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“terranean allied air force, under the command of Lt. Gen, Ira Eaker, covers everything in this whole Mediterranean theater all the way from Casablanca on C the edge of Asia,

The main geographical objective of our push-into Italy was to + get heavy-bomber -. bases near enough to start pounding Germany from the south. The great plains around Foggia are capable, they say, of basing all the air on forces in the world. : ‘Our heavy-bomber force is still being built up,

nd lag nok yet, really begun on its program of blasthe ny proper, but planes have been flowing

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cross the South Atlantic all winter. : Boon good weather will be here, and then woe upon Germany from south as well as west. % In the meantime, the 12th air support command Bears the burden of the close-in fighting here in Italy, and that’s what I'm dealing with now. The 43th air support command is composed of fighters, bombers and light bombers, which work over the ant line, helping our ground troops, bombing supply ; ps and strafing roads just back of ‘the enemy lines. . Right now I'm living with a light-bomber toup—the 47th—which flies the fast twin-engined -built plane known as the A-20 Boston. - -

Veteran Outfit | THE 47TH is a veteran outfit. It fought through Tunisia. It helped beat the Germans back at Kisserine a year ago. It flew from Soukel Arba and Cape Bon and Malta and Sicily, and now it is on the front in Italy, . . Like most air groups of long service, it has almost no flying personnel left who came overseas with it. Its casualty rate has been low, but the crew men have all reached or passed their allotted number of missions and gone home, ; In fact, some of its members went home so long ago that they are now back overseas on their second tour of combat duty, fighting out of England or .in the South Pacific. The ground-crew men get letters from them sometimes, I've been living with a certain squadron of the 47th. It has changed commanders while I've been

Spring r Head!

| Hats pireetcars have borne evidence recently of that well \ known sport of youth—ticktacRtoe.. Some of the Bl taller passengers, possibly the high school crowd, have ; Bl been taking advantage of the cars’ dirty ceilings to | : play the game, , .-. We've had lots of items on nice streetcar and bus operators. Occasionally we get one that's not complimentary. One of our Speedway, City readers com-

ts in flattering plains about a certain Speedway Softly veil bus operator who became profane dours and half Monday evening in demanding as well as the that folks move back. Finally, ac23. cording to our informant, he said

he'd “move you back” and he “started the bus with a wild lurch that threw all standing down in : : the aisle My lady friend fell @own on one knee.” Fortunately, such acts of discourtesy are few and far between. . .. One of our readers living on Milburn st. writes to take us to task about our reference to Tommy Dorsey's show at the Monday night which was described by some patrons as “disgusting.” Our correspondent says she 't hear any insulting remarks by either Tommy or pfsey. And as fof the students, she says: #1 think Mr. Dorsey's remark was mild to what I would have said if I had been in his shoes, Throwcarrots on the stage, also pennies, and wild séreams-and hollering out while the performance was on. If I was manager of the Circle there would be no such happenings for if they would bar these high school kids or let them in only when they were with an adult, for a while, maybe then they would appreciate a good thing.” Well, that's that, A Mortgage Helps VISITORS TO New York usually find it next to impossible to pick up a pair of tickets to the popular show, Oklahoma, But not Mark Ferree, business manager of The Times. Before making a trip to New York recently, he had various friends, including mewspapermen, trying unsuccessfully to get some

tickets for him. And then he dropped 3 note to an pid hometown friend in New York in which he men-

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ator, simulated | Medium and § y, black, turf-

WASHINGTON, March 3.—Who writes President SI Roosevelt's messages to congress has become an apSN parently important side issue in the bigger issue be'H tween himself and congress because of the tart, stingIng phrases sprinkled through recent communications. : Some folks at the capitol, both Democrats and Republicans, would fike to blame the much’ belabored corps of assistants who are lumped together by the opposition as “the Palace Guard.” ‘ Some Democrats, in selfdefense and to ease their consciences, would like to place responsibility Yor authorship of the meaner language on the Presi. dent's numerous aids, for whom they have little more love than the # ; - Republicans, Republicans = would tike to create the fiction that a bunch of smart young fellows, dripping with college degrees but bereft of common sense, are really running the government. This practice was begun years ago by former Rep. Fred Britten (R. 111), who harangued the house about #the little red house on R street” where some of the right young men lived, and who cried out in horror about “Felix Frankfurter's Hot Dogs,” as he called them. g

