Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1941 — Page 6
Kill ‘Drinker License’
The House Public Morals Committee today decided to eliminate the 10-cent “drinker’s license” provision from the Senate-passed G. O. P. liquor bill and agreed to place local control entirely in the hands of local boards. Other changes agreed upon tentatively by the Committee
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SLASES2T000 ] House Committee Recommendations, if Followed, Would Abolish Hundreds of Jobs; Total Expenditures
Now $7,000,000 Under 1939 Figure.
Hundreds of jobs would be abolished by State biennial budget reductions of $8,287,000 recommended by the House Ways and Means Committee to the General Assembly today. In three amended budget bills, the G. O. P.-controlled Committee reduced departmental and institutional budgets
from $84,272,000 proposed in the original bills to $75,985,-
000. This is $7,000,000 less
than the corresponding budgets approved by the 1939
~ Legislature.
The Committee recommended cuts totaling $2,246,000 in the general funds budgets for various State departments, which would force mass dismissals of hundreds of clerks and _stenographers, beginning next July 1. : $2,000,000 From Institutions
Budgets for institutions were
_ trimmed to $24,238,000, a total re-
\ duction of about $2,000,000, abolish‘ing several hundred more em-
ployees. Budgets for Federal matching fund State agencies were cut more than four million dollars to $15,657,000, eliminating more jobs. More than $300,000 was sliced off Governor Schricker’s various emergency contingent funds out of which the State Budget Committee appropriates money for equipment and ‘new buildings and for military ‘emergencies. The Committee also eliminated the $200,000 recommended by the State Budget Committee for a new State Police Headquarters.
Would Abolish Two Boards
Appropriations for the State Planning Board and the State Housing Board were cut so low that both ‘will have to be abolished. Only $2500 was appropriated for the Housing Board the next fiscal year and $50 for the second year. The State Clemency Commission’s budget was cut to a bare $250 for two years compared to its usual $21,-
000, meaning that it is to be abolished. A bill is pending to transfer its duties to trustees of penal institutions. . More than $290,000 was cut off the Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s operating expenses for the next two years, leaving its budget at $250,000 annually. Deep slashes were made in nearly all the score or more of smaller boards such as barbers, engineers, beauticians and pharmacy. Operating expenses for some of them were cut in half.
Cites Platform Pledge
In announcing the cuts, made during a week of midnight conferences, Rep. Roy J. Harrison (R. Attica), Ways and Means Committee chairman, said: “Republicans present their first effort to carry out a platform pledge to reduce the cost of government. “The State faces a serious defi-
ing is allowed to remain unchanged for the next two years.” “The committee is determined to live, insofar as possible, within anticipated revenues. The committee believes that there will be a co-oper-ative attitude on the part of the governmental agencies and employees which are affected by drastic reductions and that the pulling and hauling in the Legislature can be avoided.”
Scan Income Tax Change
. Republican leaders of both houses were to decide later today if the bill proposing a reduction of from 1 to 3 per cent in the Gros Income rate for retailers will be changed. Rep. Harrison said “we are confident that with the budget reductions there will be no need to pass
laws for any new taxes this session.”
would: _ 1. Prohibit dancing in any place ment of a $50 license fee. 2. Strengthen the “Hatch Act” provisions of the Senate Bill as introduced by Rep. Orville Stout, prohibiting liquor dealers and their employees from making campaign contributions to political parties or candidates. 3. Prohibit women fro macting as hartenders or going behind the bar, with the exception of the wife of the establishment owner. 4 Prohibit the cashing of WPA or Welfare Department checks by tavern operators or allow retail liquor dealers 'to sell on credit. (These provisions are in the present liquor law.) Disagreement in the Committee was reported to have ‘followed the suggestion of some members that the $1000 license fee to wholesalers be reduced. “Dry” members of the Committee were said to have convinced dJdther members that this move should not be made. The amendments were not reported to the House floor by Rep. Glenn Markland (R. Zionsville), committee chairman, this morning and some committee members said
they probably would ask that other].
changes be made before the hill is released. The 10-cent annual license fee for anyone who drinks was added to the bill by the Senate and has drawn considerable opposition. The House Committee was understood to be unanimous in its action to eliminate this provision. As the bill left the Senate, local liquor control would be placed in the hands of a four-man board one member each being appointed by
Commissioners, the mayor of the largest city in the. county and the
fl | year-old Terre Haute hoy, was visit-
where liquor is sold except on pay-
State Alcoholic Beverage Commission. :
The House Committee, however,|
voted to eliminate the member appointed by the State Commission, making the local administration conform to “home rule” principles.
