Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1932 — Page 3

MARCH 9, 1932

NEW SALES TAX BILL IS FOUGHT BY PETTENGILL South Bend Lawmaker Will Oppose Enactment as Blow to Poor. LV 7 intes Special WASHINGTON, March 9.—While Other Indiana congressmen today were trying to decide how to vote on the various taxes proposed in the Democratic revenue measure, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill (Dem.) of South Bend, announced he would oppose the tax on sales, lubricating oil. telephone and telegraph messages and admissions to amusement places. Pettengill’s vigorous statement placed the blame for the present treasury deficit on “repeated reductions of income and estate taxes” end the “unexampled profligacy of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations.” Explaining that the four provisions he intends to oppose are designed to raise $745,000,000, Pettengill said they would “place anew tax burden of $6 on every man, woman and child in this country, or $25 for every family of lour, or $2 a month per family.” “For the Thirteenth alone,” he said, “the burden will be $2,200,000. “ The sales tax will be paid by every person who buys a pair of shoes, a suit oi clothes, an automobile, a handkerchief, a cake of soap find thousands of other necessities of life. “Every one of these taxes will add to the cost of living of 120,000,000 people. It, therefore, will tend to reduce consumption. By reducing consumption it will reduce production. By reducing production, it will increase unemployment.” Defended as Necessary Jli/ L n ilnl Press WASHINGTON, March B.—The house ways and means committee in a formal report today defended the new $1,096,000,000 tax bill as absolutely necessary to balance the budget and maintain the credit of the United States government. “Temporary relief measures, such as the bill creating the reconstruction finance corporation, will be to p large extent ineffective unless steps are taken to balance the budget and maintain the national credit,” the report said. “The bill reported by your committee will accomplish this result. “It should also be pointed out that the more one spends, the greater his tax under the 2Vi per cent manufacturers excise tax,” the rcpsrt said. "The poor man with small living expenses will pay much less than the wealthy man who lives in great luxury.

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Sheltered against bitter winter winds after being driven into the cold in their nightclothes at midnight Tuesday when the home and possessions of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Viles at 2330 Barrett avenue, were destroyed by fire, seven children, saved from injury by their mother, are shown above. Seated in the foreground in the

top photo from left to right are Patsy, 2; Eugene, 4; Geneva, 5; Patricia, 1, and June, 13. Gerald, 10, and Charles, 8, are standing behind the chair. Viles, city police officer, Is shown in the upper left insert, and Mrs. Viles in the right insert. Below is the Viles residence in “Happy Hollow” after flames had i

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devoured the building, furnishings and clothing. Pastor, Wife to Be Honored Dr. Charles Drake Skinner, pastor of the Central Avenue Methodist church, and Mrs. Skinner, will be greeted by the congregation Friday night when a birthday dinner will be given at the church in their' honor. Attendance of 500 is expected.

SCHOOL BOARD DEBT PASSES MILLION MARK $400,000 Loan Is Approved to Pay Salaries and Operating Costs. School board members, financially stranded again, passed a resolution Tuesday night for a temporary loan of $400,000 to replenish the special fund for payment of salaries and current operating expenses. “This loan makes the board s total loans this year $1,025,000,” reported A. B. Good, business director. “At this time last year we had borrowed $1,350,000.” School officials took the opportunity to assail the state tax board slashes in the budget and Good pointed out the huge sums the loans cost the taxpayers each year. Interest Mounts High “On $1,000,000 in loans, the board must pay $60,000 in interest,” Good said. “That $60,000 comes right out of the taxpayers’ pockets. “If we’d put the school system on a pay-as-you-go system, as recommended year in and year out by the state board of accounts, we and be saving our citizens plenty of money,” he added. A resolution also was passed for : a $60,000 bond issue to remodel the Arsenal building at Technical high , school. Another move taken was the | approval of a plan, proposed by | Chief Mike Morrissey, to give school janitors at thirty-five schools police powers for traffic duty. School Site Sought The report of H. F. Osier, superintendent of buildings and grounds, cn redecoration work at Schools 8, 55, 13, and 19, was approved. Good was authorized by the board to start condemnation proceedings for a tract of seven lots at Arlington and Shelley avenues. Good reported that long negotiations with the owners have failed to result in agreement on an acceptable price. The tract will be used to provide a temporary building for children of the lower grades.

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How Far Is It: By United Press JUAREZ, Mexico, March 9. —Fourteen-ounce schooners of beer, and free lunch, for a nickel, is the latest in Juarez’ fight to end the depression. Business has been so bad in this border town that the “McGinty” has come back. The McGinty is the fourteen-ounce schooner, holding just two ounces less than a full pint of beer. Prior to the depression, smaller glasses of beer sold for from 15 to 25 cents, and free lunch was only a memory.

ROSIE TRIES ONCE MORE Miss Dolly, Dancer, and Chicagoan Will Be Wedded in New York. By United Press PARIS, March 9.—“lf this marriage doesn’t take, I’m entering a nunnery,” Rosie Dolly said today before sailing for New York to marry Irving Netcher of Chicago. •It will be Miss Dolly's third marriage. Netcher seconded the sentiment of the stage dancer by adding: “Then I will go to a monastery.”

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MARION COUNTY AGENT TO QUIT Henry Indirectly Confirms Resignation Report. Clarence Henry. Marion county agricultural agent for six years, today indirectly confirmed a report that he will resign next week. Henry’s resignation proposal was made known Tuesday by Fred Gladj den, county school superintendent ! and member of the county board of ! education. “I am thinking of resigning, but don’t know just when it will take place,” Henry asserted today. At a meeting of the board, Gladden said March 15 had been set as date for appointment of Henry's successor. A committee from Purdue university will make the appointment, to be approved by the county board of education. Henry’s sixth year in office would have expired in May. He indicated he was resigning to accept another position, but did not disclose its nature. It was re-

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ported that he may go to Chicago. As agent for six years in one of the state's richest agricultural communities, Henry has been a leader in promoting scientific farming and | club work. Formerly, he w'as county agent at Ft. Wayne and assistant coun- ! ty agent leader at Purdue univeri sity, where he was graduated. POST PIGEON REWARD Club Acts to Protect Banded Racing Variety. Reward of $lO for information leading to the arrest of persons stealing or shooting banded racing pigeons was offered today by the Monumental Racing Pigeon Club. Members of the club, according to Raymond Harman, who have reported loss of pigeons, include E. C. Holtman, 2214 East Twelfth street: Harman and A. C. Kirkhoff 1011 East Morgan street.

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