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BACK COPIES Sc EACH CHRONICLE BACK COPIES 5c EACH FIFTY-THIRD'YEAR MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932 PRICE THREE CENTS RELIEF FROM UNBEARABLE TAX BURDENS Cut $7,500,000 from Highway Fund and in All Other Appropriations LANSING, Mar. ty-eight proposed acts designed to provide emergency tax and financial relief were thrown into the house and senate hoppers today. They embody the recommendations contained in Governor Bruck- cr's message. In striking nearly $4,000,000 off of the genera.1 appropriation bill of 1931 a measure presented today by Rep. Gus T.

Hartman of Houghton, administration leader, proposes to effect a blanket 15 per cent reduction in all state salaries. Other bills carry the 15 per cent iBuction program into every phase state activity includng the institutional building program, state advertising fund, Michigan State college and the University of Michigan. Mother Given Compensation for I Death of Her Son; NILES, Mar. Ruling a direct attempt to evade liability, Charles F. White, deputy commissoner of the state ment of labor and industry, today awarded Mrs.

Mina Lambert, of; Chicago, 55,600 compensation for; the death of her son, Merrill, 25, killed while testing a verto-plane i for the Heath Aircraft company, of Niles. i The ruling came after an official of the Aircraft company testified in i the compensation hearing he i discharged Lambert before the test pilot started his flight. He ad-; MRS. MAYO I 1 APPEARS IN COURT 1 NEW HOPE IN LINDBERGH CASE and Is Under Bonds of $1,000 Mrs. Anna Mayo appeared be-1 mitted on the stand he intended to ore TJ.

s. Commissioner O. Scott re-employ the pilot if safely. Lambert was Nov. 6.

LANSING, Mar. Governor Brucker's emergency relief program submitted to the special session of the leg" islature this afternoon pro- poses, briefly: TAXATION Return of the weight tax to eliminate at least YACHT READY TO GO AFTER LINDY BABY Baltimore Man Has Been Asked for Use of His Yacht By Norfolk Men now road taxes; levied for local referendum in November on a state income 0 tax amendment to the Consti- tu'tion; installment payment of 1930 and 1931 taxes and an Increased period of redemption of property tax delinquency for 1927, 1928 and 1929. COSTS he landed ciark this morning, accompanied, killed last by her attorney, C. C. Cortright.

She was arraigned on a federal charge of selling liquor and de- 1 manded an examination, which was set for Tuesday, April 12. Mrs. Mayo was then released under bonds of $1,000. Mrs. Mayo, it will be remembered, was not in her place of business Saturday night at the time it was raided and the warrant was not served at that time.

Sunday Atty. Cortright agreed to have Mrs. Mayo in court this ing and he kept his promise. While Mrs. Mayo has been in court before on liquor law violation charges, this is the first, time that she has been held under a federal warrant.

Fred Sebastian, the Battle Creek man who is alleged to have soldi liquor to one of the Marshall men I arrested here Saturday, gave him- i I self up this morning and appeared! I before Justice Paul Shafer for ar- raignment. He demanded an ex- i Baltimore, Mar. animation and is now being held in I onel Charles H. Consolvo of Balti- the Battle Creek jail as he was un- more, prominent hotel owner, has able to furnish bonds of $2,000 which were demanded. If the' REPORT OF F.

F. WILLIAMS IS RECEIVED -Treasurer's Annual Statement Submitted to Council Last Night Purple Gang Fugitive been asked to use his steam yacht in a sea trip which, will result in the Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. bonds are not furnished this af-' Kfforts of these three intermediaries who are endeavoring to recover the kidnaped Lindbergh baby have given new hope that the child will be restored to it's, famous parents within a short time. The men arc residents of Norfolk, it is ternoon, Sebastian -will be brot Jo; recovery of; the county jail here for safe-keep- ing until the date of his examina I Minneapolis'Bank This" information "was tion.

