Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1949 — Page 3

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bonus question

service for. eligibility should be|,

Off 15-Point Plan

. = Omit Proposals

On Raising Money Indiana's three major veterans’ ganged up on the on today with a 15! t agreement von what the ahould ;

None of the 15-points, nawever, offered the General Assembly any ideas on how the money for the “generous” bonus should be raised. Meanwhile, a fourth veterans’

dication of elvic responsibility” in evading the financing problem. The AVC has advocated a graduated net income tax as the most equitable method of financing the bonus.

Here are the 15 points which|

grew from a meeting of. the leading minds in the American Legion, the Veterans’ of Foreign

Wars and the Disabled American Veterans: a Veterans who served be-|’ tween Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 2, 1945, should be eligible for the bonus, but . . . “TWO: An honorable discharge should be an eligibility requirement éxcept , for conscientious objectors who shouldn't get any

Two men who attempted to ‘travel this road during Tuesday

| night's downpour got into more

‘trouble than they had bargained for. Fra

_of Mossville found themselves

+ Bob Davis 5520 S. Meridian St., the driver, and Bill Steelman :

carried downstream... Bill jumped

out but Bob was forced to make a hasty exit through one of the windows. The scene is the Spillway Road, one » mile south of the - Marion County line in Johnson County.

Flood Waters

mes mee Force Evacuation

THREE: Minimum length of

90 ‘days. FOUR: Only veterans who lived in. Indiana six months bes fore entering servicé should be eligible. FIVE: Veterans who left the state ‘ after their service should still get the bonus. . 8IX: Each month of domestic service should add $10 to the bonus.’ SEVEN: Each month overseas should be worth $15 in bonus. EIGHT: . Nobody should get! less than $30 if he gets any at

all. NINE: Nobody should get more than $800 unless disabled,

300 Families Leave

(Continued From Page One)

hours at Shelbyville yesterday and washed out an eight foot section of the Shelbyville levee last night.

Shelbyville were evacuated as flood waters entered their homes. Today the water reached the pumping room of Indiana Gas |& Water Co. power plant, which supplies Shelbyville’s water. Fire trucks moved in to provide emergency pumping service to! keep water away from pumps.

then $100 extra. TEN: Totally disabled vets should get the whole $700 re-! gardless of length of service, ELEVEN: Bonus of $700 for men who died in service should be paid their dependents. TWELVE: Surviving “Spouses; who haven't remarried, children,

Although there is no measurjing equipment on Flat’ Rock River near Shelbyville, oldtimers ‘said it was higher than in 1913." On the East Fork of White! |River Columbus was in the grips! lof the worst flood since 1913. Today more -than-300 fami {living > a former summer camp

dependent parents or foster par-isite along the East Fork of White|

ents all should be included in the list of those eligible to receive bonus of deceased soldiers. THIRTEEN: Priority of dependents should be in the order listed in point 12. FOURTEEN: Veterans who chisel on the bonus -should be treated as felons. FIFTEEN: The bonus should be administered by a board of five honorably discharged veterans. Announcement of the the Aerie

' merit on the program closed

this paragraph: “It was the unanimous opinion of the representatives of all three organizations that the matter of the method of taxation necessary to finance the bonus was strictly one. for the state legislature.” To this, Fred A. Sondermann, state AVC vice chairman, declared: “We in the AVC had hoped that the days of the ‘grab technique’ were gone for veterans’ organizations.” “The - silence of the American Legion and other groups means that their own memberships may be particularly hard hit by a sales’ or a -gross income tax, which will fall hardest average veteran,” Mr. mann continued. .

Dallas-Chicago Flight

Made in 132 Minutes CHICAGO; Tan; 6 (UP) —An American Airlines plane today held what was believed to be a new unofficial commercial record for a scheduled airline flight from Dallas to Chicago. A DC-8 flagship, aided by 100-milé-an-hour tail winds, made the 960-mile flight in two hours and 12 minutes last night. The trans-| port, piloted by Capt. Charles Cur-| ray. Ft. Worth, Tex, averaged 430 miles an hour, The scheduled flight is three. hours. and minutes. :

time for the!

Cleared in Sldying

Over. Sister's Honor PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6 (UP) «Mrs. ' Dorothy Reeves, 26, was acquitted last night of slaying) her husband. Leslie Reeves, 29, because she feared he had dishonored her 18- year-old sister. Mr. Reeves, a Navy pharmacist's mate, was shot last Sept. 5 when he returned home from night ride in his car with his sis-ter-in-law, Peggy Miles. Miles testified that he made repeated: improper advances Mrs. Reeves said she would return to her former home in Nashville, Tenn., with her two children ~and Miss Miles.

G! and Bride Make Up

After Deportation Tiff KANKAKEE, Il, Jan. 6 (UP)

« Donald Smith, 20-year-old Army private, was reunited today

with his German war bride, Viola,

law,

on the Sonder-

five!

an all-|

Miss

River were homeless. Red Cross

A dozen families living! posts in the northwest section of)

for flood refugees, but for the| most part homeless were housed!

in private residences. Columbus, in a vulnerable spot where Blue and Flat Rock Rivers join with the East Fork of White ver, . reported the ‘worst flood JR > in the. state.

