Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1944 — Page 1

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POST-WAR TAXATION— Ruml Charts Plan to Keep U.S. aft Work

By BEARDSLEY RUML Written for United Press

AE the war—and bab

ly for many years to come—we will get each year a bill for federal taxes of between $16,000,000,000 and $18,000,000,000. Besides that, we will get another hl ¢ for state and local taxes of Shows. $12,000,000,000. ll Those are fig-

But what they mean is that if spread evenly over the entire nN population the _ Mr. Rami average” fam. : ily of four people would have to pay just about $500 in federal taxes and around $330 more in other taxes, or some > $830 a year altogether,

This is the first of five articles by Beardsley Rumi of the Committee for Economic ment giving his organization's views on a post-war tax program for the U. 8.

For more than a year and a

BOTH TRUMAN AND BRICKER

Candidates g Address Legion .Convention on Post-War Responsibilities. ‘ CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (U. P).— Vice presidential candidates of both major parties today told the 26th

annual convention of the American Legion that rights of returning vet-

the mistakes made after the end of the first world war must not be repeated. A The speakers, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, Democratic candidate for vice president,’ and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice presidential candidate, both are veterans of the first war. Senator Truman served In Prance as commander of an artillery battery and Governor Bricker was a cha

veteran is entitled to have his job back, even at the expense of the civilian who held it while he was at war. Future Is Viewed

Truman told the legion that it faced a grave responsibility in that, he said, affairs of the nation will be in the hands of veterans of the first and second world wars for some time after hostilities cease. Bricker declared he was oppnsed to the view which he said had been I in some quarters that,

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erans must be protected and that |

Bricker said that each Teturning

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I. H. S. A. A. Commissioner Was Well Known in Sports World.

The guiding spirit and organiz-

ing # us of Indiana high school basketbal dead. was fatal today

to Arthur L. Trester, commissioner of the Indiana High Schooi Athletic association, at his home, 4746 Broadway. He was 66 last June 10. Mr. Trester had been {ll for a week. He had a relapse Saturday, seemed improved yesterday, but early this morning became weaker and his heart failed.

Basketball ‘Czar’

Mr. Trester's name became a ‘symbol of high school basketball ! throughout the nation, Many states followed the pattern which he de-

A.L Trester Dies

F. Halsey, United States 3d fleet, said today |

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WORE PACIC BLOWS ON THP,

HALSEY HINTS

“Dirty Trick Department Working Overtime,’ He Declares.

By GEORGE F. JONES United Press Stat Correspondent

Fame Comes to Err

ABOARD ADM. MARC. MAR-|

SCHER'S CARRIER FLAGSHIP, | Off Mindanao, Sept, 17 (Delayed) | (Via Navy Radio)l.—Adm. William | commander of

that he and Adm. Marc Mitscher |

were planning more trouble for the | Japanese,

“Sure,” Adm. Halsey said, “our |

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| Allies Making Bold

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Berlin.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Sept. 18.—= tAllied sky trains totaling 285 miles in length poured reinforcements and supplies down to Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton's airborne army fanning through Holland in a bold attempt to |turn the Siegfried line and open the way to Berlin. A front dispatch apparently written last night said the Germans were fleeing from the allied invasion by air, and ‘had evacuated at least 13 Dutch towns and villages.

| ATYERBURT'S 83D—

25 Yanks Herd 20,000 Captives

The security blackout still | concealed from the German thigh command and the world the details of the descent on | Holland —details of which the Nazis | obviously had not been able to patch

|into a pattern for use in the de{fense of Northwestern Germany.

