Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1942 — Page 3

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TAX IDEA STUDIED

‘TECH SUPREME DAY OBSERVED

Thousands Visit Campus; Defense Program Tonight At Athletic Field.

Technical high school observed its 26th supreme day today, marking the time in 1816 when the state supreme court gave the land for the Tech campus to the city for educational purposes. Thousands of parents and friends

of the school roamed the campus].

for the all-day program, which will be climaxed at 7 p. m. with a defense program on the Tech athletic field! Various units of the school’s R. O. T. C., including the concert band, will participate and the Purdue Zouaves will perform.

Concert Opens Program

The program opened this morning with a concert in Stuart hall, followed by an all-school assembly which was conducted like a political convention. Delegates voted on whether to have a nine- or 12-

in which Charles R. Ettinger, county clerk, instructed the pupils how to use a voting machine. There were to be concerts this afternoon by the Tech concert band,

a girls’ concert club and string trio. They were to be followed by social hours from 3 to 5 p. m. and the cafeteria was to be open through the dinner hour, prior to the program tanight on the athletic field.

GAS COMPANY SUIT

A suit asking that the Indianapolis Gas Co. be restrained from making any further payments to stockholders until bondholders have received payment in full, was on file in federal court here today. The suit is an aftermath of .the recent transfer of the company’s property to the city of Indianapolis under a compromise agreement which terminated several years of litigation over a 99-year lease. Today’s suit was filed by Daniel 8. Gillmor, Washington, D. C. Mr. Gillmor, an Indianapolis gas bondholder, is represented by the law

York. During the litigation, the lease rental owed by the city under the lease was placed in escrow and the interest on the bonds and dividends on the stock were held up. Under the compromise agreement, bondholders are to receive face value of their bonds, but only 2 per cent, instead of the regular 5 per cent,

Helvering to ov Explain How 10% Payroll Deduction Program Will Work.

WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. PJ. —The house ways and means committee today appeared willing to be convinced of the merit of a treasury proposal to collect part of this year’s income tax in advance by “withholding” 10 per cent of each wage and salary earner’s taxable income. "Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering discusses, the administrative aspects of such payroll deductions with the committee this morning. The treasury proposed the plan as a sure-fire method of collecting new war income taxes, which for most Americans will be at least twice as high as at present, and as an additional brake on inflation.

It’s Not Extra Tax

The plan also is designed to make it easier for tax payers to meet their annual debt to Uncle Sam. In some brackets it would mean that when the income tax date arrives—if the plan were in operation a full year—nearly half of the bill already would be paid through “painless” weekly deductions. The treasury’s plan is not an additional tax. It is simply a method of collecting part of the income tax in advance and through small deductions from each pay check. The plan ‘would be administered in a manner similar to that used to collect social security taxes. The employer would deduct the money from the pay check and turn it over to the treasury. The employee would not receive the money, but would have that much credit when the next income tax deadline arrives. How it Would Work

Treasury Tax Expert Randolph Paul explained yesterday that if congress adopts the withholding principle, one-tenth of a single man’s paycheck above $11 a week would be deducted. That is if the ways and committee’s reduced personal exemptions of $500 for single persons, $1200 for married couples and $400 for dependents pass finally. A married man without children will have 10 per cent of what he earns over $26 a week deducted. For each child or other dependent, the weekly exemption would be increased by $8.50. If the reduced exemptions and the income tax rates voted by the committee are passed by the house and senate, an employer would deduct $1.40 from the pay check of a childless married employee who earned $40 a week. The deduction for a single person earning $40 a week would be $2.90.

May Start This Fall

The 10 per cent deduction would be 10 per cent of the taxpayer's

interest for the escrow period.

STATE TO ASSIST IN PROSECUTING JUDGE

Attorney General George Beamer today announced that his office would assist in the prosecution of Judge H. M. Robbins of the Knox superior court who is to be tried next week for the second time on a morals charge. Mr. Beamer said he was acting upon the request of Arthru L: Hart, Knox county prosecutor. He assigned Glen L. Steckley, deputy attorney general, to the case. At the former trial on a morals charge, the state’s two chief witnesses refused to testify thus causing the case to be dismissed.

MORE THAN 210 SHIPS SUNK

WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P.). —More than 210 united nations ¢argo and passenger ships have been sunk in the western part of the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico since the axis nations

began their U-boat campaign early

this year, an unofficial compilation showed today. The compilation showed 214 ships sunk, but it might have included a few duplications.

JAPS GIVE PRISONER LIST BERN, May 22 (U. P.).—The first official list of American war prisoners and wounded in the Far East, inscribed in Japanese characters on fine silk paper, was received today

Yat Red Cross headquarters in

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Geneva.

IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS

Here Is the Traffic Record

FATALITIES County City Total BAL 2esessrencsers 29. 30 B51 1942 ceccocencecess 18 31 49 —May 21— Accidents ... 6 | Arrests Injured THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines|

2 26 Failure to stop at through street .. Failure to stop at

signals . 2 All others ....... 19

4 4 21 2 0 10

91

"Total ......... 42 $246

MEETINGS ' TODAY

Lakas-Harold Corp naval ir ne tS spioning, plant grounds 8 a.

St, and Arlin on ave. noon; lunchIndiana United Commercial Travelers of

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1 gferien, convention, Hotel Lincoln, all

Administra-

diana Society for Publie meri tra.

In tion, debate on J yernmen naval armory, 6 Y.M C. As hy ial Indiana-Ken-conference on Marriage and the , Central ¥. M. C. afternoon.

SH of new class-

income above his personal exemption, not 10 per cent of the tax he would owe on March 15. Under the withholding plan the treasury would require employe to start the income tax deductions shortly after the new tax bill passes, probably sometime this fall. Corporations would be required to withhold a portion of dividends paid their stockholders. On March 15, a taxpayer would compute his income tax in the usual manner, add up the deductions that already had been made and then write the government 3 check for the difference between the total of the deductions and half of the tax owed. During the remainder of the year the taxpayer would pay the remaining half of the tax he owed on his previous year’s income, in installments if he wished.

Some to Get Refunds

Meantime, however, his employer would be deducting and paying over to the treasury one-tenth of that portion of each pay check subject to income taxes for the current year.

Under the treasury’s program self-employed persons such as farmers, doctors, lawyers and persons in business for themselves would pay their taxes in the usual manner. If on March 15, a taxpayer found the treasury-had withheld too much, perhaps because he had worked a few months and then became unemployed, a refund would be paid. Mr. Paul estimated that the withholding system would soak up about $2,500,000,000 before it was paid out

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to workers in the course of a year.

Dedication of new auditorium at school 8, 8:30 p. m.

Indianapolis and Butler Panhellenic associations, tea for Jrospective women students of Butler and thei mothers, Butler Dollege of Religion building, 2:30 to 4:30

Student pianists of Indianapolis and surrounding towns, ninth annual piano playing auditions, sponsored by Indianapolis chapter of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, Hotel Washington, all day.

Chorus of the White Cross Music guild, gefonse stamp tea, war memorial, 2:30 m.

‘Broad Ripple American Legion auxiliary, mother-daughter banquet, post home, 6:30 m

Alpha Chi Omega’s Mothers’ club of Butler university, annual banquet for senior girls, chapter house, 6 p. m. Red Cross committee of Caroline Scoit Harrison chapter, D. A. R., Mrs. Trevor R Geddes lec lecture, 824 N. Pennsylvania Central W. T. U., musicale and tea, Ayres & Co. auditorium, afternoon. Exchange club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Indianapolis manufacturers exerts smoot. tives club, luncheon, Hotel Sever noon Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board Trade, noon.

Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary Cottage, Optimist club, lunsheon, Columbia club,

no Deita Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia club, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Patriotic revue, “You Can ane er.ca,”” Murat temple, 8:15 p Y. M. C. A’s first annual reins Kip tucky conference on marriage and the famijv, Central Y. M. C. A., morning Indiana Tnited Commercial Travelers of America, convention, Hotel Lincoln, a

e Americin Revolution

Promotion Due

RAY BOWER TO SUCCEED KEEFE

Experience Fits Assistant For Chief Engineer's Post, Board Finds.

Ray H. Bower, assistant chief engineer of the state highway commission, is due to be promoted to the chief engineer’s post left vacant by the death of Merton R. Keefe, it was learned today. Mr. Bower has been assistant chief engineer for the last nine months and for eight years previously had served the highway commission as district engineer of the Seymour district.

Uphold Promotion Policy

Highway commission offi¢ials are reported to have selected Mr. Bower for the post because of his thorough knowledge of the department and federal regulations as well as to keep in line with the commission’s policy of giving promotions within the department whenever possible, A number of engineers are known to have applied for the $6000 a year job. Mr. Bower graduated from Purdue university in 1912 with a degree in civil engineering. He took a job with the Santa Fe railroad and became assistant division engineer at Arkansas City, Kas.

Served in War

After two years with the Santa Fe he went to work for the federal government on railway valuations and worked in that position until 1917 when he was elected countv engineer of Tipton county. He gave up that post after a year to enlist in the engineering corps in the army. After the war he went to work for the Davis Construction Co. of Arcadia and served with that firm as manager and construction engineer for 15 years until he joined the highway commission. Mr. Bower is a Democrat.

