Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1951 — Page 24

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“Weird” is Putting It Mildly

EVERAL law enforcement officers, it seems to us, have some explanations to make—if they can—about the fantastic affair of Ethridge Grubbs. Here was a prisoner, known to be 1 dangerous prisoner, held in Marion County jail under indictment for two killings. He was physically—and only physically—in the custody of Sheriff Dan Smith. He was legally in the custody of Prosecutor Frank Fairchild. He was actually under the sole jurisdiction of Criminal Court Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, Suddenly he turns up in the news again. He has been shot and killed in his cell in jail—but in the Monroe County jail, in Bloomington, 50 miles away. Outside the legal jurisdiction of Judge Chamberlin. Far removed from the physical custody of Sheriff Smith.

y ~ - HOW did he get there? Judge Chamberlin didn't even know he was gone. His own lawyer says he didn’t know he was gone, either. Apparently Sheriff Smith and Mr. Fairchild just loaned him out to Sheriff Fred Davis, of Monroe County who “wanted to clear up some old burglaries” around Bloomington. He couldn't, of course, be legally moved from one county to another without a court order. The Indiana Supreme Court had ruled definitely and positively on that very point only a few months ago in another such case. Judge Chamberlin had issued no such order. It was highly improbable that any judge, under such circumstances would have done so. Prisoners under homicide indictments ordinarily are not taken elsewhere on mere suspicion of minor burglaries.

: ss » 8 “uo wu Ee ALL that is strange enough, but it gets still more

strange. Sheriff Fred Davis of Monroe County says he shot Grubbs and killed him because he (Grubbs) tried to slash his wife's throat, in his jail cell. That leaves some more interesting questions for Sheriff Davis. ; How did a prisoner, known to be a killer, happen to have a weapon in his jail cell suitable for throat-slashing purposes? What was Mrs. Grubbs doing in this jail cell, anyway —with a prisoner who had already tried to kill her, and then killed his brother and another man? What kind of a jail does Sheriff Davis run, there in Bloomington? Or, for that matter, what kind of a jail does Sheriff Smith run here in Indianapolis, from which prisoners under indictment can be loaned out to other counties?

. . # SHERIFF SMITH says the transfer was approved by the prosecutor, by a state highway patrolman, by Sheriff Davis, and by himself. Not one of them had any authority to approve such a transfer, of course. And, still more startling, he says it was “not unusual.” We'd like to hear some more about that. How many other prisoners our courts have ordered confined in Marion County jail are not there? Lawyers for the slain prisoner termed the whole proceeding “definitely weird.” Seems to us that's a masterpiece of understatement.

Reds in Tibet

THE Communist occupation of Tibet, bringing large Red Chinese military forces to the borders of India, Pakistan and Nepal, seems to be causing concern in those countries. And well it might.” Tibet can have little economic value to the Chinese Communists. In an area equal to the states of Texas, California and New York combined, its barren hills between the Himalaya and Kunlun Mountains support a population of only about a million. But, because of its geographic position, its occupation by an aggressor nation, a Soviet satellite, has obvious political and military implications. Tibet's “liberation” by the Reds makes little sense unless they intend to use it as a base for adventures to the south. A semi-autonomous state within the general area of China, it has been governed by the Lama Monks, who practice a form of Buddhism. Few areas so large anywhere else in the world have been so remote from modern political currents. Except for a limited trade with India, Tibet has had almost no contacts with the outside world. The Communists’ charge that it has been a center of imperialistic intrigues is absurd.

Ad ” “ . » » \ THE REDS may have their sights trained on Kashmir,

EUROPEAN DEFENSE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Tax Reform Believed Necessary For A Stronger French Nation :

PARIS, May 31-— France cannot carry the required rearmament burden, build a sound economy, or achieve political stability, without major tax reform. Until that happens—and it isn't in sight—ahe will depend on American financial aid. But it is not true, as frequently charged, that the French are taxed less than Americans. The French load is heavier than the American, and the rates higher, The trouble is that the French load is distributed unjustly and inefficiently. The poor are pinched and the rich escape. Industrial workers carry too much and the peasants too little,

As a problem of national morals, this is a matter of French internal affairs and no business of Americans. But to the extent it necessitates higher American taxes to subsidize French living standards, nationalized industries and defense, it is the business of the American Congress which votes financial ald to France

The question is how much the standard of living can be lowered to provide larger defense, The consensus is very little, if at all, in the case Their

of. industrial and white collar workers.

