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TRUCK LICENSE

FEES) ARE LISTED

Bill: Ns. Designed to Raise $1,500,000 Yearly for Maintaining Roads.

A schedule of truck licenses was set forth by the senate roads committee designed to raise $1,500,000 a year to help maints te roads. Another meas sponsored by the committee would maintain the

present gas| tax - distribution to|

cities and counties but would provide for these units of government torshare any deficit in case the gas tax revenue. falls below estimates. The truck tax bill provides for an $8 fee for trucks of one-half ton or under; $15 for one-half to one ton: $27 for one to two tons; $50 for two to three and one-half tons: $100 for three and one-half to five tons; $150 for five to seven and one-half tons, and $250 for seven and onehalf tons and pver.

Based on Length

The fees foi ‘trailers would

trailers” and semibe based on the vehicles. The fees on trailers range from $5 for trail-

| ‘ers eight to 10 feet up to $80 for

* trailers, 30 feet long and over.

" The semi-trailer schedule ranges §

from $20 for those vehicles under 16/ feet up to $80 for semi-trailers, 30ifeet in length and over. The fees for farm trucks would be 50 ‘per cent of the regular fees under provision of the hill. Another bill [to be introduced in a few days would eliminate the diversion of $1,250,000 from the highway fund into the general fund.

LICE ARREST 23 IN NIGHT'S RAIDS

Polices squalls continued their raiding activities last night, arresting 12 women and 11 men. The women and seven men were arrested during a raid on a small hotel in the 900 block, N. Alabama st., early today. The prisoners were held on vagrancy charges pending investigation of alleged prostitution activities at the place. Gambling devices and lottery]. equipment were confiscated in raids on private homes in the 100 block of Bridge st. and on W. Louisiana st. and a pool room in the 100 block, W. Ohio st. Herman Engelking, 37, of 1714 S. Talbott st., was charged with. operating a Jottery in the W.. Louisiana st. raid. Three other persons were arrested in a raid on a residence in

the 600 block, Eddie st., where sev-

eral quarts of unlicensed liquor were confiscated.

Moser ‘Showers’ On Fire Brigade

TORONTO, Jan. 28—(U. P.).— Not pennies from heaven, but a shower of $10 bills dropped on Toronto firemen while they were fighting a blaze in the dental offices of Dr. A. Gott. The bills came fluttering down when firemen chopped a hole in the ceiling. Gott explained later that he had placed a box containing $3300 in the attic for safekeeping. About ‘$300 was destroyed in the fire.

JUKE BOXES’ TONES BAFFLE HIS HONOR

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (U. P).— Magistrate Charles Solomon dismissed a complaint against a barkeeper yesterday after he refused to decide whether the sound that comes from a juke box is noise or music, “There have been many respectable lay opinions on both sides,” the thagistrate said. “But the voice of jurisprudence has not spoken yet. This humble court cannot say, although it has its private opinion in the matter. .

HOW ROMMEL GOT AWAY

LONDON, Jan. 28 (U. P).—The

' _ British ministry of supply today ad-

vanced a possible explanation of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s getaway from the British eighth army in North Africa. Rommel, it was learned, was riding in a captured British-made armored scout car.

oday in a bill sponsored

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By HAMLIN WELLING

Face-to-face with war for the first time, the green, young American troops flung into the North African battle plunged into it without a trace of fear. “We were machine-gunned, shelled and bombed—but it was too much like the maneuvers we'd had in training to scare us,” Pfc. Rex Harfison, a patient at Billings General hospital, said today. ° A native of White Pigeon, Mich., the 26-year-old soldier has received the purple heart for injuries suffered in action. He was in the thick of the fighting for Port Lyautey, near Casablanca. And he left in Africa almost all of his left arm.