GUNMAN HOLDS UP TWO HAAG STORES
Two Haag drug stores were held up last night within an hour, apparently by the same gunman. Young and well dressed, he entered the store at 948 N. Pennsylvania St., held up Paul Richel, the manager, and escaped with $50. An hour later a gunman, believed to be the same one, entered the store at 3460 College Ave., held up Rex Preacher, the manager, and escaped with $70.
PATRICK FITZPATRICK IS DEAD HERE AT 70
Patrick Fitzpatrick, 1415 S. Alabama St., a heating contractor here for 40 years and prominent in Democratic circles, died today at St. Vincent’s Hospital after a short illness. He was 70, a native of Evansville. Mr. Fitzpatrick is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna Fitzpatrick; four daughters, Mrs. Margaret Curran,
Engelking and Miss Virginia Fitzpatrick, and two sons, Emmett and Maurice Fitzpatrick. Services will be Monday morning in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, of which he was a member, and at the home. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
FIREMAN REVIVES STRICKEN GRANDSON
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ing with his grandparents at 2941 N. Delaware. He became unconscious when he couldnt get his breath, Mrs. Vanohlen called the fire department for help but meantime her husband had used artificial respiration and brought the child back to consciousness. By that time, two
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27 (U. PJ). —Charlie Chaplin, minus the mustache and baggy pants which made him famous, said today it’ wasn’t the rnoney but the principle of the thing that caused him to seek $90,146 in tax refunds from the Federal (Government. He testified in court yesterday that the sum was taken from him unjustly as wages, when it really was dividends from United Artists which should not have been taxed. After the hearing, as joyous photographers made grab shots while he walked along the corridor, Mr. Chaplin explained that even if he didn’t get his money back hed still eat. “I was in there pitching a long time,” he said, “and I still am.”
U-BOAT AGE WHO FOUGHT FAIRLY DIES
Copyright 1941. by The Indiananolis Times and The Chicago, Daily News, Inc. LONDON, Feb, 27.—The bomb, or whatever it was, which fatally wounded Admiral Lothan Arnauld de la Periere Monday removed one of Great Britain's most redoubtable and honc¢rable enemies. The death of the most formidable U-boat eaptain’s history on the same day that Adolf Hitler was roaring cut his threat of a new and great U-boa war stands as the strangest coincidence of the war. As the captain of U-35 in the last war, operating in the Mediterranean, the (ierman ace not only out-did his colleagues in sinking shipping, but tried to obey the rules of war whenever it was possible. Andreas Michelsen, = Germany's leading authority on U-boat warfare credits the “Gay Lothar” with 400,000 tons.
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CLAIMS NAZI PLANES ‘ESCORTED’ WILLKIE
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb, 27 (U. P.).—Two German Heinkel planes “escorted” the British plane carrying Wendell I... Willkie for 200 miles on his return flight from London to Lisbon curing his recent trip abroad, Donald Mackenzie, a New York Daily News reporter who accompanied Hr. Willkie to London, said here today. Mr. MacKenzie, who flew to London with Mr. Willkie, returned on the American export liner Siboney today. He said that Mr. Willkie was unaware of danger during his trip, because all windows of the plane vere blacked out. Only the pilot and co-pilot could see their deadly escort. Maj. Baretis, Portuguese censor in Lishon, believed the Germans merely wanted to “demonstrate” that they could have “destroyed the plane and Mr. Willkie” if they wished, Mr. MacKenzie said.
ROME REQUISITIONS SHIPS ROME, Feb. 27 (U. P.).—The official Gazette today published a decree requisitioning 63 merchant ships for the Italian navy. Twenty vessels
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: _. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES \ Ie 4 ’ Seek ‘Public Good'--Knapp Speaker James M. Knapp pleaded with House members today to “put aside selfishness and turn attention in these closing days to about
three or four big problems relating to public good.” For the third time in two weeks, the veteran House chief lashed out
at. lobbyists and pressure groups which he said were hampering the “Help me to stand resolute against the agents of racket
and plunder, against those who would further divide class against class, and against, those who place selfish aims and purposes against the common good,” he said. “Selfish humanity was never more in evidence than it is in this session. And unless we can put this spirit aside, 'I don’t know just what we will say when we go back home. Already in this session, measures. for the common good have met defeat because selfishness divided folks in their thinking. Other measures are
§| pending that are for public good, d but they, too, will be lost if we
can’t meet on a common ground in a give and take’ spirit.”
Atty. Gen Bil
and almost wrecked G. O. P. plans office for the next two years.
