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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11

After nineteen days of
steady questioning since
Marian's body was "discOv-
cred" by Bischoff in the cell
lar, on Dec. %, Sheriff Asa
Butterfeld and Prosecutor
Robert German announced
they had broken Bischoff's
claim of innocence and Sc
cured his written confession
that he killed the little girl
"in a fit Of insanity"
Bischof asked leniency. He said
he didn't mean to kill the child. His
story was at times incoherent.
Trial to Be Rushed
He will be brought speedily to
trial, Prosecutor German said. Cor
man will present the evidence to the
grand jury Tuesday, hoping to Sc
cure a first degree murder indict-
ment against BiSchoff.
Bischoff, termed by alienists as a
man "of the type capable of COM
hitting crime pieced out the story
of Marian's abduction on the after
noon of Dec. II and of her torturous
death.
Il net her in the street and took
her by the hand he said. "She
didn't say very much. She got kind
of funny and didn't want to go
down in the cellar with me, but l
took her down there stayed there
ten or fifteen minutes that time.
I just wanted to play with her"
He told of repeated attacks upon
the weakened child.
Found Her Dead
when I saw she was dying, =
left her lay. 1 don't know just
how it happened. She was dead
Friday morning dec. 49,, when 1
went down I left her lay and went
to get some breakfast. I knew they
were looking for her, because 1 read
it in the papers,
Bischoff said he went into the
cellar on Friday afternoon, again
on Saturday, and several times Mon
day. He said he didn't touch her
body until Monday morning, when
he moved it to the front of the
cellar, because he feared his aunt
or some other person would dis
cover it.
After reading in the newspapers
of Monday night, Dec. 81, that
firemen would search all houses and
buildings in the vicinity of Marian's
home, Bischof said he decided to
pretend he had found the body in
his basement.
He declared he withstood day
after day Of questioning by officers
because 81 thought I could get away
without being caught. just held
back on them"
Il can't help it now" he told
interviewers. Il done it and it's
done. Everything I have told you
is the truth"
Bischoff's confession read in part:
Il, Charles BiSchoff, under no
threats, or promise or encourage
ment, do hereby state and sign by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
CINCINNATI CHILD
SLAYER REVEALS
GUILT TO POLICE
Criminoogy Crank Breaks Down After
Days of Grilling, to Confess
Brutal Murder.
CHASTITY STORY RELATED BY FIEND
Victim Killed Slowly as He Kept Her Captive
in Cellar; Thought He Could
Get Away With It.
By United Press


CINCINNATI Jan. 11.-A horrible story of how he
kidnapped 6yearod Marian Mclean from her play and took
her musty cellar where he slowly killed her, told
today by Charles Bischo As, eccentric Whitewater
whose hobby studying crime.
Bischo in his stoid manner told intervewers of the
events which caused the chds DEATH of leading
her the cellar of his home where he made brutal attacks
upon her. of watching her slow DEATH and of hiding her body
until he feared his house would be searched.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
MERCURY WILL RISE
Warmer Weather Predicted
for tuesday.

Warmer weather visited Indian
apolis today and forecast for Tues
day calls for further boost in the
mercury.
Temperatures of IS and 20 pre-
dicted for Sunday failed to ma
terialize, with the mercury drop
ping only to "a over the weekend.
Coolest of the season and year -7as
Saturday morning, when the Their
mometers slipped to 20.3.
Unsettled weather is expected TO
accompany the temperature rise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
ARREST MRS. GANDH|
Mahatma'S Wife, Aid Held
for Revolt Activities.

By United Press
BOMBAY, Jan. 11.-Mrs. M. K.
Gandhi, wife of the Mahatma
Gandhi, and Miss Patel, member of
a family prominent in support of
Gandhi'S independence program,
were arrested today.
The nationalist civil disobedience
campaign took a new turn when
brokers at the cotton seed and
bullion share markets decided not
to transact business until Gandhi
is released from prison at Poona.
Nationalist volunteers picketed
bullion safe deposits to prevent the
export of gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
UNION RAIL EMPLOYEES
CONFER ON WAGE CUTS
Insist on Share in Benefits Of
Salary Reductions.