The arrest of Sebastian, KK pf of ing today from Mrs. Consolvo, who brings the total to eight that were JVUUUfclU Ul said their yacht, the Marcon, has taken into custody as the result of been lying at Norfolk for the past the Marshall raids Saturday night. MINNEAPOLIS, rwnjllJA1Wi Wiai iinarv scnooi money a i three days, coaled and ready to; Sebastian is the man who broke Machine gun. raided the A flght to the finish between ri-1 MSaneous 838529 -j. ii-itft tl-io WtVicin Allnn flnt.Viinfr st.nrp.

A v. uv The annual report of Treasurer Frank F. Williams was i submitted to the common council last evening and was referred to the auditing firm of Miller, Bailey the latter firm having been awarded the contract for auditing city books. According to Mr. Williams' re- jort there was a balance on hand March 19 in the amount of 756.36 to the city's credit.

Alder-! man Albaugh, chairman of the fi-! nance committee, said that the city's balance in the bank today was approximately $300 less than that amount. Recorder-Treasurer i Williams stated that on March 19, i the bank balance was somewhat i larger than the balance which the books showed, but that the differ- ence was only in the amount of: checks issued, but not cashed. Alderman Albaugh moved that; the report be referred to the au-: ditors and the motion carried unanimously. The annual report disclosed that: there Is a balance 6f $7,467.12 In i the contingent fund. This corres-! ponds 'with a deficit of $995.58 in' the contingent fund a year ago.

An itemized account of this fund is given below: Credits Appropriation 9,253.87 I Fees and license 1,951.97 TT (Delinquent taxes 7,451.82 Hold rent 277.00 Interest on bank balance 221.31 Excess in roll 9.81 21,008.98 Loft is Hear Admiral. Guy Barrage, retired; right, the Rev. H. Dobsoii-Peacock, dean of Grace Episcopal church at Norfolk, and John H. Curtis, official, The eye of.

tive world are on these nifiv HAS NEW TAX BILL READY TODAY Will Tax Stock Sales Automobiles and Accessories, Rafee Postage i WASHINGTON. Mar. The House today adopted the i amendment to the revenue bill placing excise taxes on automo- biles, trucks and accessories. In swift order the following amendments also were adopted by I the House: Furs, 10 per cent; sporting goods and cameras, 10 per cent; candy, 5 per cent; radios and phonographs, 5 per cent; matches, 4 cents per and motorboate and yachts, 10 per cent above $15 Police throughout the middle west value. were directed to search for Basil The total expected revenue from Maine Democrats Banghart, member of the notorious purple gang of Detroit, who shot his way to freedom from jail at South Bend, Ind.

Arrested in Detroit two months ago, Banghart was to have gone on trial in South Bend for a holdup committed there two years ago. AUTOMATIC TYPESETTER INVENTED the changed bill would amount to $1,261,000,000. in roll PORTLAND, Me, Mar. Prmlary school, money start to sea at a minute's notice. Ethan Allen clothing store North branch of state's budget 'for 1932 and Mrs.

Consolvo said she has re- here on the night of January 2, Northwestern National bank today cut rn the word from her husband He served a term in Jackson an escaped with loot estimated at. CUl uie nvisnn as the result of his activi- eiTC'nnn three emissaries working between prison as the result of his activi supervision of school the and Colonel Lind- "es that night. He was married in The; bandits -the. state supervision, oiscnooicus. the coimtv iail while awaitine re- in miniitAs nnH trict budgets for three years.

BANKING Harold Dobson-Pea- the county jail while awaiting re cock, pastor of Christ Episcopal rnoval to Jackson prison. bery in a minutes and fled with ganizations witn bank reor- church, Norfolk, John Hughes Cur- consent of per re- through the rear 'door. All of them 4-1 tis, Norfolk boat builder, and Rear tne Admiral Guy Burrage, Starr Grinnett, who has been in carried either sawed-off shotguns val supporters of Franklin Roosevelt-'arid Alfred E. Smith the state convention D. at Total $48,570.08 Debits tonight 1 was forecast Deficit, March 18, 995.581 "the arrival from Salaries 3,550,00 'folloy today of James Roosevelt, son of Compensation insurance the governor.

