Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1942 — Page 12

Sonate Group. 0. K. s 5 Per Cent. Levy Over Regular

“Rate on Income. (Continued from Page One)

at the end of the tax year or afier the war, depending upon certain circumstances.

If the taxpayer spent a ecriain part of his income during the tax

year for the purchase of bonds, re-|

payment of debt or life insurance premiums, he would be entitled to his rebate on the “victory tax” at the end of the year. If none of his income were spent for such purchases, he would not receive his + refund until after the war. Three types of post-war credit would be allowed:

1. For single persons, 25 per cent &

of the amount of the “victory” tax, with an outside limit of $500. 2. For married persons, 40 per cent of the amount of the “victory” tax, with an outside limit of ‘$1000. 3. For. each dependent, two per cent, with an outside limit of $100. Up to these limits, taxpayers could credit against the “victory” tax payments of life insurance premiums outstanding as of Jan. 1, 1942; payment of debts contracted prior to that date; or purchase of war bonds. If the credit were not used in any of these ways, the taxpayer would receive a non-interest bearing, non-negotiable bond which he could cash in after the war. . Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0) sponsored the. resolution to provide for a study of compulsory savings. It would. create a: committee of 10, with five members from the senate flnance group and five from the house ways ‘and means committee, to explore the situation with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and submit a report to President Roosevelt and to congress by. next Jan. 11. Senator George said the commit: tee felt that there has not been sufficient study of the compulsory savings principle to permit its’ incorporation in the pending bill. ‘He said that although there is a post-war credit’ provision for corporations and although the “victory” tax has a similar feature, these provisions were not compulsory savings “in a strict or important sense.” He said the committee still has not passed on the individual income tax rates provided in the house-ap-proved bill, which increase the normal tax to six per cent and carry graduated surtaxes, applicable to the first dollar of income above ex» emptions, starting at 13 per cent.

10 SEIZED IN INDIA AFTER BOMBAY RIOT

BOMBAY, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—-More than 70 Indians were arrested today as police used gunfire, tear gas, and smoke bombs to disperse mobs commemorating the first month of imprisonment of Mohandas K. Gandhi

Most students in Bombay took a holiday. There were demonstrations in front of schools and colleges. Police fired five rounds against one group of demonstrators unwilling to disperse. No reports were available on casualties.

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with the largest number .of troops ever ferried over the Atlantic in a

single operation. Had she been alone and unescorted the flames might have taken a heavy. toll of lives. But a cruiser and two destroyers of the. convoy escort were alongside the Wakefield within 10 minutes after she broke radio silence to message: “I am on fire.” j The rescue operation also was fa-

‘| vored by: a glassy sea and a clear

sky, Rescued Lose Luggage

“If it had been a bad night with a rough sea, we couldn’t have taken off one-tenth of those people, not one-tenth,” said Capt. C. F. Bryant, commander of the convoy escort. Two hundred and. twenty-eight were taken aboard one of the destroyers and most of the remainder were taken onto the cruiser. The rescued so crowded the fighting ships that they were forced to sleep on deck under the few blankets and extra clothes available. Few of the rescued were able to save their luggage and possessions. Commanders of the rescue vessels pleaded with Comm. Bradbury to abandon his ship for an hour before he finally admitted that the fire couldn’t be controlled. Those of his crew who desired were rescued early, but most of them chose to remain with the captain in the losing fight.

Hundreds See Flames

Disaster struck quickly as this convoy neared the port from which it had departed a month ago ‘and as the officers and members of the crew were congratulating themselves on a crossing with perfect weather all the way and a complete absence of enemy interference. It struck in full view of hundreds of crew members and other returning American nationals on other

ships of the convoy. On this ship

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of the convoy commander at least a score of idle sailors and officers, besides those on watch, spied the first small plume of smoke that trickled from a point just forward of the bridge apparently on the main deck. By the time the word had. Peon passed along this ship's telephone to the officers in charge, the ‘tiny plume was a pillar. Then came the first message rom

"| the Wakefield.

Shrouded in 10 Minutes

Through the binoculars from this ship, just 1000 yards away, could be seen the Wakefield crew running forward to their fire stations. -

The Wakefield turned abruptly to play a faint wind‘ against: the flames. The great cloud of smoke became tinged with white steam as water was played on the fire within two minutes after its discovery. But from this distance the water seemed only to feed the flames. Within 10 minutes the Wakefield was shrouded in smoke. She never was clearly distinguishable “again although this ship and the rest of the convoy risked the danger of lurking submarines to circle her for an hour in case additional assistance was needed.

Tried to Bring Her In

From the great cloud of smoke, however, crackled messages on the short range radio that told plainly, but dramatically of the Wakefield's | battle. “Have taken off ‘all except those of the crew that they wish to keep aboard,” came the first message of importance from one of the destroyers, it was followed a. moment later by another: “There .is a nucleus of a crew still aboard. The engines are. still okay and they think they can ‘bring’ her (the Wakefield) on in.” _ That was at 7:15 p. m. Fifteen minutes later, still reflecting Brad-| bury’s confidence that he could save

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his ship, came a message from the cruiser: “The captain has asked us to push off. I estimate that 300 to 400 crew members are still on board manning the hoses. The fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain thinks it will burn out the superstructure, but he hopes to be able to get the ship into port.” With that the cruiser pushed off, but 10 minutes later her captain was back on the radio. “The fire seems to have broken out® with new intensity,” he said, “we had better stand by again.”