Arm Amputated

It was amputated after being shredded by a 75 mm. shell fired less than 15 feet away from him as he advanced with two other men to capture some French field guns. “One of our tanks sent a shell into a machine gun nest. When it was silenced, three of us crept forward. When we got close, we saw it wasn’t just a machine gun nest but that a lot of big guns and a number of Frenchmen also were there,” Pfc. Harrison said. “My sergeant turned his tommy gun on them and demanded their surrender. One of the Frenchmen began burning a box of ammunition. The sergeant shot at him. Just before he fell he jerked the firing mechanism of the 75 mm. gun not 15 feet away from me. The blast mainly hit me in the ‘left arm, but also sent fragments into my right thigh, thumb and ankle. “I decided I'd better lie down because I was bleeding pretty badly. Then I watched oup men capture the Frenchmen and the guns. I got out the sulfanilimide pills we had and took one and started walking back for first aid.

Rescued by Pals

“I only made about a fifth of a mile before I had to stop. Other soldiers put a tourniquet on my arm and made me as comfortable as possible until the medical corps came up—we being pretty far ahead of them. Later that day, however, two Frenchwomen came up and carried me to a hospital at Port Lyautey. There a French doctor amputated my left arm. They were swell to ‘me and in the six days I was there the doctor and I became good friends. He left the hospital before I did to join the Free.French forces.” Pfc. Harrison was sent from the French hospital to an evacuation hospital, then aboard a hospital ship and returned to the United States. It was at New York he was given the Order of the Purple Heart. He was sent to Billings

Pfc. Rex Harrison . . , and the Purple heart award.

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Invasion Like Maneuvers, Says Purple Heart Winner

The other soldier there to receive the Purple Heart was Sergt. Robert C. Smith, a gunner on a flying fortress. He was shot in a raid over occupied France in September when the plane in which he was flying was attacked by a group of FockeWulf’s 190’s. A bullet from one of the Nazi planes went through one of his feet and splintered the bones in his left arm. “I'm anxious to get well and get back over there with our men,” ' he said.

NORTHEAST GENTER T0 FETE OFFICIALS

The Northeast Community center will have its annual meeting following a dinner at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in the hall, 3306 E. 30th st. Four members of the board of directors will be named. The Rev: J. M. Horton will give the invocation and Henry Stiles will preside. Honor guests will be Mayor and Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall, William Munk, Carl Winters, Lloyd Potten-

H. H. Arnholter, Jane Johnson Burroughs, Sheldon Sayles, Edna Christian, J. Francis Huffman and Miss Frances Kearby. Hostesses will be. the Mesdames Grover Slider, Edwin Holmes, Jess Preston, Carl Harar, .Clara Rott, William Stewart, Arthur Haught, Gerald Decius, Sam Fink, Nathan Sauer, George Sears, Louis Koss Jr., L. Rowe, Manual Freeman, Bertha Bear, Henry Stiles, Wanda Cline and the Misses Gertrude V. Brown

Elizabeth Marks, Christine Heath

tand Mildred Chapman.

BART TO TALK ON SMASHING HITLER

Phil Bart, organizing secretary for the Communist party in Indiana and Illinois, will speak on “Hitler Can Be Smashed in 1943” at the Lenin Memorial rally at 3 p. m. Sunl8lay in the Slovenian national home, 2717 W. Washington st. Also on the program will be talks by Powers Hapgood, regional director of the C. I. O, and Albert Stump of the Marion’ county office of civilian defense, * The singing of folk songs and other entertainment is planned under the auspices of the Lenin Memorial committee.

BUILD FT. WAYNE TRACKS

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Jan. 28 (U. P.). —Ten mile-long railroad tracks and coaling stations totaling $525,000 are under construction in the Ft. Wayne yards of the Pennsylvania railroad as part of a war emergency expan-

General hospital Jan. 2 and now “feels swell.”

manager of the railroad, said today.

ger, D. H. Draper; the Mesdames |.

GASOLINE SALES ROP SHARPLY

0ff 39% in December With Tax Collections Totaling Only $1,510,000.

