Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1945 — Page 1
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TAX GUT FIGHT IN SENATE SEEN
George Opposes Eliminating Too Many Taxpayers.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. PJ. ~Chairman Walter F, George (D, Ga.) of the senate finance committee gave a cool reception today to the $5,350,000,000 tax cut bill passed by the house. George emphasized that he ap-
ness and individuals next year. But he questioned the advisability of relieving 12,000,000 individuals from any federal tax lability as contemplated in the bill approved by the house yesterday. “The complete elimination of too many: taxpayers. is a rather hazardous undertaking at this time,” George said, “We all know that it would be edftremely difficult io get them back on the tax rolls at any time in the future.” He also advocated outright repeal of the excess profits tax on corporations starting Jan. 1, In-
adopted by the house. George declined to speculate on changes the senate committee will make when it starts considering the measure next week. ; Eliminate 12,000,000 He said Secretary of the Treas-| ury Fred M. Vinson will be the first witness next Monday. Unlike those held by the house ways and means committee, the senate hearings will be open to the
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D.A.R. POLICY IN RACE ISSUE
President and First Lady
Express ‘Displeasure’ Over Concert Row.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P.) .—~Both President and
Mrs. Truman today expressed their displeasure in connection with refusal of the
Daughters of the American Revolution to permit’ Negro artists
' to appear in the organization’s Con-
stitution hall here.
Doodles from the sketchbook of the symphony maestro,
Sevitzky Starts Painting In Dual Role With Music
Maestro Completes Eight Pictures as Part of
Relaxation From Orchestra Work. By VICTOR PETERSON
From podium to paletje.
. Seven months ago Fabien Sevifzky, “venowned conductor of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra, said to himself;
“I will paint.”
With that decision he immediately purchased the finest set of oils, palette, easel and accessories he could find.
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publie. George said they probably would not take more than three days.
The bill, first to propose tax cuts in 16 years, provides relief for both corporations and individuals starting Jan. 1. Tt would eliminate about 12,000,000 fow-income persons from any federal tax liability by increasing the exemption allowed in figuring the 3 per cent normal tax, It would also cut the surtax rates, Total savings to individuals under the house program was estimated at $2,627,000,000, In addition, the house voted to repeal the $5-a-year automobile use tax which would save car owners $140,000,000 next, year. It also voted excise tax outs starting next July
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VEIL REPORT ON A-BOMB DEFENSE
House Committee Leaves Query Unanswered.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U.P) ~ A vell of mystery today shrouded a house naval affairs committee statement on the progress that has been made to devise a defense #gainst the atomic bomb, , A committee report recommending a post-war navy of 1082 combat ships said yesterday: “There are indications that an effective counter measure to atomic
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WINDOWS IN AUTOS BROKEN BY VANDALS
Many Cars Stripped of
Tires and Wheels.
A trail of broken windows In parked cars marked the trail of vandals who roamed southeast Indianapolis streets during the night. Nine car owners reported to police that vandals had smashed several or all of the windows In Several of the complainants reported seeing smashed
windows in other card parked in their neighborhood. An epidemic of car stripping also was reported to police, with at least five cars robbed of wheels and tires. Those who reported smashed windows included Edward L. Hansing, 1225 Woodlawn ave. who said two
neighbors also had their car |stays on them, not me.” windows broken; Willlam Ahlers, Eight Pictures 1218 Woodlawn ave; Mrs, Lillle
May Peavler, 1635 Lexington ave.; Noble Smith, 1154 S. State ave; Joseph Mathews, 1215 Pleasant st.; Mrs, George Leveque, 1843 Hoyt ave, and Davis Lloyd, 1819 Hoyt ave. ¥ive wheels and tires were taken from oars at the used car lot owned by Robert Manien, 1001 Central 760 N. Haugh st, told police the rear wheels and tires were taken from her car, parked at the Stokely & Co. lot on 8. East st.
