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OKO Dl A VOL. 90 EVENING- KOKOMO, IKD. THURSDAY, MTJAffY, 8, 1931 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE--THREE CENTS STATE UeiSLATURE STARTS WORK GOVERNOR CITES TAX ADJUSTMENT AS STATES MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM Leilie in Menage to Legislature Asserts Relief for Overburdened Taxpayer, and Not New of Taxation to Meet New Expenditure. Strict Legislation so Overhead of Local Government May Cut Strengthening Banking Laws, Aboluh- ing Fee in Counties and Building Program for State Highway Com- million. Indianapolis, 'Jan.

the opening session of the biennial meeting of assembly.here Governor Leslie told the legislators that the state's most serious problem that cannot be solved by voting new taxes or new forms of taxation new he said-. "It is essential, as I seen it and-asJhe overburdened taxpayers see here devised shall actually displace and do away with a portion of the taxes now levied upon real property." The governor in his mes sage also recommended the legislature pass an enabling act so townships and counties could combine and do away with much of the.over- head of local government. This, ho would. one means of for the taxpayer. He urged strict economy wherever possible.

The assembly also was advised to strengthen the. state banking laws, limit size and weight of pas- scnjrcr and freight busses the state highways, repeal what left primary law, give Indiana a registration law, abolish the f-p system in counties and make It one get free Leslie urged a building program to alleviate crowded conditions in state Institutions. Overcrowded "In meeting the problems of our overcrowded hospitals for the Insane, a new Institution would seem to be more desirable than new buildings at the cxIsUng institutions." he said. "It is to'be consld- such institutions may become, too large--so large as to mnke it impossible for those in charge to render successful and efficient scrv- icn such as the state is bound to provide 'for its unfortunates. Speaking of the state govern- Triont, Governor Leslie said It was free from (lnancin.1 obligations "and Uns sufficient funds on hand, and in prospect from revenues.in due be paid, to meet all budget requirements during the.

fls-cal State School Aid Referring to state aid lor schools. rwuit-i nna. SDCCtea U1C tmcrit Governor Leslie said he con- Monday, It was-un- vl need the state board of accounts Remonstrance, However, Will Be Placed on File Before NexfMonth. The county commissioners, upon the advice of the Donald afternoon ruled that objections and a remonstrance brought by land owners In Ervin township against a petition for repair of the James E. Klddcr- ditch in 'that townshlp were premature and denied the request of the objectors to'dismiss Legislate in Indianapolis But Spend Their Nights i Kokomo.

EXAMPLE OF MOTOR AGE Howard County's First Representative Had to Go to Legislature on Horseback. 'it is-the intention of Ned Phelps, representative from 'and Jordan J. Fralir.g, joint representative' from Howard and Tipton counties, both residents of to -spend their nights at home during the sixty days the 'legislature-is to be in session. This will be a departure from.the custbm 'of -all 1 preceding, legislators from-'Howard county. From -the more than eighty when Howard county first acquired a seat In the-general assembly, its representatives and senators have lodged in Indianapolis during legislative sessions, If 'at only for.

week-ends. Ewtlly Done. 'Representatives Fhelps and Fral- impressed they can render just' as good legislative service" by motoring -back and dally- between Kokomo Indianapolis as by. remaining In six nlghta each -week. an-hour and.

a-half; each way Is- required dis: between Kokomo and Kidnap Store Clerk, Gems Valued at $40,000 1 Columbus, Jan: CAP)--Three men who kid- naped Ed Olander, 26, 6tore and forced him to open the Kay jewelry store'at the 1 of Broad and High streets in the Heart of downtown Columbus; obtained $40,000 in jewelry, police The trio picked up Olander near his home last night and compelled him to unlock door store and the vault. They Helped themselves to. the jewelry and left the clerk handcuffed to a steel inside the When Olander had not returned'home early today, wife telephoned Sam.Meisner,.manager of. the store. Meisner investigated and.discovered the rob'bery.

JolietvMle, Jan. (AP)-- Three young robbed the Jolietville state 1 bank of between. $1,000 and noon 'and robbers entered the. bank Roy Hadley, cashier, was-alone. threatened- him.

and up all the money in the cashier cage. HI The' third man rcmainc'd in the IT. Jolietville is'a' small town In'the western Hamilton Word-of the robbery was telephoned' to.Noblesyille,'the county seat, and to' 'other nearby''cities: sport Taxi in Which Helen Sample Was Riding at Xenia, 0., Hits Train. drove Engineers of National Board of Fire Underwriters Check Protection Here. FIRST REPORT IN DECADE Results of Present Inspection Serve as $asis for Fixhijj Insurance Rates.