In one section on the eastern! - Homes at Columbus edge ‘of Columbus near the river ithe

water was up to the roofs of some houses. : The athletic field of Columbus High School, also located near the river, was inundated with water as high as the cross ‘rs on the football goal

At noon today it was reported White River had dropped threefourths of a foot in the last hour and a half with a level of 18 feet. In one ‘section of the. city famflles were returning to their homes, Fifty-eight persons were

| center, : Another area along Haw Creek] reported waters. receding today. Many families forced to evacuate) lyesterday were able to return to] their homes today. The weatherman today

‘said’

{there was no immediate danger|

connected it fo a truck.

(Continued From Page One) referendum . . ,.the voters gave a mandate not only- for the payment of a bonus but a8 to the| method of payment (sales tax).” The Veterans’ Affairs setup, bé said, should be preserved as| the agency for administering the; bonus.

of highway problems, Gov. Gates attacked heavy trucking as the principal smasher of roads. He urged more dual lane construction, -new_ sources of highway revenue. He added: “If additional weights and| lengths are granted to trucks,

| being housed in temporary quar- then the General Assembly should | ters in the city park community| {make certain the trucks pay their give the maximum of assistance

| ust share of highway upkeep.” | On traffic safety Gov. Gates called for a prima. facie speed |limit of 60 miles an hour, lower

{speeds under - certain conditions, |

' more zoning of dangerous strips | of road by the highway department. :

lof more rain He warned, how~ For -the state police -he-asked-

ever, that unseasonably mild] P|

not only more troopers, but funds

Gates Asks for Sales Tax To Finance Soldiers’ Bonus

Recommending a serious study!

headquarters at Stout Field-is “not entirely satisfactory.” “The state should provide a central state police headquarters, ‘here in Indianapolis,” he ¢on-| cluded. i As in many. other instances in ithe lengthy message, he pr s party for creation of the de-| partment of Commerce and Public Relations. He credited it with bringing much capital to Indiana, urged it be permitted to continue. its work. | In his plea to save the law

. which prohibits strikes as a means

of settling labor disputes in pub-|

Hoosiers Discover This Automobile fs Swill a ‘Landiubber’

“Aided by George Kopatsky who pole-vaulted to the car's top, _ the men began the difficult task of pulling out the ‘vehicle. Bil Ruhton (rightl threw a cable which was connected to the bumper

buf it was pulled off. Then they hooked it to the car's side and

er's first administration.

He proposed that the legislature primaries, |adopt the recommendations of the setup is;

ceded.

~ |balance from ‘$27 “million left be- each issue. That { virtuaily amounthind by Governor-elect Schrick- ed to a proposal to forget the idea of nominating state candidates in

because the to’ nominate by secret Corp. Company spokesmen said

{recent survey made on state penal!ballot convention.

institutions. that all placed ent.

penal under

institutions unified manage-! {in parting.

It was recommended’ Gov. Gates paid a final tribute!

. Mr, Schricker, Jet M i nic Killed

“I know that no man has at!

be to his successor,

present ®.

(Continued From Page One) Gov. John Watiius who: will tke

aftern: ventilating system was unable to cope with smoke in the caucus room. T Teary-eyed Senators came gasping out of the room after ° two hours, groping for a switch

{with which to step up the venti-

Mr. Rubton had to cut. down a tree to make a path for the car to come out. The car was [Were expected to be oriented.

removed after the waters re-

|lators, One or two legislators got flout Ain the maze of halls in the new chambers but by today all

[Electrician Killed

SOUTH BEND, Jan. 6 (UP)— Clifford C, Pittman, 31, Lakeville, was shocked fatally last night while working at his job as an lectrician at the Bendix Aviation

(he touched a 440-volt live power line,

COVENTRY, England, Jan. 6 :

He touched the controversiallheart more sincerely the welfare (UP)—8. W. Cooke, 45, an avia-

questions of liquor and statewide of his direct primary elections only in Schricker,”

state he said,

than has

] Gov.|tion mechanic, was killed today ‘It is my | when he ‘was sucked into the

{ passing. but urged caution in tam- wish that his term may be most engine of a jet plane he was ex.

STRAUSS SAYS:

Hie utilities, Gov. Gates said: |

“The state should at all times)

{and the minimum of interference! always keeping in mind that the - rights and welfare of the general public shall come first.” Gov. Gates urged that the legislature set aside $30 million of | the $60 million treasury balance! he is leaving behind for the rainy day when state income! from taxes starts to drop. He:

weather will continue, causing a. for renovation of the entire radio{gave his own administration al [rapid runoff of large amounts of| communication system of the de-| {pat on the back by pointing out

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21, who charged he tried to have

her deported.

Mt, Smith was charged with non-support Tuesday when his bride charged he sought informa-

ton about deportation procedure.

~..The couple arrived in America

nine days ago:

Judge Irwin. Taylor and Army officials reconcile them and they said they would live at Chanute

Field, Rantoul, Ill, until Mr. Smith is discharged Jan. 21.

Dies for Love at 83

SYRACUSE, Sicily, Jan. 6 (UP) " —=Giuseppe rSchembri tried long|

39.7

to persuade his 19-year-old girl

friend to marry him. His f

and friends twitted him about his fallure. JF atardAy he hanged him-

Self. He was 83.

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Men’ s Pajamas are on the First Floor—to your loft as

you enter the Washington St. ‘doors—out- on the Soup" "T ~ ters so you can get at them.