Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1943 — Page 6

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(Continued trom Pags One) 4 estge. tax: coltestor oy oath tent

inéy ate seit to the Federal Reserve bank in Chiéago snd the bank mails in the check to the bond owner. That takes ‘eight days or more. Which isn't much’ help. ‘with Monday ust

a ras librarians, telephones and teletype gjoperators. uh "Ab & navy sir Geld near Wash:| |ington, - WAVES work in radio towers and help direct ‘movements of ships. At Lakehurst, N. J., they|. are being trained to rig parachutes) on which the ‘lives of men depend. |v "If interested, young women may

We calli up to iid 6 The i on the phone at the internal Bie. office Wasp Vey. stim ca-} ve. at “All T know is that taxes are due i March 15 and that means. March 15," he said. es Paul = Brewel “What shout the arrangement for Illson ar paying made with those who can't pay? If the only assets are war

g. weigh 15 ounces; ? she sald. ] s are 3000 letters on these two eels. That same number of . sent by regular mail would 65 pounds and occupy 98 per more: shipping space. interesting work but not any]. je interesting, if as interesting, | sof the ‘other: ons done by

to have: ‘only as’ much. as ‘of ‘high school in order to She gets a month's indoc-

some mike’ application ‘to d specialists’ schools. Storesrs and clerical assistants are obs done by WAVES which the C has heard most about. . thére are many many more. ‘is a need for medical ‘and assistants to be trained for st’s. .mates, to. be X-ray ‘to do - occupational

‘|at the navy recruiting station in

apply for enlistment in the WAVES

the federal building. The original {WAVES office “at 420° N. Pennsylha has been" moved to Cincinna Ah Applications and . preliminary | physical examinations are taken care of here in Indianapolis and data forwarded to Cincinnati. Then prospective WAVES go ‘there for final enlistment.

FDR 0. K.’S CHIANG.

. WASHINGTON, March 12- (U. P). ~Presidént Roosevelt today described as a good outline of united

{by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek -| promising the people. of Japaneseoceupied Thailand that China. and her: allies; have no territorial ain. bitions there. i Mr. ‘Roosevelt: read to his press conference’ portions of Chiang’ statement,” ‘which: was addressed

of Thailand. It ‘promised that China will help restore the prosperity and independence of the

small nation which was overrun by Japan early inthe Pacific war.

POLICY IN THAILAND A

{nations policy a recent statement]

Feb. 26 to the soldiers and citizens}:

meet. with tax colloction authorities listing what he owns and the debts| he must pay.” Then the collector will advise him. “Welt, supposing a man’s only as sets are his ‘war bonds? Does the

u.s. Spends S

$15,000,000 balance to be drawn on at'a future date. The outgo, however, is always. scheduled to increase. It was originally estimated that the “number of beneficiaries and the ‘amount. of benefit payments woud rise automatically until 19 The peak of United States population, based on the most recent ‘tabulation, is “expected to ‘come in 1966. At any rate, sometime in the period between 1966 and 1980, the amount of money. taken in by the : old age pension: tax and the amount of money being spent as benefit payments will - equal cach ‘other. = - After that, the: Jotigo will steadily proceed to exceed the. income. Under the original program, - the necessary funds were “to be drawn from the reserves. But if the reserves are not in cash but. in IOU’s, where will the funds come from? The federal government will do ‘one ‘of two things. It will put

‘through an immediate tax to

meet. its new obligations, or it will ‘bOITOW. And there you have just one of the reasons the states have ‘been

fighting . so 'desperately against

the federal government’s plans to

|, take over the unemployment

‘| compensation systems under what

the president terms “a nationalized system.” You have undoubtedly learned that. if you fall out of work you.

an appointed: aate, he will Tare 10

= te bord, does the fax collection divi-|

Onision advise cashing them in?” | The nearest he came to ap answer was; “I guess-the individual would have to- make up his own mind.” Anyway, the individual would have to dig up his tax within 60 days for that's the lini} the authorities make in meritorious cases.

ecurity Taxes,

Places I. O.U.'s in the Till

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ment compensation. from the state of Indiana. You would wait one week and under the new amendments draw as much as $18 a week for 18

You pay for that, even though you don't know it. Your employer ostensibly. finances that program. He ‘pays 2.77 per cent of your wages to the state and the re-, maining three-tenths of 1 per cent to the federal government (this ‘share is Tor adEinistrative purposes).

