Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1945 — Page 2
. dollar surplus now at hand.
SITES SUTGET UPS 1-2 MILLION
Most. Additional Expenses Will Go for Increaséd
Salaries.
By SHERLEY UHL State government expenses during
_the next two years will increase by"
at least 5% million doilirs over those of the current fiscal biennium: the 1045-47 Indiana budget revealed
budget showed the following bien nium cost comparison: 1043-44: $82,839,360, 1045-47: $88,523,810. These figures do not include milloins of dollars scheduled for appropiration by the present legislature.
Increased. Salaries Virtually all of the estimated ex-
nse boost will go for increased |
salaries and operating costs neces- | ted by wartime inflation. | financing matters or in the ad~ |
In fixing the final budget recom- | mendation, the state budget com“mittee pared more than 35 million dollars off of departmental and ws stitutional requests. © Department and institution heads had asked for a total of $123,000,000 The over-all hike in state personnel services costs averages 1312 | per cent, the budget statement said. | A relatively low $688.900 public im- | provement fund was describeds as ®the irreducible minimum that should be authorized by this session of the general assembly for repairs and very minor improvements.” Bulk of the budgeted increases went to the state's charitable, benevolent, penal and educational | institutions. More than 4 million | dollars additional was recommended | in this division.
All Branches Participate
The various - other departments, divisions, boards and commissions received about 14 million more. in expenses for 1945-47, with practically all branches participating in the increase. On the basis of these stabilized budgeted items, if no additional money were appripriated and no unexpected receipts taken in, the state would have an estimated 37 million dollars in the general fund at the end of the next biennium. This compares with the 41 million
Other Bills Ask Money
None of the estimates introduced today take into-account a rising tide of appropriation bills now flooding “the legislature. Already, legislation proposing the appropriation of more than 40 million dollars” has been submitted to the house. Thirty million ofthis, however, is for a vast state soldier * bonus plan which undoubtedly will
Bill Proposes Budget Bureau. For Indianapolis
By KENNETH HUFFORD
| - CREATION of a budget bureau for the city of Indianapolis with.a full-time director was proposed in a bill introduced in the house today by Reps. Harold Burnett and - Glen L, Campbell, Indianapolis Republicans. The bureau, which would con-Juet-exhaustive research into the
1. F. SCAMIDT DIES; | ACTIVE AS CLUBMAN|
C. Frederick Schmidt, president of the Indiana Automatic Sprinkler Co., died today at his home, 244 8. 1st st., Beech Grove. He was a member" of Oriental Masonie lodge, the Rotary club, the Athenaeum Turners, the Culver club and a former member of the Building Owners and Manager association. A graduate of Shortridge high school, Exeter military academy and
financial affairs of the city gov“ernment, “was recommended in the ‘municipal job survey report submitted several months ago by
Culver ‘military academy, he-was-58 The body is at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Survivors are his wife, Zola Harlan:—his mother, Mrs. John =W.
