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But ours spoke with quite a cultured accent. ao | he once lived in New York, but had been a Pompeii ide sluts long before the war,

AN flying several miles high above She ot entertained numerous pedestrians on downnoon. The plane was so high Te or a oiuin thie naked eye, but its progress soslg be traced by Ln Ee De ica 0 vapor it left behind. -“Bet it's 500 degrees below zero up there” remarked one spectator shivering. . +. + We gave downtown trafic a jook-sce yesterday and - decided

been - made in educating pedestrians to walk with the green light. There weren't any cops in sight,

If the campaign were continued for a time, some permanent results might be obtained. Howprobably Will go the way of all campaigns—dyAnd then we pegestEAnS Gat get bumped off by autos regularly posts a “swap to accommodate emwish to sell or swap.

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when everyone was worried over the prosof having to eat horsemeat? - That just goes to it doesn’t pay to cross bridges until you come

Greetings to You, Too

~ . A NEW REPORTER started to work on the this week and Ralph Brooks, a veteran of 18 , thought maybe he ought

‘Storm Center

WASHINGTON, March 2.—Jonathan Daniels never went to jail as an editor down in North Carolina, where he made a reputation as a fearless and progressive journalist, but he is courting a possible fail sentence now 8s an innocent pawn in the rapidly : developing contest between congress and the President. Congress has been looking for » victim ever since Senator Barkley went beserk a few days ago and stiffened its backone with the encouraging spectacle of President Roosevelt's own senate leader talking back to him. My, Daniels wag swept Irom hig hook as ane of the President's six * secretaries. into the Eo controversy when : he refused to answer questions of a senate agricultural subcommittee. The senators wanted to know if he had tried to force Harry Slattery, rural electrification administrator, to resign, as Mr. Slattery had charged.

Pounced on Daniels

EAGERLY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, headed by Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith, who has no love for the White House, pounced upon the luckless Mr. Daniels. “Suddenly he has become the center of a constitution#1 case which may become famous in American his- _ tory, for it touches upon a point never settled legally. | This is whether the senate can force a confidential employee of the President to testify about matters he handles for the President. The senate’s 3 Hight to question private citizens has been hese by the supréme | court, but the corollary issue as regards a government official never has been passed upon. The normal procedure in previous cases was to | gite the offender to the senate for contempt of that body, which sometimes has tried the case itself, sometimes cited it directly to the local federal district . attorney. In several instances, men have served time in the district hoosegow for their effrontery.

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Yesterday afternoon TI | went to an exhibit prepared by the united nations | committee for greater New York. In an empty store | they have set up a model which anyone who looks #5 over wil ‘bo futerested in. The map on the wall : ; with the lights going on and off is the first thing that catches your eye.

I think if we could set up little [peace centers with a model of this

_ to be discreet with mixed groups of tourists, but they

§ Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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THURSDAY, MAROH 2 2 194

i by either side. ‘The that fell inside the walls were strays. Actually uch damage has been done. But our guide; g Maj. Bland as an air force man, made four subtle digs about the bombings.| was wink -at each other. Maj.

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Scribblers’ Habits Unchanged DOZENS OF small parties were wandering around the ruins, Down the street came a British brigadier smoking a pipe and a Scot officer wearing kilts, We turned a corner and met a group of naval ensigns in from the sea, al} Safi¥ing canes Juss as though Wey were on the college campus back in En t There were gay. young’ American ‘fliers in eather jackets and groups of crumpled-looking .doughboys on leave from the front lines, eating peanuts.

> War hasn’t made much difference in the scribbling habits of the Americans and British. Op the walls of Pompeii you will see hundreds of names written in pencil—Pvt. Joé Doakes from Kansas City, Sgt. Jock McLean from Glasgow. Pompeii is noted for the Jdirty pictures on the walls of certain houses. In peacetime the guides had

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don't have to pull their punches now except when a bunch of nurses or WACs happens along. Maj, Bland from Oklahoma and Cpl. Cowe from Seattle and I from Indiana and New Mexico spent three hours in the ruins of old Pompeii and decided we enjoyed it, but the next time we go sightseeing we hope it can be through the less ancient ruins of Berlin, :

