Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1940 — Page 6

DR. TOWNSEND

REVISES PLAN

Proposes Gross Income Tax To Replace 2 Per Cent «Sales Levy for Pension.

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.). —Dr. Francis E. Townsend, head of the old-age pension movement bearing his name, proposed a revised $200-a-month pension plan today to be submitted to Congress soon. His latest proposal, which would replace the much-criticized flat 2 per cent transactiqn tax with a gross income levy on persons and cor--Pporations earning $250 a month or $3000 a year and over, was announced at a dinner he gave last night to six Congressmen and more than 50 Representatives. Neither - Hoosier Senator attended. | The plan, like other Townsend Proposals-—including the feated by Congress a ye Proposes repeal of the Social Security Act's old-age pension

Payment to all persons over| 60 who retire from their jobs. Dr. Townsénd told his guests last hight that his rejuvenated “the most benign piece of |legislation ever presented to a legal body,

He said he had organized his followers “into a voting body that will

and said the national par bids for that vote in 1940 « the dominant body.” " “We do not discriminate added, “between the Republicans and the Democrats.” Dr. Townsend was Lr: by

Senator Sheridan Downey (D! Cal.), ardent pension advocate who ‘will introduce the plan in Congress.

EXONERATED IN LOVE SUIT SAN" RAFAEL, Cal, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Dr. Byron W. Haines, 84, was exonerated today of charges that he

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (U.P). — The mysterious disappearance of 16-year-old Arnold Hutzen and his

h father’s story of threatening letters

and kidnap ransom notes were in-

vestigated by Federal agents, police and juvenile authorities today. Avon D. Hutzen, a poor candy cook, belatedly reported to police that his crippled son had disappeared Dec. 5 and that he had received two ransom notes demanding $10,000 for his return. Although Federal agents took charge of the notes, police said that they were not quite satisfied with Hutzen'’s story. The boy was injured in an elevator accident 11 years ago. He remained at home, reading most of the time, while his parents worked. “Arnold was a quiet boy,” Hutzen said. “He had everything a 16-year-old boy could desire. When we returned home the night of Dec. 5 he was gone. His room looked like he had been forced to leave hurriedly. We became frantic.” Hutzen said that he believed his son had run away, perhaps to visit grandparents in Ohio. He did not show up there, however, and three days later Hutzen said he received a telephone call.

alienated the affections of Mrs. Lillian willey, 37. :

The caller gave a description of

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Arnold’s watch as proof that he held him and asked the father to meet him at a secret rendezvous. Hutzen informed police and an officer accompanied him to the meeting place but the caller did not make himself

known. : Subsequently, Hutzen said, he re-

ceived two notes, each asking $10,000

ransom for his boy and each threatening harm to the Hutzens and Arnold if police or newspapers were informed. Police after investigating the telephone. call had dismissed it as the work of a practical joker. They believed Arnold had run away. The juvenile office dropped its investigation also. Hutzen kept the notes to himself until yesterday when he took them to a newspaper office. They were turned over to police who reopened the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in at Hutzen's request.

FRENCH SHIP ASKS AID GENOA, Italy, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— The Italian freighter Celina abandoned its search for the hulk of the burned Italian liner Orazio today to go to the aid of the distressed French steamer Forfaif, which had radioed an SOS.

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LEAGUE SCANS

Municipal Group to Decide Stand * on . Payment of - Gross Income Levy.

Executive committee members of the Indiana Municipal League will meet today at the Claypool Hotel to discuss the stand of Hoosier ‘cities on payment of the gross income tax. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan said he would participate inthe gross tax discussion as an executive committee member. The Mayor is awaiting a report from Corporation Counsel Edward H. Knight on In-| dianapolis’ liability for the gross tax which State officials insist is due by Wednesday. p Committee members also were expected to review disclosures by State WPA Administrator Jonn K. Jennings that 12,0000 WPA : workers are

unemployed in the State because local governmental units have faile

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Boy's Mooching!

~ Setting a new high in burglary politeness, “A, Tramp” entered the home of John Bernloehr yesterday and after wining and dining left ® note of thanks and departed via a basement window. : Deputy sheriffs who investigated. the burglary at 4200 block S. Emerson Ave. Box 823, reported that nothing but food and wine were missing and the lone clue was a hastily scrawled note left with the depleted larder in the kitchen. In part, the note said: : “Please forgive me. I was hungry

.and no one wanted to give me

anything to eat. So I got in the window and out. Never got anything. Just ate. Thank you. “A, TRAMP.” This is the third time the house has been entered, Mr. Bernloe told deputies. ;

. Ju L, GRAIG ELECTED

BY DEPAUW ALUMNI

J. Lowell Craig, 4466 Central Ave.,

Warns of Higher. Costs

local governmental officials,

costs.

to provide projects. % |today headed

Mr. Jennings placed the responsibility for employing the workers on and warned that failure to provide projects would increase local relief

Mayor Harry Baals of Ft. Wayne, League president, said the decision of the Gross Income Tax division to collect the tax on municipal revenues, except those derived from taxes, had roused the opposition of

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most Indiana cities. “As far as I know, no city in the state has paid the tax which: is demanded by the division,” he said. “We've all paid taxes on our utilities, but we've never paid a tax on revenue received from parks, swimming pools and other non-profit ac« tivities.” Committee members will develop a general program for the league for this year at the session. The program is expected to revolve about the league’s principle of “home rule,” which it has been seeking for several years.

