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62d YEAR—-NUMBER 193 ~~ ***

Pay Your Tax, Citizen, The State Means It

Editor's Note: The following letter from “an unwilling tax dodger” was received by The Times this week. Since state officials estimate there are about 200,000 people in Indiana not paying gross income tax, it is almost certain a number of them fall into the same category. We have arranged to answer this letter in the hope others might benefit,

MR. EDITOR: I have read in The Times the state is catching up with tax dodgers. I suppose I come under the heading of a tax dodger, aithough I will say I am not a willing one. I would like to ask a few questions about this tax but since I have never paid any gross income tax I am afraid to go to the State Tax Division because they will probably “throw the keys away on me.” They say this tax started in 1934. If that is 80, I owe 17 years tax. Now I ask you, how can a man who is trying to buy a home so he won't be thrown out of every house or réoming house he moves into, feed and clothe three kids in school, pay doctor's bills for a wife who is under doctor's care all the time, get his hands on enough cash to pay a thing like 17 years income tax with all the extra fines and penalties?

Just Can’t Seem To Find the Money

I never had a job where I could even make a decent living until 1941, so I don’t see why I should -pay taxes on the years before that. Somebody told me they couldn’t force you to

pay any farther back taxes than 1948 because _

before that it was just a McNutt law and wasn’t legal. How about that? I don’t mind paying federal tax because they take it out so you don’t miss it so darn bad. But this state tax hits you about February every year when you are trying to get through the winter and buy coal and pay doctor’s bills and a guy just can’t seem to find the money to pay with, Z If they would take it out every week, like the federal tax, it might not be so bad. I've got several friends that are just like me. They are afraid to go see about their taxes. But if they could pay maybe $10 or $15 a week on the back ones, we might be able to pay up sometime. But if they want $200 or $300 at once, we just haven't

got it. Besides we might lose our jobs if they go to our boss.

It's a Mighty Bad Fix to Be In

We aim to pay if they would just publish in The Times what kind of a deal we would get and how much time we would have to pay. I bet they would be surprised how many just like me would come forward to pay without court action. Someone told my wife they could even make us sell our equity in our house and pay. She's worried. Can they? If we cannot get some answers without going

to the State Tax Division, we will just wait for:

the ax to fall on us next. But it’s a mighty bad fix to be in when you are willing to pay but haven't got just so much to do with. Won't you help, Mr. Editor, for we can believe what we read in The Indianapolis Times. —An Unwilling Tax Dodger.

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An Open Letter. to Unwilling Tax Dodger: The state's new ‘get tough” policy with tax dodgers and chiselers is not one of those onagain, off-again crackdowns, This'pne is for real. Because your letter to The Times was typical of the comment many worried Hoosiers expressed

when they learned the state was hauling tax |

dodgers into court for back paymept of gross income taxes, Editor Walter Leckrone wanted your questions answered publicly. That way you and an estimated 200,000 Hoosiers who haven't paid their taxes can learn “how to get square with the state” Revenue Commissioner Conn J. Sterling and Gross Income Tax Director James Propst are aware many Hoosiers, like.yourself, are willing to pay now but haven't enough money to pay in full.

Come in and See Them, Is Advice

They advise you—and others in the same predicament—to come in and see them and discuss your ability to pay. Although the state law doesn’t provide for any partial payment of taxes, Mr. Sterling said unusual and hardship cases are always given consideration in arranging back payments. : But the longer you are delinquent, the more expensive it becomes. The law provides delinquent taxpayers must pay 1 per cent interest and a 10 per cent penalty for each month of delinquent taxes. If the state sends you notice and demands payment, an additional penalty of 50 per cent of your tax is added. Mr. Sterling agrees with you it would be much

+ easier for the average workingman to have his

gross income tax deducted every week from his paycheck than have to pay the full amount after the first of the year. But that is a matter for the state legislature to decide. Six months ago, the elected lawmakers of the General Assembly ~—the men and women who represent you and 4 million other Hoosiers — refused to approve withholding of gross income tax by employers. Your wife was right about one thing.

