Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1930 — Page 5

OCT. 28, 1930.

REMSTER CITES HUGE COST OF • COFFIN'S RULE Former Judge Points Out That Taxpayers Carry Staggering Burden. _ “Coffinism feeds, lives and grows fat and arrogant upon the money paid into the treasury of Marion county by taxpayers,” declared

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Charles Rems ter, former Marlon circuit court judge, In a speech over ' radio station WFBM Monday night. “The funds required to support the Coffin machine are extracted from the taxpayers of Marion county and transferred to holders of jobs, who in turn pay tribute to the Coffin organization,” charged the jurist. “Through control of the county commissioners, a majority of the county council, the sheriff, the judge of the criminal court and the county clerk, the Coffin machine is rendered invincible.” Reading from the county financial records, Remster said: “The taxpayers have paid an increase of almost a million dollars in the cost of county government since 1626. “None of this tax-raised monej,

which totaled in excess of $3,000,000 in 1930, has been used for permanent improvements, but all such improvements have been made by borrowed money through sale of long-time bonds. He pointed out that the ‘‘staggering sums collected by the Coffin ring amounts to expenditures of SIO,OOO for each working day, or SI,OOO for every daylight hour in each working day of the year. “The Coffin maqhine has been so Insistent on more money that new Jobs have been created and old jobs increased to the extent of approximately SIOO,OOO. “Bonded indebtedness of Marion county, exclusive of highway bonds, exceeds $8,000,000 and the interest on this sum is more than $500,000.” Remster charged that the county

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commissioners have ignored utterly the welfare of the unfortunates at the county poor farm, although spending almost $90,000 annually for salaries and upkeep. "Expenditures in the sheriff’s office have increased SIOO,OOO in the last five years, and the number of employes has been enlarged from nine in 1925 to forty-nine in 1930. “Os these forty-nine employes, twenty-three are Coffin organization precinct committeemen,” Remster said. Husking Contest Wednesday Bu Tin ft Kttreial LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 28.—The annual Boone county corn husking contest will be held Wednesday at the farm of Frenk Leonard, near Thorntown. The winner will enter the state contest to be held Nov. 5.

ABDUCTIONS OF MEN REVEALED Two Found Wandering in Dazed Condition. Police today were investigating the alleged abduction of two men who were found in dazed conditions late Monday. Charles Staub, 35, Old* Trails Camp, is in city hospital with a slashed wrkt. He told police he was abducted from the camp by two

men in an auto who hurled him into Eagle creek at Washington street. He said he did not remember how he returned to the camp. Dazed with $76 stolen. A. C. Gallmayer of Ft. Wayne, awoke late Monday night in his car at Vermont and Alabama streets. He said he did not remember what happened after 9 a. m. Monday when two

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men forced him to drive to a cemetery near Ft. Wayne and drink from a bottle. Wife Changes Mind WABASH, Ind., Oct. 28.—Without stating a reason, Mrs. Chester Lawson withdrew a divorce suit three hours after it was filed in Wabash circuit court. Her husband is serv-

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