Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1944 — Page 7

at eing held by the. Hadden testified s hand and con= Democrats and

yy, Mr. Hadden the federal gove and other taxes , of this business ct to state and

yy are doing the 1 out. helpful manner whom had voted took no offense

lense a - pressure >» are here merely ne purpose is with supporting of the members »mbership of the

¥

tives

consideration at per for the states » appropriation at the federal credit of unemployment ow to the waging

ave no disposition . of the answer is

» federal governlocal governments

d with the choice |

~ either to retire on or to return to e and local roads n the taxes levied motive units and

at our people bes |

nd without delay.” | all of Mr. Had-

and. During the |

to let the con-

ve his (Hadden's) |

rmed in about the |

Mr. Willkie was & Southérn.

kness

w

ON, March 4= °

i

es heel is steel” | ing to Rep. Albert

eX.)

ranking ma-

of the house naval }

oxical phrase After |

istics gathered for intelligence serve

’

tative Thomas is n's chief industrial J

relatively low steel 3 » contends she is i

losses we have in-

chant fleets. This |

1 many think, Mr

aid this week that § merchant shipping @ Thomas said today | of Japanese ships |

t metals, food and “But she § this war; she may

mas said. much longer. dily

as gone up steadily,

to perhaps as much |

by the navy show |

sout 10,500,000 tons. r nine to one. Even

eel to the European §

nous.”

ing shipping losses, ,

ng faced the probnd he says that in oblem is now acute. stories about how and steel scrap to

ir exports of scrap n for the six years ut like this: 1936, 1938, 1,380,000 tons; tons, and 1941, 289 about 3500. tons .of 1, but it was mostly

‘steel supply. Thomas went on, of metal, including ie steel capacity to have inflicted upon ant fleet.” eved that if Japan en;” and that “she try with bombings.” last long after our {lippines.

+ the swapping of

OR HN RE

ate the, feeling that f

home with four or five pounds. “And the neighbor-—the best customer...

By William + Philip Simms

ATUF DA \Y, M. \: CH 4

Hoosier Vagabond

w ITALY, ’ Mareh 4 (By Wireless) ~The 47th group of A-20 light bombers is based on a magnificent field that was bulldozed out of a gigantic vineyard by’ British engineers ‘in three days’ time,

Its dark earthen runway is more than a mile long, and off it scores- of ‘crooked taxi paths lead out to where each

field area, but you'll always see standing behind some plane watching the mechanics work. And all through the vast vineyards which en-

gulf the tents of the Americans are Italians tying up

their grapevines and digging in the earth. . It is an odd sensation to walk along a narrow path and hear a dirty and ragged I Italian girl singing grand opera as she works on the vines. .Or to go to an outdoor toilet and suddenly discover a bunch of

. Italian peasant women looking over the low canvas

wall at you as they walk past. They don't seem to care, and you don't either. 5

Home-Made Stoves

EVERYBODY LIVES in square, pyramidal tents, officers and men exactly alike, at this airfield. The tents are scattered through the vineyard, 50 yards . or so apart, and they are hard to see at a distance. There are from four to six men in a tent, “They all sleep on folding cots, and most of them have the big warm air force sleeping bags. They live comfortably.. The inside of each tent depenils on the personality of its occupants, Some are neat and bright and furnished with countless little home coinforts of the boys’ own carpentering. Others are shoddy and cavelike, surpassing only a little the bare requirements of life. All the tents have stoves in the middle, They are home-made from 20-gallon ofl drums. Back of each tent is a can of 100-octane gasoline sitting on.a waist-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Will H, (for Henry) Smith, U. 8. internal revenue collector for Indiana, and probably the states earliest rising major public official. For yedrs, it's been almost a ritual with him to arise before 5. catch the feeder bus to 34th st. and transfer to the 5:37 a. m. Illinois streetcar, It's uot unusual for him to be in his office shortly after 6 a. m., sorting his own mail and glancing over that of his deputies. And he stays on the job : until around 5 p. m. ". Mr. Smith, at 61, is a pleasant, mild-mannered, but firm individual who takes his job most seriously. He's a stickler for following the letter of the law. Occasional abuse by an angry taxpayer doesn’t "upset him. He's used to “Will

