Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1940 — Page 2
Court Refuses to Act in Jobless Compensation Case
a INDIANA COUNTS AND ‘OTHER MAN
Gp - IFE,
‘ARGUE, 3 SHOT §
Yougg Woman and Gun- |g
~ Wielding Friends Are ; Critically Wounded.
Three persons were wounded, two critically, in gunplay early yesterday near the Traction Terminal. Critically: wounded are Mrs. Naomi Smythe, 25, of 25 W. Michigan St. and Harry Roberts, 32, of 3232 Graceland Ave. Both are in City Hospital. g Virgil Smythe, husband of the wounded woman and a chef at the - Harrison Hotel, received a superficial wound in his arm. He was treated at City Hospital and is free on - his own recognizance on a charge of vagrancy. Police. said| they learned that Smythe had warned Roberts several times to discontinue his attentions to Mrs. Smythe. ¥ v Meeting Ends in ‘Fight
Yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. Smythe were talking in the Indiana Railroad's freight yard, adjoining the Traction Terminal, when Roberts walked up. Police said the meeting of the two men ended in a fist fight in which Roberts was beaten up. He staggered to his feet and walked away from the couple, -. As Smythe and his wife stood talking; Roberts returned, police said, and pulled a revolver from a coat pocket and shot Mrs. Smythe. The bullet entered the left side of her chest and came out through her shoulder. She fell, bleeding, to the ground. 8mythe struck Roberts, knocking! him to the .ground, and Roberts fired again, wounding Smythe in the arm: ' Roberts then got to his feet and started running but was ‘surrounded by persons waiting for busses and traction cars.
Benjamin Blumberg , . , arranges finance meeting. Benjamin’ Blumberg, manager of the M. Blumberg Co., Terre Haute, is on the committee in charge of arrangements for the 25th annual convention of the Indiana Association of Personal Finance Companies which will be held in Indianapolis for two days starting Wednesday. Several nationally known speak-
ers, including Gen. Hugh * S. Johnson, will speak before the convention. Gen. Johnson will address a banquet Wednesday night in the Claypool Hotel.
$250,000 BLAZE DESTROYS STORE
Fire in Montgomery Ward’s | At Lafayette Follows Explosion Report. LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 25 (U.
IN TAX YIELD
Federation Says States Will Get 7.3% More Than During 1939. CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (U. P)"™-Tax collections of state governments during 1040 will be: 7.3 per cent above those for 1939 and 26 per cent above the revenue of 1937, the Federation of Tax ‘Administrators estimated today. Total income. for the year was estimated at $4,131,400,000. The Federation said tax yields had ingreased gradually during the last four years as tax structures became stabilized after the depressien, which caused widespread changes. Most important of the changes was the universal adoption of the payroll tax used to finance unemployment insurance. Sales taxes, including those on tobaceo, liquor and gasoline, provided more than 40 per cent of the states’ incomes and the selective sales taxes showed the largest increases. Liquor tax and license
Cag
ker
a
Sp
of the Housé James M. Knapp (left) confers with Liea-
tenant Governor-Elect Charles M. Dawson, who will be presiding of -
ficer of the State Senate, on preliminary
drafts of bills to be spon-
sored by the Republican majority in the 1941 Legislature.
revenues were up 20 per cent, the result chiefly of increased consumption *and higher gallonage taxes in several states. Tobacco taxes were 61 per cent higher than in 1937, attributed to adoption of such levies in several states recently. Payroll taxes provided the largest single source of income, yielding approximately one-fifth of the total. Taxation of estates and gifts resulted in 10 per cent less income than two years ago. . Percentage yields compiled from reports of all states on the various taxes were: Payroll, 20.6; property, 6.3; death and gift, 2.9; income, 8.4; miscellaneous, 1; business and occupation, 10.2; tobacco, 2.3; liquor, 6.4; sales, 12; motor vehicle licenses, 9.3; motor fuel, 20.6.
FEENEY URGES END
OF CREOSOTE STRIKE
An appeal for immediate arbitra-
tion of the strike at the Republic Creosoting Co. plant was issued to company and union officials today by Sheriff Al Feeney.
In identical letters to the com-
pany and to the United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union, the Sheriff commented that “the longer a strike continues, the shorter tempers become and the more liable some minor incident ‘to cause serious ‘disorder and even loss of life.”