Sure, Your Salary Can Be Attached

If you haven't paid your gross income tax and refuse to co-operate with the authorities, the state can attach your salary and deduct your tax. Or else the state has the right to take your automobile, house, furniture or anything you might own. The gross income tax is legal and very lawful. Even the United States Supreme Court thought so many years ago when someone fought against paying. The state can only collect back taxes for three years. Technically, that is because the statute of limitations in Indiana is.for three years. However, if you have never filed a gross income tax form, then the state can collect back taxes from 1934 until today. Gov. Schricker and other state officials want everyone to pay the tax because everyone benefits, including your three children. Every year, the gross income tax goes to support Indiana schools. This year about $60 million will be sent back to all of Indiana's 92 counties to help keep schools open and operating properly. The remainder of the tax goes to the state's general fund, which helps pay for all the services you and other Hoosiers get, like the Board of Health and the State Police and Welfare Department. I hope this letter is of some use to you. Cordially yours, Irving Leibowitz, Times Reporter,

: alifornia Gal Swimmer On Tax Delinquents sets New Channel Record

. " | By United Press ed Bringing Results SANGATE, France, Sept. 1] a great birthday present for

The Indiana State Revenue Department's crackdown in

American swimming star Flor- . ence Chadwick conquered a pea- Women’s record for the Channel

(her father, who will be 69 on Thursday. Last year she set a

|crossi courts against gross income tax SOUP fog and heavy tides today to ossing from France to England.

delinquents has brought in “thou- PecOme the first woman to swim

sands of dollars” from ‘startled th English Channel from England Firemen Called

Hoosiers, Tax Chief James M. © France. Propst said today.

Elysee Debruyne, deputy mayor Mr. Propst said he could net ©f this tiny ‘channel port, said

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Quebe Brune, 3616 Bluff Rd.

comprehensively estimate the in- the 32-year-old San Diego, Cal. |was driving a. hayburner today take but it would run into the Secretary, reached here at 2:40 and it wasn't a horse.

thousands. The first day alone |P- m. (8:40 a. m. CDT) after start-! after the department announced Ing out from Dover last night at p; 100 delinquents 10:27 p. m. (4:27 p. m. CDT). Mr. Debruyne said that because of -language difficulties he and “Some of those who came in other local officials and paid were those on the list first Miss Chadwick was Danish th to be sued,” Mr. Propst said. In!/channel swimmer Elna

it was suing brought 200 persons

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A load of hay burned up in 8 dump truck-at Roosevelt Ave. and Yandes St. Cause was undetermined. Firemen from Engine Company kept the blaze from damaging e truck.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1951

Face Half-Day Classes in '52

By DAVID WATSON | Indianapolis public schools, whose enrollments are near ‘saturation, may be forced into| half-day sessions next fall. Supt. Herman L. Shibler today, |warned this was possible if the |U. 8. Office of Education contin-| ues to deny Indianapolis permis|sion to,construct three new school {buildings. That office supervises |allocation of critical materials, mainly steel and copper, for school construction. The school administration here has been notified that most of the, materials for 1951 have already been allocated, and Marion Coun-| ty has not been given a priority.| May Block Construction | This may block construction of] school buildings totaling $2,757,304 by 1955. This cost covered schools at Blackford and Michigan Sts. 3300 W. 18th St., 2300 Columbia Ave., and units in Perry and Warren ‘Townships. Dr. Shibler said the critical enrollment situation could force half-day sessions in the Northleast section of the city as early as next fall. Dr. Shibler said half-day sessions would strike first in the,

first grade. It is conceivable that| buildings are con-

unless new structed, the half-day classes (would become progressive, school lofficials said. | One Way or Another i Thus, first graders attending only half a day would run into the same slash in class time! when they entered second grade, then third, and so forth. i The school superintendent said, enrollments this semester ex-| ceeded by nearly 1000 the antici-| |pated increase. | | Although the five-year estimate, lin the public schools has been |placed at 10,000 more pupils by {1955. Dr. Shibler said it now ap-| pears that 15,000 additional pupils, can be expected. / | “We especially need a building in the Northeast not later than a! year from this coming Christmas,” Dr. Shibler said. “Already, a new building erected in that! vicinity has become crowded. | “We have to get new buildings or be driven to rent vacant houses