On 200-Mi. Trek |

half the Committee for Economic |Veterans should not be given jobs at signed for the annual Indiana high dirty trick department is working Absorb Counter-Attack

Development—which is a group of businessmen organized for the purpose of studying the problems of peace-time employment and then stimulating individual employers to do something about these problems—has been studying taxation, Their conclusions, which are stated in a proposed “postwar federal tax plan for high employment.” are that we can carry this big tax load if we do two things. . r . FIRST WE must plan for and achieve quickly, after the war, an _ expansion of production and business activity somewhere bes tween 30 and 45 per cent greater than we had in 19040. This will create between 7,000,000 and 10,000,000 new jobs. ¢ Secondly, we must revise our

tax system so that we can collect | the needed taxes in such a way |

that it puts the least possible burden on the continued existence of all jobs and on the creation of ,8ull more new jobs. Both of these objectives are big | orders. But if we succeed, the rewards will be lower tax rates and more income for Mr. Average Citizen, ® » »

IT IS SIMPLY a matter of

the expense of civilian job holders. school basketball tournaments. Such action, he added, would violate | He was called by some the “czar”

they left for the fields of battle. G. 1. bill of rights and stressed the and life. tion. He said small business was not compromise,

said that every aid should be extended to veterans wishing to establish themselves in business. Truman spoke at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis time), and Bricker at 1 p. m., at the opening of the afternoon session, Arnold Receives Medal

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a promise made to servicemen when of Indiana basketball, but a schoolman from his youth, he was a Truman outlined in detail the stickler for the rules of the game— To him there were no small business phase of the legisia- degrees of wrongdoing and he would

the bulwark of free enterprise and, Mr Trester brought to his job the experience of the competitive

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overtime.”

Halsey, tanned and

scher on forthcoming blows against the retreating enemy.

In Over-All Command

kick ‘em in the backside.” Halsey is in over-all command of the Palau invasion and panyaerial blows against the PhilipHe appeared in better physi-

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confer four hours with Adm. Mit- |

ebullient, | came aboard this flagship today to |

Replying to the question of |

“I hope to God we can so we can

tion than when I last saw | Guadalcanal last November. ]

late Brig. Gen. Theodore who died in France shortly after {the invasion of Normandy. Atherton told the Legion in his ‘annual report that it “has con{tinued its fight for a universal serv‘ice law which would freeze all prices! {and place all persons in the servijce of the government; we have] | pointed out that if such action had

{been taken before the war, as urged,

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‘Hoosier Heroes—

common sense, the CED points |

out, that if we can achieve a national income of $140,000.000,000 a year at present price levels, then we can pay $18.000,000,000 in taxes and still have $122,000,000.000 left—which is $25,000,000,000 more than we had in 1940. Such a level of production would provide about 55000000 jobs, which would not only mean millions of new taxpayers but fewer unemployed to whom relief has to be paid out of taxation. The committee for economic development believes that both of these goals—a national income of $140.000,000.000 a year and 55.000,000 jobs—are possible, if we make bold, intelligent plans for them, J » » AND ONE of the most important parts of that planning is to overhaul our national tax program #0 that it will encourage individual employers to risk the expansion which will provide the needed jobs. Such a plan has been developed . and proposed by the CED research committee, The next four articles in this

'3 FLIERS MISSING,

more Indianapolis men have been wounded in France,

MISSING T. Sgt. Karl A. Cretors, 3236 Kenwood ave. over Germany. 8. Sgt. Raymond H. Dellen, brother of Kenneth Dellen, 4056 N. Gracéland ave. over Italy. Cpl. Robert N. Beaver, brother of Mrs. Martha Snead, 3132 Broadway, from a base in Italy.

WOUNDED Cpl. George E. Oren Jr, 1107 N. Colorado ave., in France. Pvt. Clinton McDonald, 1210 DeLoss st, in France. Second Lt James Robert Egli, 1220 Tuxedo st. in France,

PRISONER

Ralston st, of Germany.

® memorial service was held for the Roosevelt

ANOTHER CAPTURED

The aerial war has added three loical gunners to the list of missing and another airman previously reported missing is a prisoner. Three

T. Sgt. Herman W. Hallberg, 5020

1189 Less Pupils Than Last Year Reported Higher Grades. Indianapolis public school enrollment has increased this year, but

{local high schools still show a loss alot 189 pupils as compared with last

According to figures released today by the school board, 39.834 pupils are attending elementary schools, 213 more than in 1943. In high schools, however, enrollment is 14,897 in comparison to last year’s 15,086. Total enrollment this year is 54.731, an increase of 24. Although high school enrollmeng is lower this year, the school board said, the loss is small in comparison to last year's loss of 962 pupils in both grade and high schools.