Mr, Smith ft. He received a letter one day addressed to: H. Smith—Yonu Old Heel.” He has lost quite a bit of his hair (none of it

pulled out by taxpayers) and what's left is a steely gray. About 5 feet 10 inches tall, he weighs around 180, and has snappy, brown eyes. His greatest pride is his two sons. One, Lt. Robert C. Smuth, skipper of a subchaser in the South Pacific, has been home on leave this week. The other, Capt. William H. Smith Jr, is with a medical detachment in the Aleutians

Likes to Burn Wood -

IP HE HAS a hobby other-than his job, it's his backyard woodpile—the biggest in town. He has the wood hauled here from down around his natige Scott county and stacks it all over the back yard. He hauls it to the house in a wheelbarrow and burns it in the furnace in all but the coldest weather. He enjoys puttering around in his yard, but he isn't worth a darn as a handy: man—probably would have trouble driving a nail. He knows nothing about cars, can't drive except from the back seat. Between his beloved oak and elm trees, he has a flagstaff on which he raises and lowers a flag each day. He loves to shop, buys everything in sight. Sent to the store for a pound of coffee, he returns

Fading Hopes

WASHINGTON, March 4 -—A sizable” gap exists between Washington on the one hand and London and Moscow on the other with regard to the treatment of small nations. Whether the gap is bridgable remains to be seen, London has made it plain: that, s0 tar as she is concerned, Russia has pretty much of a free hand in eastern and southeastern Europe. = Apparently the Atlantic Charter does not strictly apply to the Soviet Union. The Curzon line—which Russia, herself, as late as 1934 officially abandoned in a pact with Poland—now has Prime Minister Churchill's blessing, likewise, the project to “compensate” Poland by giving her East Prussia and other slices of

Germany. Washington does not exactly approve of all this. Washington may find it expedient to go along with what it can't prevent, but it doesn't relish it just the same. If the Atlantic Charter is something that members of the Big Three can take or leave to suit themselves, but which the smaller nations must accept whether they like it or not, the announced war aims of the united nations become a shabby business.

Protests Against Partition

REP. JOSEPH MRUK (R. N. Y.) recently wrote to the President saying: “If Russia . .. is permitted to hold eastern Poland, as is the announced plan of Stalin . . . this war will have been lost by us . .. morally . . . even before we win it militarily.” In reply, the President said this government “will

My Day :

WASHINGTON, Friday.—Last evening I went to listen to a class which Edward Vander Veen is giving to cub reporters, but I noticed a number of older reporters attended also. Mr. Vander Veen has great. experience and background, and will undoubtedly give these young people a great deal that is valuable in their profes sion. " He impressed them with the fact that being a reporter is not glamorous. It is hard work, I could not help thinking that everything else in the world which . is worth doing, is hard work. I doubt if any profession

love your work, that makes it 3 i glamorous for you. newspaper work goes, it has a number of angles which appeal to different types of . It gives one a change to see life, the seamy side along with the good side. Writing is an art, and ke constantly before you the

Hi

“Nuys for his first term. Later, he and the senator

is really glamorous, but if you

As far as.

By Ernie Pyle]

high VE A metal pipe leads under the tent wall and across the floor to the stove. ‘It is the old siphon system, pure and simple. You have to suck on the pipe to get & mouthful of gasothat you control end. Stoves blow up

i t’ you use

i

Some of the tents have wooden floors made by knocking apart the long boxes that frag bombs come sections, Others have

