Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 14

| Championed Track Elevati

A champion of the South side

Unfair ‘Burden on

track elevation “dream” for 40 years and a former county assessor, Rob-

Poor, Murray Tells “Senate Leaders. JASHINGTON, Oct: 9 (U. P).— ‘Congress of Industrial Organions, charging ‘that the 5 per victory tax was hypoeritically ed, today said such a tax would fabotage and impede the war proiction program. In a letter to senate leaders a sw hours before the victory tax ‘passed by the senate, C. O. President Philip Murray alled for enactment of the

The funeral will be held a 2 p. m.

Monday at the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. :

Mr. Sloan was 79 ‘and lived in

ert R. Sloan died last night at his | home, 2425 Shelby st.

the Garfield Court. apartments, which he owned.

Born in Marion county on May

20, 1863, the son of William Gilman and Melissa E. Sloan, Mr. Sloan was educated in public schools, gvaduated from Shortridge school and attended Butler university, where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

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He operated a large farm in

Franklin township for several years and was a realtor for 40 years.

|Walkouts in War Plants

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Border on Treason, He Tells Convention.

TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 9 (U. P).—American Legion Comm. Roane Waring told the American federation of Labor in annual convention today that strikes in war industries are “treasonably unpatriotic” and that he would treat strikers as “a Hitler or a Mussolini.” “It makes no difference what a man’s grievances may be, it matters not how unfairly his rights may have been infringed .upon—if he is engaged in war production—he has no right to quit, no more than the soldier on Bataan nor the marine on the Solomon islands,” Mr. War-

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By GEORGE WANG . United Press Staff Correspondent: SOMEWHERE ON THE CHINESE FRONT .N THE YELLOW RIVER SECTOR, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Wendell L. Willkie perhaps missed death five minutes yesterday when four Japanese shells exploded near a railway station where he arrived on a tour of the Chinese battlefront, Willkie was not the least disturbed. “I am much pleased by the Japanese salutations,” he said. “They are exceedingly thoughtful.” Japanese guns were emplaced on the opposite side of the Yellow river in a sector which Willkie inspected yesterday, under the guidance Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek’s 27-year-old son, Capt. Chiang Wei-Kuo. The guns blasted big craters in

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ous questions and Chiang was eager to explain, > a “He is a delightful son of a great father,” Willkie said later. Chiang commands on the Yellow river a company of 212 ‘machinegunners who keep up a constant fire against ehemy positions across the river day and night. : Willkie, addressing a division of some 10,000 veterans, said: “Chinese soldiers for five. years have fought with matchless courage. Freeman all over the world admire you. Those of our allies who have not fought so early or so long should see to it that you have adequate equipment so that you can carry the fight further, : “Fight on. You cannot lose; you are bound to win. China will never die; she is beginning a new life,

bless you.”

“I salute you as an American. God :

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treasury’s ‘original revenue raising posals, two of which the senate eady has rejected, and said: e “Your senate finance committee as ‘warped the administration’s ‘fax program—by heavier taxation of the lower incomes, by reduction of exemptions, by imposition of a gross income tax (hypocritically denominated a ‘victory’ tax)—into a tax program which threatens to ‘sabotage and impede our. war pro“duction by taking bread and milk from the tables of our workers, and ‘elothing from their backs.”

Fears Special Privilege

. Mr. Murray promised that organized ‘labor would continue -fo ‘marshal its forces for the most ‘effective war production “under any circumstances,” but added that ii ‘would be a more difficult task “if ‘the senate persists in its present pproach to the tax program.” This is no time for partisan “squabbles over who is to foot the bill, he said, but the new tax program cannot afford to be based on ‘the continuation of special priviJeges or on the imposition of burdens “which willsundermine the ealth and therefore the working ‘efficiency of war workers.” "Mr. Murray called for enactment ~ ‘of treasury proposals providing a 85 per cent rate on normal corpuiration profits, upward revision of income tax rates in the middle and ‘higher income brackets, higher estate and gift taxes, and the * plugging of “loopholes” permitting . ‘wealthy individuals to avoid taxes. . The senate already has voted to "tax corporations 40 per cent on ‘normal profits and late yesterday voted to continue the present ex‘emption - from taxation of interest ‘from state and federal bonds.

