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"C.F C. BACKS G-CENT CUT IN CITY TAX RATE

Research Division Claims $300,000 Could Be Offset . . By Savings.

on the basis of estimates compiled by the Chamber of Commerce

tax research’ division, at least 6 cents). can be cut from the City’s proposed |

1942 tax rate of $1.46 without disturbing _ wage or other ‘increases sought for municipal services next year. The cut; according to the division, could be made in the Cify general (Corporation) rate of 79.717 cents which makes up the bulk of the total civil ‘ city .rate proposed for next year. According : to -their calculations, the budget as-drafted by Mayor Sullivan and City Controller James E. Deery contains a hidden balance of $300,000 which could be used to cut the tax rate in 1943.

Financing the Deficit a 1943 City budget will be made p next. summer and fall—just beTre the usual time of the municipal

el sk is why the tax men think the 6 cents can be lopped off : When they the 1942 budget, City officials fixed the tax rate ‘high “enough to pay off a $311,000 deficit. "The deficit accumulated because ‘of underfinancing during the past two years, saccording to statements made by Mayor “Sullivan to the Tax Adjustment

With one cent on the rate _TRiSing an estimated cials figured that. it Would take 8 to wipe out the $311,000 in

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have figured differently. They believe the City can make up the deficit out of savings. They contend ‘that by the end of this year, the City will have saved $150,000 toward :the deficit in actual operating . expenses. = This Oe would liquidate half the deficit. The remainder could be made ‘up in savings next vear, ‘they

say. - May Ask 5-Cent Cut -

If this happens, the 6-cent rate ‘would ‘then leave $300,000 .unexpended in the City Hall cash box at the end of 1942. This balance . ‘could .then be used to reduce the ° amount needed to finance the City in 1943. When the Tax Adjustment Board has finished its preliminary study of the budget, the Chamber tax men plan to: propose a 5-cent reduction in the corporation .rate. One cent less than the 6 cents which could be cut, the 5-cent reduciion’ will leave ‘the City a $50,600.balance at the end of next year, according to their figures. The estimate that $150,000 will have been savéd this year and another $150,000 can be saved next year is based on past experience in savings at City Hall, they maintain.

SCHRICKER NAMES 2 TO MEDICAL BOARD

. Governor ' Schricker today appointed two.new members to the State Medical Board and reappointed five others to four-year terms. The new members of the Board are Dr. Hugh Wilson Eikenberry, Peru, who replaces Dr. James Hicks, Huntington, and Dr. Clarence Frederick Aumann, Indianapolis, replac- - ing Dr. H. K. McIlroy, also of In- * dianapolis. - Dr. Aumann is a chiropractor. Renamed as board members were Dr. Will Carlton Moore, Muncie; Dr. Norris E. Harold and Dr. Clarence Barker Blakeslee, both Indianapolis; Dr. Jesse Wilbert Bowers,” Ft. Wayne, and Dr. Hobart Conway ‘Ruddick, Evansville. Dr. Blakeslee is an osteopath, the others are medical doctors.

TIMES FEATURES TODAY—

"The , Wounded Don't G = Quentin Reys rides with French es ees dodging chine on bullets. Page

What the tax bill means to you—a summary of the new Federal levies and a comparative - table. - Page 7.

1942 Automobiles — Pictures and a description of six of the new models

for next year. Page IS.

~ The Mighty Case Harry Ferguson ah

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AURORA, Ind., Sept. 18 (U.

currency.

pockets. But the

the tracks through Aurora.

| Aurora’Cleans Up’ After | Shower of Greenbacks

/ hit Aurora today when the Baltimore & Ohio limited ‘roared through town, showering amazed residents with crisp one and five dollar bills in United States

The money was from a mailbag that had fallen under the wheels of the train as it was passing through the town. One man reached out and grabbed more than $300 from the swirling cloud of greenbacks. The station agent at the B. & O. depot, standing motionless,

master Petscher of Aurora began rounding up the finders and retrieved more than $2000. But he didn't know how much the bag contained and had to search the length of

He had hundreds of volunteers to help him.

P.) —A belated “clean-up” frenzy

stuffed $500 into his

Utopia was: short-lived. . Post-

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 18 (U. attorney and former North Dakota

Edward Scheiberling, Albany, N. Y.

