Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1931 — Page 14

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CITY DIRECTORY CANVASS WILL START MONDAY Industrial, Home Survey to Be Conducted With Enumeration. Indianapolis housewives Monday will begin enacting their roles in one of the greatest industrial and home surveys ever taken in the country. An army of 125 enumerators will leave the offices of the R. L. Polk & Cos., publishers of the Indianapolis City Directory, Monday to gather data for its seventy-eighth publication. This year, though, it will be up to the housewives to swerve from the usual answers of names, addresses and occupations. They will tell the enumerators the amount of time members of their families devote to the radio; i the families’ favorite broadcasting | station and the favorite radio fca- j ture. Preference in Autos Their preferences in automobiles, stores and foods also will be recorded by the enumerators. The company will not list these statistics in the directory, but the information will be part of the survey that eventually will include the answers of 11,000,000 housewives in every city in the United States of more than 25,000 population. Indianapolis is the third city selected for the survey, similar compilations already having been completed in Pittsburgh and Joliet, 111. ffix Weeks for Job It is estimated enumerators will spend six weeks at the task. Enumerators were given final instructions today at the Polk office, 225 North New Jersey street. Among the enumerators are represented every nationality included in the population of the city. An emergency squad of linquists also has been trained for questioning. “It is our hope to make this the most thorough inventory of Indianapolis’ population and its living habits ever made,” Charles Murphy, Polk manager, stated. The information obtained by enumerators will be rechecked, and enumerators have been instructed to call as many times as necessary at a home to obtain the information. In order not to overlook a single residence in the city, Murphy advised housewives to get in touch with the company after a reasonable time has passed without their being questioned by an enumerator, , Fund May be Denied Bii Time* Special MARION, Ind., Sept. 25.—Despite a fight of influential citizens here for an appropriation of $5,000 to pay for a preliminary survey of the Mississinewa river, unofficial rumors are the state tax board will deny the petition. The survey is desired as the first step toward expenditure of $500,000 for a sewage disposal system.

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TAX COLLECTOR FINDS NOMADS BIGGEST WORRY Moving Families Give More Trouble Than Anything Else in World. Itinerate families that move five —four—and even three times a year make more worries for the delinquent tax collector than the rest of the world combined. How these nomads of the modern city are caught by the tax collector and postman is a tale with sleuthing, mystery and suspense rivaling a Sherlock Holmes novel. John D. Henderson, Marion county’s delinquent tax collector, declares that he has collected taxes from almost every country on the globe—oftentimes thousands of miles away—out there is nothing as hard as locating a taxpayer addicted with the rnovrng habit. “Some people play hide-and-seek with the tax collector by moving five and six times a year,” Henderson has learned. The postman must forward some letters five and six times before they reach the taxpayer. At this season, when delinquent tax collections are totaling $20,000

Polly Proof By United Pres # MONROE. Mich.. Sept. 25. Six years ago Vincent Swiderski lost his pet parrot. He said he recognized the parrot on Mrs. Chermosk's porch. Swiderski went to court. The Judge said; “Let the parrot decide.” The parrot took the witness stand and called all of the Swiderski children by name.

a week. Henderson’s force mails 1,000 letters a day. “We always get at least 25 per cent of these letters back because of changed addresses. Then the search starts and here is how we find them.” The first delinquent tax notice is left by person by the collector’s deputy at the last known address. A month is allowed for a reply, when the office starts mailing letters, marked, “Please forward in case of change in address.” “This process must be duplicated time and time again in many cases and sometimes the person never is found,” Henderson explained. One student from Japan and another former Indianapolis resident, now living in Berlin, were located by the collector this year. The student payed $69 and the Berlin resident $lB in back taxes. Almost one-tenth of the total million dollars delinquent taxes has been collected this year. Os this amount $936,000 went delinquent on 1930 taxes, payable in 1931, the remainder in 1929.

TAX STRIKE IS THREATENED IN COWTEST WAR 700 lowa Farmers Draft Demand for Withdrawal of Troops. By GENE GILLETTE United Press Staff Correspondent TIPTON, la., Sept. s.—While state veterinarians continued testing cows owned by now undemonstrative Cedar county farm-

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ers, support of resistance against the Bovine tuberculosis test law came today from another county in form of a threatened tax strike. Seven hundred members of the Farmers Protective Association met at Mount Pleasant, in Henry county, Thursday night and passed a resolution to be transmitted to ] Governor Dan W. Turner today declaring that unless the Governor orders Immediate withdrawal of troops from Cedar county thej farmers will pay neither unpaid taxes of this year nor next year's taxes. The farmers also asked the release of J. W. Lenker, who was placed under military arrest when * veterinarians found that his qua'r- ! antined cattle had been removed from his farm. Lenker ts president of the association, which as an or- !

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ganization has persistently opposed the state test law. Lenker was taken to the state reformatory at Anamosa Thursday night to prevent possible violence. The discovery that Lenker’s herd was missing from his farm when veterinarians arrived there with militia protection to make the test led to a search for his cows, which Lenker said he sold. The cows were found across the line in Muscatine county at the farm of Harry Duffy. Duffy told officers he had purchased the cattle from Lenker. Veterinarians administered the test. Chicago Man Killed REMINGTON, Ind., Sept .25. Edward Kacin, 22, Chicago, died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile while walking along a highway near here.