Day Begins Early . MANY TENTS have radios. The boys listen to

all kinds of stations—our own Naples broadcast, thepral psychology as it may be applied . BBC, the distorted Rome radio, the cynical admonish-

ments of Axis Sally that we'll go home (if we are lucky) only to find our jobs gone and our girls married to other guys. But most of all they listen to the sweet music from German stations and'to the American swing music of our own. The day begins early on an airfield. Just before dawn the portable generators on wheels which are scattered among the grapevines begin to putt-putt and lights go on everywhere. Nobody ever turns a light on or off. The generators stop at 10 each night, and the lights simply go

out. Thus when the generators start again at six in|

the morning your light automatically goes on and your. radio starts. One man in each tent will leap out of his sleeping bag and get the stove going, and then leap back for a few minutes, Little strings of oily gray smoke soon begin to sprout upward out of the vineyard. : In a few minutes you hear engines barking on the other side of the runway, and then with a deep voice that seems to shake the whole silent countryside the planes thunder down the runway and take to the air. These are out on early test hops. A few unJennies have had to get out of their sacks at 4 a. m. to get them going: Everybody is up by 6:30 at the latest. Guys clad only in long gray underwear dash comically out under the nearest olive tree and dash shivering back into the tent, A little cold water out of a five-gallon can is dashed onto their faces. They jump into their clothes in nothing flat. They are .on the way to breakfast as full daylight comes.

hood kids know Be can be depended on to return with some candy in his pocket. Ties are his major weakness. He can’t pass a pretty one without buying it. And though he has something like 300 of his own, he sneaks some of those left for storage by his sons, and wears them. Born at Lexington, Ind, he attended Hanover and Indiana university, went to Shelbyville and engaged in the manufacture of hall trees, About 1918 or 1919, he became chief deputy internal revenue collector, serving several years, after which he engaged in the insurance business here. He was named collector in 1933, and has held the office longer than any other collector in the state's history. One of the staunchest Democrats in Indiana, he was campaign manager for the late Senator Van-

had a falling out.

Shaves in His Office

MR. SMITH has a “Welcome” sign on his office door, and he means it. Anyone can see him most any time, even when he’s having his morning shave in his private office. He doesn't smoke, and doesn't like to have his employees smoke on the job. He used to be an inveterate cigar smoker, but quit the habit several years ago. Interested in antiques, he has a house full of them. One of his proudest possessions is a fur cap— at least 30 years old, which he wears on wintry days. Much inerested in Scott county, he thinks anyone from there is “okay.” At home he reads the papers and magazines assiduously, His radio favorites are Gabriel Heatter, Charley McCarthy and Jack Benny. He hasn't been to a movie in eight years or so—can't be quiet that long. When he reads, he's up’and down every 10 minutes or so. Sometimes he’ll lay down his paper, Pk On, Tis bal Sit go. tang ons the-feut porel Jor a while, He enjoys ealifg, will eat anything, but above all loves his wife's home-made yeast bread. He frequently says that when he retires from the

SHOWS HOWTO AID JUVENILES

Applies Psychology While Helping Solve Problems

In Court Here.

By NOBLE REED A demonstration of some practi-

in handling delinquent children was given at hearings for three teenage girls in juvenile court yesterday. Judge Camille McGee Kelley of Memphis juvenile court, guest juige | at the hearings, suggested to one girl that she comb her hair- differently and dress up as a boost to her morale and improve her attitude toward life. “I'm through with boys from now on,” exclaimed one girl bitterly as the result of some unfortunate experience. Advises on Associates

“Oh, no, you shouldn't be through with all boys, just be careful what boys you associate with and go around in groups instead of having only one boy friend at your age,” advised Judge Kelley. “All girls should go places and have fun but with the right mental attitude toward the beauties of life and their responsibilities to their parents and associates,” she said. “It is terrible for some children to get the idea that the world was made especially for them and that they owe nothing to it. Children must be made to feel that they have a responsibility for the world they live in and that they must work and do things for their elders.”

Background Revealed

One 17-year-old girl who ran away from home brought a quick response from Judge Kelley. “I wonder if this court has all the information about this girl's psychological background and about her parents,” she pondered. Testimony disclosed that the girl left home because of the way her father treated her. “How about the girl's mother?” Judge Kelley asked. There was no trouble with her mother but the gir! said she couldn't’ go back home because her mother sided with her father. “Write to your mother and have her meet you somewhere away from

and a daughter is too beautiful to destroy because of a father’s treatment of a girl,” she said. An order was issued, making the girl a ward of the court and permitting her to live at the home of an aunt.

