Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1943 — Page 22

PAGE 92° USE TAX ARRESTS 10 BEGIN MONDAY

Motorists who fail to have the $3 federal use stamps pasted on their windshields by Monday will be arrested and cited before the U. 8. commissioner, Will H. Smith, col-

lector of internal revenue warned today.

He said deputy collectors of in-

ternal revenue and state police officers will be stationed on all roads leading into Indianapolis Monday with orders to arrest every motorist who does not have a stamp, “The deadline for purchase of the stamps was July 1 and there is no excuse for failure to have them by now,” Mr. Smith gaid. : Last year more than 200 motorists were arrested and fined in Indiana for failure to have the stamps.

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John Durfee Said It, but Who Do You Suppose Is He?

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 30.—There’s a new national figure we ought to know more about. John Durfee. Plain John Durfee. He popped up, suddenly, out of all the controversy and confusion over that strange OWI foreign broadcast the other night in which King Victor Emmanuel of Italy came out as “the moronic little king” — quotes lifted from Sam- . uel Grafton, the ; E New York cola umnist. Mr. Stokes For John Durfee spoke on that program, too. He was introduced as an “American political commentator.” But there ain’t no such fellow, although maybe there ought to be, for

thority. It piqued our curiosity and started us to speculating about this gentleman, how he looks, how he dresses, what he eats, what he drinks, where he comes from, whether he has any imaginary brothers or cousins who are in this: OWI business, when did he start? And it was puzzling, too, that OWI had to make up a man in this nation of 130,000,000 people, many of whom are literate, more of whom can talk, and with authority, and furthermore love to.

OWI Hush-Hush But would OWT tell?

was given over to asking. A hush-hush descended on the headquarters of OWI, an amazing reticence for the office of war information. A friend who works in the higher realms was consulted first. He was not very hopeful, for that was in

the province of OWI'’s foreign divi-|¢ sion, and the foreign division scems to be a sacred sort of thing, but he would try. Some time later, he came back with the information that the word had been passed that only Robert Sherwood, the playwright, chief of the foreign division, could talk. And Mr. Sherwood was at the White House, counting out his adjectives and verbs, helping President Roosevelt with the radio speech he delivered last night. He should not be bothered about John Durfee, Up to Mr. Sherwood

At a late hour last night, Mr. Sherwood still could not be reached. Other avenues were tried. The same answer: “Mr. Sherwood will have to do the talking.” On a hunch, a telephone call was put in to the New York office where John Durfee works. They should know about him there. But Joseph H. Barnes, deputy director there, was sorry. He hated to be of no service. He used to be a newspaperman himself. He knew how it i was. - But he was a civil servant now. Very polite. “You'll have to see Mr. Sherwood.”

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Polite, too, was Milton Eisenhower, acting director of OWI in the absence of Elmer Davis abroad, but, although he has been in OWI a long time and knows what's going on, and is second in command, Mr. Eisenhower could not talk. You understand—a delicate business—after the way President Roosevelt went after OWI. See

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citizenry, the bureau said, to the enormous shift of men to the armed services which far outstripped an population brought about by a bumper wartime baby crop.

Billy Sterrett At Florida Post

CPL. BILLY STERRETT, husband of Mrs. Hazel Sterrett, and father of William E. Sterrett, 2752 Stuart st. is now stationed at Orlando, : Fla. He enlisted in Jan, 1043, ° and received his | basic training | at Ft. Bliss, : Tex. He is a: graduate o oO Technical high p school and was Capt Sterrett formerly employed by the Big Four railroad. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Sterrett, Nineveh, Ind. so 9 LT. DONALD V. MAYER is a co-pilot on a Flying Fortress in the army air corps. He is a graduate of Technical high school. His parents live in Washington, D. C., and his wife lives in Walla Walla, Wash.

OTHERS ASSIST

MOOSE IN RALLY

Fraternal Council Pledges

Support in August Bond Drive.

Other fraternal organizations will

assist the Loyal Order of Moose in its August state war bond sale rally, it was announced today.

Ray Brock, president of the In-

diana Council of Fraternal and So-

cial Societies said that his organigation will participate, The fraternal society membership is from throughout the state, eight Indianapolis organizations being members.

The drive has been arranged as a

Well, not yet, though a whole day |. te to Mark R. Gray of Indianapolis who is to be elevated to the highest office in the Moose.

Mr. Gray, who is secretary of the

Indianapolis lodge, is present junior supreme governor of the national organization and will be elevated to supreme governor at the national convention Aug. 22-25 in Cincinnati.

Mr. Gray is a member of several organizations, including

he Eagles, Elks, Shrine, Moose and Sahara Grotto. He is a member of the Rotary club and a board of director of the Indianapolis Traveler's Aid society.

