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making a political issue out of 1 and “since they are, I think the Republicans should take credit for correcting the lousy situation that now exists.” : Senator. Vermillion’s amendment

: AGER AUBURN, Feb. 19 (U. P). — J. Clifford Hend, 54, manager of the Auburn office of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company since 1936, died

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DEMOCRATS RAP WELFARE PROBE

ouse Overrides Schricker [SLASH IN MERIT Veto of Emmert Measure BUDGET FOUGHT

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tions passed by the Republican-con-trolled general assembly. Particular criticism was directed by the governor in his message to the section of the bill which would require all agencies of the state gov- . ernment having assigned to them a full-time“attorney to pay out of - their own budget the attorney's - salary, salaries for stenographers and moneys for traveling expense, . law books, supplies and the furnishIng of suitable office quarters.

Calls Provision Unfair

“If the attorney general is to employ and have control of all of the attorneys serving the various departments and instrumentalities of state government, then is it not - sound government practice to appropriate a place in his budget ; sufficient funds to permit him to { pay them?” the governor asked. : The governor said that the ar- ~ rangement proposed by the biil for salaries of the attorngy. general's appointees is “essentially unfair, will bring about departmental friction, does violence to our budget law, and will work a tremendous hardship on departments having limited appropriations. ~ The governor pointed out that the department heads to whom are assigned attorneys have no part in fixing their compensation although they must pay it. He criticized the provision that the compensation should be fixed by the state board of finance at not less than $3000 upon the recommendation of the attorney general. “I can think of no sound reason for placing this authority in the state board of finance (which is Republican controlled) when for a period of years both of the major| parties have agreed that the proper place for putting budget making and salary fixing is in the state budget committee, a legislative com-, mittee for the control of salaries and - expenditures,” the governor said. :

and proven -system now? our budget system in Indiana appropriations are made for each department and then it becomes the responsibility. of the department head to operate. Within these appropriations under penalty of law this system has worked well for many years. *

“Why destroy this well established Under

“This act would give one > departs

ment head the right to extend any portion of the budget of many other departments of state government without any restraint as to the amount of such expenditures other than the maximum salary that can be paid to any one attorney who might be assigned. This is a radical departure from our budgetary system and constitutes ‘a breakdown of the whole theory of budgetary control by department heads.”

The governor said that he was

in accord with the proposition that the attorney general should have the right to appoint all of his deputies, features of the act that he found highly objectionable,

but it was the other

Fears U. S. Complication He said he was at a “loss to

understand” why the attorneys for the securities commission, are under Republican Secretary of State Rue Alexander, exempted from the provisions of the act.

which

should be

“For, as a matter of fact,” he said,

“those lawyers are directly concerned in the enforcement of criminal laws ‘of the state with respect to the control of securities.”

He pointed out that the attorneys

of the public welfare department and those in the employment secur= ity division receive all their compensation from the federal government.

Attorney General Emmert de-

clined to comment on the veto.

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that the merit system:-and the tenure secured under it are greatly responsible for this stability,” the association’s statement said. “If the proposed drastic cut in

division is made, the employment situation will be made much more difficult. The qualities of employees secured under the merit system has been shown in the recent crisis at Evansville. “The Merit System association urges that the legislature not take a backward step in this employment crisis which is due to the war and not to any failure of the personnel division.”

Jones Heads Group

Charles Jones of Indianapolis is chairman of the association and member organizations include the Indiana district of Kiwanis, the state Junior Chamber of Commerce, Indiana. Federation of Women’s clubs, Indiana League of Women Voters, Indiana P.-T. A. congress, Indiana Academy of Social Sciences, Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene, Indiana Federation of Social Work clubs, American Association of University Women. Indiana State Conference on Social ‘Work, Indiana Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers. Hans Riemer, president of the American Federation of: State, County and Municipal Employees, also declared today that a drastic cut in the personnel board’s appropriations “can only result in mass withdrawals from institutional service in Indiana. “Through the operation of the merit law, the personnel division has offered te employees the only to otherwise impossible working conditions. Indiana state employees will not continue to stand by an employer who completely ignores their needs as loyal, honest and decent human beings.” Members of the ways and means committee met today for final consideration of the budget bill before bringing it out for consideration by the entire house of representatives. At a meeting last night, they indicated the recommended appropriation of more than $170,000 for the personnel board would be revised sharply downward. “You may say that the merit system in the institutions is a stake,” Rep. Jess Andrew (R. West Point), committee chairman, told reporters. “Asfar as the system in the health, welfare and other departments is concerned, we plan no cuts.”

