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annual subsidy or not, Councilman Kealing hesitated. . Finally, he said: “Now what. is this we are voting on?” Mr. Schumacher told him. “Oh,” said Mr. Kealing. ad $25,000." Chairman

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udget By presented for ren his semi-annual letter to the Citizens ‘Gas & Coke utility demanding more

Two Depariments Slashed proved.

$75,000 Each, Garage Trimmed $40,000.

By RICHARD LEWIS

[than the $90,000 the utility pays the lcity in lieu of taxes. Council ap-

He wrote one last spring and the utility politely refused. Council contends. the utility should pay the city what it would be forced to pay in taxes if it were priyately owned. The utility doesn't think

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council had plodded along, resigned to the record $15,000,000 budget and its equally record $2,408 tax rate. Then up spoke A. Ross Manly, the economy-minded councilman from the South side: “But you gentlemen have to remember that next year is an election year.” Budget Gets Tag “And this,” added North side Councilman John A. Schumacher, “is an election budget.” The Indianapolis symphony orchestra was nearly swept away in the economy rush which followed. Mr. Schumacher saved it by convincing his colleagues that a sym-

stood shorn of $353,340 today after a burst of economy last night. For six days and nights, the city

Get Down to ‘Work

After that, the council really went to work, It demonstrated that it's easy to cut the budget the councilmanic way. This is what you do:

FIRST: Close your eyes. SECOND: Clip wage increases proposed by soft-hearted department heads at city hall, but leave your own increases of 100 to 300 per cent strictly alone. THREE: Issue ‘blanket orders to the city garage to eut $40,000 from its requests; to the city engineer to cut $75,000; to the street commission, $75,000, and, finally, lop off $150,000 from a special fund to repair the streets. Can Pin ‘Rap’ on Tex There are numerous - advantages

phony orchestra is a good thing to|to this plan. The main one is that

have in a city where cultural opportunities would otherwise be limited to band concerts and double features. : Councilman Ed Kealing helped Mr, Schumacher save the orchestra from becoming a iost chord. As the roll was called on whether the orchestra w was to get its

$25,000

if taxpayers call you up next year to beef about their unimproved streets not being graded, you can {always pin the “rap” on Street | Commissioner Luther Tex. It's easy to trim expenses the councilmanic way. When in doubt, follow the survey. The survey is a classification sys-|

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tem prepared by the J. L. Jacobs | Co., a Chicago advertising firm, two years ago. It cost the city $12,000] and a certain clerk in the Barrett Law department’ a $40 wage increase, The survey sald the clerk wasn't entitled to a raise, so she was cut from -$2040 to $2000. This stroke of economy had many ramifications, 500 of them in fact. Approximately 500 city employees are budgeted for salaries above those recommended by the survey. But its easy to beat the survey.

Take the case of the finance offi- |

cer in the board of works. The budget request was $3600 for that job. The survey recommendation was $3420. Council took the higher figure on the ground that this employee had been “reclassified.” When it came to the municipal garage, councilmen got snarled up in the price of spare parts, how many mechanics were needed and so forth. In an economy move spearheaded by Mr. Schumacher, the council cut automobile mechanics 5 cents an hour—from $1.25 to $1.20. But the spare parts and innumerable items they couldn't quite decide on and held their hand on further reductions until Councilman Ma White got an idea.

He suggested a blanket cut of | in Tokyo. $208,629 budget. | Budget Chairman Herman Bowers

$40,000" in the

dictated a letter, ordering garage |

Superintendent Stanley Myers to engineer and street commissioner | Gres: Britain. Greece is the only cut the amount where he deemed were issued similar letters to cut COUntry of eastern Europe in which

it advisable. “Don’t Ask For More”

“And. don't come back to us_for|

more,” added Mr, Bowers, although this didn't go in the letter, Asked how he arrived at the blanket figure of $40,000, Mr. White | made a quick motion with the] arm to demonstrate that he had!

pulled it out of the air. The idea caught on and the city

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Pu-Yi to TI estify

Henry Pu-Yi, above, Japanese puppet emperor of Manx| churia, will testify in the war | crimes trials of Japanese leaders Pu-Yi was capturef by the Russians in their brief partic- | ipation in the war against Japan.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

$353 000 Lopped off City's | Record’ ‘Election Bu

Barbed Wire Rings Jerusalem:|3 FLIERS British Callinet Studies Crisis

RUSSIANS BLAST GREEK POLICIES

Bulgaria a Thracian Soil.

R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Aug.

Manuilski of the Ukraine accusing the Greek government of trying to stave off peace in the Balkans. M. Manuilski spoke in support of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgiev Kulichev's appeal to the conference for an easier peace, rejection of Greek territorial demands on Bulgaria, and a Bulgarian corridor across Grecian Thrace to the Aegean, Asks Grecian Territory Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria previously had accused the Greeks of

Strip of

14. ~The Soviet bloc renewed its attack on Greece at the

By UNITED PRESS

barricades, machine, gun nests, sandbags and barbed wire,

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areas in the proposed partition,

had been proposed.

