Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1941 — Page 1
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SK CONGRESS FOR 15% TAK| ONPAY CHECKS
Treasury Proposal Made te Raise 5 Billions More Next Year. ‘By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—
|The House Ways and Means
Committee today was to consider surprise Treasury in-
‘|lcome tax proposals calculated
to shock the country wide awake to what it will mean to spend $100,000,000' a day,
¥ $3,000;000,000- a month and
They're a Tucky, pair, Jack Austin Campbell, ‘Greensboro, N. C., (left) and Vernon Howell, Thornville, t0.be dead in the tropedoing of the Reuben James, have turned up alive at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. They bad been | iransterfed. Between them a¥ they show thumbs
©.,/hoth firemen who were pres
up is ite of the Reuben i
close to $40,000,000,000 next
year. Committeemen said Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. informed them that would be next
| year’s spending schedule and pre-
sented tentative tax plans to raise another $4,800,000,000 in 1942, most of it from income taxpayers. He suggested ‘that new taxes
should be enacted and effective on the first pay day after Jan. 1. That will blow right up the Christmas
“Lives Risked"
Senator Burton BE Wheeler :
WHEELER: NAVY
Charges Destroyers Out of |& ‘Repair Because British. Ships Crowd Yards.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D.
CRAFT UNSAFE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U. P)—
Mont.) charged in the Senate today that “we are sending our boys out fo
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CASUALTIES OF 1,748,000 MEN
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Is ‘Reality’; Nazi Loss. Put at 4,500,000. - LONDON, Nov. 6 (U. P).
\—Josef V. Stalin told the| = world by “radio | today that
| Adolf Hitler’s “crazy plan” to
.|draw Britain and. the United
States into a war coalition ‘te crush the Soviet! Union had
‘|failed. But he ‘urged he Allied powars—indirectly including America—to open a second fighting * front against the Axis without delay. Stalin said “with certainty” that a- coaltion of the United States, Britain ‘and the Soviet Union “is now a reality” and asked: “Who coulc’ doubt that Britain and the United States will give us full support to conquer Hitler?” He said that American tanks were already arriving and that
1| Russia had been promised an Amer« ican loan.
-British-Russian Union |
Germany has lost 4,500,000 men in
Ambassador
LITVINOV NAMED ENVOY TO U. S.
Diplomat; Russians - Counter-Attack. War ‘News Inside Today's War Moves ..... Page 3 Details of Fighting sasesncanee 3 5
No Peace, Finns Hint ,,.000.. ' (AEE BAN XA 17.
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}| WASHINGTON, Nov ; P.) ~—President ¥ |said today that Americs B (must make “full sacrifice } now,” ubmerge Tabor} :
Contrasts With Japanese |
President Tells ILO. | (Text, 4, Page 19)
ee Adolf Hitler and about “the! better . wor aim to build” after the “Oyr place—the place: i
whole Western Hemispher; Nazi scheme: for world"
the war so far and Hitler's armed strergth is failing, while the Red
chimney any J prospect o a Decemof Sangess assuming Army is gaining strength despite its
be Stoneman’s War Analysis .... 19
‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS
sea in’ destroyers out of repair because our Navy yards are filled with} 5.
PROPOSED HERE
‘ c. of C. Safely. Cou oil Chief Urges Unifying of a Enforcement, A
The creation of a board. of __strategy composed of enfore : officials to tighten and unify t law enforcement in | Indiana Sis was proposed today by Dr. Ra N. Harger, enforcement ' committee anioh the Chamber of merce Safety. Council. | Dr. Hargel’s proposal, follo the Cleveland, O.; board of strate plan, was made -at a luncheon meeting of the safety council at the "Indianapolis Athletic Club. ph L. Lee of Detroit, Mich. ~ jations counselor of Gene al Motors rp., was guest speaker on community and, industrial safety problems, ! The board of *strategy | idea was outlined here ‘recently by Municipal Judge Perry ‘A. Frey of (Cleveland who . said at worked syccesst y there. 3 Once each month, according to the plan, Safety Board members, . Police’ Chief Morrissey, Traffic - gineer James E. Loer, the two nicipal judges and prosecutors w 1d sit down around the conference fable with the enforcement committee. ‘They’ would: then proceed |to|’ . thrash out’ enforcement prob X + attem to arrive at some - fied plan.of action.
