Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1940 — Page 9

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CITY WAVERS IN GROSS TAX FIGHT

$10,000 Included in Budget to Pay State in the Event 100, Municipalities Affected Lose Test Case Brought by Evansville.

; : : By RICHARD LEWIS I'he City is showing signs of weakening in its refusal to pay the Gross Income Tax.

set up in the 1941 budget to and +941.

This doesn’t mean that Indianapolis officials have backed

A fund of $10,000 has been cover tax claims between 1937

down altogether from their position that the City isn’t liable | for the gross tax on its miscellaneous revenue. But it un- | |

dermines the argument officials used last winter when | Gilbert K. Hewit, State Gross| Tax director, demanded pay-

ment.

Officials said at that time that] question of |

hotwithstanding liability, the City

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pay the tax because no provision] had been made for it in the budget. Now, provision has been made for |

|by the City of Evansville in the

simply couldn't | Vanderburgh County Circuit Court.

tax dispute, than

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The gross {which involves

Tax Division's legal department decided that the law covered munic|ipalities, through a 1937 amend- | ment. | Mr. Hewit promptly proceeded to send out claims. The cities, including Indianapolis, promptly ignored them Mr. Hewit persisted. The cities,| —— (through the Indiana Municipal] | League, formed a committee which | Model Planes

| conferred for months with Governor

Townsend, Mr. Hewit and the At|torney General's office.

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It was finally decided to seek a declaratory judgment and Evansville was chosen to make the test. Meanwhile, the Gross Tax Division

is still insisting on payment, under ‘ the interpretation of its legal de- Take 12 of 40. Places In partment. . “We'll pay,” Mayor Sullivan said, First Meet Staged by Noblesville Club.

“if we have to. We're not trying to By DAVID MARSHALL

evade any legal obligations.” Mayor Vincent Youkey of Crown Point, Municipal League executive SY: Se Gros Tax After taking but one place in “T4 : VW Tey : the first 17 in thelr own meet at Municipal Airport July 28, Indiana Gas Model Association fliers hit a winning stride Sunday at Nobles-

“It sounds silly, but this is the| way it works out. These cities will ville, capturing nine of the first 17. In all they won 12 of the possible

have to tax the people tor additional 40 places in the Model Maniacs’

taxes to pay the tax.” The Park Budget In "41 As the City budget is being labor-| first annual contest. jously put together, piece by piece | William Kandler flew to first ike a jigsaw puzzle, it develo to-| Place with his Class C Dennymitelike i wl ped ..,|powered sailplane. His three-flight day that the Park Department willitota] was 18 minutes and he had need $30,000 more to finance its op-{one trip of 13 minutes. James Benerations next year than this year.

nett Jr. snapped up second with a The increase is chiefly for recrea-

13-minute total. Ernie Roberts of | Muncie was third. tion. It implies a bigger recreation| Indianapolis pilots also took program next year, more extensive|fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, than the present program, which | eleventh and seventeenth. " A : ' Saas In the rubber-powered events, is said to be the largest in the City’s| gopbije Romeiser of Indianapolis

history : ; {won the top award with a run of Increases are asked in salaries of| seven minutes plus and Ernie Robplayground directors from $60 to $85 erts of Muncie flew a little over five a month. Originally, the plan was|minutes for second place. to raise the directors’ pay to $70.| There were plenty of thermals but the Park Board couldn't quite and a good 10-to-12-mile-an-hour see it that way. wind. The fliers from here had Officials in charge of the recrea-|nothing but praise for the way the tion program have revealed that|meet was run. more than 30 directors have re-| «It was one of the nicest first signed since the first week the play- meets I've ever attended,” Tom grounds opened this year. They re-| Stephens, local vice president, said. signed chiefly for higher paid jobs.|“They had a fine field, everyone coPark officials are convinced that the operated, particularly the farmers, only way to get and keep the best|and there were many nearby roads possible personnel for the play-|for chasing models.” grounds is to pay them more than | The Noblesville club was organ215 a week. {ized in January and already has 29 How the Figures Are Taken “CU''¢ members. Prizes won by the Indianapolis their Mid-States Gas

situation well in hand.

100 | Hoosier cities, arose when the 5 |

A number of people have won-

The Fire Department had nitrogen gas trouble yesterday. P. R. Mallory Co., where a load of nitrogen tanks was on fire. Now, the only thing to fight nitrogen fires with is d-u gas and the fire company used what it had to do the trick. After noon sometime another call came in. this time at Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts., where it had paused en route across town. that arrived had no d-u gas and another call had to

BACK IN STRIDE

Legless Flier | Defeats Nazi

vy Science Service LONDON, Aug. 8—Successful| | shooting down of a German airplane by a British pilot with two artificial legs is reported here in the magazine “Flight.” Though official dispatches do not name the flier, the magazine identifies him as! D. R. S. Bader.