Young Roosevelt Treasurer's said his father Audit Photo-Electric Cell to Operate Linotypes from Copy bond ceivers to accept loans from the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation. UNEMPLOYMENT Increase bonding limit for emergency welfare purposes. BONDED DEBTS permit refunding of bonds to lighten tax burdens at the present time. SECURITIES Closer supervision of bank and trust company receiver- ship and closer examination of defaulted real estate issues. By CLAUDE f.

MARKLE United Press Staff Correspondent LANSING, March legislature convened in special session for the purpose of providing relief from unbearable tax burdens today was asked by Gov. Wilber M. Brucker to enact the most drastic curtailment of governmental operating costs the has known in years. He asked, that more than be stricken from the construction funds of the highway department and returned to 265.58 484.50 county jail since Saturday sub-machine guns. wa Info CHARLOTTE, N.

Mar. and the remaining five Mar- Twenty-eight employes were votes pledged to him, and that he Chairs 148.00 (U.R)—Demonstration of the sema- will accompany Colonel Consolvo shall People who were arrested in to line up against the wall would exer all his influence Office fixtures 203.00 graph, an automatic typesetter in- on a trip to the 12-mile limit with- the raids will be taken to Battle i a the bandits looted all places toward tha end. I Printing council proceed- i vente by Buford Green North in the next day or two. Creek tomorrow morning for ar- where currency and securities were Though forces in ings 642.47 WASHINGTON, Speaker John Garner brought 'the House to its feet, cheering, in a dramatic personal appeal today for a balanced budget. Ths stirring scene came after his lieutenants had made public their substitute program for the defeated sales tax.

It called for heavy taxes on the stock exchange and automobiles and in! creased postal rates, as Well as unprecedented "nuisance on i luxuries. The plan centered on the fpl- i lowing rates: i Sale of stock 1-4 of 1 cent but not less than 4 cents a share, I expected to Automobiles, 3 per 002.000. Letter postage to 3 spoke frankly to a 1 crowded chamber, warning it. that unless the budget is balanced the 1 financial structure of the coun- try may be undermined "by one of i the worst panics in its history." Driving home this (Concluded on Page 6): Creek tomorrow morning for raignment before Justice Shafer. kept.

THE WEATHER BY CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Staff Correspondent Atty. Cortright, who is defending all of those arrested except Se- A preliminary report of the hold- Maine originally sidered stronger had been con- than those sup- Furnace for tramp house ested except to tRe main office said that the 1 porting Smith, it had been predict- Primary school money NORFOLK Va March bastlan stat ed this afternoon that i oo consisted of "approximately ed for several days that the con- Miscellaneous 12,741.87 type. -Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had waived any action in regard 50 ,000 currency, $125,000 for safe ventlon wou i result in selection of Balance en hand 7,467.12 and men who claim to be kidnap- tot th rl ht hold keeping and some collateral." an unp i dged delegation.

But the ers of his 21 months old -son are nett in Jail for four days printer, as the most im- portant contribution to printing ,008.98 since introduction of the Lino- the counties to reduce ate local road levies. or elimin- He asked that the general budget bill passed In 1931 be recalled aud that a flat 15 per cent reduction be made in its appropriations to the various state departments and institutions to affect a savings of more than $4,000,000 for 1932. He urged that no new forms of taxation be considered at present, but he asked that law makers submit to the voters next fall the question of a state income tax, 'the revenue from which would be used to reduce local school taxes. "I do not consider the present time suitable for the general introduction of new taxes," the gov- I enior said. 1 Asks Income Tax "However, I believe you should submit to the people an amendment to the state constitution that will enable them to register their opinion as to the desirability of authorizing the legislature to abolish some portion of local hool taxes and replace them the proceeds of a properly ited graduated income tax." A score or more of emergency amendments to existing laws were presented to the legislature by the governor today.

