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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
TAX REDUCTION
is AIM OF new
REALTY GROUP
Lawrence G. Holmes Head
of Movement Launched
by City Realtors.

Organization of Marion county
10000 real property owners tc
achieve tax reduction and advance
their mutual interests is the object
of a movement launched today by
the Indianapolis Real Estate Board
The organization is to be known
as the Property owners Division OF
the board, according to tentative by
laws now prepared, it was an
nounced by Lawrence G. Holmes
executive secretary of the board.
Six Services Given
Purposes of the division, set out
in the bylaws:
To relieve real estate from the
present inequitable distribution of
tax burdens.
To obtain and maintain a uni
form, methodical and equitable Sys-
tenn of valuation of real estate for
tax purposes.
To investigate and control special
assessments where the property as
sessed does not benefit in immediate
market value to the amount of the
levy.
To advise members Of ordinances,
measures and public improvements
which directly may affect their real
property.
To afford property owners oppor-
tunity to act unitedly in obtaining
relief from discriminatory or dam
aging legislation, practices or pro-
cedure.
To affiliate with the national
porperty owners organization spon-
sored by the National Association
of Real Estate Boards in opposing
discriminatory legislation and in
improving generally conditions af-
fecting real estate.
Uniform Assessments Sought
Holmes said the step is taken
after months of study and confer
enceS with property owners, spurTed
to action by failure Of the 1881 leg
islature to relieve real estate Of the
burden of two-thirds of all govern
mental costs.
Most immediate problem of the
organization, Holmes said, will be
the quadrennial assessment Of real
estate next year. The division will
endeavor to assure a more nearly
uniform and equitable assessment
role. Holmes declared county Off
Gals welcome the property owners
division cooperation to this end.
Other problems of the division in
clude study of transportation, zon-
ing and fire insurance. The division
will endeavor to lay before the 1898
legislature ga practical solution of
the tax problem Holmes declared.
Similar property owner groups
have been organized with real estate
board sponsorship in more than 100
cities throughout the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
KEYES, PETERSON
ASK FOR FREEDOM

teen years on pleas of guilty in
Marion criminal court April 9, 1890.
KeyeS and Peterson were alleged
to have financed automobiles two
and three times in some instances.
The amount alleged to have been
embezzled total several thousands,
authorities charged.
Reese Maxwell, former Marion
county grand jury foreman, serving
a two to forlrteen-year sentence for
arson, also is seeking communication
of sentence. He was convicted of
having fired his home on Pleasant
Run boulevard. He was sentenced
to prison June 81, 1880.
Other Marion county prisoners
whose cases will be before the
board:
Gailord Harrod, false pretense:
John Reddy, liquor transportation:
Vernie Mikesell and Jack Rhodes,
grand larceny; Jack OConnor,
Frank Handles and Chester A.
White, criminal assault; Willard
Whitehill, Howard WEIGH and Ed
ward Wilson, robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Y. ". WOODWARD
DEAD; RITES TO
Be ON FRIDAY
Grand Treasurer of Indiana
Knights TempIar Sue
cumbS at His Home.

Last rites for vestaI w. Wood
ward. grand treasurer of the Indi-
ana grand commandery of Knights
Templar. who died Tuesday night
at his home, 26o7 Ashland avenue,
will be held at p. m. Friday at the
Scottish Rite cathedral.
Mr.. Woodward. 50, died from COM
plications sustained following a fall
two years ago.
He was past master of the Pen
talpha lodge. past commander Of
Raper commandery of knights
Templar, as we'll as past grand
commander and grand treasurer of
the Indiana grand commandery.
He was a member of the Murat
temple of the Shrine and treasurer
of the grand council Of Royal and
Select Masters.
Mr.. Woodward had been con-
nected with the wholesale dry
goods in the city since 1875.
Surviving him besides the widow,
are a daughter, Mrs. Joseph E.
Reagan; two grandchildren, Bernice
H. Reagan and Silas B. Reagan,
and sister, Mrs. AIDA White of
KnightStown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Petition State Pardon Board
for Communication of
Sentences.

