Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1949 — Page 6

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In Business Volume

T 8q far are down 9 per cent.

$4 Million: Month

of motor fuel taxes,

Tax division of the Alcohol

from the corresponding period o 1948 which yielded $35,884,897,

‘cating that the state administra

good financial condition. In

Principal Source

revenue. The state's biennia budget was predicated on esti

tual figure, Including individua

lion.

Inture. So

perts, that the state would oper-

deeply into its substantial treasury balance, ’ ; ~ Earlier this week State Auditor James Propst reported the unappropriated general! fund balance at more than $48.6 million, drop of about $2.3 million from the balance a year “8§0.

Plucky Boy; 9,

~ Puture Cheerfully |

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nine-year-old boy today showed thout any feet.

1 “his. divoread parents 4t his bedside to tell him his feet | been cut off. Sandy. lost both : eet when he fell berieath a freight train Wednesday night. : George Jodry, Bremerton. Wash.,, and Mrs. Jean Gorman _. Seattle, entered the quiet hospital room to tell Sandy the shattering news. But the boy spoke first. i “Guess what? The doctor told he I'm going to get two wooden eet.”

: &. demonstrated his courage CG stip 5 © pe A

; gf 8 8 1 THE FATHER and mother felt : ad immeasurable relief as they : from his big white pillow, “That's going to make it easy

feet.” Sandy was. tickled with the idea as they all'laughed. “It's funny,” he said, “but my! toes hurt-—only I don't have any oes.”

Iowa Republicans Ask |

Spangler to Quit CLEAR LAKE, Ja. Ag. 6 (UP) ~The . Iowa Republican state Central committee asked former! national GQP.éhaitman Harrison. Spangler today to resign as nas tional committeeman from Iowa ‘No reason was given for the request, and no successor was proposed. But the 70-year-old Ce dar Rapids attorney national committeeman since 1932 and na< tional ‘chairman from 1942 +o 1944, has been under fire fram Young Republicans and other ele<' ments of the party for being “out | of tune” with new frends in party] policy.

Moonshine Spurt Laid To High Liquor Taxes WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UP) Moonshining jumped 30 per cent’

gst year and the. Distilled Spirits

Sistine thinks it. knows why h taxes on legal ligiior.

rr SOCREY. QF the institute, sald today) ; that the federal government taxes| Iggal liquor at $9 a gallon and] hat state taxes average $1.43 al on. br

Price of liquor to the point where

» Make, vour Ritehen

Armitrons’s YEO S | 1 Wall Tile. Phone for atimats, as arpiaxces ‘| t cusToM-sUILY §

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for the 1948-48 fiscal year were up 11.6 per cent over) A the year before for an all time A | . high, collections of the 1949 Said

“Although gross income tax J

State. Revenue Director John| " M reported tirst! — orths collections on the, ¥ 1949 tax were $7,416,462 as com- += 1% pared with $8,121,305 for the cor-| responding two quarters of last|F

year. | Although quarterly collections § on thé 1949 gross income tax in-| dicated a drop In business vol- ) ume Mr. Des sald, other major tax Indicators were holding up:

E June was the first $4 million ; month In history in the collection!

sind 410. SANDE time, the Cigaret|

Beverages Commission, reported collections for the first six] months of §5997,274, slightly up

tion of -Gov.-Schricker was in

creased use of motor fuel and cigarets, they believed, were not| yy, ; signs of gerious kinks in the state's economy which might lead t0' sharper drops in the gross in-

The gross tax is the sgate’s| sotirce vo

fax payments for the calendar parm. Year 1048, was nearly $73 mil-|

...Smployment could push actual

“GeOTRe - (Banay) "Jodry Larmers-who-—want-their—land-propriation being all used up."

smiling! Directly under Mr, Ellis, and La, in the Catoctin Mountains. lover all of the industries, is easy: The Trumans, who motored 70

to-take a-bath," joked the father years-of experience “You ‘won't ‘have to sérud your! The boys. at. the furniture. fac- gee

Aug. 6 “batdheaded as--therboysveath ppv pag —odoos Ly Ina machine which sounds off (UP) =A “88-year-old astronomer

. and ‘summer heat," Mr. Abbey

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i Fiscal observers immediately, Clint Abbey shows a boy how to stack cut hickory. # interpreted the figures as indi-|

| State Farm's Furniture Factory Runs - . Behind in Filling Backlog of Orders

8s busy. $

, School, or keep a date with his girl.

“1 Yet nis sharp, dark eyes have a furtive Took, Ike uw SERRE

EY As Hot. Both hurt, or even 10n§. It Is too heavy for young

muscles. principal of general fundithreatened, and is not going to The younger prisoners; teens

agers and men in theif early 20's, mated fiscal year receipts for last | He might be a boy in any sum. are put in the furniture factory year of $65 million while the ac-'mer camp, but he is not. He is

libe. And his shirttal is out be“cause it is cooler.

