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BURNS TO DEATH. Willow Grove, Pa.—A 21-year-old mother dropped her baby daughter to safety from the second floor of their fire-swept home today and then was trapped and burned to death with her husband. As a flaming staircase prevented rescuers from reaching them, Mrs. Aroth Halloiwell wrapped five months-old Sharon Lee in all the blankets she could find and pushed her out of the window. The baby slid down a sno\v covered roof and tumbled 12 feet to cement steps. She was unuhurt- " _ 0— SUICIDE PACT SUCCESS Long Beach, Calif. — Two high school tf/veetheartsl, hea'rt«broken over parental objections to their marriage, carried out a carefully planned suicide pact,' and died clasped in each others arms, it was disclosed today. The bodies of the 'teen-age lovers, Aubrey Wayne Matthews, 17, and Bobby-Soxer Shirley Johnson, 15, were found late yesterday in Matthews' mother’s car in the family garage. In the boy’s pocket was a vial of poison crystals. ATTACKS FILIBUSTER Washington—PiVsident Truman said today, regarding the southern Democratic filibuster in the Senate, that when he was a Senator he always favored' 1 limitation of debate in such cases. The President was questioned at his news conference about the fight being waged by southern Democrats against the fair employment legislation. Asked what he was going to do about the filibusteh, he replied he would do nothing. But if reporters would look up his record as a Senator, Mr. Truman added, they would find that he always favored cloture to break „a filibuster. Senate Republicans , are how signing a cloture petition- . • o ACTRESS HONORED. Paris — Movie Actreess Madeleine Carroll has been cited for services to France during the war and made a Chevalier in the Legion of honor, a list of awards disclosed today. Miss Carroll was cited for directing the care of wounded French while she was serving with the American Red Cross and for promoting Franco-American friendship in radio broadcastsMAY VISIT WASHINGTON. Washington—iPresident Truman offered to send the presidential plane to bring the former British prime minister from Florida to Washington. If Churchill accpets, Mr. Truman plans to fly with him to Fulton, Mo., where the British leader will speak March 5. —.—o NEW FIGHTER PLANE. -New York—Development of a new fighter plane, powered by a revolutionary combination of jet engine and a gas turbine designed for propeller drive, was announced today by the General Electric Company. General Electric, in a statement approved by the War Department, said the new engine plant made the fighter "the most powerful aircraft in the world-” ECONOMY THREATENED. Washington—Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes warned today that the entire national economy Is seriously threatened by the prodigious use of natural resoources during the war. "The drain on our natural assets has been staggering.” Ickes said in his annual report to the Pres-i-detn for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1945. .—."Only nine of the major minerals remain in our known domestic reserves in great enough quantity of usable grade to last 100 years or more. Our known usable reserves of 22 essential minerals have dwindled to a 35-year supply or less. LEWIS BACK IN FOLD. Mami, Fla.—The United Mine Workers and their burly chief, John L. Lewis, today were returned to membership in the American Federation of Labor and Lewis gained a seat on the AFL executive councilAFL President William Green announced the' action was taken unanimously by the council today. Lewis paid $9,000 in Janary taxes to the AFL for 600,000 mine workers.
LOAN TO GREECE. London—British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin asked Commons today to approve a $40,000,000 sterling loan to Greece to help stabilize that country’s currency and speed its economic rehablitation. Bevin told Commons that the United States government helped draft the terms of the Greeck credt and he revealed that an American representative would serve with a British delegate on a Greek currency commission provided for in the loan agreement.
When In Doubt Then Name A Committee, Opines GOP
Republicans Put Long Anticipated Party Program On Ice During Meeting At Chicago Last Month—GOP Hopes for Transfusion of New Blood Has Been Chilled— Original Draft of Policy Was Received With Groans From GOP Party Leaders Name Seven Men Sub - Committee for “Development of National Policy.” When a conference accomplishes nothing, the usual way out is to appoint a committee.
That is what the Republican National Committee did when it met in Chicago last month to consider the long-heralded “party ‘“program” so painfully drafted by the G- O. P. Congressional delegation. Unable to agree on anything except that the Congressional program wai3 a lame compromise of widely divergent views, the national committee passed the back to a subcommittee of seven appointed by Chairman Brownell. The make-up of this subcommittee has chilled the hopes of those Republicans who were praying that a transfusion of new blood and
BOSSES OF NAM RULERS OF 0. S.