“Fred Telford, Chicago efficiency expert, . 2 » ~ THE BILL provides that the director be appointed by the mayor subject to the approval of the’ city council. His salary would
Schmidt; a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Gorski, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, and a | niece, Miss Pmily Fox, Buffalo, N. Y. —————————————— ’
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be fixed by the mayor with the approval of the council. The measure specifies that the director shall have had at least | five years’ experience in public
ministration” of large public | budgets. 2 » n J THE DIRECTOR would be empowered to require city department heads to furnish complete information on all expenditures and financial problems, Also introduced in the house was a bill that would empower the Indianapolis city council to fill any mayoralty vacancy in the event of the mayor's death or resignation. = 2 5 UNDER present laws, the city controller automatically became mayor when that office becomes vacant through death or resignation. : Echoes ‘of the factional fight | between the regular G. O. P. and the city hall group were seen in the bill, Party regulars threatened to support such a measure. several months ago when they | discussed the possibility of Mayor | Tyndall's resignation. |
SUPERFORTS BLAST JAPS AT SINGAPORE
WASHINGTON, Feb, 1 (U, PJ. —B-29 Superfortresses, flying 3500] miles round trip from bases in In-| dia, bombed military installations: at the big Japanese naval base at | Singapore today for a third time. | The daylight raid was-announced | by the war department. In previous | raids last Nov. 5 and Jan. 11, the] giant bombers attacked naval dock- |
ytions’ at the base, which guards | ME aya and ‘the Dutch East Indies. | Tokyo broadcasts recorded by PF. F." C. monitors said lone B-29s
be defeated by Republicans who believe service allotments are purely a federal government affair. But this still leaves something like 10 million dollars in G. O. B. sponsored measures, many of ‘which probably will flow freely through the Republican-dominated legisla-~ ture. Thus, it appears that some new revenue-raising method will have to be devised by the Gates administration in order to preserve the ‘general fund. Recently, approval of an increased liquor tax was announced, but the four million doljars annually provided by this new levy is to be applied to a post-war ponstruction fund. Persistent administration reports predict additional revenue measures, one of which may be a two cent a pack tax on cigarets. Budget estimates also include a $600,000 dollar increase in expenditures from the motor vehicle highway fund. The standard school tuition support schedule remains at ~-42 million dollars. - Announced by Budget Director Anderson Ketchum, the 1945-47 ex-
~ pense account “was introduced —in
the legislature by Reps. James -M. Knapp (R. Hagerstown) and Robert Heller (D; Decatur).
ROCKEFELLER PLEADS FOR CHURCH REBIRT
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—|
John D. Rockefeller Jr., reiterated
from the Marianas made three sep-
arate nuisance attacks on the Jap-|
anese home islands of Honshp and
RECEIVE LONG TERMS
HONOLULU, T. H, Feb. 1 (U.P).
prison’terms ranging from eight to 30 years at hard labor for their part in a mass mutiny at an Amer-
July, it was disclosed today. Another accused mutineer was convicted but is awaiting retrial after a review of his case by Maj. Gen. Henry T. Burgin, commander of the central Pacific base command. :
martial, the first mutiny trials held
War.
4 YANKS SENTENCED IN PARIS BLACK MART
PARIS, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—Four American soldiers were convicted of | black market operations, dishonor- | ably discharged and sentenced to) long prison terms today by an army
his world war I plea today for a court-martial.
revitalized church to offér moral stability to the emotion-shattered masses, ; Rockefeller said . the people did | not find in the present day church | “the recognition, the association, | the guidance and the inspiration which they need and have a right| to expect.” In a dinner address last night opening the New York Protestant | council's drive for $800,000 operating | funds this year, Rockefeller pro- | posed a reborn church built on re- |
The men “and their sentences | were: Sgt. Nick 8. Anther, Cleve-|
(land, O., 15 years; S.. Sgt. Howard | D. Fesler, Columbus, O. 25 years; | | Pvt. Clifton C. Young, Sacramento, | | Cal, eight years, and Cpl. Fred N. Busby, Lubbock’ Tex. » 18 years,
RAIL WORKER KILLED LOGANSPORT, Ind, Feb. 1 (U. P.) —William Carpenter, 62; Monti{cello section worker, was killed yesterday, when crushed by a bucket crane while loosening cinders in a
ligious spirit rather than formalities. | railroad Sondpla car,
| Gambling Lid Is On to Stay,
Remy, McMurtry Promise
The town will remain “closed tight” with any gamblers functioning strictly on the quiet, "Buch was the edict today .of Safety Board President Wil H. + Remy, whose hand-picked police chief, Jesse Mc¢cMurty, replaced _ former Chief Clifford Beeker Tues-
Mr. Remy said the new police administration would carry out a “quiet, persistent anti-vice program” with no ballyhoo. He said “police vigilance over suspect taverns
ne . other establishments would
that Mr. Beeker didn't continue as | hard-boiled as he began. But the {town is still “closed” as far ag openfaced gaming is concerned.
