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BRITAIN AND RUSSI
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INVADE IRAN
,Committee Votes Cut in Tax Exemptions to $1500 and $750
You Can't Do Business With ‘Hitler
A Scientific Slave State
Would Follow If Germany ts Britain, Russia
Defea
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Douglas Miller
$1500-S750 TAX BASES FAVORED
Senate Finance Committee, Urges Reduction to Add 6 Million Payers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. (GQ. BP). —The Senate Finance Committee voted today to reduce the personal income tax exemptions from $2000 to $1500 for married couples and
from $800 to $750 for single persons in order to add about $300,000 to the yield of the pending tax bill. An estimated 6,000,000 persons, hitherto exempt from payment of income taxes, would be added to the nation’s taxpaying roll under the} move. The lowered exemptions, proposed | by the Treasury Depastment, re- | portedly were approved by a substantial vote. The committee decided against inclusion of a general sales tax in| the bill It was the first action taken by | the Senate group in a secret session on amendments to the bill which would have raised an estimated $3.236.700.000 in the form passed by the House. The House bill was stripped of $300.000.000 1n money-raising power when the lower chamber overrode the recommendation of its Ways| and Means Committee and refused | to authorize mandatory joint re-| turns by husbands and wives, In addition to the proposed cut | in exemptions, the Senate group) may consider a 5 per cent sales tax, | exempting food. clothing and medi- | cal supplies It is sponsored by] Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg (R.| Mich.) who beileves it would pro-| duce $1.500.000.000 additional revenue
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Race Challenge Costs Him $25
Russell Thompson, 1861 Barth Ave. has a $25 fine to pay today because he picked the wrong car to challenge to a race Saturday night He pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving before Judge John Mg¢cNelis in court today and the following story unfolded. Thompson drove to the side of a sedan on N. Alabama St. near Police Headquarters and yelled, “let's race!” “We can't,” the occupants of the sedan replied as Thompson shot ahead with the sedan close * behind. Dale Smith. motorcycle policeman, was just leaving Headquarters on his cycle when the car sped past “at better than 50 miles an hour.” He gave chase and stopped the auto shortly before the sedan drove up. The ogcupants of the sedan were two detectives, Robert Dillehay and Harry Hillman.
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8 | Movies . 15 | Obituaries Editorials 10, Pegler Mrs. Ferguson 10! | Photography Financial . 4 Pyle : Flynn . 10 Questions Forum . 10 | Radio : Gallup Poll .. 2 Mrs. Roosevelt i In Indpls. 3;Serial ....... 15] Inside Indpls. 9} |Side Glances. 10 Jane Jordan . 12|Society ... 11, 12 Johnson 10 | Sports Millett 11|State Deaths. 8
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Hating America More Poisonously Than Any Other Country, Would Squeeze Us Through Centralized Economy.
(This is the first of 12 installments taken from Douglas Miller’s YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH HITLER, published by Little, Brown & Company. Mr. Miller was for 15 years commercial attache in the American Embassy in Berlin, six of them under the Nazi regime.)
By DOUGLAS MILLER If Hitler can defeat Britain and Russia, he, has removed the last obstacle to his effective control over Europe, Africa and Asia Minor. The Nazis will then be able to construct a scientific slave state in which they retain for themselves all possibilities of military action, all control over important industrial operations, and in which they will be able to achieve a complete monopoly of scientific and technical knowledge. By these methods they can reduce the conquered peoples to entire helplessness; they can destroy rebellious groups: they can monopolize the entire resources of this great area and the man power of hundreds of millions of | white, black and brown slaves to carry on their designs in other parts of the world. The Nazi will control the oceans. They will soon, force a considerable part of South America into their economic orbit. We cannot overlook the possibility that they may secure a working agreement with the Japanese new order in Asia for
a terrific assault upon us. They will be able to turn to their advantage our need for foreign markets, our lack of certain critical raw materials. They can exert pressure upon American property in the territories which they control. They can project fear into the hearts of millions of Americans through relatives in the Old World. They can and will use the device of a centralized economic system, buying and seiling for half the world. to put pressure upon our ecenomy ai many points.
Author's Note
A great deal has been and is being written and spoken about fighting the Nazis or dealing with them. But there is one group in America which® has not been adequately hrought face to face with the facts. I mean American business men. Because I have spent 15 years in their service at the United States Embassy in Berlin—six of them under the Nazi regime—I think I am in a position to do some plain speaking on this subject. I believe that what we do now will determine our economic history for years to come. And I believe that what affects the American business men cannot help but affect every American, DM,
15 FIRMS LOSE IN LIGHT RATE APPEAL
PSC Rules They Can't Ask For Reduction.
