (U. | P.) .—Attorney William Hamlin of | New Orleans indicated today that a | | formal public statement might be | {issued soon by Dr. James Monroe ‘Smith, former president of Louisiana | State University now under indictment on charges of embezziement. { Mr. Hamlin was expected to con- { fer with him today. He was retained | (as counsel by Dr. Smith, | State and Federal investigators | were active here probing irregularities revealed by Dr. Smith's $2.000,{000 attempt to corner the wheat market and by his flight to Canada.

Use of Mails Probed

Three postal inspectors were jordered to investigate rumors that

the mails had been used in Dr. Smith's deals. East Baton Rouge Parish district

attorney, Dewey J. Sanchez meanwliile prepared new charges against the former president of L. S. U. who rose to head the giant educational institution under the guidance of the late Senator Huey Long. | Senator Long found him in a coun- | try college 10 years ago. In New Orleans, a Federal grand jury probed into alleged relief abuses, Dr. Smith's income and the possibility that Federal funds were involved in the 5 per cent kick-back from State employees to finance the State political machine,

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points out on a globe to Coast Guard Coinmandant R. R. Waesche the Antarctic region for which he will sail next October to stake U.S. claims to land where earlier expeditions planted the American flag. His com-

_ MONDAY, JULY 10; 1939 =

se STATES CURBING 5] TRADE ‘WALLS

‘Repeal of Port-of-Entry Statute in Indiana Cited in Survey.

Polar Voyage

CHICAGO, July 10 (U. P). — The {Council of State Governments ree

| ‘ported today that State Legislatures had started to tear down interstate jrarin walls which. if allowed to con= tinue, would have ‘‘Balkanized” America. Legislatures of five states repealed trade barrier laws restricting the free flow of commerce between states and legislators in a score of states refused to pass new trade barrier proposals, a council survey reported. The move to break down tariff walls followed a national conference in April at which legislators were warned by President Roosevelt that interstate trade barriers were more serious a problem than international tariff walls. The council said Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Florida, were the states that had lifted barriers. Indiana and Oklahoma repealed port-of-entry laws under which customs stations were maintained at state lines similar to those in European nations. The Indiana action resulted {rom efforts ¢¢ Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan to cooperate in solving problems arising from conflicting liquor law provisions. Missouri also repealed a liquor act which, although called “antidiscriminatory,” in effect constituted a trade barrier, the council said. Oklahoma repealed its 1937 porte of-entry law because Texas, conside ering the statute an unfriendly act, planned to retaliate by enacting a similar law against Oklahoma. Texas

Admiral Richard E. Byrd (right)

President Roosevelt.

Two Freed Under Bond

Two of the three men arrested by WPA investigators for diverting WPA labor and materials to private construction were free under bond. Big George Caldwell, nabbed by Federal agents at the Postoffice | building in New Orleans, was back

at his palatial home in Baton rc a g Rouge. free under $10,000 bond. The Army SUI be resqy lor any

Eugene Barkaduie, 0. acting | SHnUBL when the present na superintendent of construction Bt| war Secretary Woodring reported

ARMY T0 BE READY, WOODRING REPORTS

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.) —

L. S. U. after Caldwell was arrested, |... was freed last night after posting fe a“ a $7500 bond. James Marshall ok! In a statement on the “financial | held in jail here on default of bond Status of the national defense pro- | ‘on like charges. gram at the beginning of the now | : fiscal year,” he detailed what the | War Department is doing or plans

to do with the approximately $1,-

dropped its plan when Oklahoma repealed its law. New Mexico repealed several trade barrier laws,

PURDUE NAMES AID IN CORN RESEARCH

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 10.—Clif- a ford V. Heyne, University of Ne- | < braska graduate, has been ap-| Permanent Wave / pointed to the botany department | No wires. no electricity, no unnecesof the Agricultural Experiment Sta- Sry Jiscomion oe Te re ey tion at Purdue University, Dean By basuiry 2X; masiuneioss Off Permpie J. Reed announced today. I A $500 VaLve for onty....,.. $2.00 Mr. Heyne will assist in research || ;epNUINE REALISTIC $3.00 to be made on hybrid corn. The re-| sep A nee aane search fellowship was made possible

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Out at Saginaw.

