Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1941 — Page 3
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"Three more Republican “ripper” bills were passed by the House yesterday. One was sent to Governor Schricker and the other two must have Senate concurrence
ametidments. - The bill reorganizing the State Welfare Department under a.four-man board, instead of the present five-man commission, was given final approval. - ‘Governor Schricker is expected to veto the bill, which provides that two members of the board be appointed by the Governor and two by the Lieu-tenant-Governor. Bills which were smendsd Sier reaching the House were the Sta Health Board “ripper,” = which would set yp a Health Council of 17 and a bi-partisan Health Board, and the measure to change the
State Accounts Board setup placing the cilief examiner under the State
¢ ' Personnel Board to be created by
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the Merit Bill awaiting final pass-
e. X ie tke debate on the Welfare Bill, Rep. Robert Heller (D, Decatur), said the minority would have to : vote against it because it gave appointing power to the LieutenantGovernor and that “would place the Welfare Department in politics.” - Rep. Frank Millis (R. Campbellsburg), majority floor leader, said
"= the “Lieutenant-Governor is head
f our party and we think we would have ieproseniaiion in apintments.”
\viation Control Pondered
The fate of the Aviation Control bill was being pondered by the
ouse Judiciary Committee today. brg ar t up two years ago. The situation is this: Judiciary Committee . members favor the bill, but since it has just started its legislative course, they « believe it practically impossible to y bass the bill by normal action beH) fore the session ends March 10. The bill could be passed under 4 suspension of the rules in both Houses, but this would require a two-thirds vote by House and Senate members. The bill is 65 pages in léngth and it is estimated the printing cost would be about $1000 if the Committee reports it for passage. Commiitee members, therefore, are reluctant to report the measure to the House floor, thereby incurring the $1000 expense, unless they are assured the bill can get the “go ahead” of both Houses. Col. Roscoe Turner, nationallyknown flier and operator of an
Bureau Shakeup Vetoed |
Governor Henry F. Schricker took the Legislature to task last night for its shakeup of the Legislative Reference Bureau. Thig bureau is the agency which preparés the bills which the Legislators introduce for enactment into law. The Republican majority had pushed through a bill to terminate the tenure of Herbert Kenney, present director of the Bureau, and provide
that the new director be appointed by a®board composed of. the Governor, the Secretary of State and the State Auditor. Governor Schricker vetoed this measure ‘and returned it to the House shortly after he had announced signing four more bills, I'ringing to 47 the total number he has approved since the session opened. In his veto message, the Governor pointed out that the office of Legislative Reference. Bureau director since its origin 28 years ago has been filled by only three men. He praised the service of John A. Lapp, who was director from 1913 to 1917; Charles Kettleborough, from 0918 to 1938, and Mr. Kenney, who, the Governor said, has “discharged his duties with ability, faithfulness and industry.” The four bills signed yesterday wills, 1. Force motorists to present their personal property tax receipts along with their poll tax receipts in order to get auto licenses. 2. Legalize the ownership of property given to or bought by colleges despite charter limitations. . 3. Empower the State Budget Committee to fix the per diem
traveling expenses of state em-|
ployees. 4. Increase real estate loan limits
"of building and loan associations,
CHIROPRACTORS MEET The - Indiana Chiropractic Asso- ~ ciation will meet at the Hotel Lincoln fomorrow. Dr. J. E. Slocum of Des Moines, Ia., research direc-
BY HOUSE
in House
Democratic Floor Leader Winfield Denton replied: “Ever since the start af this session I've been trying t¢ fing out who the head of. the Republican Party happens to be. I wasn'i sure if it was the State Committee chairman, the Lieutgnant-Ciover-nor, the ‘seven best lawyers in Indiana,’ the president pro-tem of the Senate or the majority floor leader in the House.” Representative Millis told Representative Denton if he'd “conie to me in the first place I'd have been glad to tell you who the head of the party is.” Other Senate-approved bills passed by the House and ready for the Governor would: Liberalize laws regulating credit unions. Permit Indianapolis Rallways repair trucks to carry police radios. Permit Sunday night baseball and hockey gs “es. Place credit unions under protection of law prohibiting circulation of rumors about financial soundness. Put the Two Per Cent Glub under the Corrupt Practices Act. Provide for appointment of the State Accounts Board chief examiner by the Personnel Board instead of the Governor. Establish salaries of sanitary
This measure, which codifies State aviation laws and sets up an eronautics Board, was drafted by a special Governor's Commission
commissioners in fourth class cities.