During the week, and probably most of the next, Koko- 'mo. will" be subjected to an inspcc tlon such as has not occurred here since 1921; it became known Thursday. Three the National Board of Fire Underwriters, with headquarters in Chicago and New York, preparing a survey'of the city with- relation to fire hazards and equipment. Those present in the city include Harvey T. Munn, 1 supply engineer, William S.

Hathbun an engineer who is concerned with a structural conditions, and elcctrlctiy; and Gifford T. Cook, SENATE AND HOUSE ORGANIZED AT OPENING SESSION OF ASSEMBLY Seventy-seventh Indiana Legislature Starts Sixty-one Day Session--Representative Myers, Democrat, Elected Speaker by Acclamation--Republicans no Opposition to Democrats Organizing House--James M. Knapp Selected Minority ea der--Both Houses Hear Address of Governor --Leaders Stress Taxation as Biggest Problem Before Gathering. The: robbers' used we'st'out of'Jolietvllle. fire, department, engineer is in- years bank was rob- i specting the.

system. A Tw 1 AVI 'bed of. $2,000... men entered' thc bank they.cut -wires in apparent to spread of alarm; the petition. The board, then appointed Wil- liam E.

Rldgeway as a. third drain- ago commissioner, who.wlth George Morrow, county surveyor, and Dan F. Brown, the other drainage commissioners, will- inspect ditch to ascertain Its.ncd of Muni Walt 10 It.was ruled by thr. board that a remonstrancc'agatnst the proposed work on the. drain'cannot be''filed until ten days after tho date on which the drainage flic their, This'-report the latter 'will file the office 'of the county auditor after -they, have Ini, vincrti mii exercise.a closer supervision, of' the expenditures of state funds In those places before the expend Hires are made.

'co 8 vernoT a Le CS lle praised the state tinued was-announced 'Attorney GOV commission and urged that Forre.t-E. appeared for plan of financing -road them. He said he br continued. There monstrance promptly upon the suo- mission of the drainage-commission's report. The petition to repair the" ditch' was filed Kokomo -Trust company J.

'-C. TM construction ui 00 should be novcffort made, he said to divert the funds coming from the gasoline tax and from other sources, declaring that all the money should be for road building and HUlUinK aim i -Tho matter of reapportloning the state dealt with The governor advised the Democrat controlled house and' the Republican controlled senate to get together on a compromise measure to eliminate one of the state's thirteen districts. Tax System TJnfalr "The tragedy of the present situation is that under our system 'of taxation tin unfair and disproportionate share of the tax burden is borno by real property-lands and improvements and the products of the farm," Governor Leslie said in dealing with that subject. "In-changing from ftn agricultural state to a commonwealth both industrial and agricultural, many new classes of property have been created. Many of -en-, tirely taxation and real property continues of to a large and.

burdetwomo part of the cott of modern government. lntol.rabl. lituatlon cannot bo allowed to continue. The unjuit tax burden muit be Httod from the land and fclrly. dutributed where it rightfully belongi." Diicutslnff use of highway, by freight and carriers, Governor Leslie said that some regulatory legislation was passed "we will have to begin the reconstruction of many highways within live years at an ultimate cost of He Mid such motor powered vehicles uhould-be regulated speed, width and Jcngth.

Primary law The governor aaid it was time "to complete the restoration of truly, representative government by- returning to the higher level of integrity" by continuing tho work of repealing the primary law. The 1929 legislature Two)- That the" movement 'against, as-, scasment'of all owners-, affected by the drain will, be con- compa Herron. It Is the the objectors that the on the drain is that of some- broken tile on the land owned the po- tltioncr, and that a private' ment made among all land-owners. resident near the drain provided that they 1 repair their On the other hand the.pctitionera contention is' that, concerning the tile roaxe the ditch a private one, that It waa constructed as a With the announcement Attorney Jump that-hb clients will- be represented Mimasse when'the rcmonstmncc hearing is the February term of the court promises be 'a lively, apolia 31, and'thc may as- well 'lodge "6 home. Dally sesaioris of the asseni convene at 9 o'clock, and Fhelps and Fraling-' say- they easily drlve'down each morning in time to be present-at that hour; They can select their own time for-rcturning each evening.