Insist on Share in Benefits Of
Salary Reductions.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Union rail
employees would share equally with
stockholders the benefits of anv
wage reduction, as reflected in in
creased income through a plan be-
ing drawn up by union heads here
today.
Twenty-one union executives rep
resenting 100000 organized rail
workers are comforting prior to meet
ing with a similar committee of
carrier executives Thursday to dis
cuss wage reductions and employ
ment conditions.
The labor chiefs made clear that
they were not unalterably opposed
to the proposed 10 or Is per cent
pay slash, providing concessions in
working conditions and relief of
idle workers are agreed to by the
railroads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
MARKET R1GGED TO
AID FOREIGN LOANS.
CHARGE TO SENATE
Horse Gents
BIZ United Presa

DU UWIItW Tto6
KALAMAZOO, Mich, Jan.
11.-Eureka City efficiency
experts, seeking something to
reduce the city's operating cost,
have found it. They are going
to discontinue three watering
troughs for horses-and save
$3O5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
Laurence Dennis, Expert on
. South America, Reveals
Business Practices.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. Charges
that banking houses floating foreign
loans in the postwar foreign finan-
cling era, rugged" the market be-
fore putting out new issues were
voiced before the senate finance
committee today by Laurence Den
mis-, expert on South American
finances.
Dennis formerly was in the diplo-
matte service, but resigned in 1927
to become associate dwith ]. and
w. Seligman 81 Co., New York
bankers, who made heavy loans to
South America.
The bankers, he said, as a rule
believed they were acting officially.
"One thing they did which was
wrong" he continued, was to rig
the market for selling of these
bonds. They would bid up the is
sues of other bonds of the same
country before putting the new
bonds on the market. They would
rig them up three or four points.
That practice has been a legal
fraud from the queens bench in
England. do not think it is a legal
fraud here"
Loans Called Absurd
Dennis declared that it was
absurd" for American bankers to
loan money to South America since
the World war.
He also said:
That he believed holders of Pc
ruvian bonds "in two or three years,
will be very happy to make an
agreement for or 10 cents on the
dollar"
That Bolivar used some of the
money derived from American loans
for purchase of arms.
That he had predicted when they
were made that a series of PERU
Wan loans would be in default
within five years. The loans have
been defaulted
That $1,5OOOOO of the money
loaned Bolivia was used for military
purposes in the Chaco-a region in
volved in a dispute between Boil
via and Paraguay.
Arms Are Purchased
That only 2,259, 900 of 100000
Bolivian loan was used for public
works, and that $3,9O4,000 was used
for making up deficits and paying
back salaries of officials.
That $5,O61 900 was sent to Wick
ers of London, as payment on con-
tract for the purchase of arms.
The Bolivian minister, before the
hearing started today, gave out a
memorandum from his government
to the state department saying that
his government had every intention
to pay back the money it had Dor
rowed.
Dennis said the department of
finance of Bolivia was in chaos and
had not been audited since the
war"
Senator johnson (Rep., Cal1 read
at the opening of the hearing a
letter of S. Parker Gilbert, repara-
tions expert, dated Paris, Nov. 8,
1926:
Il constantly am amazed at the
recklesSnesS of American bankers
floating German loans" Gilbert
stated. He pointed out that the
Versailles treaty gave priority to re-
parations. The letter was addressed
to Paul Cravath.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
BOOTH TO PHILIPPINES
Major General Hines Is Relieved
of Island Command.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Major-
General Ewing E. Booth, command
ing the first cavalry division at Fit.
Worth, Tex, was assigned by the
war department today to command
the Philippine department of the
army.
He will succeed Major General
John L. Hines, who was ordered to
Washington for duty in the office
of the chief of staff. Hines is to
retire shortly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11

Ex-PreSident of France Ill.
NICE, Jan. 11.-Paul Painleve,
former French president, was suf-
fering today from an attack of
laryngitiS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-11
OPEN JACKSON
MURDER TRIAL
At LEBANON
Selection Of Witt-HamiIton
Jury Is Expected to Take
Three Days.
ARGUE OVER PROCEDURE
Ira Holmes and Eliza
Rogers, Defense Counsel,
to Attack Confessions.
BULLETIN

~ bHttcn Press
LEBANON, Ind, Jan. IL
Electing first to try Charles Yer
non Witt, in connection with the
Staying of L. A. Jackson, Indian
apolis chain store grocer, attOr-
neys this afternoon had exam
ined thirty prospective jurors.
Twelve talesmen in the jury box
at noon said they held no scrupIes
against the death penalty.
Louis +. Hamilton, charged with
Witt, will not be permitted in
court during Wits trial.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
part Of that street work which Is still
done outside the gasoline tax fund.
Canitap Tn Rear Whole Burden.

