Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1941 — Page 6

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REASSESSMENT | L

ORDERED IN a

‘State Tax Boa After Charge of County Inequalities.

(Continued from Page One)

that it is desired that this also be|

completed in time to become cffective in 1943 but, “in our opinion a reassessment of improvement

should be thoroughly done, even if such reassessment does not become effective until 1944.

Seek Equitable Values The Board's order recounted that

Board os

it has heard evidence on inequali-,

ties of tax valuation

County and that it finds “that in order to maintain a just and equitable valuation, and a uniform and equal rate of assessment, that all the real estate located in Marion County be reassessed. “In making this order for re-| assessment, this board wishes to indicate to owners of property in distress, due to over-assessment,| that their pleas for reassessment are heard and recognized as just: | that such owners are entitled to| relief; and that in the manner here-| in set forth relief can be obtained.” The Board's order stated that the 1943 date was picked for the reassessment because of lack of preparations and insufficient available funds in the County general fund made it impossible to make the reassessment this year.

Urge Standard Plan

The Tax Board urged that the township assessors use a standardized plan and that the Marion County Council, in its meeting in September in 1942, make arrangements for meeting the costs of the reassessments. Joe Schmid, head of the Indianapolis Tapayers’ Association, who petitioned for the reassessment of enter Township, declared that “I think the Board has taken the sproper step. The people in Marion County are entitled to it. The situation in Center Township is terrific because of inequalities.” Carl Dortch of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, which had opposed the assessment this year, said the Board's order would make it possible for all preparations to be made before the assessment begins.

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War Moves Today

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teet British interests, the Turks will,

rest easier. In that event, Germany will have suffered a diplomatic defeat in the Middle East. Should the British policy show weakness in Iraq, which does not appear likely, the Turks will regard the situation with uncertainty at least. In that event, the Germans will expect to gain some advantage in the present struggle for influencing Turkish policies. A clash between the British and the Iraq Governments, if it continues for any considerable time, must make the Turkish military authorities uneasy regarding their disposition of troops. They cannot afford to leave their frontier bordering Iraq unprotected in the event of the pro-German Iraq administration gaining power.and prestige. Any such disquietude at Turkish General Staff. headquarters would be advantageous to Germany, at the present time, when a Turkish army is mobilized before the German

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MEASLES EPIDEMIC WANES WASHINGTON, May 2 (U. P.) — The measles epidemic is beginning to wane, the Public Health Service reported today. The outbreak, which reached epidemic proportions on March 1 when 50,000 cases were reported, has been of a mild type.

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G. 0. P. Brief Charges Suits ‘Challenge Solemn’ Will Of the People.

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with the G. O. P. appeal from a Circuit Court injunction blocking appointments by Republican-domi-

nated boards under “ripper” laws passed by the recent Legislature. The high court has said it will rule on the constitutionality of the laws when it hands down its opinion in the appeal. The Democratic brief will be filed within a few days and oral arguments set by the court. | Meanwhile, the new laws have been in effect for two days, and the McNutt Act under which the state had operated since 1933 was dead. Scores of legal problems have been raised which will be settled by the Supreme Court's opinion, In their brief supplement, the Republicans claim that “on the basis of plain wording and intent of the Constitution and of decisions of the Indiana Supreme Court itself, the new acts are in every respect constitutional and valid beyond peradventure of doubt.” Their contention is further attested by “contemporaneous construction of the Constitution by the Legislature and by other depart ments of government including the present ‘Governor when he was a Senator and a Lieutenant Governor,” according to the brief. “No amount of sophistry and no zeal for personal power can change the plain truth that these statutes are in every respect valid expressions of the sovereign will of the people within the legislative department of their government,” the brief reads. “These statutes are appropriate and valid means to carry into effect the change ordered by the people at the last election in the administrative affairs of the state. This litigation, though pretending to be brought on claims of unconstitutionality, is in reality a

of the people validly expressed by their freshly chosen representatives in the lawmaking body.” The G. O. P. charged that the maximum of legislatively conferred power was “heaped on the Governor by the 1933 McNutt act,” and that the people in 1940 elected a Legislature to “undo the setup, and the laws now in question were enacted to carry in effect the change ordered by the people.”

