Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1942 — Page 9

| > Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PAT FLYNN, the banker, is one. up on Eddie antor now. Eddie, you know, is famous for his five aughters. Well, Pat now is the proud father of SIX fine daughters. The sixth, Mary Katherine, was 7 born at St. Vincent's several days ago. . . . A car pulled away from a parking place in front of the Canary Cottage on the Circle. Behind it, ‘an army car with a private driving’and an officer in the rear seat, waited to move into. the space. Just then a young lady with a red ribbon bow in her hair pulled "up in an open Cadillac and headed for the space. And for once, boys, the army lost. . . . Don Warrick is in Methodist hospital recuperating from a minor operation. He'll probably. be there an- - other week. . +» « Bill Book is back from the Michigan

Jokes with a nice tan after a well-earned week's res

Man Without a Status

A CERTAIN DRAFTEE whose name we'd better not mention, just as a precaution, reported out at Ft. Harrison the other day expecting to be sworn in and then furloughed immediately, under the new regulations.

Instead, he and ‘several others were assigned to scrub floors and do other chores. After a bit of this, it dawned on him he (and they) hadn’t even been sworn into the service. A bit of inquiry developed he wasn’t a soldier yet, nor could he return to his civilian duties.

“If I'm not a soldier and not a civilian,” he asked a tough sergeant, “what am I?” “Well, you're a

Moor scrubber right now. Get to work,” he was told. He did—for three days.

And then he was sworn in and found the delay

resulted because his draft board had made af

technical error that delayed his induction. Now, as soon as his furlough is up, he can go back to scrubbing floors and making beds officially.

Heck—Doing Their Duty A TENANT of the Architect’s building thinks he has the answer to the big increase in trafic

arrests the first five months this year, Part, he}

suggests, is due to the rush hour parking ban on

certain streets. “And then,” he adds, “you ought to]

come around here and watch the cops check overtime parking. It's hour and a half parking here and an hour and a half is all they allow—not three hours.

not expecting them. Apparently they're figuring on ‘reaping a harvest in fines before gasoline rationing

drives the cars off the street and knocks -out- the| gas tax.” In other words, the kick seems to be that

the cops finally are doing their duty.

Around the Town

STATE WELFARE CHIEF Thurman A. Gottschalk, who has been ill several months with a kidney ailment, is recuperating: at his summer home on Lake James. . . . The Comic Artists’ Association has been at work on the picture of warbler Frankie Parrish on a car card in one of the Pennsylvania trackless trolleys. They've decorated him handsomely, with spectacles, goatee, etc. . , , Overheard at the ball park on ladies’ night: “Oh, so he’s a pinch hitter. And is that other man going in a pinch pitcher?” . . . Also overheard at the ball park: “This P. A. system certainly is P. U.” , . , Bud Purvis reports a truck on the west side that has two signs on it. On the left side of the tail gate reads: “Around here to race.” On the right side: “Around here to the morgue.” More truth than poetry, too.

Ernie Pyle is in Ireland. His stori

or about next Monday. . . . Raymond Clapper has begun a month’s vacation.

es from the army camps there will start on

Taxes & Debts

WASHINGTON, July 8—Congress and the treasury are worried about the public debt, and properly 80. They would like to forget there is any such thing as private debt, and lay drastic taxes to produce great revenues. Such a tax schedule has been worked out, and on paper it looks like a tre~mendous revenue producer. But in application the stiff new rates run smack up against the reality that taxpayers also have debts. Under the law, taxes come first. But under our private-enterprise rules of business, if debts aren’t paid the taxpayer, individual or corporate, is soon out of business. Here is an illustration: A company manufacturing gadgets for army and navy planes—about $9,000,000 worth a year—was asked to expand production to $12,000,000 worth. The directors figured the company would have to borrow $1,000,000 from the banks to handle that added volume. On paper, the possible gross profit on the additional $3,000,000 production would be about $450,000. : Then the directors calculated further—the prospective 94 per cent excess profits tax would leave the company a net of only $27,000. Should the diwectors borrow that million dollars on the risk that the war would last long enough to enable the company to repay the loan out of the $27,000-a-year profit? Not if they were prudent directors. Would a bank make such a loan? Not as a banking proposition—but maybe, if it were looking for an easy opportunity to foreclose on a gadget factory.

