Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1942 — Page 3
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Employer May Be Prohibited From Figuring Unauthor-
ized Increases as
In Levy.
3 By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Speeial Writer
* WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The income tax will be employed in enforcing the wage and salary limitations which
the anti-inflation bill will promulgate.
Randolph E. Paul, general counsel of the treasury, said
today he was conferring with
lations for enforcement of the wage and salary ceilings. » »
- The way it is expected to work out is this: If an employer increases wages or salaries beyond the prescribed limit, he will not be permitted to deduct the increases as costs or expenses in computing his income tax. Section five of the bill, relating to wages and salaries, has got little notice because of the all-engross-
ing fight in both house and senate over farm prices. It reads:
“No employer shall pay, and nof.
employes shall. receive, wages Or salaries in contravention of the regulations promulgated by the president under this joint resolution.
President Fixes Extent
The president shall also prescribe the extent to which any wage or salary payment made in contravention of such regulations shall be disregarded by the executive departments and other governmental agencies in determining the costs or expenses: of any employer for purposes of any other law or regulation.” The treasury’ and the internal revenue bureau can use this section in disallowing, for income-tax purposes, any increases beyond the . limit fixed in the president's regulation.
*
Both house and senate bills in-{
clude section five in similar form as regards ithis power. The house bill carries a maximum penalty of $5000 fine and a year in jail, or both, for violation of any provisions of the anti-in-flation bill. Theé senate measure provides a penalty of $1000 fine for violation of any regulations: promulgated by the president. These differences must be compr
Proposed ‘by Davis The use of the income tax in en-
forcing wage and salary limitations|:
was first broached publicly by William H.:Davis, chairman of the war labor board, in his appearance before the senate banking and currency committee when the bill was
* under consideration.
In drafting a daw limiting wages and salaries, he said he would “start off and say, ‘no money paid out for wage increases above present wages will be allowed by any of the agencies of government in their accountings, whether they are pur-
chasing agents or Leon Henderson| fe
or the treasury . . . unless that expenditure has been approved. by . the war labor board. 29 Senator Taft (R. 0) interjerted that this looked like doing the job backward, and suggested that a gegulation be issued saying nobody gould increase wages or salaries, with a penalty provided. To which Mr. Davis replied: “That is another way fo do it, but let me show you the way it will work, It Works This Way
“The first way will work this way: That if any manufacturer then fvanted to increase wages—and some of them do—he: would be really bargaining collectively again because he would. have to pay them out of his own pocket. “He could not charge them Mgainst. taxes, or cost, price, or anything, and he would really be bargaining’ for his own money. Now, that is all right. The amount of money that is going to be spent on wages under this plan need not worry us, in my judgment.”
FISH FRY TOMORROW ‘The Ladies’ Altar society of Assumption parish: will hold a fish fry at 5 p. m. tomorrow in ment of the_school at 1103 Blaine
IN INDIANAPOLIS - MEETINGS—VITAL STATISTICS
Walter — Fox, Elsie Sham
Here Is the Traffic Record FATALITIES
. County City Total sigma
1941 senwssobsens 45 ’ esvessavieay 27 Sept. 30— Accidents oo 18 |
Injured... Al 0
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5 od Cases Convie- Fines i Cera 8 8
Costs or Expenses
authorize - the president to
other officials regarding regu-
ALL CRY ‘LOBBY’ IN PARITY FIGHT
But Each - Side Accuses Other During Bitter
Debate in Senate.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).— Both sides of the fight over farm prices in the anti-inflation bill claimed a victory today and each side accused the other of “plenty of lobbying” during the bitter, eight-day debate. The extent to which lobbying did or did not affect the outcome of the fight appeared to be the only unsettled issue and one that probably will be long debated. There were differing versions on both sides about the existence of a farm lobby, and if so how large and effective it was.
Waisle ts the ano SIL ts woes}
Army and War Work Call Replacements Hard to Find
By FREMONT POWER Indianapolis’ police department
Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau federation, said: “Lobbying? been talking with our frien Sure, Another Says
Charles W. Holman of the National Co-operative Milk Producers’
Gosh, no. We've just
“Lobby? Sure
good one. Somebody has to speak for the farmers.
Senator leader of e senate farm bloc, made the t public mention of the farm lgbby during the early days of the )debate. -He told reporters last ( week that the “big four” fi ganizations had “250 lobbyists here working on the senators.” O'Neal said there had never been more than 100 farm organization men working on senators and repiresentatives: and most of them left before the debate started.