BOOST NEW HIGH FOR SOUTH SIDE

“om. Judge Goett, Aiding Drive,

Suggests it Retain Name of Mantalk

A new high school near Garfield Park, sought by South Side residents, should retain the name and traditions of Emmerich Manual Training High School, according to Superior Court Judge Henry O.

Goett. : Addressing a ‘meeting in’ the South Side Community. Center, Sanders and Shelby Sts, last night, Judge Goett said “there is no reason why the site of Manual could not be changed and the rich traditions carried on.” Miss Arda S. Knox, retired Manual Training teacher and sponsor of Roines Club, senior boys’ organization, asserted the same thing before 'the civic meeting. The Rev. Ernst A. Piepenbrok, St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church pastor, told the meeting “The - young people of the South Side are among the very best and they deserve the very best.” The meeting was a continuation of efforts to procure a new high school started last winter by representatives of Parent-Teacher Assoclations of all South Side grade schools. Harry B. Dynes, civic leader, who presided at the meeting last night, said that a permanent organization to push the drive for a new school will be formed. The committee in charge of the campaign consists of Mrs. W. C. Milhous, chairman; Mrs. A. F. Vehling, vice chairman, and Mrs. Harry Miedena, secretary.

Blood Offered By Church Unit

THE FIRST group to volunteer as donors for the blood plasma bank to be started here for benefit of the Army and Navy was the Dorcas Class of the Woodruff Place Baptist Church. Miss Elsie Hays of the organization informed the headquarters of the committee, sponsored by the local :Red Cross, in the Chamber of Commerce Building today that 35 to 40 volunteers were ready. : Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, in charge of the drive, said that several hundred persons already have volunteered although the center

won't be in Speration until about Oct. 1.

' CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (U. P)—A bantam rooster named “Joe” kept Adolf Jozalis, out of his chicken coop and his wife kept him out of his house and barn. He found the law was more effective in overriding his wife's action than that of the rooster and obtained a court order requiring his Anna, 53, to atimit him to his

His attorney, Victor Frohlich, told ig Rudolph Desort that Mrs. Jozalis had evicted her husband from

Stambaugh Favorite fo Head Legion as Parley Nears Close

Green Lauds A. F. of L. Record, Says U. S. Will Win in Battle of Production.

P. ) ~Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo, N. D., state commander, appeared to have

the inside track for national commander today as the American Legion met in the closing session of its 23d annual convention. Strongest opposition to Mr. Stambaugh was expected to come from

There were several other candidates in the field but most of these were expected to withdraw before the balloting. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor today told the delegates that America, “at

peace technically,” actually is fight-

ing a war of production with the greatest industrial army in the world. “Our great industrial machine is

out more and ‘better implements of war than the enemies of democracy can produce, * Mr. Green said. He ‘pointed out

“not only are for our but for immediate shipment to those nations which are resisting the Nazi-Fascist aggression.” Says Dictators Fear Us Mr. Green expressed pride in the record of the A. F. of L. which he said adopted a no-strike policy a year ago in realization of the importance of uninterrupted defense production and carried it out more than 99 per cent. ® American labor shrugs off the slurs and insults from enemy sources among the totalitarian dictators, but is “deeply hurt” by unjustified criticism made maliciously or in ignorance by Americans, Mr. Green said. “We do not fear them,” he said,

should and do fear us. We will match them and overmatch them—

one, two warships for one—and we have what it takes to do it. They are starved even for bare necessities. (Continued on Page Five)

6 LIQUOR LICENSE HOLDERS ARE FINED

license permits were found guilty of charges of selling on Sunday yesterday by the State Alcoholic Commission. The permit holders and their fines were: Meyer. Cohen, operator of a drugstore at 53 S. Illinois St., $100 and license suspended for 30 days; Fane Vaseloff, 701 Ketcham St., $50 and license suspended for 30 days; Jones McNulty, 3435 E. 10th St, 50 Sasban Mason, 1005 N. Illinois St., $50; L. Stamatkin, 234 N. Belmont Ave, $100; Pando Boshkoff, 701 N. Holmes Ave., $50; Mrs. Frances McQuiston, 1359 Kentucky Ave., $75; Hazel Plach, 732 N. Arnolda Ave, $50, and Loudermilk Pharmacy, 2401 W. Michigan St.; license suspended for 30 days. The commission also fined eight liquor permit holders in various parts of the state. Total fines against the nine Indianapolis and eight non-Indianapolis permitees was $875.

