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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
DEBATE STATE
INCOME TAXES
Next Steps on Proposed
Measure Being Planned.

Next steps to be taken on the pro-
posed income tax amendment to the
Indiana constitution were being
planned today at a meeting of the
joint house and senate committee
on constitutional revision of which
Senator Roy M. FREELY, Muncie, is
chairman.
The committee heard arguments
at a public hearing in the senate
chamber Wednesday night.
Louis Taylor, Newburgh, first
president of the Indiana Farm
Federation, presented arguments or
the income tax and William A. For
tune and Charles R. Metzger, In
dianapolis, spoke against it.
Taylor pictured the state income
tax as an equitable means of bearing
the tax burden. He pointed out
that it places the responsibility on
those who are able to bear it. The
present tax system he termed bur-
del to the farmer and entirely out
of date.
Fortune agreed with Taylor on
the criticism of the present method
of taxation but termed the income
tax as an impossible solution,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
STEAKS AT STAKE
Childs' Split on Cabbage Policy

the Meat Eaters and the vege-
tarianS.
The vegetarians in the $4,000
600 chain restaurant armed with
proxies from other stockholders
enter the flank steak attack led
by William Childs, founder of the
company.
Childs' cabbage barrage resulted
Wednesday in the dismissal of S.
Willard Smith, president and gem
eralissino of the porterhouse bri-
gade; L. E. Boswell, secretary
treasurer Of the company, and
William A. Barber, general coun-
sci.
The discharged officers are said
to have forced Childs to abandon
mis- meatless idea in the chain last
August when the restaurants lost
money.
Childs replaced the company's
"hig-steak" men with relatives who
like okra. He charges the officials
dismissed attacked his vegetarian
policy and the vogue of elaborate
art designs In the restaurants.
They deny the charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
HONOR TO employees
Farewell Given Two on
Leaving Pennsy Jobs.

A farewell party was given by
employees of the Pennsylvania rail-
road at the Union Station this aft
ernoon for Anton Weiland. 1921 Lex
ington avenue, locomotive painter,
and w. M. Robertson, 1925 North
Capitol avenue, passenger conductor,
who will retire Saturday to the rail-
roads pension roll of honor.
Weiland has worked for the Penn
sylvania since 1881 and has worked
at the East Washington street shop
as a painter since 1887, He Is a
charter member Of the Indianapolis
Division, Veteran Employees Associa-
ton, the Athletic Association and
belongs to the Voluntary Relief De-
partment.
Robertson went to work for the
railroad in 1877 and for the last
forty-one years has been running
regularly as passenger conductor on
the main line between indianapolis
and Louisville. He recently received
gold button for over half a CEN
.tury'S work for the Pennsylvania.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
VEIL IDENTITY
OF WITNESS IN
STEUBEN PROBE
Woman Said to Be Widow
OF Noted State
Gambler.
BIZ Times Speciql

BIZ Times Special
ANGOLA, Ind. Jan. 31.-Grand
jury investigation of Steuben coun-
tvs crime ring continues today after
testimony of a mystery witness
brought state police before a special
session of the jury Wednesday
night. The session continued far
into the night. 4
George McHie assistant chief Of
state police, refuses to reveal name
of the witness who was from point
down state, but indicated that the
testimony was of the utmost impor-
lance. 1t is said the witness was
Mrs. Milton Brokaw, widow of M.
j. (Ginger) Brokaw, who was the
owner of gambling concessions
throughout the middlewest. His ac-
tivities were largely outside Steuben
county. 1t was recalled that while
he was i'll at his home here several
months ago an urgent telephone
message was received from a man
who was deputy of former Sheriff
Charles G. Zimmerman, insisting
upon an immediate interview. It is
kown that despite his condition,
Brokaw went to the porch of his
home for this interview.
Shortly after returning to his
room, where he lay down upon a
couch, he rolled to the flor dead.
It was rumored that protection
for gambling was the object of con-
versation.
Deputy Sheriff Russell Eckert,
who testified at great length
Wednesday before the grand jury,
was questioned again at night and
Is before the grand jury again to-
day. Special Prosecutor j. A. Red
mond, who has bee nabsent from
jury sessions on account of illness,
is back today displacing Rex EN-
erick, who was sworn in Wednes-
day as a special prosecutor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
TWO ARE DEAD,
SIX INJURED IN
BLAZE ON SHIP
Fire Breaks Out in Liner as
Vessel Waits to Start
Round World Cruise.
"a Ttlifed presa