So What?

—THERE'S PLENTY MORE WHERE THEY ~ CAME FROM /

CHICKENS

plight is already extremely bad, and getting worse with inflation. To take more from those people for armament would not increase national security. It would destroy what little defense morale exists in the industrial population, and multiply the Communists who even now have the support of almost one-third of the French people.

Part of this situation is created by the tax system. 'If factory labor and white-collar workers were not over-burdened by taxation they would have a decent living standard, higher productivity and better defense morale. And if the wealthier groups, middle-men and peasants paid a just share in France, the American taxpayer could carry less for them.

Inaccurate charges that the over-all French tax load is lighter than the American are a carryover from the early postwar period, when they were true. Including collections of social security agencies and of local governments with those of the central governments, the comparison of the fiscal burden in relation to gross national product is: Year 1938, France 23 per cent and the

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. « . By Frederick C. Othman

A Problem For Mr. DiSalle-

McLEAN, Va, May 31—As the husband of the leading poultry tycooness of Fairfax County, 1 am appealing to price controller Mike DiSalle for help. Before my bride's rushing business bankrupts me. Every time she sells a chicken super de luxe, I have the unhappy suspicion that I am losing money. I can't be quite certain because about the time the last 2000 pounds of vitamin-enriched chicken food arrived and the last batch of birds went to market the records somehow got chewed up in the poultry’'s electric fan. Her figures consequently are rudimentary, like those that Chicago gangsters turn in to the income ax collector You may remember a few months ago when this enterprise started that I expressed the fear I'd have to eat 3000 pounds of chicken meat, personally. It didn't work out that way; sometimes I think I'd be ahead of the game if there weren't such a rush of customers.

These fowls of Mrs. O. are known as chickens of tomorrow and while they seem to he a little wider across the front than usual, they look to me like the chickens of yesterday. The last shipment arrived a couple of days ago in the form of small balls of fluff, with large mouths. They went immediately into Hilda's: thermo-statically-controlled brooder. Previous batches of chickens in various stages of development are in other houses with

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

ultraviolet windows and infrared heaters. They get special food, too, plus pills in their drinking water. Nobody gets inside to see 'em until Mrs. O. has looked him over for pneumonia symptoms. If his health seems okay and he still wants in, then my bride makes him change his shoes. No germs get close to her chickens. Every couple of weeks a few hundred of these birds are ready for the pan. My bride takes 'em to a poultryman who, for a fee, dresses them and chops them into pieces for frying purposes. These Mrs, O. packs into plastic bags and then she quick-freezes them. The result the sells for 65 cents a pound. At this price, the way I figure it inaccurately, the chickens barely pay for their food and maybe the sacks, which cost seven cents each. The labor is free, So, apparently, is all the machinery and carpentry 1 had to buy. I am not complaining. It 4s almost worth the price of admission to watch my chicken dealer gloat when a customer drops by for enough chickens to fill his freezer and pays her perhaps $50 in cold cash for the load.

Cold Figures

HER FACE lights up and the money goes into a hiding place to be used later for I know not what, Between sales she gets out her pencil and tries to prove by cold figures that she has earned a profit. This she has been unable so far to do. So what I want from DiSalle, up the pike in Washington, D. C., is relief. Can I raise her ceiling price without, 1, going to jail and 2, losing a wife? And also can I take a loss on my income tax returns when my chicken dealer insists she's making a profit, maybe? And probably could prove it, if her records of food per chicken hadn't got lost? There's your problem, DiSalle. I'd appreciate a decision while I'm still solvent.

