Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1946 — Page 15

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ysls, He'd won a varsity baseball letter; 32 ribbons for track competition and praise for shut-out softball pitching before the disease confined him to a" wheelchair, Now a senior in high school, Jimmie has had to be content with just seeing the school's basketball games. ... When the team goes into the county tournament this week-end, however, Jimmie's going to be represented. His brown and white bulldog, Spike Jones, will make his debut as the team's first mascot. . . , The team took up the .idea en thusiastically after Jimmie got his dog from the dog pound last month. The coach's wife, Mrs, Glenn Seele, is making a purple and white blanket for Spike, And the manual training classes at the school are planning to make a cart for Spike to pull towels and water out onto the hardwood, and later onto. the gridiron. . ... In’ addition to all his glory, - happily unaware of ‘the packinghouse strike. the basketball boys work in butcher shops and enough scraps to give him more than enough m . . Jimmie’s hoping Spike will bring the luck

will enable the team to maintain its record one loss, ‘

No Breakfast in the PX THERE'S A NEW gripe out at Billings General hospital now. Both military and civilian duty personnel are irked by a new order forbidding them to have breakfast in the PX. In the five years Billings has been in operation the PX has become an established institution and the “goldbricking” 20 minutes over coffee has become traditional. There's more than sentiment involved, though. The G. 1's claim the newly substituted rest periods of 15 minutes morning and afternoon are not long enough to permit waiting in PX “chow” line. , . , All the thoughtless drivers are not young and reckless. Yesterday at the corner of Washington and Capitol, two cars, driven by middle-aged persons, made right hand turns into the paths of pedestrians. They used a scowl and a blast rather than common sense. After seeing the two demonstrations, right on the heels of each other, the disgusted traffic policeman grunted, “The older they get, the worse they are.” ... Two stores, within two blocks of each other, had signs upside down in their windows yesterday. A barber shop at 25 W. Ohio was making passersby look upside down to read a “Shoes Shined” sign. Right around the corner a jewelry store at 115 N. Illinois had a gilt trimmed “Buy Here” sign perched upside down in the window. Maybe it's an epidemic.

Argentine Luxury

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jan. 17.—Out in the suburbs away from the riots and violence of downtown Buenos Aires, living conditions are about as luxuriant and cheap these days as any place in the world. Life in such little communities as Belgrano, Olivos, Bartolome Mitre and Belgrano R. is as gentle as it is rough in downtown areas where there are daily battles between police and angry civilians. The asmosphere is quiet and restful. Heavily shaded parks are filled with children and nursemaids. There are few large stores in shopping districts. Each little shop handlés a specialty, There is a meat shop, a vegetable store, a pastry shop, a wine room, a beer garden, a tobacco shop and in Belgrano R. the ice cream and candy parlor make the rounds.

a quart, bread 2% cents a loaf, ice cream 5 cents a dish, And vegetables are extremely cheap Atmosphere Is Foreign

Be A yA ae The Germans run beer gardens and restaurants, Belgrano R. has many United States and English families because the American school is located there. Rents are a little higher in that section than in Olivos, Villa de Voto or elsewhere. When the mobs are brawling on Florida st. in downtown Buenos Aires, the suburbanites never know about ft until they read the next day's newspaper. The excitement rarely penetrates into the residential areas. Many housewives go to the city only once a week or every two weeks. Everything they need is available nearby. In fact, many go to the store only Jor meat. They

Science

OUT OF the atomic bomb, a big bomb for destruction, may come a little bomb for healing, little, that is, in size. The most optimistic hope that it will be a cure for cancer. Whether or not this hope materializes, only time will tell. But one of the important by-products of the atomic bomb project is in the field of medicine. One of the steps that led to the. atomic bomb vas the discovery of artificial radioactivity by Irene Curie of Paris and her husband, Frederick Joliot. It is Interesting to note that just as Pierre and Marie Curie collaborated in the study of radium, so their daughter and her husband have continued such collaboration in the study of atomic phenomena and radioactivity, In 1934 they discovered that many ordinary hemical elements, such as sodium -or phosphorus jodine, became radioactive when bombarded with subatomic rays. While this discovery was part of the chain of vents that led to the atomic bomb, it also had mportant meaning for the world of biology and med icine,

Tracing Digestion FIRST OF all, it meant that expensive radium pould be replaced in many cases with things as inexpensive as common table salt, But it also meant he possibility of developing new techniques both for e study of biological phenomena and the treatment of disease. Biologists had long wished for more exact information about the processes which go on in the living organism. How rapidly, for example, does the digestion of sugar take place? How rapidly are the

My Day

LONDON; Wednesday.—Quite frankly, the preliminary period in the U. N. O. assémbly’s plenary ssions, during which a succession of votes had to be en, did not give a delegate like myself a sense of g very hand or making much of a contribu

I think that, from now on, however, the subjects discussed will be of greater interest. Secretary Byrnes’ speech at the Monday afternoon 5 when debate began on the preparatory come mission’s report, was very effective. He reminded sveryone that the work of peace had started during war—that, when the days still looked dark, svelt, Churchill and Stalin had started to plan

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Jimmie Wilson and Spike . . . Both are rooting for the Brownsburg basketball team.