Petitions for communication of SEN
fences by Paul H. KeyeS and Will
liam Peterson, former heads of the
defunct Peterson Keyes Automobile
Company, will be considered by the
pardon board of the Indiana state
prison April 80.
They we're sentenced two to four
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
'HEIRESS CAT DIES
Persian WiIIed $4,000 by
Wealthy Mistress.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
SAN GABRIEL, Cal, April a.
Mitzi, an 18-year-old Persian cat
which received a $4,000 legacy from
the late DR.. Maude F. Cain, was
buried today under a plum tree in
the garden of the only home she
ever had.
Mitzi lived only six months
longer than her mistress. Heart
disease caused her death. A GER
tificate of death was filed today,
clearing the way for action which
will transfer the $4,000 inheritance
to Miss Otelia Kuschke, lifelong
companion of DR.. Cain. Miss
Kuschke also received the balance
of the estate, estimated at nearly
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
CHAIN STORES
Get Third OF
RETAIL TRADE
Rapid Growth Throughout
United States Shown in
Federal Survey.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Rapid
growth of the chain store in the
United States is shown in a COM
merce department survey disclosing
approximately 38 per cent of the
nations retail business falls to this
development of the modern mass
production and mass-selling era.
The independent store, which still
in many places maintains the con-
facts Of the once familiar general
store that occupied at one time a
place in social life of Americas
towns, continues to get the larger
share of the business, or 81 per cent.
A very close division of the ter
ritory in which each f1ourishes best
is shown in the survey which COW
cred 485 of the 933 cities of 10000
population and over.
Chains Do Best in Cities
The independent stores do the
most business in the smaller cities.
with the chain store doing its larg-
est business in the big cities.
A general theory was deduced that
the larger the city the larger the
proportion Of business that falls to
the chain store.
Sectional and national chain
stores account for approximately II
per cent of total sales in the 485
cities.
Total sales amounted to over
SIS, 100000
The figure varied from 13 per cent
Of total business in smaller cities
from 10000 population to 10000 to
19 per cent in two cities over
100000 population which were in
cluded in the survey.
Range Is Varied
Chains of local stores we're next,
with 20 per cent of total sales. The
percentage ranged from IA per cent
in the smaller cities to % per cent
for the cities of 100000 population.
The range Of the independent
store is from 70 per cent OF total
sales in the smaller cities to so per
cent in the larger cities, where they
shared equally with the two types
of chain stores, for an average IN
the ABS cities of 81 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
BY BEN STERN

A THOUGH almost five and one
"A half years have elapsed since
David c. Stephenson, khan dragon,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
for the murder of Madge Oberholt-
ger, public interest in the case has
no whit abated, street car discus
sions reveal.
Speculation has been rife as to
what action the supreme court will
take on Stephenson's appeal and
the ordinary citizen is at loss over
the courts failure to give him
speedy justice.
Dismissal in the Hamilton circuit
court Of Stoves plea for a writ of
coram nobis, in which his ATTORNEYS
argued that Stephenson was init
Undated from taking the stand in
MS own defense, has whetted the
public interest and curiosity.
Il
Delay of the supreme court in
ruling on the appeal was in a large
measure responsible for defeat of
the Republican nominees for the
supreme court in the 1890 election.
although it is now an open secret
that Judge Willard B. Gemmil of
Marion was one of the members of
the court who was willing. even
anxious, that the case be decided
ITS funny" said one of the street
car conversationalists to his neigh
Dor, as he finished reading a news
paper account of the Hamilton
county hearing, that the supreme
court hasn't done anything about
this case"
Yes answered the other. '"That
is why I voted for the Democratic
candidates for the supreme court.
l thought they would give that fell
low an answer on his appeal. But
it looks as if they aren't going to
DO anything about it either"
Democratic apologists, however.
point out that the two new men,
bers of the court have been on the
bench only few months and it
is necessary for the new judges to
study carefully the briefs in the
case to reach decision.
There can be no doubt that no
matter how much Stephenson was
disliked, Mr.. Average Citizen is
averse to unusual delays in his
legal machinery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
DUCKING JURY SERVICE
Is SCORED BY JUDGE
Well Qualified Persons Should Help,
Baker Tells Store Leaders.