ON THE SPOT . Acheson's

United States 17 per cent. For 10468 and 1947 France with 22 per cent was under the U. 8. 24 per cent. But in 1948 it was 28 per cent and has risen steadily to the current 32 per cent, while the U. 8. fell from 24 per cent in 1948 to 23 per cent in the next two years and is now at 25 per cent. 80 theoretically the average Frenchman, who earns about one-third as much as the average American, pays about a third more in taxes. That comparison is partly misleading, however, because in France a larger portion of the gross national product is redistributed in the form of pensions, medical care, family allowances and subsidies.

Of course the ‘average” French taxpayer doesn’t exist. The industrial worker pays more than his fair share because he cannot evade his direct taxes as middle-men and peasants do, and also because most taxes are indirect.

Indirect taxes make up 64 per cent of the central government's total revenues here, compared with 22 per cent in the U. 8S. Direct taxes here are only 28 per cent of the total revenue, contrasted to 50 per cent in the United Kingdom and ‘75 per cent in the U. 8. And of that meager 28 per cent, much less than half fs from individual income tax. This is the glaring absurdity of the French system. Not that the income tax rates are too low. They are much higher than in England and America. Here for a single man without dependents they start with 19 per cent on a $500 income and rise to 60 per cent on a $10,000 income. For the United Kingdom the comparable figures are 3 per cent to 44 per cent. In the U. 8. there is no tax on $500 and only 24 per cent on $10,000, For a married man with two children the rate here on $500 is 12 per cent and none in the United Kingdom and U. 8. At $1000 the French rate is 15 per cent, against none in the United Kingdom and U. 8. while $5000 here carries 30 per cent, compared with 268 per cent in Britain and 10 per cent in the U. 8. At £50.000 the French rate is 65 per cent, while ours is 3% per cent. The joker ix that the Paris government does not collect, but Washingion does. Tax evasion rohs the government of about £1.5 billion a year, or from a fifth to a fourth of total receipts. Upward of a billion dollars a year {g-lost in income tax alone. The next largest loss is through fraud of small shopkeepers, who collect sales taxes but fail to report them to the government. In any country tax evasion is highest and enforcement hardest among population groups whose incomes are not fixed, who keep few or . 0 records, and whose receipts are more in cash than checks: including small business,

ANNAN RRR,

‘I'd Vote for Mac’

MR. EDITOR: I am really glad to see that two more ladies were interested in Mrs. Haggarty's letter to The Times on Saturday, May 19. I read that letter and re-read it and I couldn't for the life of me get the connection of the General's five stars and the stars that mothers should receive. At any rate, I expect to receive my stars in Heaven. That will be the reward I shall strive to gain

a» by living a Christian life.

Gen. MacArthur sursly earned them regardless of the humiliation that the President tried to bring on his head. I hardly think the General will run for President. I give him credit for having too much intelligence to mix politics. But I would sure vote for him. ® % ¢

I AM the mother of four sons. one who served under the General in Japan. My son was not contaminated by so doing. He came home in 1945, found the church of his choice, was baptized and although still young, has been head of his Sunday school and also on the board of directors . . . simply because he could take orders from one higher up and knew why he had to do it. Not because the General said so, but duty said so. As for the name designated to the General, I don't know how any Christian could call a person ‘who has done and is still trying to do so much for the land we love could postibly attach it to a man so noble. His speech to Congress was one of the best in history, since Lincoln. * ¢ o

IT WAS =zincere and tn the poirt. No wise cracks to see if any one would laugh. There was nothing to laugh about. Well, mavhe the big wigs as she called them. did kick up dust but it's going to take a lot of rain to settle it, In fact it isn’t settled yet. I do not know exactly who started the argument, but President Truman would argue with a guide-post it seems, —Mrs. Wade H. Martin, Speedway.