Jitions dur +h 2 are hav » WwW t ” is president | ditions during the last 10 vears have 3447 Washington Blvd. is president] 210 N. Pennscivaris. Strees,

made it nececsary for the public schools to assume responsibilities in

addition to those which were consid- |

ered reguiar school functions 15 or 20 vears ago.” Mr. Good said. “Special fields such as achieve-

and a supporter of the man-made Martian canal theory { | Walter Wilkins, 6124 N. Dewey Ave. is editor of the society’s| monthly bulletin and one of those, who won't commit themselves on

fa supply in the suburbs. The |countryside within a 30-mile ras K|ONAPED ME SAYS was shaken by the resulting explo- J PONTIAC, Mich. July 10 (U. P.). sion. So terrific was the blast that —A “back-to-work” movement Some people were killed by concussponsored by General Motors in sion, and the injured included not

spd . only people in the immediate viopposition to a United Automobile

{ 000,000,000 appropriated by Congress for authorized expenditures for the

MOTHER bl OF SON | War Department for the 1940 fiscal J y year,

“Amorig items of major interest,

these funds insure an air armada of STOCKTON, Cal, July 10 (U. P).|

cinity, but people in villages nearby. 5500 airplanes in the Army alone,

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ment and mental testing, vocational the canals or Martian life. Outlin- | Workers (C. I. O.) strike was de-| Penaranda was set on fire and it | placement. speech correction, lip ing the planet's points of Interest, |. ined by the union today as a Was asserted that almost every] reading, dietetics and remedial work Mr. Wilkins explained that the con-| “complete failure.” | house was either wrecked by the, in the fundamental processes have troversy hinges upon the personal piste i {explosion or burned in the resultbeen deemed essential to the best equation rather than celestial math-{ Hundreds of pickets massed at the jhg fire.

—A woman accused her son today exclusive of the airplane strength of kidnaping her in the hope of of our Navy,” Mr. Woodring said. gaining possession of her property.| “The enlisted strength of our air valued at $150,000. {corps will be more than doubled and “The law must take {ts course, some $60,000,000 will be expended in

work In developing children. Special teachers are employed in these fields.”

GARY. Ind. July 10

mishaps at beaches in this vicinity. Andrew Yerga, Hammond. disappeared in rough water when he went swimming near Chesterton while on

THREE ARE DROWNED IN LAKE MICHIGAN

(U. PY. — Three persons were drowned vesterday in Lake Michigan in separate

ematics. No Heat Wave There

| i i One thing is certain: Mars would be an ideal place to spend the next heat wave. Even at the equator. ! the temperature seldom gets above 50 degrees. And at night, the whole planet freezes solid Last night's visitors did not get! to see the planet through the largest of three telescopes at the observatory, for one of the members forgot to show up with a counterweight necessary for successful operation. Viewed in the smaller instruments, Mars looked like noth-| ing more pretentious than a small | orange with one over-ripe spot in!

| gates of the Fisher Body plant and |

‘ deflance of a company invitation for

AA) Vas soa I Mee Nr although my heart is broken,” Mrs. air corps construction, utilization of i y i in guard and army reinforcements. A rn : : oa : , : $a50 They ad fonese 1 to. slose in cordon was put around the town to| buza Middlecoff Emery, 67, said. civilian flying apd mechanics Her son, Hubbard Middlecoff, 35, of schools in the training of our army

ali prevent townspeople, who had fled : > ! all workers to return to their jobs. to open country, from returning to LOS Angeles, and six others were pilots and mechanics is a new and | worthwhile step in our growing air

The union announced meanwhile, seek missing relatives. [Ped on 8 ert haope the| TO i that the strike was being exte Early today the fire was still] : iis : defense program. ie g g haed burning, and Peraranda townspeo-| ome of a friend Saturday. She] — with orders for a walkout at the

: : | rE Tr 5 : was found with her son in a San 5 Cleveland Fisher Body plant. Plt Signed Irom Ue oa fields | py ancisco hotel seven hours later. ‘WHAT'S IN A NAME? | Farley, former wife of a caretaker hoon. Alva W. Phelps, plant man- (ne fields. Wounded were taken to | | and Leo and Jess Quinlin, brothers.| “Teeth knockers out” and “back

At Saginaw 50 skilled workers in as their homes were consumed along Charged with Middlecoff were ASKS JOB EXECUTIVE at the Emery Home; Fred Abdallah, ager, said approximately { 31, night club operator and former | he said, continued operating With | wheat fields. approximately 200 men not affect- Mrs. Olga Chadd, with whom Mrs. | splitters” may sound slightly mayEmery makes her home, filed the hemish tc the average citizen but

the General Motors steering gear, RN in which livestock | ype Sylvia Farley, Mrs. Gertrude plant left their jobs shortly before A little tent city was erected in a Ho | Times Special 0Z€N hospitals in half a dozen towns and |” ts a others refused to leave. The plant. ie dead were pleved io OVS ss and, vive fighter; William Bergman, 25,| HAMMOND, Ind, July 10. ed by the tool and die strike re- airy maining at their jobs. charge. they are important to Bryon Jor-

‘Accused ‘Designer’ of

a picnic with friends All seven denied kidnaping. Con-| dan Jr. viction would carry prison terms of Those unusual names apply to from one year to life. Bergman | certain workmen in packing comand the Quinlin brothers told au-| panies who secure jobs through Mr. thorities Middlecoff had told them |Jordan, who is local office manhis mother was under Mrs. Chadd's| ager of the State Employment “influence” and was being mis-| Service. Another packing company treated. employee is called a ‘scalper.”