aviation school here, explained the need for aviation control in Indiana at the Committee’s meeting yesterday. “We should be able to feel just as safe traveling by air from here to Terre Haute as we do from here to Chicago,” Col. Turner said. Henry Ostrum, chairman of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce’s aviation committee, also asked that the bill be passed to “keep pace with the rapid growth of aviation.” Many private plane owners have expressed opposition to the proposal on the ground that “the State is not ready for such legislation.” A companion bill, which provides that a one-cent tax on aviation gasoline be used to administer the
control act, also would have to be speeded through the Legislature.
Honest Hoosier
CHILD WELFARE BILLS APPROVED
One Fixes Responsibility of Parents Over lllegitimate Youngsters.
Two of the three bills sponsored by the Child Welfare Association, a civic organization, have been approved by both houses of the Legislature. They were passed by the Senate
last night. One measure, setting up & code for adoption of children and defining the rights and duties of real and foster parents, was sent to a conference committee after it had been amended in the Senate. The other, which makes the parents of children born out of wedlock responsible for the children’s care and established the legal rights of the children, was sent to the Governor, The third measure, still awaiting final action in the Senate, modernizes statutes affecting the Juvenile Court and redefines its powers.
Pass 13 Other Bills Thirteen other House-approved
measures were also passed by the Senate yesterday. They would:
Give justices of the peace in
townships having cities of 100,000 population or more the right to employ a clerk at $100 a month salary.
Change technical specifications of dry cleaning establishment law. Provide for transfers of school children to tuberculosis hospitals and authorize $40 a semester for school tuitions. Give disabled war veterans with service-connected disability of 10 per cent or more a $1000 exemption from taxable property. Increase regulations governing reinsurance. Fix the term of Vermillion Circuit Court.
Cut Retailers’ Tax
Permit vehicles transporting explosives to be equipped with a red light similar to those used by ambulances. Cut the gross income tax rate to 1; per cent for retailers. Give school trustees the right to purchase real estate and erect and equip school buildings and to issue bonds without consent of the common council. Abolish the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief. A six-member commission to study wage-hour legislation and report to the 1943 Legislature also received final approval of the Senate after being passed by the House. Preserve the tenure and other rights of public school teachers who are called or who enlist in the armed forces of the U. S. Provide that the State pay onethird of the salaries and traveling expenses of teachers of vocational and technical subjects. Give township trustees, with the approval of the advisory board, the lauthority to issue bonds with which to construct and equip rooms or buildings for school or general
township purposes on a petition of 25 per cent of the legal voters of the township.
The Senate also passed a resolu-
tion memorializing Congress to approve a resolution pending before it to designate Oct. 11 as “General Pulaski’s Memorial Day.”
A measure proposing to set up a
Stamps Bill Paid’
DENVER, March 1 (U. P.).~There is a strange story about a nickel in Druggist Harvey DD. Radetsky's cash register, and Postmaster James O. Stevic said it proves all people basically are honest. Mr. Stevic received a letter yesday from “an American citizen by birth” in South Milford, Ind. It said that in September, 1912, the author had purchased a 2-cent stamp from a Denver druggist, and promised fo pay next day because the druggist couldn’t change a $20 hill. “Although the debt has been on my conscience all these years,” the letter explained, *I have never found time to repay it and trust that the enclosed nickel will pay the debt with interest.” The letter said the drug & store was on Larimer St. Mr. Stevie telephoned Mr. Radetsky, owner of the store, who knew nothing of a 2-cent debt. But, Mr. Radetsky explained, he'd purchased the
store in 1936 from the krother of Frank J. Lord, who owned it
tor of the National Chiropractic Association, will speak.
in 1912. Mr. Radetsky accepted the nickel.
savings and retirement plan for non-teaching school employees such as janitors and secretaries was defeated in the upper house by a vote of 25 to 19.