No Standing in Line for Veterans

THE INTERNAL REVENUE office. has decided that G. 1's and veterans have had their share of standing in line, So, they borrowed a jury room from Judge Baltzell and turned it into a temporary service men’s room. Here the guys can loll around in comfortable chairs while waiting to get help on fling returns. What's more, Coliector F. Shirley Wilcox and his assistant, Wilbur Plummer, see to it that there are enough auditors in there to keep the lines short. Through this arrangement, the G. 1.s and veterans are kept waiting only a matter of minutes, instead of for hours waiting in the regular lines, ,. . We know one woman who was peeved at the Indianapolis Railways Monday night. She was on her way to a 6 o'clock wedding and was waiting for a trolley at the rush hour. Although she had a good spot on a downtown corner, eight trolleys p:isc+ her up before she could get aboard. ,.. Despite all till +alk about the vast migration to South America, the passport office here finds few from Indianapolis heading south of the border. Passports are still rare, with exception of special excursions like the air.trip How being sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

can sit on their front porches and buy everything they need. A vegetable cart, usually a two-wheeled affair with gaudy decorations, comes by. Then, there are bakery carts and others with dairy products, fuel oil, ice, household supplies; watermelons “and firewood. Even the police have a different attitide in the suburbs. They are friendly. They don’t have that frenzied, harassed, trigger-happy look that distinguish the downtown squads and make them unpopular,

Communities Are Social Units

PEOPLE WHO prefer big, sprawling Buenos Aires with its population of 3,000,000 to other South American cities are usually those who have enjoyed the peaceful life of the suburbs. Most of them, no doubt, have belonged to their local tennis and swimming clubs. A complete social life is built around each community. Suburbanites, at the same time, have excellent transportation to the city. Commuters’ trains run every 8 to 10 minutes. They are clean and fast. The Belgrano R., a run of about 14 minutes, is for a roundtrip ticket, Buenos Aires subways have long been a source of . amazement to people from Boston, Chicago and New York City. The waiting ramps and the subway tunnels are spotlessly clean. There is no trash, or litter, or dirt. The trains are almost noiseless. The cars are painted and look like new. The fare is 2'% cents. The city’s 22 miles of underground tracks are being extended another three miles to reach to Belgrano R. About half completed, the new addition will run from the Plaza Italia in Palermo to Belgrano. Shreet cars and buses charge 2% cents. Taxi fares from the middle of the downtown area to the railroad station usually run about 25 cents.

By David Dietz

products of digestion absorbed by the blood stream? How long before they have been incorporated into the cells of various tissues? These questions could be answered in part by feeding an experimental animal sugar containing carbon that had been réndered artificially radioactive. By reason of their radioactivity, such materials constitutp “tagged” atoms which can be traced in their progress through the organism. - For this reason, biologists speak of these experiments as “tracer experiments.” Radioactive forms of carbon, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, iodine, iron, etc, have been used in such experiments.

Seek Cancer Specific

THE ATOMIC bomb researches enter this picture] because the products of uranium fission, the frag-

ments into which the uranium atom breaks, are highly unstable atoms undergoing many radioactive changes before they settle down into stable isotopes. The process of uranium fission, therefore, opens up a new method by which the biologist and medical man can get a greater volume of radiation and a greater variety of radioactive isotopes than were ever before at his command, It is even possible that small uranium piles may be built eventually which are designed specifically to produce such radioactive isotopes for the medical man or biologist, As for cancer, the great hope is that a radioactive 1sotope will be found which is specific for cancer tissue,” that is; an isotope which, when taken into the organism, will settle only in cancer tissue. It would then destroy the cancer by its radioactivity and do no harm to the healthy cells of the victim.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

who have spoken so far have commanded attention and interest. I think it Is largely because they are accustomed to speaking to large audiences and speak clearly and easily. In reading the Ameérican newspapers that come here, I. judge that a good deal of information on the assembly. proceedings is available to the people at home, I hope you take the same amount of interest which the people here are taking, I think! we shall see soon that this new effort at setting up a world organization is well on its way.

