Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1942 — Page 10

County Valuation Increases Almost Five | Million.

$100,000 mare in tax collections this year than they expected when they made out their 1942 budgets, ~~ This was revealed foday when the official | figures on property valuations in the county auditor's office ‘showed ‘an increase of $4,800,000 over the /estimate used in figuring 1942 tax rates to raise budget appropria tions. | ; Washington Gains Most | Since a¢tual figures on assessed | | valuations are not available in Au- |! gust when | budgets for the next year

|| mates o will be. | This figure was $629,846,000 and

what, the valuations

‘tation of | the actual . valuations, gompleted y, showed total valu{ations of $33,689,000. 1 | Nearly half of the $4,800,000 inerease turned up in Washington township where some property was overlooked |in the early estimates. The effect in any one township will not be/great since the valuation i spread over all nine

FIRST LADY’S PRESS VISITORS RESTRICTED |W.

GTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.) .— Mrs. D. Roosevelt said yesterday the secret service has imposed rigid restrictions on the qualifica of women reporters ‘iwho may attend her White House press conferences for the duration. , the first lady said, attendance be limited only to full-time, resident employes of daily newspapers, ‘press associations, { : magazines and| broad-

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~ County | and city governmental |- . receive approximately]

are made, assessors furnish esti-|

50-CAR FREIGHT OFF TRACK AT FROG POND

| Thirteen cars of a 50-car New York Centrgl freight train were derailed this morning at the Marion-

Boone coun'y line, near Frog Pond. | No membér of the train crew was injured, although the wreck occurred while the tram was running between 50 and 55 miles an hour. A broken wheel on one’'of the cars was blamed for the derailment. Most of the wrecked cars were loaded with grain. | The train was Indianapolis-bound from Kankakee. The wreck occured on a'double-track route, and railroad traffic, much of it a part of the nation’s war effort, was rerouted over the second track. Highay traffic to Zionsville was blocked, however. . | W. K. Britton, 831 N. Butler ave., was the engineer of the wrecked

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train.

Fries, secretary-treasurer; Claude E. Ream | and George Gaughan, vice president. + the basis for all tax rates. Compu-||

Because of his interest in the defense program, Fire Chief Harry H. Fulmer was presented an American flag for his office yesterday by the Indianapolis Fire Fighters association. Left to right are Fred F. , recording secretary; Orval Marshall, president; Chief Fulmer

Fire Scarred Rangoon Once

Was Yan-Gon, 'End of War’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U. P.). —Rangoon, the abandoned capital of Burma which was set afire by evacuating British empire forces, once was named Yan-Gon — “the end of war.”

This was revealed today by the National Geographic society in a news bulletin on the city.

“The site of the city originally was occupied. by .a village named Dagun, for the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, an ornate, bell-shaped building whose gilded and jeweled spire towers 370 feet,” the bulletin said, “In 1763, the town was rebuilt by the Burmese monarchy and renamed ¥Yan-Gon. The city grew in size and importance after’ the British took Burma in 1852.”

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Squads - Organized by Alpha Phi Omega.

Floor squads, first aid units and fire-and-bomb corps patrol the corridors of Butler university on a war emergency basis. It is all the work of Alpha Phi Omega, national service: faternity, which has’ played the university on a military footing. ; "Floor Captains Named Max Norris, organization president, announced that the floor squad will direct students to safety during an emergency. Floor captains of this unit are Donald Helm,

Bob E. Brown and Harry Monroe. |

First aid squads are receiving. instructions to prepare them for caring for injured. The fire-and-bomb corps is learning the correct method to extinguish fires and deal with bombs. In an emergency this unit would direct activities-un-

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VISIT HERE DELAYED

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University of Rangoon enrolls some 1500 students.”

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