Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1947 — Page 2

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' vehicle and gasoline tax funds.

Religias a ‘Mrs. Amelia Rush

Board Considers Bill fo Take Heat = Higher Taxes Off Administration : in the state administration, Hoosier taxpayers to- & : they would have to dig still deeper into ting cost of government. the increasing Hkelihood that instead of

ers would be tapped for new levies state administration, its spokesmen,

Labor Proposals -

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Committee fo Return |

Bills to Chamber |

The state senate labor committee | was to meet behind closed doors | today to get the labor legislation it is studying back into the hands of the senate. | In committee at present are bills | which would outlaw mass picketing, | ban the closed shop union contract and permit women to work at night in industry. { . “This legislation is too important | This use tax would have little [to be decided on in gommittee,” ect on mail order buyers who pur- said Senator Roy Conrad (R. Monti- | from Chicago and other mail cello), chairman. “We are going to order centers. It would increase get jt back on the floor of the sen- : only a small fraction. late in the very near future.” “The seller would be responsible for Public Hearing Held »

At a public hearing yesterday in the senate chamber labor and management ‘expressed their views on “Tie new power of counties and the mass picketing bill.

cities under-| State C. L O. and A..F. of L.| 0 Sa¥ Income; ft was | cnicttans inshed the measure as

|being “provocative and unconstitutional.” They contended it would “deprive the laboring class of its! right to advertise the solidarity of Ithe people in the shop.” | Industry Gives Its Side

Management countered with testi- | \monials from executives of several | 'big industries in the state. High officials from Allisons here, Car-| negie-Illinois Steel Co. of Gary, and | Borg-Warner of Muncie, cited “per{sonal inconveniences suffered from | ipickets during various strikes in {the last few years.” | George Applegate, researca direc- | tor for the Indiana Manufacturing | association, one of the leading pro- | ponents of the labor legislation introduced this year, said: : i “The anti-picketing bill gives the American people another basic right. It gives them freedom of Jasna to their property.” i

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Seek Cut in Grade

| t committee released : —e igs, mimes reicsset\ (rossing Cost

amounting to $83,311,650. These are| ye Citizens Legislative Committo cover expenditures for highWay|,., or yngigna will meet at moon purposes, liquor law enforcement - th and employment security. But here |tomorrow.in the Riley room of the is how the new budget figurss break (Claypool hotel to increase civic down: ‘pressure for a law to ease cities’ The highway department asked share of grade separation costs. for allocations of $105 million which According to former state Senator the budget commifiee cut to $76 Charles A. Phelps, Ft. Wayne, legismillion. Net result was no change jstive consultant, the grade separasince the department cannot spend iiion problem is the only one remore than it receives from motor ceiving committee backing. Purpose’ of the bill is to Increase the share If it receives more than the $76 of grade separation expenses born. million allotted, it needs only to by railroads. apply to the budget committee to| Rep. Hobart Creighton (R. Warspend more. saw), speaker of the house, will talk at the luncheon program. Dele- | Net Result-No Change gations from interested cities have | The alcoholic beverages commis- | heen invited and will hear John D., sion asked for nearly $2 million for | Shoat, Pt. Wayne, president of the enforcement and was granted only committee, who will speak in beabout $1% million. Net result again pair of the grade separation pro- ~ was no change, since the ‘moment : : the taxes turned in run out, the commission runs out of enforcement

. | Current law requires cities to {bear 80 per cent of the cost | money and can get no more. If|,; new grade separation projects, |

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more money is available from the leaving 20 per cent of the cost to

enforcement tax, the commission rajjroads, Mr. Phelps said. Under can spend more no matter what the | jegislations now proposed by the

bulge} Sommiee Saye. citizens’ group, the railroads would

ministration, board of depositories| ¢ such costs while 28 other states.

and intangibles tax administration add to the budget figure but not to the cost of government.

