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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-16


to show you something"
Calls NeighbOr to View Body
Mr.. Hedge circled the house and
entered the front door and was
guided to the woman's body by
Birkle. Mr.. Hedge called the sheriff
and when deputies arrived they at
tempted unsuccessfully to question
Birkle.
Obviously intoxicated, Birkle was
defiant at times, challenging Sheriff
Ray to find out about the killing for
himself, claim the deputies who
found a dismantled still and six gal
Ions of liquor.
This liquor Birkle had been drink
ing-in fact he snatched a sample
glass full of it from the hand of an
investigator and drank it greedily,
according to the deputies. Then he
laughed.
Screams Heard by NeighbOrs
Deputies found a business card in
the house describing Birkle as a
steepleiack. He told them he had
worked at that occupation in Chi
cago. He also said he was an itin-
Grant photographer and police found
a stack of plates in the house.
Although Dr.. John E. Salb, deputy
coroner, said that the woman had
been dead "a hours, neighbors as
serted they had seen her alive IL
hours before the body was found,
and one neighbor said he heard
screams and noises as if fight were
in progress coming from the house
at 10 Saturday night.
Birkle attempted to establish no
alibi, contenting himself with mere
ly a blanket denial of the charge
that he had murdered his wife. He
simply called investigators liars"
when they accused him of the crime.
Charges Wife Was Heavy Drinker
The suspect told investigators he
had been previously married and
divorced and accused his dead wife
of having a passion for liquor that
she could not control. He said he
had to keep the still room locked to
keep her out Of it.
Birkle has a long record of petty
police charges, mostly stemming
from liquor authorities claim.
Coroner William E. Arbuckle will
begin an inquest into the death to-
day.
Services for Mrs. Birkle will prob
ably be tomorrow and burial will be
in a cemetery near North Vernon
Ind, in accordance with directions
of the suspected husband. Deputies
are attempting to locate relatives of
the slain woman.
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that these boards must adjust rates
on or before Oct. l.
Thus, the responsibility for ex-
cesSive tax rates lies with the peo-
pie, he said. During all the hear
ingS before the budget making
bodies and until the boards finally
adjust the rates, every taxpayer who
wishes has a right to be heard.
Furthermore. and here is where
the power of the taxpayer himself
is really felt, any taxpayer who
feels aggrieved or who believes that
the final rate is set too high, can.
with nine of his neighbors, appeal
the county board decision to the
State Tax Board within 10 days"
The Governor declared that mil
lions have been saved through re-
auctions ordered by the state board
and that more than $32,000,0OO in
bond issues alone have been re-
jected by the state commissioners.
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intelligence service is reported to
have received information that
Italy is concentrating approximately
10000 troops, mostly natives, in the
Italian colony of Libya close to the
frontier of the nglo-Egyptian Su-
dan.
Austria Is Trouble Spot
The British Foreign Office has not
forgotten threats in the italian
press to bomb Malta in an emery
ency. Finally, it is realized that
with strong British naval units now
concentrated in the Mediterranean
British forces would be the spear
head of the League against an
eventually aggressive Italy in the
event of sanctions being enforced.
A more remote danger not ignored
by responsible governments, is seen
in the fate of Austria once her
Italian protector Is engaged in
Africa.
There are two schools of thought
on this. There is virtually no fear
that Germany will invade Austria
openly and thus challenge the
world by forcibly violating Austrian
sovereignty. But some who recol-
lect the events of July, 1884, cul-
minating in the Dollfuss aSSaSsina-
ton, see the possibility of a renewed
Austrian Nazi putSch.
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In booklet form, the Chamber
proposed methods it said would cut
the tax rate from 40 cents to "a
cents.
Forces opposing Leonard A. Hohlt,
Perry Township trustee, rs strong,
and led by George A. Hacker, presi-
dent of the Perry Township Civic
School Association, personally pro-
tested against a tax rate of $2.36 set
by Mr. Hohlt against 80 cents last
year.
Relief Bond Issues Opposed
Because they had not broken down
the figures, however, the group
agreed to return again armed with
more detailed information. They de-
Scribed the rate as "confiscatory."
The Chamber booklet was COM
piled and issued by its governmental
research bureau, and also contained
a recommendation that poor relief
be financed on 'pay-as-you-go"
basis as far as possible in 1896.
Urging a departure from bond is
sues for paying poor relief bills, the
report strongly opposed salary in
creases, except where they are made
mandatory by state law.
To what extent poor relief can be
financed currently" he report said,
will depend on the tax adjustment
boards efforts to reduce expendi-
ture requests for the local agencies
Of government"
County Rate Held Too High
Taking up the Accent county
rate, an increase of 10 cents over
1885, the bureau report notes:
The county auditor has estimated
the 1885 fall tax collections will be
about 95 per cent Of the amount COL
lected in the spring Based upon
the 1884 experience. the amount
collected in the fall should be about
98 per cent of spring collections.
This difference of per cent
would produce an additional $4,000
for the county fund, allowing for a
reduction of this amount in the
1886 levy.
All three large local units of
government-the civil city, the
school city and the county-have
used different percentages in esti-
mating the 1885 fall collections. The
county tax adjustment board
should study this whole problem
with the thought in mind of bring
ing about uniformity on the revenue
side of the budgets of the three
units
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Tax Receipts Fall Off

