Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1943 — Page 9

hur D. Pratt, Dr, on, Mrs. Virgil A,

A. Towns,

git : Religious organizations, as well as qualified profit organizations call attention to the Ate gone) and. charitable bodies, FB chug eH unions.

These properties in general are subject to and state real

estate taxes; but the rentals from..er- national scope, tenants need not: be reported

under present law to federal authorities, and they are not subjéct to federal income taxation. Members of congress who formulate tax laws have found that Washington itself includesa num‘ber of union-owned income-pro-ducing properties that are immune from federal taxation. One A of the examples.-is the handsome 10-story Bowen building, in what is called “Washington's Little Wall Street.” It is owned by the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of is valued at more than s million dollars, and has about a

hundred private tenants.

Total Values in Millions

= THE CARPENTERS and Machinists international : unions also own large office buildings here, with paying tenants. So does the United Steel Workers ot ~ America. The A. F. of L. owns a large building; devoted entirely to that organization, and thé United

Mine Workers is owner and occupant ot the old

University. Club building. All of these structures are “real” real estate, with their total values in the i . ~The labor unions are exempt from federal taxation under section 101 of the internal revenue code, which also makes immune 19 other general classes, with “«@ number of subdivisions of non-profit institutions.

only object is to explore new

turns on their incomes. Chambers "of

commerce, o ternal associations, eivic leagues, trade to w — and half 4 hundred

other kinds of non-profit organizations, as well as labor unions, will now have to file annual statements of income,| if the tax bill is passed in its present form.

Compete With Others Paying Taxes

THE HOUSE ways and means committee stated) “Many of these exempt corporations and organiza tions are directly competing with companies required to pay income taxes, and this practice is becoming more widespread and affording: a loophole for tax evasion and avoidance, “These organizations were originally given this tax exemption on the theory that they were not operated! - for profit, and that none of their proceeds inured) to the benefit of shareholders. However, many of] these -organizations are now engaged in operation of apartment houses, office buildings and other busi-

. nesses which directly compete with individualg. and! -corporations required to pay taxes on incomes derived

from like operations.” Ways and means committee members declare the sources for badly-needed revenue, but union spokesmen assert the move is a “flank attack” resulting from defeat of previous '€ efforts to require public accounting of union finances. Congressional authorities point out that under this proposal returns of non-profit organijzstions, including labor unions, would be open tj scrutiny in executive sessions of only the committees specifically" ‘authorized to ‘study the information submitted to the internal revenue sbureau.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WILLARD M. PEEK, 5815 N, Illinois, settled down “fn an easy chair Thursday morning expecting to enjoy .the unaccustomed luxury of doing nothing but rest. ._ until time to eat turkey. Everything went fine until

his wite looked out the window and saw a neighbor dolling up his lawn, One thing led to another, and finally Mr. Peek reluctantly ‘went out and got a rake and started to work. In raking up close to the house, he found- a lot of dead stalks which were hard to pull up, but he ‘worked. diligently and got most of “them out. And “then camie the” blowup. Mrs. Peek discovered that he had been pulling up her favorite chrysanthemums. The day was ruined.’ .. Joe Miller, proprietor of the Topper, a tavern at 3404 N Illinois, has a huge 7-crown whisky * bottle—about 6-gallon size—that he’s using to collect funds for cigarets for the service men and to assist in local charities. Everytime a patron asks about the big bottle, Joe, or “Brownie,” the bartender, explains

" and demands a cgntribution from the inquirer and

everybody else in sight. . . . Speaking of cigarets for -gervice men, The Times’ Ernie Pyle cigaret fund campaign was ended several months ago, but its memory lingers -on. appreciation. from the fellows overseas. Among those received is one “from a home towner, Cpl. Carl - Rebenack (R. R. 16, box 539), who Is in North -Africa.

