Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1939 — Page 2

$20 BY REQUEST

"AT GAS STATION x

‘Cab Driver and Pedestrian 2

Also Held Up; Swimmers’ ‘Clothing Stolen.

.| A bandit interrupted Franklin Craig, 43, night attendant at the

« Wake-Up Filling Station, St. Joseph | §

and Delaware Sts., as he was mop“ping the floor early this morning “and took $20 from him at gunpoint. - The bandit wearing kid gloves and carrying a 32-caliber automatic, an-

* hbunced, “This is a stick-up. I want |

: money.”

“The attendant handed over the J

money and the bandit fled through an alley.

Mr. Craig said the bandit made no ats to kill him.

‘Two Others Held Up

‘Meanwhile, police investigated two ‘ other early morning holdups. Riley Lamb, 34, of 516 S. Alabama St. a * cab driver, reported that a passenger ode between $5 and $6 from him at a. m. Mr. Lamb said the passenger, “whom he had picked up at Vermont “St. and Indiana Ave. produced a ‘gun at Graceland Ave., between 28th ¢and 29th Sts., and announced, “this is a holdup, give me what you got.” ‘George Barnes, 35, of 1136 N. “Meridian St., said he was walking in “the 700 block N. Kelly St., when four “men knocked him down and took $1.22 from him. He was treated at City Hospital for bruises on his face. ** Eight small burglaries were re‘ported to police. Merrit Strahn, a deputy game warden, reported to police that someone took his shotgun, worth $25, from a truck parked near his home at 95th and Meridian Sts.

‘Swimmers’ Clothing Taken

Three young persons who went { swimming in a gravel pit on W. ‘Minnesota St., near Belmont Ave, - reported the theft of nearly $100 worth of cash, clothing and jewelry which they had left in a parked car. The swimmers were Mabel Coont “field, 19, and Clarence Coonfield, 21, "both of 1234 Lexington Ave. and La.Von Richey, 18, of 1004 Hoyt Ave. : Verne Richey, 20, also of 1004 Hoyt _Ave., was in the swimming party, “but aid: not report any loss. "| H. B. Riddle, commercial artist, of 612 N. Beville Ave, told police he placed a portfolio containing commercial art illustrations and pen .drawings worth $500 against the Jrunning board of his automobile at “Pennsylvania and Georgia St., yes.terday, and then drove off and for“got it.

STATE POLICE RENEW GUNWOMAN SEARCH

' State Police today searched for a

, woman believed to have fired the|

shot that struck. Frank Cowgill,

Michigan .City, Ind., policeman in

Ane knee on June 7. ; .A 42-year-old Chicago man was arrested yesterday in” Chicago by Detective Art. Keller of Indiana State Police and three Chicago po-

liceman. He was returned to MichJgan City, identified there by Mr. Cowgill, according to State Police Capt. Walter Eckert, who said the confessed that he was the “woman’s companion but refused to reveal her name. _" Meanwhile, holdup victims from Wisconsin were to view the suspect in" connection with several drug store holdups in that state. The captured man has spent 26 years in jail, according to police records. He

is in Michigan City jail charged with |

‘gssault and battery with Bstens to “Kill, -

3 GAMBLING RAIDS Se NET Wo ARRESTS

: Two persons were arrested in Ahree gambling raids last night. At a tavern on. Prospect St., 2100 “block, officers seized a jar said to contain lottery tickets and arrested Lena Morris, 42, of 1548 Villa Ave., on charges of advertising a lottery an doperating a gift enter-

De it Skidmore, 38, was arrested on a simlar charge in a raid on a tavern in English Ave. 1700 block. Police confiscated a cigaret punch board and a slot machine at a tavern in the 1800 block, College Ave.

SPECIAL STAFF CARS WILL SERVE LEGION

- American Legion officers will be provided with a fleet of 15 staff cars for. the State Legion convention at Bloomington, ‘Aug. 19 to 22. . Legion officials announced that the Ford Motor Co. will furnish the officers with de luxe models of their car painted in royal blue and gold, the: colors of, the Legion.

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These children of the neighborhood are mighty to visit) Mrs. Howard :Kister, 4009 Kenwood Ave.

(right), 16, came: |

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When the water first hits | chills are mixed with | giggles. Bit then, what fun and how cool!.

Some-

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Farm Group With Origin on Rockville Road Exhibits t Fair Grounds.