Study Budget Monday
Meanwhile, the House voted to take up the State budget at 2 p. m.,
| Monday.
The Integrated Bar Bill, sponsored by the Indiana Judicial Coun-
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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i MEETINGS TODAY
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MARRIAGE LICENSES ese lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in 1 and addresses.)
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bosis. Mary "L. Schakel. 7 0 chroniec_myocarditi 4, at 851 Loyal. caine Ril Ritchie Guynn, 72, at 101 N. Traub, Lille sho, 59, at Central, Ind.
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cil, was killed by the House today fon a vote of 50 to 12. Representa- | tive Winfield K. Denton (D. Evansville), Representative H. H. Evans (R. Newcastle) and others attacked the measure as “too drastic and leading to regimentation.”
BRITISH ALLOW FOOD SHIPMENTS TO SPAIN
Copyrizh?, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LoDo, March 1.—Large quantities of staple foodstuffs have already reached Spain as a result of the British decision to relax the rationing of food shipments to that country. Within a few weeks fresh shipments from the United States and South America are expected to put a definite end to the regime of starvation which the Spaniards have suffered during recent months. During the first six weeks of 1941 it was revealed today shipments included 183,000 tons of cereals, 14,000 tons. of sugar, 4000 tons of coffee, 7600 tons of cocoa. Between Feb. 17 and 24, the British provided certificates of free passage for a further 92,000 tons. of cereals; 2600 tons of sugar, 637 tons of fish and 486 tons of coffee.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Party cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Lowest temperature tonight about 20 to 25. Sunrise ...... 6:18 | Sunset ...... 5:37 TEMPERATURE —March 1, 1940—
6:30 a. m....30.38
ending I a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan Deficiency since Jan. 1 J MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Partly Ride and warmer tonight and tomorr
Ilinois—Partly cloudy ‘and warmer to-
night and tomorr:
Lower Michigan Partly warmer tonight and tomor: Shio Pais tonight and TAIT! not auite so cold in west and south portions tonight: warmer tomorrow. Kentu oky_ Fair, warmer in west and not quite. so cold in east Dortions tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
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Rep. Burt Summerland
The House gasped when Representative Burt Summerland took the floor to speak. He hadn’t delivered a speech before in the entire session. Representatives roared when he described a State agency as having “as much heart as a stick of night-club celery.” They stood up and cheered at the quality of his oration. It was the first speech of the session which had aroused such a demonstration. They then killed the bill he was espousing—a measure to set up a separate State board for chiropractors.
KNUDSEN URGES '000L-OFF" PLAN
Opposes Anti-Strike Laws, But Asks 40-Day Delay Of Walkouts.
WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P)). —Legislative suggestions by Director William S. Knudsen of the Office of Production Management to forestall national defense strikes today aroused speculation among House Judiciary committeemen considering anti-strike legislation on the possibility of a compromise. Supplementing this testimony before the Committee in which he opposed enactment of several drastic anti-strike proposals, Mr. Knudsen wrote Chairman Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.) suggesting a three-point plan calling for notice of intent to
strike and “cooling off” periods to prevent walkouts.
Wants Secret Sirike Votes
He indorsed mediation provisions of a bill by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D. Va.) which would provide that the U. S. Conciliation Service attempt to settle disputes, but recommended the following procedure in event conciliation efforts fail: 1. Notice of intent to strike in a defense industry shall be allowed only after a secret ballot conducted under supervision of the Conciliation Service shows at least 60 per cent of the employes favor a strike. 2. After notice is given, an OPM fact-finding committee will be given 10 days to study the issue and file a report. Strikes then must be deferred for 30 days during efforts to settle the dispute. 3. Failure to comply with the 30day delay will make the strike unauthorized and will forfeit the manufacturer's and the union’s rights before the National Labor Relations Board.
Sumners Makes No Comment
Rep. Smith said that Mr. Knudsen’s suggestions, “as far, as they go would improve my bill,” but pointed out that the OPM director
had ignored one of the main features of his proposal—a section to ban the closed shop in defense industries. Rep. Sumners refused to comment on the recommendations. Some juridiciary committee members, however, speculated on the possibility that Mr. Knudsen’s failure to mention this feature of the bill indicated that he had discussed the question of legislation with co-director Sidney Hillman and had obtained Mr. Hillman’s concurrence in the recommendations he did make.