{for our children. We have to get

[them one way or another.” : Can Be Eased

{classes have jumped 1100, and (high schools 415. Dr. Shibler said the schools! have been operating on an antici-| pated increase of 2000 pupils a! year. This semester, however, the| jump was 2968. ; “We are nearly at the point,

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Detective Is Sued | For $100,000

By JOSEPH ALLISON | An Indianapolis detective sergeant today was sued for $100,000 {for false imprisonment in an ac{tion charging the officer made an {arrest to further his personal | future, | The suit also charges that Det.! (Sgt. Fred Swego threatened to harass and harry the organization employing Alan Lashbrook,! 2038 Houston St., who is seeking $25,000 real and $75,000 punitive jdamages. | Mr. Lashbrook was arrested {June 9 on a vagrancy charge during an investigation of the “Hoosier Policeman” magazine, publication of the Police League] (of Indiana, Mr. Lashbrook's em-| {ployer. The vagrancy charge later was! 'dropped ‘and a charge of obtain-| ing money under false pretense filed. Mr. Lashbrook is an advertis-

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those cases, he added, payments but that a quick telephone call to! . included court costs and penalties the English coast established that| 1 hree Doses Daily—

as well as the tax.

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Not all the 100 suits have been Andersen did not swim today.

| In the first eight grades alone, {there has been an increase of |

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filed yet, but attorneys are branching out over the state. They’ planned to file some today and later in Anderson, Ft. Wayne, Marion, Muncie and Richmond. Among the suits filed or ready | to file were six in Indianapolis, five in Evansville, four in New| Albany, five in Kokomo, four in South Bend, five in East Chicago, | three in Hammond, four in Gary and three in Terre Haute, |

Fog Comes, but | All Is Serene

Therg was a hint of London in, the air this morning. Dense pockets of fog nestled in low areas and a mist hovered over most of Marion County early this morning. The mercury dropped to 63 last night, but was expected to rise to 82 today. ' Alr transportation was not hindered by the fog and state po-

by the “dense weather.”

Pollen Count . Grains per cubic yard of air Today THA NESE Sea ndAsRp 463 Yesterday “haan reseeee B18 o " LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 63 ‘10 a m.. 3 aA m.. 68 1. Mm pom. 82

|goal. She had hoped to land

wick returned in triumph Dover and reported the official crossing time was 16 hours and | 22 minutes. : | Miss Chadwick achieved her | triumph after a courageous battle.! No woman had negotiated the! difficult swim from England to! France since Channel swimming began in 1875. Seven men had! made it, but none of them fought such rugged conditions of tide! and fog. Channel experts said it probably was the greatest channel swimming feat since Capt. Matthew Webb first made it 76! years ago. : Her time failed to equal another record she sought — the] England-to-France mark ‘of 15| hours and 31 minutes held by Tom Blower of Britain. Blower himself was somewhere in the channel today trying to swim it both ways nonstop. Members .of Miss Chadwick's entourage said she was made ili for six hours by fumes from the small motorboat that accompanied her. They said she became sick seven times and added: ‘She just made it.” - " Four motorboats landed with Miss Chadwick at Sangate—considerably no of her original

somewhere between Cape Gris Nez and Wissant.

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From Joints of Aged

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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11—Sciénce has found a way

to make people over, 70 move around like jitterbugs, . Dr. William Kaufman of Bridgeport, Conn., said

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Dr. Kaufman, a ‘researcher in gerontology (the study of aging), said the secret of restoring mobility | in older persons joints is in a mixture called niacini- |

mide, or nicotinic acid amide.

