Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1941 — Page 3

May Reach Compromise Providing Lower Exemptions Than Now Exist but Higher Than Those Set In Senate Bill.

By MARSHALL McNEIL Times Special Writer

~ WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—A compromise providing Jower personal exemptions of income taxpayers than at present, but higher than in the Senate wersion of the pending revenue bill, apparently is being worked out at the Capitol. The House bill leaves unchanged the $2000 exemption for married persons and the present $800 exemption for

single persons.

The Senate, upon the urging of the Treasury and the President, lowered these exemptions to $1500 and $750, on

the grounds that Mr. Roosevelt was right when he said: “Most Americans who are in the lowest income brackets are willing and proud to chip in directly even if their individual contributions are very small in terms of dollars.”

Little Enthusiasm.

' While the Senate, by a 43 to 23 vote, fixed the $1500-$750 exemptions, the House, and especially leaders in the Ways and Means Committee there, have never been enthusiastic about such a base broadening operation. In fact, they point out that the Treasury opposed lowering the exemptions until the President advocated it in a letter to Chairman Doughton, after the tax bill was written and ready for debate. Among the Senaté conferees on the tax bill will be two—Davis of Pennsylvania and Capper of Kansas—who opposed the lowering of the exemptions, and there are House conferees who take the same view. After a meeting of the. House conferees yesterday, at which the exemptions were discussed, even Chairman Doughton said he was in doubt. “I hardly know how I feel about them until I study them further,” he said.

No Magic In Formula.

There was some indication that the compromise may be built around retaining in the new bill the present ratio between exemptions given married persons and single persons. Under existing law, a married person gets two and one-half times as much exemption as a single person—$2000 to $800. Under the Senate bill, a married person gets only twice the exemption of a single person—§1500 to $750. If the $750 exemption for single persons as proposed by the Senate were left unchanged, and the 21%-to-1 formula applied, a married person’s exemption would be raised from $1500 to $1875. Congress has been told repeatedly there is no “magic” in the 2%-to-1, formula, but it nevertheless has. its supporters who don’t want to see a married person’s exemption reduced $500 from existing law, while a single person’s exemption is cut. only.

If the Senate exemptions are retained, about 4,900,000 new taxpayers will come onto the Federal rolls, raising the number filing returns to about 22,000,000; and under the Senate bill approximately 13,000,000 would actually pay taxes. -

WIEDEMANN GIVES UP VISIT TO ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sept. 10 (U. P.).—The decision of a Congressional committee investigating subversive activities to question Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, German diplomat, was believed today to have caused him to forego a visit here. Wiedemann, former consul-gen-eral at San Francisco, had been reported en route to Agentina on a special «diplomatic mission. Raul Domonte Taborda, chairman of the investigating committee, announced that he would summon Wiedemann on his arrival for questioning in . connection with Nazi activities here. Members of the committee said ‘Argentine Germfns had feared that Wiedemann might reveal information and weaken the position here of German Ambassador Edmund von Thermann, whose expulsion hag been demanded in Congress. Wiedemann was at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He had been expelled with other Axis consular officials from the United States in July and had gone to Germany, where he had conferred with Ado} Hitler. It had been understood that he was now going to Japan.

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‘WORK FOR FOOD" RELIEF IS URGED

Member of Tax Adjustment Board Says Plan Would Reduce Costs.

“A no work—no eat” policy for able bodied relief recipients was proposed today by Jesse Moore, taxpayer representative on the County Tax Adjustment Board, as the Board opened its examination of proposed 1942 township tax rates and budgets. Citing a 1941 statute giving trustees power to find public work for direct aid recipients in exchange for relief, Mr. Moore urged the adoption of this policy by.all trustees as an economy move, The Board member said he would not approve any township budget until the trustee has pledged himself to put able-bodied reliéfers to work for some governmental unit in the county. “It may not reduce relief expenses immediately,” Mr. Moore said, “but it will reduce the labor costs of all units where this work can be done. If reliefers refuse to work, they would get no relief.”

