Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 6

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SENATORS LINK

ECONOMY, TAX

Byrd Proposes to Slice

Billion or Two From Non-Essentials.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. P) —The Senate Finance Committee today coupled its final work on the biggest tax bill in history with a move te cut “non-essential” Federal expenditures for 1942 by $1,000,000,000 or $2,000.000.000. With consideration ments almost concluded, Chairman Walter F. George (D. Gal. mated the yiela of the Senate bill at $3.688.500.000 a year—nearly $500.000.000 higher than the taxes, the House would impose. The economy proposals by Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va). both were approved by voice vote. One added an amendment to the bill setting up a 13man committee to study Federal expenditures and recommend reductions and eliminations.

Ask Budget Report

The other was a resolution, apart from the bill, calling. on Budget] Director Harold D. Smith to submit not later than Sept. 15, a detailed revision of the 1942 budget showing what expenditures he would recommend if he had been ordered to cu: it $1.000,000.000, or $1.500,000.000, or $£2.000,000,000.

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Rival Generals

Told They're ‘Bad Enemies’

By LEON KAY

When President Roosevelt sub- | mitted the 1942 budget to Congress | in January it called for expenditures of $17.000.000.000. The latest; estimate 1s $22,000.000.000. The Senate committee added and increased taxes yesterday to provide an extra $209,100.000 a year The corporation surtax was 3 creased one percentage point. stead of 5 per cent on income uw ol $25,000, the surtax will be 6 per cent: instead of 6 per cent on the] remainder it will be 7 This will raise $100,000,000 a year.

Raise Admission Tax

men sleep where,

United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN LOUISIANA, Aug. 29 —Lieut.-Gen. Walter Kreuger, commander of the

[Third Army, praised his soldiers and

criticized his junior officers for their execution of the second problem

lof preliminary maneuver

The problem, which ended Wednes--/day. was a mechanized assault by 130.000 soldiers against a line held

[by 60.000 troops, with fewer tanks.

The defending troops fought a de-

per cent. laying action.

General Krueger chided his officers particularly for letting their in real war, they

The 10 per cent admissions tax would have been under direct fire,

was increased to 15 per cent, to raise $72,500,000 a year.

The 3 per cent tax on monthly

telephone bills was increased to 10 zone with their faway,”

per cent, to raise $28.600,000.

Found Men Without Arms

“I found men resting in combat arms 200 yards he said.

the combat

of 10 per cent imposed on them zone.”

to raise $8,000.000. The committee is expected to] complete work on considered the final Tuesday, and call it Senate floor Wednesday.

draft

As for the men, he said: “I never saw a more willing bunch

the bill today,!in the world. They were cheerful nextiand performed up on the willing manner,”

their duty in a

He said co-ordination of smaller

{units in the field was still- faulty

STAMP FOODS NEXT MONTH UNCHANGED

{and co-operation between infantry and artillery weak.

General Krueger praised the Sec‘ond Armored Division's quick move to outflank the blues in Texas. But

he thought its forces were too much

{divided for real war.

Food Stamp Plan here may purchase with blue stamps the same foods in September as were avail-| able in August. George A. Carlin, Surplus Marketing Adiministration | area representative, said today.

Families participating In ow

These “blue stamp” foods include !gained. It isn't done,”

dried dary

shell eggs, corn meal, raisins, prunes, hominy (eorn) grits, edible beans, fresh vegetables, cluding potatoes; wheat flour, enriched wheat flour, self-rising flour, enriched self-rising flour, whole} wheat (Graham) flour, fresh pears, fresh plums. fresh apples, fresh] prunes, fresh- oranges and fresh peaches. Mr. Carlin said a representative of the Surplus Marketing Administration will be at the East Room of the War Memorial Building at 2 p. m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to answer questions on the stamp plan asked by any member of the food trade.

CONTINUE PULLMAN STRIKE

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Aug. 29 (U.P) —Aproximately 290 members of the Brotherhood of Railway Car Men (A. F. of L.) voted last night to maintain the strike against Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co.’s plant here until after the De-

‘ment of all commands,” on. |

“Fighting Wins Wars” “I believe war is won by aggres-

sive fighting, not clever, complicated | maneuvers,”

he said. He found fault with the with-

drawal of a counter-attacking force.

“Never give one inch of ground he said. “I am gratified in the improvehe said. ‘T have seen considerable progress.” Maj. Gen. E. Daly, who com!manded the attacking forces, said. ‘All men acted like professionals. The trek of our Second Armored Division compared favorably to what we have seen in Europe.”

By RICHARD HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent HOPE, Ark, Aug. 29 (U. P)— Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commander of the Second Army, last night warned his men that foreign agents are trying to spread dissatisfaction, suspicion and bewilderment in the nation’s armed forces.

who fear us,” he said. “They have done it in other countries. In the armies of other countries they have succeeded. Great armies have been destroyed and the will of peoples

within to kill the spirits of men.

fense Mediation Board's hearing in Washington Sept. 8

“Watch out for these activities. You may suspect some of these per-

While most of Indianapolis was still in bed, crews of 1burels were hard at work in the early morning hours getting everything ready

m.