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bridge. Both families have babies, and when they get together for a game in one apartment, it's necessary to employ a girl to stay with the in the other apartment. The other evening oe aot photod | PUY 25-cents worth of chips. and said she was ill and had to go home, - It was too! early. to break up the game, so the parents of the baby moved its crib near the phone, phoned the other apartment, and left both receivers off the hook. Then ® the person acting as dummy in the bridge game; listened over the receiver to see if the baby was cry-| . State Auditor Dick James celebrated his

birthday last Saturday, He was 34. . Let's Get Ready! Sgt. Ennis that they were ‘playing !for fun.” Later four admitted they ANOTHER SCRAP PAPER salvage drive is sched- | were playing for money and said uled to be started Tuesday by the schools, 50 how the other two were just watching. about Siaring Xow lo get sendy. It you ean't take One was 15, two 16 and three 17 e paper your neares on sc years old. Accom day, make arrangement with some schoolboy in the| parents, a Spates by a neighborhood to do it. And tie the papers into easily juvenile court today. The police handled bundles —don't expect school children 1%) sergeant said two other boys who wrestle loose papers out of your basement and all the way to school. With the proper co-operation, as much paper as was netted in the other campaign probably can be collected this month. . . . Red Cross Gallon| club members—each of whom has contributed eight pints of blood for plasma — receive a membership certificate bearing the signature of some veteran now, in Billings hospital who was wounded and received plasma. Many times this results ifi the donors getting adquainted, by mail with the hospital patient. One| of the donors, Mrs. Vivian G. Frick, of Benton Harbor, ! Mich., who donates blood every time she comes here to visit ‘relatives, received a card bearing the sighature of Pfc. Frank Hendzel, who received plasma twice on; Guadalcanal. She wrote him a letter and quite a! correspondence ensued. She and her husband sent ‘opera Pfc. Hendzel cigarets and magazines. Recently, she

a poker table, a deck of cards and set of poker chips. ‘Playing for Fun’ The six boys were taken to the

i juvenile aid division and then to the detention home. They first told

in Indianapolis yesterday to give another pint of blood, When she pod 0.4 she was Ey tama No. one was home when police the Guadalcanal veteran there to meet her and ex- Called at ‘an alleged bookmaking press appreciation for her donations. They had lunch | establishment at 406%; N. Senate i So ave, Apt, 1. They confiscated considerable equipment and brought in a machine used to print policy slips

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> The: senate auboonmuiiies has set ght ae machinery HOOSIERS OVERSEAS AID IN BOND DRIVE

directing its counsel, former Rep. A anil . Maine, a Republican, to look into the law and report | to it Saturday. { The way “Cotton Ed” is walking around with his mustaches bristling, muttering under his breath, it looks as if he's determined to go through with the Daniels case. He has lots of support from others who would like to curb the President and his agents. Mr. Daniels is by no méans the martyr type, nor " the bureaucratic type. He is 41, amiable, genial, | (08 ae 2 bond Seties I} fairly rotund. and altogether companionable. He's 3q)'o0n™ 1¢ o R tale Tor the a rather famous man in his own right—editor of the ries "the total in the third loan ‘Raleigh News and Observer; a well-known interpreter | 4... ‘being $60,000,000. of the South; author of several books and a frequent| ~.. p Maetschke ’ chairman of magazine contributor. His father, Josephus Daniels, |, payroll savings division. on a was secretary of navy in the Wilson administration. ,..oqcast over the Blue network

Views Case Philosophically, and WISH a: 2:3 clock Sumght

will tell Secretary of the Treasury HE WAS rather surprised at all the fuss he stirred Henry Morgenthau Jr. about the up, but looks forward philosophically to possible fame

the battlefronts and: in United States camps know what bond buying means—$2:891,000 worth. The figure received today by bond officials here put Indiana “over the

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New deputy attorney general is

Robert Hollowell Jr. (above) of Indianapolis, a member of the firm of Kane, Bain & -Holiowell. A graduate of the University of Michigan law school, Mr. Hollowell has practiced here since 1923. His appointment was announced yesterday by Atty. Gen. James Emmert. Mr. Hollowell lives at Danville and is an active Republican,

HE TRIED TO KILL

Local Soldier in Hospital Meets Pilot He Had Shot Down.