NAM Is Real Threat To Free Enterprise In United States
ideas might put the G. O. P. back on its feet. But the egg laid at Chicago was a long time hatching. Minority Leader Joe Martin started talking about the new program early in September. “People won’t fall asleep when they read it—everyone will be able to understand it,”
he said-
None Liked the Hash. A House committee, heavily loaded with conservatives—Halleck (Ind.), chairman; Wigglesworth (Mass), Arends (111.), Brown (Ohio), Cole (N. Y.), Hope (Continued On Page Three)
“THE YEAR OF DECISION” “Nineteen hundred and forty-six is our year of decision. “This year we lay the foundation of our economic structure which will have to serve for generations. This year we must decide whether or not we shall devote our strength to reaching the goal of full production and full employment. This year we shall have to make the decisions which will determine whether or not we gain the great future at home and abroad which we fought so valiantly to achieve.” That is the issue. Those words of President Truman, in opening his addmss to. the American people on the state- of the' naticrrr, are at once a summation of the present, and a warning and a challenge of the future. The decision itself is up to us. To the people of America. Mr. Truman’s truths about Congress constitute a large part of that challenge. For it is the people who sent representatives and senators to congress to do their will. And if their representatives fall—as the reactionary Republicans of Indiana have consistently failed, and as they stubbornly promise to continue to fail—then the people of Indiana have a way to replace them. It is no accident that part of the decisiveness of this year, is that 1946 is also election year.
HE SHOULD SAY SO Senator Raymond E. Willis of Indiana, on his return to Washington, gave out a lengthy interview in which he attacked the administration for what he called “Federal Inaction.” He should make such a remark—considering that he has been the do-nothingest of the do-nothings President Truman has had to contend with, in trying to get his reconversion program adopted.
The senate monopoly investigation committee headed by Democratic Senator O’Mahoney, in its report entitled “Monograph 26,” after detailing previous investigations of the National Manufacturers’ Association, states in so many words that as a result of these investigations it must conclude that “the handful of men who boss the NAM are also the rulers of America.” “In other words, as established by the Senate investigations, it is NAM, not labor, or the PAG, which is a threat to a free enterprise which is really free, and to the genuine American way of life. That NAM gets such full support from the American press, while labor gets virtually none, is also explained by the senate report, which states without qualification that NAM controls the American newspaper publishers association. The latter (ANPA) numbers among its members the owners of all the big papers, among some 1,744 dailies. • Big business, with some $60 billion at its command, also hacks the biggest lobby in Washington; the one which is the biggest and most powerful single pressure group in Congress, though it is hand in glove with all the other big moneyed lobbies. Their interests are naturally its own; because all represent money and monopoly. Today NAM heads such as Irenee DuPont, Lament DuPont, A. P. Sloan bt General 'IVfo! 1 the Pew family of Sunoco (who also influences farm votes over the country by the subtle propaganda of his farm papers) merely supply tens of thousands of dollars to Republican political campaigns.” Bushfield of North Dakota was so elected, and has been one of their most faithful servitors in Congress. These men, and the numerous members of their families, also contribute at least as generously as the law will allow, to the Republican coffers in all the farflung states. Many of them are listed as contcibutors to Indiana GOP campaign funds. NAM also has its warm and vocal supporters among the several Republican stockholders and monop-oly-minded millionaires who occupy seats in high places—such as millionaire newspaper publisher and GOP senator minority leader Robert A. Taft, millionaire meatpacker GOP Senator Wherry of (Continued on Page Three)
RECOGNITION IS GIVEN TO VETS
More Tangible Aid Given Vets Under Two Democratic Regimes The United States under two Democratic Administrations has given more tangible recognition to its war veterans than any other of six Allied countries. The facts, disclosed in a recent independent study by Bernard M. Baruch, show; Grants for the Totally Disabled: U. S. $115 a month if single or married; Canada, $68.25 monthly single, $104.65 married; Australia, $8 to $12 weekly if single, $13 weekly if married; New Zealand, $9.70 weekly if single, $14.75 weekly if married; Great Britain, $8 weekly if single, $11.50 weekly if married. (Continued on Page Three)
Democratic Gathering Stresses Party Unity
Chester C. Clark Is Demo Candidate
CHESTER . CLARK.
