Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1943 — Page 5

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~ Rules Main: Features . Unconstitutional.

Main. features of two controversial bills‘ sponsored by farm groups ‘were killed today by a ruling of Attorney General ‘James Emmert.

He held unconstitutional the pro-{

visions of the state fair board and

livestock sanitary board bills which| would require the governor to ap-|

point board members on the recommendations of various livestock 'associations.

‘He said that under the supremej:

court opinion in the “ripper suit” case, the power of appointment was

clearly an executive function of the .

governor, Explains Opinion

“However,” he said, “it is my opinion that the legislature does have the right to provide that, persons appointed as members of the proposed board shall be persons g certain qualifications leaving .the’ right to select the particular individual possessing such qualifications to the discretion of the executive.” His ruling was on the livestock sanitary board bill, but he said it also would provide to the fair board measure. In the former bill, the livestock and dairy associations sought to gain control of the state veterinarfan’s office by creating a five-man board to name the veterinarian who is now an appointee of the governor. Sets Requirements

This bill would have required the governor to name the board members from nominations made by the Indiana Veterinary Medical association, the State Dairy association, State Livestock Breeders association and State Poultry association. The fair board bill also would have required the governor to name members from nominations made by various agricultural associations and would have given the board full control of the state fair which now is held by the lieutenant governor as commissioner of agriculture. This latter measure has been opposed by Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson on the grounds that it would place the multi-million dollar state fair grounds property and the fair itself in the hands of a “closed corporation.” Rep. Paul Moffett (R. Indianapolis), president of the state fair board and chief sponsors of both bills said meétings would be held shortly to rewrite the two bills to make them conform to Mr. Emmert’s opinion.

REVEAL U. S. BUILDING PIPELINE IN ARCTIC

VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 4 (U. P.).—A giant oil pipeline, literally

spanning the top of the world from}

the great MacKenzie river valley, in the Arctic circle, to either Whitehorse or Mayo, in the Yukon, is being built by the United States, it was revealed today by the Vancouver Sun. The article said censorship prevented publication of many details, but that the laying of the pipe is a project rivaling in size the building of the Alaska highway.

20,000,000 TONS OF SHIPS SEEN ‘IN 43

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 (U. P).— Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, maritime commission vice chairman, believes the United States will puild at least 20,000,00 tons of ships during 1943. Inspecting local plants here Vickery said President Roosevelt's goal of 16,000,000 tons probably will be exceeded by at least 4,000,000 tons, depending on steel supplies.

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Mrs. Helene Hall of Los Angeles, wife of an enlisted seaman in the navy, became the frst WAVE to trade her blues for WAAC khaki because naval etiquette forbade her to be married "to a navy man ‘of inferior rank.

SENATE VOTES T0 KEEP IHSAA

Trester Remains as Czar as

Bill for Abolition Is Defeated.

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bill as being too “revolutionary” and damaging to the schools of Indiana, especially during wartime.” “I challenge anyone to prove any of the charges that the present association has been mismanaged in anyway,” Senator Kinder. said. “There has not been a breath of scandal connected with it. I don’t see why it has to be destroyed.” Senator Higgs declared the bill would bring about more centralization. of power and more dictatorship over schools from the'statehouse. He cited messages from all over the state which he said expressed opposition to abolition of the I. H. S. A A. The measure provided for .creation of a high school athletic council of 25 members, composed of coaches, school principals and school superintendents, who would select a board of athletic control of five members which would in turn select a director with the:financing under the state board of accounts. TD comin St neem

FIRE, POLICE BILL PASSES TO SENATE

Efforts of Marion county representatives to place a two-year limitation on proposed increases in pay for firemen and policemen failed in the house today and the measure was passed by a vote of 75 to 12 and sent to the senate. Under the terms of the bill, minimum pay in all Hoosier cities of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth classes would be raised to meet increased wartime living costs. The pay in Indianapolis would advance

1943 and to $200 a month thereafter. Rep. Earl Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis sought to introduce an amendment which would provide the raises only during the next two

years,

Communiques

MacARTHUR COMMUNIQUE (Issued Thursday, Feb. 4)

NORTHEASTERN SECTOR:

NEW GUINEA — Wau—Our ground patrols killed 88 enemy troops in a raid. Our long range fighters in close co-opera-tion with ground units, strafed the enemy area. Salamaua—Our attack planes ‘bombed and strafed the track to Komiatum, starting fires. Our long range fighters swept the coast to the Squth, strafing targe ets of opportunity. SOLO LOMONS-—B wait One of our medium units, drome, - starting largé ‘fires way and dispersal areas. NEW ul — Our heavy bombers, for the fifth Sonsecittive night, attacked the area despite difficult flyin conditions. The airdromes at Lakunai an popo were bom! Heavy clouds Pree vented observation ‘of the results. Later, 15 enemy fighters attacked. = allied heavy reconnaissance unit in the area. Two were shot down, our planes Teturning safe Wide Ba the south coast o ‘New Britain)— te in

riving off an enemy fighter atinterception, one of our heavy bed an enemy warship with un-

heavy bombers twice ate SBA CII RR plosives e ar area, sha: dense fires. 8 3

Gloucester — Our heavy units the runway twice, ESTERN SECT

Cape bombed

ARU ISLANDS—Our medium bombers attacked Dobo ghortly after dawn. Barolish

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land wAs only a bluff, and it was indicated that soon there might be additional repercussions.

Hint Separate Peace

(Victor Gordon Lennox, - London correspondent of The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News, reported today that “a report from Ankara that the Finnish minister to Berlin has handed in a note addressed to the German ni stating that the Finns will be obliged to. consider possibilities for making a separate peace unless the

‘ 1Germans reconsider their refusal to

send urgently needed additional food supplies, should not be dismissed lightly, It is your correspondent’s strong impression that the Finns

-jhave made up their minds fo pull

out of the war very soon.”) In connection with the Rumanian situation, the Morocco radio reported today that the Turkish minister to Bulgaria had been called. home to Ankara for consultation, and said Italian residents in Turkey had been ordered by the Italian government to hold themselves in readiness to leave — presumably if Turkey became a war theater.

Rumanian Casualties Total Million

It was believed in Ankara, one dispatch said, that Antonescu .was beginning to despair of Rumania’s position. Ankara estimated that Rumania had lost 350,000 men killed in Russia and nearly 650,000 wounded and prisoners and said that hardly 40 per cent of the wounded could be put in shape to return to action. Finland has shown plainly how desperate her situation is. President Risto Ryti, opening parliament at Helsinki Tuesday, expressed hope that the allies “would understand Finland’s position.” Stockholm reported that so bitter was Finnish anger over Goering’s belittling of Russia's attack on Finland that censors were expected to kill newspaper editorials hostile to Germany

MORE SUPPLIES GET THROUGH TO RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.)— Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson declared today that lend-lease supplies fr Russia are getting through in increased quantities. = Convdy losses on ‘the Murmansk route have been “materially reduced,” he said. The railroad sys-

added. ; In his weekly review of the war with reporters, Stimson d the lack of German air strength in Rus-

campaign,” sible reasons for this:

German capacity for producing aircraft. 2. Germany may be “suffering a Severe shortage” of aviation gasoe.

3. Germany may be gathering her

which we are not yet aware,

tem in Iran is being rapidly developed to play an important role, he in

sia is “the striking feature of the’ He said that there were three pOS-

1. We may have overestimated the!

air power for an offensive action of

mercial firm had ever “forgiven” all its outstanding debts. “Yes, sir,” Rumi replied. “In 1034 i{a - competitor of Macy's in New

i| York: canceled all accounts receiv- ‘| able, asked its customers to pick up

their receipted bills and went on a|

‘leash basis. Its: business and. profits

went ahead.” Ruml. said the treasury actually would lose nothing under his pay-as-you-go plan until judgment day and then it wouldn't make any difference. i In reply. to treasury tedrs that skip-a-year features of the tax plan would be costly in terms of revenue, Ruml said “the. answer is to be found by examining the pesition of the treasury on judgment day when the books are finally closed.” * “Under our present system,” he ‘said, “the treasury would have billions owing from taxpayers.- These would be bad debts in any case.