: Improvement Shown .- The board of strate; egy was one. of E ‘three proposals submitted by the anforcement commitfee. The comt ‘also suggested a study of all A cases appealed to criminal or uit courts to determine weakpy ay es edeatrian renew traffic rules. on: ‘the work of jhe
+ 0TH nting
Police De PAMIese ih he past Tew]
ne ub the ‘September ir
speed arrest, figure which was. the Dignest | of ny ‘ preceding : year. ; Arrests. fo ‘all traffic violations from 3066 in September to 3264 FpiOveen which d indicated “gratify-|
“ind| Forgotten ‘Statutes’
Against Violators.
By EARL RICHERT
A few weeks ago Governor Schricker, who has madé a solution of ‘the traffic problem ‘one of the major aims of his’ administration, told subordinates that he wanted every poss.
“igible law us:d to “make it tough”
on traffic law violators. He also auked his department Cl heads to stady the traffic situation
By and to suggest possible remedies.
"And, as is usual in cases where “the boss” gir bears down on some point, his orders have begun to bear fruit, . . © George L. ‘Blue, ‘director of the Financial Responsibiilty Division of
{the Motor Vehicle .License Bureau, today announced.that from now on |
the hitherto unused “tough” penalty provision of the Financial: Respon- | sibility Act would be used against | motorists who are found’ driving after their licenses are suspended.
. Suggests Week-End Truck ‘Ban’
‘Mahlon “Ledch, * chief’ “hearing judge of the License Bureau, today sent. lefters to.all judges and justices of the peace throughout the state instructing them to make specific “yes or ne” retommendations on the suspension of the drivers licenses of all persons convicted of trafic law: violations. Mr. Leach already has put into effect a stringent policy of revoking the licenses of ‘repeated traffic offenders. -And Fred ‘Eichhorn, chairman of the Public Service. Commission, raade:-the rather startling suggestion that trucks be prohibited from -op‘erating on the Indiana highways during the heavy traffic hours from rioon Saturday until midnight Stnday ‘as a saiety: measure. Mr. Eichhorn offered this suggestion at the first meeting of the Governor’s revamped Safety Committee
today at the “Indianapolis: Athletic |
Club. hain 5 io
6 Huge Asians; Tiny. pigmy| i Fatally ‘Stricken. oY :
‘| was. repor
* ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 8 wo. Py |
be. called ui s| came, and they ped po; They studied
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gt Other Thousands: Deported,
Orthodox Church Says; Unrest Continues. 2
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BA ‘By, NITED. . PRESS 5 The Jugoslay Government-in-exile ted ‘today in London to have received detailed, reports from Serbian Orthodox Church sources estimating ‘that ‘more than 300,000 Serbian men, women and children| TT had been executed since. the Ger-man-Italian aitack on Jugoslavia. There were also said to have been mass deportations of Serbs from many paris of Jugoslavia, with more’ fhan 200,000 reported uprooted in} Slovenia and sent into Serbia. - The same source said that it: was estimated there are more than 80,000 children who are now refu-
gees in Serbia, most of them having
become separated from their parents.
Two: Ways’ of | Extermination
The informant said that “the extermination ofthe Serbian people is being carried out in two ways: First, by. ruthless killing and masSafre and second, indirectly by cresuch a situation in Serbia and
: Mon negro that: the very existence of the people is rendered extremely
precarious.” * Famine and epidemics wily threatening the. region, it was sa » An Ankara dispatch said that unconfirmed reports are circulating
‘that the Germans have dispatched
about 15,000 troops from Salonika into Jugoslavia for a new, campaign of suppression against Chetnik patriot guerrillas.