Praise Men,

sons who cry .on your shoulders and ask vou to cry on theirs. Your best friends are men who expect the most of you—who demand your utmost efforts.”

Broadcast to Soldiers

Gen. Lear spoke in a field from the back of an armored car of the 107th Cavalry. His speech was broadcast to more than 100,000 soldiers of his command in their

network. He said he had read newspaper and magazine articles about Army

: “Field officers | Electric light bulbs were brought should teach their units always to] into the excise tax field and a levy carry their arms in

morale. “There have been some I haven't liked at all,” he said. “I don’t like it when it is said or inferred that the American soldier is afraid of his weapons, that he is a potential quitter, that he is too selfish to give his time and efforts ungrudgingly| to his country. when his national] leaders tell him solemnly and gravely that the. nation faces a crisis. “We aren't that kind of men, We are not the kind of men any foreign dictator would prefer to have as enemy troops.” The corps phase of the Second Army's maneuvers ended yesterday morning, when the 35th Division swept around the left flank of the 33d Division and cut a railroad line between Chidester Ark.

and Camden,|

Fire Engines To Lose Brass

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (U. P). —The next generation of youngsters may find fire. engines less glamorous. Future fire fighting equipment will continue to be red but there's going to be a lot less brass, aluminum and copper on the new trucks. Leading manufacturers already have conferred with defense officials and agreed to reduce their use of critical metals. One of the major losses probably will be the big brass gongs. Some of these gongs contain as much as 45 pounds‘of brass, and that will make a lot of shell casings. The bell will be listed in the future as a “luxury” item since the more modern siren is used to clear the streets.

“That -is an old game of those

has been shattered by this war from |

| pretty 23-year-old War Department clerk from Des Moines,

| March 8.

1 SEX KILLINGS

Clears Capital Murder of War Department Girl Worker, 6 Others.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P). — Police announced early today that the recent wave of sex-slayings in the Capital had been solved by the confession of a 30-year-old Negro that he had assaulted and choked to death six Washington women and one New Yorker. Acting Police Superintendent Edward J. Kelly said that Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, a former houseman and undertaker’s assistant, had admitted slaying a New York waitress, an attractive War Department clerk, bride of one month, and four Negro women. He also admitted assaulting four other women. New York police, who flew here yesterday to question Catoe, announced last night that he had admitted strangling Mrs. Evelyn D. Anderson, 28, of New York in the Bronx on Aug. 4. Report Confession A few hours later, Washington police revealed that they had ob-

tained the confession of the as-sault-murder of Betty Sterieff,

Ia., last

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MAN CONFESSES ‘Scorched Earth’ — 1812, Moscow; 1941, Dnieprostroy

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 —“Every Russian could what happened; not as a result of any train of intellectual deductions, but from the feeling that lies at the bottom of our hearts, and lay at the bottom of our fathers’ hearts!” When Stalin ordered the destruction of the great Dnieper dam in face of the oncoming invader, he acted as Russians always have done, As the profoundest interpreter of the Russian character, Tolstoy, explained in his “War and Peace,” the scorched-earth defense lies deep in the peasant’s heart. Blowing up the Dnieper dam is to this war what the burning of Moscow was to the Napoleonic war, as described by Tolstoy—the Russian’s supreme renunciation of his greatest prize and pride in complete contempt for the thwarted enemy, No single object in all Russia was as vital to its life as famed “Dnieprostroy.” In war, as in peace, it ran more dynamos, produced

more power, than any. other. It made possible the vast network of metallurgical, electrical, chemical and allied industries, which not only completed so many products but also prepared the raw materials for other distant industrial regions. ” ” » » 2 LARGE NEW CITIES sprang up around it and old towns were transformed, until millions who had been peasants worked at its machines for the mechanization of the country and the army. Dnieper power fabricated Zaporozhe aluminum, Konstantinovka zine, Nikopol manganese and mercury, and made possible the machine manutaciures of Voroshilovgrad, Kirovograd and Kramatorsk. Not only did the Russians blow up the $110,000,000 dam, but they destroyed, too, their big factories on the west side of the Dnieper, which were linked with the power plant of the dam. They destroyed, too, the bridge across Europe's: third largest river, just below the dam.

