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NOW IS TIME

FOR HIGH TAX RATE GISLER

People Can Pay, He Says; Park Board’s Budget Causes Debate. Albert H, Gisler, Park Board vice

president, told the Tax Adjustment]

Board today that “now is the time

for a high tax rate when business

conditions enable people to pay it.” After next year, he told them, it may be difficult or impossible to raise the funds necessary to liquidate the current deficit in the City’s finances. Mr. Gisler made this statement during a heated debate over the Park Board’s budget requests. Tax experts questioned an ,000 bal-

. ance provided by the budget and

asked why it could not be cut. Assails Chamber’s Stand

Mr. Gisler then assailed newspaper reports that the Chamber of Commerce tax research division was seeking a 6-cent cut in the City’s general fund rate of 79.7 cents. The Chamber tax men believe that the 6 cents which was provided to

[4 pay off the $300,000 deficit will be

unnecessary because the deficit could be liquidated out of savings. An attempt by Carl Dortch, Chamber tax analyst, to get the Board to hear details of his plan for effecting the 6-cent rate cut was blocked by Albert F. Walsman, Board chairman. Mr. Walsman ruled the Board would not get down to making any actual cuts in the Civil City budget until after it has considered “all other local budgets.

Meet Again. Monday

He then adjourned the neeting until Monday, when consideration of the County and the School City budgets wil be started. Mr. Dortch contends that the proposed $1.46 Civil City rate will provide a hidden $300,000 balance by the end of next year. This balance could be used to cut the 1943 tax

. rate which will be determined next

fall just before the municipal election. : The $600,000 Park Department budget provides higher pay for politically appointed park custodians than fcr directors of the community centers appointed on a merit basis, study revealed. Under tHe Department’s proposed

wage scale for 1942, senior custodi-

ans at Riverside, Douglas, Brookside and Garfield Parks would receive from $1500 to $1600 a year. The top pay for community center directors in the new budget is $1260. Five junior custodians at Rhodius, Christian, Eagle Creek and Northwestern Park community centers {Continued on Page Ten)

Truck Backfires. Loss Is Million

BOSTON, Sept. 19 (U, P.).—A shower of sparks from a backfiring truck may have been the cause of Boston's worst fire: in three decades, investigators speculated today as they surveyed the scene of the $1,000,000 disaster. Six freight houses were destroyed. The crowded Charlestown tenement district and State Prison were threatened as, flames raged unchecked for more than two hours last night through Boston & Maine Railroad sheds. - Two other storehouses, a business building and 100 freight cars also were damaged or destroyed before the conflagration was controlled. A half mile area was blacked out by wind-swept flames that soared 200 feet and were visible

Indicted

Mrs, Caroline Pare

CHARGE MURDER TO MRS. PAYNE

Grand Jury Says Bléomington Woman Shot Mattingly in Back July 5.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Mrs. Caroline Payne, 43-year-old Bloomington newspaperwoman, today .was charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Charles. O. Mattingly, 40, Public Service Commission attorney of Indianapolis. An indictment was returned yesterday by the Monroe County Grand Jury after a seven-day inquiry. It accused Mrs. Payne of pumping five bullets into Mr. Mattingly’s back the night of July. 5 as he visited ‘fin the home of a friend. ° According to Prosecutor Floyd Cook, the woman killed Mr. Mattingly in a jealous rage when" returned to Bloomington with his wife of a year. 100 Witnesses Examined

The Grand Jury acted within a half hour of concluding examination of some 100 witnesses. The indictment was handed: to Circuit Judge Donald A. Rogers, who was expected to order Mrs, Payne to plead to the indictment shortly. Mr. Cook said he hoped for an early trial. Defense attorenys, however, have not indicated whether they will seek a delay. Conviction

death or life imprisonment. Judge Rogers recessed the jury pending a possible further inquiry. The Circuit Court, in which Mrs. Payne would be tried, is now in session. The large number of witnesses who appeared before the jury included relatives of Mr. Mattingly

co-workers and business associates over the last 18 years. The accused woman was not called to testify. Maintaining a stoic calm, she has refused to discuss the shooting since her arrest following Mr. Mattingly’s death. She had no comment as the indictment was returned.

5 FRENCH DIVISIONS MAY FIGHT RUSSIANS

LONDON, Sept. 19 (U. P.)—Unconfirmed reports to diplomatic circles said today that Adolf Hitler and Admiral Darlan of France had reached an agreement under which five divisions of the regular French Army would be sent to fight with the German Army against the Russians. It also was reported that one and a half French Divisions had reached the front. Hitler also was reported to “have reached an ' understanding with Generalissimo Franco of Spain for 15,000 Spanish troops to go to the

50 miles.