The ‘Major’ Got Through

BEFORE going #ny further, I must tell you of one or two occurrences which have added a gleam of amusement to life. On the telephone the other day, I was told that a Maj. Grant wanted to speak to me, I knew no Maj. Granf, but thought he might possibly be some- | years one who had an introduction to me. When he was connected, he promptly announced that he thought he could not get through unless he gave a military title, but that he did not have a title and just wanted to talk to me. They, a young man called up from the hotel desk and asked if he: could come up to see me, He wanted to have a menu card signed. When he appeared at my door, I found that he was a Canadian: soldier.

By Ernie Hill

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$5000 or less or renting for not less than $50 a month. The current median market —as distinguished from long-range needs—is somewhere between $5700

anq $5500, says NHA, with Zeturming veterans, unhie 9 pay “that

of Crossley, Inc., for Architectural Férum found

Mr. Brooks Higher prices—even an extra $1000 per dwelling—will scare off a large part of the market, aesording to this poll. Undersecretary of Commerce Alfred Schindler says the building

ing $6000 or less.

fnuusly has been able to serve only the one-fifth of the nation’s population which can afford high prices. hk

: pps-Howard Steff ‘Writes VV ASHINGTON, - an, NET —Housing studies BY both ‘public and private agencies agree that home prices are beyond the reach of the average family, Yet no certain remedy is in sight. ; The national housing agency says two-thirds of the need within the next 10 years will be for homes costing

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Half of all available materials is channeled into homes on hich veterans will have first preference, » “ . OPA HOPES that a substantial number will be built at $6000 or $7000, or even less, but it has no assurance that this will happen. All the evidence points to a flobd of priority applications in the upper price range, which may compel OPA: to break down its priorities into pricing brackets—so many homes at $10,000, so many at $8000 and so on. Building costs and prices of old homes have soared high above prewar levels. OPA reports construction costs up 34 per cent since 1939. A NHA study in large cities disclosed a 42

OPA CHIIEF Chester Bowles fears a repetition of the boom-and-burst

(Fourth of a Series)

By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.— After the serviceman is demobilized "he must file the returns and pay the taxes that were deferred while he was in uniform. He is given until the 15th day of the sixth month after the month in which he returns from overseas. By that time he must file a return for each year (for which filing Was deferred) in which he had the mini.

the law for that year. (He may not have to pay at once, however. The deferred payment provision for veterans is discussed later in this article.) On 1943 income a single person was required to file if his reportable income was as much as $500; a married man if his reportable income was more than $624 or, in case his wife also had income, if together they had as much as $1200. On 1944 and 1945 income every person who had as much as $500 of reportable income must file, The first three articles in this series should help you to determine

{what of your income in the years

1943-4-5 is reportable. For each year in which you (and your wife) had enough taxable income to require a return, you should obtain the wmppropriate blank from your collector. Each blank must be prepared differently. The information in this’ and the preceding series in The Times will help with this year’s return, but they do not apply accurately to last year's and will be of no assistance at all on the

THE SERVICEMAN'S INCOME TAX—NO' 4

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PRICES BEYOND REACH oF AVERAGE FAMILY—

o Drop a In Cost of Homes

1941 for $6230 found his costs had mounted 59 per cent. Sales of west coast homes have run as high as 134 per cent over Home Owners Loan Corp. ap~ praisals, OPA, which is trying to hold down

new construction costs with ceilings on materials, is encountering black market operations. Some authorities predict it will get worse. One builder comments: “That's the only place I can get lumber”

s =» SHORTAGES all along the line are contributing to high prices. Materials are scarce, Builders estimate that the top number of homes which can be built this year will not exceed 450,000. Builders are scarce, The 70,000 or 80,000 in business before the war have dwindled to around 30,000. (Contractors engaged in direct construction and maintenance have de< clined in number from 500,000 to about. 140,000. Labor is scarce both in ‘the materials industry and building crafts. Lumber production’ has fallen off due to labor migrations and strikes. Wage rates have been raised in foundries "to attract more labor. Bricklayers and plasterers are particularly hard to get. Apprentice Hraining fell behind during the war. . - = MOST of all, homes are scarce. The deficit is expected to reach

homes.

