Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1943 — Page 4

Inv tigators Believe ea ying to Recoup In Black Markets.

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Fed them out of labor and gambling rackets ang they have fallen on “Jean days.

are unable to identify the gangsters By are participating, but they are Ea one report that black “market, meat operations are. being ‘financed by the same man who inked. for the old Capone gang. He was described as “a sort of ProMoriarity of ‘the Chicago (Professor Moriarity the of many of the late Arthur nan Doyle’s “Sher-| ‘lock Holmes” detective stories.) The OPA invsetigation was deBe as “just in the rumor stage now,” but it expected to pro“duce sufficient, evidence for prose- | cutions later. . Opa officials refused to discuss it, an FL Spbkestan said “we are 9

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This map shows the four major areas in Tunisia where battles are under way or in the making. There is some action at nearly every point along the 300 mile front from Bizerte to the Chott Djerid swamps, - but the flercest fighting today is around Faid and Gafsa, where two serious German attempts to turn the + southern flank of the Anglo-American-French line are under way.

army, another 128 miles to the south, captured Ben Gardane today.

{4-YEAR TERM BILL

NEARS RATIFICATION

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tioned by an OPA attorney demandd you'like to have a how to run your business?” es its stock-in-trade in varfous ways. One well‘known Capone mobster reportedly 7 way into control g house with affil-

offices. under four-year terms neared ‘the ratification stage today - with only the Senate between it and the voters. Already passed by the 1941 legislature, the amendment was passed by the House yesterday 69 to 17. If the Senate approves the measure it goes to the voters in the next general election for final ratification or

‘Miones, Ia. Large quantities of beef reportedly have been hijacked. Truckloads of coffee and sugar

rejection.

Rep. Robert Hoover, (R. Goshen),

also are said to have been hi- | me The coffee is “cut” by mix- : high grade brands with cheaper ties. The mixture is peddled, of Sours, as’ 100 per cent top grade

Gh Dns is too “hot” for the retail arket, but is used for the illegal ufacture of liquor, dled to a trickle under the of rationing regulations until

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opposed the bill from the floor of the House yesterday, pointing out that it would cut short the terms of many county officials. The amendment resolution would make all the county offices elective in 1946 and all county officials would take office for new four-year terms on Jan. 1, 1947. “The way this amendment is set up,” Rep. Hoover said, “it will SYecp the county court houses clean in

The bill to transfer administration of the store license division from the democratic controlled fax board te the office of Richard T. James, Republican auditor of state, arrived in the senate today for the second lap of its legislative rounds. In the house yesterday, Rep. Earl B. .Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis), author of the bill and brother of Deputy State Auditor Ross Teckemeyer, told representatives that the transfer would improve the administration of the store license division and would permit the state to do the job with fewer employees. Contending that the tax board is primarily judicial in nature, Rep. Teckemeyer said the auditor’s office already was doing 70 per cent of the office work for the store license division. It now requires the time of 23 employees to handle the job, he said, while under the proposed change of administration setup if

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Senate Gets Bill to Shift

Store Licensing to Auditor

Rep. Roy Darneal (D. New Albany) opposed the measure, charging that it was primarily a dodge to increase the number of Republican employees. He asserted the tax board actually is handling the store license job with eight field men and that its staff could not be reduced because it would continue to handle its regular tax duties, including the’ ‘¢ollection of the intangibles tax. . Rep. Teckemeyer argued that the present method of collecting the store license tax requires, on the basis of last year’s figures, 18 per cent of the revenue collected for payment of expenses. He denied that anything involving only 14 employees could be regarded as a patronage measure, but concluded: “This is a party measure—no if’s or and’s about it. Republicans, let not your hearts be. troubled but vote ‘aye.’ ”

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could be done by 14.

The bill was passed 76 to 13.

Bil for Extension of State Authority Is Killed In House. a

legislature-to-legislature basis by each succeeding general assembly since. Control over milk prices in 22

time milk control officials will lose their jobs. On the out-of-work list will go Wright Humrickhouse, secre-

‘Jtary to the control board: Charles

Dailey, board attorney, and seven milk control administrators including William Wilson, administrator for the Indianapolis area. Opponents of milk control, who have been drumming up votes against the measure since it was introduced, contended that it was enacted only as a depression measure to protect milk producers and was no longer necessary under current wartime conditions. Support for the measure had dwindled to a point where even its most ardent backers were not sure it could pass both houses.

Motion Is Surprise

introduced yesterday by Rep. Ned Lowry (R. Logansport), Coming on top of several amendments, introduced and acted upon as though the representatives intended only to change. certain provisions without hurting the general setup, Rep. Lowry’s motion caught supporters flatfooted. The motion was passed with virtually no resistance. Anson Thomas, legislative representative for the Indiana farm bureau and: one of the leading backers of the bill, pointed out, however, that amendments adopted by the house just before the motion for indefinite postponement virtually would have crippled the law even if it had been permitted to pass

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Rep. George Henley (R. Bloomington), majority floor leader, removed

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dealings between distributors in the protected areas and producers in| areas not under price control. According to Rep. Walter S. Baker (R. Bourbon), author of the bill, the Henley amendment would have had the effect of permitting dealers to bring in milk from outside the controlled area to compete with farmers protected by the board. The second important amendment was introduced by Rep. Robert Hoover (R. Goshen) and would have suspended the law in favor of OPA control of milk prices. “If we couldn't have gotten the bill through the legislature without those two amendments,” Mr. Thomas said, “perhaps it’s just as well that it was killed.”

TEACHERS’ PAY RAISE BILL PASSES HOUSE

Proposed wartime pay increases for Hoosier school teachers were ready for senate consideration today after passing the lower house without opposition. The house voted unanimously yesterday for the bill which would raise minimum teachers’ wages from $800 to $1000 a year for the next two years. If passed by the senate, the increases will be in effeot until April 1, 1945 and it will be up to the next general assembly to decide whether or not the increased minimum scale shall continue for a longer period. “We never have placed the teachers on an economic basis in keeping with the high standards we require of them,” Rep. George Henley (R. Bloomington), majority floor

|leader, told the representatives.

“School teachers actually earn less than manufacturing employees, many of whom need no educational preparation for their jobs, : “The turnover )

: among teachers - {has become terrific and we should

offer them this much additional incentive to remain in our school systems.” ; The two-year limitation ‘was placed on the bill in commitéee in

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