State’s Reserves 1 Mount In other words, you, the worker, are taxed 1 cent for old age insurance and your employer | a total of 4 cents—1 cent to match the old age tax, and the other 3 for Unemployment. compensation. And most employers, if not: all, simply place this outlay on their books as payroll expense. Right now, because of the war boom, Indiana’s reserve funds on unemployment compensation are pushing toward the $100,000,000— one hundred million dollars—and we've still got it! The social security board has made no secrét of its opposition to individually operated state unemployment compensation systems. - It has repeatedly urged that all these programs be brought into one federal picture. The current blueprint placed before congress calls for a nationalized system of unemployment insurance on. a 26-week ‘ basis. The report is credited to

didlos tr We NV G. bt D maneuver for complete control of |

loting next May 4. ; 11 sucossstul, it will make Maya:

Republican; party in Mation eounty

by, new “harmony” committee | 1eft Prosecutor Sherwood, Blue's of-| fice about ‘the only bastion of strength for regular-organization to ‘work through, 3.24 all, auring he/. 1944 campaign.

factional slugfest broke out during rival rails conducted by ‘Mayor |%® Tyndall's police . chief, : Clifford Beeker and Prosecutor Blue. 3 : - ‘Blue Started It The: ‘prosecutor “started the ball ‘Emil BE. Rahke’s ‘vast enterprises which Mr. Blue said headed up $1,500,000 worth of lottery schemes annually in Indianapolis. : In the Rahke office files, Prosecu-

{tor ‘Blue plucked out a $1000 can-

celed check made out to a city hall official last September. The prosecutor, however, has steadfastly refused to make public the name of the city hall official despite demands’ that it be made a matter of public record. = The very next day, Mayor Tyn=dall’s protege police ‘chief raided the joffices and plant of a firm in which a regular organization politician reputedly was a partner.

Raids Stop Suddenly It went along like that for several days and suddenly it all stopped with

lan informal announcement by the mayor that the “city is now all

cleaned up.” Prosecutor Blue also quieted down, too, and recently has refused to dis-cuss-the rivalry. It was during this period of “all quiet on’all fronts” two weeks that the new G. O. P. was born and suckled to spectacular maturity overnight.

all machinery at the primary bal-{ | [red stamps fron: ration book No. 2

Tyndall the ‘Htular head of the)

The first open fireworks in the|

rolling with s spectacular raid on

during the last

Prosecutor: Blue, of ° course, also

During the rs five weekly periods, will become hi and ii as

follows: . Red Stamps "“Boaring Seis Boren Letter Expire ~Maich 29 A— 16 Pia) April 30 Apiil 4 B16 Pis.) April 30 Apil 11 C=16 Pts.) April 30 April 18 D— (16 Pts) April 30 Avil 25 E=—(16 Pts.) (To be an- : nounced)

.No decision wot has been reached on “Ireezing” retail sales of any of the hoardable rationed meats. The decision. will d:pend, Brown said, on how public. buying during the next .iwo Lite no event, however, will there ‘be. a “freee” of mea: sales. . ; Corisumers - will not be asked to| declare stock or: hand as with coffee and canned {oodstuffs. This ex-

Week

cepticn also inc udes food stocks in }

frozen ‘locker plants, "used ‘extensively’ iu some. mid-western. states. ‘Point values ¢I meat will be spent on & “per pourd” basis. For example, housewives will’ ‘have pay a fixed number .of points for 8. pounicl of tenderloin steak, a Poun of pork spare ribs, a pound of lamb neck or a pound of calf’s liver.

“The official’ points chart—the

same for every retail store in the

Perishable items such as brains kidneys and hearts, also will cost less in terms of points. The new program permits retail-| ers to. give “change” in ration

possible to give the exact amount of valid red stamps when making a purchase. .Only one-point red

used for this purpose. - Rationing of foodstufls to hotels; restaurants and other so-called “institutional” users. under the new plogram will be by allotment fixed on the basis of their sales during December, 1942. Their supplies of \ritioned: foods will be slashed by agproximately the same amount of those of private consumers. People who eat in restaurants will not have to give up ration coupons on the spot, but OPA officials said tiaey will find portions considerably snaller: than: they have: been hithert. 24 Pounds Per Capita The agriculture department said they estimate that about 2% pounds of méat a week will be available for each civilian in the second quarter of 1943 was based on a total civilian ‘Supply 4113 ,000,000 pounds dressed in : “Tentative estimates, the departient: added, indicate that 4,151,700,-

{000° pounds will be available in the

third quarter ‘and 4,366,900,000 in the. fopreh.

stamps when a customer finds it im-|

stamps of any valid series may be}

146 ounces of fat weekly.

| AMERICAN PLANES

“RAID ROUEN AGA.