Gasoline sales in Indiana during December, the first month of rationing, dropped over 24,800,000 gallons from the previous month— approximately 39 per cent, according to gasoline tax collection figures in the state auditor’s office. : Richard T. James; state auditor

pointed out, however, that the December figures are not exactly in-

| dicative of what effect gasoline ra-

tioning will have on the state revenue. Many persons started the month with a full tank of gas and did not buy any, or very little, during the month.

Collections $1,510,000

Gasoline tax collections for December, which are now complete with the exception of reports of a

000. . Tax collections on November sales totaled $2,504,000 and for the month of December ag year ago the state received $2,581,000 from gasoline sales. Mr. James said that no accurate estimate on what gasoline rationing would mean to the state could be made until late next month when the collections are in on January sales. He predicted, however, that it would not be a drop of ‘over 3313 per cent. Gasoline tax revenues are used in highway financing, and state officials are awaiting anxiously to learn what effect the rationing will have on the highway program.

PRINCETON WAVE IS ASSIGNED HERE

Miss Dorothy Bouchie, WAVES yeoman third. class, from Princeton, Ind., has been assigned to the naval officer procurement office here. She will assist in preparing papers for new applicants, She enlisted in the WAVES in September, 1942, and received training at Oklahoma A. & ‘M. school for yeoman. She had been employed by the Indiana employment security division,

Work or Fight, Schricker‘\Urges

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Jan. 28 (U. P.).—Governor Schricker said last night that America must not ease up now, but must continue to conceltrate on an all-out war effort. Addressing the banquet of Purdue university’s 29th road school, Governor Schricker told 400 persons that everyone must “either work or fight.” “The American loafer of today does not deserve the protection of the Stars and Stripes,” he said.

SHERBET MAY FILL IN FOR ICE CREAM

Increased manufacture of ices and

' Isherbets, to offset the ice cream

shortage, now is possible under a new sugar rationing order received today by James D. Strickland, Indiana director of OPA. The regional office of OPA in Cleveland advised Mr. Strickland today that industrial users may obtain permission to divert sugar originally allocated for ice cregm to the manufacture of ices and sherbets. Manufacturers must file a special purpose form with their local rationing board which will refer it to the state director for final approval.

MAY TRY ON HATS TILL SUPPLY FAILS

LINCOLN, Ill, Jan. 28 (U. P.).— The .Logan ¢ounty circuit court held yesterday that it was a woman’s inalienable right to try on as many hats and try them on as many times as she pleased. The court awarded Mrs. Eloise Townsend $25 in a civil rights suit that grew out of a salesgirl’s refusal

to let her try on one of the Spur-

sion program, J. H. Cooper, division geon mercantile company’s choice

chapeaus.

IN INDIANAPOLIS—VI TAL STATIST ICS

HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD | FATALITIES Conty

. y = City Total 1942 secant 10 14 1943 ;... : 5 1

Accidents sine «NL Arrests Sivas 233 Injured Dead

WEDNESDAY Agen) COURT

. Cases Convic- Fines Vielations 3 Tried tions Paid | Spee { Reckless drivi Failure to iy Ae hrotgh” street | Failure to sto) [ Brunken driving

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RATIONING DATES '

ugar—Cou 0 good for three pounds Sugar, Couper 31. Coupon 11 good for =| ‘three AR i from Feb. through

i March

i Coffee—Coupon 28 good until Feb. 1.

ih oline—A beok—Coupon 4 good through March 21.

> ©Oil—Coupon 3 good until Feb. 27 Coupon 4 il ¢ become good on Jan, 31.