> - . » “MR. ELLIS keeps an eye on

: It appeared equally certain Add The judge had given him SIX’, ey rniture factory as he does Ny '/months. ¥

however, according to. fiscal ex- ”-

his other industries, but even out 4 z there among the browning tassels | HE IS ONE of several dozen ,f the cornfields, he watches poli-

ate at enough of a deficit to dig boys, dressed alike, just break-'jjos He does not beat about the

ing the cocoon of adolescence, push ‘on this question. He has a {who turn out lacquered hickory pngiitical job and knows it. furniture, with a rustic, woodsy - «If those Republicans ever got {charm, for the state parks. in control again, which they X The furniture factory is red.wop’t” he says, “I'd be out of {brick, with alittle wood dust in here fast.” : alr, and bare light bulbs He is trained for his job, which

_|against the ceiling like the first is unusual. Often penal jobs are

‘stars of evening. ° Ii-is but one juicy plums pitched inte the laps

- lof seven major Industries oper- of the party faithfuls. He served

ated by penal labor on the State on the farm as chief engineer beFarm, west on U.S. 40, near Put- fore enlisting as a buck private

” $ Faces Footless i {Bamville. The others are a big in World War II. He had a com-

dairy, slaughter house, cannery, mission in World War I, but had poultry farm, stone plant and dropped it. . . brick yard. When he took off his uniform, Last month the furniture plant and the world thought peace was 4

+ SEATTLE, Aug. 8 (UP)—Aiturned out $2813 worth of chairs,'at hand, like other soldiers, h

gliders, ' footstools, hall trees, asked for his old job. The Re!

i "* Ms parents how to face the future'cabin beds, and settees. It is all publican In charge of the. farm| : ! r 8 his chair and mum- secutive year of '“accident-free ugh he will go through life made of Indiana hickory, bought squirmed in his chair transportation, the local C&S office announced.

at a penny pér sapling from bled something about -the “ap

cleared cheaply. That was a Republican “no” to

Ee Fi an occasional vis-| He went home to Terre Haute itor when there is a surplus on:;Shortly afterward, natty Ralph hand. Its just filling orders for Tucker was elected Mayor of May when many furniture fac- Terre Haute, He made Mike El-| tories are soaking handkerchiefs lis city engineer, a job he kept in recession tears. . juntil Gov. Schricker asked-him to

Ellis, a graduate engineer and .. . - former football player at Rose f¢ Shangri-La Polytechnical Institute in his . co home town of Terre Haute. He, THURMONT, Md., Aug. 8 (UP) was ‘Gov. “Schrieker’s choice, —President and Mrs. Truman to-| which means that he measures up day enjoyed the cool weather of] as an all-wool Democrat, the presidential retreat, Shangri-

to-meet Gene Inman With many miles through the Maryland farm-|

tory have a boss St Shei own, He is round-cheeked Clinton Ab-/.;\4 "walked briskly along the Do rar Haute Hin eyes trai}s surrounding this hideaway| His words are short clipped; his established by the late President sentences spurt. . Bue he knows Roosevelt. After breakfasting hickory furniture and, more im. With Mrs. Truman, he spent a portant, he knows. his boys, -- He leisurely morning reading news-| has been there 18 and a half papers and resting. He took a years, . + swim in the nearby mountain pool, The penny saplings are brought in thé afternoon. | in,: the knots trimmed off. They a ———

are cut to length, sanded and Astronomer Honored piled in sizes. ‘Then they are. «MBRIDGE Mass.

Mr. Truman arose at 6 a. m.|

the sharp ‘dges who never went to college holds

The: wood. which-4s molded to a1 honorary degree from Har. make the curved pieces for chairs Vard.. He is Lean Campbell, a; is actually boiled, like cabbage, veteran member of the Harvard in a: vat which hésembles a large observatory staff

watering trough. When wet and TT hot, it is bent td form and dried ’

three days in the kiln room at 1R00 degrees. Sh — : il ak” . n » » —————————— A BECAUSE: OF the Kiln room, esses BE blo”) PL bh

keeps a milk can filled with ice water, Everyone drinks from the

same tineup. Sp . ' As The heavier pleces are put to A TEACH R gether with a sledge hammer and "

nails.’ | The sledge is

NeW leariug Device. | less than 50 of the some 275 Tr - 3 TEaChers a1 The THATNG - Universi ; Button In Ear School of Med Chicago, Ill.—Deafened people! oo ing fatolve ay |

making them wear a receiver

The makers of Be'tone, Dept. 40,"

hey will gladly send you thelr. THE COMMITTEE FOR

HE IS a fair-faced boy of 19 with his shirttail out, college style.