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Stuttgart, one. of Germany's most;

important railroad Junctions.

lull in the great allied aerial offensive,

5000-mark—a new Tecord for an 11-day period. !

Among the principal targets in

Stuttgart are the Bosch gtillon works, the Daimler-Benz f which make engines for Messer-

schmitt and Heinkel planes, ‘and’

nunierous other key war factories.

The German radio: waar

damage and casualties in the Stutt-

It was the 11th raid of the war oh ig Stuttgart and followed & ‘one-night hd

ve. The great weight of bombs .. dumped on the city boosted the total ‘tonnage for this month toward the

gart area and claimed that bombs: w

hit several hospitals, churches =a “monuments of cultural value. 4

GERMAN SHIP TORPEDOED LONDON, March 12 British light coastal forces torpedoed a medium-sized ‘German sup~’ ply ship attempting to pass east-"" ward through the straits of Dover last night, the’ admiralty announced today.

WU. Py—

probably are eligible for ~employ-

was ignored in the new setup but | it was learned authoritatively that three city hall emissaries on three |diffexent occasions contacted indirectly a member of the prosecutor’s staff, offering to call a truce.

x the national resources planning board. But on Sept. 26, 1941, ‘George E. Bigge, one of the ‘three: members of the social security board, made an address in Indianapelis, He called for full: federalization Deals,” of the unemployment. compensa=:| =O says Elue tion, systems, saw the need of a | The. offer to bury the hatchet and longer duration of benefits—‘per- | make up is said to have included haps as much ‘as 26 weeks"~sug- {4 to give Mr. Blue some gested a $20 ‘weekly benefit maxi- ving light” guarantee to mum, conceded the higher cost of | ¢ urt such a program, but added tat |FuR: unopposed Jor circui co

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he saw in it a means of coping with a post-war! depression—“or any depression for that matter”— which would be more actory

than “a number of ‘otheér devices.”

Most Powerful Agetity

What the congress eof the

United States has before it now:

is not actually new. The pro- -

posals have been: made time and again ‘by the. social : security board, probably the most power= ful single agency in the. United

~} States.

AN

For many years St. Patrick's Day has been

for giving gifts fo loved

: ones. Beautiful jewelry is the one gift which perfectly expresses the sentiments of this important ‘day for all the" sons of Ireland. Whether you plan ‘to spend a little or a lot you will the oft you will be proud to give . ... at KAYS.

NO cHaRoE FOR CREDIT

i AND DON'T ForoET 70 UY YOUR waz BONDS

But which has its éyes on the

J! unemployment: compensation pro-

grams and cash of the various states—states like Indiana. Which have nice, fat. reserves of -a hundred million dollars. : In cash!

NEXT: Nice plun plum, the schools.

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: The agency which ‘hasn't’ a: * nickel left of more than three and a quarter billion dollars invested. :

Large Fryers ore x Dressing Free 1

judge ext year.

the prosecutor.

in the prosecutor’s office and I certainly couldn't do it properly by any

“Contract Probe a Topic “Then there is the matter of the ‘the middle of the biggest investiga-

flog of “county . contracts in many ®

This Investigation, which involves

been the subject of many conferlast month. loud that these investigations are

going to be pushed to conclusion with the last ounce of my strength

gard to his investigations.

interesting tale: ‘in Marion ooumty

TAREE PRESS POST

- want it definitely understood : here: and now that I'm not dealing with anybody on anything,” shouted

“I have an important job to do

kind of deals. I should say not.” ~

Drosteutors office being right in

ences around party circles for thei}

“You can say for me’ good and

far reaching operations of the Re-|| YO) publican county commissioners, ‘hasi}

and ability,” said Mr, Blue in Te: a The next few months may tell an| ee

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