RIVET FACTORY STRUCK QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 18 (U. P). —The plant of the Tubular Rivet & Stud Co., reputedly the world’s largest manufacturer of rivets, was

of L. employes reported on strike in- protest . against the introduction

of, efficiency experts and a consequent “speed-up.”

was “so enthusiastic on the arrival of each new addition to the family that with his own hands he constructed a room for the newcomer,” Mr. Frolich “The = has 1 rooms,” he added. The lawyer sald ‘the children wanted to throw a party recently and Mrs. Jozalis persuaded her husband ‘to move into the barn. “He has since doubted her sincerity for in his absence his wife moved her mother into the house as a permanent resident,” Mr.

Frolion said. “My client shared the

engaged in a desperate race té turn |

referring to the dictators. “But they’

two guns for one, two planes for|

Nine Indianapolis holders of liquor |

shut down today with all 700 A. F.|

RUSSIA GIVEN 9 ‘ADVANCES

OF 60 MILLION

| President Asks Right to

Help Any Nation Which Battles Aggression.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.).|

—President Roosevelt asked Con-

gress today to appropriate $5985,-| 000,000 fo continue Lend-Lease aid| | to nations battling the Axis through|

June 30, 1943. The President's request for funds to be used over the next two years indicated preparations for a long war. He asked that he be ‘left free to provide Lend-Lease aid fo any country whose defense he considers vital to this country’s freedom. That was the law govering the present $7,000,000,000 Lend-Lease appropriation, most of which has been allocated, and it would permit the U. S. to provide Lend-Lease aid] to Russia if it desired. The prseent system, however, is to provide ad-

vance credits to finance Russian|

war purchases here, Two Advances Made

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. revealed today that tis Government had advanced ‘'$10,000,000 to the Soviet Union more than a month ago to help the Russians meet their current bills. He said

this was an advance against gold| . which the Russian Government was|

to ship the United States within 90 days. Yesterday Federal Loan. Administrator Jesse H. Jones disclosed that this Government would ad-

vance Russia $50,000,000 thresh the| eR

orp: # payment on approximately- $106,000, 000 worth of strategic raw ‘materials, such as manganese and chromite, produced in Russia and needed in

|the American defense program.

Requests Itemized

The President sent to Speaker Sam Rayburn a breakdown of the proposed expenditures compiled by Budget Director Harold D. Smith: Ordnance and ordnance stores, supplies, spare parts and materials including armor and ammunition— $1,190,000,000.. Aircraft and aeronautical material including engines, spare parts and accessories—$385,000 Tanks, armored cars, automobiles, trucks, etc.—$385,000,000. Vessels, ships, boats and other water craft including the hire or other temporary use, equippage, supplies, materials and spare parts —=$850,000,000. Miscellaneous military and naval equipment, supplies and materials— $155,000,000. Facilities and equipment for production of ‘defense articles, including acquisition of land and maintenance .facilities—$375,000,000. Agricultural, industrial and other (Continued on Page Five)

NORTHERN LIGHTS ‘REPEAT TONIGHT

Butler Astronomer Links Them to Sun Spots.

Last night’s brilliant display of northern lights—one of the season’s brightest—Ilikely will be repeated tonight. Dr.. B. C. Getchell of the Butler University astronomy department,

|said today another shimmering dis-

play is probable because this: morning he observed, with his astronomy class, “one of the biggest groups of sunspots J have ever seen.” One spot measured by Dr. Getchell and his students was 22,000 miles across while one group measured 100,000 miles across. ‘These caused short-wave reception to fade badly, he said. The solar disturbances should be looked for anytime after dark, preferably away from city lights. The sun spots won't have much effect on the weather, the Weather Bureau said. We're going to have

more of the same except that: tomorrow might be somewhat warmer.

Wife Chases Hubby From House and Barn; Bantam Rooster Bars Him From Coop

all-inclusive is my client's respect for. motherhood that he stayed up all night assisting in. the delivery.” ‘The attorney sald a second cow. was expecting but that Mrs. Jozalis| feared her husband would disfigure the calf and ‘ordered him from the

“Ihe only other place he can go is’ the chicken goop,” Mr. Frolich continued, “It is commodious and he would move in willingly, but his entrance is. disputed by a bantam

rooster named Joe, who is. un-

Point, Md. prone iin er:

Air-Gome Battalion Wil Carry Jeeps, Folding Bicycles in Planes.

