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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1936 _.

SPRINGER PLANS TAX MEASURES,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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All Isn't Quiet on Political Front . .

Both Parties Busy Registering Voters

TOWNSEND SAYS

Insists Republican Foe Tell Voters His Substitute for Income Levy.

Timer Special FORT WAYNE, Ind, The political tax debate between Lieut. Gov. {M. Clifford Townsend and his Republican opponent, Ray+ mond S. Springer, was fanned today as Mr.’ S by Mr. Townsend What levy he plans to take the place of the gross income tax. In an address last night

Sept.

to tell

in the

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pringer was challenged Hoosiers |

Shrine Auditorium here, Mr. Town- |

send said:

“Indiana has just got on her feet |

again and even before

property |

owners have had time to convalesce |

from their last Republican they are being threatened with a $15,000.000 case of deficit smallpox. Is Mr. Springer's promise to the taxpayers of Indiana and I can prove it by his own words.”

That

Pledges Proof Mr. Townsend. said he would giv his proof at a meeting in Newcastle tomorrow

night.

“However,” he added. give the Republican fair opportunity to lay his ecards on the table -and tell the people what he plans to take the place of the gross income “He can not deny that new taxes in mind, because iparty platform promises a state net income tax and ‘such other taxes'which may be anything from a sales tax on the food dollars of the poor to a nuisance tax on ice cr nd lelly-pops. “The Republican candidate can repudiate the Republican state platform if he likes but one certain—he can not run the state { without reventie. Where will he get it? Will he shut down the public schools, abandon state colleges, pris-

“1 intend to |

ax.

ons and hospitals for the insane?” |

Fears Bankruptcy

Mr. Townsend said property own-|

ers, laborers, and farmers give -“grave consideration threat of state bankruptcy.” He told of the of $7,000,000” during the Republican administration of Gov, Harry Leslie. “And gross

should | to the

they income

want tax—for

to repeal what?

at least at the rate of 3 per cent on

every dollar,” he continued.

“Repeal the gross income tax for | income tax that |

A state net would double the inc corporations and factories penalize employers of labor?

what? 1e taxes of

taxes state, Kentucky. ..

like our unfortunate sister- . Repeal in order

to throw that 35 per cent reduction |

of property taxes back upon the shoulders of the farmer owner?” Wants Tax Justice

“This is no litical football question. home owners and farmers napping by the camp fires. erty owners are only at the halfway mark in their fight for tax Justice. They have had their burden lightened enough to make the coupon clippers and income folks unhappy. But I warn you, let up this fight for property Justice now, you are lost.”

of the property

Mr. Townsend then cited the ap-|

proval of reau and labor organizations the gross income tax law as ai~er means of distributing load. “We are even fairer’ recognition

in this campaign to win | for tHe

rights of the property owners and

he conchided.

the wage garners,”

MAYOR BANGS’ TRIAL SCHEDULED TONIGHT

HUNTINGTON, Ind. Sept. Delayed nearly half a dozen times] by technical legal moves, trial of} Mayor Clare’ W. H. Bangs on misconduct charges is scheduled again| tonight at the meeting of City| Cou

Boil.

Bangs has been in jail since July

candidate a

he has! his ;

thing is|

“threatened deficit | G.| the | Al . sales tax which would have to be]

and

| have never known him to do a | “Repeal for a series of nuisance

and home| CITY Is CHOSEN FOR

time to make po-| tax | And this is no time for | to bel Prop- |

if you tax |

the Indiana Farm Bu- |

al the tax |

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illness, |

HILLIS ASSAILS

, BUYING" VOTES

Public Funds Used in Campaign.

Times Specinl

STINESVILLE, Ind. Sept. 16.—

Attacking the national Administra- { tion for alleged expenditures of public funds in attempting to buy voies, |

| | | | | | { |

Glen R. Hillis, Kokomo manufacturer, spoke here last night at a Republican dinner, “We know the people of the United States are thinking in terms of taxes. If this spending continues

| we are confronted with great dan- |

gers,” he asserted. | Pleading for Democrats to vote { the Republican ticket, he “Right-thinking Democrats do not | prescribe. to a type of government | that originated in- eastern Europe | and which is leading our nation into regimentation and bureaucracy.”

Calls Blue Eagle “Buzzard”

buzzard. United

{ he another of the Court | struction by scheme of

States

regimentation unconsti- { tutional.” he declared. Mr. Hillis praised Raymond 8S. | Springer, G. O. P. gubernatorial | nominee and his opponent in the Republican convention, saying: * dishonest thing or attempt to get any one else to do a dishonest act, Elected Governor, he will give Indiana an administration that will he a credit 10 him and the Slate. »

MACEDONIAN MEET

Indianapolis was chosen as the 1937 convention city for the Mace- | donian Political Organization of the United States, Canada and Australia, at a recent convention in Toronto, according to Peter. G. Atzefl, Indianapolis, - international secretary. The . 1937 convention, schedul=d for Sept. 5-8, in Tomlinson Hall, is | expected to bring 400 delegates to { Indianapolis, Mr. Atzefl said. Pandil G. Shaneff, Indianapolis, | was re-elected international president for the fourteenth consecutive time.