Senators John W. Atherton, Harry O. Chamberlain and Edward R. Green, Indianapolis Republicans, voted against the motion along with the Democrats. But the majority party won by a vote of 26 to 19—a bare constitutional majority. Senator Albert Beveridge Jr. fourth Republican member of the Marion County delegation, was not in the chamber when the roll was called. Mr. Chamberlain, whose request that he be permitted to explain his vote, was denied, said later that he objected to the provision for hiring an “attorney general” for the twoyear period starting April 1 until a new Attorney General is elected in November, 1942,
Doubts Constitutionality
The two bills abolish the present appointive office, re-create it as an elective office in 1942 and provide for the interim attorney to be hired by the Governor, Lieutenant Gover= nor and Secretary of State. “In practical effect,” said Senator Chamberlain, “we are creating a vacancy in a State office and are not allowing the Governor to fill it. Supreme Court decisions have held time after time that you can’t do indirectly what you can’t do direct-
ly. We do create a vacancy in a State office here although we have quibbled around and called it something else. I have no doubt that I'll catch hell for this, but I am satisfied that from a constitutional standpoint I am correct.” Senator Atherton said he voted against overriding the veto because he believed that the Governor should appoint an Attorney General to hold office until an elected one can take over the office.
No Pledged to Override
Senator Green explained that he was opposed to the bill “because such reorganization of political offices for political expediency is not in the best interest of the citizens of the State.” When the bills originally were debated in the Senate, the three Marion County Senators questioned the constitutionality of the interim attorney general provision. Party leaders asked them to support the bills, telling them that if the Governor should veto them, they would not be asked to ‘go along” in overriding. The Governor opened his veto message on Senate Bill 4. with the statement that he had no objections to making the office of Attorney General elective, starting with the next election. But, he added, the bill presents some serious questions. A veiled threat of court action testing legality of the bill was contained in his statement that “there will always be litigants who will be ready to raise and who will persistently press such questions whenever expediency should suggest that course.” The State Constitution is violated, Governor Schricker said, by
Mr. Knapp said that he had been visited “day and night by members, each insisting that their particular bill or bills are necessary to the preservation of a properly governed state.” After this whip had been cracked over their heads, the House went back to work under a “gag rule” in an effort to clean up some important legislation during the final nine days. Authors of bills ready for final passage will be limited to five minutes of closing debate. All other speeches on final passage, committee reports or motions to amend will be limited to three minutes.
s Barely Win
Three: Marion County Republican Senators bolted party lines today
to take over the Attorney Generals
After Governor Henry F. Schricker had made his second precedent | shattering personal appearance to veto the two G. O. P. Attorney |g General “ripper” bills, the vote to over-ride was started.
any provision giving a board the
power to select a state executive officer.
Discussing the duties of the temporary attorney general as outlined in the bill, the Governor declared that the temporary “employee of the State is perhaps excluded from executing official authority in respect of some 59 specific powers conferred upon the office of Attorney General by numerous statutes, some in force for many decades.”
- Among the duties he listed as not
provided for in the bill are those, of approving compromises on claims |
in favor of the State, and determining the propriety of instituting proceedings against officers for infidelities of trust. In his message accompanying the veto of S. B. 3, which merely abolishes =the office of Attorney General without providing for a substitute, he said he would be “derelict in my duty were I to approve this bill.” ;
WOMEN HERE TO JOIN IN PRAYER MEETINGS
More than 1500 women of Indianapolis Protestant churches, civic and social clubs are expected to observe the World Day of Prayer in mass meetings here tomorrow. Mrs. W. A. Shullenberger will preside at the 1:30 p. m. meeting in the Meridian Street Methodist Church when Miss Ruth Rouse of London, England, World ¥. W. C. A. president, will speak. Prayers will be offered by Mesdames J. C. Hirschman, J. A, Towns, C. L.. Gough and Calvin R. Hamilton, and Miss Essie Maquire. ; At the meeting for business and professional women and others at 12:45 p. m. in Christ Church, Mrs. J. P. Morrison will preside and Miss Ruth L. Packard, Y. W. C. A. secagey recently returned from China, 1 speak..
'Oscars' Waiting Dinner Tonight
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 27 (U. P)—Hollywood tonight stages its most extravagant social event of the year—the annual Academy Awards dinner—when an actor and an actress will receive gold statuets for the best movie performances of 1940. Approximately 12,000 movie players have voted, and the ballots have been tabulated. President Roosevelt, speaking from the White House, will deliver the principal address, to be broadcast nationally at 10:45 (Indianapolis Time). After a round of speechmaking by mémbers of the film industry, Walter Wanger, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will announce the awards and present the “Oscars,” as the statuets are known.
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