Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1936 — Page 10

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FEDERAL TAXES PAID IN STATE UP 6 PER CENT

Increase Small small Despite 40 ~ Per Cent Advance in Income Levy.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Despite a 40 per cent increase in income taxes, Federal tax collections in Indiana were but 6 per cent greater during the fiscal year 1936 than in 1035, the Federal Internal Revenue Bureau reported today. This was due to a 94 per cent drop in | Agricultural Adjustment taxes caused by the Supreme Court declaring] AAA unconstitutional, officials said. Total internal revenue collections in Indiana in 1938 amounted to $71.116,598.33 and $67,015,906.61 in 1935. - AAA collections fell from 8$10,007,852.78 in 1935 to $636,192.49 in 1936, following the court decision. Miscellaneous revenues, which includes al] special and excise taxes, increased 18 per cent, from $43, 158.572.23 in 1935, to $51,086,268.32 in 193s.

Corporation Taxes Higher

Total income taxes were $19,394,137.57 in 1936, and $13,849. 381. 60 in 1935. Corporation income taxes increased 42 per cent, being $10,873, 481.72, and individual income taxes went up 37 per cent to $8,520,655.85. The Bureau of Census estimated

the population of Indiana at 3,429,000, which is 2.68 per cent of the | total population of the United | States. | ! Income tax collections in : the! state represented 1.37 per cent of the United States 1936 total.

BOY SCOUT DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY

- The annual Boy Scout registration drive was under way today following a campaign meeting of the Scout executive board in the Board of Trade Building yesterday. The drive is to continue until Dec. 31. It is to include enrollment of new | members in Scout troops and estab- | lishment of new troops and cub | packs. ~~ The board also voted to hold the annual meeting of the Indianapolis | and Central Indiana Council at the | Riviera Club Oct. 21. J

German Plan to Dam Congo and Form Huge Seas Is Revealed.

By Bcience Service MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 9.— Chancellor Adolpf Hitler's recent demands for a German colonia: empire in Africa may have other aspects besides the expressed desire for land where raw materials can be grown, is seen in an engineering proposal here for a “Great Lakes” in Africa.

The three proposed inland seas |

in the heart of the dark continent would, it is believed, turn barren

lands into fertile arable soil and |

make accessible areas now remote. As much as anything, the proposal is advanced to supply an outlet for the crowded European populations that may otherwise butcher each other in futile profitless wars. Hermann Soergel,

Lakes-in Africa plan.

A single great dam only two and | one-half miles long would create! the northern pair of African Great |

Lakes, says Herr Soergel. This dam, thrown across the Congo River at a narrow spot in its outlet valley, would back the 60 to

torial African region into the low- | lying Congo basin, which in past ages was a tremendous inland sea.

Would Recreate Sea

This ancient sea would be recreated, with an area of nearly 350,000 square miles, or nearly four times the combined area of all the American Great Lakes. This “Congo Sea” could be formed

| alone, and the surplus water per- | mitted to drain down the present

Congo River channel—of course with the generation of considerable water power. Or, an outlet could

i be arranged toward the north, and

the water used to create a second inland sea of about the same size, centered around the present Lake Chad. This sea would extend far up into the Sahara, as far as the Ahagger region. From the projected “Chad Sea” the drainage would be toward the Mediterranean, taking advantage of dry river channels, or “wadys” in the desert. Form “Second Nile”

The “second Nile” thus formed

| would flow first west, then north- | erly,

and finally almost due east through the French colony of Tunis into the Gulf of Gabes. Through most of the northern part

an architect | here, is the originator of the Great- |

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SECOND NILE

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new river like the Nile. 2. Lake

sea.

Sea would be formed Ly dam on

86-inch annual rainfall of the equa- | How Africa would look under new German plan.

-1. Proposed Chad would become great inland

3. Congo River would have dam and hydroelectric plant here. 4. Large Congo Sea would form here below Stanley Falls. 5. Victoria

Sambesi River.

of its course it would flow through land capable of irrigation. To carry out this scheme, a high degree of international co-opera-tion would be necessary, for Belgian, French and British territory is involved, plus possibly Italian lands in Libya for which irrigation

PAY CONTRACTORS, MUNCIE ORDERED

By United Press MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 9—Street contractors were granted a judgment of $81,789.44 in Circuit Court yesterday against the City of Muncie, which was mandated either to establish a special tax levy or to resort to a bond issue to raise the necessary funds due the contractors. The contractors hold certificates of indebtedness which were issued on D2c. 20, 1929, when the Works Board found the city unable to :neet ' costs for street improvements.

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water might be provided. Herr Soergel, interested mainly in the

engineering and geographical aspects of his proposal, simply assumes that these one-time allies in war might be able to arrange a more lasting and profitable alliance for the purpose of peace. The third of the African Great Lakes could be “all British,” and would in any event have no connection with the other two. It could be created by a suitable dam above the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Rhodesia, and the “Victoria . Sea” would back up into part

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Credit Association Chief Reports Late Crop Aided ed by R ‘Rain.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Despite the drought, 44 production credit associations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee increased business 75 per cent through August this year as compared with the same month in 1935. This report was brought to the Farm Credit Administration today by President Walter Gahn of the Louisville Production Credit Corp. Mr. Gahn is attending a conference of presidents of the 12 production credit corporations here. “Collections on loans made this year will not be materially affected by the drought conditions of last summer,” Mr. Gahn predicted. “The four states in the Louisville district came through the drought in very good shape, generally speaking.

. Late Crops Improved

“In Ohio and Indiana late rains brought the cofn crop through better than had been anticipated earlier. There has been a considerable increase in the feeder cattle business in those two’ states as a result,” he said. “Although certain areas in Kentucky and Tennessee were blighted by the drought, recent rains will help the late pastures for feeder cattle in those states.” Mr. Gahn said that from the first of the year through August approximalely $10,000,000, had been dis-

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' |DEBTORS ARE FREED

‘BY WILL OF DOCTOR NEW. ALBANY, Ind, Oect. 9.— Debtors of the late ‘Dr. James -H. Ashabranner, for many years a physician here, were free from any obligations to his estate today under a stipulation of his will filed for probate in Circuit Court. : Dr. Ashabranner, who gave free medical care to destitute during the depression, died recently from a heart ailment.

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