Tite for Rolders of A gas books Tea inspected by March 31. Tires

2 “holders ver = 31 3K C books must be

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‘hockey, Ca ASbUTEn, Colsieum,

1 “State fairgrounds, 8:30

Hardware ulation, con:

ference, Hotel “Lincoln, all day. Clubs “of Indlafia, publte ; peaking “class, Y. M. C. 6 p. Industrial poten sous. fincheon, Washington

) tuncheon, Hotel Severin, oo,

~| James Clifore 1 Murphy, 33

EVENTS TOMORROW

. Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher associations, annual health conference, Ayres auditorium, 10 a. m. Purchasing Agents! gisseciation, meeting, Columbia club, p. m. Mallory De ea rn ing, Hotel Washington, m, Indianapolis Federation "of Civie meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p. State Creamery examining board, neti Hotel Severin, ‘10 a. m. Cimmen Course, meeting, Hotel Wash-

ington, 8 m. Dr. J. Soden; i class, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p.

nion, meet-

Stubs;

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are fom official records in the county court use. The Times, therefore, is not reraencible for errors in names and addresses. )

Robert Louis Weathers, 21, of 44 W. 28th; | Dorothy Elizabeth Hadley, 22, of 253 i Boulevard pl. é Fred OY McMillen, 19, cf 1841 N. Talou Horie Ellen North, 28, of 1835

Gus Ledig. s8, R. R. 16, Box 361-R; Nellie Mae Pearson, 52, Barton hotel. Henry Stewart, Jr, 19, of 926 S. Ca or Jessie Louise Watkins, 18, of 646 Robert William Davies, 21, of Dearborn; Maryhelle. Pile, 22, of 631 N. ray.

8ill, Okla.; Doris . Beville. U. 8. Merchant Agnes Peters, 32, of

y *YaFolle ette, 24, Indiana] University Medical Center; Jean Adele Tillotson, 23, -of 1142 N. Pennsylvania. George n Lismon, 21, of 622 N. Capita; “Lorraine Lucille Rutland, 18,

Edward Henry Miller,- 20, Ft.

Harriso! Doris Evelyn Seward, . of 2619 167k st.,, Hammond, Ind. , of 220 S. Illi-| nois; Ma,

i 29, of 220° Iinois, Colonial Jom oh 8 Francis Blair McLin, 45,

Lebanon, Ind. land Poston, 34, Indianapolis len Catherine Hall, 20

a: ington,

mer Jimerson, 17, of . Lawrence Fern Skidmore, ig Tipton, Ind.; Mary Esther Wicker, 31, of 414 Riley,

Greenfield, Ind. Felton David Smith, 25; of 1524 Henry; Lillie Margaret Spencer, 27, of 903 Faulkner, Anderson. Fae H. Sourlock, 26, City hospital, City; Dorothy | Belle Eberhardt, 24, of 2012 N. Edward Lewis Todd, 22, Camp Wheeler, Ga.; Anne Bogden, 21, of 821 S. Lyons, Ollie Martin Watson, 54, of 1643 College:

Cornelia Mary Frances Krebs, 42, of 2237 Winter.

|| John Charles Hickey, 23, of 1510 N. Olney;

Helen Irene Beunaman, 22, of 846 N. Tuxedo.

BIRTHS Girls

Frank, Harryman, St. Francis. ; Oscar, Bertha Sharp, at St. Francis. + Alfred, Hermina Brader, at: St. Francis. Arthur, Alberta Shultz, at St. Francis. Arthur, Laverna Ruppert, at St. Francis. Thomas, Ruth Elliot,’ at St. angis. see Irvine, at Cit Mae Lockman, at Methodist, Lois Childs, at Methodist. Beulah Smart, at Methodist. ta Echolds, at Methodist. Clarence, Mary Campbell, at 1041 Harlan.

Frances at

‘ Boys Paul, Thelma Hartley, at St. Francis. Charles, Lilliamr Waite, at St. Francis. Charles, Anna Trusty, at St. Francis. George, Louise Kissling, at St. Francis. | James, Genevieve Wheeler, at City. Frank, Charlene Downey, at Methodist. Ward, Dorthea Gransen, at Methodist. ‘Raymond, Ann -Parker, at Methodist. Kellie, Vernice Barnett, at Methodist. Lue, Marie Unger, at Methodist. Richard, Mabel Davidson, at Methodist. dons, ‘Bessie Cooper, ab 4521 E.

