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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
SCRIPTS GIVEN
WIDE SUPPORT
ON TAX VIEWS.
Keen Interest in Reform
Evinced Here and in
Washington.
ZOERCHER LAUDS PLAN
Senator Couzens Critical;
Others See Great Merit
in Proposal.
ZOERCHER LAUDS PLAN

Public officials and business men
in Indianapolis today studied tax
alton suggestions of Robert P.
Scripps, terming his viewpoint
worthy OF careful consideration.
Philip Zoercher, State Tax Board
chairman and president Of the Ma
tional Tax Association, declared
that Mr.. Scripps' "tax ideas have a
great deal of merit"
Clarence Jackson, director of the
State Gross Income Tax Division,
terms the suggestions helpful to
both the government and the tax
payer" but declared they should be
adopted only as last resort.
Both William H. Book, executive
vice president Of the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor
Kern urged serious consideration,
and Gavin Payne, investment bro
ker, declared that the proposal was
on the right track
Statements include:
Zoercher's Statement
Mr.. Zoercher: 81 believe Mr..
Scripps has advanced a pertinent
suggestion and his tax ideas have a
great deal of merit, particularly in
the relation to the problems of large
estates.
"Unquestionably the great
amount of money necessary to pay
Federal Inheritance taxes often
compels the estate survivors to dis
pose of assets at a great sacrifice
in order to raise the money.
Making such obligations pay
able, under the plan Mr.. Scripps
suggests often might conserve the
entire estate and the government
would not be the loser.
Congress has ample authority ito
coin money and it could take certifi-
Gates of obligation and issue green
backs against them. However, the
greenbacks issued would have to be
made legal tender for both public
and private debts. There never was
anything wrong with the first issue
of greenbacks in Civil War days
They were worth 100 cents on a
dollar until they deprecated be-
cause a distinction was made be-
tween their value as tender for
public and private debt"
MIR. Jackson: "Mr. Scripps has
outlined the problem of individual
and corporations in the upper tax
bracket in very constructive man.
ner and unquestionably he is seek
ing to make suggestion that would
be helpful both to the government
and to the taxpayer.
Fears Increased Expense
I'm the final analysis, as I reao
his suggestion, he is proposing that
the government go into the credit
business with it's taxpayers. There
are, OF course, some plans now in
effect for the payment of taxes over
period of time, but Mr.. Scripps
suggestion as read it would make
his plan more or less major part
Of the Federal tax collecting system
70 do this, of course, would increase
the expense of the Federal govern
ment considerably and at the pres
ent time Big Business as well as
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
SENATE FROWNS
ON UNITED BILL
Leaders Map Substitute
Bonus Measure for Intro
duCtion on Monday.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia COM
promise bill to pay the ex-soldiers
$4,000 100000 obligation with bonds
maturing in 1888 has been prepared
b. Administration leaders in the
Senate and will become the vehicle
for the fight that begins there next
week.
They expect to introduce the bill
Monday as a substitute for the
measure which the House passed
yesterday by 355 to SO, rush it
through the Finance Committee,
which has been called to meet
Monday, and push it to enactment
by the weekend.
Though final details remain to be
worked out, the bill would authorize
issuance of bonds to the war vet
Grams for the sums due in 1916
under their Adjusted Service Ger
tificates. The veterans could dis
count the bonds Immediately, prob
ably getting at least 81 per cent, or
they could wait for two years and
get the full amount.
The bonds would bear per cent
interest.
Senate Democratic leaders are
passing around word that President
Roosevelt probably would sign such
a bill. It is true that he has been
consulted during drafting of the
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
JERSEY CHIEF
ORDERS POLICE
TO GET jAFS|E
Pardon Board Now Meeting
on Final Appeal of
Hauptmann.
CONDOR ABOARD SHIP
Little Hope Held by Killers
Counsel for Favorable
Action.
CONDOR ABOARD SHIP
By United Press

