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SOLD IN TAX MIXUP—Mr, and Mrs, Mitchell C. Johnson, who’ have owned ‘this house at 3810 Rockville Rd. for three years, suddenly discovered it was sold six months ago at a delinquent tax sale due to an ‘error in tax receipts at the County Treasurer's
office.
TAX RECEIPT S SHOW ERROR-Ms. Mitchell Johnson tearni ome had been sold urer's 0 od is ‘straightening,
Tax Receipt Error Resulfs | In Sale of Couple's Home
Clerk Ovérlooks '46 Delinquency, OK's Later Payment; County Hopes to Rescind Order
By NOBLE REED You wouldn’ think it possible that a home you had bought, Both the LVL Club and the and paid for could be sold out from under you and. you wouldn't{Edgewood Club were on federal know anything about it for six months. It happened right here in Marion County. When Mr, and Mrs. Mitchell’C. Johnson, 3810 Rockville Rd. went ‘into the County Treasurer's office the other day to pay the Here is the list of clubs and
fall installment of taxes on the home they bought three years ago, a clerk refused to take, their money.
the. Miller Becurities Co.
But Mr. and Mrs. Johnson pro-|{Treasurer Louis W. Fletcher dis-
duced receipts showing they had paid both installments last year and ‘another last spring with no notification that there were any delinquent taxes due. A recheck of the master files disclosed there was one delin-|
some oversight, had not paid one installment due in October, 19486. This delinquency automatically
auditor and through due process of law was advertised for sale to collect the delinquency.
No oS 10n Slots Here, Sheriff Says
Eling,” the Sheriff said. “The fact
= (of disappearing for long periods| of time. He said payment of fed-| = eral tax‘on a slot machine could; .
EB lof possession.
{at a.certain club we will act.”
The sale, of course, was ad- Beinn vertised in the usual fine print| (Continued on Page 3--Col, 2) according to law, He told Mr. and Mrs. Johnson but few read them except real that their home had been sold last estate men seeking bargain propApril at a delifiquent tax sale tojerty
Investigation today by County Due Here Today
advertisements,
closed that a clerk back in 1047] g a. m... 68 10 a. m... 77 falled to find any delinquent] 7 5. m... 690 - 11 a. m... 81 charge against the Johnson prop-| 8 a. m... 70 12 moon .. 82 erty and had marked their 1047 9 a. m... 78 tax receipt O., K., showing the property was clear of any de-| Hoosier fair-goers may expect That was the over-/to be showered with nothing but quency. - The Johnsons, throughisight that. caused all the trouble. In order to correct the error, Treasurer Fletcher said his office] No heat wave is in sight but would co-operate: with County/the weatherman believes it will went to the records of the county[Auditor Ralph Moore in getting be as muggy today as yesterday. the tax sale proceduure rescinded| ‘The mercury was expected to
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Reveal Tax Paid On 201 Machines
Nobody has any “go sign” on
fact that 32 clubs and organizations in Marion County have paid federal tax to operate 201 of the “one-armed bandits.”
mean the machineg are operat-
is most of those places are shut down as far as gambling is concerned and we have men watching) them all the time.”
makes no secret of the fact that respect for federal law enforce-| ment has brought in payments; from, 1131 clubs and other-estab-| lishments over the state for the, operation of more than 5000 slot] machines. Taxes are paid, presumably on|
lawed in Indiana. Not. Held Evidence Sheriff Magenheimer contended, however, that here ‘In Marion County the machines have a habit
not be used as evidence in court
“But we don't always have to find the machines to take cipb managers or owners into court,” he added. “If somebody will gust make a complaint and file an affidavit that the slots are in use
Prosecutor Judson Stark added that while his role in law enforcement is ‘the prosecution of cases brought to him he would furnish search warrants on request and
plaints. Many Within Oity
reached for comment on the fact that federal records show many of the slot machines on which taxes fave béen pald are within the city limits Barly in July state police seized 20 of the alot View Een in raids
adison’ Ave, 7 But ‘state ‘police policy, set by the bipartisan police board, is to seize slot machines on sight only when they are readily accessible to the public. The board has maintained a policy of leaving enforcement of gaming laws on private clubs up to es! authories
records as having paid their annual tax of $100 on each of the machines,
organizations in Marion County
Showers of Sun
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
1p m.. 88
sunshine today, according to the weatherman.
{ “Just because $100 tax has been| | paid on each machine doesn’t
But the federal government
the assumption that sooner or; ¢| later the machines will be operat. d, even though mere possession| = of such gaming devices is out-| Fy
would act on affidavits of com-
Mayor Feeney could not be
"WEDNESDAY, ETE 1948
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Russ Horass Air Corri ‘Seek ‘Chaos’ Marshall :
oy famed tuna guide Tomm unds spectively, The
TODAY Education and Children’s Day (children 12 and under admitSt: free). 9 p. m~~Horse Show and Wayne King’s orchestra, Coliseum; Columibia City high school band, ~ machinery field; Indianapolis Concert Band, Grandstand.