You can see the white pencil line of scalp showing where his 8 hair is neatly parted, as if he were about to set. out for Sunday o

for two reasons, first, it is con- . sidered light work (with the exligerving time on the State Penal ception of the sledge), and secondly, the youngsters are the | Wor 14 With his fast-shuttling Angers ones most likely to run away, Sees shes om. Te {he nimbly wedves wet rattan They get closer supervision there. It Was ‘expected that only 8€- through the cane bottom of a "There is no smoking. Even rious downturns in business and rustic hickory settee. Then he Mike Ellis doused his cigaret rg ten SP 4 8.the fiber into place, just when he went in. But the boys 2H 8 for the next two fiscaligo, with a light mallet. do get T5-minute rest periods for ig years as low as the $55 million] yyy mistake had been that he smoking in mid-morning and eee 204. $47.5 million. respectively nag overlooked. the ‘matter of mid-afternoon, an idea used In anticipated by the state budget property rights. He had taken department stores.

makers during the recent 28 someone. else's car for a joy ride.|

and yesterday, relaxed “family-} :

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Air Line

Mike Ellis, farm boss, watches a lean-back lo

__ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _.

~ Prison Industry Shows No Signs of R

Sif ge

w, watches add. Completes 13 Accident-Free Years

~oo-c{ November. the office of Maj..Gen, Candidates so far is that lining

amés V. Hunt, central figure in! a congressional ‘Investigation ot! = "Five Per Centers,” announced “trial ballons” will

jeg. against the New York

ing his business. ; A Benate investigations sub- fve major committee began "Jooking Into!county appear now to be the cenHunt's dealihgs after the New|tral battleground York newspaper frat FEpOTEd oN fights. They" his activities, a

the races:

my affairs for more than six

gested that anything has been! 11 face some stiff op{found which would warrant any!3: Dailey wi

tioned so far as his possible op-

“Five Per Centers” are those |, rents are Judge .Joseph How

agents who help businessmen to! s 5 Wi. get government contracts, usual- Are Of Municipal Court

Version of Matches | Mr. Hunt also gave his version | and | Truman” match folders. He said {the Herald Tribune, in one of its |stories, gave the impression that {he had ordered the matches for {his own use to impress prospecitive clients, | “That is a He,” he said. “Their {Washington staff knows it is a

on Per Cent Key Man Political Parties: Ey Ji To Sue Newspaper Potential Candida

; 3 "TAA BDC *. Used ‘Half Truths [1 OF. HE WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)—| 5 Major Public Offices Appear Now To Be Major Battlegrounds in County

By NOBLE REED

Philip Bayt ‘J:

.._.__.__|for. nominations for prosecutor, "= Mr. Hunt said that the subcom-|gheiff. county clerk and the two ~~ Tittee has had “two attorneys Criminal Court judgeships. BONE oF ween Roy Combs, Cens and 16 investigators going over On the Democratic_side in the ter Township assensar; H Dale : | prosecutor ‘race, has —becomd pL - former otor. Ve. weeks, They have not even sug apparent that Prosecutor George hicle Bureau direstar; Sout anty : .| Recorder Paul Brewer an ye ‘charge against me.” !positjon for renomination. Men ron -Costler, present chief deputy clerk

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be sent up during the next -

#i11, former city

Lawyers Line Up

for the biggest and James Slinger, veteran 10th

today he is filing a libel sult’for| ro; weeks by leaders of both Democratic and Republican parties in Frid County as the startirig bass for the factional scrambles on

le line ty have to take Some of the factional battle lines already the pert ranks for a position. |County Chairman Paul McDuff; Five ; r., ety controller;

‘lam Steckler, counselor With! A lomg-list of lawyers in both {v Jor 3 per cent of the CORLract. the Public Seryice Commission: parties are lining up for the two Walter Myers a a 2 legal| County Criminal Juige = oarant 8.80 gave his version _ Oscar Hagemeler, yw p (Duke) Bain will retire of SWiped From HATFY Bi former Democratic; nominee FoF from the bench - 15 the job. i Court 1 after next year. * Prosecutor Race ‘Judge Saul 1. Rabb is expected Republicans are talking aboutito be one of the top candidates seven lawyers as possibilities forisor renomination on the Republi« the prosecutor race. They includeican side. ther Republicans mene John (Kit) Carson, former deD<|tioned to run against Judge Rabb uty prosecutor under . Judson and for Judge Bain's. job includes Ife.” ? : Stark; Scott Ging, county attor-isormer Prosecutor Stark; Jehm' | Mr. Hunt, who is in a hospital ney; Ed Haerle; former deputyio Tews. George Rinler, Jessie (bed following an operation for a Prosecutor; Eugene Fife Jr, heady ov Ernest Lane, a Justice of

ra ern

- blood clot in his leg, said -the0f Republicans United; Franky, peace: Edwin McClure, vet-