N cedle ih a Hay Stack rE

"HARRY 8. KAHLO, 3854 Washington iva. started to get his-car the other day after playing the 18-hole short ‘course at Willowbrook. ‘Instead of the keys, ‘he found a hole in his pocket. Mr. Kahlo started retracing his course, step by step. And on the seventh hole his search was rewarded. “Now ‘I'm willing to tackle that needle ina haystack,” he told his companion, Walter C. Brown. . , . Fritz Hunt, a field man for the state OPA, reports that the recent distribution - of ration book 4 started a romance over in Henry

Washington

+ WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—No matter how much it is disguised, the fight over food subsidies which ‘has shifted to the senate, is an issue over a higher cost of living, It is an invitation to fnflation. One farm organization leader says openly that a little inflation wouldn't be a bad thing. The administration is trying to hold down prices and, at the same time, provide farmers with a fair return which they should have, and also to increase production. ‘Republicans and farm bloc Democrats favor dispensing with subsidies and allowing prices to go higher, Thus far, they have won. Yet, although the antisubsidy bill went rolling through the house by far more than a two-thirds majority, the seperate votes on amendments. indicated that possibly the house ‘may not override the expected veto of President Roosevelt, : To have to rely on a minority vote through upholding a veto is an unsatisfactory way to win a victory in a democracy. Yet resistance to pressure groups is go low in congress that only a strong presidential hand intervening through veto_ apparently can .. keep the balance in favor of theless popular but .sound course, - I hear some in the cattle country ‘call me a. “leftwinger” for writing along this line. It's all very odd: and shows that such labels are little more than a printable form of cuss-word.

Controversy Rages

THE CONTROVERSY rages furiously. More mail ‘pours into this office than I can possibly answer. It runs both ways. I haven't tried to tally it because “it would not change my attitude on this if not one single letter of approval came in. I like people with ‘open minds and try to maintain“one myself. ‘But an open mind can become merely a yawning mind if it does not snap shut when it has had OppoTIunily to “opinion: —

~ form an

My Day

NEW YORK, Sunday.—The United Seamen's serv- ™ oe has started Ob 4 Sather MESSING venture. They are trying to put a game chest aboard every mer"chant vessel. The Liberty ships, the oil tankers, the anspor Ships, YoU Sachs have Sue of Use Shee: containing decks of cards, erib-

. Realtors.”

We're still getting letters of

county. A man who registered for his ration book “wert” back -a few ‘hours later and told the young |

woman who had handled his case that she had been so polite he would like to take her to dinner. accepted. And so they were married last week. . . Joe Hughes. the 9 or 10-year-old son of Kenneth Hughes of W. 46th st. was riding past 38th and Illinois the other day, reading aloud some of the signs he was passing. Said Joe: “Mr, Hicks and Dr. Iscoll.” “Where do you see that?” asked an older | brother. “Right there,” replied Joe, pointing to. a. real estate firm's sign. It read: ‘“Hicks-Driscoll,

Aske the Draft-Bowrd == "sm =

IF YOU'RE INTERESTED in . your neighbor's | draft classification, go up to his ‘draft board and ask. They'll tell you, That's the information we get frdm | John Ferree, chairman of draft board 6. Of course, says John, this doesn't give you the right to dig into intimate details, but the mgtter- of classification is! public property. This policy, he explained, helps to clear up many misunderstandings in which the Hraft| board has been blamed unfairly. For instance, in one recent case, neighbors became indighant when a certain young man failed to be drafted. Critics checked with the board and found he was classified 4F, but didn't want anyone to know it and so had] given the impression he had been deferred. . One of our secret agents reports that some of her friends is have been kidding Mrs. J. Dwight Peterson because she didn't get a single mention when we profiled | her ‘husband..” So to stop them, we're mentioning her. right: tere, Tngidentally. she's a hardworking volunteer member of the gasoline panel of rationing board 49-10. . . . Another agent reports being in

Ayres’ toy department Friday and seeing a gray-haired |

woman firing away with a toy machine gun of the commando type, and obviously getting a big kick