to bid up prices on old dwellings. In the long-range field, there is a need for replacement of 8,000,000 OF Wore Hines aiad 42 subsndnng by census authorities. Labor accounts for about: 30 por cent of the cost of a home, materials for about 45 per cent, Land and improvements and the builders’ overhead and profit account for} ” . » HOURLY wage rates are high in

building in many areas has been a

seasonal operation and the industry has been subject to wide -€yclical

variations, Thus the ho huaing oriftsman must get his li shorter working periods than other workers. In pre-waf years the average earnings of building workers were

less than $1400,

Fa ® . # “DURING the war the average rose to more than $2000, largely as the result of overtime paid to rush war housing and other construction to completion. High hourly rates compensate for the low rate of employment, averaging only 2 weeks out of a year, The building worker's yearly income is lower than those of manu-| facturing workers, but the home buyer still pays for labor at a high rate because he is bearing the cost of the worker's idle time.

NEXT-—Jobs Aplenty—If Building

3,000,000 by next Jan, 1. About 100,-

Filing

be paid by March 15, 1947.

pre-service earned income. On the tax you owe, and another months until all is paid. The first column shows the

If you were discharged before December 1, 1045, the first installment on taxes on service income and pre-service earned "income for 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1045 will be due by May 15, 1946, and the first installment on your 1946 income must

If you are discharged after November 30, 1945, the following table shows the first installment date on service income and

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that date you must pay 1-13 of 1-12 will be payable every three

month in which discharge takes

place. The second column shows the first installment date for | 1"iul" Artiels shows whos the for taxes or income for the years 1940 to 1945, inclusive, The third installment is due. Other install chums shows the first installment date for tax on income for | ments become payable at threeyear 1946, . month R First Installment Date Ine No interest will be charg sv HH you were. “ Fer. years 1940-145 + - For “year +b 4alk deterred payments on eT et rt 3 une h 15, 104 January, 1046 July 15, 1946 March. 35, p47 | Ad ischarged servic Mem prepare February, 1946 August 15, 1946 March 15, 1947 returns, portal March, 1946 September 15, 1946 March 15, 1047 | that those whose wives filed reApril, 1846 October 15, 1046 15, 1047 turns, in their absence, should take May, 1046 November 15, 1946 March 15, 1947 | those returns into consideration. June, 1946 December 15, 1046 March 15, 1947 Often it will prove valuable, in savJuly, 1946 January 15, 1947 March 15, 19047 '| ings, to substitute a new joint reAugust, 1046 February 15, 1947 March 15, 1947 turn for that filled by the wife, inSeptember, 1946 March 15, 1947 March 15, 1047 stead of merely adding another inSeloger 19 Awl 15, a April 15, 147 dividual return to it. ovember, , M a y 15 1047 Suppose ustrate, After Nov. 30, 1046 June 15, 1947 June 15, 1947 to. y that the

If you have trouble wading through a series of differing blanks, the wise course is to get together all dvailable financial data, including any returns your wife filed, in your absence, on her own income; go to your collector's office, and he will assign somebody to help you. The 1945 tax law gives veterans the privilege of paying their back taxes over a three-year period. This covers both taxes on service pay of officers and taxes on pre-service earned income for all veterans. “Pre-service earned income” is the wages, salary, commissions,

1943 return.

s Rasputin

By RUSSELL ANNABEL United Press Staff Correspondent

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 17.— The Far North today yielded a strange _story—the possibility “that Rasputin, mad, dissolute Russian monk whose power as & mesmerist and head of a religious cult won

him a favored place in the late czar's court, is alive on a lonely Alaskan island. The tale, gathered from superstitious Russian-Aleutian island natives and many not-so-superstitious| * Alaskans of Yankee extraction, is that Rasputin is alive and watching the grave of a Russian priest on a desolate Spruce island off Kodiak. (Gregory ' Raspufin, the “mad monk” was reported assassinated in Leningrad in December, 1917, He dllegedly had exercised hypnotic influence over the Czar Nicholas*II and the czarina.) A new topic for. debate during long Arctic winter nights has blossomed with the piecing together of the story. So far as can be determined, the facts forming the basis for the speculation are: 1. For years a number of Alaskans have believed that in the activity and physical appearance of an aged Russian monk-—named Gerasim Schmalz—is a clue that may’ combine two of the eeriest stories of czarist Russia and Alaska. - 2. One hundred and forty-seven ago, a Russian priest named YPather Herman” told his followers in Moscow, before departing for Alaska, that he would return in 150 years. Father Herman died in Kodiak that same year and was buried on the island. Since this his tomb has been guarded religiously by members of the Greek orthodox

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Alive on Lonely Alaskan Island?