8:15 p. m.—State Fair Follies, Grandstand. 10 p. m.~Fireworks. JUDGING — Percherons, Coliseum; Hereford, Polled Hereford and Guernsey, Coliseum; Duroc and Berkshire, swine arena; and Oxford (night), sheep arena; Nubian and Al pine goats, sheep arena.
Charges of ticket scalping were filed by Indiana State Fair officials today against two West-
and clear the Johnson property of work its way up to a high of 85 any delinquent incumbrances.
by mid-afternoon.
field “brothers accused of selling (QContinged on Page 3-—Col. 5)
It's $150 for Anyone Finding Man of Times
‘Mystery Man’ Eludes Fair-Goers | But Really, Folks, He's Easy to Find:
The prize for finding the Man of The Times reached a substantial $150 in cash today as he again eluded capture at the
Indiana State Fair.
Each day since the fair began last Friday he has walked the fairgrounds, rubbing shoulders with countless thousands of Hoosiers, but no one has been fortunate enough to: ferret him out of
“You are the Man of The
the crowd. And each day the award, which started at $50, has been increased by $25 until a small fortune in greenbacks now awaits the person who identifies him, Why he has not been found out 1s as much of a mystery as the Man of The Times, himself, for he has not made any attempts to avoid the fair-goers and the treasure hunt is simplicity in itself. Just Get a Times Everyone at the fair is eligible t6 join in the search—everyone, that is, except employees of The ‘Times and their families. Here is the way you can win $150 in a few second’s time with no strings attached. Get a eopy of today’s Times. Any edition will do so long as it is today’s paper. You can buy your Times at any newsstand, bring it with you from home or
get it from a newspaper boy at a
the fairgrounds. Just Say Words Armed with your paper go about your business of inspecting exhibits and having a good time at the fair
If you see someone you think |
be the Man of The Times,
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While saying that, hand him your copy of The Times. That is all there is to it. If he is the Man of The Times, he will acknowledge the fact and you are
The Man of The Times will" be in the fairgrounds from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. and from 5 p. m. to 6 p. m. He might, of course, be § there at other times, but he will not reveal his identity except between those hours. An example of how easy it is to let. the prize slip from your grasp occurred yesterday when the Man of The Times had $125
He was sitting in the: h the grand tand watching the trotters plod through the mud on the wet har ness track when the young couple t a Times from
The man glanced casually through the paper, then handed it to his wife, who read in detail the account of the Man of The Times treasure hunt. She murmured to her husband something about how mice it would be to win all of that money, right up to him. In. these
exact words: say:
ifolded the paper up and went ‘back. tc the
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AN?—Here he is, folks. The Man
The Times.
isions foreign to the average|
. tournament was almost over but
‘|had caught one almost as big
gTuna a Sucker for Hoosier-Cured Sowbelly
TRY THIS ON YOUR ROD AND REEL—From the heart of the ditt farmin’ country came Terre J una}: Hulman to bag this record catch on Soldier's Rip off Wedgesport, Nova Scotia: Mr. Hulman was. accompanied
ifford (on the right) and th e two "little" ones were cau
aute’s Tony ese three big ones weighed 772 pounds, 642 inds: and ght on 24- thread line by the Hoosi a Sup Match:
m in: he | Intemational Jun,
when he goes after the giant blue Match off Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, The match is the Olympics of tuna fishing. Mr, Hulman’s place on the American team ranks him with the cream of big game anglers even though he's from a gtate that's 600 miled from the nearest ocean, Good Tale-Spinner About that, bait, Mr. Hulman says the tuna is too temperamental to bite on the same thing all the time, “but last year we proved that sometimes they'll take that when you can’t get a hook down them with anything else.” Mr. Hulman has been fishing] for the big.game fish--tuna, mar: lin, broadbill swordfish and Mako shark-—for about 12 years. When he isn’t hunting up new spots to look for thé big fish, he's busy managing his Indianapolis Speedway, a huge food enterprise in Terre Haute or sundry other business operations. He's fished off Jamaica, Cuba, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and other spots. His fish stories sound pretty fantastic compared with the mine run whopper heard in this inland country, but he has
Even the alibis involve dimen-
Hoosier fishermen. For instance, the time he was leading the Cat Cay tournament off the Bahamas after two days of the three-day meet. Whopper Out-Weighed About two hours out on the third and last day, “Tuna's” boat broke a propeller shatt. He didn’t get back at his fishing until the
still took third place with more than 3100 pounds of fish caught. The really fancy part of that raw deal, though, was that he caught what was definitely the biggest tuna of the tourney early one morning. But some guy who
Nova Te for Champion’ s Cup : By ROBERT BLOEM
TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 8--If Indiana sowbelly will catch a catfish in a creek, why not the wily blue fin tuna off Nova Scotia? «It took Hoosier Tony Hulman, known in big fish circles as “Tuna” Hulman, to prove that it would. 80 he’ll likely be trailing a hunk of the lowly pork rind as bait
|weighing.
