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POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1941. ’

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GOP OUTSMART THEMSELVES

Winchell Declares Latest GOP Maneuver Aids Democrats

Action of Republicans in Congress in seeking to defeat legislation to assure men and women in the armed forces of a ballot in the next election is driving “whole droves of Americans” to the Democratic party, Walter Winchell declared in a recent column. His article follows: The congressmen who have ganged up to frisk the service men of their votes seem to have outsmarted themselves . . . Their tactics have aroused such a wave of public disgust that whole droves of Americans will vote for Mr. Roosevelt (if he runs) as a mark of respect to the soldiers who have been short-changed . . . the idea behind the opposition to the soldier vote is the fear that all the soldiers, sailors, marines, WAGS, WAVES, etc., will vote for their Commander-in-Chief. But they don’t say that . . . These adversaries of the service men’s franchise make a lot of noise about the idea being unconstitutional, in violation of States’ Rights and probably bad etiquette . . . The crack that all of them will vote for FDR (if he runs) suggests that the men in service have no minds of their own; that they vote in meek blocs at the crack of a lobbyist’s whip—like Congressmen. And by their own word and deed the Congressional opponents of votes for soldiers have forfeited all right even to mention the Constitution in their silly arguments. They tore the Constitution to rags in the House of Representatives Friday . . . One of the mouthier foes of soldiers’ rights got up in Congress and actually argued against the ballot on the grounds that it threatened “white supremacy” . . . Where is your Constitution now? The 15th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees equal rights to white and colored peoples. It reaffirms the item in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created free and equal . . . Did any of the Constitution lovers jump to their feet to protect that sacred document when the speaker threw it to the floor and stepped on it? If so, none of the dailies reported it ... So let’s have no more gabble-gobble about the Constitution. Let’s call the whole matter by the honest name of politics. But by far the sorriest sight that Congress offered last week, (and maybe in all its history) was the sight of the opponents of soldiers’ votes trying to stay under cover. They fought like devils against a measure to stand up and be counted .... That looked too fishy even for their followers. The average guy thinks in a straight line. He figures that if his neighbor is on the level, he doesn’t care who knows it. If the neighbor does something swell, it’s only human

for him to strut around, give the folks a big “hello” and kind of query with his face, “How’m I doing?” . . . But if he crosses the street when you walk toward him and skulks in and out of his house via the alley, you’re going to lock your hen coop, aren’t you? . . . It’s a pretty good rule that if a guy’s doing something big he won’t hide it. Think that over and ask yourself: Why are these Congressmen so all-fired scared of coming out in the open with their Constitutionloving? Is the Constitution such a

bad. girl?

The press looked sweet during the come-all-ye in Congress. Reporters from various papers (some of them as far p,part as the two poles politically) got together and agreed: “This is too raw for our stomachs. Let’s make a list of the hiders.” And they did . . . The list is available, and we suggest that you get yourself a copy. It will give you many a laugh and many a sick sensation in the middle to see what a scare a Congressman can suffer at the thought of losing his mandate from the people . . . It must be admitted that there are mighty few surprises in the list of fugitives from a roll call. It is loaded with fence-straddlers. Ad-ministration-haters, flirters with America First and assorted flapjaws . . . Anybody with the slightest familiarity with the Capitol could recite it almost alphabetically without having seen it. Rankin, one of the best examples of white supremacy, accused this reporter of writing the bill to give the soldiers the vote ... I only wish that, for once, the loudmouth from Mississippi knew what he was talking about. It would be the kind of monument I’d love most . . . But since Rankin was out to call me names, and not to honor me, and the alleged au,thorship was a step-off to some vicious racial rantings in the manner of the Nazi Streicher, I feel that frankin’ Rankin doesn’t adore me .... It isn’t what Rankin said that needs comment here. How can you take seriously a smalltimer who, from the cowardly perch of immunity, uses the floor of Congress to attack a race? Skipping the personal angle for a minute, how do you like a representative body of elected officials who laugh at vicious comments on a man’s race? . . . Consider the time it is. We are at war with Nazi Germany, whose present nders came to power on a program of racial persecutions and murders. Now, in the American Congress, these Hitler prejudices get applause and laughter .... Across two oceans American soldiers and sailors and marines are being killed by the forces that represent the ideas that gave our Congressmen all those laughs . . .