She

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Probers of Federal Workers’ Loyalty ‘Hamstrung’ By New Orders.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—U. 8.| (civil service investigators conduct- | ing “loyalty investigations” of gov- | ernment employees rid applicants for - federal jobs _afe now. forbidden to ask them afly general questions | regarding. their or their beliet in capitalisnt: it was learried today. “Purthermore, “an order — Nov. 8 by the civil service com-| mission specificially bans questions | concerning activities in Communist unions or in many of the Coms| 'munist-front organizations. { The order, which went out to [some 800 investigators throughout | the country, drastically curtails the | procedure for. determining whether federal employees are Communists,

Hamstring Investigators

Its effect, according to some in-| vestigatory agencies here, will be | to hamstring the -investigators in their “loyalty inquiries” for the war and navy departments, the owr' and all other branches of the fed- | eral service. ©

The order specifically forbids in-| {quiries about ‘the Abraham Lincoln | {Brigade “or any other of the many | ‘Spanish relief groups.” the Lawyers |Guild, the League of Women Shop-

Lo pers and the Harry Bridges .De7 5teise Committee. Most-of these are.

pro- -Communist or -Communist-| controlled. | Instruction No: 4 says: “Do not ask any question about membership fin the Washington Bookshop or any bookshop in any city similar to the |

| Washington Bookshop.” Conflicting Edicts

In a memorandum issued last year to aid federal department - {heads to determine the loyalty of their employees, AUOISY Er [Biddle “included the | Bookshop among 12 on | he tound to be Communist-con- | | trolled. } So | | ‘Order No. 8 forbids the govern-| | ment investigator to ask any question. of an applicant. or. job<holder, WHICH “Hiight “shiow ThEt his wité ‘orf husband, as the case may be, or the! members -of his family are Com-| munists. i ‘Order No. 12 forbids inquiring about the applicant's favorite read-|

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: Congress Expert Forecasts

Cross-Country Trips In Ten Hours.

By E. A. EVANS _Betipps-Howard Stall Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Traffic congestion in the air will Increase

1000 per cent ‘by 1060 and, be-

The Christmas shopping season in Iadianapobis 1% bringing the largest-crowds in the history of the city

to the downtown section,

The rush started Friday, tonight promises to be a Monday night shopping session larger than ever.

the day after Thanksgiving, continued Saturday and

The stores’ Santa Clauses made

their appearances and among the first to greet old St. Nick was Leroy Piper, 3-year-old son of Mr, and

Mrs. William X. Piper, 5220 8 - East

STATE AIR PATROL

st.

Williams Heads

VOLUNTEER HONORED

CHIEF ON PROGRAM Teachers’ Group pT SERYIGE CENTER

Maj Walker W. Winslow, wing cominander: of the state. civil air ‘patrol, will talk on post-war oppor

tinier for youngsien Ry aviation’: lat a Municipal Gardens community | {center open house program at 7: 30

p. m, Thursday. The program also will songs ‘by the

inciude| sixth grade choral{

-Times'-advertising staff over in England. They were

ing matter “especially the Daily] {group of school 75 and a review of |

Worker and all radical and liberal the girls drill team of Washington publications.” high school by Ensign M. F. Horgan |

i of the WAVES. Community singing No.0) tion Specified i will be led by Mrs. Norma Koster. “The fore- Fine arts and craftwork will be,

out of it. Three small boys stood and stared at her with their mouths open. . , . Lt. James Mathena, formerly with WFBM, writes Gene Vaughn of the same station that recently he met a couple of The

Capt. Bill Engler and Lt. Bill Metz. The order concludes:

‘By Raymond Clapper,

going instructions are to be rigidly, observed and any deviation there- | from will be cause for disciplinary | action.”

| Moyer, executive director and chief! | examiner for the commission, and

displayed. Paul Brown, superintendent of] parks, will introfluce Maj. Winslow.

|A Youth council committee plan-| The ordér ‘was signed by L. A. ning the open house is composed of |

Mrs. William Hodgson, Mrs. Harold | Hayes, Miss Augusta Nessler, Mrs. |

One spokesman for the Texas cattle people says initialed by Alfred Klein, commis- Andy Miller, Mr and Mrs. Edwin |

I am unfair when I say they want to let supply and | demand drive pricés up through the roof. But their |

chief spokesman before the senate agriculture com-!

mittee, Joe Montague, said quite directly that he wanted the law of supply and demand restored as al

price regulator.