Committee Members Listed

In addition to Mayor Baals and Mayor Sullivan, executive committee members are Mayor W. Vincent Youkey of Crown Point, executive secretary; Mayor William H. Dress of Evansville, vice president; Councilman Walter Cunningham of

: the Indianapolis DePauw Alumni Association following his election last night at a Broadway Methodist Church’ dinner meeting. : Mr. Craig succeeds Judge H. Nathan Swaim of the Indiana Supreme Court. Other new officers are Mrs. -Albert M. Campbell, 3953 N, New Jersey St., vice president;' Chester L. Robinson, 5240 N. Delaware St. treasurer, and Foster Oldshue, 5735 N. Delaware, secretary. Fred Tucker was nominating committee chair-

man.

Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, DePauw

president, and Wilfrid S. Smith, Chicago Tribune sports editor, were the banquet speakers. Tyne Bowles directed the University madrigal singers.

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“The trouble with a lot of peo-

ple is that they get an idea and use it as a watchdog to scare away all other ideas. DePauw’s aim is to develop original - and independent minds, the kind of mind that we need desperately in America: today,” Dr. Wildman said.

POYNTER CAPTURED, FBI SAYS

The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced the capture of William Poynter, 30, of Kentucky, who is wanted at South Bend, Ind, on charges of violating the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act.

GROTTO TO INSTALL OFFIGERS TONIGHT

Luther J. Shirley will take over the leadership of Sahara Grotto from William A. Hoefgen, retiring monarch, at the invitational cere-

mony and dance to be held at Indiana Ballroom tonight.

Roy Mawson will be installed as master of ceremonies. C. Wilbur Foster, grand § TO orator of the su- id preme council of all Grottosin the United States and Canada, will induct Mr. Mawson and other officers. * New officers are Harold G. Lanham, chief justice; Charles G. Walsh, treas-. urer; H. Verle Wilson, secretary; venerable prophet; Frank Haugh, marshal; William E. Fitzgerald, captain of the guard; J. Stephen Fuller, orator; Alvin R. Light, sentinel; William E. Hinton, assistant sentinel, and the Rev. M. H. Reynolds, chaplain. Mr. guests. He will be assisted by uniform organizations in regalia. Supervising leaders will be Brewer T. Clay, band; Maj. John Sproule, drum and bugle corps; Capt. Chester Pruett, Blue Devil drill team; Earl Kuhn, Revelers; Bruce Eberly, cast, and Clarence Scott, American Legion.

REFUGEE NAMED ON MANCHESTER STAFF

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, Jan, 25 (U, P.).—Hitler’s loss will be Manchester College's gain, college officials announced today. They announced the appointment to the faculty of Dr. Henrich Trampush of Vienna, professor of biology. Dr. Thampush escaped from Vienna after the anschluss, going to Amsterdam to teach. When his visa there expired, Manchester secured his services through the Friends of Refugees Service.

DIE FOR PROFITEERING

BERLIN, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—The|: death penalty has been invoked 4n|: German-occupied Poland for profi-|: teering, increasing prices or with-|: holding goods from market, it was:

announced today from Cracow,

along with the news of several exe cutions. .

Oscar Buehler,

Lanham will receive the

MOUSE IN AUDIENCE |= AT ‘MICE & MEN’ TALK If

DETROIT, Jan. 25 (U.| P.).— Presence of an uninvited mouse that caused many of his women listeners to cry out and leave the table failed to find Carl Van Doren, the writer, speechless at a luncheon lecture yesterday. | “Criticism in a menagerie, or zoo's zoo in literature,” Mr. Van Doren said as a waiter gathered the mouse into a napkin and carried it away? Mr. Van Doren was speaking at the

time of John Steinbeck, author of

“Of Mice and Men”

and “The Grapes of Wrath.”

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SULLIVAN ‘CONQUEROR’ 83 LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Lord

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CARNEGIE HERO | MEDALS AWARDED

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25 (U. P.).— A boilermaker who caught a falling steeplejack was awarded recognition today by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Theodore Bennett, 34, Mobile, Ala., ‘saved steeplejack Charles von Gossett, 75, from a fatal fall May 18, 1938. Working 55 feet above ground, Gossett fell head first. Mr. Bennett | saw the accident when the steeplejack was still 35 feet above him. He spread his legs, extended his arms and caught Gossett, who suffered only minor hurts. Mr. Bennett sustained injuries that disabled him for ten weeks. ; The commission awarded 16 bronze medals for heroism. One hero was honored posthumously. William H. Boyd, 21, gave his life in attempting to save M. Elizabeth Parkhurst, 21, from drowning. A fight with his bare fists with a shark off Folly Beach, S. C.,, won

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ON LIQUOR CHARGE

Conviction of William A. Lively, former bartender at a tavern in the 90¢ block of Harrison St, on a charge of selling liquor to minors wos sustained today in Criminal ‘Court, ; The former bartender was arrested eariy in December during the opening of a county-wide campaign by police and - Sheriff Al Feeney tol stamp out sale of liquor to minors. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $25 and costs in Municipal Court at the time, The case’ came to. Criminal Court today on appeal. The ‘conviction was sustained, but the penalty was reduced to a fine of $20 and costs.

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