Egotism Punctured

Judge Kelley told another girl that her trouble was in thinking she knew more than her parents about life. “Always remember your parents know more about -life-in one min-

ute than you do in a week,” the judge said. Then she suspected that the

father of the girl was too harsh on her and that tempers clashed in the home. “Here is a case where the father and daughter are just alike and this girl must be made to feel that it is to her benefit that she obey her parents even if she doesn’t

internal revenue office, he's going to open a bakery with his wife Sein § the baking 3 and with himself as:

not rest in its efforts to free all victims of aggression and to establish a just and enduring peace based on the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, large and small” Assuredly the President's statement is hardly categorical. He leaves a wide bridge behind in case

“he is forced to retreat. But as a reply to Mr. Mruk,

it can only mean that he is opposed to partition by force, and that is the only way it can be brought about whether the compulsion is open or camouflaged. A similar conflict exists over Jugoslavia. To begin- with, London backed King Peter and his field commander, Gen. Mihailovich. His instructions from the allied high command were. to conserve his strength and maintain his organization intact against the day when the allies would invade the Balkans and would need his help. Then the Communist leader, Gen. Brozovich (Tito) appeared. His instructions fromi Moscow were the opposite of Mihailovich’s. His job was to make as much trouble for the Nazis as possible,

Formula Has Saved Lives

NOW LONDON has virtually dropped Mihailovich, if not King Peter, and is giving all possible aid to Tito. “Our feelings,” Prime Minister Churchill told the house of commons, “follow the principle . . . of striving without prejudice or regard for political affections to aid those who strike for freedom , .. and inflict the greatest injury upon the enemy.” Washington, certainly, is prepared to go a long way on that ticket. The formula has already saved much time for the allies, and many thousands of lives: It has been successfully employed without sacrificing fundamental principles. To sacrifice the Atlantic Charter and similar pronouncements, however, on the altar of temporary expediency could hardly be said to be in that category.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

chance to do better; and so you can never be bored. .

I amp quite sure that every writer finds as I do,

that every time he goes over something he has writsten, he wants to change it a little. Sometimes writers want to tear their work up and start again, because they feel they-have presented the subject from the wrong point of view. Sometimes hey just waht to change words so they can express the meaning more exactly. Sometimes they despair of ever putting into words what they feel and want others to feel. If you are a good reporter you have a chance to study so many of the different aspects of the world about you, social questions, political questions, question of national and international importance. You find yourself constantly being introduced to worlds of thought, and you are never without something to study. From my point of view it is a satisfactory profession, if not a glamorous one.

Mr. Vander Veén emphasized the necessity of |son having your facts and telling the truth as well as you can. One young : : “It looks to me

fact that we have not been permit-

men to protect the public invest

The Prohibition party’s presidential candidate, Claude A. Watson of Los

: whisky from Watson's coat. He was club

agree with them.” Judge Kelley spoke at a dinner | meeting of the Optimists club last night. - ”

WLB PROMISES QUICK TROLLEY WAGE RULE

Times Special

WASHINGTON, March 4.—The war labor board has recalled from Fred M. Vinson, economic stabilization director, the Indianapolis railways wage increase case, promising a prompt decision. Delay in approval of the wage increase resulted in a partial tieup of Indianapolis’ transit lines two days last week when the operators’ union refused to permit employees to operate trolleys and busses on overtime runs until all back pay was released. Regarding the Indianapolis case, Mr. Vinson, who assumed jurisdiction for final approval, said “it appears some question as to whether the wage adjustments proposed by the regional labor board (Chicago) are consonant with the stabilization program for the transit industry as applied in other cases.”

LAG IN PARK PLANS REPORTED BY BROWN

One of the community’s most vital services, the park system, is handicapped by lack of a professional post-war planner, Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown stated today in a voluminous annual report. “Likewise,” the report continued, “the department is now without the services of a landscape-architect to design adequate road, parking, picnic and other facilities and guide us on how best to exploit the native beauty of ‘our-Hoosier landscape. “There is cause for alarm in the

ted, under budget restrictions, to attract forester and skilled nursery-

ments in our trees and nurseries.”

