Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1941 — Page 11

BOEHNE

AT NEW TAXES

Corporation Rate May Be - Sole Exception, He Tells - ~~ State Chamber.

U. 8. citizens may expect increases in all existing tax rates in the future, with the possible exception of the flat corporation rate, Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D, Evansville) predicted here today in an address before the annual meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce, He prophesied a greater excess profits tax rate, heavier personal income taxes, mandatory joint re“turns, and increased excise taxes on (fuch commodities’ as beer, soft drinks and possibly radio advertis-

8 The State Chantber was to elect @ board of directors and new officers and to act a number of F resolutions submitted by the resolutions committee. ‘ The resolutions to be acted upon called for: Support by the State Chamber of the national defense and war production efforts; opposition to federalization of the State © unemployment compensation .systems; opposition to the expansion of social insurance; amendment of national labor laws to make them “protect. the rights of both embloyees- and employers and not . . . just labor organization officers and organizers; price ccntrol legislation, if it is passed, to be made all-in-elusive; State and local governe mental expenditures to be kept at the lowest figures possible and that non-essential Federal expenditure be eliminated. Boehne Warns Spenders

In his address, Rep. Boehne declared that unless “we in the legislative branch of the government act decisively in the curtailment of unnecessary expenditures the country will find itself in a very dangerous position.” ~ i He said people of the United States are ready enough to sacrifice to the limit for defense, “but in order to have a solid foundation when the battle is won, nondefense expenditures must be cut to the bone.” Rep. Boehne, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee reviewed the expenditures for defense and the public debt. He declared that the lowering of , . personal tax exemptions had not 1. proved very satisfactory. He said the lowering of exemptions in 1940 had brought in approximately 12,- - 000,000 new dollars into the Treas‘ury of the United States but that it caused the collector’s office to be enlarged so that it cost $8,000,000 to collect the $12,000,000, Extreme care must be taken in devising a tax program with conditions as they are today, he said. “It is of extreme importance that people who are working at their ordinary occupations should be left some economic simulus to carry on their ordinary pursuits,” Rep. Boehne said. “Any further lowering of the personal tax exemption would prove entirely futile.”

Jolt Coming in March

In the matter of excess profits tax, he said, the Ways and Means Committee took the position that only war profits should be taxed as war profits and consequently limit the excess profits tax to that principle. “By taxing corporations upon their excess earnings in the current year over a base period we are taxing them upon their profits due directly or indirectly to the defense program, and this is the soundest method of reaching profits from the defense program,” he said. “Increased cost of living will " bring about increased incomes and consequently higher personal income taxes, and not many people as yet realize the jolt that is going to be theirs next March 15. They are ,0ing to be unpleasantly surprised at the tremendous increase that has been made and may yet go considerably higher. “A committee to investigate nonessential governmental expenditures was created by the Revenue Act of 1941 and is functioning now.” Rep. Boehne voiced his lack of confidence in “men who vote for every conceivable appropriation and then don’t have the nerve and courage to impose heavy taxes upon themselves and the people they represent.” “It is my conviction that we have passed the safety period and unless barricades are erected and manned by good thinking American citizens, our credit structures will crumble.” People at home can be of great _ help, he declared, by prevailing up- ~ on minorities to cease seeking greater and greater appropriation.

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In the Services

One of the first major attempts in the country to reclsim the men rejected by the U. 8. Navy because. of

| physical unfitness was announced

today. . A health rehabilitation service, sponsored by the National Youth Administration in Indiana, will de established in an attempt to place many of the rejected men in the NYA Health Rehabilitation Centers at South Bend, Anderson and Evansville, Daily lists of physical rejections in the State will be given Indiana NYA office by Lieut. F. M. Hall, USNR, medical officer, attached to the U. 8. Navy Recruiting Station in the I'ederal Buig. here. Russell Bowers, director of youth personnel for the NYA, will be in ciiarge of contacting youths rejected by the Navy. In the rehabilitation centers an attempt will be made to correct the three major causes of rejection by the Navy—bad eyes and teeth and underweight.

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Ordered to Sea

LIEUT. COMM. CHARLES B. MARSHALL, Supply Corps, USNR, has been ordered to sea duty fol-

signments. and a former director of the vision of General Administration, Indiana State Department of Public Welfare. He has been on leave of absence from the welfare department - since being called to active duty in November, 1940. - Lieut. Comm. Marshall hes og Marshall served as supply officer of the U. S. Naval Training School here and more recently at the Detroit training school. served for a short time at the Ninth Naval District Headquarters, Great

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for sea duty. Lieut. Comm, Marshall is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis.

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Train at Kelly Field

TWO INDIANAPOLIS men are among the flying students now receiving pre-flight training at the new Air Corps Replacement Center, Kelly Field, Tex. They are Pvt. Charles J. Beck, son of Mrs. Mary L. Beck, 3339 N. Capitol Ave., and Samuel H. Greenburg Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Greenburg, 2515 Park Ave. Thirty weeks after the men leave the replacement center they will graduate a sergeant-pilot in the U. S. Air Force.

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THE COAST ARTILLERY Corps, Panama Dept., is the destination for two Indianapolis men who enlisted in the regular Army at Ft. Benjamin Harrison for three years this week. ’ The men are Louis P. Burgin, 975 Hosbrook St., and Norman E, Welch, R. R. 18, Box 3117.