Court Power Doubted

The only power taken from the Governor by the new acts, the brief states, is the power given him by the 1933 act and “whether he should be ‘stripped’ thus was eclusively for the people, through their Legisla- | ture, to say and it is not within the | power of the courts to thwart the | will of the people thus expressed. “The present Governor, who claims it is now unconstitutional to| end tenures in Jegislatively-created offices, was a Senator who supported the 1933 McNutt act. Appar-| ently at that time there was nol provision in the Constitution that would be violated by a provision! ending tenures. The Constitution has not changed any since then and we are unable to find any provision of the Constitution that is| violated by the provision terminat-| ing tenures. “Can it be that this section of the Constitution is not violated when a majority in the Legislature] of one political faith passed an act ending all tenures but that it is violated when the tenures of a lesser number are terminated by an act passed by a majority in the Legislature of another political faith?” It also charged that the McNutt act was passed to give “prompt effect to the change in government voted by the people in 1932,” but “those whose tenures

showed proper deference to the will of the people and did not seek injunctive relief to hold their jobs.” In answer to the Democratic charge that the Lieut. Governor is a legislative and not an administraive officer, the brief cited a decijon by Federal Judge Robert C. Raltzell here which held that the Lieut. Governor could be given administrative duties and powers.

kitten which was thoroughly frightened. He shoved the chair again at the kitten. Then the kitten turned and jumped from the stand and ran through the bars. Emmett, in pretended horor at the kitten being loose among the customers, ran hysterically to the side of the cage and madly scrambled to its top, let himself over and down and scurried after the long-gone kitten. It brought down the house—or, more properly, the tent . Nobody saw the other acts. That's how Emmett is. You can’t tell what he'll do impromptu when he appears with the circus which will show at the KeystoneSoutheastern show grounds tomofrow and Sunday at 2 p. m. and 8 p. m. Of course, Emmett is not the only attraction. There will be 384 other performers, and a mile-long train of equipment, all to be unloaded early tomorrow in the State Street yards at Fletcher Ave.

direct challenge to the solemn will |

Cole Bros. Circus to Give Sgturday and Sunday Shows

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struggle were believed enhanced by the evacuation of the bulk of the B. E. F. from Greece to North Africa, where it was rapidly preparing for new battles. The fact that Hitler appeared fo be concentrating more and more on a big-scale assault in the Eastern Mediterranean, with one drive believed likely to move through French Syria, was regarded as a prelude to a show down on whether Turkey will oppose or collaborate with the Nazis. Iraq controls the backdoor to Turkey, Syria and the important British bases in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It has important British-owned oil deposits and is a key to Middle Eastern routes to India. Habbaniya, where the fighting was reported to have begun, is 65 miles from Baghdad on the Buphrates River and is not far from the Syrian frontier. The British demanded that the Iraqi troops be withdrawn to prevent “incidents.” Reports from Axis news sources claimed that instead of bowing to the British demand the IrageGovernment delivered an ultimatum, calling on the British to remove the Imperial forces—largely troops from India—which have been landed in the last 10 days. The prospect that Turkey's position may soon be clarified arose from Berlin reports that German Ambassador Franz von Papen has left the German capital after lengthy consultations with Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He is believed to be en route to Ankara. There have been indications that Turkey, despite her alliance with Britain, is swinging more and more

ARTISTS OF STATE DRAFT SHOW RULES

Indiana artists will meet at John

morrow to discuss the rules and

regulations of the annual Indiana Show,. the first in 12 years. The meeting will be held during the preview of the 1941 show and all artists who have exhibited in former shows are asked to attend. “The artists make their own regulations for these annual exhibits, Director Wilbur Peat said. “The Art Association conducts the exhibits in accordance with rules laid down by artists.” While the main features of the procedure as mapped 12 years ago are still in accord with best practice of similar shows in the United States, Mr. Peat is desirous that any person who has suggestions for the future be given a chance to voice them, he explained.

‘ESQUIRE OFFICIALS

FACE FRAUD CHARGE

(U.P.).—The |

CHICAGO, May 2 | Federal Grand Jury today indicted | 12 officials of Esquire Magazine, New York brokers and others for alleged violation of the Federal Securities Law and using the mails to defraud. Thomas B. Hart, SEC Attorney, said David A. Smart and his brother, Alfred, president and secretarytreasurer of the magazine, had made a profit of $1,175,000 on the alleged illegal transaction. They were charged -specifically with using the mails and using means in insterstate commerce and the New York Curb Exchange to effect a series of transactions in stocks of Esquire-Coronet, Inc., which created actual and apparent trading in the stocks and raising prices.

