Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1939 — Page 4

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J, S, EMBASSY STAFF FAMILIES IN PARIS LEAVE

Situation Worse, Diplomats Say; Daladier Confers With Army Chief.

PARIS hundred

Aug. 29 One | and thirty and | children of members of the United | States Embassy staff evacuated Paris today | They moved to hotels in St ancient, walled coastal city miles west of Paris. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet conferred this morning with United States Ambasador William C. Bul- | litt

(U.P),

wives

Malo, 200

Agree With Chamberlain

officials Minister declaration

Meanwhile French strongly indorsed Prime Neville Chamberlain's that a settlement of the Polish crisis was possible only if tension is eased and threat of force is abancdoned Mr. Chamberlain's revelations regarding British war preparations | were regarded as encouraging and as & warning to Herr Hitler, At the same time France was described in official sources as having decided to accept an offer by King Leopold of the Belgians, and Queen Wilhelmina of Holland to mediate the German-Polish dispute, The two monarch called in the ambassadors of France, Britain, Germany, Italy and Poland and made the offer, it was disclosed, asking them to determine whether their governments would accept. France was understood to have sent her favorable reply through diplomatic channels.

Blum Pledges Support

Premier Daladier conferred today with Gen. Maurice Gamelin, Com-mander-in-Chief of the French Army, and with leon Blum, Soclalist leader, who gave him assurance of the support of the powerful Socialist Party The exodus from Paris coincided with the closing of Europe's fron- | tiers, one by one, and the gradual halting of communications by land Sea and a, This was Communist because

a drive to silence all and pro-Russian voices as the result of its non-aggression treaty with Nazi Germany, was regarded as a poten-

Russia

pt bs RUT RS

State Policeman Ralph Metcalf (with hands on hips) and Deputy Sheriff Tony Maio (right) investigated a wreck vesterday at Massachusetts and Arlington Aves. which injured three persons and scattered 10 tons of ripe tomatoes over the pavement. The accident occurred when Oliver 8 Wait, 63, Acton, driver of a car, attempted to cross Massachu-

The big truck

Mr, bruised ;

Wait's their

Public to Be Heard on ( (ity, County Budget:

'specific budget reductions they have agreed on, but said they believe they have cut the requests as much as possible without seriously impairing the county's operation. Councilmen do not anticipate a (Continued from Page One) {heavy turnout at the public hearing ih vit ri “a | because the cuts they have made Board takes action on the City’s | have been worked out with and. budget next November, | they said, to the satisfaction of Tax experts at last night's City representatives of organized “ . , groups. Council opposed increases It was learned that the Council in the Health Department budget. nag agreed to pare $81,502 from the and questioned Works Board re- &1.481.878 general fund request and quests for sponsor contributions to spout $485.000 from the County WPA projects. Walter Horn, of the \xeifare Department request. Indiana Taxpayers Association, said| A comparison of the estimates for he opposed all allowances for WPA the general fund and Welfare Deprojects. | partment, the two largest funds in [the County budget, follows: 1940 Proposed 3 Connell

County Meeting Scheduled For 10 A. M. Friday; City Possibly Tomorrow.

session

Seek 30 Trucks

The Works Board plans to buy 30 trucks next vear to be used on WPA | projects and credited to the City “feral as its sponsor contribution. The General trucks will cost $30,000. In the past! Fund levy he said, the Board has paid this Welfare much in truck rental. hi vl a4 8 JAR Mr. Horn also objected to the al-

1939 1940 Allowed Requested

$1,352,729 S1,4R1.R7R 81,400,876

L226

$3,923, 16%

JAR $3,624 54%

JAR $3,465,437

3 Estimates of both funds include lowance for hiring two sanitary of-lamounts to be raised from sources

{Officials

Crash

setts Ave. in front of the truck driven by O. E. Whitaker, McCordsville,

turned on its side after striking the

car, spilling its load of tomatoes on the pavement, wife, daughter, Bethel, suffered head injuries, and a grandson, Lawrence Ault, New Bethel, was bumped on the head.

Mrs, Thersia Wait,

Mrs. Thesie Ault,

60, was New

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G. A. R. ‘REBELS’ AT

RIDING IN_PARADE

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 29 (U. P).arranging for tomorrow's parade in the 73d encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic

today were faced ‘with a minor re- |

bellion—the Civil War veterans are

grumbling at suggestions that they

ride in automobiles. “We marched to war, and we'll [march in that parade,” one grizzled [old veteran declared defiantly at a meeting held to decide the question

tax |

To you . . . just a pair of shoes, To us a

reputation.

— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 3 Hurt as 10 Tons of Tomatoes

in . yy } ay ee Oe vile YRised ficers and a rat elimination expert throughout ‘the night ‘around Pavis by the Health Board. Dr. Herman . E v : “1G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, and pulled down at dawn. Lighting said the two inspectors, whose of electric signs had been forbidden. calarvies would total $2762. were cut 1 [from the budget during the depres- | sion and never had been restored. : | He said the rat elimination expert, Of Preserving Peace [who would receive $1384, is needed ‘ wer pm . _ |because of the City's heavy ral BUCHAREST, Aug (U. P.).—~ population, and the increasing numThe feeling prevailed in Govern- her of persons bitten by the rodents ment quarters today that peace| Dy, Morgan also defended a $5000 might yet be preserved The newspaper Curentul said, | trol fund. "We continue to believe in the sal-! County Councilmen plan to hold vation and in the pacific their public hearing Friday in the role of Mussolini . , . Italy is the| Commissioners’ office in the Court most important factor in eliminat- House ing the specter of war.” | Councilmen declined to reveal the It was reported that Rumania | — 5

had rejected a suggestion by Hun-| gary that they work out a new «ato NEW TOKYD CABINET

ute governing the Hungarian mi-

Bucharest Hopeful

of peace

nority in Rumania

Reports France Prefers

War to Uncertainty

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (U Ralph Heinzen, manager Paris Bureau oi the United sald in a broadcast today that the people of France, with “one soldier in the field for every German under arms,” were] ready to go to war rather than

I TOKYO, Aug. 29 (U, P.) .—Premier- | Designate Gen. Nobuyuki Abe was understood today to have virtually completed a new cabinet list expected to pursue an independent

foreign program more favorable to the interests of the United States and Great Britain in the Far East,

PD) the Press, to this country |

settle

\NSUREPD safety

Sak 1 Su perviste! .

continue in an atmosphere of crisis.| It was reported that he would asThe French public, he said, feels sume temporary direction of the that if Adolf Hitler cannot be per-| Foreign Office, principal post still suaded to negotiate directly Poland, “it might be best to go to|that either Mamoru Shigemitsu, war and settle this issue once and | Ambassador at London, or Shigenori for all rather than to live longer | Togo, Ambassador to Russia, would in an atmosphere of uncertainty in |be called home to be Foreign Minwhich men cannot go about their ister. daily routine without figuratively | Decreased Army strength in the new flinging a rifle over their shoulders.” | Cabinet was indicated when semisa - — official sources said the War MinNLRB CALLS FILM VOTE ister was to be Shunroku Hata, per|sonel aide-de-camp to the Emperor, a Matalin land not one of the “Army clique’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P.). that has recently dominated Japan. ~The National Labor Relations|Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, who Board today ordered a collective has been fleet commander-in-chief, bargaining election before Sept. 21 is to become Navy Minister. to a representation dispute | Sestromtisie between the A. F. of L. Interna- / \ tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage Gen. Chiang Sees Employees and Motion Picture Ma- Situation Improving chine Operators and the unaffili-| Nps airs NY io ated United Studio Technicians| CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 3 Guild among employees of 10 major | (U. P.). Generalissimo Chiang Rui motion picture companies shek said today that he believed the — eee international situation was developing in China's favor and in favor of those nations supporting the same principles for which China was fighting. He made his statement to the press after a series of night air raids in which 54 Japanese planes bombed this capital of Nationalist China. Casualties could not immediately be estimated, but it was | believed they were low. SEEK STRIKE PEACE AT ARMOUR PLANT

| Officials of the local Armour & Co. packing plant and the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee conferred today in an effort to settle a strike called at the plant vesterdav, | The strike was called when the management reduced the cattle killing force, according to James |Robb, C. I. O. regional director. (Company and union officials said (there was no dispute over wages {and hours, C. I. O. officials said they had not authorized the strike. They said union contract negotiations with {the company are being conducted on a national scale,

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increase in the venereal disease con- |

with [unfilled. This would probably mean!

lother than the County tax levy. Meanwhile, the possibility of an additional 1-cent cut in the Welfare (levy was seen with the announcement by Thurman A. Gottschalk, State welfare administrator, that the County will receive $71,287 as Federal reimbursement for dependent children under amendments to (the Social Security Act. In the [event Council reduces the $1.018,380 request for this service, the Federal [aid would be reduced in proportion | After formal vote on the revised budget figures next week, the County budget will go to the Tax Adjustment Board, which is empowered to make further cuts, | Department heads who may seek to restore anv budget items which have been cut must take their fight | before the State Tax Board, the {only review body which can restore budget cuts,

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Beech Grove Hearing on ‘Budget Sept. 8

A public hearing on the 1940 budget and levy proposed for Beech [Grove will be held by the Beech Grove City Council Sept. 8. (* The proposed budget, $443814. would require a levy of $1.33, which is 2 cents higher than the current (levy, City officials explained the in|crease is required to employ two {more firemen in conformity with a [Fire Underwriters’ demand.

