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DID SEN, WILLIS
Observers Believe Chances Of Renomination Drop After French Lick Meeting.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer FRENCH LICK, Ind, Oct. 1.— Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) may have talked himself out of renomination in 1946. That was the opinion today of many of the Monday morning political quarterbacks as they reviewed what occurred at the Indiana Republican Editorial assoglation’s banquet here Saturday night.
. Scheduled to introduce the main} speaker, Senator Homer Ferguson
(R. Mich), Senator Willis gave & thirty-minute address of his own. In it he laid down the gantlet to politically powerful Governor Ralph
E. Gates, The governor had been |
princip.a speaker at luncheon. Governor Gates has been going about the state saying what tise G. O. P. needs for national victory is a “constructive program.” Without mentioning the governor, who had left the banquet hall to get the picket line removed from the Whiting, Ind, Standard Oil plant, Senator Willis assailed the
talk as “parroting New Deal propaganda.” “Deplore the Idea” “1 deplore the idea of saying that the Republican party has no program,” Senator Willis said. “We have always had a program. It is represented by the principles laid down in the Constitution of the United States and our various party platforms. I just wonder how many have actually read the Republican platform for 1944? “The trouble is we have not been smart enough fn dressing it up In catchy phrases. We have been using horse-and-buggy propaganda meth-
As a first principle for victory, Senator Willls urged halting immediately all talk about the Republicans not having a program. Applause Lacking It was his crowd; he long has been a member of the association. He is
Republican. But when he sat down, applause was-slight, They “sat on their hands” when Senator Fergu-
“ods in the age of the atomic bomb."}
editor and publisher of the Angola]
son suggested that Senator Willis be sent back to ashington for a second term.
Today the dopesters are busy sefecting Mr, Willis’ successor, A They point out that Governor Gates, with plus 3000 state payrollers, will have absolute control of the 1946 Repub“ican state convention, The senatorial nomination will go to whomever he gives the green light, As of today it appeared it will not be Mr. Willis.
A general specification being laid down is that it should be a younger (Benator Willis is over 70) world war II veteran. G. O, P. State Chairman William E. Jenner is that, He also was elected to a short term in the senate in 1944. He gave an old-fashioned Republican talk at
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‘ROUND AND 'ROUND— Washington's Reconversion Is Strenuous
By SHERLEY UHL SPORTING his inevitable bowtie, pinkish glow and benign smile, “Dapper Dan” Kidney, Times Washington correspondent,
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Daniel M. Kidney . : is in town resting up from Washington’s “reconversion.” Reconversion in the capitol, explained Dan, consisted in large part of the resumption of the old dizzy, pre-war social swirl. After several years of relatively subdued social* activities and shortages of various kinds, Washington is again revolving. It goes round and round in a vicious circle of cocktail parties, political gossip, banquets, political gossip, night life and political gossip, says Dan. 8 ” s “THE PARTIES are blossoming out like hydrangea,” sighed Dan. “They make capitol coverage so much more difficult from a physical standpoint. It takes a pretty robust newsman to hold up under the strain.” “Already,” he related, “the congressional and diplomatic sets have . again plunged into their regularly-scheduled cocktail par-
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BOROWY TO START SERIES FOR CUBS
Grimm Announces Plan to Open With Chicago Ace.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1 (U, P,).~Henry Ludwig (Hank) Borowy, who won 11 games for the ‘Chicago Cubs this season, will start for the National league champions against Detroit in the Manager Charley Grimm announced today.
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Borowy, 27-year-old righthander, was credited with pitching the Cubs to their 16th pennant in National | {league history. Sold by the New York Yankees to the Cubs late in July of this year, he won his 11 vietories in the brief span of 64 days. He won a total of 21 games for 3345 season, having won 10 and e with the Yankees before Cubs. He lost two National league for
several weeks ago, sald| to pitch against the DeTigers in the world series be-
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MONDAY, OCTOBER
“The Duke of York and 20,000 men, Marched up a hill and then ‘marched "down again,”
THIS BIT of doggerel dramatized a new round in the intramural battles of the Indiana Democrats today. Within an hour this morning the two top party leaders fought each other into status quo.
Here is what happened:
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ays Offers To Quit If McHale Will... But Neither Does
Democratic Chairman Fred Bays called a press con-
ference at ‘his Claypool hotel headquarters.
There he .
solemnly released a letter addressed to all “Democratic state committeemen, county chairmen and vice chairmen, precinct committeemen and women and members of the Democratic party in Indiana.”