‘A Place in the World’

MR. EDITOR:

Let's first be men and women of character seekers. Oh, God, help us we pray to find a place in the world. Can it be found? Yes, if we have faith and work to that end. We of the high school graduates are going to the top, and we hope all others will follow. First, we must be men and women of character and intellect, and personality depends in part upon the training that the school and home will give us, re-

. . By Peter Edson

Hoosier Forum—-=‘The General’

"Il do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.”

liberal professions and small farmers. Im France 35 per cent of the national income is 8 such groups, compared with 15 per cent in the U. 8. The French peasant, besides having these common facilities for tax evasion, has a special

Though in theory he pays the same income rate, his base is different, Under the trick law the farmer doesn't declare his base income. It is negotiated for each state (department) by farm organizations on tha basis of 1908 land values, which are only one tenth of the current wholesale price index. | This, together with exemptions and a fixed. ceiling, averages out to farmers paying only ahout 1 per cent of their actual income in direct taxes. The fraud, injustice and sheer inefficiency of the tax system are obviously an indictment of French government, But only a strong government can levy heavy taxes justly and collect them—and there has been no strong French government for many years. Also, tax evasion is a very old art in France - and during the German Occupation {t was almost a religion. Added to the public atitude is the fact that such a large portion of Frenchincome is among groups where collection is most" difficult. : Despite handicaps and dangers, the government is making progress In the past threes’ years the percentage of revenue from direct taxation has risen from 21 per cent to 28 per cent. After the June 17 election there will be more progress, but it will be slow.

privilege position.

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quires a study by us workers of our own talents and interests and thoughtful investigation. ’ Occupation is very important to our come * munity as well as to ourselves. It may demand ' at the beginning perseverance and good judgment in finding a position. We must be faithful to our work, and steadily making ourselves qual. ified for a greater responsibility, and the door of opportunities will open for us, if we be men ° and women of character. Oh, God, help us we - pray to find a place in the world. :

—Edward L. DeJournett, 3520 E. Fall Oreek Pkw,

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES ™ DETROIT—Mayor Albert E. Cobo has preclaimed July 4th as taxpayers’ day.

It's a heck of a way, having taxpayers’ day On the glorious Fourth of July.

Who could ever be gay with the taxes we pay? Like mad rockets they soar to the sky.

In the good olden days, they had much better.-. ways, rae Firecrackers and pinwheels were hot. Now what is there to praise? daze, As the bankroll is thoroughly shot.

SLEEP MY BABY

HUSH-A-BYE my baby . .. and soon you'Sh be asleep . . . angel mine now close your eyej-.. « + « dry your tears don't weep ... for soon yowwill be living in . . . a wondrous land calle§*: dream . . . where toys are made of candy . . o . and the streets are real ice cream . , . count the.-. sheep my little one as they jump o'er your bed": « « « pull the covers close to you . . . and resf. . your curly head . . . listen to the lullaby . . ¢ the sandman always sings . . . as he sprinkled magic sleep . , . that floats on silver wings . ., | hush-a-bye my baby . . . pray for mommy, daddy too . ., . and I'm sure the Lord above ++ + will make your dreams come true. " —By Ben Burroughs. «=~.

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ich state bordering on Tibet, which is the subject of a hot rh between India and Pakistan. The United Nations has been striving to avert a Hindu-Moslem war for possesgion of Kashmir, and the Communists could be moving their forces into a pasition to intervene, India’s Prime Minister Nehru has refused to regard Red China as a Russian satellite, and has professed to believe that communism had no designs on independent nations. He may be revising those views, now that he has seen Tibet invaded by forces much larger than a mere military occupation would require. : In any event, it would seem good insurance for India and Pakistan to patch up their dispute before their tough neighbor to the north invents an excuse to move in and take Kashmir away from both of them.

Fanny Brice

ANY people will find it hard to believe that Fanny Brice, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles, was almost 60 years old. They were the ones who knew her only via radio, as the impish “Baby Snooks.” But her career on the stage began more than four decades ago and she was a shining star of the earliest - “Ziegfeld Follies.” Her comic genius made millions laugh, yet she could as easily bring a hard-boiled audience to the point of tears, and to hear her sing “My Man” was a memorable experience,

And so many who were privileged to see and hear

Fanny Brice in bygone years will feel a sense of almost persogal loss, and will think of her with affectionate regret.