He said he gave three doses daily to a 78-year-old woman for 15 months and hy the time she was near- |

ing 80 her joints were as flexible as those of the | average 11-year-old. : And she looked like she was under 60, Dr. Kauf- | man said, a happy, vigorous woman who once was | stiff, tired and achy and wanted to die “as a release from the burden of old age.” : Dr. Kaufman told delegates to the second International Gerontological Congress that he has studied the effect of aging on the joints with a joint index which he developed; measuring mobility with specially designed instruments. : : “I have found that certain accompaniments of the so-called normal aging process not only are reversible,” he said, “but they need no longer occur in any

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Seliools Here (Commies Get a Face-Saver—

Allies Admit Plane

Bombed Truce City, Apologize to Reds

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ON EDGE—As speculation mounts that the Reds will soon launch another major offensive, Republic of Rorea infantry reinforcements march to the front, passing under a banner which reads 11453 pupils. The kindergarten in both English and Korean, "Sharpen your bayonets."

Marines Blast Reds in Year's Deepest. Thrust

By United Press EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 11—U, 8S. Marines backed by a hooming artillery and mortar barrage drove forward through Red lines today in the deepest thrust into North Korea by American ground forces this year. v The 1st Marine Division. was known to be on the eastern front where it participated inf the “Punchbowl” and “Bloody Ridge" victories last week. But Army censorship would not permit identification of the point of attack today. . The Marines jumped off at 3 a. m. Tuesday (1 p. am. Monday CDT), crossed a river and plunged into close combat with the enemy dug in on every level of the hills under attack. : By evening Tuesday the Leathernecks had gained their initial objective. They faced another loop of the river crossed earlier

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< Don't Walk

If you jaywalked downtown to-

day. a policeman may have hand-|

ed you a yellow ‘courtesy’ ticket reading: “Stop taking chances. Indianapolis has a new pedestrian ordinance. Be safe. “ONE—Cross only at corner.

“TWO-—-Cross only on proper signal. “THREE—Keep crosswalks. “Don’t jaywalk.” And if you jaywalk a week or

10 days hence, it may cost you . a $2 fine for the first offense, $3

to right in

Pilot's Attack On Kaesong Is Held Accident

BULLETIN | TOKYO, (Wednesday) Sept. 12 (UP) — The North Korean and Chinese “volunteer” military commanders said today that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's proposal of a new site for the Korean truce talks was “unacceptable,” the Communist Peiping radio reported. :

By ROBERT VERMILLION | United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, (Wednesday), Sept. 12—The United Nations command admitted last night that one of its planes ate

tacked the truce city of Kaesong Monday, as the Communists had charged. and instructed its truce negotiators to express regret to the Reds. : 3 A pilot of the 3d Bomber Com mand machine-gunned lights in the city through an error of navi gation and is being disciplined, a statement by Gen. Matthew B., Ridgway’'s Supreme Headquarters said. Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief United Nations truce negotiator, was instructed to convey the United Nations command's regrets to Gen. Nam Il, chief Communist negotiator. This message was to be delivered at 8 a. m. today (6 p. m. CDT Tuesday) by United Nations laison officers. Prior to today, the United Na= tions command had rejected 10 Red allegations that United Nations forces had violated the neue trality of Kaesong where the ine

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Wild Outburst by Douglas Shocks Senators at Hearing):

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terrupted cease-fire talks were held. : Might Save Face

The first reaction here was that |the admission might permit Reds to resume armistice talks without

Communists had coms { plained that a United Nations

fat 1:35 a. m,, Monday, .about 1400

friends said today the strain of overwork and what he con- yards from the cease-fire confere

sidered an unfair accusation by a colleague caused his

dramatic emotional outburst

The Illingis Democrat was debating the $65 billion military appropriations bill late yesterday when hq amazed the Senate by his actions. Sen. Douglas had talked for two hours on the hill, criticized “extravagance” - in the services and urged economy cuts. He said he knew it was not popular ‘to criticize the military but if someone did not stand up to their money demands, the nation would become a ‘military state.”