Mrs. Rosle Lusar,
Instead he gathered a small library to study the history of painting, the technique of the masters, pigments and the mixing of colors. For days he practiced mixing of colors alone. Day after day he made pencil sketches in a notebook. They ranged from stick figures and cartoons to portraiture, still life and figures, His Hands Shook Finally he was ready for his first canvas , , , a still life in which yellow was to predominate. “1 stood before the blank canvas, so nervous and emotionally excited that my hands shook,” Dr. Sevitzky said today. “I was more nervous than any time conducting an orchestra, even with a new score.” The result, while very amateurish, showed promise,’ But more paint was left on the painter than the canvas. “I was so dirty, I had paint all over my pants, all over my shirt and it took me days of scrubbing to get it off my hands” he said. “I used brush after brush, now I work with three and the paint
To date the maestro of the symphony has completed eight canvases and is well on the way to finishing his ninth, Inspecting each in the order they were painted the rapid strides toward sureness of hand, development of technique
But the President said he could do nothing about the D. A, R.s policy, and Mrs. Truman refused to cancel an appearance as guest of honor at a D. A. R. chapter's fea this afternoon. Both expressed their views in reply to telegrams from Rep. Clayton Powell Jr., Democratic Negro congressman from New York, protesting the D, A. R.’s refusal to permit his wife, pianist Hazel Scott, to give a concert in the hall on Oct, 20. The President said “one of the marks of democracy is its willingness to respect and reward talent without regard to race or origin.” He noted that we had just won a victory in war against Nazi enemies which made ‘racial discrimination their state policy.* Second Racial Row Powell had asked Mrs. Truman, an honorary member of the Independence, Mo., D. A. R. chapter, to reject an invitation to tea today with the Susan Riviere Hetzel chapter here. She replied tliat she had ac-
cepted the invitation before the
present issue arose and could not cancel it. But, she added, “I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to
express itself because of prejudice
against race or origin.” In 1089, former first lady, Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the D. A, R. because it banned Negro soprano Marian Anderson from its building. Constitution hall, the D. A. Rs private property, is the capital's chief concert and lecture auditorium, The D. A. R, reaffirmed its ban against Negreos yesterday and re-
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DECREE DEATH FOR
Commission Finds Guilty of Slaying Yanks.
violation of the Geneva conventions
man commander in Italy, Witnesses at the trial
quarters insisted on the execution
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J. O. Murdock, 2930 B. 10th st. |’
behind the German lines,
By LOUISE FLETCHER
GERMAN GENERAL Him
ROME, Oct. 12 (U., P).—A fiveman American military commission today sentenced German Gen. Anton Dostler to death before a firing squad for ordering the summary execution of 15 American soldiers in
The court, in a precedent-setting verdict that may affect hundreds of German officers, dismissed a defense argument that Dostler merely was carrying out the command of a superior officer, in this case Marshal Albert Kesselring, then Ger-
testified that Dostler had countermanded the original order for the execution of the 15 soldiers, but had been pilijed 1g vimy ak ik of sw) martial . when Kesselring’s head-
The 15 American soldiers, members of the OSS, parachuted into northern Italy to carry out sabotage
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AN INDIANAPOLIS product Lionel Wiggam--hit the Holly wood jackpot this week. For his unpublished play, “If I Love You” Walter Wanger planked down $50,000. In -addition, the president of Walter Wanger Productions, Inc. signed Mr. Wiggam to 4 long-term contract him four months a year free to write for himself, 2 ” " ~ MR. WANGER bought the new play for his wife, Joan Bennett, to. stage. her return to. comedy roles after a long stretch of seri- + Production of the play woh't begin until next spring when William Seiter will be available direct it. ‘
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EDITORS URGED T0 BACK BAYS
Quster Move Is Denied by Association Head.
By SHERLEY UHL
Organized labor converged en masse on the Democratic Editorial association today to warn, in more or less polite terms, “keep the party rogressive or else.” Immediate objective of the laborites was to retain Fred Bays as Democratic state chairman, Mr. Bays is labor's star performer, But the small town. editors generally have been out after Bays’ scalp. In a subtle sort of way, they resent his coziriess with the P. A. C. Labor's attitude was expressed bluntly by Powers Hapgood, regional C. I. O. secretary. Said Mr. Hapgood:
Backs New Deal
“We're not interested in‘ the Democratic party as such, but only as party workers representing the New Deal, , , + Bays is the only prominent . Democratic party man in Indiana who really supports the New Deal.” “The issue lies not hetween Bays and the editors,” said Mr. Hapgood. “It is not a personal matter, It involves conservatism vs, liberalism within thé Democratic organization. ...11 the party swings conservative it will be no different from the Republicans.” Not all 20 odd labor representatives who made an appearance at the editorial session at the Spencer hotel expressed themselves as strongly as Mr. Hapgood. But their sentiment was similar, Prior to the confab, Ray Gilbert, legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Rallroad trainmen, said failure of the Democratic edi-