Russian Front.

Elaborate Northern Lights Display Thrills Hoosiers

Indianapolis last night watched the most elaborate display of northern lights in recent years and there may be more tonight. Phones at newspaper offices, police headquarters and the weather bureau, here and in other cities, were choked with. calls from citizens asking what went on in the skies. Some of the inquirers were anxious ana breathless about their queries, and some appeared to be awed. Many asked what is meant by na northern lights and what causes

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Emsley W. Johnson, amateur astronomer, today answered both questions. The northern lights are the aurora borealis. Whereas they usually appear only in” the northern skies in

themselves and formed a wigwam of light tongues and serpentines that had an apex at the zenith. They are manifestations of electrical disturbances caused. by sun spots. Spots now are visible on the sun, huge ones. The. largest has been measured as 100,000 miles in diameter. Sun spots, Mr. Johnson says, are places in the seething mass of the sun that are temporarily ‘blacked out, much like" the craters formed in boiling porridge. The lights themselves: extend higher than any storm clouds, reaching to the limits of the atmosphere that encases the earth— 400 miles into space. In addition to ‘producing the|in. northern lights, the sun spots also cause - disruption in radio and sometimes wire Short wave radio is “particularly vulnerable to the

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blanked out last ‘night. There was some. slight interfer-| communications, mostly north of the Ohio and east

ITALY HINTS OF

FUTURE BREAK WITH GERMANY

Special Mission Reported Sent to U. S. With Diplomatic Power.

Copyright, 2 by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. SOMEWHERS IN EUROPE, Sept. 19.—The Italian Government, according to private and unusually well-informed sources, recently has

|sént a special mission to the United

States. This group’s capacity for the moment is entirely unofficial but it is prepared to take over immediate representation of Italy in Washington should the Axis develop‘ a rupture and go the way of the Ber-lin-Moscow pact, this report says. .Details of its iormation have been most carefully guarded and it is not known how many members the mission includes. They were accompanied by their families, however, according to these sources, and took with them sufficient funds to finance their activities should they suddenly have important official duties.

U. 8. Believed Informed

Their journey to the United States was made with the knowledge and consent of the British blockade authorities, these sources declare, who guaranteed them against seizure as prisoners. It is unlikely also that

not completely informed. Observers in Europe see no immediate prospect that the Axis partners will turn at each other’s throat. Such a mission, however, ‘would serve as a form of insurance policy against a possible day when Nazi

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and Mrs. Payne, and their friends, |1,isho

this area, last night they outdid

Rome that the Italians could ho. exist under It. Page Contributing to the Italian attitude, it is said, is the imminence of a Libyan offensive by the English and the strong possibility that the Italians will receive little support from the Germans who are occupied elsewhere,

Nazi ‘Demands Increase

The Nazis for their part, these accounts say, have been insisting even that the Italians provide considerably larger forces for the Eastern death struggle. They have already squeezed Italy economically

ry. Meanwhile, the question of Italian and United States relationships has been the subject of continual speculation in Europe. Myron C. Taylor’s visit to the Pope has been most closely followed, He was to be received today in the Vatican for a third and final audience and to leave Monday for Washington via n. Observers have felt, too, what might almost be called reserve in the United States comments about Italy. It is certainly reserve compared = with the pronouncements about Hitler and the Nazis.

POWDER BLAST JARS HUGE ILLINOIS AREA

One Man Killed; Explosion Felt 30 Miles Away.

GRAFTON, IIl., Sept. 19 (U. PJ. —One man was "killed today in a heavy explosion at the Illinois Power Manufacturing Co. plant about a mile east of Grafton. The blast destroyed the neutralizing plant, where the only victim was working, and shook buildings 30 miles away. The dead man was identified as Francis M. Irwin, 50, father of four children." He was said to have been the only person working in the neutralizing section. The plant is located in the Mississippi River bottoms about 50 miles directly north of St. Louis and manufactures dynamite for commercial use. It has no defense orders. The blast made buildings tremble as far southéast as French Village, Ill, 30 miles away. Residents of Ferguson, Mo., about the same distance southeast, also felt the explosion.

ROOSEVELT DELAYS SIGNING OF TAX BILL

HYDE PARK, N. Y,, Sept. 19 (U. .) —President Roosevelt today delayed signature of the $3,553,000,000 tax bill to make an exhaustive study of the heavy levies on individuals and corporations which will begin financing America’s war effort. In the library of Hyde Park House, where he arrived this morning, the President spread out the bill which was delivered to him yesterday and began checking it against Jreasmy analwsis. Explaining that it will cost the Government little or nothing to delay signature of the measure a tions. | Ses o Mr. Boecavel: said ab a ess erence e may de. er Sgnaure as long as 48 hours.