Reluctance of well-qualified per-
sons to serve on juries was scored
by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker
Tuesday night in an address before
members of the Stores Mutual Pro-
tective Association. .
The biggest thing business men
could do in the interest of govern
ment would be to urge everybody
whose name is drawn to serve on the
iuries," Baker declared.
Granting Of pardons to life-terln
prisoners by penal institution
trustees now is so frequent that
life sentence has become practically
equal to the average f1fteen-year
sentence, the judge stated.
The association reelected Arthur
L. Strauss of the L. Strauss & Co.
and elected Arthur G. Brown of the
Marott Shoe Company to its board
of directors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22

at 2 O'Clock Thursday, Friday and
Saturday afternoons, and also will
hold a night session Friday at 8
o'clock
Every woman in the city is in
vited to attend the school. No
admittance charge is made. Just
take the elevator to the fourteenth
floor Of the Lincoln and be seated
in the Travertine room Bring
along your pencil and paper, for
you'll want to write down the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
LOYAL TO THE END
Rx, True Dog, Slain by Bandits

ID x is dead, and his master who
IN wouldn't have given thirty
cents for the dog when he first
got him, today would spare a for
tune if the faithful beast could
be restored.
Rx died in dogdom's tradition
Of loyalty to the human it loves
when two Negroes Tuesday night
sought to hold up his masters
pharmacy at FIT. Wayne avenue
and New Jersey street.
AS permanent a fixture in the
pharmacy as the prescription
blanks bearing the time-honored
medical symbol for which the big
German shepherd dog was named,
Rx lay behind the counter when
the bandits entered the store.
Ralph j. Schillinger, proprietor
and Rx's master, came out from
behind the prescription case when
he heard the men enter. He saw
Frank Cotton, 925 North East
street, customer, braced against
counter, his hands appraised.
stick 'em up, you," one of the
Negroes commanded, menacing
Schillinger with a gun.
His gruff tones reused Rx, who
came bounding from beneath the
counter, his teeth barred in a hate
full snarl. He sprang at the near
est man.
The bandit snapped his gun, and
Rx crashed to the floor, a bullet
tween his eyes. The bandits fled,
and leaped aboard passing taxi.
Police later arrested James Will
liams, 80, Negro, 2417 Ethel street,
chauffeur, who admitted he drove
the cab and took the men to West
indianapolis. He insisted he did
not know them.
Rx was born on Christmas day.
in 1927. His mother was owned
by friend of Schillinger, who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Long Romance

BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April
22.-Thirty years after Edward
B. Cooper proposed to Miss
Marietta Tuttle, they set out
today on their honeymoon.
His original proposal was re-
fused, they both married other
persons, and were left free to
renew the old courtship a year
ago.
They we're married Tuesday
night, and left today for
Bridgetor, N. j., where Cooper
lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Governor Initiated

LAFAYETTE, Ind, April a.
General w. G. Everson. chief
Of the United States military bu-
reau. and Governor Harry G. Leslie
we're among the. group given men,
hership Tuesday night in the Pur-
due university chapter Of Scabbard
and Blade, honorary military fra
ternity. General Everson and Gov
ernor Leslie spoke at a banquet fol-
lowing initiation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
ReIatives Share Estate

ANDERSON. Ind, April 22.-The
will of Mrs. Mary F. CaSsaday, FL
wood, makes requests to five rela-
tiveS. A brother-in-law. Elmer E.
Hilligoss; half-brother, Omer
Bogue. and half-sister, Nora
Elson; a brother, General c. Siders,
Upton, and a sister, Lottie Carney,
Elwood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
BERLIN JoBLEsS RIOT

Hundreds of Unemployed Storm
City Hall; Are Dispersed.
By United Press
BERLIN, April 22.-Tumultuou
scenes occurred today when police
clashed twice with several hundred
unemployed who tried to storm the
city hall. They were dispersed with
sabers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22

NE. MEADOWS, internation-
ally famed expert in the art
Of identifying, will open The
Times annual Beauty School
Thursday afternoon at 2, in the
Travertine room Of the Lincoln
hotel.
Meadows, in constant demand
IN all parts of the country, to i'm
part his secrets of makeup, viii
give lectures and demonstrations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22

many new tips on makeup which
Meadows viii impart.
Meadows is credited by many
Hollywood stars with playing
large part in their success. He has
spent years in adding to the beau
ty Of screen notables and teach
ing them proper makeup, how to
emphasize their good features,
and play down" their defective
ones, the proper rouge to use,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
PLUNGE KILLS ACTRESS
Show Girl Falls or Leaps to Death ;
Another Takes Poison.