ON LEASE BILL
{Only About Half Say It
Should Pass; 3 in 4 in -South Favor Act.
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J, March 1.— When H. R. 1776—the Lease-Lend Bill—came to a vote in the House
‘|of Representatives a fortnight ago,
observers noted one of the most striking sectional cleavages on any major legislation in months:. The Southern members voted almost solidly mma for passage of the bill; the Mid westerners strongly against it. - To what extent is the same sectional contrast to be found in rank- | and - file opin- | ion? Latest sec- (= ma tional studies by the American Dr. Gallup Institute of Public Opinion indicate that the differences are not nearly so pronounced as they have been upon the floor of Congress. In the 13 Southern states nearly three voters in every four in the Institute survey say Congress should pass the bill.. The remainder are divided among those definitely opposed to the hill, those undecided and those with particular qualifications attached to their replies.
About Half in Midwest
In the Midwestern states—roughly those states north of the MasonDixon line and between the Alleghenies and the Rockies—only about half say Congress should pass the measure, Backers of the bill are ahead in all sections of the country. Voters were asked whether they had read or heard of the measure (more than 90 per cent had), and such persons were asked: “Do you think Congress should pass this bill?” The sectional replies are as follows: Undec.
12%
Yes 52% 54 50
No Qual, 21% 15% 18 13 24 1
New England MidAtlantic East Central West Central South.... 73 6 West..... 57 19 11 Interviewing revealed that. of the three largest cities in the country, Chicago is by far the most closely divided on the merits of the legislation. Do you think Congress should pass this bill? v n-
dec.
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51 22 11 9
Yes New York City ... 55% Chicago .. 37 Philadelphia ... 60
FORMER GOVERNOR RUBY LAFFOON DEAD
MADISONVILLE, Ky. March 1 (U. P.).—Former Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky died at his home here early today of a paralytic stroke suffered Feb. 19. He was 73. Mr. Laffoon died at 2:45 a. m. His wife, three daughters and two sisters, were at his bedside. His death ended a political career of 40 years during which he held various. offices ranging from chairman of the local rating board to district judge and governor. Mr. Laffoon was born on a farm near Madison Mr. Laffoon ville, and as youth read law a that city. He attended washington and Lee University and returned to Madisonville to enter the insurance business and practice law. Mr. Laffoon, running as a Democrat, defeated William Harrison of Louisville for Governor in 1931. Ineligible for re-election, he returned to practice of law in Madisonville. His daughters are Mrs. C. H. Boyd and Mrs. W. R. Robinson, both of Madisonville, and Mrs. Ed Lindsay, Louisville, Funeral services will be conducted at the First Christian Church of Madisonville at 2 p. m. Monday. Mr. Laffoon will be buried in the Grapevine Cemetery.
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Bulgaria's adhesion today to the Triple Alliance is most, probably due to the influence of King Boris and to the desire of the Bulgar Government to recover from Greece an outlet on the Adriatic with the added possibility of obtaining from Jugoslavia territory lost in the World War. ously concerned by the new extension of German power in the Black Sea, which carries Hitler a long step nearer to the Dardanelles. When Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian Premier, signed the pact today at Vienna, he said his country intends to keep all friendships and agree-
Mr. Mason
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Russia must be seri-
ments with neighbors and to develop Bulgaria's traditional amity with
Russia. It would seem, however, that Bulgaria is substituting Germany for Russia as her new protector and counts on the Axis winning the war to gain territorial rewards.
Review of events which culminated in today’s action indicates that an inner struggle has been proceeding for some time among Bulgar leaders .regarding relations with Germany. On Oct. 28, when King Boris opened the Bulgarian Parliament he stressed friendship for the Axis and expressed “gratitude toward the great leaders of Germany
3g (and Italy for their initiative and
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friendly co-operation in connection with the Dobrudja annexation.”
Exactly two months later, however, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bulgarian Parliament, after a stormy session, overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to align Bulgaria with ‘Germany and Italy. King Boris immediately afterward conferred with Foreign Minister Popoff, who declared Bulgaria must protect her rights.