In short, while Rankin shoots the bull, Lt. Segal shoots bullets that defend every American — even Rankin. o COUNCILMAN (Continued from Page One) Mayor Hampton received a letter from the WPB telling how it would hurt the war effort. When I asked the representative of WPB if he had checked the condition of these junk yards and the weeds grown over the street, laying there since the last war, he knew nothing about it. Two members of the council whom I talked with and had voted for passage of the ordinance the first time told me that they had several times in the past tried to rid the town of these junk yards, but at the last minute they told me something happened to stop it—they didn’t know just what. Now with their vote it could have been done. It is a cinch they know what happened this time to check

it.

Of course the transportation con-

dition is going to stay the same. But after having three or four meetings in which the public was invited nobody except 15 or 20 were interested enough to come to the meeting. Mr. Lewis had said he had received no complaints ahtmt

the bus or taxi cab service. The big Tri-City Airport between

Muncie, Anderson and New Castle, supported by the administration and Chamber of Commerce for the bankers and big business, was turned down by the government. This airport would have cost a great amount of money to be paid by the taxpayers of Delaware County. Yet these same people give our President hell for spending money to keep people from starving to death a few years ago and think he should win this war without any expense, ask for government aid to build this airport. How many of you working people would be able to use it if it were to be built? How many times does the chamber of commerce come to the front to help you get the things I have spoken of to improve your community? When the banks or big business want something the chamber of commerce is all over the papers in favor of it, but the things you people need and are entitled

to they are not interested in. This administration seems to be

so busy with a lot of things which are of no benefit to the people of Muncie that they overlook the things they promised you when you put them in office. Of course they have the necessary votes in the council to put over the things they want, but I hope that when the next election comes you people will not forget the things you were promised when they got your vote, but remember they did just the opposite of what they said they would

When they stoppdd laughing the j do. i hope this states my position

Congressmen, with their kisses covered, voted not to let those faraway soldiers vote. That is Cong. Rankin’s joke. Do you find it

funny ?

The AP reports that Lt. Harold E. Segal shot down two Jap Zero fighters over Rabaul—bringing his total to 12 and taking the lead among Marine pilots of the Wake Avenger Squadron . . . Segal is one of the names Rep. Rankin vilified on the floor of Congress . . .

and explains why you are receiving the kind of treatment you are now

receiving.

Sincerely yours, CHARLES E. SKINNER —o It is said that in Germany the reading of the life of Hitler is compulsory. Gosh, totalitarianism is even worse than we thought! The Sahara desert stretches j 3,0(X) miles from the Atlantic the Red Sea.

STATE DEMOS PLAN MEETING July 19 Chosen As Opening Date For National Convention '

Biennial nominating convention of the Democratic party of Indiana will be held in Indianapolis Thursday and Friday, June 15 and 16, it was announced Thursday by State Chairman Fred F. Bays. The chairman was authorized to select a date at the last meeting of the state committee. The convention proper will be held on Friday at the Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, with district meetings and committee sessions Thursday night at the Claypool hotel and the state

house.