B. Miller and Floyd Mannon.

ht h . vered to the presidential cam The largest field of potential

Ipaign train in June, 1948, and in

{Harry H. Vaughan, President UP {0 run against SHertt Tames’, | Truman's controversial military Cunningham for the Democratie

aide, requested more. They were

sordered ' and delivered to the | White House, Mr. Hunt said. | President Truman, at his news

{Bumner, former sheriff; Maj. lor

this country a real serv'~a if it

ormer le

{of police. and (refuses to confirm” Atto Wg leral Tom C. Clark as " ey Gen Sheriff Nomination George Ober, judge of the {of the Supreme Court. Republican mentionables for "oy Magistrate's Court.

prosecutor; - Sol

Court 1.

“Superior Court judge,

first order of the matches was de-| Fairchild, 1948 nominee; William Washington Township GOP

leader and prominent judge pro tem; Glenn Fynk, former chief

| Mr. Clark was nominated by|the sheriff nomination include (President Truman last Tuesday Ray Mendenhall, former county

[i nuges He nominated Sen. J.|candidate for sheriff in 1946;

| has twice prosecuted the United|17th ward GOP chairman and {Mine Workers and its president, Criminal Court investigator;

y to succeed the late Justice Frank commissioner; Charles Russell, 7 Busses Won t Stop

[trict courts.

’ ‘Bear Disturbing | heriat George Winkler, federal

Connecticut Area | Mitchell.

{8 (UP)—Woodsmen believed to- gest factional fights in the 2 {day that a large mother bear and o" he

{John L. Lewis, for Yefusing to call| James Langsford, former police] LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (UP)— {off strikes on order of federal dis- sergeant; James Durnil, leader of | The future ruler of the world may - ...|8 GOP war veterans organiza-/be waiting at a bus.stop today on ~ tion: AI "Magenhelmer, _ forhier his way to see President Truman. { An unidentified man called alcoholic agent affd Ralph (Chip) {Mayor Fletcher Brown from tne

i 1 » -. | WEST SUFFIELD, Conn.. Aug.| Focal point of one of the big-| ier let of Donmovin, Cal

with the message that world 1s coming to one-man

{mary balloting is expected to rule and I'm him.”

[cub were the “mysterious” ani-|be the Marion County Clerk post. | “I can establish peace in the

mals which have been disturbing For this race Democrats

are world, peace by forgiving everyChicago & Southern Air Lines senger miles without injury to the slumber of Lake Basile fami mentioning Dr. Leo.V. Commis- body for ri YE

yesterday finished its 13th con-

Since 1936 the _ airline “has of

PARKING Across : the Street

Only A Few Minutes To Open An Account

At Barrett's

earing “hoofbeats™ in the night, Klapper, former Voters’ -Regis- man —.

Ie8. YPATS Overwater Gperationand finding large and smait claw tration Board —meniber; Harry

daily service between New Or- tracks leading to and away from Gasper, Eighth Ward Democratic|the calier replied in a flown a total of 750 million pas-'leans and ‘Havana. Cuba... Sissthe lake. ERE EES “ensirmn “and ace assistant tOvOoe: rr tt Eas

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passengers or crew members, In- '!eS the last few nights. |ky, 14th ward leader who Wwastold Bowron. cluded : in the record are almost Severa) lake residents reported, in the race once before; Daviq “Why don’t you go see Mr. True

Republicans for the clerk

gislative candidate; Max" . Plesser, GOP committeeman and {sheriff nomination. . | ‘These include Charles -(Buck)|Jud8® John L. Niblack, of Super-

{Robert O'Neal of the state po-| Democrats mentioned for the ° lt e, -Louls (Cap) Johnson, city/Criminal Court races include Sonic Thursday ne safety director and former sheriff! Dewey Myers, former Criminal [ate ov. anything SUch|candidate; Thomas J. Sullivan,|Court judge and present deputy Lr 1 folders. ir {former chief county jailer; Toney Prosecutor in Shag of the Grand : ——— UEP Malo, city street commissioner; Jury; Norman lue, former prose UMw Paper Assails {James P. Scott, former sherifficutor candidate; David M. Lewis, ’ : . candidate and trucking firm offi- former prosecutor and candidate Clark's Nomination cial Capt. John Sullivan, eity po-|for the governor nomination in iG , Aug, 8 (UP)— lice; Sgt. Charles Burkett, inves-/ 1940; Russell Dean, former Deme -HThe—Disiiie ig the {isu tor In Prosecutors ‘omMecE; Sgt ioeratic ehatrman; “Ernest Frick, Lihat “the: Ser far Te a today. Cecil London, city poiice, and|present deputy prosecutor; Here th Lt OIE | Michael Morrissey, former chief bert Wilson, former prosecutor

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