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 11.-Gov.
Harold G. Hoffman's determination
to have DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Con-
don taken into custody thrust an
eleventh-hour sensation into the
Lindbergh case today as the New
Jersey Court of Pardons heard the
last clemency pleas for Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann.
Hauptmann himself, in a cell next
door to the electric chair, did not
appear, but the court received let
ter from his 71-year-old mother,
begging it to spare the life of my
poor boy"
DR.. Condor, the rather eccentric
retired school teacher, who paid
the $4,000 ransom in behalf of
Col. Lindbergh, sailed for South
America last night. It was partly
as a result of his identification of
Hauptmann as the recipient of the
money that the German carpenter
was convicted and sentenced to die
next Friday as the murderer of the
Lindbergh baby.
Mothers Plea Heard
William S. Conklin, secretary of
Gov Hoffman, announced that re-
CARELESS of the outcome Of the par
don hearing, "the Governor will di-
rect the state police and other law
enforcement agencies to take DR..
Condor into custody for questioning
about alleged discrepancies in his
stories"
Despite eloquent pleas by his
mother, spiritual adviser and coun-
sci, Hauptmann's chances of obtain
ing mercy at the hands of the Par
don Court seemed slight. But Hoff-
mans action in connection with
Condor strengthened belief that the
Governor, acting alone, might post.
pone the execution.
From her home in rural Germany.
the condemned mans mother, Mrs.
Pauline Hauptmann, beseeched the
Governor and the court to commute
his sentence to imprisonment, say
ing his "ignominious death on the
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
Bruno Innocent, Mother
and Pastor Tell Board
Grief Stricken Woman Asks
CIemency From Par
don Court.

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 1.-THE
text of letter to Gov. Hoffman
from Bruno Richard Hauptmann's
mother, pleading for clemency and
read to the New Jersey Pardon
Board today, follows:
THE undersigned, being the grief
stricken mother of Bruno Haupt-
mann, condemned to death by the
courts of your state and disallowed
retrial by the Supreme Court of the
United States, implores your ex-
cellency to stay that terrible SEN
tence by communting it into inpris-
onment.
Ever since my son was charged
with the heinous crime of having
assassinated the infant son of Col.
Charles Lindbergh, have unalter-
ingly expressed the firm conviction
that, notwithstanding the suspicion
prevailing against him, the court
Of Pennington would ultimately alb
oOlfC 4lllll &4OllL tlldO dLl OClOuO
charge. Unfortunately Bruno has
not succeeded m proving his inno-
cence, a minor transgression COM
mitted by him in Germany during
the famine following the World
War having been used to brand
him as a fundamentally criminal
character.
However, as the mother of the
condemned man who bore and
raised him in a God-fearing FAM
lily, I may be forgiven if neverthe-
less I can not believe in Bruno's
guilt. Although certain outward
appearances may be irrefutably
against him, I feel distinctly that
Bruno, who always was a model son
to me and is himself loving father
of little boy, could not be and is
not the real perpetrator.
Moreover, feel that that crime
which so deeply shocked every
mother in Germany as well as in
your country, could not possibly be
atoned by the execution OF man,
who, from first to last, has loudly
proclaimed his innocence. am
firmly convinced that he was not
himself the really guilty party"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
POISONING CASE MAY
REACH JURY TODAY
Judges Charge Expected by
Mid-Afternoon.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
PORTLAND, Ind, Jan. 11.-Jury
elaboration was expected today in
the trial in Jay Circuit Court of
Ray Dawson, Modoc, alleged poison
slayer.
lie is accused of placing strych-
nine in medicine taken by his a.
year. old stepdaughter, Mary Kritch,
Nov. is, 1882, causing her death.
Attorneys were given three hours
each for closing arguments by
Judge Hanson Mills, who was ex-
pected to charge the jury in mid
afternoon.
Sheriff r. A. Cardwell of Upton
County, testified yesterday he was
we'll acquainted with Dawson and
said he was of excellent character.
Dawson was implicated in the
crime by his wife, Mrs. Mae Daw-
son. who is serving a life sentence
for confessed participation in the
crime. She also accused the de-
PENDANT of poisoning her first hus-
band, Walter Kritch, in Upton sew
eral years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
Spiritual Adviser Convinced
Condemned Man Is
Telling Truth.