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"Johnny says the coach wants him to practice dribbling all summer, and he won't work unless it's a night shift jobl"

WASHINGTON, May 31 — For a gg. who is about to be given the sack, have his head cut off, or something, Secretary of State Dean Acheson seems to be awfully relaxed and enjoying it. At his most recent press conference he was just as full of fun as Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle. He wisecracked at everything. He even had a visiting delegation of stoical West German Bundestag members laughing. The Germans are here on a transcontinental tour to observe the American democratic processes in action. Secretary Acheson said the press conference was one of the institutions. He said his only regret was that there weren't any photographers present with their flashbulbs to make it a full show. Because part of the training every American public official receives is on how to think while sun spots explode in front of his eyes. Then a reporter asked what about his speech on Red China that Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk had made in New York? .Did that represent any change in U. 8. foreign policy? .

’ ~ » THE SECRETARY laughed 8 quiet laugh and shook his head wearily to let it be known

that he saw that one coming and knew it was loaded. But no, the speech was not supposed to change U. 8. policy and he did not think it did. Well, did the Secretary think that Mr. Rusk’s words were well chosen? a reporter asked. He ducked that ohe by saying that he wouldn't think of commenting on the literary style of a colleague. They kicked the ball around on the Rusk speech for a while without developing anything new, except that if a cease-fire were arranged, negotiations for peace would have to be conducted between the Peiping government, the United Nations commander in Korea and the United Nations Good Offices Committee. Then, down in the front row of the State Department audltorium where the press conference was being held, a shy reporter in a quiet voice asked if the subject could be shifted to Iran? ” - ~ WHEN the back of the room asked that the question be repeated louder, Secretary Acheson spoke up with, “He wants to know {if asking a question about Iran would be interpreted as being helpful to me.” It was. So the rest of the conference skidded along on Iranian ofl.

The Secretiry was wearing

a red (Sen. McCarthy please note) necktie and there was a pink (ditto) rose in his lapel.

‘But his suit matched his hair

in a conservative Republican gray. Incidentally, Sen. McCarthy on May 11 said he had inside information that Secretary Acheson would be fired in three weeks. That would put the deadline around June 1,

But a few days later Secretary Acheson said that he had enlisted for the duration. The Secretary's next scheduled ordeal will be his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee. After the Joint Chiefs of Staff get through— Generals Collins and Vandenberg and Admiral S8herman— Acheson is next. » » » THE Republican senators on these committees are, of course, laying for him, Particularly Brewster, Bridges, Cain, Hickenlooper, Knowland and Wiley.

What they want, of course, is Acheson's head on a platter, So do a lot of other people. They want & personal devil who can be blamed for the Korean War, the firing of General MacArthur, the defeats of Chiang Kai-shek, high taxes, inflation and Alger Hiss. Not being able to*get at

President Truman, having failed to convict Defense Seo~ retary George Marshall or

Gen. Omar Bradley, they have _

selected Dean Acheson as the most convenient goat. v. ~ ” »

SIX MONTHS ago thig

column reported that the polit- -

fcal hatchet men had started out to get Dean Acheson and the odds were 99 to 100 that they would succeed. That still

goes, though it must be admitted that it has taken longen to chop him down than most of his critics had thought it

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would. And he may still fool .

them, by sticking it out. But government officials like Dean Acheson are considered expendable. Getting rid of him will satisfy many people. Fire ing him will not, however, change the problems that confront this country and the

world. And it may not change

the eventual solutions of those problems — if there are any

solutions — as much as some.

people now think.

It is noteworthy that the 43 _

freshmen Republican congressmen who have most recently demanded Acheson's removal presented no program of their own for a better foreign policy, They didn't even present any program at all. They just wanted to get rid of Acheson.

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