Chester C. Clark, residing on Cowan Road south of Muncie, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for trustee of Center township. He is at present trustee serving hi.3 first term and seeks re-election. The primary election will be held May 7. Born in Center Township, Mr. Clark formerly was engaged in the butter and milk business in Muncie, being so engaged for eighteen years. He has two sons. Mr. Clark is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Loyal Order of Moose, and of the Jackson Street Christian Church.
THIEVES OPTIMISTIC
(By United Press Wire) Indianapolis, Jan. 26—Some for-ward-looking thieves will sit out the meat strike in comfort. In Fiance, until 1832, -.he galley slave was branded “IF’ (truax
forces).
WHY G. M. WON’T TALK PROFITS
CIO Writer Points Out Huge Profits Paid To Its Stockholders
Why General Motors refused to talk profits or prices with the United States government, as represented by President Truman’s factfinding board, and why it has never been willing to talk them with the union, is revealed in a statement recently published in the CIO
News.
The reason for this refusal, it substantiates, is that the company is afraid to divulge its enormous profits of the past several years — even prior to the war. And though General Motors officials have refused to open the books to the factfinding board, government statistics on file in Washington prove the union’s contention. The UAW statement follows: The union has made a simple request. It reads: “We demand 30 per cent increase in wage rates to maintain takehome pay without increasing pricesIf the corporation can show that it Is impossible to pay 30 per cent higher wages without increasing prices and at the same time to continue to pay substantial profits to its stockholders, we will scale down our demands to the point the arithmetic of the case requires.” GM’s reluctance to consider profits in relation to wages is understandable in the light of a federal trade commission report which said that GM averaged 35.6 per cent in profits from 1927 to 1937, inclusive, and added that OM “is often referred to the world’s most c6hi plicated and most profitable manufacturing enterprise.” Economists point out that $1000 invested in 10 shares of GM stock in 1917 have earned the investor $930 a year in dividends and increa»se in value — a 93 per cent
return:
The UAW-CIO points out that GM could have paid 30 per cent greater wages than it did pay from 1936 to 1941 and would have earned an average net income after taxes of $132 million a year — more than 12 per cent a year on its investment. For every dollar paid to GM workers from 1936 to 1941, inclusive, GM earned 91 cents in profits before taxes. “In its postwar production GM can make as much profit, before taxes, as in the best profit year of its history (1941) even though producing at less than capacity, and even though paying 30 per cent higher wage rates than it now pays,” the UAW] says on the basis of ^ detailed statictical estimate.
Chairman Shively Reads and Explains Elections Laws Governing Primaries In Indiana—Vice Committee Makes Tentative Plans for Real Get - Together Within a Few Weeks—Important Election Dates Are Revealed—List of Precinct Committeemen and Vice Committeemen Revealed.
The members of the Democratic Central Committee were called together by their County Chairman, Oscar Shively last Saturday night in the Circuit Court room. The meeting was well attended and demonstrated the fact that the party leaders are
“rearing to go.” was plenty evidence
There was plenty evidence of genuine enthusiasm in anticipation of the coming Primary, May 7. Mr. Shively read from the election laws governing Primaries in Indiana and explained the calendar of important dates and commented on them and their importance as they pertained
to the coming election.
The Vice-Committee women made tentative plans for a real “get to-
gether” within a short time.
The following is a list of some of the most important election
dates:
Feb. 4—Last day to change
boundaries of precincts. It is not expected any such changes will be made. , .
March 8—First day to file for declarations of candidacy. April 6—Last day to file for of-
fice.
April 8—Last day on which voters may register for the piimaly
election. April 8—Last day for the county i health officer to 'provide a list of voters, who died after registering for the last election. April 9—Last day for the secretary of state to certify candidates for the primary and for the clerk to publish the date of the primary, the candidates and send three copies of each to the township trus-
tees.
April 16—First day thq clerk may publish for the second time the names of candidates for office. April 27—First day for absent voters to obtain ballots. Also the last day for making public voting
places.
