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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
NEW HEARING
ON TAX REFUND
CASE ORDERED
BaItzeII'S Ruling Reversed
by U. S. District Court
of Appeals.

City, county, school and Indiana
Taxpayers Association officials to-
day considered further steps for
settlement of the E. G. Atkins Com
pany suit to determine whether APP
proximately 10000 Marion County
taxpayers shall receive 100000 IN
tax refunds.
The United States District Court
of Appeals at Chicago late Wednes-
day reopened the case when 1t re-
versed Federal Judge Robert G.
Baltzelrs ruling dismissing the case
for want of jurisdiction.
Judge Baltzell now must set a
date for a new hearing of the case.
The suit was filed Aug. Is, 1927,
under direction of the Indiana Tax
payers Association, and was dis
missed by Baltzell Dec. %, the At
kins company appealing immedi-
ately
Called Unconstitutional
The refund muddle arose from a
horizontal increase in assessment
against 10000 taxpayers in the
years 1919, 1920 and 1921, by the
State tax board. The increase later
was declared unconstitutional by
the Indiana Supreme Court.
Preparation of Marion County
taxing officials to refund the taxes
collected on the horizontal increase
resulted in filing of the suit by the
Atkins company, charging the re-
fund would be unconstitutional and
confiscatory to large taxpayers.
The complaint charges the Atkins
company and 600 other corporations,
paying taxes on two-fifths the as
sessed property in Center Township,
were not affected by the horizontal
increases and would not participate
in refunds, but would be taxed to
raise mony for refunds to others.
Jurisdiction Attacked
These corporations, it is averred.
were assessed either originally or
On certif1cation by the tax board.
the horizontal increases being made
to bring the other three-fifthS Of
the assessed property IN Cne VoWn-
ship up to an equal level.
a.. Jurisdiction of Federal Court was
attacked last fall by four taxpayers,
william H. Smith, Elizabeth Mas
tiers, John w. Staub and George T.
Hammel, who we're granted right 10
become intervening defendants.
Attorney A. L. Raab said the rul-
ing may be appealed to the United
States Supreme Court by the inter-
-vening defendants. Final decision
will not be made until copy of the
Chicago court order is received,
he said.
Final decision in the local suit
will affect similar refunds proposed
in the ninety-one Other counties Of
the State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
LET
FOR CITY TRUCK
Sanitary Commissioners
Also Buy TraiIerS.

City sanitary commissioners today
awarded contracts to the Mack
Truck Company and the Highway
Trailer Company for one five-ton
truck and eight garbage collection
trailers.
The Mack Truck Company, rep
resented locally by George Bailey,
bid $3.50 on the truck The Indi-
ana Truck Company submitted low
bid of $4,625.
The Highway bid totalled $13,360,
$1,670 for each trailer The Hvoss
Company of New York submitted
low bid of SLIPS each without SAN
itary covers.
The board awarded the contracts
today following a private conference
with Mayor L. Ert Slack. 1t was
said Slack agreed with the board
which unanimously favored the
equipment which is in use at
present.
"It was a question of the quality
of the product" City Engineer A.
H. Moore said.
B. j. T. Jeup, board member, de-
clared the board unanimously fa-
vored the Mack and Highway prod
ucts because the department knew
what they would do"
e. L. Norman president Of the
Highway company, Edgerton, Wis,
said the trailers known as the en-
dianapolis special were designed
particularly for use here.
Attorney j. j. Daniels said the
specifications for the equipment
provided that the board shall ac-
cept the Lowest and best bid which
will serve the best interests of the
sanitary district in the light of serv-
ice required"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
BIC BILL HELD
GUILTY OF PLOT
TO CHEAT CITY
Chicago Tribune Wins Tax
{ Suit Which Involves
Millions.
BIZ United Press

