Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1944 — Page 12
MEASURES AWAIT ACTION
Municipal Bill Included With Provisions for Military Votes.
College Chums
‘Meet in Panama
It was reunion in Panama late
CAMPAIGNER CITES
RECORD OF BLUE
“The prosecutor’s office obtained
last month for two Hoosier college pals, one of them an Indianapolis man. : S. Sgt. Charles F. Harmon, 1727 W. Market st., thief special service
clerk of the coast artillery command in the Panama Canal de-
Ten bills were introduced today in
the opening session of special as-|
sembly, eight in the house and two in the senate. They would: 1. Authorize cities and towns to]
astablish reserve funds to finance
post-war public works projects by| levying property tax rates up to 2! cents per $100 property valuation. (This is the controversial measure sponsored by the Indiana municipal league.)
2. Exempt members of the armed
forces from paying poll taxes during their military service and provide for refunds of poll taxes paid by military men after Jan. 1, 1841.
Gives Board Rights 3. Extend the time for closing the polls on election days from 6 p. m. to 9 p. m. to accommodate war plant workers who can’t vote during daytime hours. 4. Authorize election boards to
| partment, received a phone call from Ensign Charles Gross of Kokomo, Ind. | “This is me, Charlie Gross,” the { navy man bellowed. “I'm in Pane ama. ... Come on down and show me the town.” The two were roommates for three years at Central Normal college, and it was the first time they had seen each other for two and a half years.
CAPEHART WARNS
ON WAR 6000S SALE Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Homer E. Capehart, candidate for | Paralysis, will speak at the final rethe - Republican nomination for | port meeting of the fund campaign
convictions in 82 per cent of all cases tried in municipal courts last year, declared Francis M. Hughes, deputy prosecutor, in a speech before the Washington township Republican club last night. Urging the renomination of Prosecutor Sherwood Blue on the Republican ticket at the May 2 primary, Mr. Hughes said the high record of convictions was obtained at the insistance of Mr, Blue that no cases be tried unless a legal arrest warrant had been issued and sufficient evidence for conviction had been obtained. He pointed out that about 4300 vagrancy affidavits were filled last year and that almost all of them were dismissed.
0’CONNOR WILL SPEAK AT POLIO MEETING
close polls any time after board de-| termines that all voters in precinct] have voted. 5. Exempt all members of the armed forces from penalties and interest accruing from failure to pay property taxes and would prohibit;
sale of any property owned by mili-| tary personnel because of delinquent
taxes.
Expenses Provided 6. Appropriate necessary funds to pay all expenses of the special session. 7. Extend the effective date of the state guard act.from February, 1943, for two years, 8. (Another poll tax exemption bill) 9. Exempt soldiers from payment of all state taxes, including gross income. 10. The G. O. P. soldier vote bill.
3,488,465 HOOSIERS Calculations out of Washington
United States senator, speaking at a meeting of the Washington township Republican club last night, demanded protection for established business against “fly-by-night” operators in the distribution and sale | of surplus war materials. Mr. Capehart stated that the sale of these materials through auction | and the making of enormous profits | is a blow to private industry and! {our economic system. “It is going to require a watchful, business-minded congress to enact legislation that will provide proper protection to the wage earner and to private enterprise—a protection that will be needed in the reconversion from a wartime to a peacetime economy,” he said. He stated that whether we have high wages in private industry or government doles will depend upon those running the government-and the economic policies practiced.
CLAIM RAIDERS KILLED
LONDON, April 11 (U.P.).—The German high command reported today that a British commando force] landed on the Dodecanese island of |
of the Marion county chapter at noon April 27 in the Indianapolis
Governor Schricker, who acted as
Athletic club. Approximately 150 are expected to attend this 11th annual meeting.
Expects Fame, Won't Sign Name
NEWARK, N, J, April 11 (U. P.).—An elderly rooming house operator explained to OPA rent officials that she hadn't registered with the agency because she was writing “The Great American Novel.” She didn't even give rent receipts, she said, bécause she cidn’t want to flood the market with her signature, which she believed would be of great value some day.