Critical of Press
He said the press of the nation had been “particularly bad” in this fight and attributed it largely to President Roosevelt's attitude. “The president started it with his Labor day speech,” he said. “That ‘made the farmers pretty mad and set the press going.” Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.), administration leader, in a senate speech last week denounced farm organization leaders whom he accused. of trying to- dictate the legislation. He pointed to “them” in the galleries. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) usually identified with the so-called farm bloc, told the senate that he had been here 20 years and that not only had he not seen a farm lobby, but “there is no such thing as a farm bloc.” Questioned about lobbying, O’Neal accused the administration of “pressuring” senators.
KILL EIGHT IN INDIA
BOMBAY, Oct. 1 (U.-P.).—Police at Cuttack in the Bengal bay province of Orissa killed eight persons and wounded three when they fired into a mob of 4000 yesterday at Ahmedabad in Bombay presidency, there were three bomb explosions.
HIGH JAP OFFICIAL SLAIN
CHUNGKING, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —A military spokesman said today that eight: Japanese lieutenant-generals and one admiral have been killed on the ‘China front during the past five years. The latest general officer to die, the spokesman said, was Lieut. Gen. Takashi Sakai, 54, killed
ant :
in I Dehiine near Lanki in Chekiang
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club,
Bachange ob, luncheoh, Claypool hotel, optim club, ‘luncheon, Osiumbia club, Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary cottage, Sigma Ohi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon,
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NIBLACK— to draft a policeman and train him as a soldier and then train a replacement ag a policeman. not take the replacement into the army in the first place?”
safety
tion brought to light immediately.
Identification
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Orvyill City; Lois W janss He Hi les Florence Viewegh, 19, of 1230 | Les n elen: y © ~N. Winfield, Richard James 8 MoCre William «mont; Mary adic Russell’ Morris, 19, of 200 Detroit
Vernon * William
today is facing the specter of an empty uniform. Days are few when another officer doesn’t slip out of the policeman’s blue and don the overalls of a war industry or the khaki of a soldier. The ranks are dwindling—the army may take even the chief—and replacements are hard to find. The situation is beginning to take
on highly perplexing aspects.
Niblack Puzzled
In the words of those who by reason of their position know the sit-
uation best:
' MUNICIPAL JUDGE JOHN L. “It doesn’t make sense
Why
SAFETY BOARD PRESIDENT
LEROY J. KEACH—“Were good
for four or five more months. I
have nothing but sympathy for the draft boards.”
INSPECTOR JESSE M'MURTRY, acting chief in the absence of Chief Morrissey — “Were not overlymanned at any time and so when we lose a man, it takes quite a while to replace him.”
ROWLAND ALLEN, chairman of
the police and firemen’s merit com-mission--“Men are available if we
can change cur standards to get them. Two months ago I wrote the hoard, suggesting interim appointments and extension of residential requirements for police applicants.”
Figures Tell the Story Mr. Keach describes Mr. Allen’s
ideas as “artistic.”
Mr. Allen obviously thinks the sit-
uation threatens a problem that sooner or later must be dealt with.
Judge Niblack believes the situais serious and should be
Meantime, the figures tell the
story:
Normal Present Manpower Manpower Totals Totals
Patrolmen e0soen 3117, sassssesee 303 Detective
Investigators .. 40....0000:00. 35
Motorcycle «
Patrolmen .... 60: cceavanssss 36
: 33icssiinones 18 Exhaust Eligibility List Although the over-all deficiency
in manpower is not large in figures —probably not more than 50 at
61, R. 17, Box 21 an el Crimp. 54, of 1 » “Highland ave. . Harrison; | Lean Mary Pauline Gerringer, 22, of 2350 N. Delaware,
e Lea Jiuddieston, n, Stout as . Dye, 26, of 1241% Oliver.
is Krueger, 23, Ft. Harrison;
aa: o 3917 Kenwood; May M1) 20, of 1001 E.
Buchman, 28, of 3¢ N. Tre-
P. J. Dowling, 23, of 52 S.|Garla
Mary Bernive Doar, 16, of 1551 B. New n R.
Bishop, = 23, Gra hotel; Helen Elizabsth George, 24, rs
Mooresville, Ind. Jessie, 24, Elk a ered May Gibson, 29, Elk : Ind.; Jean |Paul
3 Tor "3514 Satoriion; y. 29, of 2234 N. Car-
Re Crosman, 13_ot 1 2 aw 24; Jo
Bont Ludlow. 1 hf 102 N. Ke rene P.nnick; 18, of § 123 E.