A comparative statement of
county expenses for 1882 and 1898
by the State Board of Accounts, an
nounced today by w. P. Cosgrove,
chief examiner, shows a reduction
in tax receipts for 1888 of S6253,4
for the 90 counties in the state.
This was a decrease of BOT per
cent from 1882, and represents the
lowest aggregate tax collections for
more than decade.
Gasoline taxes and automobile Ii
cense fees apportioned to the coun-
ties by the state in 1888 increased
S4,533 ,646, Or 1912 per cent over the
previous year.
Poll taxes showed an increase of
9.8 per cent in 1888 ever 1882.
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New Deal Borrowing Is
Lauded by Economist

ing income, fuel income, shelter
and houSe-furnishing income,
luXurieS income.
THE making OF short-term
Il commercial loans has been
regarded as the chief function of
banking. But Mr.. EccleS now
testifieS that this historic func-
ton has all but lapsed. Even in
the boom year 1929, commercial
loans accounted for but little
more than u per cent of the total
loans and investments of the
banks.
During the depression they have
fallen to less than 8 per cent.
Mr.. Eccles is now able to pro-
claim, for the first time in mod
ern business and finance, the
nearly complete divorce of the
creation of new money. where
with to do added business. from
the private-bank creation of debt.
Business men may we'll take
heart from the announcement that
the volume of check-book money,
which represents buying power
for business, has now reached an
all-time high. AS they come to
realize that it can not be destroyed
they will sense, also, that this new
buying power that is, very slowly
as yet, coming into the markets is
of enormous potency. {
Already the new non-vanishing,
indestructible supply of check
book money more than fills the
depression gap. For this accom-
plishment the financial or none
tary New Deal, thanks largely to
the counsel of Mr.. EccleS, is main
ly responsible.
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MCNutt Makes PIedqe

The State of Indiana is far from
through in its program of govern
mental cost reduction. despite a
slash of about S50,0OO0O0 in bonded
indebtedness of local governments,
Gov. McNutt declared last night
in his weekly radio address.
Indiana has reduced taxes be-
cause We have broadened the tax
base and reduced expenditures, .
Gov. McNutt declared. In promising
further reductions, he pointed that
a special legislative committee of
House and Senate leaders now is
experimenting the findings of the
state committee on governmental
economy started two years ago.
The Governor warned that levies
and budgets go before the county
boards Of tax adjustment today and
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INSPECTION NEARS FOR
NATIONAL GUARD UNIT
Air Corps Officer Due at Fort for
Technical Examination.