One hundred and three years ago in the barn of Frank Johantages on

Rockville Road a group of farmers, banded | together as the Marion County . Agricultural and Horticultural Society, prize vegetables and grains. Covered dish dinners were held follow the placing of exhibits and these proved to be the most popular way of drawing a crowd. So the organization grew and pledged | itself. to “promote sanitation, home ieconomics and advancement of agriculture and horticulture.” Meetings were held each month in the County Agent's office, State House or in members’ homes— wherever there was room. Entertainment ranged from spelling bees to spinning yarns of the deep snows, sleigh rides and horse trading. Today, in its 103d year, the society has 103 members. It has seen many of its aims realized and much of its work taken over by the Farm Bureau {and County Agent. This (week in .the Educational Building at the State Fair Grounds, a portion of the exhibit space was occupied by the finest vegetablgs and fruits from the gardens and able was of society members. A

table laden with their baking and ha It was th _ But

diwork was displayed. 103d show. ost of the space in the was occupied with the exf Marion County's rural -the 4-H _Club Denpbers. 1

County [4-H Club exhibit was sponsored by the society.

showed off their|.

Anybody Lose A Nice Horse’

ORMAN WILLIAMS, 18, of 114 Gimber Ave. today was

and obliging horse, name un-

and receive it on presentation of proper proof. The horse, on a leisurely constitutional, wandered into the toils of the law last night when two officers engineered a triumph of strategy. ~ Patrolmen Frank E. Wray and Frank Fagin were cruising on Pleasant Run Blvd. near Madison Ave. when they saw the horse on a roadside jaunt. It ambled away whenever they approached. So they borrowed a clothesline, made a lasso and set it in the grass. The horse walked right in. Mr. Williams offered to put the guest up overnight.

MISSING KANSAN IS SOUGHT HERE

A Kansas farm mother and her three children were in Indianapolis today, searching for the husband and father who was driven away from home, she said, by years of drought, a plague of grasshoppers and resulting financial troubles. She was Mrs. James Robert Chilcoat of Seneca, and she said her husband left their farm home Dec. 20 and has not since communicated with her. She said she had a faint hope that he might be in or near Indianapolis, since they have relatives here. One relative, she said, Had seen some one Who resembled him on" Indianapolis streets last -spring, but did not know at that time he

was missing and so did not speak.

holding in escrow one amiable

known. Owner: may call for same{-

times the rain takes up where the horse stops.

VETERANS WING PROMISED HERE

Hines Tells Ludlow Facility Recreational Building Is On 1940 Program.

Times Special a WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—A recreational building for the Veterans Administration Facility at Indianapolis is first on the list when new appropriations are made by the next Congress, Rep. Louis Ludlow was assured today.

The promise was given on a personal visit to Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Veterans’ Bureau administrator, and confirmed in a letter reading: “Referring to your personal call to this office today in regard to the construction of a recreational building at the Veterans Administration Facility, - Indianapolis, I desire to advise you that this project is well up on the list of new projects to be undertaken when additional funds are called for. “We hoped to undertake the building of a recreational facility at Indianapolis from savings of some of the appropriations now available, although up to this date this does not seem possible. “However, you may assure those interested that the first additional money asked for from Congress will include an item for a recreational

building at the Indianapolis Facil-

ity.” The letter was signed by General Hines and Rep. Ludlow sent a copy to American Legion officials at Indianapolis, he said.

SEEKS LOAN FROM U. S. QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 12 (U. P). —Congress, at.a private, session late last night, authorized the Government to seek a 20-million-dollar

loan in the United States.

HOOSIERS IN WASHINGTON-zy Daniel ioe

“VW AsavaTon, Aug.” 12. — Presiderit Roosevelt may be

out of town, Congress adjourned and Senators and Representatives offices | closed, but Hoosier visitors to Washington always are assured of oné thing—Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) will be here. It is just as easy for them to locate! him, winter or summer, as it is| to find the Washington Monument.

From the time that Congress ‘adjourns, Rep. Ludlow is seen dart daily from his office to a

" dozen| departments armed with

letters from Indianapolis consti-

* tutentis asking this or that favor,

launching new ‘business or concluding old. No [job is too great for Rep. Ludlow to attempt to swing for his district, nor is any individual request too small to receive his personal attention. Certain cynics have termed-him the ‘greatest messenger boy in Congress,” but all agree that he is haps the hardest-working Congressman on Capitol Hill. When Congress is in session, Rep. Ludlow is at his office almost _at streak of dawn. At 10 a. m. daily he is in the Appropriations Committee room, where he pre=-! sides |as Chairman of the Treasury and Posoffice subcommittee. After drafting the multi-million dollay bills for these services, he urns his attention to the deficiency appropriations of which there, has been an epidemic the last p= years. | 2 2» ’ Congressman makes more

for longer speeches against spending than Rep. Ludlow. But

j share of credit for- trim- | the budgets during the ses-

many of us the appalling extent of

0,000,000, the ‘estimated

equivalent to $1,800,000 for every year since the birth of Christ.” Money isn’t the thing which - really: takes first place in the mind and heart of Rep. Ludlow, however, His greatest Interest is in keep ing America out-of war. Although all the powers that be are lagainst it, he thinks he has found a formula for preventing

Unifed States participation in

Rep. Ludlow . . . “messenger boy.”

foreign war through the Ludlow amendment which would provide

could declare us in.