The Sheriff also said the necessity
of mainiaining a 24-hour super-
Fires Into Stomach
He calmly raised a hand at them,
placed the gun to his abdomen and terday, two hours after Fire Chief
fired. Then, still standing, he sur-| Tendered the gun to Edward Dris- | coll, 26, of 234 E. 12th St. “I didn't mean to “shoot them,” he said. Still standing in the middle of the group when police came, he admitted the shootings and then collapsed. - Roberts’ mother, Mrs. Lillian Lovelace, and his stepfather, Henry. Lovelace, who were in the nearby - Stratford Hotel, heard the shooting and inyestigated. Mrs. Lovelace saw her son collapse on the pavement. Roberts is charged with vagrancy and assault and battery with intent to kill and is held under a $5000 bond.
KIN MEET IN BLACKOUT LONDON, Nov. 25 (U, P.).—After
searching London for a cousin he ing glass and Fireman Leo Minnick
had never seen Lieut. Brodt, a Polish officer, met her in the blackout. While ‘walking Piccadilly one evening he ran into a girl and knocked
her down. After helping her to her will ‘be transferred to the firm's feet and apologizing, he introduced Lafayette farm store or to stores
‘himself. So did the girl; who was his missing cousin.
ently: wrong and cause of the fire
old was treated at a hospital and Mr. Minnick was taken home,
P.).—A $250,000 blaze destroyed the Montgomery Ward store here yes-
William F. Koerner had investi-
CHECK MOTORISTS ON RIGHT-OF-WAY
gated the building after employees
in an adjoining building reported the right-of-way can be blamed
hearing an explosion. Chief Koerner’s investigation at that time revealed nothing appar-
was not determined. J. F. Irvin, store manager, estimated the loss to stock and fixtures at $100,000 and an agent for the owner of the building estimated the loss on the buiiding at $150,000. The building is owned by Mrs. Charles E. Cory, who is wintering at Berkeley, Cal. Mr. Irwin said the store had just received the largest Christmas stock in its 12-year history. Two were injured slightly while fighting the blaze. Assistant Chief Jasper ‘Arnold was injured by fall-
|
was overcome by smoke. Chief Arn-
Most of the store’s 50 employees
in surrounding cities, Mr. Irwin
| said.
‘
The fellow who refuses to give
tor most of the City’s traffic accidents, a survey by the Police Accident Prevention Bureau indicates. The Bureau is making a close check on 50 street corners where most accidents occur, according to Capt. Leo Troutman. The causes of accidents at four corners already checked show that 19 motorists failed to give right-of-way. The second largest offense, strangely enough, was rear-end collisions. There were 15 of these.
were East and New York Sts., Alabama and Washington Sts., New Jersey and St. Clair Sts, and 10th
t Manning.
vision of the plant by his deputies was depriving “hundreds of thousands of ‘county citizens not in-
volved in this controversy . .. of the sort of service this office would like to render.” :
DENIES LABOR RIFT
AMONG LINER CREW
MANILA, P. I,, Nov. 25 (U. P).—
A report published by the newspaper Bulletin that the 50 or more sailors and marines aboard the . United States liner President Washington were guarding the ship “because of labor troubles aboard, was denied captain, Harry ;
oday Rhy the ship’s
The Washington is bringing Amer-
ican evacuees back from the Far
The street intersections checked East.
Capt. Manning said that rumors of disaffection among the
crew are entirely without foundation.”
and West Sts. Fifteen of the 19 offenses against failing to give the right-of-way happened at the New Jersey-St. Clair Sts. corner where, in most cases, one of the motorists failed to slow down.
North Carolina's * public schools have a total enrollment of nearly a million children.
Mr. Commis Says:
Come to the Smile Beauty Shop for the best permanent wave ¥ have ever ha
5 | i . 3 All Waves Cay 3 GUARANTEED SMILE BEAUTY SHOP
622 Mass. Ave. L1-0026.
ey nook
“BETTE starred in Warn
“¥HE LETTER"
DAVIS
er Bros. current hit
>
xx
Corsets Stay af Half-Way Mark
LONDON, Nov. 25 (U. P.).—The Board of Trade refused today to reconsider its order cutting British corset production to 50 per cent of last year’s sales. Corset trade spokesmen were angered at suggestions Py the board that corset manufacture consumes 3000 tons of steel per year. “The Board of Trade is still thinking in terms of grandma’s corsets,” said F. R. Burley, chair-
man of the corset export group.
“Those corsets weighed two pounds. The modern ones weigh less than four onces. The total steel consumption is only a few
hundred tons.”
ELECTORS VOTE
Tucker Starts Formal Check
‘As Prescribed by Law as Marshals Watch.
