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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
BY BEN STERN

CHICAGO, Aug. $50 acute is
~ the tax problem in Illinois that
it is assumed generally here that
the legislature will be called into
special session in October to de-
wise methods of limiting budgets of
all taxing units and cut expendi-
lures.
OF particular interest to Hoosiers
who are, familiar with similar con-
ditionS in their state is the forma-
ton of the Governors tax confer
ence, which is to study the Situa-
ton and recommend action.
1t is hoped that unlike what oc-
Cured in Indiana when Governor
Leslie appointed a tax conference,
which held a number of meetings,
drew up a program and made its
recommendations, only to see them
all discarded by an irresponsible
legislature, the Illinois general as
sembly accomplisheS something
worth while.
Another phase of interest to IN
diana is contained in the working
program which indicated that real
estate valuation may suffer a IS
per cent decrease this year.
=
According to Fred Sargent, Chi
cago, chairman of the conference
program committee, governmental
unit have been requested to fur
nish the committee with statements
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
It's ChiIdren'S Paradise,
This Street, for Autos
Never Pass.
BY ARCH STEINEL

Our town has a street that never
will figure in the mounting death
from auto accidents.
1t is an Arcadia for children
They can play in the middle of the
street ignoring automobiles for the
street has no autos to ignore.
1t is a street Of noiselessness. No
peddlerS hawk their wares. You
can putt golf ball, play croquet,
any time Of the day in the center
of the thoroughfare without fear of
a coal truck breaking up your game.
It's a Paradise, this street in our
town. Too good to be true and yet
it is true and it's-Berkley road
from Sunset avenue west to the
bluff.
1t has street lights, walks, shrubs,
trees, but as for paving, we'll, its
paving is the grass that grows with
the seasons.
Center Is Sodded
Just try and drive west on Berk-
ley road from Sunset avenue and
the balloons of the old gas-buggy
will hit a curb.
1t was back in 1912 that the curb
was placed on Sunset avenue, and
it was in that year that a Maxim
sllencer was snugly fitted over the
three blocks.
A realty company obtained a per-
nit from the citys board of works
to close the street to traffic. And
then Identification and release
from the noise of a modern world
began.
Without cost to purchasers of
property street lights were installed,
walks built, and the entire center
OF the flfty-foot street sodded.
Building Is Restricted
Restrictions were placed on prop
erty. Each house must be built
forty feet from the street. Garages
must be built in the houses.
So that now guests and grocery
boys use the back door of residences.
Paved alleys in the rear of each
dwelling form the thoroughfares Of
traffic.
A community grass-cutter tithes
each householder Is cents every
time he mows the sodded street
area in front of the homes.
Children run rampant in the
street. A community playground
dots the vacant lots.
Radio Only Noise
Berkley residents assure you that
you'd have to like their street to
live on it.
"The birds get a chance to sing
and be heard on our street." ex-
planned Mrs. g. L. Bradshaw of 649
Berkley road.
THE only noise might be a radio
now and then. I wouldn't live any
where else," she added.
And if you'd SO much as whisper
about opening up the street" you'd
unloose more dervishes than
Gandhi's army.
Berkleyites want surcease from
the "ram-bang- jang-ock-ock" of the
congested areas. They want safety
in play for their children.
And they're getting it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
NATURAL GAS Is GIVEN
TENTATIVE APPROVAL
Civic Group Favors 1t If Public
interests Are Safequarded

Civic Group Favors 1t If Public
interests Are Safeguarded.
Resolution favoring introduction
of natural gas to enable local indus
tries to meet competition by reduc-
ing costs, provided interests of the
public are safeguarded, was adopt
ed by the Butler Fairview Civic As
ISOLATION gas committee Wednesday
night.
The resolution urges acceptance
of the Manufacturers Natural Gas
Association proposal to lay natural
gas mains to local industries, agree
ing to sell mains and equipment to
the city practically at cost when
ever the city shall desire to take
over the operation.
The committee met at the home
of Ross F. Ludlow, association
president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
TAX RULING DEF|ED
Four Counties Refuse to
Accept township Edict.

