Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1940 — Page 17
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1940
RALSTON SPURS |
HOPES FOR GUT IN "41 TAX LEVY
Rate at Cent or Two Lower Possible on Basis of
Property Values. |
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Hopes of preventing an increase In the 1941 local tax rate and even | reducing it a little below the current | rate, were given encouragement to-| day by County Auidtor Glenn B. Ralston. | Mr. Ralston estimated the county's total assessed property valuation, on which the levies will be based, at $612,618,460. This is an increase! of six mililons over the estimate on! which this year's levies were based and nine million more than the actual valuation on which taxes are being collected this year. The estimate for the City of In-| dianapolis is $511,270,980, an in-! crease of three-quarters of a million | over last fall's estimate and more than three millions more than the final valuation figure on which this | year’s taxes are being collected. Lower Levy Possible The County valuation estimate will mean that every cent in the levy will raise about $900 more than it raised this year. Thus, if budget requests are slashed to totals comparable with this year's appropriations, the 1941 levy can be held to this year's rate, or possibly a cent or two lower. { The Auditor's report showed the Center Township (Inside and Outside) estimate at $417,531,850, a loss of about $2,300,000, while Washington Township gained $1,600,000, to $59,874,060. | The Speedwav City estimate was $6,206 270, a gain of more than 25 per cent due to new construction,
Deery Disagrees |
City Controller James E. Deery differed with the County Auditor on the actual valuation on which taxes are being collected this year. He said it is only a little over a million dollars less than the new estimate, ! On the basis of Mr. Deery’s figures, 1 cent in the City levy will raise $51 more, or a total of $7168! if next year’s Civil City tax rate remains at the current $1.28.
ADVERTISING MEN ELECT CHRISTENA
EE. Christena, advertising and! gales promotion manager of the J.| D. Adams Manufacturing Co., is the new president of the Indiana Chapter. of the National Industrial Ad-! vertisers’ Association. He was elected at the annual meeting in Hagerstown last night.! The meeting followed a golf tourna-| ment and dinner. Other officers named were: Joseph De Lo, advertising manager of the Continental Steel Co., Kokomo, vice president in charge of | membership; Spencer W. Curtiss, of the Spencer W. Curtiss Advertising Agency here, vice president in! charge of programs; Howard C. Caldwell of the Caldwell-Baker Advertising Agency here, secretary, and H. L. Martin of the Diamond Chain| & Manufacturing Co. Indianapolis, treasurer. Stan Murray of the Perfect Circle Co., Hagerstown, and Merrill J.| Woods of the Merrill J. Woods Ad- | vertising Agency, Indianapolis, were elected to the board of governors.
WIFE OF FORMER N.Y. |
POLICE HEAD SUICIDE
BRONXVILLE, N. Y.,, Aug. 9 (U.| P.) —Funeral services will be held | at Ardsley, N. Y., tomorrow, followed | by burial at Centerville, Cape Cod, | for Mrs. Douglas I. McKay, the former Henrietta Virginia Vandergrift| of Pittsburgh, who committed sui-| cide at her home here yesterday. Mrs. McKay, 55, was the wife of| Col. Douglas I. McKay, former Nov York City Police Commissioner and | former state commander of the| American Legion. Mr, McKay is| senior vice president of the Law-| vers Title Corp. of New York. Dr. Amos C. Squire, Westchester | County medical examiner, said Mrs. | McKay killed herself with illuminating gas “while temporarily mentally disturbed.” She had been ill for some time, he said
FOUR ACES LEADING | IN MASTERS’ BRIDGE
ASBURY PARK, N. J, Aug. $9 (UJ. P).—All favored teams moved | into the quarter final of the mast-| er's team-of-four championship, | today, successfully surviving the) last of the elimination knockouts. | Winner by a cumulative score of 4010 in 32 matches, last night was the Four-Aces—Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken, M. D. Maier, Theodore Lightner and Robert McPherran. Another set of favorites, the Philadelphia team of Mrs. | R. C. Young, Charles H. Joren,| John R. Crawford, and Charles J.| Colomon, whose alternate is Mrs. A. M. Sobel of New York, also sur- | vived with a score of 4410. |
L. A. DOWNS, HEAD OF |. C. RAILROAD, ILL
CHICAGO, Aug. 9 (U. P.).—Lawrence A. Downs, 68, chairman of the board of the Illinois Central Railroad, was in critical condition today at the Illinois Central Hospital. ; He entered the hospital July Im suffering from a general breakdown complicated by high blood pressure. Doctors said his condition was “very BR. Downs has been in failing health for two years. He resigned | as president of the road and was named board chairman in 1638. He | is a native of Greencastle, Ind. | |
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Bachelor Nearly Becomes Automatic Father of Three
'serted her and their three children, the upper lip and walk and man- ever they said persuaded Mrs. Klein
PATERSON, N. J, Aug. 9 (U. P.. —A judge's opinion today was all that kept Leo Pigula, 45-vear-old
bachelor, from becoming automati- |
cally and without effort on his part, a married man with three children. Not to mention a charge of desertion and larceny. But Judge Nathan Rabinowitz ruled that Pigula, a Paterson huckster, was not the man 53-year-old Klein thought he was and
where her husband, Benjamin, left off 18 years ago. Behind the case in Paterson's police court was the story of Mrs. Klein's husband, who, she said, de-
{she had made a mistake. “No,” she said, “this is not Benjamin.” Turning to Pigula she added: “I am sorry 1 have caused vou much trouble.” His reply was: “Get away from me.”
back in 1622 and ran off with her nerisms. life's savings. Her husband, like Pigula, had been Mrs. Klein has been looking for a huckster, in New York, and beher hushand ever since. On an fore that a silk dyer. Pigula re-| East Side subway in New York last torted that he had been not a dyer May 6 she thought she spotted him.!but a silk weaver before he turned So The man she spotted was Pigula,|to peddling. who vehemently insisted that he was, Mrs. Klein's sister, in Poland at the time of the deser-|Kraus of Brooklyn, testified that, a AAA Home tion and that, moreover, he had Pigula was Klein. ANGLERS’' SURVEY MADE never set eyes on Mrs. Klein before.| “I swear by all that is holy,” she, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P.) — But Mrs. Klein was so sure of her said. “that he is the man. I never The Fish and Wildlife Service is identification that she had Pigula saw such a resemblance.” |conducting nation-wide experiments haled into court here where she| But other witnesses supported on test streams to determine the! said she recognized him as her hus- | Pigula and finally the judge told percentages of planted fish hooked band because of his “identical ap-!Mrs. Klein and the huckster to by anglers. The fish are tagged bepearance,” including an old scar on:step aside and have a talk. What-!fore being released. :
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Someone whom Sam Dorfman knows held him up last night and took his tavern receipts and wallet. A masked man got into Mr Dorfman’s automobile at a stop light at 25th St. and College Ave. “Don’t lock at me.” he said. as he pointed a gun. “You'll know me if you do.” Mr. Dorfman handed over his wallet and the canvas bag containing the night's receipts of his tav-
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" TREASURE ISLAND, Cal, Aug. 9 (U. P)-—When Richard M. Dazier, official of the Pennsylvania Railroad show at the Golden Gate International Exposition, won a free long distance teldphone call, he promptly called up Miss Doris Lewis, | Jacksonville, Fla., and asked her to marry him, The telephone company’s records show that 872 persons listened in on the proposal. Miss Lewis accepted, came to San Francisco and | was married here.
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