Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1931 — Page 17

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COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT IS 59.51 A PERSON 1930 Figure 125 Per Cent Higher Than in 1917, U. S. Report Shows. It cost every man, woman and child living in Indiana during 1930 approximately $9.51 to keep up the state government. This represents an approximate 125 per cent jump in the per capita cost since 1917. In that year the figure was $4.28 a person and for the year ending Sept. 30, 1930, It was $9.51, the latter figure representing a Jump of 33 cents over 1929. Net governmental indebtedness for the 1930 period was $2,488,156 or 77 cents per capita. In 1929 it was 74 cents and in 1917 the per capita indebtedness was 6 cents. Statistics compiled by the bureau of census, department of commerce reveal these facts computed on a basis of an estimated population of 3,239,000 in 1930. The report shows that the payments for operation and maintenance of the general departments of Indiana for the 1930 period amouted to $30,813,946. This includes $4,709,332 apportioned for education to the minor civil divisions of the state. The interest on debt in 1930 amounted to $125,016 and outlays for permanent improvements totaled $20,870,085. Total payments, therefore, for operation and maintenance of general departments, interest and outlays were $51,809,047. Highways Heaviest Cost Os this amount $223,134 represents payments by a state department or enterprise to another on accounts of services. The totals include all payments for the year, whether made from revenues or from the proceeds of bond issues. Os the government costs reported, $25,660,197 was for highways divided into $9,085,234 for maintenance and *16,574,963 for construction. The total revenue receipts were $52,632,093, or $16.25 per capita. This -vas $21,693,131 more than the total payments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent improvements, and $823,046 more than the total payments including those for permanent improvements, This excess of revenue receipts is reflected in purchase of investments not shown in this summary. Tax Increase Steady Property and special taxes represented 28.3 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 27.6 per cent for 1929, and 61.1 per cent for 1917. The increase in the amount of property and special taxes collected was 68.1 per cent from 1917 to 1930, and 10.6 per cent from 1929 to 1930. The per capita property and special taxes were $4.61 in 1930, $4.20 in 1929, and $3.10 in 1917. Earnings of general departments, or compensation for services rendered by state officials, represented 9.5 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 10.2 per cent for 1929, and 11.9 per cent for 1917. Business and nonbusiness licenses constituted 48.9 per cent of the total revenue for 1930, 46.8 per cent for 1929, and 13.7 per cent for 1917. The sales tax on gasoline amounted to $16,832,448 in 1930, and $14,033,711 in 1929, an increase of 19.9 per cent. The assessed valuation of property in Indiana subject to ad valorem taxation was $5,161,069,113; the amount of state taxes levied was $14,967,100; and the per capita levy, $4.62. In 1929 the per capita levy was $4.67, and in 1917, $2.63. BLIND SENATOR WRITES BOOK ABOUT HIS LIFE Publishers Soon to Get Volume by Thomas D. Schall. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Thomas D. Schall, blind senator from Minnesota, has written a book. The volume is practically completed and deals with his own struggles and triumphs since he started out to earn his own living, alone, and friendless, at the age of 9, Schall has been working on the autobiography for the last nine months and expects soon to send it to a publisher. It will be entitled, "From Sod-Shanty to U. S. Senate." Schall has been forced to carve out a success in life twice. He put himself through college and became a practicing attorney. In this effort he did everything from blacking shoes, milking cows, sawing wood and other forms of mental labor to participating in wrestling and boxing matches. OPEN TWO NEW STORES G. R. Kinney & Cos. Expansion Program Under Way in City. G. R. Kinney & Cos., one of the largest manufacturing and retail shoe organization* in the country, is opening two new stores in the city. One of the stores is located at 139 West Washington st- set, and the other at 104 North Illinois street, in the Terminal building. * George Dimel, general manager of both stores, stated that this just is a beginning of an extensive program of his company and that before the year is out several more units would be added to the chain in different sections of the country east of the Mississippi.

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Nine Will Be Members of General Committee, Nine State Heads. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—President Herbert Hoover Thursday appointed eighteen more prominent citizens to the advisory committee of the Gifford unemployment relief organization increasing the membership to ninety-nine. Nine of the new appointees will be general members of the committee, while nine others are to represent states. The nine general appointees included : Will H. Hays, president of Motion Picture Producers’ Association; Harry Chandler, president American Publishers’ Association; M. H. Aylesworth, president National Broadcasting Company; W. S. Paley, president Columbia Broadcasting System; Paul A. SchoeUkopf, vice president Community Chest Association; John Davis, president West Virginia state college; Professor Jacob H. Hollender, economist, Baltimore; Eliot Wadsworth, Boston, Mass.; and W. A. Starrett, New York City. The nine state representatives appointed were: Harry H. Rogers, Tulsa, Okla.; George E. Brimmer, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Thomas H. West Jr., Providence, R. I.; Colonel Edward Underwood, Salvation Army, New York; George E. Whitney, Burlington, Vt.; Atholl Mcßean, San Francisco; John F. Tinsley, Worcester, Mass.; William H. T. Foster, Sioux Falls, S. D., and Henry F. Merrill, Portland, Me. URGES BIG INCOME TAX Tennessee Lawmaker Proposes Rich Men Bear Deficit Burden. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Higher taxes on big incomes, and other taxes if necessary, to balance the budget, were advocated Thursday by Representative Joseph W. Byrnes of Tennessee, ranking ’Democrat on the appropriations committee. Byrnes said economies could cut expenses in nearly every government department, but he doubted they could be cut enough to meet at $1,000,000,000 deficit.

