Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1942 — Page 7
Measure Would Prevent State From Levying Tax On War Contractors, By DANIEL M, KIDNEY | .
| ‘Times Staff Writer { WASHINGTON, March 6—A majority of the house ways and means
committee has voted approval of
the Cochran bill to prohibit te | :
and local governments from I
gross income, sales or use taxes on: any war contractor or sub-con- :
Because it is asked for by thie war and navy departments, the cbm- . mittee has rushed the m re through with slight opportunity for the state and local tax offi
staffs showed up at the hearing to
urge prompt passage of the bill land only four states—Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas and California~—had |tax officials on hand to protest.
Predict Big Savings
Military officers maintain there would be a big tax saving, with estimates running as high as one ‘and one-half billion. He Certain Republican leaders in the house are reported studying [the measure with a critical eye, and a floor fight on it is assured. Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., president, is here tplling Hoosier congressmen that the bill will hamstring rural schopls, because they depend upon the gross income 18x for teacher payments, Gilbert K. Hewit, director of the Indiana gross income tax divis presented the committee with a prief in which this charge appears:
“Rebuke to Court”
“The Cochran bill is an attempt to get congress to rebuke the United State supreme court for its depigions in the Alabama tax cases. | It would reverse the court’s carefully-thought-out policy of abolishing the cumbersome, unconstitutional intergovernmental tax immunities which left a record of no saving to the governments involved, but afforded - an avenue of tax avoidance by selfish men, “It assails the doctrine of judicial supremacy much more boldly than the court enlargement plan, and congress knows what the people " thought of tampering with the court.” When this was read to the committee by Mr. Hewit, Rep. Cochran protested that the law was drafted to follow new avenues opened |up _ in the supreme court's Alabama decisions.
1 BRITONS FIGHT IN SERBIA? STOCKHOLM, March 6 (U. P.). ~The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported from Berlin yesterday that British , parachute troops were
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JEWEL LINDSAY of New York shows the correct method for preparing and saving {tin cans now that the governmenf{ has anriounced they’ll be collected and salvaged to recover solder and tin for canning food for soldiers and sailors. The U. S. hopes to obtain 120,000 tons of tin and scrap steel annually from this source.
STREETS FOR BIKES ONLY ROCKFORD, Ill, March 5 (U. P.).
—In view of the tire shortage,
Arthur Nordvall, a real estate dealer, proposed last night that certain
_ dropped in Serbia to aid Yugoslav| Rockford streets be reserved for
“febel forces, but were “annihila
(bicycle traffic during hours when
by the German and Bulgarian ¢c-{children and laborers were pedal-
ing to and from school and work.
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utmost dignity and /itmost value,
FORTS OF SNOW
Crue Through Barriers of lce. to Crush Nazi Strong: Point.
LONDON, March 6 (U. P).— Russian forces have broken through
i|ice and snow fortifications and cap-
tured a German strong point at Yukhnov, 125 miles east of Smo-
:|lensk, and their comrades defend-
ing Moscow have repelled the first enemy attempt in three months to bomb the capital, Soviet dispatches said today. Yukhnov lies well behind the westernmost point of the Russian advance, and had been a nest of Nazi resistance within the Soviet lines for more than two months. If is located on the Ugra river, 30 miles northeast of Mozalsk, the capture of which was announced by the Russians in January.
Plow Through Ice Barriers
The Germans had erected barriers of ice and snow about the town and each of its houses, dispatches said, and had mined the surrounding country within a nine-mile radius. The villages surrounding Yukhnov had been transformed into formidable forts, and the Germans had brought reserves by plane from Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and other occupied territory to attempt to hold it, the Russians said. Russian ‘units crunched into the icy fortifications under a withering German fire, the dispatches said, and the Germans fled to the west, leaving many dead officers and men on the battlefield.
Moscow Routs Planes
Russian fighter planes and heavy anti-aircraft fire drove off last night the first German planes to appear over Moscow in three months. The planes, unable to reach their objectives, even in a clear, moonlit night, jettisoned a few bombs on the outskirts of the city. On other fronts, the Russians continued ‘to hold the offensive, but there were no claims of spectacular gains, At Staraya Russa, where the German 16th army is encircled and being subjected to “methodical annihilation,” Soviet dispatches said Russian tanks’ had been sent into the battle and had captured several settlements.
‘CRUSADE’ ASKED | TO SAVE DEMOCRACY
“Without democracy, even decency is in danger,” said Dr. Harold at noonday services today in Christ church.
tianity has given the world the highest evaluation of the individual and that Jesus, the greatest of individualists, gave to human personality its | “Struggle to preserve personal rights is the greatest of all crusades,” said | Dr..Bowen.
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