By United Press
JERSEY CITY. N. j., Jan. 81
Fire which started early today in
the midship berth deck of the Dol
lar liner President johnson burned
two men to death and injured six
others as the vessel lay at pier 9.
awaiting its departure for Cuba on
the first leg of an around-the-world
cruise.
The bodies of the dead were so
badly charred police said .dentifi-
cation would be difficult.
Five of the injured were: San
Francisco seamen, william Con
zales, John Tiler, John Last, Les
lie Jordan, and John Lenahan. The
sixth was a Jersey City fireman,
Peter Mahoney, who refused to stay
at the city hospital and returned to
duty. All suffered second degree
burns except Lenahan who leaped
overheard and suffered from sub
mersion and bruises.
Police and customs guards rounded
up 103 Chinese members of the
crew who fled to shore. After more
than three hours, firemen, respOud-
ing to second alarm, succeeded
in extinguishing the flames and the
Chinese were returned to the boat.
A carelessly tossed cigaret butt
was believed to have started the
blaze in the hunks of the white
members of the crew. The two
killed were believed to have been
trapped asleep in their hunks.
The fire was the third mishap to
Dollar line boats within a short
time. Two weeks ago the Dollar
liner President Garfield vent
aground in the Little Bahama
shoals and eighty-three passengers
were taken off. A few days before
that the President Hayes struck
coral reef near the mouth of the
Panama Canal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
LEASE STORE SITES
Rentals Total 100000
in Four Deals.

Four Washington street business
leases with total rental of about
$1,00O,0O0 were announced today.
New York Apparel Company,
women's apparel chain store opera
tors, will acquire possession of the
storeroom at IL East Washington
street under a f1fteen-year lease.
The room has been occupied by
Petot Shoe Company for seven
years. William H. Block Company
owns the property.
Lerner Shops, Inc, of New York,
bought the Petot Shoe Company
lease at 8 East Washington street.
Amount of the lease of the prop
erty owned by the Caroline Malott
estate was not announced.
The Petot company plans to move
to 48 e. Washington street, occupied
by American Shoe Rebuliders, Inc.
Diamond Brothers Companys
women's apparel store, has leased
the entire floor space at "a West
Washington street. 1t already occu-
pied part of the space.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
SCORES AUTO TAXES
Constant Increase at
Breaking Point, Says Dithm

1.-THE constant annual increase of
taxes assessed against automobiles
and trucks has reached the break
ing point" Henry L. Dithmer, pres
ident of the Polar Ice and Fuel
Company and vice-president of the
Motor Truck Association of Indi-
ana, declared in letters today to
leading induStrialists over the state.
The letters were sent out to win
support for the truck associations
opposition to the gasoline tax in
crease measures now pending in the
Indiana legislature.
'Last year the state highway
commission spent more money than
all other state departments COM
bined,' Dithmer pointed out, and
stated that within the next seven
years nearly $2OO,0O0,OOO will be
spent for road building under the
present schedule of license fees, gas
tax and federal aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
M'NAMEE TO SPEAK
Radio Announcer to Appear
at Shortridge Sunday.

Graham McNamee, famous radio
announcer, will tell some of his ex-
perienceS broadcaSting national po-
litical conventions, big sporting con-
tests and other events of nation
wide interest in an appearance at
Caleb Mills hall. Shortridge high
school, Sunday at $3.50 p. m. under
auspices of the Orchard school.
His subject will be You're on
the Air" McNamee, who was
barytone solist before he became an
announcer, also will sing two groups
of songs, accompanied by Miss Jane
Bauer of the Orchard school music
department. The musical program:
I
(a) .'Vittoria Mo Gore" Carressimi
(bl 'Oft in the Silly Night Old English
tcl Some Rival Has Stolen My True
Love Away" $1,000. Old English
ta) THE Fields o'Ballyclare". .....
tbl 'The Great Awakening ..... .Kramer
tcl 'Leetle Bateese" ........... OHara
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
HOUSE ACCEPTS
BILL TO CLARITY
MANAGER LAW
Test of Strength Fails to
MateriaIize; Report
Approved.

