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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 126

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1941

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Potsoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

HINT CHURCHILL VISITING F.D.R.

15:GENT JUMP IN TAXES HERE MAY BE ASKE

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Higher Tax Rates Also, Likely, Says George: Must Find More Revenue.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. Chairman Walter F. George Ga.) of the Senate Finance Com- | mittee, predicted today that the tax; bill will be restored to its original $3529, 000000 g o a i through approval of lower exemptions and higher rates on individual incomes, The House passed the bill S terday after reducing its total to $3,206,200. - 000 by eliminating the controversial joint husband and wife income return were: provision proposed by the Ways and ip relief has dropped Means Committee. 40 per cent from comparable levels Strong Administration pressure of a vear ago in the Arst six months and the influence of representatives! of Continuation of this from states with community propa $400000 erty laws were responsible for rejection of the proposal. nereased allotments of gaso-! Senator George, whose committee funds to Indianapolis and starts consideration of the bill to-| miv next vear will in- morrow, did not sav how much he | -evenues by about $500.- thought the exemptions should be 000. This revenue may be used for lowered or how high the rates property tax reduction. ‘should be set. As passed by the 3. Valuation estimates indicate a House, the bill provided surtaxes boost of from $8.000.000 to $10,000,000 starting at 3 per cent on the first in taxable property next year, {taxable dollar, and exemptions of | $800 for single persons, $2000 for {married couples and $400 for each

of C. Says Increases Loom Despite Chances For Reduction.

increase in the 1942 ship property tax rate will be proposed by City, County) and township officials, boosting the total rate to $3.36 per $100 valuation, |: the Chamber of Commerce predicted | :: today At the Hooiser nicipal rising already creases. In

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Center Towns

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time, a survey of: ci the Indiana MuLeague showed a definite tax rate trend, with six cities; committed to budget in-

ts studv of the tax problem here, the Chamber found three possibiliti tax rate reduction despite what it termed unprecedented demands for increases. The possibilities

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Seek Wage Increases

“These facts notwithstanding,” the child 1amber’s analysis said, “it appears : The yi ublic OfRCIATS. str ih Senator George did sav, however. | the demands of various pressure that he felt the 4 per cent normal! groups will propcse for next year a income tax rate should be reduced combined _ propert v tax rate in In-/for the new taxpayers who would dianapolis. Center Township, of at be reached by lowering the exempleast 83 36 15 cents more on each tions. £100 assessed valuation than the He did not believe his committee present rate. would attempt to restore the manBudget demands are likely to ex- datory joint return. It had been ceed £1500000 the amounts (Continued on Page Two) i granted for this year. according to; Largest of ‘the increased request, the Chamber predicted, would be for wage increases for public employees Other demands Chamber expected budgets are: Expe conducting local elections next , additional outlavs for the old-age assistance program which was liberalized by the Legis- Times Staff Writer lature sed demands for police. PENDLETON, Ind. Aug 5.and firemen’s pension funds due 10 gyidier dies: there is a military fe ive action. and costs of med- : { ical examinations of school teachers neral. | and free medical care for policemen And then a heart-broken mother and firemen as mandated by the takes the flag from the grave to Hy cherish as a last memory of her son.

Other Estimates Up Mrs. Mary Foster, like the mothers iid ‘ i i : of history, took her flag home and Citing an impending Federal tax

Increase of $15,000000 for Indianap- carefully tucked it in a corner olis residen alone next vear, the ©f her dresser drawer. Her son. Chamber urged all taxpavers to as- Private Carl Bert McClellan. was A offic ials “who conscien- buried last Friday at Ft. Knox with k to hold down appropria- military honors. He had been wounded fatally in the tax a guard house riot. Mrs. Foster had to that just returned to her modest home i polis and Mar- on the outskirts of Pendleton with according to the Mu- the developed prints of pictures she nicipal League survev. had taken of her son three weeks Mishawaka officials have planned ago wien a telegram told of his raises in pav for police and firemen death. ranging from 13 to 20 per cent, $5. After the funeral and nonthiv raises for clerical workers first flood of grief (Cantinued on pase. hy

analvrsis.

Mother Forgives I Son's Death in Ft. Knox Riot

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Today she opened and then sat down to her writing

WASHINGTON. desk.