Denial by Douglas Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), floor manager of the bill, answered immediately that Douglas had implied that “men in uniform lack a comprehension of their duties to the - United States.” Sen. Douglas denied that he questioned the patriotism of any military officer. He said Sen.

- O'Mahoney’s’ statement was cal-

culated to “silence” debate on the huge money bill. Sen. O'Mahoney replied that Sen. Douglas’ words could be used to good effect by Russian propadandists. Seh. Douglas looked up from his desk in disbelief. - “I was fearful of how the words of the Senator from Illinois would be broadcast by Tass (Russian news agency) behind the Iron Curtain,” Sen. O'Mahoney said slowly. Groped to Door Sen. Douglas rose from his desk and started toward an exit,

Suddenly - he threw his hands to his face. A cry burst from his lips. :

The Senate froze, shocked by the unexpected cry. Sen. Douglas groped almost blindly to the door. At the door, he paused, waved to Sen. O'Mahoney to contintie and staggered out. ’ In an ante-room, Sen. Douglas! collapsed in a chair. Witnesses

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SEN. DOUGLAS — A cry

from his lips.

said he wept, that he “seemed deeply affected by what O’Mahoney said.” A doctor was summoned but Sen. Douglas refused treatment. A spokesman said Sen. Douglas was “hot ill,” but tired and over-wrought by his heavy work load. The spokesman said Sen. Douglas had been working 16 hours a day and Sen. O’'Mahaney’s charge “caught him by surprise.” O'Mahoney Reprimanded Sen. O'Mahone¥ . was reprimanded by Sen. Francis Case (R. S.D.) who said sponsors of military appropriations bill seem to make a custom ,of attacking any senator “who ventures to raise a word of doubt” about military spending bills. : Sen. O'Mahoney said he has the ‘‘greatest respect and affection" for Sen. Douglas and that he had no intention of “implying” that Sen. Douglas - “was giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Sen. Douglas returned to the floor a half hour later, after he composed himself.

when "war" broke out on their

street today. But it was something new when youngsters blockaded the street with wagons, tricycles and. roller skates 2 cease-fire talks. .

for the second, and $5 for every "Young people ought to have their own homes," says a veteran

subsequent conviction.

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ence building. Supreme Headquarters said that the presence of a plane in the ‘vicinity at the time was de~ tected by radar and a pilot of the {3d Bomber Command reported that he strafed lights at 1:38 a. m. in what he believed to be {a different area. But his target {must have been Kaesong, the | statement said. :

In view of this revelation, Sue preme Headquarters said Adm, {Joy will deliver the following message to Gen. Nam Il through [ his liaison officers:

| “The United Nations air come {mander has reported. to the | United Nations Command senior | delegate (Adm. Joy) that about 1:30 a. m. Sept. 10 there was {located by radar -an aircraft in’ {the Kaesong area. A continuing radar plot . « revealed ‘this aircraft to be one of the United Nations command.

Tells of Attack

“Subsequent interrogation of the pilot disclosed that he had made a strafing attack at about 1:35 a. m. on targets which through faulty navigation he had incorrectly identified.

‘Based upon this information and the investigation conducted by the United Nations Command liaison officers, the fact that an aircraft of the United Nations Command strafed within the limits of the Kaesong neutral zone on Sept. 10 is accepted. “The United Nations Command regrets this violation of the agreed neutrality which resulted from the pilot's error in navigation. Appropriate disciplinary. acs tion is being initiated.

: It ep conducted by the liaison officers established the fact that no dame age resulted from the attack.”

Next Move Up to Reds

For the moment it was left up to the Reds whether they wanted 'to take advantage of the United |Nations admission of the attack, its expression of. regret and its istatement that the pilot respone sible was being disciplined—as they demanded—and resume

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| If so, it was expected that the ‘first hints of changed attitude ° (would. be contained in a message {from the Communist command~ |ers-in-chief to Gen. Ridgway. | Gen. Ridgway in his