An expected test of strength on
the city manager form of govern
ment failed to develop in the In
diana house of representatives to-
day when the cities and towns COM
mittee reported favorably on the
Noll bill clarifying and strengthen
ing the 1921 city manager law.
The house accepted the report
and passed the bill to second read
ing without debate.
Representative Lloyd D. Clay
combe, Indianapolis, who did not
have the support of city manager
forces in the last election, has
promised a bill for establishment
of the federal plan of checks and
balances for Indianapolis, while re-
tanning some of the features of the
commission manager plan.
Senator John c. Sherwood Of Nit
chell, chairman Of the senate cities
and towns committee, expected to
call a meeting of his committee to-
day for consideration of the repeal
bill introduced by Senator George
w. Sims of Terre Haute, and the
measure introduced by Senator Sum-
ner Clancy of indianapolis, seeking
of a commission to
codify the cities and towns act and
report recommendations to the 1881
legislature.
A duplicate of the Noll bill, in
t. duced in the senate by Senator
Winfield Miller, Indianapolis, also
rests in the hands of Sherwood's
committee. 1t was regarded prob
able the senate committee would
hold all three measures in COM
mittee while watching progress OF
thc Noll bill in the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
EMERGENCY UNIT is
ORGANIZED BY LEGION
Services Available to Community in
Time of Disaster.

4AAAC Vi D1SdSLCIs
Marion county organizations of
the American Legion have organized
an emergency relief unit that will be
available for service in event of
community disaster, it was an
nounced Wednesday night by Bar.
nett w. Breedlove, county COM
mander of the Legion, at meeting
of Voiture las of the Forty and
Eight, fun group of the Legion.
The organization is made up of
about 200 legionaires and will aid
police and other constituted author
tiles during time of trouble or dis
aster such as the cyclone which
struck indianapolis two years ago.
-Four limitations are scheduled for
this year, it was announced. They
will be held March Is, June q, Aug.
Is, and Dec. S. 1t was decided to
hold business meetings the third
Thursday of each month at the ma
tional legion headquarters, TIT North
Meridian street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
WORLD TRADE CLUB
ELECTS FIRST OFFICERS
r. w. Showalter Is President Of
New Organization.

r. w. Showalter Is President OF
New Organization.
The new World Trade Club of In
dianapoIis tooay was fully organized
following election of officers
Wednesday at the Chamber of Com
merce. r. w. Showalter of Eli
Lilly e. Co. was named president
Other officers named were S. J.
Dyer, Real Silk Hosiery Mills. vice.
presidents, and G. G. Dunphy, secre-
tary of the chamber wholesale trade
division, secretary.
Executive committee is composed
of K. r. LaF'orge. the Gibson Com
pany; M. w. Socwell, Fletcher
American National bank; Carl S.
Wagner, Insley Manufacturing Com
pany; r. L. Gard, Marietta Manu-
featuring Company; L. H. Helm,
Norfolk & Western Railway Com
OanV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
PLANE 'LECCER
SENTENCED TO
STATE PRISON
Collins Orders Youth
to Serve Term in
Reformatory.

Rollin Stewart, %, Cambridge
apartments, known as the "airplane
bootlegger," will serve one to two
years in the state reformatory for
transportation of liquor.
This was the order of Criminal
Judge James A. Collins today when
he sentenced the youth, who also is
an airplane pilot and law student,
one to two years on transporting
charge and revoked suspension of
a like sentence given him last
March.
May Appeal Case
Prosecutor Judson l.. Stark and
Deputy Paul Rhoadarmer, who
prosecuted the case. said Stewart
will be imprisoned on the revoked
sentence, while defense attorneys
are carrying Joday's conviction to
the supreme court. If he has served
his time before the high court acts
and the latter court should affirm
Collins, Stewart will have to serve
the second sentence, they said
Collins remanded Stewart to the
custody of the sheriff but will allow
him until Feb. 9 to arrange personal
matters and for his attorneys to
file for a new trial before he is
taken to the reformatory.
The conviction today resulted
from Stewards arrest Oct. 6 by po-
lice when they chased his speeding
auto to st. Clair and Illinois streets.
When they searched Stewart they
found part bottle of wine and a
pint of whisky concealed in his
chamois skin vest, they said.
Denies knowledge of Booze
II don't know who the liquor be-
longed to-" Rollins testified. 1.-THE
car was owned by a friend of mine
and was taking it to him. I found
the liquor behind the front seat and
when saw the police car coming
I slipped it in the vest I was wear
ing"
Ellsworth Davidson, 1886 Congress
avenue, said he was riding with
Stewart when tine arrest was made
He said he had been to an airport
with Stewart after the latter had
called at his sign business to get an
lad that he was going to put on his
plane"
Several members of the w. G. r.
U. were present when Collins an
nounced his ruling. The court Sc
verely criticised the youth for fall
ure to keep faith with the court on
the suspended sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
MINOR TO KEEP JOB