In this letter he offered to quit as state chairman if
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“Frank M. McHale would resign -as- Democratic national committeeman, The pair have been at loggerheads ever The Bays letter suggested new
since the last election. leaders to restore harmony,
Mr. McHale was read the text of it over the phone, He said he would make no statement “now.” Asked point (Continued on Page 5-—Column 7)
VINSON GIVES TAX CUT PLAN, TO CONGRESS
Repeal of Normal Rate and
DISPUTES ARE SETTLED AT TWO OIL REFINERIES IN DETROIT AREA
Excess Profits Levy Is Urged.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.— The administration today handed congress a threepoint reconversion tax relief program providing for repeal of the 3 per cent normal tax on individfials, repeal of the excess profits tax on business and the lifting, effective next July 1, of the wartime excise taxes. Secretary of Treasury Fred M.} Vinson presented the program to the house ways and means com-| mittee. He estimated that lifting of the three wartime levies would cost the treasury $5,187,000,000 next year, He recommended that re-
peal of the normal and excess profits taxes be made effective next Jan, 1.
Reconversion Stopgap Reconversion «+ Director John W, Snyder made similar recommendations in his fourth quarterly report to the President and congress. He omitted, however, any mention of the excise levies. The present administration program is merely a reconversion stopgap. Congress is expected to consider later a comprehensive over~ hauling’ of the entire federal’ tax structure, but ‘this will not affect 1946 tax bills, Vinson warned the committee) that ‘the financial burdens of war do not end easily or quickly, Expenditures Remain High “War and its aftermath will keep federal expenditures high for months to come,” he said. Vinson told the committee the drop in national income alone would cost the freasury nearly $9,000,000, 000 in 1946, explaining that under present tax rates total tax liabilities for next year would be about $32,500,000,000. He suggested that repeal of the normal tax, effective Jan. 1, would be “an equitable method” of re-
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adopted,
individual income taxes, peal of the normal tax would remove nearly one-fourth of the nation’s individual taxpayers from the federal income tax rolls,
the case of a married taxpayer with {two dependent children, receiving
exemptions, the repeal of the normal tax would reduce his tax from
Thig is very substantial relief and goes to the kind of taxpayers who need it most.” “For example,” he sald, “in the case of a married taxpayer with two dependent children, receiving $3000 of net income before personal exemptions, the repeal of the normal
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NEWSMAN IS GIVEN MILITARY FUNERAL
Collier’s Writer First Killed "Since Surrender.
TOKYO, Oct. 1 (U, P.).—~A military funeral for Robert T. Bellaire, first allied correspondent killed in the Pacific since Japan's surrender, will be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in the U. 8. army cemetery south
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Congress Asks Truman to
|A congressional committee recommended to President Truman that this country retain permanent ducing taxes on individuals. ~ The Possession of enemy islands in the revenue loss from this, he said, Pacific and keep the secrets of the atomic bomb until the government
has conducted extensive studies Vinson pointed out that the nor-|into “all phases of atomic power.”
levy on about 12,000,000 families, members of the house appropriaexempt from the surtax, who would [tions subcommittee for the war debe relieved of all income tax liability partment headed by Rep. J. Buell if his recommendation should be|Snyder, (D. Pa.). called on the President today and Last year 48,681,825 persons paid submitted nine basic recommendaThus re- tions.
“For exaniple,” Vinson said, “in knowledge of atomic energy.
$3000 of net income before personal ithe Pacific should be retained by
$275 to $200, a reduction of $75.§
Claims Secret How to Stop Atomic Bombs
By ED BARLOW United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1, = The Crosby research foundation claimed today to have a defense
Larry Crosby, brother of film star Bing Crosby and head of the foundation which helped with the early work on the bomb, said that the defe, was so simple that the bomb could be exploded miles away without their exact location having been determined. “The bombs can be blown up at wa, lone with their experiment. " Crosby sig,
» CROSBY tuted discuss even the basic principle of the bomb defense, He said the secret would be turned over to the proper authorities on condition that it be used solely to “compel other nations to play fair with the United States.” Crosby said that the very simplicity. of the discovery might prove a menace and an amateur experimenter might unwittingly set off a store of atomic bombs
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U.S. MAY KEEP PACIFIC BASES
Retain A-Bomb.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U, P).~ today
The recommendations came from The committee
Mr, Truman will submit to congress early this week his recommendations on future development and disposition of the country’s
Atomic Study Urged “Possession of enemy islands in
the Uniteq States,” the house subcommittée report said. “We should never have to take them again.” The committee urged immediate creation of a commission to study atomic power, composed of repre-
GOP DEMANDS TAX BE PAID ON
ELLIOTT'S LOAN
House Members Say He Or First Wife Should "Bear Burden.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —Republican members of