Belgians Killed by Raids
A spokesman of the Belgian Gov-ernment-in-exile reported that more than 6000 workers ‘in Belgian munitions factories had been killed by British Royal | Air Force : attacks since occupation of the. Lowlands by: the ‘Germans. - ‘He ' said’ 200,000 Belgians are forced to work “in: the most.e and most dangerous places” in war
factories along the coast which are
under constant R. A. F. attack.
Osservatcore Romano said in a dis-. patch, from: Oslo that. si€ Norhad been sentenced . to
. | wegians death on charges of, “aiding the
enemy."
Serbian|
-‘Bxecutions.in other countries also|{Co:, POWET | were ‘reported ‘today. The Rome
Mr. Morgenthau had. “talked or an additional 15 per cent levy on tax-
{able income over and above ex-
emptions to single persons and those married or with other depend-
ents. The 15 or “whatever per cent finally enacted—if at all—would be a departure from our tax precedent. It would be a “withholding tax” to be deducted at the source by the gmployer 3 to be. ‘paid directly to the
There. was immediate and anguished revival of Congressional econonly demands as word went around of Mr. Morgenthau’s : appearance betore the committee and there will be more of that along with new in'sistence on more effective price. controls and possibly wage ceilings. “We might,” said one young far western Congressman on learning of new tax plans, “just as well not run; again next year at'all if we pass (Continued on Page 11)
HOUSING HEARING © SET FOR NO. 17
Public to) Be Heard by Governor’ $ Group.
Plans for a public ‘hearing on the housing ' situation here were ‘made, by the Governor's. ‘Commission ‘on Housing at a. feeling ‘yesterday in| the Hotel W The * hearing will "pe conducted Nov. 17 at 7:30 p. m. in the chamber of the House of Representatives in .the State House. The Commis sion said that: groups ‘and individuals wishing to be heard should submit names to the commission chairman, Cc. C. Livingstone, 2 E. Ohio St. ‘Postmaster Adolph _ Seidensticker told the commission that the postal
service would take a census of un-|
opcupied dwelling. units in the ‘City. These figures and those obtained from the Indiana - Bell Telephone Board of Health, WPA ° real property. survey, Indianapolis Water Co., and the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. will be: tabulated by Robert. Taylor, research specialist of the | Indianapolis lis Counell of Social Agen-
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By JOE COLLIER
tit td) Wa fre Indisnapolis Absurd |B Yet, lodat, 18 ie this. very. . Sy onl ials studied Wha
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FBI Begins Home Defemse ‘Classes for Indiana’ s P Police):
| British ships.”
need. of repairs.
was ships.” : 3 : Opens 10th Day of Debate Mr. Wheeler opened the 10th day of debate on the Administration bill ‘to authorize arming of merchant and sending them into bellizt ports and combat zones.
vote on the measure tomorrow. They claim a minimum strength of 52 votes, sufficient to approve: it. Mr. Wheeler read-other- clippings,
death of 17 American and two Ca-
in a convoy. He said the article indicatec! they
for the British Isles, “in brazen Molation of the specific and ‘expregs provisions of our neuirality
Ta er blood,” he said, “will be _(C Continued on Page Ten)
early today when fire gutted: the Monticello Hotel. Three of the dead were found on
the third floor ‘of the four-story
buildings in the downtown The fourth victim was firemen and sent. to dead
“parachite pu pero cay upon ;
One of them, from yesterday's 5
Boston Herald, quoted the mother} of John J. Ryan, one of the men aboard the destroyer, as saying that her. son. told her the James was inj
The dispatch. asserted that ‘oon one or more occasions” the ship was sent out from Boston without repairs because the Navy yard’ there “too busy repairing British
Senate leaders hope to.get a: final including a story ‘which told of the
nadian technicians aboard a ship
were aboard a British ship headed
upon those who encouraged and: al-|
were burned to death, 12 were rescued ‘by firemen and 20 others fled in er Bight lothas
brick ‘structure, one of the Oldest
chute ir nd FEE pe pr ber m sy ; rere | suppiies. TO aa oes
1,748,000 casualties, ‘Stalin reported from embattled Moscow.