Weather May Interfere 'over road.No. Helen Sample', age twenty- they four, a daughter of and. Mrs. Sample, of 1012 West SycH- more 'street, was critically 'Hadley said, the'men. appeared to be under of All three wore overcoats.

in an automobile accident at Xenia', Ohio, Wednesday night, according; to a message received.by-'the.par- ents -and an Associated'Press dispatch from Xenla. 1 Details of-her Injuries'have not been "who a --i. -7 It may.be: that each of the-two nul sc a the Ohio Soldiers' and- representatives will have to remain I Sailors' Orphans was. a. pas-, in Indianapolis over-night a few i' gcn ger In a taxlcab that collided times to attend evening sessions of headon with a passenger, train.

In committees'on which they will be -f district but neither of them expects that to 'happen many times, it would's'eem that, the only that- might' interfere with their" plans' of commuting Is' tho weather. Shouia 'there be snows or floods blocking traffic on road No. 31, Phelps and Frallng' would have, to remain In Indianapolis i the condition cleared up. At present there a signs of such interference with arrangement "the two -1930 reprenentatives from, Howard county have made ''presents a striking cbntrant- to that -which tho first Howard county 'man who a- sear In'-the-'legislature had to had to'go to Indianapolis and--stay there the session. flrat.

representative In a is i the heart oJ the business of Xenia. Ernest Haynes, thirty- five, driver of the cab, is reported also injured. Miss Sample Is.in a Xenia hospital. A telegram 1 telling of the 1 accident Imperial, Their goal the' men's endurance, -flight records, Trout and Cooper began their fourth -'day. in the 'today 'over 'Imperial County airport, whence they were driven yesterday LOB by adverse 'weather.

The feminine' team, which exceeded Tuesday former woman's record, Laiit' Survey In 1911 Preliminary 'connection: with the survey has been under way since early in the week-and It. was" announced Thursday that it would probably be a week' or ten days before all of the necessary data is collected. Last' previous survey of this made In time when Shauman.was chief fire department. -Approximately' four or five months -wlH be required between 'the' complete their' survey here before their reports will have been assembled, checked by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and a report as to the survey made public. On'the basis of.

this the fire, insurance rates for the city, to be In effect for probably another ten year will be based. While the National Board of Fire Underwriters and'their engineers- arc not concerned with the fixing of fire Insurance their report is usually taken, by the n's recora, i a TM lMpcetloll Bureau a basis for fixing the insurance rate. flight at 12:30 m. today, 'despite rainstorms and mishaps that thre'ateiiefliscvcral 1 times end the flight. Their'shlp, the Lady Rolph, No 'word has been.

them since -they DIES AT BURtlNCTON Lt i i "(j i i i -oinjJ, LIII; was received 'by Mrs, was from Los Arigeles-by a Sample about- eight o'clock. Wed-1 ncavy rainstorm: 1 night" and they left a half hour for by their son, Thomwi, making the trip by motor, rl 'received from" reached. Xenia; The young nurse graduated from a training school in Dayton, Ohio, last 'May. After completing some extra'work 'she went six weeks -ago" to the position In Xenia. 'She spent -Christmas -day her parents' in this city.

-The- has Jived in Kokomo a number and Was six years before there was any with 'Mrs railroad connection'between Koko-. dur.ing the ROGERS Beverly Hills', The Senate has pawed 'a bill- appropriating for food loans, but (up to has not approved it; They seem think that a bad to appropriate -money for food. It's too much like 'the-, "dole," 'they think hunger. way things' look, hunger 'don't need much encouragements it's Just coming, around mo' and Indianapolis. There not a'm'llcof'graveled-road between the two cities, and the dirt roads were 'little more than crude trails, uhdralned and through woods and thickets'.

Richmond made the trip to Indianapolis on horseback and the Two) absence' of ents. BERMUDA-AZORES HOP IS DELAYED V. C. DKGRAFFENREID PASSES THUKSDAY AFTEB BRIEF Jan. (Trib- fenreld; age Velma of the AH Cities Classified All cities' arc divided Into ten classes, -according-to the engineers.

These classes range 'from' the i i ideal fire-protection 'conditions prevail' to the. tenth class'in which Is absolutely no fire protection. None of engineers now here were able to say as to whether their report would indicate, a in the city's 'present They said 'they' were not. able state even what the present classification was, as wanted to. make, the present survey as unbiased.as pos- --crrjo- D'egraf-j' Neither could ttiey-'give anyhint.

..7:35 o'clock a to'the the conditions sage. Ml tt Expires at Taylor Township Home--Widely Known and Highly Esteemed. fenreld; age 37, died oclocKlas to tne me Thursday morning at liis home. He i being found', here with reference had-been ill for five da'ys following to any posible future-classification, Ann-lnonr-a an' pneumonia; The' deceased was widely known here--and- was -a. member the Christian church, and I.