Montague said, that the law of supply and demand would regulate it! if it .were allowed to operate.” He went on to say that supply and demand could not be put immediately -into effect. but would have to be gradually, through a “gradual diminution of controls,” and “the controls to be exercised by men who know the meat and cattle business and not by economists that wouldn't know which end of a cow to put a bale of hay before.”

Meat Shortage Coming

MONTAGUE is interested only in the wholesale price of cattle. ‘He says it is all right to leave the retail price control on. But how do you hold down a tight ceiling on retail prices and still allow supply

and demand to fix wholesale prices? And a severe meat shortage is coming up in the spring. That,

- incidentally, may explain why the cattle industry is

80 anxious now to begin shaking off the shackles and getting back to a supply and demand price basis. " .About all of this, OPA officials are becoming quite disiHusioned. When Chester Bowles, a businessman, came here a few months ago to be price administrator, he assumed that if he could bring in some able people from business, reorganize and cut down expenses, simplify some of the over-complicated legal procedures, OPA would become generally respected and better able to carry out its responsibilities. Now, after going through the political wringer in congress, he thinks he was naive. He has come to the conclusion that the pressure groups and the lobbyists are not the least interested in an OPA, efficient or otherwise, end that they will never be satisfled until

itis wiped out-of existence. Could be. —

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

Service, 437 Market st. in Francisco, Cal, and get details. If, by chance, there should be more chests than there are ships at any time; they will be put aboard outgoing vessels - with instructions to leave them with soldiers, sailors and marines defending far away outposts which are rarely in the news. # 1 think it would be rather thrilling if a village or town put together a chest and then wrote a letter tothe men who would finally use it. It should be inside the top so that it would not be lost, and

' should tell stories about the people who had given

or mdtie the enclosed games. The letter might

installed

| sion attorney. Under the Hatch law, Commun-' ists as well as Nazis and Fascists (are barred from the federal par rolls. But Communists* scarcely]

fronts. No Union Questions

| One of the few ways in which Communists show their hand is by their leadership of Communist unions or Communist actions within unions. Instruction No. 1 of the commission’s order declares, however: “Under no circumstances should’ any question be asked of an applicant or a witness involving union | membership, union associations or union activities. Not only should the] applicant not be asked about mem- | bership in a union, but any guestion | should be avoided which might elicit | from the, applicant or from a witness union Mgibership or ‘activities. ” If “witnesses say’ that a certain person is a Communist because he ‘has associated with certain persons in a union known or said to be Communists.” order No. 2 says, the investigator should inquire mo further in to the subject. “In other words,” No. 2 concludes, “The question of unionism should not be brought up in any wdy in an investigation, either directly or in< directly.” == Spanish Relief Groups

Regarding Spanish relief groups

whole matter of the war in Spain should be scrupulously avoided by

in-America, Order No.3 says: “The and

|inte the sprawlin

{C. Under and Mr. and Mrs. Leo,

Burris.

REBEKAHS PLAN BAZAAR Ellen Rebekah lodge wiil

Japan Continues to Build Up Military Strength While

SPONSOF |- {ePer admit they are such. Hence, a bazaar Thursday night at Castle| Senator Ellender, of Louisiana, asked Montague the practice of federal investiga- hall. what his idea of the way to stabilize prices was. tion bodies is to show an over-all grand of the lodge and Miss Madge “my conception of stabilization. 18| picture of activity in Communist Kretsch is chairman of the bazaar.