part Of that street work which is still
done outside the gasoline tax fund.
Capital TO Bear Whole Burden.
Since the gas tax Is required to beap-
piled entirely to street paving. 1t has
had the effect of relieving the United
States to a still greater degree from
taking part in upkeep Of the street sys-
tenn.
The total carried in the current Dis
tTict appropriation act for street work
Is approximately $3,400, 900. With
So, 100000 of the street work charge
able to the gas tax fund. there remains
81 ,400, 900 to be handled from the gen.
eral funds.
The total In the District appropria-
tion act, exclusive of the gas tax fund
and water department funds, is SAL
318.6l8. The present Federal contri-
button of $9,500, 900 represents 20 per
cent OF this total. Twenty-three per
cent of the 81, 100000 of street work to
be done outside the gas tax would be
only 1922 900.
If this Federal participation of 1922, =
900 Is considered in its relation to the
$3,400,000 to be spent on the streets,
it becomes scarcely 10 per cent.
Thus, the local community, having
originally donated all of the streets in
the old city, and having borne the bur-
den of later extensions into the sub
urbs, now finds itself meeting nearly
all Of the cost Of improving and main
tanning the street system as the result
Of the gas tax and the departure in
recent years from the definite percent
age basis of financing the National
Capital.
Even If the District escapes the pres
ent threat of a doubling of the gas
tax, it is still left bearing nearly the
whole burden of keeping up a street
system designed to give dignity and
distinction to the Capital Of great
Nation.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

provements Of avenues and streets being
but a little over one million dollars.
during which period the local govern
ment for the District has expended
over nine times that amount"
Inc organic act Of 1878 was a frank
ana rne admission by the United States
tnat IL mad neglected its obligation to-
waro the Capital. BY that act 1t as
sumed half the expenses of the future
ano guaranteed payment of bonds
Wnicn represented millions of debt
mainly acquired in public improvements
between 1870 and 1874 The omission
was In falling to make United States
expenditures Of the past equal to those
OF tne District of Columbia.
Following the wise and fair legislation
OF 1873 came a series of efforts by mi
noritles to destroy the organic act.
For example, when Congress in 1898
was enacting the law to provide a
nlgnWay plan to be followed in ex-
tenolng the street system of the origi-
nal city Of Washington over the entire
DStrlct, there was written into it a
provision which meant repeal by indi-
rection Of the organic act of 1878 so
lar as the new Washington beyond
r1orlda avenue was concerned.
Inat provision said that condem-
nation damages under the highway act
were to be one-half assessed against
the land benefited, without regard to
the aggregate percentage of actual
Denef1t, and the other half charged to
the revenues Of the District. Not only
was the United States excluded from
taking part in the condemnation of the
streets, but it was further provided that
no expense for the improvement of any
street or avenue laid out outside the
cltles OF Washington and Georgetown
should be charged to the United States
treasury. This meant extension of
the magnificent street plan Of the origi-
nal city into the suburbs, but with no
participation by the United States.
Reputation Under Highway Act.
In 1898 Congress needed the appeal
made to 1t by repeating this obnoxious
provision, which had been known as
Sec. Is of the earlier highway act. This
repeal made 1t possible to look forward
TO development of suburban Washing
ton as an integral part of the National
Capital, under the same policy of pro-
portionate contribution by Nation and
local community. Scarcely had the
general provision been repealed, how
ever, when various bills were proposed
10 re-enact piecemeal for single streets
the objectionable doctrine of exclusive
local contribution
The net result Of all this was a re-
pudiation by the United States of re-
sponsibility for street extension out
side the boundaries Of the original city,
although 1t was proposed to continue
the exceptional street plan of the be-
ginning
Under the present condemnation law
for the extension Of streets payment is
required to be made wholly out of
revenues of the District for property
taken, and assessments are levied on
any property which the jury may find
to be benefited
Having first repudiated its obliga-
ton in the extension of streets to the
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GIFT LIMIT VOID
IN ESTATES LEVY
Efforts to Prevent Shifts in
Wealth Declared Uncon-
Stituti0nal.