O. F. He had been in 'for Dunn grocery three, years. SiirvlvorB include the widow; TS BATTLES WITH ALS, THBEE WOUNDED. Bermuda, their orginal.

inten tlon to hop off. immediatelyfor-thc Azores-'on." the their projected' flight 'to Paris'Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieutenant William iMacLaren, who flew here yester- TWO CLEVELAND MEN' KILLED jn tne roonqrplanc Tradewmd skid tne y'couid-remain in Bermuda can be completed -on -the ship's -oil-feed Weather, able for -f JUDGMENTS OBTADTED. Total of Won by. Kecelv- ers for Commercial Dls-.

count Corpomtloni In the' circuit court Wednesday afternoon a judgTnent: f' on was taken by Harness and A. Manning, re when they went to celvem the Commercial Dis- hls-room liva cheap west count Corporation, against George I A I Cleveland, Ja'ni 8. fifhti with rcimlnalB coit the lives of two here today and three wounded. Patrolman Jamei and -Albert Burke, 41, -an American Dlitrlct Telegraph died hoepital few houri after they ihot tro1 man may' be for life from- a 'bullet in nil iplne. Ryan and were night wio flred- to arrest Police said the kill er John- W.

alias Jack Who had served At same time, the same JA.L 'Hit; OH.1UC i i TM Jack wno na BBI-VTM plaintiffs: judgment time'in the-Jollet, I1L, prison t.fralnst. Fr.ank- W. and Etta bank also was wound-j V. Rogers. ed but was expected-to recover; and will'be charged with ffbst degree murder.

Burke received his wound early today' in "an exchange of shots wlth' two unidentified men who had a wlndoW.in'a' downtown jewelry Both escaped: a of Burke. wounded in' the' wild. MEETING ANNOUNCED. 'Lcwellyr, has 'called-a meeting tlie-en- tire organization of the -social- service- -be at' four'o'clock. Friday, afternoon 'at -of offices.

A full attendance :dc.iired as there-will-be an im- business Ecseion. three children, Maxlne, Julia Claire and-Earl; Julia Degraffenreid. of 'Kokomo; 'Julia Louks, Mrs. Stella and 1 'exander, all -of and. Mrs.

-Grace-Choate, Mrs. Rebecca Brooks ilnd Churchman, resid- 'Messlck of Kokomo, John and in California. for will be announced' later. the funeral since each of the three'. engineers is making a seperate conditions, which he, 'finds In his own line of, Investigatloti'and no general information in direction can be obtained until all of, these, reports have been assembled, compiled and.

carefully -checked. Pay Expense Work of making these periodical surveys' Is finished, entirely -by. the National -Board of Fire which Is' supported by funds received from approximately 200 fire insurance In connection with their' reports, when finally completed, will be a list of recommendations as to how the city. may improve, its fire, protection- and advance itself In the classification -toward lower insurance rate's, is not compulsory that 1 the follow out. these (Continued on Page Tn-o) 1 Gift for Poor gift in proipcct for the OTflnDO Dll I poor of the city today, UAVV i hlLL Ing the estimated contents of.

400 FnUO I UltiL, slot machines seized, by Alderman: Allan' chairman of the'city executive, announced machines broken up public square and. the money they: contained turned over A A 'fair tonight and Friday; not change In temperatuire. Suiirlec, .7:07. 'fe -readings: Maximum minimum day Beadlngs-on; Jahi 1 High, 32; MEASURE TO MODOTT JONBS DBY LAW NOW GOES "TO PRESIDENT HOOyEB. (BULLETIN).

8-- (AP)-- It took die seventy-seventh Indiana general assembly a little more'than three hours to complete today and then it adjourned until 2 o'clock next Monday afternoon. seventy-seventh session of the Indiana legislature.began 61-day session a -ten- o'clock here today. Oaths of office were administered in both senate and house, officers selected at last night's caucuses, took their places, and other opening day detail completed Following organization, the senate adjourned to the house to hear'Governor Harry Leslie's biennial mes- Lieutenant Governor Ed Bush, as president of the senate, presided in that chamber. Frank Mayr, secretary of state, the house into, session.and remained in charge- until Representative Walter Myers. Indianapolis Democrat, -was formally elected speaker.

The oath of office was administered to twenty-six the fifty sen- ators'in the senate and the en: tire'body-of one hundred' In the house. Representative Myers WM.elect- ed as by Representative. James M. Knapp, of who has been selected by the Republican' minority, as their candidate for speaker, said the Republicans would present no opposition to organization of the house by the Democrats. Representative Knapp will act as floor leader of the minority.