WATSON'S ‘WHISKY’ FOUND DALLAS, ‘Tex,, March 4 (U.P) —

Angeles, was a guest yesterday at a gathering of the Dallas Bonehead

club, an organization nationally-

known for its semi-friendly insults to prominent persons. When Watentered, the club meeting, a club member rushed up and removed a half-emptied bottle of

home. The love between a mother!

In a serie of five articles, of which this is the fourth, 8. Burton Heath offérs a plan for

it applies to the great majority of individual taxpayers.

By S. BURTON HEATH . “NEA Staft Writer WASHINGTON, March 4.— Technically it is impossible for congress to combine the normal tax and ihe surtax, so that there

shall be one tax rate applied: to one base. That is be-

cause there are outstanding almost $25 billions of government obligations, the in-. come from which, by the contract under which they My. Heath were issued, is not subject to “graduated additional income taxes, commonly known as surtaxes,” and to excess- profit and war profits taxes. In the law, therefore, must be set up a flat normal tax which will not apply to the income from these bonds, plus a graduated surtax which will apply to that income. On the blank provision must be made for excluding interest on these bonds from the “normal tax.” This creates a minor complication. However, few ordinary taxpayers hold such bonds. Compu-. tation of the tax on such interest could be cared for in a “Schedule C” which most taxpayers can forget. And the two-part tax—one part normal and one part graduated surtax—can be combined, in practice, so that a single computation will care for everything.

Suggests Table

For the purpose of these articles, the technicalities can be ignored, and the tax can be considered as a single graduated table, cunstructed exactly like the surtax table on Page 3 of the instructions that accompany this year’s Form 1040. The form in which this tx would be presented to the taxpayer can be seen in the “Tax Table”

streamlining income taxation as

there =

“Max Plan Would Require One

Page 3—Form 1000-1048

(For Item 3) Source

WOMEN RII II IIR IRN IIIRIOIIIINIRRITIIEY $ eressresnssersaretisiisissacarnaine RE wefesevrvncen

Pesseseesssrnevsansene

Ges pecs r sess NesRrsstIIIIIRIER IRR

LEER fesse samsssnsntarertasanrinee

L

SCHEDULE B—-OTHER INCOME

TAX TABLE (For computing Item 7)

The following table shows the total income tax om the amount in Item 6, page 1.

If the taxable income ist

Amount

The tax will bet ra % of the taxable income

Not over $500 but not over SI

HS us 207% of the excess over $800. Over $1,000 but not ov: : iad plus 23%, the excess aver $1000. seen teense eS To Oe Dy a OF Ihe exeaus aver

Over $5,000 but not over $7,000. . Hioe plus 25% of the excess over 000.

(This table is not advocated. It merely illustrates the form of presentation. to cover all possible income ranges, whatever return is desired on each a bracket.

Sesensernses

®

or from the sale of any form or p! including

tality th

2. INTEREST ON BANK DEPOSITS, crued, as the case.may

CORPORATION be, on bonds,

of all taxable dividends.

4. To get this’ add the amounts shown

so. $ Muluply $500 by the number of edule A near top of page 1.

(Numbers correspond with Items on page 1)

NOTE: Persons who had no income in excess of $25 last year from any source except a single employer, whose salary income tax was withheld, are oye Ie make any return of any sort. Their tax is paid in

Persons who had income from a 3 hoses or or Jrofussion, ’ T pe! bonds or securities, or Pop ree - royalties against which they have expenses to offset—and persons who claim losses on any of the above activities, should not use this form for their income tax return.

1. GROSS SALARY RECEIVED.—Enter the amount Teceived as salaries, fees, bonuses, commissions, and other compensation for personal services. This means the amounts before deductions for taxes, union dues, health insurance, ete. Include compensation received as an officer or employee of a State or oF Folitical subdivision or any agency or instrumen-

. BONDS, NOTES, ETC—Enter interest received or accertificates or other. evidences of indebtedness, or similar E nterest.bearing obligations, DIVIDENDS.—enter the total ae

3. OTHER INCOME.—Include any other taxable income, such as earnings of minor children if parent is legally entitled thereto, and alimony and separate maintenance income.