In matters of taxation, addition to they cover such as banking, refunding of "municipal bond issues and unemployment. Bills covering each proposal are already prepared and were to be introduced in both houses today by administration leaders. Adoption of his entire program will not "solve the tax problem in its en( Concluded on Page C) without I was believed arraigning him. The remainder today on the strength of re- those 1 arrested Saturday were re- L)eUOlt ports from Dean H. Dobson-Pea-! leased until Wednesday on their, cock at Hopewell.

own recognizance, except Justice' Dean Dobson-Peacock one of Arthur J. Day, who was held in I JLOS6 one three local intermediaries in the negotiations, made a dangerous flight to Hopewell yesterday for a half-hour conference With Lindbergh. Later he reported, in a tel-, ephone conversation, he was "very I optimistic." The dean talked to John H. Curtis, local ship builder, who, with Real- Admiral Guy Burrage, is, assisting in the By U. S.

WEATHER BUREAU EAST LANSING, Mar. Atlantic coast storm has passed northeastward and the The machine, exhibited here; weather is now clearing in New yesterday, employs a phcto-elec- England. High winds and heavy Total $48,570.08 trie cell to operate the Linotype or; rains were general therefrom Sun- The street fund shows a deficit Intertype machines automatically, day to Monday New York i appeared likely to throw the con- of $4.370.47. At the start of the from copy. The cell is agitated by city reported a wind velocity of 52 vention into a wide open battle.

year the deficit was $2,620.34. The a li ht shining upon characters ot miles per hour Monday. 1 detailed report of the street fund a primed code which appear as follows: arrival of James Roosevelt to con- i solidate. his father's ap- (Concluded on Page Z) Man Who Killed Friend and Girl i Arranging For Detroit architects lose DETROIT, Mar. Dem.

Convention Kahn, Detroit architects and en- gineers, who have supervised Rus-1 sian engineers in carrying out the i WASHINGTON, Mar. 'five-year plan since 1929, has! Shouse, chairman of the, Been Captured severed connections with the Sov- i Democratic national executive com- lets, it was revealed today. mittce, was in New York today. 1 with Democratic party! (Concluded on Page C) Prohibitionists Meet in ST. IGNACE, Mar.

arc Kahn and Kahn, head Curtis refused to say heTuil be-1 (U R) Lcss tha 48 houl aftcr he of the company, left for Moscow to; lleved that the curV-haircd baby I ri te a renewal. He cabled would be "returned to' his parents And Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, of the New Jersey state police, said after the conference at HopeweJl: "Colonel Lindbergh does not believe the information obtained at Noifolk to be of specific significance in this case." Dean denied national The most difficult is that convention problem for of selecting new the contract. "It's purely a question of money," lie said in the cable.

"The Soviets wanted to pay us in Russian rubles. As rubles are not accepted as currency in other countries we could not accept them as payment. We miles away from the home of. demanded American published reports he was carrying the shooting occurred. Deputy little Charles Augustus, sleep- I Sheriff George Holt of Mackinac inp garment or any other bit of from the kidnapers.

And Curtis admitted I have not seen the' Lindbergh child alive." He did not say how the negotiators were convinced of the sincer- of the group with whom they are dealing. Curtis revealed that newspaper publicity given the negotiations last week frightened tne group away, but he re-established (Concluded on Page 6) Funeral Service The funeral of Mrs. Theresa Vo- galla occurred yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Kelser More funeral home, Rev. Chr. county, one of a posse of more than 60 persons, overpowered him before he could reach his rifle or a pistol he had.