Capt. oakley Kelly, Army Air
Corps officer, will arrive here fol-
the semi-annual technical inspec-
ton Wednesday of the Thirty
Eighth Division Aviation, Indiana
National Guard, it was announced
at Stout Field today.
Guard officers also said that two
Douglas planes, piloted by Capt. Ce-
Gil F. Reynolds and Lieut.. E. w
Bryan, departed yesterday fol
Louisville, KY. to engage in a radio
contact mission with the One Hun
dred Thirty Eighth Field Artillery
of the Kentucky National Guard.
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Continued From Page One)

Jill oSO OhNf
have called check book money"
that is, the sum total of the pub
lies cash in bank" as recorded
on the stubs of our check-bOOkS)
is being increased. And it IS
being increased Independently of
bank loans by means Of govern
ment borrowings. Moreover, this
check book money is being in
creased in such manner that it
can not be destroyed-a fact OF
the utmost Importance.
THIS new supply of check-boOk
Il money for business can not
be destroyed by the banks be-
cause it was not originally created
out of the debt of business men
to the banks, as was the check
book money before the depression.
BY the calling of loans and by
the wholesale refusal to renew
them during the depression the
banks destroyed a large part Of
the nations check-book money,
the means of payment for the
day-by-day transaction of bust
ness. But this new supply of
check-book money is being created
in a different way.
Mr.. EccleS testified that the
Federal government has assumed
perhaps permanently, and pref
erably so-supreme control of the
function of creating the supply of
money for business.
The government has taken this
role primarily because it had to
do so, in order to fill the gap made
through the destruction of bill
lions of check-book money. when
paid to loan accounts.
This gap had to be filled before
check-book money can turn over
in the same volume as before, in
the spending of, for instance.
bread-and-b butter income. cloth
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Assessments Lower

The value of Center Township as
seSsments this year is $419 1864, $3.50
in comparison to last years $42O,-
845,62O, James F. Cunningham
township assessor, announced today
This decrease of $1,491, 24O was at
tributed by Mr.. Cunningham to a
reduction of 81 ,401 ,230 in real estate
valuations and increased mortgage
exemption loans of the Home Own
ers Loan Corp.
Mr.. Cunningham said that 40,452
persons, or an increase of 1922 over
1884, paid poll tax this year.
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HOOSIER SURPRISES
BANDITS; SHOT DOWN
Washington Man and Wife Beaten;
Pair Escapes With $500.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Ind, Sept. TO-
Ira Sutton, SIS, was in Daviess Coun-
ty Hospital here today recovering
from bullet wounds suffered when
he resisted holdup at his home
Saturday night.
Mr.. Sutton and his wife were sur
prised by two bandits when they ar
rived home from a shopping trip at
Bicknell. Shooting Mr.. Sutton and
then beating him and his wife, the
bandits tied them up with rope and
escaped with $500,
Mr.. Sutton freed himself an hour
later and called police His condi-
ton was not considered critical.
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81 APPLY FOR PAROLE
FROM PARDON BOARD
Marion County LITER" Among
Group Seeking Combinations.

The case of one Marion County
life-termer is among the 50 appli-
cations for parole of Communication
of sentence to be heard this week
by the State Clemency Commission.
The petitioner is Charles Irwin,
convicted of murder in 1922. Other
Marion County cases are those of
Paul Fuller, sentenced in 1888 to 8
to 10 years for burglary; Raymond
Langsdon, sentenced in 1881 to 10
years for robbery; Jean Price and
Paul Vernon. each sentenced in 1926
to p years for robbery.
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CHARLES J. ROY DIES
AT MlSHAWAKA HOME
Postmaster Formerly Served as
County Commissioner.

Postmaster Formerly Served as
County Commissioner.
By Times Special
MISHAWAKA, Ind, Sept. 10
Services were being arranged today
for Charles ]. Roy, Mishawaka post
master and Indiana Democratic
leader, who died yesterday at his
home here.
Mr. Roy was st. Joseph County
Commissioner from 1882 to 1885 and
was a member of the Mishawaka
Works Board from 1923 to 1926. He
was a former president of the In
diana County Commissioners Asso-
citation.
Physicians said that Mr. Roy, who
was As, died of heart disease. Sur
viving him are the widow, three
brothers and three sisters.
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u n c l a d a n q
bruised from head
to foot, was found
on a front room
bed.
Yesterday, Biz
kle, stupefed With
liquor. leaned out
the back door of
their home, r. r.
3, box 70, and
called to Dege
Hedge, 1860 Taft
st, a neighbor.
Come here"
nv
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Swastika Branded Hotel Burns

BIZ United Press
KITTERY. Me, Sept. 16.-The
Jewish-owned Parkfield Hotel on
which a swastika was painted Fri
day night, was swept by a mysteri-
Gus fire early today. Damage was
estimated at $4,000.
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Alumni Association to Meet

Members of Sigma Delta Kappa
Alumni Association will meet at
noon tomorrow at the Washington,
with L. w. Horning, grand secre-
tarY, presiding.
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ADEQUATE, is s
COY REPLY TO
RELIEF CHARGE
Denies u. S. Decides Food
Budget: Agrees on
Health Outlook.