The new speaker promptly' op- pointed his first- committee--that on patronage. This committee will parcel out the appointment of. stenographers, pages, clerks' and 'other minor offices. Members, of the committee arc John Masselink. Terrc Haute: Henry Moonijr, Evansville; Nathan B.

Combs. Mulberry; Fred A. Egan, and'Charles Y. Foster, Carmel, Tu-vaUon Big Problem. The subject of.

taxation, which is expected to be one the most important before' the legislature, was brought up. early by. the introduo- tion of a concurrent resolution call- Ing for the appointment of a standing to consider all bills dealing with taxes. I The resolution was introduced by Representatives Fsbius Gwin of Shoals and Herbert Evans of In the past all bills dealing with taxation have been handled by the way's and means committee. The authors of the reso-' lution expressed the belief the.num- ber of bills dealing with taxes would be too numerous for the ways and means committee.

Myers Makes Speech. Speaker Myers made a brief inaugural address after his election. He expressed the belief that taxation was the most pressing problem, awaiting the' present session. A solution of -this problem, he said, would'bc worth ten-thousand pieces of trival. legislation.

The speaker appointed a committee to draft temporary ruler, for the Those named wore rep- resen'tativos William J. Black. Anderson; Edward E. Eikenbary, Weiss, Indianapolis, and' Mr. Knapp.

oath of office was administered to the house by Judge. Curtis W. Fwoll of the 'Supreme The sessions of both senate and Woodson M. age 62. prominent farmer and stockman of Taylor township and widely known citizen, died at this east.of Center at 12:30 o'clock' Thursday, of complication'' of ailments' from which he had suffered for a year.

Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday forenoon at 10:30 o'clock. Burial will follow in' Albright's cemetery. He was a member of the Masonic order, but whether he is to be laid to rest with'its rites has learned. Mr. Hobbs had been bedfast the last- thr.ee".months.

Laut Friday his condition took a 'distinct, turn for the worse. He'lapsed at that time into a in which.he lingered to the end. Nearly a year -ago Mr. Hobbs' health began' to break. Early in March he entered the Good Samaritan hospital, where he remained a patient two-months.

Upon getting' out, 1 -he showed signs of being on the road to permanent recovery. A few months later, however, the old disordercasserted Itself, bringing on what proved to be his final prostration. 1 Woodson Morris Hobbs-was born August 24, 1868, in Virginia, end grew to manhood there, following the vocations- of farming and stock-raising. There, on May 21, 1891, he was-united in marlage with Mary Elizabeth Stidham, who, with three sons, Robert of Taylor township, Wright farmer of Harrison and Woodson of 'the Tribune's circulation staff, Ko-. Itomo, survives him.

Another son, Lucien Hobbs, died in infancy, and a married daughter, Ethel Hobbs Cherry, died in the wett a few ago. One sister, Rachel Cot, resides In Virginia, and one brother, James Hobbs, in Liberal, Kansas. Hobbs was what is termed a "character." He was'orig- inal in thought, 1 manner and speech, (Continued on Vwo Washington, StoBbs-blll to modify the Jones, dry law was passed 'finally today when the -house agreed, to minor senate a It now 'goes to the The measure hasi the approval of the Wlckcrsham commission and Attorney General Mitchell. It sets a category of minor offenses "less than'Xqne gallon, of liquor. It a-maximum penalty, of a J500 'fine and six months imprisonment for-first offenders.

measure, was 'a'n outgrowth of the Wickersham proposals to re lieve permits jury less trials' of 'minor -liquor- AUNT HET Bt ROBERT Jew's that Cousin -Hiram! an' 1 admit .1 was wrong. I it was the way he sprayed through it that made me. think-it was'c'all- ed a (Continued from OREGON GIRL WINS S. ESSAY CONTEST The firit of the Nat, ional Hlth School for 1950-31 have been announced by the Hon. William John Cooper.

U. S. Commiseioner of Education, final Hilda GllJam, sixteen- year-old Junior at. Lincoln high Portland, Oregon, was' the winner, jwith Walter T. Brown, ol Berea.

Academy, Kentucky, as Louise Bloomington, high school. Bloomington. Howard Win- gnr of Swectser high school, Marion and, Mary Welter of Junior high school, Gosheri, were the winners of the regional prizes offered, for the state of True Stories of the Opening- and Development of the West" tho topic for the'first contest. It was sponsored by-the Oregon Trail Memorial Association part of the) Covered Wagon- Centennial 'authorized year by proclamation, pi. President.