The Democratic committee will co-operate with Republican officials in plans for the convention, sharing expenses of decorations, loud speaking equipment, etc. The Republican convention will be held at the Coliseum June 2, with preliminary meetings on June 1. Convention Calendar Republican State Convention— June 1 and 2.Democratic State Convention— June 15 and 16. Republican National Convention —Opens June 26. Democratic National Convention —Opens July 19. Chairman Bays, after checking with the Indianapolis Convention Bureau, declared the mid-June dates would be the best available, considering hotel and other facilities in Indianapolis—an important factor because of the war-crowded conditions in the capital city. Offices for which candidates will be nominated, length of term and date terms will begin include: United States Senator (short term), two months, November, 1944; United States Senator (full term), six years, Jan. 8, 1945; governor, four years, Jan. 8, 1945; lieutenant governor, four years, Jan. 8, 1945; secretary of state, two years, Dec. 1, 1944; auditor of state, two years, Dec. 1, 1944; treasurer of state, two years, Feb. 10, 1945; attorney general, four years, Jan. 8, 1945; state superintendent of public instruction, two years, March 15, 1945; reporter ot supreme and appellate courts, four years, Jan. 13, 1945; judges of the supreme court, first, third and fifth districts, six years, Jan. 1, 1945; judges of the appellate court, first and second districts, four years, Jan. 1, 1945. The Democratic national convention will be held in Chicago, beginning Wednesday, July 19, and National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan has announced it is expectedto complete proceedings.within the same week. The Democratic national meeting will follow the Republican national convention, opening in Chicago June 26, by three weeks. At the same time, the new national chairman also announced the appointment of Paul A. Porter to head the party’s 1944 publicity

drive.

There is plenty of it. It's cheap and it's not rationed. No one foresees any shortage. But the War Production Board has asked all citizens to cooperate in a voluntary program to ; conserve critical resources essential to the nation's war effort. These include the resources used in making or distributing electricity—fuel transportation, scarce metals and manpower— together with water and gas and communications. / Long before Pearl Harbor, we planned enlargement of power plants to serve you, so that I we have plenty of electrical capacity for war i and for all essential civilian needs.

Nobody wants you to cut down on the light you need for good seeing in your home, but do not leave unused lights burning. Electrical appliances contribute to health and morale—by saving labor at home, they make possible greater factory production—but don't use them wastefully. After all, this whole program is simply a war on waste—waste of materials and manpower which are dedicated to Victory. Please remember this whenever you switch on electricity. INDIANA 1 GENERAL SERVICE § COMPANY:

DON'T WASTE ELECTRICITY JUST BECAUSE IT ISN'T RATIONED

Soldier Promoted

Fort McClellan, Ala.—He’s a corporal now. Promotion of Maurice L. McVicker of R. R. 1, Yorktown, Ind., from the rank of private to that of corporal technician, was announced at the Infantry Replacement Training Center here. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold McVicker, he graduated from Yorktown High School with the class of 1942 and was inducted last June 2. Cpl. McVicker is assigned to Company D of the 16th Training Battalion, where he serves as a field instructor. The newly promoted corporal is stationed at the training center, which gives a thorough course in the care and use of the many infantry weapons which the modern foot-soldier employs when he goes into combat as a first-class fighting man. Fort McClellan is near Anniston, Alabama, northeast of Birmingham in the southern tip of the Appalachians. It has a compelte layout of ranges for firing rifles, machine guns, automatic rifles and antitank weapons at ground and aircraft targets.

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California Digs Out of Snow Storm

Los Angeles, Feb. 24.—Scattered showers in the lowlands and more snow in the mountains were forecast for today as Southern California cleaned up after its worst storm in 13 years, a mixture of snow, hail and rain, that dumped 3-68 inches of precipitation on Los Angeles in 24 hours and blocked mountain highways. More than 15,000 homes in the city were without lights and an estimated 5,000 street lights were blacked out by the storm and 2,300 department of water and power employees refused to repair broken lines. However, maintenance men kept an uninterrupted flow of power to war plants and military installation. The heavy downpour, which started late Saturday, reached a climax yesterday when lightning heralded a downfall of hail and snow that whitened streets and housetops. The weather bureau said the snow was not the real thing, just “snow pellets,” but it looked like the real thing to. old timers ivho had to explain what “that white stuff” was to children.