Miss Cassie Miller is noble |

M. D. WILLIAMS of Howe hig

_— was * elected pregident of

4he Classyoom Teache rs associston, Av BY Leas TEE: TRL Ee recent meeting. Other officers chosen include Russell Julius, athletic director at Shortridge high school, first vice president; Miss Belle Sense, school 3, second vice | president; J. C Harger, Technical high Mr. Williams school, executive secretary; Miss Beulah Plake, school 30, treasurer, | Henry Bogue,: ‘Washington high school, sergeant at arms. Executive council members are Wilbur

| Ridgeway

| Morgan, school 78; Andrew Ram-

sey, Crispus Attucks high school; Mrs. Carrie Martin, school 87; J. P. Lahr, Raymond Stewart and R. E. Matthews, Tech. Central labor union delegates are Miss Kate R. Steichman of Shortridge, Mr. Harger and Miss Sense.

A plaque honoring Mrs for: voluntarily working | more than 5000 hours at the IndiCAREPOHE ‘Bervice Meft's Centers was] unveiled at- the - Illinois st. SMC | branch last night

Donated by the American Le- |

Harry |

fore that, nental passenger flights in less than 10 hours will be commonplace, Congressman Clarence F. Lea of Cal‘fornia predicted today. I Mr. Lea is chairman of the house committee on interstate and for{eign commerce and author of the Leivil aviation bill soon to be debated {in the house. Aviation progress “which we. CAND now accept as certain,” he said, will “mean 60,000,000 flights a year by commercial and- private planes in the United States. “Direction finders, radar, and iew flying techniques”

at various elevations, in all direc.

tions; at spreds far beyond ‘those rrthd

{now practical, . | Only federal regulation of all {eommercial transportation for hire iby air, such as his bill’ proposes, .ean insure nation-wide, uniform rules of the road and enable such congested traffic to move with reasonable safety, he asserted. Observing that planes have ale Lfeady been flown at the speed of BOUNG MP Lei forecast wr sharp “Phra crease in speed of commercial air [transportation after the war. He submitted the following table which, he sald, shows the number of min- | utes that will be spent in flight lover each state on a- typical New York-Los Angeles run with aircraft which, but for the war, the airlines vould now be using:

Time In Minutes 5

New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Tilinols + Missouri Kansas eri Eat, 4 | Oklghoms. FRAN nr AE | Texas virus New Mexico Arizona California

ion's Hayward Barcus post 55, the

auxiliary of which Mrs. Ridgeway is a member, the plaque paid tri- | tute to her as “The Perfect Volun- | teer.” Her achievements for the Service Men's Centers include being a member of the organization's planning board; collecting sewing machines, lamps and ¢lectrie irons for the center; organizing the Sister Susies to] mend service men's garments: directing’ the Legion auxiliary in

making cookies, and supervising the |

first Christmas for service men at | the Wabash st. center

SPONSOR CARD PARTY

The ways and means committee |

of Goldmound council 445, degree of Pocahontas, will sponsor a card

party at 8 o'clock tonight at the |

{Redmen's hall, Capitol ave and |

i IN orth st.

Air Alarm Tests Suspended Here

THE SATURDAY NOON blare | of the air raid alarm, steam whis- | tles and sirens that have brought | many complaints from the public and hundreds of sleeping war workers, will be discontinued Harry E. Yockey, Indianapolis civilian defense director, sald the alarms also required too much | steam and man hours.” The sys- | tem wil] be kept intact however, { for emergency use. “We are relaxing this rule with the present hopeful war news, but { should the situation change, our . organization will be alerted instantly,” he said. Many other cities have discontinued the tests