cluded a record single day's cateh|be-oent - tax levy
fin in the International Tuha Cup that evening beat him out at the|In 0
The reason-—because Mr. Hul-[sessed
in the sun most of the day, it lost about 20 pounds. roposed rates hinged on About a year ago ie Sook his final a. by the County Counfirst fling at the Nova Scotialeii on its budget requests, for fishing grounds near W. 4 nn to -—a rough and tricky piece make vance. eounocean known. as Soldiers’ Rip. S pulilicin-ad ce the o He caught 15 fish in 10 daysisrove this out, but there's another way to
However, the council look at that. The 15 fish weighed : a total of 93356 pounds and in- pected to reduce the
estimated 68 or TO-cent levy, of three big blue fins which added|™® up to just & pound over. an even compared to 52 cénts this year. . ton. The total estimated $4.75 rate Can't Resist Tidbit for Indianapolis residents in Cen Some of those—one of them ater TownsHip would include, be: 650-pounder—were caught on 24- Sides the county rats, the all thread line. In terms of Indiana time-high city government levy of
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 4) city school levy, $1.48, up 2 cents;
Center Township rate, 22 cents, Heavy Record uP 9 conte, and Ihe state govern, Brings Heavy Fine
ment rate of 15 cents. OK’s $170,000 Loan Meanwhile, the County Council
ing, learned today the fallacy of row $170,000 from the county not revealing his entire police. general fund to pay deficits in record to the court. |poor- relief expenses for the rest Howard Carter, 1016 Cedar 8t., of this year.
in Municipal Court 3 today.
he had a previous record, he ad- ington Township. mitted he had been in court in P 1941 on a burglary charge which artial reductions made by the was discharged. aed Fine [flies off of the county general Carter failed to to mention, however, that he had been convicted DeXt year. - Cuts were made in of reckless driving, possessing no [the budget requests of every operator's license and leaving the county department.
Ago ithe levy about seven cents, ode Young fined him $25 and | nbn costs and suspended his license! CRASH INJURIES FATAL for 90 days. Then, he saw Car-| ANDERSON, Sept. 8 (UP)— ter's record and immediately! ployd Eddleman, 65, believed fo
Angers E. Side Neighbors
Fritz Found Smothered in Paint Can;
Otto Ray Offers $50 for Information
dachshund. puppy in a , S-gallon Governor accused. of “strike-breaking. hie wan Caan paint can, clamped down the lid tight and left the puppy to squirm and cry until it smothered to death? :
Who put a four-months-old
The entire borhood- in
The puppy whose .name was) Fritz was discovered dead this!
from the home of his owner, Mrs, Richard B. Grady, 3538 N. Chester. Mrs. Grady had searched; for the puppy #ince he vanished,
of The EY 1 you find him at the Indiana State. Fair Solon you
would like to know. The perpetrator of that eryelty, neighbors said, is a menace to the neighborhood
morning in the paint can on altion leading to the arrest of the building site across thie street person who smothered Fritz,
| Workmen on the bullding site|eyh oy Features on Inside Pages:
6; Forum «vr oeeo13, F.C, Othman Hen Sa
Otto Ray of the Society for Pre-| morning. $
changed the fine to $50. be a resident of Columbus, O.
P Sd J EL Oat e Death of Dachshund Puppy |: men, os ere om
bile earlier in the evening.
Planes Invade Lane Used to Feed Berlin
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man's fish had been lying around i this year was indicated to-|
$2.229, up 44 cents over this year; to
A 22-year-old Indianapolis’ mo- passed a special ordinance giving torist, charged with reckless driv-|four townships authority to bor- ed
appeared before Special Judge rhage loans will be $150.000 for. Mr Marshall would id Howard 8. Young for a hearing | center Township, $13,000 for, ment on Seana would, of outs
ayne Township, $5000 for Perry OF Not the western powers plan When the judge asked him if Township and $1800 for Wear | military countermeasures to the
{County Council included $545,000 German poli
fund budget request proposed for Dizzy Dean Due Here
scene of an accident two years This single cut would reduce)
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Secretary Favors Firm Allied Stand BERLIN, Sept. 8 (UP) relations here’
would he comment leally ¢ be the Soviet kidnaping of nels cemen,
{For Legion Ball Games
the 3500 block of N. Chester St.
jYention of Cruelty to Animals ted a $50 reward for informa-
:'who found the puppy were at first reluctant to tell Mrs. Grady the bad: news. They brought the puppy’s body to her in silanes ‘this
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