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STATE TO LS

War Department Also To Include Busses.

By EARL RICHERT Every truck, passenger bus, and school bus in Indiana is to be listed

soon by the State Motor Vehicle License Bureau at the request of the U. S. War Department for use if an emergency arises. - When this inventory is completed, truck “pools” will be formed in various sections of the state. The License Bureau will know the types of trucks and the names and telephone numbers of the truck owners-in each “pool” and when an emergency arises in which a certain number of trucks are needed, Bureau officials will know what nearby truck owners to call to get the types of trucks needed.

Inventory Planned

For example, if the time ever comes that 100 tank trucks are needed at Ft. Wayhe to haul milk or gasoline to Muncie, the Motor Vehicle License Bureau officials will have at their fingertips the names of 100 tank truck owners in that area who are willing to lease their vehicles to the ‘Government for use in the emergency. Or, for another example, if the time comes when 50° passenger and school busses are needed to evacuate residents of a town, the License Bureau officials ‘will. know where the ycan get those busses at once. {The inventory is to be handled by a special Truck and Bus Inventory Department for National Defense which has been set up in the License Bureau for that purpose by R. Lowell McDaniel, »Bureau head. E. U. Pauley, former Indianapolis insurance -man, has been named head of the Inventory Department.

How It Will Work

While the inventory is .to: be handled by the special department, the task of. getting ready for it has been so great that practically the entire personnel of the License Bureau has been used for the past mnonth in. making. the preparations; which are now practically complete. Here’s how the inventory, which is a part of a nation-wide preparedness program sponsored by the War Department, will work: ' On a set date, the Motor Vehicle Bureau will mail out questionnaire cards to every truck and bus-owner * (Continued on Page Ten)

WAR AID APPROVED

The United Rubber Workers of America today had indorsed the President’s proposal of all-out aid] to nations resisting totalitarian aggression, but pointed out that such

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to be re-elected presi

retiring commander, wave to "the clv.ering crowd. after Mr. Stam-:

mander at yesterday's closing ses--sion of the American Legion. in Milwaukee. , 2. Mrs. Mark Murrill of Scitue ate, Mass., new ‘president of the Legion’s Women’s Auxiliary. 3. Dr. L. J. Kosminsky of Texarkana, Ark. (left), the new. Chef De Fer of the 40 & 8 Society, is shown with the retiring head, Ben C. Hillard Jr. : ; 4. V. M. (Army) Armstrong, Indianapolis and Bedford atforney, new national vice commander.

ARMSTRONG CHOSEN

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AS VICE COMMANDER

Veterans Urge All Possible Aid to. Foes of Nazis.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 19 (U. P)— The 23d national convention of the

four corners of the nation today with the Legion’s policies redefined in support of the Government's program of mustering all possible help for the foés of Nazi Germany. Coincident with this modification: of its previous non-interventionist attitude, the Legion rededicated itself to opposition: to communism and all other “subversive elements” active in the: United: States. Sanctioning American help for Russia in her fight against Hitler meant ino slackening of the Legion's against Red activities in the United (Continued on Page. Ten)

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American Legion dispersed to the|S.

"Hopefuls Confer at Se French Lick.

By.VERN BOXELL = Times Staff Writer

ff ‘FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind.

‘Sept. '19.—Democratic hopefuls for the 1942 political sweepstakes were all set for a few practice trials here this week-end as Indiana par-

% ty. leaders ‘and ‘ ed.tors wernt into

‘their annual fall pc w-wow. + “This’ paracle of prospective can-

zation ' plans and ‘issues : for ; the coming’ election "will “highlight the annual * session, ‘ expected to. draw mere than 1000. Early ‘arrivals’ began’ pouring’ in from all over the State this morning.’ ‘A ‘delegation -of - Washington notables was due later, headed by ederal ~ Security ~~ AdminiStrator Paul V. McNutt and U. S, Senator Frederick VanNuys. Mr. McNutt is coming here from the American Legion convention at Milwaukee and Mr. VanNuys was due from Indianapolis about noon.’ Mr. VanNuys arrived in the capital city this morning from Washington and was to drive down with Glen Van(Continued on Page Ten)

ARMS SPEEDED TO RUSSIA, HULL SAYS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U, P.). —Secretary of State Cordell : Hull said today that the United: States lis © doing * everything possible to speed up and increase material aid to Russia. The * Secretary ‘made the states ment in connection with a question at: his press conference regarding whether discouraging reports from London of the Russian situation had had any effect on the U. program. of aid to the Soviet. He replied with an emphatic statement that the U. S. was concentrating every possible effort toward increasing the aid and also increasing the speed with which it wds being developed.