The Public Service Commission today refused to permit 15 downtown firms .to apply to the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. for lower rates. The commercial firms contended that they use large quantities of electricity and hence are entitled to the same rates as paid by the Industrial firms. Seeking the lower rates were the Russett Co., the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Mor-
rison’s Washington St. Corp. the Columbia Club, the Hotel English, the Severin Hotel Co.. the Jewish Community Center Association. the People’s Outfitting Co... Benson
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They hate the United States more poisonously than any other country. Our very existence disproves their racial and economic theories. We have welcomed their beaten enemies. We persist in speaking, printing, and broadcasting disagreeable truths which they would like to see suppressed. Above all, we alone possess the a world
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conquest worth while. The Nazis have often said that there are two opposite poles -in the world: Germany, the pole of order, discipline, and scientific progress; and the United States, the pole of democratic anarchy, decadent Christianity, and the degeneration and loss of efficiency which accompanies a system of free enterprise. Hitler's conquest is only partial and incomplete until we are brought into his world system. I make these statements on the basis of my long residence in Berlin, my close association with Nazi leaders and their party, a detailed study of National Socialist books, pamphlets, and newspapers from the very beginning of their movement when they were less cautious about
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War. “Just Starting,” Say
A five-man Russian military mission arrived in Indianapolis today to tour the Allison plant.
right are Maj. Constantine Ovchinnikov, Col. Pavel Berezin, Alexei Anis
Russians
Left to
simov, Maj. Gen. Alexander Kon-
stantinovich Repin: Col. Everett L. Gardner, director of Indiana Employment Security Division; Anton N.
Fedotov; Col. Philip R. Faymonville of the U. S. R. L. Finkenstaedt, U. S. Air Corps representative here.
JOHN KINGSBURY Soviet Military DEAD HERE AT 70
The war between Russia and Germany has.
ris is confident of success over
Army who accompanied the commission here, and Maj.
Mission Here
To Inspect Allison Plant
“just begun” but all of!
Hitler, Alexander Konstantinovich!
Had Served Since World Repin, 40-year-old Russia major general, said here today.
Head of a five-man military mi to tour the Allison ~ {Gen. Repin added that a quicker victory. The commission would not comment on whether Russia has ora {dered or intends to place orders In John H. Kingsbury, attorney for | Allison motors which now powe the Ameiican Civil Liberties Union some of the fastest aircraft in To here many years, died today at his pattie to defend Britain. home, 1128 E. Ohio St. after an | The commission visited Governor illness of about six months. He | Schricker at the State House before was 70. | going to the Allison plant for Long identified with public serv-! ! luncheon. They are to stay overice organizations in Indianapolis, night at the Indianapolis Athletic he was a member of both the State Club and return to Washington, ! Bar Associations. ID. C.. tomorrow Gen. Repin. a member of the Russian Air Force who has been
(today
War as Civil Liberties Union Attorney.
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for the Civil Liberties Union since, shortly after the last World War.| in this country about a month, said A native of Ohio, Mr. Kingsbury | that the report at the outbreak of had spent the greater part of his hostilities that the Nazi Fuftwaffe life in Indianapolis. He attended had knocked the Russian Air Force DePauw University. out of the skies was “just wishful An active member of the Socialist | thinking.” Party since 1905, Mr. Kingsbury was ‘War Just .Stariing’ a candidate for United States Sena-| He emphasized the war is “one tor in the last general election. He | of maneuvers” and not confined to the last Socialist Party,|a small amount of territory. He convention in Washington, D. C., as|said it is his personal belief that a delegate. “the war is just now beginning.” He is survived by three sisters, The general's statements were inMrs. Charles Krom, Accord, N. Y.|terpreted at a press conference by" and Miss Sarah Kingsbury and Miss| Col. Philip R. Faymonville, former Edna Kingsbury of Indianapolis; a|U. S. military attache at Moscow, nephew, Richard McCreary, and a|who accompanied the commission niece, Mrs. Edna McClelland, both | here. e of Indianapolis. The commission was greeted by URED Col. Everett L. Gardner, director of the Indiana Employment Security | Division, who spent several years in |Russia as a salesman, and Maj. R. L. Finkenstaedt, U. S. Air Corps representative here. In addition to General Repin, other members of the commission here included Col. Pavel Berezin, Maj. Constantive Ovchinnikov, Anten N, Fedotov and Alexei Annissimov.
BOMB LIBYAN PORT CAIRO, Aug. 25 (U. P.).—A large force of heavy British bombers, in a low-level attack, plastered docks and oil depots at the big Libyan port of Tripoli with 20 tons of high a Royal Air Force communique said today.
CRASH KILLS 4 FLIERS HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 25 (U. P)). —The eastern air command today announced’ that four men were killed in an airplane crash near N. S., and five airmen
CARDS. DODGERS RAINED OUT
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (U. P)— Rain today forced postponement of the Brooklyn Dodgers-St. Louis Cardinals game. It will be played in a cdouble-header tomorrow.
Details of the two
Engineering Division of General “the ti aid of the Americans will assure
MOOSE STUDY
ssion which arrived in Indianapolis Motors,
$430,000 PLEA
Members Way Be Asked|
For $1 Each as Aid to Men in Service.
(Another story and additional photos, Page 16)
By JOE COLLIER Each of 450,000 members of the Loyl Order of Moose will be asked for one dollar tc be spent on lodge members in military training if a resolution to be presented to the annual convention here is passed.
The resolution, now being prepared by the Supreme Council, will
ibe introduced tomorrow to the gen-
eral session. A similar request during the last war was oversubscribed by $250,000.