Aug. leaders

5 (UU. P)— expect the' . Nbc bs ; approve extending the I You Find Him—

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ation men she today They though the final vote would “I would like to hear from you be 2 to 1. Before it is taken the 2bout the accident that took the Senate votes—not later than 1 p. m.|Son I love so much. There have (Indianapolis Time) on the substi- een so many reports.” tute proposed by Sen. Robert A. Taft! And then she told Col. Briscoe (R. 0), which would authorize re- she had heard that thev were frytaining selec only six months Ing to find the one who shot her after one vear of training and Na- Son. tional Guardsmen and Reservists “If you find him” she wrote, for one vear more. “please do not do anything to him. The Taft substitute would limit It would only break another the Armv to 2000000 men. The mothers heart. And it would not Administration backed measure im- bring back my son to me.” noses no limit. Mrs. Foster asked the Colonel if he didn't think 330 boys in one

BAD TIDINGS—POLICE guard house were too many. But to

show that she held no hard feelBUY 25.000 STICKERS ings she added: “When my boy was home three Rad neus for traffic violators was weeks ago he said he liked it fine seen in an order placed by the at camp and he spoke weil of you.” Police Department today And she brought her letter to a, The order calls for 25.000 sets of climax—what she really was trying. traffic stickers, to be used with the tO say: opening of the new Cafeteria Court, “I pray that you will take good | next month, Each set contains a care of the boys at your camp— |

ard. to be given to the motorist, God bless you. iE thtee AOC copies. Col. N. Butler Briscoe of Ft. Knox

| should get the letter sometime to-| morrow. |

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TIMES FEATURES | 1oLD DRIVER IN CRASH

ON INSIDE PAGES

Defeat of Joint Income Issue l S. INFLATION

Opens Lower Exemption Fight

icorrect handling of the branches.”

| Bradford explained.

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Millett Movies Obituaries . Pegler Pyle Radio Mrs, Roosevelt 13 Serial Story...19 Side Glances. .14 Society Sports \ State Deaths. . Travel

Clapper . Comics Crossword Editorials Mrs. Ferguson Financial .... Flinn 14 Forum 14 Homemaking . In Indpls . 3 Inside Indpis 13 Jane Jordan. .18 chnson «..ovildy

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FATAL TO FIREMAN

Tonev Hodge. 31, of 1311 College | Ave, driver of a truck involved in|

‘a collision with a fire truck which |

proved fatal to Fireman Leo J]

Lindauer, was ordered held for the Grand Jury on an involuntary man-| slaughter charge in Municipal Court today. George G. Rinier, judge pro tem. set bond at $1000. The accident ve- | curred July 19 at 13th St. and Sen-|

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"WARNING. GIVEN You'll Pay—] BY HENDERSON

| {Here Is W hat House Version of Bill Will Mean to You.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P). —Following are typical examples of | the sharply increased income taxes that individuals would have to pay next vear under the House-approved

tax bill. {on the bring of inflation.’ The amounts of income shown| ge said that even though Conin the first column are before the gress acts immediately on the Ad-| personal exemption is deducted ministration’s price control bill, on| ($800 for a single person, $2000 for| which he was the first witness, the a married couple, plus $400 for each prevention of inflation will require a | dependent). They do not take into tremendous effort. He said Presi-| account any deductions which may dent Roosevelt realized that runbe permissable on account of in- away prices would work great hard-| terest paid, contributions, etc, ship on the people and the nation’s | whieh would reduce the tax.

{economy He traced the settil ! I SINGLE PERSON WITH NO I aL wie DEPENDENTS

Prices Nearly as High as 1929— ‘And That Is Too High,” He Says. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P).— Price Administrator Leon Henderson

{told the House Banking Committee (today the United States “stands now

| price control office; its problems and | | needs. Thanks Businessmen New Tax $1540 110.00 473.00 1.469 680 25.000 7.073.00 100.000 54,168.40

MARRIED COUPLE, NO DEPENDENTS

Present Tax 84 40 4400 171.60 686.40 4 252 60 44 268 46

Income 1.000 2.000 5.000 10.000

“We soon needed something besides talk to check inflationary prices; several weeks ago it became overwhelmingly evident that the situation required something more than co-operative price schedules,” | Mr. Henderson said. “I felt the time had come for the President to ask Congress for specific | egislation for control of commodity prices,” he continued after plimenting business on the operation shown thus far.’ 308.00 “I know we face volatile and dy1186.00 namic forces bringing us into in6.50540 flationary status,” he said. 14,128.40 2000240 1 say to you we stand now 43,476.40 53,310.40 (the brink of inflation,” he said.