Sele dependents you can claim all persons, toward whose

INSTRUCTIONS :

support you contributed more than half, who were under 18 years old or, if over that age, who were physically or mentally incapable ¢ of self-support.

6. For this, subtract the amount in Item § from the ‘amount in Item 4

7. Computed from Tax Table above.

8. These bonds are subject to surtax but not to mormal - tax. Since they were included in the income on which the combined tax was computed above, this line allows you to deduct the normal tax which is not applicable to this income.

, and from uired to 1.

rsonal,

SCHEDULE C—PARTIALLY EXEMPT BONDS (For Item 8)

“Income from Treasury bonds and from guranteed issues of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp., Federal Housing Adm'n, Home Owners Loan Corp., and Federal Public Housing Authority, subject to Surtax "only . vy §iues Normal tax on above at ?% $.. rer Enseee NOTE: The tax shown above should be entered as Item 8 on page 1, and its amount subtracted from Item 7 to show the net tax due.

debentures, notes,”

9. Subtract the amount in Item 8 from that in Item 7 to get your net tax obligation. hy:

10. Enter here all witholdings, as reported to you by ou 3 employer or employers, and add them to get the to =

in items 1, 2 and3. witholding.

persons shown in 11. Subtract Item 10 (tax already paid through with i holding) from Item 9 (your net tax obligation) to get the 3 amount still due, which must be sent with this return.

This is the back page of the streamlined income tax

po

shown as part of page 2 of the suggested simple tax return form. The rates shown are not advocated. They are illustrative. They are designed to obtain from each type of taxpayer approximately the same amount of tax that he is paying at the present time—but to get it more easily." Some experts to whom this form has been -shown suggest that it would be simpler if, instead of a graduated rate table, there were provided a table of actual taxes such as that used with the optional form or with the 1040-ES (Estimate) form,

plicity of the step-by-step instructions,

form proposed by S. Burton Heath, Note the sim-

That would be true if the table were limited to a relatively small wage range and a fixed number of dependents. In practice, it would require a book to present the computed tax for all possible combinations of income and dependency status. When such a book had been prepared, it not only would present a psychological hazard to the average small taxpayer, but it would necessarily present the taxes on a “bracket” basis, so that some would underpay and some would overpay. The present withholding scheme

likewise causes some to underpay and others to overpay. But this is 5 only temporary now. It is-all washed out with the final return 3 March 15. ia Since the. object of the proposed ; plan is to eliminate the necessity for either filing returns or claiming refunds, that object will be achieved best if the tax can be computed accurately in i first place. However, for withholding purposes, to avoid necessity for either annual return or refund claims, such a table may prove useful and desirable.

JUVENILES GIVE

Cut Down Prize Rose Bush, Steal Cars, Trim Grade ‘ Schooler’s Hair.

Juveniles were on the loase in Indianapolis last night.

prize rose bush.

night on the grounds of school 15.!

ordered by police

parents,

age the car of Francis Gootie, dis-| ipatcher at the police department.

Were Cutting Wires

home, 907 S. Missouri st.

been tampered with recently.

three cars and a bicycle. A juvenile was caught by J. F.|

hatchet. neighbor boy, he released him.

county commissioner.”

O. E. 8S, and is vice president of the Centra

labor union.