All Funds Slashed

. | All thése independent funds were Elmer Cummin S slashed by the budget commission

from a requestéd total of $114,637,

- 946 to $83,311,650 without affecting the taxpaying dollar at all | } es 1] dy Actual cost of government under | budget committee recommendations,| Funeral services for Elmer Cumwhich will be embodied in the bud- | mings, former Indianapolis resiget bill soon, will be $59 million. dent who served 33 years with the That 1s $13 million more than was treasury department in Washingappropriated two years ago and ton, D. C., will be held at 2 p. m.| represents an increase in probable saturday at Thomas Murray fu-| state spending of nearly 30 per cent. | neral home in Washington. Burial

RE will be in Arlington cemetery. New Protective League Mr. Cummings, who was 74, died » . Jan. 17 in the Panama Canal zone. | To Hold First Meeting He had retired from the treasury The first open meeting of the department in 1944. i Peoples Protective League of In-, A native of Jackson county, Mr. ~“dianapolls, Inc. organized foe of Cummings lived in Indianapolis and the streetcar utility, will be held to- worked for Van Camp's hardware | morrow in the Hotel Washington. | before accepting the government! Directors will elect officers prior ' Job. to the meeting, | He Is survived by a son, Wayne, | James M. Dawson, one of the Indianapolis; five daughters, Mrs. | organizers, will present petitions | William J. Artman, Indianapolis; | bearing 47,000 signatures opposed Mrs. Owen Shepard, Clermont, Fla.; | to the present increased fare of | Mrs. T. H. Applewhite, Jacksonville, Indianapolis Railways, Inc, Pro- Fla.; Mrs. Elmer Kuhn, Canal zone, | posed higher telephone service rates and Mrs. Frank Principe, Washing- | also will be discussed at the ton, D. C.; a sister, Mrs. Cora! meeting. ) | Pruitt, Terre Haute, and a brother, | | Dr. D. J, Cummings, Brownstown.

{require that railroads bear at least’ | half the expense. ! v3} i PE Td

r— | | : : a Services for "Mrs. Amelia Rush | Twelve student pledges have been Clermont, : § lated ato’ Keron, mets, rorons were to be held at 11 fof Butler university byteflan church at Bueschell, Ky., fh i. with burial there. She was 91. ers are Evelyn Aufder- | Mrs. Rush; died Monday at the. cis Brown, Joan Ben-thome of a niece, Mrs, Albert Spears. _ Oyamer, Betty Dorsey, She was born in Jefferson. county, askill, Martha Lancet, Kentucky, and had been a resiplewell, Betty dent of Indiana hut six years, all of In-| She is survived by four nephews and three nieces besides Mrs.

a. m. today in the Penn-Run- Pres- ||

* Bmergendy rent control would bec {given to local governmental units

within its boundaries. Each board would = establish its own ceilings {terddy »|and enforce its rent control ardipolicy nances. ‘The provisions of the "The measure provides that when measure would expire March 18, 1949. \ X The policy committee has also. &pJRA y proved a bill to raise the salary of NO. | LAWYER—Philio B.. its’ the \state superintendent of Pulte Perlman, above," Baltimore. at- | of sl $7500. The increase would become torey, was named solicitor gen- in o effective in 1940. The bill also prooral of the United States. He vides for an increase of from $3 to succesds J, Howard McGrath {give a op- $5 the per diem of the official. That of Providence, | who re |, to ‘to the governor increase would become effective

signed last fall to run success. {to declare an emergency within that when Ben H. Watt takes office.

Sider » bill ‘which will be tossed have jurisdiction over the entire|; inte wh I es and towns

for U. S. senate. unit. Then after the governor had' ‘Another policy committee ap-

A. Pinafores. Sizes 3 to 6, 4.00 B. Suspender Skirt and Blouse. Sizes 3 to 6, 6.98 c. Pinafore. Sizes 1 to 3, 3,00 ; D. Bags, 2.00%, 3.00* E. Flowers in Plastic Gift Box, 1.00 F. 1/20 10-Kt. Gold Filled Locket and Chain, 2.00 G. Gold Metal Charm Bracelet, 1.00* H. Additional Charms, 59¢* each I. Gold Metal Compact, 3.00 J. Kewpie, 1.50 - K. Heart Decorated Suspenders, 1.00

*Plus 20% tax

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up the little townships." Theodore "Hedrick, executive sece

/ the throats of the people at one time." The trustees expressed their favor

counties to adopt parts of .the proe gram’ as is “seen fit to meet the needs of the individual counties.”

school bus routes, unify purchasing, construction and other administrae tive matters, and provide a uniform

school tax levy in the counties,

for ‘a bill which would allow the

‘The measure would consolidate :

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