Report Park Board Head States for
Reelection Thursday.
Reelection of John E. Minor,
board president, is slated at the
annual park board reorganization
meeting next Thursday.
It was reported at city hall that
Minor, a Republican, will be elect
ed head o fthe park board another
year.
Mayor L. Ert Slack, Democrat,
cast the deciding vote electing Mil
nor last year when a tie vote was
cast by the four board members.
Custodians and janitors will. be
named for city parks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
LIMITATIONS STATUTE
LAW MAY BE CHANGED
Bill Drafted to Cover Part of Leslie
Recommendations.


Governor Harry G. Leslie's recon-
mendation in his address to the
general assembly that the statute of
limitations for crimes by public of
f1cials be repealed will be partially
carried out in a measure to be in
troduced today by State Rep
resentative George w. Freeman,
Kokomo.
This bill will cover the last of the
Governors recommendations.
Leslie asked the statute be re-
pealed but by Freeman's bill pro-
poses to extend the time from two
to six years.
Many of the members feel there
should be a reasonable time for
keeping the official responsible Tor
his acts in office" Freeman said.
The bill also increases the period
of limitation on criminal assault,
robbery, grand larceny, and know
ingly receiving stolen goods, from
five to ten years, and retains the
two-year limit on forgery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
BLOWS IN FURNACE
American Lead Company Refines
1,5Oe Ton Monthly.

The American Lead Company,
1900 East Twenty-first street, a new
major industry of Indianapolis, blew
in its first blast furnace this week
and is now operating on a schedule
of a 1900 tons of refined lead
month, it was announced by Of
ficialS today.
Officers and directors are men
prominent in Indianapolis business
circles. They include Walter c. Mar
mon, Howard c. Marmon, G.. NJ.
Williams, Norman A. Perry, Lucius
M. Wainwright. Hugh NICK. Lam
don, r. M. Hill, Edwin S. Pearce,
Burren Wright and Walter Schoen-
bach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
NAVY EQUAL
TO ANY URGED
BY jim REED
Declares World Is Heavily
Armed; Points to Britain
Fortifying Bermuda.

SENATE
Considers Jones amendment TO
change secrecy rules.
Post Office committee hears witnesses
on Memphis postmaster case.
Public lands committee considers Walsh
and Glenn reports.
Interstate commerce committee con-
tInues Ne5 investigation.
Agriculture committee considers cal
endar bills.
Immigration committee hears govern
ment officials on Nye resolution to post
pOne national origins provision.
Brookbart committee continues patron.
axe investigation.
HOUSE
Debates first deficiency bill.
WAYS and means committee continues
tariff hearings.
Irrigation committee considers loans
80 leyee districts.
bill TO transfer military parks TO interior
department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-A bat
IN tie over whether the public
likes carrots and turnips better
than steaks has resulted in the
dismissal of three executiveS O. the
Childs Restaurant Company and
today may rend the company into
two factions fighting for control
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
COUNTY CASH GUARDED
Money Taken to Bank In Ar1nored
Car, Well Manned.
Bandits. beware!

Bandits. beware!
County Treasurer Clyde E. Robin
son today put into operation a new
method of carrying funds to his Of
flee to local banks. Under escort of
an armed deputy sheriff squad. the
office messenger is driven to the
banks in an emergency car. The
entire staff of deputies is armed
and the car carries machine guns.
Heretofore, the money was de-
livered with an escort Of messengers
walking to and from the court
house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
BY PAUL Z. MALLON
nnit.a pr..s star corre.pondens