Might Be Janitors

Mr. Moore suggested, for example, that the trustee might assign a recipient to janitorial work in township schools, or at the Court House. According to the plan, the reliefer would receive no pay for his services. He would simply work out the amount of his weekly relief check at the prevailing wage rate paid by the unit for the type of work done. Mr. Moore made his proposal after he asked John T. Plummer, Lawrence Township trustee, whether

relief recipients were working in the

township. When Mr. Plummer replied they were not, Mr. Moore arose and distributed among the Board members sample assignment blanks which would be used under the plan, .- The blanks were printed in triplicate at Mr. Moore’s own expense. | One copy. would be filed by the unit for which the work was done, the second would be kept by the reliefer ‘as proof of having done the work, and the third copy would become a record for the trustee. Mr. Moore asked the opinion of several Board members individually on the proposal, but none of the others made any comment. Several tax experts said privately they believed the plan impractical.

Bares Budget Mysteries The Board tentatively fixed the 1942 Pike Township rate at 97 cents, a cut of 1'2 cents belcw the request. The Lawrence Township rate for township operations and schools was cut from $1.17 to $1.055 by elimination of a technical error of duplication, and by eliminating the library fund. Albert F. Walsman, chairman of the Board, yesterday instructed new board members in the finer points of budget making—a science in which there are numerous fine points. The genial City Hospital business manager aired several mysteries, including the relation of this year’s miscellaneous revenue to next year’s tax rate. He also went into the complexities of the 17-months budget structure now in use by all taxing units, a method so detailed and complicated that budget makers themselves claim they can’t quite understand all of it sometimes. The townships are expected to occupy the Board’s attention the rest of this week. Monday, members will start on the record-breaking Civil City budget, the most complicated of them all. But not to Mr. Walsman. “It’s really very simple,” he as-

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sured his colleagues. “Once you get the hang of it.”

Delibera te A; ttack’ on U.S. Flag, Says Seafarer Crew; Blas From Plane Lifted F reighter Out of Water

By GRATTAN P. MoGROARTY United Press Staff Correspondent

- ABOARD A BRITISH WARSHIP IN THE RED SEA, Sept 9.— (Delayed, via Alexandria and London).—Officers and men of the American freighter Steel Seafarer said to-

‘day that a big bombing plane appeared above them last

Friday night, cut off its motors and, gliding down in the clear light of a full moon, losed a-bomb or aerial torpedo which seemed to lift the

ship out of the water. The missile struck amidship on the starboard side beneath the water line at 11:38 p. m:. The ship’s lights went out. All hands were piped into the lifeboats with in five minutes.

The Steel Seafarer sank in 20 minutes, two minutes after Capt. John Holliday of Baltimore, Chief Officer Ralph F. Pratt of New York City, Helmsman Robert Cartwright of Nantucket, Mass, and wireless operator James Abernethey of New York City, last to go, had lowered away. They got off just in time to escape being caught in the swirling suction of the wrecked hulk. Twelve men in one lifeboat

were picked up by .a Danish.

freighter. The other 24, in two boats, struggled for 12 hours through a heavy sea to a small rocky island 10 miles away and were picked up by, this British warship, to be landed today at a Red Sea port. All aboard were safe and none suffered any injury beyond slight

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Calls Attack Deliberate

THE STEEL Seafarer’s crew are not at liberty to talk freely regarding details of the attack. But one of them, who asked to remain unidentified, said to me: “There can be no suggestion

U. S. WAR PERIL SHIFTS TO EAST

Now Atlantic, Not Pacific, Is Danger Zone, Senator George Asserts.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P.). —Responsible officials said today

that the war menace to the United States had shifted again from the Pacific to the Atlantic and there was suggestion that Germany may be following a pattern of unrestrict-| ed warfare against ocean shipping. “The danger of American involvement in the war has shifted back into the Atlantic,” Senator Walter F. George (D. Ga.), who has just relinquished chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, told the United Press. “One cannot escape the conclusion that incidents piling up bring the United States closer to war or at least to a definite decision on foreign policy.” - Murray Expects Incident