36, of 1314 Sturm;
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{but a high attendance is unlikely.
present—the eligibility list for policemen has been exhausted. Another school for police applicants probably will be called soon,
It will be hard to find men between 24 and 34 who are physically fit and not either in the army or in war industry. Mr, Allen believes they could be found if the rule against out-of-town residents joining the force was relaxed. It might be helped, too, if special police were put on, although Mr. Keach goss not like the idea. Can't Compete in Pay On the matter of the lure of the heavy war industry pay envelope, the department has little to offer in competition—except maybe pensions after 20 years’ serylce. : The out ‘on the beat ‘makes “between $40 and $45 a week. But on the problem of the draft: “I don't see why a man on the police force isn’t as essential to the community as a man in the army,” said Judge Niblack. Mr. Keach agrees. The safety board is automatically asking deferments for all policemen about to be drafted, and in some cases getting them. But the force continues dwindling.
OLDER MEN CANNOT SOLVE JOB PROBLEM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P)— The census bureau today announced that substantial relief of the manpower shortage could not be obtained from the older age groups. "In a speical report based on 1940 census figures, the bureau said there was a reservoir of only 1,300,000 “older men,” of which 700,000 were at least 65 years old. The 1940 census showed there were 17,800,000 men 45 years of age and older in the United States, the bureau reported. Seventy-seven per cent of these, or 13,700,000, already were in the labor force at that time. Of the remaining 4,100,000 not then working, 1,500,000 were between 45 and 64 years old and 2,600,000 then were 65 and older. The bureau explained, however, that of the 4,100,000 men not working in 1940, 2,800,000 were reported unable to work or as inmates of institutions. That leaves a reservoir of 1,300,000 older men and approxi-
wT TOTAL 108 | CONTROL INU. S|
of every man up to age 65 and of
manpower.
Compulsory Law in Canada Is Studied for Pattern
‘As Manpower Wanes.
By BEN WILLIAMSON Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Registration
every woman up to age 44 for war work; J * Priorities and manpower and womanpower for war industries; The entire machinery of hiring labor run by government control; Compulsory acceptance of employment by the unemployed; ‘Freezing of jobs in nonessential businesses; - Government training of women to take men’s places at machines; Moving of workers, by government direction and at government expense, to labor-short areas and industries. These are some of the measures to come if, as is indicated by the government’s authorities on manpower, America takes for its pattern Canada’s far-reaching new national service law. Compulsion Seems Necessary
No administration authority on manpower wants these measures. All
hope that they will not be necessary. But that hope is running out along with the nation’s supply of The frequency with which these compulsions are mentioned in talks by government officials before the manpower conference of the American Management association here . indicates that Washington is preparing measures that will affect every man, woman and child in the country. :
war work, which War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt has predicted as “inevitable,” is now closer than anyone thought a few weeks ago. Canada’s month-old compulsory law controlling manpower and wages —the framework of which has been taken as a master plan for measures now under consideration in Washington—was outlined here to the government's manpower experts and to representatives of virtually every war industry by Price M. Stewart, Canada’s deputy minister of labor.
Bonuses Meet Rising Costs
In addition to the total war controls on manpower, it sets up mandatory and inflexible wage and salary rates, with bonuses to meet living costs as they rise. Canada didn’t want its “compulsions, either. But, as Deputy Minister Stewart told the conference, it learned early in the war that government alone could keep manpower in balance, that government alone could know the requirements of the armed forces and of war industry, that government alone could assume the task of total control for total war. Touching the core of America’s most pressing manpower problem— the shortages of high skills in various areas and industries—Mr. Stewart said Canada had first found it necessary to mobilize technical and supervisory personnel, and from this experiencé had developed its general manpower policy and controls under one head, the minister of labor.
Canada Trains Women
Canada, he said, is augmenting its labor force by “induction of more women into industry and in jthe armed forces and in their training. “The next move is the transfer of labor from less essential to more essential imdustry—and these plans are well advanced.” ; How close the United States is to the bottom of the labor pool was indicated by Roger Lapham, employer member of the national war labor board. “We can’t dodge the fact,” he said, “that womanpower must be substituted for manpower and that, if we are to win this war, we’ll all have to get into uniform and we’ll have to do it quick.”
TALKS ON GAS RATIONS William “Burnes will discuss “Gasoline Rationing” at the luncheon meeting tomorrow of the Exchange club at the Claypool hotel. Mr. Burnes is assistant to Willian Aitchinson, state director of gaso-
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Haley: T0.000 "of “Yhute ave, 65; or over.
BIRTHS ia Edith at, St. Vincent's. Ee 1 Bae am, Eunice Glenn, at Coleman. Charles, Martha Raleigh, at Methodist. o Ham Seaman, at Methodist. = ‘Bdith ith, at 5, 2 Moto Bale, Lucille Lake, a t Methodist, Harold, Angeline Siudsinski, st St. Vin- , at st. Vincent's.