By tonight, Indiana will know for the first time officially thai-Wendell L. Willkie carried the state in the recent Presidential election. Secretary of State James Tucker started formal tabulation of the Presidential votes in his office at noon today, the time prescribed by law. The tabulation was carried out before marshals appointed by the Governor in each congressional dis-
{trict and August G. Mueller, repre{senting the Governor.
The marshals collected the votes from the clerks of ‘the various counties in their districts and brought them into the Secretary of State's office between 9 a. m. and 11 a. m. today, the time also prescribed by law. The highest number of votes for President will elect ‘the electors for the party of the winning candidate. The electors then will receive commissions and will meet in the House of Representatives at 10 a. m. on Dec. 16 to cast their vote for President and Vice President. A certificate recording their vote will then be sent to the President of the Senate in Washington.
LOCAL LAWYERS TO ELECT ON DEC. 2
The yearly election of officers of the Lawyers Association of Indianapolis will be held Dec. 2 at the Canary Cottage following the noon luncheon. . Candidates on the White Ticket are Charles W. Holder, president; Erle Kightlinger, vice "president; John K. Rickles, secretary; Charles C. Baker, treasurer, and Max White, William T. Hoffman, Maz Klezmer, and Maurice Harrell, directors. Red Ticket candidates are Thomas M. Scanlon, president; John P. Raftery, vice president; Max White, secretary; Alvin Johnson, treasurer, and Harold Jones, James Sargent, John Kelly and William Gordon, di-
rectors.
Notebook d
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
Who wrote:
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
From Emerson's essay, ‘Society and Solitude.”
Likewise, the true appraisal of Shirley Service is is marked by those satisfied patrons, who when in need, return to this friendly service after five, ten, twenty—
‘and even forty years.
Shirley Brothers
“TRULY MEMBERED ERVICE"
RE S$
® FUNERALS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P.). —The United States Supreme Court today refused to take up a Georgia Supreme Court decision holding unconstitutional the so-called “com-
1mon control” provisions of the state
unemployment compensation law.
Refusal of the court to accept the case makes the Georgia high court decision final. At least 32 other states have laws. similar to the Georgia statute. The court's action today, however, is not binding on the other states but it furnishes a strong precedent for the tribunals of those states. In another action the court held that ‘17, S. courts may not review a Federal communications order denying transfer of a radio station license. A procedural” point was the only issue hefore the court, however, the merits of the denial not being up for review. The action was in a case involying transfer of the broadcasting license of Station KSFO, San Francisco, ‘to Columbia Broadcasting System of California. : In another opinion during a brief session, the Supreme Court ordered Alabama to show “ause why the United States should not be allowed to bring suit to settle the Federal Government's liability for state and
county taxes on land acquired in connection with various phases of the New Deal recoyery program. Attorney General Robert H.Jack= son had told the court that the cases contain issues that may affect application of tax statutes in several other tates. In an unanimous opinion the court
set aside the conviction of & Texas
Negro on the grounds that Harris County (Texas) discriminated against Negroes in the selection of grand juries. Associate Justice Hugo Black wrote the opinion in the pauper’s appeal of Edgar Smith, who was convicted on a | charge of rape. Smith contended that far fewer than the proportionate number ‘of
‘qualified Negroes were ealled for
jury service; that this practice was “systematic” in Harris County,
FORUM TO SEE FILM ‘THEY DO COME BACK’
A motion picture, “They Do Come Back,” will be shown at 7:45 p.m, tomorrow in the World War Memorial at the regular meeting of the City-Wide Youth Forum. Miss Flora Dutchen, a representative of the Marion County Tuber culosis. Association, will speak,
You Can Get a Genuine
SCHICK “CAPTAIN”
Pay as Little as he
A WEEK
For 54 Years Your Dependable Jewelers
for as Little as
Models to $17.50
There is not a man anywhere who would not be everlastingly grateful for a Schick Shaver — The electric razor preferred by most men. Rost | has a full assortment of models—let us place one in | our Lay-Away for Christmas | delivery.
LNCS HIRI A NSSF 7
ITS THE SMOKERS CIGARETTE
Every step in the making of Chesterfield Cigarettes is supervised by skilled inspec-
tors. One is here shown examininga”hand
of tobacco before it
where every part of the stem is removed. (Az seen in the new film “TOBACCOLAND; U. S. A”)
”
goes to the stemmery
Dack
c the 5 Hester fos % Betsey
7 Defy; lel; 7 asle, ’
esterfiel
Gap yrighs 1249, LicsRIx & Mxaas TOBACCO Cok
»