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Car Wrecked, Two Arrested

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PENNSYLVANIA freight engine struck and demolished a car that was parked across the tracks at the Linden St. crossing today, Police found two interested spectators along the tracks, They gave their names as James Gilligan, 19, of 1110 8. Richland St, and Buford Wood, 21, of 1131 Oliver Ave, Police charged them with drunkenness ana sald they may have parked the car on the tracks and then left it. They said they could get no satisfactory explanation from the youths about the accident,

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Sea Serpent— | That Got Away

SHASIDE PARK, N. J, Aug. 20 U, P). ~The woes of fisher men's bad luck beset Lewis Peders ren today, He caught a sea sers pent—and it got away, Mr. Pedersen, 65, said he and a companion in a small hoat found tire serpent, dead, entangled in flounder lines a mile off shore, Tt was 30 feet long and two feet in diameter and had brush-like points projecting from its head and flappers at two-inch inter vals along its body, Mr, Pedersen’s partner started to drag the carcass aboard and lost his hold. It drifted away,

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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20 (U, P).~ Mae Murray protested to the Domestic Relations Court today that | she does not want her 12-year-old | [son, Koran David, dodging bullets lin the household of his father, | [Prince David Mdivani, | Fighting her royal ex-husband's attempt to win custody of the child, [she complained in an affidavit that (the prince was intemperate and “promiscuously uses and displays firearms.” She said he tried out his | [pistol markmanship on furniture (while young Koran David was in the room, She said he also beat [her in the boy's presence. She asks | $12,000 a year from the prince to ‘support their son,

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An Important Message to Taxpayers From the Citizens Tax League

How about YOU?

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* Are you working hard, strug. gling te pay your honest debts and every day paying taxes on | the food you eat, the clothes you | wear, on fuel and light and heat (and rent? For every $10 you (spend on these things you pay | about $1.60 in taxes.

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| ® And speaking of what vou awe, do you realize that today every | family Awes $2100 as part of ara nA debis that can only be paid by MORE TAXES?

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* Do you realize what this Tax Crisis means toe YOU, and Your Family—right NOW?

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® NOW comes a call for HIGH. ER TAXES! Despite the present high taxes in Marion County, affix cial figures on next year's rats ask for TWO MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL« | LARS MORE! The proposed 274 increase for Center Township Res [lief means $1.148000 MORE! The proposed be increases for [the ( ounty rate means $970 000

MORE! * Kk *

'® Can OUR wages, OUR homes, |OUR businesses, OUR county, {OUR CITY—Can YOU keep on | paying YOUR hard-earned dollars HIGHER and HIGHER

* * * (® Are YOU toiling to help pay

| these oppressive and increasing |

at fiva In Mat AN County

for

TAXES?

taxes, which naw threaten to ens |qulf all 6f us in ruin, while many, | carefree ne'er-do-wells are sitting | with their feet in the feed frauah | of relief—living off YOUR money land telling Vou someones ele ravs

for their sponging?

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* Not one of us would see a sine gle one of our fellows sick or hun« | qry without doing everything in his power to relieve distress. We have ne thought of net paying for any real case of need. But we ab. solutely cannot and will net pay for what the 1938 Tax Board | called: "Persons obtaining assist. ance who are not in need of it, excessive administration costs and duplication and confusion of au-

thority!" * 9% ® We demand firmly and insist, HERE and NOW. that ttrict Ac | counting be made by relief aus [thorities of EVERY CASE and |EVERY CENT of our RELIEF { BUDGETS. * % *

® |f increases are needed in relief then other budgets for County, City and Scheel City MUST BE {CUT to pay these Emergency Ex- | penses. Taxes MUST be LOWER!

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® Despite better business and ins

[creased employment, why hava

4 | Ax

YX jumped | $2 AO 038 $0 $3.21 far 1939 - \

Why cthauld offic

aunty 1" |p ack

| for a $3.64 rate for next year:

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®* Again we ask—"How about YCU?" Are YOU doing YOUR PART in this crisis==NOW? Have YOU signed the "WARNING from TAXPAYERS" at Your Drug Store? Have YOU asked others to sign? We will be glad to mail YOU blanks for signatures.

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® County and City BUDGETS are NOW being prepared. NOW is icial action. You cannot delay a single day longer to add YOUR name to these proIf YOU are content to let

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| REMEMBER no one elsé wi YOUR taxes!

* * * | * SIGN—NOW--TODAY! ‘Taxes Must Be Lower! |

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