SAY NAZIS ARREST COURT OFFICIALS

MOSCOW, May 22 (U., P.)—A

I¥| Tass news agency dispatch today

reported the arrest of a number of German court officials by the gestapo in what may have been the first important move by Hitler to clamp down on officialdom under the powers recently granted him bv the reichstag, The dispaich said that court officials had been arrested in Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Frankfurt, Dresden and other German cities, but it did not disclose the source of this information. “It is reported,” the dispatch said, “that they were accused of having passed light sentences on persons discontented with the war and the Hitlerite regime.”

YANKS IN GIBRALTAR HINT STIRS EUROPE

BERN, May 22 (CDN)—Although allied confirmation is absent, Europe is electrified by a report that, for the first time since 1917, American forces have landed o nthe European continent—on the rocky British outpost of Gibraltar.

(Axis broadcasts alleged that from 3000 to 5000 American soldiers, under British warship escort, reached Gibraltar yesterday morning.) “ Foreign diplomats here emphasize that the existence of American troops on European soil would be of moral and material value in brac-

ing up Europe’s shattered morale.

Beta chapter, Alpha Beta Gamma, ih anniversary dinner, Quaint inn, 6:30 np Tri Chi, dance, Hotel Lincoln, Eh Thirty-ninth annutl Indiana high school athletic - association track meet, Technical high schoo: all day Beta Shapter, Rho Delta, pledge services, Hotel Riley, night. National Guid of Piano Teachers, meeting, Hotel Washington, all day City hospital, banquet, 8 p. m. Stein club, noon.

luncheon, Hotel Severin,

BIRTHS Girls Wiliam, Catherine Moran, at St. Vin-

Ce William, Mary Day, at St. Vincent's, Lawrence, Isabel tchinson, at City, Lewis, Emma Perry, at City. John, Juanita Cobb, at City. Edward, Viglet Westfield, ok St. Francis. rge, Mary Conley, at St. Francis. Robert, Juanita Baker, at 605 W. 29th. Boys William, Lucelle Pickerell, at St. Francis. Harold, Ruth Ott at 8t. Funes. David, Ann Preston, Georgia Batterficld, ry Sty. se rick, Alberta Harding, at St. Vin-

Reuben, Vilma Fuller, at su Vincent's.

Elmore, Lois yers, at 2314 N . Arsenal.

DEATHS

C! Jesse Jones, 81 64, at 1008'%2 N. West, cere- &

bral hemorr

Amos I. Py 66, at 605 S. Lyons, car- ge T

cinoma. Emanuel Frank Heathco, 85, at 36 N. Treington, chronic myocarditis.

hn Will Burbridge, 69, at 1158 Eugene, : i

Gotenral Demory rhage, Christi. cConnell, 73, at City, A John Edward DuRie, 79, at 2129 W. Morris, cerebral hemorrhage. arah Sanders, 79, at 1840 ‘Boulevard place, diabetes. -

CRUISER SUNK BY ALLIED SUB

Japan Loses es Tuo Other Vessels in Attack by

- Undersea Craft.

MELBOURNE, May 22 (U. P.)— Allied naval forces, in their first action since the: battle of the Coral sea, have sunk a 7100-ton, 8-inch gun Japanese cruiser and two supply ships totaling 15,000 tons, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced toda; * SY ieating that American submarines did the job, Gen. MacArthur said the enemy ships, a cruiser of the Kako class, with 604 officers and men, a 9000-ton cargo vessel and a 6000-ton cargo vessel, were sunk “in an underwater action.” Gen. MacArthur announced also that United States and Australian planes, flying through almost impossible weather, had destroyed or damaged eight Japanese planes in one of their most ferocious raids on the Japanese invasion base at Lae, New Guinea. He revealed, too, that in a raid Wednesday on Koepang, in Timor island, the allied planes destroyed three enemy planes and damaged three.

Report Sub Returns Safely

Though no details were given of the allied naval success, it was understood that a submarine had returned to base after sinking three enemy ships. A ‘headquarters spokesman refused to say whether the action had any connection with the Coral sea battle of two weeks ago or with a new enemy concentration of war and supply ships for a major invasion offensive in the Australian area. THe new action brought to 23 the total of enemy ships sunk or damaged since the battle of the Coral sea starting May 4. Included were an aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser, two destroyers, four gunboats, a transport and three

carrier, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, two seaplane tenders, two submarines, a transport, a tanker and a cargo ship damaged.

Catch Japs Napping

The Lae raid, made yesterday, was one of the most successful of any on New Guinea invasion bases. The raiding planes flew through heavy storm clouds and blinding monsoon rains catching the Japaneseé unawares. The first bombs dropped blew two great Japanese bombing planes to pieces. An enemy fighter plane and two bombing planes nearby were extensively damaged. As the allied planes roamed over the airdrome at daringly low altitudes, eight Japanese navy-O planes rose. Three were sent crashing to earth; the remaining five fled. Then the allied planes raked the airdrome almost at will with bombs and machine gun fire before returing to their bases without loss.