81 tHlJcd PTcSS
CHICAGO, June 81. Circuit
Judge Hugo Friends decision find
ing Mayor William Hale Thompson
guilty of conspiracy to defraud the
city of Chicago is "incomprehensi-
BILE" to the mayor
Thompson, one of ten city officials
and real estate experts who were
named defendants in the action
brought by the Chicago Tribune,
made plans today for appealing
from the decision.
The ruling was returned after
seven years of litigation arising
from a Identification project de-
veloped during previous Thomp-
son administration.
1t ordered the defendants to re-
store to the city treasury $1,732,-
279.23 in fees paid to real estate
experts, engaged to work on the
plan.
The Tribune, which filed the suit
in 1921 as a taxpayer, charged that
the defendants intended to use the
fees for their private benefit and
for Mayor Thompson'S campaign
fund.
Named with the mayor as de-
PENDANTS were George F. Harding,
city controller in 1921 and county
treasurer now; Michael ]. Flaherty,
president of the board of local i'm
provements then and now; percival
B. Coffin, State public administra-
tor, and Edward G. Waller, Jr.;
Ernest H. Lyons, Arthur S. Mari
gold. Crarles M. Nichols, Aronld H.
and Frank j. Koch,
former real estate experts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
RoSENTHAL RITES SET
Forty Five-Year Resident Will Be
Buried SATURDAY..

Funeral services for Harry Ros-
enthal, So, of 400 Virginia Ave, will
be held at the home at p. m. Sat-
irday, followed by burial at Me-
mortal Park cemetery.
Mr.. Rosenthal, native of Ft.
Wayne, had lived here for forty-five
years and was one of the pioneer liv-
erymen of the city. For more than
thirty years he operated livery sta
bles in various parts of the city. The
last six years he owned a garage at
815 e. Market st.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs
May Rosenthal; a daughter. Mrs
Floyd c. Scarlet, Indianapolis, and
six brothers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
NEGRO GETS SIS LOOT
Burglar Ransacks Home; Another
Frightened Away.

Returning home Wednesday
night, Mrs. Ethel English, 1916
Blaine Ave-, surprised a burglar. He
ran out back door without loot.
Porter Rutlant, Negro, 1044 W..
Twenty Fifth St., called police at 2
a. m. that his daughter had been
awakened by a burglar who had
ransacked the home and taken loot
valued at $75 before he was discov-
cred and fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Factory Worker Killed

A thirty-pound bar from a
Forging hammer fell more than
twenty feet onto the head of Harry
Hudson, 46, of 1922 Ringgold ST.,
"wednesday afternoon killing him
almost instantly in the shops of
the indianapolis Drop Forge Com
pany, 1900 Madison Ave. He is sur
vives - widow and two sons, one
married. Ill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

Chesyn the factory support herself Lewis and
younger children.
all school, hope that he make the
looking forward
picnic will Ripple
activities that resting and talking
young brimfun day pleasure
committee has arranged athletic contests on the morn
which begins at 10 O'Clock After lunch there will be
addition special for the chill
dren Prizes will
be O'Clock.
will fat mans in which
each inch of height The Mar
Moving pictures and dancing have been
fol- be entertainment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
AL IS WET
ASSERTS AID
l. OPENS ISSUE
viii Emphasize Personal
Liberty, State Rights,
Mack Believes.
DEBATE PARTY PLANK
Governor Is Dry as Hoover,
Says WOmen'S Leader;
Fight Looms.
BY CARL ID. GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent


HOUSTON, Texas, June 21.-The
Statement of Norman Mack, New
York national committeeman, that
Gov. Alfred E. Smith is opposed to
prohibition, but favors States rights,
personal liberty and temperance,
brought the prohibition issue out
into the open in the pre-battle ma
neuvering today among Democratic
convention forces.
While Mack is close to Smith and
d member of his advance board of
strategy" many Smith followers
preferred to await a statement di-
rect from the Governor rather than
to take Mack's words as final.
His Own Opinion
Mack himself, when reached
shortly before midnight, emphasized
that his statement was merely an
expression of his own personal
views, and added that mo one here
is authorized to express Governor
Smiths mind on any subject of
such Importance"
He said Governor Smith believed
In letting States determine the al
coholic percentage of their beve-
RACES, adding IF State desires to
be dry, then it is the right of that
State to be dry
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, first vice
chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee, and as such gen.
orally regarded as the leader of
Democratic women, told the United
Press she regarded Smith as dry
as Hoover" She indicated she felt
Macks statement was inconclusive
Wet-Dry Fight Looms
There was tendency among dry
women, campaigning against Gov
ernor Smith, to accept Mack's
81 tement as proof of their claims
that the New York executive is a
wet.
Some quarters foresaw that the
brewing signs of a row over the
sdry-wet issue might mean an at
tempt to have the Democrats go
into the election fight as the vets
and the Republicans as the drys, but
older leaders insisted the Democrats
would come out with a law en-
forcement plank fully as vigorous as
the Republicans at Kansas City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Hoosier Dies of Injuries
By United Press

