Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1942 — Page 13

ON RUML

y sury Adress With Him Some Sort of Pay-as-Yo|

Go’ Program Is

Necessary, Banker

_ Says in Answer to Paul.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2

(U. P.) .—The. “pay-as-you-go”

tax plan proposed by Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the Fed‘eral Reserve Bank of New York, continues to agitate official ashington despite opposition from the treasury department d disapproval by the senate finance committee.

Recently Randolph Paul,

‘issue between himself and the _ treasury was “what type of _ pay-as-you-go” tax plan should be ‘adopt

Determined to write a “cour‘sgeous” tax bill and one that may . go even further than the house bill in raising an estimated treasury goal of $8,700,000,000, the senate committee has announced that it ‘will give Mr. Ruml another hearing which is further evidence that the Ruml plan, recently approved in a public poll conducted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers, is far from dead. . Herewith is summarized the pros “E and cons of the “pay-as-you-go” controversey. »

treasury tax expert, took tol} * the air to explain why the treasury regards the plan as im-|3 oh practicable. Mr. Ruml countered by stating that after listen-|§ “ing to Mr. Paul he was con‘winced that the only point of

TREAT SYPHILIS CASES IN 1 DAY

Ohio Doctors Experiment; 6-Week Plan Is Held Promising.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—A 10hour treatment for syphilis is being tried experimentally on a few patients in the early stage of the dis-

ease. Both arsenicals and artificial fever are used in this one-day treat-

- {ment.

The Treasury Viewpoint:

Here are the treasury’s objections, of as voiced by Mr. Paul. 1, It is complicated. : “Bach year’s tax payments will depend upon two returns instead of one at present. The taxpayer will first file a return of one year’s income which will be the tentative re“turn for the following year. He will pay tax according to this return. And then when the year is ended he will have to file another return showing what his income actually was, and he will then have to make & further payment or collect a gefund depending on how his income varied. The administrative problems for the government would “be very great, and the. system would certainly be very confusing for ~ many taxpayers.”*® * 2. It is not actually a pay-as-you-go plan. Many Incomes Vary

“Many taxpayers experience considerable fluctuations in their annual incomes. In their case the Ruml plan would not be a pay-as-you-go plan at all. The Ruml plan does not in fact achieve its basic to put the income tax on current basis; its seductive allure is in the fact an illusion.” ‘3. One year’s taxes would be “forgiven.” “It is an essential part of the ~ Ruml plan that one year’s taxes be forgiven. . . . Thus, billions of dolJars of tax liability ‘are cancelled. 5 . . The wealthy man with an in‘come of half a million dollars would save a tax liability of more than

50,000. . * . . 1941 was not a normal year ‘in any sense of the word. It was a year in which our factories made ‘more goods for consumer use than in any year in our history. Individuals made a great deal more money last year than they are apt to do now with the impact of rationing, ‘growing scarcities, higher taxes and other effects of the war. Under Mr. Ruml’s plan such individuals would pay no tax on their 1941 earnings at all, ,. . Anyone who had a large income for 1941 would get a wholly ‘fortuitous tax windfall.”

a ® = = Mr, Ruml Replies: Replying to these objections, Mr Rumi said the treasury agreed with = ~ his pasic principle — that there © should be a “pay-as-you-go” tax plan of some sort. ~ As to Mr. Paul's first objection _ that the .plan was too complicated, ~ Mr. Ruml said the modifications proposed by the treasury itself were more complicated than his original plan. The year-end adjustment gould be “easily made,” he said, on the same blank as the. next Jes tax return, so that only one ~ Teturn a year would be required. ‘On the second objection, that taxpayers would not be on a current 7 ‘pasis, Mr. Rum! said the treasury : es specific provisions of ' his aimed at eliminating that diffity. He agreed, Mr. Ruml said, h the treasury’s belief that a withholding tax is important in keepg taxpayers current. Answers Final Point ‘on the treasury’s final point, that hie Ruml plan's greatest benefit iid go to persons with the big- * income, Mr. Ruml said the lion can be met by congress

clinics, including government hos-

over the old standard treatments.

needed to cure this disease until medicine’s new offensive achieved these new results.

Fever Is Induced

Authorized details of the one-day treatment practiced by Dr. Walter M. Simpson, Dr. H. Worley Kendell and Dr. Donald L. Rose of Dayton,| O., may now be given with the cooperation of the U. S. public health Service. Ehrlich’s “magic bullet,” arsenic in the form of Mapharsen, is.combined with 106-degree man-induced fever in the Dayton treatment. That is the trick of the speedy action allowing, if the first few successes are continued; one day of treatment to do as much as 540 days have done

* {in the past.

Premature and over-enthusiastic disclosure of the experimental work caused the scientists and the U. S. public health service to release details at this time.