Senator James E. Murray (D. Mont.) said it “looks as if Hitler is going into the unrestricted sinking policy. “He seems to be seeking to create an incident which might involve us in war. Just how that would benefit him, I cannot see.” Isolationists centered their fire on Winston Churchill’s speech yesterday in Commons warning that Hitler might be forced by the effectiveness of the U. S. Navy Atlantic patrol to extend his warfare in the American zone. “These British speeches are alll alike,” said Senator Churles W. Tobey (R. N. H.) in ga typical comment, “all designed to one end—to get an American army over there. I would like to see Congress come forward with an outright declaration to those gentlemen over there that we are not going to give them

an expeditionary force. BLAME NOT FIXED IN SEAFARER. SINKING

CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 10 (U. P.) — British air and naval authorities said today they were unable to state whether a German or Italian plane had sunk the American freighter Steel Seafarer at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez. It is believed, however, that the plane took off| either from the Italian Dodecanese Islands or from Libya. Both [Italian and German long range bombers are believed based at Rhodes in the Dodecanese Islands. Italians and German long range bombers also are based in Libya but it was believed that if the attack on the American ship was made from there it was by an Italian

plane.

INDIANAPOLIS

United Rubber Workers of America, all

dag. Severin Hotel. due Alimni Association, 2:15 p. m,, Severin Tote Hy a Botta Tau, 7:30 p. m., Severin

" MEETINGS TOMORROW

Bookbinders’ Union No. 58, 7:30 p. m,, Severin H National “Feteration of Crafts, 7:30 p. m., Severin Hotel. National Assoica tion of Postal Supervis-

ers, a A Cl aypoo Indi: ethodist ‘Conference. all day, Meridien St. Methodist Chur Constrietion League o 231 pennsylvania

noo Indianapolis ' Real’ Estate noo and night Hillcrest Countr sing Club of Tatiana oe Indianapolis Athletic Club. noon. Severin Hotel. . Re Camera Club, 8 p. m., 110

Theta Pi, noon, Canary Cottage. Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club, Inc., noon, Fox's Steak House. Sigme Nu, noon, Columbia Club.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.

o Robert T. Love, 29, Robinson, Ill.; Mary Minks, 18, Sullivan, Ind. en Grupb, oth Ft. Harrison; RoseB. Goss, 1229 ast. ice J ‘Gilley, 24, of 1837 Fletcher; Helen EB. aN 30, of 1827 Fletcher,

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Me! ip, Marjorie Schmidt, at 909 St. Devey, 1 Lorene Witcher, at 856 N. Sher-

man Charles, © Catherine Ludy, at 615 N. West. Le: igton, at 505 W.

Leonard, Dorothy Cov Daniel, Anna Robertson, at 1638 Mont-

jer, Betty Griffin, at 319 N. West. Andrew, Ruth Jarrett, at 531 Bonteer: ‘Boyd, Virginia Sparks, at 1006_Shelby.

. DEATHS Lora Mae Russell, 1, at Riley, abscess. Edit th L, Nuzum, 61, at 1434 N. Delaware,

serebral hemorrha, James H. McKown, 59, at St. Vincent's,

PRL vey Cole, (50, at 8t. Vincent's, gall biadder. n L. Baugh, 3, at-City, nephritis. 1, ‘at Riley, malnutrition. 4, at Central, chronic

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Cora ruptured Flowery Luc Rucas,

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that the plane which attacked us - mistook us for a British ship or one of another nationality. “Our flag was in the light of our floodlights and the light of a full moon. It was clearly visible and identifiable. It is our own belief that the plane was sent to attack the Steel Seafarer to prevent her reaching (port. It accomplished that. It was i our belief a deliberate attack against the American flag.” Chief Officer Pratt told me: “I was asleep when the attack ‘began but I didn’t stay that way long. I could not be sure whether one or two bombs struck but to the best of my knowledge it was like this: : “The plane came over. Its ‘motors cut off. We had no warning of its intention to attack. It glided in and down until it was only about 150 feet above .our mastheads. Then it let loose its load. “There was a terrific explosion. It seemed to raise the Seafarer about three feet out of the water. With one shoe and one slipper on, and nothing else, I ran for the bridge.