Ax Is Poised
Meanwhile the ax was poised today over the heads of Beeker confidantes, Captains Jadk Small and Alfred Schulz. Both are definitely on the skids now that Mr. Beeker has been reduced to the rank of detective inspector.. It was over the promotion of Schulz and Small that Mr. Beeker and Mr. Remy first clashed in public. Inspector Donald Tooley’s status likewise was questionable, As second-in-command, Mr. Tooley also was a Beeker cohort, Now that the Beeker rggime has capitulated, all of the former chief's friends are lockisg
|for troops in continental United | States has risen to 36 per 1000 men,
! service forces venereal disease cone
Janse shippirig and defense in- | 2
Shikoku between 9 p. m., yesterday | and 1:30 a. m. today (Tokyo time) | but caused “absolutely no damage.” |
13 ARMY MUTINEERS |
—U, 8S. army courts-martial have sentenced’ 73 Negroe soldiers to
ican air base on Oahu island last |
The convicted men were sen-| tenced after two extensive courts-
in this area since the start of the
|
Declaring the venereal disease rate
Lt. Col. Thomas H. Sterberg, army
trol officer, has announced that all
TY INDIANAPOLIS TIMES New Labor Commissioner Feted at Dinner
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Charles W. Kern, new Indiana labor commissioner, was honored by 500 friends at a testimonial dinner “last night in the Claypool hotel. Shown here are (left to right) Mr. Kern, Lt. Governor Richard T. James, Governor Gates and Carl H. Mullen, president of the state federation of labor.
BY TWO HOODLUMS
"A 39-year-old ‘woman was slugged early last night by two hoodlums as she walked in the ' 2200 block of Madison ave, “lk | Mrs. Anna Garfigus, 164 Pleasant Run blvd, was on her way home when the men attacked. her, knocking several teeth loose and causing * cuts around the mouth that required several stitches. She was unable to give a descrip- ° tion of the attackers, who neither * robbed nor criminally assaulted her.
"POWERHOUSE STRIKE | ~I1S-VOTED AT DETROIT | DETROIT, Feb. 1 (U. P) ~Ap- | proximately 900 powerhouse em-
ployees of the Detroit Edison Co. {have voted in favor of a strike
which would cripple war production
{In Detroit and 42 other Michigan cities, the national labor relations board announced today after count-
FINNS MAKE DEBT MOVE
infected servicemen will be treated before discharge.
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land today when it agreed to accept WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—|the:Dec. 15 payment on that counThe- United States took what ap-|try’s debt and to permit Finland to
War on ' on Optical Science.”
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CALKINS TO SPEAK Tracy H. Calkins, of the Conti-|which will be called to enforce denental Optical Co. will speak to|mands of the utility workers organthe Scientech club Monday noon in|izing committee (C. I. O.) for speedy peared to be another step toward undertake certain other financialfipe Claypool jon the “Influerice of settlement by the company of 32 » [resumption of relations with Fin-|transactions here.
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ing votes. No date was set [or the walkout,
disputed Issues in a new contract.
Children Teach Parents to Cook
CHICAGO, Feb. 1-(U. P.).—Instead of ‘bragging about the food mother prepares, junior is telling mother how, to do .it—and with good results, Thomas C. Desmond, Newburgh, N. Y. said today in the current issue of Hygeia. ; “Food excites the imagination of children,” Desmond said. “Third grade pupils take a lively
interest in’ the study of vege tables.”
ated courses of nufrition, designed to attract and hold. the Interest of the student according to his age, are given. He said that during the past
children about how to serve healthier meals.
PVT. LOGAN IS HOME
Mrs. Evelyn Logan, 849 Linwood ave, and son of Mr. and Mrs. John Logan Sr., 226 N. Gray st., is home on a 10-day furlough, He {1s recuperating from an operation per | formed at Camp Lejeune, N, C.
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