DEATHS

ratios Franklin Wall, 65, at 311 E. St. Clair, coronary occlus

cerebral hemorr hag Rod. eden 49, 8 Pry Veterans, coronary

bert Rol. -Athletic club Wes tiiel

hogs cles. Ca 5,

| Louanna Seabletz, ah at

sion. Ni Ft. cock, Cora Belle Ellis, 76, 3t 2112 N. ; ary L. Lewellen, 26, of 840 oy Delaware,

William Scott, 17, of 1046 a LTA yh Bert J. wel, 54, at Veterans, pulmonary

tuberculosis. Raymoid Ernest Luecker, 47, at 635 N. icy. angina pectoris. F. Crawford Jones, 56, at 2015 Ludlow, lobar pneumonia. John Elkins, 67, at City, arteriosclerosis,

Ww. chronic myocardit Ems Schulz, 1, is 2445 Broadway, carJerusha 3 Hoffman, 65, at St. Vincent's, aden

Edward c Walters, 72, at 558 N. Keystone; cardio vascular renal. Mary A. O'Mahoney, 70,. at City, cerebral hemorrhage. John Riley Dudley, 81, at 4912 Caroline, cardio vascular renal.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8S. Weather Bureau (All Data in Central War Time) .Sunrise ...:.. 7:57 | Sunset .......5:59

TEMPERATURE —Jan. 28, 1942—

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1

13). m. an.

The followinz table shows the temperature in other cities:

Chicago Cincinnati ..,... Cleveland Denver ..... "es Evansville .......

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Mpls. -St. Pa ve New Orleans

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Sheriff Unmasks 'Teen-Age Ghosts | -

VINCENNES, Ind, Jan. 27 (U. P.).—The mystery of the five. ‘teen-age f‘ghosts” who had ‘been terrorizing the town of Bruceville by appearing in Ku-Klux klan robes was cleared up today when Sheriff Clyde Stalcup announced that the youths had confessed. Stalcup said the boys had found a bundle of old Ku-Klux klan robes in an abandoned barn and, remembering what the klan was famous for. started a campaign of terror in. nearby Bruceville. The boys would knock at a door. When the innocent victim would open it, he would see five white-clad figures silhouetted against the night. Stalcup said the youths confessed to robbing stores as well as frightening householders. Four boys were released on probation to their paernts, while the ringleader, Lindley Chandler, 19, was sentenced to six months on Ls state farm.

PETSAMO GAPTURE REPORTS DOUBTED

LONDON, Jan. 28 (U. P.).—The Swiss, Morocco and Algiers radios broadcast today an unconfirmed report from Stockholm that the Russian Arctic army, opening a drive toward Norway, hdd captured the Finnish port of Petsamo. Several nours later there had been no word of such an attack from an authentic source. Russian informants here were skeptical and British military quarters, who from the first nad received it with greatest reserve, were withoui information. ; Petsamo is only 60 miles from Russia’s great Arctic port of Murmansk, and Murmansk is only 85 miles from Norway. Petsamo harbor has long heen unusable, Stockholm said, because its entrance is dominated by Russian guns.

CATHOLICS LIST DANCE The Holy Name society of St. Roch Catholic church will hold a dance in the church basement from 9 to 12 p. m. tomorrow. Jack Davis and his orchestra will play. Wayne Starks is chairman.

SEEK $495,000 DEFENSE FUND

House Bill Expands Administrative Council to 10-Man Board.