BY United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 1.-THE
text of a letter pleading for mercy
for Bruno Richard Hauptmann by
the Rev. John Mattheison, his pas
tor, and read to the Pardon Court
today follows:
81 have had Is very intimate and
soul-searching interviews with
Bruno Richard Hauptmann and am
convinced that he tells the truth.
If Hauptmann would have had a
reliable defense lawyer at the out
set, and if he would have asked for
an interpreter during the trial, the
very evidence used against him
should have spoken in his favor.
"Hauptmann felt no need for
them until it was too late. After
careful study of this case I have
come to that conclusion.
First Know Hauptmann"
"First know Hauptmann as he
really is, and his wife Anna, and
then study the evidence; and you
will arrive at the same conclusion.
Hauptmann does not fit into the
framework of circunstantial evil
dence.
81 bring these findings to your
honorable members of the Court CT
Pardons not because of sympathy
for Hauptmann, although claim to
know him better than any one else
with the exception of his wife, but
I want to see justice prevail in this
case. I would ask for the supreme
penalty if Hauptmann were guilty.
my creed has no objection to
that. There is nothing else in my
mind than this: That / may serve
the state of New Jersey with my
findings. I feel it is a sacred duty
that I have to discharge.
Ordained Lutheran Pastor
81 am an ordained Lutheran pas
tor who has served his church for
% years. I claim to be quite well
qualified in judging people in va
rious walks of life, and especially
Germans. I spent my childhood
days and years of my earlier youth
in an institution in which the poor.
the derelicts and vagabonds, ex-
conVicts, and such Like, We're kept.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
Tells Story
By United Press

~ OntteU FTCSS
MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan. II.
Mrs. John Lynch, New
Haven, Conn.,, told Montreal
newspaper men today that she
saw Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.,
"alive and we'll" in an Atlantic
City hotel two days after the
kidnapping.
Mrs. Lynch claimed a gang
of men, among whom was
Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
convicted slayer of the child,
carried the baby into the hotel.
She was certain of the iden-
tity of the child and immedi-
ately notified police. she said.
Hauptmann was questioned
at the time by police, she said,
but was released. The other
gangsters had left the hotel
with the Lindbergh baby be-
fore police arrived, she con-
tended.
She said she was under con-
slant police protection at the
request Of Gov. A. Harry
Moore for several months fol-
lowing her "tip-off" to police.
"Hauptnann was not the
ringleader in the kidnapping"
she said. There were others
and the master mind is in
New York today. He is the one
who is supplying Hauptmann
With all this money for his
legal fees"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11

apolis Screw Products Co.,
and their grandfather is
Charles J. Buchanan, presi-
dent of the Flanner & Buchan-
an Mortuary.
Stephen Buchanan, 8-year- old
brother, told authorities that the
boys were sliding on the ice and
broke through.
Soaked through to the waist,
young Stephen teld a Times re-
porter that he waded into the creek
near 5000 E. Fall Creek-blvd and
tried to save his companions.
Rescue Attempts Futile
Mrs. Buchanan confirmed the re-
port of her son that the three boys
had been together and had gone on
hike.
Stephen said that the ice cracked
and that all three boys sank. David,
he said, came up once, but appar-
emily the others we're swept away by
the current.
When he discovered that all his
attempts at rescue were futile, young
Stephen said he ran to his grand
parents home and informed his
grandmother of the tragedy.
demonstrating the tragedy, police
said that the boys apparently
walked out about 20 feet from the
east bank of the creek near 33d-st
Ice Hampers Police
The ice at this point is patchy and
the current swift. Police dragging
the waters in boat were hampered
by the current and blocks of ice.
Sergt. Chester Zimmerman is in
command of the rescue work.
So frantic was Mrs. Buchanan
when she heard the news from her
son that she went with him to the
creek before calling police. Then.
she ran from house to house look
ing for telephone.
Noticing her distraught condition,
an unidentified man took her to the
home of Edward A. Lawson, 1850
Fall Creek-blvd. Mrs. Lawson called
police.
Hundreds of spectators thronged
the banks watching the salvage op-
erations.
Two years ago Paul, brother of
Charles Prange, rescued another
boy from Fall Creek. The boy had
been sliding on the ice and broke
through. Meredith Nicholson, now
ambassador to Venezuela, was pass
ing and saw the rescue. He asked
Paul his name and several days later
Paul received check from him-a
reward for bravery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
HELD IN PLOT
ON ROOSEVELT
Wealthy Sportsman Admits
Writing Threats, Secret
Service Claims.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. II. - Austin
Phelps Palmer, wealthy sportsman
and clubman, was arrested by Sc
cret service agents in his luxurious
Park-av apartment today on war
rant charging that he threatened
the life of President Roosevelt.
The dignified, retired mechanical
engineer admitted, the agents said,
that he was the author of series
of threatening and scurrilous let
tiers, the source of which Federal
investigators had been seeking for
several months.
They had narrowed their search
for the letter writer to the So
tenant building in which Palmer, q
Widower, has a seven-room apart
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
FEAR 3 BOYS DROWNED IN CREEK
Co.. Hoffman Plans to Rebrieze Ha1lbt1,1n1111
Still Going