The dam had locked the foaming turbulent Dnieper behind a

”

have foretold

wall of concrete 2500 feet re and 170 feet high. When fihished in 1932, after five years of toil, the dam was the world’s largest. But this dam, which was named Lenin-Dnirproges after its camepletion by the American engineer, Hugh Cooper, was more than a

FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1941

material thing. To the Bolsheviks it was the symbol of the New |

Russia. It meant the electrification of the land, which Lenin promised would help liberate the people from poverty and protect them from foreign invaders. So Stalin blew up the Reds’ Holy of Holies; just as the Russians of 1812 burned holy Moscow, its sacred churches and ikons, its palaces and wealth, anda the homes of the people. ” ” 2 » ” ” TOLSTOY, IN EXPLAINING that earlier event, said it was inevite able in the nature of the Russian: “In every town and village on Russian soil, from Smolensk one wards, without the assistance of Count Rastoptchin and his placards, the same thing took place as happened in Moscow. The. people awaited the coming of the enemy without disturbance; did not display excitement; tore nobody to pieces, but calmly awaited their fate, feeling in themselves the power to find what they must do in the moment of difficulty. “And as soon as the enemy came near, the wealthier elements of the population went away, leaving their property behind; the poorer remained, and burnt and destroyed all that was left. “The sense that this would be so, and always would be so, lay,

and lies, at the bottom of every Russian’s heart “Now it is clear to us what was the cause of the destruction of

the French Army in 1812. No one disputes that the cause of the loss of Napoleon's French forces was, on one hand, their entering at too late a season upon a winter march in the heart of Russia with insufficient preparation; and on the other, the character the war had assumed from the burning of Russian towns and the hatred the enemy aroused in the peasantry.”

June 15. Kelly then announced that all the recent slayings in Washington had been admitted by Catoe. In ad-| dition to the Anderson and Strieff | cases, he listed the following cases as “solved”: Mrs. Rose Simsons Abramowitz, 25-year-old bride of a Social Se- | curity Board lawyer, slain last]

Ada Puller, Negro, last Jan. 22. |

bivouacs and over a national radio | Nov

coming retirement of Superintendent

CALLS 8 POINTS

Lucy Kidwell, Negro, 62, Sept. 28. Mattie Steward, Negro, 48, 9

LL last! a,

Josephine Robinson, Negro, Dec. 1, 1930.

Sworn in Yesterday

“I am convinced that the suspect’s confession to the sex crimes is true,” Superintendent Kelly said. Mr. Kelly was sworn into office only yesterday. pending the forth-

Ernest W. Brown. The personnel changes were a result of a drastic shake-up in the police department which followed a Congressional investigation. Congress was aroused after the murder of Miss Strieff. Police said Catoe had given a complete oral confession of the seven crimes.

DOUBLE FAILURE

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Krueger Says They Have Not Bolstered Morale in U. S. or England.

The Roosevelt-Churchill eight points were intended (0 sunen “lagging morale, and in that respecy have peen a fiop on both sides of the Atlantic,” Maynard C. krueger, University of Calcago economics | proiessor, toid an America First Committee auaience last mght. At the meeting heid at the Ine diana Woria War Memorial, Mr. Krueger, who was Socialist canaidate ior Vice President last year, said the eight ponits “fall far short of Wilsons rourteen Points in specificity, and they will occupy no similar place in the history books.” ‘The speaker charged aiso that “on of the most hysterical and ill-

‘RABBI AT I. U. NAMED HOSPITAL SECRETARY

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 29.— | Rabbi Martin M. Perley, who has {been director of the Hillel Foundation of Indiana University for three years. has resigned to become executive secretary of a national hospital.

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advised attempts to whip up war | | psychology” is the reported oil shortage in the Eastern states. He said the oil shortage was a “phony” and that if “there is any oil shortage there at all, Secretary Ickes has thus far steadfastly refused to produce any figures to document it.”

BOY, 13, TELLS TWO STORIES IN SHOOTING

FT. WAYNE, Aug. 28 (U. P).— —Prosecutor James O. Ballou today opened an investigation into the fatal shooting of 8-year-old Alfred Reinking after a 13-year-old youth told authorities conflicting stories of the accident. The shooting occurred on a farm near here where the two boys were playing. Officials said the boy first told them he was shooting at a target and that young Reinking ran in front of the gun just as he pulled the trigger. Later he admitted he had fired point-blank at the boy but said he believed the gun was unloaded, authorities said.

NELSON L. ARBUCKLE, ENGINEER, IS DEAD

Nelson Lowell Arbuckle, a lifelong resident of Indianapolis died today at his home, 5016 College Ave. Mr. Arbuckle, who was 58, was for 30 years a civil engineer with the Big Four Railroad. Funeral services will be held at] Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary Monday, the exact time to be ==% later. The Rev. Virgil D. Ragan, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian Church will officiate. Burial is to be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Emily Helmus Arbuckle; a son, Dr. Russell L. Arbuckle; two grandchildren, Ronnie and David Arbuckle, all of Indianapolis; two brothers, Ray Arbuckle of Los Angeles, Cal, and Lee Arbuckle of Washington, D. C, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Welker, New Haven, Conn. and Miss Elva Arbuckle of Washington, D. C.

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