Inefficiency Claimed

Charging that the personnel board is unable to furnish an adequate number of employees to the institutions, Rep. Andrew said that the few who had been furnished came to the institutions at phenomenal cost considering the size of their assessments for operation of the merit system. “We have letters from nearly all the state institution heads,” Rep. Andrew said. “They are critical of the merit system and we intend to give these letters serious consideration. Most of the employees who do come to these institutions under the merit system don’t measure up to the requirements of the jobs for which they are recommended.” . The biennial appropriations bill was expected to be ready for consideration by the whole house late today or tomorrow.

4 FIRMS RAIDED IN GAMING DRIVE

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telephone calls were received during the two hours the raids were in progress. At the 1121 N. Pennsylvania st.

office a large safe could not be opened. Prosecutor Blue, who was directing both raids from his private office downtown, instructed deputies to have the safe drilled open by a locksmith. Meanwhile, trucks were ‘assigned to the company offices where all office equipment and furniture were loaded and hauled away. Rahke’s companies have been manufacturing and distributing pool tickets and lottery equipment for more than 10 years and were involved in civil lawsuits several times, Blue said. : Comprehensive search warrants iving the prosecutor authority to eize all equipment were issued arlier today by Judge W. D. Bain f - criminal court where all affidavits against company officials and employees will be filed.

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First Lieut. William E. Jenner said “hello” to his former buddies in the state senate today. Lieut. Jenner. was a member of the state Senate for the past eight years and was president protem in the 1941 session. He is on his way through Indianapolis while being transferred from Ogden, Utah, to Fairfield, O.

8TH ARMY FIRES ON MARETH LINE

As U. S. Planes Strafe

Axis Positions. (Continued from Page One)

mans “didn’t just walk in,” a commentator said. An American military spokesman said the actual attack on Sbeitla was repulsed and the American withdrawal made without opposition. The axis communiques claimed that 2876 prisoners had been taken in the past few days and that 169

tanks and 96 pieces of artillery had been captured. War Secretary Henry L. Stimson said yesterday that the Americans had suffered “considerable” losses in both personnel and equipment. Yanks Dig In Having withdrawn from Feriana, Kasserine and Sbeitla, below the Tunisian dorsal, the Americans now held positions running near Pichon, southwest to below Tebessa, the big allied base just inside Algeria. All day yesterday, a dispatch from allied North African headquarters said, husky doughboys. swung picks and shovels along the dorsal, digging trenches and emplacing guns on heights that dominate German positions on the plains below. American field guns and mortars concealed among the evergreen trees on the slopes pointed toward the barren valley, where the Germans dug slit trenches with a minimum of natural cover. The weather was raw and rdiny, with an occasional snow flurry.

Further Advance Difficult

The dorsal rises to 4000 feet in some places and offers an excellent defensive position. The road north of Feriana, near the southwestern end of the new American line, twists and turns around the steep slopes. A frontal assault along the road would be extremely costly, since American artillery dominates the plain for 10 miles out. A second road runs through a pass northwest of Kasserine, northwest of Hairda. At its narrowest. the pass is three miles wide. Guns on the heights dominate ‘it, and if the Germans elect to continue their offensive, they undoubtedly would send their tank columns through the pass. A communique said the French were now taking up positions dlong fhe dorsal without enemy pressure.

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welfare department for the next two years and then in the campaign in 1944 you will cite these suspicions and tell the people that the Republicans are. going to clean up the welfare department after the election.” : Senator Robert Miller (R. Bloomington), vice chairman of the original investigating committee, said that open meetings would hamper the work of the commission because many witnesses would not testify if they knew that the meetings were going to be open.

Amendment Is Tabled

Senator Vermillion, however, charged that the Republicans didn’t want the people to know what's wrong with the welfare department or didn’t want the Democratic officials to have an opportunity to correct the evils.

{son (R. Mooresville) arose and said:

was tabled by the Republican majority and the resolution was made a special order of business for 2

p. m. Monday. The debate was the loudest of the session and the tension was not relieved until Senator Howard John-

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