"Yes, I did it." Sheriff William M. McCauley said Minor told him sullenly, when brought to the county jail here after the capture. Martindale and Miss Selby singing, while another girl was playing an organ at the Davis home Sunday night when someone knocked out a window pans, pushed in a rifle and fired twice. The girl was struck first, then Martindale. Before Martindale died, he ac- cured Minor of ''the shooting.

Heidenreich of the Lutheran church officiating. The floral offering was large and very beautiful. Burial was given in Oakridge and acting as pallbearers were Messrs. C. W.

Harrington, William Lowe, John Jezisek and Frank Jezisek. Here from away were Mr. and Mrs. P. Kluz and daughter of Muskegon; Mr.

and Mrs. M. Pliss, Mr. end Mrs. and children of Battle Creek; Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Vogalla and Chelsea, Mr. and Mrs. John Jezisek and children, Mrs. H.

Egnatuk, Mrs. T. Egnatuk, Mrs. A. Mi- tuk, Albion, and Theophile Schuster of Kalamazoo.

Loans Approved BENTON HARBOR, (U.R)—The first of 150 Mar. for federal crop loans for the coming year was approved Monday by the Berrien county committee and forwarded to Washington. Chairman O. A. D.

Baldwin, Supervisors F. C. Franz, Niles township and John Wurman, Watervliet are serving on the committee. Nwer, 49. was killed a bale of hay in a freight car on which he was riding, throwing him to the ground.

the Soviets refused." Preferred Death to Eviction from Home CHICAGO, March court had ordered Hiram W. Haskell, 65, retired real estate dealer, evicted from his home on foreclosure of his mortgage. When hi.s -went to waka him so they could leave the house, she found nim He 'had taken poison rather than be ejected. Plans for Republican State Convention Chairman Raskob. will be decided at a and shot to death his life-long his brother yesterday, it was learn- the friend, Harold Martindale, 25, and ed that he had been unable to re- the keynoter, for which Shouse is, his 14 year old girl friend, Lennie' Selby, Leonard Minor, 25, is expected to plead guilty today in circuit court to first degree murder.

Minor was captured last night as he slept in a barn more than 20 Jeff Davis, near Rexton, where di- High pressure and fair weather rec'tly beneath letters in copy being prevail today In the central val- 16 et. leys, lake region and southern Copy is prepared upon an states. The pressure is highest in especially typewriter. the east Gulf region. The typewriter, prints each let-' A low pressure area which was 1 ter and the punched code chara-1 central Monday morning in the ter beneath it.

The semagraph far. northwest has increased in machine's photo-electric cell or i energy and moved southeastward. -electric eye" automatically oper- i It now overlies the Rocky Moun- CHICAGO, Mar. (U.R) ates the Linotype as the code tain region. Denver, and Members of' 33 groups united to' character reflects its light charac- Rapid City.

S. report a baro- defcnd the eighteenth amend- teristic toward the photo-electric, meter reading of 29.36 inches at ment were called upon today to cell. 8:00 a. m. today.

This disturbance translate their "vocal prohibition I "It is the most marvelous inven- is causing unsettled and warmer the com-'tion I have ever Col. Guy weather in the plains states. It i Viskiniski, former general manag- will probably Advance eastward to nrr pcits that Natona ssued Dy Mrs. El-'er of the Star company, the lake region during the next 24 la A. Boole, president of the have been greatly impressed by.

hours, attended by warmer wea- 1 tional Women's Christian Tern- i its performance." ther an.d showers. I perance Union which opened its A. L. Stockton, publisher. The; The sun sts today at 7:00 and wil l' two-day conference in Chicago to-; Greensboro Daily News, said: "It: rises tomorrow at 6:23 EST.

but no' dav is tne most marvelous machine I i been Tne miu 'tant leader of the W. have ever seen. One of the beau- DETROIT, Mar. -uiVto thKrert It is DOssibleiT. U.