Unfair, Says La Follette

The senate financing committee had proposed taxing future issues of such bonds, and Senator Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis.) advocated taxing all. Asserting that . Mreasury figures show that some persons receive as much as $750,000 a year in wholly tax-free income from such bonds, Senator La Fol- - lette said: x “Do you think ‘that the young - man coughing up his guts on the Sahara desert is happy that someone back home gets $750,000 in taxfree income?” ./ The National Lawyers’ guild has joined the C. I. O. in denouncing the victory tax.

the earth and the echoes they set off in the nearby mountains had just faded when Willkie’s train pulled into the station. + The Japanese apparently had learned of Willkie’s presence at the front. . Twenty-three Japanese planes bombed and machine-gunned a number of towns and trains along the Lunghai railway which skirts the southern bank of the Yellow river between Loyang and Tungkwan. ! . At Loyang, the Japanese scored a direct hit on a coach of the Blue express—a train similar to the one carrying Willkie. Six passengers were killed and a number wounded. But Willkie at the time was inspecting underground fortifications. For an hour Willkie toured the subterranean chambers, paying closest attention to construction and armament. He and the generalissimo’s Eng-lish-speaking son became good

friends as they wandered through| not.passed to deal with the risin i x

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A Democrat, county assesor two terms. : : He was a member of the Indiana Democratic club, the 17th ward Democratic club, the Federation of Civic clubs, the Baptist church and he was a director of the apartment] owners’ association.

UMW TO STUDY SIX-DAY WEEK

Lewis Wins Second Vote of Confidence on Issue of

* Autonomy.

CINCINNATI, O.; Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Delegates to the 37th biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America today prepared to take

up the question of wage Increases for 600,000 miners, and the government’s request for expanding the work week from five to six days. President John L. Lewis had told the U. M. W. delegates that higher living costs nade bigger pay envelopes a necessity. The union’s scale comimttee has received g request for a $2 a day increase when the union negotiates with operators next year. : Fuel Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes has asked for the expanded work week as a measure to aid war production. Some U. M. W. spokesmen have declared that the six-day work week 1s unnecessary because there is no coal shortage.

Re-enact 1938 Policy

Mr. Lewis, head of the U.M.W. for 22 years, yesterday won his second test of strength during the convention when delegates split bitterly on the question of local autonomy. Previously, he received a vote of confidence when delegates voted to withdraw from the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They voted to readopt the district autonomy policy in effect since 1938, under which the wunion’s inter‘national officers decide which districts shall elect their own officers. Mr, Lewis appealed to the dele-|headed by Paul V. McNutt. gates to “help me administer unioni|, He pointed out that physically affairs in this critical period by [handicapped people who have been guaranteeing competent district of-|rehabilitateq are making full conficers.” tribution to the war effort.

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A. F. of L. President William Green sought to temper what appeared to be resentment on the part of some delegates to Mr. Waring’s failure to place equal responsibility for strikes on employers.

Open Forum, Says Green

He pointed out that Mr. Waring, as an official of the Memphis, Tenn., street. railway company, is an employer “with whom we long have had good relations.” The convention, he said, is an “open forum” adhering to the democratic principles of free speech. :

Says He'd Shoot Them

Later Mr. Waring told newspapermen that by treating strikers like a “Hitler or a Mussolini” he meant that he would “shoot them if I had the authority.” Asked if he would apply the same penalty to employer who are responsible for strikes, he said: “Absolutely—even more so. Sometimes the employee can't help it; the employer can.” Waring warned organized labor leaders that unless they stop strikes and slow downs, no matter how minor, that “you face danger of having: the good as well as the bad swept away into a rising tide of popular disapproval.” “It is my firm conviction and the conviction of the American Legion, and I know it is the firm conviction of the American people, that such strikes, justified though they may be in peace time, have no place in war industries when our very existence is in jeopardy.