Wayne Coy. state relief adminis-
traitor. took issue today with DR..
Alice Parsons. Chicago, who charged
in an address before the John Reed
Club Friday night that Federal re-
lief does not allow families enough
money for food budgets.
Food budgets are not determined
by the Federal government" Mr..
Coy said. Standards are de-
termined by local officials. and vary
according to the whimS and re-
sources of the county"
While he objected to DR.. Par
sons accusation of inadequate gov
eminent relief, Mr.. Coy agreed with
her that grave danger faced Ameri-
ca in the future health OF relief
family children.
Future Is Uncertain
I'VE are facing a problem of what
TO do with the children. and We GER
tainly have not done too much in
relief work" Mr.. Coy said.
although figures compiled in a
recent article in the New Republic
showed a decrease in the present
death rate, we do not know what
health conditions will be in the fu-
ture for children who now are
growing up in relief families.
In Indiana, we give medical re-
lief when it is needed" he added.
answering a charge made by DR..
Parsons that many poor people neg
lect to call physicians during serious
illness because they can not pay for
the service.
Provide Care Here
Here in indianapolis such medi-
cal care is through the City Hos
pital When our visitors find fami-
lies needing medical attention. they
advise them how they may obtain
it. There is no reason why there
should be any lack of medical care
for relief families"
The most serious drawback to In
diana'S relief work, Mr. Coy feels.
is the fact that in localities where
there is the least ability to pay for
relief work. the need is greatest.
He pointed out the section around
Clinton, where need for relief was
greater than in any other section
in the state.
Yet that section is the least able
to pay" he said. When these situa-
tons become too acute. and when
the standard gets below the mimi
mum, we investigate and order the
local authorities to provide adequate
relief. This is what we did Saturday
in the strike" in Springfield Town
ship, La Porte County.
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IT is hard to realize exactly
Il where facts about ones self
ends and fancy begins.
Some Of the details of my life
history I can vouch for myself.
Others I must take on good au-
thority.
For example, my mother tells
me that I was a seven months
baby and had two teeth when 1
was born. She says that her
physician facetiously remarked
that If I had beer a regular baby
Id probably have made my world
" debut all dressed in boots and
a skirt. And adds chat I walked
at nine months anC talked at IA.
I was born with a caul and on
the thirteenth of the month.
Whether or not this combination
actually augured good fortune, 13
always has been my lucky day.
And with sincere gratitude I real
ize that fortune has indeed been
good to me.
April is my birth month,
Cannes, France, my birthplace.
My mother was born in Cannes,
also, but her parents we're Italian
NV father, a Frenchman, was
in the automobile business, and
Tor excitement drove in some OF
the big automobile races on the
continent He served at the front
in the World War, was gasSed and
never fully recovered. He died
eight years ago.
THEY say that I cried to be
Il taken to the theater when I
was 5 years old. So my parents
took me to see the opera, Lucia
di Lammermoor."
My father decided I should
follow a musical career. He gave
me my first lessons, then turned
me over to a professional teacher.
who decided that I should go to
Paris and study at the Conserva-
tory of Music. Before 1 was 10
years old, won first prize at the
conservatory.
The World War put an end to
normal living conditions in
France, so I returned to Cannes,
where my mother was in charge
of a large hospital One of the
happiest = and saddeSt of my
childhood memories is playing
and singing for wounded soldiers
there.
I played in comedy dramas at
the Theatre de Varieties in Paris
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G.. of c.. and Anti-HOhlt
Group Fights Tax Hikes
Lodge Protests as County Adjustment Board Begins
Sessions; Relief Bond Issues Under Attack.