DETAIL FOR TODAY PX

CITY BUSY NIGHT

‘ They ‘stole; {designed to expedite the processes cars, administered crew hair cuts to iand cut red tape in handling thouunwilling youngsters and cut down al

Three of a gang of six high school juveniles. were apprehended by Dolice today after inflicting crew hair=| cuts on grade school children last | obtaining

They were reported by & woman printed, may be obtained by any living-on N. Jefferson ave., and were member of the armed services from to appear inipjs or her commanding officer, juvenile aid with one of theiriflled out and mailed back to the

Three boys, 14, 15 and 16, who escaped yesterday from the county detension home on W. New YOrk|gjisihle voter and obtain a ballot

st, were caught by police early to- | py mail, simply by writing a letter day as they were attempting t0 dam- |, the secretary of state or the cir-

The boys were cutting the wires|drafted. under the front seat of the car as it| Charles M. Dawson, State Senators was parked in front of the Gootie John W. VanNess, Robert G. Miller, This was | Albert Ferris and Robert Lee the second time the machine had Brokenburr; Speaker of the House

Three other boys of the same age | tives George W. Henley, Burt Sumwere apprehended by police last merland, John Kendall and J. Otto night near Warren Central high |Lee; school and confessed to the theft of ' Alexander; Attorney General James

Ray last night as he was cutting | | committee secretary, and L. S. Bowdown his prize rose bush in the Kay man, statistician for the state comyard at 806 N. Delaware st, with a | mittee. Recognizing him ~ as” s

LOCAL LABOR LEADER BECOMES CANDIDATE

Amos P. Stevens, 1565 Florence st., today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for |

He was in building construction work for 35 years and at present is| employed at the state house. He is; a member of the Masonic lodge} and Beech Grove chapter of the ] the Carpenter's local 60

State Soldier Ballot Bill Drafted for Special Session ACCIDENTS HERE

A bill to make it easy for Indiana’s thousands of men and women!

in the armed services to cast their {| Republican legislators. of the general assembly some time

this month to make it a law. Provisions' of the measure were

‘sands of absent voters’ ballots and {registrations by mail, committee members said.

2 Methods Provided

Two methods of registering and | was ballots are provided. Government postal cards, already

county clerk. Or, any member of the armed services may be registered as an

{cuit court clerk of the county in {which he lives. _ _|] Members of the committee which the bill were Lt. Gov.

| Hobart Creighton and RepresentaSecretary of State Rue J.

!A. Emmert, Ruel Steele, of Bedford; Claude Billings, Republican

Politicians Rue

Patronage Loss

ADMINISTRATION politicos today ruefully anticipated the loss of five ripe patronage plumbs in the form of a quintet of politically appointed park policemen whose terms expire March 31. Park Superintendent Paul 'V. Brown said he henceforth will ask regular city police to patrol 1 public parks and parkways, as is provided for under the state law. The five patronage jobs were created by a previous administration. . Those released under the rearrangement are Charles Marqua, Harold Kemp, Richard A. Disborough, C. H. Ricketts and Charles Clemens. Patronage (Billy) gretfully:. “They sure were good precinct workers.”

the world they may be in, has been drafted by a committee of Vietim of Hit-R Hit-Run Driver

The measure will be sent immediately to members of the legis- | lature and Governor Schricker who is expected to call a special iis

4 HURT IN AUTO

votes regardless of what corner of

In Critical Condition;

. {controller's office, he said, wouldn't

Chief William E. | Hamilton conceded re-

2 Women Injured.

CHARLESTON WOMAN rs se VISITOR IS SOUGHT

jin hospitals, one in a critical | condition, affer Being involved in & A Charleston woman who failed | | hit-run accident. to keep an appointment to see an| George C. Trigg, 54, of 1741 8.

SCHOOLS IN STATE. RECEIVE $9,528,648

store ' back home.

the barracks.

PX IS SHORT for post exchange, known in some army camps as the canteen, It is the gathering place for all during after-duty hours. act.