MARRIED COUPLE, TWO Prices Up 20 Per Cent

DEPENDENTS Mr. Henderson said that the gen- | $wus, eral price level in the United States! New Tax had increased 20 per cent since the | $11.00 outbreak of hostilities in Europe, 20240 land created a “critical” condition 998.80 by February of this vear. 6.12700) He said that since German forces |

19,527.20 swept across Poland, the price of 52,738.40

28 basic U. S. commodities shot up! an average of 50 per cent. “Furthet|

increases” may be expected in the immediate future, he added. Marsh Auto License Aid Despite Conflict in

“We are now knocking at the] door of the price level of 1929. which | Party Alliance. By NOBLE REED

I consider too high,” Mr. Hender- | son continued. Continuation of the W. Harrison Marsh, who was appointed by Republican Coun ty

trend would bring into play “de‘structive forces of infiation which inevitably idl war.” he _added. i= Chairman James Bradford as assistant manager of all auto license! branches in Marion County, has

Boy | Is Drowned ILLEGAL LIQUOR Near Kingan Plant, SALE IS PROBED

Eleven-year-old Ray Calloway was drowned this afternoon in seven the Democratic party during that time, it was learned today.

feet of water in White River near Blue Charges “Stverd Beer the Kingan plant. : The youth, who lived at 16 Plum Wholesalers Supplied Unlicensed Club. Rumblings of discontent among several thousand Republican job seekers began to be heard only a

St, had been swimming in the river Records found in a raid on few hours after the appointment

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New Tax $38.50

Present Tax $11.00 110.00 528.00 3.84340

Income

2,500 5.000 10,000 25.000 50.000

100.000 mm

Present Tax £0.00 74.80 440.00 3.570.680 13.741 .20 42943 49

Income 3.000 5.000 10,000 25,000 50.000 100.080

w inston Churchill

the appointment was “strictly nonpolitical” and that Mr. Marsh was selected because of his expert knowledge of auto license machinery. Mr. Marsh had been assisting for several vears in the auto license distribution work in Marion County under the Demecrats. “Mr. Marsh was selected purely for | technical reasons in order to insure

with several other children. | Suddenly, he shouted for help and began struggling, drowning before help ad reach him. North Side club showed that ie bodv was recovered a few i : ; minutes later but efforts of a police 6] | InG/ANAPONS., beer Whn/esdlens emergency squad and physicians to have been selling beer Fosui Aris lo resuscitate he Jotith were } fublie lan unlicensed retailer,’ Prosecutor 9 Te Sherwood Blue said today. was made vesterda. Chairman Bradford could not be Names of the wholesalers, he said, | reached for comment today, but his [were turned over to the Alcoholic | G. O. P. associates explained that Beverage Commission for citation on law violations. HEAT 10 CONTINUE The prosecutor led a raid on the Olive Pleasure Club, 69th St. and Bn Sylvan Drive, south of Ravenswood, last night and arrested William Bar. Vegetable Grogs. Pastures rett, the alleged proprietor, on i charges of illegal sale of beer and Hit Hard by Drought. ire Twenty cases of beer and some whiskey were confiscated. LOCAL

TEMPERATURES | 1 10a m. . 80 Ham .... 8 12 (noon) .. 83 Sam .... 75 1pm . 85

The Weather Man Man today offered was filed in the court of Magisno encouragement to Marion Coun- trate Edward M. MecElfresh in| ty farmers who have been scanning Speedway City. His bond was set the skies for signs of rain needed at $500 pending a hearing. to relieve their parched corn crops. The forecast for this afternoon

Accompanying Mr. Blue on the| raid were members of his staff and

Tam state excise police officers, who said

one Republican 2 8am .... 14

associate of Mr.

{many years.