. Lt. James C. Whitley of Indianapolis shot down an Italian fighter pilot last summer, only to have him bob up again about a month ago as his barber in a hospital in Italy: The “coincidental meeting of the two fliers was related in a letter ‘which Lt. Whitley retently wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Whitley;~742 Greer st. Wounded on Dec. 26, the local airman was in a British 8th army hospital when the Italian came to shave him. The two compared notes on a raid over Naples when Lt. Whitley shot down a Macchi 20 and when the barber was downed. Described Action “He described the action to a T,” Lt. Whitley wrote, “how he was flying along above the forts, showing me position and how he came . them and how he was shootBy and how the Fort he attacked

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buy-where-you-work campaign in in a new role.

April.

Indiana. Even if he goes to jail eventually, it probably will be- quite awhile, Ugo Carusi, assistant to Attorney General Biddle, who is acting as his counsel, intends to carry it all the way to the supreme court, if the senate cites his client for contempt. The defense will revolve about the separation of powers between the executive and congress. -It will be argued that Mr. Daniels partakes of the entity of the executive, since he was acting as the arm of the executive in a confidential capacity and that the senate has no more right to force him to discuss such confidential business that it has to quiz the President. The senate subcommittee is trying to make the case broader, to contend that if congress, in trying to inform itself on affairs of government, is blocked in this case, it might be blocked in seeking information in other directions,

A pig posse was organized today to search for Miss Sooner, the Jaycee porker who decided she didn’t want to be a prize, ‘The posse will look tonight in the neighborhood of the Ted Pyritz home - on the Post rd, where Miss Sooner escaped last night. An urgent appeal was put forth for expert hog callers who could lure the porker with “sooey.” Sooner, the 40-pound porker acquired by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for presentation to the man who to obtain a new member, ped from her pen

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Junior C. of C. Is Hog Wild;

Prize Pig Escapes From Pen

her if they saw her,” according to Don Keller, who named her. (He called her Sooner because he would “sooner get a new member than board that pig.”) The pig's attorney, Kirk Yockey, said that Mr. Pyritz would be subject to a $10 fine for mistreatment of the pig, and that he would have to present “a reasonable facsimile” if she isn’t found.

YANKEE ‘GUTS {KEEP WOUNDED BOMBER FLYING

Half of Skipper’s Face Shot | Away, Waist Gunner Hurt, |

{TION IN ENGLAND, March 2 (U.

central Germany,” said the co-pilot,

| Corning, Cal, the navigator, picked up the story:

up and there he was just getting

he ted straight at us. I opened d so did the upper .Iship but we finally persuaded him g in. We couldn't , he was so close, but he w he lived through I could almost|

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came in and shaved me all the e and told me the war news. Hz made me promise to come to his house for a spaghetti dinner when I

Lt. Whitley, an ordnance officer with the army air forces, has left

He is 26 and has been overseas since

But They Stay at Posts.

By COLLIE SMALL " United Press Staff Correspondent

AN AMERICAN BOMBER STA-

P.).—You find. out at the bomber stations about the secret weapon that is helping us win the battle for the skies over Germany, It's guts—plain American guts. Take Pilot X and Radioman Y for example. The co-pilot and navigator started the story. _ “We were fighting our way out

2d Lt. John A. Flottorp of Kelso, Wash, “We were about 20 minutes out of Frankfurt and the flak was

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terrific. “A piece of flak bored into the Sodkpit and carried away the left eye and upper left side of the skipper's face.”

Thought He ‘Was Dying First Li. Richard W. Maddox of

“I came up from the nose to administer first aid while Flottorp flew the plane. The skipper put his head back on my shoulder. When I saw that terrible wound I thought he must be dying. “I couldn’t give him morphine because he had a head wound so I

{put a bandage over his face. Wel

wanted him to come down out of the- cockpit, but ndt that guy. “He just shoved his busted oxygen tube into his mouth with one hand and reached for the control wheel. He cocked his good eye at the instruments and used his free hand to keep us in formation.” “Yeah,” Flottorp continued, “he wouldn't surrender the controls.to me. When he'd catch me looking at him, worried like, he'd take his hand off the wheel and give me the old ‘thumbs up’ sign. ‘Don’t worry about me,’ he'd yell.”

