Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1947 — Page 16

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“Indiana Rings Up wy $25,000 on First Pay ‘Of New Cigaret Tax

Some Surrender to Levy Grudgingly;

Others Switch to Pipes, Cigars, Save Pennies

- By BOYD GILL nited Press Staff Correspondent The state of Thdiana put nearly "2,500,000, copper coins in its penny

bank today, proceeds from the first day's operation of the new cigaret tak. The coins jingled in cash drawers from the sale of some 815,000 packs of cigarets subject to the new 3-cents-a-pack state tax.

Some smokers surrendered to the tax grudgingly, Others switched | 3h to pipes and cigars, untaxed under the new law effective today.

said they quit smoking last midnight.

The state expects to collect an didn’t bother her.

‘average of $24,400 a day from the “lg tax. That would raise $4,500,000 the | last six months of this year and $9 million annually thereafter, » Last:Minute Sales Hoosiers with the cigaret habit! were subjected to a lnst-minute| “sales campaign by tobacconists, drug stores and groceries to “buy | ‘em by the carton and ‘beat the tax,” | but reports from over the state ~~ showed these tactics were not too| effective. ~~ Many hoarded a few cartons, but | most people heeded advice that cigarets get stale quickly, Others feared they might get caught by af clause in the law that provides up! to $1000 fine and 90 days in jail for! persons found with unstamped cigarets six days after purchase. The reaction of Indlanans was varied . There was a big grayp that felt | like L. O, JHannum, an electric welder at Brazil Hold Down -Expe ~“T've always smoked pena a Mr. Hannum said, “but I have bought a | pipe and expect it will hold ‘down | the expense.” Others: took a broader

view,

among them Al Federico, law 8chool| gizaneth Ingalls, 62, honor-bound se

Junior at Indiana university.

gansport housewife, sald the tax | None. Like It “I'm going to smoke as usual,” she said. ” Miss Lucille Zink, a chamber of |

| commerce “BAM executive at P|

{| Wayne, sald she'd go on smoking a pack a day. “The tax is one of those uns you don't pay any attention to if you're used to something,” she said. “None of us like the tax,” sald Mrs. L. B. Burnett, a Bloomington | | grocery cashier, "but I don't suppose |

tany witt-stop- smoking.”

At least one former smoker wasn't fazed by thie tax. E. L. Bach, {executive secretary of the South Bend Association of Commerce, said he'd laugh at it. “I quit smoking during the war when cigarets. were hard to get,” -Mr. | Bach sald. “I've withstood the | temptation to start again during | these last Sew Years ¢ of ! plenty”

Hear Son-in-Law In ‘Slavery’ Trial

SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 1 (U. P.).| ~Boston's society leader, Mrs, Mira

| not to insult witnesses against her, |

A few |

COMMANDANT—Col, 8, B. Albert has been placed in command of Ft. Harrison to direct the installation during the closing days of its existence as a military post. Col. Albert will ‘retain command until Aug. I5, at which time final inactivation of the fort will be complete. The commandant was formerly head of the disciplinary -barracks at the post.

New Ayres Stock Pays Expansion

8 Firms .Underwrite $1 Million Issue

8. Ayres & Co. today an- —— the improvements to be made with the $1 million’ received from the sale of 35000 shares of 4% per cent cumulative preferred stock. The shares which went on sale |vesterday -afternoon at eight local underwriters will be offered by the group to Indiana investors at a price of $103.50 per share, Y James A. Gloin, Ayres treasurer, id this morning a large part of the |

money would be used to cover]

“It'll take fhore than three cents| returned to court today to hear her | occupancy costs of the new 11-story

a pack tax to make me stop smoking,” Mr. Federico said. “It's as fair As any tax, I guess. They may as well tax luxuries.” : | A few Hoosiers called the tax “un-! fair” and “outrageous” and felt cigaret against, Keith Clark, a Brazil gas station operator, felt it was “unfair since it does not affect the cigar or pipe smoker.” Roland R. Schultz, a Ft.| Wayne attorney, sald: " Smoke Cigars Instead “It's the most outrageous tax! foisted upon the people of Indiana. | I'm going to smoke cigars instead.” But another lawyer, Harold J. Tuberty, Logansport, had a different attitude: “I'll continue to smoke three packs & day. The state needs the money and I'm glad to accommo-| date them,” he said. i . Harold E. Glore, a South Bend]

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son-in-law testify to alleged enSlavement of a Negro servant, Dr. Richard Roberts, Berkeley, Cal, will be the government's first major witness against Mrs. Ingalls and her husband, Alfred Ingalls, |

He was ‘expected to testify to: events leading up to federal investigation of the status of Dora Jones, 57, whom Mrs. Ingalls is alleged to have enslaved to avenge an. affair with her first husband. Mrs. Ingalls, who last week called {a witness against her a “dirty little skunk,” promised the court] she and her husband would not! contact government witnesses: again,

Talk Isn't Cheap 'When_It's

MILWAUKEE, July 1 When representatives of kee's Town Hall invited New - York Mayor Fiorella