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$388,815 PLEDGED IN WAR FUND DRIVE
The local United War and Community fund today stood at more than 21 per cent of its goal as .| volunteer workers reported subscriptions totalling $388,814.81 to date. The report was made at a meeting at Claypool hotel as workers met, to compare notes on their drive for $1,821,000 to support the fund's '70 agencies, Reports today also showed that 13,045 persons have made their contributions,
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DEAD
HUNTINGTON, Oct, 12 (U,P.) ~~ Services were held today for Ed 8. Leverton, principal of the Lincoln grade school for the past 16 years, .|who died Wednesday, He previously had taught in Lancaster and Huntington townships and served as clerk of the circuit court from
regional C. I. O.-director, and Ray Gilbert,
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Labor Leaders Tell Democrats to Keep Chairman
“Keep Fred Bays in office” (Democratic state chairman) was the watchword of labor representatives when they met Indiana Democrats at the Spencer hotel this morning. Left to right—Marion Ayres, Shelsecretary of the Democratic Editorial associa tion; Hugh Barnhart, president; Powers Hapgood,
legislative representative
of the Brotherhood of Rallroad
New Trial for Laval Denied By De Gaulle
PARIS, Oct. 12 (U. P) Pierre Laval's last hope of escaping a traitor's death faded today when Gen. Charles de Gaulle announced there would be no second trial for the condemned Vichy premier. ‘ De Gaulle’s announcement was made at a press conference immediately after hi§ return from a visit to Belgium, Asked whether he would grant Laval a second trial on the de~ fe plea ‘that the first hearing rd been turned into a farce by the prejudiced attitude of the judge and jurors, De Gaulle replied flatly: “Certainly not.” Only a reprieve from De Gaulle could save Laval, former premier of the Viehy government, from death before a firing squad. He was sentenced to death for treagon by the French high court Wednesday,
OF SILVER PELLETS
Custodian First Thought Metal Was ‘Solder.
It looked like a tomato can full of Jumps off solder, some B. B.-size, some marble-size, But that old tin can, on the poiler-room shelf in the basement of the Wi Ma Gra apartments at ‘4816 E, Washington st. turned out to contain seven pounds and 10 ounces of melted-down silver, Harry Crouch, 26, wounded veteran ‘of two years’ overseas service and for the last thrée weeks custodian of the Wi Ma Gra apartments, was cleaning the boiler room three days ago when he discovered
ported to police today. Mr. Crouch and his wife, Monteen, took the can of metal to a jeweler downtown, who identified the pellets as silver and advised Mr. Crouch to take the can to police headquarters. At headquarters today, Lt. Howard Hunter of the police laboratory, corroborated the jeweler's findings. The current price of 75 cents an ounce for gilver would make that canful of metal worth approximately $100. Police will try to find the owner,
DR. MORGAN IMPROVES
Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary 33 years, was recovering today at St. Vincent's hospital from an abdominal operation performed Wednesday. The veteran physician has been ill sev-
1920-24,
UNTIL recently he was on the writing staff of Warner Bros, where he had been since his
graduation, cum laude, from Princeton university in January, 1943,
One of his screenplays for Warner's, “The Very Thought of You,” was shown here last December, ; Mr, Wiggam's mother and stepfather, Mr, and Mrs. J. Edward patig, live at 1121 Edgewood dr, s father, Howard Carlton Wig~ gam, died in 1926, shortly before Lionel entered Technical high school.
latest-in a series that began when he sold his first story, at the age of. 13, while he was a Tech stu~ dent, tal ye For that one he got #78 from
RICHBERG BACKS JOB PEACE BILL
Asserts Ball-Burton-Hatch Measure Is Guide Post.
Adoption of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill as a guidepost to labor peace was urged last night by Donald Richberg, former general counsel of the NRA. Signal features of the B. B. H. bill, said Mr. Richberg, are those mandating peaceful negotiations between representatives of labor and management before any strike action is taken. He ‘spoke before the Associatd Employers of Indiana at the Claypool. ' \ The formal, legal mediation ma» chinery outlined in the B. B, H. bill is the same as that which has maintained labor peace in the railroad field under the Railway Labor act since 1026, Mr. Richberg asserted
Not Forced Arbitration This process does not mean *“compulsory arbitration,” he explained, by which disputes are thrown immediately into the hands of an umpire, He cited difficulty in obtain ing “impartial judges” in compulsory arbitration proceedings. “Co-operation between employers and employees should be based on agreement and not on compulsion,” said the ex-NRA attorney. He decried industrial warfare as “a disgrace to Twentieth century civilization. . . . It is destructive of our national welfare, It is undermining our influence and power in international affairs. It offers today a serious menace, not only to
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SPANISH CABINET ORDERS ELECTIONS
Raps Communists for Plot To ‘Defame’ Franco.