By United Press
NEW YORK, April 22.-Lillian
Page, q, an actress, either fell or
leaped to her death from the twen-
ty-second floor of a hotel today.
June O'Brien, another show girl,
was in a serious condition today
after swallowing poison tablets in
another hotel. Her sister told po-
lice she had mistaken them for non
poisonous tablets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
PASTORS INSTALLATION
TO BE HELD SUNDAY
wisconsin Minister to Take Over
Moravian Church Charge.

Ceremonies installing the Rev
George c. Westphal of Ephraim, Wis,
as pastor of the Second MoraVian
Episcopal church. Thirty-fourth and
Hovey streets, will be held Sunday
at the church.
Mr.. Westphal succeeds the Rev
Vernon w. Couillard. who became
nastor of the First Moravian church
Dover, o.
A reception for the new pastor
is scheduled for 7.45 Friday nlgnt
in the social room of the church.
The installation Sunday Will be
conducted by the Rev. F. P. StocKer,
pastor of the First Moravian church
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
PUPILS TO GIVE PLAY
AT CROOKED CREEK
'eThe Ghost Parade" to BE Pre-
scented in School Gymnasium.

Eighth grade pupils of Crooked
Greek school, washington town
ship. will present 1.-THE Ghost
parade" in the school gymnasium,
Friday night.
Cast is as follows:
Donald Stewart. Edward Morrison. nsi-
tart Southerland. Jesse B. Norman. Jonn
pyisht' George Laughner. Frances Raoer;
Dorothy Hughev. Marjorie Colder, Ricnaro
Teearden. William Morganson. anna May
[F,,Srs GLADYS Whitfield. Norma Grace,
Esrah Coleman and Ernestine Cline.
Glass. members assisting are:
Maurice Bruce and Jean Pace. advertis-
ing; Jack Orloop, properly manager. MsrS
Dold tickets and Margaret Moore' pioihp-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22

Rx with his master, r. J. SchiIIinger
asked the druggist to buy the
pup.
81 never owned a dog before"
said Schillinger today. 81 didn't
want one then, but I took him to
oblige my friend. Last night
nothing could have bought him, if
he could have been spared"
Rx will be buried this after
noon in the canine cemetery on
East Twenty-f1rst street, north of
Irvington. The dog will be laid
to rest in a casket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
RADICAL PARTY VICTOR

Deposed Argentine President AS
sured Winner in Provincial Vote.
BIZ United Press
BUENOS AIRES, April 22.-The
radical party Of deposed President
Hipolito Irigoyen was assured Of VIC
tory in the Buenos Aires provincial
elections today, despite the vigor-
Gus campaign which the provisional
revolutionary government waged
against it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
ROSE OUTLOOK BRIGHT
rive Thousand Bushes Show Leaf
Buds at Newcastle.
IN Times SpeclaI

BIZ Times Speclut
NEWCASTLE, Ind. April %. =
When members Of the Indiana de-
partment, Grand Army of the Re-
public, meet here in June IN their
annual encampment, they will find
ample proof that Newcastle is en-
titled to be known as the Rose City.
Five thousand rose bushes in the
municipal garden are already show
ing leaf buds, having come through
the winter in excellent condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22

American air. transport lines II
1880 carried 1910 passengers, ar
increase of 1873 per cent over 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-22
Pioneer Woman Dies

By United Press
INGLEFIELD, Ind, April %. -
Mrs. Jane Maidlow, 80, one of the
pioneer residents here, is dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
NOTTSBORO
PARADE MAY 16
Defense Conference on
May 18th

NEW YORK.-Scores of workers
organizations in New York City are
busy mobilizing their forces and
other workers for the Scottsboro pro-
test parade in Harlem on Saturday,
May is, which will precede the United
Front Scottsboro Defense Conference
to be held on May II at the Finnish
Workers Hall, at Is West 126th st.
Many open air MEETINGS will be held
throughout the city between now and
the 10th to mobilize the white and
Negro workers for an immense dem
onstration in Harlem. The workers
are determined to resist any attempt
OF the police to stifle their protests
against the Scottsboro outrage as was
done on April Is when Tammany
police, cooperating with the southern
boss lynchers, attacked demonstra-
ton on Lenox Ave, clubbing white
and Negro workers and arresting
several. @
All organizations are urged to speed
through their election of delegates to
the conference on May II. The con-
ference will begin at II a. m. sharp.
AT 6 o'clock there will be a banquet.
at which Mrs. Wright, mother of two
OF the boys, will be the main speaker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Foster Speaks! New Brunswick
Which System Do You Vote For?

