Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1941 — Page 2

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PRUNING OF CITY | BUDGET BEGINS

Few Reductions Believed |

+ raised by property taxes and reve- + nues next year, compared with $7,-

Possible; Rate May Go To $1.44 Per $100.

Mayor Sullivan and City tax ex--perts began a week-long series of conferences today to prune the pro‘posed $8,590,000 City budget for 1942, calling for the highest property tax rate in the City’s history.

In financial circles at City Hall, | however, little hope was held for

any drastic budget reductions. Although the proposed 1942 rate

has not been officially determined, |

a levy of at least $1.38 would be

necessary to finance the budget as!

presented to the Mayor over the week-end.

municipal deficit, bringing the total tentative 1942 tax rate to $1.44 for the Civil City.

18-Cent Increase

This is 18 cents above the present rate of $1.26. City officials privately explained that one reason for the sudden taxrate jump next year is the fact that for the past two years, City budgets have been underfinanced. In 1940, a civil city rate of $1.28 was set which shouid have been at least, 2 cents more and this year's . rate should have been at least $1.30, the officials asserted. For the past two years, it was said, the City has been operating in the red, carrying over from year to year a large deficit. This defjcit became apparent only last fall when the error which had hidden it was discovered. As one official expressed it: “It looks as though the deficiencies in the budgets of past years are catching up with us.” As a result of underfinancing, the deficit last year amounted to nearly $600,000. Through rigid economies this year, it has been reduced and officials may write it off altogether with either the 6 cent levy or a bond issue.

1942 Budget Higher

The proposed 1942 budget exceeds this vear’s total by $621272.72. At . least 12 cents in additional property taxes will be needed to provide this increase. A total of $8589905.76 is to be

» 968,633.04 this year. In addition to this amount, the : City expects to receive $985,120 in gasoline taxes next year. The total amount provided by property and gas tax for 1942 would then total $9.585,026.06—about $1,000,000 more than was provided by gas and property tax this year. The increased expenditure pro"posed for 1942 stems from these major sources: 1. Demands for wage increases in the Police, Fire and other City departments totaling nearly $350,000. 2. Mandatory increases for the Policemen’s and Firemen’s pension funds totaling $100,662. 3. Sinking fund increases to pay off bonds totaling $76,600. . 4. Costs of municipal election next year, $40,000. . 8. Increases for materials and supplies. S The budget in final form will be presented to City Council naxt Monday for a two-week review.

DEHYDRATED FOODS MAY FEED BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.). —The Agriculture Department sai¥ today that research on the dehydration of vegetables is being speeded because of the emergency need for concentrated foodstuffs. ~ Promising “usable results” within a few months, the Department said the program may be extended to include other foods and would play an increasingly important part in the Lend-Lease program.

An additional 6 cents] may be added to liquidate a $300,000

TEN KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

2 Local Boys, 8 Others Are Among Week-End Auto Victims.

Ten persons, including two in Marion County, died over the weekend as the result of traffic accidents, bringing the County-City total this year to 83 as against 78 last year at this time, The dead are: ORA JUNIOR ADAMS, 9, R. R. 17, Box 415-X, who died today at City Hospital of a fractured skull received yesterday afternoon when his bicycle and an auto coilided near his home. FRANK DAVIS, 45, of 2339 N. Illinois St, who died Saturday night at the Ft. Harrison hospital of injuries received when he was struck Thursday by a streetcar at Illinois and Market Sts. He was a World War veteran, a native of Tennessee, and had been stationed at a Brownstown CCC camp.

