Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1940 — Page 13

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PENSIONS FOR

ALL ABOVE 65 SEEM NEARER

Social Security May Give Way This Winter to Downey Plan.

By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—High on the list of projects the New Deal plans to present to Congress this winter is a change in the Social Seeurity Act ‘which would greatly broaden the old-age pension system. What is likely to come out of it & pension plan remarkably like the modernized version of the Townsend Plan. Studies of ways to extend and amplify the old-age assistance section of the Social Security Act are now being made “ under supervision of Federal Security AdminA istrator Paul V. ¢ McNutt, in line with President

« Mr. Downey Roosevelt's campaign pledge that a bettdr pension system would be introduced:

These studies have not yet been finished, but it is possible to get a fairly good line on the program. - Ai good guess is that it will call for the elimination of the means test—by which local boards are ‘ empowered to decide whether or nPt an assistance eligible is actually in need—the extension of pensions to all retired citizens past 65, and Government payments starting from a minimum of—probably—$25 a“ month, to which the individual states could add further sums if they chose. Goodby ‘Actuarial Basis’

»This means, of course, that the present “actuarial basis” would go out the window. If would no longer, be necessary to estimate what percentage of persons will be in need, since pensions would go. to all. Reliance on payroll taxes as & means of footing the bill would probably be abandoned too. «The annual | cost, of a pension system such as has just been outlined is figured ‘to be around $2,800,000,000 a year. Best suggestion so far is that some form of gross income tax would have to be levied to support it. “What comes out of all this is something tolerably close to the ownsend Plan,

- Maximum Far Off

«There is now pending in the Senate a hill introduced by Senator Downey of California, generally recognized as the chief spokesman for tHe Townsend idea in the upper house. Dqwney's bill, which bears Townsend’s endorsement, would levy 2 per cent gross income tax and pay pensions to all retired citizens past 60. Mr, Downey figures this would mean pensions of $40 a month at the start. The bill carries a $200 maximum, which admittedly would be reached about half a mile this side of Utopia. .4By all of this there hangs a tale. “Dr. Townsend came out for Willkie the last campaign. Mr. ey, . on the other hand, stumped for Roosevelt. Late in August, Senator Downey had a long conferénce with Roosevelt in the White House. The President remarked that he was “deeply disappointed” with the old-age pension - phases of the Social Security Law and was convinced something much hétter was needed. He added he would recommend to the next Congress an extensive revision of the law, looking toward higher pensions and more pensioners.

Encourages Downey

Senator Downey replied he himself had a bill in the Senate—the above-mentioned | Townsend bill— but that a lot of Senators were afraid of it on the ground it might get vetoed if passed. FDR said that, on the contrary, he would co-oper-ate for the passage of the best possible pension legislation. «It was about 10 days after that the President made his address bethe convention of the Teams’ union in which he called for higger and better pensions, with payments “given in a manner which will respect the dignity of the life of service which our aged citizens have given to the nation.”

VULTEE PEACE SNAGS

‘ON WALKOUT ISSUE

"DOWNEY, Cal, Nov. 22 (U. P.).— One disputed point — a proposed walkout moratorium—today apparently was delaying settlement of the tee aircraft factory strike, Maj. ney Simpson of the War Department said he would offer a new proposal to representatives of the United Automobile Workers of America, C. I. O., and Vultee executives when they resumed negotiations today. “The negotiators yesterday agreed on a wage clause for a contract, the eifux of the strike, Early settlement appeared imminent. Then Mr. an son inserted a provision which d bind the union not to walk out during the two-year contract. Union representatives refused to accept the proposal and refused to submit it to arbitration. Richard Millar, president of Vultee, and two other company officials left the con-

ference.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (U. P.).— Only a brave innkeeper would tell stories about his guests and Robert K. Christenberry who lost an arm tossing back an enemy grenade in World War I feels he is qualified to refute the legend that Thomas A. Edison needed only a few hours sleep a day. : Mr. Christenberry knows because as vice president of the celebrated Astor Hotel he played host, in a manner of speaking, when Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford and the great inventor held one of their get-to-gethers. And he recalls how Mr. Edison, after a frugal lunch of crackers and milk, went into another room and slept until it was time for the gathering to break up. Mr. Christenberry, a former news-

paperman, is compiling the incidents of a long career as a hotel

man into a book.

He is going to tell, for instance, of the note he received one day

when Mrs. Edward

mother of the much-married and playboy, she would check in. The note read: ° Manville’s mother is checking in tomorrow. She will permit her son's ex-wives to visit her in her suite.” little -idiosyncrasy of comedian Jimmy Durante who is so fussy about where he sleeps. Jimmy has a special brass bed of his own and will not sleep on anything else. When he is on the road or in Hollywood the Astor keeps the bed in

much-divorced

Manville, announced

And the

Guests Are Such Droll Folk: Host Writes a Book on Them

One of the heartiest eaters Mr. Christenberry remembers was Michael Boehnen, the opera singer, and first husband of Mary Lewis, the soprano. His usual dinner consisted of an entire box of caviar and a triple sirloin steak with all the usual trimmings. And speaking of dinners, there was the ‘Circus Saints and Sinners banquet for 800 in which the menu was reversed—it started with coffee and ended up with crabmeat cocktail. Among other unusual guests was the man who sent for a moving company and started packing the desk in his suite into a van. Mr. Christenberry stopped him and got this explanation: The guest had filled the drawers with. valuable

papers in a complicated sequence and did not want to re-do the job “in another desk. Mr. Christenberry rented him the desk and it returned five weeks lated after a 3000-mile trip. Mr. Christenberry discovered recently in looking over his war diary

that his signature with his left hand is the same as that with his lost right hand. After the war he entered the diplomatic service, then joined a Washington newspaper and later decided hotel work was more profitable. :

The United States has approximately 30,000,000 dwelling units, such as owned homes, rented homes, and

rented apartments.

3 CITES IN STATE

FIGHT GAS INCREASE

VINCENNES, Ind., Nov. 22 (U. P.). —~City officials of Washington, Princeton and Vincennes today had joined forces to combat a proposed gas rate increase by the Hoosier Gas Corp. ' Start of the action hinges on approval by the State Tax Board of emergency appropriations to hire an attorney for the fight against the utility. In defense of the move, Mayor A. B. Taylor of Vincennes said the cities involved could get all the gas they need for 10 cents per 1000 cubic feet by buying direct from producers. The Hoosier Gas Corp., buys the gas for local distribution from the Kentucky Gas Corp. for 38 cents per 1000 cubic feet.

Vani ad Writer Married

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov, 22 (U. P.) —Ernest Hemingway, novelist, leaves for New York today with his new wife, Martha Gellhorn, to whom he dedicated his new novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

They were married last night by a justice of the peace, having just arrived from Sun Valley, Ida. where Mr. Hemingway has been vacationing. The writer said he was 41; Miss Gellhorn said she was 28. She is a magazine writer Mr. Hemingway met in Spain, She is his third wife, his first having been Hadley Richardson, his childhoaed sweetheart, who got a divorce in

1926; his second, Pauline Pfeifer, who got a divorce in‘ Miami Nov, 4

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