\The Case of the Individual

SOME INDIVIDUALS are in the same stew. A man with a $10,000 income in 1939 paid a federal income tax of $415; in 19040 a tax of $528; in 1941 8 tax of $1305. On this year’s $10,000 income, he

War Strategy.

MOSCOW, July 8—From this side of the world it appears that Germany's deep thrust into Egypt may have two consequences, either of which would be momentous in the war's develpment, Britain's defeat in Egypt, even if restrained to its present serious dimensions, may compel the opening up of a second front at the earliest possible moment. On the other hand, the Nazis’ success toward the Suez, especially if it continues, is quite likely to precipitate a major Japanese blow at India. The blow to. British prestige from Tobruk to El Alamein, in the view of the majority of observers here, would be more than compensated if it precipated a do-or-die allied invasion in western Europe before mid-September—and i is. generally believed that a second front must come within two months if Hitler is going to be put on the ".#pot before winter falls. In the meantime, ever since the cleaning up of Burma, ‘you thay have noted that the Japanese have been comparatively quiet: in the east. Tokyo's high commaxid probably has been weighing one of three choices—whether to strike the next major blow against India, against China, or further north from Manchukuo. : + If any one of these were successful, Australia could be taken on in due time. Certainly China, or "anything north of there, offers serious complications. Therefore, the temptation to the Japs to try to knock out or strangle India must be very great.

| Japs Eye India Hungrily

i FROM WHAT YOUR correspondent observed through more than three. months of the Burma war, he 18 convinced that, the Japanese would be lured par-

My ‘Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday. — Yesterday I came up by plazie; to. New York City. .I was interested to find that between Wa 1 and New York City there were a number of, emp man was right who urged me not to give up travelling by plane, so long as I was willing to cope with some uncertainty. 1 wasn’t actually told I could have a seat until an hour before the plane left. However, I didn't have anything so vital to do for an hour after reaching New York City and a little uncertainty didn’t matter. | Perhaps this period is going to teach us not to plan our lives on quite such tight schedules. After all, if we learn to use our time - usefully wherever we are, it won’. are held up a couple of hours by troop we have to wait over for a couple of there is an empty seat.

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By Walker Stone

will have to pay next year about $2500, if the treasury’s proposals are adopted. The easy answer is that he should be able to get -along on the $7500 left. Sure he should, but suppose he has to mdke a payment of $5000 on a debt he contracted ‘before taxes were so high. That would leave $2500. Lots of people get along on less. But a man with such heavy debts has to carry a large insurance policy. Suppose his insurance premium for the year is $1500. That will leave $1000. Then if doctor's and hospital bills take all that and more, as they sometimes do, this man who had a $10,000 income will end up borrowing money to live on and porrowing more money to pay his taxes, if he can find a lender. . Our income tax law mikes no allowance for debt, either corporate or individual; no allowance for an individual's insurance ' costs ‘or unexpected hospital bills. That made little difference when the tax rates were low. But with ever-increasing tax rates these obligations are becoming an important factor,

The Geese and the Golden Eggs

IF IT WOULD HELP win the war and make a stable peace, the incidental bankruptcy of a few thousand corporations and individuals would be a comparatively small loss... Bub, in. regard to. both objec. tives, the government has a Special interest in keeping | such taxpayers solvent. : The total private debt in this country is estimated at $120,000,000,000. That's too big a fact to be ignored, in a tax program that draws revenues from a private enterprise system for which credit provides the life blood. If is no answer to say that individuals and businesses shouldn't have burdened themselves so heavily with debt. A tax program which destroys credit will defeat its own ends. Congress will have to make allowances —if it is to keep the geese laying golden eggs.