ROBERT LAWLESS, 19, CoIumbus, who was crushed beneath the steering wheel when his car overturned Saturday at Roads 31 and 7, southeast of Columbus. ROBERT GLENN BRUNNER, 28, Wollcott, who was killed near his home when he was struck by a car and knocked under the wheels of a transport truck. PAUL GOSMAN, 18, Butlerville, who was killed yesterday when a car he was driving was struck by a railroad switch engine at a crossing in Butlerville. JOHN ZIMMERMAN, 75, Marshall County Infirmary, who was killed when he was struck by a car yesterday on Road 30, two miles east of Plymouth. W. H. BESSIE, 85, North Liberty, who died in St. Joseph Hospital of injuries received Thurs-’ day in a two-car crash on Road 31 two miles south of South Bend. ISAAC W. ASH, 29, Connersville, who was killed when he was thrown from his car as it turned over on a gravel road west of Alpine yesterday. GILBERT LOTTES, 30, Jasper, was killed when a light truck he was driving was sideswiped by another car and knocked into a bridge abutment. JAMES BUCHER, 18, Ft. Wayne, who was killed when his motorcycle crashed into the side of a car at Hammond.

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LAST YEAR, the WPA agreed to build comfort stations at the South West St. and 49th St. and Arsenal Ave. playgrounds. They were supposed to look like the modern, brick structure on the left. Instead, they look like what you see on the right. The network of pipes sticking out of the ground is the plumbing. All it

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needs is a building to go around it. WPA officials explained that the stations, started last spring, have been left unfinished because workers have been called to emergency defense projects. They said that workers will return to finish the stations in a few weeks, but at City Hall officials shake their heads and say that's what they were told two months ago.

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Government contracts. Others are being produced in operation by the War Department.

of this type. Uniformed officers of the Ordnance Department are in charge, but the employees are civilians. These plants, being old and established, have had few labor troubles; morale is high, and production is excellent. Plants of the third type are owned lock, stock and barrel by the Government, but were built by private contractors and are operated by private companies. The shellloading plant at Ravenna, O., for example will be operated by the Atlas Powder Co., under Army supervision. NY But the Government, if it desired, could take over the plant any day, for it paid all the bills and holds the title. The smokeless-pow-der plant at Charlestown, Ind, will be operated by du Pont, and Goodyear will run the adjoining works where the powder will be loaded into bags.

Cost-Plus System Out

The old “cost-plus” system of 1917-18—under which the operator got a percentage of the cost of construction or operation, and therefore made more money if the cost were increased—is out. The new method is cost-plus-fixed-fee, The contractor gets a predetermined fee, no matter what the cost. He orders all the materials and labor, but the resident Ordnance Depart{ment officer and the War Departyment must first approve every order. The contractor pays all the

bills, but the War Department audits them and if he overpays it's his hard luck, not the Government'’s.

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THERE'S A TERRIFIC wrench when the Army moves into a peaceful countryside and starts buying thousands of acres to build a munitions plant. Farmers who have owned the land for generations have to get out in a hurry. Sometimes parts of villages have to be torn down. Yet most of the land has been bought by options; there wasn't a single condemnation proceeding when the Government secured 2i,000 acres at Ravenna, O,, in only 28 days. But the Army realizes the heartaches that come when a family moves away from the home where its fathers lived and died and where its children were bern. In some cases there have been “anguish payments” in addition to the appraised value of the property—a bonus for heartache. Then, too, the dispossessed people are given the first opportunities to

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operating workers. At Charlestown, Ind. the site of the powder plant included the oldest church in southern Indiana, together with its burial yard. The church and cemetery were left intact, but they lie inside the high fence which surrounds the plant, and nobody can get in to attend church or visit the graves. Occasionally a body is moved so that some old resident may sleep pesive a relative in some other cemeery. At another plant the Army relocated a road and fence so they would leave a church outside the boundaries.

® x 8 AFTER VISITING five typical arms plants, and flying over others, the nine editors who made an inspection of defense factories as guests of the War Department sat down and compared notes. We tried to write out our impressions in 25 words each. Nobody said exactly the same thing as any other. But, in a general way, everybody expressed the same thought: America’s defense machine is starting to roll; a remarkable job of construction and tooling has been done in an amazingly short time; soon the vast productive capacity of this country will begin turning out armaments on a gigantic scale. We are further along than the country realizes. The greatest mass-production system in the world is about through its transition job from a peace to a war economy. And when it gets into full blast the output will be enormous, the power deadly.