TRAFFIC LAW FINES $3639 FOR. MONTH

A total of $3639 in fines { poured into the coffers of city funds | by Indianapolis traffic law violators] | last month, a report by City Clerk! | Dan O'Neill showed today. Exactly 1749 persons paid a toa! { of $3488 for first traffic offenses: | paid $126 on second violations | three paid $15 on third offenses, the report ii

‘NEW CHIEF DIRECTS DIRECTS

6 for violating a court order direct- |

" ing that he quit selling current gen- | tiny municipal | His long fight with]

erated at the city's electric plant. the Northern Indiana Power Co., using the city Weapon, led to Ang of charges,

BAGS 5 SQUIRRELS ; WITHOUT MISSING |

dimes Speerinl

PRINCETON, Ind., Sept. 16.—Five | five squirrels—that's the rec-|

shots,

ord set by Mrs. Cora Crawford for

other women hunters to equal, if

they can. Mrs. gon County. huntress, and Princeton citizens nominate her for state honors. She might have gotten more squirrels with more shots, but five is the Indiana limit.

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IN TREATING EXTERMALLY CAUSED |

plant as his chief’

Crawford is champion Gib- |

Maj. P. L. De Bevoise, former Iowa | : state commander of the Salvation Army, has taken charge of the organization's work in Indiana. | Maj. De Bevoise succeeds Brig. James Murphy who was transferred | to Detroit. The new leader is a | former editor of War Cry. He is | 43, married, and has one daugh-!

said:

Renulvichr Speaker Charges |

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SALVATION ARMY

The camera took on a political complex today in a round of Republican and Democratic headquarters in Indianapolis and found one nonpartisan plank upon which both parties stand. That is “Work to get the voters registered.” : Upper Left—The busiest man in G. O. P. politics and the hardest one to:sell campaign hadges or elephant tie-pins is Harry Fen-

ton (center), secretary of the Re“publican State Committee. He is shown here hetween the telephone and a couple of conversationalists. Upper Right—A view in Democratic state headquarters as busy workers stop Hoosier “politicoing” long enough to get the returns from the Michigan primary. Left to right, Miss Aline Laws, secretary to Dick Heller, state commit-

FRATERNITIES PICK . WABASH PLEDGES

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 16.—While rushing is to continue at Wabash College the rest of the

week, six of the eight national fra- |

| wot : : ternities have antouricefl the fol- | Police today following request of

lowing pledge lists:

Kappa Sigma—Warren Minton. Wis.: Robert Shearer, Qak Park, Ill.; Robert Weesner, Marion; Robert Buser, Crawfordsville; Jack Bushong, Crawfordsville; William D. Ryer, Crawfordsville; Allen J. Kinnamin, Crawfordsville; Rex Worley, Crawfordsville; William Jackson. Chicago; George Sim, hicago; ward Marciniak, Hammond; Richard Crowl, Lebanon; James Beavers, Decatur; Robert Bash, Fort Wayne; Roland Tauscher, Chicago.

Phi Gamma Delta—Marshall Cossitt, Lagrange, Ill.: Edward Rohrs, Wheaton, Ill.; Phil Hack, Peoria, Ill.; Bayne Heimbrodi, Western Springs, Ill.; Ward Beers, Fort Wayne; Frank Ransom Griffin, Indianapolis; Louis Ayres, Rockville; William Hill, South Bend; Jack Bordner, Brookston; James Wagner, Indianapolis: John Pierson. Madison. Wis.; Ted Powers, Peoria, Ill.; Don Purdy, Indianapolis; Clark Spooner, Glencoe, Ill. -

Phi Delta Theta—Elugene Wahl, Indianapolis: Fred Wirt, Western Springs, Il.; Roland Post, Nashville, Tenn.: Cletus Jones, Louis, Mo.: William Burk, Valparaiso; Stout, Crawfordsville; James ShelCrawfordsville; Jack 'Steeg. Indian- | apolis: Reigh Grunewald, Chicago; James Goodwin, Lebanon.

Delta Tau Delta—Richard Wertz, Indianapolis; Charles Kime, Indianapolis; vin George Jr., Western Springs. Iil.; Pease, Evanston, Ill.; Edward Hopf, | Island, Iil.; Fred Rhode, Blue Island, Sigma Chi—John Supple, Danville, Ill.; Earl Winter, Danville George Sloan, jn Ill.; Phil Danville, IIL;

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A new survey of traffic at Tibbsav and Michigan-st was started by

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the Tibbs Avenue Civic Club for a traffic signal light at that corner. Edward Workman, club represent-

ative, said increased traffic there necessitated a light. Police Chief Morrissey said the last survey -of the corner did not show as much traffic as other corners in that neighborhood.

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and Miss Elizabeth Benjamin, switchboard operator. Lower—The Landon sunflower in Marion County gets its baptism in fire under the generalship of Edwin G. McClure (center), secretary of the county committee. Miss Lenore Montani® (left), his secretary, answering an overworked phone, while Mr. McClure talks to a feminine voter.

M'NUTT PROCLAIMS | ‘CONSTITUTION DAY"

Gov. McNutt today issued a proc- | lamation setting aside tomorrow as | “Constitution Day.” | After briefly citing the approval and adoption of the Constitution of the United States on Sept. 17, 1787, | the Governor said: “Knowledge of the Constitution is | required of foreigners who desire to | become naturalized citizens of the United States. Native-born citizens | should be no less familiar with its | provisiens and its history. There- | fore I, Paul V. McNutt, Governor of |

the State of Indiana, proclaim | Thursday, Sept. 17, 1936, as a day} tc be observed in the schools and | among citizens generally by renewal | of reverence for the basic principles | of our government as set forth by | the convention which brought its | deliberations to a glorious close one | hundred. and forty-nine years ago.”

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