PURDUE PRESIDENT INVITED TO IRAN
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 11.— Purdue university's President Edward C. Elliott is expected to undertake a mission to Iran this summer as an adviser on the country’s reorganization and modernization of its educational system, Purdue officials announced today. Dr. Elliott, now in Washington for conference with. the state department and the Iranian legation, has been invited to set up an American educational commission to advise educators at Teheran, If he accepts the assignment, he will take a three-month leave of absence
honorary chairman, will speak, and Henry O. Goett, 1944 director of] chapter activities, will give the re-|
| port.
JAMES ROOSEVELT’S WIFE GETS A TAG
LAGUNA BEACH, Cal, April 11 (U. P.).—Mrs, James Roosevelt, wife of the President's eldest son, was
tagged Friday for driving 50 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone, police
records showed today. Her husband, a marine lieutenant colonel, left here Sunday via American airlines for Washington after spending Easter week with her.
TAKES PART IN OIL PROBE WASHINGTON, April 11 (U. P.). —Richard Joyce Smith, New York attorney and former Yale university law instructor, has been appointed
place the estimated population of | Rhodes and was “annihilated to the | general counsel of the senate petrolIndiana on July 1, 1942, as 3,488,465. | last man.” |eum investigation committee.
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from the university. { In 1938 and 1939 Dr. Elliott traveled to the Philippines where he isupervised the reorganization and {rebuilding of the University of the Philippines.
| The president recently returned to|{
his school duties after serving as \chief of the professional and technical training division of the war manpower commission. The division supervises the war training of servicemen and civilians throughout the nation. .
CLERIC TO ADDRESS EVANGELICAL PARLEY
Rev. M. O. Herman, superintendent of Evangelical churches of the Indianapolis district, will address the quarterly conference to be held at the Second Evangelical church at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Girls from the Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor will present a biblical drama entitled “Triumph of Tears.” The conference will open with a worship service.
32 ARE MAROONED BY COLORADO BLIZZARD
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. April 11 (U. P.).—Thirty-two persons, including three babies, were marooned today on Berthoud pass, 12,000 feet above sea level, as rescue crews fought through deep drifts of snow, confident that they would reach the group within a few hours. The stranded persons were motorists caught on the Transcontinental Divide highway, west of Denver, by the worst snowstorm in more than half a century.
URGES KING QUIT
NAPLES, April 11 (U, P).—Important conversations were report ed underway today in an effort to have Victor King Emmanuel declare formally that he will retire as soon as Rome falls and let Crown Prince Humbert become general lieutenant and guardian of the interests of the House of Savoy.
ANSWER HULL REQUEST
WASHINGTON, April 11 (U. P.). —Chairman Tom Connally, (D. Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee, will act soon to carry out Secretary of State Cordell Hull's request for appointment of a bi-partisan congressional committee to work with him on ques-
learned today.
CONGRESS TO RECESS
WASHINGTON, April 11 (U.P.). —Congressional leaders said today
islation to be cleaned up by midJune so that congress may recess for the national conventions of the Republican and Democratic parties.
YANKS TAKE INDIA RAILROAD WASHINGTON, April 11 (U, P.). —American soldiers on March 1 took over the major share of operation of the Bengal-Assam railroad, vital transportation link between Calcutta and Ledo now endangered by the Japanese drive into India, the war department disclosed today.
ACTOR GETS BOMBER POST ADVANCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Italy, April 11 (U. P.).—Jeffrey Lynn, screen actor, whose real name is Ragnar G. Lind, of Auburn, Mass,, has reported for duty as a staff officer with a B-25 Mitchell squadron in Italy. He is a second lieutenant,
CANADIAN MARSHAL DEAD OTTAWA, April 11 (U. P.).—Air Vice Marshal Walter R. Kenny, 59, veteran Canadian flier and former air attache at the Canadian legation at Washington, died today after a lengthy illness.
FAMILIES TO BE OBSERVED WASHINGTON, April 11 (U., PJ). —President Roosevelt has endorsed National Family week to be :-observed by churches the week of May 17-14,
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