U.S. Forces Nibble at Outer Fringes, Steele Warns

By A. T. STEELE

AT A BASE IN INDIA —It would ibe unfortunate and illusory if our | victories in the South Pacific and the reports of Japan's political and economic difficulties throughout sonquered Asia gave Americans an impression of “rapidly waning Japanese military strength. While Japan . has taken heavy ‘ ‘losses on the sea and in the air, we ‘are winning battiles less because Japan is weaker than because we © are stronger, We ‘are still nibbling only at the outer fringe of Japan's over-extended lines of communication. Our control of the air the sea in the South Pacific makes it possible for Gen. MacArthur to pinch off tenuously held Japanese outposts and to crush ther with ‘superior force. We have yet to test the real strength of the Japanese army, for we have not at any place encoun-

{tered them where they were in a

position to bring anything like their full strength to bear against us. We will have to push much deeper ese defense | system before we ‘encounter the

.lenemy in great strength, Not until

then will’ the land battles begin to assume a decisive character. Has Largé Reserve Japan’s navy and airforce may be losing ships and planes as fast or faster than they are produced. But we must assume that the Japanese army, at least, is growing in strength and material reserves, How could it be otherwise? : id -Only a tiny sme of Battle) ground strength is

great defensive battles to come.

of shorter and large reserves

show starts, lines of

communication

they will do the most good. The larger those reserves are allowed to became. the moré allied | lives it may cost to finish the job of smashing Japan.

Secrets Closely Guarded

It is easy to write about the unfriendliness of Japan's subject peoples toward the new order and their

These are interesting and significant, But they. have no bearing on the war's outcome, Questions that are decisive are the strength of the Japanese army, navy and airforce and the extent of Japan's wartime production. And these “are closely guarded secrets. When the Japanese came into this war, they reckoned that Soviet Russia was on the verge of collapse and that the axis could accomplish the defeat of Britain and America before American production could be brought to bear. In any case, they counted on axis submarines to maintain mastery or the sea lanes and prevent American materials from reaching the battlefronts in anything like adequate quantities. These were fatal. miscalculations, and now the Japanese have no choice but to strain their production lines and build up their stockpiles in preparation for the

War Production Behind

: Japanese war production certainly far, far behind production and wn “never “hope to

economic and political tribulations. |

with. us in production, but she will| remains concentrated, as before the / have the advantage, when the big| war, in a tight little bloc composed | Such co-operation as exists between Manchuria and North |Japan and Germany is on a coldWe won't begin to hurt | blooded, business-like basis, without of materials installed in areas where | Japanese industry critically until benefit of sentimental attachment |we can get at that area conve80 far,|

jof Japan, | China.

‘niently with our: bombers. we have scarcely touched it.

into: Japanese shipping, but

materials from the South Pacific, Gets Vital Supplies

She is getting copper and chromite from the Philippines, tungsten and zine from Burma, rubber from Malaya and the Dutch Indies, oil from the Dutch Indies,

Because Japan is unable to provide shiploads of rice and manufictured goods to keep hér coriquered peoples happy is no sign that she is unable to feed her munitions plants’ and her army. These are provided for, regardless of the sac= rifies among non-combatant populations, Japan's mechanized strength is still pretty much of a mystery, as none of the engagements that have. been fought so far have given opportunity for mechanized warfare on an important scale. The fighting with Russia on the Mongolian frontier, in 1939, taught the Japanese a costly but useful lesson, . They sacrificed an admitted 18,000 lives to learn that their mechanized' power was woefully nferior to hat of Russia.

Our submarines have. cut deep | § the | enemy still has ‘eHoiigh ships to transport essential quantities of raw

no better liked than before the war.

Metal Is Bottle-neck

| To supplement the supplies. of | metal coming. from. her mines and smelters, Japan is stripping her domain of all available scrap, m { Japan and adjacent countries, all unnecessary metal work Is being torn out to-go into the meiting pot. Iron xallings and fences are disappearing. Anything containing copper, like statues, brass signs, temple bells and bronze charcoal burners, are in special demand. In one Japanese

—t prefecture, the police loyally do-

nated their brass buttons, Copper is a deficiency metal, though Philippine production ls ‘being greatly increased. Expansion of Japanese produc. tion is limited by the inadequate output of machine tools. Strenuous efforts are being made to breach this Bottle-neck.

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