By Leland Stowe

ticularly by an India campaign even without German success in Egypt, and Rommel’s progress must inevitably make an attack against India all the more enticing. If the Japs could seize Colombo on the Island of Ceylon, their ‘navy would soon bar allied estry to virtually every Indian port with the possible exception of Karachi. Jap airplanes now are completely installed in the eastern Burmese port of Akyab, only 300-odd miles bombing distance from Calcutta and its neighboring steel and coal industrial area where more than 80 per cent of India’s war production is located. It is peculiar, to say the least, that the Japs have not been heavily bombing the Calcutta region for the past six weeks or more. Anyhow, the Japs certainly know what problems they can create if they once decide to go at it regardless of possible air loses.

Apparently Up to Berlin

- MANY MORE REASONS could be cited to show why India may appeal exceptionally to the Japanese for their next high-powered: offensive. Even so, Tokyo's decision may be deterred by what "Berlin deems the highest strategy and that is precisely where an all-out foot-by-foot defense of Egypt by the British is dictated. If Egypt proves too costly, Hitler may not dare risk a gigantic .pincer movement through the Near East in an effort to join up with the Japs through India. If the British hold now, Hitler may not dare risk it with plenty of reason. - And again, a second front seems more imperative than ever—quite as much in defense of allied com-

munications from Suez and Bagdad to eastern India}:

as in the easing of Nazi pressure on Russia. In ‘all these respects the Egyptian crisis has brought the allied high commands to the hour of decision’ and action.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

new: lesson and I hope a valuable one. We had one guest at lunch yesterday. Then, via subwdy and train, I went; to: Orange; N. J., to spend the late afternoon and evening with my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish and Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, who is still staying with her.

‘In my mail has come a letter from Dr. Morkovin, who is director of the hearing clinic of the University , of Southern California. He writes that there are some three million hard-of-hearing children in this country, whose loss of hearing is discovered far too late for complete cure. This is largely due to the fact that mothers do not realize that complications which destroy hearing often arise after measles, whooping cought, infantile par‘alysis and other children’s diseases. Public opinion is indifferent to the fact that the hearing handicap may be a great deterrent to the

development of the child. Therefore there are no|

state or federal agencies which care especially for hard-of-hearing children and they are not included in.the benefits of the’ crippled children act.

They even come around and put on stickers| on rainy days and as late as 5:45 p. m., when we're

William Silvey, 2530 Station st., a

the “12 ball.”

Buschmann, director. ;

captain, fourth regiment ; Mary regiment, and Margaret Cellman, ‘up the statuary.

Milesion

The Service Men’s club will

You can’t say it has reached.

lems of the club will just about double. So Mrs. Dorothy Buschmann, club director, and her staff are taking the opening of the Maennerchor center in stride. :

downtown center back of the traction terminal. .

Weems Plays Tonight °

“pantry shelf.” The cadettes, girls who have volunteered to help enter- |

only on the second floor. : : The third floor will be for “men only” and will have pool and pingpong tables. The roof is being equipped for the men to take sun baths.

the center.

11:15. = It Meant Hard: Work

The Service Men's club isa prod-

1. Service men use “their” club,

4. The Cadettes get ready for the grand opening of the new cd: tonight. Washing glasses. are ‘(left to right)

5. Cadettes Virginia Smith . (kneeling) and Helen Kemper pr

Over Maennérchor Buildi

opens its fourth center in the Maennerchor building. ; : its: climax because before loi : .it will be one of the biggest “businesses” in’ Indianapolis. In fa 4 it already has more than 1600 regular helpers: (three’paid). Cf And when Camp Atterbury opens at Columbus the ‘needs and

This new center, formerly Tom Devine’s music hall, is at Michigan and Illinois sts. For the present: it will be open to the service nien only on week-ends, but later it will be on the 15-hour-a-day schedule of the

The first floor will contain ‘the offices and the “date room” where| the service men can entertain their girl friends. The second floor will]. have the dance hall, stage and the

tain the service men, will be allowed

.. it for the club's success so far, : Ted Weems and his orchestra. will play for the opening on:the stage which in years gone by has held some of the outstanding musical artists. ‘The party will begin at 9 with the band from the Ft. Harri-| son reception center’ playing for dancing until 10 a. ‘m. when WISH will broadcast for ‘15 minutes from, Ted Weems orchestra] will play from 10:30 on with a sec-| ond WISH broadcast scheduled for.