Forced. to Vight Alone,
“The Soviet Union never was so strong as now,” hé declared, Army must and will . Jin." " ‘But, he ited out, tremendous losses had been sustained, i te Russians have been ferced to fi against the Axis.and a should be opened quickly. “We must not forget that aby present no' armies Britain and the United States are on the continent which could wage war against the Germans,” he sid, in reference to America’s roles “As a result the Germans huve no need to splii their armies to>wage a war in the West as well ‘as in the East. There is no doubt that is. ing She enemy's task easier. But I hope that a second front will be, established in the near future, thus relieving the task of the Red Army.” “Form 30 New Divisions
Stalin said that Russia had “insufficient” tanks and aircraft, although Red Army tanks are technically superior, but he EE oes the forration of 30 new Russian divisions (450,000 men) and said - that Russian guerrilla forces ‘were inflicting heavy losses on. the Germanus. Rudolf Fess flew . from Germany _|to Eritain, Stalin said,’ in the hope lof forming a great world combination against the Soviet Union, inlcluding Britain and the United| States, but that plan: boomer :.nged on Hitler. and “on ‘the contrary a mighty coalition was created to ase sist the Soviet Union against Hit lerite Germany.” This combination, te. pointed out, included ‘Britain and America. =
3
4 KILLED IN BLAZE ‘AT’ VIRGINIA HOTEL
ALEXANDRIA, Vai; Nov. 8 (U.P.). —Four person:
378,000 missing and 1,020,000 wounded. ‘But -the Axis 10sses,
nel dit : , ion. | prisoners, he jestimaten | at oom)
“Our
e| developments surrounding
mak- |
United Press Foreign News Editor
Soviet Russia today*haried Maxim that “the Red
fis te was fighting back strongly
fromi Leningrad to Moscow and
gateway of the Caucasus. 1 Reports of Russian counter-thrusts
_| were momentarily: overshadowed. by |. two: ace “He:
diplomats - who centered ‘attention | in the world-wide struggle.
the war and deciding whether it will spread to every continent. The appointment of Litvinoy by Josef V. Stalin to succeed Constah-
tion conferred in Moscow on War supplies for the Red Army.
ure at the League of Nations, has been Russid’s foremost advocate of | collective security. He was retired
Russia signed the pre-war non-ag-
gression pact with Germany Bus (Continued on Page Ten)
Mussolini Shot,
LONDO} @ solini: of Italy was slightly. injured
assassination. The Moscow report said that the
Ambassador to the United | “T | Mdtgnoy a the!
southward to the gravely threatened
on the vital role played by America ;
2% oth diplomats—Litvinov and the Lo r ed Japanese negotiator, Saburo] re Kurusu—were en route or ordered| .. - to Washington for negotiations that| = are expected to be of decisive influ- {> ence in determining the Outcome offs
but not dropped by Stalin’ when =.
Exchange Telegraph Agency’s list-| post today heard Moscow ra-|tl dio report that Premier Benito Mus- | German
when two revolver shots were fired |f © Stalin put the total number ofin an attempted Russian’ casualties at 350,000 dead, |’ 70 German Gestapo had been brought| = in a suintorce thie Fascist police 88 ALAA
ers in Rome two ol
fullest ise of ery
every minute of
tin Oumansky, now in’. Kuibyshev, |; aying had been forecast some weeks ago trial when the ‘American-British delega-
Litvinov, once the Soviet Foreign | People Commissar and long an. active fig=|
‘Moscow do i
N, Nov. ‘8 (U,P.).—The|