‘U. P)-— Milwau- | former La

| building now under construction on 8. Meridian st. : New Entrance Planned The. new building is just south of the present Ayres annex. The new section will be tied in on all floors with the present structure. A new entrance for the section south of Pearl st. will be constructed in the center of the Meridian st. frontage. A new front will also be constructed to tie In the section as a single unit, The entire first floor and a balcony in the south section will be devoted to men’s furnishings. Other amounts from the stock sale will be' used .to furnish and occupy-the nearly completed Ayres annex at 25-27 W. Maryland st. The six floors there will be devoted

La Guardia flo service operations and stock

rooms, Tunnel to Be WidenedGloin also announced the store planned to expand its base-

Mr.

interior decorating contractor, said | Guardia to speak on the fall Pro- | ment space under the parking lot

he'l been trying for a month to get used to cigars and Pipes.

“But it's no go,” Glore said, “|

gram, the "Little Flower” | following reply: “I am an expensive speaker. 1

sent. the

fon W, Maryland st. west-of the |store. The board of worksvyester|day approved plans for widening

can't take it after 20 years of cig- | want $1000. For that money you the tunnel into that section.

aret smoking. I'll pay the tax, but’ I won't like it.” : The women smokers felt much like the men. Mrs. Glenda Young, wife of a South Bend newspaperman, shook her head sadly as she|

figured it would cost her and her| —Liquor ‘distillers were asked by! Inc.

husband $32.40 a year at the rate of | three packs a day.

can get a lot of better speakers, {you still want me, sign here.” They Signed.

Corn Economy Urged

WASHINGTON, July 1 (U, P),

the government today to curtail

| their use of corn because of flood Gavin L.

Underwriters participating in the stock purchase transaction are Collett & Co. Inc, Indianapolis Bond and Share Corp. City Securities Corp, Thomas D. Sheerin '& Co. Kiser, Cohn & Shumaker, Raflensperger, Hughes & Co., N. Leonard Cohen & Co., Inc., Payne & Co, Inc, and

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3 Put in Hospitals By Freak Mishaps

Three persons were injured in freak accidents yesterday and an were. taken to hospitals. Most serious of the three was the accident which befell Walter Hess Jr., 30, of 2161 Union st. His left foot was crushed between the elevator and shaft at the Union station last night. It was ampu-

his condition today fair Roy Christman, - 43. of 015 N. Gladstone ave., sprained his back when he fell out ofwa cherry tree at 1015 N. Olney ave. He was taken to City hospital where his condition was revorted fair Mrs. Kathryn Freeman.—23; ot; 373 Burgess st. suffered head injuries when she was thrown from a skidding motorcycle in the 1500 block Kentucky ave. last night. 8he

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cycle driven by her husband, Dewey Freeman, 21, same address. Mr. Freeman sent his cycle into a skid to avoid collision with a truck, Mrs. Freeman was taken ‘o Methodist ‘hospital, her condition fair,

Shipyard Strike Spreads to Gulf

strike of 41,500 C, I. O. shipbuilders which has tied up work in 10 east coast shipyards since last Thursday spread to nearly all yards on the cast and Gulf coasts today. Work wis halted on an estimated 178 vessels. John Green, International president of the C. I. O. Industrial Union of ‘Marine and Shipbuilders, esti mated that between 90,000 and 100,000 workers had heeded the latest strike call which : went into effect last midnight, Charles Leone, regional director of the C. I. O, shipbuilders, estimated that between 20,000 and 50,000 addi tional workers were affected by the walkout,

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In Lottery Raids

Bix mén were arrested in lottery]

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raids last night. Plies vwoaped down on.» pools roomi at 2222 E. Washington st.

They arrested Marvih Trattner, 27,

of 3309 Broadway. They charged

him with advertising: a lottery and keeping: a room for -pool selling. Clarence Libowitz, 46, of 39 N. Jetferson ave, was charged with advertising a lottery. : At the Sunset Cleaners, 867 In-

|diana ave. faiders arrested Henry Gootch, 28, of 804 W. 12th st. on, | ‘Ia charge of advertising a lottery.

At 1437 Columbia .ave, . three others were arrested. “They were

ave, charged with operating a lot-

tery and keeping a room for pool selling; Claude Box, 50 C1444

-{ Martindale ave., advertisifig a lot-

tery, and Ivory Malone, 25, of 1231

169 baseball books, two policy books and a sack of “Pick-N-Win"” tickets in the three raids. “a

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LEBANDS litte eerew 1.—FPuneral

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surveyor ‘here whose death in Toledo recalled an unsolved 62-year-old Boone county murder. * Mr. Tanselle was the last survivor of the two who found the bodies of Miss Lucinda Foreman and her mother slain near Royalton in an ax and corn knife murder March 9, 1885, which was never solved. Mr. Tanselle was a brothér of Knotley Tanselle, still “living here,

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of the murder victims did not wave to him as he went to school in the morning led her to send him and his brother Will, who died in Lebanon a year ago, to investigate. They found the bodies. ‘Charles Tanselle was a teacher in Boone county schools for 25 years. He was a paving contractor in Toledo. ra :

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