Explain Loss

The loss, officials said, is attributed to the call of boys into the armed forces, the accelerated study plan so that pupils may enter college sooner and the opportunities in war work for high school pupils, Only two high schools, Howe and Broad Ripple, show an increase in enrollment over last year. Howe registered 1321 pupils this year and 1265 in 1943 while Broad Ripple has 995 pupils this year in comparison to last year's 928. Other high school enrollments this vear are Manual, 1382; Shortridge, 2555; Technical, 5045; Crispus Attucks, 1754; Washington, 1658. The 1943 figures were Manual, 1439; Shortridge, 2730; Technical, 5088; Crispus Attucks, 1779; Washington, 1658. School 26, where first-year high school pupils attend, has an enroll« ment of 187 in comparison to last

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| Eric Pyle’ Aas put Dinai“an the’ map,” and Will Pyle, his farmer father, proudly stands beside the sign of the times.

Refuses to Predict

Asked if his third fleet would hit | back, Halsey said: 3 “1 think s0.” | Questioned about rumors that he eventually would lead the fleet in al Blow against Yokohama, Halsey | said: “I'd like to go there, too.” Halsey still remembers the New; Year's interview in which he pre- | Sicted the defeat of the Japanese in! ¥ Today he parried inquiries regard- | ing the future: ab quit looking into the crystal

{Details of Pacific invasions, Page 3)

ASKS INVESTIGATION OF PEARL HARBOR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.). Rep. Forest A. Harness (R.-Ind) introduced a resolution today calling for an immediate investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster by a special five-member house committee. : The proposed committee would be required to report its findings fix ing responsibility for the losses within 30 days and would be author-

state, war and navy departments and the white house bearing on the Pearl Harbor case and to subpoena military and naval personnel “whose

They're Finding It Hard to Stay Modest in Dana

By FLORENCE RHOADES DANA, Sept. 18. — Dana faces another dilemma!

so black that London's worst “pea-soup” would have seemed

{ like California sunshine.

The powder plant was coming! Dana was to be wiped off the map, either by expanding industry or the force of an explosion.

Friends, neighbors, kith and kin |

were to be scattered to the four winds. Dana was doomed! Yet despite these dire predictions Dana has survived. - ” =» - THE CONSTRUCTION era ended at the Wabash River ordnance works, heavy trucks no Jonger monopolize her streets. Only at night as freight cars move on the switches east of town do many of us realize how close we are to a vital role in the destruction of Berlin and Tokyo. Farm wagons and trucks,

Nazis FACE NEW

By COLLIE SMALL United Press Staff Correspondent BEAUGENCY, France, Sept. 16. Twenty thousand Germans, who surrendered to 24 brash Americans, arrived at the River Loire today and turned in their arms tc the American 83d division. (The 83d trained at Camp Atterbury, Ind.) Though technically . prisoners, they had been permitted to march in a group, fully armed, for 200 miles. Twenty-four Americans had been insufficient to protect them from the venegeance of the French Maquis. Only at the River Loire were there enough Amerithem, s un = IT WAS one.of the strongest military capitulations on record. The French: didn't like . it. They thought the Americans were a little crazy to let 20,000 armed men march 200 miles without guard or direction, But it turned out as it had been planned. The Germans were more afraid of the ‘Prench than the French

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ii Deep es Soviet Thrust, Creating Critical

Situation.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Stag Correspondent LONDON, Sep. 18.—The Berlin iradio said today that a deep Rus{sian breakthrough toward the Lat{vian capital of Riga created a {“critical ~ situation” for German troops in the Baltics who would be ‘trapped by a 15-mile Soviet advance to the North sea. | The Russian breakthrough cars ried half way dcross the corridor {the Germans -had maintained in | the Riga area along the seacoast { through which’ tens of thousands of troops in the upper Baltics was supplied, Nazi broadcasts said.

