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4 CITY OFFICES PREPARE FOR LICENSE RUSH New Permits Will Not Be Granted Until Mon day. 37 KINDS ARE ISSUED Preparations for the annual rush of citizens to procure city licenses, due to be renewed for the year 1921 have beeu completed at the office of City Controller Robert H. Bryson. In view of the fact that tomorrow is a legal holiday, followed by Sunday, tLo controller's office will not start issuing the new licenses until Monday morning, it was announced by John Brennan, dep uty city controller, In charge of the li cense division. The rush is expected to last for several days, since it will be impossible to Issue all the permits to tDe thousands of applicants in a shorter tin e. CHIEF CLASSES ABE VEHICLES. The city issues thirty-seven kinds of licenses. The chief classes are for motor I trnck and horse-drawn vehicles. During 1920 4,603 motor truck licenses have been 'issued. The number issued for each class of track is as follows: Under one ton, 3,680; under tw.o and more than one ton, G6B; under three and more than two tons, 118; under four and more than three tons, 72, and under five and more than four tenß. 93. To owners of one-horse vehicles 2.926 licenses were Issued this year; for two horse vehicles, 1,5-16; for taxis aud jit neys. 61L and for push carts, 138. A total of 3,221 licenses were Issued In this category. The licensee which must be renewed Monday and the price of each are ns fol lows : Milk, $2: restaurant, $6; ball rack, $2 per month; billiard and pool tables, each, $10; vending and slot machines, except candy, peanuts and chewing gum. $2; hucksters, for six months. $11; foot peddler, for six months. $4; Junk peddler, for gix months, $4, or for one year, $6; Junk dealer. $101; second hand dealer, $11; pawn broker, $101; jitney or taxi <ab driver. S2: lumber yard, ssl; auction eer, s3l; exhibition or moving picture, not more taan 10 rents admission. $26, and more than 10 cents. S1C1; theater, $101; shooting gallery, $11; skating rink, $101; merry-go-round. s2*l; hotel or rooming house, $6: tree trimmer, $2: second hand auto dealer, $6; bicycle, $2; push cart, $3; one-horse vehicle, $4; two-horse ve hicle. $6; motor truck, less than one ton, $5; motor truck, not more than two tons, atd more than one ton, $9; motor truck, not more than three tons and more than two tons, sl3; motor truck, not more than four tons and more than three tons, Sl7, and five tons or more and more than four tons, s2l. dog licenses not DIE UNTIL JULY 1. Dog llceuses are not due until July 1. License* for dances, circuses and side shows can be taken out only for one day. as occasion demands. The controller’s office force has spent several days thi* week preparing the 1921 leases for city market atandbolders in advance. The 1921 license plates for motor trucks, horse-drawn vehicles, pnsh carts, etc., will be round discs painted white on a dark background. The 1920 de sign was rectangular, painted bla'-k on yellow. RECEIVES FORMS FOR TAX RETURNS Revenue Collector Has Blanks for Incorporations. Collector of Internal Revenue William L. Elder announced today that several of the forms to be filled out by corpo rations preliminary to payment of in come and excess prefits taxes will be available for distribution on Jan. 3. The date when the other Income tax blanks, including those for individual taxpayers will be ready has not yet been received from Washington. In order that the blanks may be Issued on the same date all over the country the internal revenue department has ordered them held in collectors’ offices until officially released. The forms, which will be available Ja.i. :s, are as follows: One thousand one hun dred and twenty, which is a corporation return blank to be filed b all corpora tions for their current or fiscal years; “Happy lew Year I® All” Specialties^- Chocolate Nut and Toasted Nut Busters ■m ■ * , “ Quality , Not Quantity” “A Bit Better ” W alker Candy Cos. 23-25 East Maryland Street L J To our many friends, whose loyal support has made possible our success for the past year, we extend the season’s most cordial Greetings, with a hearty wish for happiness and prosperity through the year to come. We solicit the accounts of those who are contemplating a change in their banking connection This bank is conservative, as any institution ought to be that handles other peopYs money. We unler stand by conservativeness a due regard not only for our own interests but for the interests of all concerned and an unwill ngness to take any action that is not dictated by experience and souni judgment. Capita!, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1,350,000.00 Resources $9,000,000.00 NATIONAL CITY BANK 14 and 16 East Washington Street 1128, which is a copropatlon war profits blank; 1120 M, which is a report on de pletion on mines and minerals; 11§2, which is an information return of sub sidiary or affiliated corporations: 1125, which is a schedule of taxable Liberty bonds, and 1120, which is a certiflcat* of inventory to accompany form 1120. EDINBURG SCHOOL TEACHERMISSING Letters From Young Woman Tell of Plans to End Life. Special to The Times. EDINBURG, Ind., Dec. 81.—A search is being made for Bessie A. Stanley, 27, teacher of domestic science and English in the high school here, as a result letters received by her relatives and friends Monday, in which she stated she Intended to drown herself. Miss Stanley was last seen on the eve- INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31,1920. nlng of Christmas day, when she left the Y. W. C. A. at Louisville, Ky., where she had stayed over night. At this place she mailed a letter to her brother, Ezra Stanley of Edinburg, in which she men tioned that she had planned to end her life, and referred to some details of a love affair. On leaving Louisville, Dec. 23, Miss Stanley is said to have gone to In dianapolis to visit Mrs. Nell Thomas, at 418 East Fifteenth street, a former school chum. Mrs. Thomas not being at home. Miss Stanley secured a key to the home from a neighbor and stayed in the home over night, returning to vuis vllle Dec. 24, where ehe secured lodg ing for the night at the Y. W. C. A. The next day she took her departure from this place and since then no trace of her has been discovered. Miss Stanley Is described as being about 5 feet 6 inches in height and weighing about 103 pounds, with very dark complexion. hen last seen she was wearing a blue suit trimmed in beaver. Her mother, Mrs. Samuel Shock, lives in Hagerstown. Where Indiana Banks The Indiana National Bank is not only the depository of most of the leading established business institutions ot the city, but many new industries coming to Indianapolis have se lected this as their bank. This great strong bank invites business men seeking banking facili ties to confer with its officers regarding the service we are pre pared to render. Indiana National Bank Fousded 1857. Succesior (in 1865) to the bosineis of the Branch Bank of Indiana Capital - - - $2)000,000 Surplus - - - $1,000)000 Undivided Profits - - - $1,100,000 Safe Deposit Boxes in Our Armor Plate Safety Deposit V ault $5 and Up per year