Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1929 — Page 17

ATTG. 16, 1929

CITY SPENDING IS CHECKED TO LAST RED CENT Board of Accounts Men Spend Entire Time in ‘Money Tracing.’ The task of tracing each penny paid into and out of city funds is held by two men, neither of whom are city employes. State board of accounts examiners, James Smith and Tracy Whitaker, spend day after day at the city hall, checking the financial entries and expenditures during the proceess of auditing the city’s books. Each financiel item is followed from its first appearance on the city’s ledger until it finally disappears into other monetary channels. During a year, Smith and Whit- : ker check an average of 200,000 ■vouchers for various city departments. “It is our duty to check receipts even to each individual dog, milk and merry-go-round license fee. We re required to approve the validity cf each expenditure,” Smith said. The entire administration unfolds before the examiners. Departmental employes constantly go to them for opinions on validity of proposed expenditures, making it necessary for them to be experts in law. In addition to the financial routine. Smith and Whitaker have become heirs to the job of showing new city officials the “whys and wherefores” of municipal financial routine. “After twenty years, though, it gets to be a matter of routine,” Smith said. “You work over figures all day and forget about them home at nights. Sometimes the work is dull, but generally there’s a laugh or two in It.” Whitaker still is checking transactions of 1927 while Smith is working on 1928 receipts. Smith had been with the state board since 1910 and has been at city hall continuously since 1924. ■Whitaker joined the department in 1912. BURIED HATCHET STOLEN Report Golden Symbol of Boy Scout Rites Fails to Remain Hidden. By United Pres* ARROWS PARK, BIRKENHEAD, England, Aug. 16.—The fate of the Golden hatchet, symbolic of hatred, enmity and war, which was buried with so much ceremony by Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, at the end of the world Jamboree here a few days ago has become a mystery. The hatchet was made of wood and gilded for the ceremony, being incased in a tube of earth. The supposition is that it did not long remain buried but found its way into the knapsack of a souvenirhunting American Scout and now is ] on its way back to the United States’, j TRUCK ROUTES SOUGHT Evansville Man Asks State Permit for Three Lines, Certficates of public convenience and necessity are being sought from the public service commission for three motor freight routes by Ed Ycnts, Evansville, proprietor of the Dixie B Trunk Line. Yonts wants to begin lines between Evansville and New Albany, Evansville and Cannelton, and Evansville and Indianapolis. A petition for a passenger bus line between Columbus and Greensburg was filed by James L. Leppet, Columbus.

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CHICAGO. Aug. 16.—For twen-ty-three years Howard L. Damarin was a model husband. He cooked his own breakfast, did the family shopping, turned over his pay check to his wife regularly, took his lunch doles without complaining they weren’t large enough, faithfully washed and dried the family dishes and at times did all the house work, he says. Between his domestic duties he worked as an insurance agent to support his wife and son, 22. Friday Damarin filed suit for divorce, charging cruelty. On the evening of Dec. 24, last, Damarin appeared at home four hours late, but as a peace offering he took a box of candy as a present to his wife, Jessie May. She ripped the box open, flung it to the floor and ground the candy into their new rug, he charges. Le—aing that no provision had beei. made for the customary Christmas dinner, Damarin went on a shopping tour and bought a chicken and the trimmings. Jessie May threw them on the floor, too, and jumped on them. Still the model husband, Damarin returned to the markets and bought another dinner. The next day he cooked it and placed it steaming and tasty on the dining room table and called his wife. She threw that meal out, also, but didn't jump on it. Damarin and his son went to a restaurant for dinner and didn’t go back. Morrow Will Return to U. & By United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16.—Dwight W. Morrow, United States ambassador; his brother, General J. J. Morrow, and their wives will depart for the United States tomorrow, by way of Laredo, Tex.

CHALET DEDICATED Gyro Club’s Cabin Gift to Girls Presented. Indianapolis Girl Scout at Camp Dellwood, northwest of the city on Big Eagle Creek, today were the proud possessors of the new Gyro Club chalet which was dedicated at exercises late Thursday. The new building is a large log cabin for nature study work and during the winter for a shelter. Dr. Frank B. Fiske, club president spoke on “Womanhood of Tomorrow.” He presented the chalet to Mrs. E. Blake Francis scout commissioner; Mrs. Charles E. Cole, camp commissioner, and the girls, who were represented by Helen Collins of Troop 24. A group of twelve girls presented a pageant, “Blessing the House.” Members of the Gyro Club and wives were guests of the girls at a picnic supper. Road Work Chosen. R.ii Times Uneeinl MARION, Ind., Aug. 16.—Selection of the West Ninth street road as the route of State Road 21 has been made by the state highway commission and w’ork has been started placing signs along the right-of-way. State employes also started preliminary maintenance operations. The route will follow Ninth street to Western avenue, north on Western to Fourth street and east on Fourth to the business district.

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FIRE COSTS $15,000 Four Firemen Injured In Billiard Company Blaze. Damage in a fire that swept the second floor of King’s Indiana Billiard Company, 1631 Southeastern avenue, late Thursday, in which four firemen sustained minor injuries, was said by Neph King, owner, today to exceed $15,000. William M. Sullivan of 735 North Denny street, of the Underwriters’ salvage corps, was taken to city hospital after a plate glass fell across his right ankle. Others hurt were: William Sweeney of 861 North Oakland avenue, Pumper Company 20; Arthur Carter of 1028 South New Jersey street, squad 30, and Charles Cavender of 213 Cossel drive, Engine House 20, all of whom sustained minor cuts and bruises. The blaze originated from defective wiring. Fair to Open Wednesday By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 16.—More than 600 farm exhibits will be entered in the Madison County 4-H Club fair to be held at Athletic park here four days, beginning Wednesday, under direction of L. M. Busche, county agricultural agent.

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