BY virtue of a Supreme Court de-
cision, the efforts of Congress to tighten
the estate tax law by the levy upon
gifts made within two years of death,
have been declared unconstitutional.
Justices Brandies and Stone gave dis
senting opinions, while Justice Car
dozo, the newest member of the court,
did not participate in the decision.
The ruling of the Supreme Court
came while the House yesterday was
wrestling with a new tax bill, designed
! to raise more than a billion dollars to
balance a budget already top-heavy
from a staggering deficit.
Two cases were involved in the
| opinion. John w. Donnan of Pitts
burgh, gave his family S1,70O, 900 about
William Du Pont of Delaware gave his
children $6,300,000 less than two years
before his death the same year.
Old Law Repealed in 1926.
Congress repealed the old gift tax in
| 1926, largely because of inability to
prove that transfers were made in con-
temptation of death and substituted
the law just discarded.
1t taxed all gifts valued at more
than $4,000 If they were made within
two years Of the death of the donor.
The purpose OF the law was to prevent
evasions of the inheritance tax.
Justice Sutherland said in the ma
jority opinion:
THE presumption here excludes con-
sideration Of every fact and circum-
,, stance tending to show the real motive
| of the donor. The young man In
abounding health, bereft Of life by a
stroke of lightning within two years
after making gift Is conclusively pre-
sumed to have acted under the induce
ment of the thought of death, equally
with the old and ailing who already
stands IN the shadow OF the inevitable
end, .
"Such a statute is more arbitrary and
less defensible against attack than one
imposing arbitrarily retroactive taxes,
which this court has decided to be in
clear violation of the fifth amendment" J"
The majority opinion was lengthy and
one equally long was delivered by JUS
tice Stone. He said
Upholds Power Of Congress.
1.-THE question, reduced to its simplest
terms, is whether Congress possesses
the power to supplement an estate tax,
and protect the revenue derived from
it, as was its declared purpose, that a
tax on all gifts inter vivos (from the
living TO the hving) made within two
years of the death of the donor at the
same rate and in the same manner as
though the gift was made at death. I
think it has"
He said the court had decided that
gifts inter vivos we're not unconstitu-
tional and to him it was plain that
this tax cannot rightly be held uncon-
stitutional on its face
To show the ineffectiveness Of the old
gift tax, he said that out of 102 cases
under it the Government won in only
about % cases, involving about $4,500,-
600, and lost in 49, involving transfer
of more than S120, 100000.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

suburbs, the Federal Government,
through the Borland law, broadened
this Reputation to the question Of
street improvements both inside and
outside the old city boundaries.
The citizen on an unpaved street was
told by the Borland law that, while his
taxes OF previous years had helped pave
other streets under the half -and-half
plan, II the Improvement Of his own
street the share Of the Government and
his feIlow-taxpayers would be greatly
reduced The Borland law provided
that half the cost Of paving, up to a
the abutting property.
Borland Law Inequities.
Aside from the basic injustice Of re-
quiring large part of the population
to be assessed directly after those citi-
zens had been contributing through the
general tax fund toward the paving of
other streets, the operation of this law
developed numerous inequalities as be-
tween owners of lots that were different
In shape, area and location. Owners
Of corner lots, abutting two or more
streets, found themselves facing unrea-
sonable burdens.
Owners who faced exceptional as
Sessments because of the shape, size or
location of their property began to
appeal to the courts for relief, and, in
series of decisions over a period of
years the courts set aside the law in
respect to various types of property,
until a year ago there was very little
property to which the original law
would have been applicable The large
number OF diagonal avenues and
ctranfc ny1forfro iyata ha Z, ;1ta
way plan of the National Capital Gre
ated numerous triangular and irregular
shaped lots, multiplying the number of
inequitable assessments.
After the law had been held null and
void with respect to SO many types Of
property that 1t was left virtually in
operative, Congress, at the last session,
breathed new life into 1t by re-enacting
1t with clauses to regulate the amount
of assessment according to the shape,
area, etc, of the lots, and to modify
the assessments where lots face on two
or more streets. These notifications,
however, are designed merely to equal
ize the burden as between different
property owners, leaving the basic OBJ
lection that 1t relieves the Federal Gov
ernment Of a considerable part of its
obligation toward a street plan which
was laid out with the primary thought
OF creating beautiful National Capital
and not an ordinary municipality.
In re-enactmg the law Congress au-
thorized the Commissioners to cancel
all paving assessments of the last three
years and reaSsess them on the new
formula. This will correct but a small
percentage of the inequalities of the
past.
In 1922 the change from $3.50 to
60-40 in the organic law reduced the
United States contribution to streets
within the old city limits to 40 per
cent.
By the lump sum annual violations
OF the substantive law the United
States contribution to streets has been
reduced to an uncertain fluctuating
Evening star., 1932-03-22
The City's Grand Street Plan.