MODERATOR NAMED BY PRESBYTERIANS

MILWAUKEE, May 22 (U.P. — The Rev. Dr. Stuart Nye Hutchison, pastor of East Liberty church, Pittsburgh, Pa., presided today as new moderator of the 154th Presbyterian general assembly, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, Los Angeles. Dr. Hutchison was elected head of the Presbyterian church in the United States on the third ballot of 841 assembled commissioners late yesterday over two rival candidates. The unsuccessful nominees were the Rev, Dr, Joseph McClellan Broady, Birmingham, Ala., and the Rev. Dr. Asa J. Ferry, Wichita, Kas.

APPROVE PIPELINE

WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P.). —The house rivers and harbors committee today approvced legislation designed to help relieve the eastern oil shortage by building a pipeline across northern Florida and by improving and connecting the Gulf and Atlantic barge canals.

SMALL CITY A WAR VICTIM

TEHAMA, Cal. (U. P.).—This city, which claims to be the “smallest incorporated city in the United States,” has signed a petition for disincorporation as a “patriotic

25° MORE NORSE SLAIN

LONDON, May 22 (U. P.).—The German-controlled Oslo radio announced today that the Germans had executed 25 more Norwegian patriots yesterday.

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Clara Greene, 52, at 2323 Haines, chronic

Barbara Jane Matthews, ‘89, at 1515 Villa, cardio vascular re Ella Blue, 83, at 1938 nal. nell, chronic myocarditis. Samuel Funderburk, 83,.at City, bron-cho-pneumonia. Gertrude L. Jermain, 67, at 620 N. Tibbs, coronary oeclusion Russe ry rr 41, at City, myocardiCharles N. Rodgers, 57, at 5202 E. North, sareihoma. Mary A

Quincy, chro myocard

OFFICIAL WEATHER mea S. Weather Bureau

Central War Time) Sunrise C2) 5:24 | Sunset ....... 7:59

TEMPERATURE —May 22, 1941—

eee 98

Preci itation 24 hrs. ending 7:39 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1..,.... 17. 2% Excess since Jan. 1: 1.72

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WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P.). —A confidential report prepared for the senate naval affairs committee, it was learned today, asserts that “unreasonable time limitations . . . dictated in Washington” and placed upon the contractor converting the French liner Normandie into the troopship Lafayette may have been responsible for the fire which gutted the ship in New York on Feb. 9. “The haste imposed upon the contractor by the bureau of ships was an important factor in the loss of the Lafayette, the report said. “What is more important is the undisputed fact that this haste was dictated in Washington by men who evidently had no conception of the work entailed, and in total disregard of contrary advice from responsible and competent men on the scene.” The report is being studied by committee members and has not been acted upon. It was prepared by James F. Dulligan, committee

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counsel, who investigated the fire with the co-operation of the navy and the FBI Late yesterday the navy announced that the capsized $60,000,000 vessel would be salvaged in operations that will last more than a year and cost several millions of dollars, The counsel’s report to the senate committee differs sharply from the report of the naval court of inquiry, made public April 20. The naval court blamed the fire on

‘gross ‘carelessness and’ utter vio-

lation of rules and common sense” by werkmen employed by the Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co., Inc. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, in a supplementary statement, named two lieutenant commanders assigned to protection of the ship as being guilty of carelessness. Mr. Dulligan in his report quoted Capt. H. Lehuede, French commander of the Normandie prior to its seizure, as asserting that the

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construction of the vessel made its use for war purposes “inadvisable.” “Other competent witnesses said the Normandie, because of her lack

of proper compartmentation, ‘the location of her motive power, and her lack of stability, was extremely vulnerable to attack by submarine,” Mr. Dulligan’s report said. “It was observed that the weight of 15,000 soldiers unevenly distributed at any time for causes unknown might result in a disaster at sea.”

His report absolved Admiral Adolphus Andrews, in command of the eastern sea frontier, from responsibility for the fire. The senate, however, delayed confirmation of Mr. Andrews’ promotion from rear admiral to vice admiral, until members could study|d the report. Three more promotions were held up: Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade, in. charge of the western sea frontier, to be a vice admiral; Robert H. English, to be a rear admiral, and Donald D. Beary, to be a rear admiral.

IT'S ONE MORE DAY NEARER VICTORY

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Bureau Held Factor in Normandie Loss

U.S, BATTLESHIP

Rome Radio Says Craft Struck While En Route

To Indian Ocean.

By UNITED PRESS ; There was no confirmation from any other quarter today of the Rome radio's claim that an Italian submarine sank a U, 8. battleship of the Maryland class Wednesday while it was en route to the Cape of Good Hope, “apparently to reinforce American naval foress in the Indian ocean.” The Vichy radio, often erroneous quoted a Rome communique as saye ing the sinking occurred, in Brazile ian waters 100 miles west of the ise land of Fernando de Noronha, &

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