Four out of six counties heard
from have refused to accept the
state tax order for equalization in
their assessments between various
townships. All were ordered to in
crease household goods or automo-
biles from 10 to 80 per cent.
The order for increase affected
seventeen of the ninety-two counties
and report of the county officials
action must be filed with the state
board by Aug. 10.
Those refusing the increase order,
thus far, are Daviess, Scott, Greene
and Bartholomew. Increases were
voted ny Montgomery and Howard.
Refusal of county officials to act
will result in the state board order
ing a blanket increase for the entire
county, L. o. Bowman, secretary of
the tax board, warned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Carl Is Only IL, But He
Wanted to Be a Man

Desire of Carl Chlders London Ind big
and work farm like the detention home
today.
Chders walked Heller
and Maryland street Wednesday him.
Where's State
Inquiries by Heller revealed that the boy from
home to take job State Indian
apols.
THE wanted a I thought
could get the job the 12yearod told the patrolman.
boy in juvenile
children in family. He has a stepmother g
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
ADOPT SANITARY LEVY
Six and Half Cent Rate for 1882 Is
O. K.ed hY Board.

A 61a cent tax levy for 1882 was
adopted today by the board of sani-
tary commissioners of Indianapolis.
The board also adopted resolu-
ton calling for a 1868 cent tax levy
for the bond fund to cover the
bonds and interest that fall due in
1882. The levy will raise $251, 900.
The bond levy for the past year
was S1s cents. The higher levy for
1882 was needed to care for slight
reduction expected in property VAL
ueS and an increase in delinquent
taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
LABOR STRIFE BESETS
SPANISH REPUBLIC

Street Riots Accompany Strike at
Algeciras; Communists Blamed.
By United Press
MADRID, Aug. 6.-The new Re-
publican government of Spain found
itself beset by serious labor dis
orders today. due in part to Com
munist agitators and radicals among
the original Republican ranks.
Civil guards fought rioters in the
streets of Algeciras last night as
disorders broke out in connection
with a general strife.
Leaders attempted to force spread
of the strike to other Giles as a
political protest" against actions of
the central government in Madrid.
The agiators went to Seville. Cadiz
and Malaga in an effort to persuade
union officials there to Join them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
FATE OF BLACKTOP
STILL is MYSTERY
Dog StOzOazUay
BIZ Times SpecidI

By Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. g.
A fox terrier was a stowaway on
a trip made from Indianapolis
to this city by an interurban
car of the Indiana Railroad
Company.
After the run, the car was
placed in a barn over a deep
pit. Whimperings were heard
and investigation revealed the
little dog wedged between the
motors of the car. It was COW
cred with grease which it had
rubbed from the motors during
the trip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
BRUENING VISITS ROME
German Chancellor Will Confer
With MuSsoIini.

By United Press
ROME, Aug. 6.-Chancellor Helm
rich Bruening of Germany was ex-
pected here today to open con-
versations with Premier Benito
Mussolini on problems connected
with Europe'S economic crisis.
Chancellor Bruenlng and his
foreign minister, DR.. julius Curtius,
left Berlin Wednesday night by
train, accompanied by a secretary.
The visit to Rome is in line with
Bruening's new policy of making
personal calls in an effort to gain
international cooperation and pre-
vent further financial distress in
Germany and elsewhere in the dis
turbed continent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
J0FFRE STATUE SHOWN
Private Exhibition Held for Govern
Inent Heads in Paris.

bU UnIttu FftSS
PARIS. Aug. 6.-Government Off
Gals were given a private showing
today of the massive equestrian stat
ue Of the late Marshal Joseph Joffre
which will be erected near his
birthplace at Rivesaltes.
The statue, to be built by popular
subscription, will be a national tri-
butte to the Peasant in Epaulettes, ="
who saved France at the Marine in
the World war.
The state represents Marshal
Joffre as his soldiers saw him at the
first battle of the Marine, astride his
famed charger.
1t stands ten feet high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
SAFE F0ILS CRACKSMEN
Yeggs Fan to Drill Deep Enough
for Explosives.