Some Grains of Truth

.. THIS IS all good politics and good fun, with some grains of truth, for we have those young fellows about and some of them are about as described, though not

always as important as they think, obviously is running for re-election, and he overlooks Zebra __ But the real truth is that the author of Presi no opportunity. My ; )ay By Eleanor Roosevelt pe WASHINGTON, Thursday —We had a most profit- of original compositions given for the first time. ~/ — able trip down on the train yesterday! I have been An opportunity such as this emphasizes how much i Sccumulating things which’ had to be dictated and real artistic ability we have in this country and how : — though the oad bed_soomod anything bub smeoth, it is being used in the war. - 4 Miss Thompson managed my dictation. I was asked at my press conference morning J 8 fortunate that she can read her yf yr nad read Mr. Baruch's report, and A like iv hieroglyphics even when theyhave , stress something which I think many of us are pn Eisgles from the moton prone to forget: Excellent reports can be written, the most careful plans can be laid out on paper, but The family had dinner alone, their real value can never be gauged until we see which is an unusual and very what is actually being done by people out in the field. 2 =f) 12 pleasant occurrence. We sat and Tne heads chosen to administer these plans can be ; talked until nearly 11:30, which excellent, but if they do not have staffs under them| ZEBRA is the term affixed to a meant that I had to do rather late gh, are loyal and able and ind us, the best plan|noncommissioned officer with many writing, but it was worth it since 5 the world will not bring results, stripes. Although proud of their j We 20 Say hive 8 chance io elk. This particular report is ‘a far-reaching report. It|stripes, zebras seldom like to hear a 2 aden pre deals with ways and means by which. we will return|themselves referred to as such, esa were us here last nigh from a state of war to a state of peace, and it at-|pecially from privates. That's the Ey Today I have the last of a tempts to make our present economic structure meet| source of their severest. criticism, Series of lunches, and after lunch, a group of men the needs of a situation which we cannot blue print.|but there isn the from the army school at Ft. Myer is coming over to Therefore, the people who carry out this plan must who a : us & half hour's entertainment. This music have flexibility and imagination. They ; some ive your is sending musicians out as leaders and mem- to take responsibility, to make decisions 3 Hade. bands and orchestras all through the army speed will be one of the elements

IT ITALY, March 3 (By Wireless) ~The Medi-

~out and practiced while the rest went on their mis-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE CEILINGS OF some of the College ave. tioned he'd like to see the show, Back came a. tele- |

comafternoon we are to hear umber

been on staff duty. He get | smal} and intimate familiarity of a squadhe says: a : : ‘commander is the best job in the air

And “Squadron corps.” . On his first day, Maj. Clizbe got a plane and went

sion. I was staying in the same tent with him, and although at that time I didn't know him very well I could tell he was worried and preoccupied, He wasn't afraid. Everybody knew that. But he was rusty, everybody's eyes were on him, and he was scared to death he would foul up on his first mission.

Back in the War

HE FLEW the morning mission on his second day in command. He flew a wing position, and he did all right. e was in good spirits when they came back before lunch. There was another mission that afternoop. Instead of resting, Maj. Clizbe put himself on the board for that one, too, this time leading a flight of three. I was at his revetment when the planes came back just before dusk. When they got out, Maj. Clizbe was a .changed man, He was just like a football player after winning a game. 3 It had been a perfect mission. The bomb- pattern had smothered the target. They'd started fires. Their break-out from the bomb run was just right, and the planes got only a little flak. The new man had his teeth into the game again, and he was over the hump. He was all elation and enthusiasm. “We'll give 'em hell from now on,” he said. All evening he kept smiling to himself, and he was like somebody released from a great oppression. That night he went to bed around 9 o'clock, for he was tired, and he had assigned himself to lead the mission early next morning. Just before he went to sleep, he happened to think of something. He raised up and said: “Say, this is my birthday! I'd forgotten about it. Boy, 1 couldn't have had a better birthday present than those two mission today.” And he really meant it. The major was back in the war. He was doing a job again in person, with his own hands and brain, and he went to sleep with a fine satisfaction, -

gram notifying him. tickets awaited him, When he got there, he found he had seats in the second row, center. You see, the friend heads the real estate department of a big insurance company which happens to hold a mortgage on the theater, That's one way to get tickets. . .. Maj. Bernard W. Schotters, formerly with the light company’s legal department, is home on leave for the first. time since he was called into active duty as a member of the marine corps reserve back in November, 1940. He's been all over the South Pacific. Maj. Schotters, the son-in-law of

| SECOND SECTION :

Lester Ratcliff to Serve as

GROUP MEETS ON STATE BILL

Final Draft Being Readied For Special Session of Legislature.

