Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1927 — Page 2

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FAIL TO CUT SCHOOL LEVY; APPEAL SEEN • Rate Remains at $1.45 as Adopted by Board; Given Auditor. Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers’ Association secretary, today announced petitions for hearing by the State tax board on the $1.45 levy adopted by the city school board on Wednesday afternoon, were being circulated through all sections of the city. The petitions will be filed with County Auditor Harry Dunn within the ten-day period provided by law. Miesse said he will seek as many signatures on the appeal petitions as possible. The school board adopted the $1.45 levy Wednesday afternoon. The levy was left at $1.45, despite intentions when the meeting opened President Theodore F. Vonnegut said, of reducing it to $1,279 because of statements of Miesse, that an appeal would be taken to the tax board no matter what figure the board set. Miesse failed to make any recommendations to the board. When asked his opinion of the budget and levy he declared he had had insufficient time to study the budget but that he would file an appeal if the budget adopted was not satisfactory to the league. Reduction Is Urged William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce civic affairs director, said he would appear before the tax board at the hearing. The Chamber of Commerce submitted a report urging reductions which would have pared the levy to $1.05, or possibly to $1.02. Support of the $1.45 levy was given at the meeting by Ira Chase Koehne, attorney, representing the Indianapolis Engineering Society, who urged school building and main-

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LENDERS NAME 1 STATE MAN FOR NATIONAL HEAD Thompson of Shelbyville to Hold Two Offices If He Is Elected. Francis L. Thompson, Shelbyville, was nominated national president this afternoon at the thirteenth annual convention of the American Industrial Lenders’ Association at the Claypool. Thompson now is president of the State organization, but will hold both offices in the event of his election. Kti is the outstanding candidate for the office and may go unopposed. Women of the organization were to be entertained this afternoon with a musical at the Marott hotel. A banquet at 7 tonight in the Riley room of the Claypool will close the second day’s sessions. Praising the work of Elmer Johnson, supervisor of the industrial loan division of the State banking department, and William H. Remy, Marion County prosecuting attorney, in eliminating the loan sharl>, Leon Henderson, a director of the Russell Sage Foundation of New York, spoke before the convention! Wednesday.* ' Fight Loan Sharks “The Russell Sage foundation law has been utilized to prosecute a na-tion-wide chain of salary purchasing loan sharks in eight States including Indiana,” said Henderson. “The law is fool proof because it has bene tested in Virginia and Colorado and its constitutionality upheld in each instance.” About 600 delegates are expected to be registered before the convention closes. Cooperation Stressed The convention was opened by the Rev. W. M. Lyons, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Dick Miller, president of the Chamber of Commerce, gave the address of welcome. William Young, Philadelphia, national chairman, responded. F. L. Thompson, Shelbyville, chiarman of the convention committee, also spoke. Eugene C. Foster, director of the Indianapolis Foundation, stressed the need of cooperation between the lenders and social service organizations at the luncheon Wednesday. Other speakers: Felix McWhirter, president of the Peoples State Bank; F. E. Stroup, Rapids, Mich., and A. B. Madison, Atlanta, Ga.