ARNOLD RAPS BUSINESS

YOSEMITE, Cal, Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Thurman Arnold, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, charged today powerful private groups are hampering America’s defense effort because they fear overexpansion of production “may destroy. their dom-

been of the war on’

ination of industry after the war.”

War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The current German successes in the Kiev area and’ in the southern Ukraine, given their proper value, are a heavy blow to the defense of Russia, do not mean, however, that the Russian

out, nor that an early end the Eastern Front is in prospect.

always is the remote possibility of an unexan collapse. ‘but here las not een jhe Russia is counting on the s of winter in another month thon # great stretch of the fighting 0

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350,000 TROOPS ARE ENCIRCLED IN KIEV SECTO

Can Sufficient Arms Be Sent to Russia to Keep Her in War, London Asks; Tokyo Grows Menacing Again.

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS "United Press Foreign News Editor

~ Hitler's armies of the east rolled forward at blitzkrieg pace today in a drive that threatened Soviet defense forces with disaster. For almost the first time since the attack on Russia was launched 13 weeks ago the Wehrmacht was pounding forward with the destructive force and blinding speed of its came paigns on the Western Front. The German offensive was reported to have: Trapped four Soviet armies, possibly 850,000 to 400,000 ‘men, in a new encirclement area extending 125 miles east of Kiev. "Carried the Nazi vanguard to the edge of the great

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| |Donetz-Don industrial basin—biggest in Russia—with the

huge Kharkov-Rostov coal, steel and oil area as the objective of the next German thrust forward. Sliced the communications lines which link the Crimean Peninsula with the Russian mainland. : Drawn tighter the steel ring around Leningrad which was characterized by Berlin as a “suicide city” which faces a fate worse than Warsaw. ; -. Russian dispatches admitted that the Germans had reached the outskirts of Kiev but said that the Ukrainian capital had become a “sausage grinder” for German troops : and that at least four Nazi divisions had been lost,

LONDON, Sept. 19 (U. P.).—An authoritative British source said tonight that unconfirmed rumors have been received that a German raider has been destroyed in the Pacific west of Panama. The raider has been said to have sunk a couple of ships in the Pacific. The same source reported that British planes and warships outs fought a pack.of German submarines in an extended battle over a British Atlantic convoy which ended only a few Gays ago.

The. Nazi High Command made its first estimate of German casualties on the Eastern Front, placing the killed at 84,354 and the wounded at 292, 690 up to Aug. 31—a total which seemed to be almost fantastically lower than the best estimates of sources in London and Moscow which have placed Nazi losses at from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. The perilous Soviet situation was not minimized in Lone don where it was admitted frankly that the Germans now have captured or are on the verge of capturing so large a portion of Russia’s industrial plants that the Soviet cannot be expected to provide herself with sufficient guns, tanks

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"and planes to equip the Red Army with the weapons it mus$

have to match the German blitz forces. . This, said the British, poses the most urgent question of the war: How to get to Russia sufficient arms, fast enough to enable the Soviet to stay. in the ring slugging. . Probably another month of fairly good fighting weather remains, the British suggested, before winter begins to bog down operations. They had little hope of getting more than token quantities of planes and’ tanks to ‘Russia within that period. Tokyo Increases Tension Authoritative British opinion, however, was that the Russians will fight on to the end no matter what defeats they may suffer. : British sources believed that at the present pace o German advances a direct Nazi threat to the Caucasus and the land bridge to the Middle East may emerge within relatively short period. They believed that the danger of involvement of Turkey is growing but felt that Turkey would resist any Nazi attack. This, it was admitted, probably would overturn what ever plans the British have for an offensive into North Africa and might even enable the Germans to launch another attack toward Egypt. Likewise coincident with the worsening of the Russian situation was a new Soviet-Japanese tension. The Tokyo Foreign Office today directed a sharp protest to Moscow concerning floating mines in the Sea of Japan, allegedly placed by the Russians. More than 50 members of the Soviet Embassy staff and Embassy families, includiry the wife of Ambassador Constantin Smetanin, left ‘today, for home, as if expecting further trouble. While Russia seemed to be stemming the German 4 tack, Japanese newspapers supported the neutrality pact from Moseo and Tokyo did not seek to enforce its Shjecs

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