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., May g.
In spite of all difficulties and terror,
the Communist Party appears on the
ballot for city elections here with two
candidates. A mass indoor election
rally will be held Sunday at 8 p. m.
in workmen's Circle Institute, with
William z. Foster, Richard B, Moore
and John BALKAN speaking.
Foster is the leader of the first
demonstrations against unemployment
in New York last year, and was SEN
fenced to and served six months in
Jail for it. He is general secretary
OF the Trade Union Unity League,
and was the leader of the great steel
strike in 1919. Moore is a leader of
Negro workers as well as white, and
Ballam is the Communist candidate
for governor Of New Jersey.
Communists Lead Struggle
Tbs Communists have led the I'M
employed and employed workers in
New Brunswick In q whole series of
SEruggaes during the last year. Five
hundred New Brunswick workers took
paSf in the May Day demonstrations
this year, the workers fed the hunger
r1azcheTS going TO Trenton, and gave
IS recruits to their ranks.
There are 5000 jobless here. There
are more women than men working
la the shops at present, and they get
about haff the wages the men got.
In the General Cigar they are treated
worse than cattle.
Young workers work in this city
from dawn to ten at night.
There are, Iay-offs, general shut
downs. and increasing unemployment.
The conditions of those who still have
jobs get worse and worse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
New Brunswick Women Workers!
Which System Do You Vote For!

she may nurse her child. The fac
ries maintain day nurseries, where
lecial nurses are in charge of the
lildren, taking care of them during
he day, and assisting the mothers
1 every way possible to raise healthy
nd happy children. The working
Mothers of New Brunswick who slave
\ the factories all day not knowing
what care their children are getting
can realize what a great help ShiS
IS for the Women Workers in the
Soviet Union. Each year all workers
receive 2 weeks vacation, and in cases
where the work is dangerous or UNI
healthy, weeks, with full pay and
also transportation to and from the
place to which they decide to go to
spend their vacation. There are nu-
merous other special privileges which
the women workers of the Soviet IN
ion receive. The Communist Party
stands for these conditions.
In this city elections, the Commun-
list Party endorses 2 candidates of
the working class, workers who
stand on fighting program; for
equal pay for equal work, and equal
pay for women workers. One can
didate is cigar worker herself, has
been exploited in a cigar factory for
IA years. These workers candidates
pledge to carry on a fight against
wage cuts and speed up which is now
taking place in every factory and
where the women workers feel it
most acute. Only by active support
of the men and women workers Ne
gro and white will we be able to
strengthen our forces for our de-
mands.
Women workers! Side by side with
men! Vote Communist! Vote for your
interests, and the interests of your
families.
For Commissioner vote for Joseph
Soth and Elizabeth Perduk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
EvaLeGallienne tOVisit
Moscow Art Theatre

The Civic Repertory Theatre, I'M
der the direction of Eva LIE Gallienne,
will reopen its sixth season in Sep
TENDER, 1882. Five new productions
will be made. These will be 'L'Aiglon"
by Rostand, with Miss LIE Gallienne
as the Duke of Reichstadt; new
English adaptation will be made of
the Rostand play; alice in Won
derland" with a special musical
score; Shakespeare's Macbeth" and
"Gruach," new play by Gordon
Bottomley. Two more plays will be
given, an American comedy and
Greek tragedy to be announced later.
In addition to the new productions,
there will be constant revival of old
ones.
At the conclusion of this, her fifth
season, Miss LIE Caffeine will take
a years holiday. This is due to her
desire to gain perspective on her
five years of management and to
allow her to study present theatre
conditions in Europe, especially so in
Russia, with special visit to the
Moscow Art Theatre. The fifth sea-
son of the Civic Repertory Theatre
will end on May 9 with perform
ance of Camille" one of the popular
plays at the Civic Theatre this season.