The final drafting of a soldier vote bill to be submitted to the coming special legislative sessign wag scheduled to be completed today by a committee of 15 Republican leaders. * The G. O. P. committee met at the Claypool hotel to go over and revise, if necessary, a tentative bill that has been drafted by a subcommittee of five members. Claude Billings, secretary of the Republican state committee, said it was expected that the bill would be in final form by tonight. Principal Provisions ~ The tentative measure provides for the acceptance of army and navy postal cards as applications for ballots, the printing of ballots on light paper and moves up the dates for printing and mailing ballots so that they can get overseas and back in time to be counted in the election. : Republican leaders predicted that there would be no controversy over the measure. With a compromise measure now ready for ratificatidn by congress, Governor Schricker is expected to summon the state legislature into session sometime this month.

PLANNING GROUP GETS ENGINEER

Grade Separation Expert.

the late Kin Hubbard, lives at 616 E. 51st st. . . . Ed Dowling, who runs Dilling’s, says he knows now tha Germany can't hold out long. Why? He says h” read where all candymaking has been prohibited in Germany and “that will do more to destroy their morale than anything else.”

So We Were Wrong

WE HEREBY CONCEDE that it's not as unusual | as we thought for a man to wear glasses when hel shaves. In the Saturday profile of Ken Collins we; mentioned that he couldn't see to shave without!

glasses, And we've been hearing about it ever since.)

For instance, we learn that Robert PF, Showalter,’ seaman 2-c with the Seabees, always has worn glasses while shaving, and he’s only 19. And Elbert Mahoney, formerly ‘in the advertising business here, couldn't ‘see to shave without glasses, but that didn't prevent him from being drafted. And Bob Kyle, the newspaperman, can't even see to find his way to bed without glasses. He never removes them ‘until-he’s in bed. That gives you an idea. And that concludes our} “shaving with glasses” department. , .. Mrs, John R.| Norris, 2028 N. Delaware, wrote a letter to her friend, Mrs. B. M. Gibson, Monte Vista, Colo., and mailed it May 5 last year, Mrs. Gibson had gone to Phoenix, Ariz, for ‘the winter and the letter was forwarded there, but never reached her. This week, just 10 months later, the letter was returned to Mrs. Norris from Phoenix. No telling what had happened to it in the interim. .-., Add signs of spring: A sergeant and a corporal going down the street, arm in arm and; with the sergeant snuggling up to the corporal. They| were oblivious to their fellow pedestrians. The sergeant was 8 WAC. The corporal was not.

Campaign Phrases By Thomas L. Stokes

dent Roosevelt's messages to congress, in the usually accepted sense, is a fellow named Franklin D. Roose velt. .He gets help, of course. He calls for suggestions, asks for memoranda from various officials and departments, he even asks for sample drafts of portions of his messages dealing with certain subjects from those who are well informed. All Presidents dp that in drafting messages and speeches, Mr. Roosevelt takes all this, goes over it, and then dictates his own version, so that it has, in the end, what is known as “the Roosevelt touch,” and it is a Roosevelt product, branded and stamped. : Sometimes he may lift a sentence or a paragraph or more from something prepared for him, and, occasionally, you may run into the author, bragging about his contribution at some cocktail bar or even claiming that he wrote the whole speech or message. Boys will be boys,

Pungent, Biting Words

ONCE President Roosevelt did lift a whole paragraph from Stuart Chase. It was quickly detected. It took only a cursory examination of President Roosevelt's message on the soldier vote bill to see that someone else had ‘prepared the technical passages, but anyone who knows him, knows that the short, ugly word “fraud” was his own. What is happening in this political year is tha President Roosevelt is injecting into his messages to congress those pungent and biting phrases that can be found all through his political speeches. . For he

| blueprinting and ‘supervising track

| Ratcliff, among other duties, will

.{monthly P.-T. A. meeting. The band

Post-war track elevation plans were coming out of the clouds into the realm of concrete actuality today with disclosure that an experienced grade separation engineer has been employed by the city plan commission. He is Lester Ratcliff, 3155 N. Capitol ave, who was instrumental in

elevation projects completed by the Belt railway from 1917 to 1833. Prior to that he was with the Pennsylvania railroad ‘where he assisted in development of trackage to Frankfort, some of it over elevaPays $3000 a Year In his newly-created $3000-a-year post as city plan engineer, Mr.

conduct an exhaustive survey to determine which of the. 62 proposed grade separations now in City

| Plan Director Noble Hollister's map

will receive post-war priority. Before his assignment to the plan commission Mr, Ratcliff served as senior draftsman in the city engineer's office. A graduate of Ohio Northern university, he was .once connected with the state conserva-

tary Otto T. Ferger said the commission has remaining funds for employment of a draftsman. Mr, Ratcliff’s appointment will be -approved by the commission Monday.