U. S. CIVIL CENSUS

REVEALS BIG DROP

WASHINGTON, July 30 (U, P.) —

The eivilian population of the United States as of March 1, 1043, was 128,200,000, a drop of 3,100,000 from the total at the time of the 1940 census, a preliminary estimate by the bureau of the census revealed today.

This big drop in non-uniformed was due

Increase in overall

Huge population shifts to war

centers, chiefly in the west coast states, were recorded by the census survey.

The Pacific states—including Calfornia, Oregon and Washington—

grew in population by 706,146, or 7.3 per cent.

The east and midwest suffered a

population loss.

BRITISH CABINET

FOREGOES DEBATE

LONDON, July 30 (U. P.).—The war cabinet has decided against staging a full-dress war debate before the summer recess of parliament, Foreign Secretary Eden told commons today, on the grounds it would not be in the best interest of

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47 GRADUATED | AT SHORTRIDGE

Nine From Other Schools Get Diplomas in First

Summer Program.

Shortridge high school's first summer graduation exercises were

Side campus. Forty-seven Shortridge pupils and nine from other schools who Attended the Shortridge

the latter from their own schools.

grove north of the school to the music of the Shortridge summer

ert J. Shultz. After singing the national anthem, Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of the

the invocation. Dr. Hall Speaks Emmett A.

Dr. J. Dan Hall, diplomas.

Sharick, a graduate.

' The Shortridge students

Brokaw, James Calland, Mary Jane Campbell, Barbara Carson, Betty Cooley, Robert Cooley, Duke, Cherle Fleischman, Hadassah Frisch, Richard Gibbs, Sam Glazier, Bill Haymaker, Harkless, Rose Ann Heidenreich,

Kerrick.

Lucas, Mitchell McDermott, Ruth McMorris, Richard Mercier,

Katherine Elizabeth Ott,

Moore, Jime Oliver,

Doris M. Rogers,

Mr. Sherwood.

Perhaps John Durfee is related

the allied cause at this time. Asked for a guarantee the govern-

van, Turney, Waddell,

Wilmont Vickery, Fred Wagner,

be present and will receive their

ment, Other Graduates

diplomas were Robert Christina and school; Robert, Crown Point; Robert Davis,

Dinsmore and Lucille Perry Central,

Harmon,

and Washington this morning. Tech will graduate 68 tonight. Crispus Attucks graduates

cises.

held this morning on the North |

summer session got their diplomas, |:

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band under the direction of Robe Tabernacle Presbyterian church gave |S -

Rice, summer school |= principal, presented the students to |= Shortridge prin- |= cipal, who spoke and awarded the |=

The response was given by Patsy 2

who = graduated were Jim Bachelder, Jo- |= seph Barry, Gene Battereall, Betty |S

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diplomas at next June's commence- |=

Manual high school held its sum- | = mer graduation yesterday and Howe |=

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BY BURNING ZERO

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was an accident and shouldn't be credited to enemy defenses, 1st Lt. Ivan M. Osborne, 23, of Bakersfield Cal, said today. “It was not a suicide attack, Osborne said. when it hit the Liberator.”

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PESSIMISTIC CADET GIVES LINCOLN I. 0. U.

GREENCASTLE, Ind, July 30.— Apparentls the age of innocence and sentimentality has been supplanted by modern business practicality. Ancient and honored is the custom at DePauw university of dropping pennies at the foot of Lincoln’'s statue before. examinations. One pessimistic cadet in the naval flight preparatory school left this note at the foot of the statue:

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WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P).

—Thousands of tons of salvage and scrap are being returned to this country from battleflelds throughout the world, the war department revealed today. Whenever possible, it is being processed for re-issue, while scrap iron is being disposed of through normal trade channels for return

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ROGERS JR. TO HELP JEWS

NEW YORK, July 30 (U, Py) ~ Rep. Will Rogers Jr. (D, Cal} hs left for London to confer with Brit. ish officials and organizations on plans to save the Jews of Europe, his wife disclosed today.

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DAVIS SAYS TAFT'S SALES TAX UNFAIR

WASHINGTON, July 30. (U. P). —Senator James J. Davis (R. Pa.), today opposed the sales tax proposal of Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.). Davis claimed Taft's proposal is an indirect compulsory savings plan. Taft advocated a sales tax, receipts of which could be converted into war savings. “If a compulsory savings plan becomes necessary,” Davis said in a statement, “I am confident that the American people will demand a straight-from-the-shoulder plan, based upon income.” “Any general sales tax plan,” he said, “will certainly place a disproportionate burden upon those in the lower income groups.”

COUNTESS IS ACQUITTED MIAMI, Fla, July 30 (U. P)— Countess Elsa von Stahremberg was acquitted here yesterday in federal court in a directed verdict by Judge John W. Holland who - that charges that the countess had im- nA personated an FBI agent with in- PR 11.141 vacy "and tent to defraud had not been proved SERVICE tial by the government. D up aN

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