scored opponent-, of prohibi-1 ties of the whole thing is that it weather forecast today for lower made to tins eliect it is poisiDiei i iv Piiminiu.ps thp Michiean: Probably vain begin- that the Roosevelt forces may come to seme agreement involving also naming of the permanent convention chairman and other officers. New Presbyterian bOOn tion in ccngi'ess. "We condemn their delay plans for relief i completely eliminates the key" Michigan: Probably vain begin efforts to'board and all of the cams'on the ning tcnight or Wednesday in of unem-! Linotype ployment and the financial As- pression by injecting their opposition to prohibition thru introducing literally hundreds of bills, many of them duplicates, for legalizing beer, repealing the 18th amendment and substituting state control," she said. "They know MICHIGAN NEWS burgh, chairman of committee of the GRAND RAPIDS. Mar.

for the Republican state convention here April 27, were announced today by G. AV Hendricks, sergeant-at-arms. Hendricks said ATLANTIC CITY. Mar. (U.R)—Rev.

Hugh T. Kerr, of Pitts- the hymnal Presbyterian church soid. today that a revised hymal will be presented to the general assembly of the church in Denver in "June. Rev. Kerr said the committee had been working on a revision of i the hymnal since 1928 and had I scanned more than 4,500 texts and tuuss culled from every peri- cd of the history of the Presbyterian church.

none of these bills will pass congress." Japanese Aviator Killed in N. York GRAND Bie-; this, nick, 6 years old, was believed I i c'rowned in Grand river when he waded into the water to recover! his cap, blown from his head by a strong wind Rescue workers! are dragging the river for the; J. Lacy, DeGeorge Herrscher and his. assistant, troit attorney, has announced def- James Stratton, willact as tern-' initely he will not be a candidate porary secretaries; Reesrvations! for govemor, In two speeches yes- will be taken care of by the Grand! terciay, "Lucy said he did not want Rapids convention bureau. The the Democratic nomination.

Very Rev. Charles E. Jackson, dean of St. Mark's will act as chaplain, i TOLEDO, Dorr street res: tiuirant proprietress offered pa- ANN J. Ab- Irons all the hard boiled eggs they bott, Michigan's NEW YORK, Mar.

tain Y. Nagoya, Japanese aviator, west and north portions and in extreme southeast! portion Wednesday; colder Wednesday in extreme west portion; winds becoming fresh to strong and mostly southerly. 'Readings include: City 8:00 Hi Lo Alpena 26 38 24 Chicago 38 Detroit 34 Duluth 28 Escanaba 24 Grand Rapids 32 Ludingtun 30 Marque tte ,26 Sault Ste. Marie 16 52 46 36 40 46 36 32 24 20 30 40 .23 38 38 16 hcic will receive a seven and one-half per monoplane for a trans-Pacific I due tion to effect a saving of in the budget. i flight, was killed today when the plane nose-dived into the water beyond the northwest end of Floyd; lvrr Lee! Bennett airport.

McClanahan, known as "Hard: Captain Nagoya took off from Lucb reported str a Floyd Bennet airport a few min-. 750 barrel a day oil well utes before the crash for New Cas-, on the struble No. 4 east of THE TEMPERATURE High for past 24 LIMV for past 24 High at 2:00 o'clock tie, Del. The plane was demolished. U.

S. Treasury Balance March WASHINGTON, March A disastrous fire followed the, drilling in of No. 1 Struble a year' ago. LouLse E. Thomas, who was bom and lived vs national Demo, cculd, eat for 25c.

Charles Tne trea sury balance March a11 lif in lsdale C00 nt f' ittceman, has besnimye. 52. ate 5a, then collapsed. was $69197394120 i be Wednesday. She is serve on the-commit-1 like 'em," he explained weakly, as' tures that ere sm vlved by four children, five tee ai-ranging for the national attendants soothed his stomach-1 Cuslom receipts for grand children and several great convention next June in Chicaao.

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