Decatur Central, Ben Davis,
Warren Central and Southport
were to battle in semi-final
games of the Marion County
high school basketball tourna-
ment at the Armory this after
noon.
Decatur Central, defending
champions, was to tackle
undefeated Ben Davis in the
first game at 1870. Southport
was favored over Warren Gen.
trail in the second fray at 2::30
The winners are to clash for
the championship tonight at
$3.50.
Decatur Central and Ben
Davis reached the senni-finals
by scoring two victories each
in yesterdays opening play.
Southport and Warren Central
were required to register only
one victory to advance into the
round of four.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
SCALE COMMITTEE AND
MINE OPERATORS AGREE
Brazil Coal Field Wage Terms May
Be Announced Monday.

By United Press
BRAZIL, Jan. 11.-Agreement be-
tween shaft mine operators and the
scale committee of District No. 8,
United Mine Workers of America,
was announced here today.
Terms of the new wage scale for
the Brazil block coal field will not
be announced until details have
been approved by a United Mine
Workers Association scale conven-
ton which meets Monday.
The scale committee has been
deadlocked for several months, be-
ing unable to agree on working con-
ditiouS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
150 THOUGHT VICTIMS
OF COLOMBIAN QUAKE

villages on Ecuador Border Devas-
tated by Earth Upheaval.
By United Press
BOGOTA, JAM, 1.-THE earth
quake which devastated villages
along the Colombia Ecuador border
killed between $50 and $50 persons,
it was estimated today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
KENTUCKY SALES TAX
HEADED FOR REPEAL

Bills booming Law Pass Both
Branches of Legislature.
By United Press
FRANKFORT, KY. Jan. IL. -
Kentucky's per cent retail sales
tax law was headed for repeal to-
day, thus fulfilling a campaign
promise of Gov. A. B. Chandler.
Identical repeater bills, INTRODUCES
in the House and Senate. Passed
both branches of the state Legisla-
ture yesterday. The Legislature
then adjourned until Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
2 BUCHANAN SONS.
CHUM LOSE LIVES.
BROTHER REPORTS
Police Rush Dragging Operations at Point
Near 33d-st; Lads Broke Through
Thin Ice, Youngster Relates.
8-YEAR-OLD'S RESCUE EFFORTS FAIL
Huge Throngs Line Bank to Watch Police
Salvage Boat Battle Treacherous
and Icy Current.

Police this afternoon dragged Fall Creek, 33rd-st,
for the bodies of three Indianapolis boys reported to have
broken through thin ice and drowned
The boys John Buchanan, II, and David Buchanan,
TO- of Mr. and Mrs Albert F. Buchanan 3138 Washing
ton-bvd and Charles FRANCE TO- of Mr. and Mrs Elmer
c. FRANCE 5000 N New Jerseyst.
The missing brothers father president of the Indian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
By United Press

BY United Press
Stocks irregularly higher and ac-
tive.
Bonds active and higher.
Curb firm and active.
Chicago stocks irregularly higher.
Call money Il of ! per cent.
Foreign exchange strong as dollar
breaks; sterling up more than 2
cents.
Cotton 6 to 20 points higher.
Grains-Wheat OF Is &c Il: corn
lower.
Rubber Up l5f - POINTS,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
HOLSTERS CONFER ON
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
Form Of Legislation for Program
Studied in Washington.

