Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1941 — Page 4

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GROUP INDORSES TAX ON PROFITS

GOP Wage Earners’ League Asks They Be Levied on Ability to Pay.

. The principle of taxing profits instead of products was indorsed by the legislative committee of the Republican Wage Earners’ League at a meeting last night. During a discussion of tax problems affecting labor, William Yeager, league president, said the league recognizes the necessity of taxation for the support of governmental services, adding: “But we believe that taxes should be levied on the basis of ability to - pay, and the principle of taxing profits instead of products will react to labor’s interests.” Several bills pending in the Legislature were indorsed. They included liberalization of the Workmen's Compensation Law provisions: a bill . répealing laws providing liens on Droperty and on insurance policies _ In relief cases; a bill requiring union labor on municipally-owned utilities; the Union Barber Bill and Beauticians’ Bill; a bill creating a state labor division for the employment of deaf persons; old-age benefit increases.

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action is taken. : yesterday, Rep. Thomas Grinslade

Schricker

tive committee studying the

A hearing on the petition was held last night in the Senate Chambers. It was filed by Virgil Whitaker, Hammond attorney, who charged

that more than 1500 aliens

voted in Lake County and that Mr. Schricker was not duly elected. Witnesses at the hearing included an organizer for the Indiana Minute Men, a Republican election sheriff from Jackson County, a ‘private detective and Walter Mpybeck, Lake County clerk. The Indiana Minute Men organizer, Edward Plain, Hammond, who described the Minute Men as “an unincorporated American organization,” said he was chief investigator of the “Lake County election fraud” and was employed by Mr. Whitaker. He testified that of the names of voters he.and his staff had investigated so far, “22 per cent of them were aliens.” He said he had found 350 aliens who had voted and that if the investigation were completed ‘at least 1500 aliens” would be revealed as illegal voters. Mr. Plain said that he represented Mr. Whitaker, who could not attend the meeting because he was on a “legal case in the East.” He said that he used Federal naturalizatior! records to prove that the allegedly illegal voters were aliens. U. S. McHargue, the Republican election sheriff from Jackson County, testified that he knew nothing

GOP Aion to Oust

Is Doubtful

Lake County Clerk Ridicules Minutemen Charges That 1500 Aliens Voted in Election:

By TIM TIPPETT : : It appeared doubtful today that the 14-member legisla-

petition to! unseat Governor

Henry Schricker would take any further steps.

that he had no proof of fraud in the election in his county but that, in his opinion, it was fraudulent. M. G. Moss, 'who gave his occupation as ‘private detective,” said he had investigated the Lake County election and that he had proof that one voting mzchine (in precinct 35, Gary) hic been voted 500 times the night befcre election. Mr. Mybeck labeled the charges by Mr, Plain and Mr. Moss as ridiculous He explained that if 500 Democratic votes had been registered on the Gary machine before the election, only 73 Democrats had cast their vote on election day. The total for Mr.sSchricker in that precinct was 573. “These charges of vote fraud have be¢n. made about Lake County for the past 25 years,” Mr, Mybeck said, “and the people of Lake County are sigk of it. If there was a cleane¢r- election in any Indiana County I'd like to know about it.” “The only thing wrong with the election in | Lake County,” he shouted,’ “was that there was a man named Roosevelt running for President ard the people dow. there wanted Roosevelt.” . Following [last night's hearing Senator. Thurman Biddinger (R. Marion) committee chairman, said he didn't know what action would be takeii, buf that there would be

a meeting “in the near future” at which a decision would be made.

Senate Ponders Fee Bill

Elimination of the fee system for Maricn County officeholders was

placed in the hands The House passed

of the Senate today. the bill to place County Clerk, Treasurer, Sheriff

and Recorder on a straight-salary basis yesteiday by a vote of 60 to 20.

Considerable opposition to this

measuri* was reported developing

in the upper chamber, however, and a floor fight i5 expected before final

In the House

(R. Indianapolis), author of the

agree to make the bill effective for all counlies in the State.

“I'm very much in sympathy with

of the investigation in Lake County, |E that he cid not know Mr. Whitaker, | §

bill, said that the County Treasurer has made as much as $30,000 a year in the past. : Rep. Judson West, only Democratic member of the Marion County House delegation, said the bill provided only maximum salaries and that a county council of one party could make $1 a year men out of the county officials if the officials were elected on the oppo-

site party ticket.

Rep. Grinslade said he didn’t think “anyone would be that mean.” Rep. West described the bill as a “little ripper for Marion County”

4|and said there are some jobs the

officeholders must do that might be left undone if there was no “incentive.” Rep. Grinslade said the salary should be enough incentive and suggested that several of the present officeholders would be “right back running for office again” despite the bill. The bill would not apply to present officeholders. Rep. Leslie Cox (D. Columbus) asked Rep. Grinslade if he would

the rest ¢f the State,” Rep. Grinslade replied, “but there are very powerful forces opposing this bill and I'm afraid we would lose it if we extended it to the other counties.”