SOUTH BEND, Ind, June 21.--
Charles H. Barnes, South Bend Boy
Scout executive and one time Chi
cago fire inspector, died at Cassop-
oils, Mich, today of shock and in
juries suffered in an auto crash at
Vandalia, Mich, Wednesday. He is
the second local Scout executive to
meet violent death in the past five
years. His predecessor, Chief Joseph
Taylor, drowned in Magician Lake,
Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
MAN AND BOY MISSING
Mother Says 13-Year-Old Son Left
Home Wednesday.

Jake Arousti, 10, left his home
at 1890 S. Capitol Ave-, Wednesday
and has not been seen since, his
mother reported to police today.
Louis T. Brewer, "A, Of S08 N.
Randolph ST., left home Wednes-
day for work, but failed to arrive
there, his wife told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Negro AbandOns Car, Escapes

Abandoning a stolen automobile
after crashing into the corner of a
garage in an alley near Thirty
Eighth st. and Broadway Wednes-
day night, Negro escaped from
police after a chase through alleys
and streets on the north side. The
car is the property Of E. H. Habig,
1884 N. Talbot st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
c. of G. Change Ofanes

Indianapolis Chamber of Com
employees today were NOV
ing into new Office space on the
second floor of the Chamber of
Commerce Bldg. The second floor
rear has been remodelled. All
offices formerly on the third floor
are being moved to the lower floor
for greater convenience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
YOUTH SHOOTS SELF;
DRIVES CAR FOR HELP
Police Believe Girl Cause of Sui
eide Attempt.

Howard P. Morton, % of Poll N.
Pennsylvania ST., is in a critical
condition at city hospital today
from bullet he fired into his body
near the heart while sitting in his
automobile at Illinois st. and the
canal Wednesday.
Morton told police he was "just
tired of living" but officers believed
a quarrel with a girl was the cause
T. A. Barry, 2006 N. Pennsylvania,
ST., heard Morton footing his horn
and calling for help and called DO
lice, but when he reached the place
where Morton's machine had been
parked Morton had driven away.
Morton drove his car to a filing
station at Forty Sixth and Illinois
SITS, then collapsed, declaring "I've
been shot"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
FavOrs Higher Buildings

BIZ Ifn1oS NDeCidI
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 21.-
The city council has adopted an
amendment to the coming ordinance
permitting an increase in height of
downtown buildings from ten 70
twelve stories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Twelve DIE in FLAMES
Fire Sweeps 100 Damascus Homes;
Many Persons Hurt.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, June 21.-Fire at DamaS-
Gus killed twelve people, caused in
juries to several firemen, destroyed
100 houses and threatened the cita-
del, a dispatch from Beirut to the
Intransigeant said today. Another
dispatch reported that an entire
quarter of the city was burned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Injured Woman, ss, May Die

By Times Special
MARION, Ind, June 21.-Mrs.
Sarah A. Perry, 88. is expected to
die of injuries suffered when she
was struck by an automobile driven
by R. j. McClintock, Anderson,
while crossing a street here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

The burning of coal in London
was punishable offense in the
fourteenth century, one man actu-
ally being executed for disobeying
the order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

