Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1931 — Page 3

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DELINQUENT FEE DRIVE NETTING COUNTYPROFIT Collections for 7 Weeks Total $5,000, Says Ralston. Seven weeks of collecting delinquent court costs, some dating back twenty years, already has netted the county treasury ten times the amount appropriated for expense of collection. This was announced today by Glenn Ralston, county clerk, who stated that more than $5,000 has been paid in without the necessity of using fee bills. Collections for one day, July 22, totaled $560, of which one insurance company paid $379.42 in delinquent costa on bonds. The councils appropriation was S6OO to carry the extra work of collecting until September. “This collection during seven weeks is only a drop in the bucket. There are total delinquent costs amounting to SIOO,OOO, which will require several months to collect,” the county clerk stated. It is estimated the clerk’s office will be able to put approximately $30,000 a year in the county coffers until all delinquent casts are paid. Charles Ettinger, chief clerk, who Is in charge of the collecting, praised

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Name 'Em; Win Vacation

Most ardent movie fans can identify five of the stars at a glance. It might help to state that the sixth is starred in the picture which opens at the Ohio Saturday. This group of motion picture favorites is the third to appear in the Times-Indiana theater $3,000 Vacation Contest. Complete rules governing the

members of the local associations for their co-operation in the matter. Another appropriation for the

prizes appear elsewhere in today’s Times. Read them and, if you haven’t already, enter the fun today. See back copies of Saturday and Monday Times for the first two groups. The stars whose pictures are being used are those who will be seen in the new fall hits, which started at the Indiana Friday.

work will be necessary this fall. Ralston is asking the council for $1,200 to pay an extra clerk and S6OO for postage.

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SURVEY SHOWS LESS INCREASE IN WHITE RACE Population in U. S. Fails During Last Decade to Equal Former Years. By United Preen WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The white population of .the United States increased less rapidly in the last ten years than in the decade between 1910 and 1920. “The reasons for the decline obviously are the falling birth rate and the restriction on immigration,” the census bureau said in announcing the figures. The total white population in 1930 was 108,864,207, compared with 94,130,374 in 1920, an increase of 15.7 per cent. There was an increase of 16 per cent from 1910 to 1920. Actually, however, the decline in the rate of increase was somewhat larger than the indicated three-tenths of 1 per

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cent. The report revealed a large increase in the Mexican and Filipino population of the United States, a considerable exodus of Negroes from the south to northern industrial centers and a decrease of the white population of Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. The total population of the United States was 122,775,046 an increase of 16.1 per cent over 1920. There were 11,891,143 Negroes, 1.422,533 Mexicans, 332.397 Indians,

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74,954 Chinese. 138,834 Japanese, 45.208 Filipinos, 3,130 Hindus, 1,860 Koreans and 780 persons of other ! races in the United States in 1930. The largest percentage of increase was in the case of Filipinoes who numbered only 5,603 in 1920 and in- ! creased 706.9 per cent. The percentage of increase of other races and nationalities were: Negroes, ; 13.6; Mexican, 103.1; Indian, 36; I Chinese, 21.6; Japanese, 25.1; Hindu, 24.9, and Korean, 52.

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