Studied in Washington.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Three
Indiana officials conferred with
members of the Social Security
Board today regarding the form of
legislation through which Indiana
will comply with provisions of the
new social security laws.
Conferees were r. Clyde White of
the University of Indiana; Charles
B. Marshall, financial director of
the Indiana WPA and E. P. Bren-
nan, state budget director.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
Eggs-arnple

If the eggs in the cafeteria
at School AZ, Warren and Ray
mond-sts, weren't good eggs.
there's a nasty job for the
janitor today.
Because somebody got into
the school last night through
an unlocked window. ransacked
the place from top to bottom
and threw eggs at the walls and
blackboards.
The place is messy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
ROOSEVELT SUED TO
KEEP AAA IN FORCE
Action Plans Continuance Until
Referendum Can Be Held.

By United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA
suit was filed in United States Dis
trict Court today for an injunction
to restrain President Roosevelt from
terminating the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act until a nationwide
referendum is taken on the conSti-
tutionality of the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
CUBANS ELECT GOMEZ,
SLOW COUNT INDICATES
Candidate Claims Victory in Every
Province of Island.

By United Press
HAVANA, Jan. II. - DR.. Miguel
Mariana Gomez was believed as
sured of election to the presidency
today while returns from yesterdays
election came slowly into the capital.
Jubllantly, Mr.. Gomez asserted he
mad been victorious in every prov
lnce. In a statement, he promised
close, friendly relations with the
United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-26

Nearly 2.0Oo.UOO women fin France are managing their own farms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-26
lST. PAUL'SPASTOR
 RECEPTION GUEST
Rev. w. V. Dickinson Out. lines Ten Points for
 Perfect Layman

Members Of St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal church gathered ct the church parlors last night to honor Rev. William V. Dickinson, pastor. The 60th anniversary of the found- Ing of the church will be celebrated in october.
 Addresses of welcome were given by Henry KuntS, president of the board of trustees; Frank Meisinger, chairman of the finance committee; Mrs. Mary Fudge, chairman of the reception committee; and Wilson Miller, former financial secretary. A program Of entertainment was pre- sented.
 Speaking on If I Were Layman Today, Rev. MT. Dickinson brought out the following 10 points:
 l. would "so live" that Jesus Christ would get the best of me; 9. I would ESQ love" that my fellow men could always rely on me; 3. I would "so labor" that others would not be compelled to carry too big Q load; {, I would "so lift" that others would ask, "Where does he get all his power2" 5, I would "so lead" that an innocent child or @ rnatured per- son, following, would never miss the true goal of life: 6, T. would "so lend" that others would never need repay me; 2, would "so look" that people would say, He reminds me of Jesus; 8, would "so lose" that my loss would greatly enrich others; 9, would "so laud" that the humb- lest struggler in life might take courage; 10, I would "so laugh" that others might know that I'm on top of the world and thoroughly enjoy- ing the Christian life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-26

sible for the success that he has gained in his work.
 Jessie is the third oldest Of ten children born to Eli B. and Pris. ella Collins Foote in the town of Vurin, Q little community on the south coast of New Foundland She gained her primary edu- cation in the grade schools of her home town and she too, answered the call to the service when she entered the college of training for Salvation Army work ct Saint Johns. Her studies were some. what more extensive than were her husbands in that she delved more deeply into the studies of the bible, history and other kin- dred subjects. After three years ct the college, she graduated on January first, 1897 with the com. mission of Lieutenant. Most of her assignments before her marriage were to field headquarters rather than out with the various local corps as her husband had been working. Her first duties brought her to the district headquarters at Harbour Grace, New Foundland. After two years there, she was transferred to Tilt Cove, Q little coal mining town in New Found- land that was the seat of another district headquarters office. Then, she was placed in charge of the girls department at the college of training for Salvation Army work CTS at Saint Johns. Her record there is an admirable one Under her careful guidance, many of the young women of that sec- ton of North America have come to be valued and important mem- bers and officers of the Salvation Army. She was granted a short furlough after distinguished serv. ice in the college in order that she might become the bride of Alfred Vincent. That important happening took place or Decem- Der 18th, 1906, just shortly after he had received his commission of Captain. Of course, her mar- riage necessitated her giving up her work in the various fields of endeavor that she had chosen to follow in her army work, but she immediately fitted herself into Q post ct her husbands side.
 For thirty years, these two peo- pie have carried on side by side,