WASHINGTON, Sept.-18.(U. PJ). —The War Department disclosed | today that a new air-borne. battalion of infantry—which will take “jeep” reconnaissance cars, motorcycles and folding bicycles with it in-its planes —will be established Oct. 10 at Fort Benning, Ga. : * The hy known as the 88th infantry. air-horne battalion, will have an. initial- strength: of 500 men. It! will be used to supplement parachute trodps. . ‘The :battalion, whieh will Be com mangded ; by" Lieut 1) ge. i Jr. ‘will be” expanded” as soon ‘as experimental work is in|; ished. One of. the rifle” compARISS will be equipped with: motorcycles and a number: of the new “jeep” onequarter ton trucks, Of the 285 riflemen, 40 will ‘ride ‘bicycles, and another 140 will' ride motorcycles. The others will be “carried in the. jeeps after landing from their planes. The battalion will consist ‘of 50 specially trained men “from: the} Ninth Division, t. Bi ‘Bragg, - North Carolina, and 450 from -infantry replacement training centers at camps Croft, S. C., and Wheeler, Ga. ‘Secretary. of ‘War Henry L. Stim-

son told a press conference that the

Army ‘has sufficient. equipment ..for the" initial - battalion of air ‘borne troops. He said that. the, troops would use new-type cargo _ planes, each A of.carrying, ‘28: men and their eq! ‘He said that the planes would land both men and equipment, and not drop them by parachute. The} equipment, he said, would ‘include 50 caliber machine guns and 37 mm, and: 81 ‘mm. guns.

SONJA NOW A CITIZEN STAMFORD; Conn., Sept. 18 (U, P.) —Getting up from ‘a ‘sick bed and m York, Sonja Henie, Norwegian- born

skating star, took the oath of al-|—

U. S. GETS NEW ARCHIVIST

_ WASHINGTON. Sept. 18 ou, RB.)

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to the free nations of ‘the world.”

The Navy said the vessel . will mount ‘a suibable anti-aircraft battery. ” = The ‘Neutrality Act now prohibits the arming of American merchant vessels, but the Administration’ is considering possibility of seeking repeal of the act. Officials ‘also pointed out :that the new vessels might be ‘|transferred to the British or other foreign flag for operation as armed € | merchant ships. ‘The new type "ship is, light in weight. simple in ‘construction, relatively cheap both in original cost and upkeep and embodies a novel propulsion arrangement never 'béfore used in: ocean-going. freighters. “The. first aim of the. designers was to create a shallow draft ship at a

in great enough numbers’ to offset 'sinkings and losses of material and manpower. in time of war. The first of the new vessels, known as the Sea Ofter, will be driven by a six-foot propeller sunk amidship. © It will’ carry a net cargo of 1500. tons. “The : propeller will, be driven by 16 gasoline engines. The engines are’ 110 horsepower, six cylinders, developing a total of 1700 horsepower. The whole propelling mechanism can be hoisted and replaced while underway. The ‘vessels, only 270 feet in length, can be built inland and taken to sea through rivers. and canals. Engineers believe that: vessels of the Sea Otter class can be turned out in two months after plans, are standardized. Final decision .on construction of 3 fleet of the new ships was. exm.| Biter. to await first tests of the Sea

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small ‘cost. which could be: produced.

1300,000 Soviet Troops ‘in

Pincers Trap at Kiev, - . ~ Berlin Claims.

On Inside Pages U. S. Maneuvers 3 Details of Fighting ....oc00ues 10” Unrest in EUIOPE «..oveerinsas 1

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Hitler’s forces on the Easts ern Front today confronted ‘Russia with the gravest mili

‘|tary situation since start. of the war.

Nazi forces slashed across the

“|southern Ukraine at half a dozen “| points, threatening to break ‘Mars

shai Semyon Budenny's Army’ inte. isolated fragments which could be mopped up at leisure. : Only on the central—and relatives

"|ly inactive—front did the Ru

appear to be holding their own.’ The situation: Nazi troops racing east from Nikos laev and. Kherson were reported 6

{have reached Perekop at the head

"lof ‘the Crimean Peninsula and:

SER TERN at they venture inte “these:

|New . 5: Arie Cate Ship Perfected to Challenge Subs

‘ WASHINGTON, sept. 18. (U.P). ~The Navy Department today announced perfection .of a; new type 1900-ton, armed: cargo ship that “will challenge - the “submarine and provide a. new bridge from : this country

“The ship, which was ‘perfected with “4he “active: and insistent is of President Roosevelt, soon will complete its final trials.