Retention of the present state civilian de setup but with few minor ‘ch was proposed ‘in a bill introduced in the house today by Rep. Lloyd Claycombe (R. Indianapolis) and Robert Heller (D. Decatur). One of the changes would ‘be to

ekpand the administrative defense

council which has control of the state program to a 10-man board. "- New members placed on the council would be the lieutenant governor, highway commission chairman, public welfare department director, state fire marshal, attorney general and employment security division director. Provide for Emergency

A $200,000 defense fund would be created which could be used only in cases of emergency and appropriation of $295,000 would be made for operating expenses of the defense program until April 1, 1945. Sixty thousand of this latter amount could be spent immediately. A companion bill was introduced to legalize assessments and appropriations made by municipal governments for defense activities. Both bills have the backing of the Democratic and Republican parties.

0. E. S. IN IRVINGTON TO CONFER DEGREES

Irvington chapter No. 364, O. E. S., will confer degrees at 8 p. m. Monday at the Irvington Masonic temple, 5515 E. Washington st. All members who have served on committees during the past year will be honored, Mrs. Benita Kaye is worthy matron and R. Clifford Malrling, worthy patron.

INJURIES FATAL TO FLIER

PERU, Ind, Jan. 28 (U. P.).— Lieut. Francis J. Shellburn Jr., 25, died last night at the Duke's "Memorial hospital of injuries sustained in an air crash early this week.

ALTHOUGH MANY legislators in both parties are individually opposed to the merit system in the state institutions, it seems highly: unlikely that any major changes in the present law will be ‘made.

during this session.

The subject is too hot politically. With their eyes on 1944, neither the individual legislators or their

parties seem anxious to do anything concerning the merit system which would tend to get the various civic organizations sponsoring the merit system on their backs. : This tendency to leave the “hot potato” entirely alone was shown yesterday by the ready acquiescence of Rep. Jess Andrew (R. West Point) to the Democratsponsored amendment to. his clemency commission: bill which left in status quo the merit system setup in\ the penal institutions. As originally drawn, Rep. Andrew’s bill would have given the penal institution superintendents full control over the hiring and firing of their employees, thus eliminating the merit system in those institutions. n ” »

Bad Politics

FROM A STRICTLY party standpoint, neither the Republicans or Democrats can afford to sponsor legislation to tear

down the merit system.

Such action by the Republicans would be a repudiation of their own program. The 41 G. O. P.controlled session passed the law placing the institutions under the merit system. This: feeling of party responsibility for the maintenance of the merit. system is reflected by House Speaker Hobart Creighton who says: “The Republicans will do nothing to’ tear down the merit system.” Just as it would be had politics for the Republicans to make any attempt to change the merit system so would it be for the Democrats to make any such move since their numbers are so small

‘that they could not possibly hope

to put across any change. Smart politics for the Democrats is to do everything possible to catch the public eye by fight-

‘ing against any possible change. That they are aware of ‘this is shown by the fact that the amendment to the Andrew bill was submitted by Rep. Matthew Welsh. (D. Vincennes), minority -

caucus chairman, ” ” ”

Letters Pouring in

LEGISLATORS ARE being flooded with mail from their home districts asking them to vote for local option. : No local option bill has yet been introduced nor is there any yet on the horizon. Typical of the letters, ‘which are enough alike to suggest that there is a . letter-writing cam= paign under way, are these: “I hope you will give your supe port to the introduction and en= actment of a local option law. It is absurd for the people of Indi=~ ana to be fighting for ‘democ= racy’ for'the whole world and not have ‘democracy’ at home on such an important question as the sale of liquor in their home come munity.” i “We are much concerned about the liquor question in our come munity and all Indiana, too, Thirty-six states: have some form of local option. Won't you and the Republican legislative com= mittee give your support to the Jdntroduction and enactment of a local option law? Please.”

SCHRICKER MAKES RECEPTION PLANS

alverner and: Mrs. Schricker will hold their customary receptions for state officials and legislators at the executive mansion at 8:30 p. my next Monday and Tuesday nights, State officials, senators and their wives will be guests on Monday night and representatives and thei® wives on Tuesday night.

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