committee demanded today that Elliott Roosevelt and his former wife, Mrs. Ruth G. Roosevelt, be compelled to pay a tax on the unpaid portion of his much-publicized $200,000 loan, The unpaid portion was $196,000. The man who made the loan, President John A. Hartford of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. received only $4000 in setilement and was allowed to deduct the $196,000 as a “bad debt” in his 1942 income fax return, The Republicans quoted Hartford as saying that he made the loan to Elliott only because “his father (the late President) practically asked me to.” They said Hartford did not press for a larger seftlement because he did not want “fo embarrass” the President. “Clearly, as the case now rests, the federal treasury stands to lose the tax on $196,000,” the Republicans said. “That must not be permitted. Democrats File Report “If Hartford is entitled to a deduction of $186,000 on his gross income, positive steps should be taken to collect the tax on $196,000 from Elliott and his former wife (Mrs, Ruth G. Roosevelt).” The Republicans made their demand in a minority report to congress on the house ways and means committee's investigation of the loan transaction, Their views were made public shortly before Democratic members filed their majority report. ‘The Democrats voted to report that they “did not feel justified” in challenging the treasury's action in allowing Hartford at $196,000 deduction, The majority report included some 1000 pages of testimony taken from the principads in the case by treasury ‘agents and submitted to the committee, Allege Confusion
The Republicans bitterly assailed the committee's handling of the case. They said that it “has barely scratched the surface in attempting to fix the Hability” for payment of the income tax on the $196,000. “The entire affair is now shrouded in a confusion of conflicting opinions,” they said. Their report asserted that: ONE: The late President “not only played an important part in
sentatives of the scientists who di-
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America’s’ newspapers had to cur tail their use of newsprint during the war but it was nothing com= pared to the belt-tightening Ause tralian newspapers underwent. ° This was brought out here today in the visit to The Indianapolis Times of W. J. Christie, advertising manager of the Melbourne Bune News Pictorial. Mr. Christie said his newspaper had to get along on only 27 per cent of its pre-war amount of news print. The result was that there
page paper which formerly had 48 pages daily.
American
to a U, 8. brigadier ge manding the artillery at during the war, Mr. Christie came fo
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Australian Visitor to Times Tells of Newsprint Hardship
were few advertisements in the 12+
Now that paper is becoming more | plentiful, Mr. Christie is visiting, newspapers to pick up the latest angles in the advertising business, He was a brigadier in the Australian army, eomparable :
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study before sevitning Autyalia, Indianapolis, ant, 1st 14, 2. He mentioned to :
effecting the payment of $200,000
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W, J, Christie wanted to look over some outstanding color printing. “If you want to know about color, you've got to go to The Times in
sald Mr;
the house ways and means|
{Charles D. Lutz, superintendent of ldents returned to their classrooms this morning. "He added that he]
{charges that Negro students had
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Electronics’
pop gun force based on electro-m today by Electronic Laboratories.
A small electric wooden cannon,
‘Secret Weapon'
Fue it in, press the switch, and . , . bout ¥
New Toy Cannon, Made Here, 'Fires' Shells by Electricity
which fires toy wooden shells with agnetic principles, was announced
Developed by Elec-Toy, the new electronic toy division of the Indianapolls concern, the cannon uses the same principle the Nazis had hoped to use on a secret weapon for bombarding America.
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FIRMS ACCEDE IN DEMAND FOR 35CENT HIKE
Strike; Other Rows Slow Production.
The C. 1. 0. International Oil Workers said today that settlement of disputes at two Detroit refining plants was the first “break” in the na
tion's crippling oil strike, = It ‘was the first sign that gove ernment conciliation meetings, which have been going on in Wash« ington for three days, were gets ting results. The union announcement came as Reconversion Director John W, Snyder called on labor and man= agement to adjust their differences peacefully and speedily to prevent a “serious block” to reconversion. Union officials said the Aurora and Keystone oil companies, both small Detroit independents, had ace ceded to the pil workers’
‘The electric-magnetic cannon is one of several new electronic toys of Eléc-Toy to be ready in time for Christmas. It is mounted on wheels and has a movable muzzle. One or more shells are fired, by pressing an electric switch, with enough force to please children and yet be completely harmless, the company said.
» » » A RADIO repair man in Germany discovered the principle, and offered the secrets and patents to the U, 8, company officials said, When the gestapo learned of his experiments, they forced him to turn his work toward the building of the secret weapon, but, he claimed, he evaded completion of the model until the fall of Germany. Should the principle be used in artillery, it would eliminate heavy gun construction since the only weight is that of the projectiles which are fired by electricity in stead of explosives, the company said. A fighter plane, for example, could carry an 8-inch gun and a destroyer & 16-inch gun.
‘BIG 3' MAY STUDY BALKANS PROBLEM
For
Russia's Demands Lone Hand Rejected.