Gets Four Drug Injections

The patient is given a preliminary dose of bismuth, long a part of standard - treatments for - syphilis.

four grains of bismuth subsalicylate, he is put into the fever cabinet early in the morning. As soon as the heat of the cabinet has raised his temperature to 106 degrees Fahrenheit, he is given his first hypodermic injection of Mapharsen. Three more injections of this drug are given at the end of the third, sixth and ninth hours of fever. The Dayton research team "does not claim a one-day cure. In fact, they do not even announce the development of a new method for treating syphilis in one day. Their aim, they state, is to present experimental data on the value of quantitative rather than merely qualitative tests for syphilis under various methods of treatment. Qualitative tests, they point out, are “yes” or “no” tests. They show either that a patient has syphilis or that he has not.

GEN. WESSON GIVEN LEND-LEASE POST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.). —Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson, who retired as army chief of ordnance last May 31, has been appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Gen. Wesson, who is 64, will “advise and assist” the office of lendlease administration, presumably with particular regard to ordnance shipments.

BOY CYCLIST KILLED WARSAW, Sept. 2 (U. P.)—J. C. Prescot, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Prescot of near Pierceton, died yesterday after he was knocked from his bicycle by a milk truck. “The boy was en route to a farm to pick tomatoes.

Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.

Now in practical use in over 50|3

pitals, are six to 10-week treatments. | § These are promising improvements

Eighteen: months was the time]

include:

123, and Eugene Crum, troop 14.

Alan Crapo, troop 48

New Eagle scouts in the central Indiana area ; Front row (left to right) James Jacobs, troop 19; Irving Freeman, troop 65, and Harold Parsons, troop 83; back row (left to right) Richard Brill, troop 358, of Zionsville; Jack Hoehm, troop

Ted Metzer, troop 6

Front row (left to right) Rista Velich, troop 48; Paul Meyers, troop 72; Lynn Carmichael, troop 3, and Stanley Nooe, troop 95; back row (left to right) Knight Campbell, troop 80; Harry Branson, troop 48; George Keller, troop 48, and Bill’ Huddleston, troop 303, of Brownsburg. |

{tried to drop food and ammunition {by parachute to Japanese troops

. |collapsing. Respect yourself and

Don Olive, troop 117

BRITISH PREDICT AIR BATTLESHIP

Flying Fortresses’ Success Causes Revision of

Experts’ Ideas.

LONDON, Sept. 2 (U. P.)—British aviation commentators, who only a few weeks ago openly scorned U. S. flying fortresses, suggested today that their success over Western Europe might force a complete change in the basic ideas of

After injection into his muscles of air warfare and result in the de-

velopment of “flying battleships.” All were revising “their estimates of the fortresses as a result of seven daylight raids and a battle over the North sea without one of the fourmotored American sky giants being lost.

Collin Bednall, highly regarded air correspondent of the Daily Mail, said in a lengthy front-page article that one possibility opened by the amazing performance of the B-1Ts might be a race between the warring powers to produce an entirely new type of fighting plane “akin to an aerial battleship.”

8000 Horsepower

Such a plane, he said, might be a8 huge metal monoplane powered with four or more motors developing 8000 or more horsepower and armored so heavily that it could beat off hordes of small fighters. It might carry a “fair weight of bombs,” he suggested, but its principal purpose would be to serve as escort for less powerful bombers and open the way for heavy daylight bombing “which was the great advantage of being more accurate and also can be done from a much greater height—almost beyond the range of enemy flak which is a terrible menace to night bombers which must fly low to pick out their targets.” American officials thus far have

‘| been comparatively silent regarding

the successes of the huge Boeingbuilt bombers, but it was pointed out unofficially that they have had fighter protection each time they go out. The Americans were said to be waiting until the fortresses go beyond fighter range to bomb German targets before making any boasts.

have signed formal pledges to :

Jap Losses at

Reporter With Fleet Says

(B. J. McQuaid, correspondent with the United States Pacific fleet, accompanied an American force on its foray into Aleutian waters early in August.)

By B. J. McQUAID Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times - and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. . KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 15 (Delayed) —Reports on the battle of Kiska are nearly all in and it becomes possible to judge the real results of that spectacular action with something approaching accuracy. Almost certainly, we sank at least half of the 10 or 12 ships séén “In Kiska harbor just before we opened fire. All were in areas of the harbor assigned as targets for our cruisers. (Thus far navy communiques in Washington have claimed only four Jap ships sunk or damaged, one destroyer, damaged, one cargo ship sunk, and two cargo ships damaged.) Victims included a heavy transport, -a light cruiser and four or five good-sized supply ships. On Aug. 9, the day following our attack, PBY flying boats returned and obtained direct hits with 500pounders on a cargo carrier, plus near-misses that landed’ between another cargo ship and a destroyer and almost surely took care of them. ‘In the process the PBY’s observed that the transport, described as “huge” by our cruiser pilot, was down by the stern a few yards from the beach inside South Head, with decks awash. :

