Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1941 — Page 5

THURSDAY, MAY 15,

CLAIMS ERRORS . INHOUSE COSTS,

Bookkeeper Says Miieage Counted Twice; Puts Total Below "39.

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for miscellaneous items. Included in the $661.31 miscellaneous bill were $2.30 for the Bureau of Public Printing, $392.78 for printing, $15 for a rented adding machine, $4 for locks and $247.23 for office supplies. The Revised List Following is a list of '41 House expenses, as revised by Mr. Gossett, in comparison with the ’39 House expenses:

1941 bers.$61,122 } . 3.807

1939

Per diem of mem Mileage oh Officers & assistants Sterographers Engrossing department Doorkeepers and asSiStRALS ..... Post Office Loud speaker operator

7.875 3.360.75 3,865

r operators ... Ventilating engineer.. Night watchman Information clerk Cloakroom attendants Custodians ve Miscellaneous wet Extra compensation for

employees .... 2,806

Printing costs were cut sharply during the 41 session. The printing bill for the House during the last session was $11,509.88 as compared with $14,107.55 during the 39 session,

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LOT-FOR-LEASE DEAL OPPOSED

Critics Say Proposed County Trade Is lllegal, Uneconomical. (Continued from Page One)

building memorials now. That $5 000,000 must be spent for defense.” Senator Willis took a similar stand and issued this statement: “The Benjamin Harrison me=morial bill was introduced to carry to conclusion previous Congressional action creating a commission to ing has been estimated at between study the proposal and to make $300 and $450 monthly. | recommendations to Congress. Judge Cox also questioned the “Throughout the discussions prior legality of leasing the lawn on the to introduction of the present bill grounds that the Legislature granted | it seemed to be clearly understood the land to the County in 1822 “for | that no attempt would be made to the purpose of building a Court get Congressional appropriations

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LICENSE LOSS

2 Individuals Also Cited to | Appear Before ABC to Answer Charges.

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(selling or dispensing liquor after [hours and to non-members; May 26. Popularity Pleasure "Club, 438 Inselling or dispensing after hours, May 26. | The individuals cited were Joe | Matkovich, 2635 W. Walnut St., improper arrangement of curtains for visibility, and Carl J. Wuebler, 115 E. Wabash St., selling or dispensing after closing hours. Both are ordered | to appear before the Commission | June 10. Commissioners said the ‘checkup was ordered after numerous com- | plaints of alleged violations had been reported. Hugh A. Barnhart, excise administrator, said that every club in Indianapolis had been visited and that a large majority were found to be complying with the law. While |the checkup was in progress here, excise police also were checking liquor establishments in all other parts of the State, The Commission today also issued {citations for several northern Indiana establishments. Following a | hearing, if the Commission finds the | proprietors ‘or ‘clubs guilty as charged, they may ‘either assess| | fines or revoke the permits or both.

LUTHERANS ADOPT TRAINING PROGRAM

These members of the Indianapolis theatrical p rofessi of the Variety Clubs of America. Front row (left to right) are Abe Kaufman, Don Hasting, Carl Niesse, Back row (left to right) are John Kennedy, Sam Allen, Fred Heaton, Ken Collins, Vaughn Richardson, Marc Wolf, Ed Finnegan and Claude McKean.

Sacrifices Ahead, "Business

As Usual’ Over, Bankers Told

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fense Saving Bonds, commended the Federal and State policies of refusing charters for financial institutions in communities already having adequate banking facilities, and urged association members to ‘cooperate in improving conditions of their farm customers. Another resolution indorsed all legitimate ‘efforts to ‘effect economies in Federal, State and local governmental activities, Mr. Benner told the bankers that when the defense program was started last year, we had a large amount of excess plant capacity, a large volume of unemployment, abundant raw materials and prices relatively low, Today, he said, the slack has been taken up. Steel already is at approximately 100 per cent peace-time capacity, there is a shortage in the machine tool industry and in almost all kinds ‘of skilled labor.

Curb on Consumption

If ‘Government plans for a 60 per | cent increase in armament produc- | tion are met, Mr. Benner predicted, |

House.” County Attorney John Linder also said the “legality of using the Court House property for any purpose other than County business is questionable.” All three County Commissioners said the proposal merely was ‘being discussed.” Commissioner William Brown said “we have not gone into the proposition enough to make any definite statement.” Hohlt Non-Committal Harry Hohlt, chairman of the

merely suggested to them. “I have not investigated it,” he said. “The matter is in the hands of the County Attorney.” William Ayres, the Republican Commissioner, said he would favor some kind of a trade but indicated he was about to abandon the pro-

involved. The building proposed for lease is a three-story brick structure which has been vacant for about a year. It formerly was occupied by the |Baker Bros. Furniture Store and was used for two months last fall as all or most of national defense costs, Democratic headquarters. but additional revenue may be re-| Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvequired to cover ordinary expenses. hile Court first suggested rental of Nevertheless, he added, additional the building for his court and protaxes are meeded to regulate con- | dation agencies. However, he said sumption and prices. today that he would not favor the The big problem, Prof. Leland Proposed lease trade. . said, is to spread the increased taxes| when the new Juvenile Court so they will produce the | : GE revenue without upsetting our mcreasing our activities, the present economic balance. quarters in the basement will be Total taxes, he said, already press |inadequate,” he said. “We simply heavier on the $500-a-year income [can’t operate efficiently in the presclass than any other class until in- ent quarters. But I'm not for this comes exceed $10,000 a year. | plan.”

Commissioners, said the plan was]

posal because of the legal question |

needed [Jaw becomes effective next month, !