On January 12, Premier Filoff,
in a public speech, declared Bulgarians must ‘make sacrifices only
for Bulgaria and must remain revisionists by peaceful means, hoping Bulgarias other claims will be sete Popoff has been credited with being pro-British and Premier Filoff with favoring neither . belligerent. But, it would seem that desires for territorial expansion together with German arguments about victory turned the scales at Sofia and permitted the Bulgarian leaders to make their country a German satellite. It is not certain that Bulgaria's new subservience to Germany means the Fuehrer intends to start a quick offensive against Greece from Bulgar territory. There is still the possibility Hitler will hold that move in reserve, while trying to sustain Italian morale through other means.
and the Fuehrer may count on them to keep Italy going rather than by an attack against Greece.
Great Britain and thus automatcally defeat Gress,
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Dilling Sees Red at ‘Insult’
WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.) —Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, leader of “The Mothers Crusade Against Bill 1776,” today offered to let G-Men investigate child birth statistics and other records of her group to prove that Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) insulted the organization in more ways than one. . Mr. Glass has asked for an FBI inquiry to find out, among other things, whether members ‘of the group are mothers. Learning of this, Mrs. Dilling said heatedly: “That's the most insulting thing I have ever read.” The fiery, 83-year-old Virginian urged the investigation after 30 members of the “Crusade” staged a sit-down strike in front of his
| office at the Capitol yesterday in
protest against his support of allout: aid. for Britain. Police arrested Mrs. Dilling, Chicago coauthor of “The Red Network,” and Mrs. Clara Henryetta Nibberich, said to be from St. Louis. Both will face disorderly conduct charges in Police Court today. Mrs. Dilling was convicted on the same charge several days ago for her part in a similar demonstration at the Capitol. She was released on personal bond, however.
LINES DRAWN IN HEALTH BATTLE
State 1940 Report Reveals Degenerative Disease Toll Largest.
By JOE COLLIER
- Indiana’s 1940 health report, best of record, showed clearly the modern battle lines drawn between disease and the medical profession. All the major diseases about which the origin and cure are known claimed the smallest death rate in history, withous exception. All the major degenerative diseases, about
which relatively little is known, advanced to new high death rates. There is no way, Dr. John W. Ferree, State health director said, to pose more succinctly the great problem that medicine now faces It works out this way: Research finds the cause and cure of a disease. Then public health organizations, with epidemologists and health board officers and educational programs, bear down on control measures. So Life Span Increases
As these methods become more and more effective, the death rates for these diseases drop. As they drop, the life span increases. As the life span increases, more and more people live to be old ehough to be prey to the degenerative diseases, about which relatively little is known, and the death rates for these increase. More accurate diagnosis of the cause of death and better reporting
influence in the ever-rising degenerative disease death rate, and the increased responsibilities and hurlyburly of modern life also may affect it, Dr. Ferree said. The (following comparative ‘table shows the deaths per 100,000 population for non:degenrerative diseases
—all the lowest in history last year:
1930 1939 1940 veeees 659 407 391 33 1, 3
Disease Tuberculosis
Deaths to mothers during childbirth 10.1 39 189
6. 2. 5.5 70.5 15 1. 14 11
Dr. Ferree said that the records show also that infant deaths per 1000 live births last year was 41.9 as compared to 39.2 in 1939 and 57.4 in 1930, and that maternal deaths on the same basis were 2.5 last year, 3.6 in 1939 and 5.5 in 1930. The comparative table of degen-
45 15 3.6 60.7
erative disease deaths follows:
1930 1939 1940 +.+.104.6 115. 126.17 190. 256.3 315.4 111.6 135.8 146.3 Ir. Ferree credited the good health showing in other diseases to the co-operative effort of public health agencies, private physicians, educational work, the health benefits of the Social Security program, and better economic conditions.