April 30—Last day for naming
precinct officials.
May 4—Last day for procuring
absent voters ballots.
May 6—Last day on which an ab(Continued On Page Three)
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LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB Saturday evening, January 26, at 7:30 o’clock another meeting of the Liberal Democratic Club will be held in the Circuit Court room of the Delaware County Courthouse. All Liberal Democrats of County are urged to be present.
BUTTER SUBSIDY UPHELD Recently Congress presented the ‘haves’ with millions of dollars in tax reductions while the ‘have nots’ were given a mere token. Heavier burdens are being placed upon the average worker’s pocketbook all the time. If a family of six, with an income of $40 a week finds it a hardship to pay 45c a day for school lunches for four children, how much butter, not to mention cream, will that family be able to buy if the price is increased to 74c a pound? Putting tlie increase in two installments will not ease the burden. The government butter subsidy program should be extended— not terminated.
TAX RATE FOR DELAWARE COUNTY, YEAR 1945, PAYABLE IN 1946 OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY 3, 1946. Notice is hereby given that the tax duplicates of Delaware Cou nty for the year 1945, are now' in my hands and that I am ready to receive the taxes t hereon and now due. The following table shows the rate of taxation in the various townships and corporations on each $100 taxable property; also the amount of tax on each poll. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 50 inclusive are subject to poll tax.
Salem
t
1945 PAYABLE 1946
|| On | I! $1001 Poll |
Instate Tax
2| |Common Schl. Relief Fund , 3||State Teachers Pension Fund | 4|'Indiana Board of Agri. 1
5||State Forestry Tax
6|| 7||
8||War Memorial 9| |Total State il0||County Tax
illllCounty Bonds
12||County Welfare Fund
113||.
14||Total County ; 151 (Township 16j|Tuition 17| (Special School 18||Add. Spec. Schl. B’ds, etc. 19||Poor 20||Voc. Sch. F’d, Twp. & Cor. 2111 Library 22!|Sanitary Laws 23||Total Twp. and Schools 24] I Corporation 25| (Street 26||Bd. Fd. Al’y, Y’wt’n & Mun. 27|jlmprov. Dis. Bond Fund 28| [Water 291 (Park 30||Light 311 Policemen’s Pension 32j|Firemen’s Pension 33ljTotal Corporation
34|| 35|| 36|| 37||
38j (Library City of Muncie 39||Total Library City Muncie
40] (Each Installment
41] (Total Year 1945
|1.00
.07 | .50
.0415 |
|.0035 |
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I!
.01 .13 .34 .04 .13 1-51 .13 .39 .74 .04
I
1.30
\ I
fl.50 | .50 u | .25 | .25 [l.OO
1.50
Mt. Pleasant
Harrison
Washington
Monroe
$100 | Poll || $100 | Poll | $100 | Poll jl $100 | Poll
| |1.00 | .07 | .50
.0415 | 1.0035
|.005
|.07
.0415 |.0035 |.005
I
|1.00 II |1.00 I .50 ||.07 I .50
11.0415 I ||.0035 | ||.005 |
.97 1.94
|.01
H-13 m r 1-24
.16 .74
1.14
11.75 3.50
1.50
| .89 |1.78
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|1.50 I .50
01 |.13 |.34 .04 .13
11.26
1.75 || .95 3.50 ||1.90
1.51 (.25
| .50
.25
.25 ||.52 1.00 ||.65
.04 ||
|1.00
| .07 I .50
| .0415 |
.0035
.005
1.50 .50
1.50
11.42
1.75 3.50
Salem
Mt. Pleasant
Harrison
| 1.03 (2.06
.50 .25
.25 1.40 1.00 (.73
Centre
| On | $100
.01 .13 .34 .04 ,13
.51 ].07
1.50
|1.20
.07 .0415 .0035 .005
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
11.01 | (.13 11-34 || .04 IM3 II 11-51 | .02 1.43 .73
.06 1.24
1.75 || .92 |1.75 || .94 3.50 ||1.84 |3.50 ||1.88.