Tender feet-tired, aching, burn
ing and swollen feetI The minute
you put them into "Tiz" bath
you can feel the. pain being drawn
out and glorious comfort being re-
stored.
"Tiz" draws out the poisons and
acids that cause your feet to ache,
swell and burn. It also takes the
soreness out of corns, calluses and
bunions. Get box of "Tiz" at any
drug or department store and have
real foot comfort at last. Costs only
q few cents.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
SMITHS STAND ON PROHIBITION WAITED BY DEMOCRATS
Employees Look Fo1"wurd
tOAmnuaIMa7mOn Picnic

r. z. Roberts,
10, has been en-
ployed by the
Marmon Motor
G ar Company
for forty = eight
ye arS. Lewis
Cheslyn, 16, has
b e n employed
there for slightly
more than forty
e / G hit hours
However, t h e
difference in the
ages and lengX:
of service of the
two has not kept
them from be-
coming g o o c
friends, b u t
r a t h er h a S
served to bring
them together.
Uncle Bob, as
the veteran en-
ploye is known
around the Mar
mon plant, has
taken a liking to
L e W / S, t h c
youthful appren-
tice, and is do
ing his best to
smooth the diff
cult road the
young man must
travel.
81 e W / S is
a bright boy, all
right, and he's
learning fast"
Uncle Bob said.
Hes working to
save money to go
to school this
winter. His ia
ther is dead and
kfr v,,Af1,nN NTVsc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
India Bank Cuts Rate
BIZ United Press

bW CNtttu PTe95
CALCUTTA, June 21.-The I'M
perlal Bank of India today reduced
us discount rate from per cent to
6 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
HOLDS MAN FOR POLICE
Captor Says Intruder Was Stealing
Tire from Garage.

John Breedlove, So5 Warman Ave,
held Leon Kisler, 25, of 566 S. War
man Ave, for police Wednesday
night and charged he caught Kis-
der in his garage trying to steal a
spare tire. Breedlove said a quantity
of automobile tire tools not owned
by him were on the floor of his
garage. A toy pistol resembling an
automatic was found with the tools,
police said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

$40 buys a good 100-lb. icer re-
1rigerator. See the ad in tonight's
mIScellaneouS/for sale want ads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

Refinance your auto payments
now on easier terms. Confidential
and Quick. Cpaitol Loan Co., 14119
E. Wash. St.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Reed Stands AIoof

Reed has refused to assume COM
tnand of the desperate group which
still hopes to beat Smith. He VIII
not join proposed stop Smith or
bust" battle, for should Smith fail
to make the grade, Reed expects to
inherit most of the New York Gov
errors strength
Reeds hopes are based on two
gather remote possibilities. The first
is that his strength, plus that OF
such favorite sons as Pomerene OF
Ohio, George of Georgia, Hull OF
Tennessee, Ayres of Kansas, Hitch
cock of Nebraska and Woollen OF
Indiana, will be enough to hold
Smith for at least five ballots. In
that event, Reed believes the New
Yorker cannot be nominated.
Counts on Deserters
The Missourian expects that
many pro-Smith delegations, If con-
yinced their favorites nomination
can be accomplished only through
a protracted convention and FAC
tional strife, will turn. to him.
The Reed camp says it has DELI
A;te word that some of Smiths al
lies will desert him if he does not
deliver before the fifth ballot,
Everybody seems to fear fight
chat will mean disastrous defeat in
November. But Smith leaders, al
ready on hand, insist he will be
nominated within four ballots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

State Rd. So, sos miles near French
cOnstrqcson compan Bedford STATE Fd
81 X 4sIp 3, %oAtcs SamIe 77a2 miles
State Rd. Al. 0.7S2 miles in Fountain
County. approaches to a bridge at Ster-
ling, $19,7e2 .08, w. J. Nees Company
Mishawaka, and State Rd. So. 10.45l miles
in Jasper County from Rensselaer, to four
miles north of AK, $197, 055.67, McAfee g.
Smith.
The commission also received bids on
grading one-third of a mile of State Rd
relocation Of a bridge. The low bid I'D was vas
made by John L. Erwin of Logansport, who
offered to do the work for $14, 90.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
Reed Is 'LoWden'
BY RAY TUCKER
United Press STAFF Correspondent


HOUSTON, Texas, June 21.-The
pre- alignment against
AL Smith here is almost an exact
duplicate of that which confronted
Herbert Hoover at Kansas City be-
fore the political roof caved in on
such Republican Samsons as But
Ter. Mellon and Hilles.
Jim Reed, Smiths most formid-
able opponent, is the Frank o.
Lowden of this situation. The
Missouri Senator has more dele
gates than anybody but Smith. He
is holding aloof from the coalition
kof favorite sons and extreme drys
and hopes to pull out of a possible
deadlock with the nomination. So
Lowden vainly hoped at Kansas
&r1itv
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, June 21.-Wilda
Bennett, actress, will pay her
former landlady, Mrs. Charlotte
King Palmer, $4O0 instead of $4,000,
a jury decided today.
1t cost $4,000 to repair the apart
ment after Miss Bennett had lived
in it two years, Mrs. Palmer
charged.
1t had to be redecorated, she
said; she had to build new closet,
replace broken dishes and repair
the player piano.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21
OPEN BIDS ON
STATE PAVING
Contracts for 22' Miles to
Be Awarded.