Wartime “Rights”

Mr. Waring said he would continue to fight for labor's rights in peace time, but in “times of war there are no rights, no grievances that are paramount to the rights of your son and my son/who are lying on the sands of Africa or the cold wastes of the Aleutian islands.” Mr. Waring continued: “All that labor stands for, all of its achievements, all of its prestige, are being threatened by a group of wilful, lawless and selfish men who, by their actions seek to pull the arches out of the temple of freedom.

Premier Sounds Warning

“You have acted, you have. protested, you have decreed against it, but you have not yet gone far enough. You have not yet used the might of your far-flung organization.” Another speaker today was Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada who told the delegates that the war must not end in a comproWs |mise but in complete destruction = { of Naziism and Fascism. ;| He warned against the “subtle danger” of Nazi progapanda which argues that the war must end in a stalemate or compromise “between slavery in the old world ‘and freedom in the new.”

Confirmed! Baby Born to Penny

QUANTICO, Va., Oct. 8 (U. P.). —A seven-pound four - ounce daughter was born to screen and radio actress Penny Singleton last night but her husband, Capt. Robert 8S. Sparks of the marine corps, couldn’t ‘wait for the happy event to send out an announcement. ; J Yesterday morning Sparks sent telegraphic announcements marked “hold for confirmation.” Not knowing whether it would be a son or daughter, Sparks took in both possibilities. The announcement read: “Hold for confirmation. Born to Penny Singleton, film and radio “Blondie” and wife of Capt. Sparks, a daughter Robin Susan or a son Roberf Sinton at the naval hospital, marine barracks, Quantico, Va., more following.” “More” came last night: “Release Penny Singleton Sparks daughter, 7 pounds 4 ounces, born 7:40 tonight.” It -must be Robin Susan.

|| ‘SHANGRI-LA’ GETS LANGUAGE COURSE

BERKELEY, Cal. (U. P)~The University of California has under-

Robert R. Sloan

Co-operation in Capital Studied

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.). —The senate military affairs committee yesterday approved serator Sheridan Downey's “kiss - and - make-up” resolution.

The resolution would empower the committee to “study with a view to determining the best and most effective means of creating greater unity and co-operation between the congress and the executive branch ot the government in order to aid in the prosecutibn of the war.” Senator Downey, California Democrat, proposed the inquiry during the debate on the stabilization bill, after Senator Prentiss Brown (D., Mich.), had warned that congress and the president might “collide” if legislation was

Mr. Sloan was married to Mrs. Matilda Woessner Koehing on June 2, 1909. She died more than 20 years ago. There are no immediate survivors.

Roadside Stands Victims of War

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—The lis are tolling for one of Amer=cals favorite landmarks—the hamburger stand. Hamburger stands and roadside diners which have lined the nation’s. highways are disappearing fast, the National Restaurant association convention reported today. The reason: Tire rationing

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Also on the way out is another symbol of Americana—the tin lunch pail. James K. Switzer of the Canteen Food Service, Chicago said the lunch containers might as well be donated to’ the metal scrap drive because factory workers have “been educated” to prefer hot meals to sandwiches and pie. : :

PRESIDENT REQUESTS REHABILITATION UNIT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P).— President Roosevelt - today asked congress to create a single rehabilitation service which would prepare physically handicapped war vet-

erans and civilians for participation in the war effort. The president, in) a message to congress, said more adequate provisions should be made for the rehabilitation of persons now handicapped, - persons disabled while members of the armed forces “and for the increasing number of accident cases that are accompanying a rapid expansion of our war industries.” Mr. Roosevelt suggested that the new service be placed under the federal security agency, which is

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