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On Duty at Hospital

PVT. FIRST CLASS James L. McKee, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. McKee, 621 E. 25th St., has been placed on temporary duty at the station hospital, F:. Sam Houston, Tex. He will return to his original company as medical technician and receive an Army specialist's rating after completing a three-month training course as a “medical assistant.” ; Private. McKee was inducted as a selectee April 7 and was assigned to the 113th Medical Regiment, 38th

Miss. ] Col. Franklin T. Hallam of Indi-

*|anapolis is commanding officer of

the 113th Medical Regiment. ” » ”

John W. Leslie, 6035 Crestview Drive, has completed his training

of the Ford Motor Co. Dearborn,

specialist’s rating in the Navy. 2 = 8

4 Hoosiers to Graduate

Hoosiers to be graduated from the

Great Lakes Naval Training Sta-

lowing several months of shore as-|,

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Lakes, Ill, prior to receiving orders|¥

Cyclone Division, at Camp Shelby, |:

course at the Navy Service School |:

Mich., and will be assigned to a

Four local boys will be among 33

tion in time to spend Christmas with their families. . They are Charles Thomas Pedigo, Jesse Harlan Pearson Jr. Vernon James Hervey and Kimball Mans-

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Nicholas Ends Course

One of the 101 officers recently graduated from the six-week officers’ tactical course of the Quartermaster School at Camp Lee, Va, was Lieut, Wilbur H. Nicholas, 1301 E. 50th 8t., Indianapolis.

BOSSY LOSES RACE

BOSTON, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—Former Mayor Andrew J. (Bossy) Gillis of Newburyport was defeated yesterday in a municipal election for which he campaigned from a jail cell. The 47-year-old Gillis, thrice mayor of Newburyport, lost by 977 votes to John M. Kelleher, skating rink proprietor. Gillis has served four months of a nine-month libel sentence,

CT [ACOUSES BEA OF Indiana NYA to Help Reclaim Men Rejected by the Navy

‘HOARDING’ COPPER WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U, P.).—~ The Rural Electrification Administration was accused today of “hoard. ing cable despite the copper shortage resulting from defense production. The charge was made by Rep Thomas D, Winter (R. Kas.) in the House when he introduced a resolution e-%ing for a special Hose in~ vestigation of REA. Mr. Winter said the REA cables were “cached” in open Texas fields an” were being held for duplication of transmission lines and generating plants to be energized two years hence in an area already serviced with cheap private power. He charged that the REA was more interested .in sociaiization of the utility industry than in carrying electricity to farmers and that it “is teeming with Communists, fellow travelers and bureaucrats.” A Congressional investigation of the copper situation was predicted last week when it was learned that the Supply and Priorities and Allocations Board was considering a plan to allocate a limited amount of copper to the REA,

‘illions of pounds of copper

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. = Cerethe champagne and the luncheons

the sponsors, are costing the taxpayers many thousands of .dollars. * The Maritime Commission is frank to say that it puts up the money for the handsome tokens presented to the christeners. The Navy, however, says that such gifts at warship launchings are bought by the shipbuilders. The Commission reports that $4000 is the cost of the first launching ceremony at a new shipyard, and that for subsequent ships the cost is $500. All this money goes for the ceremonies, iuncheon, present to sponsor, and the like. With seven yards building “liberty ships,” the cost of launching the first seven would total $28,000. Up to Nov. 1 there had been 139 launchings in addition to the original seven, which at $500 each would come to $97,500, as of Nov. 1.

The Comimission’s program calls

monious ship launchings, including!

and the diamond-studded gifts to

for an eventual production of two ships a day—which will mean $1000 a day for launching ceremonies. As to the Navy~when the 35,000ton Baftleship Indiana slid down the ways of the Newport News, Va, Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. the other day, the Navy estimated the cost of the lauching between $613,000 and $650,000, this being standard for a battleship. Most of this was fur practical (rather than ceremonial purposes. "However, a part of it was spent for a luncheon for Secretary of the Navy Knox, Governor Henry L. Schricker of Indiana, various Senge tors, Congressmen, admirals and other dignitaries at the Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort, Va. Two 16-car trains of Hoosiers came from Indiana for the event, and all those who wanted them had “drinks on the house” at a huge improvised bar in the hotel. Governor Schricker’s daughter, Mrs. Lewis C. Robbins of Wichita Falls, Tex., swung the bottle of champagne to christen the ship,

Champagne and Diamond-Studded Gifts ‘Boost Cost of Pomp at Ship Launchings

and ‘was presented with a diamond wrist watch by Homer IL. Ferguson, president of the shipbuilding company. : : The Navy's Bureau of ships explained that the expense of lgunching warships is covered by Congressional appropriations and that the ceremony proper accounts for only a very small part of it, although it would not say precisely what part... The launching expense, it said, includes the “cost of attendance of tugs; greasing of ways; mechanism for lowering boat and chain crag to prevent damage caused hy waves made by boat when it enters water” and a multitude of other things.

\ SWISS APPREHENSIVE MADRID, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—Switzerland is becoming apprehensive that Berlin feels the time has arrived for that country to give her whole-hearted support to the Nazi plan to mold Europe into an “antiBolshevik” bloc, diplomatic reports from Berne said’ today.

6. 0. P. CLUB NAES OFFICERS MONDAY

The annual reorganization meet ing of the Washington Township Republican Club will be held at 61st St. and College Ave, Monday night, Following election of new officers the annual reports of committee: chairmen will be heard. Members of the nominating come mittee, appointed by Harry L. Gause, club president, are: Dr. Ls W. Kirtley, Charles Roemler, Ale

bert Ward, Dr. Willlam PF. King, John Bowen, Joseph Milner an George B. Elliott, . Future meetings will be held the second Monday of each manth in stead of Pridays. .

‘SEIZE WOMEN’S SHAWLS

- LONDON, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—Ger~ man soldiers on the Eastern front are seizing women’s shawls and scarves and even feather beds from the Russian population to protect :

them from the intense cold, correspondents for the newspaper Izves-

tia reported today.

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