Thinks Subs Destroyed

Nothing else was visible except one smaller cargo ship. As the navy understatement presents the case, a strong assumption is that everything else was sunk. This may well have included four Jap subs, also spotted near the large ships inside the harbor on attack day. : The light cruiser—and authorities are careful to stress the outside chance that this may have been a type of exceptionally heavy, potent destroyer that the Japs are known to possess—had disappeared along with everything else. The command of our destroyer division reports that his ships fired for three

or four minutes on the warship

Kroger Drivers to Conserve Equipment

‘| with the other cruiser planes, to |'perform spotting missions for our

= ors safely to the ships, or to U. S. shore bases eastward along

|ward to two men—the pilot and | radioman of a little cruiser ob-

Kiska High,

thought to be the light cruiser, as she got under way and headed toward open water and our formation as we let fly.

aboard one of our heavies saw the same Jap warship turn over on her

used harbor entrance between Kiska and Little Kiska islands. The extent of our damage to land installations is less definite. For one thing, weather has not yet permitted the taking of satisfactory air reconnaissance photos. Those which have been obtained show great damage to the main Jap defense installations—big gun and

flying back to Kiska for reconnaissance experienced no AA fire from that direction. Less. certainty exists concerning the installation of the main camp

shore of Kiska harbor. Hundreds of shells were pumped into this region by oyr cruisers. The destroyers had an excellent line of vision to this sector through South pass as we opened fire from the lights, and they repott that many of our shells found a mark. This would mean sure death for thousands of Japs living. there in tents and barracks, and would probably have wrecked their big seaplane ramp and serving facilities on the beach. Which may be one reason why so few of their planes go into the air. Runways May Be Hit On two ‘other sections of the island, development had been in progress which seems, in photographs, to represent efforts to hack land plane runways out of Kiska's stubborn soil. Both were within the target areas assigned to various of our ships, and these areas were likewise heavily hit. Notwithstanding the great amount ‘of damage we inflicted on their shipping, it is possible that our most important accomplishment was this barrage we put down on the runways. If at all near the mark, it would be enough to nullify weeks of Jap labor. Once the .Japs are allowed to complete even a small runway on

accommodate their nimble little zeros—the job of retaking the island and the prospect of repeating raids such as we pulled on the 8th, will be rendered infinitely more hazardous.

' Two Fliers Missing i

Our total casualties in the action now stand tentatively revised up-

servation plane. The pair took off into the fog just before the battle,

gun directors. All the other planes.

the chain. No one knows what

| happened to the missing plane.| : Conceivably, it may. turn up yet.

{lungles of Guadalcanal island. lu. s. ‘marines.

. |encampment.”

3 transport.

A few minutes later, observers :

side in South pass, the seldom-|

AA emplacements—on North Head.}. For the first time in weeks, planes}

area on the west and northwest|

Kiska—and 1800 feet would easily]

of Big Victories.

By ROBERT C. MILLER United Press. Staff Correspondent

SOLOMON ISLANDS, . Aug. (Delayed) ~—Japanese planes today

who have been chased into the All six parachutes landed among

They contained concentrated food, rifle ammunition and a mimeographed paper called, “The Great Asia Newspaper (special

Dropped separately were a numsber of red and white streamers to which were attached a note directing attention to the parachutes and this message: “The enemy before your eyes is

by no means run away from the

“The Great East Asia newspaper (special edition),” described a great Japanese victory of the Solomon islands. It said the Japanese had sunk one battleship,“ two armored cruisers of the Astoria type, at least three cruisers of unknown type, at least four destroyers, at least 16 transports, and had “defeated, and mashed-up,” three cruisers of the Minneapolis type, at least ‘wo destroyers, at least one It admitted that the Japanese had lost two cruisers and

MARINE HEADQUARTERS, 16]

is so. Ee year of the war. The ensuing 30 days will go far toward Selling fre story of 1942, therefore will foreshadow the course of the confit it

liberate France from the German invaders. . More Dieppe Raids Due

It is merely a question. of time

that on Dieppe, only bigger, a British-American expeditionary force. If that comes, the indications are. that Laval would send in his newly organized tri-color legion to aid the Naazis. Vichy has not denied the Berlin report that both Laval and the chief of state, Petain, felicitated the German defenders of Dieppe, nor that Laval’s new corps of fighters ‘would be kept

before there is another raid like} :

or maybe an actual invasion by}

Marshal Philippe]

|even to the extent of depri sy SE

is pleased.

uli he nor his collaborators

Hitler wants Vichy to do some- “{ thing against the free French in ‘equatorial Africa. Our lend-lease route across the dark continent is | playing an increasing role in Egypt, the Middle East, India and China,

pve ie Middle Bast, Tis soul

He wants Vichy to help retake '| Syria from the free French, place the French fleet and Mediterranean ports at the service of the axis, and turn over Dakar as a base ‘from

Plwhich to attack south Atlantic

shipping and, possibly, Brazil,

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