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cent’s. « Lloyd Helen pis, ove, puts. Paul, Maryann Lee, St Methodist. IES Rs ibs Ba at Emi hart tha Simmo John RE at Emhardt.
———— ° DEATHS
32. | George E. Rice, 30, City, bronchopneuGedrge 1 Schubel, 1, 4% 197 Bucbanan, vascular renal. : ABS 4. Caitico, 5, as St. Vinoent, coro. 49, at Veterans,
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line rationing.
at 142 E. Ohio, 13% at 1131
Joseph M. Patterson, 79, acute cardiac dilitation. Cornelius Edward Hardesty, Fairfield, chronic myocar
Charles William Lackey, “oy Ia, hypertension.
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These people gave their blood, not once but four or five times, to the Red Cross blood donor service, They received special mention yesterday when the army-navy. “E” flag was presented the local chapter for excellence in obtaining blood donations. From left to right, they are Paul R. Wesler, five pints; J. Gs Cecil, four pints; Mrs. Myrtle Edna Herrin, five pints; Clarence Butler, five pints; Mrs. Voight Lachman, four pints; Mrs. Mildred Dyson, four pints, and Charles Wagner, four pints.
Approximately 8000 students in the upper classes of the city’s high schools may take training which will make them eligible for membership in the high school Victory Plans for the city-wide organization of pupils over 16 was nearing completion today. DeWitt S. Morgan, schools superintendent, has named Wilbur 8S. Barnhart, vice principal 6f Manual Training high school and head of the commercial department there, as director of the corps. Mr. Barnhart will be relieved of a part of his duties to take
charge of the organization. The local corps is a part of a nation-wide unit which is organized into five specia] divisions: Production service, community service, land service, air service, sea service and a general division, It was established under the auspices of the U. 8S. office of edu-
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and U. S.
cation and the war manpower com=mission with the co-operation of the secretaries of the navy, war and commerce. Pupils who qualify will be admitted into one of the divisions and be entitled to wear insignia indicating the branch of wartime activity in which they are participating To be eligible, the student must meet certain qualifications such as enrolling in pre-flight aeronautics, physical fitness program, military drill, special courses in mathematics and science, vocational training or must be engaged in community service activities in addition to the approved high school program. Chairmen of the corps in the various schools are: Technical, Joseph Kettery; Broad Ripple, L. P. McGhehey; Washington, Ross T. Campbell; Crispus Attucks, Julian D. Coleman; Howe, Charles M. Sharp; Shortridge, Emmett A. Rice, and 4 Maitial Training, Mr. Barnhart. Broad purposes of the corps will be fo Li mini for youth in
STRAUSS SAYS:
8000 Eligible for School Victory Corps; Manual Vice Principal Directs Formation
critical services and ' occupationsg i wartime citizenship training to ine sure better understanding of the war, its meaning, progress and probs lems; to develop physical fitness to provide voluntary military drill for selected boys; to develop coms petence in .science and mathes
.|matics; to provide pre-flight traine
ing in aeronautics for prospective aviation cadets and ground crew maintenance men; to offer pre-ine duction training for critical mili tary and production occuptions, and to develop and recognize com= munity service including training for essential civilian activities, Mr, Morgan said. : “Throughout the war period all the Indianapolis high schools have been carrying on a program in each of these fields,” he said. “In order, however, that the Indianapolis highly schools may proceed with ever ine creasing energy along the organe ization lines formulated by the wag
manpower dommission, the high victory corps is being established.
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OVERCOATS,
TROUSERS & CAPS—from THE ARMY EXCHANGE SERVICE (Services of Supply, War Department). .
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Gifts for the Man in Service!
Frora The Man's Store—to be sure! For here are the genuine, masculine things that go straight. to a fellow's heart.
A large, spacious showing just inside the. doors—to your rightimm and here and there through the store.
And, of course, you know the: fine old traditional impulse— *'He will open his Strauss gift box. first
IF HE'S IN THE ARMY—just give us his name rank: Army serial number, branch of service, organization, A. P. O. number and the postoffice through which the package is to be routed.
IF HE'S IN THE NAVY=give us his name, rank or rating, and the Naval unit, or name of ship, and postoffics through which package is to be routed.
IF HE'S A MARINE—give us his name, rank or rating
Also postoffice through which package is to be reuted.
WHAT ABOUT PACKAGE SIZES? : Because of the need for shipping space for war materials, a parcel should not be larger than an ordinary shoe box and should not weigh more than six pounds.