State Highway Commission today
received bids on approximately
twenty-five miles of paving work at
a cost of $405, $50, as the fourth let
ting of it's 1928 program.
Approximately 205 miles of paw
ing will be under contract when
after examination the low bids at
today's letting will be accepted. To-
gether with forty-five miles of paw
ing under the 1927 contracts the
commission will have under con-
struction $50 miles of paving, John
D. Williams, Highway director an
nounced.
The fifth letting of this season
will be held late in July.
Low bidders and projects in to-
u oxy1c 1nfk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-21

The promontories on each side of
the Strait of Gibraltar are known
as the Pillars of Hercules.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-18
SEVEN policemen
TO HAVE hearings
Five Regulars and Two
Supernumeraries +" on
Carpet"

Five regular and two supernum-
erary policemen have been ordered
to appear before the discipline COM
mlttee of the police board at 7:ao
o'clock tonight to answer to COM
plants of alleged infractions of de.
partmental rules. They are: onicers
Ernest p. Bloomquist. william Pc.
litis, John O'keefe, James Sullivan
and Clarence kumm. Supernumer-
airy Officers Giuseppe Gigliotti and
L. W. Riley.
1t is understood that some Of the
officers missed duty calls while
others in the group are alleged to
have committed other offenses. Tho
committee. which is composed Of
commissioners H. E. Morton and z.
A. Parker. will make a report at the
next meeting Of the board.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-18
Three Killed at Del
Ray, IS in Okeecho-
bee City and II Re.
ported Dead In West
Palm Beach.
Latter City Is Virtual
Wreck With Hardly 4
Building Escaping In.
jury-Worst Storm in
History of Florida.

Jacksonville. Fla, Sept is o.
win S3 known dead. more than $50
injured, several thousand homeless
ana property losses estimated into
millions OF dollars, the hurricane
stricken sectors of Florida today en-.
deavored to ascertain the fun extert
of the blow.
howard W. Selby, chairman of the
hed Cross chapter in West Palm
beach estimated the damage to that
area at $20,00O,00o, of which h.
SAID slo.oo0.000 was for the Palm
Beaches.
Varying Accounts
While relief measures got fullv
under way at Palm Beach, expedi-
hons We're entering the Lake Okee.
chobee region where varying ac.
counts of loss of life and propertv
Damage have been given by per.ons
VINO came out seeking aid for those
behind. Fifteen were known to be
dead in the Okeechobee city and
while the relief committee at West
Palm Beach counted II dead m,
police at Del Ray reported three
lives we're lost there. Five Of the
deaths reported by the relief com.
mlttee were at Pahokee and we're &c.
counted for in large measure
while Lake Okeechobee overfowed
its dlkes and flooded the country
side. Hundreds of homeless families
We're being cared for at refugee
homes in West Palm Beach. Lake
Worth. Boynton and Del Raw.
Hotels, apartment houses, schools.
churches and courthouses we're
thrown open for this purpose.
The city of West Palm Beach II
virtually wreck. Hardly 4 building
escaped injury. The business district
looks as if it had been sheIled BY
enemy guns. Residential sections Of
the city are but little better OF.
Hard Hit
Palm Beach proper also was nit
hard. Many buildings were com.
pletely down and a part Of Royal
Palm avenue was under water.
The surrounding country suffered
TO similar extent. Beginning at
stuart on the north, to Pompano,
50 miles to the south. the hurricane
le1t nothing but wreckage ana de-
struction In its path.
Deerfield and Boynton are deyas.
lated. Lake Worth was severely hit.
CONTINUED on Pare 17N