“Losing Paintwork”

“The fire seems to be concentrated on the B and C decks, in salon country,” he supplemented a minute later. “I have just talked to the (Wakefield) captain and he believes he still has a chance to save the ship. The fire has not reached the engine rooms. This, however, is a serious fire in my opinion. The fire began in a passenger’s sfateroom. “One of the destroyers has shoved off but we are still alongside, we are riding easily but losing a little of our paintwork.” At 7:55 p. m. the cruiser commander messaged: “The fire apparently is out of control. I think they will abandon ship.” Lost Left in Boats

There followed a long silence until at 8:20 the cruiser captain was back with: : “They are now abandoning .ship and coming aboard.” : Many of the crew members stayed aboard until it no longer was possible for the rescue ships to maneuver alongside. They went over the side in boats just as darkness closed down. In the glare of the blaze and with the aid of sub-marine-taunting searchlights, the rescue vessels recovered the men in boats. ‘Then Comm. Bradbury, who originally had been rescued by the cruiser, transferred to the destroyer with a few ranking members of his staff and a stand-by salvage crew of 50 to the destroyer to stand watch on his ship. And as the cruiser pulled away its commander messaged back: “Good luck to you, Wakefield.” Later, when the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat, Comm. Bradbury led a special fire-fighting party back aboard ‘the Wakefield and they then succeeded in getting the flames under control, the navy said. Tugs and salvage craft were summoned and they safely towed the hulk of the ship to an Atlantic port. The Manhattan was built in 1932 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., at Camden, N. J, for the United States Line. The vessel cost more than $10,000,000 and in peace times accommodated 1161 passengers, with 550 in cabin class. She was taken over by the navy in 1941, soon after outbreak of war, and renamed the U. S. S. Wakefield in honor of George Washington's birthplace.

MOTORIST ARRESTED FOR FALSE ALARMS

If there’s any one thing that really irritates® city policemen and firemen, it’s a false fire alarm, © Almost invariably, however, it's impossible to: trace the culprit. But today it was different. At 1:28 a. m, the alarm box at Jefferson and Brookside aves. was pulled. Six minutes later the box|: at Tacoma ave. and 12th st. went off. And not very far away were two) police officers in a squad car. They Saw a car pull away from the Jefferson and 1 chased it up and down the neigh-

|borhood until they finally caught it.|

ey arrested Orville: 1 of 1926 Commerce ave, Be

| $1,395,203 had been spent for den-

Enough Left to Meet Calls

‘Through October, Ferree Says. (Continued from Page One)

start calling mazried men with wives; but no children. As for men with children, Mr. Ferree said that his board was “very

definitely against” sending men with |}.

minor children and that he hoped it never became necessary.

The board 6 ares, which inctudes|||

Irvington, runs from Oakland ave. east to the city limits. It is bounded

south by Prospect st.

Most trouble. encontéred. by)

board 6 members since they started

servicemen’s dependents allowance act this summer which made bona fide family relationships automatic grounds for deferment of men. Previously, the board had “been taking married men with working wives or wives with independent incomes under the regulations making financial dependency the chief grounds for deferment,

Stopped Married Call

When the allowance act was passed, the board stopped, as soon as was ‘possible, taking married men with financially independent wives to take all single men first.

Thus, a numbeér of married men}

with financially independent wives were left at home and, naturally, the women whose husbands had been called were “sore” about the situation. " Mr. Ferree pointed out that the “respite” for men left here with financially independent wives “will be only for a few mon The board has been inducting

men married since Pearl Harbor} even though their wives are preg-

nant. Board 6 has adopted a definite policy of not giving occupational deferments to boys 20 years old 'who have just taken defense jobs or started training in defense plants during the past year. :

Ten Appealed Cases

He said that 10 such youths placed in class 1-A had appealed and that the appeal board had upheld the local board in all but one case. “We feel that these boys belong in the army and that the defense plants shouldn't expect them to -be deferred,” Mr. Ferree said. : Except for occasional arguments Over this 20-year-old policy, Board 6 “has gotten along well” with defense industries on questions of occupational deferment, the chairman said, and in practically all cases has respected the requests of the defense plant personnel managers for deferments for ‘occupational reasons. Mr. Ferree said that passage of a. law by congress providing for the drafting of 18 and 19-year-old youths would provide a sufficient number of men in his area to meet calls “for a month or two, at least.” Other members of Draft Board 6 are Howard M. Meyer, G. O. P. candidate for congress, and Herbert S. Smith, secretary of the Indianapolis typographical union.

FT. WAYNE NATIVE NAMED LIEUTENANT

: A promotion to first lieutenant has been received by Lieut. Paul G. Jasper, assistant public relations

officer at Ft. Harrison, it was an-|} nounced by Col. Walter S. Drysdale, |||

post commander, ' today. Lieut. Jasper, a native of Ft. Wayne, was called to actives duty March 16, 1942. Prior to entering the service he practiced law in Ft. Wayne. He was captain of the Indiana university football team in 1930, president of the university law class of 1932 and president of the board of ‘Aeons, the student ‘governing body at the university. Several transfers have been announced at the post. Lieuts. John J. Leming and Paul E. Edwards have been ordered to report to a military police battalion at Camp Butner, N. C., and Maj. George W. Ritteman of 'the station hospital will report to Ft. Knox, Ky., for duty with the hospital there. Ordered to report to Ft. Harrison are three officers who have just completed a special course of instruction at the provost marshal generals school center, }t. Oglethorpe, Ga. They are: Lieut. Alonzo W. Herdrick, Lieut. William R.

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