SPEEDWAY ATHLETES ARE TO BE HONORED

Speedway high school football, basketball and track team members will be honored at the “F. B. T. Hop” Friday night at the school. The boys of the junior class will select a queen to reign at the dance, which is being sponsored by the Business Education club. In charge of the dance are Nancy Northcott, Alice Powell, Georgia Foster, Jacque Schaefer and Patricia Lasley.

Speedway high school and grade school will hold open house Wednesday night in connection with the

will present a 30-minute program.

The Hi-Y club will conduct an intermural basketball tourney Monday and Tuesday nights. Coaches of the teams are club members: Jack Kesler, freshmen; Don Webster, sophomores; Tom Stamm, juniors, and-Henry Hendryx, seniors.

DETAIL FOR TODAY

tion department. City Plan Secre-|

ing crashed into a

In a series of five articles, of

* FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1

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New Simplified Tax Exem

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which this is the third, 8. Burton Heath offers a plan for streamlining income taxation as it applies fo the great majority of individual taxpayers.

By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 3.—In place of the present personal. exemption of $1200 and credit, of $350 for each dependent, I suggest that we adopt a simpler, fairer “personal credit.” For illustrative purposes, let’s consider $500 per person, the figure now in the mind of some members of the ways and means committee. Under this plan, there would be allowed $500 for the taxpayer, $500 his spouse—if he is married—and $500 for each legal dependent. : This would mean that a couple, living together, would have only $1000 of exemption instead of their present $1200. A couple with one dependent would have $1500 instead of the present $1550. With more dependents the exemption, or “personal credits,” would be greater than they are now.

Simple and Just |

There is nothing sacred about the $500 figure used in this suggestion. It merely happens to coincide rather closely with the present exemption-plus-credit situation. The virtue of the principle is its combination of simplicity with justice. It recognizes that two can live together at least as cheaply as two can live apart, and that. no dependent can be supparted for $350 a year either in the home or outside of it. The amount of the credit can be changed. But if $500 is used, one point should be clarified here. The fixing of the exemption for a couple at $1000 need not méan an increase in the tax on couples with low incomes. ‘That can be cared for in the tax rate, permit-

FORM 1040 Yo Make Payment of Income Tax Easier

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Tax Table Needed

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and a tax table.

be possible to use, for those who do have to file a return, a form as simple as that which is presented with this article. This is not, as one who has struggled through form 1040 might suppose, only the first page of a return. It is the whole return except for two simple sched-

ules—one to list “other income” if there is any (and usually there will be none) and another to compute the tax on partially tax exempt government bonds which very few ordinary taxpayers own. Unless the taxpayer has one of these rather uncommon items of income, he need never look at the

back of his tax return except to consult the tax table or to read the simple instructions printed there. ‘ : The tax table itself calls for more discussion-than is feasible in today’s article, and so it will be considered- tomorrow.

GIVEN DEPLORES TITLE OF F. D. R

-To ‘Cover-up’ HomeFront Problems.

State Treasurer James Givens t0day assailed what he termed the ever-increasing tendency by administration officials to drop the title of “President” when referring to Mr. Roosevelt and use the title “commander-in-chief.” : “This is an effort on the part of New Dealers to disassociate Mr. Roosevelt with the chaos and confusion on the home front and try! to crown him with laurels earned by | our military leaders on the war

club at the home of Mrs. Glen Funk, 36 S. Ritter ave.

‘Leaf Raking’

“Since the New Deal is responsible for raising the issue, I hope they won't mind my pointing out the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is the same commander-in-chief who for eight years wasted the substance of the country on such things as leaf raking, tree counting, esthétic dancing, amateur painting, fish census, basket weaving and countless other silly activities, instead of providing the real jobs at real wages building an adequate defense for our nation, for which he in his infinite wisdom--should_have foreseen the need id

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in-chief who was in command when our oil, gas and scrap was being sent to-Japan. He was also com-mander-in-chief on that blackest day in: American history, Dec. 7, 1941,

against him if the effort persists to credit him with the hard-won victories of our fighting men and their gallant leaders.”