Disease Cancer
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
TRIAL TRANSFERRED
Because of his request for a jury trial, the case of Stanley Milhous, charged with cruelty to animals, was transferred yesterday from magistrate’s court at Speedway to Criminal Court. Milhous was arrested Tuesday by State Police when they found three cows and a calf dead and three other cows on his farm weak from starvation. The trial was scheduled for last night at Speedway High School but was transferred by Magistrate Edward W. McElfresh on request of Milhous’ attorney, J. Stephen Fullen.
Increasing numbers of German Ci Wide soldiers are appearing in Bulgaria | . ;
The Nazis still expect to wed
LEGION CONTEST WON BY SHORTRIDGE PUPIL
Albert Losche of Shortridge High School will represent Indianapolis in the American Legion-sponsored Constitutional essay-oratorical contest. He won the zone finals yesterday at the World War Memorial, speakting on “The Preamble of the Constitution.” Second place winner was Georgia Paden of Broad Ripple, whose subject was “Safeguards of s | Democracy.” Other speakers were Nettie Norman, Crispus Attucks; James Faxlow, Manual; Susan VanTalge, Washington; George E. O’Connor, Tech, and Tom Reese, Howe High School.
BRANCHES
to the Health Board also have their
TWO DAYS AGO, Governor Schricker vetoed the two G. O. P, Attorney General “ripper” bills. Shortly after that, the Senate overs rode his objections, but since then there has been no other action, The 'Governor’s messages were sent to the House at that time, but haven'{ been read yet. And there’s a very good reason why. A fullblown “revolt” in the House left the G. O. P. with less than the 51
votes necessary to override a veto. It all goes back to the battle over Congressional reapportionment. The Republican Fifth District objected strenuously when it was handed heavily Democratic Madison County in the bill redistricting the State. Representative George Freeman (R., Kokomo) led a rousing fight on the House floor. He proposed that Fulton and Carroll Counties, from the overwhelmingly Republican Second District, also be given to the Fifth to offset Madison. But his motion lost. Then the G. O. P. legislators from the Fifth went into a caucus and instructed Rep. Lora Tudor (R. Upland), chairman, to pass along the word to the “high command”. that they would “stop some things over here” unless something was worked out on their demands. After a conference lasting most of the night, the high command passed the word back that something was being worked out. The conference was resumed last night. If the Fifth District boys are satisfied with what is “worked out,” the overriding of the Attorney General bill vetoes will fol low shortly. The Attorney General bills, abolishing the office, placing it on the ballot in 1942 and providing for the hiring of an interim attorney until that time, go into effect on April 1, and likely will mark the start of the expected legal battle over which party is to run the State House.
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Many Bills Dead
A GREAT MANY BILLS, especially in the House, are now dead. All the measures still in committee are automatically out of the running, unless the rules are suspended for them in at least one of the houses. Even of a measure were reported out today and
moved as rapidly as possible from stage to stage, it couldn’t reach final passage before adjournment. There also are hundreds of bills on second and third reading, legislative steps to enactment, that will wind up approximately where they now are. The House, for instance, has nearly 150 bills at these stages. But with liquor, budget and taxes still hanging fire, along with some other “must” measures, not many of them will get any more consideration.
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Rap Budget Costs
THE “WE-CAN'T-get-by-with= out-new-taxes” boys haven't given up yet. They say their “cut-the-budget - to - the-bone” colleagues are going to have to back-track. They say the $8,300,000 trimming the G. O. P. “midnight oil” financial committee gave the budget won’t stand up under the cold light of day and that some new revenue will have to be run in at the last minute. But the “rescue” levy won't be a sales tax. The sales tax proponents haven’t stuck their heads out since the farmers and laborers opened fire on them last week. What they indicate as likely to do the trick without too much trouble is a graduated increase in the gross income tax for wage earners —11% per cent for salaries up to $5000, 2 per cent from $5000 to $10,000, etc. And they're going to ask that the budget be cut more “uniformly.” They point out that some departments were slashed deeply —some too much—while others weren’t touched.