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This is the last of a series of articles growing out of an inspection trip of United States defense arsenals just completed by a group of newspaper editors as guests of the U. S. Army.

By EDWARD T. LEECH Editor, The Pittsburgh Press

America's arms and munitions are being produced under three plans. The bulk of them are being manufactured in private plants under

Government armories under direct

The ancient arsenals at Frankford, Pa., and Springfield, Mass. are]

IT'S A STORY WE HATE TO TELL

Little ‘Dockie’ Adams Is!

Dead and Jerry O’Brien Is Fighting for Life.

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ing, walked down to the Adams home and waited for “Dockie” to return with the bicycle. Standing in the doorway at the back of the house, Mrs. Adams saw

from the melon stand. Suddenly she heard a screech of tires and a whining of brakes. “Dockie” and Charles had been hit by a car. Mr. and Mrs. Adams ran down the road toward the scene of the accident. They had trouble making [their way because of the number of

| cars, and when they got there, {someone had picked up “Dockie” and put him off the road, out of the way. Charles was only slightly hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Adams stayed all night with their unconscious son at Methodist Hospital while doctors worked over him. Early this morning only a little heartened by what seemed to be encouraging reports of doctors, they returned home. Within a very few moments after they arrived, they were notified that “Dockie” had died. The parents and four sisters, Ruth, 12: Mary, 5; Joy, 3, and Mrs. | Betty Duhamel, survive. The O'Brien boy, who lives at W. Morris St. and High School Road, is in City Hospital with a skull fracture and his condition is described by doctors as critical. He and his older brother, Charles, 13, were given mone by their mother to go to the opéh air movie west of Ben Davis. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien were going to Anderson to visit for the evening, and “I wanted the boys to have a good time too,” Mrs. O'Brien said. On their way home, Jerry said to his brother: “I'm going to cross here.” “Don’t go across until I do,” his brother warned, but it was too late. Jerry darted into the path of an auto. Not until they returned from Anderson, after midnight, did the parents learn of the accident.

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CARBONADO, Wash, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Eight forest rangers today struggled up Mount Rainier, in an effort to rescue Leon Brigham Jr, 21, star end on the University of Washington football team, who fell into a crevasse, 80 feet deep, on Carbon Glacier.

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INFLATION PERIL PICKS UP SPEED

U. S. Experts Hope to Apply Brakes Before It’s Too Late.

By LEE G. MILLER : Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Possibly it's an unfair practice on a blue Monday, when armies of week-end-ers are afflicted with deflation of the purse and spirits, but duty prescribes a reminder that inflation is just around the corner—that same corner so lately rounded by prosperity. Inflation, in fact, is no longer a distant bogey useful for mildly frightening the children. Its unpretty visage is leering in the window, and its hot breath is fogging the pane. Eminent New Dealers who used to lie awake of nights thinking up ways to raise prices have now got insomnia from trying to keep them down. Let the experts take the stand: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “We face inflation unless we act decisively and without delay.” Leon Henderson: The United States stands “at the brink of inflation.”

The Signs Are Plain

Henry Morgenthau: “This complication of increased demand and restricted output is causing inflationary price rises which threaten to increase the cost of the defense program, unbalance family budgets and seriously disturb our economic life.” Marriner S. Eccles: “Almost over-

flation.”

spectively President of the United States, Price Administrator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve System, should know. But then almost anybody who remembers the beginnings of the World War boom-bust cycle ought to be able to read the auguries for himself: More spending money in the people's jeans, and no corresponding increase in the things available for buying. Result: Prices creep, then trot, and finally gallop —and in the distance is a precipice.

It's Like a Race

Now the Government is trying to combat these inflationary influences in various ways. Mr. Henderson is asking Congress for power to forbid particular prices to go above a given point. Mr. Morgenthau and others are seeking to sop up a lot of excess purchasing power by heavier taxes. The sale of Government savings bonds is being pushed for the same purpose. It is a race between the inflationary pressure of supply-vs.-demand (abetted by the historic impulse of everybody, and especially organized farmers and workers, to improve their incomes in such times), and the governmental controls now being somewhat hesitantly forged in Washington. The outcome of the affect every one of us.