I. 0. HEAD URGES HIGHER EXEMPTIONS

(Earlier Story, Page 18)

WASHINGTON, May 2 (U. P.).— C. I. O. President Philip Murray proposed today that the $3,600,000,000 in next taxes be raised by increased levies on high incomes, estates and corporation profits, and that individual income tax exemptions be restored to $1000 for single persons and $2500 for married couples.

Dorothy Herbert, a daring rider;

Sisters, in their first U. 8. appearance. There will be a $150,000 horse show, new this year, and a men-

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toward a position of neutrality with the movement of Nazi troops into Greek islands along her coast and into Greek Macedonia only a few miles from the Turkish frontier,

What proposals von Papen may lay ‘before President Ismet Inonu are not known. Some British opinion inclines to the belief that the Germans will sidestep Turkey in the development of their pincers attack on Suez. In the Far East there was a naw outburst of Japanese radical agitation, apparently designed to bring pressure on the Tokyo Government for a stronger stand against Britain and the United States and resumption of the drive into the South Pacific. Posters appeared on Tokyo street corners declaring: “Arm the entire nation; advance with a strong policy toward the United States.”

8200 Captured, Nazis Say

The war in the Balkans was over— except for what scattered guerrilla fighting that may be carried on in the mountains of Jugoslavia and Greece. Australian War Minister P. C. Spender said that evacuation of the Imperial Expeditionary Force had been completed with the withdrawal of 43,000 of the original 56,000 men. He said that 3000 to 4000 troops, few of them Australians, were left on the beaches of Greece because the speed of the German drive to the southern Greek coast made it impossible to rescue them. The Germans claimed that they had taken 8200 B. E. F. prisoners, most of them said to be Anzacs. The Germans estimated that twothirds of the British force in Greece had been lost. They asserted that their sinkings of shipping in Greek harbors and waters exceeded 300,-

Iraq Shelling R.A.F. Center, London Says: : British Drive Back Axis Attack at Tobruk

000 tons and that one British transport had been sunk and another captured by armed forces

which cut through to the coast of the Gulf of Corinth. The British placed casualties at sea in the course of the evacuation at about 500. The United Press staff correspondents with the B. E. F,, Richard D McMillan and Henry T. Gorrell, cabled another graphic account of the evacuation. They reported that the B. E. F. rapidly was being prepared for more fighting, having escaped from Greece after fighting Nazi parachutists and exhausting its ammunition in an effor to halt the endlessly advancing German columns. Australia’s Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies said in London that when he comes to the United States shortly he will tell Americans that aid on a large scale is needed to shorten the war. Prime Minister Churchill shuffled his cabinet forthe critical days ahead. He put Frederick James Leather, a political unknown; in charge of the key Ministry of Shipping and Transport. Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher, was removed from his post as Minister of Aircraft Production and given a roving assignment as sort of “Assistant Prime Minister.” There was no clear description of his function but apparently he will spark critical war production efforts. The vital aircraft production post went to Lieut. Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, an air specialist. In Milan Mussolini's newspaper, Popolo d'Italia, claimed that the United States now is a “100 per cent” enemy of the Axis. The German air force attacked Liverpool in a brief sharp raid last night.

DEFENSE URGE

F. D. R. Appeals to OPN Heads for Step to Help: Win Production Battle. © (Continued from Page One) :

‘|know that this increase has beén

caused by the hard work of youtselves, of your associates, and of the men who manage and work in the plants throughout the nation. But it is not enough.

“It is essential that industry con tinue to increase the number of vital machines manufactured ahd that every single machine in United States be used the maximum number of hours each week. + “Every effort should be made fo utilize to the very limit those crit=ical machines; if they. be in de=fense plants, by increased hours of operation on the work at hand; if in other plants by finding defense items or parts of them to ‘make qr, as a last resort, by moving the tools to defense plants where they may be urgently needed. “Workers and managers will, - i1 believe, join with you with - spirit and determination in pursuing amd achieving this goal at the earliest possible moment,” The President sajd that the aitomobile industry is pursuing . program to turn to defense uses is many as possible of its vast Pool of machines. Auto manufacturers already. ate turning out parts for fighting y. afe and bombers, and have been doing so for several months, Mr. Roosevelt said at a press conference; He added that he could not cite statistics to illustrate precisely te what

extent the industry is participating in the defense effort.

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