SHIP STRIKE SEIZURE DEADLINE IS FIXED

U. S. to Take Over Vessels After Today.

© WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (U. P.). —Today is the deadline for Federal seizure of 10. American vessels tied up in Atlantic and Gulf ports by a strike of the Seafarers International Union (A. F. of L.) unless the dispute is submitted to arbitration, well informed quarters said. ' These sources said the deadline was set by Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S. Land, on direct authorization by President : Roosevelt, in a notice to the’ ship operators and ‘the striking - union which is demanding war bonuses; on ‘all sailings to the West Indies and South America. The President was said ‘to have informed officials that resumption of shipments of defense material to West Indies bases acquired from Great Britain is imperative.

FRENCH BOYS PADDLE TO BRITAIN FOR WAR

EASTBOURNE, England, Sept. 18

(U. P.).—Five ‘French ' schoolboys

under 19 landed safely today after crossing + the English Channel in canoes. The French youths ‘were between 17 and 19 years old. - They made the trip in two 12-foot' canves because they wanted to join the fight against the Axis. They were ‘carrying their school books. ’

in the Ukraine.

Sb ne of . e of. ‘Mr, Keemle

the sea of Azov, Which in connected

Yenikale «Germans, "having broken

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War. Analyst A German drive for the oil fields of the Caucasus much earlier than had been expected, by means means of a short cut through the Crimean Peninsula is suggested" by ‘today's war developments

If the German push push ‘maintains its present rate

not stopped by a determined

progress Russian rally, the fall of the Crimea appears not unlikely. The historic’ peninsila, starred. British-French war against Russia in 1856, is only four miles from the shore of the Caucasus region. It is bordered on the east by

‘scenie of tHe ill-

with the Black Sea by the Strait of miles wide, which would enable a

Black Sea and sur-|compact Russian concentration for to the moriwest, b| defense. ‘Whether strong defense

proc={said today that the curfew and the reduc ‘|line = deliveries along ok Bin Wg igh 1

have severed Crimea's: commuica-

: tions with the mainland. -

Drive “Toward ‘Don

A few miles to the north large | forces of German troops were acros ‘I the Dnieper on a“broad front,’ ing forward directly from Zapc toward the biggest industrial : in Russia, the Don basin.’ North and south of Kiev, German’ motorcycle troops and tanks were reported to have encircled some 300,000 Soviet troops in lightning advances.

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LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. P.).~An authoritative British source estimated that up to Sept. 1 Germany had lost about 2,000,000 men, killed, wourided and missing, and. Russia about 3,000,000 in the war. | ie on the Eastern Front. $ he

The southern arm of the pincers oy drove toward Kharkov from & Dnieper bridgehead at Kremenchug: The northern pincer slashed east j around Konotop with the aim of making a contact with the southern arm in the vicinity of Kharkov. On the vast central front there was relatively small action but the Russians still seemed to have the initiative. They reported a big de= feat of German armored units try ing to break through to Bryansk and local successes around Smo lensk. On the Leningrad battleground the Russians claimed to have ad= vanced nearly 10amiles into German positions at one point. The Ger= mans, however, said that their ring has been drawn tight around city and that Kronstadt, the great island naval base nearby, now is un. der artillery bombardment. A The Nazi ‘Luftwaffe vas ranging far and wide, bombing Moscow and Odessa; the western shores of the Caspian Sea, 700 miles from the fighting area; ports on the Sea of Azov, just east of Crime”. and the Russian Arctic coast.

Whole Army in Danger

At almost every point the German military machine was hammering with terrific blows against an:evie dently weakening Soviet defense. The great German threat was |! the south. Here the Russians immediate isolation of the \ with its big naval shipyards and Red Fleet bases, the prospect of almost immediate battle to save the = Don area, and the possibility that the bulk of Budenny’s south army will be hacked to pieces by the scissors action of the Germ columns of infiltration. ‘ There was mounting evidence bh for the first time since the start. the war in the east 13 weeks: the Nazi Wehrmacht was re rolling at a pace that rivalled’ of its past campaigns in Wes

Whether the Russians could ¢ solidate their defenses and

rh in the ‘south Black Sea where even ed temperatures are mila, and many weeks

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (1 Defense Oil Co-Ordinator I

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