Poll
1.00 .50
Hamilton
Union
Perry
Liberty
Delaware
On | || On || On | || On | || On | $100 I Poll I! $100 Poll II $100 I Poll II $100 I Poll II $100 I Poll
0415
|.0035
|.005
11-01 1.50 ||.13 .50 ||.34 l|.04 11-13 II .50 l|.51 .25 1.08 .25 |.48 1.00 | .27 j.19
|1.00 ||
07 | .50 ||.07
11.00
1.50
1.75 3.50
11.02
Washington
Monroe
Centre
.83 1.75 1.66 |3.50
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
||.0415 | ||.0035 | .005 |
.01 .13 .34 .04 .13 .51 .18 .60 .78
Hamilton
1.56
1.10 2.20
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
1.75 3.50
1.00
Niles
Town of Albany
$100 I Poll |j $100 I Poll ! $100 I Poll
Town of Eaton
11.00
II-07
.50 ||.07
.50 || .07
| .50
|.07
| .50 |l.07
.50
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j.01
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II ||.01
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11-13
1.50
|.13
1.50
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11.50 ||.13
1.50
1-13
1.50
H.34
.50
|.34
.50 ||.34
.50
.34
.50
|.34
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1.04
11-04
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11-13
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1.51
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.51
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.25
1.08
.25 || .08
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.10
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1.42
.25
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.25 ||.25
.25
.25
.25
1-73
.25
(.58
1.00
|.75
1.00 ||.65
1.00
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1.00
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|1.08
1.50
|1.30
1.50
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1.50
.88
1.50
11.94
1.50
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.74
.24
-19
.03
1 i
.96
.24
i j .86
1.75 1
1 -97
1.75
.81
1.75
.76
1.75
1.77
1.87
| 1.72
3.50 |I1.94
3.50
,1.62
3.50
1.52
3.50
3.54
3.74
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1.56 (1.15
|1.00 | .50
.13 .26
1.87 3.74
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
1.75 3.50
Union
Perry
Liberty
Delaware
Niles
Town of Gaston
On | | $100 | Poll || $100 | Poll
Town of Selma
Town of Yorktown
|1.00 07 I .50 1.0415 |.0035 |.005
|.01 |.13 |.34 | .04 .13 .51 .25 .52 65
1.42 1.37 25
1.62
1.84 3.68
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50 .50
.50
2.00 4.00
|1.00 .07 | .50 .0415 | .0035 .005
.01 .13 .34 .04 .13 .51 .08 .47 .75
1.30 .50
.50
1.22 2.44
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
1.75 3.50
City of Mancie
On |
$100 | Poll 1 $100 | Poll I
|1.00 .07 | .50 .0415 j .0035 .005
r
1.07 1.0415 |.0035 |.005
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1.14 .81 .15
|1.50 | .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50
.96 ’
1.37 2.74
1.75 3.50
I
|.01 |.13 |.34 |.04 .13 .51 .02 1-75 .63 .10
1.50 1.07 .185 .02 .10 .045 .07 1.49
.07 .07 1.85 | 3.70
1.00 .50
1.50 .50
.50 .25 .25 1.00
1.50 .50
.50
2.00 4.00
AUDITOR’S OFFICE, STATE OF INDIANA, DELAWARE COUNTY, ss: I, Samuel L. Cunnihgton, Auditor of Delaware County, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of all Tax Levies for the taxes collectable in the year 1946. SAMUEL L. CUNNINGTON, Auditor. All taxes for the year 1945 are due on the first day of January, 1946. Each taxpayer may pay in full any time between January 1st and the first Monday in May, 1946, inclusive, or if the taxpayer prefers, he may pay one-half the tax on or b efore the first Monday in May, 1946, and the remainder on or before the first Monday hi November, 1946. If the first installment of taxes is not paid on or before the first Monday in May, 1946, an eight per cent penalty is immediately added, together with all costs and charges provided by law.
Town of Town of Town of Town of Town of City of Albany Eaton Gaston Selma Yorktown Muncie IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT PAYMENTS CANNOT RECEIVED BY THE TREASURER, BUT MUST BE PAID TO THE CITY CONTROLLER. HUBERT L. PARKINSON, Treasurer of Delaware County and Treasurer of the City of
Muncie, Indiana.
Datel January 3, 1946.