“The job is purely political The affidavit against

patronage, but at least one expert is needed regardless of his polifics.” Mr. Bradford was appointed Marion County auto license branch manager by Secretary of State James Tucker several weeks ago when the latter took over the Bureau under a 1937 law. Mr. Marsh had been recognized as a City Hall Democrat for years and

; books in the office of the proprietor | was for 90 degree temperatures and showed that several wholesalers | for tonight and tomorrow's outlook had been furnishing beer for the is fair to partly cloudy with little establishment for many years. The | has been given the concessions in change in temperature. club is located outside the city] three City parks by Democratic ad-! To the possibility of a large Mar- limits and therefore is not qualified | ministrations, |ion County corn Joss came the warn- under the law to get any Kind of Politicians who previously had! ing of County Agent Abbott that liquor or beer license. been connected with auto license the total damage to pasture and “All the wholesalers well knew | branches here claim the net revenues vegetable crops due to the heat and that the club did not have a license | administrators run into “four !dry weather would be “a large fig- and could never get one because of figures” annually. jure in dollars and cents.” [its location,” Mr. Blue said.

“E MEIN KAMPE....0... -amenick

By FRANCIS HACKETT

RANCIS HACKETT, eminent historian and expert in world affairs, author of “Henry VIII” and “Francis I,” takes Hitler's book, analyses it with special reference to its bearing upon the destiny of America and Americans.

ITLERR has put his intentions down in writing. They include, as only one step in his scheme, the subjugation of the United States. He has stated this in Mein Kampf, the blueprint of his strategy of world conquest,

This series of 12 articles from Mr. Hackett's book will appear daily, beginning Monday, August 11, in

The Indianapolis Times

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Buy Bar or For False Alarms

A “false alarm bear trap” intended to make life miserable for persons sending in false fire alarms has been purchased by He | Safety Board. | The device, attached to a fire | box, sets up a loud shrieking the

| moment someone pulls the alarm lever. Thus. anyone in the vicinity who isn't deaf will know a fire alarm has been sent in and, Board members hope, will be curi-

ous enough to take a good look |

at the sender The police will do the rest if the alarm is false, |

MRS. BERTERMANN, FLORIST'S WIFE, DIES

Couple Had Celnatad 41st Anniversary July 27.

HISTORIC TALK [5 RUMORED ON YACHT AT SEA

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Prime Minister Can’t Attend Commons, Says Aid; ‘With Hopkins,” Say Other British; Washington Won’t Say Yes or No.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Cryptic statements by British sources indicated today,

‘that Prime Minister Winston Churchill possibly is making lan epic trans-Atlantic flight to confer with President Roose« | velt. | There was no official confirmation or denial either in London or Washington but it was considered possible that ‘Churchill, Harry L. Hopkins and Mr, Roosevelt already may ‘be conferring aboard the Presidential yacht, Potomac, off ‘the northeast coast, If Churchill has left Britain's war bastions for a prece-'dent-breaking meeting with Mr. Roosevelt, it seemed appar+ ‘ent that the Anglo-American leaders are laying plans for ‘acceleration of a co-ordinated offensive against Adolf Hitler, based, perhaps, upon Hopkins’ conferences with Josef Stalin lin Moscow, No Confirmation or Denial

Nothing quite like the hinted Roosevelt-Churchill meet ing on the high seas off the Atlantic coast has occurred before. All official Washington sources were silent on the rumors, neither confirming or denying the reports. Unusual secrecy surrounded the President’s departure ‘on his “newsless” cruise Sunday. No reporters were allowed to accompany him and the White House requested that the President be allowed complete freedom and secrecy on his ‘week's cruise to “ah undisclosed destination.” A

Attlee Reveals Mystery The possibility of a Churchill trip to the United States ‘was raised by a statement in the House of Commons by Maj, ‘Clement Attlee, Labor Party spokesman, member of the | British War Cabinet and the Prime Minister's deputy in the {House of Commons. Attlee said that Churchill did not find it convenient to be present for a full-dress House debate upon war conduct, Only a matter of highest import would cause Churchill to absent himself from the House on such an occasion, The exact time of the debate has not been revealed — ne ‘announcement is made in advance—but it is presumed that 'the debate is scheduled for this week. Ordinarily such a debate would start today and continue through Wednesday since Parliament's main deliberations usually are held on ‘Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Did Hopkins Go Too? The announcement by Attlee followed a hint by the London Daily Mail, attributed to official sources, that a “very, ‘high personage,” probably Churchill or Lord Beaverbrook, was flying to the United States to confer with Mr. Roosevelt, The Daily Mail is Lord Reaverbrook's newspaper, There has been no hint from London officially as to | Churchill's plans. But it seemed likely that he might be under way or already with Mr. Roosevelt. There also was a possibility that he was accompanied on his flight to the Western Hemisphere by Harry L. Hope king, Mr. Roosevelt's lease-lend administrator, just back from 'a flying visit to Moscow where he discussed war needs with Josef Stalin.