LONDON, Oct. 4 (U, P.) ~Becretary of State James F. Byrnes has informed Foreign Commissar V. M, Molotov that the United States is prepared to throw the problem of Balkan peace treaties back to the heads of state of the leading United Nations, A high American source sald the United States had rejected forces fully Russia's insistence that discussion of Balkan treaties be limited to the Soviet Union, America and Britain, The new shag threatened the complete wreck of the first meeting of the five-power council of foreign ministers. An informant said there was a “good chance” the council would abandon plans to issue a final communique outlining its achieve ments in the last three weeks, Byrnes was understood to have
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GARY HIGH SCHOOL STRIKERS RETURN
GARY, Ind, Oct. 1 (U, PJ).
Gary public schools, said today that all striking Froebel high school stuplanned to investigate their previous
migbehaved in the halls.’ Lutz said the return of 400 strik-
night.
on the strikers’
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ers followed a student meeting last He said he would report to the school board as soon as possible complaints against Principal Richard Nuzun's alleged failure to discipline the Negroes ~| adequately.
Burton Take Oath.
sworn in as an associate justice,
tribunal.
opened at noon.
“Rise!”
seat at a counsel table, Justices Arise
ovez!”, 1945-46 term. Burton took a seat at the clerk desk at the end of the bench.
Justice Owen J. Roberts in July. Stone said he made
wished Roberts and good health” in retirement.
to Burton:
with Burton, saying, “Welcome.”
Truman left the chamber, lasted 13 minutes.
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PRESIDENT SETS NEW PREGEDENT
Visits Supreme Court, Sees,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U, P.)o==| President Truman today paid an Plants at Dayton, O. by striking unprecedented visit to the opening session of the supreme court, and] saw his first nominee to the high| bench, Harold H. Burton of Ohio,|Seattle, Wash., runs struck to pros
Court attachés said the visit was the first made by a president in| the 155-year history of the high!chine Workers (C. I O.) said that
Mr, Truman, attired in a gray business suit, slipped quietly into the courtroom from a side entrance seven minutes before the session
Court Marshal Thomas E. Waggaman preceded the President to the chamber and in a deep voice called one word to the audience:
Mr, Truman spoke to those around him, shook hands with Attorney General Tom C, Clark, and took a
When the black-robed justices filed into the chamber at noon, the President arose with the rest of the audience to hear court crier John A. Kenning, intone traditional “oyez! officially inaugurating the c
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Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone opened the session by announcing the formal retirement of Associate
this announcement “with deep regret” and “continued success
Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley administered the judicial oath Then Waggaman es-| (Continued on Page ‘5—Column Y corted Burton to his chair at the| —————————— extreme right end of the bench. Associate Justice William O. Douglas reached over and shook hands
After Clark was Introduced to the court, the justices arose as Mr, His visit
Be Released Soon
Oct. 1 (U, P)), ~Refrigerators probably will be released — priority-free - between Oct: 10 and 15, a war production
The definite date of their release has not yet been fixed, Present studies of production rate, in . stockpiles, ‘and needs of the armed service and hospitals indicate that the ( long-awaited units might be eed, | morn
for a 35 cents an hour wage crease when the work week is duced to 40 hotrs., For Detroit the settlement meant that the city's gasoline shortage might be eased soon. The Detroit ‘police department promised to pro= | tect the deliveries of two companies {not affected by the strike.
Frigidaire Plant Down
Elsewhere, 12,000 General Motors workers failed to cross picket lines thrown around three Frigidaire
{United Electrical Radio and Ma= {chine Workers (C. I. 0). A. F of {Ln bus drivers on Salt Lake City te Portland, Ore, and Portland to
test wage cuts, Officials of the local 801 of the United Electrical, Radio and Ma« at a mass meeting yesterday an overwhelming majority of the union’s 6000 members voted for the strike. Six thousand other workers were idled by the striking union meme bers. The Toledo, Peoria & Western railroad, Peoria, 111., was returned to private management by the federal government and promptly struck by the Brotherhood of Railroad Traine men, Locomotive Firemen and Ene gineers. The road was the firef business seized under the governs ment’'s wartime seizure powers, 430,151 Idle The new strikes put at 43015% the number of workers idled across the nation. Motor car manufacturers. still be set by a strike spearheading the . I. Os nationwide drive for 53 hours’ wartime pay in exchange for |a peacetime 40-hour week, conside ered a charge by R. J. Thomas, ine ternational president of the C, I. QO. United Automobile Workers that they themselves were striking, Thomas, addressing a meeting of 150 U. A. W. regional representas tives yesterday in Chicago, said: “The automotive industry and not | the union is on strike. The cuts ting of wages and provoking of
KILLIAN REPORTS PEAGE ON CALUMET.
Says Guard id Not Mobilized, Only ‘Alerted.’
A “few” C.I1.0. oll workers are still picketing the Whiting Stands ard Oil refinery, but “everything is peaceful” Col. Austin Killian, state police superintendent, said today. x Just back: from the Calumet area, Col. Killian said there had been a “little violence: of no teqtice” this week-end, Picket lines were wil wn urday night, but some 3 L Oo. oil Soorkers aan