{during the defense emergency, al{though it has been pointed out that [in some respects the recommenda-

(tions of the commission fit into the |

| defense icture—particularly those | . A | b b y [servation service and rated as an

|dealing with conservation of woodlands. “I shall not ask for action on this {measure until a praper time-—which cannot come until this nation is completely free of the dangers which now beset our safety and security.”

Suggested Buying Home

The commission, headed by Stephen Noland, Indianapolis, recom= |mended purchase of the Harrison home in Indianapolis, erection of a Federal forestry laboratory in Marion County, and purchase of southern Indiana woodlands, as already planned by the Federal Government, to be named the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Forest. A nhew commis= sion, with a full-time secretary at | $6000 a year, is created by the bill. This measure was cited as a fine example of where economy could well be exercised in an editorial in The Evening Sun of Baltimore last night. The title of the Sun editorial was “Fine Thing for Indiana but Is It Essential to the Nation?” Outlining Senate bill, the editorial concludes: | “In mormal times we would raise no question as to the appropriateness of this memorial to ‘Kid-Glove’ { Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States. Certainly the establishment of a national forest seems a much more sensible memorial than the erection of a frock= coated piece of iron photography on the Capitol grounds. “But are these times normal? Mr. {Morgenthau has warned that they

the provisions of the |

VanNuys and Willis Suggest Delay on Harrison Memorial

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are not. Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce, has forecast a national debt of $90,000,000,000—a staggering sum. The President has called for an all-out effort for national defense. And this memorial project is a non-defense project. “Therefore, while we do not say that S.1374 lacks merit, we gravely question whether the nation can afford to spend $5.000,000-plus just now. Defense must come first. Though no woodsman, Mr. Harrison was a good enough lawyer to have understood the old adage about not seeing the wood for the trees.” Chairman Noland and the other commissioners found, however, that it was President Harrison who first launched the Federal forest con-

authority on the subject. It was the unearthing of this fact which caused them to recommend the forestry memorial, Mr, Noland Treported. Other members of the study commission were Mrs. William H. Schlosser, Franklin; Thomas McCullough, Anderson; Ross F. Lockridge, New Harmony, and J. Russell Townsend Jr. Indianapolis.

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MEN TO SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE, May 15 (U. P).— Large numbers of troops from Britain, consisting of Army, Navy and

Air Force detachments, arrived in Singapore yesterday to reinforce British Empire defenses in the Far East, a communique said today. Most of the reinforcements were for the Army and included infantry, artillery and service corps units, the communique said.

NEW BATTLESHIP READY PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (U. P) —America’s newest man-of- war, the 35,000-ton battleship U. S. S. Washington, will be commissioned today at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox heads a list of distinguished guests and was to make the main address.

42,500 IDLE IN AUTO STRIKES

‘Hudson Plant in Detroit and Four Flint G. M. Fagctories Closed. (Continued from Page One)

(of the Mediation Board panel | which handled the G. M. contro- | versy, scheduled an appointment (today with President Roosevelt. Mr. Swope has been reported as desirous of resigning. It was not | known whether he planned to discuss the G. M. situation with the President. The Board's proposal for settlement of the dispute was not made {public pending acceptance or ree | jection. Hold 18-Hour Session

G. M. officials said that a strike | would impede work on $750,000,000 {in defense orders, although union officials have said they would not call out workers on such jobs. William H. Davis, vice chairman (of the Mediation Board, announced {the postponement at 4:30 a. m.,, |after an 18%z-hour session comcludling 11 days of negotiatipns here. | Major obstacle was said to be union | demands for a 10-cent hourly wage increase. =» At San Francisco, shipyard opers= ators awaited replies from President Ropsevelt, the Office of Production Management and the Navy to appeals that they intervene in a strike { which has closed 11 shipyards. The (companies stopped work on $500,[000,000 in shipbuilding contracts when 1700 A. F. of L. and C. I. O. machinists struck Monday to enforce wage demands At New York, anthracite operators and officials of the United Mine Workers Union (C. I. 0.) postponed the deadline for a new wage con=tract to midnight Saturday. The deadline was postponed twice previ ously. Negotiations between the U. M. W. and the southern soft coal operators wee interrupted for an operators’ caucus. U. M. W. President John L. | Lewis has threatened a New York | stoppage in both northern and | southern soft coal fields unless an | agreement is reached by May 20.

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method, as inflation increases the Plans for a summer school Tor | most of the ‘defense program, retraining church workers were for- | sults in tremendous iniquities and | mulated today at the closing session | injustices and makes absolutely cerof the Indiana Synod of the United |tgin a severe depression after the

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current income, and fourth by a {system of priorities and rationing— | “the first step toward establishing a | totalitarian form of government.” Mr. Benner declared that in a full war ‘economy, there must be a na- | tional program for business, labor [and wages, as well as taxes. Labor [must be transferred from jobs unessential to the war program to the production of armaments. “There can be little or mo talk | about the maintenance of so-called | social gains when the nation's defenses are endangered,” Mr. Beaner warned. “There must be & wages policy which will be designed mot only to |; see that labor gets what we call in |i peace times a fair share of the total output, but it must be designed in such a way as will bring out the greatest efficiency of labor and at the same time not unduly interfere with the transition of industry from a peace-time basis to a war-time basis.” \ He added that we can't finance a war on a 2% per cent interest rate, but the rates need mot go over 3 per cent, and that on taxable bonds. Prof. Leland said the fiscal program for defense already has exceeded the met cost to the United | States of World War I, estimated at 36 billions. Our present volume of expenditure on military production was listed at the rate of about 13 billions a year, or more than ever |was spent by the Federal Governjt in any single year except 1918 and 1919. The increasing national income, |now approaching 90 billions a year, | | will produce probably enough under |

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