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Paddock Paces By United Press PASADENA, Cal., Sept. 18.— —for once in his life Charles Paddock, former “world’s fastest human,” complained of sore legs. For twelve hours he paced the hall of the Pasadena hospital Wednesday to be informed shortly before midnight that he was the father of a boy. His wife, the former Neva Frisk Malaby, was reported doing “splendidly.” Mrs. Paddock is the daughter of Charles Prisk, publisher of the Pasadena Star-News.

EX-MOVIE STAR SUES Lillian Walker of Vitagraph Days Files for Divorce. By United Press HUDSON FALLS. N. Y„ Sept. 18. —Lillian Walker Hanson, one-time star of the old Vitagraph motion picture concern, has brought suit against her wealthy husband, Charles E. Hanson, for divorce, it was disclosed today. Mrs. Hanson, in her petition, charges Hanson with infidelity the last year. The two were married in 1910 and lived together only one week. Their marriage was kept a secret until nearly twenty years later. The former actress, who played opposite Warren Kerrigan, lives on a farm near here.

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supreme court out of a total of 737,654, despite the fact that his death on Aug. 14 of the same year was announced in headlines throughout the state. He had a majority in eight counties. It is indeed singular that the affection of a commonwealth for one of its lost leaders and friends should be shown by such a tremendous “complimentary” vote at the polls. New York to Los Angeles on $11.22 worth of Fuel—ln August, 1931, a Cummins-Diesel test truck made a trip from New York to Los Angeles, a total distance of 3,214 miles, with a total load of 16,000 pounds, and used only $11.22 worth of fuel, at the same time setting a riew record for coast-to-coast truck trip of 97 hours 20 minutes. The truck was equipped with a duplicate of the engine used in the 500-mile race in Indianapolis. Saturday—“ The Most Unusual Baseball Incident in the American League.” WINNERS i. it. BAB-O *SOOO 00 CONTEST Ist PRIZE $1,000.00 MRS. C. W. PICKETT, Portsmouth, N. H. 2nd PRIZE $500.00 W. ROTH, Hockettstown, N. J. 3rd PRIZE S2OO. MRS.M.B. FRANKLIN,PhIIa 4th PRIZE SIOO. R.S. CLARY, LoAngeles,Cal, sh PRIZE SSO. B.SHALTAKOFF, Bronx, N.Y, 6th PRIZE $50.00 ELLEN EKSTROM, Oakland, California 7th to 10th PRIZES $25 EACH MRS. IRVIN GABRIELSON, Westby, Wit. CALLIE EARMAN, Harrisonburg, Va. MRS. ALTA M. V. JACQUES, Portland, Or* MISS BETTY ARNOLD, Christiansburg, Va. There were also winners of 50 prizes of $K each and 500 prizes of $5. each. Fer a complete list of 560 Prize Winners send your name and address with q two cent stamc to B. T. Babbitt, Inc., 386*4th Avc., New York City,

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Lux Chips 3 Pkgs. 25c For Washing Fine Things—Lge. Pkg., 21c —Small Size f Lux Soap 3 Bars 20c The Fine Toilet Soap Used by Hollywood Stars Pastry Flour 5 13c Country Club—For Baking Fine Pastries Milk 3 Can. 18c Country Club—Richer and Better Results Choice Bananas I " Solid Green Heads Iceberg Lettuce iolid 2 Heads 15c Sweet Potatoes ' 7 Lbs. 17c

I Given Away 1 Pkg. Virginia Sweet Pancake Flour With Eitch Purchase of One I Jug Virginia Sweet Syrup Jug 23c I Pic-Wax Paper 9c In the Handy Roll. Each Vinegar 29c Pure Cider. Gallon Crystal White Ba ’ rs 25c Soap, Plenty of Suds. Catsup 10c Made from Ripe Tomatoes, lge. Bot. Fresh Milk 9c From Our Own Dairy, qt. Given Away One Package Ivory Snow With Each Purchase of Three Bars Camay Soap 3 f° r 19c

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Friday and Saturday Special on Kroger Quality Beef Juicy Steaks Who can resist it—smothered in tnmato sauce or mushrooms ? Tempting beyond Jgy Tender—Savory—Juicy Rolled Rib Roast 27c Lb. Ground Beef lb., 12V2C A Juicy Tender Cut With No Waste Pure Lean Beef. Shoulder Roast, 20c Lb. Sliced Bacon 1b.,22V2C Cut From Choice Round Shoulder Kingan’s Indiana—Cellophane Wrapped— *£ -lb. packages Fresh Picnir Smoked Ham lb., 19c Sugar Cured—Skinned—Whole or Half lOc Lb. Chickens lb., 28c I Cut From Choice Young Cornfed Porkers, 6 to Fresh Dressed Frying or Roasting—--8 lb. average. Young Stewing Hens, Pound 25c.

LAST TWO DAYS Del Monte Sale Peaches—Halves or Sliced 5 :——- 3 Large F* O : 6 Cans, $1.03—12 Cans, $2.00 4*^l Golden Tree Ripened Fruit in Luscious Syrup—Stock Up - ' Del Monte Peas 2X™ 29c f Del Monte Corn 2 cU 25c Del Monte Spinach 2 ’ans 25c I 6 Cans, 72c—12 Cans, $1.40 ; Del Monte Coffee Lb - 33c 2 Lbs., 63c—6 Lbs., $1.85 | Del Monte Asparaps 2 Cu 35c Picnic Tips—6 Cans, $l.O0 —12 Cans,

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