Rep. Ludlow is willing to spend many a $55 per page to argue his point in the Congressional Record. Here are some excerpts from a speech he delivered in the House just before adjournment: “I believe in the referendum principle but I would like to see it applied to the higher and more important things of life. “It seems to me a ridiculous travesty that while our people can vote on the election of a constable or the purchase of a water plant, they have nothing to say as to the most important and tragic of all “decisions—the decision that means the ‘breaking up of family life, the sundering of heartstrings, and the hurling of our fine young men into the bloody chasm of foreign wars. “How can we explain such in1 consistency?” So on those days of this summer and fall’ when the Hoosier Congressman from Indianapolis hasn't any particular errands to run, he has promised himself to be a sort of one-man Ways and Means Committee to see if he can't in some way bring the referendum plan to the House Floor when Congress comes back again on Jan, 3.

a referendum before Congress |

Commenting on a news story published here - saying that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, on a short stopover here this week, turned thumbs down on Par! V. MecNutt for the Democratic Presidential nomination, a New York correspondent said: “I wonder if the Mayor is going to that convention next year. He has been a Republican, Independent, Socialist and American Labor Party man, so there isn’t much left for him to be but a Democrat.” 2 2 8

HY Congressmen fake ap-

remarks in the Congressional Record was pointed out by Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind) in a

Rep. John Rankin regard to TVA.

“I simply did not realize,” Rep. Harness said, “that laughter and .applause flowing from an imaginative pen in Rep. Rankin’s office in Suite 358 of the Old House Building could be so amazingly amplified without the benefit of our microphones here on ‘ the | Floor that they could be made to resound through his Chamber and record themselves in the Congres‘sional Record as they did in this instance. “That is, I admit, a neat trick. It is almost as good, in fact, as some of the New Deal hokuspocus that goes on in the operation of TVA.” ” ”» ”

“Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) was at the White House when President Roosevelt dictated his statement regarding the carrying out of his Court reforms. A 100 per. cent New Dealer, the Hoosier . agreed with the statement and told the President he thought it was “swell.”

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Move to Lower Levies Being Drafted.

Formation of the Citizens’ Tax

‘| League to enlist public support for

the recently organized United Tax Reduction Committee's drive - for lower taxes, was announced today. All taxpayers in Marion County

|are eligible :to membership in the 8 new organization, which includes|

workers of the Citizen’s Taxpayers

Protest Committee active in budget

reduction efforts in 1938. Officials said the League would be a “clearing house for ideas” regarding County, City and Township budgets and tax levies now under consideration. League members will eiveulate petitions, as was done last year, asking public officials for tax reductions. A series of public messages also is planned. Hearquarters Established Headquarters will be at 839 Lemcke Building and Paul Richey will be manager. “This is an organization of citizens who are vitally interested in

|the tax problems of Marion Coun-

ty,” Mr. Richey said. “It is not concerned with politics or class’ or It represents every citizen

“Figures recently: made public from a Gallup Survey show that 25 per. cent of our citizens when asked, ‘Do you pay any taxes?’ answered ‘No.’ The fact is if you earn $20 a week in this country—$1040 a year if you work every week—you pay 10 per cent, or more: than $100 a year, in taxes. “These taxes on what you eat and wear and use, on light and heat and rent and homes, are carefully hidden for the very purpose of making you: think you are getting a free ride. But evrey citizen has an interest in taxes. It is the business of every citizen to join in this work of getting economy in every cent of expenditure and keeping taxes

down.” Lists Taxes Opposed

“We oppose the levying of every penny of taxes that: “1. Pays political debts without public service and benefit in proportion to the cost; “2. Mortgages future generations for benefits of the past; “3. Represents expenditures for luxuries that the heneficiaries would not pay for with their own money; “4, Pays salaries to public servants that they could not earn in private employment under normal business conditions; “5. Increases unnecessary expenditures for relief that tempt the recipients to lean on their government for a living.” Mr. Richey declared,’ ““we have ajjeady received “an instant and afimous support from taxpayers both large and small to the work of this organization and expect within a few days to make it possible ' for . every citizen of Marion County to join in this much-needed movement for: the utmost economy

upon which our taxes will be based. Cites New York Drive

“In Westchester County, New York, citizens organized and got together to eut their tax puogeis % per cent for 1939. One of their nouncements said ‘Public. officials need the support of citize work for economy. Do something about No single person, or no single

the county were reduced by | illion dollars.

sking for strict economy in every public department, have been prepared and are being circulated so that every citizen may have the opportunity to join in this movement. It is our hope that every citizen of Marion County will realize his or her personal responsibility in signing one of these petitions.”