Attempt to force open the safe of
the Lilly Paint Company, 2044
North Rural street, Wednesday
night, was reported to police to-
day by William Lilly, 1907 Gull
ford avenue, president of the COM
pany.
Officers were told the cracksmen,
entering by a rear window, started
to drill hole in the safe, but failed
to get it deep enough COR use Of
explosives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
More Than 5000 Animals
Also Traverse Little
Known Route.
BY STANLEY BAILEY
United Press staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.-1n
the vast wilderness Of northern
Canada and Alaska where Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife
are making aviation history, indus
trial history also was being written
today.
AS they speed through the north
ern skies, within the Arctic circle,
Lindbergh and his wife will look
down on a two and one-half year
migration of domestic animals.
The route of the Lindberghs,
northwestward from Aklavik on the
Mackenzie river delta. will take
them over the great herd of rein
deer being driven by the Lomen
Reindeer Corporation for delivery
to, the Canadian government, so
raising Of reindeer may be estab-
lished as an industry.
1000 in Herd
Under p dozen herders, headed by
Andrew Bahr, the Laplander who
assisted in bringing the first reindeer
to this continent from Siberia, 1000
reindeer are nearing their destina-
ton, the mouth Of the Mackenzie.
The herd is about 500 miles from
the river, George c.. Jordan, repre-
Senting the Lomen Corporation, said
today. The great trek, however, will
not be completed until March, 1882,
as the herd moves little in the sum-
mer time.
When the march is completed
the animals and the drivers will
have been en- route from Kotzerbue,
near Nome on the coast, two and a
half years. They will have travelled
about 1000 miles, a distance which
the Lindberghs will cover within a
day.
Doubles En- Route
When the herd started it num-
bered about 5000. During the
march it has more than doubled.
Half the distance the route was
over wastes never previously ira
verSed by man.
Airplanes were used to map the
route and to ascertain feeding con-
ditionS.
From the information obtained
by those fliers, Lindbergh has
drawn a wealth Of advice for the
last stages of his trip to the Pacific
coast, when he will fly to Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Costly Trip

NEW YORK. Aug. ct is
costing Oscar Asterdillo, a
Cuban, just $4,000 to obtain
passports for his family TO 90
with him on a world tour.
When steamship line officials
said he'd need a passport for
the whole family, Asterdillo
hired an airplane to fly to
Havana and bring the papers
back in time for the Car
mania's sailing Friday mid
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
Reunion Committee Named

Z Appointment Of committees which
viii have charge of the annual
Greene county reunion to be held at
Brookside park Sunday, Aug. 80. has
been made by william T. Quillin,
president of the Greene county
association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
BOND ISSUE is SOLD

Chicago Bank Gets S245,OOO Judg-
ment Securities.
Bond issue of $245,O00 for judg-
ment funding to cover past judg-
ments, was sold today by William
L. Elder, city controller, to the
Harris Trust and Savings bank of
Chicago.
Average interest rate on the
bonds is 1853 per cent, Elder said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
LINDYS SOAR OVER
BIG REINDEER HERD
ON NORTHERN TRIP
The Lindy Log
BY United Press
Central Standard Time)

Tuesday, July 2S.-Left Wash
ington 1:20 p. m; arrived
Glenn Curtiss airport,
North Beach, N. Y, 2::20
p. m.
Wednesday, July 29.-Left
Glenn CurtisS airport, 1850
a. m, arrived North Haven,
Me-, 3 p. m.
Thursday, July 80. - Left
North Haven los p. m,
arrived Ottawa, Ontario,
.3:35 p. m.
Saturday, Aug. Left Otta-
wa $50 a. M; landed
Moose Factory, Ontario, l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06

Times stan Photos.
Top-The Street No Auto
Knows. The view was taken of
Berkeley road looking west from
Sunset avenue.
Lower Left-Playing in the
center Of Berkley road without
fear of "hit-and-run" driver.
Lower Right-Built-in garages
at back doors of Berkeley road
residences are the front doors for
guests and grocery boys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
COUNTY AUTO
DEATH TOLL IS
At 100 MARK
Woman Struck Down by
Car as She Leaves
Church After Service.
DRIVER is RELEASED
Motor Fatality Record of
Last Three Years Is
Passed.