The British cabinet met in spe- | cial session on the Palestine issue today while Jerusalem bristled with |

Prime Minister Clement R. Atlee called the cabinet meeting in London and submitted to it President peace conference today, with Dmitri{ Truman's suggestions for changes | in the plan for partition of Pales-|

Informed Washington sources said Mr, Truman insisted that immigration into the Holy Land be resumed before any long-range plan goes into effect and made other proposals more favorable to the Jewish

London reports said Mr. Truman had proposed increasing the size of the Jewish area in the partition plan and giving the Jews wider authority over immigration than

Jerusalem was divided into three

(ments in retaliation for the ship- | ment of Jews from Haifa to Cyprus. A government “fortress area” was |barricaded at the city center. The remainder of the city was di~ vided into two zones—Jewish Je|rusnlem and Arab Jerusalem and | special defense units were installed In each zone. Palestine seethedl with angry |demonstrations by Jews. Police repeatedly fired into the air at various points to disperse the crowds, Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv— the Holy Land's main cities—had riotous street demonstrations during the night. A torchlight procession in Tel Aviv stoned a British armored car and tried to burn it. Jewish leaders earried out a policy of nen-co-operation with the British government of Palestine. Jewish members of government advisory committees resigned. Mayors of Jewish towns announced they

Sweden declared an open season ‘on unidentified rockets today as three airmen were reported killed ine head-on crash with one of ihe missiles. x Government authorities prepared a nationwide “rocket-hunting” proe | gram and alerted all military units, air bases and radar stations to. "be on the lookout fo .rthe cigar- sheped “ghost bombs.” The newspaper Aftonbladet qudte ed “investigators” as reporting three fiers killed yesterday when their military reconnaissance plane crashed into a rocket near Vage gefyd, in southern Sweden. The

dispatch said the front of the ship was “completely crushed” by the impact. Witnesses have reported seeing the rockets change their course in mid-air and one informed source

fomenting wars in the Balkans. The Soviet bloc’s campaign against Greece appeared to be an {extension of Russian pressure | against the Greek government. The

defense zones in anticipation of attacks by Jewish undeground ele-

would not maintain any relations|soid it was known that they were with the government. radio-controlled.

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hear a group of labor leaders today plead

for retention of a retirement fund for municipal employees not now covered. Some members have gone

on record opposing the fund because it might interfere with the|Four foreign ministers. freedom of staffing city hall by pat-

mania increased prospects that by

+-Austro-Italian frontier.

| Russians claim it is a puppet of

the Soviets do not have a strong | foothold. M. Kulichev himself accused u Greece of aggressions against neigh- |} boring states over a long period. He | presented Bulgaria's appeal against | the proposed peace terms in the! treaty draft prepared by the Big| E

Enemy Seeks Allied Soil

He .said Bulgaria deserved cobelligerent status because she helped the allies in the final months | {of ‘war, Greek Premier Constantine Tsal-|& daris sat quietly during the Bui- | garian and Ukrainian speeches, and | then answered them. He could not | understand, he exclaimed, “this spectacle of a former enemy de- | manding territory from one of the | allies.” Bulgaria, he said, had invaded | © Greece three times in a generation. | Bulgaria was the third of the five defeated countries to present its case. Hungary was scheduled to! appear in the afternoon session, and Finland probably tomorrow. Italy! and Rumania have spoken already |

Bulgaria Wants Thrace

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kimon ! Georgiev told the United Press, want to underline that while Bulgaria tries to regain territories which have been taken from her and is only following peaceful aims, the Greek government is following belligerent aims trying to obtain territory to serve her for future wars.” He referred to Greek claims for a rectification of the Greek- Bulgarian | frontier in favor of Greece. Bulgaria wants part of Thrace, | 3 [the thin eastern strip of Greece Ny fis adjoining western Turkey, so she|S 4 can have a seaport on the Aegean. | § | M. Georgiev said she wanted the | outlet “to. enable her to have a free line of communications with | E the western powers.” Make Slow Progress

The conference showed signs of | moving ahead, although slowly. | Little real work is likely before next week. The shortness of ore nes | 2 general debate on Italy and Ru-

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An Indianapolis drug store owner

was robbed of $200 and several tubes of morphine tablets last night | &= as he started to leave his store. Carl M. .Combs, 4224 Brpadway, told police he was approached by two men with guns as he locked = the front door of his store at 10:30| = Hast night. Making him reopen the | 55 |store, they ordered him to lie on|i {the floor while they took his money & 'and the morphine and fled.

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her ‘and fled when- she turned on! the light, A robber who slugged Ambrose | Saunders, of 2030 N. Capitol ave, T= near his home last night, was foiled | when a witness appearing on the | 3 scene frightened him away. Mr.| 55 Saunders was treated at City hos- $8 | pital.

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