Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1951 — Page 3

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2. 2 1951 MONDAY, APR! 2, 1951

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Burglary Smith Agrees Castle = To Try Out Plan ; ¥ looking . By IRVING LEIBOWITZ ee 32-year- ecretary of State Leland n shot by New * Smith said today he would agree Yestedny: to “an experimental tryout” of a bk oa plan to establish branches of the 3 , County Me- Department of Revenue in every fering from a county with the power to handle gr os be : all state taxes, including autoescaped Were mobile lioense fees. © vhile the two Mr. Smith's co-operation was he New Castle seen as removing the “last serious t fell wounded obstacle” in the path of State shots with po- Treasurer Williams L., Fortune's plice, believed proposal to decentralize the cololis man, es- lection of all taxes in Indiana.

Both are Republicans. Heads Bureau As secretary of state, Mr. Smith has under his jurisdiction the ‘patronage-lush Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Said Mr. Smith: J “Our people in the various county bureaus are receptive to the idea of handling the gross income tax payments on an official basis.” | At present, Mr. Smith said, the

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ambling in Indiana last night discussed the problem at a forum in the Heath Memorial Methodist Church. Left to right, they are Howard J. Baumgartel and Harold Hatcher of the Indianapolis Church Federation, State Rep. Thomas C. Hasbrook and Prosecutor rank Fairchild.

ANTI.GAMBLING—Foes of

t of the build. said, The offi-

rned their fire various license bureaus help Hoo- au =u * " ¥ 7 8 to the. street, siers fill out the gross income tax| > > z ° d man ra, forms tof a 81 fe. ep. Hasbrook Says Outside Pressure igh Jee. Willing to Try Plan . , - . . . ' t up “If the Department of Revenue [Nf] Mu i ol St ¥ A } Gr int j fy i" IS ua 1 wants to designate one or two, oney I e a e n f= am gL f h a kick. sougty Alohge putesls Io iy bi | “Outside pressure and money” killed anti-gambling legislation working at if 90 days and much HH. Scott said Pay {in the last session of the Indiana General Assembly, State Rep.remains to be done,” he declared.

taxes, I am willing to go along

on such a plan.” | Thomas C. Hasbrook declared last night in a church forum dis-

give the name THREE: Contended that new

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Circulation Contest A large group of Indianapolis

Times newsbhoys and: supervisory

personnel arrived in Washington,

D.. C. today for. a tour of the

capital. The carriers—175 strong—won participation in the trip by gaining the most new customers for The Times during en eight-week circulation contest which ended Mar. 3. “They left Union Station yesterday under supervision ‘of Frank Hechinger, The Times circulation

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Plan Sightseeing Tour After checking in at the An-

apolis Hotel, the group was to

begin its sightseeing tour today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. ° Other points of interest to be seen before lunch were Washington Monument, National Museum and Smithsoriian Institute. The boys were to board chartered busses this afternoon for a four-hour lecture tour of Arlington National Cemetery and Mt. Vernon. Visit Ford. Theater Tomorrow's itinerary will include Federal Bureau of Investigation offices, the Ford. Theater Museum at the! theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and a group photograph on the steps of the Capitol Building

with Indiana Representatives in

Congress. Leaving Washington tomorrow night, the boys will arrive in Indianapolis Wednesday morning.

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D. C. Tour

Paul D. Leak Jr., 1070 N. Tibbs Ave., gives a parting kiss. He's off to Wash. |

Rubber Cutback Due Today Includes Ban on Spare Tires

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or bottles to avoid wasting productive capacity. Tin—A little more tin allowe for cans for perishable foods.

Tires, Golf Balls ‘Can Be Had’ Here

Indianapolis businessmen today

use. They expect cars to keep rolling and games to be played in sports that are hinged to rubber goods production. + And the spring rains should

{find enough rubber footwear on|

hand to keep local citizens dryshod.

| One executive, who declined to be identified, said: - “I don’t think any cars will be laid up because of a tire shortage. {Reserve stocks are low, and in|coming shipments move out fast ito distributors, but tires can be 'had.” Another major concern reported |“having trouble for some time” getting new shipments, and said

{were optimistic in the face of the tube picture was a little darker {new cutbacks in civilian rubber

than the tire outlook. | A “run” on the better grades of golf balls started as far back as !January, but dealers still anticipate enough to go around if “a little: common sense is used” in buying and selling.

footwear was not attributed te a {rubber shortage. t

Many dealers look to relief through synthetic rubber use, except in the sports lines, where crude rubber still provides the best product. One executive said synthetic tubes for cars are stronger than ones made of rubber.