One hundred persons have lost
their lives in automobile accidents in
Marion county in 1881.
Death, free wheeling its way IN
the first eight months Of the year
passed the indianapolis traffic toll
Of each three years, in sacrificing
lives to the reign Of speed, careless
ness and drunkenness.
For in 1923. 1929, and 1880 only
ninety-nine victims were recorded
within the city limits against the
rubber-tired menace Of the pave
mentS.
Major mine and ship disasters
Of the world have taken lower tolls
The one hundredth victim was
Mrs. Lucy Ervon Kraus, 43, of 1889
Roache street, who was killed
Wednesday night at Twelfth and
Delaware streets as she left the
calm peace of the church she at
attended.
Steps in Front of Auto
The confusion of Delaware
streets traffic and the speeding
autos that shuttle back and forth
caused Mrs. Kraus' death.
She stepped into the pathway of
an auto driven by Leonard Nc
Cleaster, Il, of r. r. l, Box IA, and
was crushed by its whirling wheels.
She died one hour later at her home
from skull fracture.
A son, Arthur Jr., IS, was with his
mother when she stepped into
deaths path. The husband was in
a church nearby.
Called to the scene of the crash
by the noise, the husband, true to
the belief of his church, refused
medical attention with, aft God
wills it, she will live"
Driver Is Freed
McCleaster was released by DR.. e.
G. Winter, deputy coroner, blame
less.
And as the record card of the
one hundredth victim is filed in the
accident prevention bureau at police
headquarters, physicians are work
ing to save the life of Mrs. Blanch
Servoss, 80, of 1920 North La Sale
street, who was injured critically
shortly before midnight.
The car in which she was riding
overturned at Commerce and Mas
sachusetts avenues after a collision
with car driven by Miss Louise
Mullenholz, 80, of 1910 Tecumseh
street.
Incongruity creeps into the acct
dent records of the city in that
from Jan. l to Aug. l of 1881, the
records show that 148 fewer acct
dent occurred than in 1890. Total
accidents for the same period in
1880 was zoos.
The city's injured list for the
period of 1881 up to Aug. 1, shows
that 1,165 were hurt in car crashes,
against 1923 in 1880.
Five Children Killed
Five children are listed as fatali-
ties this year up to Aug. 1 against
four children in 1880. However, 148
children we're involved in accidents
in 1880, against 121 for the same
period of 1881.
Officials of the accident pre-
vention bureau estimate that the
toll of death in city and county
will reach 125 before the end of the
year unless motorists and pedestrians
school themselves to obey laws of
the road.
Last rites for Mrs. Kraus will be
held at 2 p. M. Friday at the
johnson and Montgomery mortuarv,
1922 North Meridian street. Burial
will be in Grown Hill cemetery. Her
father. Clarence Hoover, of Indian
apolis, survives her, besides the son
and the husband. The former home
Of the city's one hundredth victim
was Erlanger, Ky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06

Sunday, Aug. 2.-Left Moose
Factory 9 a. m; arrived
Churchill $50 .. m.
Monday, Aug. 3.-Left Churchill
12:45 p. m; arrived Baker
Lake 5 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06