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce the Township
ahtl-HohlC themselves
test to the County Tax Adjustment Board began
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Fortune Good to Her, Writes
Lily Pons; Just Lucky, She Says

Twelve outstanding movie stars are
writing the stories Of their lives for
MA Service and The Times. This story,
by Lily Pons, Is the seventh Of the
series
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LONG PLOTTED
TO STAY FOE,
GUARD CLAIMS
Legislative Probe of Deal
Blocked by Fixed
Voting Machines.

This Is the fifth NJ series Of articles
IN the career Of Huev Long. written bv
Earl Sparkling. who knew Long personally
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.SOvIET-POLISH
ENJOYS CLASH
Warsaw Delegates Walk
Out as LitvinoV Answers
Bitter Attack.

Continued From Page One)
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Tomorrow - Long. victorious,
goes TO the L. S. Senate.
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Copyright. 1895. Index Number Insti-
tute Inc.l
, 1935-03-10

The location Of our new seaport on a like
turn Of the Gulf of Mexico, from the north and
east to all Latin America, makes il the natur-
al location for the greatest city of the South
west.
Every citizen of Brownsville Navigation
District, Of Cameron County, Texas, and of the
entire Rio Grande Valley and vicinity and each
person in other places as they learn of this
great new opportunity should become an early
investor in property in this new seaport Sec
ton.
They owe it to themselves, to their fam
lilies and to all Of those whom they desire to
assist in helping in the future to take advan-
tage of present prices in this section in order
to reap their share Of the rich harvest Of in
creased values which are certain after this new
saport work is completed.
am progressing on plans by which ! ex-
pect to help provide for every man, woman
and child of the Rio Grande Valley and vicin-
iy and for those in many other sections a fair
opportunity to invest on easy terms in por-
tons of the property of this favored section
and to therefore enable them to enjoy a share
of the vast new wealth which will be made by
the development and growth of this great new
seaport of America.
, 1935-03-10

The United States Government has pro-
vided all the money needed for it's completion.
The contract for it's completion has been
let and work is now proceeding each day to-
ward its completion.
BY this contract our new seaport will at
latest be completed during the first half of
next year.
The construction and completion of this
great new seaport will add much value to all
sections of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity.
1t will connect this whole section with the sea-
port markets OF all the world.
In addition to these general extra values
which will be created by this seaport in all Sec
lions of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity,
there will also be created additional special
values for.all property included in the Browns
vile Navigation District and vicinity.
The entire Brownsville Navigation Dis
trict and vicinity in time is destined to become
a part of one of Americas greatest cities and
Metropolitan Districts.
Cameron County, Texas, is destined to
soon rival Los Angeles County, California.
Brownsville, Texas, and other communi.
ties of the Brownsville Navigation District
and vicinity have the opportunity now to make
more rapid growth than Los Angeles and its
other nearby communities have made in the
past.
, 1935-03-10

TINE early completion of our deep-water
l. s~ealevel seaport for the Rio Grande
Valley and its vast, rich and productive
trade territory is now assured.
, 1935-03-10

portion of Brownsville Navigation District
and vicinity will have the opportunity to reap
rich rewards because of the great increases in
values which this new seaport will help to
create.
Others in all sections of the United States,
Canada, and many from different sections Of
the rich and romantic Latin American coun-
tries south of us, as they learn of the merits
and development of this favored section, will
become investors with us. Large numbers will
also in time make their winter or all year home
with us.
This new seaport section is destined to be
not only a great shipping, industrial and COM
mercial center, but also a great winter, sum-
mer and all year tourist center.
This is the natural permanent gateway
by land, sea and air to and from North, Cen
trail and South America. This natural gate
way will in time probably be the most travel
led pathway in the Western Hemisphere.
The location Of this new seaport on the
turn of the Gulf of Mexico from North Am
erica to the Latin American countries is sim
liar to the location of Chicago, on Lake Mich
igan, on the turn from the Eastern to the
Northwestern part of this country. That To-
cation on the turn Of Lake Michigan made
Chicago the natural location of the greatest
city of the Northwest.