2 2 td “ALL THE LIGHTS had gone. We were in complete darkness inside the ship except for flashlights. It could have been either a bomb or a torpedo which hit us.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair and cooler tonight with lowest temperature 45 to 50; tomorrow fair and cool.

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise ...... 5:21 | Sunset

=Sept. 10, 1840—

6:30 a. m....30:16 Precipitation 2 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1

INDIANA FIRE WEATHER FORECAST: Fair today, jollerrow and Friday; temBumidity tal Near ailing to 3 and tomorrow;

oday 3 “2 Sor cent this afterper cents tomorrow; gentle oe ni diminishing tonight and becoming variable, Indiana—Much cooler in south and east, somewhat cooler in northwest portion tonight; continued cool tomorrow; fair tonight and tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

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F. D. R. ENVOY

Taylor Hands Roosevelt Personal Message to Pontiff.

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 10 (U.P.). —His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, granted private "audience tonight to President Roosevelt's personal envoy, Myron C. Taylor. Mr. Taylor handed an important message from President Roosevelt to the pontiff. Indicating the importance of Mr. Taylor’ mission, he was received by the Pope at his own request tonight. The audience originally had been scheduled for tomorrow. Mr. Taylor just has returned to Vatican City after a long absence in the United States. On his way here he conferred in Barcelona with Admiral William D. Leahy and Alexander Weddell, United States Ambassadors to France and Spain, respectively. Before he was received by the Pope, Mr. Taylor conferred with His Eminence Lugi Cardinal Maglione,who interrupted a vacation in southern Italy. At a genera] audience this morning the Pontiff received more than

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The ill-fated U. S. freighter as it passed the Statue of Liberty teaving New York harbor.

In view of the great column of water that went about 75 feet above us, it may have been a heavy calibre bomb which scored a near miss and shattered the starboard side, destroying one of our oil fuel tanks. “After reaching the island we learned that the explosion had been heard 10 miles away. There was no fire but the ship started to heel over at once and to settle. “We were definitely not in a convoy, although we had been ‘with two other ships. We spent all night in a heavy running sea attempting to make land. At 11 a. m. our boats arrived after a mighty tough voyage. . . . “Except for those on duty at the time of the sinking all hands were undressed and we lost everything. “I'll never forget the British tar but I also must say a word for our own lads. They never flinched. They stood up to it as if they had been doing it all of their lives.”

NEWS HELD UP ON YANK FLIERS

R. A. F. Officer Angered by Leak on Deaths of 3 In Dogfight. By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

Chicago Daily News, LONDON, Sept. 10.—It was finally decided in the late hours of Monday night that American correspondents might cable home the fact that three members of the American Eagle squadron had been shot down in a dogfight over France Sunday. Those missing are Flying Officer | Eugene Tobin, 23, whose nearest relative is an uncle living in Los Angeles; Pilot Officer Hilliard S. Fenlaw, 27, Dallas, Tex., and Pilot Officer W. H. Nichols, 24, whose mother, Mrs. Grace Lewis, "lives in

Sought News Source

News of the engagement reached London Monday morning. This correspondent was in possession of the

full details early in the day and immediately attempted to send them, without the names oi the missing men or the fact that three were missing. This was done at | the request of the authorities and on the assumption that the remainder of the story, describing the flerce combat, would be allowed to | pass. In fact, that story was held many hours and most of the interesting details were deleted. At the same time the story was being held, this correspondent learned today, people with nothing better to do were emulating the Gay Pay-oo and the Gestapo by trying to discover who had given him the news.

U. S. Writers Irked

I was personally informed by Air Commodore Harold Peake, director of press relations at the Air Ministry, that “the officer who gave you this story is liable to disciplinary measures.” Commodore Peake assumed that an American pilot was responsible. So these same men who had been in the battle of their lives just a day or so before were subjected to an inquisition. The fact is that I did not get the story from an American officer. American correspondents here resent this attempt to attack their sources of news and they particularly resent fhe fact that members of the Eagle Squadron should be made the goats. .