MADRID, Oct. 12 (U. P) ~The Franco government sought toda¥ to offset world criticism by taking steps to restore civil liberties. Municipal elections were ordered and a general amnesty was promised to political prisoners. The reforms were promised in a communique issued after last night's cabinet-meeting. It blamed a “vast Communist conspiracy of internatiorial scope” for a “persistent international campaign of defamation directed against Spain and its regime.” As the “only adequate reply,” the sabinet sald, it was reaffirming its decision to continue along the ideological and political lines laid down July 18, 1936, shortly after
eral months,
Since then he has written fiction and verse for a long list of magazines—among them Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Nation, Harper's Bazaar, New Yorker, Saturday Review of Literature and several poetry magazines, (He was olass poet ak Princeton.) ~ » »
HIS BOOK of poems, “Land. scape With Figures”. was pub« lished in.1936 while he was a student in the Northwestern university School of Speech. Following his graduation from Tech he. entered Northwestern at the age of 15. His college
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number of trips, via freighter, to * the Orfefit.and Europe. One of his periods of college atwas spent. at Butler uni-~ versity, where he studied verse
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Local Author Sells Scenario For $50,000; Gets Contract
HE ALSO appeared here in sev~ eral Civic theater productions, In Peiping in 1937 when fighting broke out between China and Japan, Lionel produced and directed a play for the benefit of Chinese war relief, In Geneva, Switzerland, in 1939 he wrote a pageant, “A Prayer for the Living,” which was presented for the 15th anniversary celebration of the Students International union. 4 Mr. Wiggam, ‘a member bf the union seminar that year, also produced thé pageant. He returned to this Sounizy in 1940 and later entered Priticeton. »
” ” " ‘WHILE a student there he con “iiniféa writing “plays, one of which, “Three White Leopards,” he directed for the university's Intime theafer in 1941. After that came Hollywood and
TRUMAN URGED
U. S. Steps Up Attempt to
T0 TAKE HAND IN FUEL CRISIS
Stem Post-War Strike Tide.
STRIKES AT A GLANCE
COAL=Government officials foresaw a winter of hardships unless a strike of 187,000 soft coal miners is ended promptly.
STEEL—Several Pittsburgh area ‘mills were shut down for lack of fuel,
LUMBER~61,000 A. F, of L. saw« mill workers continued a work stoppage in the Pacific northwest,
TRANSPORTATION — 2100 Pa~ cific Greyhound bus drivers remained on strike in seven states. In Massachusetts 1800 A. F, of L. streetcar and motor coach employees - prepare to walk out.
MOTION PICTURES—Hollywood film craftsmen refused to end their work stoppage despite a NLRB announcement that they had won a bargaining election © among set dressers,
SHIPPING—One independent and two C. I. O. unions backed the A. F. of L. Longshoremen's strike in New York by refusing to remove a cargo freighter inte an army base for unloading,
By UNITED PRESS ; Hollywood movie making was curtailed, New York port operations were stagnant and mine shutdowns ‘cut into dwindling coal supplies today
as the government worked to stem the tide of post-war strikes, Over the nation, more than 453.000 workers were idle because of | labor disputes. President Truman was urged to intervene in a walkout of 187,000 soft coal miners, most serious of more than 200 work stoppages. The solid fuels administration estimated production losses ‘at 1,044,403 tons daily--more than half the national output, Government officials warned that the nation is headed for the worst winter of hardships since the de~ pression unless there is an early end to the soft coal strike. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach’s earlier optimism for a quick settlement was gone as he began the sixth day of concilia« tion conferences between producers and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers.
Plan Fuel Rationing The new civilian production ade ministration was going ahead with stind-by plans to ration manufac« tured gas. Steel companies were preparing to bank additional fur naces. And the solid fuels admine 'istration was looking for places to tighten emergency controls on coal shipments. The SFA said there was no ime mediate prospect that coal would have to be rationed to domestis users, but emphasized that a prolonged strike might change the picture. And many officials did fear that the deadlock between the operators and Lewis’ mine workers, involve ing unionization of supervisory ems ployees, would be a long one. The government lacks power to force a resumption of work and will attempt to avold any seizures, offi cials said. In the Chicago area, crippling slowdowns of C, I. O, cranemen, unexplained to either company or union officials, today idled approxi= mately 1000 Carnegle-Illinois steel
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MAJOR U, S. WEAPON IN STRIKE IS TIME
Futility of Seizing Mines is Recognized.
By FRED W, PERKINS Soripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct, 12.--The reason Secretary of Labor Behwela lengbach spends so much time in efforts to mediate the coal strike is that he has no ‘other effective weapon. He could recognize a hopeless situation and bring about govern< ment seizure of the coal mines. That, method seems to be working in the ofl refineries. But in the coal fieldsy 8 its futility has been proved several J times, X hes Ld Several widespread coal seizures were made during the war. The flag was run up over mines tipples and sight of the
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