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.--A vote
on the cruiser bill being assured for
Monday, the senate laid aside the
bill today to fight out the question
of whether it is going to have any
more secret sessions to conflrm
nominees for public office.
Advocates of the naval building
program were heartened by the
ringing speech of Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri so they consented
to the plan Of Senator Jones OF
washington, the Republican whip
who wants g. vote on his proposal
to change the rules.
The Reed speech, delivered by the
master Of oratorical diction, en-
couraged the cruiser bill advocates
to claim the bill will be passed Mon
DAY without change from its present
form. even though it contains the
time limit clause Objectionable to
President Coolidge.
ST am in favor Of cruisers and I
want them built now" said Reed. 1
believe it Is the duty OF every man
to look after his own household.
I believe it is the duty OF every
nation to look after its own safety.
Pleads for Big Navy
II favor a navy equal to any on
earth and strong enough SO no two
countries can attack it. The inter-
est on our war debts could pay
for it,
While advocates of the cruiser
oil sat in close attention nodding
their heads Reed gave statistics
indicating the nations of the earth
ere heavily armed. He based his
demand for an adequate navy on
the activities of Great Britain in
Aiming Bermuda; in CONTROL
ing a, circle of islands around the
Panama canal. in enlarging its
navy. and "building fortresses to
line the shores of the seven seas.
II do not say Great Britain is
preparing for war with the United
States but do say her statesmen
have enough sense to protect their
country" Reed added Gan Amer
lean statesman who does not learn
a lesson from that fact isn't fit to
represent the American people,
Reed particularly devoted his sar-
casm to "the whimperings and
winnings Of individuals who too
often led us into mistakes" He
said the United States should not,
like Diogenes, wander along with
its eyes on heaven and stumble into
a pit.
Lowest Animal Form
"The lowest form of animal" he
said, ''is the citizen of any country
who thinks more of internationalism
than he does of nationalism.
Senator Brookhart Rep., Ia)
gave the answer of opponents of the
bill. since he was particularly
singled out by Reed and caustically
referred to as Admiral Brookhart,
General Brookhart, Chief of Staff
Brookhart, General Voice of the
People Brookhart and Voice of
Mankind Brookhart. who claimed
cruisers are useless"
THE one constructive thing SEN
ator Reed has done in this body
was his vote for the Kellogg multi
lateral treaty" said Brookhart. His
great speech starts out with canni-
balism and winds up with cannibal-
ism.
Let us remind him that he who
lives by the sword will perish by
the sword"
Brookhart commended the navy
should build airships and submar-
ipac if IL hIii1t apythino
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
FILE PADDOCK SUITS

Seek Abatement of Six Alleged
Booze Joints in City.
Abatement suits to paddock six
places in indianapolis where, it is
alleged, the prohibition law has been
violated, were fled in county courts
Wednesday by county prosecutors.
The locations of the places and
names IF persons alleged to be oc-
cupying them are: Frank Fletcher
and Jack Sans, SIC West Washing
ton street; VaSile Yovanovich, $50
West Washington street; Frank and
John Turk, 702 North Holmes ave-
nue.; Mayme Stroupe and Joseph
AkerS, 876 Virginia avenue; Nick
Angelo. COZ East North street, and
Joe Sarbinoff, 40 West Washing
ton street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
EXT0LLS BUSY BEE

Humans May Profit by Their
Example, w Club Told.
Humans may learn some valuable
lessons of behavior from the study
of bees, DR.. Charles j. Mcintyre,
Indianapolis physician declared in
an address on Bees" before the
Bible Investigation Club at the Y.
M. c. A. Wednesday night.
Among other habits of life hu-
mans may profitably study in bees
are those of cleanliness. self control,
production and cooperation, DR..
Mcintyre said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Shaver GEES Life Term

HAMMOND, Ind, Jan. 3l.-Al
Armstrong. East Chicago. is under
sentence of life imprisonment fol-
lowing conviction III Lake criminal
court here of the murder last April
of U. Marovich during quarrel
over liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
DISCUSS CRIME WAVE
KiwanianS Hear Pastor Challenge
Schools, Parents, Church.

Upon the leaders in the home,
churches and schools lies the bur-
den of taking the permanency of
the crime wave, declared DR.. Homer
c. Boblitt, pastor of the Linwood
Christian church, at the weekly
luncheon of the Kiwanis Club at
the Claypool Wednesday.
DR.. Boblitt gave impressions of
Red Russia" from his visit to that
country at the close of the World
war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
Baby Born to Fietion Writer

Los ANGELES, Jan. 3l.-A seven
pound son was born Wednesday to
Adela Rogers st. John. well-known
fiction writer and wife of Dick Hy-
land, former Stanford university
football star.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
OFFERED SCHOOL JOB

AnAOAA 4NAaAA WAY liant AACAAUA AEt
Institute Post
Wilbur Peat, director of the art
institute of Akron, o., has been Of
fered the dictatorship of the John
Heron Art Institute here, IL. was
learned today.
Peat. it is understood, has not
given officials of the Heron insti-
tute an answer to their proposition,
but would report here in June or
July if he accepted.