In calling attention to the unusual
character of the street plan, which had
been laid out to conform to the re-
quirements of a Nations Capital, the
Southard report also said:
The plan OF the city was formed by
the public authorities; the dimensions
OF the streets determined by them with
out interference by the inhabitants or re-
gard to their particular interest or con-
venience. 1t is a plan calculated for
Evening star., 1932-03-22

BASED ON A COMPLETE
INSPECTION OF FARMS AND
CATTLE =. 1OO% DAIRY PLANT
LABORATORY CONTROL
PASTEURIZATION
BOTTLING AND DELIVERY
AND THE PURITY, SAFETY AND
SUPERIOR UALITY OF
CHESTNUT FARMS MILK.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Senator Kean to Speak.

MARTLNSBURG, W. Va, March ~
(SpeciaD Hamilton F. Kean, senior
United States Senator from New Jersey,
will be the principal speaker for the
annual banquet Of Martinsburg Fruit
Exchange, which will be held at the
Shenandoah here the evening of April
8. State Senator Lewis H. Thompson,
president of the exchange, announced
today.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Veteran Railroader Dies.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, March %
lSpeciaD Archie r. Brown, 70, vet
eran railroad shopman, died here yes
terday after a short illness of pneu-
monia. He was born near Shepherds
town, W. Va, but lived here most of
his life. He worked In the shops here
for nearly As years.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

international record. Our interna-
tional bankers have loaned more OF
other peoples money to foreign coun-
tries, on less security, than was ever
loaned before, even on security.
Now. there Is a record we want to
see beat, but no other bankers are
dumb enough to beat 1t.
Evening star., 1932-03-22

was his tail and
his dust. Eng
la nd, W h / C h
holds a man.
date over Aus
tralia, now has
the auto, aero
plane, and Will
lians of Can
ada won the
Olympics. Now
this race horse
makes a sucker
out of us. But
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-"Phar
Lap" sounds like a mouth wash, but
runs like a race horse. ALI Ameri-
can horses saw Of him Sunday
Evening star., 1932-03-22
Gas Tax and Street Equities
Why the Proposal to Double the Local Rate Involves
the Question of the Federal Governments
Responsibilities in the National Capitals
Highway System.

(Note-This is the second of a series
OF articles on the District gasoline td-
and the proposals to increase it,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-03
Merit Badges Awarded at Court
of Honor Meeting

Eight merit badges were awarded
to second and first class scouts at the
regular meeting of the Court of Hon.
or held last Friday evening after the
weekly scout meeting. Members of
the court present included H. L..
Jones, chairman; DR.. w. w. Grant,
scoutmaster.
The following merit badges were
awarded: Charles Mason and Robert
Lawton, swimming; Ward Hinebaugh,
craftsmanship; Bernard Gender, Jr.,
wood turning: Hopwood Wooddell,
pathfnding, animal industry, and
leathercraft; Horace O'Donnell, ami
NAL industry.
Robert Browning, Charles Mason
and Bob Lawton were declared first
class scouts at last Fridays scout
meeting, their two months service
having been completed since becom-
ing second class scout. Jack Hine-
baugh signifed his intention of be-
coming scout at the last meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-03
Decrease Noted in Fatal Auto
Accidents During October

There is an impressive decrease in
fatal automobile accidents this month
as compared to the same period last
year, according to E. Austin Baugh-
man, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
for Maryland.
During October, 1881, fifty-seven
persons lost their lives in automobile
accidents in Maryland, but for Octo-
Der of this year but twenty-nine fatal
tiles had been reported.
Inspection of cars is going forward
steadily in Oakland and Garrett
county, but not as rapidly as in for
mer years. The save-a-life campaign
in the State of Maryland began on
October Is, and will continue until
November 80. During that time all
motor vehicles in the State must be
Inspected for brakes, lights and other
mechanical features or be stopped by
State policemen at the conclusion of
the campaign.
To date only $4,000 owners have
had their cars inspected.