Hopkins’ whereabouts since his return from Moscow

Mrs, Irwin Bertermann, wife of have been a mystery. After exhaustive inquiries the United

(the club had been operating there he president of Bertermann Broth- Press was informed by Briti s Co. florists, died last night in|

her home. 5881 Washington Blvd. Active in community and civic affairs, Mrs. Bertermann was born. lin Greenfield, the daughter | James P. and Hannah Gwynn Gal- |

Prosecutor Blue said records and breath, two of the early families of |

Hancock and Wayne Counties. She attended schools here and in| Greenfield and St. Ann's Academy at St. Paul, Kas. | Mrs. Bertermann was an early worker in the woman's division in the Community Fund Motor Corps fand the Women's Army. She had [received recognition during the last! World War for her work in the Red | Cross surgical dressing division. She had been an Indianapolis resident 42 years. She and Mr. Bertermann had celebrated their {41st wedding anniversary July 27, | She was a member of the Second | Presbyterian Church, Meridian Hills Country Club, the Irvington Dramatic Club, the Pioneer Society of i Indiana and was a pioneer member of the Women's Society of American Florists. Survivors besides her husband are two sons, John and William Bertermann; a daughter, Miss Betty Bertermann; one sister, Mrs, Minnie M. Dudding of Greenfield, and three grandchildren, Private funeral services will be held omorrow at the residence.

RETAIL FOOD PRICES UP 1.59% IN 2 WEEKS

Reteil food prices increased 1.5 per cent more during the last two weeks of July and now are almost 16 per

cent above August, 1939, the Bureau of Labor Statistics 4 id today.

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sh quarters today that “vou will find Hopkins where Churchill is.’ Officially Hopkins is supposed to be “resting’ somewhere Britain, |

Soviet Offensive Expected

By UNITED PRESS

Exploratory cow-Leningrad railroad and the Ukraine capital of Kiev {British reports circulated that Russia's |be in preparation. | London reported

Nazi steel columns pushed out toward the main Mose today and first offensive of the .war may

that in three weeks of constant battles Soviet forces have finally brought the Nazi attack in the Smolensk area to a standstill, 235 miles {rom Moscow. | North of ‘Smolensk, however, sive of their own that would compel a Nazi threat of undetermined | Moscow to divert some of Gen, strength, was building up east of the Stern's troops. Porkhov-Nevel line where the Ger-| The German thrust toward Kiev | mans had been stalled for about still was in progress with little ine two weeks. Moscow indicated that|dication how rapidly it may be dee the German drive had slowed again |veloping. The Soviet communique after driving east to Kholm, 115 continued to mention fighting in miles west of the Moscow-Leningrad (the region of Belaya Tserkov, 50 railroad, apparent objective of the|miles southwest of the Ukraine new thrust. capital. The Nazi attempt to hamper| Scanty German reports claimed communications between the Soviet|that a new pocket is in the process Union's two largest cities may be|of development about 175 miles

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P) |

an attempt to divert the Russians from the offensive suggested by London. The British heard that Gen. Grigori M. Stern, Russian hero of the Finnish war, has massed 500,000 men on the Karelian Isthmus for an attack on the 200,000 Finns in {the defense lines there. Such an attack would force the Germans to move reinforcements to the Finnish front by sea across routes where Russign submarines are most active, The Nazi alterna-

‘tive would be to develop an §ften-

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south of Kiev and it was forecast that this may undermine Soviet positions in Odessa and along the Black Sea coast. The Mediterranean front ape peared to be gradually awakening from a long summer lapse, probably due to the intense heat. London reported that British dee |stroyers have carried out daring raids on Alghero and Porto Conde on the Italian island of Sardinia and Rome admitted violent British attacks on the Tobruk front and Royal Air Force raids pn Derna. way