Legal Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that public hearing on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance which is now pending before the Common Council of the city of Muncie, Indiana, will be held in the city Council Chamber in the City Hall at 7:30 o’clock P. M. on Monday the 6th day of March, 1944, at which time and place any objections such amendment or change will be heard. The proposed amendment or change to be made is as follows: to amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said city of Muncie, Indiana so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district and to the eighty (80) foot height district the following described territory in the city of Muncie, Indiana, towit:— Lot number Fourteen (14) in Block number Seventy-four (74) in the Whitely Land Company’s First Addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission, of said city of Muncie, and has been considered and such City Plan Commission has made its report approving the same. Information concerning such proposed amendment or change is now on file in the office of said City Plan Commission, for public examination. Such hearings will be continued from time to time as may he found necessary. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Muncie, Indiana. J. CLYDE DUNNINGTON City Clerk, and Clerk ot The Common Council of the City of Munqie, Indiana, this 23 day of February, 1944. Feb. 25 & March 3 o — Warns Motorists

Indianapolis, Ind., February 25. — (Special)—Don F. Stiver, Indiana state police superintendent, today warned that Hoosier motorists driving after midnight February 29 without a 1944 driver’s permit and a license plate will he subject to arrest. State police troopers will begin arresting violators March 1, he said. Commenting on his arrest order, Mr. Stiver said that licenses have been on sale since January 15, and ilthere can be no excuse for operating motor vehicles on streets or highways after the official deadline has expired.” The state police official pointed out that extension of the deadline for license plates and driver’s permits is not possible under Indiana law, which provides for fine and removal from office of any public officer issuing such an order. Mr. Stiver quoted the state law as follows: “It shall be unlawful for nay state, county or city official to make any proclamation or decree providing for an extension of the time for the use of any motor vehicle license plates beyond the limit fixed by law, or to fix a time for the removal of motor vehicle license plates different than the time fixed by law, and any such official violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 and be removed from of-

fice.”

———o CAN PAY BILLS AT PLANT

Seattle. —Busy Boeing Aircraft workers don’t have much time to do their household business downtown, so the “business” has come to them. Bank and postal substations have been established in the aircraft plant, plus utility branches which allow employees to pay their water, light, gas and telephone bills during lunch periods.

o Legal Notice

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids and proposals up to the hour of 10:00 a. m. C.W.T., on Tuesday, . the 7th day of March, 1944, at the office of the Auditor in the Court House in the City of Muncie, Indiana, for the furnishing of the following equipment, materials, andsupplies for the County Highway Department and County Institutions, for the year 1944, as follows, fowit: Gravel One (1) to five thousand (5,000) yards of gravel in bank or pile in Salem and Perry Twp. Lumber Hardwood lumber in various amounts, lengths, widths and sizes as per specifications. Asphalt & Other Bituminous Materials Three Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand (325,000) gallons or less of Asphalt and other Bituminous materials. Drag and Grader Blades Drag and grader blades in various amounts, sizes, for various maintainers and graders all as per specifications. Cement One (1) to two thousand (2,000) bbls. Hardware & Electrical Supplies For institutions of Delaware County for balance of year of 1944. Requirements and specifications for said equipment, materials, and supplies are on file in the office of the Auditor, of Delaware County, Indiana. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a non-collusion affidavit as required by law. Whenever a bid is in excess of $500.00 the same shall be accompanied by a bidder’s bond or certified check payable to the Treasurer of Delaware County, Indiana, which bond or check shall he in an amount ndt less than 10% of the total amount of such bid. The Boa,rd reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 15th day of February. 1944. SAMUEL L. CUNNINGTON Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana J. Robt. Long, County Attorney. Feb. 18-25