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Veterinarians, the doctors who care for the nation's pets and farm animals, today converged on Indianapolis for the 78th annual

meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Assqciation. The day was one of preliminaries for the five-day convention in the Murat Temple with approximately 2500 “vets” registered. Dr. I. E. Newsom, chairman of the Executive Board, predicted that there would be nearly 4000 registered before the convention closes Friday. Workmen were setting up more than 40 exhibits on the first floor of the Temple. The registration tables were the busiest in the convention hall. “The high point of the convention will be Friday when there will be a demonstration of humane and painless operation technique on horses, cows, sheep, swine, cats, chickens and turkeys in a hospitallike atmosphere.

Executive Board Meets

Today the Executive Board met to consider proposals to be brought before the convention, including selection of the site for next year’s convention. Two sessions of the House of Representatives, governing body of the Association, also considered matters voted on by the Board. Among special reports heard were: “History,” Dr. L. A, Merrillat; “Rabies,” Dr. R .A. Kelser; “Nomenclature of Disease and Vital Statistics,” Dr. H .C. H. Kernkamp; “Parasitology.” Dr. D, W, Baker; “Poultry Diseases,” Dr. Cliff D. Carpenter; “Interstate Shipment of Livestock by Truck,” J. L. Axby. Before the general convention got down to serious considerations of problems facing the profession, a golf tournament was held at the Indianapolis Country Club this afternoon,

Honor Retiring Chief

The Women’s Auxiliary will view a movie at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The convention proper will get under way at 10 a. m. tomorrow with an address of welcome by Governor Henry Schricker. Also on tomorrow morning's program will be presentation of a certificate to retiring president A. E. Wight and a gold key to Presidentelect Harry W. Jakeman by Dr. Newsom, who also will announce the winner of the 12th International Veterinary Congress prize. Mrs. William Moore, president of the Women’s Auxiliary, also will speak.

Auxiliary to Meet

will deliver an address. Col. Raymond A. Kelser, chief of the veter-

In the afternoon Rep. George W. Gillie, who also is a veterinarian,

inary division, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C., will outline the role of the Army veterinarian in Nationa] Defense. Other afternoon speakers include Dr. G. A. Roberts, director of animal health, Trujillo City, Dominican Republic; J. Holmes Martin, chief of poultyy| husbandry, Purdue University, ard| O. W. Schalm, assistant professor | in veterinary science, University of California. The Women's Auxiliary will hold | its annual meeting at 2 p. m. to-| morrow and at 3 o'clock will hear| a lecture by Julia Bock Harwood on | “South America—A Land of Dons / trasts.”” Native costumes will be modeled during the talk, At 7:30 o'clock, the President's] Reception and Dance will be held in the Egyptian Room of the Murat Temple,

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Fortune Editor To Defense Job

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Russell W. Davenport, chairman of the board of editors of Fortune Magazine, is about to enter the Office of Civilian Defense as a right-hand man to its chief, Mayor La Guardia. Mr. Davenport was one of the principal advisers of Wendell L. Willkie in the 1940 Presidential campaign. Another newcomer to the Office of Civilian Defense is Robert Kintner, former Washington columnist now with the Army, who has been assigned to help out in the OCD’s morale branch.

PROBE PERILS TO SMALL BUSINESS

Halleck Heads Committee; | GOP Study May Center in Indiana.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Indiana may be selected as the state for special study of the effect of the defense program on small manufacturers by the Republican committee appointed for that purpose, it was stated today by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, (R. Ind) committee chairman, The first meeting of the new committee has been set for tomorrow. Sixteen Republican members of Congress were named to the committee by House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr, who also appointed Rep. Halleck chairman. In announcing the committee setup, Rep. Martin said that “thousands of small businesses in the United States may be in grave danger of destruction” due to the priorities system and the failure to let defense subcontracts to smaller concerns. “In these chaotic days,” Rep. Martin said in appointing the committee, “there is grave danger unless Government policies are re-

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