SEEK FREIGHT BARN FOR ARMY CENTER

Negotiations were under way today to transform the unused Indianapolis Eailways, Inc. freight barn at the Traction Terminal into a recreation center for U. S. Army draftees stationed at Ft. Harrison. The Perk Board and Charles W. Chase, utility president, conferred and decided to ask for WPA aid in reinforcing the second floor and making other changes necessary and supplying recreation attendants. The Board considered Saturday night dances, possibly with regularly employed hostesses, and organizing athletic zames. This would .be the first defense recreation project in the City

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Dr. Roberts Dies

Dr. George L. Roberts

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 27.— Dr. George L. Roberts, professor emeritus of the Purdue University School of Education, died here yesterday. He was 80 and had been living with a daughter, Mrs. Miriam Smiley. Prof. Roberts was head of Purdue’s Educational Department from 1908 until 1931, and was In-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Senate OKs Home Guard

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By EARL

Home Guard.

The measure, which has had a did not go through without opposition. The vote was 35 to 6. Senator Albert Beveridge (R. Inasserted that enough Federal troops could be’ obtained from nearby camps to handle any emergency that might arise. He said that the $50,000 appropriation provided for by the bill “is an absolute waste of money.” He said that $45,000 of the $50,000 will be spent for uniforms and that $5000 will be spent for munitions and salaries of officers. Senator Ben Herr (R. Lebanon), chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, declared that “the bill is anything but a defense measure. It is just about like the Maginot Line. It will take from 18 to 24 months to train a' Home Guard well enough that it can do some good. Two hundred state policemen can do as much as 3000 Home Guardsmen.” Opponents ‘of the measure were reminded by Senator William E. Jenner (R. Shoals) that they had been warned by Mr. Willkie only yesterday “that you can’t tell what is going to happen in the next six months.

- “This is largely a precautionary measure,” worst comes and our Federal troops are called to the borders, we will at

he declared. “If the

RICHERT

Spurred by Wendell Willkie’s warning that the world crisis is such that none can tell what will happen in the next few months, the Indiana Senate yesterday passed a bill authorizing the formation of a

It now goes to the House for further action.

troubled course in the upper house,

least have a nucleus here with which to work.” Senator Jenner revealed that he had asked U. S. Senator Raymond E. Willis what he thought about the formation of a Home Guard and that the Senator had said he believed such an organization to be necessary. The measure would give Governor Schricker the power to set up a Home Guard composed of as many men as he deemed necessary. It provides, however, for the termination of the Guard in March, 1943. The Home Guard bill was intro-

ator Jenner and Senator Roger Phillips (D. New Albany). It immediately ran into oppoistion. As a compromise move, Republican leaders prepared and secured Senate passage of a bill adding 200 men to the State Police force during the next two years. Last week the Military Affairs Committee decided to send the bill to the floor and recommend passage only, however, after slashing the $100,000 appropriation originally called for in the bill to $25,000. Senator Phillips balked at this and got the ' committee to raise the appropriation to $50,000.

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HOUSE ALTERS JOB INSURANCE

Suspends Rules, Sends Bill To Liberalize Benefits To Senate.

The House today passed, under

alize the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Law. It is supported by both employers and labor. The speedy action was taken to prevent the bill being caught in a ast-minute legislative jam, according to both Democrat and Repub-

ican floor leaders. Chief changes in the law are: 1. Increases weekly benefits from $15 to $16. 2. Increases from 15 to 16 weeks the extent of the benefits. 3. Reduces the “waiting period” for checks to one week. Shifts in the rate of taxation will produce more than $1,000,000 for workers and save employers about $500,000 a year, according to House leaders. The bill was sent to the Senate, where immediate action is expected.

INDORSES PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER RELIEF

The bill proposing’ transfer of poe relief administration from township

trustees here to the Marion County Welfare Department has been indorsed by the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teachers Association, Mrs. George Clark, president, announced today. In a statement, Mrs. Clark referred to reports of “possible maladministration” of relief. This, she said in effect, has “denied our less fortunate neighbors of even the food and shelter for which the community 1s paying.” “We indorse House Bill 632,” she said, “because it preserves local administration of relief and adds the advantages of non-political administration, financing from current revenue, merit selection of personnel, carefully formulated and humane policies and more efficient government unit of operation. “Unless our chlidren come from homes which provide adequate food, clothing and shelter, our educational institutions, no matter how progressive, can never teach the youth to live and believe in democracy.”

BISHOP SEES WORLD AND AMERICA ‘SICK’

The world, America and even the church are sick and dying, the Rt. Rev. Richard Ainslee Kirchhoffer, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis, told the Christ Church noonday audience today. But Bishop Kirchhoffer does not consider this world-wide condition hopeless. The world, America and the church can be born again of God in the way that Christ described to Nicodemus in the Néw Testament, he said.

PROBE NORTH DAKOTA VOTE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UP. — The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee voted today to impound all ballots cast during last year’s general election in North Dakota to ascertain if there were any irregularities in the election of Senator William Langer, (R..

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