After graduating from the Royal Air Force cadet college at Cranwell, where he was captain of the | cricket team, he received his commission. Soon after he was in a| serious crash, nearly fatal. As a result, both legs had to be am-| putated, one completely, the other fat the knee, He became so skilful with his metal legs that when the present war started, ha was allowed to take a test for active service, which he passed with flying colors. Now he is leading a squadron of Canadians.

SEARING GAS FLAME KILLS SIX IN YARD

LAS VEGAS, Nev. Aug. 8 (U. P). A sheet of searing blue flame from

exploding tetralene gas last night | took the lives of six persons, five |

of them members of the family of |

Thomas Myers, gas distributor in| whose back yard the blast occurred. |

The dead: Mrs. Thomas Meyers, | 40; Mrs. Linda Meyers Leavitt, 19,| | her daughter; Ted Meyers, 9; Kath-| leen Meyers, 16; Doreen Meyers, 2; (and John Negrette, one year old, a| | neighbor’s child who was playing | lin an alley adjoining the Meyers’| | residence. The explosion took place as Mr. | | Mevers was transferring the highly | | explosive gas from tanks on a truck! | in his back yard to small containers | {for distribution to his customers.

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It got a call early in the day from the

It left, confident it had the The nitrogen was on fire again, The first company be sent out. They got it this time.

PLANE TESTING CUT T0 3 WEEKS

Wright Field Uses 28 Pilots To Experiment on New Models.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P).— The War Department said today that the Air Corps Experimental Station at Wright Field, Ohio, has been able to reduce the time neces-

sary to test a new model army plane from almost a year to three weeks. : The speed-up was the answer to the need for immediate data on the latest type planes, especially the new Curtiss P-40, a pursuit ship capable of flying more than 300 miles an hour. Under the new plan seven of the new planes With 28 pilots were sent to Wright Field for the tests. A crew of three pilots was assigned to each plane and by flying in shifts the planes were kept in the air all day. Ground crews were kept on the job on an “around the clock” basis. The success of these concentrated | tests warrants using similar] methods in the future and will permit further acceleration of Air Corp activities, the department said.

IN SAME HOUSE 88 YEARS WESTFIELD, Mass., Aug. 8 (U.| P.).—Now 88, Mrs. Henrietta B.| Blanchard has lived all her life in|

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to the satirical painting. Dr. Heil « said it was “unnecessarily dirty.”.. “It's not a masterpiece,” said ° Dr. Heil, “it’s just unpleasant.”

» Navy Wins War ! . I On Dirty’ Art SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 (U. P.) —Paul Cadmus’ controversial painting, “Sailors and Floozies,” was removed today from the Palace of Fine Arts at the Golden Gate International Exposition, re=portedly because the Navy didn’t like it. Another Cadmus painting, “Seeing the New Year In,” also was removed but a third Cadmus work, “Venus and Adonis,” remained. Dr. Walter Heil, head of the American section of the palace, | said “Sailors and Floozies” was removed because “there was too much smell about it.” He said U, S. Commissioner George Creel's office told him the Navy objected

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: Club meets tonight in Cropsey Aui ero 8 na- : : : ih tion Ompues (Sheva suns Cr A ditorium to decide what to do about | 2nee %» A et anc evening track. They have to abandon the morning, atternoon & "BINS the present one in the 1500 block

land multiplying the sum by one and| - : . ? : of Somerset Ave. because houses are one-half, to figure in the transients. : .

going up there. Parking Limit Sought

Some of the drivers tried out a cement tennis course at Speedway A proposal to limit parking on N.| City Sunday and stepped their cars | Delaware St. between Market and | up to better than 50 miles an hour. Ohio Sts. to 15 minutes to provide | parking space for patrons of realty | firms in the block will be submitted | to the Safety Board. | The reduction of the present hour | parking limit to 15 minutes was | advocated by William H. Keller, sceretary-treasurer of City Rentals, | Inc. vesterday at a meeting of the| property management division of | | the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Petitions for the parking change will be circulated in a few days, Mr. Keller said.

Trivia at the Hall . ..

| For years, a certain Mr. H. ‘ had tried to get a job at City Hall but for some reason he never could quite make the grade. It was always somebody's else's friend who was jahead of him. Then, he stopped coming around. Mr. H. appeared at the Hall the other day, not to look for a | job but to attend a public hearing. | He was wearing not one . but bottles . . . 12 big two Willkie buttons. drinks . . . in that — - thrifty home carton

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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P)— Somebody was $5 the richer today ‘because of the unsuspected presence | lof minute quantities of gold and sil- |

ver in a shipload of Haitian leac ore | which reached this country. Gold import figures for the week | lended July 31 showed that $4 in| gold and $1 in silver were received | from the Republic of Haiti. Officials explained that the precious metals were extracted from the lead ore shipment. The customs collector at New York was expected to assign the gold and silver credit to the proper individual.

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