: DENY. AFL REFUSE!

From Maxwell field, Ala. | tome pilot trainee; Peter Hirschburg, | 1822

E. Washington st., navigator trainee, and Donald Daniel, 5850 Li - ave, bombardier trainee (left to right), to bomb the side pocket il

Maennerchor building, Michigan and A st., where famous . cians of a bygone day have played and sung.

3. The guiding spirit of the Service Men's club ‘is Mrs, Dory

Marybelle Wolf. ed, Stuart Socwell, member, ser nd captain, third regiment. . 3

reach a milestone. tonight wh fit

club was ‘opened with the hel. the: WPA. 3 # The Pan-Hellenic organiz ii staffed the club during the hot summer months. And the firs unteer dance committee was o! an ized to dance with the soldie: at Ft." Harrison ‘on Saturday nigh s. ‘A survey. was conducted si ong the men stopping at: the clul on ‘what improvements could be 1 side. {Almost .all. said they wish [ere were some: “nice girls.” So the “Cadettes” were organized, with i 800 enrolled at present,

Open Canteen at Station !

The administrative committed epresenting the ‘park board, U0. ‘and the WPA was able to open ‘the ‘canteen at Union station for { ansient service men and the colred headquarters at the Northwest ¢ munity. center. . , EH Mrs. Buschman, whom Ber fs ciates give a large share of the |

that the’ opening of Camp 4 bury will mean that: every avai: bit: of space inthe ‘downtown | will ‘have .to be .provided: for ep ‘er=taining service men. The hotels and churches all} 2dy are co-operating. But the real | ork of, the Army, Navy and M ; rine Service Men's club is just begin ing.

GITRINE'S PROPDS

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uct of the hard work of a few volunteer workers and the faith of countless individuals and organizations who recognized the need for entertaining thi. service men who; are stationed in or near Indianapolis and who must spend Hie ‘here in transit.

Indianapolis, including mw Ss of}. the city recreation staff ‘and rs. Buschmann representing ‘the ‘may-| ors; advisory committee on recrea< tion, attended "the national recreation meeting in Cleveland at which|

WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. § '. American Federation of Labor > cials- said today | that action ©: proposal by. Sir. Walter Citrirj: the ‘British labor: council for Af: American-Soviet labor ‘collabor 8 {1 In October, 1940,.8 group trom stilt is “being studied. |:

sters’ union, . stating that the £0 of L. had rejected the proposal, i The British proposal for’ coll: 0-

tive service first were discussed. Cadettes Are Organized

the problems arising from the selec-

retion of labor unions in the ii ree major united nations was placed: e- | fore executive councils of the | F. of L. and the C. I. O. two.-mu¢: ths

They ‘returned with an idea, ple ty of confidence, but: no: money. But

warehouse on Wabash st. was do-

the ‘park board 0" sllot about 4 to clean up the, Wifiding ‘and

-{2go. The A. F. of L. executive <ciinei made a counter propetal wii ‘under: consideration il: things ‘soon took shape. The oldjp co CEVSE DUSAnEIoR BY The ©. I. O. executive coi: 00 adopted a resolution stating

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= RELEASES WAR MATERIAL

Frozen Inventory. Stocks to : Be Channeled Into

Arms Production.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P.)— Hundreds of thousands of tons of critical materials, ‘formerly frozen in idle inventories, were released by the war production board yesterday so they can be channeled into armaments and essential civilian output. : Stocks of some 150 scarce materials were frozen early in the war when the WPB issued orders stopping or limiting production of socalled “non-essential” businesses to facilitate conversion to arms output. Critical materials could not be transferred ‘until official approval had been obtained upon application to WPB.

mits sale without any formalities or reports .and requires only that au-

| thorized buyers be eligible to make

purchases. Vital Goods Released

Officials said the move would free “hundreds of millions of dollars” now tied up in critical metals, chemicals and other scarce goods. . The regulation covers items including alcohols, aluminum, ammonia, brass, chlorine, chromium, copper, cotton duck, industrial diamonds, iron, kapok, sole. leather, lead, mercury, nickel, various oils, shellac, silk, steels, tin and tin plate,

-| tungsten, vanadium and zine.