Opening ceremonies today were
PERMA FIGHTS; ‘HYPOCRISY, IS BERLIN RETORT
Germans Capture Dneiper Power Station; Allied Move in Near East Believed Partly a Warning to Japan.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor ; Great Britain and Soviet Russia battled resisting Per=sian troops in a drive to oust German agents from Iran today as Germany reported fierce new thrusts at Leningrad and Tallinn and a surge to the Dnieper River banks in the industrial center of Dniepropetrovsk. British and Russian mechanized land forces, naval unite and airplanes began occupation of Iran at dawn in an effort to expel some 4000 Nazi agents, protect the Russian oil fields and British India and guard the Near Eastern route for American and other war supplies to the Red Army. There was some resistance on the part of the Iranian army of probably 150,000 men as the occupation forces advanced from Russia, Iraq and India and landed in the Bandar Shahpur sector of the Iranian Gulf to seize the main railroad line to Teheran. Progress of the operations, however, was undisclosed. Berlin immediately declared that Britain and Russia had “treacherously assaulted a small nation” and charged Britain with “undisputed guilt in handing over still another country to Bolshevism.” ? ‘Mop Up’ Dnieper Area One Berlin newspaper sneered at “the rescuers of smaller people and of humanity” and called the invasion “the depth of Churchill's hypocrisy.” Rome declared that the invasion of oil-rich Persia showed a real Russian fear for the loss of her own oil fields in the Ukraine and the Caucasus, but there was still no indication that Hitler might seek to send his troops to Iran across Turkey. The military action taken by Britain and Russia was regarded as bolstering the speech of Prime Minister Winston Churchill warning that Britain would stand with the United States if war broke out in the Pacific and declaring that Japanese southward expansion must stop.
War News on Inside Pages
Clapper Looks Over Dover Defenses ..... Rains Menace Nazis . . . Steele’s Report From Moscow weios aie Berlin and Moscow Communiques osisleinieinie alselsin sire e Churchill Backs U. S. .... : Navy Takes Over Kearny Shipyards He cuine Map of Iran
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Dispatches from the Far East said that Singapore had been reinforced further by new troop convoys and that Japanese leaving the Philippines totaled 700 in the last week. On the Russian battlefront, the Germans reported that
colorful. About 1097 Pilgrims, members of the highest order o fthe lodge, marched solemnly into the convention hall, the Riley Room at| the Claypool Hotel, each wearing a wine-colored cap and an academic gown lined with purple. Back of them marched the College of Regents, women of the order. capped and gowned in academic style. Immediately after the formal opening, the delegates and audience sang the Star Spangled Banner and the business session began. Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, governor general of the lodge, and other officials made re(Continued on Page Two)
discussing ultimate objectives. These convictions I formed slowly under the pressure of overwhelming evidence. Hence, I want to make public some of my experiences with the Nazis and—after drawing conclusions from them, discussing Nazi (Continued on ‘Page Nine)
RAIN TOO LATE TO AID - COUNTY'S CORN CROP
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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6a m. 7am. 8am
More thundershowers and cooler |; ia temperatures were predicted for to-|}§ night and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. The heavy rain last night, added to the showers early last week, will help Marion County's vegetable and immeasurably, according to Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent. The local corn crop, which was | reduced more than 10 per cent by g | the July drought, will not be helped much by last night's rain, Mr. Ab- | bott said. A total of 34 of an inch of rain fell in a few hours around midnig}t The downpour fi the streets in some sections,
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they ‘virtually had completed mopping up of the Dnieper River, bend with capture of Dniepropretrovsk and the Zaporozhe power plant, while advances were claimed for both Nazi ‘and Finnish troops pressing against the defenses of Lenin grad. The Russians, however, said their giant tanks were crushing the enemy advance units around Leningrad and that four German transports and two warships had been sunk or run aground in a battle in the Baltic in connection with new German attacks on Tallinn, the Esthonian capital,
Turkey to Remain Neutral The determination with which the British and Russians struck'in the Near East, however, momentarily overshadows the surge of battle on the Eastern Front and a German claim that 25 vessels totaling 148,000 tons and three warships, including a destroyer, had been sunk by a U-boat attack on a British convoy off Portugal. In connection with the Russian-British drive into Iran, both countries assured Turkey that they had no permanent territorial designs on Iran and the Turks were understood to have given assurances that they would remain neutral. Iran, with an army of probably 150,000 and a potential armed force of perhaps 400,000, had warned that any ine vader would be resisted to the end, and had failed to accept demands from London and Moscow for expulsion of all Germans. Iran, the ancient Persia, is about 10 times the size of Indiana, but has five times as many people. It is ruled by Shah Riza Khan, a self-made ruler who has struggled to modernize his backward nation. The invasion began along the ancient caravan routes over which once the riches of India flowed to medieval Europe and over which in the Fifth Century, B. C., Persian emporers swept as conquerors of the then-tknown world, The British sea landing at Bandur Shahpur seemed to be the most important, since troops there could most quickly move into the Iran oil centers. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, formerly the British commander at Cairo, was in command
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