Waist Gunner Hurt

Then two Focke-Wulf 190s drilled the ship and the waist gunner, Sgt. James P. Tracy of Willimantic, Conn., found the radio operator bleeding from three wounds but propped up against a bulkhead, hanging qnto his gun and watching for more ters. The oxygen system was knocked out so Tracy plugged the radioman into a large oxygen flask. Sgt. Andrew H. Wallner, New York, broke out small oxygen flasks and ran a shuttle service up and down the bomber. “I knew the radio operator was in terrible pain,” Tracy- said, “buty he didn't say a word. I gave him morphine and dressed his wounds. His fingers were frozen so I put them in my mouth to warm them.” And’ then the oxygen flasks ran out and the Fortress dipped out of formation over the English channel. “We had a helluva argument with the skipper,” said Maddox. “He wanted to stay and land the

to come down into the nose and lie down after we'd gotten over the channel.”

UNDER STREETCAR

" One pedestrian was seriously injured today and the case of another continued in municipal court as Indianapolis police and safety di-

drive . to . educate both pedestrians and motorists on the city’s traffic ordinance. The injured man was Roy A. Taylor, 1303 Bridge st, who was struck by a streetcar at 1lllinois and Washington sts. on his way to work, Mr. Taylor, who is about 60, was crossing Washington st. about 20 feet east of the pedestrian lane when an E. Washington streetcar operated by Charles Murphy, 982 West dr., Woodruff Place, hit him. He was knocked down and pinned

He received a probable right hip fracture and internal injuries and was taken to City hospital, An employee in the beater room of the Beveridge Paper Co. Mr. Taylor had worked at the plant

rectors further intensified their|

under the front of the streetcar.

Contracts for $4,004,000 Of 1944 Work Let By State.

The state highway commission yesterday awarded contracts totalling $4,004,000 for bituminous resurfacing of state highways. With new egnstruction practically | stopped because of the war, commission officials said that the resurfacing provided for by these contracts will constitute the major| part of the commission's work for 1944. Among the contracts let were: Resurfacing 10.27 miles on Road 31 in Tipton and Howard counties from the Tipton-Hamilton county line to Kokomo, $226,279 to Reith Riley Construction Co., Goshen. Resurfacing 8.32 miles of Road 31 in Hamilton county from Road 38 north to the Tipton-Hamilton couniy line, $137,561 to Rock Road Construction Co., Chicago. ~*~ * Resurfacing 2.77 miles on Road 40 in Hancock county from end of the new pavement east of Greenfield to beginning of new concrete pavement near Road 209, $74,676 to W. T. MacDonald, Indianapolis.

STATES JOBS WOULD CURE DELINQUENCY

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P). —Jobs, not corrective institutions, are necessary to combat the prob-| lems of wayward youth, according to six reformed juvenile delinquents | and two pioneers in the field of finding jobs for delinquents. The six youths and the placement officials told their stories yesterday to a senate subcommittee on wartime health and education, headed by Senator Claude | | Pepper (D. Fla). “Viola ~executive- diresion of the Vocational Foundation, Inc, of New York City, said her main job was to prove to stranded and wayward youths that “the world holds more than policemen and bad characters.”

SCHOOL 85 EARNS ‘AT-WAR’ FLAG HERE The School-at-War flag will be raised at School 85 in ceremonies at 2:45 p. m. tomorrow. The auxiliary of the Bruce P. Robison post, American Legion, and the color guard will take part in the affair. Mrs. Leona Koss will dedi: cate the flag, and the acceptance speech will be made by Billie Harvey, captain of the school guards.. * Four choruses of school children will sing patriotic songs to complete the program. - :

ASSIGNED OVERSEAS

Times Special BUNKER HILL, Ind. March 2.— Acting Commander Roy H. Callahan of the naval air base here will be detached from duty tomorrow for

about nine months. 3 - 8 o THE CASE OF Leslie W. Low-. Cen, 2809 E. 30th st., who was ar-

DETAIL FOR TODAY Sweating It Out

rested Feb. 25 on charges of failure!

j#7ay, was continued in Judge John IT. McNelis’ court until April 1. Judge McNelis, who stated that

to give the pedestrian the right of |

both sides clearly shown, but no conclusions drawn. That would be a way of making people think about public questions, and would, I hope, increase our efficiency as citizens.