The movement of freed materials and production equipment into the war’ program will be assisted by WPB’s inventory and requisition branch. . l. U. WILL CONDUCT CLASSES IN GLIDING: * BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 8 (U. ment of military science announced today that a p

the. nflerwY. SaInpus. * The

- The new regulation, however, per-]

m of gilder| teajuing wil be started Juiy;13, on

Howe Year Book Staff Is Named

Robert Woerner today was annqunced as editor of Howe high school’s 1943 yearbook, assisted by the following staff members: ha Ellen Kroll, as= sociate editor; Lucile Rennard, home room editor; Natalie Borreson, senior editor; Ruthanne Gossom, activities editor; Marjorie - Metcalf, organizations editor; Bill Woods, Jane Robert Woerner yoy Thelma ‘Ellis, layout editors; Bob. Reed, sports editor; Darlene Bjorklund, Joe Weaver, business managers; Virginia Reese, copy editor; Bob Stitt, James Bayly, photographers, and Joe Pesut, cartoonist.

LEXINGTON ADMIRAL DECORATED BY KNOX

WASHINGTON, July 8 (U..P)— Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sher-

lof the aircraft carrier Lexington,

and two -other navy. officers were

Navy Frank Knox “for distinguished service ani valor. in action ajaing: the Japanese.” Secretary Knox presented a gold star—equivalent to a second navy cross—to Admiral Sherman, a. navy cross to Lieut. Comm. Thurlow Weed Davison, 36, Millbrook, N. Y:,

and ‘a navy cross and gold star to]

Lieut. Noel A." M. Gayler, 28, Bremerton, Wash. Admiral Sherman, who won the

marine commander, was cited for “the brilliant performance of the

mand” and his “

man, San Diego, commanding officer |.

decorated today by Secretary of|

navy cross as a World War I sub-|

-| fighting squadrons under his com-| IL expert handling” of |} >= the Lexington when 16 out of 18{|

‘THE BiG BOMBER

LANDED SAFELY

1U. s. Crew Tells of Thrillin

Battle With Jap Zeros

Over Airdromes.

By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,

- [July 8—The big United States army’

air corps Heavy. bomber landed safely. 0h ‘There was a hole through its right wing, made by a Japanese Zero fighter cannon shell which had exe ploded in the gunner’s comparte ment. Two men were wounded. The navigator lifted his foot to show where an armor piercing shell had slashed his right shoe heel. The bombardier displayed a. bullet hole through his flying coat. “We more than held our own

until my lower turret gunner was

wounded and then the party got rough,” said Flight Capt. Robert Thacker, 24, El Centro, Cal, who was second in command under Pilot Capt. Fred Eaton, Scarsdale, N. Y.

Japs Run Out of Gas

With other army bombers, the crew attacked Japanese airdromes

and then fought off 20 enemy fight= er<planes in a 40-minute running

battle which ended only when the ‘Japanese craft gave up because

their fuel was gone. At least one Japanese plane shot down. Four were damaged.

. “We dropped our biggest bombs,

and they made craters so big we.

could see them from several miles

distance,” Thacker said. “There was plenty of aircraft fire, None of it was close. But I knew

a fight was coming because we saw the Zeros taking off as we ap-

proached. “Twelve made the first attack and

eight ‘more joined in. Once threes of them made a frontal "attack on

us together. But we kept formati all the time.

Duck Through Clouds .

“We ducked in and out of cloud banks, but we couldn't shake off those Zeros until they ran out of gas. ”» Eaton recently received: a. silver star for bringing his whole: crew safely through the New Guiriea

Japanese bombers which. attacked||

the ship last Feb. 0 were. shot] P.).—Indiana . university's’ depart-| . eo

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