Here the soldier finds the closest resemblance to they corner -drug He also finds girls, rare enough in an army camp, .for many of the persons behind the counter are soldiers’ wives, The PX sells about everything. No one ever tells his buddies he's going to the PX, for fear he'll be asked to pee back something for everyone

Dr. Clement T. Malan, Indiana superintendent of public instruction, announced today that $9.528,648.64 in state funds has been distributed to local school corporations under the 1943 tuition fund

‘Malan said that the average payment to teaching units was $513.12, or 40 per cent of the average minimum salary required by law, and represented one-half of the total to be distributed for the school year. The funds allotted for the 1943-44 school year total $19,057,297.28, compared with $159022 during the 1942Malan said.

school year,

distributed | music

Indianapolis niece for the first time West st., former employee of Stokely was being hunted today as police Bros., was in critical condition at sought to identify the woman who | City hospital. He was found unwas killed here Thursday by @ conscious last night in a gutter in" Pennsylvania railroad train. [the 1300 block on 8. West st. and Mrs. Jessie Boggs, 123 S. Oriental was believed to be a victim of a et., the niece, said she had received hit-run driver. a letter from her aunt, Stella, Joseph Barnett, 46, of 645 Bright Frakes, Charleston, saying she was st, was in fair condition at City coming to visit her. Mrs, Frakes, hospital after being hit by an unwhom she had never seen, did not known driver in the 400 block on arrive and Mrs. Boggs notified Limestone st. last night. police, who began a search for the | wii Two Cars Collide A neighbor of Mrs. Boggs said Miss Margaret E, Magee, 69, of he saw a woman approach her home 301 N. Tacoma ave. was at St. Vin=and not finding” Mrs. Boggs there cent’s after being injuréd yester= had started to walk towards the day when the car she was driving railroad tracks near where the ac- and another car collided at Dearcident occurred at Southeastern and born and North sts. Arsenal aves. Miss Marie Wiliford, 32, of 227 E. The unidentified woman was de- 62d st., was at St, Vincent's after scribed as about 50, weighing about being injured in an accident early 165 pounds and wearing a green today at 59th and New Jersey sts. and red flowered house dress. {The car in which she was a pasHA —————— {senger hit a light standard. Four autos were damaged in freak PINBALL LICENSING accidents last night caused by a {speeding auto. The speeding machine, whose PLAN REVIVES FEUD driver is unknown, going west on 20th st. is said. to have failed to That Police Chief Clifford Beek-|stop at Delaware, hitting a car er-City Controller Roy Hickman fe By Ae or Bony a E.. 5 is auto in turn an feud rippled on the surface again | 00 le driven by G. L. Canfield, today with the chief's recommen- | \Carmel, and a parked machine dation that some 10,000 pinball | owned by Heze Clark, Times police machines in the city be licensed by | | reporter. the safety board, not the controller,| The speeding car then hit a the usual licensing agent. {machine parked on 20th st. belong= As his reason for "demanding | 118 to John T. Goodnight, 2004 N. safety board control of the devices, | Delaware st. and crashed into a Chief Beeker cited the advisability light pole, knocking it down. The of being able to revoke pinball | driver left the car and fled. licenses should the machines be! used for gaming purposes. The! BACKS CAR INTO TRAIN HAMMOND, Ind., March 4(U.P.). be able to do this. | —Thomas Presut, 42, Gary, Ind, The police chief and Mr. Hick- | was in critical condition today after man have been at odds since the [the automobile which he was drives present administration took office|ing beat a train to a erossing—and in January, 1943. | then backed into it. The engineer Chief Beeker said he hadn't vet | of the train said Presut's car decided on a pinball license fee, but crossed in front of the train, indicated that $6 a year would be stopped, and backed into the path “a reasonable suffi.” Safety Board |of the locomotive. Presut is too Attorney Henry Krug will introduce | seriously injured to explain. a licensing ordinance in city council. | ROBBERS STEAL 25 HOLD EVERYTHING "CASES OF WHISKY | CA Robbers stole 25 cases of whisky valued at $1500 and and $125 in cash last night from the Market Confectionery store, 101 N. Alabama st. The store is owned by James J.- Demoss. Mrs. Maude Lockhard, 3340 ‘E. ‘33d st., said that a thug grabbed her purse containing $11.50 and §¥ three $25 war bonds as she was|: walking last night in the 2500 block on N. Olney st. MINISTERS TO MEET Organists and choir directors will be the guests of the Indianapolis Ministerial - association at 10:30 a.-m. Monday in the Roberts Park; Methodist church, when Dr. Van Denman Thompson, head of the)