in the Pyritz front yard as the family was at dinner. Meanwhile, Mr. Pyritz offered a $5 reward. “But any Jaycee would know

Chelsea is the first place n the borough of Manhattan to have this exhibit, at 420 West 23d st. In the evening I interviewed Miss Mary K. Browne of tennis fame at the Red Cross rally in Madison Square Garden. She is now even better known to thousands of men as one of the best Red Cross. club and canteen directors in the South and Southwest Pacific. John Golden and G. S. Eyssell, with the aid of the facilities of Radio City music hall, put on a

STATE TYPOTHETAE WILL MEET TONIGHT

Philip Schneider of the war production board and Lawrence Han-|

motorists and pedestrians must be made to obey the law if the safety program is to be enforced, granted the continuance because Mrs. Jetftie Lee Jones, who was struck by 4 |Mr. Lowden, was still in the hospital and unable to appear in court. ‘{ Mrs. Jones, who was carrying her infant daughter, was struck Friday at Capitol ave. and Washington st. by the bus Mr. Lowden was driving.

| MEANWHILE THE Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce safety coun-

overseas work. He has been on duty in the absence of Capt. D. D. Gurley, who is ted to return to the base from service as a member of the navy's manpower survey board.

HOLD EVERYTHING

U.S: REVENUE PLAN

Writer's New Tax Base Tax Base Would Be Gross Salary Minus Allowance for Persons

Living on That Income.

In a series of five articles, of which this is the second, S. Burton Heath offers a plan for streamlining income taxation as it applies to the great majority of individual taxpayers,

nia,

By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 2.—The exasperating Sou. bles that income taxpayers have experienced for years, and which now are creating a crisis, arise from two prin-

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First, from the fact that there are three different tax

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bases, on each of which a tax is levied by a formula that is different iff every ase. > This, it appears, congress and the Weasuzy intend to correct this year — by abolishing the victory tax and making the bases identical for normal and surtax, Second, from the multiplicity

ble provisions for deductions and credits, which have be-

Mr. Heath come such a jumble that it is difficult to find two experts in the bureau of internal revenue who will agree about-any person's allowable deductions. ® = »

Would Use One Base

I propose that we eliminate both of these problems by adopting a brand new tax base that will consist of gross salary minus an allowance for the number of persons who must live on that

This means eliminating, as deductions, the expenses connected with earning one’s salary or wages. In turn, that would put upon employers the duty to reimburse employees for such expenses, which could be done, as it usually is done now, through expense accounts; or it could be done by flat allowances which would not be considered as part of the salary and would not be subject to income tax.

It- means eliminating also the =

present deductions in lines 11 to 16 of form 1040—contributions, interest, taxes, losses. This is where the activities of pressure groups are feared. It is not feasible, in these articles, to discuss every phase of this proposal. It can be pointed out, however, that the net effect would be identical with what has been done, in a roundabout way, in the optional form 1040A, without injuring many persons. Form 1040A assumes that those

_who yse it will have “average” de=-

ductions, and allows for them. The effect can be illustrated in this way: " Suppose A's income is $3000, and it is desired to get $270 in taxes from him. We can credit him with 10 per cent deductions, reduce his taxable income to $2700, apply a tax rate of 10 per cent, and get $270. Or we can forget the deductions, consider ‘his taxable income as the full $3000, and s set the rate at 9 per cent, which will yield the same $270 in tates ! } = —~Objection “Cited The optional form uses the first method. I propose that we adopt the second, and extend it to cover all individual income taxpayers rather than merely those with in-

to use the optional form. Some individuals would lose by this proposal. For example, a man who is buying his home now is permitted to deduct real estate taxes: and the interest on his mortgage. This is helpful to him. But the renter has no corresponding deductions. By what logic should the buyer be permitted to charge off perhaps half of the “rental” on his

come tax, whereas the renter can

ble. egitimate out-of-pocket expenses, are not deductible. Only skilled lawyers can tell which. In the

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logic. mor justice, but only the technicality of the language of the law levying the taxes. Up to the last year there was no allowance for medical ex-

comes of $3000 or less who choose

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