Battle Flares

The Baltics ‘battle flared to full intensity, by Berlin account, and spread to new sectors as upward of | 500,000 Soviet ‘troops were engaged. To the, southwest, Berlin reported,’ without Moscow confirmation, other Russian forces tried to cross the

distrusted the Germans. They wanted to keep their arms ~aly

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THEY WERE led by Maj. Gen. Erich Elster, their commander.

| He and his staff formally handed

their swords to Maj. Gen. Robert C. Mason, commander of the 83d. Two and a half miles behind them were their men, three col umns of weary and disheartened Germans who stacked arms on the river bank and marched across pontoon bridges to prison camps. Elster, formerly commander at Biarritz, was ordered on Aug. 26

to regroup all German troops-|

along the Spanish border and the Bay of Biscay and take them 600 miles back to the Reich. They included 6000 regular sol-

diers, 6000 Luftwaffe personnel |

and 7000 marines. They had 400 stolen civilian automobiles, 500 trucks and 1000 horse-drawn vehicles. 2 » ” THIS FORCE never fought a real battle but for weeks it was harassed by the Maquis and the

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MAIL RATES INCREASED ,

WASHINGTON, Sept, 18 (U.P.).]

Crack German troops shifted (westward from the Russian front, jcounter-attagcked the tip of the {American 1st army wedge which |Lt, Gen. Courthey H. Hodges had {driven through the Siegfried line {east of Aachen, but the Yanks ab{sorbed the impact handily ‘without the loss of a single pillbox.

LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—Allied headquarters reported today | that the airborne army in Holland had achieved its initial objectives and was engaged in heavy fighting. German counter-attacks pushed erica back two miles in the Luxembourg trontiér “ares, but the ground was retaken during the night. Resistance was stiffening along the entire front within Germany. Artillery and air activity had increased greatly. The American spearhead driven deepest into Germany was slowed by counter-attacks, but all these were repulsed.

United Press Correspondent Jack Frankish, in a 1st army front dispatch reporting the German counter-attack, said it was launched on.a smaller scale than one yesterday. U. 8. artillery rained more {than 200 tons of shells onto crack Fusilier and Grenadier units, the finest ‘German troops yet faced by the Americans in this sector, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British 2d army smashed forward across the Dutth frontier in a full scale ‘advance ‘after nearly two weeks of comparative lull. Armer moved from the De Groot bridgehead across the Escaut canal in the | direction of Eindhoven. Battle Thunder Audible While the geography of the airborne onslaught remained obscure, |it was evident that the British were pressing northward for a junction ‘with Brereton's forces. A dispatch (from the airborne front said tie thunder of battle was audible to |the south, obviously heralding the {approach of the British. | Simultaneously, the American 1st larmy cut into the German border

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‘city of Aachen and drove beyond

the breached Siegfried line to | within 20 miles or less of Cologne, while U.S. 3d army troops swung ‘up north of Metz in a sudden strike

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PLANES AID WARSAW

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series will ‘describe its various recommendations and their mean

—President Roosevelt has signed al

di with sifting wheat and loaded wi : bill increasing the special delivery]

1 Vistula riv t W (Detalls, Page 11) newly shucked corn have, ex- 2 arsaw io storm

current locations are not necessary to the war effort”

year's 199. LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. P).—

ing for individual taxpayers, and their effect on labor, farmers, stockholders, and people who want to go into business for themselves after the war,

NEXT—"You Can't Get Taxes Out of a Turnip.”

BRICKER TO START TOUR COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 18 (U. PJ. «Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice presidential nominee, will begin a 9250-mile ‘campaign swing Oct. 1 which will carry him into 20 northwestern, Pacific, mountain and southwestern states, “it was announced today.

TIMES INDEX

‘Amusements ..16/ Mauldin ...... 4 Barnaby ...... 9 Ruth Millett ,. 9 F Comics save +13] Movies : A3; {Obituaries ee 10 Fred Perkins .. 9 +10] 'Ernie Pyle ... 9 12/Radio ........13 .. | Bar] Richert . 11 ..10{ Mrs. Roosevelt 9 .12 {Side Glances ..1

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

EXCLUSIVE— In The Times

WHAT HAS the war done to your boy? Here is the first of ‘a series of articles answering the prime question of the moment: What will happen when Johnny comes marching home? Turn to Page 9. @® PETER EDSON analyzes the explosive wage issue in‘volved in the war labor -board’s consideration of the Little- Steel formula. See Page 10. ® DAVID DIETZ, ScHppsHoward science editor, tells about upside-down lighting, © a revolutionary develop- - ment. On Page 8. . @® RUTH- MILLETT makes © some suggestions about what to write to the boys overseas. Turn to Page 9.