WAC RECRUITERS JOIN

LOCAL DRIVE OFFICE

been” ‘added to: the Indianapolis army recruiting office to aid in the intensive drive for members of the women's army corps from this area. They are Sgt. Kathryn Elling and Pvt. Helen Murphy, who will come from the Kokomo sub-station, and Pyt. Clarethel Roselund and Pvt. Nellouise Clarey, formerly of the Anderson recryiting office. 3 PLYMOUTH SOLDIER KILLED BROWNWOOD, Tex, March 3 (U, P).~Two army enlisted men were Killed yesterday when the automobile in which they were ridculvert between

Charges New Deal Seeks! 4

front,” he said in speaking before; - the Irvington Women's Republican :

e is also the same commander= {which founded the old Northwestern

| “It seems to me to be no more} than just to charge these errors

Four new WAC recruiters have |"

Sweethearts fo

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Sweethearts.

Butler university men will have two Sweethearts at the Sophomore cotillion tomorrow night. Believing that two queens are better than one, they chose Miss Jo Ann and Miss Betty Lou Ranstead, 19-year-old twins, to reign at the annual university dance in the Marott hotel ballroom. The blue-eyed twins, carrying on the Ranstead name at the university, are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Ranstead, 6255 Central ave. Their grandfather was an original contributor to the fund

Christian university, now Butler,

This is the second time within four years that twins have reigned at the cotillion and the second consecutive victory for Delta Delta Delta sorority candidates. Home . economics majors, . the Ranstead twins belong to Spurs, sophomore women's honorary organjzation, the Associated Women Students, Y. W. C. A. and the Welwyn club. Betty Lou is a member of the student council. Members of the queens’ court will be Misses Betty Thomas, Frances Marstella, Shirley Loy, Ann Shuttleworth, Martha Hall, Martha Demaree and Mary Louise Miles.

16 Former Service Men Join | Butler University Students

Sixteen former service men have senior and president of the Student

doffed their uniforms to put on col-

| lege corduroys once more.

Receiving honorable discharges from the army, navy and marines, they resumed their studies at Butler university. Thirteen are from dianapolis. Pais -Only one of the men, Louis Parnell, a senior, served overseas—in Ireland, and all were in the army but Paul Wagner, Kokomo, a senior, who was a marine, and Jack Lewis, a graduate student, who was in the navy. : ; Those who have resumed campus posts are Milton Dickos, Peru, a

Council; Jack Best, a junior, president of his class and business manager of the Drift, and Wagner, a star track man.

senior; Leonard Judd, junior; Dan Cummings, Dean Neeriemer, Carl Nelson, Joe Howett, Kokomo; Jack Farr, LaVern Batten and Theodore Popoff, sophomores, “and Richard Gustin and Kenneth . Skeleton, freshmen. President M. O. Ross said he believed the re-enrollment of these

ership in civilian life after the war.

NAVAL RESERVES OPEN

‘Lt. (jg) Charles R. Lohmeyer, USNR, will interview civilian applicants for commissions in the naval reserve Monday through Thursday at 120 W. North st. : Men under 38 who have had

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LODGE TO ELECT

Other students are Allan Means, |["

men indicated the desire of service} : men to prepare themselves for léad- |}

Prospect chapter 452, O. E 8,

ROBERT WILLS RAISED A GRADE

Invader Pilot With 58

Missions Promoted to

1st Lieutenant.

Robert P. Wills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Wills, 534 Powell pl, a pilot of an A-36 Invader with 58 missions in Sicily and

{Italy to his c¢rédit, has been pro-

moted to first lieutenant.

‘Robert F. Koss, former internal | revenue agent for the treasury de- | partment here, has been promoted {to sergeant at an army air forces {supply depot in England. His wife, Rosemary Jane, his 18-months-6ld ison, Robert F. Jr, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Koss, live at

RR er * 15205 Pleasant Run pkwy. Misses Betty Lou (left) and Jo Ann Ranstead . , . Butler university

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Morrison Promoted

Paul H. Morrison, 619 Congress 'ave., has been promoted to private first class at the tank destroyer replacement training center, N. Camp Hood, Tex. TR Lyle W. Faith, marine communications wireman ‘who fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa and in the Gilberts has been promoted to sergeant. He is the son of Mr. and {Mrs. Charles H. Faith, 96 West dr. | Woodruff Place.

| Second Lt. Shirley C. Lewis has been graduated from bombardier‘navigator school at Victorville army {air field, Cal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oran C. Trautwein, 1512 N. Beville ave. :

Marine Pvt. Veleda M. Stuart, daughter.of Mrs, Olive Stuart, R. R. 1, Box 46, has graduated from

jeune, New River, N. C. and as-

signed to duty a} the San Diego, Cal., base,

HOLD EVERYTHING

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motor transport school at Camp Le