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: Mary Bradshaw vs. Harry Lee Bradshaw In the , Delaware Circuit Court January Term, 1944 Complaint: Divorce No. 18678 Notice is hereby given the said defendant Harry Lee Bradshaw that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Harry Lee Bradshaw is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he he and appear on Saturday the 15th day of April, 1944, the 12th day the next term of said Court, to bo holden on the 1st Monday in April, A. D., 1944, at the Court House in the City of Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 17th day of February, A. D., 1944. JESSE E. GREENE. Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. ,

House Record, On Vote Tax Bill

Washington, Feb. 25.—Here is how House members from Indiana voted on the motion to override the President’s veto of the tax bill: Republicans for; Halleck, Grant, Gillie, Harness, Johnson, Landis, La Follette, Wilson, Springer. Democrat for: Ludlow. Democrat against: Madden. While the political repe/cussions may hear more profoundly on the coming campaign, the immediate effect of the uprising, so far as the average citizen is concerned, is that the new revenue bill undoubtedly will become law. This will raise the governments wartime income above $42,000,000,000 annually. The statue would provide: '1, An increase in individual income taxes of $664,900,000. 2. Much higher excise levies on so-called luxuries, including a heost in the liquor tax from $6 to $9 a gallon, effective April 1. This kili yield an additional 1,051,300,000. T 3. 'Postal rates boosted in several categories to the extent of $96,900,000. However, the out-of-town letter rate remains at three cents. Security Taxes Frozen. 4. The social securiay payroll tax frozen at 1 percent for employer and employe, instead of rising to 2 percent each. This provision was a principal irritant to Mr. Roosevelt. 5. Numerous changes in the war contracts renegotiation law, including an amendment which opens the way for contractors to appeal to the courts for renegotiations they consider unfair. Individual income tax changes would not affect the 1943 returns due this March 15. Henceforth, however, taxpayers would not be allowed the customary 10 percent credit for earned income, nor would they be allowed to make deductions in income taxe computations for federal excise taxes they have paid. The Victory Tax, which Mr. Roosevelt termed a “clumsy” tax, becomes a flat 3 percent levy on individual income over $624 a year, without regard for family status. Labor unions, farm co-operatives and other organization not subject to income tax would be required to make annual financial statements to the Treasury. , TAXBILL (Continued from Page One) emptions which have resulted in direct cuts in the food and cloth-

The waste paper you save will help fill a Nazi frave. Protect our boya.

SAVE A BUNDLE AWEEK I SAVE SOME BOYS LIFE

From where I sit — /jpJb&Matsh

Bob Newcomb was reading me a letter the other day—from his son In the Marines. Dick Newcomb’s somewhere in the South Pacific, thousands of miles from home, yet he writes to ask; “Tell me, Dad, do they still pitch horseshoes back of Ray’s? Is Johnny keeping my tools in shape? Are the trout still biting in Seward’s Creek?” Makes you realize what the men over there are thinking about. Sure, they’re fighting for Democracy and Freedom and a Better World Tomorrow.

But the things they dream of coming back to are the little simple pleasures that mean home to aU of ns—like a home* cooked meal, a glass of hew with friends, a game of horseshoes fas the backyard. From where I sit, one of our most sacred obligations here at home is to keep those little things exactly as they remem* ber them —to keep intact the world they’re fighting for.

■ — No. 76 of a Sefiet Copyrighti 1944; Brewing hthtstry Foundation

ing budgets of working families. Congress has thus proceeded to reject one of the five points cited by you in your message of last month as essential aspects of a home-front program. Not only have they failed to raise the funds which the Treasury Department has indicated to be essential to the fighting of the war. Congress has gone further and has actually proceeded, after receiving your message, to reduce rather than irfcrease the amount which could be

expected from the fax bill then pending before them. The bill which has now been placed before you is worse than useless to the nation. Only a stinging rebuke in the form of a veto can make clear the fact that we do not have a fair and realistic wartime tax program and that Congress still has the duty to the nation to proceed to enact such a program. Sincerely yours, s/Philip Murray, President.

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