task of guarding the wind-swept tomb. Natives and the few whites who saw him said he closely resembled Rasputin. Angered by repeated questioning, Schmalz went into hiding. 4. Eustace Ziegler, Alaskan art ist, surprised Schmalz at his hideout one day and photographed him, returned to his studio and superimposed the picture of Schmalz, Zeigler says the resulting photograph was identical with pictures of Rasputin. 5. Rasputin : would be 3 years old

NEWS SERVICE FOR GOVERNMENT TO END

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (U, P)~— Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press associations, today issued the following. statement: “During the war the United Press, Associated Press and International News Service provided service to the office of war information, the

office of Inter-American affairs and the state department. “Part of this material was used in government broadcasts, part for publication abroad through OWI channels and part in daily bulletins to American diplomats abroad. “We have advised Mr. Benton, the assistant secretary of state, that it is the intention of the United Press to discontinue this service. Mr, Benton stated that continuance of government news distribution activities was imperative in the national interest and that the services of the American press associations were essential thereto. To this we dis agreed. However, Mr. Benton asked that discontinuance of our service be stayed until he had further dp-

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current Form 1040. But the first $3000 of income from any source was regarded as having been earned, while anything over $14,000, regardless of how hard you worked for it, was unearned. The law does not provide for deferred installment payments on any non-service income that a serv. ice man may have received during his time in uniform’ It does not apply to pre-service “non-earned” income. The installment provision is not completely automatic. The veteran must apply for the privilege, prior to the first installment date. No

if he were alive today. Rasputin, whose real name’ was Gregor

Novikh, was born in Toboitz in 1873. The speculation only annoys and embarrasses Schmalz, according to persons who have questioned him. He prefers to remain aloof and silent, and has refused thus far to either confirm or deny the speculation about his past. According to history, Rasputin was slain by Prince Yussopoff, of the royal Russian household, after the’ monk's increasing power over the czarist court caused the grand

Follows Urge fo Smash Windows

THE HOUSE at 1027 8. Illinois st. apparently isn’t a glass one. That was the- address given police by Lowell Carpenter, 22, a guy very adept at throwing stones. He was arrested early today as he stood heaving bricks through residences along the 1100 block on 8. Capitol ave, ‘Carpenters had thrown .halfbricks through five windows before police halted him. He was charged with malicious trespassing and drunkenness. Five victims of Carpenter's sudden urge to pitch were Morris Washa, 1114 8. Capitol; Mrs. Sarah Shapiro, 1109 8. Capitol; Rabbi Michael Albagli, 1107 S. Capitol; Anna Nahmais, 1113 8. Capitol, and Clifton Gordon, 1117 8. Capitol, all of whom reported windows broken.

AWAIT RUBBER POLICY The surplus property administrano surplus government-owned syn-

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Prices Can Be Cut.

wife had $1400 of income, and filed on it, but could not claim her service husband as an exemption because he had $150 of taxable income. If, now, the husband files as an individual, he loses $350 of his personal exemption. But if they substitute a joint return for the wife's individual return, the husband's unneeded $350 of personal exemption can be applied to reduce the tax on the wife's income. Also, if a service wife did not file on her more-than-$500- income (but less than $1200) in her husband's absence, that income now must be added to the husband's for a joint return,

NEXT: Refunds for Veterans.

duke and others to decide his death was imperative. Yussopoff was said to have fed Rasputin poisoned cakes, shot him, beat him over the head with a heavy iron poker and to have thrown his body through a hole in ‘the ice into the Neva river. Russian accounts said the body was recovered three days later and buried in a silver casket at TsarkoeSelo, the winter palage o the czar.

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About Romance

By RUTH MILLETT “THE LADY made a mistake* said Lt. Col. Gregory Boyington, marine flying answer to a woman friend's ane nouncement that she would mar ry the herp as soon as she gets a divorce from her husband. = “Pappy’s” pronouncement might well go for the accepted modern custom of women in society and celebrity circles making publie their new romances before they legally have shed their old. 2 » . . IT'S CERTAINLY & mistake the ladies art making--and for a number of reasons, First of all, it cheapens all three persons and both the marriages involved.

And it isn’t a pretty picture to be held. up for the inspection of the country’s adolescents — the picture of a woman airily an« nouncing her intention to take on a new husband while she is legally the wife of another man, The practice may be—in fact, is—accepted in smart circles toe day. But, lady, it's a mistake. Even in an age of easy divorce there is still the matter of good taste.

» » . " NO MATTER what the social ‘ standing or celebrity value of the persons involved—it isn't good taste for a married person ta announce his or her plans for che

There is plenty of announcing of wedd ter you are free to marry,