Synthetic Rubber Galoshes?

More synthetic material is destined to go into galoshes and bad weather footgear, too. He added that cutbacks won't be felt too badly unless “the government takes over production.”

Women Students’ Group Hears Dr. Gilbreth

Times State Service LAFAYETTE, Apr, 2—Dr. Lil-

tion here Saturday.

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The current shortage in rubber addressed the National Association of Women .Students conven-

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States France Has Will to Fight

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nent control by the United Na. tions “in order to limit fairly and later to destroy all classic or atomic weapons.” : THREE: National armies must be progressively replaced by s& Unitéd Nations army as provided by the United Nations Charter. = FOUR: “Every country must agree to the free movement of wealth, ideas and persons as well as the free and sincere expression of view, under international comtrol of peoples on whom regimes have been imposed by force.” FIVE: Europe must unite inte a United States of a free Europe. To convince the legislators that Francé would fight, Mr. ‘A

asked “who could seriously quel

tion” his country’s determination after her performance in o world wars, her four-year against communism in IndoChina, French rearmament plans and co-operation with free coun-' tries, and the fighting of French troops in Korea. } “Our people,” he said, “experi~ enced the frailty of their exposed land and sea frontiers. Therefore they know that right without might is powerless. They know that isolation is death.”

Six Slot Machines

From Liner Seized

NEW YORK, Apr. 2 (UP)—Tha: first slot machines seen in New

[York in more than 10 years turned

up yesterday on the docks nesr the liner Europa. Police confiscated six: armed bandits” after they been removed from the steamship by Roger C. Concklin, Ft. Lauder, dale, Fla. a concessionaire whe said they had been used on the, Buropa's southern cruises. cig Ae Mr. Concklin said the machines were taken off the ship when it was decided to put the Europa oR; a New York-LeHavre run. Sek Slot machines disappeared after. a cleanup campaign by the late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