C. I. 0. RUBBER UNIT WINS AUBURN, Ind., Sept. 10 (U. P)— The United Rubber Workers (C. I. 0.) today won a collective bargaining election at the Auburn Rubber Corp., plant here.

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3000 persons, including 600 Italian soldiers.

MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (U. P.)—The Red Army was reported tonight. to have destroyed 538 Nazi tanks and inflicted more than 80,000 casualties on the Germans in a mighty counter-offensive on the central front, while in the south one-half

said to have been wiped out. German forces on the central front were reported in pell-mell retreat after suffering terrible losses and dispatches from Odessa as the city entered its second month of siege indicated confidence in ability of defenders of the big

"|Report Half of Rumanian Army 'Wiped Out’ Before Odessa

of the entire Rumanian Army was | tions.

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ofbarricades blocking all streets and alleys in the “pearl of the Black Sea.” He emphasized the vital role being played by women and childrep and told how they carried shovels and pails, digging up pavement stones from the streets, for the construction of new fortifica-

The army of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was reported in 3 communique to be pursuing the fleeing Germans in the directio of Smolensk after having smashed enemy stands in two tank-led battles.

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CARTWRIGHT, who was at the wheel when the ship was hit, said: “I heard a whirring noise over‘head and looked up just in time to see the roughly outlined form of a plane approaching from the starboard .how. She raced aft land there was a crash. “I don’t know what kind of plane it was but I'd like to get my

hands on the

| Cartwright was ordered off with the first group but he returned to aid in searching the ship for anyone who might have been trapped

below. Wireless operator Abernethy

said that he could not send an SOS because his wireless transmitter had been knocked out. He aided in setting off emergency flares. Chief Engineer M. C. Dade told me: “1 was asleep when the torpedo hit but the explosion lifted me off my bed and I landed on the floor. Everything in the room was

BIDDLE INJURED AT DUTCH MANEUVERS

LONDON, Sept. 10 (U. P.).—Anthony Drexel Biddle, United States Ambassador to the Governments in Exile, was injured today while

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shattered. I put on overalls and went down to the engine rooms where with, the third officer I shut off the engines.

One Boat Drifts Away

“MY PLACE was not in the motor lifeboat but I saw they were unable to start the engine, which was giving trouble, so I fixed up the engine and boarded the boat as senior officer. “The motor boat had seven of us in it. We towed another boat with the rest of our 24. The other boat with 12 men drifted away and we thought it was lost. “We headed for the island, where we were royally received. The captain flashed a signal from the island to a freighter which was passing by. It communicated with the British warship which came the next day and picked us up.”

maneuvers in the Midlands. Mr. Biddle received a splinter in the left hand and became the first casualty to be treated in an ambulance which, together with two mobile canteens, had been pre-

NEAR LENINGR

Germans Claims Gains, but Call Soviet Defense ‘Obstinate.’

BERLIN, Sept. 10 (U. P)—The German air force launched hi ; attacks on Moscow, Leningrad and Odessa last night, competent Gers man. quarters said today as High Command reported that Gere man armies on the Eastern Front were engaged in “continuous and successful attacks.” German propaganda company. re porters flying over Leningrad. re= ported great fires on both sides of the Neva River where Russians had set villages and farms aflame as they retired, but the dispatches ad= mitted “obstinate” Red Army ‘rem sistance. “The enemy, on the Neva River bend, is holding positions obsti= nately and returning shot for against concentrated German ar tillery,” one dispatch said. “As far as we could determine, a Nowe battle is raging for every house and every inch of ground. The town of Schlisselburg (rail junction 22 miles east of Leningrad) is burne

ing. Reach Parade Ground

The communique, indicating an intensification of German attacks, was supplemented by military ine formants who asserted that Gere man armored units of the “rapid” troop corps had reached the great parade road outside Leningrad. Informants said that Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, now commands ing the defense of Leningrad, had reviewed troops on the road there early in June, a short time before the German attack on Russia. Military quarters reported that German engineers were removing hundreds of mines from fields ‘and roads as the Germans continued to

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