“Turn the Clock Ahead” -

“Since the government is not con‘cerned about any final loss ‘on judgment day, the government is able to turn the tax clock ahead, make all taxpayers current, eliminate income tax ‘debt, and do it with in- | creased revenue and with no addi‘tional burden on any taxpayer.” Ruml found a supporter in Rep. Harold Knutson (R. Minn.), a committee member, “The president told us the national debt was not a debt because we owe it to ourselves,” Knutson said. Ruml asserted, that treasury proposals to collect 1942 income taxes over a period of years in any transition to pay-as-you-go “violates the principle of taxation according to ability to pay.” He told the committee that 1942 income would be no measure of ability to pay income taxes for that year in 1944 or 1945. - ‘A Future Burden Rum! asserted that the proposed carry-over of the “so-called liabilities for 1942 would be only a “polite way. of increasing indirecily the assessments in future years on income taxpayers.” He listed three other reasons why, in his -opinion, the . treasury-ap-

‘| proved “policy of collecting in fu-

ture years revenue based on 4g carry-over from 1942 assessments is unwise and therefore bad.” They were: . 1. The treasury’s policy “is contrary to what seems to me to be right principle, that is, giving equal treatment to ‘all taxpayers under a change in method of assessing taxes.” Wise policy: “cannot be founded on wrong principles; the result is sure to be uncertainty, disunity, conflict, and lack of faith ‘the good faith of the government.” 2. The treasury policy would impose “an intolerable burden of double taxation.” Ruml said that if 1942 payments were spread. over two or three years it would “place a ceiling on ‘a given spendable income from all: sources and will aetually result in ‘payments to the government in’ excess of total income in the higher brackets.” Imposition .of such burdens, he added, should come only after “most open” discussion and by enactment of specific rates, and not as an incident to a tax reform program. 3. The treasury policy would

leave a large number of taxpayers

a1 [tax debt which “they would feel

had been improperly levied on a discriminatory basis.” These taxpayers, Ruml said, will persistently seek to redress “what will be considered a just grievance.” a In asserting that the carry-over plan was only a “polite way” of indirectly increasing assessments, Ruml added that “what the method gains in politeness, it loses in crude inexactness and unequal burden in relation to ability to pay. ; In describing the ay ydver payments as an increase in the taxpayer’s burdens, he continued:

Few Have Liquid Cash

. “If it is contended that this is not a burden on’ income but a burden on savings, I feel that while we are promoting war savings and discussing compulsory savings a policy of tax assessment that depends on savings to secure payment is most inopportune.” Ruml denied treasury suggestions that forgiving 1942 tax liabilities estimated at $10,000,000,000, would be inflationary. “The only persons who would

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1 dgment Day, Rumi Says|

plan. are the o tow who have accrued their income ‘taxes and ‘who hold them in liquid form,” hé said. “These are few indeed and they are not spendthrifts.” “Ag a matter of. fact,” he con- | tinued, since the pay-as-you-go plan will make withholding taxes possible at a high level,’ and since| we will then be collecting for 1043, the total effect will be anti-infla-tionary than otherwise.” Ruml said it was “clear that the government cannot continue for long to be the creditor of some 39,000,000 taxpayers and their families,” a total, he estimated, of 75,000,000 persons. He objected to the word “forgiving” in describing for changing over to a current ghllection basis.

. ‘Change in Method’

“ Forgiving’ is a term which I have never used in describing the plan,” he said. “It suggests, and wrongly, that this year the taxpayer will have a .year in which he pays no taxes and that the treasury will have a year in which it gets no rev= enue.

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the truth. We will avoid this error if we think of the plan as a change in the method of assessment, as the turning of the tax clock ahead, not|the as the stopping of the clock.”

Youngest Marine Falls in Action

PEORIA, Ill, Peb. 4 (U. P)— Pvt. Norman Gibbs, who. was only 14 when he “fibbed a little” about his age to become one of the nation’s youngest marines, has been killed in action, his mother: revealed today. Norman, believed to be the youngest U. S. marine casualty, was killed in action on Dec. 28, a year and 13 days after he Joined the corps. “He was only 14 then,” said Mrs. Rachel E. Gibbs today. “But he had wanted to sign up for: some Then, when the war came, I gave my consent and let him go. He fibbed a - little and said he was 18.” Mrs. Gibbs recalled the day he signed up, Dec. 15, 1941.

“Humanity hungers” will theme of the brotherhood and program at’ 6:30 p. m. today Third Christian - church, :

2 st. and Broadway.

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