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rst-degree bur- |cussion. - sere {gambling laws are needed, that to ne filed If the program proves efficient] Admitting that he had no concrete proof of any legislators heing 1905 statutes are not adequate, ay. and popular, and brings in more priped, Rep. Hasbrook said he had no doubt that gamblers used FOUR: Asserted that six to 10| Git LER taxes, Mr. Fortune proposes that money and pressure to prevent —————— ———— —— slot machines would bring a net| the Department of Revenue ex-/pagsage of his anti-lottery bili. ested in protecting the interests of profit to operators of $85,000 to! Kangaroo tend the program.throughout the «The evidence of gambling in Organized gamblers,” he declared. $90,000 a year. lor cle state. |Indiana,” he continued, “was seen Also speaking on the forum Harold Hatcher, chairman of Cy! It was learned today that Mr.|;, the Statehouse during the last/Panel, Prosecutor Frank Fair- the Social Education and Action | alia, Xpr. 2 Fortune and Mr. Smith are BONE gegsion of the legislature with child: Committee _of the Indianapolis] g motorcycle to meet “sometime this week tofine appearance of more checked ONE: Contended that legalized Church Federation, said: { inding kanga- discuss the issue. |vests and slick hair than ever gambling would increase—rather “Gambling is like an iceberg-—| rkness today. Gov. Schricker has not indicated |; core seen in its halls.” {than Jower—=sa% rates because of there is very little showing, the! vo persons on how he feels about the program. Cites ‘Fund’ to Kill Bill the big ‘increase in enforéemrent hulk is below the surface.” : 00. e———eer————————. men needed to control it. he panel urged chur 1 ANAT o ¢ M i the The p urged church people SERRE Driver in Fatal Wreck ne man om [runcie Differs With Hoover Ito interest themselves in politics; . . blind legislator declared, “came| TWO: Contradicted FBI Direc-/to offset the influence of ganrTo Be Arraigned ‘ [to the Statehouse with a sult IF J. Eagar Rioovers assertion blers on the legislators by carry-| ng cou stoppe Ying on an even more intense BEE THOUTH. Apr 2 nn ioe of oney which went Serious loca) law en{o¥esmment of-| “contact” campaign with the law- | . , 23, » ! cers in ours. “We have been makers. be arraigned this week in Marshall, Another man had $1500 to) - ] Circuit Court on reckless homicide delay the bill beyond the 61-day : and drunk driving charges grow-|limit, Rep. Hasbrook asserted. Income Tax Bureau ing out of a fatal traffic accident., Speaking during a forum at Shearer was arrested on charges the Heath Memorial sno] V | : filed by Indiana state police in a Church, the Indianapolis legisla- ay & ro e Target wreck which killed Alden Good-/tor explained that he felt that, man, 55, Rochester, and injured/some of the 21 ‘legislators who| ; Continued From Page One z Goodman's wife, Marguerite, 49, voted against his bill did so with racketeers. Sources which have gelves sometimes have complained last Wednesday five miles north the honest belief that gambling been prodding the bureau think of a procedure so slow and com-| of here. Shearer also was in- should be legalized. {they may have had something to plex that by the time a case is . jured in the accident. 3 “Others, however, were inter- do with this burst of action. tried, agents originally concerned: But bureau officials point out nave left the service, witnesses that last year, 3120 alleged tax pave died or disappeared. evasion investigations were com- Treasury people say the very) pleted, resulting in recommenda- fact of repeated sifting of each tion for prosecution in 756 cases case insures protection for. the involving 1048 persons. Nearly taxpayer and in itself is insuro Tr wo in ne ee pum hs | point of some criticism is Tax fraud cases, before being that many smart skilled revenue, brought in court, are sifted agents leave bureau jobs to go! through perhaps a dozen steps, into private tax practice at betinvolving Internal Revenue offi- ter salaries—and sometimes may . cials at numerous levels and be just too experienced for the E lengthy review in the justice de- bureau man with whom they nentitled partment. Revenue agents them- gotiate in later cases. “ 90 Million Tax Returns Filed Annually ® CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: All this conflict is backgrounded against a system in which 90 million tax returns are filed annually by people who largely give ; F Py ESEN ALVA 99 the government an honest count. That huge mass kick-in added up {to $48 billion this year, and the Internal Revenue Bureau shies at anything it thinks might shake the confidence in its integrity. by The area in dispute falls within six million taxpayers—includ ing small businessmen, physicians, . |dentists, farmers and other self-!| . Arthur Perrow, L S. {employed people on whom there ouncl et to ct of Chicago, IHlinois lis no automatic check such as the | |withholding tax system provides. 0 I ffi Ch Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Then there are the hoodlums am MN Id IC dinges mobsters with their mysterious The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. income sources. hn AY Debate Due Tonight <T pt 3} ] — Many congressmen are SKep- On One Way Street [tical. They think the Internal - reers of, Second Church of Christ, Scientist Revenue Bureau has not used Speedy action to relieve Ingian./ ’ 4 {fully the entofeoment power apolis’ snarled traffic problems; lalready available to it, particu- : fy. Twelfth and Delaware Streets llarly in not forcing the criminal oonied fosay with the announce |element to keep books and reo. [ner that the Be ruihanes) |[srds. The congressmen recognize setting up a system of one-way ge, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 {the danger of creating widespread streets will be presented to the! i lcynié¢ism on the functioning of yo 'c i for act 8:00 P M the tax system. But they seem City Counc action tonight, 8 s . - The ordinance, drafted in acsure to give the tax-takers a ith ‘severe going-over in coming Sardanes w recommendations a ; : months.” 0 cago Traffic Consultant nt The Public is Cordially Invited to Attend | TOMORROW: How Racketeers Harry W. Lochner, provides for “Get Away With Murder.” : seven new one-way streets and] hastily certain other traffic changes in-| ns, i ; 3 " cluding new no-parking zones

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1 Another proposed. ordinance of|widespread interest to be pre{sented provides for salary in|creases for Indianapolis _ police (and firemen. The ordinance provides for the {transfer of $280,233.03 from gaso{line tax funds to pay increases. (Officials said they hope to make the wage hikes effective June 1. Repair City Streets Appropriation of $170,000 of gas tax money for repair of city streets is authorized in another proposed ordinance, : Another proposal to be considered is _an-ordinance for the .appropriatiqn of $120,000 for the reconstruction of the Indiana Ave. bridge over Fall Creek. A companion ordinance calls for the issuance of bonds to repay. the $120,000. Still another proposed ordinance calls for 10-day vacations |for city empltryees working on'an hourly basis and increases sick [leaves from six to 10 days.

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