FROM KEY CITY OF RIMINI RO! Sept. 18 (U. P).—Canadian and Greek troops reached the northwest corner of the airfield below today and were within two miles of that Adriatic coastal city, whose capture would open the way to the Po river valley and the outflanking of the Gothic line. German resistance remained firm along the entire front, and in the Adriatic sector the enemy unleashed several strong counter-attacks which

were repulsed with heavy enemy | casualties.

ALLIES 2 MI.

rp ——————— HOOSIER DIES IN CRASH GRANY, Mass, Sept. 18 (U. P.). —Second Lt. John W. Woodrow, 22, Huntington, Ind, was one of seven men killed y when a Liberator bom crashed two miles north of Westover field while on a routine training mission, the army PERSHING IMPROVES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U.P.).|

G. A. R. VETERAN IS 100 UNION CITY, Ind, Sept. 18 (U. P).—David 8. Moist, only surviving Civil war veteran in Randolph county, observed his 100th

cept for that first hectic year, continued to roll into town, from the north where many a “dispossessed” farmer is renting from the government the plant's surplus land he once owned. Al-

birthday anniversary today.

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Roman Mob Storms Traitor Trial, Lynches 'Wrong Man'

ROME, Sept. 18 (U. P). = A howling mob of 7000 Romans stormed the first great trial of

100 American and British military police arrived on the scene. The crowd demanded custody of its intended victim, Pietro Caruso, former pro-Nazi chief of the Rome police and defendant at the which, never got under: way. Carreta, who was to have been the prosecution's star witness against Caruso, was dismissed from his post as assistant director of the Regina Coeli prison. by allied au-

| thorities isthorities last July 18.

The wrath of the mob was turned toy Carreta when the blackmother of a hostage shot by Germans in the Adreatine caves

| screamed out she had paid Carreta » bribe 56 8 het

150,000 lire as : g thay he iad, taken he

triafiirenewal of

pulsed. (The British radio said the battle of Warsaw “is entering its last phase“ after the Russians “reached the Vistula about five miles north jof the capital, where the crossing of the river 18 least difficult.” The broadeast was recorded by CBS).

SCHOOLS OPEN FOR \' BOOK RENEWALS

Indianapolis and Marion county schools will be busy after school hours today, tomorrow and Wednesday when motorists will register for “A” gasoline ration books. Twenty-one schools will issue the books from 3:30 to 7:30 p. m. and applicants are to go to the nearest lone to their home. To get the new book applicants mist present the signed back cover of the “A” book along with

who does not have the back cover must make application for renewal at his local ration board, pent application his

the new application. Any applicant |

postal insurance rates and revising present collect-on-delivery postal charges. effective Nov, 1.

the Polish eapital, but were re-imail rate to 13 cents, decreasing Eighth air force Flying Fortresses

with an escort of fighter planes dropped supplies to Polish patriot

The changes will become: forces in Warsaw and continued

jon to land m, Russia. .

Eyewitness: 'A Rainbow of Chutes Drops Into Holland’

By LEO 8. DISHER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 18.—Dutchmen on their way to church gaped at the sky cavalcades thundering in from the west. They waved frantically as a rainbow of parachutes blossomed out and plummeted earthward with thousands of tough, heavilyarmed fighting men. ‘That was Holland's second airborne invasion of the war. This time the invaders were al< lies, Dutch commandos among them, arriving to drive out the Nazis who struck from the sky

without warning four years ago. |

They won and held landing grounds for the giant gliders that followed them in with infantrymen, guns and equipment. And the Germans, who had held Holland in an iron grip since May, 1940, fled in panic from village after village in.the path of the liberating army.