: { Mite rawhed in De center. | The “back-to-w o r kK” movement i pg By ang on At the next meeting Mr. Johnson was regarded by the union as + Tortures Executed at the Gary Municipal Beach. His promises the 10-inch telescope will challenge for a showdown. | BARCELONA, July 10 (U. P)— mother and stepfather were on the 0¢ In working order and, weather | The Cleveland Fisher plant. which Alfonso Lauren Cik, Yugoslav archibeach nearby. | permitting, a good look at our anuiaciures body dies for Chevro- tect accused of designing torture The body of Peter Urban. about planetary neighbor is guaranteed. let, was ordered Struck in con- chambers for the Loyalist GovernB7. aiso was taken from the lake The society is expecting its larg- tinuance of the union's plan to close ment of Spain during the Civil War, near Chesterton. He evidently had St crowd of visitors two weeks from fone of more plants each day until was executed by a firing squad at beech Qend for severnl houts, Wednesday, a night before the the company agrees to negotiate a dawn yesterday. : : {planet's closest approach. A ma- Supplemental agreement for skilled, Lauren Cik was tried and found jority doubtless will be trving to Workers. The Cleveland plant was guilty last month. The Government catch a glimpse of Orson Welles. (the 11th ordered closed. It €m- produced testimony that he had ploys approximately 700 men. bring- been imprisoned by the Loyalists ing to nearly 7000 the total number and tried to win favorable treatment

CONTRACTS INVALID | placed on strike. {from his jailers by designing the

TEE ‘torture chambers, which were paint-STOKELY-UNION } denis IF CASH 1S LACKING Dei 'avED ONTIL Fay mination hme enor

ed with fantastic geometric designs gaze on them for days at a time.

BOY LAYS TROUBLES TO HIS TOOTHACHE

A 16-year-old boy told Municipal Cuort Judge John McNelis today that he escaped from the Boys'| School at Plainfield Saturday night because his teeth hurt After he got to Indianapolis. he The

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t ! >) State Tax Board today)! A hearing cn the suit of Stokelv Be oy he Secided =e notified officals of all Indiana; Brothers and Van Camp. Inc. seek - HOOSIER IS ELECTED reak into a house and eat 1S 8 counties that contracts awarded ing to enjoin the Teamsters and) did. After he had eaten his fill from when no money is available in their Chauffeurs Union. A. F. of L.. from | BY WOMEN LAWYERS the ice box, he said, he decided he pyqdgets for purchases are invalid. [picketing its plant, was postponed | today until fall in Superior Court 5. Times Special Judge Herbert Wilson said thede-| OARLAND, Cal. June 10.—Mrs.

needed clethes and money and he Philip Zoercher, Board chairman, ransacked the house. said that the order was based on a| While he was doing this. the recent Indiana Supreme Court de- jay was at requ : ; : { A est i » Judge was told, the owner of the cision in which the City of Hun-| A tar Rh ones | Borage K, a jh Ww. 34th 5 3 : . | By y V { is & Oo house returned. heard a noise in a ington was forced to cancel a con-|nermits “peaceful picketing.” but, ireasurer an er Anam 1 s press, discovered and ar-'tract for se of fre \ ; : ies ite 3 aclcthes p tract for the purchase ol a (does not ailow the pickets to carry | ticn of Women Lawyers in session

rested the boy. engine because no funds were pre-!gone will pe a ‘ » The house was at 950 W. 33th St. viously earmarked for the purchase. | pearing. in effect until Be I Chicago, was

and the owner was Police Sergeant! The Board warned all public William P. Trent. officials that they first must make Judge McNelis bound over the bov funds available before advertising | to the grand jury under a $2506 for any type of bids. | bend. |

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BECK KIN SENTENCED NEW YORK, Juiy 10 (U.P), = Mrs. Lillian Schrein, niece of Martin Beck. was sentenced to from two to! four vears in State Prison today for|remain open until July 25 for the theft of $60,000 from the Tl-year- purpose of enrolling students for old producer. {the fall semester, school officials an- —- | oporee poy. e ill gi upil : is procedure will give pupils] Steam Oil from out of town schools a chance drdquignele to enroll now, thus avoiding delay Permanents | when school opens in September, Guaranteed Jl officials said. It also will enable New Styles former pupils to enroll who were S 00 S 00 | not enrolled at the close of school to in June. The procedure of perMr. Commis Grey and white hair guaranteed not to turn yellow.

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PIONEER DESIGNER DEAD

| BERLIN, July 10 (U. P). — Dr. Adolf Rohrbach. a pioneer airplane and flying boat designer, died at Kampen, a seaside resort, Saturday of heart disease. He was 51.

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