Seeks Public Support n

and’ efficiency in making budgets

Mrs. William H.'Schlosser

Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) who

recommended are Bernard Batty,

| Names of three Hoosiers have been sent President Roosevelt by recommended their appointment to . the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Commission created by Congress to make plans for a national memorial here to the 23d President. Those

Indianapolis, Arthur Jordan. Foun-

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= Schlosser,

The pony express business in the 20th Century "is downright tiresome and not a little disillusioning. This n according to Jack King of. Hollywood, Cal, who galloped info town yesterday, 10 weeks out of the San Francisco World’s Fair and

hitched his tired .cowpony, Desert Queen, to a lamp: post in front of City Hall, Mr. King delivered “the mail” to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and immediately proceeded to look up some fodder and a blacksmith ‘for Desert Queen. The mail urged “all - your folks” to come to the Pair. The trail of the pony express in 1939 ‘leads through a series of towns and cities where, according to rider King: You can’t get fodder; there are no blacksmiths to shoe your horse when the concrete pavements twist

Pony Express, Boosting Fair, Pants Into Town

his. shoes; and you have to go to a Hardware store to get your saddle fixed When the horses struggled up U. 8. 66 over the Rocky Mountains, they were winded. During the trek through the desert, the water for the horses had to be gotten from service stations on the pretext of using it for the trailer re which carried reserve horses. “They wouldn't sell us water for the horses,” Mrs. King who accompanied her husband and his relief riders: through the weary, 2700-mile jaunt. In St. Louis, they found a blacksmith shop, the first one for hundreds of miles. “You'd think places like Oklahoma, Wyoming and Texas would have a blacksmith shop or two around,” Mrs. King said. ‘I guess they're all gone now.” The express party camped out sometimes, building mesquite corrals for the horses.

M'CLINTOCK GIVEN WATER FIRM AWARD

‘John R. McClintock, Indianapolis Water Co. maintenance foreman, today received an award in recognition of 40 years’ continuous service.

Mr. McClintock, who is 72 and resides at 932 N. Chester Ave. bagan as a plumbing g inspector, an has served as : construc ti o n | foreman on new main installations,. as well as superintendent of operations at the filtration plant. '5t He is the 13th employee Mr. McClintock since it was inaugurated in 1912, according to H. S. Morse, vice presi-

dent and’'manager. Othefs are Frank C. Jordan, Clemons Blank, Melvin Johnson,

George Ferguson and Bailey Youree. jose on the retired list who have received the award are E. C. Leible,

-|C. W. Winkle, A. B. Helfrich and

M. F. Ashley.

MEXICO BALKS IN OIL TALK WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P.). —Negotiations between the United States and Mexico for settlement of the 17-month-old oil expropriation controversy were stalemated today by Mexico's refusal to ‘accept a compromise proposal. Observers believed there was little possibility of a settlement for at least a year.

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POLICE SEEK MAN MISSING TWO DAYS

At the request of relatives, police today sought Joseph Hoelker, 27, employee of ‘the State Motor Vehicle Bureau, who has not been reported seen since Thursday night. Relatives said they feared he either was a victim of amnesia or violence. He lived at the Williams

Hotel, Washington St. and Senate Ave.

CALLS ITALY IMPREGNABLE “BERLIN, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Voel-

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Rome ‘today: that, Meishal Emilio de de Bono had informed Betiito Mussolini that Italian fortifications in the "Alps opposite France. were impregnable.

Biemer Estimates Taxable Property Here at Total of $510,669,880. -

The valuation of. taxable property in Indianapolis today was estimated at $510,669,880, an increase of $255,« 550 over last year, by Fabian W, Biemer, County Auditor. The report was submitted to City Controller James E. Deery yestere

Mr. .Deery ane nounced the 1940 tax rate for: the City and budget figures will be ready Monday. The budget, which has been re~ duced in almost all items by. order of Mayor Reginald Sullivan, will be submitted to the City ‘Council Aug. 21. The estimated valuation of Wood« ruff Place was set at $1,587,890, or $103,750 over the estimated valuation last year. Woodruff Place pays taxes for use of sanitation facilities and its valuation is used in computing tax levies on the Sanitary District and Santiary bond retiree ments. One cent on the new valuation estimate would raise $25.55 more than a cent on the estimated valua= tion used in fixing the’ present tax rate of $1.30, officials said. : Mr. Deery said that the aetial valuation, ‘usually made known in

than estimated valuation. Last year the estimate valuation was set at $510,414,330 while the actual valuae« tion as reported last December toe taled- $512,25%,770.Tabulators in the City Controller’ S office said that the final - budget figure would be known as soon at 1938 balances are computed. --The balances are subtracted from the total budget figure, leaving -a neg total to be raised by taxation.

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