Tuesday, Aug. 4.-Left po'---'
Lake 5:35 p. m.
Wednesday, Aug. 5.-Arrived Ak
lavik, Northwest territory, sos
a. m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-18
ANNA CASE BRIDE
OF c. H. MACKAY
Families of Soprano and
Postal Head See Rites
at Catholic Church.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 18.-Clarence H.
Mackay, chairman of the board of di-
rectors Of the Postal Telegraph g. Ca
BILE Corporation, and Miss Anna Case,
concert soprano and for eight years a
member of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
were married today at st. Mary's Cath
Ollie Church, Roslyn, Long Island.
Only members of the immediate fam
lilies OF the bride and bridegroom were
present, including the brides mother,
Mrs. Peter Van Mugs Case Of South
Branch, N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Irving Berlin
and Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Mackay.
Mrs. O'Brien and Mrs. Berlin are Mr..
Mackay's daughters, and John w.
Mackay is his son.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Vincent Donovan. assisted by Rev. Ed
ward c. McManus. Miss Case was con-
firmed in the Catholic Church a month
ago by Cardinal Hayes. She formerly
was a member of the Dutch Reformed
CT urch. Mr.. and Mrs. Mackay left for
motor trip Immediately after the cere-
mony.
Breakfast Follows Ceremony.
The brides gown was OF white lace.
She wore a white hat and carried lilies
OF the valley. A breakfast party at Har-
Dor Hill, Mr.. Mackay's estate, near Ros-
Ign. followed the ceremony.
The bride is AZ. and Mr.. Mackay is
81. He was married in 1898 to the late
Katherine Duel. They were divorced 16
years later in Paris, and the day after
the divorce was granted she married
Dr. Joseph A. Blake. She died several
years ago.
Miss Case has been called "the off,
cial star Spangled Banner singer" At
the receptions at the City Hall for Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh on his return
from his New York-Paris flight and for
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd after his
transatlantic flight she sang the ma
tional anthem. She also sang it at the
opening of the Democratic National
Convention in New York City in 1924.
All Of her training as singer has
been American. all in New York and
under one teacher. She took one les
son from a pupil of Nine. Augusta
Ohrstrom Renard. The pupil was so
impressed tina: she took her to Nine.
Rcnard, who became her teacher.
Additions Are Successful.
In 1909, after she had studied for
about a year and a half, Miss Case was
giving a recital in the Bellevue STRAIT
Continued on Page 2, Column So
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POPULATION HERE
FIXED AT 621,059
Census Bureau Figures In
CIude Nearby Territory in
Metropolitan Area.

THE population of the metropolitan
area of Greater Washington was placed
officially at 62l ,059 today by the Bureau
Of the Census, in communication to
the Washington Chamber OF Commerce
setting forth the findings OF the 1880
census.
The area established by the bureau
as the metropolitan district embraces
48499 square miles, in the District and
nearby Maryland and Virginia. OF the
total population of the Greater wash
ington' section, 486,969 was found to
be within the limits of the City of
Washington. while 134l9o is outside.
The population figures were sent to
DorseV w. HYDE. jr.. secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, by William NJ.
Steuart, director of the Bureau Of the
Census, pursuant to plan adopted by
through the various chambers of ccm-
merce of the metropolitan districts OF
the country, whose aid was sought III
establishing these areas.
Rule of Fixing Area.
L He ReIlpIdl RUE lOllOWeQ III pSNd o.
fishing the metropolitan areas has been
to follow the density of population in
the region adjacent to the central city.
In pursuing this rule, there was includ-
ed with the central city all surrounding
contiguous minor civil divisions, cleo
ton districts. etc. having density of not
less than $50 inhabitants per square
mile. Any minor civil division of less
density was also included if it directly
adjoins the central city or is nearly
surrounded by other minor civil divi-
sions that have the required density.
1t is pointed out in the report that
the metropolitan district has been de-
fined as population district only. 1t
may or may not correspond with what
might be regarded as the industrial dis
trict or as the trade district of the
particular city.
The percentage Of population in
crease in the metropolitan district of
Washington in 1890 as compared with
1920 is computed by the Census Bureau
as 1874 per cent. In the 62 square miles
comprising the city of Washington.
which it was found had a population
of 1927 per square mile the number
of inhabitants has increased 113 per
cent over 1920. The increase in popu-
lation in the area outside the city en-
braced in the metropolitan district is
544 per cent. Maryland's share being
Continued on Page ., Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-18
Lord Mayor, Seeing
BallCanne, Is Merely
Mug in Plug Hat"
Silk Topper at Yankee
Park Reveals Wearer to
Be Haligonian Chief.

NEW YORK, July Is (P).-Into the
Yankee Stadium, where a ball game
was in progress, between Cleveland and
New York, there strobe yesterday a
man in silk topper. The naive New
York citizenry was non plussed
who can it Ea?' Said the news
paper men in the press box. Imagine
silk topper in ball yard. Odd, we
call it."
A reporter wrote note 1t said
Who is the mug in the plug hate"
The note was dropped over the rail-
ing to an usher. The usher, being a
polite person, thought the missive was
for the man in the topper so without
reading it, handed it deferentially to
that parsonage.
The mug in the plug hat" read it,
smiled. removed card from his pocket
and courteouslv sent it to the press
box The card said:
George E. Christie, lord mayor Of
Halifax"