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Amend GCUR Repealer
THAT BILL requiring lobbyists to wear identification badges and file expense statements lost in the Senate yesterday. Said Senator Clyde Black (R. Logansport) : “Why, that expense account feature might keep a lobbyist from taking me to lunch. I vote no.” . « « Just to make certain that they don't lose WPA funds, surplus commodities foods, free school lunches, etc., totaling about $40,000,000 a year, the Republicans amended the repealer of the GCUR, certifying agency, to include a $1,200,000 appropriation for the functions which are transferred to the Welfare Department. Without these funds, the Welfare Department might not have been able to do the job and that might have caused the United States to withhold some big sums. . . . Both the House and Senate have regular gallery attendants now. In the former, it's the Townsend Club delegations, waiting for that much-discussed $40 monthly minimum bill to come down. In the Senate, it’s the representatives of Negro organizations calling for passage of the House-approved bill which prohibits discrimination against Negroes for employment in the defense industries.
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Printing Costs Soar
BECAUSE HOUSE and Senate committees have reported out most of the 980 bills introduced by members, the printing costs are expected to soar to record heights this session. All bills reported out by the committees are
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printed at least once in each - house; sometimes more. According to the House Judiciary . o Committee, it would cost $1000 to print a 65-page bill which they - have been considering. This would be $2000 if it were passed to the : - Senate and reported out of coms= mittee there. Of course, most of ‘the bills are smaller, a very few . . larger. But you get the idea of the cost. There's some talk that the $160,000 which the Legislature voted for salaries and expenses on the first day may run out and that $20,000 more may be needed. ‘-
Sidetracked
THE TOWNSHIP Trustees lob= - - by, one of the most powerful around the State House, will be very unhappy to learn that one of its pet measures has been side~ : tracked—possibly killed. It's the one that would consolidate small - townships and fragments left by defense projects in which the Federal Government took over . considerable land. It would elim=~ - inate about 119 townships. And, although nothing has been said - about it previously, it also would raise the salaries of most trus- - tees. Rep. Howard S. Steele (R. Knox) entered a motion yesterday that it be committed to the Com=mittee on Phraseology, Engrossment and Enrollment of Bills, On a feeble voice vote, his request was . granted. Mr. Steele is chairman -- of that committee. Even if he. holds it just over the ars - it’ probably will be long ehough, & 5 to ruin its chances.
Fee Bill Changed
SOME CHANGES have been made by the Senate in the bill to stop “fee - grabbing” by Marion ° County officials. As it left the House, the bill set only maximum salaries, which would have left i the pay up to the county council,
Now it provides salaries of from $7500 to $10,000 for the sheriff, clerk and treasurer, and $4000 to . $6000 for the recorder. In the case - of the treasurer, the law is to
Boetcher, treasurer - elect, completes the two-year term which won't start until next January. Fees which have skyrocketed the pay for these officials as high as - $25,000 a year will go to the County general fund if this measure is passed. . . . Another Indianapolis bill also is awaiting Senate action. It would increase the City’s tax rate for police pensions from 2 to 4 cents and increase the annual payments into the fund by policemen from $24 to $60 a year, ... Senate mem= bers also are ready to pass the House-approved resolution grante ing themselves special license plates numbered from 1 to 150 and carrying the letters “S. 'L.” (for State Legislator, of course),
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WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.). —The United States’ seizure of. 15 tons of foreign “propaganda” mail has brought diplomatic repercus= sions here, particularly from the Soviet Union, which claims that official publications of its government were involved, it was learned today. State Department officials said ° that the Soviet Embassy has protested the seizure but declined to give details. Officials at the Soviet Embassy would not discuss the report of a’ protest, but said that Ambassador -
the documents treated as “nonmailable” by American officials included official Soviet publications, They were addressed to universities, libraries, research institutions and. even to the Embassy itself, it was said. At the German Embassy it was: said reports had been received that for a long time certain German newspapers and magazines had not - arrived. :
——————————————— HOSPITAL CONCERT SET Paul F. Eggert, St. Catherine's Church organist, will play at the Catholic Vesper Service at 4 p. m, tomorrow at the Veterans’ Hospital, A group of boys from St. Catherine's Choir will sing. The service, which will be broadcast to patients over the hospital address system, will be . conducted by the Rev. Walter A, Nugent, chaplain.
TRANSIT STRIKE ENDS
HONOLULU, March 1 (U. P.).~— Honolulu Rapid Transit employees returned to work today, ending a strike called Feb. 1 for a Closed-shop-
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